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If McCain's past makes him a 'sidekick', then Obama's past makes him an empty suit, who's accomplished nothing in 20 years, except for hanging out with anti-American Markists, racists, terrorists, and crooks.

WHEN WILL THE TRUTH ABOUT MCCAIN COME OUT ASK HIM ABOUT SONGBIRD MCCAIN AND WHAT IT MEANS HE'S WHATS COMMONLY KNOWN AS A TRAITOR THE VC NEVER TOUCHED HIM AND HE TOLD EVERYTHING THINK I'M LYING THEN WHY IS HIS SERVICE RECORD BRING SURPRESSED FOLLOW THE MONEY AND YOU WILL SEE FOR YOURSELF ARE U AFRIAD OF THE TRUTH VET WHO KNOWS

Personally, I think the most terrifying part of this page is not the extreme nature of the opinions expressed on it, but the pitiful lack of grammatical correctness. I am seventeen and my writing is at least spelled, for the most part, correctly. Also, if you are going to write a comment, please know how to spell McCain, Palin and Obama.

What frightens me, especially after reading many of these comments, is that the people who are able to vote are often voting on the basis of spurious information. The skewed views, likely provided by the media, shadow the real issues. I'm not going to reveal my opinion, because frankly I am only seventeen and cannot vote in this election (sadly). However, I will say this: please make an informed decision, do some research. Palin is inexperienced, but guess what, Obama is as well! Decide on your own which team is going to do a better job running the country, and do so only after being well-versed in what each team stands for and their basic plans. Keep in mind that plans will certainly change once the White House has been won; one may promise a million dollars to each American, but guess what, once they get what they want, it doesn't mean it's going to happen. Ignorance is not bliss in politics.

Lastly, keep it classy. Don't degrade yourselves because of politics. Children don't vote for a reason; adults recently have degraded in their maturity levels. Remember, you are being watched by the next generation; what do you want us to think? Respect one another.

Happy informed voting. =)

McCain's campaign shouldn't be shock by this. Palin started it with her commit and the hatred and fear lead to "Cut off his head." Race baiting is a big problem with McCain's campaign and Lewis is right. Play with fire and someone will get burn. Either someone will be murdered by a nut case backing McCain or the people will rejected McCain all together.

catherine, I agree with you wholeheartedly. But I wish people would stop equating Bush with disaster. It was CARTER and CLINTON that screwed up the economy. Bush and Petraeus and all our nation's best DEFENDED us abroad even if Bush and Congress didn't defend us from our demestic threat: Sellout Democrat politicians.

Anyone catch Biden saying how unpatriotic overseas tax shelters are?
pfft Dems. It was CLINTON that signed the DEMOCRAT bill that covered their rich asses.
Its as if the Dems sabotaged the US JUST for this election! Just to ave dirt to blame on Republicans!

Traitors.

Anyway most of the anti-Bush rhetoric came from anti-Americans across the pond. Kids here bought it.. unsurprizingly since their attention span is now measured in microseconds. Hook line and sinker.

And Obama, the GREAT apologist played on it for this election. Even went to europe to thank them.
I know truth to a liberal is like a cross to a vampire, but history will be kind to George Bush after the anti-Americans have died down.

Obama should be questioned about everything. It's obvious he cannot be trusted. He will do and say anything to be elected. He is overdriven by ambition. He does not care about the American people. If he gets his foot in the White house you will see the real Obama. Worse than BUsh can ever be. Wake up America--in these shaky times--McCain has been tested over and over. Obama doesn't come close to the man McCain is.

After reading most of the posts above I am truly concerned for the future of this great nation. If this is representative of the level of discussion about our future leader, we are all in trouble no matter who wins.

I love it when Obama supporters attack Bush. It tells me how much they’re afraid to attack McCain. I love it when they use terms like McSame or McBush. That tells me that they’re afraid to compare Obama’s record to McCain’s. I love it when they question Palin’s experience. It tells me they don’t like the comparison to McCain’s experience. I love it when they attack the Republican party. That tells me they don’t want us to look at their candidate individually. Obama and his supporters don’t want to run a race against McCain because they can’t win. They’ll keep the focus on Bush as long as possible. That combined with voter fraud might get Obama elected.

Belle Starr, people with your violent attitudes are why I wrote the following article:

This is another exhibit of why Palin is clearly unsuitable as a representative leader for our country. For someone who claims to be pro-life, there is obviously a conflict of philosophy and moral values within Palin – and even McCain. How can anyone in a leadership capacity, such as a public official, not foresee the implications of the inflammatory provocation caused by the stirring of fears that we all know are rooted in racism? Her preparation for Vice Presidency, let alone the Presidency, requires more than she can handle intellectually or morally, despite her self-professed beliefs on religious and moral law.

