Obama welcomes debate with McCain

I think Bush McClone is the one out of touch with ordinary Americans.

81% of America are worst of today than they ever were.

The Iraq war is costing us lifes and treasures.

Jobs have been shipped to china, india etc

small town Americans have suffered the most and they are as mad as hell because these politicains makes promises and cheat on them while they (Clinton's, Bushes, McCain) enrich themselves.

Hilary Clintons promised New yorkers jobs when she ran for senate but up till now jobs have even been lost not gained!!

McCain and wife have millions of dollars with eight houses, Hilary is 109million rich, now tell me who is the elitists here?

obama will be our voices in the white house because he grew up with a single mother on food stamps. He knows us and understand us better than Hilary and Mcsame.

Do not be deceived, vote CHANGE!!!

This won't be so funny to Mark Salter once he's back baggin groceries and arugula at the grocery store after McCain gets fully vetted and loses. It's easy to be ahead in a poll when no one is your true opponent yet. Pitting Obama's ability to speak against McCain who is slowly going senile will be a complete enjoyment to watch them debate for me personally. That is unless Lieberman is allowed onstage to help him answer and correct his mistakes.

Its good to see the muslim obama showing his true colors. So many people have been fallen for his lies, I just hope this wakes some people up.

There is nothing than the present and future of Bush/Cheney/McCain legacy to destroy America from within and hand it over to the Federal Reserve Global Elitist Bankers! Every Republican has sold out the middle class with glee. The current administration should rot in hell and so should all their supporters.

"obama (sic) will be our voices (sic) in the white house because he grew up with a single mother on food stamps."

...in Hawaii. He had every bit as privileged an upbringing as Hillary Clinton or John McCain. The difference, of course, is that he's willing to distort his childhood to appeal emotionally to those who'd prefer others to do their thinking for them.

I'm a 30-ish American, and I've never been better off in my life than I am right now. I make a tidy living which I earn by working at a great job, which I got by learning my trade and bettering myself. The government had nothing to do with this, and hopefully never will. It is not the duty of the government to create jobs - that falls to entrepreneurs, business owners who put their own money on the line because they understand that no one else will do it for them.

Barack Obama is no different from any of the rest of the presidential candidates - the only voice he'll represent at any point is his own. They're all three out of touch, they're all three elitist, and regardless of which one we get stuck with, our America's in trouble.

when it comes to telling the truth, you are damned if you do & damned if you don't.
i think Barack Obama comes closest to giving America the straight talk it needs to hear. it is impossible to speak 'off the cuff' with out making a few mis-judgements in choice of words - unless you have a small,one syllable vocabulary like george. one thing is true - Barack Obama at least makes an effort to acknowledge responsiblity for his human foible's. with every passing day the issues simplyfy, our choice becoming clear. we can vote for hope, or we can vote for fear.

I believe congress voted and approved the president's policies, which party has the majority in congress?

"Obama has a huge fund-raising edge" - ofcourse, he does. Almost all African Americans are sending regular contributions month after month to one and one candidate only and that is Mr. Obama. He polarized the country as no other candidate did in the history of our country. He is of African Americans, by African Americans and for African Americans however much he denies and however much Arican Americans come on the media and project him to be otherwise.
"these politicains makes promises" - that is exactly what Mr Obama is doing. The slogans of Mr Obama are nothing but empty promises but Mr Obama's supporters MSNBC and other media outlets project as inspirational speeches. Wake up and realize that we don't need another inexperienced guy in the White House. The one in the White House at present occupied it with the same empty rhetoric as Mr. Obama.
"obama will be our voices in the white house because he grew up with a single mother on food stamps" - Did he not go to one of the most expensive private schools in Hawaii? Did he not go to a premier college such as Columbia? Did he not go to a leading school such as Harvard? You can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time but not all the people all the time. No wonder they are waking up in Pennsylvania and seeing the emperor with no clothes.

