The Whoppers of 2008—The Sequel

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  • Posted By: Fireisborn @ 11/01/2008 4:07:14 PM

    I think some people in this country don't really have a clear sense and vision of the future, of this great country. Some americans have never even have friends from different race, neither they have being outside of their town, they live inside the box that's the reason why some people thinks when someone, who don't look like them has better ideas of change they can't believe that that person who they have always view as less is actually in fact smarter than them.

    • Posted By: QuadEagle @ 11/01/2008 6:54:54 PM

      I agree. It???s a shame that over 95% of blacks are voting for Obama, but I don???t know what you or I could do to change that. Maybe if they got to know some white people they would realize that whites have the same concerns that they have, that whites want the best for their children just like them, and that just because McCain is white is no reason not to consider him for President. I don???t blame them though. After all, I think it is an unbelievable testament to where we are as a country that a black American is the presidential nominee of a major political party.

  • Posted By: J De @ 11/01/2008 6:53:28 PM

    Mercer Co Buckeye, if you feel so strongly about these "lower states" you should move up there with Sarah and her secessionist husband and start your own baby making commune.

  • Posted By: 123jenn45 @ 11/01/2008 6:52:52 PM

    brownyj86--I totally agree with you! We need unity. Unfortunately, Obama doesn't want unity. I wish he did. His pastor of 20years, proves what a racist they are. They want to keep us divided. I like Obama when I watch him on TV, but that doesn't make a good President. Please watch Reverend Wright's sermon. He actually has hatred for whites. That is not going to bring this country together, it will only divide us all. You can google Jeremiah Wright to watch his sermons, but here is just 1, it's only 3minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdJB-qkfUHc There is another one to watch where he say's WE are responsible for 9/11! It's a must see.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9HUdF9OZa8&feature=related

  • Posted By: altra1 @ 11/01/2008 6:40:01 PM

    Palin and her family are proof that Republicans are hypocrites. A pregnant daughter? In the past the religious kooks would have made her disappear back to Alaska. Now it's celebrated. Also she's dumb, just how the right likes their candidates.

    • Posted By: OsamaBinLyin2U @ 11/01/2008 6:51:42 PM

      I believe dumb is electing a candidate whose own aunt is in the country illegally. We are trying to elect a president....not a king. Just because someone talks a good game does not give them the experience to lead a country. My mother always said, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

    • Posted By: Mercer Co Buckeye @ 11/01/2008 6:50:00 PM

      Even good families, that teach their kids to do right, have kids that get pregnant when they're not yet married. If you're a libral, I wouldn't think you would see that as something so bad. We love our kids anyway, just like Sarah does. Her daughter probably is back home going to school, who would want to be down here (in these lower states) where everyone is so critical??

  • Posted By: No_Bama2008 @ 11/01/2008 6:42:52 PM

    Love it when liberals write articles instead of non-biased intelligent reporters. *** Obama, he caters to lazy fat asses who live off of welfare or never went to college. End of story.

    • Posted By: clio52 @ 11/01/2008 6:51:00 PM

      Evidently No_Bama2008 doesn't pay much attention to statistics--those with college degrees (especially professional or graducate degrees) are more likely to support Obama than McCain.

    • Posted By: McPalin's Toast @ 11/01/2008 6:49:42 PM

      Love it when the right-wing nut jobs decide what is liberal and what is fact. Must be very comforting for you to just cover your ears and yell "NAH NAH I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!"

    • Posted By: OsamaBinLyin2U @ 11/01/2008 6:49:09 PM

      AMEN!!!

    • Posted By: clio52 @ 11/01/2008 6:47:02 PM

      Evidently you don't follow the stats--more college educated voters (especially those with professional or graduate degrees) are more apt to support Obama than McCain.

  • Posted By: J De @ 11/01/2008 6:50:37 PM

    Bush has had problems getting things done because of a Democratic Congress? If I am not mistaken, it has been a Democratic Congress for less than 2 years. So what about the other 6 years he was in office? I bet you believe in fairies too, don't you? and learn how to spell if you are going to try to sound educated, people won't think you are an ignorant redneck even if you are.

  • Posted By: Oldschoolpaulie @ 11/01/2008 6:50:14 PM

    Mccain doesn't disort Obama's tax plan, Obama distorts it. He wants us to believe that he's going to ADD a trillion in more spending, but not raise our taxes, and pretends that his intent to let the Bush tax cuts lapse doesn't equal a tax increase. (duh)
    Furthermore, Obama's connections to former Weatherman Bill Ayers and the community group ACORN are well documented, as well as his relationship to rabidly racist/anti American Rev. Wright, and numerous other Anti-American or otherwise subversive radicals.
    Obama also continues to decieve only the most dense of voters about his Marxist ideologies by using PC language such as "Economic Justice" and "spreading the wealth."

