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  • Posted By: cantwaittovotein08 @ 11/02/2008 11:42:19 AM

    Here's the rest:
    Last November, McCain went on his radio show. Liddy greeted him as "an old friend," and McCain sounded like one. "I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family," he gushed. "It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great."
    Roberto Martin Perez: Cuban exile who signed a 1997 statement advocating any and all terrorism against Castro-ruled Cuba. Also a long time coordinator of the Cuban American National Foundation, which was named by notorious terrorist Luis Posada Carriles as a source of funding for an operation in 1997 that bombed numerous hotels and killed an innocent Italian tourist. Perez did an official radio ad for the McCain campaign that attacked Obama for suggesting negotiations with the Castro regime.
    Robert Adam Mosbacher: Commerce Secretary under George HW Bush who helped to cover up the export of sensitive technology to Saddam Hussein's regime just before he invaded Kuwait. According to an invetigative piece by the LA Times, Mosbacher planned to "risk a criminal contempt charge by refusing to turn over material [to Congress]." Mosbacher is currently the chairman of McCain's campaign.
    International Republican Institute (IRI): Right-wing "civil society" group that works to undermine leaders (including democratically elected ones) that are not compatible with US business interests. Colluded with former death squad members in overthrowing the democratically elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide and stood by as rightist militias and gangs massacred thousands of Haitian civilians. McCain is currently the chairman of the IRI, a position he has had since 1993.
    Carl H. Lindner: CEO of Chiquita Brands International from 1984 to 2001 who "oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States." Co-hosted a $25,000-per-person fundraiser for the McCain campaign and the GOP.
    Charlie Black: Former lobbyist for numerous foreign dictators. Ran a PR campaign for Ferdinand Marcos and received $1 million-per-year from Mobuto Sese Seko. Currently serves as McCain???s Senior Adviser.
    Nicaraguan Contras: Terrorist group made up of former National Guardsman from the deposed regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Implicated in numerous atrocities, such as "murder, rape, torture, maiming children, cutting off arms, cutting out tongues, gouging out eyes, castration, bayoneting pregnant women in the stomach, and amputating genitals." Accused by Human Rights Watch of disregarding "the rights of civilians" as a "a de facto policy." McCain donated $400 to this group in 1988 after Washington stopped giving them US tax dollars due to their abuses.

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/02/2008 11:41:46 AM

    In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" Obama unintentionally revealed that he really is as radical as his early political mentors and acquaintances, Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi 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: Nins @ 11/02/2008 11:39:45 AM

    People should listen to the recording of this phone call between Palin and a comedian pretending to be French President Sarkozy.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp=27491253&#27491253

    I have to say, Palin sounds like a nice, conciliatory person, but she also sounds as dumb as a rock. It is incomprehensible that she didn't realize that it wasn't Sarkozy, especially when he referred to "Nailin' Palin" and the fact that his wife was good in bed.

    But worse than her failure to recognize the prank is the fact that when Sarkozy referred to the Prime Minister of Canada using the name of a rock star, Palin didn't even get it -- apparently she does not even know the name of Canada's Prime Minister -- despite the fact that you can see Canada from Alaska. (Ahem.)

    Poor Sarah. She's in this way over her head.

  • Posted By: Nins @ 11/02/2008 11:39:19 AM

    I for one am PROUD that America will finally have a talented President who comes from a racial minority. It is time for America to finally heal the terrible wound of racism.

  • Posted By: openvisions @ 11/02/2008 11:36:51 AM

    We have had blacks to run for President, Al Sharpton, rev Jessie Jackson remember

