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DEL.ICIO.USThe 30-minute Obamathon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With Barack Obama holding a significant but not decisive lead in the polls, his decision to buy 30 minutes of uninterrupted airtime on NBC, CBS, FOX, Univision, BET, MSNBC and TV One (8 p.m. Eastern) can be seen as either a bold bid to press and broaden his advantage to possibly landslide proportions or an unnecessary, even grandiose gamble.
Personally, I think it’s a little of both. He’s certainly not playing it conservative, in the non-political sense of the word.
It’s also true, though, that the move is a natural extension of his campaign strategy. From the beginning, he has been committed to fighting this out on a national stage, even in states where most experts said he had no chance, and he’s sticking to the plan to the end. You know, places like Georgia? And Virginia?
You dance with the girl who brung you, as the saying goes….
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By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 7:14 PM | Link to this
Will someone get Auntie a tv set?
SPREAD WEALTH AROUND: OBAMA AUNT FOUND IN BOSTON SLUM…
HAHAHAHAHAHA
By dave
October 29, 2008 7:17 PM | Link to this
and Jay, in your case, I’ll bet she was really UGLY….
By willbewatching
October 29, 2008 7:24 PM | Link to this
The knuckle draggers will still be as hateful as ever, but this is the last step to cement victory with 5 days left.
By LD
October 29, 2008 7:26 PM | Link to this
Perhaps he’ll tell viewers how he came to have enough money to buy 30 minutes of TV time: by reneging on a pledge to take public funds for his campaign on the last day to declare in order to be funded by liberal special interests like George Soros and Hollywood’s elite. Notice there hasn’t been an editorial complaining about him selling out to private money, but that sort of ‘reporting’ is reserved for only Republicans here.
Personally I’d like to see 30 minutes of that videotape the LA Times is holding that has Obama celebrating known Israel-hater Rahsid Khalidi. Bet that would be something to interrupt the World Series for.
By RW-(the original)
October 29, 2008 7:33 PM | Link to this
Do you get the feeling that the first thing this clown would put in his budget is a fund to build giant statues of himself all across the country?
The funny thing is he told Rick Warren that back in his younger days he had an ego problem. If that was a true statement I can’t even begin to imagine how full of himself he was back then.
By Matt
October 29, 2008 7:36 PM | Link to this
New news today, former ACORN worker to blab on obama that the dnc is giving money to them to promote registering dems to vote even though they don’t exist.
Obama is so vein to put out his little speach tonight. He is loaded with money and spending it without concern. Sort of like he will do with taxpayers money if he gets in. According to the polls though he is losing ground. I wonder why. His 250 thousand limit has shrunk to 150 thousand. I am sure it will soon be 100 thousand. Then 50 thousand. blah blah blah…..
The true person is coming out. I am sure he will say whatever the hollywood writers have telepromted him to say tonight and the stupified left will believe it all at face value. It must suck to be so nieve…
By Midori
October 29, 2008 7:40 PM | Link to this
a gift for Andy
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 7:41 PM | Link to this
SPREAD WEALTH AROUND: OBAMA AUNT FOUND IN BOSTON SLUM…
SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND: ANDY FOUND IN BATHROOM STALL…
By The Professor
October 29, 2008 7:41 PM | Link to this
Just keep on dancing!! Go Obama!!
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this
GA changed to toss up.
I’m afraid he might make some mad by interrupting their normal viewing habits. But I’m anxious to hear what he has to say. I was hoping he’d be far enough ahead to turn it into a fund raiser for the GOP.
By Dee Oblahmasan Infomercial
October 29, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this
Uh, greetings fellow dimwits.
I will not raise your taxes, heh. I will not take your guns, uh-huh. I will not send out my Gestapo to silence those who do not agree with me. I will not burn your books. I will not associate with terrorists. I will not lavish praise on terrorists like the PLO. I love, uh, Israel. I will not corrupt the voting process. I will not force mortgage lenders to give every deadbeat I like a house, even if it causes a financial disaster. I will not let Hairy Reed and Nancy Pelosi run wild at the United States Treasury. I will not let Suckie Face Waxman hold kangaroo courts over our former leaders like we are some tinpot dictatorship. I will not take away your SUV or truck and make you ride a bicycle. I will not turn off your heat in the winter. I will not put judges on the Supreme Court that make you get an abortion whether you want one or not. I will not let the perverts out of prison and a give them a nice house in your neighborhood so that they can lure your children in with Halloween candy. I will not drive American business to Europe and then cut off free trade, bwa. I will not unionize the employees of your restaurant or gas station. I will not surrender Iraq to al Qaeda and Iran. I won’t cut and run from Afghanistan. I won’t turn the best health care system in the world into something like the post office. I won’t monitor the food you eat, the drinks you drink, the water you use, I won’t watch your electrical meter spin, I won’t measure the natural gas you use for cooking, I won’t put a windmill on top of your house and I cut off service when I determined that you pigs have used to much. I won’t make America look like Zimbabwe, even though I love Zimbabwe. I won’t shrink our military into a tiny little thing with no weapons.
And most of all, morons, I will not lie to you.
Capice?
Allah Akbar!
Seig Heil!
Yes we can!
By LD
October 29, 2008 7:44 PM | Link to this
Besides, why DOES the messiah think he even needs to do this? 5 of the 6 major news networks’ pundits have him winning in an epic landslide, studies of the media show that on the average something like 9 out of 10 stories about him are positive, whereas they run 7 out of 10 negative stories about McCain, there have been no serious analysis of his flimsy record as a senator, his education(which he readily says in one of his books, Dreams of My Father he was influenced and sought out marxists and other assorted radicals), his statements in 2001 about the Constitution being a ‘document of negative liberties’, and his statement that our troops were ‘air raiding civilians’ in Afghanistan….the mainstream media has given him better political advertising that he could ever hope to buy.
I hope he’s at his arrogant best tonight. But I might need to get a bigger TV screen to fit his ego in, maybe a 100 inch or something.
By Bill
October 29, 2008 7:45 PM | Link to this
All: I fully expect that if Obama is elected, we will at best have rediscovered a certain Georgia Governor by the name of Jimmy Carter! I actually voted for him! Maybe many of you are to young to remember his reign. I’d list him as the least effective President of all times. I remember Stopping in a rest area in south Georgia and seeing a billboard that said “We the farmers of Georgia, apologize to the citizens of the USA for helping elect Jimmy Carter to the presidency of our country!”. The sad thing is, that is actually the very best we can hope for! Additionally, do you really want Nancy Pelosi along with Harry Reed in charge of our country? I think not! Bill
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 7:47 PM | Link to this
McCain also has ties to Khalidi through a group that Khalidi helped found 15 years ago. The Center for Palestine Research and Studies has received more than $800,000 from an organization that McCain chairs.
Andy, Keep trying pootytang.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 7:49 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 7:14 PM
You’re sick.
How can you get so much glee from someone else’s misfortune?
By AmVet
October 29, 2008 7:51 PM | Link to this
The new FDRs aka the “new” conservatives - “We have everything to fear including fear itself.”
By Change
October 29, 2008 7:52 PM | Link to this
What else would one expect Mr. Change to do with all of his dough? Remember, Mr. Change pledged to accept public financing last year. But he broke his promise on campaign finance when he realized he could earn more on his own. “Change one can believe in” is spot on!!!!
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 7:55 PM | Link to this
Horsey: As a good Christian and a faithful tither, I have done more for thee Oblahmasan’s Auntie then he has.
Word up.
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 7:56 PM | Link to this
But he broke his promise on campaign finance when he realized he could earn more on his own.
Such a broken record. Already disproven a dozen times if you’ll get the facts instead of zoning in to S. Vannity and R. Limburger.
By Midori
October 29, 2008 7:57 PM | Link to this
GOP’s Horror Sequel Is Almost A Wrap
TN Gelding: I asked the pathetic creature the same thing on the previous thread.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this
Gosh, just think, we could be watching the World Series right now except someone has a huge ego to stroke on.
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this
As a good Christian and a faithful tither….
Makes me want to puke up my baptismal water. Basically you’ve shown your lack of Christian-anything with your crap here, and tithing does not mean spending 10% of your time not blogging.
By Ray
October 29, 2008 8:06 PM | Link to this
One of the most disturbing parts of an Annointed One presidency is how it will affect the Judicial part of our country. There are several openings in the appellate courts in the 1st through the 9th district that are unfilled. They are unfilled because when Bush tried to fill them, the Demo congress in the last two years would not hear the nomination. Guess how fast they will be filled when Mr. Wonderful hits the scene? Obama has repeatedly emphasized the need for “empathy”, that is the need for the judge hearing a case to side with the plaintiff and make union complaints, malpractice suits, complaints against corporations, decisions to hand private land over to the community for the “good of the citizenry.”………. Where does this all end? At least four of the justices of the Supreme Court are over 70 and will probably retire in the next four years. Guess what this will do for the complex of the court with the Annointed One deciding what kind of a court he wants to complete his “vision” of America. How can so many people opt for this clown as the president of our country? Scares me ….. a lot.
By "The Corporal"
October 29, 2008 8:07 PM | Link to this
He said Palin was a pig with lipstick but he is a pig in a poke and people are finally figuring out just what is in that poke. They don’t like it.
Why hasn’t this brave man given a big time press conference lately ???
