Why McCain Won

I am not racist if I elect to vote for McCain, I am free and I am a republican.

Jonathan Alter, what is the REASON for this article!! At best it is a joke, at worst it is gratuitous manipulation and highly opinionated. I was about to go out and buy your book on FDR but now I'm having second thoughts!

Racism and Religion and baa humbug! I am tired of it. This is 2008 and people are still living in the 1950's

Barack Obama's "CHANGE" slogan actually indicates how often he changes his position. He changes like a Willow in the wind. One day Obama will give you Tax Plan (A), the next day he will give you Tax Plan (B). You can't get a straight answer out of him about anything. Even if he comes forth with a campaign policy plan that sounds good to you...how can you possibly believe that is what he will do if he gets elected? Can't you see by what Obama did about saying he would accept public campaign funding and then did a "CHANGE" and did not accept public campaign funding that Barack Obama will tell you anything to get elected. Then Obama will do as he pleases or what he can get away with IF he gets elected. Frankly, I do not trust him. If Barack Obama lied about that, he will lie about anything to get what he wants.

As to the financial crisis, Barack Obama doesn't know zip about how to fix it!!! Even the experts in finance and economics don't know exactly what is wrong. I have listened to numerous experts give their explanation of what needs to be done and what caused it, and one conclusion is that the cause started about 10 years ago when Wall Street went to congress and asked for more creative financing than the standard 30 year fixed mortgage. Securities became so complex and the DNA of their source was lost in the complexity created by the Wall Street genious Whiz guys....that while Regulations were in place the Regulators were not smart enough to realize the bubble building up that was going to explode and cause the catastrophe if borrowers defaulted on their loans. One expert's opinion is that a DNA Label identifying the sourceof securities traded should be required so the purchasers of the securities will know what they are buying and will be more able to assess the risk of their purchase in the future of the market. Who knows exactly what caused or will fix the crisis? This is why I say voting for Obama on the basis of the recent economic crisis is a not a good reason to vote for Obama...because both Obama and McCain will have to delegate that tremendous responsibility to the scientific experts in finance and economy. A better reason NOT to vote for Obama is to vote for the Man who will handle a National Security Crisis the best and that Man is John McCain because he has the most National Security and Foreign Policy experience. Barack Obama has zero experience in National Security and Foreign Policy experience. NOBAMA!!!!! NOBAMA!!!!!
McCain/Palin on November 4, 2008

"A former Newsweek reporter admitted in an article this week that he has no objectivity and imagined disabling Rudy Giuliani so he wouldn't run in the presidential primary race last year.
Michael Hastings wrote in GQ magazine that he had a "recurring fantasy" that he could somehow stop the former New York City mayor in his tracks.
"I quickly realized Rudy was a maniac. I had a recurring fantasy in which I took him out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that put him out of commission for a year or so), saving America from the horror of a President Giuliani. If that sounds like I had some trouble being 'objective,' I did. Objectivity is a fallacy," he said."

http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_7484&pageNum=2

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/55_say_media_bias_bigger_problem_than_campaign_cash

55% Say Media Bias Bigger Problem Than Campaign Cash

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080819.asp

Pew Research finds Media Credibility Plummets, Just 30% Believe 'Most Trusted' CNN

Obama is unqualified, empty, verbose, and got selected solely because of race. Why would anyone in their right mind vote for someone named Barack HUSSEiN Osama, ouf, Obama??? Anyone with such a strange name scares the hell out of me, I have to admit.

not. going. to. happen.

I've been canvassing in North Carolina (a state not even worthy of mention in this piece of tripe). More than half of the *white voters* I've talked to have Early Voted for Obama. He has so many different paths to the required 270 electoral votes that he can effectively lose any (or even all) of the big battleground states and still win the Presidency.