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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.

One word sums up Obamie, PHONY!!!!!

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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LET'S SEE, first elected as a State Senator for Illinois, and then elected as a U.S. Senator, wrote 2 best selling books himself, President of the Harvard Law Review.........................
a civil rights attorney and professor of constitutional law for 10 years, not to mention managing one of the best political campaigns in this history.

Posted by: Eileen From Maine | Jul 4, 2008 2:22:43 PM
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SO!

WestCoast Messenger, I will vote for Sen. McCain because he best fits my ideology. It is not a perfect match. But Sen. Obama is ideologically so far to the left that he is Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis all rolled up into one. But the American electorate has shifted left of center as well. Carter, Mondale and Dukakis in their respective general elections, 1980, 1984 and 1988, received a COMBINED TOTAL of 173 electoral votes out of a possible 1,614 electoral votes (NOTE: It takes 270 electoral votes to win the general election). RealClear Politics' latest estimates show Sen. Obama leading in states that would give him 238 electoral votes, as compared to 163 electoral votes for Sen. McCain (with 137 electoral votes a toss up). What a difference compared to the 1980s.

...Eileen from Maine:

The books he wrote are semi-autobiographical "hype" ... filled with well parsed but quite creative writing...

Until his last year in the state senate, B O accomplished very little.. until Illinois Kingmaker, Emil Jones, decided to make himsself a REAL senator.

He plied Obama with tons of legislation already worked over by other legislators to pass as his own... and provided a kick up the political ladder.

Even then, in order to win, Obama had to kick out a couple of rungs on the ladder to tumble his competition out of the way!

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

However, I agree; the campaign run was
excellent!

Perhaps we should nominate Axelrod for
President!

'So the Obama campaign scheduled a second news conference to try to clarify his remarks. “We’re going to try this again,” Mr. Obama said. “Apparently, I wasn’t clear enough this morning on my position with respect to the war in Iraq,
NY Times, july 4,2008"

Talk abouta flip=flopping Newbie Flopper.... who apparently is unable to make anyone understand what he says.... at any moment of any day!

Stay tuned for addendums... or omissions.. or other clarifications!!

No Obama!

YOU ALREADY GOT RID OF THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR THE JOB!

think!!!!

MCCAIN BEFORE B O!

COUNTRY BEFORE broken down dnc PARTY!!!

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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LET'S SEE, first elected as a State Senator for Illinois, and then elected as a U.S. Senator, wrote 2 best selling books himself, President of the Harvard Law Review.........................
a civil rights attorney and professor of constitutional law for 10 years, not to mention managing one of the best political campaigns in this history.

Who Obama picks as his VP is nowhere near as important as who McCain picks. McCain is so old, there is a very real possibility his VP will become president.

HP Boston,

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

Lay off McCain's War Record. We have already said We honor his service to our country. Having said that I'm a Obama fan. Stick to the issues. Next week is going to be a real fight about the economy.

Go Barack Obama!

James Danley,
If you want to vote for a Bush third term and bring a guy into office that is a political greenhorn, whose policies are now appearing closest to Bush, then George W. Obama is your man. Too bad you can't trust Obama. It's time for Americans to take action and get the right candidate into office.
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Obama, the chief architect of BitterGate!!
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In order to show their lack of bias, the media must find issues with both camps, in roughly equal proportion. If necessary, they spin non-issues, in order create the desired effect. This story is one example. MSNBC, CNN and FOX are exceptions to the rule. They make no effort to hide their bias. In a sense, they are the more honest of the MSM outlets.

Obama for President!

Yes We Can!

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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Yes it is!
I am sure BO will self destruct, he strikes me as lazy and has not done his homework.
He seems dependent on others and is led around by his nose.
His constant shifts and stutters are always preceded or flowed by his sputtering!

I checking out everyone. My Fourth of July is starting. Hurray! This blogg is like a Ali/Frazier fight going into the last rounds.

Blogger on both sides are still in the ring pounding away.

