Why McCain Won

Now that's the far left elitist Jonathan Alter we have all come to know so well. Striking with the old preemptive strike that IF Obama loses it is ALL because of race and the racists that live among us. You are forgetting the moderate Democrats that have never supported Obama. Not because of race but because we find him too liberal, too inexperienced, have always questioned his assiciations and his paltry explainations since Reverend Wright, and so called "new kind of politics" mantra. I find this ironic from a man of Chicago where they invented dirty politics. There are many other reasons not to support Obama other than race alter. Nice preemptive try though.

Obama has 63 Nobel Laureates working on his policy team. They are developing a plan to push America back to the top. Who is responsible for McCain's planning? Americans would be shocked to find that Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the sole person responsible for planning McCain's policy for America's future. Holtz-Eakin is also McCain's economic advisor, filling two full time positions on McCain's team. How can one single man (an economist) be responsible for developing a viable technology plan for our future? Obama has an enormous pool of the most intelligent, talented men and women in America working for him. Soon, they will be working for US.

And let's not forget that the McCain campaign spent more on Palin's makeup artist than it did on it's foreign policy advisor. When you pay your makeup artist DOUBLE what you pay your foreign policy advisor, it is time to start examining your priorities.

You look just fine without makeup, John. And Sarah is young enough not to need any. So cut the crap, and start paying some good ECONOMIC ADVISORS so you can have a fiscal plan to present to America. We're in the middle of a huge global financial meltdown, and you are worried about hair and makeup? PLEASE start worrying about the middle class, John. Please.

Yes - "a brave new world". What nonsense. Well, of course, unless he is the "second coming"! He may even think that - yes, that is quite scary. I guess, what really ticks me off sometimes, is that Democrats blame everything on President Bush. I sprained my ankle yesterday - it's Bush's fault!

I sit here and read the various posts from so many of the camp followers. You deserve what you get. It's just very sad that you drag the rest of us down with you. You all support your candidate with pride and fully believe what your political party tells you. Pat yourselves on the head, give yourselves a bone and scratch behind your ears, good doggies. Not one of you can see the fact that both political parties want you to be bickering and griping at each other about the candidates. While you are fighting over the bone, they are sneaking away with the prize - control over what you will be able to do with your life. No matter who of these two were to win the election, it will be disaster for this country. The political parties have wanted it this way for the last 60 years. Both parties have the same philosophy - Keep the public bickering between each other and they won't be paying attention to what government really does. Proof - just look at the way the government says they want education to be good, but in reality don't do anything to really educate the people (educated people are dangerous to politicians. So many of you don't even know how our government is supposed to work. Listening to the campaign ads, you would think that whomever is elected will just go ahead and change things by making decrees about new rules and laws, It doesn't work that way folks....If American's are smart, NOBODY will vote for either BHO or MCC. But watch, on election day we will see how many millions of you are morons.

I have had it ! As a loyal democrat for 25 years, I have been trying to warm up to Obama all summer and fall. Concerns people have about Obama have to do with his limited national exposure, NOT his race. Obama is doing well in the polls becuase of the economic downturn, and the blame for that is going to the republicans. Every time I make a comment that is not completely in lock step with the most left wing liberal Obama supporters on this blog, I am accused of being racist, ignorant, narrow minded, etc., and those are the nicer comments. If you want to persuade moderates into voting for Obama STOP INSULTING THEM

Who is bested suited to lead in these difficult times? The two candidates have had to deal with both a major presidential level decision and a global crisis in the past couple months.

We just witnessed as good a side by side crisis test as you could ask for. Both candidates had to respond to the global financial meltdown, which John's campaign manager Rick Davis called "the worst financial crisis in our nation's history." It was John McCain who was late to recognize what was happening and then couldn't figure out how to respond. He made a dramatic show of suspending his campaign because he knew he needed to seize the initiative politically, but then didn't seem to have any coherent position once he took charge. It doesn't inspire confidence when you say you're going to do something and then back down within days.

