What Have We Created?!

aren't all Barry supporters pu$$ies?? So why do they have to be reckoned with...LOL!!!

Repeat the phrase "tax and spend", and you will get a good sense of what an Obama Presidency would be like. If a candidate can spend on a Presidential campaign more than double what any other campaign in history has ever spent before, think of what the size of the federal government will look like after one or two terms of an Obama presidency.

All that government spending will not be paid for by raising taxes only on the "rich", so far defined by Obama as those earning over $250,000 a year. Unless Obama is lying (now that would be new) he has said he would balance the budget in a few years. That will be impossible with all his new proposed spending, including the new welfare programs that he mislabels as tax cuts for the 44% of Americans who do not now earn enough to pay federal income tax (thanks to the Bush tax cuts) . Balancing the budget will require him to greatly broaden the category of "rich" people who need to be taxed more, but Obama will tell you not to mind, because it is "fair". Maybe a year from now the definition of "rich" becomes $150,000 , and two years from now $100,000, and by the end of his term, $75,000. What we know is that to pay for all his promises, Obama will need to find many more people to tax much more heavily so he can "spread the wealth around."

How a candidate runs his campaign is an important indicator of the character of the man or woman we may elect. In the case of Obama, the evidence is that he is a very skillful, ambitious, and driven candidate, and also a very, very cynical and dishonest one. What Obama says means very little. He is after all a clever lawyer. We have had a recent experience with a very smart lawyer as President and how he parsed words. In Obama's case, the lies have been pretty blatant, despite the best spinning efforts by the campaign.

It is not his words, but what Obama does that matters. And right now, Barack Obama is trying to buy the Presidency, and it looks like he is succeeding.

The GOP is grasping at straws. They have nothing substantive against Obama, but boy are they good at making up lies. This has been a leading Rove tactic for years, and if America falls for this again we should be ashamed of ourselves. Not to mention the fact that this is all a smokescreen to keep the focus off of the fact that Palin and her Alaska associates are in contempt of court for refusing to testify in the Troopergate hearings. After Nixon and Clinton, Americans are to some extent jaded, but really, would you want a VP who refuses to attend hearings in her own defense, and instructs her employees not to testify? That smells like guilt. It surely doesn't give the impression that she has done no wrong and has nothing to hide.

This year, the GOP offers you an angry old man and a woman who, while personable, is desperately uniformed about national and international issues. Both of them are far right politically. McCain used to be a maverick, but since 2004 he has voted 90% with Bush. McCain's policies are not original or reformist, despite how he has tried to co-opt Obama's popular message of change. Please go to the websites of both of the candidates and read their platforms. Obama's Blueprint for Change has more good ideas than McCain's plan. Compare them yourself. Obama's basic premise is that tax dollars should be spent to make America stronger and to improve the lives and well being of our people. For example, he uses education programs to train a technology workforce, contributing to energy independence, creating jobs and improving the economy. When you read McCain's plan you will find no over-arching design to get America back on track. Instead you'll find more tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation of the health care industry.

I'm a Republican. Although I embrace some forward-thinking social values, in the past I've rarely voted Democrat. My thinking was that since Republicans grow robust economies, by voting Republican I'd be endorsing a plan that would grow wealth for our nation, and then we would be able to afford social programs. It was a good strategy for a couple decades, but I have to say that the tenure of W. Bush has changed my mind. Not only is there nothing fiscally responsible about today's GOP, the insidious alignment of the party with religious intolerance has really turned me off.

On the other hand, the intelligent luminous thought of Barack Obama has ignited my patriotism. I want a President who puts America first and can get the economy back on track. In my mind, values voting takes a back burner when we are faced with a meltdown of the economy. It's time for a change, a real change. The Republicans have controlled the Presidency for 28 of the past 40 years, but they have fallen down on the job. The Democrats have a stellar candidate this year, and I am voting for Obama.

