Poll: Obama still faces doubts on experience

If the campaigns were used as a bellwether to how a candidate would manage in the White House- who's campaign is better run and managed.

Obama is buying the presidency, not earning the presidency.

Americans are not voting for Obama, Americans are voting against the Republican party. Electing Obama will be as much of a tragedy for America as our electing Bush proved a tragedy for America.

Obama as president will prove an economic disaster, this is a guarantee. America cannot "tax and spend" its way out of a severe economic recession.

Obama is not qualified to be our American president. His lack of experience, his naive nature and his socialist agenda will have America in ruins before his term of office expires.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

All the republicans have left in their arsenal is fear. That's all McCain is playing on these past few weeks. He realized he couldn't get any "traction" on the issues, and that he really didn't have a "change" agenda anyone could believe in. So he turned to gimmicks (Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber) and that good old Rovian standby, Fear. If Obama wins big, as he may, it may put Karl Rove's fear tactics to bed for good - and that will be the best thing to happen as a result of the 2008 elections.

In my opinion, there are two reasons why McCain will lose. One is George Bush and his lack of popularity and Sarah Palin due to her lack of experience. We all need to unite when Barack Obama is elected tomorrow.

Purl Guri
You are 100% correct. I hope that Americans will come to their senses before it is too late.

For Purl Guri and Guidad1... you are both lost in your views of Obama.

Bush has tax and sepnt for the past 8 years.. in case you have not noticed. How do you think the wealth 1 % were able to be given the tax breaks they were offered? It was by the middle class .... hello!

By the way oil companies recorded profits of 14B just the other day and McCainwants to give them tax breaks.. Makes no sense to me,

Wake up please and vote smart . vote for Obama

Demetrius

I believe that McCain and Palin is both fools and Obama is a great leader for our country. Palin is so stupid she dont know anything about our government and the only reason McCain chose Palin as his Vice was that Obama chose Clinton to be his running mate and he thought women would back up his votes if Palin was vice and he is a women.

America is voting for the better run, more intelegent and the person with the best character in this race, Barack H. Obama. He not only has show grace under fire, he has transcended the normal negative repubgant hate machine.

A vote for Obama is a the only sane choice in this time.

Obama as President scares me terribly. I do not trust him at all and he has less experience than Palin.

if experienced matter, we nedd to go back 8 years ago and see where bush experiences got us today, jobless, a war we can't win, more homeless people in the street, no christmas this year, no thankgiving,alot of foreclosure, 700 billions baillouts and did i forget to mention those banks we baillouts each one of them put 6 billion dollars in the side for Ceo bonuses when 65 percent of us are unployed now.Wow look where alot of experience got us.people need to wonder where is dick cheney in 8 years,As a republican I feel like we need the change in the white house we need a break from the richs and let us our own president

Be careful about predictions - they can be wrong.

Not much is guaranteed in this life.

Methinks it's foolhardy to minimize the potential of a man who is obviously one of the most intelligent and thoughtful candidates for high public office in many, many years.

We've been spending like Imelda Marcos on a shoe-buying spree with an unlimited credit limit the last eight years, and doing so while borrowing trillions from the Chinese and the Saudis. McCain, who admitted he doesn't consider economics his strong suit, would continue these tax and borrow policies and bury us under a mountain of debt that we would never emerge from.

Was Bill Clinton a socialist? Obama's proposed tax policies are remarkably similar to Clinton's, and most Americans still remember the Clinton years as remarkably prosperous ones. I don't think too many will recall the W. years in the same manner.

It is a shame that the media is soooooo bias! They have refused to let the american people know or investigate the past and corruption that Obama is involved with....we will suffer the consequences of this election!

Whoever said that Obama has bought this election is so right and he haS bought it with money from enemies of this country - what a shame!!! The media doesn't remember the heartaches and horrible experienceS of 9/11. Haven't anyone lost any dear ones on that horrible day? SHAME ON THEM.....

I've got it from friend.

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.

Am I going too far by saying anyone who votes for McCain needs a brain scan.

id love to know what enemies gave obama money.. where do you guys get your information?

Hey Susana Bius..... what the hek are you babbling about. You make it seem as though Obama has something to dow ith 9/11 and if he is elected it will happen again.

