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  • Posted By: starving actor @ 01/06/2008 4:54:33 PM

    BacaAngel- you are so right. Judgment, wisdom, honesty and integrity do matter. That is precisely why anyone even registering as aa democrat should be put in the looney bin with bush derangement syndrom. Americans do NOT like marxism- it is a definition thing- you think you can be a marxist and american- like saying you are a dry swimmer- not in the definition... But, crazy hysterical looney lefites do not comprehend much. You think marx was a somebody... he was a whining parasitical evil moron. He caused in 20th century over a 100 million murders. Real Americans think- instead of letting marxistss try that crap here, let us preclude it with the golden rule corllary.- that means, what you will try to do to others, awaits you.

  • Posted By: gommy goomy @ 01/06/2008 4:21:10 PM

    I think that Richie boy should check his 'blue dress' for any 'ick'. After that A#1 butt smooch he just gave Obama, maybe he should take a bath.

  • Posted By: josh62 @ 01/06/2008 3:50:49 PM

    ALL Obama has done is managed to avoid the unfair media bias treatment Clinton gets. "Obama, through an unprecedented convergence of luck has never before faced serious attack yet, now he's earned the right to be mercilessly scrubbed and scrutinized. Will show he is something of a phony, someone whose lofty rhetoric isn't born out in his own public record. His lack of foreign policy experience and showing he isn???t ready to lead in a dangerous world. His votes in the Senate to fund the Iraq war even as he tried to position himself as the strongest anti-war candidate will finally come into play nationally; facts show he always supports the war, voted twice in 2006 against bringing America's troops back home. Votes for war appropriations giving our money to Halliburton and Blackwater. Voted with Bush on posturing S 433 which allows the Bush Admin to suspend any troop withdrawal! keeps our troops in Iraq for a long time to come? Record also shows Obama faced with tough choices always gave in to pressure from Bush admin and corporate lobbyists. Obama voted for Bush's energy bill, sending more than $13 billion in subsidies and tax breaks to oil, coal, and nuclear companies. Obama voted with Republicans to allow credit card companies to raise interest rates over 30 percent, increasing hardship for families. "He talks about change but has no real record of making change. Lastly his use of the race card will not play well nationally??? ASSOCIATED PRESS-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has lot of explaining to do.
    He voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive. He supported allowing retired police officers to carry concealed weapons, but opposed allowing people to use banned handguns to defend against intruders in their homes. And the list of sensitive topics goes on. With only a slim, two-year record in the U.S. Senate, Obama doesn't have many controversial congressional votes which political opponents can frame into attack ads. But his eight years as an Illinois state senator are sprinkled with potentially explosive land mines, such as his abortion and gun control votes. recent land purchase from a political supporter who is facing charges in an unrelated kickback scheme involving investment firms seeking state business. Abortion opponents see Obama's vote on medical care for aborted fetuses as a refusal to protect the helpless. Some have even accused him of supporting infanticide.

    Go to that website and I think you'll find out all you need to know about what he believes in. The website is
    http://www.tucc.org/about.htm.

    • Posted By: danielgouldman @ 01/06/2008 4:09:57 PM

      That's laughable. I keep wondering who these people work for....or if we really have this deep of an issue in our educational system.

  • Posted By: josh62 @ 01/06/2008 3:52:05 PM

    Clinton is RIGHT, ITS IS TIEM THE MEDIA BEGIN TO LOOK INTO OBAM and get off the preaching, it will not work for ever.
    ASSOCIATED PRESS-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has lot of explaining to do.
    He voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive. He supported allowing retired police officers to carry concealed weapons, but opposed allowing people to use banned handguns to defend against intruders in their homes. And the list of sensitive topics goes on. With only a slim, two-year record in the U.S. Senate, Obama doesn't have many controversial congressional votes which political opponents can frame into attack ads. But his eight years as an Illinois state senator are sprinkled with potentially explosive land mines, such as his abortion and gun control votes. recent land purchase from a political supporter who is facing charges in an unrelated kickback scheme involving investment firms seeking state business. Abortion opponents see Obama's vote on medical care for aborted fetuses as a refusal to protect the helpless. Some have even accused him of supporting infanticide.

    Go to that website and I think you'll find out all you need to know about what he believes in. The website is
    http://www.tucc.org/about.htm.

