Obama, McCain make final pitches

It is crazy that Obama doesn't have to prove he's an american when we all have to
so why is it different for him this whole campaign has been about race and obama
has made sure of that.He's is counting on that because that's the only way he could beat McCain.It is crazy to expect everyone else to show prove of where we are from and our leaders don't have too.I now feel like there is evidence that obama isn't who he claims to be.I have swore to protect American from foreign and domestic terrorism but never did i expect it would be in the Presidency.
I'm a Democrat but now I'm voting for McCain and stop obama from finishing the
terrorist job on Sep.11.We have to come together all races,creeds,and colors and
stop Obama and his terrorist pals.

Obama has proved he is a citizen, fool. Check your facts factckek.org!

As Americans render what Catholics call temporal judgment on George Bush, are they aware of the radical course correction they are about to make?

This center-right country is about to vastly strengthen a liberal Congress whose approval rating is 10 percent and implant in Washington a regime further to the left than any in U.S. history. Consider.

As of today, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat, anticipates gains of 15-30 seats. Sen. Harry Reid, whose partisanship grates even on many in his own party, may see his caucus expand to a filibuster-proof majority where he can ignore Republican dissent.

Headed for the White House is the most left-wing member of the Senate, according to the National Journal. To the vice president's mansion is headed Joe Biden, third-most liberal as ranked by the National Journal, ahead of No. 4, Vermont Socialist Bernie Sanders.

What will this mean to America? An administration that is either at war with its base or at war with the nation.

(Column continues below)

America may desperately desire to close the book on the Bush presidency. Yet there is, as of now, no hard evidence it has embraced Obama, his ideology, or agenda. Indeed, his campaign testifies, by its policy shifts, that it is fully aware the nation is still resisting the idea of an Obama presidency.

In the later primaries, even as a panicked media were demanding that Hillary drop out of the race, she consistently routed Obama in Ohio and Pennsylvania and crushed him in West Virginia and Kentucky.

By April and May, the Democratic Party was manifesting all the symptoms of buyer's remorse over how it had voted in January and February.

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Obama's convention put him eight points up. But, as soon as America heard Sarah Palin in St. Paul, the Republicans shot up 10 points and seemed headed for victory.

What brought about the Obama-Biden resurgence was nothing Obama and Biden did, but the mid-September crash of Fannie, Freddie, Lehman Brothers, AIG, the stock market, where $4 trillion was wiped out, the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street that enraged Middle America – and John McCain's classically inept handling of the crisis.

In short, Obama has still not closed the sale. Every time America takes a second look at him, it has second thoughts, and backs away.

Even after the media have mocked and pilloried Palin and ceded Obama and Biden victory in all four debates, the nation, according to Gallup, is slowly moving back toward the Republican ticket.

Moreover, Obama knows Middle America harbors deep suspicions of him. Thus, he has jettisoned the rhetoric about the "fierce urgency of now," and "We are the people we've been waiting for," even as he has jettisoned position after position to make himself acceptable.

His "flip-flops" testify most convincingly to the fact that Obama knows that where he comes from is far outside the American mainstream. For what are flip-flops other than concessions that a position is untenable and must be abandoned?

Flip-flopping reveals the prime meridian of presidential politics. If an analyst will collate all the positions to which all the candidates move, he will find himself close to the true center of national politics.

Thus, though he is the nominee of a party that is in thrall to the environmental movement, Obama has signaled conditional support for offshore drilling and pumping out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

While holding to his pledge for a pullout of combat brigades from Iraq in 16 months, he has talked of "refining" his position and of a residual U.S. force to train the Iraqi army and deal with al-Qaida.

On Afghanistan, he has called for 10,000 more troops and U.S. strikes in Pakistan to kill bin Laden, even without prior notice or the permission of the Pakistani government.

Since securing the nomination, Obama has adopted the Scalia position on the death penalty for child rape and the right to keep a handgun in the home. He voted to give the telecoms immunity from prosecution for colluding in Bush wiretaps. This onetime sympathizer of the Palestinians now does a passable imitation of Ariel Sharon.

No Democrat has ever come out of the far left of his party to win the presidency. McGovern, the furthest left, stayed true to his convictions and lost 49 states.

Obama has chosen another course. Though he comes out of the McGovern-Jesse Jackson left, he has shed past positions like support for partial-birth abortion as fast as he has shed past associations, from William Ayers to ACORN, from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to his fellow parishioners at Trinity United.

One question remains: Will a President Obama, with his party in absolute control of both Houses, revert to the politics and policies of the left that brought him the nomination, or resist his ex-comrades' demands that he seize the hour and impose the agenda ACORN, Ayers, Jesse and Wright have long dreamed of?

Whichever way he decides, he will be at war with them, or at war with us. If Barack wins, a backlash is coming.

Wait until Obama starts trying to make changes to the Constitution...

With political party conventions only days away and the General Election less than three months away, presumed Democratic Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Hussein Obama is still largely seen as a mystery-man. Exactly who is this ambitious young candidate? Where is he coming from? What is his philosophy, his record, and his aim? Described as a “Liberal”, does not his record more accurately indicate a radical of Socialist orientation?

While charming, charismatic, intelligent, and articulate in speech, with a certain spell-binding harangue, his campaign message is mostly muted slogans and cloudy visions of “change”. Where did he pick up this “change” mantra? A century ago the slogan ”CHANGE” was a regularly used code word in the world of international Marxism.

