Age Hurts McCain More Than Race Hurts Obama

It's not about age, and it's not about race.

It's about who is the better man to be president.

If Obama was 72, and McCain 47, Obama would still be in the lead.

I THINK JOHN MCCAIN IS TOO OLD AND SARAH PALIN HAS SHOWN SHE IS NOT READY

I am an Obama supporter and I do worry about an all Democrat government. I am hoping that they will be careful and respectful of some Republican views, and try to help get rid of this partisanship in Washington, unlike the Republican control from 2000-2006. That being said the argument to vote for McCain just to prevent that is hogwash. If McCain had run a better campaign and not been all over the map with his messages maybe. This was not the same John McCain that I may have voted for in 2000, not at all. Obama has shown himself to be the better candidate, showing a calm during crisis and elaborating quite abit on the issues.

This a.m. United Nations poll says UN members want Obama to win. Then poll lists countries supporting Obama. Guess who they are. Now guess why.

Yea,,,Obama would still be in the lead because he would not have picked Palin for VP. He's more intelligent than that...
McCain in his pick of Palin told me just what kind of President he would be...

As a republican this is what most of my collegues fear!!!! Most moderate republicans fear that due to John McCains age and health issues if he is to die Palin will take over. That is a very scare scenario and thats why McCain is loosing ground big time. They other issue is that people are sick and tired of the abused of powers by elected officials. Palin abused her powers as a governor, sound familiar????Channey all over again. Clearly independent voter dont like the negative campaining by the McCain camp. I a will proudly cast my vote for the best team around and that is NOT Sarah Palin and Frail John McCain.

I belive that race is not a issue for Obama.since the foundation of America the country was lead by white men and black people have not rejected them.so now white people will accept Obama to be their president.but the issue will be the age for Maccan 72 which can be misleaded because of low memory of thinking.OBAMA is talented man he will lead the world peacefuly .

Why don't one of you ABC reporters bring us the tape of Obama telling how the constitution needs to be changed to address redistribution of wealth. Jeez this man is scary and still you write puff pieces, you allow him to get away with not having a press conference in over a month and you refuse to examine him or his policies.

I don't know about the race part. There are still people, mostly in the Bible belt in the Mid-West, who would not vote for Obama because of his race. These are people who grew up without knowing and working with people of other races, thus they would be racists at times. Those who are mostly not racists are the areas with a large intergration of races, like say NYC.

So don't count out the race card. Some reports I read do show some people are still racists regardless.

I belive that race is not a issue for Obama.since the foundation of America the country was lead by white men and black people have not rejected them.so now white people will accept Obama to be their president.but the issue will be the age for Maccan 72 which can be misleaded because of low memory of thinking.OBAMA is talented man he will lead the world peacefuly .

I agree I am an independent voter supporting Obama. I like so many independent voters are tired of the sick games coming out of the McCain camp,dirty!!!. I just dont understand that Sarah Palin talks about other people in a very disturbing way and yet she is the one that was found guilty of abusing her powers. I trully belive that Sarah Palin is the reason not many people will support this ticket. Sarah Palin has become a liability not a plus. Sad!!! I urge all independent voter to say NO and reject the McCain/Plain ticket. Even her state newspaper said that Sarah Palin wil be a risk, I agee.

Why are you not covering the issues???? Neither age nor race should be an issue, so why do you bring it up. Why don't you talk economics?

Are you going for more nasty comments?

I belive that race is not a issue for Obama.since the foundation of America the country was lead by white men and black people have not rejected them.so now white people will accept Obama to be their president.but the issue will be the age for Maccan 72 which can be misleaded because of low memory of thinking.OBAMA is talented man he will lead the world peacefuly .

Here ya go ABC I'll do it for you:

Barack Obama, in 2001:

You know, if you look at the victories and failures of the civil-rights movement, and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it, I’d be okay, but the Supreme Court never entered into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.

And uh, to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution — at least as it’s been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted it in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: [It] says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.

And that hasn’t shifted, and one of the, I think, the tragedies of the civil-rights movement was because the civil-rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways we still suffer from that.

SAMHIGUSHI WROTE:

Why don't one of you ABC reporters bring us the tape of Obama telling how the constitution needs to be changed to address redistribution of wealth. Jeez this man is scary and still you write puff pieces, you allow him to get away with not having a press conference in over a month and you refuse to examine him or his policies.

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Another lie. See folks this is the reason independent voters are rejecting the McCain and Sarah Palin lies..Thats all they do. Sarah Palin was found guilty of abusing her powers as a governor, period. That alone should be reason for any smart person to reject her and send her back to Alaska to face charges.

What America needs is a third viable party to help shake up the electorate and make both Democrats and Republicans more accountable.

On the one hand, I think that John McCain's Bush like policies of pushing tax cuts for those making $250,000 or $1,000,000 over the interests of the middle class is pretty damning. Not to mention his pick of Sarah 'play the tape of her interview with Katie Couric again' Palin to be one step from president.

On the other hand, wondering around the stage like he was looking for his imaginary cat during the second debate didn't exactly help his case.

But what really seals the deal is McCain's raving lunetic like pronouncement that Obama is a socialist just because Obama wants to go back to the pre-Bush tax rates for the wealthiest 2% of Americans (while giving middle class America a much needed tax cut). Socialist? Then why did John McCain vote against these same cuts for the wealthy?

OH, I REMEMBER WHY:

JOHN MCCAIN: "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief."

John McCain in 2001 sounds a lot like Barack Obama in 2008!

Obama will need to be able to act quickly and with the full support of Senate and the House...I will be voting straight Democrat as I know many Republicans to have done the same... Republicans don't want Obama to have that support because they want get in the way...They have fooled us once again into thinking that They hold the key to fiscal responsibility...I am more than fed up with the partisan quibbling...I have seen how narrow and how lowly the Republican base has become...The Bush administration has ushered in more Socialism than any before him...Socialism is here,,,if it is good enough for the wealthy, than it should be just as good for the rest of as well...

I agree as a republican women I say:

NO WAY!!!NO HOW!!! NO MCCAIN!!! NO SARAH PALIN!!!!

LETS SEND HER PACKING BACK TO ALASKA TO FACE CHARGES OF CORRUPTION!!!!!!

It is past time to vet Barack Obama.

Nancy, you can say it's a lie without checking it out, but unfortunately it isn't, see my second post, if you want to hear his actual words head on over to you tube, drudge has it linked, you can also check real clear politics.

Liberal biased media is leading the way for the destruction of this country.

This election is not about age or race it's about the ISSUES. Obama is too far left to lead mainstream America. His ultraleft wing tax policies and new big gov't programs are NOT what we need to pull us out of a recession right now. The MSM won't even mention the fact that Obama's character and judgement is still being questioned by so many people based upon so many of his qustionable friends like Rezko/Odinga/Ayers/Auchi. Not to mention his comments about "typical" white people who are "bitter and clinging to guns and religion". No MSM expose about ANY of these unanswered questions. OBAMA WILL NOT REPRESENT MAINSTREAM AMERICA'S VALUES!!

If John McCain were to be elected, every morning when I woke up I would be wondering if he did. As a life long Republican, I find myself voting for Obama/Biden.

Ordermonger - I couldn't agree with you more on getting a viable 3rd party candidate into the White House. I can't stand McCain, but I will vote for him in this election because I think that he will be a good gatekeeper on the spending agenda that the democratic congress will be trying to push. I am then going to go to work trying to find a viable 3rd party candidate to take the White House in 2012. That will really shake things up and it is long overdue. Will you join me?