  • Posted By: josh62 @ 01/06/2008 3:48:57 PM

    Obama goes into this state's compressed contest with a target on his back a situation he has managed to avoid due to media bias against Clinton. "Obama, through an unprecedented convergence of luck has never before faced serious attack yet, now he's earned the right to be mercilessly scrubbed and scrutinized. Will show he is something of a phony, someone whose lofty rhetoric isn't born out in his own public record. His lack of foreign policy experience and showing he isn???t ready to lead in a dangerous world. His votes in the Senate to fund the Iraq war even as he tried to position himself as the strongest anti-war candidate will finally come into play nationally; facts show he always supports the war, voted twice in 2006 against bringing America's troops back home. Votes for war appropriations giving our money to Halliburton and Blackwater. Voted with Bush on posturing S 433 which allows the Bush Admin to suspend any troop withdrawal! keeps our troops in Iraq for a long time to come? Record also shows Obama faced with tough choices always gave in to pressure from Bush admin and corporate lobbyists. Obama voted for Bush's energy bill, sending more than $13 billion in subsidies and tax breaks to oil, coal, and nuclear companies. Obama voted with Republicans to allow credit card companies to raise interest rates over 30 percent, increasing hardship for families. "He talks about change but has no real record of making change. Lastly his use of the race card will not play well nationally???

  • Posted By: danielgouldman @ 01/06/2008 3:43:09 PM

    I've paid attention to the issues and followed his campaign for quite some time now. I'm extremely impressed with Senator Obama and he has without question secured my vote. He keeps getting attacked with non-substantive issues...this just reinforces my passion to support him (and I assume others within the country). I do want to see a new kind of politics...it won't happen unless we stand up and fight for what we believe in. I trust that he will follow through on his promises. We can't expect him to be the second coming of Christ but we can expect to see him work at building a positive working relationship with Republicans and Indepedents. I thought Hillary's performance in the ABC debate on Saturday was very good but I have never doubted Hillary's ability to be a skillful debator. She's excellent at that and so is Edwards - but what happens after the debate. People need to walk the walk....he and Edwards are not taking PAC money, lobbyist money and are both obviously committed to putting a line in the sand as it relates to making a stand to change Washington. As Edwards says...these special interests really are "entrenched" in everything we do...but I know that Obama can deliver on his promises. I do not trust that Hillary or any of the Republicans will make this a priority especially since they take money from lobbyists and do not support transparency in government. Hillary would not disclose her earmarks but Obama would. I won't vote for Clinton. I would love to see Obama as President and Edwards as Attorney General. That would be pretty awesome. No offense to Edwards - he just doesn't have the organization built or $$$ to go the distance.

  • Posted By: PoliticalRealityOnline @ 01/06/2008 12:12:17 PM


    Are Americans really going to trust their children's future to Obama? He is nothing more than a totally unqualified, socialist, economic class warfare advocate who is wrapped in a phony social and charismatic image package that is designed to appeal to the willfully naive and the hopelessly clueless? Fred Thompson would blow Obama out of the water in debates on substance which Obama has so far avoided in debates with his equally inept democrat opponents.

    Obama's contrived charisma and change for the sake of change platitudes will only take him so far. He will lead the democrat's to a McGovern like defeat when serious Americans who care deeply about their children's future compare his empty rhetoric and limited experience with Fred Thompson's vast experience and sound programs for America's future.

    Fred is the obvious choice as president for any responsible voter who cares about their kid's future and invests the time to understand the candidate's qualifications, and positions on the issues. The last thing America needs in a time of economic fragility at home and dangerous international circumstances are dangerous political neophytes like Obama and Huckabee.

    Before all you mindless, adolescent change advocates vote for these two political charlatans you should remember the ageless adage that things are never so bad that they cannot get a lot worse. This would especially be the case if the Commander in Chief becomes a novice that will invite aggression from America's enemies, lose the Middle East oilfield's to radical Islam and wreck our fragile economy with radically higher oil prices after a retreat from Iraq, higher taxes, higher pork spending and socialist healthcare.

    Fred Thompson is by far the most qualified to energize the general election turn out of the entire Republican party behind a responsible program of peace through strength, and prosperity through proven, conservative economic policies. He is the only credible choice for RESPONSIBLE CHANGE to address America's problems, and he would immediately command the respect of America's enemies as well as its friends. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!

    • Posted By: Dryden01 @ 01/06/2008 3:37:33 PM

      Obama is hardly a neophyte and is already drawing on his vast experience to evaluate Oprah for his Secretary of State. She will get the job if she can pass the typing test, answer phones, and take dictation!

