Obama: I can take attacks, America can't take McCain-Bush

Yes, let's please make this election a referendum on elections, so we never have to go through this kind of election again. We need to be talking about working together to tackle these huge problem - divisiveness just gets in the way. Neither party can tackle it alone.

Among McCain's greater distortions is to present himself as the candidate of change, when Obama has been doing so for more than two years, and credibly.

My father and mother grew up in Chicago and hated blacks and called them the "n" word. hard core prejedice. I am 58 and somehow through my friends learned that people of color are no different than I am. Barack Obama has given me hope for the future of my grandchildren. I've just lost 10 years of my 401K savings and will probably never get to retire. At least I am doing all I can to get Barack Obama elected so my grandchildren will have opportunity, healthcare, and fairness. My one daughter makes more than 250K a year- yes, she will pay more, only fair. Please vote for B. Obama

I definitely can't take 4 years of McCain-Palin. One mean and one dumb. Why should America even consider that ticket as serious?

He is right. McCain was doomed to failure after the RNC. He conceded that the election is not about experience but it's about change. Rather than forcing Obama to match experience and resumes with McCain, McCain forced himself to prove that he is more of a change from Bush than Obama. Few are convinced that one Republican Administration would be drastically different from another Republican Administration. Obama's most glaring issue is that he is black but McCain cannot figure out a subtle way to use his race against him. The Clinton's tried to do so inartfully and it backfired. It doesnt work because Obama doesnt want to make race an issue so it forces McCain to find away to bring it up.

Want to know more about John McCain, review the new article about his personal history In Rolling Stone, available on the web. You might be surprised, or maybe not. He worries me.

OBAMA IS NOTHING BUT A CON MAN.A SUCKER IS BORN EVER MINUTE.
YOU HAVE TALKERS AND DOERS.MACCAIN IS A DOER!!!!!!!!!!!
OBAMA IS A TALKER (CON MAN)

I have seen Barack Obama before. I saw him in the dark days of the Weimar Republic in Germany, when the little megalomaniac promised hope, change, and liberation from international bankers and capitalists who earned money off of investments rather than labor. I saw Obama later in life, in the streets of Havana, promising hope and change as an alternative to Battista. I saw Obama in Nicaragua, in Chile, and in Venezuela. I saw Obamanistas closing down opposition news media in Germany, Hungary, Russia, China and Cuba. I saw children being taught songs praising the "leader" in Cuba and North Korea. Yes, Barack Obama has always been there, ready to satisfy his ego at the expense of a free people who happen to have rough economic times. I beg og all of you..stop and think of a federal socialist regime headed by a troika of Obama-Reid and Pelosi. Lean freedom is better than fat slavery. For the sake of balance, vote for McCain.

That's right. We won't take the same failed policies. We need better leadership and a new direction for the country that will help everyone realize the american dream. McSame is no maverick. He's Bush's sidekick.

pls i want to know evry thing abt obama

Mccain proved his lack of juddgement by choosing sarah palin. What a reckless decision. sold out the country to try to win an election.

It is great to see Indiana finally matter in a national election. My mother was at this speech today and she commented on how excited and grateful everyone was to have Obama there. Obama inspires people. He will inspire our country to work together to take on big problems.

Nancy M., for today, you are my heroine. I am hoping that many more like you, from the same background and with the same prejudices, have grown up and out of them. I know that voting for a black man is very hard for some people, by you are an example that accepting others makes life a lot more comfortable. I have known many Southerners, for example, who now admit to living easier without having to be angry or fearful about or in the presence of blacks. In a country in which whites will become a minority, it is long since time for them to accept a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.

McCain is not the best public speaker, but I do not think we should put just anybody in the oval office because he is a smooth talker. Obama is a first term senator---that is his only experience!!
He has no military experience. How is he going to win the respect of our military, make sound decisions and keep us safe??
He has no foreign policy experience----very scary.
He has no experience reaching across the isle and working with the other party.
And he is going to spend us right into a depression, with his special interest and pork barrel spending.

"I have seen Barack Obama before." No Marc... you haven't. It takes one brain cell to find similarities with charachters of the past, but it takes three or more to concieve of a new candidate for the future. Do yourself a favor, instead of riding the slippery slope railway, terrifying yourself towards an aneurism, consider thinking critically about what the future might bring. How you can be a positive part of it?

