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Does anyone else think that slip of tongue is FRIGHTENING?

Why doesn't SNL do a skit showing Mr Cool Obama yelling at a senior citizen in Iowa?

I think he is losing it with typical white people.

Obama posters here seem to grossly understand the nature of Legislative experience. As a State Representative, or United States Senator, you (optionally!) show up, you (optionally) discuss and debate and question witnesses, you trade votes with others, and you optionally vote on an issue. YOU are NOT responsible for the outcome of the vote. The responsibility is greatly diluted. You can even abstain, or not show up, or in Illinois vote "Present". All of the years of Obama's experience are as described above. And his Legislative accomplishments were weak, often GIVEN to him by the Illinois power guys to bolster his record. They were grooming him.
Have you ever had the occasion to ask, "Who's in charge, here?!" at a disorganized store, business, or local event? Senator Obama has never been in charge as so much as a hot dog stand. How in the world can we put him in charge of this great nation???

re: John

"Oh side note here? Does anyone remember what any vice president ever did? What the heck did Gore ever do as VP? Quayle as VP? yada yada yada"

Since McCain (if elected) would be the oldest president in the history of the united states, I would hope that EVERYONE remembers that vice presidents assume the office of the president when he dies (or resigns, or is impeached, etc.).

It also doesn't help that Sarah Palin doesn't know what the vice president does. How could we expect her supporters to?

Obama '08!

She may well be part of a Palin - no one government, one day! Just imagine, McCain becomes ill...

Ah, and by the way: women's rights and Mrs. Palin - don't really go together.
Whoever switches from Clinton to the Republican ticket, must have some very strange logic.

Who cares about American politics? The result for the rest of the world will be the same: disbelief and, hopefully, humour.

In my opinion, it's true Obama has less executive experience then McCain, but, (and this is a very big but, mind you), he definitely has more than Sarah Palin.

-He was a senator in the Illinois Senate for 8 years, before moving on to the US Senate. That makes at LEAST 10 years of experience in the Senate.

And alot more than Sarah Palin, who was governor for only around two years after she was Mayor of a town with only around 6000 people and Obama was representing a congressional district that had more people than the entire state of Alaska, and now the whole state.

-Taught Constitutional law for 10 years.

-Sits on the foreign relations committee. Better than "You can see Russia from Alaska!" ?

And he has better judgement then McCain, and fresher ideas to deal with problems too. McCain's rapid flip-flopping on the economy three times in the space of one day and his penchant for questioning Obama's patriotism when Obama never has his makes him someone I do not want as president.

Plus, Obama has the HEAD of the foreign relations committee, Joe Biden, to give him advice, no?

Oh, Man! Where to start? So many inane comments, so little time. Well, here we go:

Posted by foreclosure:"The country do not need any old ideas from McSame who didn't go to college and who was struggled with language arts and mathematics growing up"

Struggled with Language Arts. You mean like you did? ("The country do not need...)

Didn't go to college? Please, for the love of God. Do not vote in Nov. It's obvious you cannot research the candidates nor the issues. McCain went to the U.S. Naval Academy - ranked 5th best college in the U.S. by US News and World Report. Hello? (I'll wait for the obligatory "finished last in his class" retort by the netroots. I'll trade finishing at the bottom of a Top 5 university over finishing at the bottom (Biden) of a third tier public University (Delaware) that any dolt could get into. Then to top that, finishing at the bottom of a 3rd tier law school. (would you hire a lawyer that graduated at the bottom of his class of a 3rd tier law school? Good God! finishing at the bottom of a TTT law school requires skill at laziness)

Well, out of time. I noticed no one has yet answered the question regarding Barry's executive experience. (not to mention: when does he plan to release his Columbia transcripts)

I'll sit here and eat my waffle while I wait, sweetie.

Where's the news in this? It's been the defacto Palin / McCain ticket since the night he unveiled his prize. Don't think for a minute that she's not hungry for the position.

