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ah... the race card is back.

Democrats love and defend racketeering, voter fraud and domestic terrorists.

And they want to lead our country.
Help us all.

ah... the racism is back.

One thing that is clear is that the Republican right has a cadre of workers who do nothing but send in comments to these blogs. This is the third time I've seen it (Washington Post Blog and NY Times Blog first).

The first comment out of the box is always God help us if Obama gets elected. It is not a coincidence.

Obama may (God forbid) win this election.
But his "Mr.Nice Guy" reputation is gone.
And all that is left is a radical, corrupt, Chicago thug with terrorist ties.
And the idiots that are voting for BO just because they hate Bush are going to see the real Obama whether they want to or not.
Whatever becomes of America because of Obama will be their fault for ignoring the truth.

I figure BO supporters must hate America as much as he does.

He didn’t know Ayers was a terrorist. Then he did. Then he didn’t. Then he did but figured he was “rehabilitated”. He didn’t know that he didn’t report the $800,000 he gave to ACORN.. Just a “clerical error”. The money he collected from the three brothers in the Hamas Compound and didn’t report to the FEC was also just a “glitch”.Now a second Muslim outreach person for Obama gets caught with Hamas - and Obama “didn’t know”. Boy, he sure has bad luck with Muslim Outreach appointees, doesn’t he?
Then he pimps the management of his campaign as an example of his leadership abilities.

Obama's judgment is sorely lacking. He never met a terrorist he didn't like. It is unfortuniate that ABSleeze is didn't vet Obama and only campaigned for him. Obama is a socialist he wants to redistribute our hard earned income and turn it into unearned income for the 45% of Americans who pay no taxes. Obama is lieing to the american people when he says that 95% of americans will get a tax cut. You cannot cut taxes on people who do not pay taxes. They are not taxpayers they are tax takers. Obama wants to give more money to the tax takers in america. His plan will force our company of 5 to lay off an employee. I certainly and not going to change my lifestyle because he wants to give my money to the tax taker. I will make sure I send my employee to Obama so he can explain that it is better to have $1000K than it is to make 45K a year.

Well we know that McCain will not meet with anyone. All and I mean All must bow down before him before he will meet with him.

A discussion with McCain will be one way.

McCain and his campaign are absurd.

NBC news is reporting that the Obama campaign is under fire for links with some hard core Muslims considered suspect by the FBi, Obama campaign has denied it saying it does not know the background of the people involved in the outreach.

Lets face it, Obama has feigned igorance whenever his involvement with radicals is exposed.

Mcshame and Palins rally's remind me of the videos of Germans just before world war 2,Chanting and inciting people to riot against someone not just like them.They should both be talking about the economy.Palins ratings have slowly but surely been going down and i think with her lates rants they will go down even farther.

Palin and her husband have
strong ties to the Alaska
Independence Party(AIP).
Both are avowed secessionists.

The AIP founder said in an
interview in 1991: The fires
of hell are frozen glaciers
compared to my hatred for the
American government.

Palin keeps palling around
with this kind of treasonous
and anti-national criminals.

Where does the path lead? OK, here's a new ad for you. Begin with tape of Louis Farrakhan proclaiming Sen. Obama is the Messiah. Throw in a couple of Rev. Wrights more incendiary comments. Mention that Sen. Obama was a member at Rev. Wright's church for close to 20 years. Mention that Sen. Obama's church gave Louis Farrakhan a life time achievement award. Last, you McCain's image and he says "I'm John McCain and I approved this message because the liberal media refuses to vet Sen. Obama."

Hmmm. Maybe I could've been a political consultant. :-)

For crying out loud, how did General Petraeus accomplish much of his success in Anbar province?

By talking with, as well as giving arms and cash to, militants, some of whom were insurgents who had been previously fighting American troops!!!

His negotiations with these tribes, some of whom had been lethal enemies of America, helped turn Anbar turn around!!

Didn't General Petraeus also just yesterday say that we may need to have talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan?

McCain's campaign has lost its compass.

You have to be exceptionally privileged to believe that standing in line is the worst thing in the world. I'd much rather wait in line to see a doctor than have to choose between a doctor and heating my house. But I can see how the over privileged would have a hard time with that.

