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  • Posted By: gumshooed @ 10/20/2008 5:47:48 PM

    Since my husband's company suffered in the economy in Fl and was forced to do lay offs until they closed their doors permanently, our house went into foreclosure, lost a vehicle, and had no choice but to relocate to NC where the cost to live is much cheaper. I have experienced the last of the knitting mills just closed its doors and a furniture store that had been there for over 70 yrs as the mill, closed its doors. This region was full of knitting mills before they shipped all of the jobs overseas crippling the poor people who depended on those mills to survive until retirement. Those are just a few large businesses to fold up and now the banks up here are in danger next. I don't see how a war hero with an agenda to keep the wars going on for the next 100 years going to help anyone I know here or in Fl.

  • Posted By: papabejo @ 10/20/2008 3:50:09 PM

    At least on the Titanic the band played while the ship sank. McCain and Bimbo need a sweet melody to sink by.

    • Posted By: mcdeere72 @ 10/20/2008 5:39:36 PM

      Do you talk about all the women in your life that way? Amazing because if you do, I feel very bad for them. Ignorance never was freedom.

  • Posted By: gumshooed @ 10/20/2008 5:34:54 PM

    What most people don't realize is Fl. is full of grandparents raising their grandchildren and the cost of healthcare is a major concern with them. It is also a right to work state as Texas and the thought of losing their healthcare benefits because of their employers being taxed and having to seek out other insurance is unthinkable. My father is a small business owner and had purchased healthcare for he and my mom a few years back for 850. a month, when it went up to 1150.00 a month they were forced to drop it. They both were healthly people and gave the insurance company no reason to raise their rate.

  • Posted By: stillwerise @ 10/20/2008 4:30:32 PM

    The anti Obama comments are simply amazing. Carter??? (as if Bush was actually BETTER)? Experience? The man has run a national campaign for 2 years, beat a politican juggarnaut, and is on the verge of BETING the republicans, regarless of being black, regardless of having a 24 hr cable news network against him, regardless of the dominance of right wing talk radio, Limbaugh, Savage, Hewitt, Larson, Ingram, Hannity, O'reilly.. and 2 more words on "experience... Sarah Palin.

    • Posted By: mcdeere72 @ 10/20/2008 5:31:39 PM

      OK so he has run a national campaign for two years, how long has he been in Senate? Oh, he was elected in 2004 and started campaigning for president in 2006. So tell me where has he been a leader and made any calls FOR THE JOB HE HAS? He hasn't. How do you explain that he's been just 2 years on the job and isn't even taking care of those that elected him? He's not even the senior senator from his state, so as far as a leader of anything major, I'm still searching.....

  • Posted By: Hannah B @ 10/20/2008 4:43:18 PM

    And most of the country also fears that history will repeat itself ... the not so distant history of Bush/Cheney. John McCain like 90% of what they have done to this country, the Constitution, civil rights, honesty, transparency, and the middle class. If they were so trustworthy, why have they stiffled any potential investigation into their operations. If Barack Obama is elected the country might just get some answers; it McSame is elected he will continue to bury the truth. This alone is enough of a reason to vote Democratic. But unfortunately this is only one reason; there are hundreds more.

    • Posted By: mcdeere72 @ 10/20/2008 5:22:35 PM

      You must have had to think about this alot. I think I saw this commercial the other day. So, who is Barack running against? Maybe he should break this down for us, just like he needs to breakdown how only 5% of Americans make more than $250,000. He's stated that his tax plans will give 95% of Americans a tax break. Tell me how he's going to do that AND get his mandated childcare paid for?

  • Posted By: desapience @ 10/20/2008 5:14:53 PM

    Mccain would lke to believe he has a chance with Seniors, why? Does Mccain "feel the suffering" of seniors? Mccain is a warmongering elitist, who repeatedly voted to undercut Vet benefits, and Seniors know that. Seniors also know who it was that brought down our economy, and those who supported him "90% of the time", and they fuily understand what it has done to their nest eggs. Mccain is toast in Florida -- I have yet to meet any significant number of people who would vote for that lying, phony, overaged, bush-bot, SOB.

