John12:14AMJun 25th 2008

Take it from a guy wholives in Gordon Smiths district. He is hanging by a thread and hopefully he will be run out of town and replaced with a Democrat the big two face is suddenly becoming a liberal.

TOKYO-ROSE-PELOSI12:43AMJun 25th 2008

I watched Greta's interview with Nancy Pelosi. I think Pelosi is a hypocrite and as insidious as Howard Dean.

Nancy Pelosi never really answered Greta’s question about Obama’s lack of experience --- she changed the subject to judgment and the hope for change. Give me a break! "Hopeless" is what we have with Obama.

Please remember that she came out very early on and threw Sen. Clinton under the bus, by urging that it was time to quit and concentrate on “uniting the party”. As far as I’m concerned, her answer on sexism was more hot air. She tried to “flub” her way out of the question initially, but she didn’t know who she was dealing with.

And, as far as her answer on Jeremiah Wright, well, Greta's question attacked the “judgment” of her golden boy. What did you expect?

Pelosi is part and parcel of the “sink Hillary” campaign, and she will never empathize or even acknowledge Sen. Clinton’s incredible showing and the fact that she DID win the popular vote! Pelosi worked against Hillary because she wants to be America's first female president.

If Barack Hussein Obama does win the election, unfortunately, we will find out just what a mistake they’ve made sooner rather than later.

In just the last week, we’ve begun to see his true colors --- pun intended.

I’m one of those outraged women and I will not vote democratic again.

JOHN McCAIN IN 2008.

brian mcnamara1:23AMJun 25th 2008

It is amazing what Senators will do when they are hanging by a thread.
They tend to get very desparate. It is contagious and you see with the overiding of presidential vetos over the past weeks. I guess there is a concern that in November, the Republican will become an endangered species.

Bob1:55AMJun 25th 2008

If he is hanging by a thread , he must just show up and vote "Present "

lynn7:51AMJun 25th 2008

Watch it Obama might change his mind....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mQ_eCGbdg0

MJG228:26AMJun 25th 2008

Thanks to George Bush, Dick Chaney and the Evangelicals who sucessfully managed to hi-jack the GOP (government of the people)they are indeed an endangered species. If it were not for their extremist philosophies, the ultra left Barack Obama would be back in Illinois where he belongs. Both ends of the political spectrum are equally counter-productive and do not represent the will of the majority. Will this insanity never end? This country is long overdue for a third Party that speaks for all Americans.