I love the image of Hillary throwing a left jab at the Rove attack machine and doing the Ali shuffle and with her next Punch saying like Ali "What My Name? this is for Obama, all Democrats and Our Troops"

Sorry Raven Girl Rocks I just wanted to add our Troops. Happy 4th everyone I'm off to our family barbecue.

I'm sure Hillary and Bill have a sense of humor about all this.

Obama '08

Obama's reversal on public financing is glaring because of the media attention it drew, while McCain's inconsistencies are minimized. For instance, he's under bipartisan investigation for securing a 5 million loan from public financing during the nomination, then backing out. The loan used taxpayers' money as collateral on a private loan. When things picked up with the McCain campaign and public financing wasn't needed, he withdrew. The Obama campaign could counterattack on this along with other McCain inconsistencies, but instead are taking the higher road.

ANGIE, I am proud to have cast my vote TWICE for George W. Bush. President Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts lowered the bottom two federal income tax rates (the 15% tax bracket was lowered to 10%; and the 28% tax bracket was lowered to 15%) and raised the child tax credit. The Democrats want to allow those tax cuts to expire. That will be a massive tax increase for the lower and middle class.

I am NOT clueless. It is my strong belief that the only way we will defeat the Islamic terrorists is through a three-step process which will require patience and sacrifice. (1) The spreading of democracy throughout the Middle East. President Bush envisions a day where Iraq and Afghanistan are thriving democracies with vibrant economies and becoming role models for their neighbors. (2) Solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by implementing the two-state solution. The Bush Administration is tirelessly working towards this solution. (3) Encouraging the Islamic world to end their hate-filled, anti-Western Civilization curricula throughout their education systems.

There is no question that Sen. Obama is very popular. He is an incredible speaker. His charisma and charm are wonderful assests. But his ideology is very socialistic. Sen. Obama believes in wealth redistribution (stealing from the wealthy in order to provide "free" entitlements to the middle class). His anti-Corporate America and small business policies (i.e., massive tax hikes and regulations) will decimate the free market. And he wants the government to be the end-all answer to all of our problems. Universal health care may sound great, but in reality it is a disaster worldwide.

Hillary and Bill are at a cross roads right now. Do they what to remembered for the 3:AM ad? For SC? For giving the Republican Attack machine the talking points being used right now. There will came a time when courting you both will end. We all have to move on. Until then we are going to fight for you both, for your legacy and honor which we are determined to save.

hahaha Obama is on his own, he aint getting THIS clinton supporter's money, that's for sure

Posted by: no way jose | Jul 3, 2008 9:00:18 PM

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You got that right Jose!
NO way Jose!
Ah so great to be an independent now..hey go change your Dem to indie!
Give the parties NO MONEY it is a despicable waste of resourses!
I love Hillary but will vote McCain.
The devil I know is better than the devil I DO NOT! NOBAMA!

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

Obama isn't moving to the center for the general election...he's like a completely different candidate! Again, fascinating that the media is not calling him on this, but instead focus on McCain's response to Obama's flip-flops and reversals.

Its unlikely that barack Obama will win the presidency.

i'll bet after obama first 100 days,
the whole country will be blue,

blue from a further depressed economy
blue from realizing we will not be out of iraq in 16 mos. as he promised.
and the list goes on.

blue, blue, blue america

if that were true he wouldnt be leading john mccain in the polls and some red states i bet alot of red states turn blue this year!!!!

the rep really don't need to destroy obama.

obama does that himself, everytime he opens his mouth and studders something out.

i think obama should pick powell as vp nice combo

Counting crows:

1. Sen. McCain has never worn his religion on his sleave.

2. It is ironic that you wrote: "(...for those of us who believe in) the total right of a woman's right to choose, this would be tantamount to a death sentence." And what about the life of the unborn? Only about 1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest. About 6% of all abortions occur because of the mother or child has a health problem; SO a whopping 93% of all abortions occur as birth control. I have seen claims that 3,700 abortions are performed EVERY DAY in the United States. That is more than one million murders each year. Now that IS a death sentence.

