Bring it on!

John McCain would rather avoid the questions from the press. Most voters will not ask or press controversial questions.

McCain should be grilled by ABC's Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos

Seems like everyone forgotten about Hillary

It seems that a "woman" just does not fit the bill of President but no one wants to touch that issues with a 10 foot poll. It would be unfair to Obama. Hillary is more experienced and tireless worker verses Obama a playboy, elitist, already planning his next vacation.

Hello fellow Hillary supporters who are reading this ...

How many of us are voting for McCain if Obama is the nominee??? I have my hand raised!!!

From the underground news I've got dibs that Latinos in California are moving toward voting for McCain. Even better!

Go Hillary or McCain '08!!!

As a Hillary Democrat, I would love to be in attendance at the town hall meetings proposed for himself and the annointed one. Hillary Democrats have real problems with the party's presumed nominee and has much to answer. So, republicans stand aside while we grill this guy. After all, this is for the Office of the President of the United States of America. And, we don't want a run of the mill in that office. John has proven himself in the service he has rendered to the Nation.

This will be great. Obama and Hillary have similar policies. Tuning in to their debates were pointless.

Obama vs McCain will be worth the wait.

After their 1st debate people will really question what's the "real" difference between McCain and Bush.

Fellow Americans,
It is more important now then ever that we do not forget that this race is not an oppurtunity to show our political witticisms or knowledge of the 'buzz-topics' of the day. But instead the fate of an important nation with re precautions rippling throughout the world. Let us please look to the humanitarian aspects of this race and abandon the old manner of party spirit and battle like attitudes. It is so important to the world that we ask ourselves who can bring us out from this downfall of morals, culture, individuality, and worldly mentalities, and bring us to a new plain of progress and benefit the whole of life. We are not only children of America, but instead children of one world. So I hope we may stay open and free to ask ourselves who will help us return to a people of compassion and not keep us stagnant and in a state of perpetual strife for selfish goals and ends.
With Respect,
Edward

Before John McCain and the republicans go after the annointed one of Teddy, Hillary Democrats will need to grill this annointed one. He is not qualified to be president. He lacks experience and has no record of accomplishment. And, we know of his personal problems, all of which raise real character issues. So, wait your turn John. He has to answer to Democrats first.

Do you know what is so funny...Obama speaks of change and he has the old Washington crowd behind him...

"A New Era" is what Obama will Usher in. Hillary and McCain can only bring dispear. We Americans who are intouch with reality, know this to be true. Hillary and Bill has shown the ugly side of politics. America is in turmoil, in most every aspect. Gas prices soaring. It cost a full days work just to pay for 1 week of driving to work. The Oil Company's are making Billions off hard working Americans and Hillary and McCain are not worried about this, their rich. Hillary wasnt even against the War in Iraq till she decided to run for Office. McCain is a War Monger.We need a change in the White House and Obama is the only one who can bring Real Change!

I am young still and may lack the starch opinions of my fellow men. But in my youth it is clear that we accomplish nothing through a battle of words. We must look to our selves first for answers and there we should be in agreement with all men and women towards a goal of compassion. Without it we are not fit to vote. Unless we conquer ourselves we are not ready to speak of such things as leadership. I ask you to first decide your own fate and only then can we make a decisive decision on the state of such a powerful government. The American people must find a way to embrace the world in its politics and bridge the gap of ignorance and unity. Then as a result a genuine leader will rise and take us out of the dark into the light of togetherness.
your brother
Edward

Anne - Obama never used drugs very much so that probably isn't it. Not everyone goes into the miltary, which is likely a good thing because some of us would probably make very bad soldiers. But Obama is interested in a program encouraging everyone not going into the military service to have a stint of some other kind of community service they might be better suited for.

Incidently, it might be worth noting that Jeremiah Wright WAS in the Marines, as well as helping to save a President's life in the operating room.

I'm sure Obama's tune will change after he falls flat on his face in the first debate/town hall. That will be the last one, then, he'll be saying there's been enough debates.

Obama will smash McCain in most debates. Republicans are smart enough know it. This is the main reason why they try to frame Obama with all kinds of negative stuff ASAP. Sorry folks, it will not work this time around considering the unpopular war, down spiral economy, high oil and food prices,housing debacle and few more... Republicans accross the board will be a heavy price this November. Guaranteed!teed!

These debates would probably be a replay of the Reagan/Carter debate where McCain(Reagan)will just make Obama (Carter) look like the totally unqualified candidate that he is. Of course, Obama would just whine that the debates weren't fair because they asked unfair questions and had unfair moderators on an unfair network. Wonder how long before he says it's the silly season when debating McCain? Without Hillary there to copy answers from, these could be very interesting! I think it would be even more fun to have Michelle Obama debate Cindy McCain!