ALL INDEPENDENTS AND DEM'S AND REPUBLICANS WITH ANY SENSE: Pay attention to these comments and you will see what the Republican Party is all about, HATE ,FEAR, RACIST BIGOT, ====VOTE ACCORDINGLY. If you have one drop of Asian, Black, Oriental, Native American, You would be despised in the Repiglican Party

Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel back in the 1930's as the US was coming out of the Great Depression called "It Can't Happen Here." The earliest parts of the story are being echoed in today's United States, and later the government indeed steps in and takes control over everything in order to "protect the people from themselves." I don't believe the consequences of an Obama presidency would be as severe as Lewis's future, but I do fear for individual freedoms being suspended temporarily at times, some for good (maybe a no loopholes gun control law so we stop killing each other on the street.) but mostly to our detriment. The constitution is not a "living document" as Mr. Obama stated, but a concrete and established set of rules to live by. We are capable of changeing the rules by a popular vote if we feel they are outdated or irrelevant, but the document does not shift with the breeze like all politicians' views and opinions. Think about every issue thoroughly and clearly before you vote. Both candidates are asking you to rush out and vote early so you can't change your mind. Think for yourself, and don't let your friends or family tell you what is right. Don't be one of the minions for either side, be your own objective observer and find your truth.

THERE ARE TOO MANY QUESTION MARKS WITH OBAMA. ALMOST EVERYDAY SOMETHING COMES UP WITH OBAMA THAT PONTS TO THE FACT THAT HE IS A SOCIALIST AND IS USING EVERY MEANS POSSIBLE TO STEAL THIS ELECTION. WRIGHT, AYERS, ACORN, CREDIT CARD FRAUD, CAMPAIGN DONATIONS FROM OUR ENEMIES OUTSIDE OF THIS COUNTRY, AND NOW HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE BEING A FAKE? CAN'T VOTE FOR HIM.

THE VERY TOP OF THE WEALTH HOLDERS DON'T PAY MUCH INCOME TAX BECAUSE THEY USE THAT MONEY TO INVEST IN BUSINESSES AND CREATE JOBS, TO GROW THE AMERICAN ECONOMY AND ALLOW AMERICANS WHO ARE ALSO WILLING TO WORK FOR WHAT THEY GET TO DO SO. IT APPEARS THAT TOO MANY AMERICANS ARE IGNORANT OF HOW THE ECONOMY WORKS.

Obama has said it over and over again. I am not sure why no one seems to get it. This is a bottom-up movement. The change that we need can only come from the bottom and merely supported at the top. There is plenty of work to do. The people of this country will be asked to do something to make this country better. I do believe that a bored mass of people is a dangerous thing, but Obama has repeatedly said that he does not want us to be waiting for the government to act. We will be asked to work locally to make this country better. If he does not do this, then he will have problems, but if you support him and you are not ready to work harder for you community and your country then you do not understand the effort that he is trying to lead.

When people wake up and hold CONGRESS accountable, then it will be a nice day. Who cares who is POTUS when people re-elect the same people who are actually responsible for voting for the laws and actions they are against so much.

I think most Obama supporters are aware he is a politician. He won't be any different in the ways that this article brings up than any other POTUS.

And for all of you who blame everyone else's party for what is wrong...the only thing wrong is that you need someone to blame.

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.

People on these bogs are fond of saying that the current economic meltdown was caused by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac underwriting bad mortgages. While Fannie and Freddie obviously are guilty of writing bad mortgages, and worse, guilty of lobbying Congress to allow them to do so with impunity, their actions are just a small piece of the puzzle when it comes to determining who (or what) caused the financial crisis we face today.

In 1929 the stock market crash caused the banks to fail, because the banks were in bed with the stock market. Back then, banks owned investment houses, so when the stock market fell, the banks fell too. This triggered the Great Depression. So in 1933 the Congress wrote laws that regulated banking, making it illegal for banks to own investment companies, mortgage guaranty companies or insurance companies. The idea was to keep key industries separated by a fire wall, so that if one industry failed the whole economy would not go down in flames.