iynaroc029:22AMJun 25th 2008

McCain’s real military file is unflattering. To end all the speculation, McCain should authorize the Navy to release all his military record.
In June 2005, seven months after he lost his bid for president, Senator John Kerry signed the 180 waiver, authorizing the release of his complete military service record to the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press. ** Unlike Kerry, McCain shouldn't wait until after the election to do so. The Navy may claim that it already released McCain's record to the Associated Press on May 7, 2008 in response to the AP's Freedom of Information Act request. But the McCain file the Navy released contained 19 pages -- a two-page overview and 17 pages detailing Awards and Decorations. Each of these 17 pages is stamped with a number. These numbers range from 0069 to 0636. When arranged in ascending order, they precisely track the chronology of McCain's career. It seems reasonable to ask the Navy whether there are at least 636 pages in McCain's file, of which 617 weren't released to the Associated Press.
Some of the unreleased pages in McCain's Navy file may not reflect well upon his qualifications for the presidency. From day one in the Navy, McCain screwed-up again and again, only to be forgiven because his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. McCain's sense of entitlement to privileged treatment bears an eerie resemblance to George W. Bush's.
Despite graduating in the bottom 1 percent of his Annapolis class, McCain was offered the most sought-after Navy assignment -- to become an aircraft carrier pilot. According to military historian John Karaagac, "'the Airdales,' the air wing of the Navy, acted and still do, as if unrivaled atop the naval pyramid. They acted as if they owned, not only the Navy, but the entire swath of blue water on the earth's surface." The most accomplished midshipmen compete furiously for the few carrier pilot openings. After four abysmal academic years at Annapolis distinguished only by his misdeeds and malfeasance, no one with a record resembling McCain's would have been offered such a prized career path. The justification for this and subsequent plum assignments should be documented in McCain's naval file.
McCain's file should also include records and analytic reviews of McCain's subsequent sub-par performances. Here are a few cited in two highly favorable biographies, both titled John McCain, one by Robert Timberg and the other by John Karaagac.
Timberg:
"[A]fter a European fling with the tobacco heiress, John McCain reported to flight school at Pensacola in August 1958.... [H]is performance was below par, at best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn't love it. What he loved was the kick-the-tire, start-the-fire, scarf-in-the-wind life of a naval aviator. ...One Saturday morning, as McCain was practicing landings, his engine quit and his plane plunged into Corpus Christi. Knocked unconscious by the impact, he came to as the plane settled to the bottom....McCain was an adequate pilot, but he had no patience for studying dry aviation manuals.... His professional growth, though reasonably steady, had its troubled moments. Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, he took out some power lines, which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.... [In 1965] he flew a trainer solo to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game. Flying by way of Norfolk, he had just begun his descent over unpopulated tidal terrain when the engine died. 'I've got a flameout,' he radioed. He went through the standard relight procedures three times. At one thousand feet he ejected, landing on the deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees."
Adds Karaagac:
"In his memoir, everything becomes a kind of game of adolescent brinksmanship, how much can one press the limits of the acceptable and elude the powers that be....The [fighter jocks'] ethos of exaggerated, almost aggressive sociability becomes an end in itself and an excuse for license. There is a tendency for people, not simply to believe their own mythology but, indeed, to exaggerate it.... Fighter jocks, like politicians around their campaign contributions, often press the limits of the acceptable. It is a type of mild corruption that takes place in a highly privileged atmosphere, where restraints are loosened and excuses made....McCain gives some hint in his memoirs about where he stood in the hierarchy among carrier flyers. Instead of the sleek and newer Phantoms and Crusaders, McCain flew the dependable Douglas A-4 Skyhawk in an attack, not a fighter squadron. He was thus on the lower end of the flying totem pole."
The genius of McCain's mythmaking is his perceived humility amid perpetual defiance. Having been a rebel without cause, and often a rebel without consequences, McCain apparently was not surprised when his Vietnamese captors went relatively easy on him compared to his fellow POWs. The Vietnamese military secretly and frequently filmed the American POWs to learn their propensities. Col. Pham Van Hoa of the Vietnamese People's Army Film Department was in charge of the filming. Asked recently for his dominant impression of McCain, the now-retired Van Hoa said that McCain "seemed superior to other prisoners." How so? "Superior in attitude towards them."
But when Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and co-author, was asked by the Arizona New Times about the first McCain memoir, Faith of My Fathers, that he was then working on, Salter said "the book will showcase a humble McCain. When I worked on this book with him, he just kept saying, 'Other guys had it a lot worse. I think they took it easier on me because of who my dad was. . . . When they tied me in ropes, they'd roll my sleeve up to give it a little padding between the rope and my bicep, you know, little things I noticed. The only really hard time I had was when I didn't go home, and then it only lasted a week, and sometimes I felt braver, I felt I could get away with more.'"
Is McCain now getting away with more by hiding his official history and by having his national security adviser inflate McCain's resume with a bogus promotion to admiral humbly declined? If so, McCain may be attempting to hide why the Navy was in fact slow to promote him upwards despite his suffering as a POW and his distinguished naval heritage.
One possible reason: After McCain had returned from Vietnam as a war hero and was physically rehabilitated, he was urged by his medical caretakers and military colleagues never to fly again. But McCain insisted on going up. As Carl Bernstein reported in Vanity Fair, he piloted an ultra-light, single propeller plane -- and crashed another time. His fifth loss of a plane has vanished from public records, but should be a subject of discussion in his Navy file. It wouldn't be surprising if his naval superiors worried that McCain was just too defiant, too reckless and too crash prone.
Regardless, McCain owes it to the country to release his complete naval records so that American voters can see his documented history and make an informed decision.

