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  • Posted By: caveman @ 01/17/2008 5:34:32 PM

    Sure is funny how so many want to block John McCain. Even his own party does not want him because he will not walk lock step with them. I think its funny watching Hannity on Fox try all he can to discredit McCain. McCain is willing to reach accross the isle and get things done. Now more than ever we need someone like him.

    • Posted By: PhxVyper @ 01/17/2008 5:45:07 PM

      oh please, caveman. McCain is a Rhino. His pandering has been nothing more than that. It has all been a means to get power and try to gain positive publicity to get himself elected as President.

      How can anyone support a person who believes in amnesty for illegals, believes in open borders, believes in appeasement of terrorists instead of complete extinction of them, and so on????

      He's just as bad as the liberals and the liberal mass media.

      What a crock of you know what!!!!

      • Posted By: caveman @ 01/17/2008 6:12:23 PM

        Nothing that you just posted is true in any way. This is how *** is spread.

        • Posted By: PhxVyper @ 01/18/2008 1:54:15 PM

          Really? Show me where this is not true? He does in fact support amnesty for illegals. He may not call it amnesty, but an orange is still an orange, no matter what name you come up for it. How about open borders? What has he done, what has he said, about the border situation? How about how to put a stop to the people crossing into our country illegally. He's done NOTHING. And the whole concept of "I will have the border states certify that the borders are secure"???? LOL. You know darned well that this is translated to, "I will let the states take on the burden, lie to the people that the borders are secure, and then I can say that they are secure."

  • Posted By: sydneyschanberg @ 01/17/2008 5:48:03 PM

    Perot is correct about McCain's successful efforts to hide evidence of POWs who were in fact left behind. I've researched and written about the POW issue for years. Alterman should read my McCain/POW piece for APB piece in April 2000 "The War Secrets Sen.





    . JOhn
    McCain Hides") and the sidebars that document his record. I would be glad to guide him to
    many other documented articles. Most of the personal attacks recentl;y thrown at McCain in
    South Carolina are indeed smears. But a real story does exist about McCain's suppression
    of the suppression of the evidence that significant numbers of POWs were left bnehind in 1973 when the repatriation of 591 of them occurred. Alterman needs to do some real reporting before accepting McCain's claim that the claims of abandoned GIs was a "hoax.".
    He should try the National Archives, among other original sources. Do the reporting. The rest is chaff. .Syd Schanberg .

    • Posted By: guthriecraig @ 01/18/2008 1:03:22 PM

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  • Posted By: Aldous21 @ 01/18/2008 1:08:51 AM

    I find it scary that even Ross Perot would fall victim to the Obama Smear. Mud Slinging is indeed a GOP Trait.

    • Posted By: jazzbebop @ 01/18/2008 12:55:00 PM

      So, you are going to sling some saying it is a GOP trait? Get real......

  • Posted By: Not fooled by the liberal media! @ 01/17/2008 5:04:13 PM

    Obama SAYS he's not a muslim. Nobody asks him about his upbringing. He went to a muslim school,(as well as a Catholic school, later in life) and has a muslim dad, and an extremist muslim stepdad! This SHOULD be looked into, in detail! If it is not true, we will finally know. I, personally, have seen Obama NOT put his hand over his heart, and to look off, during the singing of the American Anthem. Everbody else was doing it...NOT HIM!!

    • Posted By: hesstillafruitcake @ 01/18/2008 12:19:38 PM

      OK, gramps, put down your pack of Depends and listen up . . . every professional sporting event in America starts with the playing of the anthem. Go to one, look around during the singing. Count the number of folks at attention, but with hands at side. Most, pops, most. It ain't a sign of anything you ol' goober. Obamarama is just as American as you are. Now, stop drooling and pay attention to stuff that matters.

    • Posted By: Saltydog_0 @ 01/17/2008 5:18:40 PM

      Wow. You've "personally" NOT seen him put his hand over his heart huh? That's your reasoning for not believing he's a patriot?

      Am I to assume that you HAVE personally seen him express allegiance to Islam? You seem pretty confident that he must be a Muslim. Of course, I know you would never be hypocritical enough to require one standard of proof for positions your paranoid mind supports while requiring a stricter standard for those that don't conform to your bigotry. You're obviously much too intelligent to do such a thing.

  • Posted By: SandraM @ 01/18/2008 11:49:04 AM

    The press laughed at Perot's half hour infomercials with charts and graphs. Yet he got higher ratings than the World Series.