Rather than focusing on specific policy issues, Obama prefers rhetorical sloganeering and visions of undefined “change”. Where he occasionally finds it necessary to take an issue-position, frequently this is found conflicting with a past statement. Issue flip-flopping marks him as just another clever politician telling people what they want to hear, rather than a fresh agent of “change”. In this, Obama seems caught in a tight box, trying to please diverse elements of his Democrat party—moderates versus radicals. In order to avoid being identified with an African-American tendency toward “victim politics”, Obama has now placed his activist wife, Michelle, into a silent mode.

But we do know that Obama favors Affirmative Action, Racial Quotas, Victim Politics, Abortion-on-Demand, Free-flow Immigration, Feminism, Tax-and-Spend, Liberal Judges, Radical Environmentalism, and now Zionism. He’s for “saving the planet” by not drilling for oil, and opposes expansion of new coal or nuclear energy. His energy “fixes” are visionary and speculative—no immediate solutions, with hopeful expectations far into the future. Meanwhile, get a tire gauge because Obama says tire inflation reduces oil consumption. This is not exactly Rocket Science. But if you can’t take public transportation, get a bicycle. Automobiles and trucks are a threat to the planet. Radical “environmentalism” is the “change” he wants.

Obama’s foreign policy calls for an abrupt end of the Iraq War (occupation), with a newly-found strong support of Israel (another flip-flop). In confrontation with Iran and Pakistan, Obama leaves “all options on the table”, including military expeditions. Troops would not “come home”, but most would transfer to Afghanistan, and naval forces would stay in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. So, where is the “change” here? To reinforce a sense of patriotism, Obama seems focused on erasing rumors that he may be a Muslim.

But, no matter, gurus of the Press, TV, Hollywood and Manhattan have practically anointed Obama as supreme leader of the global New Order. He is “The One”! His “celebrity” image is reinforced by an enormous ego, unusual even in the political realm—”I am the One”, as he says. Some call it natural ambition; others call it arrogance and false pride.

However, this expected coronation will still have to await the national election process. Although there’s heavy Democratic reliance on controversial “Motor-Voter” new enrollments and “get-out-the-vote” campaigns, there’s still worry about what “Joe Six Pack” and those odd folks out in the sticks—“stubbornly and sentimentally attached to guns and religion”—might do behind the curtain in the voting booth. There’s also worry about the large element of independent voters who may view him as too inexperienced and risky.

The public has been force-fed images of Obama-adulation crowds abroad in numbers seldom seen since European Socialist and Marxist mobs went wild for dictators 75 to 90 years ago. Many Europeans have been slowly brainwashed to forget their once-proud cultural heritages, and manipulated to embrace International Socialism. So they cheer Rock-Star Obama’s boast that he’s a “Citizen of the World” (New Order codeword). After all, the human race must be homogenized and separated from any notion of nationalism. In Berlin Obama shouts, “all walls must come down”. Presumably, this includes any walls on the Mexican border, as well.

Simplistically hoping for “change” in these uncertain and troubled times, those who favor the Socialist agenda of “Big Government” see Obama as the secular “messiah”, who would part the waters separating us and bring us to the Promised Land. Thus, Socialistic Europe has apparently pre-ratified the election of Obama, so who are we little ones in the U.S. “homeland” to question any of this? Get used to it! We are now “citizens of the World”!

To strip any mystery from Obama, there’s a need to closely examine his early days in Indonesia and Hawaii, and the early educational and political mentors who indoctrinated him. Biographies seem to avoid any critical and complete examination of his early background and the Muslim heritage of his father and step-father.

Given Obama’s 20-year involvement with Chicago’s Trinity mega-church, and with his close association with the highly-controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and in light of his White grandparent’s non-involvement with any religion at all, one might say Obama’s religious commitment appears somewhat cloudy. Was it politics which led Obama to join Rev. Wright’s mega-church—and then being led to Christ—or what? Could political motivation have been a factor in seeking association with South Chicago’s predominately Black churches? Or was Obama, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus, supernaturally led to Jesus? We hope it is the latter case.

Virtually abandoned by his bi-racial parents, Obama was mostly raised by his White grandparents in Hawaii. Obama has said that his grandparents had “little money” while he was schooled in Hawaii. One might ask, with “little money” how was Obama propelled to Los Angeles and then on to exclusive Eastern U.S. Ivy league schools, 4,500 miles from Hawaii? Since Pell Grants, Affirmative Action grants, and student loans appear inadequate to meet the enormous tuition and living expenses in exclusive “Ivy” schools, it would seem probable that hidden educational mentors in Hawaii, partisan financial patrons, and political agents were involved in pushing this favored student in an amazing climb up the ladder. Could Obama supply the facts?

Once Ivy collegiate finishing was done, how is it that Obama was financially free to turn down lucrative Wall Street jobs (said to have been offered), and head West a thousand miles to the South Chicago slums to “aid in organizing” the job-poor minorities? Was this some kind of missionary dedication to humanity, or was there a political objective? What were his financial arrangements for living expenses? Too many unanswered questions! How is it that Obama was led to associate with the radical Socialist “School of the Industrial Areas Foundation” and the affiliated “Woodlawn Organization” in Chicago—political fronts established by founder Saul D. Alinsky. Saul Alinsky was a self-described “professional revolutionary”. He was of such radical Socialist fame that he felt impelled to take his organizations underground during and after Congressional Hearings, 1950-52, on Marxist infiltration of the Federal Government. It wasn’t long before his school was back in business as usual. Alinsky’s school was famous as a “boot camp” for radicals.