Sue, We're not talking about generals and advisers. If it were that simple, the Best and the Brightest would have kept Lyndon Johnson from quagmiring us in Vietnam. It is all about The Executive. We're talking about the executive's ability to make a decision, not go back on it later, and have the guts to make the tough decision. Obama made the commitment to public financing and he said he would filibuster against the FISA bill. When it became politically expedient he went back on his public finance pledge and he not only did not filibuster FISA, he flipped and voted FOR the FISA bill! (Much to the amazement at Kos and HuffPo.) Do you need dozens of more examples? He took days and false starts with his 300 advisers to finally formulate a Russian/Georgia position that matched McCain's day one position. He still is delaying his take on the financial crisis for a few more days. He will not tell us if he approves or disapproves of the huge AIG bailout.
We are talking about the executive experience, the decisiveness, the wisdom and the guts of the President because with all the advisers in the world the buck stops with him and him alone.

From Halliburton, Blackwater, Parks, etc., these companies received no bid contracts. Where's the civil servant who blew the whistle on all of this? She lost her job. That's the Bush administration for you. I hope she writes a tell all book.
For a few years you couldn't say squat about the Bush administration or they'd say you were unpatriotic. Slowly, but surely the American public caught on and said enough. We're not stupid, don't insult our intelligence.
If Palin is the most popular governor in America why is it no one had ever heard of her?
Bush will go down, with his gray hair and stolen election in '00, with a group of the worst presidents in history. They helped him steal the election and now we're in a Depression.

I like how people say this country is going to pay dearly if Obama becomes President. LOL, WTH happened since Bush has been in office for 8 yrs?!! He and Cheney have listend to no one but themselves.
Any man who will listen to retired generals while in the primaries will listen to his active duty generals while he's in office. Obama has already surrounded himself with the experience he lacks plus he's surrounded himself with people with differing opinions and who will tell him no. He doesn't want any yes man and flackies around him. Sounds like good leadership skills to me.
As a veteran, I don't know everything there is for strategic planning but you better believe I'd surround myself with those who do.

It is fine that she wanted earmarks, it is fine that Alaska gets more earmark money per person then any other state (and by a large margin), it is fine that she then used the money to give a tax rebate (at our expense) to her constituents. What is not fine is that Sarah Palin does not even pause when she lies and says that she does not take earmarks.

"Thanks but no thanks" means something different to her, then it does to most people.

In the short time she has been in the spotlight she has had too many questionable issues come up. Too many for a person one heartbeat from the Presidency.

John, Let's get the facts right and the complete truth out on the table. Most of that Wasilla indebtedness is a sports complex voted for by the people in an election. They also approved some of the associated street/lighting improvements as a ballot measure, as well as a local sales tax increase to service that debt. When she killed the bridge to nowhere Congress gave the money to the state, she didn't grab it or take it. All sane city, county, and state leaders try to get as much of their tax money sent back to the their taxpayers via Federal spending. It is the job of Congress and the President to push back and set limits on excessive spending, and plain old pork. Palin's executive experience completely overshadows Senator Obama's lack of executive, buck-stops-here experience. This country would pay dearly to have his unsure, indecisive hands on the controls. If I were a citizen of Taiwan, Ukraine or Iraq, I would be extremely concerned about the strength and determination of American leadership on Jan 21, 2009.

Duh...,

It is the governor's job to get money for their state. The problem in Palin's situation is that she has stated she is against unnecessary earmarks. I know I am waiting to hear about the outcome of the studies into seal dna and crab mating habits that the earmarks they have gotten are going to pay for.

"And Palin continued to solicit federal funds as governor. A request form on Stevens’ Web site shows that she requested $160.5 million in earmarks for the state in 2008, and almost $198 million for 2009.

POSTED ON FACTCHECK"

ISN'T THAT THE JOB OF A GOV? TO GET AS MUCH FED $$ INTO THEIR STATE AS POSSIBLE FOR ANY NEEDS THE PEOPLE MAY HAVE?