My question is, since when did fearmongering and hate become family values?
Posted by: incincyr | Oct 10, 2008 2:43:02 PM
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I think it began when Obama whipped out the race card and let it fly!

Mack,

I can see how you actually do believe that, yes.

An Obama Presidency would be like having your life controlled by the DMV. If you want healthcare, go stand in that line, if you want to join the Obama quasi-military force, if you are seeking employment in Obama's phony green collar job initiative, go stand in that line....go stand in that line...and on..and on

Palin has raised the interest of and revitalized right wing Repubs that would endorse any breathing human who is born-again and anti-abortion. A stick with a hat on it with those words printed on it would be welcomed as a breath of freash air. The train wreck that is Sarah Palin is fueled, oddly enough, by the same media that put Britney Spears on tv every night. Palin "is just like me - a hockey mom a joe six pack." Keep her on the air every night. The base loves her - no one else cares about her. The polls show that McCain has not gained any women voters because of Palin and has not attracted much if any independents. She's popular only with those who were already going to vote GOP but were lukewarm to McCain. This is the best the ultra conservative base of the GOP has to offer because it has such narrow, out of the mainstream beliefs. I can believe in God and Country and not be a Republican. The fringes of the party which for some reason now control John McCain, believe that is an impossibility. The right wing ultra conservatives Republicans gave us George Bush and now want to give us Sarah Palin - who will not even be the President. John McCain is not what they want and he has never represented what they demand. Did anybody hear him say he was a maverick bumping heads with his own party - not afraid to take them on. What do you think he was bumping heads over - abortion issues, the war and many other matters that the far right hold dear - that is why he got a reputation as a maverick. You dont reach across the aisle to join together with Democrats to get Roe v Wade overturned or legislate anti-abortion issues. That McCain is no longer around. Now, as his second campaign for the White House slips away he is taking Palin with him every where he goes to get a crowd that would not a large crowd to cheer him without her there. He has sunk so low that the greatest issues this country have before it are shelved for soap opera - Ayres is more important that the $3 trillion dollar loss in our pensions and 401k's. The rest of the country worries about that - McCain and Palin no longer seem to find that important or at least not as important as seeing what this Ayres thing is all about and that is because the leaders of the right wing conservatives doesnt care about the important issues for the country, just get McCain elected so they can continue to have the run of the White House. As that gentleman in the crowd urged McClain and Palin yesterday "You two do something - Obama and his thugs cannot be winning - how can that be. You have Ayres and Rev Wright - do something."
Country First? C'mon - it's winning first even if hurts the country. This is pathetic.

For Gods sake isn't there one Republican who is aware of what George Bush has done to this country, it's people, it's reputation around the world and wants it to end. Wake up. Obama may not be the answer, but McCain/Palin have shown that they are definitely not the answer - they don't even know the question any longer and nor do a majority of their supporters.

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Every time I hear the right wingers spout this "Messiah" stuff'

I believe that Farrakhan referred to him as the Messiah just the other day. Are you disputing your leader's proclamation?

"A man in the audience stood up and told McCain he's "scared" of an Obama presidency and who he'd select for the Supreme Court.

"I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States," McCain said as the crowd booed and shouted "Come on, John!""

The right wing lunacy is out of the bottle and McCain can't put it back in.

Every time I hear the right wingers spout this "Messiah" stuff, I can't help it I just imagine J. Edgar Hoover in an evening gown snooping on Martin Luther King Jr. Thats exactly the way they used to talk about him, and it seems nothing has changed.

"Ryan, I don't plant my barbs for your amusement. I'm still trying to shame that all important PUMA vote into repentance."

I understand that Ricky.

And I do appreciate what you are trying to do.

It was more my being so angry at the time that I was no in the mood to laugh.

And you more often than not make me laugh.

The only thing funnier than the right-wing mob's impotent rage and unfocused attacks is picturing the faces of these morons on election night. Newsweek 10/10: Obama 52, McCain 41. Obama up 8 in WV! Up in VA, NC, MO, OH, FL! This will be a landslide.

Let's show Jake the love and respect he seserves and get bak to his thread.