MJG229:38AMJun 25th 2008

The arrogant left wing amateur Barack Obama would be still sitting in Jeremiah Wright’s church if George Bush, Dick Chaney and the Evangelicals had not succeeded in hi-jacking the GOP for the last eight years. Barack Obama was a deliberate choice made by the DNC in retaliation to the unilaterally arrogant Bush Administration.

How stupid is it to think that one form of extremism will counter act another? Both are counter productive and only serve the special interests that represent them and not the majority of the American people who are caught in the middle of the fray. Will this insanity never end? Is there no one left in this great Nation of ours who can speak for the majority? We had an opportunity to end it with the centrist policies of Senator Clinton, but the main stream media representing the left and the right were handsomely paid to throw her under the bus. Too bad America, we lose again.

David S.2:26PMJun 25th 2008

Smith is a Republican facing a tough re-election in blue state Oregon. You do what you gotta do. As one GOP congressman told other Republicans, you are on your own this election year. How true.

bagdadobama4:13PMJun 25th 2008

hey dave, obama butt kisser, cant you rig the aol poll to reflect obama winning instead of mccain ? i mean, what does all that "red" mean ? of course, we are to believe that all the other polls, i.e., rasmusson, gallop. zogby}gag} are correct and they only poll 1,000 or so. this aol poll is a cross section of millions of people so is it wrong ? quick, obama get in here and fix this poll ! lmao, mccain 08......no muslims need apply for the job, obama

ANYBODY-BUT-OBAMA5:07PMJun 25th 2008

Obama has flip-flopped again. He has now decided to stick with his campaign contributions. Where did all this money come from? Maybe it's blood money --- but whose blood? Think about it!

Obama will deliver….but what will it be? He speaks of change and hope. I think he’s hopeless. He has based his entire campaign on lies.

He will deliver higher taxes, socialist agenda, and make us a wimpy laughing stock. I am not a McCain devotee either; however, so far…as an independent…he has proven more to me.

Obama has not been truthful to the American people. I question his judgment. I have seen nothing from Obama yet except catchy phrases designed on emotion. There is nothing different than the same old rhetoric that I have heard since I could vote.

The only true statesman has been Ronald Reagan.

I WILL VOTE McCAIN IN 2008.

OBAMA-HAS-VISITED-57-STATES5:44PMJun 25th 2008

The Obama Campaign has booked CNN --- they're probably booking (buying) ALL media (except FOX). Has Barack Hussein Obama told America where all the millions of dollars came from? Are any of these contributions 'blood money' from his terrorist friends?

In January 2005, the new ’speaker’ Pelosi promised to unite our country.

Since then, she and the other dems in Congress have done nothing but bash the current administration. They have never tried to reach across the lines and do what is good for America. They only care about being in power. WE NEED TO REPLACE ALL DEMS IN CONGRESS.

Obama has told too many lies and has too many ties to terrorists and anti-Americans.

He stabbed Hillary in the back — but now he needs her. The DNC and biased media gave Obama the candidacy. They hid his sordid 'past' from us until AFTER over half of America had voted. Obama was “selected” by the delegates — not “elected” by the people.

I will never vote for this man. He has lost all credibility. He simply cannot be trusted.

John McCain has proven he loves our country — enough to die for us — he has two sons fighting for us now.

I’ll vote “Country” — not “Party”. United we stand — Divided we fall.

John McCain in 2008

ANYBODY-BUT-OBAMA12:17AMJun 26th 2008

The only racism I have seen throughout this election process was coming out of:

1. Obama's Trinity Church,

2. Michelle's College Thesis,

3. Quotes from Obama's books.

Oh, but then you say we are taking all of this out of content.

