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karen

I suggest you do a careful unbiased review of the last 8 years of Bush, Cheney and the republicans.

John MCcain will do whatever neds to be done to support the United states and this country,I have faith in him .
And in Sara Palin ,In my opinion he picked a woman that is patriotic and wants the best for education schools,etc If Obama was to get in his policies are not for us. Education would suffer,the regulations are already
starting to cut free speech.to Stop our freedoms,His thugs are guarding the polls,and inciting to destroy the voices of many at the opponents speeches and rallies,do we want a Dictator in to stop the freedoms we now have as our cherished rights,Vote down this dictator,
Dont wait for him to get in and see what he can do in 4 years!

Well for five and a half years John McCain was not able to comment on Osama Bin Laden.

Both McCain and Obama have both made questionable decisions, have said stupid things and have voted for their own and their parties' interests. That's why they're called politicians. The truly amazing thing is that out of a population of 300 million people, these two are the best we could come up with. McCain is out of touch, and has no great plans for the hurting middle-class. Obama doesn't have the experience and has a questionable background. It comes down to voting for the lesser of two evils--which one is lying less, which one will do something, anything, to pull us out of our crumbling economy, which one will we "trust" as a nation. The choices are pretty bad...

Obama has been a Kenyan citizen according to his own website, school records show him as Indonesian. I have serious questions about where his loyalties lie, especially since he has been involved in Kenyan elections. McCain is a true patriot. He spent 4 years in a POW camp for us, I say we give him 4 years in the Whitehouse.

Paulson and Cox should go to jail!

Obama/Biden 08!

ABC Obama campain department is working overtime on this one. Track McCain down and torture him because he wanted to know more about Bin Laden. He wanted a plan B and god forbid to know where all of this was heading. This is the stupidest non-issue ever.

I am confident that Obama will probably pick a phrase out of this line of questions to bastardize as they have the rest of John McCain's record. Then when he is called a liar again, he will cry foul.

Jerks!

Cheney had some pretty good insight in the post Gulf War 90's about why it wasn't a good idea to go ahead and get Saddam and take over Iraq.
Cheney of course, failed to take his own advice and led the charge into the current malaise of Iraq.

McCain did a similar thing, he knew that there had to be some real planning when go after terrorists. There had to be a fully thought out plan of attack along with real far reaching strategic insight. Present day McCain sings about bombing Iraq and jokes about war.
Seems the current McCain really does not understand the difference between tactics and strategy.

"But what's next?"

Yes, please tell us Senator McCain. If we're "winning" in Iraq, why aren't the troops coming home? When will they come home? What's the exit strategy?

You keep saying it's conditions on the ground but in the same breath you say we've won. Please tell us, what's next?

Unfortunately, any lessons McCain learned from the Keating scandal didn't affect his unbridled enthusiasm for deregulating the finance industry.

"He continues to follow policies that create the same kind of environment we see today, with recurrent financial crises and epidemics of fraud led by CEOs," says Black, the former S&L regulator.

Indeed, if the current financial crisis has a villain, it is Phil Gramm, who remains close to McCain. As chair of the Senate Banking Committee in the late 1990s, Gramm ushered in — with McCain's fervent support — a massive wave of deregulation for insurance companies and brokerage houses and banks, the aftershocks of which are just now being felt in Wall Street's catastrophic collapse.

McCain, who has admitted that "the issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should," relies on Gramm to guide him.

At least three of McCain's GOP colleagues have gone on record to say that they consider him temperamentally unsuited to be commander in chief.

Smith, the former senator from New Hampshire, has said that McCain's "temper would place this country at risk in international affairs, and the world perhaps in danger. In my mind, it should disqualify him."

Sen. Domenici of New Mexico has said he doesn't "want this guy anywhere near a trigger."

And Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi weighed in that "the thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded."

READ THE COVER ARTICLE IN ROLLING STONE!

Palin Charge:

"I'm afraid this someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country."

Saddam was our friend vs. Iran in 1980s, then our enemy.

Qadaffi was our enemy and now is our friend.

North Korea was our enemy and we are trying to be their friend now.

OOPS, forgot that we enabled Bin Laden and his crew to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.

This is only recent history . . . this is policy is policy of the US Govt. Ayers if he killed anybody, killed far fewer Americans than these guys.

This Ayers line is idiot logic.

