Obama poised for landslide?

If people are tired of Bush then why elect Obama, aren't they the same: good storytellers, likable personalities, lazy - more on vacations/absent on voting and less working for the people.

John Mccain will soon be forgotten in the history of Presidential Politics. Of course he will be remembered as a two-time sore loser. Do not forget that he was ranked at 895/900 in his class at the Naval Academy. Now that is pretty pathetic considering that we are not talking of Havard or MIT or any other prestigious school.
You can only imagine where a dumbo will lead the US into. The last 8 years should give you a good hint!

HInt

Let's all get behind comment number 16, We need to come together behind a leader. Obama has proven he can lead. I would love to have an intelligent conversation with someone from the right but I have not found anyone that can communicate anything outside of a one word slur. If we can come together and work hard and intelligently and cast out the slurs and smears and get back to real ideas and real work. The people who hate, and fear are destroying our country. The campaign of fear which started with 9/11 continues with McCain. It is finally time to beat fear, hatred and ignorance and restore this country to its greatness and place of leadership.

I just can't believe that Obama will win - let alone in a avalanche. There's just too much hyped up negative propaganda out there - everything about suspicious past associations with hate-mongers, radical socialsts, sleazy chicago crooks, muslim extremists, etc. Combining that with his one major verbal faux pas of the campaign season - using the term "spread the wealth around", a victory should very unlikely.

But, then, his opponent picked Sarah, the caribou barbie doll, as his VP.

Ai yi yi!

Iran is a democracy. Please stop claiming Iran is "undemocratic." In fact, elections in Iran have much higher turn out than those in the US.

Obama has such a huge lead in the polls that many Obama voters can stay home on election day and he'll still win. McCain doesn't stand a chance. So, no need to stand in the long lines on election day Democrats. Obama has already won!

"The masses are incurably ignorant"
Posted by Frank October 29, 08 11:26 AM

...case in point

patriot99

I'm amazed that the people who scream about Obama wanting to spread the wealth around are the very ones who will receive the wealth! Only if your taxable income is above $250,000 will your taxes increase, according to Obama's plan. The rest of us will receive a reduction in taxes. The commercials you see are nothing but the typical scare tactics of the Republican Party.
Yes, if Obama wins the Presidency, he will run the country as he has run his campaign: by hiring the best qualified people. No more foxes in the hen house.
But, as many have already said, none of this can happen unless we get everyone out to vote who sees Obama as the truly transformative leader our country needs. right now.

It's the FAULT of McCain supporters who merely repeated the words 'MARXIST!' and 'SOCIALIST!' over and over, as though voters are DUMB enough to be convinced by mere repetition of a word!

It would be funny if their rhetoric wasn't so angry, divisive and flat-out incorrect. These supporters have attached those words to nearly Every description involving Obama (see comment calling this a 'Typical Marxist Propaganda'. What is TYPICAL are the Tactics of PALIN, which are remeniscent of MCCATHYISM at its WORST and which, thankfully, have backfired because Americans are not dumb.

PLEASE, ALL AMERICANS GET OFF YOUR APATHY AND GET OUT AND VOTE. IF YOU SEE A POLITICIAN GOING DOWN THE WRONG ROAD IN THE FUTURE, STAND UP AND GIVE THEM HELL! DO NOT WAIT UNTIL OUR COUTRY GOES DOWN THE WRONG ROAD AND THEN COMPLAIN. IF OUR PRESIDENT DECIDES TO GO TO WAR, PLEASE FIND OUT WHY AND WHAT IT WILL DO TO US AS A NATION AND THE NATION WE ARE FIGHTING AGAINST. TOO MANY LIVES ARE LOST IN THE NAME OF PEACE. WE SHOULD THINK WITH OUR BRAINS AND NOT WITH OUR WEAPONS.

WAKE UP AMERICA!! All this flimflam is just being used to divert your attention from what is REALLY going on. Why doesn't anyone talk about acid rain any more? It is a MEDIA COVER-UP. The Chinese are going to get rich burning all the worlds dirty coal and the acid rain will make the pacific ocean so caustic it will ERODE CALIFORNIA and so all the gay-marriage-supporting Godless Marxist pinko liberals will move to the American Heartland and then only Texas will be able to draw boundaries well enough to elect Sarah Palin. REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!!

The polls are a strong indicator that Obama will win but I lived in California when
Mayor Bradley was defeated by a large margin even though polls indicated he would win by a large margin. Bradley was African American. I hope this election will go a long way in ending racism. If Obama, a qualifed man can win, it will signal "times are achangin' and the race issue will be put to rest. I hope so!

