The Whoppers of 2008—The Sequel

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  • Posted By: bmoody @ 11/01/2008 3:06:11 PM

    why has the media held everyone under a microscope execpt Obama. all it seems he has to do is refuse to speak about any uncomfortable topic until after the election. meanwhile all others are grilled. is'nt after the election too late?

    • Posted By: vlamb @ 11/01/2008 4:34:46 PM

      Dear bmoody,
      Do you have any examples?
      vlamb

    • Posted By: roses0117 @ 11/01/2008 3:30:42 PM

      I agree with you. If you read what Sherij26 wrote, it is right on the money and for some reason it does not let you reply to her posting.

  • Posted By: Unbeliver @ 11/01/2008 4:32:57 PM

    I'll be glad when it's over. It makes me wonder what kind of truth there will be when either one becomes President. i just hope, for once, that Congress is on the ball regardless of party sway.

  • Posted By: TruthShoutsNotWhispers @ 11/01/2008 4:32:42 PM

    KMD540, you wrote: "I really can't believe that so many americans are this stupid. Barack HUSSEIN Obama started his campaign in the living room of a terrorist! Don't even give me that crap that they are just acquantences, they have groomed him very nicely. Please wake up before tuesday. Believe me we fo NOT want his kind of change.
    We still live in the best country in the world! Our poorest people have a place to live and food on the table.
    I don't want our american values to change (as the Obama's do) I want my children to be able to grow up, educate thamselves, be successful, make over 250 thousand dollars and not be penalized by the government for their hard work."

    Are you being serious? You really think that Obama is a terrorist? You've got to get more diverse views around you. I won't claim all I think is accurate, but I know that McCain is not many of the things some are saying he is. But, I mean...really...wow...that is really what you believe to be true? That is really what you think? What if, because I met Bruce Willis and some other celebs once, people began writing articles that I am a best friend (of friend period) of theirs? That is ludicrious. Have you EVER been in the same room with someone you do not agree with? Or do you have people to clear rooms of diverse views before you enter? Sorry, but it's kind of insane view that is keeping America in archaic shackles.

  • Posted By: zfanatique @ 11/01/2008 4:13:57 PM

    Why do all of you Republicans insist on hating everyone! I don't like McCain, and I think he will be horrible for our country if he wins. However, I would never say the types of things about him that Republicans are saying about Obama. The worst thing about Repubicans right now is not McCain. It is the type of hateful, ignorant people that are terrified on anything that does not mirror their exact beliefs. I truly believe this race has been so discouraging for both Obama and McCain, as well as the people of this country, b/c of all of the mentally ill racists out there.

    • Posted By: altra1 @ 11/01/2008 4:32:15 PM

      Joe the unemployed, unlicsensd plumber is a Mc Same plant. He's a lie. He is in no position to purchase any business. Everything he said to Obama was a lie and a set up. Republicans seem to enjoy having their candidates blatantly lie.

  • Posted By: jbaz222 @ 11/01/2008 1:31:30 PM

    how can any american in there right mind vote for o'bama? look at all the questionable names that pop up with o'bama's name that he supports! If the FBI wouldn't even consider hiring him, why would the american public even consider electing him as president? what is wrong with these people? I would like the liberals to answer that question....or will they dodge it like the liberal press and o'bama does

    • Posted By: vlamb @ 11/01/2008 2:39:03 PM

      Dear Jbaz222
      I am a 62-year old with a good job, a good church, two great kids I raised myself. Most people think I am in my right mind. In college and graduate school, for all I know I may even have been acquainted with people who later became "questionable." I have no idea. Many ideas flourish, morph and change in academic environments, as people develop and express their world views. People listen to each other and frequently disagree. Most of the things to which you allude have been covered by factcheck.org. They are reputed to be relatively unbiased. Please do your own research. This repetition of other people's assertions, unsubstantiated by any efforts on your own part, is nothing more than gossip.
      vlamb

      • Posted By: Freemarketo07 @ 11/01/2008 3:34:49 PM

        If you go to church tell me how you support someone who would murder a unborn child?

        • Posted By: Owl5 @ 11/01/2008 4:17:08 PM

          If you go to church tell me how you would support someone who would murder soldiers by shipping them off to a needless war?

          • Posted By: Freemarketo07 @ 11/01/2008 4:31:17 PM

            When was the last attack of americans on american soil? Clinton did nothing for 8 years while these people attacked americans.