We learn from Alinsky’s two books, “Reveille for Radicals” (1945), and “Rules for Radicals” (1971), that his Chicago school was a political training ground for grooming radical politicians of promise, using activism in minority communities to gain a local power base. Included was his aim to expand power through a brazen association with South Side Chicago Christian churches dedicated to the “Social Gospel”. Alinsky, a non-believer, worked under the assumption that the mega-church preachers were only nominal Christians, mainly interested in easy and lucrative careers, with benefits of local power. Alinsky would aid these churches in gaining important new members; and these churches could help his Socialist-oriented agents gain a local political base. This is euphemistically called “Community Organizing” in the Democratic Party, with downplay of any association with Socialism. This quest for political power advances under the guise of the “struggle” for Civil Rights, and activism for “equality and justice”.

Saul Alinsky was openly a political agitator, using constant dissention and conflict. His “Rule”, as set forth in his books, was simplified in a slogan: “Agitate+Aggravate+Educate+Organize”, a truly revolutionary program.

Saul Alinsky died in 1972, but his community Foundation and school survived his death, and continued in Chicago with his program of Radical Socialism. Students of his Chicago School certainly knew of (and admired!) Saul Alinsky as its founder. This is not to prove that Senator Obama is, or ever was, a revolutionary Socialist or a Marxist sympathizer. But Obama’s association with the Alinsky Foundation school is part of his early Radical-Left record. Perhaps candidate Obama might be asked to explain this association, and give us his assessment of Alinsky, the “professional revolutionary”.
Bill

Hey robert, you want some kool-aid? That will help you see things the way they are supposed to be seen . Asking all races to come together against Obama is a lost casue. I have never seen such an instance where collective judgment has become so clouded. This has abeen about race from the start and anyone who claims otherwise is even more BRAINWASHED than the rest of them. White guilt and Balck pride is going to get Obama in and these nothing we can do about it. I am also a Dem for McCain and I feel that all hope is lost. These people have no clue about what they are about to vote into office. A sad era in Human history is fast approaching.

You are a crazy person.

Robert, are you serious? This almost sounds like it should be a big joke with what you're saying but something tells me you're not. If that's true then what a sad and frightened little man you are. No matter who takes office there's going to be a lot of work to be done and Obama has proven so far that he can keep a cool and level head when in the middle of a crisis. America doesn't need any more "shoot from the hip" policies like we've had with ol' Bushy boy. I can't wait for tomorrow night so this circus will finally be OVER!

Robert you are an idiot for 2 reasons!

1. For your comments about Obama
2. For voting for McCain

Your comments should not have been published and you should leave America and go back to the cave you belong in.

You must be a skinhead! Otherwise know as an idiot and loser

Robert it's good to hear that there are democrats out there that see through the crap this guy is selling. I have never seen a political party hijacked the way Obama has done to the DNC. There was a time when the DNC wasnt run by socialists and had legitimate arguments with what was going on in the country.

BTW has anyone been watching this on TV? Did you catch Obama giving McCain the finger after congratulating him on running a tough campaign? This guy is unbelievable.

Robert-
You're being ridiculous. Obama has never made anything in this campaign about race. That's one of the reasons he has been so successful. It's also been documented that he was born in Hawaii. Some people are so freaked out at having a black president that they'll say or believe pretty much anything to justify voting for McCain/Palin. Terrorist? That's code for "non-white" these days, it appears.
Try not to freak out too hard tomorrow when Obama wins and brings us into a new age in American politics!

This Independent voter for McCain.

That is just twisted. I am tired of trying to correct ingnorance but then it keeps crossing my mind; perhaps this isn't ignorance, and you can't fix stupid.
Vote for Obama or face the destruction of America by Bush strategies that McCain supports. Have we all forgotten this ilegal and immoral war, the destruction of our constitution, Katrina, the financial collapse, the Patriot Act, the lies and cover ups that the Republican party just ignores. karl Rove refusing to testify before Congress.

I have heard nothing from McCain regarding fixing those corrupt factors and forces.
Steve

I've got it from friend. I beleve that it's possible scenario...

Dear Fellow Business Owners
As a Business owner who employs 30 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama, may be our next President, and that my Taxes and Fees, will go up in a BIG way.
To compensate for these increases, I figure, that the Customer, will have to see an increase in my fees to them of about, 8%. I will also have to lay off 6 of my employees. This really bothered me as I treat my employees like family here and I will have a hard time choosing who will have to go. So, this is what I did. I strolled thru the parking lot and found, 8 Obama bumper stickers on my employees cars. I have decided the folks that own these cars will be the FIRST to be laid off.
I can't think of a better way to approach this problem. If you have a better idea, let me know.

Yea Obama, the US Senator, is really someone to be scared of. The man has dedicated his life to serving the people of this country and you are afraid of him? You must be scared of the Tooth Fairy and terrified of The Little Mermaid. They are about as scary as Barack Obama. Watch out for Aladdin though, he is an Arab.