By RW-(the original)
October 29, 2008 8:07 PM | Link to this
Did this ego maniac even think twice about saying he was giving us the state of the union?
Just a tad presumptuous.
By AmVet
October 29, 2008 8:07 PM | Link to this
Wrong dork. You could be watching Joe Buck blab about the World Series.
The time of the first pitch is not affected.
Your acute attention to detail and facts never fails to impress…
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this
Fellow Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl and former GOP presidential Candidate Mitt Romney also have reportedly said they think McCain is likely to lose. Jon Kyl denied making the comments, though the Arizona Daily Star later produced audio indicating he did.
Andy say’s, “Waaaahhhh! What do they know! We’re gonna win. Waaaahhhhhhh!”
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 8:13 PM | Link to this
Gosh, just think, we could be watching the World Series right now except someone has a huge ego to stroke on.
Stop stroking it Andy. You’ll go blind.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 8:13 PM | Link to this
DimWet: 8:07 was the start time.
Whine all you want, blowhard is delaying it.
By getalife
October 29, 2008 8:15 PM | Link to this
Meeting some real American families that are not Joe the whacko plumber.
Then setting the facts straight on his policies.
President Clinton’s explanation of his policies is very good.
By RW-(the original)
October 29, 2008 8:16 PM | Link to this
AmVet,
This isn’t a new World Series game and it was scheduled to have the first pitch at 8:07 last night using the first seven minutes to bring viewers up to date. Tonight it’s the same deal a half hour later, before the game picks up in the bottom of the sixth at 8:37. Sure sounds like they delayed it for him to me.
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this
8:07 was the start time.
Pre-grame crap only. Weak-Link.
By LD
October 29, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this
Hey RW, where is your proof that Obama didn’t reverse his pledge to take public funding? You said it was ‘disproven’ earlier, so back it up.
I’ll give Obama this: he fooled McCain there. McCain’s mistake was expecting a political animal like Obama to be honorable, when clearly getting elected means far more to democrats. If McCain has a soft spot, it’s in his belief he can trust any democrat.
BTW, the IRI spent the money on polling Palestinians. Khalidi worked for a group that funded terrorists in the Middle East and he actively blames Israel for the problems there. There is no equivalency where McCain’s chairing the IRI is concerned.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this
Since I am not watching the Blowhard Stroke His Ego and I am waiting for the Oblahma delayed World Series to start, allow me to share some thoughts.
Obama Bin Biden raises taxes on businesses above 150 grand, or whatever number they have decided on, where do you moron democrats think these businesses will find the money to pay the tax?
Will they pull it out of their as-s?
Or will they raise their prices?<——————!!!!!
So who winds up paying this tax?
You do, fool.
Sucker libs.
By MrPomp
October 29, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this
What an arrogant egomaniac!!!
By RW-(the original)
October 29, 2008 8:23 PM | Link to this
The loose nukes thing passed by unanimous consent with no debate or vote. What a shame that he still can’t point to anything else as a bipartisan accomplishment.
Does he have any partisan accomplishment other than making sure abortion survivors were thrown into a broom closet until they die?
By JR
October 29, 2008 8:26 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC and RW’s Daddy, It’s always about genitalia with you. You must have the world’s smallest weenie.
By Obmwa gunna give me 500 dollars
October 29, 2008 8:26 PM | Link to this
I’m rich!
Party time!
By AmVet
October 29, 2008 8:26 PM | Link to this
Firstly, fearful fosdick, twas, and is, you whining about the start time.
Not moi. I could give a rat’s arse.
Secondly, I assure you, no one here cares that you’re crying about it.
Grow a pair…
By T
October 29, 2008 8:27 PM | Link to this
It’s ok righty tighties. I felt the same way four years ago. I understand.
By Matt
October 29, 2008 8:31 PM | Link to this
Corporal 8:07,
You should know obama has a bad history with pc,s (i.e. press conferences for you libs) so he won’t let on to the true socialist that he really is. That is why the L.A. times won’t release that tape they have.
By getalife
October 29, 2008 8:32 PM | Link to this
Cool Obamercial.
Play ball.
Go Rays!
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this
I have been a long-time advocate for public financing of campaigns combined with free television and radio time as a way to reduce the influence of moneyed special interests…. My plan requires both major party candidates to agree on a fundraising truce, return excess money from donors, and stay within the public financing system for the general election….If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.
*The Obama camp has pointed to a 40-minute meeting on June 6 at which Obama campaign lawyer Bob Bauer raised some concerns with his McCain counterpart, Trevor Potter. In a conference call Thursday evening, Bauer said that the McCain camp failed to address these concerns (such as the role of 527s and the McCain “headstart” on general election fundraising) and that the Obama campaign had done “everything that could be considered reasonable under the circumstances.”
Swift-boat this.
By Matt
October 29, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this
Corporal 8:07,
You should know obama has a bad history with pc,s (i.e. press conferences for you libs) so he won’t let on to the true socialist that he really is. That is why the L.A. times won’t release that tape they have.
Ya know, where are the libtards tonight to spew their ignorance?
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 7:55 PM
Wait until we get the rest of the story.
I’m sure you’ll be “rewarded” someday for your good and faithful service. If not, you’ve received reward enough during your life here on Earth.
Why do we have to get news from the U.K.?
By RW-(the original)
October 29, 2008 8:35 PM | Link to this
LD,
Please be careful who you’re addressing. I agree with you that Obama went back on his word about public financing. In the real world he’d have his books crawled over with a microscope and be thrown under the jail for credit card fraud.
It was some slimeball that can’t get anyone to talk to him that addressed you. He’s decided to use a compilation Andy’s and my screen name in the hopes that he can use our star power to gain himself a tiny bit of the spotlight.
/Damn! That last paragraph sounds like I just spent a half hour listening to BS from an overinflated dunce while waiting for the World Series he delayed to resume.
By Class of '98
October 29, 2008 8:37 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC, you are correct as always.
Obamorons seem to think the tax increases on corporations are going to be paid for by the trust funds of the executives children.
It never occurs to them that they may actually raise prices instead.
Duh.
By G
October 29, 2008 8:38 PM | Link to this
That was awesome, inspiring, breathtaking, moving, amazing, beautiful…..
How could anyone not vote for this man?
Obama/Biden ‘08
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 8:39 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC and RW’s Daddy, It’s always about genitalia with you. You must have the world’s smallest weenie.
Ow! That hurt so bad JR. Hope you didn’t damage your tongue with that big word.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this
Horsey: Gosh, maybe because the liberal media is in the bag for Oblahma and will do anything they can to protect this baby killing socialist?
By enough said
October 29, 2008 8:42 PM | Link to this
i see that the haters are alive and well..i thought senator obama was spectacular. i wlll cast my vote proudly on november 4th for this gentlemen to become the next president of the United States of America…Peace =0)
By Dusty
October 29, 2008 8:42 PM | Link to this
Well, Bookman has done his part and reminded us that Obama is on TV tonight (and be sure and watch).
I love the way he does these things and then throws in a few little words like Obamathon and grandiose gamble to hint that HE does not have a one track mind. uh huh
Yeah, and Obama’s gonna dance with the girl that brung him. That girl is Michelle and she is going to dance the royal rumba runaround while Obama does the socialist soakU samba.
Frankly, my dears, I am staying with the McCain conga line. He’s a man who know how to LEAD a line without missing a step.
By Ray
October 29, 2008 8:44 PM | Link to this
Tucker tucks herself further and further into that orb of “remembering how it was”. A lot of us have tales of how it was, Cynthia, but lots of our youth feel that you must be stuck in some other time warp. They don’t buy your rants anymore than a lot of us older people do. A lot of what you say reflects on your upbringing and what it has done to shape your adult perspective on the world. You no doubt have tales to tell but most of the people under 25 just don’t want to hear them. They don’t identify with them or you, like it or not. They see a new world out there that does not involve you or the warped spin on society that you advocate. They don’t walk back and forth over Edmund Pettis bridge. They don’t even know where it is.
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 8:45 PM | Link to this
he can use our star power to gain himself a tiny bit of the spotlight.
Ohhhhh, myyyyyy, gooodddddd. Star paower? Again I’ll tell you. America is not listening to you rock heads. This is an itty bitty blog in the Confederate state of Georgia and you’ve spent days and days pumping yourselves up to be……. STARS!!! I can not stop laughing……
By TW
October 29, 2008 8:47 PM | Link to this
Could the media’s critique of John McCain possibly have anything to do with the fact that his product is worthless???
Or possibly do they, much like the rest of America, see the McCain Camp as merely putting a face on ‘small minds talk about other people?’
Either way, a blinding arrogance apparently prevents John McCain from seeing either of these.
How sad.
By ron
October 29, 2008 8:48 PM | Link to this
Since my tv with the rabbit ears antenna doesn’t pick up either Obama’s ego or the World Series,I feel doubly blessed.What will Obama say that hasn’t been said before?
Bill—-I also voted for Jimmy Carter.I voted for Lyndon Baines also.I voted for Bush.I know how to pick them,don’t I?The only President I have voted for that I don’t regret was Bill Clinton.I will vote for McCain this trip.I’ve seen enough New Societies and double digit inflation,and Presidents that have to resign.Remember that one?I served under Jack Kennedy but I wasn’t old enough to vote.Old enough to die ,just couldn’t vote.Great country.
