McCain Pulls Ahead in Gallup

To ROFL,

We actually agree on many things. I too am greatly concerned about our economy but we differ on the root causes of the current conditions and what to do about it. The bail out is very troublesome but not nearly as troublesome as defecit spending.

We need to re-enact Graham-Ruddman to ensure a balanced budget every year. The Congress, both Republican and Democrat controlled, has spent money like drunken sailors the past eight years and not just on the military. For better or for worse we are Constitutional bound to provide for the common defense but even that spending must have limits. On the social spending side, the Medicare/Medicaid pharmaceutical subsidy was another huge mistake. We're at least 50% invested in a socialist medical system, we might as well go all the way with a Swiss-like system in my opinion.

I like this...Mcain is ahead and its called a lead...Ok Obama was aheadfor months and it was called "Dead Heat" Its still a tie and we still haven't heard from Sarah Baracuda!!

Also, Gallup is evangelical and Rasmussen is Republican what do you expect the truth@!!!

Nothing has changed with NO MCCAIN-PALIN

"Why didn't the Democrats stand united and stop the [Iraq war] bill from passing in the Senate?"
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For the same reason they went along with the Patriot Act, and sat on the info about "torture". They've got no guts.

"Moving on, once we were there and could not find any WMD, what should we have done?"
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That the Congress didn't move as one to impeach Cheney and Bush, and imprison their associates, shows why we need a NEW Congress.

It was in this gutless ambience that McCain stood up to "his" party on torture.

"No Belle, what will McCain do for this country......the economy, homes being forclosed, issues like that."
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Who knows? We can hope he'll declare that the people have been so dispossessed by "bipartisan" corporate humbuggery -- nobody's forgotten Enron, after all -- that he's changing the system completely, and investing the reparations in national health, green public housing, and universal higher education for whoever wants it. Maybe he'll initiate a guaranteed annual income, as even the evil Richard Nixon tried to do.

One thing we know for sure is that the "post-partisan" Democrats aren't going to do diddly -- just as they have since 2006. The last Democrat who actually DID anything was Jimmy Carter.

The American public must have the shortest memory span of any developed nation. This is the party that has brought you trickle down economics it has proven does not work. Look at all the jobs shipped overseas, people losing their houses, economy in the trash can. Even John McCain admits, "The Republican Party Has Lost It's Way". What the American people are suppose to give them four more years to find themselves. Come on America, wake up. You're better than this!

No Belle, what will McCain do for this country......the economy, homes being forclosed, issues like that.

"Belle, what do you think McCain will do for you?"
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Stand up to the fascist elements who infest the "Republican" party -- something the "post-partisan" Democrats manifestly will NOT do.

When the far right and the "left" -- which Obama claims to be, depending on his audience -- join hands to flummox ordinary people, you get ... Jonestown. Whole states are run this way.

It's not incredibly difficult to believe that Palin and McCain just MIGHT go for reform. They've done so before. Obama, on the other hand, got his start from mobsters and the corporate players on the "left" who brought down the social movement of the sixties.

The finger of blame for this economy needs to be pointed at 1.) the administration that waged a bull-caca trillion dollar war that it had no way to pay for, 2.) the administration that continues to sell out the American worker in order to maximize the profits of the huge corporations that back it, 3.) the administration that continues to be more interested in the imposing democracy on those that don't want it than enforcing it right here at home, 4.) the administration that is using tax payers to bail out the risk-takers on Wall Street.

We are in such a huge world of poop right now, that I honestly don't know how we will ever recover.

indy_voter,

For the sake of argument I'll stipulate your point that we never should have gone to war. But at the risk of oversimplifying history, a majority of the House (Rep majority) and Senate (Dem majority) decided to authorize military action (H.J. Res 114, 107th Congress) so it went forward. Then and there was the best time to nip the whole thing in the bud. Why didn't the Democrats stand united and stop the bill from passing in the Senate?

Moving on, once we were there and could not find any WMD, what should we have done?

Hey Woody,

Surely your last posting was more a comparison of context rather than content? Churchill was warning of Nazi dangers when he was out of office, does that make his judgement any lesser?

When Hunter Biden WAS just out of school, the company wouldn't reveal what he was paid for what ...

One thing in McCain's favor is that his wife has LOTS of money.

Belle, what do you think McCain will do for you?