  • Posted By: lsbunny @ 11/01/2008 3:50:37 PM

    Why is nobody talking about the fact that Obama supports the Military Selective Service Act of 2007> This one is big as it will draft your boys and girls for the war. It changes the draft age to be up to 42 and it requires all civilians to serve at least 2 years for it's country by law. You might "pay" less less out of pocket with Obama in office- but will you really pay less over all by sending your kids into the war zones by force? Look out for the wolf in sheep's clothing. I think he has surfaced.

    • Posted By: vlamb @ 11/01/2008 6:49:33 PM

      Well, we don't have enough troops to fight all our wars. Our reserves and national guard units have been working ridiculous schedules for nearly 8 years. Personally, I hate war, but I don't think it's fair that so few people would keep being redeployed over and over, having to leave their families again and again. Then when they crack from the strain, our military hospitals aren't giving them the help they need.

    • Posted By: hrfdez @ 11/01/2008 4:00:07 PM

      What is so wrong of serving your Country? How do you think we can fight wars? It is obvious that we can't fight another war at this point unless we have a draft. A lot of people called themselves "Patriots", but when is time to show the colors, they make statements just like yours. It is good to fight the wars as long as your kids are not involve, very nice example. Let freedom ring!

    • Posted By: infomercial @ 11/01/2008 3:52:52 PM

      thank you 1sbunny...DOES THE WORD SLEEPER COME TO MIND?

      • Posted By: solorsq @ 11/01/2008 3:58:40 PM

        Oh yeah. If Bush is so committed to "HIS" war, where are his daughters serving? Selective Service. maybe the Bush's, Cheney's, etc would have second thoughts before lying to the America people and sending your children to war. Other President's, Congressmen, Senators, etc had their children live and die in our countries previous wars.

  • Posted By: ahappyhome2@msn.com @ 11/01/2008 6:42:08 PM

    McCain is the only man that I can see worthy of our vote to keep our country in what we started out with in God We Trust, and our freedom of peach of which our forefathers fought for. Why should we as citizens go and give our money that (we Worked for) and give it to the people that want to live on welfare and do not want a job so they can sit back and have children and live off of us paying our dues. Shirley C

    • Posted By: clio52 @ 11/01/2008 6:48:49 PM

      "In God We Trust" didn't appear on our coins until the American Civil War (1860s) and "God" didn't appear in the Pledge of Allegiance until the 1950s (Cold War).

  • Posted By: Prisca55 @ 11/01/2008 6:02:39 PM

    Here is a whopper from Obama--he states at the Saddleback Forum that he is absolutely against gay marriage--however in a letter to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club he sent them earlier in the summer, he says just the opposite, offering congratulations to recently married gay democrats. See link--scroll to bottom of page to see the letter. http://www.alicebtoklas.org/abt/index.asp



    • Posted By: ruckus @ 11/01/2008 6:18:17 PM

      Since when is it wrong to congratulate someone on getting married?

      • Posted By: Prisca55 @ 11/01/2008 6:28:41 PM

        you're obfuscating --if you oppose it--you OPPOSE it--you don't pat people on the back for doing it--and read the letter--he's against California Prop 8 which says marriage is between and man and a woman only. So he's a BOLD liar who will say anything to anyone to get a vote.

        • Posted By: ruckus @ 11/01/2008 6:48:33 PM

          So I guess the latest study that came out comparing both compaigns to see who has made the most untrue statements naming McCain the winner in that catagory was completely bogus?

  • Posted By: theyalllie @ 11/01/2008 6:47:51 PM

    All politicians Democrate or Republican are liars they will say anything to be elected and then once they are in office they could care less about the citizens of the U.S. all they care about is what is best for them and how much money they can make off of the citizens.

  • Posted By: azjazzman @ 11/01/2008 6:46:51 PM

    The author of this piece apparently didn't even read what her own organization, which goes by FactCheck.org has written about McCain's claims that Obama *previously* supported a budget reolution that would increase taxes on those making as little as $42,000 a year. Here is what FactCheck.org has said:

    "FactCheck.org: The Budget Resolution Would Have Allowed Most Of The Provisions Of The 2001 And 2003 Tax Cuts To Expire, Effectively Raising Taxes On Those Making $41,500 In Total Income. "What Obama voted for was a budget resolution that would have allowed most of the provisions of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts to expire. In particular, the resolution would allow the 25 percent tax bracket to return to its pre-2001 level of 28 percent. That bracket kicks in at $32,550 for an individual or $65,100 for a married couple. ??? But as those of you who have filled out a 1040 know, that's not actually how income taxes work. We don't pay taxes on our total earnings; we pay them based on our 'taxable income.' The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center's Eric Toder told FactCheck.org that 'people with taxable income of $32,000 would have a total income greater than that.' In 2008, anyone filing taxes with single status would be entitled to a standard deduction of $5,450, as well as a personal exemption of $3,500. So to have a taxable income high enough to reach the 25 percent bracket, an individual would need to earn at least $41,500 in total income, while a married couple would need a combined income of at least $83,000."

    Now it is someone with FactCheck.org that is telling the whoppers!