    • Posted By: Sabor @ 01/06/2008 12:59:04 PM

      Didn't you guys trusted the current dummy in the White House, not once but twice. Your trust in the dummy has made us the joke of the world. Not only was he inexperience in world affairs, but also lack of intellect, speach and commom sense. But, yet you voted for him twice. Fred Thompson will do the same Reagan did; put our country in a deeper deficit and ACT like he is presidential while destroying the working middle class.

      • Posted By: Dryden01 @ 01/06/2008 3:32:55 PM

        Obama may be a neophyte but he is already drawing on his vast experience to consider Oprah as Secretary of State: she will get the job if she can type, answer the phones, and take diuctation!

      • Posted By: misterharban @ 01/06/2008 1:40:08 PM

        So lets elect another dummy.

  • Posted By: BMerritt @ 01/06/2008 3:23:58 PM



    Obama mentioned his church during his appearance with Oprah. (AND since it WAS on her show, then it must be true. Now with her on the campaign trail for him only reinforces that we must look deeper into this.) It's the Trinity Church of Christ. I found this interesting.

    (Please go to this church's website www.tucc.org/about.htm and read what is written there. It is very alarming.)

    Barack Obama is a member of this church and is running for President of the U.S. If you look at the first page of their website, you will learn that this congregation has a non-negotiable commitment to Africa. No where is AMERICA even mentioned.

    Notice too, what color you will need to be if you should want to join Obama's church... B-L-A-C-K!!! It doesn't look like his choice of religion has improved much over his (former?) Muslim upbringing.

    Strip away his nice looks, the big smile and smooth talk and what do you get? Certainly a racist, as plainly defined by the stated position of his church! And could he be possibly a covert worshiper of the Muslim faith, even today. This guy desires to rule over America while his loyalty is totally vested in a Black Africa!

    He talks now about how, if elected he will bring all Americans together across racial, economic and party lines and ???retake??? America!! If he ???preaches??? this to us and he is a strong believer in his faith; then we need to examine his faith and its teaching a lot more closely.

    I know politicians usually say one then and actually do things another way, but in this case the ???other??? way to me is extremely dangerous and needs to be investigated and explained clearly.

    I cannot believe this has not been all over the TV and newspapers, especially with all the attention with Gov. Huckabee and Gov Romney issues on religion. This is why it is so important to pass this message along.

    To think that Obama has even the slightest chance in the run for the presidency, is really scary.

  • Posted By: egrist @ 01/05/2008 8:23:19 PM

    THIS DEFINITELY WARRANTS LOOKING INTO. THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED, "ONE NATION UNDER GOD". ALMIGHTY GOD, NOT THE GOD OF THE KORAN.

    We checked this out on "snopes.com". It is factual. Check for yourself..

    Who is Barack Obama?

    Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu , Hawaii , to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel , Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHEIST from Wichita , Kansas ..

    Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii . When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya . His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia . When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia Obama attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta . He also spent two years in a Catholic school.

    Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick to point out that, "He was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school."

    Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over his son's education.

    Lolo Soetoro, the second husb and of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam. Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta .

    Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world. Since it is politically expedient to be a CHRISTIAN when seeking major public office in the United States , Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background. ALSO, keep in mind that when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran (Their equivalency to our Bible, but very different beliefs)

    Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential candidacy.

    The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the U.S. from the inside out, what better way to start than at the highest level - through the President of the United States , one of their own!!!!

    Please forward to everyone you know. Would you want this man leading our country?......

    • Posted By: JPRFD2008 @ 01/05/2008 8:44:04 PM

      Egrist,
      I DID look it up on Snopes... FYI... The articles that address rumors that have been proven false have RED DOTS next to them!!! For example......
      (RED DOT) Obama "ideologically Muslim"
      (GREEN DOT) Egrist "idiot who prays at the altar of Rush Limbaugh 5 times daily"
      Hope this clears things up for you.

      • Posted By: djd100 @ 01/05/2008 10:35:56 PM

        This is very sad. You actually repeat lies and gossip as facts.
        Wahabi school in Jakarta is a school that is international and caters to westerners and diplomats' children from all over the world. This story was squelched last year. Recheck your facts.
        Barach has been a member of the Church of Christ since the 1980's.