    • Posted By: Kaviaq @ 11/01/2008 3:17:56 PM

      First of all he's not Irish, so you can drop the apostrophe after the o, it's just Obama. Second of all I don't think being associated with someone who was an overzealous war protester 40 years ago means he is untrustworthy. I like his politics (I'd prefer a more progressive candidate, but you can't have everything. Ayers, meanwhile, is a respected college professor. What's wrong with associating with a college professor. I don't agree 100% with all my associates, but I will work with them for a good cause. The "dirt" being dug up on Obama has been pathetic. Foolishness like not wearing a flag pin!? What matters is the issues. I, like a lot of people, vote on the issues. So now you know why someone would vote for Obama.

  • Posted By: amchwicon @ 11/01/2008 3:19:23 PM

    tell this to the men and women who works for the people who works for the oil industry when they get layed-off because president obama taxed the so-called,"big oil" companies to bankruptsy and hurts our economy with the alliance with liberal nancy pelosi and the senate leader mr. reid. our country has suffered enough from liberism.

    • Posted By: vlamb @ 11/01/2008 4:30:47 PM

      Dear amchwicon
      I can't say I know anything about Senator [not yet "President"] Obama planning to tax the "big oil" companies to bankruptcy. Would you care to point me toward your sources? Also, I was under the impression that we have had a Republican administration for the last 8 years, and that our economic woes were generated by their policies--especially their penchant for deregulation. The congressional Democrats have only had a majority [slim at that] for a few years and President Bush has vetoed most everything that he didn't like. Not sure how you can blame this on them. Please explain.
      vlamb

    • Posted By: Keepinguponfacts123 @ 11/01/2008 3:52:14 PM

      Yes your right, because everyone is doing so much better this way. Let's not do something different!

  • Posted By: busyjane @ 11/01/2008 3:17:35 PM

    This article was obviously written to protect Obama from the McCain ads and made little effort to protect McCain from the Obama lies. The American media is clearly working to help Obama win the election, but it's trying to seem neutral while practicing "one sided journalism". Just the same, I always have been and still am proud to be an American!

    • Posted By: hsb520 @ 11/01/2008 3:46:02 PM

      Jane, are you a Christian? Then why would you vote for an idolator who is calling you to commit idolatry? McCain's campaign slogan is: "COUNTRY FIRST." Not God. When someone asks us to put ANYTHING before God he's asking us to commit idolatry. Read Duet. 13! Christians are to have nothing to do with idolators!

      And if you are not a Christian that slogan "COUNTRY FIRST" should still bother you. Not freedom first? Country first? Every country in recent history that was overly nationalistic has reduced are removed individual freedoms and been overly aggressive in their foreign policy. Germany and WWII anyone?

      Not country FIRST. GOD FIRST. And if not God, at least FREEDOM!

      • Posted By: whadamess @ 11/01/2008 4:30:16 PM

        Challenge to R U a Christian? hsb520 What does God's Word say about murder? What is live birth abortion?

    • Posted By: Keepinguponfacts123 @ 11/01/2008 3:53:14 PM

      Why is it McCain ads and Obama lies? Do you mean that McCain doesn't lie? Perhaps you have proof.

  • Posted By: AlexHart @ 11/01/2008 4:27:49 PM

    I don't mind you stating your opinion on things that have been said by either candidate, but at least be honest enough to post them somewhere besides "Fact Check", which is supposed to be stating the facts. Your are an example of what is wrong with the media, and why you are no longer trusted. America is the worse for it.

  • Posted By: jazzcatt @ 11/01/2008 3:40:19 PM

    : i am surprised that obama supporters need reassuring that he & hi father are not born citizens of the USA ?? he has repeatdly denouced our flag and what the words stand for? this has been proven by his own self? he & his wife do not think our national anthem deserves their respect? neither of the obamas RESPECT our military or the young americans fighting for their freedom too?the AFRICAN AMERICANS want to believe he is our savior when he is NOT even of our culture? i am amzed at how the MEDIA has put the sting on our black community that we are voting for a BLACK president when in fact obama is a arab citizen by the KORAN?i personally think the MEDIA thinks our black community is stupid & led easily down the path to destruction! lets wake up before it is too late america??