McCain is out of touch and almost out of time. Every political nerd has Obama winning landslide victories on their electoral college maps. Everyday those leads increase in Obama's favor.

Don't take away rights. Californians, VOTE NO on Prop 8.

As McCain pointed out in the first prez debate, he is STILL against targeting Bin Laden if the Pakistanis don't allow us to do so.

One more reason to vote for Obama.

Apparently McCain can't tell who is the real terrorist. He downplays Osama Bin Ladin who killed over 5,000 people and instead rather talk about Bill Ayers.

**"Are you talking about Afghanistan?"

No, I'm talking about Iraq.**
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We didn't go into Iraq when alQaeda attacked us. It was 1.5 years later.

**In 1998, Clinton tried to kill Bin Laden and Republicans made a joke out of it. **
So he did that in 1998, but not in response to the Cole attack 2 years later. Do you wonder why, if it was so well known how dangerous Bin Laden was?
You will note that McCain, in the interview cited, was not making a joke out of it.

"Are you talking about Afghanistan?"

No, I'm talking about Iraq.

The country Bush abandoned Afghanistan for.

In 1998, Clinton tried to kill Bin Laden and Republicans made a joke out of it.

Republicans, Party First, Country Last.

"Given that Bush attacked the wrong country the last time Al Queda attacked us, I would hope he will refrain and pass that responsibility onto the next President."
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Are you talking about Afghanistan?

So do you really believe Clinton was too much of a lame duck to go after the well-known and dangerous Osama bin Laden after the USS Cole attacks in October 2000?
What about his VP, Gore?
What about us, the American people? Were we crying out for Clinton to go after BinLaden in retaliation?

Or do you agree that in 1998 and even in 2000, most of us were not sure how bad Bid Laden really was?

a trillion dollars that could have been used to provide health care coverage for every citizen, put tens of thousands back to work to rebuild New Orleans and our general infrastructure. Invested in renewable energy sources and used to build a monument to the twin towers that would have shown that we cannot be knocked down, was instead spent to conquer a country that could barely get running water outside of its capital city as well as being one of the only countries in the region that was not providing a safe haven to the group that attacked us. The terrorists are winning.

LET'S DISCUSS G GORDON LIDDY:

As Media Matters for America has noted, Liddy served four and a half years in prison in connection with his conviction for his role in the Watergate break-in and the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in "if necessary"; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a "gangland figure" to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap "leftist guerillas" at the 1972 Republican National Convention -- a plan he outlined to the Nixon administration using terminology borrowed from the Nazis. (The murder, firebombing, and kidnapping plots were never carried out; the break-ins were.) During the 1990s, Liddy reportedly instructed his radio audience on multiple occasions on how to shoot Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents and also reportedly said he had named his shooting targets after Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain's campaigns since 1998, including $1,000 in February 2008. In addition, McCain has appeared on Liddy's radio show during the presidential campaign, including as recently as May. An online video labeled "John McCain On The G. Gordon Liddy Show 11/8/07" includes a discussion between Liddy and McCain, whom Liddy described as an "old friend." During the segment, McCain praised Liddy's "adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great," said he was "proud" of Liddy, and said that "it's always a pleasure for me to come on your program."

financial collapse, political diviseness to the point that one political party accuses the other of being unpatriotic based soley on a difference of opinion. freedoms restricted, tolerance replaced by absolutism. NO rebuilding in NY to show that we cannot be knocked down so easily. The terrorists are winning.

the terrorists are winning.

"Given that Bush attacked the wrong country the last time Al Queda attacked us, I would hope he will refrain and pass that responsibility onto the next President."

Not sure why the attacked us part was cut out.

Does anyone find it the least bit odd that the self-proclaimed Christian Sarah Palin fantasizes about raping the planet as she screams "drill, baby drill!"

game set match. Circa the late Tim Russert: this thing is over

Ryan C:Given that Bush attacked the wrong country the last time Al Queda,
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I'm sorry, I think you must have cut off some words here.

KEEP UP THE NONSENSE, MCCAIN CAMPAIGN. HERE'S THE LATEST FROM REAL CLEAR POLITICS:

Colorado 48.0 44.0 Obama +4.0
Ohio 48.7 45.2 Obama +3.5
Florida 49.3 45.3 Obama +4.0
Nevada 49.3 47.5 Obama +1.8
Missouri 47.8 47.5 Obama +0.3
Virginia 49.9 45.1 Obama +4.8

"I think if AlQaeda attacked us next week (on the anniversary of the bombing), Bush would do something about it. Don't you?"

