Political Punch

As I've stated before, I really don't care who our next President will be although I do have a preference. My only real concern is that they do an honorable job and do things here to look after the people living here in these United States. There is a reason that my Mother (R.I.P. mom) and Father moved here from Germany in 1963.

I know that we're all very passionate as election day nears but you need only have been paying attention as to how each individual camp has been handling itself as they campaign from state to state and one man has stood out while leading more with his calm and composure, and that for me speaks volumes!

The deregulation legislation of Phil Graham, former GOP senator from Texas, is DIRECTLY responsible for the current economic/financial catastrophe.

Why are the ignorant and/or desperate and/or greedy people who took advantage of the system blamed while the very person who was the architect of that system is not even so much as mentioned by the GOP and their media minions?

Isn't Phil Graham the economic advisor who told John McCain that our economy fundamentals "are sound" when they clearly were not?

I don't want people like McCain and Graham, who are clearly out of touch with economic/financial reality, to have control of the world's most important financial market.

How bad does the economy have to be before McCain supporters begin to honestly assess the disastrous economic policies of the GOP and put the blame where it really belongs?

The whole bail out,including the McCain proposal, is a blatantly cynical plan by Geo Bush-Karl Rove-Phil Gramm _ John McCain,et al to steal one trillion US tax dollars before being kicked out of office.

To consider voting the Republican ticket a person would need to be a catatonic masicist, which should disqualify them from voting

IT WAS A PERFECT STORM OF BAD JUDGEMENT, GREED AND IRRESPONSIBLITY THAT CREATED THIS ECONOMIC MESS.

And the players are:

Obama, pelosi, reid and Acorn pushed to relaxed lending rules for low income borrowers to buy bigger houses then they can afford. The bad judgement was too enticing for anyone to resist….the wild buying drove prices up!

Banks got greedy and went along with the relaxed and risky loans thinking fannie and freddie will back the morgages and the Dems that promoted the lending will insure their risks.

Borrowers went wild and shelf their responsibilites while betting for great equity returns.

All were wrong! thus created this massive economic mess.

All these players bad judgement, greed and irresponsibility combined took hostage of the US economy. The tax payers was then forced to pay the ransom.
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I guess you didn't hear about Mccain new Mortage proposal this week.The proposal it order the Treasury Secratery to use $300 billions to bail out homes that are in foreclosure,putting the taxpayer to paid the total loan on the property. For example if the home is worth $150 thousand dollars and loan amount is $200 hundren thousand,then taxpayers would have to pay the lender's loan for the property to be tranfered to the goverment This burden should not be on the taxpayers but lenders. According to your statement it appears to me that lenders and homeowners that obtained this sub-prime loan should not get a bail out from the goverment. Like I said this is Mccain's proposal. I'm confuse is Mccain a democrat? You don't make any sense, I guess you are voting for Mccain that wants the taxpayer to bail out basicly the lenders. You can't have it both ways. Maybe thats why Rick
Davis Fannie Mae lobbist is working for Mccain camp because Mr.Davis wants Mccain to allow the lenders or investor to get all their money back from these sub prime loans.

I’m concern, not about the terrorism, I leave that to the FBI. I’m really concern about the other revolution that we are starting to see in America: EDUCATION.
If Ayers is a very smart person and an “educator reformer”, and Obama is a very smart person and becomes president. How would I know he is not going to put him in the Cabinet as Minister of Education…Then that’s it. Good bye Capitalism! Welcome Socialism!
That is a real BOMB!
God bless America! and I hope it still is the Land of the free past 2009

MCCain has had his share of associations too - but he has been in Washington for 26 years and so people have come to accept his associations - guilty as they may have been.
Obama is new in the public eye - so even his smallest interaction with people with a dubious past is considered a mark against him.
The difference between these people and me is that I believe Obama.
I have been in churches and have known pastors to preach things I typically didn't agree with.
I have been on boards that come together for a cause, and have not known the history of a several people on the board.
In social gatherings I have interacted with people who are known to be corrupt.
But I am my own person and have my own values.
Obama is his own person- he has the potential, the intellect and the temperament.
Do I expect him to 'lead us to the promised land' NO! but he is CHANGE!

In a post LISA stated: "THANK YOU DR JOHN. GLAD SOME PEOPLE TELL THE TRUTH.
Certainly NOT the media, nor the brainwashed Republican haters. They would vote for OJ Simpson if it meant they could defeat the Republicans. What a "narrowminded attitude". With that thinking, they will just go from "bad to destruction".

Sorry to have to tell you Lisa, but we ALREADY DID! His name was George W. Bush and we even went so far as to elect a TOTALLY CONTROLLED REPUBLICAN CONGRESS THAT OVER THE FIRST SIX YEARS OF COWBOY BUSH'S TERM ALL BUT DESTROYED OUR BELOVED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!! DO YOU REALLY THINK WE ARE SO STUPID THAT WE WILL REPEAT THAT SAME MISTAKE WITH MCCAIN AND PALIN? NO WAY, NO HOW NO MCCAIN-PALIN!!!!!!!!!!!