Bush is negotiating with Iraq over occoupation rules.Why?Obama is going to quit over there.Wasted effort.Obama’s going to talk the Taliban into giving everyone in Afghanistan human rights to equeal or even surpass the ones that we’ll have left.Gales of laughter,burbling sounds,falls off chair laughing at his sick joke,ron calls it a night.
By G
October 29, 2008 8:48 PM | Link to this
Tweety cried! So did I.
I love Tweety.
The one thing that has struck me through this entire election…..the way people look at Obama. Something about their eyes…almost reverent.
The same way people looked at JFK.
And Obama did not mention McCain at all.
Speaking of McCain, I’ll bet he’s bawling like a baby.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By JR
October 29, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC and RW’s Daddy. I type with my fingers not with my tongue. Maybe you should try it, your way is scrambling your brain!
By Ray
October 29, 2008 8:51 PM | Link to this
Being that Ayers blew up in his face, how STUPID for Senator McCain to bring up Khalid. More poor judgement from a man who wants to be President????
Stupid pick of Palin. Stupid move with the Econ bail-out. Stupid with Ayers. Stupid with Khalid.
Can we fire someone before we hire them? Yes we can! Vote Obama!
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 8:52 PM | Link to this
There is no equivalency where McCain’s chairing the IRI is concerned.
Bull crap. As you and your buddies put it so often, guilt by association.
By G
October 29, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this
If you loved the pilot, you’ll love the series…
EVERYBODY LOVES BARACK
Premiering January 20, 2009 for an exclusive eight-year run.
Obama/Biden ‘08
By RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 8:58 PM | Link to this
Why in the world would you pay for 30 minutes of ad time on national TV when you get it free 7 nights a week from the so called “news” media? And 4 times a day from losers like Jay? He coulda used the money to feed the poor…
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 8:59 PM | Link to this
your way is scrambling your brain!
At least you admit I have one.
By SayNo2McCain
October 29, 2008 9:00 PM | Link to this
The ad was beautiful and truly sums up Barack Obama as a first rate President.
The haters are truly working overtime…….
By JR
October 29, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC and RW’s Daddy . Oh, of course I will admit you have a brain. However, It looks like it has only developed to about the 10 year old boy stage.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 9:06 PM | Link to this
“The Corporal”
October 29, 2008 8:07 PM
I’ll take the pig in a poke.
It’s better than what the Republicans are offering. They’ve only nominated 2 decent candidates in a hundred years. I understand more with each passing day why Dad went to his grave having never voted for one.
By RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 9:08 PM | Link to this
Haters? You mean the people who can see through the empty BS promises designed to get greedy people to vote for him? You know, sucessful people. People with intelligence. People who make the economy run. People who own businesses. Those people?
Good luck making a go of it without them. You really think you’ll get anywhere working for the likes of Jay Bookman selling socialist propaganda to socialists?
By SayNo2McCain
October 29, 2008 9:10 PM | Link to this
Those BIG A on FOX are truly hating on the Obama/Biden Ad tonight. RUDY Gulliani is a BIG Hater and still talking about 40% of people do not pay taxes. They are SO JEALOUS Of this AD…………>>>> All they can say is that he didn’t keep his promise……….
True haters….. they are really drinking the hater aide.
By G
October 29, 2008 9:10 PM | Link to this
Obama is the man we need to bring this country back to what it CAN be. He pulls no punches about how difficult it will be, but he knows it can be done. I believe he will be honest with us.
The Republicans have had a nice long ride, and it’s almost destroyed this country.
Obama will restore our status in the world and, along with all of us that he’s motivated, will rebuild our country and sense of national pride.
Hope does float……
Obama/Biden ‘08
By @@
October 29, 2008 9:12 PM | Link to this
While OBlahMa was flappin’ his fancy on T.V. tonight, I was at our church’s fall festival raising money for a battered women’s shelter.
After twenty months of endless campaign coverage, I’m betting the public would rather be watching their regularly scheduled programs.
Heck! even some of the leaders of the Europen Union are now saying that they fear OBlahMa’s arrogance will prompt him to act unilaterally in negotiations with Iran thereby undermining all the efforts they’ve put forth.
When the europeans start calling him arrogant you can bet he is.
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 9:16 PM | Link to this
However, It looks like it has only developed to about the 10 year old boy stage.
Please don’t call me out. I might cry. And, your giving my county a really bad name. Even the former Palin fanatics over here have stopped talking about her. Oh, the humanity of it all!
By SayNo2McCain
October 29, 2008 9:20 PM | Link to this
RB from Gwinnett ,
I do very well in my profession……I’m a single woman with a home, depleting 401K, savings, 3 weeks vacation and a college education. I also run a part-time business out of my home, which is associated with my current occupation. My sister owns her own business and has for the past 11 years. We both voted for Obama/Biden this week.
FYI…. We don’t need anything from YOU and that’s the spin you have taken in as the truth. There are millions, upon millions of successful Obama/Biden supporters.
Stop drinking the Hater AIDE.
Obama/Biden 2008
By "The Corporal"
October 29, 2008 9:22 PM | Link to this
Release the L.A. Times video !!
By JR
October 29, 2008 9:24 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC and RW’s Daddy, I will admit I was wrong. A ten year old would know the difference between your and you’re. So maybe your brain didn’t develop!
By "The Corporal"
October 29, 2008 9:25 PM | Link to this
Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango
‘Auntie Zeituni’, who, with Uncle Omar, dropped out of sight after moving to the US, is backing the presidential candidate from her modest flat.
She will like the Lincoln Bedroom is she’s not afraid of ghosts.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 9:28 PM | Link to this
JR: AJC/DNC and RW’s Daddy is a weak incarnation of IN THE SNEWZE from back in the old luckovich/koward days, it’s best just to humor the little wanker and quickly move along.
Notice how it has to copy the names of two of the heavy hitters just to get noticed?
Such a poor little turd blossom.
By Midori
October 29, 2008 9:29 PM | Link to this
LOL - Look at the Bushbots spontaneously combusting!!
ROFL!!!
I do very well in my profession……I’m a single woman with a home, depleting 401K, savings, 3 weeks vacation and a college education.
SayNo - we share the same background.
Where do these morons get the notion that Obama supporters are all poor ghetto dwellers?
By getalife
October 29, 2008 9:32 PM | Link to this
Wow, that Obamercial got the right all up in a tizzy.
Can you say seal the deal?
He ran the better campaign, get over it.
Hell of a baseball game.
Too bad there is only one inning left unless the Rays can score.
By AmVet
October 29, 2008 9:37 PM | Link to this
I believe the incredible enmity we see here daily from the rabid right is only going to go up exponentially in the next few days, weeks and months.
We recently saw the cutting and running by one of the several loathsome right-wing bloggers here who was glad some supposedly Obama people were slaughtered.
We’ve seen nary a single neo-con decry in any real sense the murderous dirtbag who killed those people in Tennessee at a children’s play for being “liberal”.
And I fully expect some cracker to try and do a James Earl Ray on a President Obama.
Their unrequited blood lust and proclivity for senseless violence is a very sad thing to witness.
And should the neo-cons suffer a second consecutive humiliation, as is widely predicted, they are going to blow a collective gasket.
In this land of liberty, we cannot stop in advance, these sleazeballs from their paranoia and deadly intent.
But thankfully at least their political swan song is at hand…
By Mr Snarky
October 29, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this
I’m an Obamafan, so the infomercial gave me a warm fuzzy…if you’re a McCainfan, is probably gave you a cold chill. It’s called superior resources, planning and execution.
By "The Corporal"
October 29, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this
To TN Gelding
As long as I don’t hear you whining later on ……….
P.S. Have you ever heard of the way South Sea Islanders catch monkeys. They put a hole in a coconut just big enough for the monkey to get its hand in, tie the coconut to a stake and then put a shiney object inside. The monkey grabs the object but won’t let go even when someone or something dangerous approaches. The monkey’s fist is too big to get out of the hole without letting go of the object so he is captured.
Can we say Obama supporters here? They want that handout and won’t let go of it even when they realize there is danger in this whole process ……….
If the shoe fits wear it !!!
Reminds.
By TW
October 29, 2008 9:41 PM | Link to this
Karl Rove’s biggest accomplishment was the acceptable face he put on the white trash base of the Republican Party. I don’t remember the trash factor being nearly as high in 2000 and 2004. Now its all I see at the McCain and Palin rallys - moderately long lines of drunken white trash. In 2000 and 2004 the party talked at lest a little about policy - now its just white trash doing a bunch of name calling. Nobody likes a redneck - nobody likes a loser.
LA Times should release the tape after the Navy unseals the 1964 McCain DUI accident…
By whatever
October 29, 2008 9:43 PM | Link to this
This 30 minute ad makes me think of big brother and even the beginnings of nazi germany. You have a legion of desperate followers grasping for hope from a man promising the moon. Redistribution of wealth and thinking only of the betterment of the homeland, not the security of the entire world which has a greater long term effect. Spread the word, knock on doors, pledge allegiance to Obama! It starts rather harmless…
Of all of the things the man said tonight though, one thing stuck with me - he said that he became a better man because his father abandoned he and his mother. I understand his point, that it made him overcome adversity, but I think the man is in serious denial if he doesn’t think a good, strong father figure would have made for a happier childhood.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this
Ray
October 29, 2008 8:06 PM
You mean we won’t have conservative judges legislating from the bench?
Good! I don’t think we have to worry about the courts shutting down.