It had to be a racist Church, isn't that the reason Obama FINALLY tuned his back on "Reverend" Wright and resigned from Trinity Church. Isn't that why he finally denounced his friend "Father" Pffleger?

OBAMA ADMITS TO HIS SORDID PAST --- AFTER HE GETS CAUGHT. UNTIL THEN, HE SIMPLY LIES!

HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED.

VOTE McCAIN 2008 --- HILLARY 2012.

REPLACE-DEMS-IN-CONGRESS10:32AMJun 26th 2008

OBAMA IS A TYPICAL CHICAGO MOBSTER. HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET WHAT HE WANTS. HOW MUCH BLOOD MONEY HAS HE COLLECTED? HOW MUCH DID HE GIVE TO THE DELEGATES TO GAVE HIM THE CANDIDACY? HE WAS NOT "ELECTED" BY THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.

THE BIASED MEDIA AND DNC DID NOT TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT BOY-BAMA UNTIL AFTER HALF OF AMERICA HAD VOTED. HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN BASED ON LIES. HE PLAYS THE RACE CARD ON A REGULAR BASIS. THE MAN SIMPLY CANNOT BE TRUSTED.

OBAMA ACKNOWLEDGED “PRIEST PFLEGER” WAS A KEY SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL ADVISEMENT TO HIM.

APPARENTLY ALL “PASTORS” IN OBAMA’S CHURCH ARE RADICAL RACISTS.

REMEMBER JEREMIAH WRIGHT?

OBAMA SAID: “I cannot disown him any more than I can disown my WHITE grandmother (and why does he feel the need to qualify his grandmother as being WHITE anyway??? and how does his grandmother WHO HELPED RAISE HIM, get lumped in the same category with his pastor anyway???)”

Fast forward two or three weeks:

“Oh, wait, he’s gone too far this time…now I can disown him….”

Reverend Wright was no less the same person than he ever was in April than he was in March, but NOW he’s an inconvenience and a political liability.

Kind of makes you wonder how much longer Grandma (with her uneasiness around strange AA men) was left in the beams of his two-faced ray of sunshine.

OBAMA WILL SAY ANYTHING TO GET WHAT HE WANTS. HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN BASED ON LIES. BE CAREFUL WHO YOU VOTE FOR!

McCAIN 2008 — HILLARY 2012.

ANYBODY-BUT-OBAMA11:22AMJun 26th 2008

GODD OLE FLIP-FLOPPING OBAMA! BUT IT'S OKAY BECAUSE THE DNC AND BIASED MEDIA LOVE THEIR 'GOLDEN BOY'.

Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional --- In 2007.

Now his camp says --- DRUM ROLL PLEASE......

Obama Camp Disavows Last Year's 'Inartful' Statement on D.C. Gun Law.

Even an uncool kid like me can see a LIAR.

Obama is just a Liar --- liar, liar your ‘Elitist’ Wall Street COOL Versace Pants on fire.....

"Obama has sidestepped the question of whether the ban in the nation's capital runs afoul of the Second Amendment."

SideStepped? Move to the side? --- Which Side? --- Up, down, to the left, to the right --- It's THE HUSTLE!

VOTE McCAIN IN 2008.

BIG BAD JOHN -- HERO McCAIN2:18PMJun 26th 2008

BIG BAD JOHN McCAIN! --- He has proven he loves our country enough to die for us. He has two sons fighting for us now.

Barack Hussein Obama only acknowledges his "white" heritage when he's in trouble --- otherwise, he claims to be a "black" man. He plans to help the people of Africa. We need a President who will help the people of the United States of America.

Re: The CORONATION of "Barry" Obama...
When this young, bi-racial "Changeling" first began this race, I was amused at how swiftly he steam-rolled the Clinton machine. My amusement came to a screeching halt however...when I woke up one day and realized that "hey...this guy could end up as our president...!!!"

Time out. The more this guy (and his mean-spirited wife) opened their mouths, the more I read from their writings, followed by the Rev. Wright debacle, followed by the Father Pfleger spectacle, followed by one political gaffe after another...well...my original amusement has now turned to outright panic and so has it ...for just about everybody I know.

