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  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/18/2008 10:01:28 PM

    To all of the conservatives out there who think that Obama is a flaming liberal, I would like to remind you of what he did when he was elected President of the Harvard Law Review. The Law Review President gets to name ten individuals to write articles for the Review, and these ten people get to control the content of the publication. All of the minorities and the liberals thought they finally had it made, that Obama would appoint ten left wing editors. Instead, Obama appointed three conservatives, three liberals and four moderates. That year the Law Review was critically acclaimed as the best run and best written Harvard publication in decades.

    So when he wins in November, conservatives don't have to freak out. Obama is a centrist and will appoint a balanced cabinet full of active people who will really get things done. Kind of like the way our multi-cultural society is supposed to be. And exactly what we need in this time of economic crisis.

  • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 8:52:30 PM

    Why do democrats hate having to get a job like the rest of us?

    • Posted By: LisaP70 @ 10/18/2008 9:46:59 PM

      Gee, I guess all that work that I thought I was doing isn't a real job. I must be one heck of a magician to fool my mortgage company, pay my student loans and credit cards with all that imaginary money from my fictional employment. My bills do get paid and it's not because I sit home in front of the TV all week. Democrats don't have jobs??? And the McCain campaign wonders why it's out of touch with voters...

    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 9:18:33 PM

      Does CORPORATE WELFARE, BUSINESS HANDOUTS mean something to you, if not just google it........

    • Posted By: neos @ 10/18/2008 8:53:59 PM

      Oh, come on. Now you're just getting sad....

      • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 9:02:46 PM

        No...It is true. Democrats would rather take money from those who work and give it to those who don't. Barak just sait that the other day.

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/18/2008 9:38:27 PM

    Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!! He admitted to Joe the Plumber than he wanted to spread the wealth! He said that he wanted to make everyone equal! Is America ready for Socialism? The Iranian president, Ahmadinejad, said today that he is glad to see the end to capitalism in America!! Are you glad?????
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    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/18/2008 9:38:03 PM

    Everyone of voting age should read these two books written by Obama, 'Dreams of My Father' and 'Audacity of Hope'. Don't buy them, get them from the library before they are removed from the shelves.

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

    From 'Dreams of My Father', "I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."

    And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!

    From 'Audacity of Hope', "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

  • Posted By: OrangeCountyCA @ 10/18/2008 9:37:26 PM

    Lest you labor under the mistaken belief that all black people favor Obama....



    http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/ndnr09-03-08.html

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 10/18/2008 9:33:16 PM

    Comment: from tiny ACORNS grow huge FRAUDS....

    By Larry Johnson
    Email: larry_johnson@earthlink.net
    Site: http://NoQuarterUSA.net

    Why is Barack Obama giving ACORN $832,000 when it is a tax dead beat? (Hat tip to an intrepid NoQuarter reader.) Before Obama and Biden cast any more stones at poor Joe the Plumber for a $1200 tax lien, they might want to insist that their buddies at ACORN pony up the HALF-MILLION DOLLARS they owe the Federal Government. That???s right boys and girls, according to Louisiana State financial records, ACORN is a mega deadbeat:

    INITIAL AMOUNT: $547,312
    INITIAL DOCKET #: 424212708
    AMOUNT: $547,312
    FILING DATE: 03/10/2008
    INITIAL DATE: 03/10/2008
    UPDATE DATE: 05/07/2008
    Name SSN/EIN Address
    IRS
    PLAINTIFF
    ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FOR REFORM NOW
    DEBTOR
    1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE
    NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117

    Of course, this raises some even more interesting questions.......

    Read rest @ NoQuarterUSA.net

    Allah Akbar Ya'll

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: blueangelunaware @ 10/18/2008 8:49:52 PM

    Someone questioned about Obama's 2 years at Columbia. His two roommates were from Pakistan and when he went to see his mother in Indonesia and also his father - he then went to spend time in Pakistan with his roomates families. Also, Obama did distance himself from his 20 year relationship with a radical anti-american minister when he became a candidate to run our country. Just as my 12 years of school or 4 years of college never indoctrinated me with ideas and beliefs I hold to this day, I am sure his relationships with this radical has had no lasting effect on who he is. From college days, roooming with persons from Pakistan, along with the other relationships he has had throughout his life connected to anti-american views probably will have no effect on how he views and runs our government. Yes, he did say the first thing he would do is sit down with the president of Iran, but that probably is not important. Did you see how the vote went when trying to get English not be our first language? - very close! Did you miss that there will be no more secret ballots when it comes to unions? Are you aware that for five years members of our government have tried to have Christian Broadcasting taken off public airways and now talk radio will have to be monitored as changes are promised. The degreulation of our housing market was done by the same democrats that will still be in Congress. --- I am not wealthy, but I have worked for what I have and no way believe that we should "spread the wealth" - give to those who do not pay taxes now because they have not worked enough to earn enought to live on. All the speeches sound great - spread the wealth - the government will do it for us - they will take care of our health care - we have given up so many freedoms, including the right to have a "God Bless America" sign in our own front yard if it is next to a sidewalk where it may offend someone. I am proud to be an American, I want the American Flag to be our flag, English to be our language and have the American people stop having to be so politically correct as to not offend some minority - whether it be gays or immigrants or anyone - that we have to give up our rights and beliefs to be proud Americans without having to apologize for it.