Given that Bush attacked the wrong country the last time Al Queda, I would hope he will refrain and pass that responsibility onto the next President.

John McCain and Sarah Palin want to be elected like Republicans but they are trying to avoid discussing issues critical for the American families. And portraying themselves like reformers because they are embarrassed of the last 8 years of the Republicans –Bush Administration Americans want answers to they problems they want better healthcare they want better pay they don’t want just change because that sounds good on election time, they want change from the Bush policies.
The financial institutions are bankrupt. The dollar super weak
The military are stressed out dangerously. Factories and jobs move overseas.
Home owners become homeless. And John McCain worry about the judgment of OBAMA?
McCain is desperate to be a President! 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 .What you can say about his judgment? Now we know that not only Obama can lead, but also he had a plan for the future of this great country!
Now McCain can snooze tight. Obama can answer the 03.00 am call any time!
Rebublicants can spin like wash machine all day long! The truth is
Senator McCain past actually impairs him from to be flexible and confront the future with open mind. The last days of the campaign confirmed that McCain -Plain are the most inadequate people to run this country!
The same people who gave George Bush a second term should feel responsible for the mess that is occurring today. They are the same ones who today have doubts about the ability of Obama to be a good choice for President. At war the first casualty is the truth. At this electoral race the truth has been killed by McCain and the Rebublicants .

Ryan C:"Two years later, the Cole was attacked and the Clinton administration didn't do a darn thing about it."

They were in office for all of 2 months after that.

Not much a lameduck President could do except the FBI investigation (which was done)
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I think if AlQaeda attacked us next week (on the anniversary of the bombing), Bush would do something about it. Don't you?

If Clinton didn't do something about it, it's because he- possibly like McCain 2 years before- was unsure exactly how much of a bad guy bin Laden was.

John McCain Profile:
John McCain hobby? Political stunts!
John McCain dream? Be the president no matter what!
John McCain political ideology? Opportunist!
John McCain cheerleader? Sarah Palin.!
John McCain favorite place? Florida, many elderly residents and you can manipulate the voting results!
John McCain favorite Cable news? FOX spin masters!
John McCain favorite movie? Pinocchio!
John McCain favorite song? Bomb.Bomb..Bomb Iran!
John McCain favorite word.? President Reagan ,my friends!.
John McCain friends? Wealthy people like him.!
John McCain ability ?Regular flip flop.!
John McCain number of houses? Seven!
John McCain Number of cars?Eleven!
John McCain definition of middle class?Under five million dollars assets!
John McCain family business value? Over hundred millions!

McCain is done.

He has been totally wrong on Saddam and the imminent threat of Iraq's WMD's, and he was totally wrong on the deadly Al Qaeda/Ben Laden threat to America, one month AFTER the truck bombings of American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam...

These two MAJOR errors in judgment disqualify the man to become the USA's next President and Commander in Chief.

"Two years later, the Cole was attacked and the Clinton administration didn't do a darn thing about it."

They were in office for all of 2 months after that.

Not much a lameduck President could do except the FBI investigation (which was done)

Of course Bush could have cared less about Bin Laden, ignoring even the Aug 6th memo warning of an imminent attack using airliners.

3000 Americans died because Bush was too busy vacationing in Crawford after 7 months on the job.

McCain is saying- do we know enough about this guy to threaten to strike against them wherever they live?
The answer was obviously no, because we didn't do that. Two years later, the Cole was attacked and the Clinton administration didn't do a darn thing about it.
Obama has many of the same advisors now that Clinton had then.
In 1998, we were all asking "Who is Bin Laden".
What was Obama saying?

At war the first casualty is the truth. At this electoral race the truth has been killed by McCain/Palin and the Republicans

"Obama said our soldiers are air raiding villages in afghanistan and killing civilians"

CNN Fact Check Verdict:
False. The McCain ad inaccurately presents this as Obama's current position, citing a an out-of-context comment from more than a year ago.

Jeff

Obama was blaming our tactics, not our soldiers. He was saying the obvious: that if we had more troops on the ground, we wouldn't have to do so much from the air, and fewer civilians would be killed. Any military expert would agree with that.

So McCain '98, was different than McCain '00, and now we have McCain the '08 version. Jeez, now there is CHANGE you can't believe at all!!!