Get ready to rumble? Did you say get ready to rumble? You're afraid to share the same stage with Alan Keyes. You can't handle it. So yeah, bring it on and please include Alan Keyes. I dare you.

If we cannot speak of the foundation and philosophy of power and humanity then we are only here to spark aggression. And in this way we will only promote more division. My only hope is that the American people open there eyes and look past this quarrel which can only result in further problems. The true path to world harmony is open spirit and open heart. Truth has no other home but there.
Your brother
Edward

Obama will smash McCain in most debates. Republicans are smart enough to know it. This is the reason why they will try to frame Obama with all kinds of negative stuff ASAP. Sorry folks, it will not work this time around considering the unpopular war, down spiral economy, high oil and food prices, housing debacle and few more... Republicans accross the board will pay a heavy price come November. Guaranteed!

How could this be coming from a white man. Please Read this Article. Thanks.

Source: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05022008/watch.html

May 2, 2008
BILL MOYERS:Welcome to the Journal.

I once asked a reporter back from Vietnam, "Who's telling the truth over there?" "Everyone," he said. "Everyone sees what's happening through the lens of their own experience." That's how people see Jeremiah Wright. In my conversation with him on this broadcast a week ago and in his dramatic public appearances since, he revealed himself to be far more complex than the sound bites that propelled him onto the public stage. Over 2000 of you have written me about him, and your opinions vary widely. Some sting: "Jeremiah Wright is nothing more than a race-hustling, American hating radical," one viewer wrote. A "nut case," said another. Others were far more were sympathetic to him.

Many of you have asked for some rational explanation for Wright's transition from reasonable conversation to shocking anger at the National Press Club. A psychologist might pull back some of the layers and see this complicated man more clearly, but I'm not a psychologist. Many black preachers I've known — scholarly, smart, and gentle in person — uncorked fire and brimstone in the pulpit. Of course I've known many white preachers like that, too.

But where I grew up in the south, before the civil rights movement, the pulpit was a safe place for black men to express anger for which they would have been punished anywhere else; a safe place for the fierce thunder of dignity denied, justice delayed. I think I would have been angry if my ancestors had been transported thousands of miles in the hellish hole of a slave ship, then sold at auction, humiliated, whipped, and lynched. Or if my great-great grandfather had been but three-fifths of a person in a constitution that proclaimed, "We the people." Or if my own parents had been subjected to the racial vitriol of Jim Crow, Strom Thurmond, Bull Connor, and Jesse Helms. Even so, the anger of black preachers I've known and heard about and reported on was, for them, very personal and cathartic.

That's not how Jeremiah Wright came across in those sound bites or in his defiant performances this week. What white America is hearing in his most inflammatory words is an attack on the America they cherish and that many of their sons have died for in battle ? forgetting that black Americans have fought and bled beside them, and that Wright himself has a record of honored service in the Navy. Hardly anyone took the "chickens come home to roost" remark to convey the message that intervention in the political battles of other nations is sure to bring retaliation in some form, which is not to justify the particular savagery of 9/11 but to understand that actions have consequences. My friend Bernard Weisberger, the historian, says, yes, people are understandably seething with indignation over Wright's absurd charge that the United States deliberately brought an HIV epidemic into being. But it is a fact, he says, that within living memory the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a study that deliberately deceived black men with syphilis into believing that they were being treated, while actually letting them die for the sake of a scientific test. Does this excuse Wright's anger? His exaggerations or distortions? You'll have to decide or yourself. At least it helps me to understand the why of them.

But in this multimedia age the pulpit isn't only available on Sunday mornings. There's round the clock media — the beast whose hunger is never satisfied, especially for the fast food with emotional content. So the preacher starts with rational discussion and after much prodding throws more and more gasoline on the fire that will eventually consume everything it touches. He had help — people who for their own reasons set out to conflate the man in the pulpit who wasn't running for president with the man in the pew who was.

Behold the double standard: John McCain sought out the endorsement of John Hagee, the war-mongering Catholic-bashing Texas preacher who said the people of New Orleans got what they deserved for their sins. But no one suggests McCain shares Hagee's delusions, or thinks AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality. Pat Robertson called for the assassination of a foreign head of state and asked God to remove Supreme Court justices, yet he remains a force in the Republican religious right. After 9/11 Jerry Falwell said the attack was God's judgment on America for having been driven out of our schools and the public square, but when McCain goes after the endorsement of the preacher he once condemned as an agent of intolerance, the press gives him a pass.