News flash for you. We do not need to worry about terrorists with what Bush/McCain have done to this country. The terrorists could only wish they had done what Bush/McCain have accomplished. OUr country is on the brink of collapsing and we need a strong leader in the White House. Not some old fool with a whack job as VP.

9/11 was tragic. But what Bush has done is un-American!

A vote for McCain is a vote for the politics of fear. McCain wants you to be afraid. Don't be afraid. Obama will not be a perfect president, but I sincerely believe that if he is elected, the US will have instant credibility with the world. This credibility is sorely needed if we are ever able to get our country out of the jam we're in.

If you need proof of what a smooth, talking, Ivy-league educated, empty suit with no substance can do, look to MASSACHUSETS. We have a Governor who touted "change" and what we got was MORE OF THE SAME Democratic bureaucracy. Tax and spend. Get used to it on a grander level iif Obama is elected. Time to take a good look beyond the smoke and mirrors and uncover the wizard.

Susana Bius - please, PLEASE tell us that you don't actually believe Obama is a Muslim and his campaing has been funded by religious extremists.

As for "suffering the consequences"... have we not suffered, enough, the consequences of the Bush Neo-Con, Religious Right freakshow for the past eight years? Honestly, I don't see how it could get any worse!

dj - I'm going to go out on limb here and predict that you need to sit in on an english class for a little while. Your comment was atrociously poorly written and does not even make a valid point, let alone a coherent statement. Thank you for showcasing the wonders of the current educational system in the US.

Republicans, evil! Democrats, good! Things will be sooooooo much better with Obama! What a beautiful world this will be! What a glorious time to be free!
In conformity, there is strength!

The Globe is putting years of journalistic integrity on the line for a man who has been tied up in the rackets in Chicago. You can not defend Obama's house purchase with Rezko, any involvement is abominable. He plugged Bill Ayers book. He almost broke a record voting "Present", he voted 97% down party lines, he took more from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than everyone but Chris Dodd, has less experience than anyone running for President in the past 50 years, etc. etc. etc. Beyond that, he wants to spread the wealth, is poisoned with vanity, is critical of the Founding Fathers and wants Supreme Court Justices to be pawns in his social engineering. Add to that a congress dominated by the furthest left wingers in decades, I appeal to the better senses of the Globe and its readers to heed th eword of Arnold Schwartzeneger and not change this nation to that of a weak second tier european nation. People want to come to the United States to get opportunity. We don't want lazy losers who are looking for a hand out.
Further, the bottom 50 percent of earners only pay 3% of the cost of government. the top 25% pay 86% of the freight, do you think they get 86% of the benefits? In other nations the wealthy don't give nearly as much. Here, the wealthy pay and give opportunity to those that pay nothing. The wealthy pay the overwhelming amount of the freight for our police, firefighters, teachers, military etc. If people aren't paying for these services they at least ought to be thankful.
Obama wants to give welfare checks to people that don't pay taxes. How on earth does the Boston Globe believe that he is the right choice?
To the academic socialists, you make significantly higher profits than the oil companies and have gouged us more than them in the past fifteen years. You want socialism because when the market bears at affordabity limits, if education is subsidized you know you can charge more, and you do. You want governenment subsidies so you can get more than you deserve. Every social engineering policy tried has failed miserably and has hurt the people it was meant to help i.e. how affordablity was made worse for housing due to socialistic policies like the Community Reinvestment Act.
Our elderly have paid into social programs and Obama will bankrupt and swamp these resources with deadbeats that ought to be out working and earning. Younger workers need to be sled dogs to help pull the weight of an aging population, we don't need lazy losers who feel "entitled" or Obama's base.
You don't build a middle class by letting the government control the resources of our Nation. Think about how resources will be doled out if Obama, Pelosi, Reed, Frank, etc. gets your money, they will give to groups like ACORN. Don't believe me, 20% of the Bailout money was headed to ACORN in the first draft of the bailout. At least private companies have profit and loss responsibilities and have to compete. Governments don't so if we let Obama control our wealth and resources we'll let government control them. Do you think government ever does anything correctly? Government screws up everything so the last thing we need right now is to let them tie up our wealth, which is one of our resources. Second tiered socialistic nations control their nation's wealth and that is why they aren't competitive and why their best and brightest come to the United States.

I am amused by these Obama supporters who constantly bring up George Bush. My amusement is those Obama supporters are not aware enough to realize George Bush is not running for office.