"(AP) A son of Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was paid an undisclosed amount of money as a consultant by MBNA, the largest employer in Delaware, during the years the senator supported legislation that was promoted by the credit card industry and opposed by consumer groups."
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The Biden boys remind one of the Bush boys, really. Why did The CHANGEling, who bitches about credit cards when it suits the audience, tie up with Biden ANYway? Hunter Biden's just out of school, and according to National Review, neither Biden nor MBNA will say just what he does, how much he's paid, etc.

Change we can live without.

It's interesting to get a take from the other side of the pond.

I watched a new documentary on IDSC (a new cable channel) over the weekend about 9/11 called "Secrets of 9/11". I found it quite fascinating, as the events and timelines were reconstructed all the way back to the WTC bombings in the 90s. It's pretty apparent that the system failed us miserably, with Clinton not pulling the trigger to get Bin Laden when he had the chance, and Bush dropping the proverbial ball and ignoring the Al Queda threat until it was too late. What I found fascinating was the testimony that immediately following 9/11, that the Bush WH wanted to strike back hard at Iraq because they had more "targets of interest". They finally gave in to Afghanistan, but only on the condition that Iraq would be next. I think we all know what happened next.
Now we taxpayers are the ones stuck paying for his trillion dollar game of BS and machismo. It was sickening to me to watch the blatant exploitation of 9/11 at the RNC to drive home how the Boogie-man is still out to get us. Nevermind that thanks to this administration, we are now the most vehemently hated country in the world, a sentiment that will only deepen further when we put another pair of warmongers back in the WH.

Rob,

A civil, discourse. Shocking! ;-)

Here's my take on why Obama's anti-war stance and McCain's surge support are not equivalent. Being a state senator from Chicago and denouncing anything that any Republican does at any level is about as predictable as the sun rising in the east. I challenge anyone to honestly say they paid any attention to Obama declaring he was against the war when he said it in 2002. He and his statement were totally irrelavent. Similarly, my entire state legislature passed a resolution denouncing the invasion, slapped each other on the back and adjourned to the nearest steakhouse feeling very good about themselves.

On the floor of the U.S. House of Reps or the U.S. Senate your vote actually means something when deciding whether or not to send troops into harm's way. Only those two bodies can 1) appropriate the funds for the war and 2) approve or reject said appropriations. You must stand and be counted before the nation. Do you see the difference in real terms and politically?

Jayhawk

Again it is not Obama or McCain...it is you and the future of your children.

It is what America will be 20 years from now.

One of this two will win....it cannot just be anybody. Whoever wins defines the course for the country for the next 20 years.

20 years from now what will you tell someone who asks you the happenings of today and the decisions you made? That is what matters here....

And,

Don't get so worked up that McCain/Palin are pulling ahead in all the polls...

At least, not yet...

Sarah Palin will take center stage with interviews on the major networks...

Tough questions will be asked and answered, but most expect another McCain/Palin surge in the polls...

And, this one may be huge...

Looks like women voters who were looking for an Obama alternative have found a new home...

And, the questions about Old Joe Biden's son,Hunter , MBNA, and his mansion financing continue to grow...

Anybody But Obama...

The finger of blame for the economy needs to be pointed equally at Republicans and Democrats, not just one party...

Lest we forget, the socialist wing of the Democrat party has had control of the Senate and House for the last two years...

And, they have done nothing except whine...

Anybody But Obama...

Well, simply put...history repeats itself.

1968---2008 This may be America's last chance to pull herself up...amid other socialist growing giants who are slowly taking America's place as world leader.

No one has the key to change the course America is taking but her citizens.

The 2008 election has not only drawn crowds, surprises and made history but has also uncovered deep seated divisions, hate, and anger. These are the signs of a nation in pain.

McCain again? 4 more years? I thought 8 seemed a lot...maybe not. So he is now the new change agent it seems. Republicans are good at blindfolding...using fear tactics to make their win. The brainwash is so deep non of us seem to realize that for 8 years his party has been at the helm of the insane destruction of America's iconic middle-class...the back bone of her very existence.

Well...maybe it may take another 12 years before we feel the pain we have not yet felt. How sad.

History gives us a moment in time when things happen gradually....then history gives us a chance to change the moment of time, and finally the choice to act...when we put all these things together...we define these changes, choices and chances as a moment of history itself.

What were we paying for gas in 2000 again?

hmmm...the world is watching....

I'll take this with a grain of salt, this is no more then the post convention bump. McCain did not gain that much of a bump either. Obama will be back on top very soon, add the debates and he (Obama) will be way, double digets ahead.