Republicans reprise Rezko case

Repubgants, grasping at straws all the way down. The GOP Wingnuts must hate these independent websites that read through all crap and get to the truth.

GOP, Wrong Again!

I also think that they will next say Obama had something to do with the Kennedy Assassination.

There they go again.
They keep doing the same thing thinking they will different results.
Maybe they got attention deficit disorder or senility.
Well I love it because they keep going off message -
Obamas polls will increase again.

I went to the "factcheck" site linked on the site and it does not cover the important point.

Rezko bought a buildable lot next door to Obama. When Rezko sold the slice of land to Obama it rendered Rezko's land unbuildable based on zoning which governs the minimum lot size in that district.

Why would Rezko buy a $300k buildable lot and then sell a slice of it for $100k to Obama to end up with an unbuildable lot, and then have to pay taxes on the unbuildable lot year after year. It really makes no sense for him to do it other than for getting favors or political protection and cover for his corrupt organization which was convicted on 18 counts of public corruption. Now, if your caught 18 times, how many times do you think the person actually committed offenses?

Gee , maybe Alaska Senator Stevens ought to have the same "independent groups" review the free additions to his home? Isn't it amazing how everyone covers for obama? Opps. I forgot, the media is honest.

How about a new move GOP trying something other than to smear the person(s) you are running against.

Mc-Lame does it again! He is so useless to America at this point... Please give me some substance to vote for you on, please!

Please please please: Let's hear more about the Keating 5 - and who's qualified to re-build our financial system.

why would Obama himself state that it was a "boneheaded move" if it was completely legitimate? Why was it boneheaded?

Quite honestly, and I'm not saying this because I am an Obama supporter (or rather a McCain non-supporter), but I 'd expect that any politician achieving the nomination of their party would have their hands a little dirty. Politics is a dirty business. Try to find somone that's pure as the driven snow, and you might end up with another Jimmy Carter, well intentioned, but ineffective.

If not for Jack Abramoff the Rezko issue might have some legs.
Self destruction is an art with the GOP.

Sorry, Repigs. This government needs an enema and you're the dookie.

How desperate can McCain get? What a bunch of sad cases McCain and his band of merry men/women are.

I think Obama had something to do with the Charles Manson murders as well.

McCain = Loser!

Sour Grapes............

Let's do talk Keating 5 and list all of the false accusations the Republicans have thrown out. Suited to lead the country? That old geezer isn't suited to sit in the Senate any longer. McCain graduated almost dead last in his class; Obama graduated at the top. McCain's past includes not just his Keating 5 involvement but a series of failures in the military, cheating on his first wife, and now this campaign.

This whole deal was thoroughly investigated by the Chicago Tribune. They found nothing illegal or unethical on Obama's part. The Chicago Tribune is a very Republican newspaper so they pushed as hard as they could on every lead and angle.

This slander by vague innuendo is so disgusting. If McCain wants to accuse Obama of something, then do it. What utter garbage it is to keep speculating on what is not known. What is McCain's relationship to Rezko? Hmm, I wonder.

Where are all the liberals who wanted Senator Stevens tried for treason and worst for accepting a gift that wasn't even as clearly a gift as this? Plus there is proof that Obama returned the favor by writing a letter for Rezko that got Rezko a $14million contract! There was no proof of returned favors by Senator Stevens. Maybe Obama will get to share a cell with Stevens.

Is it so hard for the McCain campaign to put two and two together? The more the run this kind of campaign the more they drive voters away. I am sorely disappointed in the way John has chosen to conduct himself and his campaign. Shame on you John McCain!

McSleaze - who i and many other people used to respect - is going down in history as a footnote -- a former hero who suceeded in going from Hero to Zero via the same Sleaze by which his mentor George W. Bush slimed him with in the South Carolina election between themselves.

Bush taught him well and won; McSleaze tried it on Obama and lost. THAT ONE '08

Who cares anyway. McCain is an angry little man that let Dubya trample all over him and his family in the 2000 primary election and then offers Bush his support for the last eight years...... No thanks. Maverick my a$$.

God...when are the Republicans going to learn that these scare tactics don't work. It worked for Bush to get support for Iraq war, but after we learn there was no WMD and that he lied, McCain's scare tactics reminds us of the same lies Bush used to persuade the public. Enough -- talk about issues that matter. Not the distorted half truths and lies that make your stunts seem like desperation. Now if McCain's record was 100% clean and he has been an absolute angel, please, McCain, talk about that. To find such a rare gem in a corrupt system when be rare, but don't lie -- remember we all know how to use the internet. Man RNC needs new material that can keep up to the internet age. I wonder if they will use the same playbook in 2012

Man

"I can't wait any longer........I will vote for McCain/Palin with a clear conscience that they are best fot America right now........no problem!!