This game of Bush and McCain being the same based on both being Republicans is simply stupid. Bush and McCain are nothing alike. Barack Obama is claiming Bush and McCain are the same. Obama is stupid and he is lying.

Baffles me how Americans could vote for Obama with his displaying such stupidity and displaying such deceit.

Oh, my comments will have Obama supporters out in droves screaming their mindless drivel whle spamming this blog to a point of not being readable.

As to all this news about Obama running a well organized campaign which means he is smarter, well, the Mafia runs the best organized business of history and have been for a long time. Forget Obama, we should vote for a Mafia boss.

Of course Obama has a better ran campaign. Obama lied about his agreement with McCain to accept only public money for his campaign, went on to raise almost a billion dollars; Obama is outspending McCain four to one. There is no smarts involved in this; Obama simply can afford to hire the best of managers to run his campaign. Obama is not the boss of his campaign, is not managing his campaign, is not the big CEO. No, Obama is simply a Spokeshole for those running his campaign. Obama is simply a puppet on stage.

I will not vote for a person who is buying the presidency. I expect a person to earn the presidency.

There is no cheap price tag on my vote. I will not sell my right to vote.

I am voting hard work and I am voting quality. I am voting for McCain.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

Coal industry in doubt apparently as well...

Susana Bius, What the hell are you talking about?

No offense to Susana but this is not about 9/11-(God Bless all the families and God Bless America!) This is about now and our future. Of course it was the most horrible and horrific event to ever happen. We get that. Do you really think of McCain became president, that we would not be vulnerable to terroist attacks? Do you really think he will end the war? Let 's not only remember 9/11 but what about all the fallen troops? what about their families? How would you feel if you dad, mother or immediate family was sent to fight in a war that was never needed and end up dying? I think it's about time that we end this war, don't you think? Do you really think McCain is going to end this war? if anything the man is like a ticking time bomb. He was a prisoner of war, you dont think he is messed up in the head from that? he is practically sitting there waiting for something to happen so he can press the button to start a war. It's not about you or me. It's about what our country needs as a whole. I know I am not making over 250,000, so I know I won't see a tax increase but I am definitely tired of those who sit on their behinds (CEO's) and make millions and go on vacations while I am working my behind off everyday trying to make it in this world and pay off my school loans and these rich people receive tax increases off of my hard earned work. Please wake up and realize that it's not about OBAMA and it never was!! It is about what this country needs, what the majority of the people need (middle-class for example). I swear people have lost their minds! Get it together and stop blaming the media blame bush for the condition that this economy is in!! Stop thinking about party's. If OBAMA was a republican and McCain was a Democrat. I would vote for OBAMA because he is the better choice and he is in contact with the majority of the people in the US. He has a close idea about what my struggle is and also the rest of the country. He was not fed with a platinum spoon. He knows the struggles of the American people and I truely believe he can bring the CHANGE that this country needs!! Wake up and vote for change!! OBAMA 08'

Palin's "experience" has turned out to be nothing like she portends. A Canadian company got the Pipeline contract (that probably will never be built in our lifetime) thanks to Palin's political connection which will come out more when she returns to Alaska.
You can't blame the media for videotaping Pailin when she says stupid things. She did that all by herself and continues to do it everyday. The shrinking Repub base calls these media attacks. For God's sake, the woman went through six colleges in five years to get a BA. She's not a bright person; everyone sorta dodges this truth because it's embarassing in a national landscape. Her crowning moment was the radio Sarkozy hoax which she fell for hook, line, and sinker. It just shows she'll say anything or take any call from a celebrity to add to her own flash-in-the-pan moment. Her voice is so grating!

McCain listened to Davis and Schmidt and now they are all stuck with her liability on the ticket. I wonder what McCain and Palin think to themselves when they read this ever-growing negative poll about Palin? Oops!

dj...are you going to vote? God help us. Do you have that much difficulty with the English language (which makes me shudder to think of your understanding of the issues) or do you just have trouble typing? Fewer people should vote...not more.