        • Posted By: bpjam @ 01/06/2008 1:56:26 AM

          You are absolutely correct about Obama. He is not a radical muslim.

          He is a member of a radical Christian church which teaches racial separatism and the superiority of the black race. But the media is not allowed to talk about it apparently. Its not like they can't go to the website of his church to read it themselves. Keep drinking the Kool Aid!!!

          • Posted By: cfk1031@suddenlink.net @ 01/06/2008 2:51:47 PM

            Well........... first of all Barack is not a member of the Church of Christ he is a member of the United Church of Christ, a mainstream denomination in the United States which takes it's roots from one of the original Pilgrim denominations in this country in the 1600's - The Congregationalists. They helped establish our Christian roots. The Church is still predominately based in New England. His Chicago Trinity United Church of Christ is one of the few African American churches of the denomination. I question that anyone who is truly a Christian would spread such despicable lies as reflected above. Although, I'm a Presbyterian, I am also a descendant of the First Pastor of the Church of Wenham in 1644. In my personal opinion, you really need to do some research before spreading such untruths.

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      • Posted By: Sabor @ 01/06/2008 1:08:26 PM

        The last time I looked around we were still in the USA, where the Constitution give us the right to choose our religion or faith. What part of the Constitution states that you have to be a Christian to be President of the United States? We go to war to defend people right to choose their religion, freedom of speech and right to vote", yet here in the good old USA we are still practicing the rule of intolerance, but yet, we want to potray an image of the perfect society and democracy to the world. And we are still asking ourselves why people around the world don't like us. Hypocrisy is the answer.

  • Posted By: LSD4u2 @ 01/06/2008 3:23:01 PM

    All this talk of "Change" is nonsense. Our current Pres. Geogre W. Bush is doing a great job of things here in U.S. and in every other part of the world. Why a change a good thing? Like the saying goes, "If it ain't broke don't fix it." The only change needed is for brother Jeb Bush to take over reins at the White House.

  • Posted By: PerryM @ 01/06/2008 3:00:10 PM

    Typical Drive-By Media pablum ??? where the hell is some experience at running anything but a political campaign?

    Maybe America is just tired with things humming along at a nice pace and need some excitement ??? elect a Dem with NO experience but liberal pap and things are sure to liven up.

    Sadly, the GOP will have to come in and clean up the mess all the ???Dream Machines??? leave behind that we wind up stepping in.

  • Posted By: PatriotForObama @ 01/06/2008 2:27:10 PM

    Hillary Clinton was very strong in the NH debate, problem is she speaks with forked tongue. Everything she said against Obama in the debate was wrong! Obama wasnt in the Senate in 2001 to vote on the Patriot Act. But she was and actually voted for it. When Obama was in the Senate, he with a group of others spoke out against it and only voted for an amendment to make improvements noting it was not yet perfected, however. In another failed attempt to discredit Obama she called a NH chair who endorsed Obama a lobbyist. This chair is not a Washington lobbyist is not Obama staff, and does not fund Obama's campaign. Obama was steady, calm, and informative. For facts on other Clinton attacks against Obama go to factcheck.barackobama.com.

  • Posted By: SukieTawdry @ 01/06/2008 2:14:06 PM

    I don't think Obama is shaping up to be another Jimmy Carter, tom pain; George McGovern more like it.

  • Posted By: SukieTawdry @ 01/06/2008 2:04:42 PM

    First Hillary gets anointed by the pundit establishment based on her "inevitability" and 35 year's experience as Bill Clinton's wife. Now Obama is anointed based on his (soaring? empty? pick one) rhetoric about change, hope and unity. Famously vitriolic curmudgeons like Frank Rich (who never met a conservative he could stomach) wax euphoric about a right wing, bible-thumping Arkansas homeboy. You know what? You're all nuts. As far as I can see, the one thing those three have in common is their itch to get their hands on the federal purse strings so they can start distributing the spoils in the form of entitlements for health care, child care, college tuition--name your need, Uncle Sugar will provide. And, amazing, all will be done at absolutely no cost to middle and working class Americans (after all, what are the wealthy and entrepreneurial classes and corporate America for if not to provide the means for politicians to solidify their voting blocks) AND while simultaneously balancing the federal budget and eliminating the deficit. All this "populist" fervor makes me laugh. As if it were something new under the sun. Hardly; it's just the same old pig wearing different lipstick. What a way to run a country.

