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I still just don't get it.

Public financing was designed to help candidates who had a message (and a nomination) but not a lot of money. A worthy cause. If the candidate wants to ignore this help, let them tell our government to keep its money. The law does not make acceptance of public money mandatory, only optional if desired. Obama's decision is completely keeping with the spirit and letter of the law.

oh puhleeze. You know better than any one else that an election is hardball, not the vows of a novitiate pledging their life and chastity to Christ. Love you calling a flip flop by its name, though. All the best reporters are doing it. After all, Obama flips and flops more than a beached haddock -- how can you not?. By the way, Obama has actually been true to his campaign theme: isn't change and flip flop exactly the same thing?

So the republicans are suppose to be unarmed against the corordinated attackes by Obama, Moveon, media matters, nbc, cbs, nyt, DNC all which are out right breaking the law.

Jake You should do a post on the Democrats main financier George Soros and how he is manipulating the Futures market on oil. I was reading an article in which is a a big player in that market!

Senator Obama has been dancing around the answers again on important issues. I have come to the conclusion this man does not know where he stands on any issue. It changes with a different audience or even cloud cover. He can not be trusted. Now he seems to be trying to move from far left toward the center.

Merri:

'You are obviously suffering from Baracknophobia. Which is the fear of an intelligent forward thinking Black man becoming POTUS and restoring our great nation to its former glory. Shattering racist myths in the process. Exposing Bush the great white hope as the incompetent halfwit ditwit nitwit for all to behold.

Posted by: Merri | Jul 4, 2008 11:40:05 PM
____________,,, EXCEPT that we share the same opinion of Bush, your reverse-racist rant is ridiculous!

Why should anyone vote for B O just because he's black?

Give me a candidate like Colin Powell with his attendant, heavy, satisfying resume... and I'd gladly render unto Powell the power of my vote!

As for Barack.... he's very much like Bush.... I don't want him and neither will you unless you want to see your taxes rising like gray smoke out your
chimney in the middle of the winter.

Barack-no-phobia?

Yeh!.

I don't have a phobia against B O:
I just don't see him as my President!

We are still allowed to vote for our choice, aren't we?...... or has he changed things already!

HILLARY BEFORE MCCAIN

Merri, you wrote: "...restoring our great nation to its former glory."

That is contrary to Sen. Obama's message of "change." And it is contrary to your own statement when you said that Sen. Obama is a "forward thinking Black man..." Sen. Obama doesn't want to go "back" to anything. He wants to implement real "change." We've never been a socialist nation before. We've never had the federal government control our health care system before. We've never abandoned the free market and capitalism before. A President Obama will not "restore" our great nation, he will completely transform our nation into just another European style country.

Even though his definition is utterly impossible in the foreseeable future. Fair question I think.
Posted by: Merri | Jul 4, 2008 4:23:45 PM
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Only if Obama can prove that HE is not suffering from a serious case of megalomania!

Mccain before Obama.

COUNTRY BEFORE BUSTED DNC PARTY!!!

Posted by: EGADS! | Jul 4, 2008 5:33:29 PM

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You are obviously suffering from Baracknophobia. Which is the fear of an intelligent forward thinking Black man becoming POTUS and restoring our great nation to its former glory. Shattering racist myths in the process. Exposing Bush the great white hope as the incompetent halfwit ditwit nitwit for all to behold.

The Harvard Law School gave the following clarification regarding Sen. Obama's status at the law school:

"From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined."

So officially Sen. Obama's title was "Senior Lecturer." However, one definition of "professor" given by Merriam-Webster's Dictionary is: "A teacher at a university, college, or sometimes secondary school." So anyone who teaches at a university or college, in spite of what their official title is, may be called a "professor."

McCain does NOT I repeat does NOT flip flop

He is just old and confused.

Lay of him !!!

Obama flip flops, and lie about it.He say he is a christian and he want all christians to vote for him, but in his book he wrote that if the political wind gets ugly, he will side with the muslims.He thinks we are all fools.

"Exactly.... BUT HE IS NOT TECHNICALLY a PROFESSOR and should not add that title to his resume!

Posted by: hmmmm | Jul 4, 2008 7:30:13 PM"
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A person is conferred a professorship not by acquiring a particular degree, but by a university appointment.

Exactly.... BUT HE IS NOT TECHNICALLY a PROFESSOR and should not add that title to his resume!

Obama does not have a PhD; he has a JD degree: a Doctor of Jurisprudence. It is the equivalent of PhD in other professions.

Technically, he is NOT a professor. His students call him that just as most university students address THEIR teachers!

Posted by: hmmmmm | Jul 4, 2008 2:38:26 PM
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Bigoted as well as wrong. He was, according to Harvard University, a "professor." Before you make your futile attempts to belittle him, YOU should check your facts.

Its realy hard to comprehend how an empty suit like Obama got this far.

Posted by: brigitte | Jul 4, 2008 11:24:26 AM
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I'm sure there are a lot of things that are beyond your comprehension. Don't let it bother you; just continue as you have in the past. Sooner or later it may dawn on you that your lack of comprehension is just one of those mysteries that will always confound your little mind.

"Even though his definition is utterly impossible in the foreseeable future. Fair question I think.
Posted by: Merri | Jul 4, 2008 4:23:45 PM
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Only if Obama can prove that HE is not suffering from a serious case of megalomania!

Mccain before Obama.

COUNTRY BEFORE BUSTED DNC PARTY!!!

Cindy In N C

Those votes were took place in the Illinois state legislature not the U.S. senate. Voting present is a common procedure used by everybody there.

Obama isn't used to making difficult decisions and having to take a stand.

He simply votes present...130 times in the Senate

Someone on TV today described him as cotton candy. No substance and when you touch him he melts away and all that is left is residue.

McCain 08

Democrats should pressure McCain to release his psychiatric records. Americans want to know if their potential president has military service related PTSD post trumatic stress disorder. Which would help explain his ill temper/temper tantrums. Perhaps he visualize people questioning him as the enemy/viet cong? Therefore making him snap. He might also see the Iraq war and possible war with Iran as a way to revenge and vindicate himself for being captured and held as a POW. Which is why he doesn't want to leave Iraq until it is won. Even though his definition is utterly impossible in the foreseeable future. Fair question I think.

HP Boston,

Please let me what you most find appealing about John McCain's Health Care Policy.