3. You wrote: "(Sen. McCain) will bring this country even more down in the gutter than it already is." Our economy is NOT in the gutter. We are experiencing a bump in the road, but our economy is still growing. Even with all of the hits that the economy has had (i.e. the housing slump, the subprime mortgage fiasco and the skyrocketing cost of energy) GDP still grew 1.0% in the first quarter. And in spite of six consecutive months of job losses, the unemployment rate is 5.5%. Historically this is still a good number.

4. You also wrote: "If McCain is elected, we get many more thousands of our kids killed and maimed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and no doubt Iran,..." You can ignore them all you want but the Islamic terrorists are not going away! We either fight them abroad or we will fight them here at home (in fact, we may end up doing both regardless of what we do). At least right now we have a well trained military fighting them abroad. When the jihad comes to Main Street USA dozens if not hundreds of businesses will be bombed leaving death, destruction and thousands of unemployed workers. Many hard working and tax paying individuals will die. So in addition to huge losses of property and lives, there will be an enormous loss in federal, state and local revenues. Our economy will definitely be in the gutter THEN!

Now then should Sen. Obama become president, he won't be just a typical tax and spend Democrat. No! He will be the "mother-of-all" tax and spend Democrats. Together with a large Democratic majority in both Houses of Congress there will be no stopping the juggernaut of new entitlements. And the Democrats will place the burden of paying for these entitlements on Corporate America and small businesses. That will result in massive layoffs.

angie
if people lived thru time 1960s they would take the war hero with a grain of salt so to speak.there is a lot more to this guy than young people are aware of.

Obama when he visits the middle east will hold a rally and promise the soldiers nothing he can deliver. Then give a big speech about nothing

Obama has Republicans Flip-Flopping Through Loopholes

Yeah, trying to keep up with his flip flops. All hail the great and powerful Obama.

The Republicans aren't much better off but at least have a nominee who is a patriot and doesn't flip-flop every day..............

McSame has made flip-flopping part of his strategy..Twice a day and three times on Saturdays.......The bigger problem is "he can't remember what he said or when he said it............."

Happy July Fourth everyone.

We have family Veterans getting ready to march down main street in a few hours.

Shout out to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Obama 08!

we dont have to hear much from mccain---whenever we see him we are looking at the mcbush-----cold hard truth there for all to see.bomb iran-----nafta is good for us---what a loser

david he did not filp flop on iraq its what hes been saying all along whats wrong with obama wanting to take advice from people on the ground and going to iraq himself to get a clear picture me personally i would rather have a president do that mccain seems to me hes too stubborn and wouldnt take advice things would be his way and thats dangerous at least obama is willing to talk with our military be rational and take advice mccain is like bush all my way !!! mccain is too DANGEROUS!!!

With all the lies and pandering of Obama, he is beginning to look more like George Bush everyday! He changes his mind so much, I don't know if Obama is Democrat of Republican. Can someone tell me? Today he may be a dem, but tomorrow, as he agrees with Bush, he becomes a repub. Obama is a joke and his flip flopping on Iraq will haunt him until November.....I don't believe anything he says anymore.

you know i have to say me being an independent i really feel for republicans thisyear no wonder why their determined to smear obama twist his words and do everything in their power to scare people rememberthats how ey work fear mccain a man that has admitted he knows nothing about the economy mccain it does not matter how long troops stay in iraq mccain bomb bomb iran mccain wanting to continue the failed policies of bush then you have obama young fresh intelligent new ideas which are good ideas cares about our troops more than mccain(gi bill mccain opposed) ready to bring change the american people desperatly want now i can see why obama draws 1000s of people well so the republicans will do everthing they can to destroy him because this election year this is all they have mccain has no plans for a bright future only more of the SAME!!!!!

the last 8 years prove to me without any doubts--how the repubs handle the economy-----they are living proof---mccain is already selling us out again with columbia---

From now to November.