"Obama said our soldiers are air raiding villages in afghanistan and killing civilians"

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon admitted yesterday that Afghan civilians at a wedding feast were killed and wounded in an accidental air strike last week.

Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke also said the military had a video of the air strike by an AC-130 Spectre gunship, but it was being withheld by the Air Force on grounds of military secrecy.

A new military poll shows them supporting McCain over Obama 68-23.

This poll?

"The results of the Military Times 2008 Election Poll are not representative of the opinions of the military as a whole. The group surveyed is older, more senior in rank and less ethnically diverse than the overall armed services."

IOW, its a useless poll of brass.

How about men in the field?

"An analysis of political contributions from soldiers on the battlefield has produced some unexpected results.

The Center for Responsive Politics has found that the presidential candidate with a record as a bona fide war hero is garnering far less financial support from the troops than the Harvard-trained lawyer.

"Democrat Barack Obama has received nearly six times as much money from troops deployed overseas at the time of their contributions than has Republican John McCain, and the fiercely anti-war Ron Paul, though he suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination months ago, has received more than four times McCain's haul," the report said."

Boots on the ground support Obama.

Chickenhawk generals support McCain.

I rather Obama as CiC then McCain who would have sent thousands to die in Iraq even knowing that Iraq never attacked us, didn't have WMD and was zero threat.

McCain is unhinged.

Obama said our soldiers are air raiding villages in afghanistan and killing civilians.

Obama said this in 2007 courting the far left dailykos and huffpost crowd.

How can we elect a CIC who blames our soldiers.

He sounds like someone in the middle east who hates america.

The taliban are the ones who fire at our soldiers using civilians as sheilds.

Obama said in 2007 when running for the dem nomation and courting the hard left that our soldiers were air raiding villages and killing civilians in afghanistan.

Obama speaks like someone in the middle east who can't stand america.

The taliban fire attacks at our soldiers hiding in villages using civilians as sheilds.

Somehow Obama blames our soldiers.

Our soldiers are in an impossible situation and yet Obama somehow blames them.

Obama has a warped view of our soldiers.

Obama never served and takes a disturbing look at our soldiers for someone running as CIC.

Electing Obama as CIC is a sick joke.

Having a CIC who says our soldiers are air raiding villages and killing civilians when he has no idea the situation they are in.

Obama has no right to be CIC. He never served in his life.

"Think about that and 9/11 when you go vote on Nov. 4th."

Yeah, we'll remember that ONE man certainly didn't see that attack coming:

JOHN MCCAIN!

JOHN "Is This Guy Laden Really the Bad Guy That's Depicted?" MCCAIN!

The original anti-terror-threat maverick!

No, wait, this is serious. McCain can start following the EXIT signs from here. Let the polls guide him well.

That should read 7000 Americans.

3000 on 9/11. 4000 in Iraq.

Obama has now TAKEN the lead in Missouri.

Electoral Map

Obama 364 McCain 174

"Think about that and 9/11 when you go vote on Nov. 4th."

I was going to make a comment on how crude it is to use 9/11 as political shorthand and what a dishonor it is to the people who died to do so but I doubt you would care.

So instead I will join you in asking that people think about 9/11 before voting.

Think about how Bush thru incompetence allowed 4000 Americans to die.

Think about how John McCain wanted to go after Iraq and Syria when we knew Al Queda had hit us and they were in Afghanistan.

Think about how Osama Bin Laden is still free thanks to the Bush administration not allowing Special Forces to do their job.

So, wait a minute, I'm shocked -

so, McCain has not only been totally wrong on Saddam and the imminent threat of Iraq's WMD's, but he was totally wrong on the Ben Laden threat to America as well, one month AFTER the truck bombings of American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam?

UH-OH...

Now THAT makes a fine record for a Presidential candidate in 2008...

Bye bye John McCain.

John McCain has served this country far above what most men have served. He is a true patriot. Obama is totally unproven. He just talks a good game.
If the MSM media keeps painting McCain as something other than what he has been his entire life, then I hope there will be a grass roots effort from citizens who care about their country to tune out the MSM and tune out the companies that support their newscasts.
MSM concerned about Sarah Palin changing colleges due to funding issues, etc. Let's be concerned about the people who raised the money to send Obama to college. As a highly educated person, I cannot understand the media's unwillingness to vet this candidate.
There will be a payday for the MSM.
Maybe the market is tanking because the polls are predicting this pseudo savior as the inevitable POTUS.
The MSM intellectual superiority complex is something else to behold.

