tom1:14AMJul 5th 2008

Whereas Liberals are known for their emphasis on people, Replublicans are known for their emphasis on business, and their attitude toward some people probably stems from who benefits business.

trish9:48AMJul 5th 2008

obama will help the leaders of iran take over iraq, they are running out of oil....

Angela V1:08PMJul 5th 2008

Vote for John McCain! Obama=debt and disaster McCain=reform, prosperity, and peace

Wish Belkin2:10PMJul 5th 2008

Racism seems to be an equal opportunity desease.
Racists are only outnumbered by those accusing others of racism.
Damdest thing.
Thank Madison Avenue, The Media and of course the fools who have gained control of our government.

Ron Paul for President !! (write it in)

RIChris2:24PMJul 5th 2008

My fellow Americans:

As your future President I want to thank my supporters, for your mindless support of me, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor's relations with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, or my blatantly leftist voting record while I present myself as some sort of bi-partisan agent of change.

I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the Presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush's youthful drinking disqualifies him. Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political posing.

I would also like to thank the Kennedy's for coming out in support of me. There's a lot of glamour behind the Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King, Jr. and Teddy killed a female employee with whom he was having an extra marital affair and who was pregnant with his child. And I'm not going anywhere near the cousins, both literally and figuratively.
And I'd like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support. Her love of meaningless empty platitudes will be the force that propels me to the White House.

Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I make people feel good. Voting for me causes some white folk to feel relieved of their imagined, racist guilt.
I say things that sound meaningful, but don't really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning. If things have meaning, then that means you have to think about them.
Americans are tired of thinking. It's time to shut down the brain, and open up the heart. So when you go to vote, remember, don't think, just do. And do it for me.

Thank You.
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.

CAROLINAGIRL2:54PMJul 5th 2008

MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH THE EXTENDED HELMS FAMILY.

AMERICA HAS LOST A TRUE PATRIOT.

GOD BLESS AMERICA.

Bruno2:56PMJul 5th 2008

Sure, they're all racists, and egotists, and closet gays or misogynist womanizers, and liers, and cheats, and mud slingers, and fat cat rip-offs, and warmongers, and the list goes on for ever. Why not elect McCain? Heck, the country's not totally broke yet. There's probably a few folks around the world that at least tolerate us, like say, the Sultan of Brunei. The oil companies and the super rich don't have quite all the bucks yet. My gosh, there's so much screwing up left to do! If America elects McCain it will deserve its final collapse!

JOHN6:06PMJul 5th 2008

Someone just sent me this link to a comprehensive video covering Barack Obama. In it...is a complete history of where he came from, what he thinks, things he's said (in his OWN voice) and I'm sure he hoped that they would be lost and forgotten forever, but someone has captured them and put them on this shocking video for all to see and hear. It is called "Connect The Dots."Please watch and listen to this video and share it with others. It is the only way we can wake people up in time and try and stop this "Changeling" from overtaking the White House in November.God help us all...!!!http://www.eyeblast.tv/Public/Video.aspx?rsrcID=2036

Santana6:55PMJul 5th 2008

You people just don't get it. It's time for a change the "old" politics of long ago needs to end with this Presidential election....we are tired of it. Let's turn a new page. My generation wants to do things differently...be it wrong or right. No matter what there is going to be a group that would never vote for Obama....even if Jesus himself endorsed him. So let's just move on!!!!!!!!!

Peggy12:01AMJul 6th 2008

Shall we take a look at one of Barack Obama's highly reputable endorsers and backers?


With a long history of racism, don't African Am's wonder why Sen. Robert Byrd is the longest serving democrat?

In 1972, Byrd pushed to have the Senate's main office building named after Dixiecrat Sen. Richard Russell, a leading opponent of anti-lynching legislation who Byrd called "my mentor."

Byrd filibustered the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act for 14 straight hours.

Three years after he said he'd left his white-sheeted brethren behind, he wrote to Georgia's Grand Imperial Wizard urging: "The Klan is needed today as never before."

Sen. Byrd was also a fierce opponent of desegregating the military, complaining in one letter, "I should rather die a thousand times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than see this
beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds."
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Wonder why Obama and Byrd are so close now. Look back to the last reelection campaign run by Byrd.

Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 7:02:23 AM by wagglebee

"In the oddest political pairing in memory, the Senate's lone African-American member, Barack Obama, has become the number one campaigner for the Senate's only ex-Ku Klux Klansman, Sen. Robert Byrd.