Jim L "He does give good speech... He and his trusty TelePrompTer."

DITTO!

I noticed that Obama's recent stops always have the trusty teleprompter on hand! Hope it's battery or solar opperated for the days he has to travel to po-dunk town America and we don't have power.

Driving through Texas recently on a counry road trip I drove 800 miles and did NOT see one Obama sign. I loved it!
I did only see one McCain sign on the whole trip.

Oh side note here? Does anyone remember what any vice president ever did? What the heck did Gore ever do as VP? Quayle as VP? yada yada yada

Sara Palin and.........um........who?

Just curious John.
How much pork has Illinois and Delaware received? I'm sure their governors sent all the money back.
The problem is not that the governor of a state took advantage of Federal funding for projects, it is that the Congress authorized charging the taxpayer for the projects.

Yes, Palin has so much executive experience.. in the area of small-town corruption and waste. While charging rape victims in Wasilla $1,200 to pay for their OWN rape examination kits, she charged a $24,000 Chevy Suburban to the taxpayers, along with $50,000 to redecorate her office (which was illegal, because she had not received the City Council's approval to do so). She left Wasilla with $20 Million in long-term debt after her term was over. Then, on to the Governorship, where (despite lying & denying it) she received $233 Million for the Bridge to Nowhere project, from us, the US taxpayers. When the Bridge was never built, she KEPT the earmark money. She snuffled like a pig at the government handout trough, taking in $450 Million in federal pork earmark projects. She has requested $195 Million more in federal earmarks for 2009.

Like it or not, Sarah Palin has the most executive experience, best record of accomplishment and best natural ability to govern of all the candidates. No wonder the left is freaking! And we can't stop grinning! Besides that, the Queen, yes, Her Majesty(!), curtsies when she meets Sarah Palin. (Not even the great Annie Oakley got such respect.)

JL, We welcome your comparisons between Governor Palin and Senator Obama. Sure, release her transcripts as well. As mayor and then as Governor, Palin is used to making executive decisions on a daily basis. Unless you've actually been in management, you don't appreciate the skill set and the value of that experience. Senator Obama has no such executive experience. In his Legislative positions, he was allowed to abstain and vote "Present". This is no preparation whatsoever for being the Chief Executive of the United States. He took three days to get it right on Russia/Georgia recently, including an intermediate postition to go to the UN Security Council, where he forgot the Russians would veto any thing he would try to do. Oops. Obviously, even with 300 advisers, he has trouble feeling his way through decisions. His record is thin and his executive experience is nil. He does give good speech... He and his trusty TelePrompTer.

When will John McCain give up the ghost and leave the ticket? We all know that if McCain/Palin do win, the Right Wing will find a way to get old man McCain out of the way so their pin-up puppet can take over.

Irony of the Republic/Democratic parties is that the Democrats are for gun control, but the Republicans are making it more likely that we will all need guns to stand up against government.

So far the Republicans have trashed/invaded our rights, moved to enforce a religious agenda into our lives and schools, created the largest movement of wealth from the middle class to the already wealthy, the list goes on.

Unfortunately, the wealthy will probably be living in another country, off of our money, long before enough people realize that they have been taken.

Jim F, do you really want all the nominees to release transcripts from their college years. It might take Sarah sometime to contact the six schools she went to. By the way since you did not respond to the topic, how do you like McCain taking second billing to Sarah?

The lunatic left is in freefall. Sarah
Palin makes the community organizer
look like the fool that he is. I am expecting the clown car to pull up & Obama & Biden hop out dressed as tax paying patriots.