As much of a waste of time it seems to read these comments, I have discovered a shockingly irresponsible ignorance and negligence on the part of boston.com, to publish the comments Posted by Robert November 3, 08 11:38 AM. Where do you draw the line? Do you have a policy that allows anyone to say anything, regardless of the lunacy of it, regardless of how offensive, how vulgar? This whole comments feature has obviously got out of hand. You should just discontinue it, if you will not exercise even a tiny bit of editorial responsibility toward the oversight of it. SHAME ON YOU!

robert, your post is pure hokum. prove he's an american huh? you think he's from moscow? all races, creeds and colors indeed. you're on your own buddy.

Robert,
It is evident that you have been swept up by the underlying lies of this debate. The thing you don't seem to realize, Robert, and everyone else who thinks Obama is a terrorist, is that Obama's life has been traced to its deepest depths by the Government. If there were any chance of him truely being a terrorist, he wouldn't have been allowed to run. He wouldn't even have been senator. I personally have met and talked to someone with diplomatic immunity, and he said "The Government knows far more about us than we think". This is not the time to focus on the lies each canidate has spread about one another, but rather the real issues. I am not against Mccain, nor Obama. And people can vote for whomever as long as they vote for the right reasons. You are afraid of terrorists, just like some are afraid of a female president, and some are afraid of having an old president. Focus on the real issues, and whether or not you believe each canidate will follow-through with the most important promises. You cant believe everything you hear, research things all over the place to draw your conclusions, especcially before you make an ignorant coment like you did.

Wow...who knew the elite northeast had so many bigots. Ya'll should be ashamed.

To Robert,
I bet are the same type of person that bought into the report that a 6'4" Blackman attacked the young lady for being a McCain/Palin worker. Let's start talking about ways to fix this mess, instead of junk like that. Unless you believe the Republican party can prove there was a Black Zoro with Dyslexia that carved that "B" in her face. As an "Independant" that would vote conservative now that I am older, I find McCain's plan insulting to all americans. We will have a smaller economy over the next few years, like it or not Robert. Which means there will be less money to actually tax to run our federal government. We as a nation have to take it on the chin and start paying the National Debt back. If you want to do something constructive, start watching over the future Democrats in control of the House, Senate and the White House. We deserved this lesson as Republicans. Hopefully we can all learn from this.

Alex, here is my suggestion.

You should resign from your title as owner of the company and hand over the riegns to someone who can run the business properly. Firing people becuase they support Obama will get yourself into a lawsuit. You are not a business owner. No person running a business would sate they will fire people because of who they voted for. Just another dumb republican voting for the idiot express of McCain's

I would hate to work for you. Clueless owner/boss

Robert...

Obama has proved that he is a US Citizen, an American born in the United States. His birth certificate has been verified by multiple sources. To view it yourself, the best site I have found for viewing it is factcheck.org. No matter how much we would like to deny it, race is most definitely a factor for this election. There are still many people who simply won't vote for him based on the color of his skin... which is very sad indeed. But I don't see Obama playing the race card. In fact, the media and Obama supporters bring it up almost 100% of the time... not Obama.

These responses fully define the true level of ignorance in this country. I, for one, am on the verge of losing my home, a mother who is a teacher, and is doing her best to care my father who has leukemia.

My mother teaches a third grade class of 22 students. She is barely making enough to pay her own mortgage. She will have to work until she is able to retire at age 72, and then even when she does, it doesn't look like much of her pension will be left. I know very few people who would be able to manage a class of 22 eight year olds and not go crazy, never mind instill morals, educational lessons, and teaching tolerance, respect for others and their country.

If she gets a tax cut, maybe she can retire a little earlier. Maybe it will take some of the pressure off. Maybe it will mean she will get to spend a little more quality time with my dad before he dies.

If you're not in a bad situation right now, you're either lucky, or one of the ones making money off the decisions Bush has made over the last 8 years.

Hey Alex, I call BS on your entire post. I bet your company is hypothetical like Joe the Plumbers hypothetical business. I also bet in real life your hypothetical company was doing much better during the Clinton years than it is right now after 8 years of silly, discreditied, right wing policies.

Alex, it sounds like you are a very good business owner so I am surprised you don't realize it is illegal to fire/layoff an employee based on who they vote for, and that you choose to vocalize this. You could be sued for that action and the expense of that has the ability to shut down your business more than the lost revenue and tax monies.

People like Robert are the ones destroying the Repub party. They have become so ethnocentric, they'll say anything even against a great American Hero like Collin Powell. As black person serving in the military, I'm ashamed of my country. If I criticize this country/government, then I'm anti-American. This is crazy.

To Alex-
You sound like a great guy to work for. Your employees are sure lucky to have a "family man" like you looking out for them.

Wow, if the right wing ignorance written in this thread is an accurate barometer and symbol of the USA, we're doomed.

Karen, I love your Little Mermaid and Tooth Fairy analogy. LOL, that is about the only language some of the wingnuts can understand. Robert your comments are just so ludicrous, they are hardly worth the effort to comment. How old are you, 12?