-"if experienced matter, we nedd to go back 8 years ago and see where bush experiences got us today, jobless, a war we can't win, more homeless people in the street, no christmas this year, no thankgiving,alot of foreclosure, 700 billions baillouts and did i forget to mention those banks we baillouts each one of them put 6 billion dollars in the side for Ceo bonuses when 65 percent of us are unployed now.Wow look where alot of experience got us.people need to wonder where is dick cheney in 8 years,As a republican I feel like we need the change in the white house we need a break from the richs and let us our own president"-

It scares me that there are people who might actually believe what you just posted. The forclosure and credit problems we currently are seeing are NOT Bush's fault. On two occasions, in 2003 and again in 2005, Bush along with McCain lead an effort to stop the deregulation of financial institutions put in place by the Clinton administration. Both times he was met with extreme opposition by Democrats - led by Barney Frank. As for the Bailout, both Obama and McCain supported that. There is absolutely no difference there.

Stop spreading the blatent lie that the Bush tax cuts were only for the wealthy. Bush's tax cuts were for everyone, and were uniformly fair across the board. Everyone received the same percentage cut in their taxes. That means wealthy people, who pay 80% of the nations taxes, would receive a larger dollar amount than people who pay nearly nothing. Bush didn't "redistribute the wealth" by taxing the working class and giving it to other people. Quite the opposite, if you pay taxes, you saw a reduction in your taxes - the same percentage no matter how much you make.

Dean S...I wont unite under a socialist.

THESE ARE THE QUALITY OF THE PEOPLE VOTING FOR OBAMA????

WOW WE ARE SCREWED!

Demetrius

I believe that McCain and Palin is both fools and Obama is a great leader for our country. Palin is so stupid she dont know anything about our government and the only reason McCain chose Palin as his Vice was that Obama chose Clinton to be his running mate and he thought women would back up his votes if Palin was vice and he is a women.

Great post, m! Be kind, though, DJ is just another lemming voting for change. LOL.

it is simple - if you like how the country was run the last eight years, then vote for McCain. If you do not, then you should consider voting for Obama,
some may say McCain is different than Busch - may be true- but personally cannot take a chance - remember Busch ran as 'compassionate consevative'
' can not police the world' -
McCain 'maverick' thing is way overblown and I can not imagine how McCain will govern wothout the conservative repblican wing controlling how he governs -
McCain says Obama did not stand up agains this Party, but I have little faith that McCain can stand up against the REpublican party if he is president - look at Palin's choice - personally I will not want to take a chance at another four years like the miserable eight we had

Obama speaks to 80,000 people, but only hears their cheers.
McCain listens, cares about, and responds to the people.

I noticed the McCain supporters posted a lot about 9/11 and the usual fear mongering that is typical of the Republicans, but I didn't see much in detailing what McCain would do. I was a McCain supporter in 2000 when he had integrity and said what he believed in. Now he is a puppet of the GOP and his maverick status has been sadly eroded to the point of being a caricature. Obama is the better choice of the two because at least we know what he is trying to do. Either McCain or Obama would have to raise taxes because of the disastrous policies of W, someone is going to have to pay that tab. As far as associations, a politician by their very nature is going to have multiple associations that do not necessarily reflect their beliefs of policies. I like who Obama has advising him...if you want associations try Warren Buffett and Colin Powell.

By M . . . Obama speaks to 80,000 people, but only hears their cheers.
McCain listens, cares about, and responds to the people.

Now that is pure factual science! I hope you aren't voting based on that brilliant deduction? I bet you're one of the 27% that still approves of Bush? But please don't tell us why. You will embarass all the remaining Repubs.

I bet you can also follow Palin's run-on sentences!

McCain supporters who have responded can only trash Senator Obama. Not one mention of McCain's policies and how they will be better than Obama's. Same old Republican tactics of rumor, innuendo, guilt by association, hate and fear. Thank goodness the American people will have none of it this cycle.

Hey DJ you sound like a typical liberal...Love Obama foe his slick talking and have no idea what he wants to do. Keep the change NOBAMA!!!! I can't wait to pay higher taxes foe the 40 million that do not pay ant taxes at all. You liberals are a bunch of hard ons!!!

Posted by dj (#7): Demetrius

I believe that McCain and Palin is both fools and Obama is a great leader for our country. Palin is so stupid she dont know anything about our government and the only reason McCain chose Palin as his Vice was that Obama chose Clinton to be his running mate and he thought women would back up his votes if Palin was vice and he is a women.
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A wonderful example of the intelligence of some people who are voting for Obama. @@ Write much? McCain and Palin "is" both fools? Obama didn't choose Clinton; he chose Biden. And "he is a women"???? Cannot even begin to figure that one out. Holy smokes.