"Personally, I am just enjoying watching the leftists having fits of hysteria, paranoia and panic because they finally encountered an empowered, independent female. "

You're right - we ARE having fits of panic, because we realize what the hell is at stake . . . this woman, if elected, if entrusted with this security and welfare of this country, will make such a friggin mess of things, it will make the Bush years look like a Golden Era. What doesn't every GET about that!?!?!? The only people who seem to support McCain, when I talk to them they have no clue about McCain's history, his stance on issues, and his proposed economic policies (truly more of the same). This country is poised to take a great stride forward into the 21st century with Obama, or to fester in the same-old tired bedraggled incompetence and self-satisfied smugness of Republican ideological do-nothingness. Another 4 years of lost opportunities and low-expectations. Great.

They are each others running mates. Whats wrong with that? Palin and McCain ticket? Hey C'mon you libs. You know its ladies first.

Obama needs to get back in the limelight NOW! He must do something vitally important and newsworthy. I suggest he announce that, if/when he is elected, he will appoint Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State, a much more important job than Vice President!

The bloom has apparently gone off this rose in record time. Today, Research 2000 says that Palin's approval rating has dropped 21% in a single week. Keep stonewalling that investigation and claiming that living next to Russia gives you foreign policy experience!

I really like Sarah Palin. She is very impressive. She communicates much better than the other candidates. When she is talking, I feel as though she is talking directly to me. Perhaps that is because she is one of the people.

Reminds me of a Futurama episode, where they have an art exhibition of reproductions of masterpieces tattooed onto fat guys.

Life imitates art :-]

Senator Obama has not released his college transcripts from Occidental, Columbia nor Harvard Law. What courses did he take and what were his grades? He has not released his application to the Illinois State Bar which is a very detailed document. He has released only a one page medical report. He has not explained the nature of his three week trip to Pakistan after his Occidental coursework and before starting Columbia. What is he hiding in all these instances and why? Does he have any long term close friends that will stand up for him and vouch for him? Any that are not convicted felons like Rezko, or unrepentant terrorists like Ayers? Who IS this guy???

Personally, I am just enjoying watching the leftists and Obots having fits of hysteria, paranoia and panic because they finally encountered an empowered, independent female. All of their fem-lib / equality / tolerance BS goes right down the toilet when they run up against someone who doesn't march in goose-step with their own Marxist ideals. It's hilarious!!!

Wishful thinking on her part and the part of most Republicans...Might also be because she admittedly doesn't know what the vice-president does and longs to be president instead...

Doesn't anyone see through this? The campaign designed her faux flub. They think she has a greater chance of winning this election than the old senile guy at the top of the ticket.

I can't believe how frantic you webnuts are getting. It's clear to all of us that Palin was the right choice. Obama will be crushed by the festering hive of nuts he drew around him.

"Here, honey, grab some more rope. Don't worry, there's plenty. You go, girl!"

cme,

"Um, Robert in SJ, I gotta disagree. JT did a great job addressing the Obama Spanish ad that unfairly tied McCain to Rush Limbaugh on immigration and that also unfairly took Rush out of context."

You mean if it's 10 to 1 in Obama's favor instead of 10 to 0 it's therefore objective and not blatantly biased? Ugh.

To use an analogy of Mr. Obama, the entire Palin/McCain campaign has turned into a Saturday Night Live skit, except the joke is no longer funny. Palin has made more than one slip of the tongue indicting that, in her mind, she is really at the top of the ticket. I guess nobody told McCain that, when he picked a "barracuda" as his running-mate, that barracudas eat other members of their own species to survive. Palin is hungry, and McCain is dinner. Or should I call him Vice President McCain.

This board seems to be full of O-bots willing to believe all sorts of lies, but let's set the record straight on a few questions from John Michael:

Q) Why is she conducting state business on a Yahoo account?

A) She dids't. The hacker himself said that he didn't find anything.

Q)Why did Palin say she would be open about the “TrooperGate” controversy, and now she is working hard to delay and shutdown the investigation?

A) The Troopergate investigation is a sham. It should have been investigated by the Personnel Board, and Alaska Democrats tried to bring it to the Legislature after her selection as VP nominee. The police commissioner was fired for insubordination and using State funds to lobby Washington for funds Palin had already vetoed.