Jake, your analysis left me confused.
Is the RNC attacking Obama over Nihad
Awad in order to distance themselves from Bush? Or are they trying to drive down Nihad Awads poll numbers by linking him to Bush in order to regain traction in Michigan?

After a week of negative attacks, McCain did nothing but drive up his negatives and drive down his own numbers. The senile fool and Caribou Barbie are down to 39 in the Fox poll. 39!!!. Keep it up, geezer.

Ryan, I don't plant my barbs for your amusement. I'm still trying to shame that all important PUMA vote into repentance.

Jeanie - "impending high tax on capital gains"
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On what.?.?

McCain is now attacking Michelle Obama over ties to Bill Ayers despite FOX poll results showing ties to Ayers do not move many independent voters away from voting for Barack Obama. Guess McCain really does need a weatherman to know which was the wind blows.

Norm Coleman is refusing to attend a campaign rally with McCain in Minnesota. Even the GOP knows McCain has gotten toxic.

"A Democrat in the WH and Democrats controlling both houses of Congress is much more FRIGHTENING in terms of government spending,"

I love how right wingers say this and then pretend to be Democrats.

McCain's moves continue to be impulsive and ill-conceived. The problem with putting Michelle Obama in the mix is:

Obama defended Palin's family from the media.

Cindy McCain's past is ugly.

It is classless.

A Democrat in the WH and Democrats controlling both houses of Congress is much more FRIGHTENING in terms of government spending, than a Democratic-controlled Congress with a Republican in the WH who DOES want to cut out pork and over-spending.

McCain WILL VETO such pork-stuffed bills - Obama WILL NOT!

In less than 4 years, Obama has requested almost ONE BILLION in earmarks for Illinois.

McCain has NEVER requested an earmark!

Dems for McCain/Palin

"Ryan, he goes after all women at least twenty years younger."

Ricky, normally I appreciate your off beat brand of humor but now is not the time for laughter.

McCain is a scumbag.

"It pales in comparison to the Republican operation in Nevada four years ago which threw 300 registrations into the garbage because the people had opted to register Democratic."

Or the phone jamming scheme to stop Democratic GOTV efforts.

>>>>>"'There’s very little a candidate for president can say and very little the president can say about what’s happening in the stock markets except hope that they correct themselves,'

Exactly! but Obama will wear a suit to distract from his Empty Suit and tell voters lies about McCain.

And the dumbed down American Idol electorate will believe The Messiah.

But Oblahma hasn't hoodwinked this Dem family!

"Murtagh didn't even bother alleging that the two even knew each other, instead suggesting that they might have. If so, he said, the Obamas have known the two longer than suspected.

"If it is true" that the two women knew each other, Murtagh said, "the relationship is almost a decade older than Senator Obama has acknowledged. And that can very easily be resolved by Senator Obama, by Mrs. Obama, by Mr. Ayers and by Ms. Dohrn."

"And incidentally, I would emphasize that we've all been focusing on Senator Obama," said Murtagh. "I think we need to speak to his wife."

Keep in mind that this wasn't any surrogate speaking off the cuff. He was on a call organized by the McCain campaign, and he was apparently reading from a prepared statement, which would of course have been vetted by McCain aides. And so another once-cherished McCain principle gets junked in the service of self-parody. "

McCain should be pelted with fruit wherever he goes.

He is a national joke.

"Now McCain is going after Michelle Obama."

What?

He's going after his opponent's wife?"

Ryan, he goes after all women at least twenty years younger.

The McCain campaign is now broadening their attack on Obama's past association with William Ayers to include Michelle Obama -- even though McCain has repeatedly said spouses should be off limits during the campaign.

The attack? Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers' wife and fellow former Weatherman, went to work in 1984 for the major Chicago-based national law firm of Sidley & Austin, and three years later, Michelle joined the mega-firm as well.

That's the entire attack. We wish we were joking. But we aren't.

(Josh Marshall)

The case ACORN brought against its former employees is commonly referred to by the right wing media as the "indictments of ACORN", or slightly less disingenuously by the MSM as the "ACORN indictments".