Obamalamadingdong is being exposed ofr the fraud that he is - and everyone of his Kool Aid drinking (A)Obamanation is willing to believe anything he says.

You people are sad, and should the non-American citizen Obamalamadingdong actually win this election, you will deserve all the socilaist and race-centric policies he will make. Hope ALL of you love every damn thing you have

The McCain camp doesn't get it and I LOVE IT! Keep talking about Obama's associations with people nobody knows or cares about while Obama's campaign hammers away on the economy, middle class, and healthcare.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank John McCain for his efforts to make this election an electoral landslide so I can go to bed earlier next Tuesday. Greatly appreciated.

McCain should have confronted Obama at the debates with this, not waited until he was hopelessly behind. Barrack Obama is going to win this election unless he actually pisses on the American flag in his next infomercial.

Obama has admitted asking Resko for a favor to help him buy his house. That is part of the public record. Well at least he has admitted to "mentioning it" to him and the fact that the owner required that they close on the subdivided property on the same day. There is really no dispute on the facts of this case, just on what might have been expected in return for this favor. Maybe Obama honestly thought that this was a mutually beneficial deal and would not constitute a "favor", but it is hard to see how Resko wouldn't have thought that Obama and the Democratic Party wouldn't owe him something after buying this lot for Obama. Resko was the Democratic Party's mover and shaker and go to guy when politicians needed something, in return Resko got his people appointed to state commissions which he then used to extort the public for bribes when people needed a license or permit. The press has been under reporting this from the beginning. If Ted Stevens is guilty, then so is Barrack Obama.

Is that the best they can do?
LOSERS
Why not talk about Cindy MaCain's felony behavior stealing narcotics ??

"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you no sense of decency?"
-- Joseph N. Welsh, June 9, 2954, to Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Smear, smear,smear. Inow refuse to vote for a single Republican as a protest for the sleazy smear tactics of the last three elections. I just can't believe just how low E. Dole has sunken in her unimaginable latest smear ad. Shame on you Elizabeth!

independent websites? If you think for one second the Globe is objective you're sadly mistaken. Please......

Obama the capitialist paid market price for Rezko's land. Rezko had no criminal record at the time. McCain took actual bribes from Keating. McCain violated USMCJ having affairs with subordinates. Palin illegally got reimbursed by AK for false per diem and her kids care.

I must confess that I once voted republican. But THIS republican party is not the same party it used to be. In fact, I now find myself despising the republican party and everything it stands for. After 4 years of Bush 41 I voted for Clinton. Thank God! And I have voted democrat ever since and will never, ever vote republican again. The republicans can not win an election by running on their records or the issues important to this country. So, they resort to despicable assault tactics and diversions. Divisive, attacking smears is the best they can come up with. They have a has-been candidate with a clueless running mate that can't win without standing in front of us and lying while they smile and wink at the camera and call us "friends". McCain, I am no friend of yours and I no longer respect you, your service to this nation, or your courage as a POW. You sicken me and anger me as much now as George W. Bush. Retire to Arizona and dry up like the desert.

can any of you libs give me ONE accomplishment Obama has done in his professional career that makes you confident he can be the president of the US. I'm not looking for a bunch of words just real accomplishments in his proffesional life that makes you believe he is ready to take the helm as the US President.

The problem is you can't name 1.........

Rezko got his money, including what he used to purchase the lot next to Obama's mansion, from Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi. How come nobody has tried to figure out Obama's direct connection to Auchi? At the times when Obama was mentioned in the Rezko, the association was with Auchi, who Obama toasted at Rezko's party. I guess we will only know about these things after the election. That is, after the media has secured this election for Obama.