    • Posted By: McCainsupportersaremostlyignorantracists @ 11/01/2008 3:48:29 PM

      You are an ignorant POS....Obama is not black, but is part black. And he is American not an Arab so stop trying to sling iformation that just is not true and far from the truth. He cares about our troops...Enough to get them out. Something we should have done long ago. Want to talk about balancing the budget? Try not spending 10 Billion a month on the war. Just because you don't support the war does not mean you do not support the troops. That philosophy is for the ignorant.

      • Posted By: tomycombs @ 11/01/2008 4:27:12 PM

        without reading a word you wrote, although i did, just looking at your name shows how narrow minded you are (if people dont think like me there ignorant). And yes everyone that dosent think like you is in fact racists, good call on that one.

  • Posted By: seethelight @ 11/01/2008 4:12:49 PM

    This is simple for me, as hard as my family has struggled for last six years and as much as I know we will regret Johns policies, America is not ready for unity. Maybe one day we can see pass the color, maybe one day.

    • Posted By: projectedorb6 @ 11/01/2008 4:26:36 PM

      For most people this presidential race has nothing to do with the color of the skin of either of the candidates. It's a very narrow view you have of your fellow Americans. Voting should always be based on how you feel about the candidates stand on issues that are important to you and your family. This is NOT "race" race.

  • Posted By: rwmeyer1@illicom.net @ 11/01/2008 4:26:06 PM

    Regarding the tax positions. Even the Consumers Report, a very dependable organization say Obama's tax plan will raise taxes for a couple making $42,000.

  • Posted By: Legendary @ 11/01/2008 4:25:59 PM

    I seen so much these past months it's giving me a headace. The beover the facts and see the changes since day one. McCain has changed his campaign slogan so many times and now copying Obama's "Change" in his campaign speeches. McCain has pinned alot on Obama with ties when in fact McCain has ties with Rev. Wright and a terrorist far worst than William Ayers! The terrorist McCain knows went to prison. When Ask Mccain says the guy is reformed. So what makes his ties better?? I guess William Ayers must be reformed to be a professor??

    McCain is a hyprocrate! His VP is just as bad and well coached! She is saying so much untrue things it's shilly now! She talks about lying when she has done so much of it from the start. The firing of her brother in law is one of them. She has nerve to talk about experience! She will be lacking experince also! Atleast Obama has made up for experince with a wise VP. Now McCain is experince, but what dose it mean when it's not applied?? Bush was to be experince also being that his father was president and he was a governor also! We can't bank experince over judgement! McCain talks about soldiers pride?? No one likes wars but they must be fought to make peace, not more war! I feel McCain is war hungry and that's not good! What good is soldier pride if dead?? To be over in a war with no real purpose. This is someone we want to lead us?? Think want the mothers and fathers feel??? He's a family man though???

    People will vote for whoever but I hope it's for the right reasons. Some people are making reasons for there inner Prejudice about someone and make not voting for a person spite there reasons much easier. I'm not going to vote because me might be a terrorist though american born buy a white mother and a black father who lived in america at the time. Hey tie him to muslims when being muslim is not a type people but a religion. Every religion has bad apples. Past KKK members were even Christians and killed though the bible say's love thy neighbor and do on to others as you would yourself though they dislikes people of another race and felt there acts was justice and a act of GOD. So we can not judge ones religion or race knowing no one is perfect!

    We don't know the outcome of either candidate but make a decison by heart and not sight! GOD Bless!

  • Posted By: true_patriot @ 11/01/2008 4:24:01 PM

    Thank goodness for FactCheck and articles like this. Too bad only a percentage of the population see this and read this. The millions of FOX News viewers remain oblivious in their cone of silence, yet they vote. Arrrgggh! Democracy is thwarted yet again!

  • Posted By: 9mmshort @ 11/01/2008 4:23:16 PM

    So it's OK to kill them in the womb, but if they are actually born and DECIDE to join the armed forces and go to war then it's murder??? Pull your head out of your ass!

  • Posted By: jh5656 @ 11/01/2008 4:22:55 PM

    Flat tax and be done with it! Consider this: $100K may sound like a lot of money, but go ahead and take at least 40% right off the top for taxes. Now you're down to $60K. Add in what a lot of younger singles/couples/families owe in student loans, and expect to take another $10-15K out of that. Now does that sound fair? We are creating a disincentive for people to seek higher education and to achieve, and that is detrimental to the entire country.