Q)Why did she lie about visiting Iraq, when she never did?

A) She did visit troops in Kuwait, about to be deployed to Iraq. She has also visited Alaska National Guard troops prior to their deployment to Iraq.

Q) Why does she say she opposes earmarks, yet with her leadership she has asked for nearly a half billion dollars in such earmarks?

A) She didn't request earmarks--she requested Congressional funding, to be voted on by the entire Congress, not just Reps or Senators from one state. Her funding requests are much less than her two predecessors as Governor, one of whom was a Democrat.

Q) Why did she never travel outside of the US and Mexico, until last year? Does she have any world interest?

A) Are the taxpayers of Alaska expected to fund their Governor's world travels, or is her job to serve the people of Alaska? She did travel to Canada, for negotiations on the gas pipeline, and to Kuwait, to visit troops, and she did telephone the President of Georgia after the Russian invasion.

Q) Does Palin have any control over the Alaska National Guard? If so, can she explain key achievements that she has had in managing the Guard the past 18 months?

A) Governor Palin has visited with the Alaska National Guard, both at their base, and those deployed to Kuwait. She also sent part of them to Louisiana to help with rescue efforts from Hurricane Gustav.

All the Palin-bashers on this board are afraid of her for one reason: she is far more competent than the TOP of the other ticket! Can anyone here name ONE accomplishment of Barack Obama, besides being elected?

cme-

Please. Re-read the posts. You'll see snide comments on the anti-McCain posts and an anticeptic approach to the so-called debunking of Obama posts. It's obvious.

Um, Robert in SJ, I gotta disagree. JT did a great job addressing the Obama Spanish ad that unfairly tied McCain to Rush Limbaugh on immigration and that also unfairly took Rush out of context. As for Palin being at the top of the ticket, I'm not sure how things are where you're at, but most conservatives have no problem joking about how Sarah Palin is a bigger draw than John McCain, and that includes myself. So, don't get so worked up.

Brooklyn Democrat -

Are you really saying that the scrutiny Palin is under, as the VP of the ticket, is the same as the VP of the Democratic ticket? Palin has been put through the wringer more than any other VP in history.

And yes, some of it has been VERY sexist. That doesn't mean it's sexist to scrutinize her, but you can't possibly say that some of it hasn't been sexist.

Medical records?
Gee, maybe we'll see Palin's medical records.... once Obama finally releases his. And once Kerry releases his military records.

RL in Illinois -

Please stop repeating disproven myths. The Obama campaign did not send thirty lawyers to Alaska to "dig up dirt" on Palin.

McCain should have dug up the dirt prior to selecting her. She is running for the second highest office in the country and deserves the same scrutiny that Obama, Clinton, Biden and McCain have been subjected to.

Suggesting that questions about her experience or qualifications are "sexist" or are part of some vast conspiracy is silly. Comparing her to Hillary Clinton is irrational...they have nothing in common except their gender.

Palin is just going along with Obama and the MSM who seem to be convinced that she's on the top of the ticket. As for her medical records, the media doesn't deserve to see even the cover of them with all the lies they've printed about her.

What she KNOWS, and what is becoming obvious to the rest of us, is that McCain is becoming senile. This is not the JMC of 5 or 10 years ago. He gets stuff confused, slurs, reverses his position all the time without seeming to notice, asserts as true things which are publicly known to be false and vice-versa. It is sad to watch and very scary.

There's no doubt she's ambitious. Blindly ambitious..... CRASH!!!!!

This is what happens when you start believing your own - B.S.

Your head gets big and you forget that you are 2nd on the Ticket --- not the Main person on the Ticket.

Perhaps Ms. Palin believes all those lies the McCain campaign made up about her record and experience to justify her selection. She does have more "executive experience" than he does, and Mc Cain was only a wing commander not Commander in Chief of the Ak. Natl. Guard! Step aside Johnny Mac.
All Arizona is close to is Mexico. They're no threat.

Those of you who don't think Sarah Palin has an agenda better wake up.