  • Posted By: tom pain @ 01/06/2008 1:39:42 PM

    So many of you people need to go back to high school and take 10th grade government again. You seem to be clueless about how laws are enacted and the role of the President in policy formation. Not that you're are necessarily stupid; I understand that the MSM fosters the perception that the President makes laws, but you need to ignore their distortion. They focus on the President because it's easier than trying to hold 400-some odd Congressmen resp;onsible for their corruption.

  • Posted By: tom pain @ 01/06/2008 1:36:30 PM

    Andrew Young nailed it - if Obama gets elected, Congress and the bureaucrats will eat him up and the black political possibilities will be set back 20 years. Better that he make a real strong push for the nomination and maybe settle for VP. FYI, no racist here, I'm from a biracial family. It's just the truth. And they won't trash him because he's black, they'll do it because he's naive. He'll end up another Jimmy Carter - laughed at and ridiculled for posterity.

  • Posted By: tom pain @ 01/06/2008 1:29:29 PM

    Dang there are a bunch of idiots on this site. Y'all are like those women who stay with wife-beaters the way y'all buy into all of the political rhetoric. It's like y'all are so desperate to be loved that you ignore the the politicians whooping your ass and screwing your best friend. Don't you get it - none of these people truly give a rat's behind about any of us. They are power-mad ego maniacs selling snake oil and y'all lap it up. It is literally impossible to reach the point in our system that you can get the campaign donations necessary to run for President unless you've solkd out. They all have. What's left to do - vote for whoever runs as a third party candidate - no matter what their platform. We need to bust up the two party system.' claims

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/06/2008 3:29:28 AM

    ''Go in the back of that restaurant and you'll see the owner's family eating for free,I quote from Tom.
    TOM are you mad OBAMA won. I know who you are. YOU just changed your name. Tom you need to go to anger management. I am glad you read my comments. The truth hurts especially when their backed by facts. .
    ''Go in the back of that restaurant and you'll see the owner's family eating for free,I quote from Tom. next time I am at a restaurant I will go to the back and see if the owner is eating for free.

    • Posted By: tom pain @ 01/06/2008 1:16:31 PM

      eddienowhere, I'm guessing you are 15 - was I too high? You are a fricking propagandist. In the short time I was on this site, you've posted the exact same message at least 4 times. You deserve to be insulted, you are dispicable. As for my quote about the owner of restaurants eating their food and feeding their families tax free - you quote me as if I said something dumb, yet you say nothing to refute it. Then, laughably, you make some idiot statementt about "backing up with facts." Go away and play on MySpace with your sister; we're talking real issues here.

  • Posted By: tom pain @ 01/06/2008 3:01:06 AM

    Back to Fair Tax. Not just "illegal" immigrants, nw. Every tourist would pay. What gets me are the Americans that don't pay - we all know them, your barber, auto mechanic, restaurant owner, store owner et al. Literally anyone who has significant dealings in cash under reports their income. Literally, the only ones that truly pay taxes are employees - those of us who work for a company that deducts withholding. My barber and mechanic accept nothing but cash. Go in the back of that restaurant and you'll see the owner's family eating for free. That convenience store owner who has so jmuch "shrinkage," that is coincidentlyly the things his family needs. It's disgusting and it would end with the Fair Tax. Even drug dealers would pay.

    • Posted By: newswatching @ 01/06/2008 3:14:12 AM

      all good points tom. but if the tourists have to pay would they continue to come and spend money here?

      • Posted By: tom pain @ 01/06/2008 1:10:15 PM

        "Comment: all good points tom. but if the tourists have to pay would they continue to come and spend money here?" You're not getting it, nw. Once you subtract the cost of tax compliance from the cost of goods throughout the production chain, the price goes down 20%. Then you add 23% to that cost. Here's =the math - 100 - 20=80x1.23 = 98.4. The cost of the product remains about the same, tourists are not discouraged.

  • Posted By: Less1leg @ 01/06/2008 1:09:39 PM

    Reagan a dummy, are you kidding? Maybe the Liberal media didn't like the guy but give me a break. This one president did more for many than any other president in modern history. What did JFK do, but sneek around his wife's back having sex with God knows how many women. How about JFK2, little brother, he too was stroking other women behind his wife's back. How about brother number three, well he just kills them.
    Ronald Reagan was the best man for his time. He engaged the communist rule, saw it for what it was and defeated it without firing a shot. But if you can make a statement that he was a fool you surely are mentally devoid of reason.

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