It's sad that a person who the main stream media has refused to vet; whose background is the most leftist of any politician in US history, who is a racist and socialist (we know this from the people he has associated with and his own stated beliefs-these are Facts) and is anti-Israeli may very well become the President. How sad for our country. By the way- nothing in your life will change; taxes will NOT go down- don't you remember Duval's promise of property tax relief? There will be no tax break for middle class; the rich as always will benefit becasue Obama is now one of them-he doesn't care about his aunt or his brother, why do you think he cares about you? Only to get your vote-that's it.
rmember; liberals always say one thing, and

Keep 'em coming, right-wing trolls. Your heavy breathing and fevered paroxysms of increasingly desperate mud-slinging and flagrant lies and misleading letters is only going to make tomorrow's result that much more enjoyable. So please, troll it up, because the louder you get, the stupider you look and the more you turn voters away.

robert, you oppose Obama? You must be an idiot, skinhead, racist... is htere anything else we can call you? Don't let their petty anme-calling bother you. They'rd juts mad that you can think for yourself.

Don't worry, I have provided a new target for their hate filled vitriol.

Hey, Robert, Bill, Tom, and any other wingnuts here: The wild delusions and lies you spout got McCain exactly nowhere in this campaign. He might have done better if he had something positive to offer the American people, rather than run a campaign based on character assassination in the Republican mold of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove.
Remember Gore vs. Bush? You told us to "get over it" when that election was stolen. Now it's your turn to get over it, while we take pride in the fact that Obama won it fair and square, without impugning McCain's character.

Steve,

What has Obama said he would do about those "corrupt factors and forces"?

Not a single post advising why McCain should be president. Only posts why Obama shouldnt be president. Interesting.

Posted by Bill November 3, 08 12:18 PM
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Original ideas, please. If you want your own column apply for a job with a newspaper.

Hey #14 Alex- Do you even know what Obama's policies for small businesses are? Well, here you go, just in case:
Obama: Two-year plan offering $3,000 tax credit to businesses for each new job created and enabling people to withdraw up to 15 percent of their retirement money, to a maximum of $10,000, without penalty, except for the usual taxes. Would temporarily extend an expiring tax break that lets small businesses immediately write off investments of up to $250,000, and sweeten small-business loans at a cost of about $5 billion. Estimated cost of proposals: $60 billion. Now favors mandatory 90-day freeze on some foreclosures. Lobbied fellow lawmakers to support $700 billion rescue plan. Extend unemployment benefits, offer tax credit covering 10 percent of annual mortgage-interest payments for "struggling homeowners."
So, do you just believe everything McCain spins for you, or do you actually read up on these issues? Oh, I forgot, why read when you can watch Fox News!

Emily,
Obama isn't talking about corrupt factors and forces because it would make him lose the election. No canidate is strong in every area, and just like Mccain is weak in economics, Obama is weak in "corrupt factors and forces". This doesn't mean the canidates dont' have a plan, it just means they know the other has a better plan. Mccain has only been forced to speak of the economy because it has suddenly become such a huge issue. It's all strategy, a game of chess in which they must sacrafice some pieces. Does anyone disagree ? If you respond, write my name so i know your talking to me.

Dear Obama,
I would like to tell you that i don't think you should win because you don't belive in god and you want obersion..................

The Republicans are running scurrilous Jeremiah Wright scare ads today. Same old sleaze from the GOP. And McCain says he'll change things - he can't even change his own campaign! He makes a fool of anyone who believes he'll bring change to Washington.

Methinks Bill and Robert are one in the same. They say in 2 lines or less that McCain is inadequate or inept and then ramble on ad-infinatum that Obama is the wrong choice. Sounds like the McCain campaign of late....90% Obama bashing and 10% proposed plans. Doesn't smell right.

It is easy. You have a man with a short record of 143 days logged into work as a Senator. Hardly call that experience,lol. His economic plans is doomed to fail us all. His running mate talks about nothing all the time and would accidently give out too much info to enemies. He is a liability at best to Obama and USA.
Next, you have a man that has been in war, POW, good long record, won't buckle under pressure, great economic plans well thought out and explained. He is a true American. His running mate is Intelligent, ambitious for America, a Female, and compliments her leader perfectly. Its about time we get a woman like this into the White House. Pfft forget Hillary...laughing out loud!!

As an ex-pat American, living in Australia, all I can say is that their is going to be a collective sigh of relief around the world when Obama is voted president. The world has had enough and the Republican Party has lost its way.

This is democracy in action. The Republican Party has lost the ability to do the right thing by the country and so it will be voted out of office. It will be decimated in this election and will result in a major period of rebuilding. And the Republican Party needs that more than anything - some of the comments right here are proof of that.

Accept it and move on. Learn from the mistakes of the past. The world will not end because Obama is President. In fact, the world will become a better place. The Republican Party will be back when the Democrats can no longer show that they are doing the best thing by the country.

It is easy. You have a man with a short record of 143 days logged into work as a Senator. Hardly call that experience,lol. His economic plans is doomed to fail us all. His running mate talks about nothing all the time and would accidently give out too much info to enemies. He is a liability at best to Obama and USA.
Next, you have a man that has been in war, POW, good long record, won't buckle under pressure, great economic plans well thought out and explained. He is a true American. His running mate is Intelligent, ambitious for America, a Female, and compliments her leader perfectly. Its about time we get a woman like this into the White House. Pfft forget Hillary...laughing out loud!!

