lmay5:14PMMay 11th 2008

John Mccain is being criticized for bringing up the fact that HAMAS endorses Obama....I hope he continues and I hope we as Americans wake up. For those of you wet behind the ears voting without researching your candidate...Hamas in words...

Hamas is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, a Palestinian organization committed to eliminating Israel and replacing it with an Islamic state. Considered a terrorist organization by the United States and the West for its suicide attacks on Israel, it is popular among Palestinians for its network of schools, clinics and civic services, as well as its armed resistance to Israeli military occupation. The group is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian-based organization that has advocated Islamic government in the Arab world for 80 years.

Lifelong democrat here, haven't been politically active other than voting demo down the line all my adult. This time I feel the need to be involved.

Obama talks change..what change is that. Michele Obama talks as if America is a beat down country.

Read a book yesterday...America Alone-The end of America as we know it--Mark Steyn. Very interesting and scary.

Lifelong democrat voting for Mccain in November..waiting for Hillarys return in 2012 to clean up the mess.

At least with Mccain our country will be safe with a strong Commander in Chief that our troops will respect and admire.

Mary O\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\5:24PMMay 11th 2008

We still have Hillary’s back and she will prevail! Remember Hillary, "a winner never quits and a quitter never wins". I saw you Friday in Louisville, KY at the JJD and you were even more exciting than usual. The welcome you received there should speak volumes to you regarding how much we, and the rest of America, need you to be President. The happiest of Mother's Day to you and to all of you other Mom's reading this post. May the saints preserve "US" all.

bill8:31PMMay 11th 2008

John McCain is visibly unstable. Anyone who thinks they'll be safer with him at the helm is delusional.

Not to mention the fact that his Family Values include deserting his wife and kids, being a serial adulterer and telling the poor to suffer in silence while the rich get richer.

And if you're looking for the Manchurian Candidate in this race, how about the guy who was brainwashed for years in a commie prison?

lmay8:43PMMay 11th 2008

Bill you idiot..John Mccain is a true American hero.

Lifelong demo here voting for him over Obama no doubt!!

How dare you put him down, where were you when he was having bamboo shoved under his fingers.

Shame on you Jerk@@@

AMERICAN-FIRST9:25PMMay 11th 2008

WILL BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA REALLY TELL MILLIONS OF AMERICANS THEY DON’T COUNT?

MICHIGAN HAS ANOTHER VOTE IN AUGUST — PUT OBAMA AND CLINTON ON THE MICHIGAN TICKET!

IF OBAMA DOES NOT AGREE TO THIS — HE WILL BE TELLING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS THAT THEY DON’T COUNT!

OBAMA ONLY CARES ABOUT WHAT HE WANTS.

HE WAS ON THE FLORIDA BALLOT. COUNT FLORIDA’S VOTES.

IF OBAMA DOES NOT AGREE TO THIS — THEN HE IS NOT AN AMERICAN.

WE HAVE 50 STATES. LET ALL OF AMERICAN'S VOTES COUNT.
DON’T FORGET 9/11, WRIGHT, AYERS, HAMAS, MALCOLM X, REZKO, FARRAKHAN, OBAMA’S ANTI-AMERICAN WRIGHT AND MANY TERRORIST TIES. WE REALLY DON’T KNOW WHO OBAMA IS.

COME NOVEMBER, WE'LL SEE A NEW SET OF RULES — THE BIASED MEDIA AND THE DNCCAN'T PROTECT THE GOLDEN BOY FOREVER!

IF OUR DELEGATES IGNORE OUR “VOICES” AND DON'T SPEAK FOR US — VOTE THEM OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. CLEAN OUT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO DON’T DO THEIR JOB!

VOTE COUNTRY — NOT PARTY — McCAIN OR HILLARY!

WE ARE AMERICANS FIRST!

SMALL-TOWN AMERICAN9:33PMMay 11th 2008

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY WE DO NOT HAVE THE SAME PRIMARY DATE FOR ALL STATES AND A CAP ON THE AMOUNT THE CANDIDATES ARE ALLOWED TO SPEND --- NOT THE ONE WITH THE MOST MONIES ABLE TO HANDLE THE PRESS, THE TV STATIONS, THE NEWSPAPERS, ETC. NOT THE ONE WITH THE MOST TIES TO TERRORISTS AND ANTI-AMERICANS.

THE OLD EXPRESSION --- MONEY TALKS, IS SO TRUE. HOW CAN ANYONE DENY THAT HILLARY WOULD BE A BETTER CANDIDATE IN NOVEMBER?