By Bosch
October 29, 2008 9:53 PM | Link to this
I stay off the blog for a day, and Georgia becomes a toss up state.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all you wingnuts with your crazy rabid ranting for making this moment possible.
Thanks!
Gobama!
By fearless fosdik
October 29, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this
By AmVet
October 29, 2008 8:26 PM
I don’t know what you are talking about.
I’ve never said a word one way or the other about the start time of the world series game.
As I understand it…The scheduled time was at 8:30!
By AJC/DNC Management
October 29, 2008 9:58 PM | Link to this
Nice job, al-Gitmo, you cheer for a team and they immediately get slaughtered.
We are counting on your help.
By RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 10:03 PM | Link to this
Obama ‘08 - Hoping the hole in the coconut is big enough to get the 52” flat screen out of!
By getalife
October 29, 2008 10:05 PM | Link to this
LOL Andy.
My teams needed an Obamercial.
Geez.
By silverlining
October 29, 2008 10:07 PM | Link to this
On a positive note, with Obama in power, Israel has no choice but to release the “hounds” in Iran….
By getalife
October 29, 2008 10:08 PM | Link to this
Speaking of flat screens, I want to buy a LCD Hi Def TV.
Which one is best?
By AmVet
October 29, 2008 10:09 PM | Link to this
fearless, I was talking to your fearful cousins, aka the running scared right-wing.
This is going to be one hellishly frightening Halloween for the lil Joe McCarthys…
BOOWAHAHAHAHA!
WASHINGTON — The election of Democrat Barack Obama to the presidency would be a “great thing” for the image of the United States, a State Department official said on Tuesday.
Hell, the election of Josef Mengele would be a big improvement in our image…
By RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 10:13 PM | Link to this
SayNo2Reason, Excuse me, but I’m calling BS. You can throw out all the “i’m a business owner” stuff all you want to, but this whole election and Obama’s entire campaign platform is nothing more than a massive money grab. If you think it’s about anything else, you’re not paying attention. Find an average Obama supporter that knows anything more than “increase taxes on 5% and give it to 95%”. It’s been THE primary issue of his campaign.
If you really care about and want to help poor people, YOU take cash out of YOUR bank account and find a family to give it to. I suspect you, like Joe Biden, ain’t doing crap for anybody but yourself, yet you think the government should take money from evil rich people and give to people you would no more share a table with than run over with your volvo.
The shoe does fit, SayNO. Wear it proudly.
Obama ‘08 - Hoping for a few cartons of Kools
By Midori
October 29, 2008 10:14 PM | Link to this
Getalife,
according to the corporal, rb and andy, you should get yourself down to the nearest ghetto corner, pronto!!
By Midori
October 29, 2008 10:18 PM | Link to this
So RB,
I take it you’re a millionaire?
you certainly fight hard enough for them.
where I come from, that’s what we call a gopher.
By getalife
October 29, 2008 10:19 PM | Link to this
LOL Midori,
Thought I would help out the economy.
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 29, 2008 10:22 PM | Link to this
Did you see Tom Delay and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz with Tweety? After Hot Tub Tom called Obama every nasty name in the book, our Little Debbie said the magic words - “Consider the source” A big out loud in front of your TeeVee machine Amen.
As far as the Barack O’mmercial: I liked it.
I like Barack Obama and I trust him
So no October Surprise there.
The transition from pre-recorded to live should have been smoother.
He did a good job at reaching out. If you are not able to offer your hand in return, don’t worry.
He, and we, will always reach out to those we think are wrong headed. You are Real Americans.
Best line…..Matthews about McCain wishing he had the spot at 8:30.
I love all y’all Real Americans, because you know that yes we can.
The lines are getting LONGER. Make arrangements at home, work or daycare.
The lines are keeping members of both parties waiting for as long as 12 hours to vote.
IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY VOTED:
No matter who you are going to vote for: Try as soon as possible to vote
Folks are bringing lawn chairs.
By RW-(the original)
October 29, 2008 10:22 PM | Link to this
getalife,
How many hurricanes have you been through? You ought to have a storage room full of flat screens by now.
By OhioBlues
October 29, 2008 10:24 PM | Link to this
He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Then he was elected president….
By Mike In Woodstock
October 29, 2008 10:25 PM | Link to this
WELCOME TO ISLAM!!!!
MAY THE PEACE AND LOVE OF MOHAMMED BE WITH YOU!!!!
By getalife
October 29, 2008 10:29 PM | Link to this
RW,
They all blowup. I was jamming the new Metallica and the power surge must of blown something.
My brother got a new 60 inch plasma and it blew up.
Outsourcing manufacturing sux. Think I will go with the biggest LCD. Trying to figure out which one is best.
By RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 10:31 PM | Link to this
No, Midori, I’m not a millionaire. I’m a person who understands the direction this socialist wants to take us is wrong and will take us down the same path as every one of the socialist european countries. A path to mediocrity. One that puts you at the mercy of “muslim youths” who are able to torch 900 cars before they can be dealt with.
They say insanity is doing the same thing the same way and expecting a different result. Why in the hell do you dimwits think the socialist outcome for us will be any different than it is for every other country that’s fallen into this pit of caudling the loser class? Tell me anything that will make it different for us? Anything?
Before you answer that, you need to realize you’re destroying the things that make us great in your effort to get us there. Don’t count on that good ‘ole American ingenuity keeping us strong. The people who make that happen are the targets of your class warfare. You’re destroying them.
You’re idiots and you don’t realize it.
Election ‘08 - The year the loser class took control and managed a nations finances with the same savvy as their defaulted mortgages and leased Escalades with 28” rims (also leased).
By Obama BinLaden '08
October 29, 2008 10:37 PM | Link to this
How dare you say that Obama is gay!
Just because Obama enjoys the taste of penis while he is high on cocaine at parties, that does NOT mean he is a homosexual.
Haters!
By RW-(the original)
October 29, 2008 10:38 PM | Link to this
Mrs. G,
They should have had Jeff Probst in the taped part take off with a giant Acorn filled with ballots and show up to lay them at Obambi’s feet in the live shot.
Why are you trying to scare everybody into waiting in huge lines, by the way? When all the precincts are open on election day it’ll be a rare wait that’s over a half hour.
By getalife
October 29, 2008 10:41 PM | Link to this
RB,
Have you kept up with the bailout? That is socialism but going back to Clinton taxes is not. There has been a war on the middle class and that is one war that will end.
He is going to govern like President Clinton.
By "The Corporal"
October 29, 2008 10:44 PM | Link to this
RELEASE THAT L.A. TIMES VIDEO
By Midori
October 29, 2008 10:45 PM | Link to this
They say insanity is doing the same thing the same way and expecting a different result.
DUH!!
That’s why the majority of the country has turned on your criminal, incompetent party!!
*One that puts you at the mercy of “muslim youths” who are able to torch 900 cars before they can be dealt with. *
Does your Mommy check the closet and under your bed before you go to sleep? You unhinged wingnuts are famous for seeing terrorists everywhere you go. Yet most of you resemble Timothy McVeigh. Go figure.
Why in the hell do you dimwits think the socialist outcome for us will be any different than it is for every other country that’s fallen into this pit of caudling the loser class?
You seem to have a real problem holding people accountable. Why should we, um, “dimwits” applaud corporations that constantly sends jobs and their wealth overseas???? Why should us “dimwits” tax dollars be used to bail these greedy pigs out when they are done raping their employees of their jobs and benefits?
The “Loser” class as you call it is just code. I know exactly what you are saying. Your’e a first class racist. A loser as well.
Classism is the tactic those on your side of the aisle always use when you try to justify your racism and outward hostility towards the poor and less fortunate.
F*ck you, Pig.
You’re idiots and you don’t realize it.
better an idiot than a racist, filthy pig.
Loser.
By "The Corporal"
October 29, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this
To Midori
Careful now. You’re going to have a coronary.
Now, do you really mean prejudiced, bigoted or racist ? They all have slightly different meanings?
By Elephant Whip
October 29, 2008 10:50 PM | Link to this
Dusty:
Frankly, my dears, I am staying with the McCain conga line. He’s a man who know how to LEAD a line without missing a step.
No missed steps? What about: - Palin? - Calling off the campaign and then cranking it up again? - The first two debates? - Flip-flopping on regulation? - Associating and dissociating with Bush?
Regardless of your vote, you cannot argue that McCain hasn’t missed a step. He even owns up to missing some steps: he confessed to David Letterman.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 10:51 PM | Link to this
getalife
October 29, 2008 10:08 PM
Check Consumer Reports at the library.
Santa brought us a cheap one, but so far it’s been sufficient.
By Midori
October 29, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this
Corporal,
Before I log off, I wanted to address your many insane and equally childish rants to release some tape.
Why the f*ck don’t you write the LA Times and get a judgement from them?
If it’s that important to you, that is.
Much like your absurb concern for Obama’s birth certificate, his sand box, his recycled plastic, paper and bottles, etc.
Grow up.
By RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this
getaclue,
NOBODY wanted the bailout, but the powers that be, on both sides of the aisle, felt it was needed to keep our financial markets afloat. I won’t pretend to understand finance at that level. I think if we let them all fail the market would have corrected itself, but nobody asked me. And I wouldn’t have either if I was them.
When history is studied in 40 years Clinton will be thought of as a meaningless 8 years in history. He inherited an economy on the rise and he left one on the decline. He will be remembered for his infidelity and his arrogance about it. What else can you say good about anything he accomplished?