Obama is dangerous for America:
1) he has questionable ties to domestic terrorists
2) he voted to raise peoples taxes on taxpayers who earned $42,000 and more
3) Obama is an enemy of the Second Amendment. Obama does not support the right to defend oneself in their home from a home invasion.
4) Obama is in favor of extreme abortion policies and procedures; IE a baby survives an abortion and is killed by the Dr. This was voted on by IL state senator Obama. Look at his actual record!
5) Obama tax plan: Take from those that work & give to those that do not work.
6)Alex Plo

Dace,

I think you nailed it, but goosesteppers all look the same anyway, so it doesn't really matter.... the "bill" version, at any rate is definitely a cut-and-paste bot from the hell of McCarthyism... And the reason why they feel Obama is so "leftwing", which he is not, is because they are standing way, way, way to the right.

If John McCain looses (I have my doubts, because the GOP has been working hard to fiddle with voter rolls, etc.... check Greg Palast's research) the USA will become irrelevant anyway. We hardly have a choice, because the GOP is so far off the cliff on this one. This was, in my life, the most repulsive and idiotic campaign ever led by a Republican. That is because the combined IQ of the two figureheads (I should say dunderheads) and the manager, Mr. Bounds, does not reach boiling point.

Obama on the other hand did a great job with Axelrod. I suspect they all read their Sun-Tzu.

Speaking of which..... All those right-wingers forget that they support China (1.3 billion Communists) and they all gave Blair (a socialist) a soapy massage, if I recall...

Bunch of two-faced dunderheads...

Robert, you're an idiot.... an ignorant idiot at that. Prove that he is an American? I don't hear you screaming about Palin who just got her passport a few years ago or that McCain is a citizen of Ireland? See where I'm going? That's following YOUR logic. If you paid attention you'd notice he NEVER made it about race. Ignorant Americans, such as yourself have made it about him being a Muslim or not being American or whatever. That is the most foolish thing I've ever heard. Would you question his citizenship if his name was William Smith? I doubt it. And since when does being the child of an immigrant bar someone from the Presidency? Look around, we're all immigrants - yourself included.

You should reconsider voting for the Dems - you could probably benefit from their efforts to improve the educational systems in the US.

10/30/2008
Obama Tells The Greatest Lies Ever Told, Even Before Being Elected
By Herb Denenberg, The Bulletin

Sen. Barack Obama, as a world-class liar, has come to the top in the list of the greatest lies ever told. Move over such old staples as, "Your check is in the mail," and "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." Consider the output of Sen. Obama.

The lies bursting forth from one of the great world-class liars are so numerous and extraordinary it is impossible to rank the Top 10 or 20. They all deserve first place recognition. This column has already discussed some of the more noteworthy Sen. Obama lies, such as the first few listed among the long list of the greatest lies ever told.

* "William Ayers [the unrepentant terrorist] was only a guy in the neighborhood." Mr. Ayers it turns out was in fact a close collaborator, friend and associate. But that should surprise no one as Sen. Obama seems to have attracted a list of friends, associates and collaborators who come closer to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List than to what you would expect a candidate for president to be running with.

* Or how about Sen. Obama's claim he didn't know what Rev. Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright stood for. When it comes to lies this has to be almost first place among equals. Sen. Obama sat in Rev. Wright's church for 20 years, sought him out because he was a political activist, worked with him, took the title of his book from one of his sermons and on and on. If that doesn't prove Sen. Obama's a liar and can't be trusted, I don't know what will.

* One of Sen. Obama's signature lines is that 95 percent of Americans will get tax cuts or at least avoid tax increases. That means if your income is less than $250,000 a year you're in good shape. But now we've just heard from Sen. Joe Biden the figure is $150,000 and on occasion Sen. Obama's people have used $200,000. You can be sure this is a lie, as the Obama people know you can't pay for the $700 million bailout, tack on another trillion dollars in new spending, give everybody health care and adopt all kinds of other new spending programs and still cut all those tax rates.

It sounds too good to be true and it is too good to be true. It is a lie, pure and simple, and all too typical of the campaign. Before believing that lie, consider his record. He recently voted in favor of raising taxes on those with income as low as $42,000. There's another reason Sen. Obama knows it won't work. He is also going to "soak the rich" and "spread the wealth around." That's his terminology for taxing small business, big business, investors and entrepreneurs out of existence. They are the engines of prosperity and job creation.

When you start raising the capital gains tax rate, the dividend tax rate and the rates on small business entrepreneurs and when you insist on a corporate tax rate among the highest in the world and then slap on windfall taxes, higher payroll taxes for some and other taxes, you kill the goose that lays the golden egg. When you make the risk benefit ratio look much less attractive, when the benefits go down as the tax rate goes up, business just won't play the game. Whether you call this socialism, Marxism or something else, the button line is the same: Our engine of job growth and prosperity slows down big time under the Sen. Obama tax plan, and we all pay the big time price tax for such reckless policies made all the more reckless by their application in bad economic times. You learn in Economics 101 not to raise taxes in an economic turn down. So, of course, Sen. Obama wants to raise taxes in the teeth of a recession.

* Here's another slick Sen. Obama lie. It is slick as it seems to be truthful, but it carries a message Sen. Obama and his campaign know to be false. He says 98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000 and so his tax plan won't adversely impact small business. The lie is in the details.