With regards to kennedy's post here of 9/18 accusing Obama of belonging to a racist church, better take a closer look at the churches Sarah worships at and their agenda.

Sarah Palin's churches are actively involved in a resurgent movement that was declared heretical by the Assemblies of God in 1949. This is the same 'Spiritual Warfare' movement that was featured in the award winning movie, "Jesus Camp," which showed young children being trained to do battle for the Lord. At least three of four of Palin's churches are involved with major organizations and leaders of this movement, which is referred to as The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit or the New Apostolic Reformation. The movement is training a young "Joel's Army" to take dominion over the United States and the world.

Google Joel's Army folks.... this is scary stuff.

Still want Sweet Sarah one heartbeat away from the switch?? Heaven help us all.

She talks about a transparent administration but

now won't cooperate with an investigation she said she would

won't release tax returns

medical records

email.

Hires friends. Been there, done that with the Bush hiring "Brownie" and we see how that turned out

Maybe Sarah, unlike the press, got a good look at McCain's full medical records. Hmmmm. Has she released hers yet?

Palin is a serial backstabber, McCain is next in line.

First she sucked up to mayor of her town, so he became her mentor. Then she backstabbed him and his allies, called them corrupt and ran against them.

Then she sucked up to Senator Ted Stevens and did the same thing.

So McCain, you are next.

To SUG who denigrated Glenn, the 74 year old man. Didn't sound like he was mad at Senator Obama instead he sounded happy when Dems are in office. Also concerning the part you said about " because you didn't apply yourself to be successful", maybe Glenn was just too busy doing the American thing providing for his family so his kids would have to oppotunity to the college.

Joe Biden said is time for the greedy give back to the needy .
People with income 250.000 $ or more, vote Republicans on 2000 and 2004. That is what the data confirm. In that case they should be prepared to pay for the economic chaos created by Bush decisions .Next time they should be more careful how they vote.
Just a minute McCain said the fundamentals of the economy are strong .Probably he was thinking about the family Business.
Was hilarious to watch Cindy McCain, when Senator McCain on his speech talks about the big salaries of the CEO’s, and how greedy they are.

I watch Sean Hannity scripted interview with Sarah Palin is full of charm and she looks so confident and savvy, because of so many rehearsals.
But how effective can it be for independent voters .His program is mostly watched by “right wing conservatives” and fox news viewers who will be voting for McCain.
Sarah Palin said the comments about the previous experience of Senator Obama like community organizer was just a personal attack and not because she doesn’t appreciate community work .Baloneys! we are not idiots .Before she opens her mouth she should think what is important to every one? His Home! The place where he lives and raise his family .Then is his community where the people he greet every day lives and faces the same problems and challenges .If you organize and protect your community you protect your home, and then you sleep every night more secure What makes a President is the right Judgment. Be cool like cucumber in time of crisis. Not have 7 houses or family business valued at hundred million dollars worth. Do not necessary have the temper to pick a fight but the temper to fight every day makes life of the community around you better.

If you're truly patriotic, it doesn't mean you have to wear a flag pin, and nor would you question is someone's patriotism for not doing so.

If you're truly patriotic, it doesn't mean you have to keep on saying "great country great country great country".

She uses all these words to cover for her lack of substance. I mean, if she had actually had laid out the plans and details, go ahead, she can use whatever wonderful descriptive words she wants. But she doesn't, and she comes across to me as a phony.

If you're truly patriotic, you would've told your over zealous Palin Truth squad, Ms Palin, to SHUT UP about the pig on a lipstick thing and STOP blowing it out of proportion until it dominated the issues. Instead, you were all too willing to ride on playing victim of sexism.

Well, Gov Palin, if you can't even take some "unreasonable" media or comments, I take it dealing with unreasonable people like Ahmadinejad or Chavez who don't have the nicest things to say about America will be out of your league?

