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...

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?