I think the US needs to take a hard look at Obama. His economic & health programs will nullify the monetary gain aspect of further education. What is one of the easiest ways to save money under a government run health care system? Pay the providers less. So, doctors, nurses and administrative personnel will be paid much, much less. Therefore, there will begin to be a shortage of providers. On top of that if you start providing free medical care to everyone, hospitals and doctor's offices will not be able to handle the volume of patients. Can you say selective treatment? Will your 60 year old mother be denied an operation because the 23 year old illegal alien gets the operation needed just because there is not enough resources to do both? Ask someone from Canada about getting an operation. Compare their wait time of months to the current time in the US of days - weeks. His tax plans are merely class warfare. Take from rich (very small percentage of people) and give to the poor (very large percentage). When you rob Peter to pay Paul, you will never get a complaint from Paul. Of course he is going to get a majority of the vote from poor uneducated people. What they don't understand is that his plan will put their boss or company out of business, and then they won't have a job. His 95% of the people will get a tax cut is a lie. Do you make over 97k per year? If you do you will get a tax increase. He is talking about removing the cap on the social security tax which is currently set at 97k. So his promise that you won't see a tax increase unless you make more than 250k is a lie. Once he starts this you will see a gradual shift towards equalizing income. Anyone making over the median income in the US will soon be taxed 100% over the median. Why spend years in school to become an engineer or doctor when you can make the same amount of money at your local fast food restaurant? He will raise the capital gains. Investors will stop buying and selling or at least not do as much business. His tax plans will create an environment with no incentive for anyone to start a business or even stay in business. The median will start sliding lower and lower. All businesses will then start being regulated by the government so everyone has a job. Capitalism will be dead at this point and then America will fail. This is exactly what Obama wants. He will get it if he wins the white house due to having Pelosi & Reed in the house and senate.

The GOP; Grand Old Phonys!

Even if Obama did do anything wrong, which by all legal accounts, he has NOT......

McCain has recieved a freakin' cell phone tower among other gifts from his lobbyist buddies like Rick Davis and Charlie Black....

Not to mention Palin who has recieved many gifts for herself and her children while in Alaska, not to mention the $150,000 shopping spree using donor money....

The Rezko, Wright, Ayers attacks have not worked.......Its just sick that a person cant even be seen with someone who has screwed up in life somehow and not be guilty by association.......what kind of a world accepts the idea that you are who you've been seen talking to a couple of times???

What about Gordon Liddy? He was part of the watergate break ins and McCain says that he is what America is a all about, he said that he's a good man? Obama hasn't once made comments about McCain's association with a such a crook.

Here is what get's me about alot of these comments. Obama smears just as bad as McCain. In fact, he is spending a lot more money than McCain to smear. They are both smearing and telling half truths. If the Obama people think that everything that Obama says is truth they are fooling themselves.

So, the question isn't who is telling the truth or smearing more, it is who, if anyone can we rely on more to run this country? You have to cut through the crap on both sides and get down to that. How often, really, has anyone running for office kept his promises?

We have to figure out what the true agenda is behind both men. That is why it is important to know what there backgrounds are. It actually isn't about the issues! It is about the person. Do you think that things like the economy happened overnight, or that it will always be an up economy? That's scary.
It's about the person.

How does the coolaide tatse? The Mesiah according to Farikahn. He sat in a church as his pastor said God damn America. He went from the political wilderness to running for President in 5 short years. Folks, you aren't voting against W, you are voting for a man with no experience, no background, no history at all.

Tell me one thing Obama has done for Ilinois the last three years ;but take are money;if you can, i'll vote for him!!

According to a US Army colonel who was incarcerated in the same Vietnamese POW camp as McCain, he's no more a hero than he is Supergirl; while other Americans were undergoing torture and keeping their mouths shut, McCain was screaming our everything he knew to avoid tough questioning. Fortunately, all he seemed to know was how to crash a very expensive taxpayer-owned airplane.

And Palin is a known ethics violator who has proven she'll use her office for personal revenge, regardless of the legalities; and she has no idea what the Vice President's job really is. We don't need these two losers in office.

Guilt by association? How about McCain and Pinochet? How about McCain donating to the Contra Death Squads?

When greedy Wall Street and shoddily run corporations need a bail-out from Uncle Sam, Republicans claim that capitalism works. When middle class and blue collar folks ask for an even playing field, Republicans cry socialism. Perhaps with more "capitalists" like Duke Cunningham and Ted Stevens in jail, Republicans will rethink their support for unbridled capitalism at any cost.

YAWN...

McCain is again talking about Rezko

Yawn...

Question for McCain: if the voters didn't care about Rezko 2 months ago, why do you think they will care about Rezko today?

Do you smell something? It is the stench of McCain's desperation. I'll be holding my nose until after Nov 4.

Okay, Mick, I'll bite. According to McCain, Obama brought something like $900 million in earmarked appropriations back to Illinois. Nowhere near as much per person as Alaska got, but it's something.