By getalife
October 29, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this
Thanks TN Gelding.
I am in research mode.
By RW-(the original)
October 29, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this
Thanks to Obama I highly recommend you watch any credit or debit card transaction logs for your accounts very carefully.
In other words, a crook could simply type in random numbers until he found one sequence that worked in some fashion. That could give a thief a starting point for committing credit-card fraud. If all they had to do was type nonsense values for names and addresses, such as Doodad Pro, they could quickly determine which numbers were valid — and they could probably program bots to do that kind of work
Thanks to Team Obama, millions of people now have to wonder whether they’ve been victimized by credit thieves. Some of us wonder if the thieves aren’t really working at Team Obama in the first place
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 29, 2008 10:58 PM | Link to this
RW
Good evening! Cool but clear over Casa Godzilla.
Nobody’s “a skeert” of me. Each of us has fears. You face them or you don’t.
Agree, disagree…
It took me 40 minutes to vote 3 weeks ago.
It’s hours in lots of places now.
YES - HOPE FLOATS
For me it’s vanilla bean ice cream scooped into icey cold Dr. Pepper (10-2-4) in a frosty mug.
Call it the Audacity of Hope Float
By "The Corporal"
October 29, 2008 11:00 PM | Link to this
To the L.A. Times
Midori says it’s o.k. to release the video.
By AmVet
October 29, 2008 11:04 PM | Link to this
NOBODY wanted the bailout…
RB, would you please expound on that?
Because on the surface it appears VERY incorrect…
By "The Corporal"
October 29, 2008 11:07 PM | Link to this
To Midori
P.S. Don’t knock getting stuff out of the trash. I used to get a lot of good probable cause stuff (you know once your trash is on the curb it’s off your “curtilage” and considered abandoned property) for search warrants that way. Ruined a lot of folks days ………. :o)
By RW-(the original)
October 29, 2008 11:08 PM | Link to this
It’s hours in lots of places now
Mrs. G.,
That’s because there are so few places open for early voting and people like you try to whip others into a frenzy. They think that if it’s bad now it’s going to be unbearable on election day, but it won’t be when the precincts are open.
Why do I get the feeling that you really just want to bank as many votes as possible for fear that people might start to learn a little about your candidate?
/I guess you’re too seasoned and crafty for me to attempt to tell you to put the ice cream in first, but it’s always fun to watch the frustration when someone tries pouring the good doctor or the A&W over the ice cream.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 11:12 PM | Link to this
RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 10:31 PM
Hasn’t the EU been eating our lunch for the last couple of years?
You know something is seriously wrong when world markets have more confidence in the euro than the dollar.
I think you’re in the minority. Most entrepreneurs know what a great opportunity they have in this country and a measly tax increase isn’t going to destroy their initiative.
By Obama BinLaden '08
October 29, 2008 11:14 PM | Link to this
I think Obama will be THE best openly bi-sexual, socialist President we have ever had!
By RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 11:15 PM | Link to this
AmVet, By that, I mean nobody really wanted to give $700B to the people who helped create the problem but the option appeared to be collapse of our entire financial system. Pick your poison. It sucks, but was better than the alternative.
I do think it’s interesting the libs here think it was a conservative giveaway when it was the R’s who were voting against it and the dems for it. BDS in it’s purest form.
The sad think is nobody is giving any credit to the real cause of the collapse. Drum roll… Energy prices. The increase in energy costs and the resulting increases in almost everything else from food to beer is what pushed most of these mortgage defaults over the edge. Had that not happened, they would have trickled in with the normal regularity of people incapable of managing their money vs. the onslaught that crippled the banks.
And nobody is doing anything about it.
By TN Gelding
October 29, 2008 11:15 PM | Link to this
RW-(the original)
October 29, 2008 10:38 PM
I was wondering the same thing about the early voting.
By zeke
October 29, 2008 11:20 PM | Link to this
Hopefully after the election, OBAMA WILL SIMPLY GO AWAY!
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 29, 2008 11:28 PM | Link to this
RW
Whipping up a frenzy
I think I’m flattered.
That’s nearly fancy-ticklng.
Just the old Girl Scout in me being prepared.
Now y’all don’t stay up all night whipping your frenzies….
You’ll need your rest to stand in line to vote.
I read today about groups working to bring umbrellas to voters waiting in the rain, water to those in the sun and coffee to those in the snow.
Lovin’ those Real Americans.
By Mrs.Godzilla
October 29, 2008 11:30 PM | Link to this
RW
Points for technique.
Ever have a leaning tower malt?
By RW-(the original)
October 29, 2008 11:35 PM | Link to this
I read today about groups working to bring umbrellas to voters waiting in the rain, water to those in the sun and coffee to those in the snow.
…and a cigarette for any deadbeat that lets you push the buttons for them…..
/Sorry, Mrs. G, couldn’t help myself.
Ever have a leaning tower malt?
Thanks for your concern, but so far the equipment seems to be in good working order.
By RB from Gwinnett
October 29, 2008 11:40 PM | Link to this
Is Midori code for Idiot?
Midori, how in the world do you equate “loser class” to being a racist? I don’t really care what color losers are. They come in all forms. The common theme is they all vote for the same party that promises they’ll take care of them and never does.
As usual, you’ve missed the point of the “muslim youths” comment. It’s not the “muslim” part of it, dunce, it’s the fact a bunch of kids were able to torch 900 cars before they could be stopped. The French democrats were so afraid of them they couldn’t bring themselves to get the situation under control. Just like the American democrats behaved with Bin laden. With fear and weakness. That issue was pivotal in conservatives taking back control in France.
Holding people accountable? Are you kidding me? Please tell me when the liberals in this country have EVER held anyone accountable? Get a clue, dunce. It’s not big oil’s fault little johnny dropped out of school, has no skills and makes $7.20/hr. IT’S HIS FAULT!
You’re right. Companies shouldn’t send jobs overseas. They should just go out of business because they can’t compete against goods produced elsewhere for less. That would be SO much better for all of us.
You really need to get some education in how things really work. This fantasy world you live in is not serving you well at all.
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 11:51 PM | Link to this
Heavy hitters = Bandwidth Wasters, 100%. I’m flattered you miss me so much son. I’m having a hard time flooding the blogs with as much crap as you. I’ll keep trying, just to make you happy. Heavy Hitter……….. HOHOHOHAHAHAHAHEEHEHEHEHEHE….. Almost as funny as…… STARS!!!!!
By AJC/DNC and RW's Daddy
October 29, 2008 11:55 PM | Link to this
quickly move along
Another way to say “cut and run”, right Andy? How’s the lumber business? Dad still paying that child support for you?
By Pat M
October 30, 2008 2:37 AM | Link to this
====> Let me tell you it felt astoundingly great to be on the winning side of Ronald Reagan’s landslide victory. I am voting for Sen. Obama this time around…and to think I could once again be on the winning side of a landslide is exciting beyond belief. I’ll do my part with my vote for Sen. Obama…please do your part if we are to help make this 2008 landslide reality.
By ron
October 30, 2008 5:01 AM | Link to this
Good morning all,The Phillies won.Read that on Fox this morning.Read about Auntie and Uncle in the London Times.Auntie sent $260 to Obama’s campaign.I also read there that Mrs.Obama has changed her spots for the interim.Her radical will show again soon.Reverend Wright’s influence?
I doubt that Obama was in any danger from the foiled assassination plot,but the rest of the intended victims were definitely in reach of the crazies.Release them on their 72nd birthdays.They shouldn’t be much danger by then.
Now on to another day of stock market yoyo and dire financial news.It is said that the Fed can’t lower the interest rate below 0%.Factor in the money being given away and I think that goal has already been reached.
Vote for McCain.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 30, 2008 5:32 AM | Link to this
al-Gitmo: I would go blindly with what Consumer Reports says, I myself don’t even pay they any mind, what I always do is go to a few of the big sellers, Amazon, New Egg, etc. and sort their listings by “bestselling.” From there pick out those you like best and then read the customer reviews, if there are at least 30 or more reviews. It takes some time but you can usually spot a problem or a plus with a TV if several different reviewers say the same thing.
Finally, shop the price for the model you like in google, check every store that comes up, you can usually find some good deals.
By neocon_not
October 30, 2008 6:34 AM | Link to this
Way to go Obama……… McCain is full of sour grapes. He can’t raise money, he inspires only the right wing zealots, the talking heads and nobody else. McCain offers sour grapes attacks instead of hope and concrete plans. His Mynah bird running mate can only wink and parrott Shaun Hate-itty and Hush Winbag. Rock on Obama ……the haters can’t touch you!
By Say What?
October 30, 2008 7:41 AM | Link to this
The one thing this endless campaign has done is to dwarf and marginalize the most inept President in modern history. Make no mistake, this election is a referendum on the George W. Bush administration, and no one…NO ONE…is showing W the love anymore.
And that’s EXACTLY the point.
Republicans overstate the success of their people, defend them mindlessly in the wake of mistake after mistake, throw red herrings to distract the ignorant, and allow accountability to be tossed out the window. They did it for W for 7.5 years. And now they’re willing to tell us what they REALLY think. “McCain is no George W. Bush”.
Hmmmm. After so many years of defending Bush, now why are you willing to throw him under the bus? One reason, and one reason only: to retain your stranglehold on power.