  • Posted By: soortproef @ 11/01/2008 6:46:19 PM

    The idea that the rich should pay more taxes is absurd. The rich do not require more services from the government that do the poor, in fact; it can be argued the rich require less. Why should the ???rich??? pay more for freedom? Do the ???rich??? collect more welfare? Do the ???rich??? wear out the infrastructure at a faster rate? Do the rich get subsidized mortgages or Section 8 housing? Do the ???rich??? pay one price for a loaf of bread while the poor pay another? In a free society where all are equal, so should the cost be equal. Stop the class envy mantra???.

  • Posted By: 123jenn45 @ 11/01/2008 6:45:39 PM

    . I want to continue our family camping and hunting trips. Hussein plans to take away our guns. He say's we no longer need the 2nd amendment! He plans on taking away our right to defend ourselves. He voted to ban hand guns in the Illinois State Senate Mar 24, 2007. The NRA has 4 commercials that were to run on the networks. Obama told ABC/NBC and the other networks, that if they ran the ads he will pull out his 30minute informercial and lose the 15million they were to receive. NRA has copies of the letters sent to the networks threatening them not to run the ads. What happened to Freedom of Speech? Obama doesn't believe in that either. Watch the commercials for yourself...there out there, just not on the major networks. Pretty sick! www.GunBanObama.com

  • Posted By: captben31 @ 11/01/2008 3:52:04 PM

    Umm...Obama was the one who said he was going to "Spread the Wealth", he's the one who wrote in his books about his relationship with Ayers, he's the one that spoke about his relationship with PLO supporter Khalidi..all of these things came out of Obama's mouth himself! So how are these "whoppers". Whenever this POS get's caught in his relationship with one extremist after another, he's say's he "didn't know" or "i was 8 years old" and so on and so on....It's sad that grown adults have so much hate for Republicans, they'd rather walk around with blinders on, choose not to play connect the dots, and vote for whomever as long as they're not Republican. You'd rather destroy the Country as we know it, than vote for "another 4 yrs". Last time I checked, we haven't been attacked in almost 8 yrs....if any of you people were in charge during WWII, we'd be speaking German right now. You have no backbone, no sense of pride towards your Country, and no sense of reality.

    • Posted By: vlamb @ 11/01/2008 6:43:39 PM

      I think people are not voting for Republicans for very valid and visible reasons--nothing mysterious there. In 8 years, they turned a surplus into a deficit, got us into a war based on a bad information [or outright lies, depending on who you make up your mind to believe], insulted most of our allies at one point or another, adopted a posture of arrogance and deception and human rights violations that seriously damaged our credibility as a world leader, practically abandoned Afganistan, took away our privacy and many civil liberties, labeled dissenters as "unAmerican" and finally set the stage for this recession that has all but wiped out retirement accounts, devalued home prices, interrupted college plans and made a mess of everyone's lives. I don't know who the "you people" are that you are talking about, but there are many, many people who feel they have been bamboozled and don't trust the party that let it happen. Also, your blanket insults about no backbone, and pride in country and sense of reality are just plain sad. Shame on you to insult people you don't even know because you don't like the way they vote.

    • Posted By: dennis18r @ 11/01/2008 4:13:14 PM

      Typical Republican answer...........get the dots and make up something that even McCain says is incorrect about Obama. If Obama were a white guy with the same associations we would even be having this conversation. If you recall it was American how trained and funded Bin Laden to begin with. How many people were associated with that mess. I don't here anyone calling them un-American. This is one Soldier voting for Obama because he is what we need.

  • Posted By: brownyj86 @ 11/01/2008 6:40:44 PM

    This is the reason why the republican will lose. The fear and smear campaigns have played out. I don't care about Mr Ayers, Mr Wright or even acorn. Worst things have been said and done to blacks, than what's being portrayed as major points. White, black and latino voters want to know who is going to help every american with health care, the war and the economy. We are tire of america being divided, we need unity.

  • Posted By: theyalllie @ 11/01/2008 6:39:33 PM

    If it smells like a lie it's a politician. Republican or Democrate, all politicians lie. They only care about themselves and what is best for their own monetary intrests

  • Posted By: mbscguy @ 11/01/2008 6:39:29 PM

    No one can sit in church week upon week and never heard the trash being spewed from the pulpit ... I repeat no one ... and to put your kids right there in it says all that needs to be said about it.

  • Posted By: kkepilot @ 11/01/2008 6:39:16 PM

    Seabiscuit, I like your comments. Well said. Why don't people do their research and vote for the issues and not for the race, gender or any other reason? About Palin's experience. From what I can tell, she has more experience governing than both Obama and Biden put together. And why are the Democrats constantly comparing Palin with Obama? They should be comparing Obama with McCain.

  • Posted By: it's about the future @ 11/01/2008 6:38:27 PM

    Vote Obama-Biden!

    2nd grade reponse to 123jenn:

    Obama/Biden 2008. Vote American!

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