I find it amusing that the right is now saying that the "masses are ignorant".......but only since they are no longer part of the main stream masses anymore.

Stop Voting incumbents, Congress approves everything that gets enacted. If you want change TERM LIMITS ON ALL LEVELS. Congress is the biggest cancer.
Yes on 1
Yes on 2
NO on 3

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Problems with Obama:
1. I guess the American dream will soon be dead when all my hard work will reward the people who don't work hard.
2. Obama wants to spend more and also cut taxes for 95% of us? That is impossible.
3. If there is any chance at all that Obama is aligned with any Terrorist, I can't take the chance and give him my vote.

Whoever wrote comment #30, congratulations - you sound completely brainwashed. You speak of the media cheerleaders, however somehow I get the idea you never watch anything but Fox News. And you completely fail to see the irony in your statement.

"Old" Europe is watching America. The World is watching America. Please VOTE for Obama, the change YOU need is as well the change WE people all accross the world need too.

European Union is not "against" Americans, and you know it very well that we believe America is a great nation, but we definitely stand against the splendid isolation, disdain and haughty power of the Bush-McSame administration vis-à-vis the rest of the world.
We need a US president that enters dialogue with us, that puts an end to wars that not only affect YOU but that affect the entire world.

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Unfortunately I think this landslide victory may be what we're looking at. I sure hope that all you Obama supporters know something I don't (I know that you think you do). All of Obama's spending is going to have to come out of someone's pocket.

A kinder, more just United States will win back the friends it has lost during the last 8 years. Obama impresses with his qualities of level headedness and intelligence.
US election follower in Cyprus.

Hi Steve: Just so you know, a "liberal" believes government is capable of doing good things other than fighting wars. For example, not letting cities drown, or building highways (that was a liberal Republican idea; the guy's name was Eisenhower). A "marxist" believes that government should own the means of production. That's not the case anymore even in Russia or China, Steve. Are you in the same time warp that has apparently swallowed up John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Faux News?

It seems to me that Obama has the same financial mind set as his supporters. Spend spend spend. Forget about whether or not you can afford it. You want it now! Can you put universal health care on a credit card?

And what happens when you're drowning in debt and your house gets forclosed? Blame Bush!!!

Amazing how the press (including the Globe) can be so biased in every aspect of this race. Barak is a cancer on our capitalistic values. I hope you all get what you wish for - a weak America. You will be the first to complain when the stuff hits the fan. Silly little liberals.

Its a sad day when Americans lay down their patriotism and vote for a leader who shows public disdain for each individual in this country by not joining with them in our allegiance, regardless of race, creed, religion, economic or educational standing. He is not a unifier, and if he becomes POTUS foreign leaders in Europe, Middle East, Asia, everywhere will laugh loudly at America because we ourselves voted in someone who obviously holds something else in higher allegiance. I don't claim to know what that is, but he is proud to NOT stand for COUNTRY FIRST, which means YOU as a US citizen do not come first in his heart or allegiance. Voting in Obama as President is like marrying someone who doesn't believe in the institution of marriage - you're asking to be betrayed. Vote McCain/Palin

Mark my words; This is The End of the GOP as we know it. In years to come, they will eventually become slightly more than an insignificant party. This has been coming for years now. They will be marginalized as an ultra right neo-con, bigoted, religious-fanatic party.

Case in point: When the talk becomes of how Sarah "Bubbles" Palin is the future of the party, well then it's time to cue the chirping crickets. Last one out, please get the lights.

However, from their ashes will rise another party that is more middle of the road with a mantra of fiscal conservatism.

The good news is the neo-cons and religious fanatics will be pushed farther to the fringe and will wield no real power.

Under Obama there will be a new found spirit and agenda toward technology and with any luck that will rekindle the "American Dream". I own a business...you can call me A.J. The UPS Store owner. First lets make clear that the threshhold is $250K Net for businesses not Gross. If your business nets $250K plus or you make $250K plus, first congratulations, 2nd you will hardley feel the pinch. Meanwhile those part time or lesser paid employees will keep more of what they make and have more income to spend in your business.
His tax plan is not redistribution of wealth, it is merely a fairer distribution of the tax burden we all bear.
As to foreign affairs...that's just silly. Five generals besides Powell have endorsed him. If anything, I wish he would stop pandering to the hawks to seal the election deal and lean toward a little more old fashioned "isolationism" as described by Professor Andrew Bacevich in "The Limits of Power"

Good God, this whining from the rnc and these nutjob posters on here are freakin' killing me! What cry-babies!

Get over it! Obama is the people's choice! He has run a meticulous campaign thus far while the erratic coot and his staff have written the book on how to not become president.