To Jake Taper,

You are taking McCain out of context.

McCain was making an argument of what detractors would say and how we needed a plan to go after them.

To Jake Tapper you leave out the part you could say. McCain was making the counter argument of what detractors would say and that is why you needed a plan.

McCain was saying what people would say, not his opinion.

McCain is for the one millionth time being taken out of context.

shame on you husein obama, during primary you praise Reagan, now you praise Bill clinton.

If John McCain was associating with terrorists Obama's people would be all over it. Is Obama a terrorist? Probably not. Is it a concern to the American people that he associates with terrorists. It better be. Think about that and 9/11 when you go vote on Nov. 4th.

Ruh-Roh!

John McCain, I think you just picked a fight that will metaphorically leave you on the ground unconscious.

John McCain doesn't have the common sense God gave rocks.

LOL and now the grumpy old fool will follow "this guy Laden" to the gates of hell?

McCain has even flip-flopped on this guy Laden!

Now he has flip-flopped on every imaginable issue!

Bravo, angry old man!

Well, actually, President Clinton was essentially mouthing the same thing. And, Obama? Still wet behind The Chicago Way ears.

Nice try, Jake.

Hell, what did President Clinton do over the bombing of our Navy ship?

He's too busy throwing old used up primary stuff at Obama...

he'll never answer his pure lack of foresight...

the country's been plundered

now the foxes are trying to say...look out for that rooster...

he could hurt you.

wonder if they shoot foxes from helicopters as well

get angry

throw these bums out.

they lied to us over wmd
they lied to us about the economy
they lied to us about Palin's knowledge
they lied to us about abu ghraib
they lies to us about Libby
they lied to us about global warming
they lied to us about Presidential signing statements
they lied to us about Katrina
they lied to us about tortue
they lied to us about secret prisons
they lied to us about Gonzales
they lied to us about Judicial appointments
they lied to us about Mission accomplished
they lied to us about greeted as liberators
they lied to us about mushroom clouds
they lied to us about afghanistan
they lied to us about ...

sooo much

and they continue...

same team
same tactics
9th year.

Get angry.

Now there's a nice and easy quote to be used by Obama in the coming debate.

Hahaha. Let McCain explode. Let him show his temper!

Like the man says:

We didn't throw the first punch, but we'll throw the last one.

If McCain wants this race in the sewer, then so be it. Obama will have at least four years to prove himself, but McCain's reputation will be soiled forever.

McSame is not a leader, too erratic, psychologically instable, very low IQ, badly organized, lacks vision and understanding. McCain has a very low IQ therefore he cannot multitask and does not have any idea about the real life of American people. God save America from McCain/Palin. God bless America and God bless Obama/Biden.

Hahaha! Priceless!!!

BTW - talking about McCaon "vs" muslim extremist terrorists, there's a lot more.
Such as:

Americans of Albanian heritage collected a million dollars in one evening for the presidential campaign of Republican Senator John McCain, said the Albanian American Civic League yesterday, the lobby group headed by former Congressman Joe DioGuardi. A reception for McCain was held January 22 at the Saint Regis Hotel in Manhatten, and the senator, who is now leading in the runoff for the Republican party candidacy in the November elections, cut his campaign in Florida by one day to attend this gathering.

"Even in 1998 when we had problems with Milosevic, McCain did everything that we asked of him to the benefit of the Albanian people, including arming the KLA", announced DioGuardi. "We are American Albanians and we need a leader who will strengthen this country... We must support John McCain because he did everything we asked of him for Kosovo, from supporting the Kosovo Liberation Army to supporting the independence of Kosovo. Two years ago he spoke in Brussels and said that independence is the only solution", concluded this former congressman who has been fighting for the independence of Kosovo and Metohija for more than twenty years.

And just who are the KLA that McCain is so fond of-

"The KLA - The Kosovo Liberation Army - is an Islamic terrorist group responsible for beheadings, torture, rape, burning down churches filled with Christians, and other atrocities. To this day, the KLA insurgency continues the systematic persecution and genocidal cleansing of Serbian civilians residing in Albania. The former leaders, enjoying life as high paid politicians in the Albania Government, are unapologetic for the crimes committed."