Isn't it GREAT to see an average American really make it big. Obama was raised by his single-mother with the help of his grandparents. He worked Hard, got a good education, and turned down large sums of money to go to work for the average American. What a great story. He raised his large sums of money for his campaign, not thru big corporate donors like many others, but thru average Americans giving $10 or $20 at a time. I suspect he is going to go down in history as one of the great presidents of all time. Obama will be Great in 2008!!!

Brian Rodgers was referring to a 2001 Boeing procurement scandal that McCain attacked when he was in the Senate Armed Service Committee. It had nothing to do with the awarding of the contract to Air Bus in March of '08 and the 7 McCain staffers being involved as lobbyists. So, yes, he truly was doing a lousy spin.

I have issues with the money going to the French company of Airbus as I do with the earlier toll road building going to the Spain. McCain was continuing a bad policy of outsourcing.

Anders Scooper
Who cars about this church crap! I have a cousin who’s a racist yet that idiot no more speaks for me than Rev. Wright speaks for Obama. You bible thumpers are the ones clinging to your religion because you don't have anything else. Not everyone in this country cares about this crap. I certainly don't. My concern is for the economy and this war we should never have started. McCain is stuck on the wrong side of war in general. During the Viet Nam war he was a prisoner so he wasn't part of the anti war movement that was going on. Now, he can't understand why everyone has not interest in continuing it. He'll soon find out the power of this movement! And look how he like Clinton tried to pander to us all with that stupid gas tax. It didn't help Clinton and it won’t help him. Is this the type of economic plans we can expect from this jerk? Like Clinton he'll do and say anything to get elected which is why he won't either!
Obama 08

If I remember correctly, McCain wrote a letter that told those who were to make the decision about the contract, to get off the dime and award the contract to someone (no one in particular) as the contract had been several years in the red tape and squabbling process.

pt,
As you said. So, Obama is the elitist.

Why no nationalize the oil companies?

katrina, It is Obama who is living in the distant past. The distant past of the failed ideas of socialism and communism. Obama wants to take the power of good away from the people and hand it over to the enemy State. The track record of an all powerful State of the type Obama is promoting is not a good one. When the people are forced to turn over their money and property to an all powerful State all freedom is lost. As Obama stated "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

So much talk about McCain this and McCain that.

The answer is simple. McCain, fire your lobbyist staff, and reject the PAC money. If you are not controlled by the Big Corporation Activists, separate yourself from them. If you don't owe Lobbyists favors, keep them away from you.

But then, you can't.

McCain is firmly entrenched with lobbyists long before his scandalous Keating Five fiasco. This is just the way this unscrupulous man does business. He surrounds himself with lobbyists and their big donations. His reformer role is vastly over-rated to cover up his questionable activities. He's ripe for blowing up on camera, which will go viral on the Internet, and news networks. This will seal his fate. Obama gets under his skin, and especially so when Obama starts getting a big lead in the polls, and preferential treatment by the liberal press. Can't wait to see how it all plays out. Should be fun.

Phil Gramm is widely attributed with the current mortgage crisis, from creating barriers to preventing such a crisis, to actively involved through the UBS Bank.

And, John McCain has made him the director of finance for McCain's quest for the presidency.

A vote for McCain is a vote for more foreclosures. McCain should try to select his staff more carefully.

McCain is a flip-flopping, two-faced, dumber version of the incompetent failure Bush Jr. Nobody in America wants Republicans ruining our country...ever again. McCain will lose...Obama will win. Simple as that. Story over.

So where is McCain's money coming from?

We know where Obama and the Democrats are getting their money; from everyday folk like me. Obama is proud of his financial supporters. And, it appears, his supporters are proud of their support.

But McCain isn't saying. Is he taking money from organizations that would offend average people? Are his donors associated with activities he is controlling in his Senate position? We don't know.

LR:

I think McCain said that he could save America some money by shipping the jobs overseas.

Of course, that view isn't popular with anyone who has been laid off because a foreign factory makes it cheaper; not just Washington State. Pennsylvania and Illinois aren't real happy about the steel mills leaving either.

Steve367:

You tell 'em man, I stutter.

We need a voice of Change. Real Change. Not change to make the corporations wealthy. Change to benefit Americans.

Obama in '08.

YES, WE CAN!

Why would this group want to target mccain on this issue?? because there is record of obama earmarked over $91 millions dollars. You can confirm this on his website. He hasnt been a senator for this long and earmarked that much money. Imagine that for the future. At least $225,000 he earmarked for his long-time "moral-compass" pastor Pleger's church.

How long has mccain been a senator?? too long and he has earmarked "ZERO". yep, NOTHING, NADA!!!

Obama has been investigated up and down and all around by the best in the world hoping to get dirt on him. The best they come up with is that house property that he has not made a dime on and his pastor. What happen to being held accountable for your own actions, no wonder kids are going crazy in the world today, their parents just like some of you, probably raise your kids to think people judge you on who you are around not by your actions. What do we know for sure, we know that he has lived a good life as a good man, he has been a loving husband and from what it seems it good father. Obviously if he was or has an affair it would have been out there, so what does that say about him. Some of you are adulteress or live with someone who is and you stay with that person for much longer than twenty years. Who knows why you stay, everyone around you will always tell you what they would have done but its all talk. I bet most women can only dream of having a man who is there for them and has not cheated , but that means nothing , he is not judge by his actions but by those of the people around him , if thats all you got give it up people. If Hillary Clinton fought against lobbyists I could have seen myself voting for her , she didnt , and she never spoke against them , it was clear she was in bed with them , but you people dont care about that , just some loud mouth pastor , that you say preach hate , what hate are you idiots talking about. I bet most of you can say one line that preaches hate, which was it against and are any of you afraid of the REV.

When John McCain's campaign went broke last summer it was the lobbyists who swooped in to rescue him. I wonder what wink and nod agreements were made for the assistance? Also, poor planning, going broke, and needing a bailout are not qualities I want in the next president.

Hey John get the story straight. Obama bought a house, Rezko bought an adjoining lot. Obama didn't buy a home from Rezko. Obama bought a few feet from the Rezko lot and paid 125K for it, which was fair market value. I have seen NO claims that Obama got any special deal on the house or the additional lot space. Instead of your sleezy innuendo can you link to ANY evidence that ANYTHING corrupt happened in the deal. Obama didn't get a special deal on the house or the lot.

Please stick to the facts. I am tired of opinion, innuendo and all out lies.

Who's run a better campaign McCain or Obama from the beginning.

Who had the guts to give it to me straight and show the American voter some respect with the Gas tax issue.

Do I do or believe everything my church tells me. NO, otherwise I would've voted for Bush because they promote the pro-life candidate. Some pro-life President he turned out to be. Sending our young to die.

I don't believe any candidate gets to where they do without questionable people they've been in contact with, but I understand Obama has donated most of the money donated by Rezco to charity and regrets the house deal.

I was going for McCain until he went against the equal pay for women bill. This told me he knows corporate buddies aren't pay women what they should be.

Lets face it capitalist are for the rich (hence Republicans). When they said trickle down ecomomics I thought they meant if they made money it would then trickle down to the rest of us in the form of better pay, better benefits etc. I'm still waiting....

And the McCain supporters call the Obama supporters ignorant.

Corruption!