IS IT BECAUSE OBAMA IS AN AFRO-AMERICAN AND NOONE WANTS TO TALK OR BE AGAINST HIS CHURCH? IT TOOK HIM A LONG TIME TO FINALLY OUST HIS PASTOR AND MENTOR OF 20-YEARS. AND ONLY BECAUSE HE KNEW HE HAD TO IF HE WANTED TO CONTINUE --- AT THAT TIME HE NEEDED THE VOTES OF THE 8,000 CHURCH MEMBERS.

HILLARY WAS GREAT ALL THE WAY....SHE COULD HAVE REALLY STIRRED THINGS UP. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?

HILLARY CAN REALLY GET THIS COUNTRY ON THE RIGHT TRACK.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AND THE DNC ARE DESTROYING AMERICA.

Katherine9:42PMMay 11th 2008

Where's the story about how hard-core Pro-Palestine Robert Malley of Obama's camp stepped down two days ago for speaking with Hamas?

That's a bigger story. But still, Obama is protected and promoted and patted on the head for his boo boos.

Whatever happened to investigative journalism. Someone said it died with Peter Jennings. Maybe.

EASTCOAST10:21PMMay 11th 2008

I hear the Swift Boat bells a-ringing! It's music to my ears!

THINK ABOUT IT! Obama does have a lot of terrorist friends.

We really don’t need a “former” Muslim, so-called “Christian” (ho attends an anti-American church, which spews "God Damn America" to its congregation), in the White House. OBAMA DENOUNCES WRIGHT AFTER HIS POLL NUMBERS DROP.

WRIGHT IS A "WOUND" FOR OBAMA --- BUT, IT'S SELF-INFLICTED! OBAMA STUCK WITH WRIGHT FOR 20 YEARS AND LIED ABOUT WHAT HE KNEW. TOO LITTLE --- TOO LATE.

Obama's anti-American wife doesn’t qualify as a first lady.

Obama can’t make up his mind who he is --- and we don’t need him pushing the “button”! He is not a uniter. He does not have a political track record. He couldn’t answer tough questions in the debate, so now he’s making false promises.

COME NOVEMBER, WE'LL SEE A NEW SET OF RULES --- THE DNC AND THE BIASED MEDIA CAN'T PROTECT THE GOLDEN BOY FOREVER!

tom11:59PMMay 11th 2008

Once in a while I come across a statement that needs to gbe repeated and once again I am proud to be a contryman of this writer.