I so look forward to the not-so-distant future when the GOP fades into obscurity.

Here's a post I came across afew weeks ago:
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Sorry, but the truth isn't "liberal." It's pretty funny to hear you right-wingers screech when things don't go your way, just like infants in the sandbox. And I don't need to be lectured on "loving America" by the same self-loving conservatives who opposed every advance in human rights in this country for the last 70 years. You have destroyed this economy every time you've gotten your hands on it, though Democrats always clean up your messes. You have killed thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of innocents around the world. You have beaten, dragged, lynched, and defamed everyone who looks different from you or disagrees with you.

I don't need your moral judgments on liberalism, because you have no ground from which to make them. You are morally, intellectually, and now financially bankrupt. It is you who hate the idea that America means dialogue and compromise--you want it all, all to yourselves.

I love my home and my country too much to cede it to the likes of you. It's not America I hate--it's your philosophy. America is more generous, decent, and kind than you have ever let it be, or would ever let it be.

That said, it's an American tradition to honor our fellow Americans' hatefulness as their "right." So I honor your right to continue hating everyone to the left of Hitler. But you will never, never, get my vote, and I will work as hard as I can to undermine your every effort, in every way I can, as long as I live.

Enjoy watching history move past you. It will whether you want it to or not.

Posted by: Mike A | September 3, 2008 1:50 AM
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Great comment from a truly enlightened American Patriot! Thank you, Mike.

#83 con't - Obama will not place his hand over his heart before our flag while our national anthem is played - he has some "intelligent" excuse for this. see "hand over heart" at snopes.com . It is a slap in the face of every American

Sarah Palin is not the future of anything. Blue-topia is cracking up. The entire social organism is like something out of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." or maybe "The Blob." The Blue-topians insist on going around like it's 1979 and Jimmy Carter is still president. They act as if trickle down economics has not been bought out by trickle out economics, refusing to explain how tax cuts for the rich turn into jobs in Worcester and New Bedford and not China and India. They are unable to differential between free enterprise and crony capitalism. They enthusiastically extol the pursuit of self interest and with predictable results: Republicans in Congress have a demonstrably higher crime rate than members of the "underclass" of the same age, the people who they maintain there is no point in trying to help. But we won't give up on you Blue-topians. If it takes a hundred years..

Steve - you and your like are too stupid for words.............anyone who would vote for the person who chose Sarah Palin for VP is a TOTAL IDIOT! John McCain lost ALL credibility when he chose that person.
Praise whoever - I will uncork the bubbly on Nov. 4th when they announce Obama the winner!

In a way, this shouldn't be a surprise at all. The past 8 years have shown the total bankruptcy, in so many ways both literal and symbolic, of the neocon agenda. Reagan's revolution will finally be laid to rest and we can pick up again on FDR's New Deal. I am still laughing at the chutzpah so many right wingers are still showing, denying reality, clinging to tired out charges and talking points, accusing anyone who disagrees with them of being unpatriotic, blah blah blah. Finally, on Nov. 4, they can all shut up and deal with what most americans want, which is peace, justice, and a sense of fair play.

I don't see what's sexist about calling Sarah Palin a "whack job." For that matter, I don't see what's sexist about calling her a "diva." I realize that's a term typically assigned to women, but we see it more and more as a generic term applied to the more megalomaniacal members of both genders.

I would add that the GOP will quickly abandon Palin. Having lost with this latest round of the cultural warfare, those hungry for power will devise a new strategy and they'll test it in the next congressional elections, a strategy based on traditional conservatism rooted in fiscal pragmatism. Sober minds will resume the tiller.

For all the far-right's invocation of Ronald Reagan, none of them really espouses Regan era conservatism. I'd imagine the GOP will go back that way, realizing that evangelical Christians and ultra-conservatives, in general, were only one part of a coalition exploited to bring Bush to power.

The future lies with the centrist independents. I think, if anything, Barack Obama, like Bill Clinton before him, has proven that.

None of these guys is Dennis Kucinich, Ted Kennedy or Russ Feingold.

Headline: Obama . . . The Best President Money Can Buy!!!

We should all agree that neither McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden have what it takes to get this country moving again. McCain is an advocate of "tax and trickle down" which we know is a crock. Obama on the other hand plans to increase taxes on the richest Americans to pay for his social/liberal agenda. What none of them are advocating is the elimination of Special Interests and Goverment Waste. McCain the war-monger or Obama the tree-hugger, neither are what we need. The only people who identify with any of these clowns are the same folks who are aligned with the extreme ideology of their respective party. Too bad this is the "best" we have to offer as the next leader of the free world.