Twenty-one of the 27 million small businesses don't even have employees. But when you take the small businesses with income of more than $250,000 you're talking about 70 percent of all small business income. So his tax plan, despite the misleading and meaningless statistic relied on, will severely impact "Joe the Plumber" and most small businesses that provide the jobs and economic prosperity we need. Because of this ill-conceived tax, small business will raise prices, cut back on employment, or not create new jobs.

* Here's the all-time Sen. Obama foreign policy lie: Iran is just a tiny country and not a real threat. Well, maybe that's not a lie. Maybe it's just an untrue statement Sen. Obama actually believes. But if that's the case, it's an even more damning indictment of the foreign policy views of Sen. Obama. His advisers eventually told him his statement was ridiculous and he retracted it. But a president can't take two or three passes to get it right. On foreign policy, Sen. Obama (when without his teleprompter and 200 foreign policy advisers), gets it wrong the first or second time around, and then eventually gets it right.

* Another signature line is that Sen. Obama will bring change, change you can believe in, and all that jazz. Sen. Obama represents, and has always been, an extremist, radical, left-wing liberal Democrat and would revive all the rejected and failed policies of the Democratic Party, most notably more taxes, more spending, bigger government, more onerous regulation and a weaker military and timid and ineffectual foreign policy. That's not change. It just the same old Democratic stuff repackaged with fancy rhetoric.

* Here's a Sen. Obama lie that has to be considered one of the biggest, if not the biggest, lies of the campaign. That lie is that Sen. John McCain and the Republican Party are responsible for the present financial crisis because of their stance on deregulation. In fact, Sen. McCain and the Republican Party wanted to put an end to the abuses at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were making unsound mortgages in an ill-founded and dangerous plan to make housing affordable for even the credit unworthy.

Sen. McCain issued warnings and proposed remedial legislation. Who told us all was well and went along with the status quo that was heading toward catastrophe: The Democratic Party, spearheaded by Sen.Chris Dodd (who took a sweetheart loan from one of the mortgage companies in on the gravy, that some might view as a bribe), and Rep. Barney Frank who reassured everyone as recently as June 2008 that all was well at Fannie and Freddy. And what was Sen. Obama's role? He was raking in political contributions from those connected with Fannie and Freddy. In fact, he was second only to Mr. Dodd, but in terms of contributions per year he got more tainted money from Fannie and Freddy connections than anyone in the Senate.

The irony and tragedy is that the Republicans and Sen. McCain are being blamed for the financial meltdown that was brought upon us by the improper, shortsighted, unethical activity of the Democratic Party and Democratic legislators such as Messrs. Dodd, Frank and Sen. Obama.
* Another classic lie is that Sen. Obama is a centrist. He tries to portray himself as a moderate and a great compromiser. In fact, he is an extremist, a radical, a socialist, a Marxist and a highly partisan legislator. His proposals are to the far left. His voting is to the far left. And his administration will be to the far left. He is the most liberal member of the Senate, followed by socialist Bernie Sanders in second place followed by Sen. Biden in third. This is probably the most liberal ticket in the history of presidential politics.

* Still another classic lie is he is non-partisan. He has never reached across the aisle and worked with the other party on any issue of real significance. He is, and has always been, a hardline, leftist, extremist and radical. There isn't a non-partisan bone in his record. That quality is reserved for speeches only.

* Sen. Obama constantly harps he wants to help the middle class. That's his rhetoric but his record turns statement into a lie. That's because he's never done anything for the middle class but talk.

* One of his most vicious lies was made right after Russia launched its illegal aggression against neighboring Georgia. Sen. Obama's comment included a statement that we'd have more credibility in such matters if we "set a better example." This suggested that our internationally sanctioned liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein was somehow a bad example, and that detracted from our ability to protest Russia's aggression against Georgia. Sen. Obama knows better. America has set the best example in the history of the world for using its treasure and blood to help others, to free others and to fight for the rights and freedom of others.

We saved Europe, and the world, from Nazism, communism and Japanese imperialism. We rebuilt our defeated enemies after World War II. We have sent endless aid to other nations and regions after national disasters. We are responsible for one of the great humanitarian projects to fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa. We have given the whole world the benefit of our endless inventions to improve the health and welfare of all from medical advances of all kinds to the invention of all kinds of technology. We are indeed the golden city on the hill that pours forth the endless benefits of our system of freedom and liberty to all of our citizens and the rest of the world. So where does Sen. Obama, who has had every advantage of our system, come to complain about the example we set.

* One of Sen. Obama's biggest lies is his pledge and promise to take public financing of elections. He broke his promise in a minute, as soon as he saw that private rather than public financing would bring his campaign more money.

Sen. McCain kept his promise. Sen. Obama's promise breaking is especially significant for several reasons. First, he is breaking his promises even before the election. WOW, after the election he'll break them even faster. Second, public financing was one of his key tenets, but it went under the bus as soon as Sen. Obama saw it wasn't expedient at the moment. Third, he went into his usual disingenuous spin to try to excuse himself and lie himself out of it, suggesting his version of private financing was in effect public financing because so many contributions came from small donors. He breaks his promise and then tells a ridiculous lie to excuse his breaking that promise. How good is his promise to hold the line on taxes of everyone making less than $250,000? What are any of his promises worth?

