Obama goes after McCain on economy

Why hasn't the media mentioned that Obama is not american. yes he was born in Hawaii but he was raised in Indonesia. That means his development years were in a foriegn country. He never sighted the pledge, never learned the ideas of our founding fathers, and missed the basic information on a free government. He moved back to Hawaii when he was 15. Most values have been taught prior to your teenage years. Obama is my age and he has done less for his birth country then I have and I am not a politician. Please people open your eyes. Obama has no clothes! He can't sell you the bridge. He doesn't own it, Americans do. What bill has he written Sate or Federal? How come he has voted so Liberal in both the state and federal level but now talks liek he is moderate. that is a forked tongue. How can it be trusted. We don't need an inexperienced foreigner in the highest office in our country. What if he accidently hits the red button? Please elect anyone but the naked foreigner.

John McCain was born in PANAMA!
And "Joe veteran" thinks someone born in Hawaii is not AMERICAN enough? Tell that to the folks who live in the 50th State of the Union.

Wow, Joe just added another requirement. Natural born is not enough. You must be raised here to be qualified! I guess not everybody can have an open mind.

First of all, you're just a few years off, but don't let facts get in the way of your inflammatory comments. Republicans would like to thrive this year, as in the past, on fearmongering, xenophobia, and a shoot-first foreign policy. I seriously doubt that the "red button" has any meaning today. It is a fallacy contrived to play on the boomers' notion that the "enemy" is out there to be kept at bay. Bigger guns, more offensives, more debt, that's the motto.

What bills do you want Obama to "write"? Anything remotely useful to curtail the government's waste and inefficiency would be vetoed by GWB anyway. And liberal isn't an insult. You're sounding like Rudy the other night, who sadly, doesn't understand the world outside of Manhattan.

For the record, Obama moved back to the US when he was 10, in time for the 5th grade. I'm sure they say the pledge in Hawaii, and they are just as patriotic as everyone else.

please take this first post off. this guys is a nut job.

Joe you are a xenophobe. He is American. PERIOD.

Wasn't John McCain born and raised outside of this country as well? Did the Panama Canal Zone offer him the ideas of our founding fathers?

Yo Joe,

Did you read the article you posted to? The GOP doesn't have a leg to stand on. The Right is Wrong. You had your chance to govern and you blew it, now take your old man McCain and Caribou Barbie & GTFO.

Barack Obama is a multiracial American politician, though he bristles at that label. He served as Democratic state senator in Illinois, and then as US Senator from that state. Only two other blacks have served in the US Senate since Reconstruction. His father was an economics student from Nairobi, his mother a white American anthropology student when they married. They divorced when Obama was young, and his father returned to Kenya. Obama was raised by his mother until about age 10, when his maternal grandmother in Honolulu took him in. He graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was the first African-American to become Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Law Review. Obama practiced civil rights law, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination and working on voting rights legislation. He worked as a community organizer in a slummish Chicago neighborhood. He has spoken against NAFTA and racial profiling, and for universal health care. From the start, he opposed war in Iraq.

"He never sighted the pledge, never learned the ideas of our founding fathers, and missed the basic information on a free government."

"Free" government - what does that mean when you say it?

Does Obama know the american dream that we all fight for? YES

Tell me:
How is McCain going to fix healthcare?
How is he going to provide jobs for the middle class?
And why is he giving Tax breaks to the top 5% of incomes when the average americans salary has been reduced by $2,500?
How is he going to fix drug costs?
how is he going to fix Social Security?

Tell me Does McCain have plans for this country, Besides War, or has he Simply attack Obama's ideas and plans?

And as much as McCain talks about the military, Why is it that Obama has recieved more finacial support from soldiers overseas?

I think McCain needs to let the soldiers talk for themselves.

Obama- The American Dream.
He worked hard for it and now he is here to work hard for you!

I am embarrassed for this great nation when I read such comments. Clearly someone needs to focus on education in America. It's "recite" the pledge not "sight" -- sight is what you do with your eyes -- reciting is when you repeat the Pledge of Allegiance.

Ask Republican Senator Richard Lugar what laws Senator Obama co-wrote with him (involving defense issues!!).

If you want to talk about forked tongues, how come all of a sudden McCain has changed everything about his campaign? How can he say he is an agent of change when he has voted right in line with the same establishment that he tried to bash last night? Watch the Daily Show from 9/3 for actual footage of his team flip-flopping on everything they've said in the last month--it's online so you can watch it. Forked tongues indeed.

McCain is the one who might accidentally hit the red button in one of his fits of anger (Senior Republicans often talk about the fact that he can't control his temper).