  • Posted By: Intelligent Voter @ 11/02/2008 11:36:17 AM

    For some reason, two elections in a row, mainstream Dems and Repubs set on their hands and failed to show-up to support the ???More Intelligent??? candidate. We are now to believe, since the voting block that has helped run this country into an abyss, have learned how to use a computer, that somehow it lends credence to their ???intelligence??? shortcomings! The upper echelon income earners are not the bloggers on this site. It is the ???lower to middle??? income earners that throw-out words they researched on ???wiki??? sites who now attempt to make their case on why the guy who would give then a better tax-cut is not the guy they are supporting. Taking race out of the equation would amount to landslide election of the more ???intelligent??? candidate. Sarah Palin, Joe-Six-Pack, Hockey Moms, Joe-the-Plumber, and ???Tito-the-Construction-Worker??? are all laughable examples of a candidate running for city council let alone the President of the United States. The racial divide is clear and the lack of intelligence astounding but the hope of a true leader who will once again re-establish the standing of a great nation will be fulfilled by the ???intelligent voters??? showing up on November 4th!

  • Posted By: Intelligent Voter @ 11/02/2008 11:34:58 AM

    For some reason, two elections in a row, mainstream Dems and Repubs set on their hands and failed to show-up to support the ???More Intelligent??? candidate. We are now to believe, since the voting block that has helped run this country into an abyss, have learned how to use a computer, that somehow it lends credence to their ???intelligence??? shortcomings! The upper echelon income earners are not the bloggers on this site. It is the ???lower to middle??? income earners that throw-out words they researched on ???wiki??? sites who now attempt to make their case on why the guy who would give then a better tax-cut is not the guy they are supporting. Taking race out of the equation would amount to landslide election of the more ???intelligent??? candidate. Sarah Palin, Joe-Six-Pack, Hockey Moms, Joe-the-Plumber, and ???Tito-the-Construction-Worker??? are all laughable examples of a candidate running for city council let alone the President of the United States. The racial divide is clear and the lack of intelligence astounding but the hope of a true leader who will once again re-establish the standing of a great nation will be fulfilled by the ???intelligent voters??? showing up on November 4th!

  • Posted By: Tunji @ 11/02/2008 8:34:27 AM

    One has to wonder what the situation would be like when America elects its first president who is descened from the black slave class?

    • Posted By: old man in the woods @ 11/02/2008 11:33:11 AM

      Black slave class?? Mr obama's backround has NOTHING to do with ANY slave class. He is the son of privilege. Both American and Kenyan. NO connection whatever with ANY American class at all.

  • Posted By: openvisions @ 11/02/2008 11:32:09 AM

    When I read the adn.com newspaper everyday and then read some of these comments I wonder what people are thinking. People rather have the USA look and be like Alaska. Just because the other man is black? If you dont read and hear everything you never know. I heard today that the FBI, over the past 18 months has uncovered 9 plots to kill Obama. that is sick. Just because of what McCain and Palin has said and her showing off her guns. Palin FYI Blacks are not yours to shoot down, you know this becasue a black minister prayed for you.at your church, To help you not hurt you.remember or did you forget. you do know what was going on then. return the favor and dont be so crule to gods children.

  • Posted By: Youhold08 @ 11/02/2008 11:27:17 AM

    Here's a thought how about you all really and truly take a look at the issues and stop deflecting! It may be hard to focus on important things like the health and wealth of our country when it's much easier to fall back on your stupidity but try. Have you really given any thought to what your lives will be like if McCain does win? I'm guessing from the very low IQ waves put out from the comments of releggneh and nowforsomemoretruth you are not the high earners McCain's economic plan would benefit. You attack and spew ignorance from your core place of fear without reality to any of the assumptions or statements that you make. You are the ones in need of a wake up call and hopefully on November 4th you'll get one! Best Wishes! Obama/Biden 08'

  • Posted By: openvisions @ 11/02/2008 11:21:25 AM

    Just by Obama running has caused alot of problems to come up. Friday- Halloween night a white women put a sign out for trick or treaters. If you are an Obama supporter dont stop here for candy. correct me if I am wrong but when did children under 18 start voting. children are still suffering for what their parents do.I pray for that ladies dark heart to turn red again. When you hurt children God is not pleased.