While the Republicans try to smear Obama, Sen. Ted Stevens who a mentor to Palin is CONVICTED of a crime. While Republicans try to smear Obama, Palin is spending the money donated to the RNC, to the Republican party, on clothes, expensive hotels for her and her family to stay in, spending money to clean up her "first dude" husband, spending money sent by well meaning Republican supporters.... While the Republicans try to smear Obama they neglect to mention the adulterer McCain's involvement in the Keating 5 Savings & Loan scandals of the 1980s.
GOP = greedy opportunitistic prevaricators

I find it so refreshing that none of McCain's sneaky & distorted attacks are having any effect on the electorate. Voters are just not buying it this time. McCain throws unfounded personal attacks at Obama, while Obama hammers on the issues -- and guess who is winning? This is the way the political system ought to work! I hope the Republicans learn a lesson so that next time around we can have a genuine contest between two candidates based on their stands on issues, not personal attacks.

OMG, will this old man go home and go to bed already? What is he going to be doing on November 5, starting a movement to impeach Obama?

Sigh.

McCain, why can't you go out with a little grace. It is really tragic to see you stoop to this junk, it isn't going to win you any votes at this point..

For those trying to dig this up: it has been examined. No law broken. As for comparing Obama to Ted Stevens, it is a non-issue. Ted broke laws, Obama didn't, get over it.

Yes Obama has spent more money, because he has been flooded with money from individuals, like me.

Candidates have kept their promises in the past. We have had some pretty good presidents. Clinton did leave office with a budget surplus. Nixon did open up China to American trade. Roosevelt did get the country moving out of the depression.

There are smears and there are smears. Obama has run the most decent campaign I have seen in a long time. There is a reason dirty campaigning is called "swiftboating". It is because Republicans perfected the art of the dirty campaign. Just as there is a reason a scandal always has "gate" tacked onto it. It is because Republicans perfected the art of Presidential scandal with Nixon.

This is the first time I have seen average people have hope in a long time. I doubt Obama will be able to accomplish everything, we will still have Republicans trying to make their careers and fortunes by blocking him. But if he gets in office, we will have won our respect in the world back. And that is a huge accomplishment.

To #29, Sen. McCain was accused but not found guilty of any wrong doing in the Keating 5 debacle. It was the other 4 Democratic US Senators, led by Sen. Cranston, who were heavily involved in the case that awarded them either dismissal or reprimands by the Ethics Committee. Since John McCain, at the time, was on the House Banking Committee, he got absorbed into the whole mess due the Democrats wrong doing.

Here's the bottom line. This has already been investigated and nothing turned up. Maybe there's more there, maybe there isn't. I'm inclined to think there isn't, but I am by no means claiming to know for certain that this is the case.

That said, there are 2 major issues here that make this a no win situation for McCain to start doing this now. First, even if there is something there, there's no way any legal matters will be resolved (or even started) by the election, so anything that could happen to Obama would be after he's already elected President. Second, after the campaign that he has run, McCain could release real pictures of Obama pissing on an original copy of the Constitution while standing next to Osama bin Laden who is burning a flag and drinking blood in front of a picture of Satan and everyone would think it was fake.

John McCain has cried wolf far too many times for any accusations he makes (factual or not) to carry any weight whatsoever with anyone who already doesn't think that Obama is a Muslim, a marxist, was born in Kenya, is a member of the PLO and eats babies.

@39 "Tell me one thing Obama has done for Ilinois the last three years ;but take are money;if you can, i'll vote for him!!"

If you had any interest in voting for him, you would quit demanding to be spoon fed like a spoiled brat. Get off you duff and do your own research or stay home. He doesn't need your vote, and you probably aren't old enough to vote anyway.

What's 300,000, give or take when you are paying 1.6 million for a humble, all american, middle class, stratching your way up from the beaches of Hawaii house?

What if Republicans aren't "just being mean, nasty racist, homophobic neocons"? What if the accusations are true? Would it make a bit of difference to Obama supporters? I think not and that's what I find most frightening about this whole mess.

To respond to Obama's accomplishments: Without even looking at his career as a senator or any government, he graduated from HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, and he did a little something with the HARVARD LAW REVIEW. It takes someone pretty special to do that. McCain graduated what 894 out of 899 of his class and don't forget he had daddy's phone calls to get him out of trouble. Ok, so now you need brain surgery. Do you want the person who graduated first in the class from Harvard or the guy from a naval family who graduated nearly dead last from a school run by the navy. Why are republicans so narcissistic that they think they level of intellectual prowess if worthy of running this country?

Guy Fawkes- Don't insult the honor of Senator McCain. He had the chance to come home- out of the Hanoi Hilton, but he stayed because he thought it was unfair to leave other service members whose Fathers were not Admirals had to stay. Whoever told you he was screaming everything is as much of a lying SOB as that Sen. from Illinois that you and the other idiots from Lala land are putting on a pedestal. From men that were there, the truth. From this US Army Colonel, who you did not name, the truth knows not.