Well, one thing we can count on is McCain keeping those liberal ideas out of the white house.
Liberal ideas like spending more on this country than we do on Iraq, Liberal ideas like providing an education that will allow ALL our children who want to learn to get a good enough education to get a job that pays a living wage. Liberal ideas like putting regulation in place to limit the fraud and misrepresentation on Wall Street that is now putting our 401K retirement accounts in Jeopardy. Liberal ideas like tax breaks for the middle class instead of just for the upper 1%. Liberal ideas like health insurance you can afford and that stays with you when your job is sent overseas.
Yeah, that is what we need. Several more years of keeping reason and ideas that benefit the american people out of the white house...because it has all worked so well for the last 8 years.

I don't understand why Obama's comment is stirring up so much trouble. I think that the entire comment (not snippets taken out of context) was dead on. There are a LOT of bitter people in this country, and they have REASON to be, and we ALL cling to things that help us believe that it's going to get better and that we are safe, be it religion or guns or other things. There's nothing wrong with that, and there's nothing wrong with pointing it out. I'm glad that Obama can see that and understand it---maybe he'll be able to do something about it, to help people not be so fearful for their futures and the futures of their children.

The Republicans and the Republicrats (Bill/Hillary) have done so many wrongs to the United States that it is incredible to be able to even keep track off.

I am looking forward to a government being led by an intelligent, educated, and socially/morally responsible leader. If Obama is elitist, then so am I. We have to stop lying to and pandering to our masses just to get a vote. The reality of a situation is just that...a reality. He is telling it like it is... finally.

This will be a joy to watch. Obama will eat him alive. The majority of Americans don't want more Bush policy. This will be so unfair...like watching a lion hunt down and toy with a new born calf. Actually, this "debate" should come with a disclaimer stating it should'nt be watched by weak of heart Republicans and Neo-CONs.

An elitist is someone who gets to go into private drug treatment instead of jail for stealing narcotics like Cynthia McCain.

The rest of the 'little people' get felony convictions.

It is shame that Hillary or Billary are making such a do of Obama's words, look at her with broadside lies, not just one, but one after another. And she is hoping that this will give her mis-managed campaign some fresh air, knowing she can not break thru with her strengths, she has none, except for her aggorance, she is sickening! Hillary!!

I believe Obama does American a favor by speaking about it . Americans now pay more attention to what has been happening in many small towns across the United States of America. If you ask anyone from a small town, they will say the same thing. They are angry that their job has been shipped oversea and the goverment has not done anything to help. They are stucked and helpless.

Earlier today I read the total remarks Obama made. An outstanding analysis!

can anyone, including Obama, site 3 experiences and 3 accomplishments of Sen. Obama that qualify him to be our next president??? This guy has never been an executive nor has he done anything of consequense. someone please help.

McCain is the only hope of American Interests. Hilarious and Oops will destroy the country with taxes to support their "new Deal" of handouts to everybody that will take us right over the edge. The people who work will bear all the freebies on their backs. Just wait until they get in and TAX us to death. Tax the corporations that have gotten rich taking our jobs overseas. Tax the oil companies and the banks. Stop all imports so we can get our jobs back.

So McCain wants us all talking about duck hunting and arugula instead of the war and the economy.

Tell me, do they think that will work this time?

shocker, all your responses are PRO Obama. The Globe should register as a political organization. No wonder, your biased company is going to zero.
and no surprise you didn't post my comment asking for 3 experiences and 3 accomplishments that Obama has done....shocked SHOCKED!!! how do you say liberal biased media?? BOSTON GLOBE....errr BOSTON.COM

What gall! Can someone tell Barak that he is not the nominee yet and has no right debating the Republican candidate alone. This is so typical of his arrogance -- he can hob nob with the Washington movers and shakers (check out how he bought his home) and adulate a man who adulates Farrakhan, but still profess to bring change and tolerance to the US.

This is amazing to me, haven't the Democrats been in control of Congress for the past 18 months? In that time they have reneged on almost every campaign promise they made. Obama is a sitting Senator with the ability to introduce any bill he would like. Why has he never sponsored a bill to bring our troops home immediately or propose a timeline as he says he will do as President? If he feels this is an unjust war, and lives are being lost for nothing, doesn't he owe it to Americans to present a bill ending this engagement in Iraq?