Sarah,

It is hard to ignore the irony of someone with the name Sarah talking about experience.

It shows, because all you are doing is parroting what McCain said. If you instead evaluated their answers and positions, you might show yourself to be more intellectually curious than your namesake.

BILL,

Your Caps Lock key seems to be broken. Just like the broken record you played.

Nancy M.

Loss of value in your 401k has little to do with the current administration.

Congree controls the purse strings and economic movement in the county.. The have not given the POTUS any authority to "rule over the economy."

"Loss of value in your 401k has little to do with the current administration."

Au contraire, it has everything to do with the culture created by the executive branch and the predominant voices in Congress. Over the last eight years this has been primarily Bush Administration policies and partisans pushing deregulation that exceeded the balance of public and private interest and toppled public value in exchange for private greed and untrammeled profit on short value delivered.

Barack Obama is a very liberal idealist. Yes, we would all like free health care, free education, free energy, etc. However, even in the best of times, he could not deliver on those promises, no matter how much you think of him. And now we are in the worst of times. Does anyone really think Obama and a Democratic Congress can deliver on any of the grand promises with no money? They want to take from the rich to try to fund these promises by taxing businesses and rich people more. Well, that is a plan to completely destroy what is left of the economy of this country as more and more so-called "U.S." companies move out of here for overseas. That will certainly equalize America. We will all have the same opportunities; that is, no opportunities. And those who think George Bush caused all this are simply naive. Look at who promoted and benefited from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac subprime loans. It was Democrats like Barney Frank who pushed those programs and blocked any attempts to regulate them. Obama accuses McCain of believing in "no regulation", yet McCain was one of the few people who called for more scrutiny and regulation of those institutions. Everyone who is so in love with Democrats and Obama should really take a good, hard look and see though the veneer of all the idealistic talk and blame-game rhetoric. All politicians seek one thing - power to control other people for their own purposes. Obama is no different.

Nancy M #2
So your father was a racist and now you are suffering from white guilt, so you feel you can appease blacks by voting for Obama? I am black and somehow I believe that Obama is just like any other politician--promise the world and can't deliver. I think he's more of a smooth talker, with a nice smile. Further, I believe his campaign is forever playing the race card. Plus the media is biased in their reporting of the two campaigns. Obama is equally guilty of running negative Ads, and all the blame falls on McCain. I look at the candidate's resumes before I vote.

McCain has a right and responsibility to question Obama (a person who most of us NEVER heard of 1 1/2 years ago) and the people he associates with. It disgusts me that the Obama campaign (via Biden's latest comments) is trying to again avoid the tough questions (as he did in his last debate with Hillary) by using a "veiled" race card (i.e. Biden saying its provoking anger among McCain (aka. White) supporters so they should stop questioning Obama at all!!!). What a dishonorable move by the Obama campaign. It will be interesting to see what happens if Obama loses. Will there be a riot that makes the "LA riots" look like a game of kickball? Who knows. But no campaign should be discussing which party (or races) has a right to be angry and if that anger is justified or not. That doesn't help ANY of us. Shame on you Obama! SHAME ON YOU!

Over the last eight years I have watched my savings disappear into the abyss of inceased interest rate, higher food, gas and housing price, increased tuition!!!! the list goes on. Now my 401k has plumeted to its lowest. McCain has not explained how he is going to change the Bush policy that got us to this financial crisis.He has not said how he will help us keep the roof over our heads or food in our childrens stomach or how he is going to ensure that tuition remain affordable. I am currently struggling to provide the basic needs for my family. I went from being able to give my children what ever they wanted to stuggling to provide what they need.my salary has been increased by about over ten thousand but I am still fighting to survive. Obama has told me how he plans to keep us from sinking and it sounds workable. I'll stick with the candidate that has a plan not the one that promises more of the same. for now that seem to be Obama. PLEASE DO NOT VOTE COLOR VOTE COMMON SENSE.CAN YOU AFFORD 4 MORE YEARS OF THE SAME FAILED POLICIES.. i KNOW I CANT

Yes - let's look at the candidates record before we vote:
McCain - supported 8 years of Bush policies that has taken this country to the brink of another depression and has put us in hawk for decades
Obama - voted against these policies and is looking to create balance in a country where the middle class is getting squeezed out of existance