I don't think i will be voting for a Man who doesn't honor the American Flag, Who removed the U S Flag from his plane, Who supports abortion, Who has a Wife that for the 1st time is proud of our country, GOD have mercy on this country if OBAMA
is elected. Do yourselves a favor and check his background before you vote, He scares the hell out of me.

next mccain will be saying obama was the second gunmen in the grassy noll, or obama sabataged buddy holly's plane

Monk: Tony Rezko stole money that was given by society for the poor. He bought off politicians to provide political cover for his corrupt organization.

Obama wags his finger at politicians who are bought off by lobbyists yet got caught red handed with a convicted felon (18 counts of public corruption). This points to the fact that Obama's rhetoric is completely opposite of his record, he actually was a politician on the take and he did provide political cover to a convicted felon. As Obama graduated he went right back to his old tricks, he got the second most amount of graft from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He has a good nose for the scam artists and he gets right to the front of line.

The house lot next to Obama's house was actually boughtby Rezko's wife for $625k the same day Obama bought his house. Is that a coincidence. Foon Rhee, do you think Obama is really being "Tarred"? Are you absolutely kidding? He buys his house randomly the same day a convicted felon tied up in the Chicago Rackets, a guy that financed his campaign? You think that doesn't stink? Foon Rhee either you don't have a journalistic sense or you're just carrying water for Obama. When you dig a little, you find out that the access to the "garden" Rezko lot is not buildable. That is graft plain and simple.

Obama is dirty. You guys want him to be what your hopes and dreams are because you yearn to have a vessel of hope, but this guy is a lying dirty politician. Guard your dreams and aspirations and give them to someone with a track record and some callouses on their hands.

@ 32 "can any of you libs give me ONE accomplishment Obama has done in his professional career that makes you confident he can be the president of the US. I'm not looking for a bunch of words just real accomplishments in his proffesional life that makes you believe he is ready to take the helm as the US President.

The problem is you can't name 1........."

If he can run the country half as well as he has run his campaign, we will be in great shape. He is an expert in constitutional law. He received over 600 job offers from firms all over the country before he even graduated from law school. He did great work on bringing attention to the issue of loose nuclear weapons.

In Illinois he sponsored bills that gave health insurance to 150,000 kids. Required Illinois to begin using renewable energy, required all interrogations be taped, required tougher lobbying laws.

And don't forget that now all federal contracts (including no bid contracts) are required to be posted on the Internet and are viewable by all Americans. No more sweetheart deals to Haliburton.

Senator Obama has sponsored or co-sponsored 570 bills in the 109th and 110th Congress.

Senator Obama has sponsored or co-sponsored 15 bills that have become LAW since he joined the Senate in 2005.

Senator Obama has also introduced amendments to 50 bills, of which 16 were adopted by the Senate.

His record is in fact quite impressive for a junior Senator from Illinois.

Most of his legislative effort has been in the areas of:

Energy Efficiency and Climate Change (25 bills)
Health care (21 bills) and public health (20 bills)
Consumer protection/labor (14 bills)
The needs of Veterans and the Armed Forces (13 bills)
Congressional Ethics and Accountability (12 bills)
Foreign Policy (10 bills)
Voting and Elections (9 bills)
Education (7 bills)
Hurricane Katrina Relief (6)
The Environment (5 bills)
Homeland Security (4 bills)
Discrimination (4 bills)
He's been pretty busy. Just because something isn't shoved up your nose, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

This is their October surprise. In other elections this might work, but NOT this one.

The boy who cried "wolf"....over, and over, and over again.

In Alaska they spel Obama S-T-E-V-E-N-S, and we all know what just happened to him. Then again, Stevens only had $250K improvements to his home. Obama got $300K worth of house so he'll get a pass from those in power. He deserves it. He's special.

The facts are that the Seller (Owner) would ONLY sell both the house and the lot as one sale. Therefore, Obama could not afford both so he called on his pal Rezko. Obama bought the house at a discounted price and Rezko's WIFE bought the lot at TOP dollar! Fishy...YOU BET!

McCain shouldnt be talking about other peoples houses when he can't count how many they own, while the rest of America is worried about losing their home, or at least losing 40% of the equity in it. SArah Palin's 150k in a month on clothes is nothing, Cindy McCain spent twice that in ONE NIGHT on clothes at the convention. And you can be sure they aint goin' to charity.

McCain shouldnt be talking about other peoples houses when he can't count how many they own, while the rest of America is worried about losing their home, or at least losing 40% of the equity in it. SArah Palin's 150k in a month on clothes is nothing, Cindy McCain spent twice that in ONE NIGHT on clothes at the convention. And you can be sure they aint goin' to charity.