  • Posted By: melzee @ 10/20/2008 5:13:20 PM

    I would have chosen Crist over Palin 100 times over... and I'm a democrat!!! McCain has only served to divide this country in ways that takes us back 50+ years. At this point, it is not about republican or democrat, it is about America, and I am ashamed at what his campaign has reduced us to. Honestly, does ANYONE truly believe his campaign has been ethical, decent... American?

  • Posted By: melzee @ 10/20/2008 5:10:06 PM

    I'm a democrat and I WOULD HAVE SELECTED CRIST OVER PALIN 100 TIMES OVER!!!

  • Posted By: 1easylay @ 10/20/2008 10:46:08 AM

    McCain is a moron and so is any middle class person that votes for him. Period.

    I make enough $$ so I don't give a rat's ass who wins, really. The thought of a gun toting, seccessionist, beer drinking, small minded, intellectually deficient hack of a governor being in line for the Presidency scares the *** out of me, but my b/f has dual citizenship, so I can escape if need be, but the rest of you will be screwed.

    Go ahead................vote the Alzheimer patient and the clueless set of ti_s into office. I don't know how anyone could tolerate her shrill, piercing and utterly annoying voice, but apparently Americans are pretty stupid anyway, considering that the McSame/Failin' ticket is even being considered. They go around calling their opponent a terrorist and bring up some "washed up has been of a terrorist".............that's what McCain called Ayers................so why keep bringign it up if he's a has been, and people are not outraged????????????

    Even Colin Powell wouldn't endorse the "Demented One." That says alot cause he;s a good man...............and a smart and he knows the kind of failure and destruction of the American ideal the 'Unlikely Duo" would cause. Powell bailed right after Iraq cause he knew it'd be an epic failure, which it is. Smart man.

    McSame/Bush need to go back to ruining their onw little corbers of the world. Alaska and Arizona rank last in education, healthcare, small business and many other areas. Proof of their abilities.

    • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 10/20/2008 5:09:25 PM

      Just a comment, Cool tag name LOL!

  • Posted By: LouJ9 @ 10/20/2008 3:04:43 PM

    For those of you who believe that Colin Powell's endorsement of Senator Obama is based on race, do you also believe that the white folks who are endorsing McCain are doing so based on race? If you think the Powell endorsement was based on race but the McCain endorsements are not, how do your reconcile the disparity with any conclusion other than that you are racist, and have not yet admitted it?

    • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 10/20/2008 5:06:16 PM

      Great post. This seems to be the main theme of McCain's supporters. If you are Black and an Obama supporter you are doing so based soley on race. If you are White and an Obama supporter you are doing so based soley on White Guilt! I wonder what they think of the Asians, Latinos an Jewish Obama supporters.

  • Posted By: jonnyooh @ 10/20/2008 2:55:15 PM

    You go, McCain. You've just about got this thing in the bag. I don't know what Obama could do now to turn this thing around.. Still, if you could send Sarah out on a belly dancing tour, it would sure put to rest all that BS about her being a poor choice for VP.

    • Posted By: Mark from Colorado @ 10/20/2008 4:59:10 PM

      Funny stuff

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 10/18/2008 9:07:34 PM

    Nixon had ' Watergate " and Barack Hussein Obama is about to face " Acorngate " ! ....you heard it here first.

    • Posted By: muffinb @ 10/20/2008 4:54:46 PM

      You might want to check McCain's ties to ACORN. He has given several speeches at their meetings and told them what a fine job they are doing. He gave the footnote speeck 2006. I'm not sure of the others.