Jon Stewart recently played a tape from the Nixon White House in which Billy Graham talks in the oval office about how he has friends who are Jewish, but he knows in his heart that they are undermining America. This is crazy; this is wrong -- white preachers are given leeway in politics that others aren't.

Which means it is all about race, isn't it? Wright's offensive opinions and inflammatory appearances are judged differently. He doesn't fire a shot in anger, put a noose around anyone's neck, call for insurrection, or plant a bomb in a church with children in Sunday school. What he does is to speak his mind in a language and style that unsettle some people, and says some things so outlandish and ill-advised that he finally leaves Obama no choice but to end their friendship. We are often exposed us to the corroding acid of the politics of personal destruction, but I've never seen anything like this ? this wrenching break between pastor and parishioner before our very eyes. Both men no doubt will carry the grief to their graves. All the rest of us should hang our heads in shame for letting it come to this in America, where the gluttony of the non-stop media grinder consumes us all and prevents an honest conversation on race. It is the price we are paying for failing to heed the great historian Jacob Burckhardt, who said "beware the terrible simplifiers".

"This will be great. Obama and Hillary have similar policies. Tuning in to their debates were pointless"
Vanessa the Obama supporter if they have similar policies then why do 92% of blacks vote for one candidate?

I hope I can attend one and ask a question. I'd ask McCain if he is considering trying to institute a Draft if he wins. On his website, his plan for Iraq states that we need more troops there but interestingly he doesn't say how he plans to implement this. It's not like people are knocking down doors to sign up for our all volunteer military. So I'd ask if a Draft is in our future?

bb

Because aside from policy, people chose candidates on personality and communication.

Some states, Hillary has won the women vote 70%-30%

With John McCain, people will clearly choose on policy. The difference between both Obama and McCain on policy is great.

Vanessa wrote:

"Seems like everyone forgotten about Hillary"

Who?

I CANT beleive they are going to let him talk without a speech or teleprompters. um..ahh..umm..change!

JA, you must be kidding. Don't tell that to his campaign strategists. You might be very disappointed. Obama will have flying colors against McCain in all their upcoming debates. Guaranteed!

I've seen John McCain debates and town hall meetings and trust me, he's anything BUT great.

Sad to say but he sounds old and tired. As if he's grasping for breath.

Obama would beat McCain in debates and town hall meetings. There is no way McCain would be able to defend his policies without defended Bush policies.

Obama cannot field questions that are not scripted without "uh" and "um" and "you know" being thrown in.
He will simply get killed. Trust me. He performs horribly in debates. He is only known for giving scripted monologues.
It will be a riot to watch.

These talks should be really informative... Obama is a superb orator and holds his own one on one.... McCain will talk all soft-like, but will likely get confused over who we are fighting, where they are based and will have to back peddle on all of his issues that have flipped and flopped.... I can't wait for the fun to begin!

Even Hiilary would find her debating match in John McCain. Obama? You know McCain Is going to lay Obama's National Security issues Wide open. At last we would watch Obama squirm dealing with all his Terrorist associations the Media conveniently would not report.

McCain understands National Security is front and center. All other National issues are pointless without a secure environment to exist.

How will Obama answer questions about his "friendship" with Ayers (the terrorist). And how will he answer that he lied when he said he hadn't heard Wright's comments before (when he has, it has been documented by a reporter long ago who sat there behind him and watched him nod).
This will be catastrophe. You don't understand the Republican machine. They will destroy Obama within a month when they turn up the heat. They are relentless and smart (despite what you people think).
In the end, who in this country will vote for a man with ties to terrorists, Iraqi billionaires, a racist and conspiracy theorist preacher, etc?

He is doomed. The press holiday for Obama is over.

Look at how much damage has already been done to reputation by WRight.

I've favored Hillary since before this nomination process even started, but if Obama is choosen, then fine, I'll live with it. I'd rather have Clinton, but I'd take a three legged dog over a republican.

JA, Obama is far better at capturing people's ears than McCain. That's how he's made it this far. When McCain talks, nobody wants to hear it. We know what he's selling and America is sick of it. 7 out of 10 people say this country is headed in the wrong direction. You say he's a better debater. I say he's gonna have to be a better deceiver if he wants to win this election.

JA, I have high respect for McCain. But being not able to differentiate between Shiites and Sunnis is too scary for me.

Canuck,

Who said she wants to become his VP?
No way!

i watched most of those debates and thought Obama did fine. I liked Hillary then and now, I believe she beat him most times. That said, Obama will cream McCain.

So JR, whose been keeping you safe over the past 7 years?

Kathy, I'd say luck. It sure as hell hasn't been Bush/Cheney and it won't be McCain.