Working with MoveOn.org in March, Obama singlehandedly helped Byrd raise more money for his reelection fight next year than the one-time
segregationist had ever raised before.

In a letter to MoveOn members, the rising Democratic Party star praised the one-time night-rider as a man of principle:

"In 2006, Senator Byrd will be the target of Republicans because he stands up for what he believes," Obama insisted. "Will you join me in
supporting Senator Byrd's campaign for re-election?"
The leading black Democrat's endorsement was a big hit for the former white supremacist, with West Virginia's Charleston Gazette reporting: "Nearly $823,000 poured in within 48 hours after Illinois Sen. Barack Obama sent out a fundraising letter through MoveOn.org on March 29 asking people to contribute to Byrd's campaign."

Obama has apparently even stumped for the N-word-using Democrat in Byrd's homestate, with West Virginia's Charleston Daily Mail reporting:
"West Virginians know why Democrats brought in [Obama] to raise money for Byrd's bid for a ninth term. "Byrd is acting scared. [Republican
pollsters] did a telephone poll of 500 likely voters on March 15-16 and found Republican Congresswoman Shelley Capito is within 10 points of Byrd."

If the African American trailblazer has any qualms about endorsing the man who filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act and who disdainfully referred to blacks as "the darkest specimens of the wilds," he's keeping them to himself.

NewsMax.com's call to Sen. Obama's press office on Tuesday asking why he was campaigning for the one-time Klansman was not returned."

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The Party With the Race Problem


Wednesday, June 25, 2008; Page A12
In his June 24 op-ed column, "Race in the Sunlight," Eugene Robinson wrote that "the Republican Party has a problematic history on race."

Really?

Let's look at some history. The Democratic Party supported Jim Crow laws and fought hard to maintain segregation. Twenty-one Democratic senators, including Albert Gore Sr. (Tenn.), J. William Fulbright (Ark.) and Robert Byrd (W.Va.) voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Only six Republican senators voted against it.

Most Democratic senators voted against confirming Clarence Thomas, the only black justice on the Supreme Court.

The Democratic Party is the party with a problematic history on race.


And, in case anyone forgot, it was the Republican Party that freed the slaves.

LAWRENCE INK

4mycountry2:55AMJul 6th 2008

Barack Hussein Obama is bi-racial; however, he 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.

The Old Ranger10:32AMJul 6th 2008

"Most Republicans are decent people who reject racism out of hand"...but they wouldn't want one of "them" moving in next door or marrying their daughters, know what I mean, Bubba?

Racism is at the core of the Republican "appeal" at least since the days of Nixon's "southern strategy". Do you think it is an accident that the vast majority of Republicans are whites--specifically suburban whites, i.e. the folks who left the cities to get away from "them" and don't want "them" infiltrating their lily-white enclaves? Are you aware that it is considered a witticism among these smirking bigots to use the word "Democrat" as a synonym for "black"?

40 is the new 20 and 60 is also the new 2012:17PMJul 6th 2008

Sen. Jesse Helms had a long political career and was always open and honest with his opinions. I may have disagreed but I prefer that over the "some of my best friends are black" philosophy. Sen. Barack Obama is the only black senator and it is 2008. Should people punish Sen. John McCain because his adviser worked for Sen. Jesse Helms? Should politicians be punished for any PAST mistakes? Don't paint the politicians into a corner, because no one is perfect and Americans need to know what will be done in the FUTURE!!!

Jim1:06PMJul 6th 2008

WHY OBAMA DIDN'T WANT HIS PASSPORT INFORMATION TO GET OUT.. WHAT DID IT HAVE ON IT... HERE IS ALITTLE BIT OF WHY HE WANTED TO HIDE IT FROM THE PUBLIC..

Obama tried to hide his 3 week stay in Pakinstan from
the voters eyes....

Wonder what Obama learned while staying in Pakistan..

It all sounds very innocent, "a college trip to Pakistan".

Pakistan was in turmoil in 1981 and ruled of martial law. Millions of Afghan refugees were living in Pakistan, while the Afghan Mujahedeen operated from bases inside Pakistan in their war with the Soviets. One of the leaders that based his operation in Quetta, Pakistan was Usama Bin Laden (The Sheik).

Pakistan was on the banned travel list for US Citizens at the time and all non-Muslim visitors were not welcome unless sponsored by their embassy for official business.



There would be only a few reasons a young Westerner of the Muslim faith would travel to Pakistan in 1981:


To Participate in Jihad, which is the duty of every "True Believer".