I am a business owner, and I am voting for Barack Obama. Tax breaks for the middle class will be GOOD for business, not bad. I want my customers -- lower and middle income people -- to get tax breaks, because then they will be more likely to spend money at my retail store. That's much more valuable to me than getting a tax break for my company. When my company is so successful that I can take home $250K every year free and clear (net profit, i.e., after expenses), I won't complain about paying higher takes, believe me. (By the way, has anyone asked Joe the Plumber if he was talking revenue, gross profit or net profit??? It makes all the difference in the world. I think he's a complete phony, created by the Karl Rove-type Republican.)

Hey Alex - Those Obama supporters who you will let go under this pre-determined scenario you're predicting I'm sure will be glad to not be working for you anymore and will find gainful employment elsewhere.

obama is kul
he his and will be the next USA president

If you jumble the letters in Obama you get " A MOAB". Do we really want the Mother Of All Bombs sitting in the Oval office?

Hey Alex, Comment 13

I was a small business owner as well. I had four 9%- 15% product cost increases in the last 8 years (In an industry where the cost of my product had not increase 10% total over the previous 15 yrs)... This was a proud business that had supported 3 generations of my family. Tell me that the failed policies (energy and otherwise) over the past 8 yrs did not lead my business to close this summer. We survived the Great Depression, but couldn't survive W's presidency. Go Figure...

Obama/ Biden 2008

OBAMA...BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT? REALLY?

Experience doesn't matter when running for president... only vice president.

DemocratforObama08 stop calling yourself an independent you donkey we all know that's just not true.

Alex
I am thankful I do not work for soneone like you. They say what goes around comes around, so hopefully someone will treat you in the same manner you treat your employees.

If we elcet Obama, all proverty will disappear. War will cease and a bright new day will dawn on civilization! We will all get tax breaks and world hunger will alos be eliminated. It's funny how right-wingers use scare tactics like Obama was affiliated with a terrorist or he attended racist sermons for 20 years and claims he never heard such rants, toasted a PLO member, etc. the list goes on. It doesn't even matter if all of that is true. Who cares if he has radical ideologies and hates white people. Me personally, I want to pay reparations even thought my family had no part in slavery. What's that you say? He doesn't support that anymore? Of course not, if the publice doesn't like that, it's gone. Public doesn't like Rev. Wright? I don't either! Nothing a good ol' flip flop woll take care of. I plan to spend more while cutting taxes to all but 5% of the counrty? Doesn't make sense but who cares, I want to be a part of History? Basic liberties? Who cares. Free speech is overrated anyway.

I love reading posts from Obama supporters. I have yet to find someone who can give me a legitimate reason to vote for the lying snake. "He stands for change" or "he gives my children/grandchildren hope that they can become the president" simply are not valid.
He flounders on his tax threshold (it started at $250,000 now it’s down to a little over $100,000 per FAMILY), he pushes for Universal Healthcare (a disaster waiting to happen, just look at Canada) and perhaps the greatest issue is he has yet to prove who he really is. Is it really that hard to reveal your birth certificate and health records?
He has something to hide, and just blindly voting for him because he stands for “Change” or because everyone is telling you to vote for him is an absolute disgrace.

Remember what these two people said. Not exact quotes but real close.

We live in the greatest country in the word. Now help me change it: B. Obama.

A government big enough to give you what you want is big enough to take everything you have: Thomas Jefferson.

Even with 1/2 a brain why would one vote Rep this time with the shape we're in?
It's like buying GM when you can buy Toyota? One could really conclude that voting Republican means your are not a smart person. Oh, and hopefully the undecided stay home for another couple days because 2 yrs wasn't quite enough time for them to make up their mind. What is wrong with these mutants?

According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are both proposing tax plans that would result in cuts for most American families. Obama's plan gives the biggest cuts to those who make the least, while McCain would give the largest cuts to the very wealthy.

In other words - BOTH Obama and McCain's tax policies redistribute the wealth - the only difference being that Obama's tax policies take from the rich to give to teh poor while McCain's tax policies take from the poor and give to the rich.

