Why McCain Won

nowforthetruth...........you obviously don't understand basic accounting. In order to be taxed in the higher tax bracket you have to have a REVENUE of 250,000, that is money left AFTER expenses, such has salary. SO, if you were to have a revenue of 250,000 per year, and you decided to hire an employee at 50,000 per year, now you would only have a revenue of 200,000 per year, and ta dah........you now fall under the lower tax bracket. Get it, if you have 250,000 left after expenses then quit your complaining and pay the taxes, your obviously doing better than the average American.

There may be many reasons not to support Obama but for McCain i need only one reason...Palin.
Is the female version of Bush the best the Republican Party had? Atleast teflon Romney sounded believable. Palin is a parrot who keeps repeating herself when she cant explain a situation.
McCain can still win this election...if he picks Tina Fey for VP.

What an incredibly stupid article. Why would you put these ideas into anyone's heads and possibly influence their vote? Or do you think those people are too stupid to read Newsweek and/or try to understand at this late date who the best candidate is. I'm really surprised at you! Dumb article.

Hey ASKPLUS....I've give one to you. You didn't actually call me a racist....you IMPLIED IT or better yet I took it that way. So one for you, but you still have yet to say one intellectual thing of your own. You sit here and tell everyone else how "extremely out of touch", "hard and angry for no real reason" and yet, I don't believe I have said anything in anger nor am I out of touch, but what I do have is my own thoughts and opinions and it isn't all about just telling other people how stupid they are. You still didn't address anything but the race issue. And throw out some more insults. You are the one that seems out of touch, angry and most of all AFRAID OF GOOD OL DEBATING. That would consist of more than insults and stupidity.

to: summer4077 @ 10/27/2008 3:31:30 PM. I enjoyed your response and point of view. This is how it came across to me. Yes, our President has been and will hopefully continue to be very influential around the world. You say Global opinion isn't good right now and in some ways that is true, but I have to ask if you have ever been outside the US or isn't just what you hear on the TV? It really stinks that when overseas we are constantly told to not make it obivious we are American, basically being told that because "what for some reason that is a bad thing?"

I haven't always agreed with everything Bush has done as President, but at the same time we had a smooth talking, say whatever it takes to make people happy President, who didn't want to make anybody unhappy for 8 years before Bush which is why were are where we are today. If Clinton had done his job I truly believe that 9-11 didn't ever have to happen. Best thing about Bush was he has made sure to PROTECT THIS COUNTRY. Atleast he WASN'T AFRAID TO DO SOMETHING. We haven't been attacked in the US since Bush took over. He hasn't stuck his head in the sand like Clinton did, and just look the other way, as to not upset anyone.

I agree flag waving doesn't make you a good patriot. But at the same time why make it an issue, why go out of the way to have it REMOVED? What was so wrong with it that he had it removed? Those are the questions that make me wonder. Small things add up. And this was one of those small things that seems so little at the time, but somehow it matters. I've had friends die for those colors, so yes for someone who wants to be President of the US it should matter.

I agree we need a change from the Bush years but not to socialism. Everyone points to the past 8 years as being the worst in history however it has been the past 2 years that the democrats have been in control and that was when things really turned bad. Bush has made himself an easy target for the left-wing socialists in this country. To change from democracy to Obama/Biden socialism is the wrong type of change. You can look to the south in Venezuela to see what a fine job Hugo Chavez has done in changing a country from democracy to socialism. Stealing from the rich to give to the poor is extremely short-sighted. ???Give a man a fish??????. We do not need a welfare state but to hear the Obama rhetoric, we will be going back to old principals that didn???t work in the past. Nothing new in his ideas - just old practices that failed before. We need good jobs through education and re-training not the government "jobs" that Obama has proposed and we are paying for (more welfare).
If the Oprah Winfrey's, Bruce Springsteen's, and Billy Joel's of our country want to give more of their money to the government to spend on welfare, set up a fund for them to do that. The average "Joe" like me are taxed enough and are struggling to make ends meet even without the Obama Welfare Plan.
Don???t let the ???same as the last 8 years??? rhetoric scare you into giving up your freedom and our democratic principals.
In regards to the new tape, I think we should try to cover this up like the rest of the questionable personal traits and views from Obama. How someone dares challenge the coronation of our Messiah is unfathomable be his name Joe or Tito or anyone else. The truth has no place in a bias media.