I don't quite know who is behind the sudden rise of this otherwise, obscure, inexperienced Senator from Chicago and the press has also bought into it with them, but this bothers me more than anything.

Who? What? And...the biggest one of all...................why???

I must say that I am willing to overlook Jeremiah Wright, Pfleger, and the Muslim accusations.

What scares me to death are his political gaffes that show he will be a president in training.

There is something seriously wrong with the Democratic Party to have selected this novice for the most important job in the country.

VOTE McCAIN IN 2008.

FLIP-FLOPPING-OBAMA2:26PMJun 26th 2008

THE QUESTION IS: "WHO IS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA"?

THE ANSWER IS: "NOBODY KNOWS"!

Obama's flip-flop pattern is the only consistency this man has. After he takes the position before one set of voters (that they want to hear), he later side steps that position by saying that he was misunderstood, his statements are being taken out of context, or that the attack is simply divisive.

This is nothing more than piggy-backing Obama-esque damage control onto the most important SCOTUS opinion of this century. Obama's position is perfectly clear: He supports the wholesale banning of all semi-automatic firearms in America. This is, and has been on record for many months.

Ae listed on Obama's section of Ontheissues.org, his gun-control position is:

Principles that Obama supports on gun issues:
-Ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.

-Increase state restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms.

-Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks with firearms.

http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Gun_Control.htm

Obama sending out a statement which preceeds the SCOTUS decision is silliness. Ever since the Supreme Court heard the arguments, most people understood that SCOTUS was signalling that they would correctly opine that the 2nd Amendment was an 'Individual Right'.

Sorry, Obama --- You still cannot rewrite your previously stated positions as they suit you. Quit trying and stand up for what you, not the polls, believe in.

OBAMA SIMPLY CANNOT BE TRUSTED. HE AND THE DNC STABBED HILLARY IN THE BACK. HE WAS "SELECTED" --- NOT "ELECTED".

VOTE McCAIN IN 2008 --- HILLARY IN 2012.

OBAMA-BIN-LIAR10:41AMJun 27th 2008

Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is onstitutional --- In 2007.

Now his camp says --- DRUM ROLL PLEASE......

Obama Camp Disavows Last Year's 'Inartful' Statement on D.C. Gun Law.

Even an uncool kid like me can see a LIAR.

Obama is just a Liar --- liar, liar your ‘Elitist’ Wall Street COOL Versace Pants on fire.....

"Obama has sidestepped the question of whether the ban in the nation's capital runs afoul of the Second Amendment."

SideStepped? Move to the side? --- Which Side? --- Up, down, to the left, to the right --- It's THE HUSTLE!

VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN IN 2008.

REPLACE-DEMS-IN-CONGRESS2:40PMJun 27th 2008

OBAMA BOUGHT HIS CLEAR PASS — SUPERDELEGATES GOT HIS CAMPAIGN CASH!
Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor

Many of the superdelegates who could well decide the Democratic presidential nominee have already been plied with campaign contributions by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a new study shows.

“While it would be unseemly for the candidates to hand out thousands of dollars to primary voters, or to the delegates pledged to represent the will of those voters, elected officials serving as superdelegates have received about $890,000 from Obama and Clinton in the form of campaign contributions over the last three years,” the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reported today.

About half the 800 superdelegates — elected officials, party leaders, and others — committed to either Clinton or Obama, though they can change their minds until the convention.

OBAMA’S POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE HAS DOLED OUT MORE THAN $694,000 TO SUPERDELEGATES SINCE 2005, THE STUDY FOUND, AND OF THE 81 WHO HAD ANNOUNCED THEIR SUPPORT FOR OBAMA, 34 HAD RECEIVED DONATIONS TOTALING $228,000.

OBAMA WAS “SELECTED” — NOT “ELECTED” — THE BIG-WIG DEMS WERE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR. THEY ALL NEED TO BE REPLACED.