Political Punch

Over 100 econimists, including 5 Nobel Prize winners, signed a letter today that stated that Obama's overall proposals would negatively effect the economic crisis that we are in. 1) taxing corporations will only force more corporations to move oversees, reducing American jobs
2) Taxing the wealthy, who already pay much higher percentages than others, will only cause them to invest overseas, bank overseas, and live overseas
His socialistic plan for healthcare will diminish the quality of healthcare for everyone, and these are jsut a few of the valid points

I don't recall reading that Palin released her own Troopergate report exonerating herself. That is ludicrous enough to discuss, don't you think. Where is the public outrage at the race baiting at McCain's rallys? Why won't the networks call him on it? Why do they continue to smear Obama (Ayers) when they know the truth? Where is the integrity in journalism? Where are the real journalists? I think we should boycott all sites that do not treat both candidates equally. Not to do so is to condone the behavior. To paraphrase the adage, we must stand for something or we will fall for anything.

One day we will all look back at this election season and be ashamed. In case you ever wondered, this is what racism looks like. It is the journalists assisting McCain in slandering a candidate because of his race.

When was the last time that a candidate with Obama's credentials was said to be unqualified to be president? The columns that perpetuate lies are plentiful. The writers pretend that they are informing the people, because that lets them sleep at night.

Thanks, Google! Now Perhaps Barack Can Explain His New Party Membership

Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).

New Party establishes that not only was the party an amalgamation of far left groups, but Barack Obama knew that when he sought the party’s endorsement.

When you hear the people at the McCain Palin rallies it you're looking at how hateful some of these people really are.And to think that we have to intermingle with people like this at any given time.These people should be on a watch list they sound pretty radical.To be able to yell out the hatful words they do is something to hear and yet say that this is the USA.

What I got to know is - Who is Barack Obama?

I say bring out all the facts of all the candidates. Why does Obama react so defensively when people want to know about his past? Looks like he's just trying to run out the clock before people find out.

McCain and Biden have been vetted for years. We know both of these ol' guys. But who is this man who wants so bad to be the leader of the free world?

"The closest the Obama campaign has come is the Keating 5... which wasn't so much "association" as much as it was political favors to help a criminal fleece the taxpayers."

The Keating 5 is not guilt by association when McCain was one of the Keating 5.

The Repubs can dish it out, but they can't take it! They throw mud about the association of Ayers and Obama, and make up crap in doing so. McCain's association with WACL is a FACT! That group, headed by John Singlaub, was associated with all sorts of right-wing death squads in El Salvador and Nicaragua. I can't believe that McCain didn't know about that, and he probably backed it bedcasue those death squads were killing "communists," like those Jesuit priests in El Salvador back in 1983!
Then there is the Keating Five, and can you imagine the likes of Hannity and Limbaugh going after any Democrat involved if that issue were going on today. But let's fast forward to McCain's ties to his campaign manager, Rick Davis, of Fannie Mae, and Phil Gram, the one Repugnantcan Senator mostly responsible for getting rid of the Glass-Steagle bill that set up the regulations that banks, insurance companies, and stock brokerage firms had to abide by for decades! Enougn said! If you now still ant to vote for McPalin, you are an un-Amerikan fascist!

Maybe nothing there....but maybe some investigation should be done into John McCain's noted public displays of temper including one against his wife. It goes to who John McCain really is. Quick-tempered and erratic. I also have never heard John McCain questioned on how he committed adultery on his first wife with Cindy and his carousing. Again, goes to his character. I think in all fairness if questioning Obama on Ayres is justified then questioning McCain on these incidents is fair as well. Who is the real John McCain?

That's the problem with guilt by association... it's BS.

It was BS when McCain uses it against Obama, it would be BS if Obama were using it against McCain.

The closest the Obama campaign has come is the Keating 5... which wasn't so much "association" as much as it was political favors to help a criminal fleece the taxpayers.

I remember, on our TV Channels, we showed some rallies in Middle East countries where people were “Kill American” and other hate filled chanting… We called them Terrorists….

NOW, here we are at the McPalin’s campaign, people are chanting almost similar statements, if not worst than those… What do we do NOW?

Something is really Wrong…..

Jake writes: "Because of the Ayers story, lots of folks for all sorts of reasons are looking for other "guilt by association" stories about Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz."

