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  • Posted By: Sedona Bound @ 11/02/2008 9:38:51 AM

    I would be what is considered a "Wal-Mart" woman, although I detest having to spend what money I do make there.
    McCain is a Republican and as far as I'm concerned, the Republican support of corporate greed over the years is what got us in this mess in the first place.
    His choice of Palin as a running mate is frightful! It doesn't appear she could run Alaska and the thought of her being President should anything happen to McCain if he were elected President makes my hair turn white!
    Oops - off to Wal-Mart for some inexpensive hair color!

  • Posted By: Dencal26 @ 11/01/2008 12:06:56 PM

    Ayers Book is dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan who assassinated RFK How can ANY American go to his home or even be in the SAME ROOM as him without Spitting in his FACE?? Obama lost my vote.

    • Posted By: Not Insane @ 11/02/2008 9:37:31 AM

      You never had it, cheap shot.

  • Posted By: dobejudj @ 11/02/2008 9:33:20 AM

    It is hardly displaying sexism just because Wal Mart women (I shop there does that count) want a smart, connected, worldly wise woman in a high office. Heck if she had been as smart as Hillary I would have been behind her all the way. I want my officials to be smarter than I am and Sarah does not fit the bill.
    Go Obama/Biden

    G

  • Posted By: jeorj @ 11/01/2008 1:07:27 PM

    "Wal-Mart women and everyone else, What do you really know about Obama's economic philosophy"

    Worse case scenario seems to be that he'll spread the wealth... which is what we need right now, because the banks have become too frightened to even do their job and make loans, even among themselves, thus perpetuating a credit freeze, leaving businesses large and small without the lifeblood of all industry... cash-flow.

    Middle class tax cuts will leave cash in the hands of those who spend it in our own communities, instead of giving it away as tax-revenue to Sunni neighborhood clan chiefs who pay their young men off with it.

    Do you want money in your pocket or in the dark account of a Blackwater executive who spends it on hookers and blow in some Moroccan den of thieves?

    It's up to you.

    • Posted By: Not Insane @ 11/02/2008 9:32:56 AM

      Your last statement reveals your mind.

    • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/01/2008 1:13:32 PM

      In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" Obama unintentionally revealed that he really is as radical as his early political acquaintances, Davis, Ayers, Wright, etc., (gee, there sure seem to be a lot of them) and that he is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Now there is absolute proof. In 2001, Obama, the "community organizer" turned legislator, said in an interview:

      "And I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and organizing activities on the ground that are able to bring about the coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that,"

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

      2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview.

      Obama's tax and spending plans alone would be bad enough, but add Reid and Pelosi to the mix, with the three of them controlling both houses of Congress and the executive branch without any effective restraint, and you have something that should causes concern even among moderate Democrats.
      See Wall Street Journal: A Liberal Supermajority:

      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html

      Indeed, some democrats are publically saying as much. See Barney Franks comments on the news, including face the nation last week, stating essentially that Democrats in Congress intend to greatly raise taxes and go on a spending spree.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k

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

      See http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23617.html

      Obama's ill-conceived programs will require him to tax, and his health care plan alone is a substantial hidden tax on all business, large an small. In reality, it does not really matter who he taxes, those taxes are going to be passed through the economy. He has to tax, because it is they only way he can pay for his massive social engineering experiments. Any first year economics student knows that taxation is a tool used to contract an economy experiencing inflation, because it reduces demand by reducing the amount of money individuals and businesses have to spend. It is contractionary, which is exactly what you do not want to do when the problem is that the economy is contracting already into recession. Like Hoover and FDR, Obama's plans will only make it worse for longer.

      See e.g. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/03/opinion/main4499465.shtml
      And
      http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx


      The democrats failed social engineering policies are what brought us to ruin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related
      Even Bill Clinton says so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsynspIqAoE
      Obama and a supermajority of Democrats simply is not the change we need, nor is it change we can afford.