  • Posted By: releggneh @ 11/02/2008 11:16:49 AM

    How come MSNBC isn't reporting Obama has an illegal aunt living in Boston and taking financial aid from us americans? She called and told him she was here. You people want Obama to win so bad you don't do your job and give us the information we need . Lie after lie after lie and you people still suppport this crook. Obama is going to take this country right down the tubes..Wake up people, get the rat out of the race

  • Posted By: ariziowa @ 11/01/2008 10:33:51 PM

    I have some news for newsweak - you are not "mainstream"! I realize that Isikoff has to promote, osama - all good Jews have to be liberal and democrat. Newsweak has to make MONEY! So, you and moveon.org and George Soros, rule the world.

    • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/02/2008 11:12:08 AM

      Now that we know Obama has PLO buddies, no thanks to the LA Times, looks like maybe Jesse Jackson knows a good bit more about Obama's politics than the national media does, or JewsForObama for that matter.
      "Press Releases
      AJC Strongly Condemns Rev. Jesse Jacksons Comment on American Jews
      October 14, 2008 - New York - The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has condemned the Rev. Jesse Jackson's statement about "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades."
      "Rev. Jackson's remarks, which appeared in an interview with the journalist Amir Taheri in today's New York Post, echo classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power," said AJC Executive Director David A. Harris. "This statement, regrettably, is not the first troubling comment by Rev. Jackson regarding Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.
      Arguing as a private citizen that an Obama administration could bring significant change to U.S. foreign policy, Jackson was quoted as saying that "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" would lose much of their influence should Senator Obama be elected president."
      http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=6107743
      Sounds a good bit more like Hitler to me. Isn't this the same Democrat leader who once called New York "Hymietown" ?

  • Posted By: techresmgt @ 11/02/2008 10:50:33 AM

    I don't recall any Black politicians that had any desire to run for President in the past. They have not been denied the right to run for President in any manner of speaking. Colin Powell was asked to run a few years back and he decided to step aside. Let's see some Hispanic, Chinese, and Native American politicians run for President, that is a description of true assimilation. A grand day when more than two specific ethnic groups are represented in our government. I dare say the celebration will probably be muted.

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/02/2008 10:17:57 AM

    ABC Reports that in a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said her First Amendment rights are threatened by reporters suggesting she is engaging in a negative campaigning against Barack Obama.

    Palin told WMAL-AM that for reporters or columnists to suggest that she is going negative constitutes an attack on her free speech rights under the Constitution, saying -If the media convince enough voters that this is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.-


    If I hadnt heard her butcher the Constitution numerous times already, I might not have believed it!

  • Posted By: MYBMW2002 @ 11/02/2008 7:50:37 AM

    Pennsylvania has a terrorist Republican who refuses to give candy to children if their parents support Obama. Treating children like that is unacceptable.

    Is that the wealth trickling down or keeping the wealth to the wealthy?

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:04:21 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:04:04 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: cutecaramel @ 11/02/2008 1:52:00 AM

    well ICEYES..don`t put your ieyes in the freezer no more....it amkes u see the world in a funny way ahahahahahaah you don`t seem to make the difference anymore between economical crisis and a lipstick...oh my deaaaaarrrrr....
    but I understand why u wanna vote for Mcdonald..oh sorry ..Mccain burger King who has just acquired a new company called Palin and lipstick & 1000 pleasure & assoc. ..at least u would get fastfood everywhere and burgers, free of tax (Oh, is it??) and of course, some free access to 100 pleasure website providing that u got your voucher at Mc Burger and u order one McCola...u will be even be able to do that in Iraq soon too, but not sure about the website access though through there...ahaha
    well..notice under Mcburger presidency, at least u will be having all those free interesting things and also a free ride to Iraq; let`s just ptray that Mcburger can make it for 4 years (in acse he got elected of course); otherwise, we will be having some melting in the pole and an 8 month summer in Canada and also Russia..aie..they won`t be happy wouldn`t they?? Palino & sons associates is just going to melt the ice in the pole but u Iceyes, u`re so lucky...u have your freezer to rely on and still see an economic curve showing budget surplus graphs..of course, in form of...lipsticks!!!