RH you are "Right On" with your comments

Danterman, Wrong again.

Experience is the total sum of a persons life. Wisdom is taking that experience and learning from it. McCain has experience but lacks wisdom, Obama lacks experience, but has wisdom... I vote for wisdom every time.

@# 48 Dem4Mcain, You mean the same PLO that John McCain gave $448,000.00 or how about the pastors John McCain had taken money from and turns out they are both nuts as well. Oh Hey wait, I know, how John McCain was a cheating scum bag and had several affairs and enaged Cindy before his marriage was over. No wait there is more, plenty more, go to therealmccain.com

Hey, where's Joe the Plumber these days? Joe? Are you out there, Joe? Someone cancelled his appearances with McCain. Probably right after McCain announced that he was going to take Joe the Plumber to the White House with him. Now that surely attracted the Independents!

And where's Bush during this last campaign week? That's the most telling sign of all . . . a standing president isn't welcomed to McCain's own campaign. I wish one of this rednecks would explain that and why they don't mind millionaires going from 39% tax rate from 35% like in the Clinton days.

The Rove playbook is all about courting the guns and God country bumpkins while working for the oil companies and Haliburton. The gun-toters are pro-life but strongly in favor of torture and the death penalty. So figure!

Thank God this will all be over with tomorrow and Obama starts this country on a better path. Thanks George and Dick . . . for the last horrible 8 years!

McCain keeps talking about victory in Iraq. Can someone explain how a victory is even possible? I see a ill conceived military adventure in the wrong country on "facts" cooked up by Bush and company. I say get out now, should have never been there. Enough lives destroyed, enough US Dollars squandered.

Obama is the guy to get us out of a shameful war.

McCain's choice of Palin is an insult to women. Does he really think that women would vote for someone as unskilled as she is ? Just because she's a woman!!

I see you all have not lost your fight :

GOOD! Because we have a lot to do. You! (the American people) are going to have to take back control of your elected government at every level, and set your government back on the right path of service to you, and the greater good of the World.

Barack Obama and the democrats are your best hope of doing that now. Tell your family, friends, and everyone you know to support them as best they can. Because the Bush McCain vote fraud, vote cheating, vote buying, vote manipulation machine is already hard at work to cheat you again. And we all know what a disaster that has been the past 8 years of Bush McCain.

Barack Obama and the democrats will need all the power you can give them at every level of government (Federal, State, County, and local City elected governments). Obama and the democrats will have an enormous mess to fix for the American people, and the rest of the World. A mess caused by the corrupt Bush McCain administration.

You see, starting back in 2000, and before 911, it was mostly the Republican governors, Republican legislatures, and county elected Republican officials that conspired with the corrupt Bush McCain administration to raise college, and university tuitions by the fastest, and highest rate increases in American history. Some state tuitions went up by as much as a WHOPPING! 30% in one year.

The reason the Bush McCain administration did this was to force struggling working class kids into the military to pay for the sudden jump in tuition. Which was forced on them by the corrupt Bush McCain administration, and their corrupt Republican Governors, and republican controlled state legislatures.

See, Bush McCain had plans to get us into all these immoral, foolish, criminal, and unnecessary wars from the start. So they could use these wars to seize power, and later to get reelected. But, for their evil plan to work they needed more volunteer soldiers struggling to pay for an education whose blood they could spill to help them seize more power. Remember Bush McCain's "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!" theatrics.

The exploitation, and lost lives of these finest Americans is despicable, disgusting, immoral, corrupt and criminal. And it makes me SICK, and ANGRY!

You will have to vote for Obama, and the democrats in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush McCain vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help your fellow Americans cast their votes on through election day. Vote for Obama, and the democrats like your life, and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. Because it does. You will not survive 4 more years of "Let Them Eat Cake" Bush McCain, and their republican allies.

Just look at the mess we have now.

You can fix this mess with your votes for Obama, and the democrats. But you must continue to surge forward for Barack Obama, and the democrats, and for your-selves most of all. The children, and the World are counting on us.

It's in your hands now. And I know you will get it done.

God bless all of you.

JACK SMITH - WORKING CLASS... :-)

Obama has just as much experience as Abraham Lincoln did when he was elected our President - so why isn't this given more credence? You can even make the case that Obama has already learned and knows a lot more about what to do than JFK did at the time he was elected. Maybe "experience" isn't what we need right now. Show me someone who still criticizes Obama's experience and I'll show you someone deep in a prison of their own cynicism that they can hardly see a way out of.