It pales in comparison to the Republican operation in Nevada four years ago which threw 300 registrations into the garbage because the people had opted to register Democratic.

Is it true McCain did not know the housing bubble burst until reporters asked him how many houses he owned?

"Now McCain is going after Michelle Obama."

What?

He's going after his opponent's wife?

Is he insane?

"This is about trying to intimidate minority voters. There is zero evidence of voting fraud. Zero."

Of course it is Mike.

Already the fliers have begun to appear in minority neighborhoods warning people that if they have outstanding parking tickets or warrants, they will be arrested when they show up to vote.

"Young voters at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Penn. have already been targeted, with students reporting that flyers have been posted around campus warning that undercover police will be at the polls on Election Day looking to make arrests.

Political experts say the Drexel flyer is a classic example of voter suppression – a practice that involves scaring, angering, or confusing voters so that they stay at home on Election Day.

The basic idea is that you intimidate people by saying that law enforcement is using the polling place to catch scofflaws…criminals…whoever. It's basically a deterrent to keep people away from voting," said Allen Raymond, a former Republican operative who went to prison for three-months in 2006 for his involvement in a scheme to jam the phones at headquarters of the Democratic get-out-the vote effort in New Hampshire in 2002."

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Sub-prime mortgage legislation proposed and signed by the Democrats is to our economy what Katrina was to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. It makes one want to cry, then become very, very angry.
SOCIALISM IS EVIL AND UGLY. Obama and the ranking democrats support the socialist agenda. Socialism has no honor or decency.

"They are worried that they don't have a big enough lead(Bradley effect) so they are attempting to discourage people by posting only the outlier polls that show Obama with a big lead and acting as if the race is over."

The race being over is indicated by the flailing about by the McCain campaign not so much the polls (though the polls look very good for McCain).

I see your Bradley effect and I raise you young & African American voter turnout.

"They are hoping that people don't show up to vote."

People who don't show up to vote because their candidate is losing have a pretty poor sense of civic duty.

But hey they're right wingers.

"But now its McCain and the polls lie because there are still plenty of voters that are going to vote for McCain /Palin "

They are worried that they don't have a big enough lead(Bradley effect) so they are attempting to discourage people by posting only the outlier polls that show Obama with a big lead and acting as if the race is over. They are hoping that people don't show up to vote.

Darn Wall Street Journal:

The McCain campaign has famously spent the past week trying to increase doubts as to Mr. Obama's nature, background, intentions. Their crowds have been irascible. Here is a warning for Republicans: When your crowds go from "I love you" to "I hate the other guy," you are in trouble, you are on a losing strain. Winning campaigns are built on love. This is the time for "McCain is the answer," not "The other guy is questionable."

Hey what do do people think of Norm Coleman pulling all his negative ads?

Is it a noble effort aimed at a return to civility?

Is it a political move to offer him cover from a recent scandal?

Or is it a mixture of the tow and quite possible a brilliant move?

Or is it a foolish move to stop hitting Franken in a close race?

"The only thing they are doing now is trying to convince the dead-enders that the election was stolen, or Obama cheated."

ACORN

You all painted Bill a racist I guess all is well now put Hillary down cheated to get your guy where he is so please give me a break you said all kinds of things about the Clintons Dis his eight and so did Obama I was a democrat I voted for Hillary. But now its McCain and the polls lie because there are still plenty of voters that are going to vote for McCain /Palin

"The only thing they are doing now is trying to convince the dead-enders that the election was stolen, or Obama cheated."

Give that man a cigar!

The McCain camp has pretty much given up.

The only thing they are doing now is trying to convince the dead-enders that the election was stolen, or Obama cheated.

They have nothing left. Nothing.

All they will accomplish is to create more Timothy McVeighs.

"Shouldn't it have been out by now? What's the hold up? Are they busy burning Palin in effigy?"

The report is being presented to the legislature first.

"You must be sweating Mack, the Troopergate report is gonna hit the air any moment now. '

Shouldn't it have been out by now? What's the hold up? Are they busy burning Palin in effigy?

"Mack - Is CNN bad too? Here is a report from CNN:"

I'm not sure if you could call them bad, but they have shown and have been proven to be biased. They may as well come out with their endorsement of Obama. I personally can't really stand to watch them anymore.