When you say SAFE, do you mean as in the economy or do you mean safe from all those NON-existent chemical/biological/nuclear weapons that Iraq didn't have?

To give McCain some slack, I just remembered that Lieberman will probably be there is help McCain get his facts straight. They'll need a podium big enough for both men though.

Kathy,

Who is our real enemy, AlCaida or the Iraqis. Please read your history.

Junior

Junior, it will be a true joke if Obama tries to claim he has more national security expertise based on McCain mixing up sunnis and shiites.

Consider this: Obama said that we should pull out of Iraq and start hunting Al Qaeda. It seems Mr Obama wasn't aware that Al Qaeda IS IN IRAQ.

So please, let's not play the who-knows-less game, Obama will lose.

Which is worse? Being unable to differentiate Sunnis and Shiites or note even being aware that Al Qaeda is in Iraq???

Note that Obama's comment came in a debate, again where he performs horribly since he doesn't have a script. Obama made several such gaffes (such as saying he would site down with all the nations considered our enemies without preconditions).

JA bestows this jewel upon us:

"So please, let's not play the who-knows-less game, Obama will lose."

Thereby implying that Obama, indeed, knows MORE."

I'm outta here, too many idiots.

Unfornately, Obama has no chance to debate with McCain because he won't be any Nominee...

Yeah JR, maybe the Beach Boys were ahead of their time.

If we continue to brush aside a certain sense of community and harmony amongst all humans as drug induced hippy talk and an over indulgence of love, then I cant imagine what we are talking about saving anymore. If not for a world of brother and sisterhood, then for what do we attempt to progress towards?

McCain/Clinton 2008!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaron, my spelling is a mess.

Poor McCain will have to strap Lierberman in a baby carrier on his body , so he can take him on stage to help him in the DEBATES.

Barack this time around dont have to tip toe and be on eggshells like he did in the Hillary debates , So he didn't appear to be the big bad man beating up on the little woman, and potentially irritating her core supporters that he needs in November.

John McCain has experience, something Obama cannot get from Rev Wright,

VC we would like you know that GOD has the last say so about Obama, McCain and Mrs Hillary its not about you, Its about the facts
Also, networks like NBC/MSNBC and GE will keeping gaining their shares as we support them. We love the truth that Chris Matthews, and Tim Russert are saying about Obama, McCain and Mrs Hillary for the truth will set / make you free.
So VC the truth do hurt i pray that you look at the truth and not after race under tone about Obama.

Carol, give it up. It's over. She lost. She tried hard but SHE LOST. If she's the better candidate then why on earth have more people voted for Obama? And no you can't cout MI. Geeze. This is a democracy. The majority wins. Get over it. There nothing more annoying than somebody who doesn't know when to quit and will say just about anything to avoid facing reality. It's actually quite childish if you ask me.

Obama will probably pick Bill Richardson for his vice president and Ted Kennedy will have a position teaching people how to save drowning victims in automobiles.

If obama wins the people lose.

if mccain doesnt have his regular rest and meds, he may have to show up at those town halls on life support oxygen tankers....loser old man!!! yeah dont talk to your enemies first just bomb their innocent women and children, no questions asked....psycho old man....i hope obama whips you hard in the general election....Democrats UNITE!!!!

Wow what a lot of opinions. Before anyone(some Hillary Democrats) thinks about voting for John McCain I think it would be important to know who his vice president will be. I think the senator would only last four years, and then will retire. We as a party need to come together. Stand with the nominee. If we don't we will have only ourselves to blame for the continued disgrace and economic distruction of our country.

A Hillary Democrat That will vote
Barrack if need be

Bob

It will be interested to see how McCain clean the floor with obama

Anders Scooper sound like you have a problem with black people and there churchs so dont use your race under tone. Please

Does anybody remember that last debate with HRC??!! BO sucked! He remains totally unprepared for the carpet bombing that is about to come......

He will NEVER win this fall.

I'm a Dem-leaning independent. HRC with all of her faults, was our best chance.....

Get serious miki. mc-more-war doesn't stand a chance against Obama. He's an adulterer, a flip-flopper, and frankly is too OLD to be an effective president. Ask any 73 year old if they want to work long hours for the next 4 years and see what they say. mc-bush should retire with his millionaire wife after he loses in the fall. Why won't she release her tax returns....hmmmmm. Obama 2008!!!

jack1, I have no problem with black people or church.

Much as I admired Ronald Reagan (and I sure did), during his last couple of years in office, he sometimes sounded a little incoherent. Unfortunately, sometimes listening to John McCain, he seems to falter, and I come away with the same feeling. McCain is a nice guy, and I thank him for his military service- he was a genuine American hero- but I think he's too old. I don't see him becoming the next president.

