Why McCain Won

Mr. Alter:

It is most appropriate that your Newsweek photograph is dark and sinister. The photographer is to be commended for capturing the essence of your soul. Your commentary in ???Between the Lines??? (Newsweek, November 3, 2008) is hateful, shadowy, partisan and baseless bile. In my lifetime ??? which began in 1952 ??? the average difference in popular votes cast in presidential elections is 7.3 million. It appears that President-Elect Obama will win the popular vote by 7.2 million ballots: a very typical result. Granted, each of these 15 elections focused on current crises that arose in the ebb and flow of life on this planet. But I would point out, Mr. Alter, that there are two primary parties that make up our American political system ??? Democrats and Republicans. There are two parties ??? read carefully - because they hold different views on the appropriate way to govern. They generally differ sharply on issues of economics, taxes, welfare programs, military preparedness, the size of government and social issues ??? to name a few. This has been, and presumably will always be, the case. I have no doubt that votes were cast in this election based on the color of Mr. Obama???s skin ??? both for and against. That you would attribute any ballot not cast for him a racist vote ??? as you clearly did in this ???commentary??? - is inflammatory and inexcusable. There are myriad ideological reasons that 56 million citizens voted for Senator McCain rather than President-Elect Obama. The last sentence of your article suggests that those counted in that number lack common sense and are indecent. You, Mr. Alter, are indecent.

Thomas J. Schuyler
Citizen ??? USA
Nashville, TN

And you should realize, hoffedoodoo, that the most racist, hypocritical, bigots are Dems like yourself and Alter. You talk of McCain's only possible way to win the election is through racist voters. You have a candidate who played the race card himself because it wasn't being done by McCain (remember the "They're gonna tell you I don't look like other Presidents" line?).You talk of racism yet defend Obama when it comes to Jeremiah Wright.The list goes on and on and it's been said over and over that I am getting bored typing it.

Your statements about Foxholes is interesting. What should we label those who listen to Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow,Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann, Bill Press,and the many others who speak with such hatred and disrespect that they should be bitch slapped on Mainstreet. My assumption is you are fine with those just mentioned but those who listen to FOX are stupid and incapable of independent thinking.

The truth of this election is you have such hatred toward GWB that you are willing to support a racist Muslim candidate and have no regard for what the long term ramifications are as long as he is elected. I wonder how many of you will regret your vote a year from now.

If you truly invested time informing yourself about Obama you could not possibly come to the conclusion that he is the best candidate for the job. A man who in his own book admits he prefers to associate with MARXIST professors, professes his commitment to his Muslim faith in times of trouble. Not my words, his. Your turning a blind eye to the truth is putting our country in a potentially dangerous position.

I think you're just a typical ignorant Dem.that drives a foreign car with an Obama sticker on it to Wal-Mart after stopping for a soy latte. Then, you bitch about how the American worker is being screwed by the rich CEO as soon as you drive out of the parking lot.

Be a patriot, vote McCain/Palin, if not for yourself for your children!!

You should realize, mickeyj, that spouting off bigoted remarks prefaced by wistful hopes of more death in the world only serve to reinforce the stereotype of the LIVs mentioned in Alter's article. Frankly, the minority of us who actually invest the time informing ourselves are sick and tired of arguing with nimrods who scream bloody murder about Karl Marx, but couldn't pick him out of a lineup. Essentially, there are only two kinds of people who are Foxholes (i.e., avid and exclusive watchers of Fox "News" Channel): Those who are willfully ignorant, and those who are unwillingly ignorant such that they do the bidding of the former, carrying water for the people who have convinced them that there is nothing more American than shopping at WalMart, being a drooling lard-ass NASCAR fan listening to the "country" equivalent of Britney Spears, and living in abject fear covered by self-righteous indignation of people different from oneself, whether because they actually should or because they just don't know what else to think because they haven't yet been told by Rush/Sean/BillO/etc.

Not likely since the corrupt Rebulican Secretaries of State in two battleground states are gone (Blackwell in Ohio and Harris in Florida). If we can overwhelmingly get Obama into office maybe we have a chance to clean up the process once and for all.