    • Posted By: four_seasons @ 10/20/2008 3:04:55 PM

      You might want to educate yourself about Acorn and Obama. He has nothing to do with the invalid voter registrations. Actually, employees of Acorn are actually defrauding Acorn. Why can't you people understand something so simple?? Oh yah, your a republican, that's why? haha

    • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 10/18/2008 9:41:44 PM

      The US news media has squandered so much of it's former credibility to get Obama in the White House that the real question is, what credibility will they have to keep him in the White House!
      The US news media uses Obama's Americans Suck First campaign so Obama and the news media are twin Sputiniks.
      We may see the first President-elect with impeachment articles massing against him! the guys an empty suited Marxist!

      • Posted By: kimmee111 @ 10/20/2008 2:31:02 PM

        Let's get this straight, Yes they have to turn in every registration, but if a person tells you they are already registered, you don't give then a $ or a cigarette and tell them to sign up again, "to make sure." Have you watched any of the hearings in Ohio, aka the acorn state. Jennifer Brunner is not helping the districts weed threw the potential duplicates and false applications, she is NOT doing her job. The supreme courts ruled on a technicality, not on the issue. They skirted the issue. . .kind of like voting "present" 130 times like Obama, not wanting to commit to one side or the other.

      • Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 10/18/2008 10:13:18 PM


        I agree about the media. We are not hearing about Sara Palin's endorsement of a secession party and Todd Palin's involvement with that party throughout the 1990s. We are also not hearing much about McCain's involvement with the Keating 5 and with his leadership role in the US Council for World Freedom. Yes, if the media did their job we would be hearing more on these.

    • Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 10/18/2008 9:53:50 PM

      Let's get rid of this non-issue right now. Every voter registrar is required by law to turn in EVERY SINGLE voter registration that gets signed. Many people write "Mickey Mouse", "Buck Rogers", "Luke Skywalker" and other silly names in them. Those get separated from the good ballots (which are confirmed by phone or mail) and are ALL TURNED IN into your local county/state authorities. Plain and simple, if someone chooses to write some silly name like "Concerned Canadian" in their voter registration, even if it is a fake it has to be turned in. I guess when you are getting your butt kicked in every debate and your poll numbers suck, you have to charge somebody, anybody, with fraud.

      http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jxjAsAV-4bVaxvkleyrVdeKz2cmgD93T13EO0

  • Posted By: MChieco @ 10/20/2008 4:52:34 PM

    If he would have chosen Govenor Crist as VP , McCain would have won Florida, but in McCain's judgement , it was better to go with the Britney Spears VP Choice.

  • Posted By: reasonableAmerican @ 10/20/2008 4:41:43 PM

    KLM6316 - what has being a "hero" from a war over 35 years ago got to do with working on America's problems today?

  • Posted By: KLM6316 @ 10/20/2008 4:19:48 PM

    Not sure how many of you remember the Jimmy Carter years. I fear that history will repeat itself if Barack Obama is elected. I cannot believe that so many refuse to see what a huge mistake supporting Obama is. I myself am voting for a hero, John McCain.

  • Posted By: peachhhh @ 10/18/2008 5:36:38 PM

    I want a president who can maintain his composure in all circumstance, be articulate, diplomatic, respectful with a background that enables him to be empathetic and humble. A president who can relate to the everyday struggles of the lower/middle class population. Someone who will champion against the wrongs in the current administration while inspiring us to believe in our government again. Someone who will lead by example. John McCain is none of the above.

    ??? peachhhh

    • Posted By: kimmee111 @ 10/20/2008 4:06:48 PM

      Please do not forget "a president who can never give a full answer, and one who can never be asked a simple question from an American, like Joe."

  • Posted By: 4th gen floridian @ 10/18/2008 6:17:08 PM

    Republican govenor Charlie -lives w momma- Crist, like Jeb Bush in 2004, promises "To Deliver Florida"!

    In 2004 Jeb Bush Suppressed Black voters by highway patrol license and insurance checks, and Purged All Names of felons and similar name, mailed required voter response letters that automatically removed all that did not mail response back.