  • Posted By: johnmuller @ 11/01/2008 1:31:11 PM

    Obama's comment to Joe the plumber revealed nothing but a commitment to a progressive income tax. That radical idea has been around for more than a century. It was supported by such well know Marxists as Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. We can have legitimate differences about a progressive income tax and how progressive it should be. But calling it radical is not accurate and not helpful in the discussion.

    No body wants more taxes. Conservatives don't want more taxes and liberals don't want more taxes. But we can't keep running up these huge budget deficits. We've got to reduce the amount of goventment spending and pay for those service that we need. Somebody has got to pay. The working people are paying a disproportionate share. We need to rein in federal spending, stop deficit spending and fairly distribute the tax burden to pay for it.

    Most of all we need to quit talking in political sound bites that are meaningless drivel.

    • Posted By: Not Insane @ 11/02/2008 9:31:49 AM

      CC--you don't listen and think carefully enough.
      1.$250,000 is the figure. Any other, you heard from McCain's campaign. You see, that's where trouble begins--McCain.
      2. All Presidents get tested, like Bush and 9/11. Bush/McCain declare war in Iraq--no weapons of mass destruction, no Osama there, so based on being TESTED--I say they flulnked! $500 Billion deficit as of today. Yea, McCain's been tested--27 years and he still hasn't gotten it right.

  • Posted By: gatablanca @ 11/02/2008 9:28:09 AM

    walmary woman voting, contributing, and volunteering for obama because of that woman

  • Posted By: gatablanca @ 11/02/2008 9:26:02 AM

    walmart woman driven to send money to Obama and drive voters to the polls

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 1:35:19 PM

    Two central issues in the election Barack Obama is wrong and misleading:

    1) No tax increases to those earning $250,000 or less promised by Obama, then he
    lowered this figure to $200,000, then the "Gift that keeps on Giving" Joe Biden says
    the number is $150,000 and just yesterday Gov. Bill Richardson says the figure is
    $120,000 ...and now a videotape is disclosed where it shows Obama recently stated
    that in the interest of fairness with taxes is around $80,000.00!!
    Sounds like good old fashion Democratic ???reverse auction ???tax policy they implement
    after they break their campaign promise to the American people.

    2) On national security ...Obama???s own VP running mate Joe Biden ... ???mark my words,
    this guy Obama is going to be tested by a generated international crisis within 6
    months of his Presidency..I guarantee it??? Obama will meet with USA's enemies with
    no pre-conditions!
    John McCain???s surge strategy in Iraq is working and its saving the lives of young
    American men and women in uniform serving there...Obama won't admit to this day
    the surge is working and he voted to cut funding for these military forces !!

    John McCain is Commander-In-Chief material ....Obama is just a cardboard "cut-out"
    candidate of the DNC.

    • Posted By: Not Insane @ 11/02/2008 9:24:32 AM

      Biden is right, new presidents are always tested. Take the cause of Bush and 9/11. Bush/McCain BLEW IT, instead of going after the real terrorist, he invaded Iraq. Mistake of the century. Yep, McCain tested.Weapons of Mass Destruction, bullshit, it was OI. No taxes--guess what, we pay it everyday NOW with high cost gas and food. Talk about tested.

  • Posted By: CO4Obama @ 11/01/2008 12:31:07 PM

    I am a "Walmart Woman" and a registered Republican and there is absolutely no way that my vote goes to McCain/Palin. First of all, I do not relate to Sarah Palin. We have a couple of things in common; we're bother mothers and we're both white. That's where the similarity ends. I;ve traveled more internationally then she has, I can name major news publications without feeling like I've been put on the spot and I can hold my own when discussing the Supreme Court. Am I suited to run for VP of the United States? Of course not. But I would expect that anyone being nominated for that role at least have a degree of intellegence above that of the normal everyday America.

    My final decision as to whom I would choose to vote for came two-fold: 1st came McCain's surprinsing decision of Sarah Palin as a running mate and the 2nd was the day he decided to suspend his campaign due to the final crisis (what did he accomplish by making that decision?). All of the erractic behavior of negative campaigning from the Republican party just solidtfied my decision to vote for Obama/Biden.

