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Undecided in Iowa

Days before the caucuses, the candidates try to break through.

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  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/04/2008 1:02:06 AM

    This is the comment I posted a couple of day agos. I am an American and I know my people. ALL My analysis were correct and backed by facts. I proved to be the most accurate going back months. Hopefully, people will learn that if you research and back your arguments with facts you will find the truth. I like Hillary and Edwards but they need to understand that they cannot overcome their records, they sold out to the same forces that have been "Punishing us for the last decade . Edwards cannot implement what he says and Hillary is haunted by the bill thing that is why she has to be careful not to go to negative. I will offer my advise on what the losers should do tomorrow. NO ONE LIKEs BEING CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN. OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT. DcooPer and deeP thinker you should study THE LIKEABILITy FACTOR and understand that I know more than all these Political Pundits and . Phd's. Did you see kieth OBEIRMAN and all those funny PeoPle on MSNBC. THey are dumb. They really looke devastated. Everything they believed in and all their Pundits were wrong. They were so one sided, Hillary. THe media has to recognize that more and more PeoPle do not believe them. They rePresent corPorations who have been indoctrinating us to sPene like wild animals and go into debt. DEbt financing. YOu know with CHINA. Everyone should read my comments and decide for temselves. Mitt Romney is a true clown just like Guilliani. His lies make me weeP like I said all along. His solution to health care is too offer Packagaes which PeoPle cannot afford. This man has just fliP floP too much and has followed the BUSH DOCTRINE. THAT EX Pired two years ago. I look forward to seeing his comPlete defeat in a couPle of weeks. Romney does not rePresent change HENRY TAFT BENSON. MY PEOPLE HAVE SEEN THROUGH THE MIRAGE. OBAMAMcCain for President. I backed every Post with facts. I am a Proud graduate of UMD in Maryland. I graduated four years ago and I am Part of a movement behind OBAMA that wants the best for ALL AMERICANS, EVEN GINGRICH and some of my friends who ridiculed my Posts. I have also had a loyal following of comment makers including suPPorters of all Parties. GOd Bless America.they have awaken a sleePing GIANT.
    eddiewhere @ 01/02/2008 4:21:43 AM
    Comment: Deep Thinker, Obama has been a success his whole life, He is far beyond his years and has always excelled above his peers. You need to research his eight years as an Illinois state senator. Obama is very intelligent and has proven it time and time again. He never got a free handout. He worked hard and accomplished more than anyone else his age in his field. That is a fact. What has Obama done that makes you think that he is not ready to be president, deep thinker. NO ONE LIKES BEING CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN. OBAMA/McCain ticket for President. We can move forward or we can go backwards. It is your choice.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/04/2008 1:01:27 AM

    THis was comment three days ago.
    eddiewhere @ 01/01/2008 3:37:52 AM
    Comment: NO ONE LIKES BEING CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN. EXPERIENCE.AND JUDGEMENT. WHAT CAN HILLARY DO THAT OBAMA CANNOT. THIS IS THE QUESTION I HAVE BEEN ASKING MYSELF. I THINK THE WORLD WILL WELCOME OBAMA AND AT LEAST GAVE HIM A FAIR CHANCE. REPUBLICANS WILL SWALLOW THEIR PRIDE AND WORK WITH OBAMA. THEY WILL NEVER DO THAT WITH HILLARY. HILLARY AND EDWARDS ARE GOOD PEOPLE, HOWEVER THEIR VOTING RECORD AND THEIR LACK OF COURAGE HAS LEAD ME TO QUESTION WHETHER THEY HAVE THE RIGHT INSTINCTS AND JUDGEMENT TO BE IN OFFICE. I REALLY THINK THEY WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE UNDER AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY. OBAMA WILL NOT TRY AND CONTROL EVERYTHING.
    sANDY, EDWARDS IS DESpERATE. thIS MAN FOLLOWED JOHN KERRY. HE WILL DO AND SAY ANYTHING. EVEN IF HE MEANS IT NOW IT IS TOO LATE. OBAMA AND CLINTON ARE TOO SMART, THEY KNOW THAT WHAT YOU SAY TODAY COULD FINISH YOU TOMORROW. ONLY A CANDIDATE WITH NOTHING TO LOSE WILL SAY WHAT EDWARDS IS SAYING. WHAT HAS HE DONE. BE HONEST. HILLARY IS pROUD THAT SHE WENT AGIANST HER pRINCIpLES TO GIVE BUSH A BLANK CHECK. WHY. IT WAS GOOD FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. HILLARY IS NOT STUpID IF THE WAR HAD NEGATIVE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES IN BUFFALO, SHE WOULD HAVE VOTED AGAINST IT. TRANSpARENCY IS SOMETHING NIETHER pARTY WANTS. NO ONE LIKE GETTING CAUGHT WITH THEIR pANTS DOWN AND THEN LECTURED ABOUT JUDGEMENT CALL..