Posted by: drroz | May 11, 2008 11:37:51 PM


"I have labored through this site. Where else but in a country such as this one, could people have the constitutional right to freely speak their minds (no matter how illogical, biased, erroneous, well-thought out or otherwise)? To women, African Americans, any people of color, Americans period who threaten to refuse to vote because the candidate of their choice may not be selected, I say "SHAME ON YOU!!!" You spit on the efforts of your predecessors. You take for granted the fundamental right that other people ,in other countries of the world would, and do, die for. To those who threaten to vote for someone whose fundamental principles they do not believe in out of spite, "SHAME ON YOU!!!!" You leave your future and the future of your families to "the powers that be." Do not complain when policies that do not help you, that leave you out on the fringes, that strip away any hope that you or your children could ever obtain the American dream, and that depend upon your myopia, phobias, miseducation, and apathy are put into place. You have allowed that to happen. Do not whine. It is a sad day when people resort to name-calling, mud slinging, backbiting, and fear mongering to express their opinions. But we have the right to do so here in America.
All I am saying is this: let's not take the liberties that we have fought and died for, both abroad and here in this country, for granted. America, as great as she is, is not perfect. She has made her mistakes-some small and some egregious. But, she has also shown herself to be a country capable of accomplishing great things.
I look at the way the world views us and I'm not amazed that they hate us, or at best, don't trust us. Look at the way that we treat each other...look at the way we behave...listen to how we sound. We sound spoiled, ungrateful and spiteful. We sound small-minded, hate-filled and petty, but then, again, we, here in America have the right to do so.
I love this country in spite of her flaws and because of her potential to do great things. I see her clearly; I am not deluded. I will speak out when she does things that are counterproductive and could prove to be detrimental to her lofty objectives. I praise her when she rises to her potential and behaves as the leader she is, and should be. I acknowledge her diversity and I embrace her commonality. We truly are more alike than we are different, but it is those differences that make us interesting...not better or worse...just different. We are all, at the end of the day, American.
It would behoove us to carefully watch how we accept labels as being the truth. Opinion, no matter eloquently or forcefully stated, is just that...opinion, and should be weighed as just that. We should be mindful of what lessons we are teaching our young. Do we really want to impart in our young a sense of entitlement? Do we really want to teach our young that when we don't get our way, the proper way to behave is to pout, or to belittle or to name call or to result to holding someone "emotionally hostage?" What happened to "fight hard, do your best, but play fair?" What has happened to learning how to "pick one's battles, drop back and punt, timing is everything, I'll be back, it's not how you win or lose, but how you play the game, and doing unto others as you would have them do unto you?" We cannot teach what we do not know. We cannot provide what we do not have. We cannot lead if we, ourselves, have lost our way. Our children are watching; the world is watching. What lessons are we really teaching them?
(Lastly, one note to Michigander. PLEASE, do your homework and carefully research your resources. Liberation theology does not teach hatred for anyone, but rather a moral obligation to do everything to relieve the suffering of ANY oppressed people based upon the teachings of Jesus Christ, who "came to set the captives free." There are hundreds of books on the subject. Martin Luther King Jr. preached that doctrine. Mother Theresa lived it. Ghandi practiced it. It is evident in the behavior of anyone who not only speaks out but also works to fight against oppression. Study, read, question, and research...THINK. Any ideology can be perverted and/or "bastardized.")
Jesus warned that we should not judge least we be judged with the same measure by which we judge, wise words for any human being, being imperfect and therefore subject to error. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Remember the law of reciprocity...what goes around, comes around. Every dog has its day. A prophet is without honor, even in his own country. Timing is everything. You gotta know when to hold "um and know when to fold "um. True power knows that you can wipe out your opponent and choosing not to. There is such a thing as "grace under fire". A house divided, will fall. Perhaps, we should study the doctrine of reconciliation which simply stated says this: I know that you have done me wrong. I forgive you. Now, what can we do, TOGETHER, to make sure that this does not happen again?
TEAM... together each achieves much.


Posted by: drroz | May 11, 2008 11:37:51 PM

WV4OBAMA12:27AMMay 12th 2008

This story has yet to catch the fire it should, and hopefully will, once the D's get focused on McCain and his dim vision of government. But the point born of these numbers is as simple as it is compelling:

For seven long years, we've tried entrusting our government to those who discredit it, defund it, and fundamentally disbelieve in its role, except when they seek a lucrative contract or a bailout. We gone down the road-and it is a crumbling road, with potholes and failing bridges -- where the solution to every problem is a tax cut, where critical agencies are staffed with cronies at best and opposition lobbyists at worst, where secrecy trumps transparency and cynicism rules, where budget resources are never available for expanding children's health care, but always there for war.

Table T08-0071 is a road map to taking us far, far deeper into this morass. We must not go there.

Lee1:42AMMay 12th 2008

McCAIN CHOOSE HILLARY AS YOUR RUNNING MATE

Zo5:58AMMay 12th 2008

EASTCOAST10:21PMMay 11th 2008

I hear the Swift Boat bells a-ringing! It's music to my ears!

THINK ABOUT IT! Obama does have a lot of terrorist friends.

We really don’t need a “former” Muslim, so-called “Christian” (ho attends an anti-American church, which spews "God Damn America" to its congregation), in the White House. OBAMA DENOUNCES WRIGHT AFTER HIS POLL NUMBERS DROP.

WRIGHT IS A "WOUND" FOR OBAMA --- BUT, IT'S SELF-INFLICTED! OBAMA STUCK WITH WRIGHT FOR 20 YEARS AND LIED ABOUT WHAT HE KNEW. TOO LITTLE --- TOO LATE.

Obama's anti-American wife doesn’t qualify as a first lady.

Obama can’t make up his mind who he is --- and we don’t need him pushing the “button”! He is not a uniter. He does not have a political track record. He couldn’t answer tough questions in the debate, so now he’s making false promises.

COME NOVEMBER, WE'LL SEE A NEW SET OF RULES --- THE DNC AND THE BIASED MEDIA CAN'T PROTECT THE GOLDEN BOY FOREVER!