McCain hugging Bush! On Iraq. On the economy. The debate all next week is going to be about the economy according to the McCain/Bush/Cheney/Rove script.

Shoot out at the OK economy Corral I say. Karl Rove time. James Carville time. James better be at the top of his game on next week.

making up stories about obama funding is really funny------we do not have to guess who is funding mccain----if he won do you realize what the payback would be----boot the coot

A flip-flop is a reversal of policy. If Obama now said he wasn't going to remove the troops from Iraq, then that would be a flip-flop. Saying Obama flip-flopped on Iraq is intellectually dishonest.

mccain is in columbia selling us out again---we better get out of iraq--we will need the money borrowed from china to pay our welfare checks-----stimulis check --borrowed money from china--now we can pay it back with interest---what a joke---desighned for dummys.

Gloria, from my point of view, YOU are the one who needs a reality check and to get a grip. If McCain is elected, we get religion thrust down our throats, and for those of us who believe in a good healthy dose of separation of church and state, and the total right of a woman's right to choose, this would be tantamount to a death sentence. If McCain is elected, we get many more thousands of our kids killed and maimed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and no doubt Iran, because McCain's hideous "joke" of "bomb, bomb, bombIran" to the tune of "Barbara Ann" was not a joke and revealed the true feelings of a war-monger who has lost all perspective on how to keep our country safe. If we elect McCain, the billions of dollars that we should be spending on and in our country will be spent overseas funding countless wars, and this man who admitted that he knows nothing about economic matters will bring this country even more down in the gutter than it already is. If McCain is elected, we will have a man with a lousy temper, a man who has shown he can't control his temper effectively, with his trigger finger on the infamous button on the Red Phone. McCain is a fool to think he can run this country effectively and for ALL the people. And his supporters are those who either support his agenda because they share his beliefs or they are fools as well who are afraid to take a chance on someone who I believe has the intelligence and temperament to do really well by this country.

Anyone who believes Obama's campaign is funded by small donations needs a reality check...George Soros, the Greek billionaire, is spending millions on Obama to push his agenda, as well as the usual Hollywood misfits, and other big-bankroll Democrats. Obama gets free political press from his admirers at Associated Press and the other liberal media branches. Pravda USA is alive and well.

Happy 4th of July everyone!

Whenever Obama is having a slump he usually gives a dramatic speech, presents a new program, an endorsement or has a huge rally.

Well he's given the speech and proposed hundreds of programs we will pay for.

So next will be an endorsement (Powell) and a free concert/rally to make Obama look good. He's a totally phony that continues to fool some of the people all of the time.

I'm not a Republican and not a Democrat; I'm an American and sick of both parties. As an American I'll not vote for Obama. Never has there been such an unpatriotic nominee for president, with an anti-America wife, and a contingent of other unsavory associations. Not knowing how many states we have, wishy-washy answers to important questions, ignorance of foreign policy, etc. The Democrats have really outdone themselves this time. Change we can believe in my a--! What a hokey slogan. The Republicans aren't much better off but at least have a nominee who is a patriot and doesn't flip-flop every day.

The public campaign finance system in this country isn't just broken, it is a complete and utter joke. There are so many loopholes that McCain and his supporters have gone mining. There will be $15 million from the NRA alone to attack his opponent. The notion that Obama has "broken" a promise he never made (beyond indicating that he would work with his opponent to work out some kind of agreement) is absurd. It was clear that the McCain campaign would do nothing to rein in the 527s. Obama would have been a fool to accept public financing. Last I heard, roughly 50% of his funds came from small donors giving $200 or less. That's closer to real public funding than John McCain will ever have. The likes of the 2004 swiftboaters helped kill the public financing system, and I don't see it being fixed any time soon.

If Senator Obama was a mature rational thinking candidate, he would educate himself on the issues before taking a position. That way, he would not be flip-flopping back and forth. Or maybe it is according to the audience or the way the wind blows. He certainly is not realiable. Guess he thinks voters won't remember his bogus promises. He is not to be trusted on anything.