No Obama can't sell you the bridge -- because it collapsed due to lack of basic maintenance under our Republican President while we pay for trillions a war in a country that has a large budget surplus!

God help us if we as a country actually use our democratic rights to willfully elect McCain/Palin and get 4 more years of the same....

"Joe veteran" - what is your definition of "American?"

Your analysis of Senator Obama's qualifications fails in two fundamental ways:

1. Even allowing your argument that "most values have been taught prior to your teenage years," such values were undoubtedly "taught" by his mother, who was from Wichita, Kansas. (And where did you get your facts? He was in Indonesia until he was ten, but was in Hawaii from fifth grade until he graduated high school.)

2. Living internationally most likely gave him a greater appreciation for the freedom and values of the United States.

Finally, you say he never learned the ideas of our "founding fathers and missed the basic information on a free government." Because he didn't live in the U.S.? Sadly, most Americans would fail today the basic "American" information required for immigrants to become U.S. Citizens.

In a global economy where the U.S. is increasingly lagging behind, I personally am excited to have someone who has knowledge and an appreciation for global issues leading this country.

Joe, your head's not screwed on tight. Folks, you are all smarter than that. Don't listen to his baseless rantings.

If you want to play that game, McCain was born in the Panama Canal zone. If McCain wins, you can expect more war, more inequality, less Social Security and less affordable health care. Not to mention the radical christians taking over our schools.

Obama has spent most of his adult life helping people of his community and country, so I would say that counts for helping his birth country. If you want to talk about flip flopping, feel free to Google up McCain's record on that front, or you can read many MANY articles (surprisingly even from traditionally conservative groups) questioning whether we are seeing the real McCain or some twisted GOP McCain version 2.0. And what world do you live in where someone can accidentally hit the "red button"? This isn't Looney Tunes.

You're a clown joe. Educate yourself. What's McCain's qualification other than being old, getting shot down in a plane in vietnam, and being in washington doing all the normal washington garbage for the last 30 years? He has done less for his country?? I think there may be some people on the south side of chicago who would disagree with you, but you wouldn't know about the job programs or health care he got for the poor in that neighborhood because you choose to ignore that fact

BTW, can we talk economy? Yeah, let's give rich people tax breaks permanently. Ummm, remember economic stimulus checks? well, if you take those tax breaks from the rich people, and give them to the middle class or poor THEY'D GET ECONOMIC STIMULUS CHECKS EVERY YEAR AND STIMULATE THE ECONOMY!!!!! Learn fundamentals of economics people. Giving someone who makes a million a year a 30k tax break does not effect how or where they spend their money. Give 20 middle class people a $1500 tax break and it will be spent on things like food, clothing and gas, and will stimulate the economy. It isn't rocket science. WAKE UP!

Sounds like commie scare tactics. Nice try. So if you are born and raised in this county you are more american then someone else? How stupid and ignorant!!! Bet you wouldn't be saying that if Arnold was the choice for your pathetic party.

Joe Veteran..please stop the BS..noone is buying it anymore..so your answer is elect a war monger and keep the policies of the last 8 yrs..I think not ..sorry..time for change...oh yea..I want a woman with nothing a heartbeat away from being President...wake up Joey..

McCain was born in Panama.

Joe Veteran - Your comments seems racial..., you are no Veteran...

Where was McCain born?

From a MA moderate democrat from, Go McCain/Palin '08!!!!! Tired of the liberals whinning!

Joe veteran, what universe are you living in? Obama is an American.. I don't know what "he never sighted the pledge" means, but you are probably trying to say "he never recited the pledge". This was PROVEN to be a lie months ago (see factcheck.org). If you want to continue to believe all the smears (maybe you are hiding your racism behind all the smears???), go ahead! You are just like all the other uneducated idiots out there!

Hey Joe, the Presidency is as much about hope and ideas and putting a fresh, optimistic face on America to the World as it is about passing bills and running the nuts and bolts of government.

Have you seen his educational resume? I'd say he's pretty bright. I don't know about you, Joe, but I want someone with some brains running the country. You can have this ridiculous notion that a lot of Americans have of mistrusting intelligence, that they'd rather vote for a guy they can have a beer with at the local tavern than someone educated. Not me.

I'm sure that if you had major surgery on the horizon, you'd want your surgeon to be well educated, and could care less if he was someone you could "hang with" at the local bar.

Obama is plenty smart and articulate, seems to have a great vision for this country, seems quick on his feet, and knows how to surround himself with the right people (witness Joe Biden) who can help strengthen his weaknesses.

McCain is a war hero and deserves our respect and thanks. But, he's the old guard.