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First of all eastcoast
Wright is not a wound to Obama in the eyes of blacks because he told the truth the government and the media has demonized blacks, the government was responsible for flushing drugs into the country. Obama had to seperate himself from Wright because white people were making too big a deal about the pastor who served in the marines for 6 years. How is that unpatriotic? Lets see we have learned about Obama's church, his pastor, his brothers in africa, his father. Yet we don't know anything about Hillary's church or pastor. We don't hear about her twice arrested (once for possesion of cocaine and the other for possession with intent to distribute) brother-in-law Roger Clinton and how she and her husband helped cover up his drug operation in Arkansas. People against Obama for what ever reason tend to dwell on issues that don't matter like Jeramiah Wright. I pretty sure some of your pastors say things about this country and government. His wife saying she was proud of this country for the first time is another issue. I am 38 years old and I am finally proud of this country because I believe that for the first time some a lot of people don't see a color or gender they see a man or a woman that can lead our country out of the mess we are in because of Bush and will continue to be in with McCain. I will vote for Hillary if she wins. McCain sucks.

Melissa7:12AMMay 12th 2008

I don't know when the Obama supporters will realize that his church and personal affiliations do matter to the voters. Voters are consumers. We want to know about the product before we buy it. When a candidate with such a thin record of achievement runs for office, the voter has every right to explore any and all aspects of that candidate to try to know them. Heaven knows you cannot trust a thing that comes out of any politician's mouth so you have to look to clues that give you some kind of idea of the type of person they are. The exploration of his religious affiliations, associates and organizations are warranted and necessary. Too bad more of us did not do this earlier so we could avoid today's buyer's remorse.

Melissa7:22AMMay 12th 2008

To drrz: I enjoyed reading your post. Your words were heartfelt and true. Just what are we teaching our young children? I wonder if Barack Obama thought about that when he allowed his young girls to sit in a church and listen to a pastor spewing venom and hatred about this country?

Que sera sera7:57AMMay 12th 2008

IMAY
The following have or have had links embedded in Obama’s official web page.
The first three are listed by the Department of Justice as indicted co-conspirators last May in the Holy Land Foundation terror financing trial.
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
The fourth Islamic group in the AMCE strategic partnership — the Muslim American Society (MAS) — was recently identified by federal prosecutors in a DOJ appeals court brief for another terrorism-related case as “the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America,” a brief which also states that “CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists.” The Brotherhood declared in a written memo to destroy America from the inside.

Que sera sera8:03AMMay 12th 2008

bill8:31PMMay 11th 2008
pathetic you are simply delusional

Paddy C9:44AMMay 12th 2008

Obama in not as responsible for his supporters than
McCain is for Hagy. Mc Cain sought the catholic hating Hagy. Obama did not seek Hamas spokesman.

Zo10:01AMMay 12th 2008

Melissa
If you are so concerned with the candidates religious affiliation then who is Hillary's pastor? What kind of church does she attend? Does she have 35 years of experience at attending that church?

CONCERNED10:32AMMay 12th 2008

WE HAVE 50 STATES --- NOT 48 --- COUNT THEIR VOTES! OBAMA HAS BASED HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN ON LIES.

HIS TIES TO ANTI-AMERICANS AND TERRORISTS WILL NOT GO AWAY. DON'T FORGET 9/11, WRIGHT, HAMAS, AYERS, MALCOLM X, FARRAKHAN, REZKO AND MANY OTHERS.

HE DENOUNCED PASTOR WRIGHT "AFTER" HIS POLL NUMBERS DROPPED. HE SUPPORTED WRIGHT FOR 20 YEARS. SAT IN CHURCH WITH HIS CHILDREN, LISTENING TO SPEWS OF HATRED AND "GOD DAMN AMERICA".

I'M A SMALL-TOWN AMERICAN WHO IS NOT BITTER BUT I DO BELIEVE IN GOD.

OBAMA CANNOT BE TRUSTED.

CONCERNED10:36AMMay 12th 2008

WE HAVE 50 STATES --- NOT 48 --- COUNT THEIR VOTES! OBAMA HAS BASED HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN ON LIES.

HIS TIES TO ANTI-AMERICANS AND TERRORISTS WILL NOT GO AWAY. DON'T FORGET 9/11, WRIGHT, HAMAS, AYERS, MALCOLM X, FARRAKHAN, REZKO AND MANY OTHERS.

HE DENOUNCED PASTOR WRIGHT "AFTER" HIS POLL NUMBERS DROPPED. HE SUPPORTED WRIGHT FOR 20 YEARS. SAT IN CHURCH WITH HIS CHILDREN, LISTENING TO SPEWS OF HATRED AND "GOD DAMN AMERICA".

I'M A SMALL-TOWN AMERICAN WHO IS NOT BITTER BUT I DO BELIEVE IN GOD.

OBAMA CANNOT BE TRUSTED.