Palin also answered "yes" to an Anchorage Daily News poll question about whether she would continue to support state funding for the Gravina Island bridge if elected governor. "The window is now," she wrote, "while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist." It was only after she won the governorship that Palin shifted her position. And even then, it’s inaccurate to say that she “told the Congress ‘thanks, but no thanks.’” Palin accepted non-earmarked money from Congress that could have been used for the bridge if she so desired. That she opted to use it for other state transportation purposes doesn’t qualify as standing up to Congress.

The bridge reversal is not the only matter throwing doubt on Palin’s credentials as a government waste reformer. Watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense has reported that the small town of Wasilla, Alaska, which had not previously received significant federal funds, hauled in almost $27 million in earmarks while Palin was mayor. (McCain has explicitly criticized several of the Wasilla earmarks in recent years.) To help obtain these earmarks, Palin had hired Steven Silver, the former chief of staff for recently indicted Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, as Wasilla’s lobbyist.

And Palin continued to solicit federal funds as governor. A request form on Stevens’ Web site shows that she requested $160.5 million in earmarks for the state in 2008, and almost $198 million for 2009.

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Palin disparaged Obama’s legislative record, both in Illinois and in Washington:
ON FACTCHECK

Palin: But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the state Senate.

Of course, we can’t say what Palin considers “major.” But if Palin’s own ethics reforms in Alaska were important enough to highlight in her convention address, then it’s only fair to credit Obama’s efforts on that topic. In 1998 in the Illinois Senate, Obama cosponsored an ethics overhaul that bars elected officials from using their campaign funds for personal use and and was called the the first major overhaul of Illinois campaign and ethics laws in 25 years. It also bans fundraisers in the state Capitol during legislative sessions. Obama’s Republican cosponsor Kirk Dillard even appeared in an Obama ad last summer describing Obama’s skills working with members of both parties to get legislation passed.

In Washington, Obama was instrumental in helping to craft the 2007 ethics reform law that ended gifts and meals from lobbyists, cut off subsidized jet travel for members of Congress, required lobbyists to disclose contributions they “bundle” to candidates, and put the brakes on other, similar common practices.

In addition, we already noted in a recent article Obama’s efforts with Republican senators to help detect and secure weapons of mass destruction and to destroy conventional weapons stockpiles around the world, and to create a publicly searchable database on federal spending.

With bush mccain palin we are witnessing the bail out of the big corporate and rich with the tax payer money. This is a never seen and this is indeed not Capitalism but reverse socialism. Just incredible! that the Republican party can get away with that. Bush is really going to leave office as the worst President of all time. Look what happen under is clock and mcCain is just going to be the same Republican idioteconomics. Ah, my friends we are in a big poopoo right now and for a long time.

Palin/mcCain is not putting me first and the country last? What she is thinking?

Mack, we can all tell you're scared. Keep chanting those hateful thoughts to yourself while curled up in the fetal position until election day.

Foreclosure - Yeah, I like the phrase "McCain/Palin is a change to Nowhere."

John MacCain is out of touch with the life of the middle class Americans
That’s not surprise he doesn’t see the disaster of Iraq coming when he vote in favor of War .He support deregulations and then argue about the circus of Wall Street .A person who talk against the Government but he favors the government interference .A person who pick the Vice-president nominee only after one meeting
What you can say about his judgment? Oh just a minute he said the fundamentals of the economy are strong .Probably he was thinking about the family Business.
Was hilarious to watch Cindy McCain, when Senator McCain on his speech talks about the big salaries of the CEO’s, and how greedy they are!