  • Posted By: zfanatique @ 11/01/2008 3:53:00 PM

    I am so tired of seeing posts by like "Not to be fooled" talking about the "media" and "the liberal media". How dare the type of poorly educated conservative who most likely gets their info from an inferior media source like Fox or MSN accuse Obama of needing the media. By the way, Joe the Plumber is an idiot! He's a not so rich little boy who dreams of being a rich guy some day!! When his little dream comes true, he wants to make sure he can be real greedy with his money. Yeah! Not a hero. More like an idiot who prefers to defend rich people instead of his own class!
    It's true everybody-The Republican party has been taken over by racists and religious fanatics!

    • Posted By: projectedorb6 @ 11/01/2008 4:21:50 PM

      I'm grow weary of fools who think that all Republicans are cut from the same cloth and all have the same mind set. We are all individuals who believe in the freedom to choose who we want to lead the country and how we want to live our lives. Some Republicans are probably racist and some are probably "religious fanatics" but to assume that we all are is another form of discrimination. The Democrats have their own set of fanatics. Clean up your own back yard before you start trashing your "neighbors".

    • Posted By: mcdeere72 @ 11/01/2008 4:08:24 PM

      Keep smoking the stuff you are. Attack Joe for a question that sounds just like the illegal searches they did on him to put his private life out in the public. I watch Fox because they have facts not feelings to vote on.

  • Posted By: TruthShoutsNotWhispers @ 11/01/2008 4:21:46 PM

    Seethelight, The only thing stopping us from seeing past color is an attitude like that. In all kindness, what do you expect to happen around you if you yourself cannot choose unity and diverisity over a single-color nation? Don't vote for Obama because he's black, vote for him (if you want to) because of his policies and because you think he'd be the best candidate for office. BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE...Ghandi said this...live beyond fear and hatred, seethelight, and be the change you are wanting to see. It's THAT simple. I am as white as you can get, and yet I LOVE this nation getting so many mixed and amazing colors. Thank goodness it is! How unAmerican would America be if we weren't? This country is for all people of all religious backgrounds, all races, all world-views, all ideas...it is what makes us America, gives people amazing rights unheard of in the rest of the world, and is the way the world should be. Hatred makes you less, Black Yellow White Blue Red Green or Purple are only colors.

  • Posted By: Fireisborn @ 11/01/2008 4:21:25 PM

    Is a shame that until this day in America their stil people which cannot accept the fact of some one from different race or creed could be president. Many americans have not even being outside there town and I could support my comment by saying people only know, what they see and what they hear, if you are one of those people who's life is a small town and have never being outside, look outside the box and learn about the actual world I suggest you should get out there and see the world and learn about it.

  • Posted By: 13tspeedy @ 11/01/2008 3:46:09 PM

    Why is "O" still in the race? He isn't a natual born citizen!! The Arnold would be a better Pres,,,,,,I don't understand how the media can be soooo liberal when they make thier living from BIG business. Maybe BIG business should stop buying air time on news programs. How long do you think the liberal media would last?? It seems to me the media would have to be a little less bias. At least the old man has some class. Just look at his wife and running mate!!! By the way, both of which are very intelligent. Not a lot of hot air like Kenya BOY.

    • Posted By: dennis18r @ 11/01/2008 4:20:43 PM

      That could possibly be the most ignorant comment of all time. Sarah Palin Smart? Are you kidding. Stop reading the conspiracy websites and get the facts. Obama is a U.S. Citizen and has probably done more than you to make this country a better place. Sarah Palin is a show pony to distract everyone from the fact the Republicans have nothing to put forward except lies and fear tactics about Obama. Pick up a book sometime and read. You may actually learn something.

    • Posted By: rose 311 @ 11/01/2008 4:18:07 PM

      McCain picked Cindy for his wife because she was a beauty queen and dad left her plenty money. When McCain chose Palin for his running mate he blew it at this time he did not make a choice for country first for McCain first, for Party first etc.. Another beauty queen who has no knowledge as to how the other 49 states work or the rest of the world. How she got to be elected for governor in Alaska is beyond me. Just imagine if McCain is elected and something happens to him. He is 71 and the office of the president is very stressfull especially with all the problems Bush is leaving behind. Choosing the vp was the most important decision and McCain blew it. This tells me that as a Maverick, he would make hasty dicisions without even consulting anyone. This gives me the creeps. I pray Obama wins for our sake.

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