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/01/2008 7:42:42 PM

    Now that we know Obama has PLO buddies, no thanks to the LA Times, looks like maybe Jesse Jackson knows a good bit more about Obama's politics than the national media does, or JewsForObama for that matter.
    "Press Releases
    AJC Strongly Condemns Rev. Jesse Jacksons Comment on American Jews
    October 14, 2008 - New York - The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has condemned the Rev. Jesse Jackson's statement about "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades."
    "Rev. Jackson's remarks, which appeared in an interview with the journalist Amir Taheri in today's New York Post, echo classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power," said AJC Executive Director David A. Harris. "This statement, regrettably, is not the first troubling comment by Rev. Jackson regarding Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.
    Arguing as a private citizen that an Obama administration could bring significant change to U.S. foreign policy, Jackson was quoted as saying that "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" would lose much of their influence should Senator Obama be elected president."
    http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=6107743
    Sounds a good bit more like Hitler to me. Isn't this the same Democrat leader who once called New York "Hymietown" ?

    • Posted By: neos @ 11/01/2008 8:38:59 PM

      Guilt by association again? Do you want to be accountable for the views of everyone you have ever known? I have a neighbor who actually listens to Rush Limbaugh. He comes to my Bar-B-Ques. Will I be accused of 'palling around' with right-wing nutjobs? To know someone does not mean you agree with their views. John McCain has had some 'unusual' associations in his past. Perhaps we can only chose candidates who have passed their lives in a hermitage.

      • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/01/2008 9:00:44 PM

        It is true that I have Marx, Fernando Cardoso , Frntz Fanon and Andre Gunder Frank , among others, not too far away from Adam Smith on my bookcase. There is a limit to how far you can push the point.

        Actually, I have the same feeling about lobbist. People need to go see the John Adams series where he represents the red coats who were involved in the Boston incident. People need to remember that everyone had the right to representation, and just because a lobbiest or attorney represents someone does not necessarly reflect their personal views.

        The problem Obama has is that the press has protected him so that he has not be property examined as to his views in light of his association.. And what Jackson said squares with a Kalikie (sic) connection. If he wants my vote, Obama is abliged to explain it.

        • Posted By: neos @ 11/01/2008 10:29:19 PM

          And again with the evil press smear. PUH-LEEZE!

          Associations mean nothing. What the candidate himself says or does is all that matters. I don't judge John McCain because of his associations, e.g. j. Gordon Liddy, ACORN, or even Cheney and Bush.

          • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/02/2008 12:07:49 AM

            Oh, like this?

            Former ACORN Employee Says Obama Provided Donor List
            The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports, "A fired staffer for an affiliate of" ACORN "testified Wednesday the organization was provided a 'donor list' from" Obama's campaign "in late 2007 for fundraising efforts. Anita Moncrief, a former Washington staffer for Project Vote, which she described as a sister organization of...ACORN, said her supervisor told her the list of campaign contributors came from the Obama campaign." The Philadelphia Inquirer adds Moncrief "gave a scathing, though at times vague, assessment of ACORN and its efforts to go into battleground states and help mostly minorities and the poor register to vote for the first time. The group, she said, barely trained its workers in how to register voters properly, and would fire employees if they did not meet a quota of 20 new voter applicants daily
            http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_081030.htm

            Obama in this video is campaigning at a convention of Acorn and I believe two other Community Activist's organizations less than a year ago, in December 2007. Ask if he will be their ally if he becomes President and pledge to meet with leaders of Acorn and the others in his first year, Obama, who we are told has no contact to Acorn (another lie), not withstanding the $800,000 his campaign paid an Acorn group during the primaries, says, quote:

            "Yes, but let me say that before I even get inaugurated, during the transition, we are going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda."

            See and hear it for yourself. Obama promised that Acorn and other groups like it will setting his agenda if elected even before he is inaugurated:

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU

            The link below describes how some Democrats in Congress tried to use the original version of the bailout bill to divert money eventually recovered to groups like ACORN, a group Obama has a long association with. See:

            http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122247015469280723.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


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