    I am an American and proud of how I voted!! Hatred, anger and divisiveness gets us nowhere!

    • Posted By: szapper @ 11/02/2008 9:17:41 AM

      GREAT POST It's good to see that when people just stop and think a moment, they can see clearly and make the smart choice. I am offended by the lack of intelligence Palin has shown, and the erratic and NON-presidential behavior of Mccain. But the negative campaigning has just been way over the top and
      I'm voting for Obama/Biden.

  • Posted By: LernerWoman @ 11/02/2008 9:11:27 AM

    Walmart? I am 35, currently completing my college degree, and make $35K/year as a base salary. No one sees me in Walmart. I shop better stores at clearance times and I buy American goods unless there is something specifically foreign I desire.

    The media has it as messed up as our candidates. We keep hearing $120k/annual earners being considered the Middle Class. I know that 80% of Americans are looking around and saying "SHow me $120k, we make around $40k/ each or total!". Most people are no where near earning a combined or single 6 digit income in this country, and we are the ones going to be hurt. This is a period of a very misguided and biased media and a government 100% blind to the plight of most Americans. Good Luck is all I can say. Good Luck.

  • Posted By: morrigan @ 11/02/2008 8:55:28 AM

    Media bias in favor of Obama?

    I don't think so. From what I can see, the media are either telling it like it is (much of the mainstream media at this point) or putting a spin on it toward McCain-Palin (Fox News, for example).

    Just plain old straightforward reporting of what each candidate is saying -- without interpretation -- is enough. Pretty much anyone who is rational can see that Obama-Biden provides an intelligent, principled and moderate choice, while McCain-Palin has proved to be reactive, immoderate and downright scary.

    • Posted By: alphadogreporter @ 11/02/2008 9:10:35 AM

      Are you serious? There is NO question about media bias. Open your eyes and read this independent, nono-partisan study:

      http://www.cmpa.com/pdf/08summer.pdf

  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 11/02/2008 6:16:40 AM

    THE GREAT BUSH DEPRESSION
    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. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He was the last to know somthing was wrong. 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.
    So why are the polls even close then ?
    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
    which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that
    Stand up and hold them accountable
    Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
    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

    • Posted By: alphadogreporter @ 11/02/2008 9:07:01 AM

      You listen to too many pundits. This is the problem when people stop looking at facts and take for granted what the liberals in the media talk about. The truth is that the Bush administration has been asking for Fanny/Freedy reform since 2001. If you would like to see the timeline of requests from the White House they are at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/09/20080919-15.html and you can plainly see that Congress has not acted over an 8-year period of repeated requests. Look at the real statistics, which obviously your economist pal isn't. Over 95% of all home mortgages nationwide are being paid every month. In my state the foreclosure rate is less than one-half of one percent statewide, which is basically nothing. If our unemployment rate is 6%, that means that it???s really closer to 3% because of the structurally unemployed people that are counted in that figure. The economy had a negative .3% growth rate last month; again, this is nothing. Real estate purchases in many areas of the country are up. Out of nearly 11.000 banks nationwide, only 16 have been taken over. These are the facts that the media for the most part have ignored.

      The media and many economists are falsely basing our economic health by what the stock market is doing. The stock market is only a fractional percentage of the overall economy of this country. The Dow Jones Industrials are only worth roughly $1 trillion dollars per thousand points. To put this into perspective, the GDP of the U.S. is around $14 trillion PER YEAR. We simply cannot use the stock market as a reliable gauge of how our economy is doing. It is a part of it yes, but not the total package.

      Do we have problems that need to be worked on? No question. We need banking reform, government reform, education reform, and health care reform. We need to keep taxes low and encourage more investing in the U.S. to save manufacturing jobs and encourage new business startups. Despite that, things really aren???t as bad as the media is making them out to be.
      .