I am not sure what people see in Obama, he talks a lot but he hasn't SAID anything. He spends most of his time talking around subjects. I am and have alway been an avid McCain supporter. I get so tired of everyone saying that Palin isn't qualified to be president of the US and that she is the reason McCain campaign is faultering, do these same people support Barak Obama for PRESIDENT? Do they realize this man has not experience whatsoever! He has no real experience with Foreign Policy, and we are at war people and not just with Iraq! He has no experience with anything that I feel in a daily function of a President for the most powerful country in the world, we are handing our freedom and future over to a man who doesn't really like this country and the values this country was built on. I get so mad I want spit! I really don't care what his reasoning is, if you can't salute the flag for the country you are running for you should not be allowed to run, he doesn't place his hand over his heart when our national anthem is on? These are the kind of this that will tear a country a part. We have to stand together and realize that these things to not represent war and chaos they represent "the land of the FREE and the HOME of the BRAVE" ! Please I plead to people take your rose color glasses off and see this man for what he really is, a lying, manipulating, con artist who is in line to take responsibility for your future.

In this video, Obama, who claims he has "no ties with Acorn" notwithstanding the $800,000 paid to an Acorn group during the primaries, is campaigning at a convention of Acorn and I believe two other Community Activist's organizations. Ask if he will be their ally if he becomes President and pledge to meet with leaders of Acorn and the others in his first year, Obama says, quote:

"Yes, but let me say that before I even get inaugurated, during the transition, we are going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda."

See and hear it for yourself. Obama promised that Acorn and a couple of other groups like it will setting his agenda if elected even before he is inaugurated:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU

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

2001 Chicago Public Citizen Radio Interview criticizing the Warren Court as not radical enough for not pursuing redistribution of wealth.

Says that community organizing is for the purpose of assembling the political power to force redistribution of wealth.

Come on people. Study! We need to bolster our middle class that is diminishing daily. This trickle down isn't trickling. Instead the wealth is moving upward; the wealthy class is getting richer, the poor class is getting poorer. That's not what we have in mind. Read and study what Obama's plans are. They have been lauded by the most intelligent economists that the United States has produced. We have to believe in him if we don't want to continue on the same path. Name one difference between Bush and McCain as far as an economic strategy. You honestly cannot. The only difference McCain voices is a spending freeze on everything except security. What happens to the rest of our problems during this freeze. And even with this freeze he doesn't believe he can balance the budget in less than four years. Wake up! Don't stay with what used to be Republican policy. It has changed. Trickle down doesn't work.

He's only going to win because he's black. Quite the opposite. How can you say 95% of black people are voting for him for any other reason but because of color. You're fooling yourself to think otherwise. If I vote McCain, it's not because he's white, it's because his policies are better. People are voting for Obama because they think they need more diversity or for the historical moment. He's got no experience no matter hwo you cut it.

What exactly is the author's conclusion? Oh, he missed the hypothesis where Obama pulls out of the race because of his ailing grandmother and gifts McCain the presidency! Really! A Mccain victory would look like only one thing...2000 revisited. A stolen mandate as in what's started happening in West Virginian counties.

So again we are told that if Obama doesnt win then the reason must be that there are too many uneducated, uninformed racists still in this country? How sad. Genuine questions about his past performance in roles that were supposed to have prepared him for the presidency are always discounted as petty and based on a dislike of his color. The man has remarbable charisma but look to his past for his "foot prints". Where is the landmark legislation under his name from the Illinois state senate or the US senate for that matter? He has worked the system in each instance to move onto the next step. A leader takes chances. A leader does what is right no matter the risk to future advancement. No matter how many times I've looked for this part of him I've failed to find it. But of course then perhaps I'm just an ill informed racist after all

Why is the operating assumption in this article that you must be a racist to vote for McCain? There are plenty of good reasons to vote for McCain besides him not being black.