On the critical matter of selecting a VP who would step into the Presidency in an emergency, John McCain gives us an unintelligent mediocrity without knowledge or experience in national and international issues. Palin clearly was chosen to fire up the religious right base, but she has little appeal to the vast swath of America. Obama's VP pick is Sentor Joe Biden, who clearly has foreign policy chops and could legitimately step into the Oval Office should the need arise.

John's horrendous POW experience did nothing to prepare him for the job of president. A captive soldier must cope with a situation in which he has no control and can decide nothing. A President of the United States must make good decisions over and over again. Barack Obama has demonstrated the intelligence, calmness and good judgment we so desperately need in a leader for these troubled times. He has been tested repeatedly in this marathon campaign and he has risen to meet every challenge, sticking to his message of hope and change, and not falling into the low-life mud slinging we have seen from McCain.

Obama has better judgement, better temperament, better manners and better ideas that John McCain. I'm a middle-aged white female Christian Republican, and I am voting for Barack Obama.

Obama said, "The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.

"It's not that I want to punish your success," Obama explained. "I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
Senator Obama's plan puts a gun at the heads of those earning over $500,000 and forces them to simply hand their earnings to those who have not earned it. Indeed, there is something very troubling about such a concept, and as Simpson also notes, if this weren't the government forcing those redistributions we would be filing extortion charges against the person holding the gun.

The country NEEDS Obama to win, and put our people back to work.

In the 3rd and last debate, the moderator (Bob Schieffer) outlined the recent economic plans of the two candidates. McCain???s economic proposal was new tax cuts for capital gains (primarily a tax cut for the wealthy) and Obama???s included tax breaks to CREATE JOBS, and public works to CREATE JOBS. Obama is focused on JOB CREATION.

So it is no surprise that the cold hard truth, devoid of opinion, is that the Democratic Party Presidents ALWAYS create more jobs than Republican Party Presidents. A few examples:
1. THE LAST 75 YEARS-12 Presidents in all-the six Democratic Presidents were the six BEST job creators, and the six Republican Presidents were the six WORST job creators
2. THE LAST 60 YEARS-Democratic Presidents averaged 188,000 jobs monthly, and Republican Presidents averaged 89,000 monthly, a difference of 99,000 monthly. The Democrats averaged a job SURPLUS and the Republicans averaged a job DEFICIT in comparison with what is necessary for population growth (around 140,000 monthly).
2. THE LAST 19 YEARS-BUSH-CLINTON-BUSH-Clinton averaged 237,000 jobs monthly, and each Bush averaged 54,000 monthly, a 4 to 1 advantage for the Democrat over the Republicans. The last tow Republican Presidents (Bush and Bush) have been the TWO WORST IN THE PAST 75 YEARS. Why would you expect McCain to be different?
You can check these facts at www.waggonerpost.com, (including graphs) or from the ???horse???s mouth???, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Government.
Are we gonna let the Republicans bamboozle us again? 7 times out of 7 times?

The reason I am not voting for Obama is NOT the color of his skin. I disagree with every one of his policies. I believe that he will lead us into Socialism. I have scary news for you.......I have talked to numerous Democrats who are voting Republican for the very firs time in their lives. They all say that they could never vote for Obama. Keep that in mind as the election approaches.

If Obama loses it will not be because of the color of his skin, it will more likely be because of the bigness of his mouth. There are many who love to hear him speak but there are more who do not. He comes across as an angry black man who has an axe to grind. His followers swoon over his every word, no different from any cult leaders who move their followers to die for them. Obama is a cold and calculated man. McCain disappoints before the election but if elected Obama will surely disappoint after election. With his very limited experience he sees the world and everything before him in black and white, everything is very simple. But talk is cheap. Promises will get him elected. But the mountain of problems he faces coupled with the in-fighting amongst the thousands of advisers and supporters who help him get to the White House will break him. After whipping up so much anger and hatred between hard core Democrats and hard core Republicans and with the financial crisis and economic downturn thrown in, Americans are in for years of hardship. And Obama will continue in the next 4 years blaming George W Bush for his inability to keep his promises while Americans continue to suffer.