You are kidding yourselves if you think he is anything other than a typical politician. Anyone running for President is concerned more about themselves than the welfare of the common people. He has been schooled at some of the most exclusive institutions this country has to offer, made millions of dollars and yet you think he isn't out of touch with everyday folks who work 9-5?!!

Obama is full of empty promises.

I don't have to look very far to see them wonderful liberal ideas at work. Let's see now how about a 500 million dollars tax increase disguised as an incentive to help people quit smoking. Remember we're trying to raise revenue. Why would the governor want anyone to quit smoking. The more smokers the more revenue. Oh and close the loophole on big business's here in MA. That'll really help economic development.

With that in mind remember all the BS he blew up our as#es when campaigning. Oh and he was treated like God. We just ate it up. Kind of reminds me of someone else. Blow more we love it.

Like Bush & Cheney? You're gonna loooooove John McCentury in Iraq & don't forget to bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran. And w/ 80 million pissed off Iranians, guess what? We get to re-start the draft!

Hillary obviously did not bother to watch Senator Obama's remarks in their entirety. Hilliary has overplayed this card and eventually it will backfire on her. Anyone else notice how she keeps adding lies and fabrications to what Senator Obama said?? She did the same with her Bosnia sniper fire fraudulant claims! The more she talks about it, the more fabrications and lies she adds to it!! She must stay up all night planning new lies and fabrications. No wonder she is "sleep deprived". Oh, Bill Clinton himself said Hillary was old and got forgetful at 11:00 at night and told the reporters, that they too would be tired and forgetful at 11:00 at night, when they turned 60 as well. I loved it!!

Senator Obama has stayed on message throughout his campaign, and has run a tremendous campaign. Cannot say the same about Hilliary--she keeps changing her persona and her message about as often as she changes those pantsuits!!

Hillary looked like a bar brawler the other day/night when she held a mug of beer, then switched to a shot of whisky. (That was a good-sized shot)! Who was she trying to impress? Was she trying to get a message across that Pennsylvania blue collar workers are a bunch of drunks?? But she wants their votes, so she'll join in to show them she is a part of them? Isn't this kind of behavior condescending and an insult to these blue-collar workers? Quite a pretty tacky picture of Hilliary....but then, most of us know, she has always been tacky and has never had any integrity!!

What gall and arrogance! Doesn't Barak know he's not the nominee yet? This is the same arrogance he shows when he professes to be the candidate for change and tolerance, yet he lets a Washington insider help him acquire a home for $300,00 under the asking price and he showers praise on a man who showers praise on Farrakhan. Barak is an empty shell full of empty words. we need an adult for president!

If you believe that the next President needs to be intelligent (not like the nincompoop we have their now), if you believe that the next President must articulate a vision for this country that Americans will be proud to follow, if you believe that this many-cultured country and borderless world we now live in needs an American President who understands people and can lead them, then you understand and believe that Barack Obama must be the next President of the United States.

The old guard in America is loosing its grip on power and they will fight tooth and nail to keep it. We have seen what they have done - all because of greed. It is time for new leadership and a New America. It is time for Barack Obama

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It is to late ... from the vantage point of far away this Canadian Geezer has observed over the past couple of weeks the appalling ability of Americans to destroy hope itself.
That we can see you are doomed in America brings no comfort ... the treadmill of time is showing only an appearance of forward progress but the evident unwillingness to face life on "Adult" terms by so many of your citizens means a continuation of the quagmire of pain and sorrow for the world. I see no miracle forthcoming from Democrats to forestall the grief of your own making as a narcissistic candidate with wealth and ‘connections’ along with the collaboration of a self-serving media has beaten down the one candidate who showed a glimmer of true understanding of the need to tackle the greater issues of the day with hope and optimism.
Hope and optimism are not ‘shallow’ expressions … they are the deepest longings of the soul … and America has abandoned the soul of so many of its dispossessed by failure to address the realities of the need for full and equitable education, universal health care and meaningful employment for its citizenry…
Shame on you … you have squandered the treasure that could have easily provided the basic human essentials for your own citizenry on “The Wars” … and you continue to tolerate and even extoll the grossest forms of personal greed and acquisitiveness.
This Canadian feels deeply that the Democratic Party is in denial about the reality of coming global social and economic collapse and will in all likelihood allow a continuation of the "Republican" neo-con disaster.
No my dear neighbours the future of the world does not revolve around the decision of so-called "Super Delegates" of the Democratic Party but rather on the evolved consequence of American ignorance and self-centeredness that lets a third world mother and child starve or be riddled with shrapnel on the filthy streets of many villages where they continue to suffer… The brief flicker of such gruesome images continues to occasionally appear on digital screens across America … but they are just intrusions to the viewing of episodes of ‘American Idol’ or ‘Dancing with the Stars’ …
So the Democratic Party continues to stumble … bleeding by way of self-absorption until the tragic self-generated demise of 'The Great Republic’...