It’s so obvious, and it’s going to kill McCain at the polls. Bush failed us all. You allowed him to. Obama in a landslide.
By sharon
October 30, 2008 7:42 AM | Link to this
You people are so scary!!! McCain and his empty headed running mate are sore losers. The only people they know how to inspire are illiterates, hatemongers, hillbillies and skin heads. They are seething that they didn’t think of the infomercial first.
By hotlanta
October 30, 2008 7:43 AM | Link to this
Still waiting on the headlines”White Male Terrorists had plot to ASSASINATE Obama”. Why are poor people screaming socialist and complaining about the phrase spreading the wealth when Sarah Palin 7 year old daughter has a Louis Vutton bag. Stop the madness. I saw the video of McCain at a ACORN rally. Could you guys show it please.
By sharon
October 30, 2008 7:43 AM | Link to this
You people are so scary!!! McCain and his empty headed running mate are sore losers. The only people they know how to inspire are illiterates, hatemongers, hillbillies and skin heads. They are seething that they didn’t think of the infomercial first.
By Call it Like it is
October 30, 2008 7:50 AM | Link to this
Obama = the NEW SOCIALIST PARTY!
WHAT A SHAME!
By ron
October 30, 2008 7:55 AM | Link to this
hotlanta——-I’ve seen the pictures of the two assassination plotters and they were definitely white.Need a little racism for breakfast?Is that your problem?
By Say What?
October 30, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this
McCain=the OLD SOCIALIST PARTY!
WHAT A McSHAME!
By Gemini7
October 30, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this
If McCain had the money Obama had, he would have done the same thing with no explanation. The audacity of the GOP speak of morals in any since is laughable. They have no honor unless it benefits them so Obama is beating them at their own game and their p**. These so called Christian GOP radicals that can’t except a potential loss in this election are no different than radical Muslims of Jihad and you have to treat them as such…..attack, attack, attack! The only difference is location and religious affiliation so let them cry……….GO OBAMA!!!!
By GaLiberal
October 30, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this
LD wrote: Perhaps he’ll tell viewers how he came to have enough money to buy 30 minutes of TV time: by reneging on a pledge to take public funds for his campaign on the last day to declare in order to be funded by liberal special interests like George Soros and Hollywood’s elite. Notice there hasn’t been an editorial complaining about him selling out to private money, but that sort of ‘reporting’ is reserved for only Republicans here.
LD, pull your head out of your butt and read for once. It has been reported widely and often that Obama “broke his promise” on public campaign funding. So what! Did McCain also make this promise? No, so why should Obama be hamstrung? Elections are won by the candidate with the most money. If McCain could have raised as much money as Obama, he wouldn’t be complaining. Instead, he’s a sore loser who whines it was unfair Obama didn’t have his hands tied. Typical Rethuglicon hypocrisy.
Personally I’d like to see 30 minutes of that videotape the LA Times is holding that has Obama celebrating known Israel-hater Rahsid Khalidi. Bet that would be something to interrupt the World Series for.
Yea, I’d like to see the tape of McCain attending a fund raiser for the Center for Palestinian Studies which Khalidi runs. Oh, but that wouldn’t be fair to McCain. You just want to selectively trash Obama. McCain has financially supported this “known Israel-hater”, but that’s ok because McCain’s a Rethuglicon like you.
When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And LD’s ranting is living proof.
By Tuffy, the Airborne Soldier
October 30, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this
You ReTHUGlicans are just toast. You elected the dumbest President in the history of this country, twice!! You supported his failed policies, this war, and his blatant disregard to the the constitution. You jump on Sen. Obama because he has bested John McCain. You hold on to your obviously racial issues by supporting the GOP candidate who to date, has yet to lay out a comprehensive plan to right this country. The majority of you do not earn $200K plus a year, yet, you cheer this candidate who will continue to tax you and tax you some more. YOu cheer his choice of Vice President, a person who clearly cannot explain what the role of a Vice President is, and further, has demonstrated an egotistical penchant for the advancement of self. These two together would then be expected to lead the this nation and the world. I think Americans have seen the that future under the Presidency of your last elected ReTHUGlican. You worried about who Obama has met, then you should be terrified of what and who he will meet in the defense of this country. War is not always the answer. Being a sabre-rattler does not endear one to the electorate. Being a campaign that offers solutions, that has a vision and a plan, WINS. The electorate knows that the ReTHUGlicans are trying to suppress the vote. In essence, you are attemtpting to silence the millions of voices that are screaming CHANGE. Hmmm, if Sen. Obama is a “Socialist,” then does not the act of silencing voices, penalizing the people for the advancement of the few, ignorance and disconcern for the constitution, exude Communism? Does not your hate of the Democratic candidate, who is qualified, organized, prepared, focused with a clear vision, and the inspiration of a nation to recalim its greatness, clearly show your true reason to not elect him? I’ve seen the best of this country and, through my years, I have seen the worst of this country. This is NOT the time for THAT attitude from anybody. It’s time for us to face the issues of this country together and united. Sen. Obama is the best candidate for th job.
By LaShawn
October 30, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this
As I read the comments here, I am saddened that our country is still so divided. I could understand if most of these comments were about policy, but most of them are personal attacks. But I understand that people are afraid of change. But remember everyone, change is good. Even if you don’t agree. That being said,
GO BARACK!
By Get It Right
October 30, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
If you think Obama will keep his promise to not raise taxes, wait until 2010. The Bush tax cuts are due to expire and the Dems will not renew them. Increased taxes for 100% of the families. Don’t forget about the Dem congressman who is holding hearings to explore seizing all 401k plan money to put it into Social Security. Spread the Wealth. My 30+ years of work and saving will go to shore up some ridiculous Socialist. NO! YOU CANNOT HAVE MY MONEY! NOBAMA!
By AJC/DNC Management
October 30, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this
By AJC/DNC Management October 30, 2008 5:32 AM al-Gitmo: I would go blindly with what Consumer Reports says, I myself don’t even pay they any mind,
Geez, I was asleep:
al-Gitmo: I wouldn’t go blindly with what Consumer Reports says, I myself don’t even pay them any mind,
By Ed
October 30, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this
A significant lead Jay? You might want to read all the polls and not just the ones that poll democrats. Obama is losing steam, fast. The poll numbers are exactly the same as they were when Bush pulled off both victories, so put a hold on ordering the drapes. I am sure by the end of the week, or perhaps the end of the day when the gap in the polls closes even moreso, suddenly the polls that were so all important when Obama was leading will be rendered impotent without Obama in a big lead. Spread the wealth is not working for Obama. Another thing that’s not going to help Obama is the tape that Fox (yeah Fox whose numbers in ratings quadruples any show the dems can toss out, like MSNBC)is airing with the woman who is the head of ACORN in her colorful African garb, who by the way is suppose to be nonpartisan (lol)spewing her hate at the right (white) wingers and talking about how we have to elect Obama. The fat lady ain’t singing. This election is far, far from over. The over the top, seemingly Oprah produced infomercial of Obama last night was a double yawner and him trying to play a middle of the road candidate was nothing short of laughable. He will him w******* himself out to anyone for a vote. Add the untraceable credit card contributions, Obamas voting record of having never, not once since his early days in the Illinois senate has he ever voted in favor of welfare reform and the tape the LA Times won’t show, Obama is goint to lose this election. Your next column should be how to protect ourselves from the criminal element of Obama’s supporters the day after the election when the thugs will take to streets. Too many people are voting in this election for the first time and when they lose, it will hellnight on the streets. Don’t kid yourself that it can’t or won’t happen.
By Will
October 30, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
Mr. Bookman:
I have a couple of questions regarding polls, Georgia, PA and Ohio.
Most polls are now showing Senator Obama within 2-5 points of Senator McCain in Georgia. You would think that Senator Obama would be buying ad time in Georgia or maybe even sending someone to Georgia to rally the voters. Do you think he is not doing to because either (a) his internal polling does not show the race that close in Georgia or (b) he is confident that holding PA and picking up Iowa, Virginia, Colorado and New Mexico is pretty much a given, thereby closing the deal.
The McCain campaign has said that PA is the only way to victory. Flip this state and they are in shouting distance. In Ohio Senator Obama seems to be increasing his lead and most polls now show him anywhere from 4-7 points ahead there. What difference will it make if Senator McCain concentrates time and resources in PA and is successful in flipping PA but loses Ohio? Isn’t that just about a “wash”? It seems to me that, as Senator Obama’s numbers come down in PA, his numbers are going up in Ohio and they may pass each other over the weekend!
Finally, the two most trusted daily republican polls, Rasmussen and Zogby, have been released for today and show Senator Obama widening his national lead after three days of shrinking numbers. Both show Senator Obama polling at or above the magic 50% level. This seems to take the steam out of Senator McCain’s notion of closing the gap and coming on strong at the end.
What do you think?
By NOBAMA no way
October 30, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
You know who else appears on TV in long chunks of time to ramble and to promote their own personality cults? Left-wing despots like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.
By Get It Right
October 30, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this
FYI on the 401k Seizure that the Dems are looking at. Investmentnews.com. Article by Sara Hansart on 10/7/2008. Congressman George Miller, D-CA. Google it.
On the Obamathon, $600 million in “contributions” from private financing, after promising to use public financing. $5-6 million in one night spent while 46 million do not have health care. Do you think we should trust this meglomaniac solicalist with our money?