Barack Obama lies and lies and lies and all of you buy it. It is sad.

I saw people complaining no one gave a good reason why they are voting for McCain. Here are my reasons, I think they are good.

1. I don't like the idea of wealth "redistribution". I am not at that magical $250K mark, but I don't need handouts from people. Nor did I ever expect the government to take care of me. I have responsibility for myself and I am smart enough and good enough at what I do to earn my own money. I do fully expect to be at the $250K mark and then I will be punished for it. I think this is wrong and it sends the wrong message. I want people t be rewarded for success not punished for it.
2. The lying. Obama has said that he didn't vote to deny medical attention to babies that survived abortions, and that is a lie. He did vote to deny this medical attention 3 times when he was a member of the Illinios State Senate. He completely lied about this - that bothers me. He also said he didn't hear any racial comments from Rev Wright in 20 years - 20 years, seriously? That is like saying I was at Catholic Mass and never heard a mention of Jesus. The downplaying of the Ayers association. If Ayers had said in 2001 that he was sorry about the bombings he pulled off, then fine, I could forgive him. But he isn't sorry - and Obama downplays his actions - this is wrong. We are a forgiving society, but you ahve to be sorry.
3. It is very difficult to find any information on Obama. His articles that came out in the Harvard Law Review when he was editor in chief are impossible to find. Why? Why can't I find any information on this.

Joseph,
What do you know about health care in Canada? I am an American doctor working in Canada because 1) I never have to ask anyone if they have insurance before I ask what I can do for them 2) I do not have a high school graduate in an insurance office telling me what I can order or do for my patients, and 3) it takes me 30 seconds to bill for my services per patient, and I get paid, at the latest, two weeks later. See the literature; we do as well as the US in outcome, though some may have to wait longer for treatment of painful but non life-threatening conditions.

I am hoping Obama wins tomorrow - but am afraid that some the polls are wrong because that when it comes down to it - there is a certain % of the population that may say they could support Obama or he is better choice than McCain, but at the last minute cant bring themselves to vote for a minority.

Lash out at me, but as a White guy with Irish and Italian heritage - I see the fear tactics taking hold. My aunt told me last night "Did you even know about Obama's logo with the "O" and the red white and blue on the plane he flys in....he took the american flag off and put up his own flag, he hates america and we are all in big big trouble." She is college educated and told my that she heard about it on Jay Severin.......

Jenn - not really sure how you cannot find information on Obama, it's all around you. And all of these examples have been clearly disproven by non-partisan factcheckers easily reachable on the web, so why are you still insisting on their validity? Or is there something else going on here? Obama is only asking for reinstating the tax structure under Reagan, which was pretty forgiving to $250K+ to begin with, but which has since opened the door to Bush's gutting of the health of the middle class with reckless corporate favoritism that Obama wants to end and which McCain hasn't said squat about.

Besides, if you are going to focus on these supposed examples why not take just a few moments with McCain's record and the continuous lying that has made up his entire career to get ahead, from the heartless way he cheated on and dumped his ailing and aging first wife for a rich heiress, to his dishonesty about palling around with Keating at the ultimate expense of $3 billion of taxpayer money and the loss of many families' life savings, to his protestations of supporting Vets while voting against funding for them 23 times in the Senate (while Obama voted for the same bills) to his abject vows not to attack his opponent or run a negative Presidential campaign. Goodness, sometimes this man McCain even contradicts himself in the same sentence, for crying out loud. What more needs to be presented?

i'm not an american but from what i see, an obama presidency would really help repair US battered image abroad

i'm not an american but from what i see, an obama presidency would really help repair US battered image abroad

Wealth in America today is created by unloading debt onto others, daytrading in stock market and compounding of unearned income. There is very little "hard work" involved. 90% of the nation's wealth is concentrated in the top 1% and they have gained $856 billion in income while the 90% have only gained $60 billion from 2002 to 2006. The top 400 ruling families have more wealth than the "bottom" 150 million! This unbelieveable concentration of wealth is the root cause of the current economic instability and the powerlessness of the middle class. Hence Obama is on the scene to correct the situation.