And no, it doesn’t matter how good she and her supporters thinks she looks, how many times she winks and bats her eyelashes, how clever and conniving she thinks she is, or how well she acts the part of a clued-in public servant when well-prepped. All the cloaking and posturing will not shroud her unpreparedness and disconnectedness from the masses while she aligns herself strictly to the right. She should know how to bridge lines and appeal all people across segments if she truly wishes to represent “the people”. But then maybe I have it all wrong. Perhaps all that matters is her Alaskan agenda to set up a separatist movement from the U.S. or to have us all under some religious rite and order that she and her secessionist cohorts wish to bring into existence. Who knows?

All that she has exhibited to date is that she masters the polarization of people through religion and race while using her gender and sex appeal to pander to males. All while brewing hate-mongering to create a potentially disastrous clash among people and party lines in this political race. She is obviously trying to map her way on the backs of old prejudices and fears and be damned any who are hurt. What kind of woman, mother, wife, public official is this? One who professes to revere “life” while willing to jeopardize the life of a United States Senator, such as Obama, and his family? What about Obama’s wife and his daughters? Is it worth it to Palin, a mother herself, to risk the stability and safety of two little girls just to feed the embers of hate with such an insatiable hunger for power so as to boost her own platform? If so, I say this purely defines the character of a woman who is unfit for any office, let alone the Vice Presidency.

It’s one thing to raise issues of concern of an opponent’s platform. That I can get. I can understand a true desire to get at “truth”, but to use a covert means to create derision and divisiveness by elevating fears as irresponsibly as she and the McCain campaign has done is beyond disgusting; it is a crime, especially and whereby in this case it is heightening attitudes of violence against an UNITED STATES PUBLIC OFFICIAL who has committed no crime other than building hope while having the physical characteristic of a so-called “difference” or as McCain has given a moniker of difference: “That One”. Who’s the would-be terrorist now?!

How very sad. It is interesting to note that the computer age allows comments from everyone. I sincerely hope our choices will be made by those with cool calculations. While it can be said Obama is Black, he is also white,
While he served on boards with a former wrong thinking young man who was a 60"s self described terrorist he also served with others who can be considered with distinction. Mr. Obama also lived in a part of Chicago where there were known felons. There were also law enforcement persons there.
It could be said that McCain lived and hung out with the Viet Cong. While true we recognize him as one of Americas military who served us well.
Ms. Palin has admitted a "relationship" with comunist Russia. I for one fear her relationship with her church and her beliefs as much as those of the Obama's virulent pastor.

Folks, We have a choice, We need to make it wisely, If we are lucky we will have a president we can be proud of. A future ex-president we can count on to help our position in the shrinking world we live on. Either Mr. McCain will become president or Mr. Obama. The fear that we could have had better choices my resound for years, We have what we have. It is our duty as citizens to support and to assist whoever becomes our next president. If we and our children are to have a future anywhere as good as was our past, it will take all of us.
We owe this help to our grandchildren and our great grandchildren.

God bless the United States and
Semper Fi

Lewis will be under the bus by morning. And in this case, it's deserved.

If McCane has an ounce of self-respect left, he will render a public apology to the American People - Republicans and Democrats - for the racist hate-filled dangerous divisive demagoguery of his campaign.

The McCain we see on the campaign trail is not the McCain that many once admired if not for any other reason, his service in the US Armed Forces and the years of his life he had to sacrifice as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. My Republican friends are saddened by the fact that McCain in a desperate attempt to win the presidential election at all costs, irrevocably tarnish his own reputation and legacy. I personally don't think that there is much of reputation to tarnish - other than perhaps the carefully crafted public persona McCain has created for himself. The reality, given his ties to criminals like Gordon Liddy (of Watergate notoriety, an advocate of domestic terrorism), his cosy relationship with Cuban terrorists, and his and his wife Cindy McCain's intimate connections with organized crime, is much uglier.

As for Sarah Pallin, David Brooks, a dyed-in-the-wool Bill Buckleyite conservative is right on the mark when he called Sarah Palin "a fatal cancer to the Republican Party". In other words, the Republican party has a deadly case of SARAH PALINOMA.

If the Republican Party does not want to lose all those decent Republicans who are getting disgusted with McCane-Palin candidacy, it needs to denounce the McCain-Palin candidacy and focus on tough task ahead - that of rebuilding the Republican Party on the principles thatthe great Republican luminaries Abraham Lincoln stood for.