Here in Canada we have followed the American primaries with considerable interest as the world is slowly slipping into a global catastrophe of economic collapse and bitter ongoing conflict and it comes as a rather shocking development to hear Ms. Clinton referring to Mr. Obama in a quite condescending manner as if he were being "Uppity" ...
For a Caucasian person of wealth to make such an inference harkens back to a different time in American politics circa George Wallace et al ...
Strangely no one has called her on this ... is everyone asleep at the switch in the American Media?

If McCain's father and Grandfather had not have been Admirals. McCain would have flunked out of the Naval Academy. He is an elitist. His wife's family made their fortune distributing beer. How many lives have been lost to drunk drivers? Cindy stole drugs but got off because of her wealth. Hillary and Bill are extremely rich. McCain has publicly called his wife a very nasty word in public in front of other people. He supports Bush's failed policy and all of his friends are elitists.
Obama speaks the truth he is called an elitist. NAFTA , Iraq War , Energy costs are killing us. Don't forget McCain's involvement with the Keating five scandal. American tax payers are still paying for the failed Savings and Loans , junk bonds and now this housing mess. Wake up people Obama may have not been politically correct in what he said , he is not our enemy. Thanks to Bill Clinton look at his wonderful NAFTA deals. Hillary was beside him all the time. She is pro NAFTA.

Barack Obama for President of the UNITED States of America.

@ Paul -

Foodstamps are foodstamps in any state. Probably worse in Hawaii because it has a ridiculously high cost of living (~30%+ more expensive than mainland life).

Also, is arugula really elitist? Isn't iceberg just uncultured?

John McCain is an honorable man and a decorated POW. He has cancer, which is under remission for the time being. His memory is failing. He is confusing things similar to Catholics and Protestants. He has a hot temper that flares up from time to time. He ideas are old fashioned and do not work for todays younger Americans, or in todays world. He and his wife is worth over $500 million. He does not understand middle class Amercians, and least of all poor people. If any body is out of touch among the presidential candidates it is this ex Air Force pilot. He is still taking off into space when talking about common people. Although he wants to fight an illegitimate war for the next 100 years. He is not satisfied with the 4000+ AMrican service members he helped kill, he is not satisfied with the 300,00 Iraqis he helped kill -- he probably will not give up till he matches his statistics helping kill 3 million Vietnamese -- all for what? Peace? What a cop out! Losers!

We need to know whether MCclone was psychogically evaluated and treated fo Post Traumatic stress syndrome since he has obvious anger management issues. I believe we should stay in I-rak (W's spelling) FOR 300 YEARS-HELL 100'S not enough to get the job done right. These people should be out of power for forty years after the western omelet. If Amerika gets this wrong and chooses Grandpa, we deserve the fate of the Roman empire.

If it's "elitist" to be intelligent, thoughtful, and plain-spoken, I'm all for an "elitist" president. It'd be a very nice change from the current president.

And as for the McCain camp, well, it's pathetic -- but not exactly surprising -- that they resort to dishonest strawman techniques to score a few points. It's not as though they can score points any other way.

Re: Obama's comments being out of touch--I read a reporter's phrase that sums it all up for me; "molehill politics". So very much more pressing matters to debate/discuss. Don't fall for trad. media spin.

A shot of Canadian whiskey isn't going to cover up $100,000,000, god-knows-how much pro globalization with Mark Penn still on the payroll. McCain is one of the richest members of Congress.