Bill Clinton is not running for president, Alice.

Anders Scooper You need facts about Obama that not the truth if you research.

A Democrat for all people.

Research shows people over 70 make outstanding presidents because they don't know Hip Hop.

I know it probably will be said in a debate of McClain and Obama that the past doesnt aways reflect the true person But when you look at McCain Past even he has said he was trouble in his school years that required regular disciplinary action not to mention while in the military his favor past time spot was strip clubs in fact he became known as the one to see if you wanted to hook up a party as such.can wait for a debate

It will be a bloodbath in November for Obama....the Democrats are so stupid....McCain is going to win by a landslide!!!!

HAHAHAHAHA!! Obama can't debate. He doesn't know how and he doesn't have the intense knowledge base in his elitist brain which would enable him to debate. He is going to go down.. right on.

Al Sharpton supports Obama, too. Why don't this man pay his taxes?

McCain will help the Latinos if Hillary doesn't get the nomination. On McCain if Hillary loses.

it will be one of my primary missions in life for the next 5 1/2 months to remind MILLIONS of people that they can still vote for Senator Clinton as a Write-In Candidate

all your hater on obama i guess your want the same bush policy. tell me where have this country gone since the rubilican been in office. remember grandpa wont be able to handle the pressue in the white house. instead of caring about our country going to a better direction your just want the same old policitcs. your seems to forgot the repubilican wanted hillary because they have alot of stuff on hillary that will be shocking so let just united this country and give this man another chance. .

chris....I hate to burst your bubble but Obama did not cause the African Americans to turn against Hillary. Bill and Hill did that, SC and her comment aout MLK. Please place blame where it belongs and that is coming from a African American!

No use in chatting about Hillary, she's old news now. She can still have a good career in the senate. Obama will go on to win by a landslide in the fall. Hopefully, voters will see that mc-more-war is an adulterer, a flip-flopper, and OLD. He also has a terrible temper if you ask anyone that has spent any time with him. He will retire with his millionaire wife when he loses in the fall. Obama 2008!

To: pt -- You have the "audacity" to call McCain a flip-flopper when Obama flip-flopped on Reverend Wright. One week the press is praising Obama for standing by his racist Reverend and the next week the press is praising Obama for denouncing him. Is everyone taking Ambien or am I the only one awake enough to see Obama's hypocrisy?

Carlos, mc-more-war is a flip-flopper on tax breaks for the rich, on abortion, on his first wife, etc. The OLD guy doesn't stand a chance in the fall. Obama 2008!!!

Obama had to be respectful to Hillary as a fellow Democrat, but with McCain he can now exploit the full potential of his verbal talent to cut McCain down to size.

I bet by the end of the third debate we will see McCain as a confused old man that we need to pity, but not let anywhere near the Presidency.
Debate - big mistake McCain.

Both Hillary and Obama's supporters are emotional voters. The two candidates virtually agree on the same issues, however idiots are willing to vote for McCain instead of the democratic candidate that wins. I can't think of anything more ridiculous or asinine.

Any similarities between Hillary Clinton and Baghdad Bob are purely coincidental and sould be ignored unless you want a laugh.

Libby, Obama needs your vote, and would love to have it, but at the end of the day, he can live without you. I think the vast majority of Clinton supporters are mature adults who will come to their senses and see that Barack Obama represents their needs much better than John McCain does. And Obama has mobilized and energized millions of new voters, who will overwhelm all the wooden-headed, sulking, sore losers like you.
So go ahead, vote for McCain, have fun!

Isn't it great that a guy like Obama can inspire voters the way that the GREAT presidents inspired. Presidents like JFK, FDR, and Truman. Isn't it great that ordinary citizens have funded his "Phenomenal Campaign". I am beginning to feel sorry for mc-more-war cause he doesn't stand a chance. Obama 2008!

Barrack Obama has accepted campaign help from Gazans!
In Palestine he has a call center and they are aking computer generated phone calls to the American voters by using Obama's official campign website! The area is under the control of Hamas and the internet is monitored and moderated by Hamas!
Now can you tell me what kind of a presidential candidate to be would accept any kind of campaign help from a terrorist organization Hamas? You never know if get a phone call from Obama campaign you may be talking to a suicide bomber from Hamas!!!
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Obama can go and do himself!
My vote is going directly to John McCain!
I hate the DNC!
I am changing my registered democrat position to independant tomorrow!
LOL

I will have to vote for Republican for the first time of my adult lifetime!
and Michelle Obama won't be proud of it!

MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES

Think about it!

obama should be commended for his ability to so artistically manipulate the truth...