For religious education in a Wahabbi sect, Saudi funded, Madrassa.

In order to purchase drugs from the drug marketplace.

Pakistan was not a tourist stop nor the place to hang out with someone's family in 1981.

Seems that Obama was SO dedicated to Islam that he EVEN traveled to a country that was Off Limits for Americans to travel too..

Jim2u1:12PMJul 6th 2008

Obama co- sponsored a bill with Senator Lugar that funneled US TAXES PAYERS DOLLARS into the Iranian nuclear program.. Money sent to Russia went to fund Irans program.. How's that one for you Obama fans to chew on..

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/06/mideast/nuke.php

iynaroc021:13PMJul 6th 2008

Birds of the same feather fly together. If McCain is serious about being a different kind of candidate he should fire Black. This is the second issue with Black in a couple of weeks. Couple of weeks ago he said that another terrorist attack on US before the November election would be a big boost for McCain. McCain kind of brushed it aside rather than rebukking him, so who's more patriotic? Prior to that, he said that the assisination of Benezar Bhutto in Pakistan helped McCain win the primary. Black and Mccain are very dangerous people. They want to benefit from other people's misery. So, who's more patriotic? Is it McCain who wants American to be terrorized for political gains or Obama who didn't wear flag pin? Let your conscience guide you.

Jim1:16PMJul 6th 2008

Obama co sponsored a bill that allowed Russia to provide Iran with nuclear fuel at a cost to EVERY US TAXES PAYERS..

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/06/mideast/nuke.php

Like the Russians say.. Obama is a CLUELESS puppet in International affairs..

iynaroc021:23PMJul 6th 2008

Jim2u1:12PMJul 6th 2008

Obama co- sponsored a bill with Senator Lugar that funneled US TAXES PAYERS DOLLARS into the Iranian nuclear program.. Money sent to Russia went to fund Irans program.. How's that one for you Obama fans to chew on..

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/06/mideast/nuke.php
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First of all you are one pathetic individual. Obama has only been in the senate for 4 years, so when did he co-sponsor the bill? Iraq has been on Bush's terrorist list (axis of eveil) since he took office in 2001 and Obama didn't get to the senate until 2004. It's half brain people like you that keep electing people that bring economic and other miseries to us. As far as people like you that hardly pay any tax are concerned you shouldn't have much say on what happens to tax dollars. Bush is spending $982 billion dollars in Iraq, while state of Michigan is raising income tax to make up for erroded tax base, Pennsylvania is selling their toll roads to private investors to make ends meet, Detroit is selling the Detroit/Windsor crossing to private investors to help them balance their budget due to erroded tax base and the list goes on. Maybe all these things are too sophisticated for you to comprehend, stupid idiot.

iynaroc021:26PMJul 6th 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.

iynaroc021:33PMJul 6th 2008

HONESTY ISSUE:
Will the real John McCain please stand up. For people that want to meet the real john McCain, please read these two articles: Corruption, Flip-Flop and Lies
http://www.realchange.org/mccain.htm
http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/levin040501.shtml
Now that's the McCain, the reformer we know.


Wife Beating:
In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, columnist Jon Ralston asked McCain why he didn't choose Gov. Jim Gibbons (in the middle of a messy divorce) to chair his Nevada campaign:
McCain: I appreciate his support. As you know, the lieutenant governor is our chairman.

Q: Why snub the governor?
McCain: I didn't mean to snub him. I've known the lieutenant governor for 15 years and we've been good friends....I didn't intend to snub him. There are other states where the governor is not the chairman.
Q: Maybe it's the governor's approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president?
McCain: (Chuckling) And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago . . .
ABC News' Jake Tapper notes that McCain's evasive joke was a poor choice given the context:
Gov. Gibbons last month filed for divorce from his wife Dawn citing incompatibility.
It's pretty scandalous. The Reno Gazette-Journal recently reported
that one month Gibbons sent 860 text messages to a woman with whom Mrs. Gibbons suspects her husband of stepping out.
Gibbons, you may recall, started his governorship amidst accusations that he assaulted a cocktail waitress named Chrissy Mazzeo three weeks before Election Day. Mazzeo said Gibbons grabbed her in a parking garage and threatened to sexually assault her. Charges were never filed.
Comment: With the type of bad temper McCain has, who knows what his wife (Cindy McCain) goes through at home.
Later in the same interview, McCain calls Jimmy Carter "a lousy president."
Comment: I guess Bush is his idol as a president.