  • Posted By: Evolutionist @ 01/03/2008 10:42:10 PM

    A muslim who has a name almost the same as Osama Bin Laden,....great....its time for me to move the hell out of this country

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 01/02/2008 12:49:06 PM

    Fred Thompson as great statesman who will unite America? Come on man, give me a break!!
    Like Dives in the Gospel, Fred Thompson has no idea of how most of the world lives. In regards to the most important issue facing us, global/warming and/or climate change, Fred Thompson doesn???t even recognize global warming as a problem. But why should he? Like every other Republican candidate in the Republican party, Fred Thompson won???t have to face the consequences. Like every other Republican candidate, he???s just another greedy old geezer, *** religious hypocrite, who???s running only because he wants to keep his tax breaks and pass the bill on to the next generation. As a recently retired school teacher who spent a life time working in inner city high schools in Los Angeles, I am horrified by the legacy we are leaving my students - whose command of the conventions of spoken and written English is far surperior than sur current Fearless leader???s. Thanks to the insights of my students, I have even granted the late Tupac a certain degree of grudging, but belated respect. When I think of Fred Thompson, or any of the Republican candidates, I can???t help but remember Tupac???s motto, THUGLIFE. (The Hate yoU Give Little children F*** Everybody Up.) Fred Thompson is nothing but an ignorant old fool. We need to ban ignorant old fools from running for president. I want a president who understands and cares about the young because the young are our future.

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 01/02/2008 12:27:14 PM

    All the brouhaha over Iowa proves one thing. Our current system of primaries is out of control. As a Californian, I resent having my candidates chosen by the pollsters and media even before I get a chance to vote. I also resent having my future determined by a handful of voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. Let's push the primaries back to May or June, Maybe require regions to have simultaneous primaries on the same dayl (We could rotate who gets to go first) Let's forbid all campaigning before Easter. We'll eliminate long expensive campaigns. Can we have a bi-partisan effort on primary reform?

  • Posted By: Free Speech? @ 01/01/2008 9:45:44 AM

    Click here: http://members.tripod.com/~rcjustice/pres.html
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    Maybe we should be questioning Hilary on her "record" of body bags associated with Clinton Administration

    • Posted By: S Benn @ 01/01/2008 9:17:00 PM

      I agree and want you to notice how the media leaves Fred Thompson out of polls and articles so that his true stance as the only strong leader and true conservative in the race will not be seen. But we the readers are too smart to trust where the media tries to lead us and will choose for ourselves. Please take a few minutes and listen to the speech Fred Thompson made for Iowan voters and see the Fred that the media is trying to hide from you. Rush Limbaugh idenified Fred Thompson as the only true conservative in the race and National Right to Life gave him alone their endorsement as have many more. Watch this and join the ranks - http://fredfile.fred08.com/blog/2007/video-freds-message-to-iowa-voters/

  • Posted By: S Benn @ 01/01/2008 9:14:37 PM

    Fred Thompson made a speech to Iowans that can unite all the nation. Take a moment and view this speech and you will find a candidate that you can believe in. I want you to notice how the media leaves Fred Thompson out of polls and articles so that his true stance as the only strong leader and true conservative in the race will not be seen. But we the readers are too smart to trust where the media tries to lead us and will choose for ourselves. Please take a few minutes and listen to the speech Fred Thompson made for Iowan voters and see the Fred that the media is trying to hide from you. Rush Limbaugh idenified Fred Thompson as the only true conservative in the race and National Right to Life gave him alone their endorsement as have many more. Watch this and join the ranks - http://fredfile.fred08.com/blog/2007/video-freds-message-to-iowa-voters/

  • Posted By: seven-pesos @ 01/01/2008 7:47:58 PM

    Comment: mike huckleberry...just what america needs...a redneck bible thumping republican southerner to replace bush...

    ha,ha,ha...

    you'd think that america had learned their lesson.

  • Posted By: Evangeline @ 01/01/2008 8:05:13 AM

    Take your first look at Ron Paul. He is the most honest of ALL of them by a landslide and has held true to his beliefs ad covictions his entire life. No games....no apologies...no NEGATIVE campaigning...just TRUTH and a steadfastness that would be welcomed in a prersident. Ron Paul 2008

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/01/2008 3:40:44 AM

    I like wha Hillary did this weekend. She finally took responsibility for her record. She apoligized for her vote on DAFUR. Millions have been slaughtered since. I did not even know until she apologized. THis is what I am talking about. Me first others second. I will take a second look at Hillary.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/01/2008 3:37:52 AM