But the Republicans under Bush deregulated the banking industry. Senator Phil Gramm wrote legislation (the Gramm Rudman Act, the Gramm Leach Biley Act, etc.) that stripped away the regulations in the financial and insurance industies. He pushed them through the Republican Congress and they were signed into law by Geo. W. Bush. John McCain voted in favor. Everybody said how great it is to deregulate and create free markets.

Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch each gave over a million dollars to Senator Gramm's re-election campaign.

The economic collapse that happened later was a direct result of the deregulation, and here's how: the banks wrote bad mortgages, then bundled the mortgages into investment vehicles that they sold all over the world, and they even got firms like AIG to insure the investments. It was all a house of cards.

If there had been no deregulation, sure we would have had a bunch of bad mortgages, and the mortgage guaranty and real estate industries would have suffered, but there would not have been a global financial meltdown, since the problem would have been contained in one sector of the economy. You can thank Geo W. Bush, Sen. Phil Gramm and Sen John McCain for the meltdown, since they were strong proponents of deregulation.

Furthermore, although Fannie and Freddie are now holding the bulk of these bad mortgages, Fannie and Freddie did not originally write most of these mortgages. They bought them after the fact, bundled by banks/investment companies. Fannie and Freddie got screwed by the Wall Street fat cats. And so did you, if you pay taxes.

What is Phil Gramm doing today? He works as a lobbyist in Washington, trying to make it legal for the Swiss bank he represents to sell Death Bonds in the United States. Nice guy, Phil Gramm. Incidentally, John McCain has said that he wants to appoint Phil Gramm as Treasury Secretary. Some people just can't learn from their mistakes.

The people who shaped Obama are indeed controversial, AT BEST. Just because Obama says something does not make it so. But you all go ahead and continue buying into this charisma (that's all it is...charisma) and see what you get for it. The only problem is that you are taking us ALL down with you. Good luck...we're all going to need it if this man is elected President of The United States of America. He promises change, but it's not going to be the change you expected. God bless America....PLEASE!

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.

RACISM FEARS DEFEAT;

Africans thought he had no chance???then they started to believe. Now they fear defeat.

Managing expectations and reactions has become Topic A in many black homes and on blogs such as Bossip, Stereohyped and Angry Black Male. "People that I know that have never cared about politics are registering to vote this time: gang members, ex-cons, you name it," says rapper Snoop Dogg. "I hate to see a lot of that hope go down the drain, and if he loses, it will."

Racism, naturally, plays a part in the conversation. "I've never forgotten that he is a smart, articulate African with a smart, articulate black wife," says Linda Wright, 34, a nurse's assistant from Houston. "You think white people were just going to turn over the keys to the most important job in the land without a fight?" The overriding feeling is apprehension, an increasing fear of losing something people thought was theirs to keep.

There's not a lot of anger???yet???but you can start to sense the potential for it. "I'm going to be mad, real mad, if he doesn't win," says Daetwon Fisher, 21, a construction worker from Long Beach, Calif. "Because for him to come this far and lose will be just shady and a slap in black people's faces. I know there is already talk about protests and stuff if he loses, and I'm down for that." Another asked if someone could legally be turned away from the polls for wearing saggy pants or cornrows in your hair.

A new poll shows that 95% of African Democrats harbor negative views toward whites. Obama's problem is close to home ??? among his fellow Democrats, particularly non-Hispanic white voters. 9 in 10 people who are African call themselves Democrats and support Obama
[Obama] is drawing almost unanimous support from blacks, the poll shows.

Statistical models derived from the poll suggest that Obama's support would be as much as 6% percentage points higher if white racial prejudice [among Democrats] was not in play.
Race is the biggest factor driving Democrats and independents towards Obama.