Election Addiction

Chuck - okay, so you're still on the terrorist kick - let me put it this way for you - people like Bush and his followers ONLY associate with LIKE-MINDED people because they don't like hearing differing opinions - it doesn't fit into their neat little world. People like Obama, and myself, try to surround ourselves with as many different minds as we can so that we can better understand how other people, who share this world, think. Look at it like this - if Obama has associated himself with terrorists (rehabilitated or not) and we live in a world being attacked by terrorists - wouldn't you think that it's a positive to have spoken to and gotten into the mind of a former terrorist to learn how they think and learn what motivates them? Or are you of the population who seems to think that just because you're in a room with someone who thinks a certain way, you must, by default, think that same way???

Let's pay attention to this: Obama was asked by a prominent McCain supporter to serve on a board whose purpose was EDUCATION REFORM. These same McCain supporters asked Bill Ayers, who is now a respected professor and key player in Chicago's education system, to sit on the same board for - EDUCATION REFORM. This somehow means that because they sat on the same board whose purpise was to IMPROVE EDUCATION - Obama is by default a terrorist lover????

Seriously? Do you think before you speak or just parrot what the talking heads say on TV???


The republicans have resorted to Ol' Faithful - Fear and Smear - Fear Fear Fear!!!!

"All we have to Fear is Fear itself!"

You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts!

Vote Obama. This could be the best chance for needed change Americans have had the opportunity to participate in decades. Obama has changing his views on Abortion again, so we don???t know whether he is a baby killer or not. The surprise is coming.
To tax or not to tax is going to be a great surprise. Obama and his people are not going to tax anyone who makes less than 250 K a year or was that 200K or150K. We could ask Buffoon Joe. The surprise is coming.
What will not be a surprise is, Obama voted for tax increased over 70 times in his SHORT political career. What also won???t be a surprise is when he continues that record that is so well established. Is he going to target you or me? We will see.
Ask yourself; ???How many terrorist friends have I made casually or otherwise???? Obama has made a bunch of devious friends and associates by accident and the big surprise is he???s going to share them with you and me. Yes, you need to vote for Obama so we can see the needed change of terrorist running free. It has been so very boring since 911 that our Government has kept us safe. Hell, if we would have had a few more Ayres attacks we wouldn???t have had to listen and watch so many political infomercials from our good friend Barack. You may copy and paste this and email it to all your friends and associated.

My name is Dave, and I'm a poltiholic. I'm afraid, I'm going to reenct Frank Sinatra's scene from "The Man With the Golden Arm" after this election is over!

Great article Sarah! I am one who has been watching the election coverage closely but I am looking forward to being able to spend more time enjoying myself. I think what I'll miss most from the election coverage are the great episodes of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and the Bill Maher show. The second coming of the Golden Age of Liberal Comedy is coming to a close as Obama is going to win and he just won't be as much fun to poke fun at. Yeah we'll have "Tyrant" Bush to kick around for two more months but after that all the great material that just wrote itself will dry up as the repugnant ones become moot. I'm just glad that insipid Wicked Witch from Alaska will go back to the deep freeze hopefully never to show her face again in the lower 48. But Election Night is going to be fun watching the long faces of the conservative pundits crying in their beer and whining about how McNasty was their worst candidate ever.

I personally think it will be a relief to end the anxiety and hysteria I see across the board.

That being said, my guess is that all the political junkies will just stick around and be exuberant or talk trask for the next four years.

After the election I'll turn my attention to planning the mother of all New Year's parties. Either we will celebrate the dawn of a new age in American poltics and history... or we'll have one last hurrah before Palin pushes the button.

If you are so bothered by MSNBC, don't watch it !
Watch Fox. It never ceases to amaze me what cry babies we have, whining about the Liberal media. Give me a break. If you have a brain, use it !

We are getting ready for post election, not matter who wins. Most of what is being said now in the media makes it seem that a McCain win is not impossible for this and that reason. That is because the Republicans have everything in place to steal the election in the vothing booths. They just want it to seem to be not too outlandish that they could do it in the face of all polls. The question is, will Obama and his supporters fight it? And can they fight it in the face of the Supreme Court? When I voted early in NY in 2004, I asked the woman manning the booths, will my vote count? She answered, it depends on who counts the votes. She covered her hasty answer afterwards, but ...

Ruth Calabria
matrix-evolutions.

I have followed politics since June of 1968- I was 11 - listening to a tinny am radio on the playground at lunchtime, waiting for news after RFK's assassignation.

I am engaged in learning about local, regional, and state politics, as well as international politics, and while it's true that I ramp up in a presidential election year, and have voted in every single election since 1974 except 1 (the year my son had the chicken pox on election day) which makes 33 and counting, I also have a life outside of politics, the news, and the internet.

The trick is to set limits - pick 1 news program, 1 news magazine, 1 website, etc. that you get your news from, or set a time a time limit - 1 hour a night, only 3 nights a week, etc. It also helps to have a hobby that has nothing to do with the internet, television or radio.

Otherwise, you get overwhelmed and depressed, feeling as if you have no control over your life.

There is life after politics.

If there's any justice, I suspect we'll all be entranced with the hearings and war trials after the election.

81 days till the end of the Bush administration.

Maybe you and Bob Protor should read this...
http://www.shambhala.org/business/goldocean/causdep.html

As tax revenue was plummeting along with economic activity in the period from 1929 to 1932 it was only natural to raise taxes to cover the mushrooming deficit.

In 1932, Republican president, Herbert Hoover, with the support of the newly elected Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, passed the largest peacetime tax increase in the history of the United States. Marginal income tax rates were raised from 1.5% to 4% at the low end and from 25% to 63% at the top of the scale. A huge tax increase by any measure.

Some people say the timing for this couldn't have been worse because tax increases are generally associated with decreases in aggregate demand for goods and services and the incentive to earn.

Bush didnt write bad mortagages, banks did.... John McCain brought up freddie and Fanny over two years ago...

So go support your "Trainied" Boy with no history no track record and no experence...

Maybe you and Bob Proctor should read this.....

What caused the Great Depression....
http://www.shambhala.org/business/goldocean/causdep.html#Whatcaused

Bush didnt write bad mortagages, now did he buy them in baulk... these banks did... they made billions....

Raise anyones taxes and we will see years in this mess... keep taxes alone lower capital gains and people will invest again...

I'm not even a bush fan

I am definitely not sure what I am going to do after the election. I watch between 5-6 hours of MSNBC starting at 4:30 AM and finishing at 10:00 PM during the day. At work (where I am now) I turn my computer on and look at any news items/articles I missed from the day before.

Follow the polls constantly and will definitely have a hard time after the election!.

BUSHES LITTLE SIDEKICK
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything seen in generations
McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand how its been broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. . Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a budget surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
If you are tired of going back instead of forward hold them accountable this time
This is our last chance to cushion the impact of of a economic meteor.
If mccain cant use a computer even to send email do you really hes qualified to run our country during a depression
Your common sense knows the answer

Bush may not be on the ballot this year but his policies are
You can have more of the same our we can turn the page NOW
Elect Obama Biden 2008






Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

My husband and I planned a vacation from the 1st to the 16th -- somewhere we can't use computers! So, we're going COLD TURKEY! :-)