When is McCain going to offer an idea rather than attack Obama? I had respect for McCain, but I have lost it. Obama continues to put ideas out, talk about unity, and focus on the future while McCain does nothing but run around attacking anything his stick hits as it's swinging.

Stop insulting us. WE ARE NOT IDIOTS. The "it's true because I say it" technique has been decimated by the Bush crew.

i logged this already. sorry. it fits.

I just saw the Daily Show interview with Barack Obama.

8 minutes. Not once did he talk badly about McCain or Palin, not once did he say he was a doddering old fascist, that he palled around with fascists, or that his cabinet will be packed with lobbyists for the oil industry, for the late Saddam Hussein, etc... Not once did he point out that not only can Palin not answer easy questions, she apparently doesn't understand the questions themselves, because her talking points and the voice of god are clanking around in her head at the same time. What a disgraceful pair.

Bravo Obama: You have been an excellent and gracious role model for our young people. You unite, you bring together, you want consensus, you seek peace, you show that problems and differences can be discussed and resolved. And if you become a president, you will become a very great one.

Bravo, Barack Obama, for keeping your cool, for being judicious, for maintaining your sense of humor. You smile and above all, you smile at yourself (that is something all Jewish voters should feel comfortable with, we know that our humor is self-deprecatory).

Bravo, Barack Obama, for being a true Christian, compassionate and understanding, damn you, you even understand those mean-spirited, and venal racists in this country, who are so proud of their ignorance, they post it over and over again. I could not do that, you are teaching an older man like myself a great deal. Thank you.

And bravo, Barack Obama, for even running the run and giving us a glimpse of how great this nation can be, so big, so generous, so compassionate and positive, it even leaves wide open spaces for those hateful imbeciles like joe the plumber and allows them their moment of fame. He did not even notice your compassion, and if Mc/Palin win on Nov 4th, by Nov. 5th he will have been chewed, spit out and forgotten by those uppity republicans. He will remember you the next time round.

Bravo, Barack Obama, for inspiring young people again and giving them something to hope for after a band of McCarthyite, power-hungry lobbyists and venal pols lowered the bar so far that all that remain are drugs and video games to entertain oneself. Learning has become the enemy, and we know why now. You said one phrase in one speech I accidentally caught (I am a print man and have the news from everywhere to cover) that shook me deeply and showed me that you understood: "switch off your televisions..." and think for yourself is the rejoinder. Bravo for that courage. McCain may have been courageous in the Hanoi Hilton, but it was an accident that he landed there, not his choosing and will. You have your own courage, and that is your readiness to challenge us to think beyond ourselves, beyond our narcissism. Those who will not vote for you are missing an opportunity of a century.

Good luck and bless you Barack Obama.

The GOP of 2008: What are we going to be afraid of next?.....The party of fear, intolerance and scandal......the GOP is definitely looking to become the permanent minority party in this Country. Maybe the emergence of Palin will spur a true 3rd Party-- a place that the "wingnuts" can truly call home

It is interesting that the only way Republicans can win is to smear the name of their opponent. Do they try to have better ideas? no. Do they come up with better ways to help the middle class? no

They are always out to bring the candidated DOWN to their level.

A complete desperation. I am glad it's over next tuesday. I need some one that will talk about important issues. Here are some pointers for McCain just in case he forgot as to why he is in this election.

Health Care Reform, Tax Reform for both Personal and Corporate, Education reform including out of control college costs, End Iraq War and restore America's credibility. Obama is my choice. McCain has lost it.

This is an amzaing country we live in. The country is in debt for $11T on the books (not counting the $40T we owe retiring baby-boomers) and not one person in the election or MSM is talking about balancing the buget. We have a president in office who has run the debt from $4.5T to $11T and what do we do about it?
we elect someone who believes in BIG GOVERNMENT, but has not said one word about how is going to enforce "pay as you go."
We have the MSM campainging for one side and the other side represented by bozo the clown.

Is anyone paying attention at all?

palin mccains senility and joe the pl. made me vote for obama. at least he acts likea real man, not some p....

Just more from Mc-Caine and Un-Able

Posted by Oregon4Obama

"The Rezko, Wright, Ayers attacks have not worked.......Its just sick that a person cant even be seen with someone who has screwed up in life somehow and not be guilty by association.......what kind of a world accepts the idea that you are who you've been seen talking to a couple of times???"

I beg to differ!

A couple of times? Who are YOU trying to deceive? Obama attended Wright's church for 20 years, was married by Wright, his children baptised (or nearly waterboarded?) by Wright and you have the AUDACITY to suggest he only talked to him a "couple of times"?