    Now, Acorn Attacks are Cover for Republican Voter Suppression (200,000 removed in Ohio), and Vote Fraud Operations!

    In 2004 exit polls all day had Kerry ahead by 6-7%, then late afternoon and evening after polls closed... totals REVERSED!

    The GOP continues to resist attempts to subpoena Michael Connell, a shady Republican computer operative who programmed the 2000 Bush-Cheney web site. Connell was also hired by former Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell in 2004 to tabulate the Ohio vote count. Under Connell, Ohio's vote totals were shunted to a computer bank in the same basement in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that housed the servers of the Republican National Committee. In the early hours of the morning after election day, vote totals mysteriously began shifting from Kerry to Bush, swinging the 2004 election. Connell's cyber-security industry colleague Stephen Spoonamore, a Republican and former McCain supporter, has said that Connell may be able to shed light on vote count rigging in the 2008 vote count as well. Attorneys in the King-Lincoln- Bronzeville civil rights lawsuit have thus far been unable to secure Connell's sworn testimony.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10553

    • Posted By: jarcher1 @ 10/18/2008 7:56:16 PM

      Please do get the facts right. 200,000 were not removed in Ohio, but were found by the state database to have problems with their registration. Ohio RepubliCON's sued and a federal appeals court ruled that a method of checking the discrepancies had to be in place by Oct 17. The Supremes reversed that decision upon the state's appeal, noting it was an obvious attempt by RepubliCONs to suppress the vote. IOW the same Court right wing Presidents have been packing with extreme constructionists told the RepubliCONs they were going too far in their bid to disenfranchise the opposition. Now we???ll probably get some wing nut posting about how the media and the Supremes are part of a vast left wing conspiracy. LOL, listen to them whine!

      • Posted By: kimmee111 @ 10/20/2008 4:03:35 PM

        Please get YOUR facts straight, the Fed Supreme court did not rule in favor of Jennifer Brunner and the democrats. In a brief unsigned opinion, the justices said they were not commenting on whether Ohio is complying with a provision of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 that lays out requirements for verifying voter eligibility. Instead, they said they were granting Brunner's request because it appears that the law does not allow private entities, like the Ohio GOP, to file suit to enforce the provision of the law at issue.
        The court tucked tail and ran because they didn't want involved. Hmm kind of like Obama voting "present" 130 times on issues. Didn't want to choose a side. The GOP just wants to make sure that everyone WITH the right to vote gets to vote. I am an Ohioan and this registration fraud makes me feel like there is no reason to vote. That my votes will not count because the potential fraudulent votes may be able to pull of a vote, thus cancelling mine. Hmmm the cry of the democrats? Voter suppression? Or doesn't it apply to everyone.

  • Posted By: joelpalmer @ 10/18/2008 7:44:36 PM

    To anyone in Florida who might think of voting for Mccain:

    What's your house worth today?

    Thought so

    Vote Obama; at least he can count

    • Posted By: kimmee111 @ 10/20/2008 3:46:18 PM

      Obama may be able to count, but Biden cannot. Unless Obama can convince us there are 3 letters in
      J O B S, he is pretty good at persuasive speaches

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  • Posted By: tiredoflies @ 10/20/2008 3:17:53 PM

    What you are seeing in Florida and this entire campaign is the effects of someone who, unfortunately finished at the bottom of his class.

    McCain is leading and managing as best he can but he really is a one dimensional thinker with a very limited ability to see a multifaceted vision of the future.

    Someone who really has the necessary requisites to rise to the Presidency would NOT spend 26 years in the Senate first to run for it.

    McCain deserves great respect as a former POW but is less than mediocre as a leader and statesman.

    Actions speak so much louder than words. McCains decisions and judgements in this election have clearly shown his acceptance of the divisive nature of his campaign and has shown his inability to lead and inspire others.

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