Obama will be the best President since Bill Clinton..Common the G.O.P. knows we do a better job.. They will not say it out loud... I believe that the last 30yrs.The G.O.P.led all of us into dispair.. And you know what? They don't give a dam_... greg

It's funny....
The Republicans blame the Democrats....
The Democrats blame the Republicans....

Yet, no one wants to take any of the responsibility.

We're a pathetic nation if we can't sit down regardless of what party we belong too and try to get ourselves out of this mess that we're in. It will always be like this and regardless of who becomes President they will spend all of their time dealing with this crap. I really hate to inform all of you, should you want to choose to do some research and dig deep into the pasts of either one of the candidates I can almost guarantee you're going to find ties that either party can use against each other. Case in point, what we found out about Troopergate yesterday. Who gives a rats ass, yet the McCain camp came out and blamed the Democrats for running a partisan investigation and that they over reached in their conclusion. Hate to tell you this, there were ten Republicans and four Democrats on the panel. If anyone is to blame it's the Republicans....who cares.

I would love to see the two parties come together, pull their heads out of their collective asses and work for our common good for a change, not theirs! Something else we need to do once and for all....get religion out of the mix. Why does it matter if you're a Christian, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslin, Atheist, Buddhist? The list goes on and on. Why does it matter or even has to come up that one God is better than someone else's God? Shouldn't it just be good enough that we worship a God regardless of who's God it is? Conflicts have been started over religion and continue to this day which have lasted much longer than we have been the United States.

I for one cannot wait until this election is over with and regardless of all the pissing and moaning afterwards, the majority of us won't even see a difference!

Take this racist GPO Every time McCain/Palin Speaks Obama goes points ahead in polls.It Doesn't matter Obama will be President by landslide.Nothing good comes out of lies and hate as long as you trust in god with insane McCain/palin doesn't .Those two are evil McCain has more criminal past than Obama Who is Sarah palin

Palin and McCain have yet to present proof of their allegations and charges. Proof that would hold up in a court of law. Palin and McCain have succeeded in creating a mob mentality demonstrated at their rally, of hatred, anger, mis-information. Palin and McCain have lost control of their supporters by their repeated inflammatory charges against Obama. There may very well be violence in the streets, killing, rioting. We can all thank Palin and McCain should that scenario take place in the coming months. Palin and McCain have been and are reckless. The Nation is becoming more and more divided, even within families. We should all prepare for violence in the streets. It could happen.

McCain's the biggest Flip-Flopper these days.. One minute he's calling Obama a terrorist next a decent man.. Make up your mind McCain.. If this is how you run your campaign, I truly hope, Not, to see you running this Great Nation as President..

REPUBLICANS SCREW UP EVERYTHING, AS USUAL.. NOW IT'S UP TO DEMOCRATS TO CORRECT WHAT'S WRONG AND GET THIS GREAT COUNTRY BACK ON TRACK, LIKE ALWAYS..

OBAMA/BIDEN - THE CHANGE WE TRULY NEED

The GOP campaign rallies are racist, divisive and filled with pure Hate..

Hatemongers and Abusers of Power should Never be in a Position of Power because it breeds power hungry control freaks like Hitler and other dim-witted groups

NO MCCAIN
NO PALIN
NOT EVER

It's obvious that poll numbers are driving the McCain/Palin campaign to change the focus of the American people from the economy to character assults. The Bush peole did the same thing to Kerry in 2004 turning the American focus from a trumpted up Iraq war to Veitnam protests... Look what you all got people! Your 401K is now depleted, your kids college fund is gone and you yourself may on the street with a tin cup in the next few weeks. The Republicans did this to us, and now you want more of it? Not to mention what will happen if McCain can't fullfill his duties, Sarah Palin as President is a death sentance for us all...

I'M A DEMOCRAT PROUDLY VOTING FOR OBAMA/BIDEN ON NOV 4TH..

OBAMA/BIDEN - THE NEXT PRES & VP

Oonogil - yeah, right, your congressman is "different." That mentality is what keeps most of the same people in Congress for years. Sorry, it's somebody else's turn to get in there and get a shot to fix what's broken in Washington. I like both of my Congress people just fine, but I think they've had their turn and it's time for new people to get in there. This is an excellent opportunity for the American people to make a protest vote by voting their incumbant officials out of Congress. Then in the future, Congresspeople might weigh their actions a little more carefully before frivoling away trillions of our dollars. As it is now, they can count on bamboozling their own constituents into re-electing them to office again. Americans MUST remember that politicians are like diapers, they need changed often for the same reason.

We need to look past individuals and see parties that support bigotry!