    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 9:32:49 PM

      Well you should ask McCain how palling Gordon Liddy, Pastor Hagee, Keating five, Mustafa Abu Naba'a, Ali Jawad, Oliver North, John Singlaub and U.S. Council for World Freedom, Kemper Marley, Don Diamond, Marylin Shannon have shaped his views.

      What about his association with segregationist senators and ex- KKK like Byrd, has that make him a segregationist as well? Good question to ask, maybe you should just assume like you are doing with Obama, why not?

      And what about Sarah and Todd Palin membership with Alaska Independence Party ??? the party of anti-American Joe Vogler What is Todd s influence as husband and shadow governor getting involved in her job and policies. And Sarah s friend Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll members of the AIP as well. Let s assume as well that they have influence her being friends for so many years, no?

      Read more on:
      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/guilt-by-associations_b_133758.html


    • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 8:55:20 PM

      blue...No, the problem is, no one has "axed" Obama ANY important questions. You saw what happened when someone asked him a very important question. Obama bombed. He admitted to the whole world that he wants to run America like Hugo Chavez runs his country....into the ground.

  • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 10/18/2008 9:30:05 PM

    No Alter.
    The country is not going left. It's right where it is. The news media America IS kooky left , and more at some times than at others. But the rest of America is where it is. A Constitutional (Conservitive ) idea! Putting up with idiots like you, more at times. less at others.
    And when Senator Kennedy retires the artificial tilt left will be gone. Then, EVERYONE will know this nation is slightly right of center! And you'll be all upset!
    Time is against you Alter! You can got to work for Bill Ayers.... and probably are already!

  • Posted By: junkmail6 @ 10/18/2008 9:28:40 PM

    Back to the article... I don't think America's moving anywhere. The Republican party (nationally) has moved far, far to the right, to a point where many of us simply can't support the average Republican anymore. I voted for Bush because I saw him as a moderate, but he swung right with that Harriet Miers mess. Ever since then, he has become more intolerable.

    Both parties are divisive and negative (so Hillary Clinton), which makes choosing a candidate even harder. I I find it hard to support someone who resorts to distortions bordering on outright lies (are you listening, John McCain) to get votes.

    Obama seems to rise above this garbage, for the most part. Perhaps a good electoral thumping will awaken the RNC and move them to renounce the extreme right. In the meantime, I'll support Obama and hope he does better than my previous choice.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 10/18/2008 9:18:53 PM

    BREAKING NEWS ALERT....

    BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA CLAIMS HE WILL WIN FLORIDA AND HE THANKS ACORN AND VOTERS LIKE MICKEY MOUSE AND DONALD DUCK FOR THEIR SUPPORT !

    • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 9:23:11 PM

      I live in FL and Obama will not win this state. The Jewish vote recently read what Obama's butt-buddy Jesse Jackson said while in France. McCain will win Florida by 6 points.

  • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 4:55:42 PM

    A vote for Joe the Plumber is a vote for John McCain. Face it. Until Obama screwed up and finally admitted OUT LOUD his intentions to take from those of us who work and give to those who don't, the media was giving him a free and protected ride. Obama is on tape saying he wants a government just like Hugo and Fidel and that has scared real Americans. And yes, real Americans do not believe in income redistribution.

    • Posted By: LisaP70 @ 10/18/2008 9:09:16 PM

      Yes, only in America can you run a company into the ground, lay off most of its workers and leave with millions of dollars as your reward. And if you're really lucky, the government will bail your sorry butt out so you can take your inner circle for a spa vacation. And you think we are afraid of Obama?? Please!

    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 8:54:30 PM

      So you prefer taking from the poor and giving it to the rich called CORPORATE WELFARE, which in 2004 was about 5 to 6 times greater than all social programs combined. Now it is thru the roof! Let alone the last bailout!!!

  • Posted By: newsweek08online @ 10/18/2008 9:00:22 PM

    Could you assign staff to read all of the comments on all of the online articles and count and catalog all of the comments that are racist and do an article? Online racists account for x% of all comments, while 100% of all racists were pro mccain, for example. It would be interesting to see the ratios. Thanks.

    • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 9:08:40 PM

      News..you want to point to a single racist post on this entire page? I cannot find one.

  • Posted By: newsweek08online @ 10/18/2008 8:59:48 PM

    Could you assign staff to read all of the comments on all of the online articles and count and catalog all of the comments that are racist and do an article? Online racists account for x% of all comments, while 100% of all racists were pro mccain, for example. It would be interesting to see the ratios. Thanks.

  • Posted By: Cantabrigian @ 10/18/2008 5:44:41 PM

    The media failed to print Obama's conversation with "Joe the plumber."

    OBAMA SAID HE WANTED TO HAVE A SOCIETY OF WEALTH SHARING . . . IN OTHER WORDS YOU WHO WORK WILL SHARE YOUR WEALTH WITH THOSE WHO DO NOT!!!!

    WHY HAVE THE MEDIA FAILED TO PRINT WHAT OBAMA SAID ABOUT WEALTH SHARING???

    THERE HAS BEEN NO OPEN DISCUSSION OF THIS EXCHANGE, BUT THIS IS TYPICAL OF OBAMA'S PRESS COVERAGE. VOTERS MAY WAKE UP IN HORROR AND ASK WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IF THEY VOTE FOR OBAMA.

    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 8:51:55 PM

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      I have read many blogs where republicans say over and over that the crisis WAS NOT Bush fault. Even today there was an article showing ALL the actors that contributed to the crisis. Some republicans are even blaming CLINTON!!!!
      So, if Bush is not responsible for the ECONOMICAL situation of the country, how come only one person in the whole government even as president can CHANGE to whole ECONOMIC SYSTEM established in this country for centuries.......

      You CAN T have it BOTH WAY.....If Bush policies DID NOT have an impact in the economy, HOW Obama would be solely responsible for all your blames? Hemmmm!
      Clinton could not even change the Healthcare system!

      Obama have been in the campaign trail for almost 2 years and it is 2 weeks before elections that he is SUDDENLY socialist? That s desperation. McCain tries every day something different and it says MORE about him that is says about Obama.

      He is really erratic!!! And the fear tactics that are so clear and obvious in ALL republican candidates will backfire big time!

  • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 8:42:14 PM

    Joe the Plumber asks a simple question. Barak Obama, for the first time since he has been running, answered the question honestly. Joe the Plumber has done what McCain couldn't do. Knock Obama out of the race.

    • Posted By: neos @ 10/18/2008 8:45:26 PM

      You got it. Senator Obama will officially withdraw from the presidential race on Nov 5th when he becomes the president-elect. McCain has him right where he wants him, by golly.

  • Posted By: websmith @ 10/18/2008 7:12:54 PM

    Elitism? The uneducated Joe the Plumber wasn't getting ready to buy a business and he knew that the business didn't make $250K per year. The educated Obama was had and he knows it now. Joe the Plumber and his uneducated friends are having a lot of fun with this on the job. Try to tell Joe the Plumber's customers and Joe's coworkers that Joe is not a plumber. http://ewebsmith.com/Finance/playboys.html





    • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 7:20:28 PM

      Joe the Plumber, in one question, got more information out of Obama than the liberal media has hidden since Obama started running. The great thing is, Joe the Plumber will do what McCain couldn't do...take Obama out of the race.

      A vote for John McCain is a vote for Joe the Plumber

      • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 8:45:23 PM

        It is a different EXCUSE everyday!!!!

        Why do not have the guts and say it: It is all about RACE!!!!!!

        Where are the religious values there?

      • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 7:57:28 PM

        DREAMING IS FREEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 8:40:20 PM

    REPUBLICANS ARE RACIST!!!!!!!!!!

    A democratic congress with filibuster proof senate is the one that can achieve many transformation on the laws of the land. Socialist my a$$. Nothing to do with Obama.

    You do not want Obama because of his race, shame on you!!!!!

    • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 8:44:56 PM

      Barak Obama is no different than Hugo Chavez. However, as a liberal, you won't have a problem with that.

  • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 8:25:44 PM

    Democrats HATE Obama

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/09/22/2008-09-22_poll_barack_obama_could_lose_six_percent.html

  • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 8:24:52 PM

    Here is why Barak Obama will not win. Democrats are closet racists.

    But Obama faces this: 40 percent of all white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents.
    http://joezsrepublicanpage.blogster.com/34-of-white-democrats-will-not-vote-for-a-negro_210908083627



  • Posted By: mcbrim1998 @ 10/18/2008 8:20:05 PM

    I will never vote for a terrorist sympathizer.

    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/18/2008 8:22:57 PM

      Then DO NOT FOR PALIN AND THE AIP

    • Posted By: neos @ 10/18/2008 8:22:28 PM

      Old man yells at cloud...

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