A couple of times: Do you REALLY believe that the efforts it took, the agreements that had to be reached and all the logistics of the home purchase and Rezko buys the lot next door within 24 hours only required a "couple" of meetings?

A couple of times: Attending a dinner where anti-semitism now appears to have been the dinner theme once again with Bill Ayers whom Nobama said was just a "guy who lives down the street and then dines in Ayers' home and serves on Boards with is a little more than a "couple" of meetings.

These are NOT people nobody knows about or doesn't care about.
They are people you and your kind don't want to TALK about!

I am only eighteen and I understand that this smear campaigns are not doing it for McCain. WHY CAN'T HE GET IT? I don't care how Obama got his house, I just want to know how my parents can keep theirs. Talk about the facts that we care about, grey haired dude. I am voting for the first time ever and I am smart enough to say no to Mcsame and failin Palin.
OBAMA 08!

I only see two types of people in this election:
1) People how love Obama:
2) People who hate Obama

GOP is loosing because they tried to create more people to hate Obama rather than getting more people to love McCain. After winning two elections on divisive politics of hatred, finally this election, majority of people have realised that our hate shouldn't be the reason to elect some one. May be Obama doesn't have as much experience as McCain, but throughout the election he didn't hit McCain below the belt. This shows the character of the man. GOP supporters, its time for some introspection. Spreading hatred is the same tool terrorist use against us all over the world. You can't kill hatred by more hatred. Think about being more positive and less negative on everything!!

This is getting sad. McCain used to be a man of honor and integrity, but he has thrown it all away in a losing bid for the White House. He would have done better if he really had run an honorable campaign, but instead he bought into the Rove smear tactics. Those tactics worked for Bush, who had no integrity to begin with, but they are failing for McCain, who should have known better. McCain is losing because he offers nothing more than name-calling and mud-slinging. He should regret this campaign for the rest of his life.

obama said he chose his friends carefully. marxist professors, when i choose my friends i choose people who have things in common with me, this single comment by obama is enough for anyone with an iq above 75 to know exactly what he is, however if you add all the other associations he has, his spread the wealth comments, his tape recording about wealth redistribution, even a person with the iq of a retarded chimp should know the man is a marxist there is no question about it.

If this is SO important - why is this latest attack staged for the last weekend of the campaign? Why not at the moment Obama was the Democratic Nominee? To file a formal complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee TODAY looks a little desperate or trying to deflect from Ted Stevens. Gee, Republicans are either soliciting males pages or soliciting undercover male police officers in bathrooms or as OpenSecrets.org reports, “In amounts ranging from $200 to $2,300, about 30 partners and employees of the legal firm Keating, Muething and Klekamp, as well as their family members, have contributed $50,200 to McCain’s 2008 campaign.” The country is in a recession, and McCain keeps taking donations from criminals who almost cost McCain his cushy job in the Senate 20 years ago.

To #50. McCain being able to officially dodge the election laws doesn't make him innocent. McCain was the only one of the five with close social and personal ties to Keating while interfering on his behalf.

McCain had received $112,000 in contributions from Keating and his associates. McCain's wife and her father had invested $300k in a Keating shopping center before McCain met with the regulators. McCain made nine trips at Keating's expense aboard Keating's jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating's opulent Bahamas retreat. McCain did not pay Keating for the trips until years after they were taken, when he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln. McCain was bought by Keating. Obama and Rezko have 1 market price, legal transaction.

Independents, please note one fact each time you hear or see the many commericials from Obama -- they are all being paid with money which Obama promised three times not to take -- but did. He signed a statement saying he would accept public financing which would limit his spending, but he broke his word. He said publicly that he would debate John McCain before making a decision (one he had already promised, but was mindful of breaking if it suited his purpose) on whether to then reject the public financing spending limits. Then, he said this same thing a second time -- Obama never spoke to McCain about this. So, as every commercial being paid by Obama is now being paid with cash which shows he can't exactly be trusted to keep his word on this, remember that such a person really can't be trusted on anything else either. McCain kept the same promise which Obama did not. Obama may or may not be a closet Muslim, but he certainly breaks his word and he certainly has befriended Muslim radicals. I don't wonder why because Obama is a bit un-American -- anti-Victory, anti-white and quite for only what is most distasteful -- putting those to death who survived abortions even though they could live like he was allowed to live -- Obama: death to those who survive and sex education at kindergarden for those he missed.

Seriously -- I understand the desire to publish vivid, colorful language and verbs that "pop". But "TAR"? Surely a more appropriate word could have been used here. I'm very disappointed.