Parker is so two faced I don't care for her no mater who she is talking about.

"Shouldn't you be out helping to register the dead?"

Naaah the dead vote Republican.

You must be sweating Mack, the Troopergate report is gonna hit the air any moment now.

'Jeanie', maybe you'd have less fear and be less bothered if you stopped listening to Republican lies, rumors and innuendo.

I don't know anyone in Chicago who's afraid of Farrakhan and Wright. I don't know anyone who thinks the Illinois State Treasurer is doing a lousy job.

As for the rest of your incessant ooh!ooh! comments...you need a nice cup of tea. You're delusional.

Hey Mack,

All one has to do is watch the video taken of the line waiting to get into the WI townhall.

Hateful comments after hateful comments gleefully offered up by the brownshirts waiting to get inside.

That video should be shown over and over and again so people know who the Republicans party is and what they actually stand for.

Mack - Is CNN bad too? Here is a report from CNN:

Some audience members are openly hostile to members of the traveling press covering Palin; one crowd member hurled a racial epithet at an African-American member of the press in Clearwater, Florida, on Monday.

And at a McCain rally in New Mexico on Monday, one supporter yelled out "terrorist" when McCain asked, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" McCain didn't respond.

So far, neither Palin nor McCain have explicitly called on their supporters to tamper down the attacks. Watch as McCain ramps up his criticism of Obama »

"Awww mack is surly today.'

Shouldn't you be out helping to register the dead?

Oh yeah they are changing the polls and all the money people are bailing

Awww mack is surly today.

Could it be polls have yet to show any results of your right wing hate campaign?

Could it be the American people are tired of the lies of the right wing?

"Christopher Buckley, conservative writer and son of William F. Buckley, today endorses Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States."

So has Farrakhan and Hamas.

Christopher Buckley, conservative writer and son of William F. Buckley, today endorses Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States.

"John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, “We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.” This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?"

So Republicans are so embarrassed by the lunatics in their crowd they have to call them plants by Democrats.

Much like most Republicans here are too embarrassed to admit it so they pretend they are Hillary supporters.

Have you seen the newest ringing endorsement of Obama?

Go to Drudge and see Louis Farrakhan at a recent speech calling Obama "the Messiah."

If that doesn't send a cold chill down your spine, nothing will.

Obama will lose in a landslide. Because people know that ABC & all the rest of the Obama cheerleaders are full of crap.

It's understandable Barry Hussein Obama would research his father's heritage, etc., but ethnicity with violence? Please! It's notable that this country's former presidents probably never could boast such associations prior to being elected, but here is a man trying to minimize this kind of association, with not just with one, but with two -- both home grown, radical extremists, plus 20 years with Rev. Wright, hell bent against the U.S.! I'm trying to get it for how B. Hussein Obama's noble rhetoric on behalf of his proposed U.S. policies eclipses these former associations! Two things additionally -- Notice BHO's facial expressions against Hillary and McCain? Overconfident, arrogant, smug, for a political newcomer? Ahh, nothing like confidence that the loyal members of the Islamic World will be behind you, especially is small, bogus contributions, by the millions, competing with the newest generation of voters for fervor! Obama is a duplicity in action. I now worry that Osama Bin Laden's assurances to his followers was right, when he said something like "Be patient, the end of the U.S. Infidels is near!" I voted for Hillary - not perfect, but a helluva lot safer!!!!!

"Polly...I think if they were Dem plants Mccain and Palin would have said something...out of descency. Kind of proves what they have for character either way.
They both stood there and smiled...'

Sort of what Obama did while sitting in the TUCC pews while his mentor was railing against America and white people.

Today's Obituatary:

Journalism

RIP

MCSHAME is worse then karl rove and thats saying alot!

I come over to ABC's website to see if there are any stories of ACORN and I can't find one.

Am I missing it? Uh, does ABC not find this a big story? Nationwide voter fraud through a group with BIG ties to Obama?

Geeze, it's bizarro world out there. I thought you were a news site.

Polly...I think if they were Dem plants Mccain and Palin would have said something...out of descency. Kind of proves what they have for character either way.
They both stood there and smiled...