Talk about elitism. Read the numbers. When was Clinton last a community organizer? Have you read Obama's tax returns? He was making regular money for his education until his book deal hit the shelves. So what? The masses financed him a book at a time.

Can we get back to the issues? Who do we trust? Clinton, McCain or Obama?
The polls speak volumes.

If your going duck hunting, bring Cheeney along! Hillary is just one huge pack of lies and always was and always will be. Definitely NOT presidential material. I don't want McCain, but Hillary has divided the democratic party soooooo bad, there will only BE one candidate, McCain. She should have gotten out and supported Obama a long time ago, now she has ruined it for both of them, the sleazy witch with her lies and attacks! The world is laughing at us!!!! Wake up Hillary supporters, before it's too late. You noticed that the Obama backers say if he loses they will vote for McCain, the Hillary backers say if she loses they will vote for McCain, who do we get then......................McCain!!! Wake up deadheads, at least give Obama a chance, Hillary already had hers and screwed it up Billary!

good post #29 barrie...and more honest then these idiots around me will ever believe

the everyday people, the hard working, the retired, tsmall town, the barely making it..
they have to get it in there head...there is only one candidate that is in their corner..
so they have to overcome the color, the youth, the slanted prejucdice from the mccain hillary tickcet and look at obama..this is especially true of the rust belt...penn, ohio indiana..there are some very hard times coming for this country that your children will have to endure....vote for obama

I was intrigued by the comments from Canada. It seems there are some historical periods in which people migranted to Canada from here. Most of these periods were about making war. Everybody who didn't want to make war moved north and didn't make war.

You can find this history if you don't believe it. Again and again, the peace-loving or let it be or don't kill anybody types of people moved north. Plus, the Canadians never did mistreat their native populations as badly as we did after the Civil War. There were reservations eventually because of population demands (all those people moving north) but there was no genocide.

My aunt and uncle were both pharmacists who lived for many years in Calgary and later BC. As a child, I asked questions about our two countries. The only thing my uncle replied as I recall was that he thought that most Canadians didn't feel they needed to tell other nations what to believe or how to live.

I am myself an elder now so that would have been about 50 years ago. Probably, a good many Canandians today are the descendents of those ex-patriates who didn't want to make war or police the world. Maybe we shoud let them vote.

Liberals: Please read this.

Sorry, but liberalism does not work. Yes, it looks good when you look at these issues with an emotional attitude and it makes you feel good when you vote democrat. However, these policies do not work. Social programs do not help the middle class. Instead, they raise taxes on the middle class making it worse for them. That extra tax money is then filtered through an inefficient government to deal out to people that should work for their money and not feel like the goverment has to do everything for them. And the government just needs to get out of my life. America is about freedom. The government needs to just do the basics: public schools, national security, military, roads, etc. Back out of my life government and liberals, stop thinking up inefficient ideas that are going to ruin America.

God Bless America!

I think that if you vote for either of these puppets you will only show how asleep at the wheel you are. These guys represent the same political and financial interest, not you. Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate that can bring real change. Enjoy your slumber..

I think that if you vote for either of these puppets you will only show how asleep at the wheel you are. These guys represent the same political and financial interest, not you. Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate that can bring real change. Enjoy your slumber..

Obama is a sitting Senator with the ability to introduce any bill he would like. Why has he never sponsored a bill to bring our troops home immediately or propose a timeline as he says he will do as President? If he feels this is an unjust war, and lives are being lost for nothing, doesn't he owe it to Americans to present a bill ending this engagement in Iraq?

Colin Powell please save us from these charlatans and demagogues.

Obama is now unelectable. He is not a uniter. He is dividing this country more than Bush ever did. His views are condescending elitist trash. His friends are anti-american and terrorists. And he is going to get slaughtered in November.

Why do the dems do this to themselves every 4 years?

Obama BUSTED!
This is more about the arrogance of the Obama campaign than anything else. In the age of American Idol and the internet, a new generation of voter is being conditioned and manipulated. They respond virally to professionally crafted YouTubes, silver tongued speeches, chantable meaningless slogans, carefully selected campaign suits and highly customized advertising graphics (unbelievably for each region & class of voter!). What we end up with is a sexy, stunning at-first, invented candidate named Obama upon which we can blindly project any of our varied dreams and aspirations.