Niun another reason why this is true because Mccain had to tone down his supporters in Wisconsin....Mccain has created an environment off of ignorance and pure hate rather than....thought, research, and issues!!
~~~~~~~ WHERE IS THE PROOF I DONT SEE THE VIDOES ON TV I WOULD THINK IT WOULD BE ALL OVER TV ITS NOT!!

Dear bagwong, Do you really stand behind your statement? (I personally don't blame the terrorist for what they are doing to America but I condone what they are doing and what the US is doing. If you analyze all the facts, throw in some intelligence into it, you'll see that America has brought it to itself..) If so why? I have to tell you I am starting to get the feeling that BHO suporters have the same mind set as their leader along with his reverend of 20 years. Listen, as an ex Marine and major fan of the American IDEA, there always comes to mind a certain quote by Alexis de Tacqueville, "America is great because America is good. When America ceases to be good, she will cease to be great." My kind sir, America is GOOD; THEREFORE, AMERICA IS GREAT!

Niun another reason why this is true because Mccain had to tone down his supporters in Wisconsin....Mccain has created an environment off of ignorance and pure hate rather than....thought, research, and issues!!
~~~~~~~ WHERE IS THE PROOF I DONT SEE THE VIDOES ON TV I WOULD THINK IT WOULD BE ALL OVER TV ITS NOT!!

bagwrong:

Bush was associated with the Bin Laden's and that was well documented. Yet you elected him president. Did anyone question his patriotism??? He went to war with Iraq which has nothing to do with 9/11 which resulted to the deaths of hundreds of thousands and indirectly resulting in the US' financial breakdown!

YET, DID ANYONE QUESTION HIS PATRIOTISM???

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EGGZACTLY!!!!

That's why Obama's associations and under-the tgable achievements... like collecting public funds from earmarks to his church and his wife ... and from
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.... and the misappropriation of funds from housing to radical education groups backed by Ayers (which did nothing to improve the education in Chicago, by the way!)... and now, this new involvement of these groups in the re-writing of voter registration lists.....

THAT's why you CANNOT let this stuff get buried under the corrupt political carpet!

Open Your M I N D S!!!!

Troopergate.... is a peanut in a pond compared to this.

i personally dont care what obama has to do to become president,in this case the ends totally justify the means...

I DONT CARE IF OBAMA IS LUCIFER IN DISGUISE, HE IS MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH BETTER FOR THIS COUNTRY THAN ANY REPUBLICAN ...

John Lewis speaks the TRUTH.

McSAME and Palin owe America and the World a LONG LIST of apologies!!!

What's your problem with Obama's "associations???"

Bush was associated with the Bin Laden's and that was well documented. Yet you elected him president. Did anyone question his patriotism??? He went to war with Iraq which has nothing to do with 9/11 which resulted to the deaths of hundreds of thousands and indirectly resulting in the US' financial breakdown!

YET, DID ANYONE QUESTION HIS PATRIOTISM???

Even anyone of you at one time might have been acquainted or mingled with a convict, an ex-convict or a convict to be but does that make you a criminal?? Does your "association" with such persons diminish your being you?

In this time of crisis not only financial but also the diminishing outlook of the world on the USA, you need a man who will not incite and who will not lose focus. That is what is happening to McCain. The rest of the world leaders are intelligent, charming, tricky, etc..who would rip McCain apart and make the US pathetic should he win.

The Nov. 4 election is not about people the candidates know...its what they know and how they are going to use it for the US.

The comments about race, "associations", patriotism just shows how ignorant Americans are of the world. US politics not only affect the Americans but the world. So, in making your choice you should consider the world.

Its true America portrays a culture of war mongering and war geared aura. Even the economy is based on wars. That has to be changed. Everything about the US is war. People around the world who never heard about the US and Americans now know about it...and their knowledge is associated with war if not death. The news trumpets about the US and its wars everyday.

I personally don't blame the terrorist for what they are doing to America but I condone what they are doing and what the US is doing. If you analyze all the facts, throw in some intelligence into it, you'll see that America has brought it to itself..

November 4 is our chance to rectify whatever wrong done in the past. Choose wisely who will lead our country. Our choice will reflect who the Americans are.

Would it be a war veteran who trumpets his feats earned in an unpopular invasion or would it be a black man who trumpets change?

Its your choice.

McSAME and Palin are extensions of HATE radio and the lies they tell. The RepubliCON RED banner is only missing the sickle and the hammer!