By just the truth
October 30, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
Just a little bit of truth please. If you are raving about Obama, two things I ask. #1 He is not black only but so many are refusing to see he is half white. He just downplays that. #2. For those who are regurgitating what he says, please take the time to write down your own words. If he wins, tuck those words away and then review them in two years. You will grieve the loss of the false dreams he is offering.
By TN Gelding
October 30, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management
October 30, 2008 5:32 AM
Good advise.
I’m still back in the 20th century with Mr. Duhbya.
By ButtHead
October 30, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
WHO IS BEHIND BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA About six months ago, I started thinking ‘where did the money come from for Obama’. I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.
I started looking into Obama’s life. Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California . He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. ‘Barry’ (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan.
During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a ‘round the world’ trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia , next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family. My question - Where did he get the money for this trip? Nether I nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they where in college.
When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York . It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack-no longer Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia? It’s not cheap to say the least. Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia , he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000 a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York? He was already living in New York.
By ‘chance’ he met Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, born in Leppo Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago . Rezko was convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Decade’ by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association’. About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School . Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School? Where did he get the money for Law School ? More student loans?
After Law school, he went back to Chicago . Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented ‘Rezar’ which Rezko’s firm. Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago. In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with ‘seed money’ for his U.S. Senate race. In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (LESS than asking price). With ALL of those Student Loans - Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for FULL price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi, many times with Rezko.
Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?
On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was ‘sacked’ after the press found out he was having regular contacts with ‘Hamas’, which controls Gaza and is connected with and backed by Iran. This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will ‘Take care of things’.
Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan ? They are in charge of all those ‘small’ Internet campaign contribution for Obama. Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East?
And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on ‘This Week’ with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, ‘My Muslim faith’. When questioned, ‘he made a mistake’. Some mistake! All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check:
Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times - Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times - September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.
Now the BIG question - If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven’t all of our ‘intelligent’ members of the press been reporting this? A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear - ‘Beware of the enemy from within’!!!
By Rove/ Bush
October 30, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
Well conservatives republicans I guess the party will be over soon for you and Mcgoofy!
The Democrats will have a Democratic president,house and senate!
All your tactics that you are using will not work this time!
It’s time to come up with something thoughtful instead of trying to scare the nation.
McOld experience is not worth anything because he lacks knowledge, his own VP pick is constantly going against him.
Is that the kind of presidency you want?
Before you start about taxes, Capitolism must change if we are to relie on our Corporations to pick-up this economy we will be in a recession for a long time.
Their is a huge lack of good leadership at the top of our business leaders.
TAXES WILL GO UP! CHINA and JAPAN WILL COME CALLING SOON to cash in those t-bills!
By TN Gelding
October 30, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
sharon
October 30, 2008 7:42 AM
They don’t need to run an infomercial.
Fox news runs one for them 24/7.
Didn’t Barry look great?
By TN Gelding
October 30, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
AJC/DNC Management
October 30, 2008 9:36 AM
We were able to decipher what you meant.
By TN Gelding
October 30, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
Ed
October 30, 2008 9:42 AM
PA changed to leaning Obama.
By Over and out
October 30, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
Sounds a little like a meglomaniac fool giving a premature state of the union. We’ll all be crying in our beer soon enough when we see what kind of state of the union we have under the Obamanation (if we can afford any). All the fool-aid drinkers and the rest of us will find out soon enough.
By Ayn Rand was Right
October 30, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
Why all the drama today. Mr. Obama is already calling himself the PoUS. He just wanted to know what it would feel like to do a State of the Union. Michelle could not possibly use up all the “donations” on room service. Why not blow a few tens of millions on air time. It feels GOOD to spend other people’s money!!!
By yankee
October 30, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
You got money for beer? Must be in the top 5% of earners.
By Marilyn P. Mueller
October 30, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this
You Republicans are so brainwashed, ignorant and uninformed that you would vote for a donkey as long as it was Republican! Learn how to spell! Educate yourself on ALL the issues from both sides, then, perhaps, you’ll be able to make an intelligent decision. Your intelligent and educated brethren have already jumped ship. What’s left of you is truly a disgrace to our country!! Learn the meaning of the words you so loosely throw around - socialist, communist, etc. You accepted a stimulus check…does that make you a socialist?! It’s uneducated, ignorant people like you who have brought this country to its knees!
By Redbone
October 30, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this
I am so sick of you ignorant people spouting all this garbage about Obama, have any of you had an original though or do you live just to repeat what you have heard someone else say. Everything McCain and Palin or anyone else says you take and run with it like its gospel, but you fail to look at the flaws of the people that a spouting the nonsense. Wadke up people look at this economny, education, people losing their homes, instead of government trying to help these people they prefer to help the big corporations and oil companies because it puts money in their pockets, not in your but in theirs, how many people have lost jobs because corporations are outsourcing and sending jobs overseas because the can pay workers less to do the same job. And you have the audacity to spout nonsense that you hear someone else say because you are too lazy to find out the truth. While the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Awke up America if we don’t fix this country it won’t get fixed, because I guarantee McCain/Palin don’t care about you or me, all they care about is continuing Bush’s fail policies. LET IT GO AND MOVE ON
By jim d
October 30, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this
“I’ll keep my freedom, my guns, my bible and my money, and you can keep THE CHANGE”.
Vote for McCain/Palin
By just the truth
October 30, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this
Marilyn, I am very well educated and please recall that the stimulus checks were from taxes paid in by individuals who paid taxes. This is very different from welfare or monies given when individual did not pay any taxes into the system. FYI: the donkey is the democrat mascot. Thank you for reading this.
By right back at you
October 30, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this
Marilyn - right back at you! You just described yourself and others like you. Take your nasty old attitude and ride back to the old country on your jacka$$ that you’d vote for as long as it’s a DEM…
By Ayn Rand was Right
October 30, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
Midori - you are rude, rude, rude. You also sound very afraid that Messiah Obama won’t get his God given position…why is that?
Has anyone else noticed that no one has mentioned any detailed plans from the obamamercial last night. They are still swaying to the beat. He’s so eloquent, so poised. The sound of his voice sooths me into opening my wallet and giving the maximum in preparation for his new tax plans…Obama is the man, he’s all about me! He looks like me, he sounds like my mommy, he’s going to take care of me. I cannot articulate exactly what he will do, and I know he has a really shady past, but he sounds so good. I know he means it this time.
I’ll take my chances with someone who has proven is merit, and isn’t afraid to fight for right.
B.O. Stinks!
By Midori
October 30, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this
Ayn Rand —
BAAA, BAAA
Go back to grazing on the lawn, ignorant sheep.
Time for the US to get REAL leadership.
You know, what was promised to us 8 years ago?
By Fulton
October 30, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this
See, here’s the problem with the whole GOP thing: You’ve just had 8 years to run things and look where we are as a nation. At this point common sense would dictate that it’s time to try another route. No one really believes Obama is a savior as you folks sarcastically like to put it but, as I said earlier, common sense says it time for another approach. HELLO, THE COUNTRY’S IN THE TOILET!!! I dunno, I guess many of you are perhaps lacking in that vital area of common sense…??
In addition, I find it highly offensive when you attempt to make me believe Sarah Palin is even qualified to be in this discussion.
By right back at you
October 30, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
Midori - right back at you!
By GeezG
October 30, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
Dear Fulton - she’s as qualified as he is if we are really honest here. Now if we had an Obama/Palin ticket that might be a worthy ticket…that would be real change and rock both worlds (D & R’s), which oh by the way seriously need it.
By Ayn Rand was Right
October 30, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this
The facts:
Mr. Obama pledged to use Public Funding for his campaign. He then changed his position and does not appear to be providing clear documentation on where the funds are originating. He has enjoyed spending over 6 million dollars of other people’s money - hint - this is a past behavior… All for the end result of purchasing the office of the Presidency of the United States.
Mr. McCain pledged to use Public Funding for his campaign. He has adhered to this pledge, and lived within the planned budget. This is also past behavior.
Mr. McCain is not far behind in the polls, yet he is being outspent 6:1. He has proven himself trustworthy and stalwart. He doesn’t pretend he didn’t say something he did when he changes his tack. He explains his previous position and why he shifted to the present. Politicians do “change” their positions from time to time. What matters is understanding why and determining if the change was may for our benefit or the politicians.
The sheep following the scent of B.O. will soon learn, that pretty words, do not keep you employed, they do not pay your mortgage and they do not put food on the table. Those of us that have been providing jobs and large tax revenues for this country, are not going to go hungry or worry about our mortgages. We will lay you off to keep our families first. Enjoy the change to true poverty.
B.O. Stinks
By Houckster
October 30, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
It is such a pleasure to hear all the Hard Right whiners coming to realize that we’ll have a real president this time around. All that’s left for Mr. McCain and his followers is to wallow in their nastiness and it’s by their choice that they do so.
Mr. Obama has tried to run an issues-oriented campaign since day 1 and he has been relatively successful in avoiding being dragged into the gutter by the McCain campaign. I did have respect for Senator McCain but Mr. McCain the candidate is a different and very sad animal.
If I was hearing some reasoned arguments from the folks supporting Mr. McCain then I’d have some sympathy for the disappointment they feel but it is hard to respect people who are just talking trash.