Yikes! Do ya think all these young folks living on Ipods and Cellphones are bein left outta polls. You betcha! Thank God,

i say take care of problems at home first. who cares about the middle east, asia, europe when people are being laid off and kicked out of their homes you think they would care about patriotism. if we had not mistakenly invaded Iraq, all the money we spent would've funded the trillion dollar bailout. think about it, Iraq could've been the bailout money.
im sure obama loves this country just as much as mccain. just b/c his skin tone is different and refused to go to war does NOT mean he is unamerican or unpatriotic. he had the guts to stand up and say no to the Iraq war. To me that is more patriotic than all the stupid politicians who voted to go to war. Hilary lost the dem nomination bc she voted to go to war.

I look forward to the Globe's front page on Wednesday if The Chosen One wins...."MISSION ACCOMPLISHED". But wait a minute, I forgot, it's Fox News that's biased.

And for the poster who claims that BHO is actually a fiscal conservative. LMAO. Good one!!!!! At least it will get Patrick out of this state.

So I'm supposed to vote for Obama because other countries will like us more? Why should I care what other countries think? I thought I was supposed to vote for who I thought was best for our country.

Isn't Massachusetts a great example of what the Democrats can do; Highest taxed state almost forever. And many moved to NH to escape and now they are trying to turn NH into Massachusetts. A landslide makes the whole usa Massachusetts and points toward Socialism. Lenin said "the goal of Socialism is Communism". I am glad I am old and will probably be dead before Obama can destroy this great country. And he isn't even an American!

I've been a republican since RR. I have seen nothing since then but a hijacking by special interests, big money, big oil, big 3, big bank, big insurance, big drugs, BIG BROTHER since 911, and we've finally come to a big bust! I'm sorry to say that my party and the party of my father has been taken over by religious nut bags from the far right and the fat cats who use them to their advantage. Now, I hope we never see another president with a Texas twang, and I hope that we can finally separate church and state and get back to REASON, which is what this country was founded upon.

GO OBAMA!

Yes, and he's very close in, Missouri, a battle ground state; a swing state. Yes we can bring about the change we need. Obama '08!

SARAH has teamed up with JOE the plumber, Talk about DUMB and DUMBER.You betcha SARAH and MCSHAME are down to pleading to the dumbest of the dumb, The press in the US have been kind to MCSHAME and kept quiet about his endorsement from AL QAEDA, Maybe they can dress JOE in a shirt that go,es down to his ankles, put a black beard on, and a automatic weapon, the people that listen to them would cheer and clap.

This is political intelligence. Anybody here ever read - All the President's Men?

Let us all just be ready for "Buyers Remorse" in 12 to 15 months of an Obama Presidency as the "Change Train" begins to derail much like Gov. Patrick experiment.

From and E-Mail sent to me recently, a good explanation of Obama's Socialist America.
Here is the best thing I have read that should tick off some Obama supporters. Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read Vote Obama, I need the money. I laughed. Once in the restaurant my server had on Obama tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference just imagine the coincidence. When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight. I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I 've decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful. At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient needed money more. I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.

Sarah, maybe you could get a job with Fox news. None of them know anything either.

A cartorstropy would be terrible.

Republicans remind me of Vizzini in The Princess Bride. Everyone keeps telling him, "That word, you don't know what it really means". For Vizzini it was "inconceivable", for Republicans it's "socialist". Palin and her Alaskan money giveaway is in fact real socialism, "redistributing wealth", to use HER OWN WORDS. Of course Republicans did not heed Vizzini's wisest remark, "Never get involved in a land war in Asia".

If Obama and Biden get elected, they will withdraw troops and cut off funding for Iraq and Afghanistan immediately. Biden and his friends in Senate did that to South Vietnam in 1975, this caused a quick collapse of South Vietnam and because of that, many South Vietnamese were put in prisons or killed by North Vietnam. Biden will do the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan and this time Iraq, afghanistan, Israel, Kuwait and some Arab countries will become vulnerable.

Well said Mr. Jim McGuiness #16. Hopefully all Republicans will feel the same as you, should Senator Obama win. The only way for us to overcome this low point in our history is to unite and end this dreadful polarization that we have been in much too long.

Incredible... just goes to show you what a WELL RUN campaign can do. Obama has managed to welcome a new segment of voters this time, where before some of them wouldn't have been at the polls. This is what America is all about, the opportunity for American's to DECIDE and feel like their votes do matter. Anyone who doesn't see the beauty in this is crazy. Obama is single handedly breeding a new America with renewed patriotism.

Easy Titos, we're supposed to be tolerant people whose views are different than our remember?