Yet lots of folks are looking to emulate the wacko guilt by association tactics of the Republicans. Thank heavens it is not Barak Obama, who continues to address issues related to our economic future.

the real republican party has left and gone to regroup, after bush ruined their brand,
the people at mccain and paline rallys
are some folks from

rent-a-mob
(to have the torches is extra)

Why can't McCain/Palin stick to the issues. McCain wants to bail out homeowners - where's the money coming from? Health care - wants to put a plan through that we'll end paying taxes on? Does this make sense? McCain says helping the homeowners mistake?? I guess so when he can't even answer where the money is coming from. Palin can't answer questions - as she doesn't know the answers. This is what we need in office. She says troopergate is closed - wow still investigating. All they are doing is a dirty politics campaign, slamming others. They had better look at what they have done. Are their records clear? I think not. McCain has a lot behind him - why isn't he answering to this" How about Palin?

Let's not have dirty politics - issues are the key. People are worried about losing everything, unable to retire due to losing their retirement savings. Why aren't they talking about this, just smear tactics.

McCain/Palin are not the ones to lead this country. McCain is skirting the issues, being eratic. Palin does not have the experience to lead the country. How can she be, doesn't know anything about the economy, foreign policy and very little about energy, and unable to answer questions. More of the same with Bush - now just McCain/Palin.

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Whoa!!! The trouble with our economy etc. is all the democrates fault! Who's been in office for 8 years???? I guess we're headed more of the same if McCain gets in. People are losing money and there's more of it to come. Maybe if you wake up, and check what has been taken from you, you may change your mind, hopefully.

Hearing about & watching some of the Palin/McCain rallies is frightening. Palin and McCain are not holding a rally, THEY ARE TRYING TO INCITE A RIOT!

The only thing coming out of Palin's mouth is HATRED AND RACISM. How dare she comment on Obama and Ayers, when her closet is full of skeletons and she is currently under investigation.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08 & 12

Mary Wrote :" If McCain wins the presidency and he dies, he will leave the presidency to Mati-Hari, who comes from the Alaskan freedom party to aid Russia in taking the American country without firing a single bullet."

I am also becoming worried about if McCain lives. Is he really excercising the judgement of someone who wishes to lead? HOW can this man lead a nation he is dividing on such harsh terms? It is good to win an election, but once elected, what are his options? Having in the process of winning, alienated a very substantial portion of the populace, what are his governing
options? Repression? Do you think the election is thought through this time? In the midst of such a crisis, after "assuming" power, how can this regime lead ? Who will they lead? They have no plan...just all these zigs and zags , hoping to keep the game alive until the election and win a divided country. John McCain ! Patriot?

Thinking ahead.
Does it bother anybody that the various charges, slanderings, accusations, the very ability of a political party to brand an obvious American citizern as somehow foreign means that there is a large audience who are like minded? The violent lurch to the extreme right wing by the McCain , The RNC and their proxies, seems to be the beginning of a deepening of desperation, but also a troubling leadership crisis within the Republican party. The choice? Integrate the various extreme right wing fringe groups with the Party platform. McCain's positions and lies are Hitlerite in the eerie manner in which they are endlessly repeated and drummed upon until bit by bit, in tiny increments, the absurdites are gradually allowed in discussion. It is very obvious the Hitlerite technique of repeating lies is working to a degree. If a man is a child when someone else commits a crime, does that crime infect a non participant? Yet it is repeated until it is a blemish somehow, next, there is linkage to equally unrelated topics, until, there is s solid block of misinformation to package. Damage: There is a large segment of fringe individuals to whom this type of rhetoric is inflamatory and to whom such subject matter most likely will inflame to action. I hope the secret service heard the "call" at a McCain rally that someone might "volunteer" related to Sen. Obama. What is this person supposed to step forward to do? I certainly did not imagine this. Can the Republican ticket be this extreme? To publicly make such a call for something to be done to Senator Obama? My last point is that Senator McCain will go down in history as the first candidate to have his campaign be the possible spawning event for racial warfare. Very saddening.

The American people better wake up and open their ears and eyes and listen to what is going on. If McCain wins the presidency and he dies, he will leave the presidency to Mati-Hari, who comes from the Alaskan freedom party to aid Russia in taking the American country without firing a single bullet. This whole thing is so scary. The only thing that we will have left is our guns and religion.

McCain sure is demagoguing the crisis now.