By just the truth
October 30, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this
Fulton, would you find Palin more qualified if she had served a few years in the Senate and voted present most of the time? If she were identified by even liberal pundits as the 2nd or 3rd most liberal Senator in Senate? Is that more qualifications than being a mayor and a governor? You are forgetting, as is Obama, that unless the House and Senate are under your control that the President is not able to do what he has promised or wants to do? Please think about this.
By Marilyn
October 30, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this
Just the Truth: The donkey had no political connotation. The stimulus checks were also sent to folks who paid no taxes. The rest of you get mean and ugly with your remarks, which proves you are extremely on the defensive. Get over it! How can you vote for someone who would continue the rape of our country that has gone on for the past 8 years?! What has McCain said that makes you think he won’t? An election is about more than guns and religion. And you need to care about what the rest of the world thinks! This is the 21st century - we are all connected. Start thinking long term.
By just the truth
October 30, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this
Not all included so please forgive the re post. would you find Palin more qualified if she had served a few years in the Senate and voted present most of the time? If she were identified by even liberal pundits as the 2nd or 3rd most liberal Senator in Senate? Is that more qualifications than being a mayor and a governor? You are forgetting, as is Obama, that unless the House and Senate are under your control that the President is not able to do what he has promised or wants to do? Please think about this.Did you also forget that McCain was the Democrat senators favorite Senator? Did you forget that BIden said when he was running for president that he would be proud to run with McCain?
By Ayn Rand was Right
October 30, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
I agree with everyone stating we need change. The problem is the only candidate truly offering change is John McCain. Obama is simply a poster boy for the Democrats. W was a poster boy for the Republicans. As a Libertarian I see that John McCain is the only one who actually has a record of fighting the system, and by that I mean the whole system not just the other party’s system. I wish we had better choices, but we do not. We have this choice, vote for change, as in a politician who cares more about what is right for you and me than what his party or potential donors think would be right for them.
Midori - unlike you blindly swaying to the B.O. beat, I thought this out carefully. I investigated each candidate, back when there were many more from which to choose. If you really wanted change, you would not vote B.O. You want unicorns and cotton candy - go to the fair…they have it and your tummy ache will be less than what you will get with a big plate of B.O. Then kindly head to the ladies room, wash that nasty mouth out with some soap, and then consider, are you really worse off today than you were 8 years ago? If so, could it be your own fault? W, for all his faults and he has many, gave you tax breaks too.
By right back at you
October 30, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
Marilyn are you trying to say you weren’t mean and ugly?
The problems in this country weren’t just caused by Republicans. The Democrats had a huge hand in creating this mess too, there is plenty of catering to special interests, pork projects and corruption on both sides of the political aisle to go around. Do I think Obama is the answer to all of our problems - NO. Do I think McCain is NO. I think both parties have given us some pretty lame candidates for the last several elections. The media is the one really running this election.
We will see when the new administration takes over if we’re any better off or not…only time will tell. If the Democrats win and it doesn’t get any better, they’ll still be blaming the Republicans. If the Republicans win the presidency and we still have a Democrat House and Senate, everyone will still be pointing fingers and calling each other names.
It’s not the President in this country that makes much of the difference, it’s the Congress and they’ve had the last two years to do something. What happened to all the things they were going to accomplish in the first 100 days?
It’s broke…very broke and we’re going to be.
By right back at you
October 30, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
Marilyn are you trying to say you weren’t mean and ugly?
The problems in this country weren’t just caused by Republicans. The Democrats had a huge hand in creating this mess too, there is plenty of catering to special interests, pork projects and corruption on both sides of the political aisle to go around. Do I think Obama is the answer to all of our problems - NO. Do I think McCain is NO. I think both parties have given us some pretty lame candidates for the last several elections. The media is the one really running this election.
We will see when the new administration takes over if we’re any better off or not…only time will tell. If the Democrats win and it doesn’t get any better, they’ll still be blaming the Republicans. If the Republicans win the presidency and we still have a Democrat House and Senate, everyone will still be pointing fingers and calling each other names.
It’s not the President in this country that makes much of the difference, it’s the Congress and they’ve had the last two years to do something. What happened to all the things they were going to accomplish in the first 100 days?
It’s broke…very broke and we’re going to be.
By Fulton
October 30, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
GeezG, believe it or not, I actually thought about a mixed office (not w/Palin) where the winner is Pres and the loser, VP but I doubt it could be pulled off. I believe Condi Rice is certainly more qualified than Palin, though I’m not sure why she wasn’t involved. Is she splitting the party (like Powell) also?
Like it or not, everyone must admit that like Reagan, Obama has that undeniable it factor and that could go a long way in restoring our view in the world.
By GeezG
October 30, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
I have a lot of respect for Condi, but I think she’s made it pretty clear she’s not interested in either role. Will she leave the party, who knows. I doubt it based on her upbringing…her father was a huge influence on her party affliation. Powell was never much of a Republican anyway, so his coming out in support of Obama was no big surprise.
By TN Gelding
October 30, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this
Over and out
October 30, 2008 10:38 AM
How in the heck could it get any worse?
By Fulton
October 30, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this
Thx for the intelligent and rational conversation GeezG, two things rarely witnessed on these blogs. Good to see that a difference of opinion does not have to be reduced to barbaric and mindless diatribes.
By Reality Check
October 30, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
it’s going to happen folks! McCain is going to pull this one off and get elected President! On the flip side, after the riots take place look how many of his supporters will have plasma tv’s, computers and front load washers and dryers. On the flip side of that, the idiots won’t have the money to pay the electric bill to use them or have enough money for cable so they’ll be selling them cheap, probably on the same corner where you can buy a pair or $300.00 jeans for $25.00. Thank-you ACORN, thank-you Karl Marx for pulling this one off for McCain on the final mile of the race. Look at the polls folks…..McCain is going to win!!! Democrats will be losers once again, just the way nature intended.
By Over and out
October 30, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
It can get a lot worse. I just hope we don’t have to experience how bad it could get.
By Houckster
October 30, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
JUST THE TRUTH writes: Did you forget that BIden said when he was running for president that he would be proud to run with McCain?
ME: Senator McCain has done some good things, the candidate McCain is another story. Mr. Biden would not run with candidate McCain.
JUST THE TRUTH: … would you find Palin more qualified if she had served a few years in the Senate and voted present most of the time?
ME: I like to think that the Democrats would never choose someone as shallow as Ms. Palin, even if she were the most liberal person in the House or Senate. When was the last time that the Democrats last chose someone of less than Senatorial or governor status and without experience? The gutsy thing for Mr. McCain to have done was what Mr. Obama DID: Despite knowing that his choice would provide the opportunity for the opposition to make superficial points, Mr. Obama chose to have Mr. Biden on the ticket because he can make a real contribution to the act of running the government. Accordingly, Mr. McCain should have chosen someone who has the economic credentials to make a contribution to intelligent government policy. Of course this would have alienated the supply-siders in the party.
JUST THE TRUTH: You are forgetting, as is Obama, that unless the House and Senate are under your control that the President is not able to do what he has promised or wants to do?
ME: NO ONE forgets that!
FINALLY … I see much is being made of Mr. Obama’s choice to forgo the government’s election funds. I think the reality is that if Mr. McCain had felt that he could raise more money by forgoing government assistance he would have done so. Mr. McCain was not the person that the Hard Right’s heavy hitters really wanted to support and this was manifest in the money he was taking in. I think it probable that it was a dollars and cents decision. Mr. McCain just didn’t see there was potential for him to derive significantly more money by rejecting federal financing.
OTOH, Mr. Obama would have been a fool to accept federal financing. Looking back to the Swift Boat attacks that hurt Mr. Kerry so much, Mr. Obama knew that it would be unlikely that he’d have enough money to successfully combat the attacks he would sustain from outside groups, especially if he didn’t have the money to respond. The relative lack of these groups this time is directly due to the ability of the Obama campaign to respond instantly.
One should also not forget that the immense amount of money Mr. Obama takes in is a function of the number of people like me that have contributed $25 to the campaign several times amounting to as much as half of his takings. I think one of the most galling things for the Hard Right to see is the large-scale repudiation of there core beliefs by the American people. Consequently, Mr. Obama will take the popular vote handily and the Electoral College overwhelmingly.
If the Republican party is going to offer effective counterpoint to the Democrats, they will have to jettison the Hard Right and come back to the middle. That’s something they’ll find very hard to do. Their failure to do so in combination with an effective Obama administration will lead to almost default Democrat control of the Executive and Legislative branches of government for the next 8-20 years.
Don’t think for one minute that if Mr. McCain had had access to the kind of money that Mr. Obama has that he would not have availed himself of it.
By GeezG
October 30, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
Fulton, Thank you as well and I couldn’t agree more. Intellegent conversations from differing perspectives is healthy and you just might learn something. Too bad some can’t engage without resorting to name calling and charactor assassination (sp).
By TN Gelding
October 30, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
just the truth
October 30, 2008 11:01 AM
If only it were true.
Bonds were issued to finance the stimulus checks.
By Call it Like it is
October 30, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
Obama = The New Welfare System:
Take from me, to give to non-tax payers to keep them government dependent.
The Socialist way!
Enough Said!
By Rocco Pedestrian
October 30, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this
I cried, I smiled, I fell in love all over again. Say what you want, haters, but undecided voters and independents LOVE this optimistic stuff. He’s gonna win huge and change the world. Hallelujah!
By Dream on
October 31, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this
Hey Rocco - I want some of whatever it is that you’re smoking.