If Obama and Biden get elected in November, they will withdraw troops and cut off fuding for Iraq and Afghanistan. Biden and his friends in Senate did that to South Vietnam. This caused a quick collapse of South Vietnam and because of that, many South Vietnamese were killed or put in prisons by North Vietnam. Biden will do the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan, this time Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Kuwait and some Arab countries will become vulnerable.

If McCain from 2000 ran, the Republicans would not have this bloodbath. Obama would still win but the Republican brand in most states wouldn't be total garbage with the current dishonorable scum team McCain/Palin.

if the vote gets rigged again or decided by the supreme court in favor of the shameless republicans , next time lets get in some u.n observers
the previous elections were about as fair as what you might expect in georgia or zimbabwe

A year from now I'm going to make a fortune.... I'm going to be selling bumper stickers and t shirts that say "Don't blame me I didn't vote for Obama"

Dear 88:

Go to a baseball game and look around before the 1st inning. The anthem plays, people stand, take of their hat, and then what? Some put their hand on their heart. Some fold their hands in prayer. Some fold them behind their back and stand at attention. Some salute. Some stand casually. Some sing.

The US military does not put their hand on their heart when the anthem plays. Are you stupid enough to argue that their action is a slap in the face too? Grow up.

I'm happy things are looking good. I'm a little cautious because I remember President Gore from a couple of elections ago an the W terror reign that ensued.
President Palin is even scarier.
So vote early and keep all your fingers crossed on next Tuesday.

I cannot even fathom how people can revel in the downfiall of America. It really boggles the mind. Just when you begin to have faith in the intellgence of fellow man this happens. I blame myself for giving these people any credit

Who was Polled? College students whose parents pay all the bills and Democrats?

"Typical liberal marxist propaganda"?

Are you serious Steve? We're talking about "polls" here, not "editorial comment."

It seems as if everyone who doesn't have the slightest idea what they're talking about is always quick to find the easiest target in the field to explain why the Republicans are doing so poorly - the so-called "liberal media."

I say shame on you Steve for taking the simple way out. Blame the party, not the media.

The status quo cannot remain. Our country is in ruins. I've been voting GOP at state and fed level all my voting life (~20yrs). No more. The republicans have cannibalized their constituents to fatten their wallets and consolidate power. Obama is no more socialist than McCain. The Republicans spread the wealth up, the Democrats spread it down. No one is going to come and take your stuff. Quit believing propaganda and scare tactics. I would have much rather seen that 700billion$ used for healthcare, housing, rebuilding our countries infrastructure. Not funding golden parachutes, hunting trips, spa getaways. Our jobs have been exported, as well as our pensions. I don't know what will happen with the Dems in the Oval Office- but I've seen what the Republicans have done over the last 8 years. It cannot continue. If the Dems blow it, we can switch horses again in 4 yrs.
"I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me"

Well, it pains me to say it, but it looks like we better all prepare for either another attack on home soil, or perhaps for the "sudden" capture of bin Laden, as the Right is running out of aces to pull out of their sleeve. They have shown zero restraint in baiting audiences into violence, telling outright lies about their opponent, and attempting to paint him as everything from 'foreigner', to 'Muslim', to 'Marxist', and now as a 'terrorist'.

Looks like the McCarthyist scare tactics of labeling Obama everything vaguely enemy-sounding under the sun haven't worked. And despite the best efforts of McCain/Palin to talk about putting "Country First", they have shown their true colors in talking down about residents of Blue States as though we don't matter (even though Blue voters make up the majority of the popular vote and have for two decades now). Who exactly thinks they are better than whom? Sounds to me that the Right, despite making up less than 45% of the voting population, thinks of it itself and its veiws a lot more highly than does the more populist Left. Should be noted that "Country First" actually is THE meaning of fascism and the slogan for McCain's campaign - a system based on the idea that the State knows what is best for its citizens and therefore all individuals should be subjugated to what the State decides is best for them.

And obviously with the economy once again in ruin for the 98% of us who AREN'T multi-millionaires or oil/military industry executives, and an utter failure of a war that was started on blatant lies and fabrications to begin with, what else would they turn to except something that might seem like Bush's policies, of which McCain was a supporter 92% of the time, anything but an abject, collossal, tragic failure? Sorry Republicans, looks like fear-mongering, empty rhetoric, and epic policy failures can only take you so far. Quite an impressive platform though - amazing what doesn't work when people are having trouble putting food on the table due to your party's epic policy failures at home and abroad eh?