  • Posted By: landonmkelsey @ 11/02/2008 7:35:00 AM

    seriously: we must get a good female candidate for president
    not Billary(Clintons are so crooked)
    not Palin (unqualified)

    maybe Pelosi

    • Posted By: gascott @ 11/02/2008 8:56:19 AM

      Yeah, she's not real moderate. Holding the bailout bill (good or bad) hostage. She also should not stand too close to an open flame....her face may melt :)

  • Posted By: TruthorBull @ 11/02/2008 8:53:35 AM

    I am totally amazed at McCain/Palin supporters who are still unwilling to grasp the fact that the reason Obama receives more positive coverage is because he is actually talking the issues that concerns Americans. McCain/Palin has spent too much time on non-issues meant to tarnish Obama's character and the American public is smart enough to realize that it obviously means they don't have an answer or a CLUE about the economy. There are several respected Republicans who have endorsed Barack Obama for his ability to bring people together at a time when our nation needs it the most. We need to work together - so divisive politics are simply not going to work. Understand that and move on already. I have tremendous respect for Senator McCain and believe that Palin is an awesome woman but the two of them together is a combination that the American public can not trust. How could the Republican Party expect us to vote for a woman who we don't know? She has only done a few interviews and other than that, Republican rallies. How has the campaign tried to introduce her to the rest of the country? Her refusal to go on Meet the Press and other respected political venues has led many Americans to believe that Palin just isn't ready for the Big Stage. So the only thing we have to fall back on is the botched interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric in which she described her Foreign Policy experience as her ability to see Russia from the shores of Alaska. How could anyone in the Republican campaign/party expect the American people to accept that and vote for McCain/Palin? The most respected Republicans have all admitted that Palin is not qualified to be President at this time and THAT IS THE CRITERIA FOR VICE PRESIDENT. Every time anyone has challenged the Republican Party on this, they start attacking Obama. Why is it that the only way the Republican Party can defend Sarah Palin's experience is to discount Obama? Americans have witnessed Obama time and time again, show a great command and understanding of the issues that matter most to us and unfortunately, the Republican Party???s unwillingness to show the same has meant the downfall of their campaign. John McCain and Sarah Palin are great people but together they just seem to be a dangerous combination. John McCain and any other tried and tested Republican gives the country a true race to the White House. But, I for one, can not vote for McCain because essentially it is a vote for Palin who I don't believe is ready for what the country faces right now. What she has done in Alaska does nothing to comfort me on what she can do for the country. The people needed to hear from her and unfortunately they refused to allow her to speak in venues that Americans trust to interview the candidates. So, we have nothing to go on but what we have seen in what will undoubtedly go down as the worst interviews of all time for a vice-presidential nominee.

  • Posted By: sirhc @ 11/01/2008 8:55:59 PM

    GO TO YOUTUBE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- SARAH PALIN JUST GOT PUNKED BY THIS COMEDY DUO FROM FRANCE. IT'S AS FUNNY AS IT IS HORRIFYING FOR THE FACT THAT THIS OMEGA LEVEL AIRHEAD CAN ACTUALLY BE CLOSE TO THE "BUTTON." SHE ACTUALLY THOUGHT THAT SHE WAS SPEAKING TO THE PRIME MINISTER. A 10 YEAR OLD WOULD'VE KNOWN BETTER..........IT'S SO FUNNY I CAN BARELY TYPE.........

    • Posted By: ananthraman @ 11/02/2008 8:50:29 AM

      Hi Sirhc Sarah Palin would be an harmless hunter, except for the animals in Alaska! For someone to pick her up as a running mate to be the deputy CEO of USA (another version of AIG!!), goes to show how shallow and hollow the American democratic system is! In fact, we dont get Jerry Seinfeld anymore on the TV and Sarah Palin is a fantastic replacement. But then, she should stop at that and wish no more, certainly not the post she is aspiring for. Kramer and George must be beating their chest now!! I can still remember 'Kramerica' but imagine 'Paulirica', 'Mccinica'. There has to be basic educational qualification to be the CEO, not for people who served in the army, why not the private armies then? They are all paid employees who thought they could do nothing other than weilding guns.