You want to talk foreign policy - let's talk foreign policy
McCain is a hawk that supported a war that was based on lies and has no plan for getting us out of a country and a war that is costing us dearly.
Obama - he was RIGHT on Iraq and he was RIGHT on Afghanastan -

Just because McCain says he has no experience - doesn't make it so....just because McCain says he has strong foreign policy experience - doesn't mean it was GOOD experience!!!
If we have 4 more years of Republican rule - God only knows where we will end up. We have lost our face in the international community, we are on the brink of the worst recession since the great depression and we are spending billions on a war with no exit strategy - while the guys that attacked us are still running free

There isn't a question here - - it MUST be Obama....for it is the only way to save this great country

If you are concerned about the financial mess, look no further than the subprime
mess. What caused this?
1. Congress (mainly democrats) insisting that more loans be made to people who could not afford them
2. When in 2003, McCain and others wanted more oversight of Fannie and Freddie, the democrats voted 100% against more oversight while the republicans voted 100% for.
If you are honest with youself, you know that Bush had little to do with this financial mess (Quite frankly, he has had little to do with anything. I do not like him!)
Obama is a great orator but has an extreme socialist outlook and if elected he will make freedom of the press a thing of the past. Obama's background and lack of positive accomplishments makes him a good talker but not a doer.

I think anyone would be happy with Sarah Palin's record of accomplishment. She has had jobs with more and more responsibility. She has been effective in getting thinks done. She is a govenor like Bill Clinton and we found out that Bill was a pretty good President. Sarah Palin has an 80% approval rating by the people she currently works for. How many politicians have that good of an approval rating. Those that are negetive about Sarah Palin are not looking at the facts!
I know Obama would love to have Sarah Palin's record of accomplishments. He spins a lot of promises but does not have the record of accomplishments that give me much faith that he can do anything positive.

longhorn - Must have stayed up too late to watch the red sox the other night.....a bit delusional -- Obama is a brilliant man who could have made millions - but instead worked in his community to help others....he has been successful throughout his political career dealing with issues of the size that sarah palin has yet to see

Heaven help the United States of America if McCain somehow slithers scross the finish line ahead of Obama. Do not every one of us out here see in glaring terms the crushing losses we have endured under Dubwa. He has ravished, ransacked and ruined everything he as touched. McCain and Dubya are joined at the hip notwithstanding McCain's touting that it just isn't so. THE U.S.A. CANNOT BEAR THE BURDEN OF A BUSH CLONE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Republicans have demonstrated in real terms exactly what their philosopy portends: the rich get richer and the poor get poorer . NO MORE! NO MORE! HOORAH, NO MORE!

I am a 55 year old woman and I am very confused about the economic meltdown and the election. I've been gathering information from all sources and I really don't know what the hell! I know during the Reagan years life was very hard and my husband and I lived in the slums with our 4 kids. Democratic programs helped us get out of the slums and into a better neighborhood and we were able to buy our own home. So during the Clinton years we got a grip on our situation and overcame our poverty and we've paid back the help many times over. So now we've lost about $70,000 so far from our 401k and we are not sure why. Republicans and Democrats blaime each other so it's impossible for us to know
what is true! All I know for sure is the democrats way worked for us and now the greed of Wall Street is greatly hurting us! I bet there are folks out there that have committed suicide over this! And didn't the surplus of the Clinton years make us more powerful and credible in the eyes of the world, including terrorists? What about now that we have the biggest debt ever in history?

I think Barack Obama's idea of letting people get THEIR money out of THEIR 401k's is a great idea. There are some people out there telling everybody that this is not a good idea because American's don't save. Any one who has money in a 401k had to save it. Their argument is illogical. And it is not their money they are arguing over. We just bailed out FreddieMac/Fannie Mae-- 200 billion dollars, AIG 85+35= 120 billion dollars, 9 major banks (maybe 4 or 5 in trouble) = 125 billion, etc......... Give Middle Class America a break on something. People who have saved $10000 should be able to tap THEIR 401k's without tax penalities in these economic times to pay daily bills. After all ,we the taxpayers, paid $440000 for AIG's upper crust management getaway in Laguna Beach, California and they get away with it. GIVE THE ORDINARY HARDWORKING Middle Class American a TAX BREAK ON SOMETHING-- ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!