To answer the column's question about a landslide, I can only say that I certainly hope so! But it's not over until the people have voted, so between now and the election I am going to do everything I can (canvassing, phone calls, GOTV) to see that Obama wins my formerly red state!!! I hope the rest of you Obama supporters do too. Remember, if the undecideds believe McCain's tripe and swing his way, Obama loses (and so does the country). Obama has worked so hard over the last 20 months and now it's our turn to return the favor.

It is very interesting how this country is becoming marxist according to the Republican labeling everybody that doesn't share their opinion. I am little concern for the future of this country based on the Republican opinions, it is like that they use word, labels and definition is the wrong context or they don't know their mining.

Barack Socialist, do they know what socialism means?
Barack Marxist? Have they red the capital and what to be marxist means?

Shame shame shame on you liberals, for bringing up Keating, or Libby ( Its OK to want to kill Federal agents if a ditto head you know. We still own the Supreme Court, so it had better be a landslide or you can just forgetaboutit. you bunch of Marxists don't seem to get that we can just about blame everything on you.

Hey Steve - you're so fond of using words like 'marxist' and 'socialist'. How about I use words like 'fascist' and 'Nazi' to describe you? Would you describe that as accurate? I mean, I've got no proof of it, no evidence, I'm pretty much running crap off the top of my head, and you wouldn't have to listen because it's complete baloney and I don't even know you. But would you agree it would be fair for me to call you those words? Does it radically alter your perception of yourself? If you were say, running in a Presidential election, would you vote for the "fascist"? After all, it's just words right?

Socialism has never worked in Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea and some other countries, why would it work in America? Mr. Obama, you are going to waste your time!

John McCain, 72, has less than four years to live based on average male life expectancy in the US. (Google it. It's 75.4 years.) That means Sarah Palin is likely to become President of the United States. Politics aside, anyone who isn't frightened by that prospect has not been paying attention. She will be more easily controlled than Bush has been by people we don't know. Her handlers will make Dick Cheney look like Abraham Lincoln. She will get herself into trouble because she does not know enough about Washington to keep herself out of trouble. She may quickly commit an impeachable offense without knowing it. She will bequeath the Presidency to Nancy Polosi, and then I will be able to sleep better.

"A cartorstropy is about to hit America. A win for Obama will be the End of Americ influency in the world"
OK the only problem is that catastrophes are already hitting America and the world, and we are kinda already facing the end of American influence in the world, due to current catastrophes. But it's not the end of our influence, it's just in very sharp decline and it will not help at all if Palin is our VP. All remaining credibility will be lost if we elect mccain/palin, I am sure of it. Obama, Biden and team would lead us into the future. McCain and Palin's mentality is stuck in the past. McCain is smart, witty (sarcastic), relatively healthy for his age, but he's really not the type of leader we need right now, even if it was McCain of 2000 who would have been more at odds with Palin whose ideology is static, rigid, reactionary, extreme and far right, and is extremely ignorant about the world. Look how much being a president ages a person, it's not like being a Senator, and you can't compare to his mother who hasn't had these types of pressures, and you can see the risk involved with voting for McCain. Even Alaskans who like her as Governor don't think she's capable of being VP. That folksy manner is just a cover for her extreme lack of tolerance for the diversity in this country, and you can see that energy from her being played out and bringing all kinds of craziness out in people.
Obama is not risky at all to me, he's the only logical, sane, evolved choice.

Remember all you right-wing nut jobs, it will be "unpatriotic" of you not to support the President.

OBAMA WINS IN LANDSLIDE. Troglodytes unhappy, everything is finally good again.

It's so wonderful to finally see the right in retreat.

#90 shows the intellect of most Obama supporters. Name-calling is their trademark.

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Two words:

BRADLEY EFFECT

hahahahahah!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! SUCKERS!!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry, but I'm scared to death that Obama might win. Simply said, I do not trust him and you all know why. McCain is not the perfect candidate, but I can trust him.
Perhaps he will win after all since he could have done so much more to put down Obama. Amazingly he even defended his running mate at times. McCain is an American hero who has almost given his very breath of life for our country and our freedom. I know God is in control and whatever He wills, I accept it. America was
founded on religious principles, but is grieving our Maker in so many ways. Do we deserve God's blessing?

This is the first step towards 12/21/2012. It is beginning.

I can not describe how truly euphoric I will feel when the democrates take the white house again. I occasionally feel it now but am afraid to let it run wild for fear that I will be let down (again). I await Nov 4th with anxiousness tinged with hope for a new beginning. I hope we can all unite to rebuild our nation and honor. We must pull ourselves out of this hole we've been put in by the republicans. It's time for a change - for real - VOTE no matter what!

Good God... it looks like the MWRA is putiing the kool-aid in the drinking water...