    After McCain and his" best friend in the Senate", John FORBES Kerry, shut down the search for POW/MIAs so as to "normalize relations" with communist Vietnam, J. FORBES Kerry's, cousin, C. Stewart FORBES landed a billion dollar exclusive port deal with Vietnam.

  • Posted By: poser08 @ 01/18/2008 11:45:30 AM

    Ooops, sorry, Perot was the candidate in 1992; I guess 2002 (2000) was just wishful thinking. I wish he were a candidate now as well. His voice is needed.

  • Posted By: Susan Katz Keating @ 01/18/2008 11:44:04 AM

    I have researched and written extensively about POWs and efforts to find them. Perot - acting on information from unscrupulous charlatans - wanted to rescue live Americans from captivity. He didn't find any, and he blames John McCain. Re Perot's charge that former POWs shun McCain: wrong, wrong, wrong. They are among his biggest supporters..

  • Posted By: occmech @ 01/18/2008 7:33:49 AM

    Lets think about this. Does anyone remember when Perot debated Gore on the passage of NAFTA? Perot said if it passed there would be such a sucking sound of companies leaving the USA for third world companies because of cheap and sometimes child labor. And was he ever right. Has any politician stepped up to stop this. NO. Just remember who you vote for.

    • Posted By: poser08 @ 01/18/2008 11:33:05 AM

      I totally agree; Perot won 20% of the vote in 2002, and would have won another 20% if the American voters who were polled had voted their conscience. Had Perot been elected in 02 the U.S. would now be in a much better financial position. That was really our last chance as a country to get it right.

  • Posted By: thscd @ 01/17/2008 5:32:00 PM

    If it wasn't for Ross Perot, Clinton would have never been president.! In 1991 he was contacted by Clinton to create a a schill to allow Bill Clinton to become President of the USA! Perot was rewarded by getting the contract for the NAFTA contract for the inspection station in Dallas, he also was promised that he would get the contract to disperse money for the failed Billary care! That said Clinton got 43% twice because Perot took about 10% of the votes we have the legacy of Clinton Criminal enterprise inc twice! So what ever Perot says I could never respect a treasonist turncoat like him, that said I do hate McCain bercaue he is a spineless Rhino Republican, Perot can got to hell as far I see it he was a bought and paid FRAUD!
    If Billary wins the nomination Bloomberg will run he is part of Clinton Criminal Inc, you can't fool the American public three times! Perot may you rot in Hell!

    • Posted By: dukeuch @ 01/17/2008 5:50:06 PM

      If this is all true, than THANK YOU Ross Perot for the intergral part you played in the election of an administation that delivered 8 years of prosperty, a growing economy, a balanced budget, low unemployment, no wars, etc.

      • Posted By: Not fooled by the liberal media! @ 01/18/2008 11:30:07 AM

        No war under Clinton...yeah, because Clinton was a spineless leader who let other countries have a say in ours! 9/11 wouldn't have happened if Clinton had done something after the first World Trade Center bombings! You must hate America...I wonder if you're even American.

      • Posted By: thscd @ 01/17/2008 6:18:27 PM

        What prosperity, it was 100% a phony as Clinton, he cooked the books he made people belive things that where untrue, he sent us unto the 2000 ressesion and brougth us 911 because Clinton a draft dodging communist who had Bin Laden given two him 9 times and did ZERO except a 23 million dollar donation gfrom Saudia Arabia for his disgraced library to let Bib Laden go, in time Clinton will go down as the most disgraced and the second worst president, and Carter the worst president to ever be in the White House! Clinton was scandal after scandal and his supidity at Waco who he killed 100 people including 60 children using the US military against American citizens, his policies allowed the Crash of the High techs stocks because he lowered the regulations required to be on the stock Market, he was a criminal and committed treason giving China 35 years of our military, nuculear, and satelite technowlogy including satalite codes for a Chinese campaign contributions of 3 million from Riady a Indoniesian Muslim who has ties to the Chinese military! 43% twice is no mandate but his criminal enterprise has thrived from 1993-2007! He sold out this country so many times it would fill a 1000 pages! Perot is a turd turncoat schill as isyou and your buddy Klintoon!

  • Posted By: atrinityt @ 01/17/2008 10:03:23 PM

    In response to JimPearce222:

    Immigrant labor is a necessary part of the economies of Southern California and South Texas, legal or not. Several industries, particularly hotels and restaurants, are heavily staffed by immigrants, some of them illegal. Without immigrant labor, these industries would be severly understaffed, and I believe, would find it difficult to fill these jobs. There is a supply of immigrant labor, because companies have a demand for it. Also, in your comment, you failed to state why employment of illegal immigrants is negative. If there is a demand for the labor, a lack of substitute labor, and the employment of immigrants is necessary to continue operation of the businesses it supports, what are the negative effects? The services and products consumers demand are provided in the ways, and at the prices, demanded as a result of immigrant labor. Without this labor, businesses in the previously mentioned regions would suffer profit loss, and consumers would find that the services and products they demand may be in short supply. Please post a response...