Adolph...yes, kind of an eye opener wasn't it.

Unfortuately I haven't seen any stories about this, when the stories abound about Obama and Ayers.

More of the same crap from John McCain and Sarah Palin campaign.

John McCain best days are behind him.

McCain is proud of his lunatic supporters.

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers

"Barack Obama’s attacks on Americans who support John McCain reveal far more about him than they do about John McCain. It is clear that Barack Obama just doesn’t understand regular people and the issues they care about. He dismisses hardworking middle class Americans as clinging to guns and religion, while at the same time attacking average Americans at McCain rallies who are angry at Washington, Wall Street and the status quo.

Even worse, he attacks anyone who dares to question his readiness to serve as their commander in chief in chief. Raising legitimate questions about record, character and judgment are a vital part of the Democratic process, and Barack Obama’s effort to silence and shame those who seek answers should make everyone wonder exactly what he is hiding."

All we have to do is show the videos Brian and people will judge for themselves.

then so is Bush and Rice, right?

Polly..Yes and so will McCain who just called us, " My fellow prisoners" this week.

"but I do wish George Bush would stop asking God to bless America. Every time he does, we seem to be visited with another plague, suggesting divine wrath over our president’s evil ways. How else to explain the persistent calamity that has marked this administration: a pointless but very costly war over nonexistent Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the devastating New Orleans flood, the betrayal of the nation by the money-changers—from Enron to Goldman Sachs—that Bush welcomed into the temple of the White House?

What’s next? Pestilence, frogs, locusts or incurable boils? Dare we risk four more years of catastrophic misrule by a “W” alter ego? "

OK so what? Are we going to stp talking to people because they are Muslums? Does this make Bush a Muslums....

OMG people, this is America, the melting pot.

McCain and Palin are inciting rage and hatred amongst fellow Americans. Yet they deride the Islamic extremists for inciting hatred and violence against Americans. Does John McCain have to borrow a leaf each from Karl Rove and Osama Bin Laden in order to win this election? Where is John McCain's conscience while he makes a lame attempt at portraying Obama as a terrorist. This is going too far.

John McCain and Sarah Palin have to be called to order before they turn us all against each other. This has to STOP! Americans must rise up against this politics of division. We have a nation to rebuild.

Families are hurting right now under the crushing economic burden and all John McCain offers is to use Osama Bin Laden's tactics of fear? So who is the real terrorisist now? Osama Bin Laden? John McCain, Sarah Palin or all there? America, you decide!

Hey Jake,

You were the reporter who warned us about CAIR when you wrote for Salon.

Remember this?

Were we unfair to CAIR?
The Council on American-Islamic Relations calls Jake Tapper's report "shoddy"; Tapper responds:

"Also notice that Hooper continues to refuse to clarify CAIR's position on the "innocence" of the civilian victims of terrorism. Fundamentalist supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah are known to consider Jews and Israelis evil, and therefore justify murdering them, even children. They do not consider it to be terrorism. But instead of clarifying that that is not the position of CAIR, Hooper writes that that the group does not believe in a "hierarchy in which some civilian victims of terrorism are 'innocent' and others are not." Again, why the obfuscation? If CAIR believes killing civilians -- including Jewish and Israeli civilians -- is terrorism, and wrong, why not just say so? Surely most American Muslims would have no problem condemning bin Laden with no qualifications. Why can't Hooper? "

"Again, what lies?"

Stopped the Bridge to Nowhere

Foremost Expert on Energy Issues in the Nation

Obama is against clean coal.

Bailout included money for ACORN

McCain had nothing to do with the bailout bill collapsing.

McCain was the catalyst for the bailout bill failing.

We have nothing to hide and will cooperate fully.

Obama voting against the troops sent a cold shiver down my spine.

Obama is a terrorist.

Obama is intimately linked with ACORN.

And those lies are just from the last few days from the McCain campaign.

He has also released over 30 commercials that have been called misleading to outright lies.

The McCain campaign is a micro chasm of right wing best articulated by Goebbels. If you tell a big enough lie and repeat it, people are gullible and will believe it.