Yes, indeed -- stupid liberal media. How dare they report polls favorable to Obama rather than the unbiased internal GOP poll! Any poll that doesn't show McCain winning every state is marxist.

Yikes! Do ya think all these young folks living on Ipods and Cellphones are bein left outta polls. You betcha! Thank God,

I expect a narrow victory for Obama wwith 51.6 % votes
His victory will be good for America. He will on Americanfor as Economy is going to be very very bad

Dont get complacent---- VOTE VOTE VOTE!!! We can celebrate on 11/4 when Palin slinks back to Alaska to fire some other relative's ex-boyfriend. I feel sorry for John McCain (sort of)- he would have been great in 2000. I just wish Jesse Helms were around to see this!!!

Don't take anything for granted.....PLEASE VOTE!

Jim McGuinness..

I admire your class, unfortunately too often on these posts you see insults being hurled back in forth. I consider myself an independent who leaned democratic but over the years did vote Republican for various Governors races. From all that we have seen, Obama will do his best to bring this Country back to Greatness. p/s its not a done deal yet....we need to vote ..Go Obama

if the vote gets rigged again or decided by the supreme court in favor of the shameless republicans , next time lets get in some u.n observers
the previous elections were about as fair as what you might expect in georgia or zimbabwe

Republicans think the last 8 years have been great. These people are really smoking something. They should vote yes on #2

For #93 "What none of them are advocating is the elimination of Special Interests and Goverment Waste. "
YES it is being promoted and will be implemented, just clear your mind so you can hear it. Before we slap the hand of Wall Street execs as Obama plans to do, lets try whackin' the butts of Washington bureaucrats with McCain's plan of ending earmarks & moratorium on new spending. After all, Reps and Senators are sent there by us and for us, and their first duty is to perform on our behalf, not to encourage Wall Street greed and Main Street eagerness. The touted tax plans are virtually insignifcant until they become law in some congressionally altered state, but this simple McCain tactic can start on Day One and will save us taxpayers billions and whittle down corruption, and then we can get some real work done on whatever issues America wants with some sanity restored to our budgetary process. When you're in a financial hole don't you stop digging first? We should hold our government accountable to do the same and McCain can deliver, and his record of zero earmarks shows he will deliver. Expose the wasteful spenders so we can kick them out, balance our budget, and proceed on a firm footing. OH, PA, FL, MT, CO, NV - VOTE McCain/Palin

Lil Jackie, let me just say, "You Rock!" I loved the redistribution of wealth email. Very telling. I'm not going to say more, less I get dogged for being "unintelligent" for my position... I agree with #93 (which I believe was you Lil Jackie), but what's a girl to do.

McCain it is. Whether he wins or not, at least I can have a clean conscience about not voting for Obama, whom I believe has it in the bag. Woe to America.

Right wingers? You're welcome to stay and oppose loyally. We don't hate you, but it is time for you to shut up and get to work, along with the rest of us.

Posted by Jerry Ulibarri October 29, 08 12:28 PM

Rebublicans work so you dont have to. The rich pay most of the taxes already you Obama wants them to pay more. Wrong! The Goverment should run on what they get now!

Dear 116 - I guess you like being slapped in the face and can take it with the best of them. I think I'm worth more than that, and I think you are too. If our leader does not show proper respect for our flag or anthem, then there will be more & more unpatriotic people in the stands at those games because their Leader makes it OK, and people will become more and more blaise about America. We will look ridiculous on the world stage with Barack Obama refusing to stand in honor of the nation he leads, and the nations will see it as the beginning of the end of America and our enemy nations will rejoice.

The "liberal" media don't vote. YOU do! I think the saddest part of this election cycle has been the negativity of John McCain (whom I voted for in the Florida primary). From Jack Kennedy to Ronald Reagan to Barach Omama, Americans want the person who will lead us to growth, propserity, and security. YOU pick.

Bill P.

121, Well stated. I agree. The republican brand needs to be completely overhauled starting with a clean break from the freaky religious wing. Second, get back to the truth and making money the old fashioned way- earning it. This constant scamming by raping the middle class cash cow, testing market elasticity, kick backs, tax breaks, bail outs, overpriced drugs, overpriced cars, overpriced oil, overpriced health insurance, legal monopolies (the oil and auto cartels), no-bid contracts, securities backed by fairy dust? It's all too much. It devalues America and Americans.

I won't be returning to the Republican party until I see that they have made a serious effort to prop up the hard working middle class. I don't care what they say, I'm not a sheep and I'm not obligated to serve an unjust system because they think they can manipulate me with lies, and slogans like, what's good for Chrysler is good for America! Buy American first! Bite me. What's good for me is good for America! Build a decent car and make it affordable and I'll buy it. And NO they haven't come close to doing that yet. Don't influence us to buy tanks and then jack the price of fueling them through the roof. F-U!