    NO ONE LIKES BEING CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN. EXPERIENCE.AND JUDGEMENT. WHAT CAN HILLARY DO THAT OBAMA CANNOT. THIS IS THE QUESTION I HAVE BEEN ASKING MYSELF. I THINK THE WORLD WILL WELCOME OBAMA AND AT LEAST GAVE HIM A FAIR CHANCE. REPUBLICANS WILL SWALLOW THEIR PRIDE AND WORK WITH OBAMA. THEY WILL NEVER DO THAT WITH HILLARY. HILLARY AND EDWARDS ARE GOOD PEOPLE, HOWEVER THEIR VOTING RECORD AND THEIR LACK OF COURAGE HAS LEAD ME TO QUESTION WHETHER THEY HAVE THE RIGHT INSTINCTS AND JUDGEMENT TO BE IN OFFICE. I REALLY THINK THEY WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE UNDER AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY. OBAMA WILL NOT TRY AND CONTROL EVERYTHING.
    sANDY, EDWARDS IS DESpERATE. thIS MAN FOLLOWED JOHN KERRY. HE WILL DO AND SAY ANYTHING. EVEN IF HE MEANS IT NOW IT IS TOO LATE. OBAMA AND CLINTON ARE TOO SMART, THEY KNOW THAT WHAT YOU SAY TODAY COULD FINISH YOU TOMORROW. ONLY A CANDIDATE WITH NOTHING TO LOSE WILL SAY WHAT EDWARDS IS SAYING. WHAT HAS HE DONE. BE HONEST. HILLARY IS pROUD THAT SHE WENT AGIANST HER pRINCIpLES TO GIVE BUSH A BLANK CHECK. WHY. IT WAS GOOD FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. HILLARY IS NOT STUpID IF THE WAR HAD NEGATIVE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES IN BUFFALO, SHE WOULD HAVE VOTED AGAINST IT. TRANSpARENCY IS SOMETHING NIETHER pARTY WANTS. NO ONE LIKE GETTING CAUGHT WITH THEIR pANTS DOWN AND THEN LECTURED ABOUT JUDGEMENT CALL..

  • Posted By: Bigtow @ 12/31/2007 10:29:20 PM

    Pookie, someone didn't love you enough when you were little, did they? Tragic!
    Iowa has some of the greatest, hard working people in this great union. Thank God for the great state of Iowa!!

  • Posted By: Bigtow @ 12/31/2007 10:25:55 PM

    Pookie, someone didn't love you enough when you were little, did they? Tragic!
    Iowa is a great state and the people of Iowa are some of the greatest, hard working people in this great union. Thank God for That!

  • Posted By: myowneyes @ 12/31/2007 10:24:01 PM

    My husband and I have been to several campaign functions here in Iow. I will tell you this..the Obama campaign busses in people to make it look like he has quite the following. One minute no supporters the a coupl buses pull up and the place is packed..It the steak fry in Iowa and the jefferson jackson dinner. to speak of 2.. he is dihonest in my eyes. The Clinton campaign couldnt even get in the door because of this. Also the Edwards and Clinttin campaign both stopped taking questions at the end of there speeches because of plants by the obama people. I wouldnt trust that guy. God help us if he is president.

  • Posted By: AlwaysforHillary @ 12/31/2007 8:56:59 PM

    Bill Clinton may have said those words, but he had been a GOVERNOR for 12 years and an Attorney General before that! He wasn''t in his FIRST TERM as a Senator!!!! Give me a break! He's comparing himself to Bill Clinton? Why he can't shine his shoes!!!!

    GO HOME OBAMA!!! VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT - 2008!!!

  • Posted By: Pookie @ 12/31/2007 7:12:46 PM

    Iowa is a four-letter word. It has terrible weather and is populated by strange people who are more like Canadians than Americans. It should be abolished as a state and divided among the neighboring real states. So who cares about its silly caucuses?

  • Posted By: gotard @ 12/31/2007 5:55:20 PM

    Of all of the frontrunners I think that John Edwards is clearly the best candidate. He is the only one with the integrity to not take corporate or PAC money. He has the best ideas and he is the most viable to run against the GOP. To answer newsweek's question John Edwards is the fighter and I think most people know that. We need someone who has ideas, discreet goals, and does not talk in platitudes. I like Obama but all I hear is "blah blah family, blah blah American people, blah blah church." There just doesn't seem to be any substance with Obama and Hillary.

  • Posted By: gotard @ 12/31/2007 5:45:16 PM

    Edwards is the only one with the integrity to not take corporate or PAC money. I think he is the one with the best ideas and the most viable to run in the primary.

  • Posted By: Duck Soup @ 12/31/2007 10:30:54 AM

    America needs a leader who is a uniter to set it back on track. Obama is the only uniter in the leading Democratic pack. Hillary has huge negatives. Edwards is a populist who draws support by attacking the right and corporations.

    And yet Obama also is the toughest of the pack. Obama is the only one of the three who stood against the war in Iraq from the start when it was unpopular. Obama is the one who is not taking donations from lobbyists or benefitting from huge 527 money (Edwards' 527 is run by a fellow who was on his campaign until this summer). Even as recently as a few months ago, Hillary let Bush railroad her into supporting his warmongering bill against Iran which declared their military to be terrorists (technically a declaration of war).

    The media doesn't do enough reporting on these distinctions. They are having a hard time understanding Obama.

  • Posted By: Evangeline @ 12/31/2007 8:20:48 AM

    It amazes me that Newsweek is choosing not to publish comments that are positive for Ron Paul. I didnt realize that Newsweek is choosing our next president, and is so biased! What happened to freedom of speech?

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