Florida GOP: Red With Dismay

Wow! Loriw has his/her hand in every pot on the Newsweek blogs! Apparently he/she is an expert on everything, not just autism. Too bad, Loriw, don't also have a good handle on the facts nor do you have the ability to listen to the arguments of others. Your diatribes for McCain/Palin only make you look as angry as John and as clueless as Sarah. It's okay, though. Eventually the distortions and untruths promoted on both sides will be exposed, but one ticket will have prevailed. I doubt that it will be the one you so desperately want, however.

I want all of you to read this. Hopefully McCain and Palin will eventually see that it doesn't matter what religion you are, what makes you is your beliefs and actions. They could learn something.

Powell also referred to a photo essay from a magazine featuring a photo of a mother resting her head on the tombstone of her son at Arlington National Cemetery. The tombstone lists the soldier's awards, including a Purple Heart, that were earned in Iraq. The solider was Kareem Khan, a 20-year-old Muslim from New Jersey.

The soldier's father, Feroze Khan, said he wants to personally thank Powell for his statement.

"All my son wanted to do was serve his country," he told CNN. "Since he was a boy, he wanted to be in the Army. That was his dream. That's the only thing he ever wanted."

"It was not about how he was Muslim, it was about who he was and what he stood for," Feroze Khan said. "He told me, 'I am going to fight for my faith, not against it.'"

Feroze Khan doesn't want to talk about politics. What the candidates say about his religion is of little importance to him. His son defined what he believes in.

After 9/11, the US government started rounding up Muslims without cause and without due process of law, like we did to the Japanese Americans in WWII. The Bush administration called it's main internment camp Guantanamo Bay. While there are certainly many guilty terrorists held in Guantanamo, there are also many innocent American citizens who have been held illegally for years without even being charged with any crime. They have been tortured by our government. Some of them have died.

Recently the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration in the matter of Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court Justices were NOT on the side of the terrorists. They were on the side of the Geneva Convention, that says you can not torture POWs, and on the side of US laws that state you can not imprison a person without charging them with a crime and bringing them to trial. I'm sure that like most Americans, the Justices who voted against the illegal, immoral doings at Guantanamo didn't feel sympathy for the terrorists. They felt sympathy for the laws of AMERICA, the land of the FREE, where even rat finks get a fair trial.

Meanwhile, back in Iraq, the Bush administration is busy trying to build a smokescreen to hide the CRIMES they have committed. Those pesky weapons of mass destruction. Just think, the National Debt went up over 6 trillion dollars under Bush. More than 2 TRILLION of it went directly into the pockets of Halliburton, a corporation owned by the Cheney family. Halliburton is now a DUBAI corporation and therefore is not subject to US taxes. All that money they took out of the US Treasury is going into the coffers of a MUSLIM country.

Did you hear about how the US government is being charged millions for Halliburton deliveries of sand into Iraq from Kuwait? Sand. Like there is a shortage of sand in Iraq? Another contractor shipped sand from Idaho to Iraq at our expense. Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses these and other excesses of our current government's out of control spending in Iraq.

Your grandchildren will be working like slaves to pay off this debt, so that the Bushes and Cheneys can live the high life in Dubai.

Yeah, they're patriots, Bush&Co. They wear flag pins. And hide the money they stole from America in Dubai.

And they want me to believe that Obama is a socialist. Right.

In case you think McCain is any different than Bush, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

Oh Drat, The McCain camp didnt have anyone sinister enough to spin what McCain really stands for, more Bush economics. Bummer, guess theyll have to vote on the facts down there. And THATs not good for McCain at all.

The folks leading the campaign in FL are not experienced in managing people or leadership. They lucked out by association and they are not right for their positions. Campaigns are about people and the two at the helm, Ballard and DIBenigno would be better suited for other tasks. McCain should replace them and do it fast. That message alone is bound to invigorate and re-enthuse those who have supported McCain but grown so frustrated by the tyranny of the two. - FL McCains

Unfortunately so much of this could have been prevented. Time and time again folks have commented as politely as possible, there needs to be true, mature, experience at the helm in Florida. It is not there. Campaigns need leaders, not kingdoms. Campaigns need people, and coordination and respect. The team assembled cannot lead, and prefers intimidation rather than management. Ballard and DiBenigno may be loyal, but they are not experienced in managing or leading.

After taking the time to read all of the comments posted the past few days, I urge everyone to take the time to read the very first one posted by Nins on 10/18/08 at 12:53:56. It is not often that I agree with a conservative but I certainly do with her posting. I used to have respect for John McCain before he became the GOP's best hope for another 4 years in the White House. Looking at him side with George Bush 90% of the time when fundamentally he had previously disagreed with those policies does nothing to retain that respect. Choosing Sarah Palin as a running mate as a means of pandering to the Religous Right removed any respect permanently. I believe she is a disaster in the proportions that Bush/Cheney have been for 8 years. If she had nothing to hide as far as Troopergate was concerned, she would have welcomed the bipartisan investigation to clear her name. That she and John McCain tried to obstruct that investigation does not bode well for their honesty or judgement. Their obstruction smacked of the Bush/Cheney matter involving Valerie Plame and frankly I've had more than enough of that kind of leadership (or lack thereof).
Do I think that Barack Obama has all of the answers? No, I don't think anyone does. But I do have the hope that he will be more middle of the road and thoughtful when making decisions that affect all of the citizens of the United States than the present administration has been. When all is said and done, I ask myself if the country as a whole and myself are better off than we were 8 years ago and the answer is a resounding NO! For that reason, I am willing to put my faith in Barack Obama than I am in John McCain.

Obama people are using voter lists and sending money in their names. Obama collects large donations as cash or to a supporter's name and divides the amount into small donations and using internet sending the small amounts to Obama. This is FRAUD and US election is bought. MONEY corrupts the system. If Obama is an honest person, after he wins he should put a stop to this and both parties should spend equal amount regulated by the commission and within the set limit. Let us have a an idea advantage not money advantage to one candidate. It is a SHAME

not much left for McCain

Rush Slimeball did it yesterday mcdeere.

Ref mcdeere72; What you dont seem to get is, working for it has nothing to do with it. Taxes are what youve already worked for, economics 101. 2nd, you cant spend more than you make, try and follow...5 trillion became 10 trillion because Bush wanted to be everyones friend. Now, this may zoom by you, but review it if needed...you need to have more cash inflow to spend on needed programs such as health insurence. Joe the plumber is not your typical plumber, in true Rep fasion, they pick a guy making 250k a year, and try and pass him off as your average American trying to make ends meet. Talk about delerious and completely out of touch, but, Im glad he did it, it illustrates beautifully how out of touch the Reps actually are.

Every few years the Dems have to go in and fix what the war mongers screw up, because their only remedy for an economy problem is to restart the war machine. 5 years after the Reps announced 'mission accomplished' in Iraq, we are still killing our kids and checking spider holes. Meantime, the guy that perpetrated 9/11 is wondering the hills of Afgan. on the back of a camel treking around a dialysis machine, and we cant find him...right. The American people are tired of it, hang it up Rep rights, let us fix this madness and balance the budget once more, and in 8 years youll get a guy in there to botch it all up again and put us into another nightmare.

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