* Sen. Obama claims he is a friend of Israel. Yet he honors and gets grant money for Rashid Khalidi and his organization, knowing that Mr. Khalidi is a virulently anti-Israel operative with links to terrorist organizations. He attended a going-away party for Mr. Khalidi, an Arafat associate, along with unrepentant terrorist Mr. Ayres and pays tribute to Mr. Khalidi. At that party, Mr. Obama sits around and listens to all kinds of anti-Israel speeches. Mr. Khalidi also held a fund-raiser for Sen. Obama and was often his dinner companion.

Investor's Business Daily on its Web site, www.ibdeditorials.com (Oct. 27) concluded, "This should be enough for Obama supporters who stand behind Israel to rethink their vote. Those concerned about honesty and integrity should do the same, since Obama has sworn to be a friend of Israel." When confronted with this, Sen. Obama will probably say (as he did in the case of terrorist Mr. Ayers) he is just a guy in the neighborhood.

Incidentally, the Los Angeles Times has a tape of the Mr. Khalidi going away party, an Israel-bashing session in which Sen. Obama participated. The Times has refused to release the tape, in keeping with the mainstream media's campaign to sell Sen. Obama and keep the truth from the public. For that reason, you can be sure Sen. Obama is a hundred times more dangerous and unqualified than portrayed by the mainstream media.

Sen. Obama also attended Rev. Wright's church. Rev. Wright was and is well known for his speaking and writing was often laced with anti-Israel commentary. Sen. Obama says he's a friend of Israel, but if he were would he be supporting, working with, and praising a stable of anti-Israel, anti-Semitic friends?

* One of the cruelest lies of the Obama campaign was the claim Sen. McCain is out of touch because he doesn't make a lot of use of the computer. He doesn't because of war injuries.

* There are many other Obama campaign spots that depend on lies. For example, one suggested Sen. McCain was willing to stay and fight in Iraq for 100 years. Sen. McCain had simply made the point that, as for example, in Germany we still have troops there more than 60 years after the end of World War II. So that's entirely different than fighting a 60-year or a 100-year war.

* I won't even get into the whopping lies from Sen. Biden, as that would require a 30-volume encyclopedia. I will mention perhaps the latest. He said, in the now famous Florida satellite interview Sen. Obama didn't say he wants to "spread the wealth around."

He did say that and he said much worse in the now famous 2001 interview in which he says one of the great failures of the civil rights movement was its failure to get more redistributive justice, i.e., spreading the wealth around.

I could go on, but remember this is only a small sample of Sen. Obama's lies proving his basic dishonesty and proving he is unfit for high office. Remember, also, he has not been vetted by the mainstream media, and even when it made feeble attempts to do so, he usually stonewalled or brushed aside the questions.

We don't know enough about him to even consider him seriously as a candidate. But we do know enough about him to compel a vote against him.
b

Obama's Grandma just died.

But at least she saw that great campaign and knew that her grandson, Barack Obama would win this historical election and blow the racists and grumpy, dissatisfied hatemongers back to their caverns...

America is one day away from becoming a great nation again!!!

GO-OBAMA !!

I am appalled that we still have ignorance in this country after all we have been through and have put others through. George bush, Mr. Republican, didnt care about the black people of the south, after hurrican katrina he was too busy at a party to even care. I've seen footage of them warning the president and he didnt seem to blink an eye. Is this what we want 4 more years of? John McNugget? Someone who was affliated with george bush? If thats the case, whomever voted bush in was also filled with ignorance ( some of you here? ).
Obama is going to turn this country around and make it all it can be and more....being of middle/low class im glad there is finally a president thats looking out for the little guys and not the greedy wall street rich folks. Black, red, white, tan its about whats inside not the color of their skin...this is what our country represents, diversity. GET OVER IT ALREADY!
Must be nice to have money.......

god help us if ObSama is voted in. an inside man ready willing and capable of destroying the country from within. i cant wait until he begins shredding the US Constitution, burning the American Flag on the door steps of the white house. and after that happens we will all say, gee, i didnt see that coming and i was not aware of his religious and political views nor was I aware of his ties of terrorist affiliations. shame on all of those americans who chose to ignore his resume and seek comfort in his motivating speeches.

Bill and Robert are crazy. Hey people, don't be fooled by these guys who don't know about economy, health, job security, and depression. We, Americans, don't want another 4 years of Bush's policies. We say NO to McCain, this old man who supposed to be at a Nursing Home waiting for his last days.

Bill, you say, "As of today, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat, anticipates gains of 15-30 seats". Really? The Democrats anticipate gains of 15-30 seats? Isn't that a little unrealistic seeing as how there are only 22 Republican seats up for election? I didn't bother to read the rest of you essay, because I'm sure it is all lies.

Whatever happens, and whoever wins, I sure hope they can unite this country. The McCain people HATE Obama and Obama voters, and the Obama voters HATE McCain and McCain supporters. All I ever see in these comments sections is anger and resentment, hate and vitriol. It's scary to see how much you all hate each other. It was the same thing 4 years ago. This country is going to have a really hard time recovering and going forward, with so much baggage holding it back.

I'm not "scared" of an Obama victory, and I'm not "scared" of a McCain victory. I'm afraid that my country has been consumed by blind hate and that self destruction from within is our future.

YAYYYY OBAMA THE NEW PRESIIDENNT:]
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