  • Posted By: madonna @ 11/02/2008 8:38:38 AM

    What an odd demographic. Where do we find many women with no degree making half that, much less anywhere near $60,000. In Appalachia a degree doesn't even put me near that. As for the Walmart contingent, those of us on the low end of the socioeconomic scale are much more comfortable with race and gender than we are given credit for. A vote against John McCain is a vote for equality.

  • Posted By: voterundecided @ 11/01/2008 6:53:09 PM

    As a woman, I find John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin reprehensible! She represents McCain's poor judgement and lack of foresight - two qualifications this country does not need to suffer through in their president, again! The GOP can blame the media for their own shortcomings all they want, but the thinking public know that John McCain and Sarah Palin will lose the election on their own. The media just does their job in airing the facts about these two mavericks-in-their-own-minds!

    • Posted By: Dianexyz @ 11/01/2008 8:24:52 PM

      Hi voteundecided,
      Given that you find John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin reprehensible. And given that she has more proven experience than Obama, Am I to assume that you find the democratic choice of Obama even more reprehensible?

      • Posted By: voterundecided @ 11/01/2008 11:49:39 PM

        EXPERIENCE? You call being mayor of a tiny little town and Governor of a state with fewer people than my state's largest city, experience?!?! And look at her record there - not too favorable! But I digress, just listen to the telephone call by the Montreal DJ to discover this woman is clueless! She is so self absorbed that she actually believes a President of another country would take the time to call her and "shoot the bull"! Get real! I am not saying that Obama is the chosen one either, but I am saying that this woman is the last person who should be a heartbeat away from the presidency. And I pray that cooler minds will prevail on Tuesday, because the GOP is off it's rocker with this joker!

        • Posted By: ananthraman @ 11/02/2008 8:33:22 AM

          The best and the most balanced view ever expressed by an American! This lady seems to be running a circus, her being the head clown! Until the world's dependancy on America changes (it is ciming very soon though), its is important that America pick a pack that cares for everyone (not meaning doling out, for the country right needs to be bailed out and is only at the begining of a long dark tunnel). Some of the campaign stuff is outright crime, not just lying. Lying is part of the American political system for a long time and Mccain and his gang has taken it to dizzy heights now. One thing we all know is that not many Americans are literate and knowledgeable and this vicious circle has helped Mccain contesting a very close and tight campaign with a real possibility of him becoming the CEO of the extended version of AIG (USA). The average American has to ask if he would allow the prospective candidate to run his own company. Americans must realize that they have to pick a good administrator of a bankrupt country, who has the basic knowledge of economics and who has a good grasp of numbers and world affairs. Of course, the people who cast their votes, must have a basic knowledge themselves!

  • Posted By: madonna @ 11/02/2008 8:33:10 AM

    What an odd demograhic. Where do we find women without a degree making anything above half that, much less near $60,000? As a college educated woman in Appalachia, I still don't reach that level. I personally find that women on the low end of the socioeconomic scale are much more tolerant of race and gender issues. We are all in this together and a vote for Obama is a vote for equality in every form.

  • Posted By: tda12345 @ 11/02/2008 8:14:28 AM

    It seems to me the only way to impress upon the leadership and the media not to take a woman's vote (or her hard work) for granted is to make a statement and vote against them.

  • Posted By: jimrhonda5 @ 11/01/2008 3:37:16 PM

    tell me this blue, how did the obamas get thru harvard, i know i cant afford to put my kids thru that school, yet obama, who claims that his mother was poor, suddenly qualifies??????? who funded it? MCCAIN PALIN 08

    • Posted By: r2626 @ 11/02/2008 7:45:20 AM

      EntObama got through Harvard with grants, scholarships and student loans,, which he has repaider Your Comment

    • Posted By: Blue in AZ @ 11/01/2008 3:43:10 PM

      It's called being smart. School's often accept students who can't afford tuition on something called scholarships or fellowships.

      • Posted By: Blue in AZ @ 11/01/2008 3:54:07 PM

        Actually, Obama just finished paying off his student loans. He used the money from his published books to pay it off. How American of him, huh? Using hard work to pay off loans. I'm in the same boat, I wish my parents could have afforded to put me through any college. Not Republican enough.

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