    • Posted By: John Adams @ 01/18/2008 11:18:43 AM

      Friend,

      Labor by illegal immigrants is illegal: That means it is prohibited by the rule of law in the United States of America. Rest assured, that with a population of 300 million, we can find Americans who need work; and without illegal competition, these service jobs will pay more. Americans citizens should not have to compete with illegal aliens for American jobs. You don't have to worry your head about hotels and restaurants suffering profit loss - if they are viable, they WILL make a profit. The United States is a sovereign nation; and right now, it is over 9 TRILLION dollars in debt. We have almost 50 million Americans without health insurance; we have roads and bridges in serious need of repair; we have an agency called FEMA in need of competent management; we have a 900 billion dollar war to fund in a country that Al-Quaida wasn't even found in on 9/11. They project that Social Security won't be there for our children. Now, explain to me again, why we need to add 33 million (counting dependents) illegal aliens to our failing social services network - and yes, they certainly do use our courts, jails, schools, hospitals, roads, and soon, Social Security. You can't dig yourself out of a hole. Illegal aliens need to take a ticket and a seat, and get in-line behind the other immigrants who are already legally in-line trying to come to America. Cutting in-line is not to be encouraged in a nation that follows the rule of law: Doing so only encourages even MORE illegal immigration. That's my response...

      John Adams

  • Posted By: AnAmericanwithabrain @ 01/17/2008 6:14:59 PM

    wow, you people (soldier, thscd) are morons....its shocking how dumb your posts are and how offensive. Do you honestly believe you are acting in a Christian manner at all? Do you have any comprehension of the teachings of Islam? Are you actually stating (in your illiterate, unclear posts) that Obama could not choose as an adult to follow Christ? Because his father was Muslim, he is somehow "tainted". Go back to 100 years ago, when your ignorant viewpoint was accepted by others with equivalent sub-20 IQ's. Next you'll be telling us that you have scientific evidence that African-Americans have smaller brains or some of the other hogwash spouted by ignorant and hate-filled religious leaders throughout history, or the Nazis. Maybe we should deport all idiots like you two.

    • Posted By: Not fooled by the liberal media! @ 01/18/2008 10:44:03 AM

      Boy, a nerve was touched...seems like someone has blinders on, and that someone may be a reverse racist, filled with the hate he says he looks down on others for having...if someone was raised by a Muslim extremist, and went to a Muslim school in his youth, you bet we should be investigating this man! I wouldn't want an, "Oops!" on this one! This is for the Presidency of The United States! The Muslim extremists say they are going to get their people on the 'inside'. They will 'hide' who they are to get in. Just becasue someone is a Christian, does'nt mean we should be so kind, we're stupid!

  • Posted By: bambam @ 01/18/2008 10:29:09 AM

    The Obama scandal is real, but it was explained wrong in that original bogus email. The hand over heart picture has nothing to do with the pledge of allegiance. That part of the story is an internet lie. But the picture DOES really show what was happening during the playing of the national anthem, and it is still valid documentation that Obama has some kind of personal issue with respecting this nation. Explain why every other person on that stage knew to put their hand over their heart. And it remains a REAL scandal that Obama did not. Its also a violation of the US flag code. I don't accept Obama's excuse that his grand-pappy taught him to sing instead, or any other lame excuse. The other people on that stage knew what to do, and Obama is not a dumb guy. The photo says it all. The national anthem is playing, and our prominent government figures are placing their hands over their hearts... except for Obama who chose to show his respect for our national anthem by placing his hands over his crotch. To me that is a subtle way of disrespecting this nation, its traditions, and its honor for which Obama remains unapologetic.

  • Posted By: coopdawg @ 01/18/2008 2:26:34 AM

    Sorry but what the hell does the baby boomers "EARS" boy realy think is going to be the issue considering what the idiot boy supported in the Reagan administation? The middle class is shrinking, the lower middle is becoming superflouous and the rest of us are hoping.

    • Posted By: soldier @ 01/18/2008 8:30:49 AM

      who are "the rest of us" ? Hogshack owners? What did idiot boy support for Reagan?