The only thing that I have heard from McNuthead during this whole campaign is negative,sleazy smears and lies. This man has now resorted to a level that is lower than a snake. There is an old saying, that you can't make friends with a rattlesnake. How can anyone trust this man to lead our country and deal with foreign countries. I believe that the public will now see him for what he is and not the hero that he claims to be. He only had about 20 hours of combat, crashed some expensive airplanes because of pilot error, and as I understand it, he was bombing civilian areas when he was shot down. Sitting in prison doesn't make a man a hero nor qualify him for president.

McCain is done. He will retire in peace and have a wonderful long life, but Republicans, please send Sarah back to Alaska, even if she wants to take all the pricy clothes with her, and ask her to stay there and not come back for 2012.

"Open your Eyes" may be you are a retarded chimp because you can't see that last thirty years republicans have redistributed the wealth by giving more to the rich and taking from the middle class. The tax rate was close to 91% for top tier in teh 70s, today it is 36%. The wealthy are more wealthy and everyone else gets the short end of the stick. Billionaires don't become rich because they make all the money. It's the hard working middle class mules in their companies who generate all that wealth. Obama's plan only raises taxes on the rich by 3% and gives us all a break. This is not socialism but fair taxation. I am sure Warren Buffet who supports Obama is far more smarter than you are~

Like all of us, Barak Obama is not perfect -- he said so, and also said he will not be a perfect president. Don't we deserve an imperfect but passionate, bright, articulate, thoughtful and creative statesman? Isn't it time for all us as a nation to once again be excited about possibilities? Let's be selfish -- it is our time to shine. Let's see if we can "win some victory for humanity", as Horace Mann suggested we do, so we are not "embarrased to die". I sure want to try.

HA, HA, HA, YOU WHITE ASSES HAVE HAD YOUR DAY, NOW IT OUR DAY. SO JUST SIT BACK AND RELAX , WE AFRICAN , BLACKS WILL SHOWEES YOUES THE WAYS/..........ARCHIE

#60...McCain has more experience in his big toe than Obama has in his whole life. And what does Obama's education mean when compared to McCain's life of service to this country?

Obama will walk through that door guarded by giant sphnix to the Oval Office, not because he is a magician, but by way of statmanship, patience, intellegence, and vision for this great country that is showing signs of losing stamina under the repulican leadership. My guts go for THAT ONE! Don't let your country down, vote for THAT ONE!

Again with this Rezko thing? Instead of focusing on the economy, health care or education, McCain focuses on the most insignificant, non-issues. McCain, you are wasting our time.

And, by the way, are you still taking money from G. Gordon Liddy and Charles Keating?

obama09 you are not very bright, if you think i'm gonna buy you ignorant comments, for 1 my post was on what obama himself said about choosing friends and wealth redistribution, 2 there is a big difference between a graduated tax and actually giving more money back to people than they payed in or just giving money to people who payed zero taxes, one system is using tax revenue to pay for necessary government cost such as defense and the like, the other is trying to equalize the classes (1 of many marxist principals) I would recommend you go back to whatever liberal school you went to and ask one of your marxist professors for help before debating someone like me.

Obamao9 our system is not here to give you a break it is here for you to pursue life,liberty and happiness, and that is on your own dime not on a dime taken from someone else and handed to you. after looking at you comment maybe you should actually read about communism, and socialism, 1st so you actually know what they are and second to see how they have failed in very short periods of time in every society that has adopted them, and just saying it is not socialism is not going to change the fact that it is. if you want a free ride move to cuba or north korea they are both still trying forms of the failed systems you seem to like.

Two words: "Joe Vogler"

Don't know who he is? Sarah and Todd Palin pal around with his group. Google up "Joe Vogler Alaska"

You'll be amazed. "God Damn America" indeed!

the scary part is that there are idiots out there who will bite on this and flip to McSame. This COULD eat into a % point. These are the same idiots that voted for Bush in '04 based on nothing more then a personality.

What an acidic and corrosive group of people the Republicans posting here are. They all sound like a bad caricature of the Rush Limbach show. My God, are there really people ignorant enough to believe all the nonsense they read about Obama? I can see not agreeing with his policies or stands, but get a grip on reality. I'd suggest these people had been brainwashed - but it looks like all it took was a light rinse.

It's unfortunate that it took a global financial crisis for people to finally see what the core Republicans have been doing since the Reagan Era - throwing small bait fish to the common folks while pulling in trawlers full of tuna for the mega money people.

ho ho idiots dream on about obama, same idiot that got rid of kennedy will get rid of obama...