The problem with Obama is a simple one. One association does not a radical make. But in Obama's case, the list of left-wing radical mentors and associates is seemingly endless, (Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi , etc., etc.) with a new revelation practically every day. With that trend, a picture begins to emerge, and that picture is that Obama is as steeped, not in just left-wing political thought, but in radical left-wing economic and race ideology, to the same extent that Pat Robertson was steeped in the ideology of the radical Religious Right. I would not have voted for Pat Robertson for dog catcher, and for similar reasons, I will not vote for Obama.

In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" Obama unintentionally revealed that he really is as radical as his early political mentors and acquaintances, Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi etc., (gee, there sure seem to be a lot of them) and that he is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Now there is absolute proof. In 2001, Obama, the "community organizer" turned legislator, said in an interview:

"And I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and organizing activities on the ground that are able to bring about the coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that,"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview.

Obama's tax and spending plans alone would be bad enough, but add Reid and Pelosi to the mix, with the three of them controlling both houses of Congress and the executive branch without any effective restraint, and you have something that should causes concern even among moderate Democrats.
See Wall Street Journal: A Liberal Supermajority:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html

Indeed, some democrats are publically saying as much. See Barney Franks comments on the news, including face the nation last week, stating essentially that Democrats in Congress intend to greatly raise taxes and go on a spending spree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k

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

See http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23617.html

Obama's ill-conceived programs will require him to tax, and his health care plan alone is a substantial hidden tax on all business, large an small. In reality, it does not really matter who he taxes, those taxes are going to be passed through the economy. He has to tax, because it is they only way he can pay for his massive social engineering experiments. Any first year economics student knows that taxation is a tool used to contract an economy experiencing inflation, because it reduces demand by reducing the amount of money individuals and businesses have to spend. It is contractionary, which is exactly what you do not want to do when the problem is that the economy is contracting already into recession. Like Hoover and FDR, Obama's plans will only make it worse for longer.

See e.g. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/03/opinion/main4499465.shtml
And
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx


The democrats failed social engineering policies in the housing market are what brought us to ruin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related
Even Bill Clinton says so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsynspIqAoE
Obama and a supermajority of Democrats simply is not the change we need, nor is it change we can afford.

Alaska Personal Board report out today finds no violation by Governor Palin.

http://www.cnn.com/video/live/live_asx.html?stream=stream3

Obama said he denounced and left the radical Trinity United Church but it???s not true!!

Obama has Trinity United pastor Rev Ottis Moss accompanying him on his campaign!!

Americans' should really think about what they are voting for at the upcoming election. Talk is cheap ... and both sides have certainly expressed personal rhetoric. However, one seriously needs to look at the obvious socialist dogma that Obama is contemplating. In 2001, he made remarks about the Supreme Court redistributing wealth. He has made inference to the founding fathers concerns being relevant for a time past, rather than the current times. This would imply that he trashes the ideas of limits to any one side of power. Make no mistake, should you cast a vote for Obama, you are siding with someone who plans to destroy democracy and replace it with socialism. Look around, many nations have tried this in other parts of the world, and such a system fails miserably, and sadly, it does nothign by limit the personal freedoms of people so governed. It appears that this nation will have the Democratic party controlling congress, the senate and now the highest office in this land, the presidency. God help us! With such unlimited power, they will manage to unravel over 200 years of ever-decreasing freedom, and replace it with a HUGE government who will attempt to regulate and manage every aspect of life for it's citizens. Any freedom you thought you might have will be gone FOREVER. Just think of how many rules and regulations they have already managed to sneak in without a popular vote. Change will come, but it won't be for the masses. It will give the ruling few the chance to enslave an entire population. Not just us, but for generations to come. Wake up America! Or, you may wishs to keep your weapons hand, or begin to sharpen sticks and rocks in the unlikely event that you will ever gather the courage to fight for freedom again. Wiser people may remember the old saying that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance! Think, before you cast your vote. Are you so willing to throw caution and your freedom away for this illusive change? Do you fully intend to align yourself with someone who fully intends to destroy the very premise this nation was built on? If so, be prepared to suffer with the choices you are making for the rest of your lives. Oh, would that common sense prevail before it is too late. The founding fathers risked EVERYTHING for freedom, they were considered traitors to the British Crown, and still they signed their names to the Declaration of Independence. Have you read it? Have you gone out and looked up the voting records of both candidates, studdied the issues? Or are you merely sheep ready to following anything and anyone that is different from what you think you want, or where the nation is going? Spend the next few days actuallly researching the records. THINK AND ACT before it is too late. Once this horse us unleased, the winds of change WILL sweep over this land, but is it really the type of change you want? THINK!

Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt issued a statement on the Obama campaign's "abusive use of Missouri Law enforcement." What was striking about the Gov's allegations was the parallel between the Obama Camp activity and the Organization of the Islamic Conference's effort to stifle all criticism of Islam also by means of legal intimidation, at the UN and elsewhere. Blunt charged that four Missouri state officials along with the leader of Obama's campaign in Missouri "have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign." In declaring an intent to prosecute those who spread what they consider to be falsehoods about Obama, they were, said BLunt, "abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment". Such behavior, said Blunt, was "scandalous beyond words." Obama and his supporters, he said, were trying to "frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti civil rights effort, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism." If Barack Obama values free speech so little, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that if he becomes President he will acquiesce to the Organization of the Islamic Conference attempts to criminalize criticism of Islam, and pressure the Supreme Court to declare a "hate speech" exemption to the 1st Amendment protections. His longtime friend Rash-id Kahlil would just love that.

And lets not forget the Court, and decisioins like Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005).

What does redistributive mean. Well, remember that it was the liberal Left-Wing Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court that brought us this little jewel, holding that the government could take your real property, like your home, not for public use like a road or school, but to give to another private individual, such as a political contributor or other party hack or interest group. You remember this one.

Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development. The case arose from the condemnation by New London, Connecticut, of privately owned real property so that it could be used as part of a comprehensive redevelopment plan. The Court held in a 5-4 decision that the general benefits a community enjoyed from economic growth qualified such redevelopment plans as a permissible "public use" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion; he was joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.

The decision was widely criticized by American politicians and the general public. Many members of the general public viewed the outcome as a gross violation of property rights and as a misinterpretation of the Fifth Amendment, the consequence of which would be to benefit large corporations at the expense of individual homeowners and local communities. Some in the legal profession construe the public's outrage as being directed not at the interpretation of legal principles involved in the case, but at the broad moral principles of the general outcome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

This guy is such a sad excuse for a legitimate journalist that every time he writes it costs Newsweek another few hundred subscriptions.

Under Jon Meacham's sorry leadership this magazine has descended into this kind of pure garbage.

I give Newsweek another 4-5 years before it folds.

B. Wilson
Pleasanton, CA

HOPE you are able to use that headline again on Nov. 5th for the sake of taking a look back. Failed policies indeed, to say nothing of the failed policies of redistributive socialism (ask Putin about that one). And do not confuse the Obama plan with charitable contributions or allocating assets in a disciplined democratic capitalist system. Remember his mentors, from Frank in Hawaii to Wright, Ayers and Rezko in Chicago, he has had a wide ranging, rich multicultural upbringing. So much so that he has become a chameleon.

More and more disturbing stuff on Obama's past and real intentions are just starting to surface.

As I predicted a year ago ....Obama is a fraud and America is being duped !!

Comment: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=69601

Hey look this is really serious, its no longer about oooh Sarah Palin sounds sooo dumb, or McCain is just like Bush. Read what he said. He wants a civilian security force. Imagine if he gets elected, and the democrats control congress. What happens when he gets a bill passed by congress to create this civilian military force? How will he fill this army of 250,000 people. Will he implement a draft? Are you guys still certain Obama is the man we need to bring "Change"????????????????

Mc Cain is not going to win this election, end of discussion. He has run one of the dirtiest campaigns ever and most Americans, I believe, are sick of the negative slams from him and Palin. I think most Americans are put off by Palin and her shrill attack mode speeches and voice. The lies, deceit and inuendos have been outrageous. Joe the plumber indeed! He is a symbol for the business owners in this country who are making over $200,000. a year in personal income. There is no Joe sixpack or regular Joes in their plans. Only the well off and wealthy stand to profit from the McShame presidency. Trickle down economics has not worked in this country. Obama may not be the second coming of Abraham Lincoln but John McCain is the second coming of GWB!