John McCain and Sarah Plain promise of change: Is a change to Nowhere.
Nowhere near to help the American people with a real economic change Nowhere near to bring troops home safely.
Nowhere near to build America’s independence from oil.
Nowhere near to help the 95% of the American families.
Nowhere near to help the entrepreneurs and working families to keep jobs in America.
Nowhere near to provide the medical care reform for the American people and the Veterans who they are not fought for the red and blue states of the electoral map They fought against the terror and to keep America on the map.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden probably don’t have all the answers to the problems of the America’s working families or farmers or the people under the fear of foreclosure. Because of the failing economic policies of the Bush administration.
But they are ready to answer to the Americans for their policies and take responsibility for their decisions if they are elected to the White House
Barack Obama is ready not only to lead Americans back to the American dream but also to be sure his family and your families and daughters and sons are part of this dream

To the 74 years of man who worked in a factory all your adult life, don't get mad with Barack because you didn't apply yourself to be successful. Barack and Michelle got a degree and graduated from a great college and they are trying to make life better for the American people. I am a white woman voting for Barack. The country do not need any old ideas from McSame who didn't go to college and who was struggled with language arts and mathematics growing up. GO OBAMA '08!!

I am a 74 year old man who has worked in a factory all my adult life .
it is a verifiable truth ,that every
republican administration since eisenhower ,I was laid off from work at least a year,when the democrats got into office ,everybody was working ,sure taxes were high ,but I was able to take care of my family.
during the clinton administration ,the
national debt was non existant ,the country was in the black..
I don't like barack obama or his wife ,
I think they are both racists ,it wasn't a coincidence that he accepted
his partys nomination on the aniversiry
of martin luther kings death, ect.
but I but in my opinion the nation will be better off with the democrats back in office ,so I will vote for democratic leadership,so those of us who have to work in the factorys of our country will have a steady income and not have to draw unemployment to make ends meet
glen

I kind of feel bad for the Campaign heads and writers/directors inside of McCain's camp..

You're not supposed to follow each speech and talking point in its entirety, but there are certain rules and ways to go about improvising things for a personal touch.

There's simply no way that the entire team behind the curtain for the McCain camp facepalms at least twice a day due to Palin, and at least twice a week due to McCain.

Talk about a stressful job!

She's not a polished, scripted politician --yeah, let's tear her apart. You're a real man Jake.

A true Hillary supporter who could not forgive Obama for getting in her way or for not choosing her as his VP would vote for McKinney, not for McCain/Palin.
McCain/Palin is antithetical to everything Hillary Clinton represents and the only reason she isn't saying so more forcefully herself is that she is saving her ammo for 2012.

Anybody who supported Hillary and now is going to vote for McCain/Palin is either a closet racist or a closet Republican.

We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to fix Social Security
We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to fix Medicare
We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to provide health care to
ALL Americans
We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to help out Americans
losing their homes
We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to fully help Katrina
victims
We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to fix our infrastructure
We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to help ALL our veterans
returning from war

BUT

We DO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY to bail out Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac
We DO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY to bail out Bears Stearns
We DO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY to bail out AIG
We DO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY to pay for an unnecessary
TRILLION DOLLAR war

When the LITTLE GUY needs help, the GOP scornfully
says, "GET ANOTHER JOB!" "That's socialism!"

But when their BIG GUY CRONIES need a bailout, what do
they say?

SURE, NO PROBLEM. Where's the checkbook?

McCain is old and senile, and what scares everyone more than Sarah Palin for president? She is Bush in female form, but even scarier somehow! More ambition, even less brains if that is even possible. Haven't we had ENOUGH??
Obama Biden 08'

I have a question for all of you ideology right wing church going ppl.......You support a tikcet tht has been proven to be false, meaning the lies of Pal-who? and McLiar himelf, you spprt ppl who lie, cheat, steal, manipulate, cover up, and try to play us Americans as STUPID!!!

This is who YOU support...ppl who won't even face responsibility.....but yet you sit in your churches every sunday and pray and beleive you are all this and that........TOTAL, TOTAL, TOTAL......HYPROCISY!!!! AND YOU KNOW WHT???....I'VE NEVER SEEN A HIGHER ENERY THT WAS TWO FACED!!!

REPUBS BE PRD OF PAL-WHO/MCSTPD...ENJOY THE SINKING SHIP!!

OBAMA/BIDEN08