It's time this country went in a new direction.

Thanks for not posting my comment.

Joe veteran,
Re-read the Constitution of the United States of America buddy. He was born on American soil. He is American. Period.
And if you represent the opposition party (Democrats) by definition, would you not vote against most of the established party's agenda?
Think about it.

McCain + Palin = McPain

Joe veteran, you don't "sight the pledge." Apparently, you _wasted_ the educational opportunities that you accuse Obama of missing.

YES MCCAIN WAS BORN IN PANAMA CENTRAL AMERICA FOREIGN LAND

Enough on Joe Veteran. Leave the poor sap alone. Clearly you have no facts. Obama is as American as John McCain. I respect John McCain, but most his statements about Obama were untrue. Obama has promised a tax cut which McCain's own economic advisor has said will effect more Americans than McCain's. Obama has work with Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Richard Lugar of Indiana, which shows he had reach across the aisle. Obama is open to more drilling. What has John McCain done? What he offered was "Obama-lite" on the few issues he did address. He has offered us a right-wing nut whose husband belonged to a party which wanted to leave the U.S. Other than more tax cuts for the rich and an empty promise to cut spending, what does he offer the country more the failed policies of the Bush administration?

Obama + Biden = Osama ben Biden

now we are both mature.

What on earth is that first guy talking about? Shows which end of his body he thinks with. Maybe the first guy does not want a real president and vice president. He wants the Kings and Queens of comedy instead. I guess that is how he expects healthcare, economy, environment and safety will be handle. With Jokes!

The rest of the world is laughing at us because of Mac Doo-Doo Head's VP pick. Did you investigate the guy at the top before you granted him the right to free speech? I realize you're trying to be nice to people who have serious problems, but I can now hear then laughing even louder -- all over China, Russia, Zimbabwe and Wasilla.

Wow... Joe is a freakin' joke! If ignorance is bliss this guy must be happier than a pig in poo! Good luck grabbing at those straws buddy. For real.

It's great to see Obama sticking to the basics. It IS the economy, stupid.

Obama may have US citizenship -- but he is far from a patriotic American. He does not possess traditional American values.

He is a lefist radical who spent years working with an unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers.

Yes, you do sight the pledge. I elementary schools all across the US children stand each morning and say

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

When you recite those words as a child it grows in your heart. Obama is missing this American experience.

An original member of Barack Obama’s finance committee said Friday that Sarah Palin is putting her career above her family by accepting the nomination as John McCain’s running mate.

Howard Gutman made the argument on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” telling the radio host that the Alaska governor should focus her energy on her unwed, pregnant teenage daughter. Earlier in the week, Obama said anyone spreading rumors about Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy would be fired.

WHERE ARE YOUR PRINCIPLES OBAMA? ARE YOU GOING TO FIRE THIS SPOKESPERSON?

If not then Obama is admitting that women with families are not eligible to run for public office or work in any capacity in corporate America.

I would rather have Osama ben Biden any day over McPain. By the way Osama ben Biden is a nice name. The name speaks of love an kindness for all people not a select few. Don't vote McCain because he equals 4 more years of PAIN. No McPain for me.

My family are now fourth generation San Francicians (SF Lib..we know the jokes), however, we are pro-military, and have number of REP in the family. That being said, I do not make a point to say/state the pledge at all...doesn't make me un-American! Mr. Obama has a better view and understanding of America from not living here in his early years.

VOTE.

I’m curious as to why Obama had to go all the way to Swizterland for a fund raiser?

Who was going to be there but expats who hate the US, the adoring euro crowd who can’t ( doesn’t mean they didn’t) contribute to his campaign and of course George Clooney ( or should we say G. L just drop the C from his last name).

What in the world could this fund raiser have in common with the US election process or his supposed electorial base? Oh, I forgot Obama is a One-World person.

Maybe he wants to be President of the World too.

Regardless of Obama's nationality; since when do you have to be American to appreciate the same notions of freedom that we enjoy in this country? The ideals of freedom and liberty cannot be claimed by Americans alone. In fact, I would argue that most foreigners appreciate American values more so than Americans.
As a veteran myself I am proud to have served with many non-US citizens; they hold true to the same values that we do here in America. You should not be trying to horde these noble values for yourself Joe, as a veteran, an American and as a human being, you fight for freedom for all, not just those who were fortunate enough to be born in this country.

lets have more more tax breaks for the wealthy. Last year my boss cleared over 1M in salary and got himself a 75,000$ tax break, I barely cleared 50,000,I recieved a 175.00$ tax break, almost enough to pay for my daily coffee at Star Bucks for the year.