See you at the voting booth GWB, DC, et al.

I Have Released My State Records - NOT EXACTLY, as of March,
> 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released,
> exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
>ACORN in ohio and many states is known to Obama has made no effofr to condemn this pratice

Obama has continually minimized his connection to the "Former Terrorist" (if that's possible) Bill Ayers refusing to discuss it.

This is cause for concern because Bill Ayers is now teaching our youth?

Obama in 1966 had full MARXIST funding for more than a 'few" years. In a book Obama revealed that in his college years he preferred communist/socialist ties.

Obama has made full use of our lobby system to futher his career to the present he has 47 lobbyists and counting.

While willing to deprive WE THE PEOPLE of our rights. Which incidentally, is the primary means our Nation uses to protect the publics needs and SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE without privatizing and without reduction of services.

The Democratic agenda wants socialized medicine which has no plus side and never will. It only grants the medical community the right to not care if someone dies while waiting for treatment.

In the New Hampshire campaigning Obama interrupted his campaigning long enough to talk on the phone with his half-brother Abongo Obama whom happens to be a follower of his cousin Raila Odinga.

whom is Raila Odinga? Obama cousin odinga in 2007 created mass violence attempting to thwart a legitimate election. The current government is Pro-American but Odinga wants to make it Muslim Sharia law.

Obama before elections started here in the USA supported his cousin.

Lets set this straight.

- This crisis was started by the sub prime market, which hurt banks, and took capital away from the system. Without capital, business' couldn't pay employees, investors pulled out to save money, and stocks fell. The only way to cure this is to lower taxes, and hence spur investment, Obama plans to raise taxes on our investors and on the wealthy, doing what Hoover did in the 30s, collapsing our recession economy and pulling it into a depression.
- Our current tax system is progressive, meaning the rich pay a higher % of their wealth to the government than do the poor.
- This system is inherently discriminatory against the wealthy, so lets not start "Republicans want to help the rich at the expense of the middle class", thats not true, we seek to create an equitable system of taxation.
- Redistribution of wealth is a socialistic tenet, and one that Obama continues to espouse. That's something we need to take into consideration. He plans to do something that not even our progressive tax system does, directly transfer wealth from one group to another, and that is legalized theft.

To ensure a landslide for Sen. Obama we need to make sure to do our part to get as many people as we can out to vote for Sen. Obama. And remember...nothing matters but that vote...cast your vote for Sen. Obama and invite others to do the same. If there's to be a complete landslide, part of helping it along falls to us. Together we have that kind of potential. Yes we can!

Liberalism is a symptom of a uneducated untrained mind. Instead of taking care of oneself, Pappy Obama is going to come over and wipe the spittle off my chin each morning? I think not. We are going to pay more for a lot less if this idiot wins

Not sure how Obama winning means we pay more. Sounds like you have drank the Republican coolaide. I like how in all this downturn Exxon makes Billions in profit for the quarter.

My friend you are in the minority. Luckily most of America knows what should be done this time around. I think a landslide is in order and not just for President. The additional US citizen anger will be taken out on the Congress.... Republicans of all offices..you may want to pack your bags just in case.

I love watching this daily Abbott and Costello routine. They are hilarious. They keep telling me what's wrong with the other guy rather than what's right with them and keep slipping further in the polls. But they can't help it. It's the only strategy the conservatives have ever had. McCain can not win unless he wins Pennsylvania and Ohio and Florida and North Carolina and Colorado and Nevada. He's losing in every one. It's all over baby! Hope trounces Fear!

It's not over for McCain, not yet.... I suspect we will continue to see him on TV long after the election, DOING DEPENDS COMMERCIALS! That is what happens to angry old men who are out of touch with reality, live in the past, and can not "control" themselves in the present.
How pathetic an end.

Yes. Finally change will happen! No more McBush republicans in control. Obama has a great plan for all of us. Believe it! YES.. GO OBAMA!!

I much rather take a "wealth spreader" than a "hate spreader". America has lived too long under the umbrella of fear, of a new direction. It's time for CHANGE!

Obama will win. How he governs is the question. We know his associates, we know his menotrs and friends, we know it all. Obama has come amazingly to the center right in his campaign. He is a Fiscal Conservative due largely to the financial melt down. He is becoming Hawkish on Terror and getting Bin Laden. If he governs from the Center we are all in for a treat... If he swings horribly left we are all being Tricked.