  • Posted By: gear1152 @ 01/18/2008 8:22:21 AM

    This interview just made me sad. He can't tell a fake email scam about Obama? I'm surprised he hasn't had his identity stolen by some phishing email telling him his Paypal account is irregular. He still suffers from what kept him from the whitehouse: he's out of touch with Middle Class America.

  • Posted By: occmech @ 01/18/2008 7:33:15 AM

    Lets think about this. Does anyone remember when Perot debated Gore on the passage of NAFTA? Perot said if it passed there would be such a sucking sound of companies leaving the USA for third world companies because of cheap and sometimes child labor. And was he ever right. Has any politician stepped up to stop this. NO. Just remember who you vote for.

  • Posted By: occmech @ 01/18/2008 7:33:05 AM

    Lets think about this. Does anyone remember when Perot debated Gore on the passage of NAFTA? Perot said if it passed there would be such a sucking sound of companies leaving the USA for third world companies because of cheap and sometimes child labor. And was he ever right. Has any politician stepped up to stop this. NO. Just remember who you vote for.

  • Posted By: occmech @ 01/18/2008 7:30:08 AM

    Rember what Perot said when he debated Gore on the passage of NAFTA? Perot said if it passed there would be such a sucking sound of companies leaving the USA for other countries to do business. Just look at all of the big companies that left. Where are they all at? Mexico? China? Any Asian country that will pay its workers $1.00 a week. Was he ever right on the money. People should have listened to him. Look at the state of this country.

  • Posted By: douggie @ 01/17/2008 9:01:19 PM

    I totally agree with CNPTEXAS, about Obama. The terrorists, as you recall, openly said they would destroy
    the United States from the "inside out". What better way to do that than to elect a Muslim as president and
    also for congress. They refuse to take their oath of office on the Bible as all AMERICANS before them! Obama says he is not a Muslim but a Christian.. If so, he should readily take his oath on the Bible. Also,
    who has actually conducted any "true" research to verify his religion? It is correct that Romney has been
    scrutinized for being a Morman. I have read the book of Morman (as I used to date a girl who was Morman)
    and I don't agree with all their doctrine, but one thing for sure, he exhibits something this country needs right now, and that is emphasis on family values. My dentist is Morman and he's a fine fellow and has a wonderful family. My main point is this: When have you ever heard of a Morman strapping bombs to themselves and blowing themselves up, along with many of their own people just t be a martyr and also using their little children to do the same. They say "Well, all Muslims aren't that radical". Give me a break! The American people, I hope, have more sense than that.! It's time our country started working to regress
    back to the morals, standards and, yes,, the religious foundation on which it was founded. That's why THERE IS and AMERICA! People came her so that they could worship God, our creator, freely. I pray for our
    country daily. Also, I pray for President Bush and his family. He is a fine man, but has been misinformed about some situations and he has taken the blame and responsibility for it, rather than lettiing his people
    be "destroyed" by the media. Also, men like Romney, Huckabee and others who are more than glad to share
    their faith those who want to know more about them. How many times have you heard anything more from
    Obama other than "I am a Christian". Or have you heard him talk about getting back to the place where kids
    could pray in school or have Nativity scene on our front lawn. Or, to follow the precepts of brotherly love and fellowsip as our forefathers did and so many Americans have fought to support. Being a disabled American
    Veteran, from the Vietnam era, it actually apppalls me that we wou ld even have a candidatek (Obama)
    competing to be the leader of this country (just because of his skin color). to appease the black population .
    Well, that's enough for now. I would only say, America, wake up and look at what/who stands before you
    and make a decidion you can live with. Me? Should he be the candidate, my vote is for Huckabee!

    • Posted By: Francene @ 01/18/2008 1:44:07 AM

      You go, girl! I bet your husband is really proud of you. What you say, you say like a true feminist! Keep it up.

  • Posted By: atrinityt @ 01/17/2008 9:53:14 PM

    In response to JimPearce222:

    Without the labor provided by immigrants, legal or not (but mainly not), Southern California's economy would be crippled. Restaurants, hotels, and other areas of tourism revenue are heavily staffed by immigrant employees, some of them illegal. The trend of economic globalization is inevitable. The economies of cities in South Texas and Southern California are inextricably linked to immigrant labor. The truth of the matter is, we need immigrant labor to maintain favorable economic conditions in several industries in these areas. Please post a response...

  • Posted By: DanNC @ 01/17/2008 9:36:01 PM

    Perot might be small in physical stature, but he accomplished way above average in his life, while at the Naval Academy he stood at the head of his class, and he started with virtually nothing and became a billionaire.

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