If there was any doubt that we were going to be spared another campaign of "swift boat" lies, smears and innuendo, it was removed when McCain hired one of Karl Rove's henchmen as his new Campaign Mgr. and brought the original "swift boater" into his campaign.

It's ironic that he's now aligned himself with the scumbags who smeared him in South Carolina in 2000 (remember the "he has a black daughter" and he's "mentally imbalanced" stuff?) I thought he was a stand-up guy when he condemned the swift boat attacks on John Kerry. He's apparently overcome his "scruples."

Given the way Republicans have campaigned over the last eight years, Obama would have been an idiot to take public financing.

Fasten your seatbelts...it's going to be an ugly four months. Fortunately, the Democrats have a nominee with some cajones who is more than willing to punch back. And when he does punch back, the Republicans whine like a bunch of old crones with the vapors. Ya gotta love it.

From now to November, we'll hear lots of
Obama's flip flops. It's not surprise me.
McCain-08

With the history of the Republicans and their playbook, Obama would have been an idiot to take public financing. What is it about this concept that the media simply doesn't understand!

Obama was right and the media was wrong - the republicans are indeed trying to find ways to use big money to swift boat him. The proof is now out - the various orgs that have been pulling money through loopholes in McCain's law, and getting one of the Swift-Boat people to denounce true military hero Wesley Clark.

bho takes positions, and changes positions, based on political expediency.mccain takes positions, and changes positions, based on what is good for the country.
i will choose the hero/patriot over the racist/non-patriot, every time.

He attacked Hillary with NAFTA.
He used to say, jobs shifted out to overseas, people lose their jobs....
After Hillary's gone he took NAFTA back for him and ready to deal again.
Isn't it great!

"A second strategy enacted by the McCain campaign, as reported by the Wall Street Journals’ Elizabeth Holmes in April, establishes a joint fund-raising account that pools the legal maximum gifts for the candidate in addition to the national party, and state parties with contests crucial to the outcome of the race. "

Inacted in April! When did Obama turn down Public Financing? June?

Yup, seems the American Sheeple have become a FLip Flop Nation because they just keep falling for the LIES. When will they learn.

JT
http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com

Obama also flip-flop about Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was not that great, now he's one of the great. Obama flip-flop on Wright, saying how great he was, then how great he was not. The one person he dares not flip-flop on is Michelle, even though we all know she, like Wright, still hold the old way of thinking about Wright.

oh politicts you gotta to love em

Even the very liberal magazine The New Yorker says Obama has a HUGE Iraq problem now that the surge is working.

You know, that surge that Obama said would fail and that McCain said would work.

LOL. Love it, love it, love it.

The only thing Obama has going for him is he's supposedly "different."

Since everyday proves that he's not, what are the reasons for voting for him?

Oh yeah, there aren't any.

Has anyone counted how many times lately that Obama has had to answer a question with "What I've said throughout my campaign...." or "What I've consistently said is..." or "What I've repeatedly said..."

Obama if you had consistently said things that you wouldn't need to be clarifying things all the time.

You're a flip flopper, a take every side to get elected fraud and it's beginning to show.

The emperor has no clothes.

What exactly was the intent of McCain-Feingold? I thought the purpose of the Bi-Partisan legislation which passed with both Democrats and Republicans (seems both want to have it both ways whenever convenient - that is why they're old politicians) was to make donations transparent so we knew who was giving who money and to limit big money contributions to individuals. I don't believe it was ever the intent to massively limit political party or issues groups donations.

Welcome to Obama's new politics of double-talk and having it both ways. Just like the Old politics.

As a lifetime independent who voted for Nader in 00 and Kerry in 04 I'll stick with McCain who at least knows how to be straightforward with voters and isn't lying to us about "change" and "new politics". Seems I heard it before in 00 when Bush was supposed to usher in a new politics of Bi-Partisanship and be the "real reformer". Obama is just Bush sleaze again with lefty politics.