But eventually Obama's mask has to come off and underneath is none other than a slick, fancy talking, small minded, small time Chicago politician with lots of hidden personal and political agendas.

in response to comments #s 3 and 8,

"falling for lies".???? obama is NOT a muslim. who is falling for lies?

"almost all african americans are sending regular contributions"??? just how does one calculate "almost all"???

Barrack O'G Dam America. The most Unelectable Dem since McGovern. PERIOD.

Wake up my latte drinking, organic-eating guilty ones. As bad as Hillary is, she is our only hope.

McCain will wipe the floor with this marxist empty suit -- all across the US of KKK-A.

America...a nation of hopeless suckers?
Mr Obama seems poised to prove so.
He is, of course, anything but a black American male and so is acceptable to
white folk. Rev King was much too black for our ever-perceptive electorate and
so was translated to a higher sphere and canonized. Somehow depressing
how a ha ha free people projects its fondest aspirations onto a power politician, the
more full of crap the better. Poor America, played out and headed down the drain.

"truth", be honest, you sound so typically "neocon".

Let's be honest, you're policies lead to more unequal wealth and ultimately could result in more recession/depression.

"The McCain camp responded immediately. “It’s hard to keep a straight face when you’re accused of being out of touch by a guy who thinks the whole country is worried about the high price of arugula or that you hunt ducks with a six shooter,” senior adviser Mark Salter said in a statement."

Huh?

I love it that the Right thinks Obama is unelectable. We'll see you buffoons in November.

#40 It appears that you are rather poorly informed, experienced or limited in exposure to the larger world ... Might I suggest you come to Canada for a visit and some enlightenment ... Try Saskatchewan as an example ... a place where we introduced Medicare to the continent ... I am a "Middle Class" Caucasian who lives far better than 90% of North Americans by way of the benefits of 'Socialism' ...

It is not a bad thing to have ones taxes spent on the public good and to downplay the false spins on loss of "Freedom" etc etc that the robber barons and corporate monopolists of old perpetuated ...

I deeply admire much about the Great Republic to the South of Canada ... but as Mr. Obama has stated so succinctly there is a time for 'Change' ... and from this vantage point he seems a 'Healthier' proponent to see that change brought about than the other two candidates.

#40 It appears that you are rather poorly informed, experienced or limited in exposure to the larger world ... Might I suggest you come to Canada for a visit and some enlightenment ... Try Saskatchewan as an example ... a place where we introduced Medicare to the continent ... I am a "Middle Class" Caucasian who lives far better than 90% of North Americans by way of the benefits of 'Socialism' ...

It is not a bad thing to have ones taxes spent on the public good and to downplay the false spins on loss of "Freedom" etc etc that the robber barons and corporate monopolists of old perpetuated ...

I deeply admire much about the Great Republic to the South of Canada ... but as Mr. Obama has stated so succinctly there is a time for 'Change' ... and from this vantage point he seems a 'Healthier' proponent to see that change brought about than the other two candidates.

Obama is our Savior. Barak and Reverend Wright are Right, God D*** america. Now is the time to rally around Barak and Michelle and make them proud! These poor rural white folk with their guns and phony religion who are bitter and afraid of people not like themsleves should not be allowed to vote. Yes, no more so called elections where typical white people vote! And news flash america, Barak is right, your typical white american is a racist! Obama will apologize to our Muslim brothers for arrogant american policies of hate and slavery. Only Obama can forgive an evil nation founded on slavery. We gave cash payments to those Japanese who survived our uprovoked and vicious attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Reparations now for all Africans!

It would seem that the Republican tact of denying problems exist as a perverted form of optimism will hardly work this cycle. A debate between Obama and McCain and Obama will push McCain into seizures of denial otherwise they will walk around humiliated

Obama has thrown another gutterball (with a score of 37) He has contempt for church goers, hunters and life in small town America. Obama attended school in Indonesia until the age of 10 and then went to a private academy in Honolulu. He didn't experience life on the mainland until college.

Most of his perceptions about life in America came from text books and elitist professors who have a strong dislike for America - and of course his wife Michelle and Jeremiah Wright.