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September 19, 2008 10:55 PM

ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: At a pair of fundraisers in the Miami area, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., mocked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., about his comments earlier in the week, over Spain, to a local area radio station.

“Some of you heard John McCain was interviewed. He was asked about the leader of Spain. I think he thought he was talking about somebody in Latin America. He said he wouldn’t meet with them, Spain. I don’t know if he knows this is a NATO ally,” Obama joked to the roaring crowd at a fundraiser at the Biltmore Hotel.

Obama was referencing McCain’s comments to a Florida radio station this week that sparked some controversy when it seemed like the Arizona senator might have believed Spain was in Latin America.

When asked by a reporter from Union Radio, if elected, would he receive Spanish PM Zapatero in the White House, McCain answered, "Honestly, I have to analyze our relationships, situations and priorities, but I can assure you that I will establish closer relationships with our friends, and I will stand up to those who want to harm the United States."

At a later fundraiser at a private home hosting a crowd of about 100, Obama repeated his criticisms, “John McCain saying just yesterday that he would not meet with the prime minister of Spain!”

Someone in the audience shouted back, “He didn’t know who he was?”

Obama continued, “I thought it was because he was confused or because he bought into this notion that we don’t meet with people that we don’t agree with.”

RNC communications director Danny Diaz took issue with Obama's remarks. "This comes from the guy that has never traveled to Latin America and is arguably the most inexperienced presidential candidate in modern times, if not history," Diaz said.  "He can distort John McCain's comments in front of a bunch of fundraisers, but it won't deliver Florida and it won't deliver the Hispanic vote."

Obama this week has shied away from bringing up the McCain’s comments on Spain -– as the week has been dominated by the somber economic news -– but, no doubt debuted them strategically before a key audience.

Obama told the audience he’s confident that he is going to win the election and that his road to victory will be easier with the Sunshine State.

“There are easier ways to win it and harder ways to win it. It would be really nice for us to win Florida. I’ll tell you, we can win this thing without Florida, but boy, it’s a lot easier if we win Florida. If we win Florida, it is almost impossible for John McCain to win.”

September 19, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (276)

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He also seems to be all over the map about the Financial crisis. He always looks angry and speaks haltingly at times.

Posted by: feminist50 | Sep 19, 2008 11:31:11 PM

Anyone who bothers to go back and read Obama's speech before the Democratic National Conference 4 years ago will see what a good president he will be if elected.

Rather that seeking to divide this country, the way the Karl Rove GOP machine has sought to do, between white and black, liberal and conservative, urban and rural, Obama told us we are ONE NATION.

We are all Americans. There is common ground if we ask:

How can we reduce the number of abortions?

How can we change the country to use renewable, American sources of energy?

Should we follow the teachings of Jesus and heal the sick?

What do we have to do, adding resources and getting rid of ineffective teachers and schools, to bring up the level of our children's education?

This man who is the product of two ethnic groups, white and black. This man who worked with 6 Catholic parishes to help those laid off when the steel mills closed. This man who became a law professor at a highly rated school. This man represented more people in Illinois than Sarah Palin does as governor of Alaska.

This good man is an example what a great nation this is. If elected, he will act with the welfare of all Americans in his heart.

God bless America!

Posted by: John McCain's conscience | Sep 19, 2008 11:31:22 PM

Obama will use any opportunity to bring up the age card against McCain...the same way he has used the gender card against Hillary and Palin. Luckily, when you do anything to get elected, it becomes very transparent and it forces people to realize he really isn't putting his country first, he is putting himself first. So sad.

Posted by: Rick | Sep 19, 2008 11:33:21 PM

Rick - I just have to look and listen to McCain to know
A. How old he is.
B. Confused often enough to cause concern.
In addition, I can SEE Palin is a woman, but it does not change the fact she is ill-equipped and unqualified for the White House. Majorie Snow, Kay Baily Hutchinson + 20 other Republican women all would have been better choices.

Posted by: Paige | Sep 19, 2008 11:38:19 PM

Once again, the vindictive and vitriolic tone of the Obama campaign portrays anything but change.

And, as long as we are pointing to gaffes, what about Obama?

The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine.

Without a teleprompter, his tongue has betrayed him throughout the primaries and the campaign.

Just a few examples of many:

Last year, Obama claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll was 12.

In May, 2008 in Oregon, Obama comments redrew the map of the United States. “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States," said Obama. "I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”

Also in 2008, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you, Sioux City. ... I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”

In March, 2007, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., Obama claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.” Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965.

And in perhaps the most seriously troubling gaffe of them all, Obama told a Portland, Oregon, crowd earlier this year that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us.” It seems Obama felt that “tiny countries” (such as Iran) with small defense budgets can’t do us harm.

And, Obama is ridiculing John McCain over comments about Spain?

Perhaps Obama should learn how many states are in the United States, about the threat posed by Iran, and where Sioux Falls, South Dakota is before he comments on what John McCain says to anyone.

And...

As Always...


Anybody But Obama...

Posted by: Jayhawk | Sep 19, 2008 11:41:19 PM

Anybody who cannot see the differences between Obama's comments and McCain's actual confusion of basic facts is of low intelligence.

Posted by: feminist50 | Sep 19, 2008 11:44:07 PM

All signs of dementia, doesn't know, can't remember, confused about what he ate, what he did , where he is. Who takes over then.

Posted by: Rose Szymanski | Sep 19, 2008 11:47:54 PM

Obama will try anyway just to get elected.

No way! Nobama!

Posted by: golfgirlusa | Sep 19, 2008 11:51:49 PM

Ok libs, don't whine when the GOP goes after every comment Obama makes.

This sounds eerily similar to somebody mentioning 57 states. Who was that?

Posted by: Ryan | Sep 19, 2008 11:52:22 PM

the "age" card is a real card. A 72-year-old US man has a 14-16% chance of dying in the next four years according to actuarial tables. This does not take into account if the man has had multiple previous cancers. It is also notable that at that age, the risk of mental impairment (stroke, dementia, etc) also increse notably.

so, if you're a big fan of governor palin - rejoice! she has a 20-25% chance of being president before the next election if mccain wins.

and, for someone so bellicose, I wish he knew who was in NATO and who isn't. honestly, i think the stress is wearing on him and this week he's had a ton of misspeaks.

Posted by: doc | Sep 19, 2008 11:52:57 PM

Jayhawk,

You needed to go all the way to Memorial Day to make a point about Obama. One only needs to go to 10am to make the point about mcCain. And yestarday, and Wednesday and Tuesday and Monday...........

Get the point??

One gaffe over a period of months is swept under the rug.

A gaffe a day is cause for concern.

Posted by: isosure | Sep 19, 2008 11:54:43 PM

Like the GOP wouldn't have gone after Obama's misspeaks... It's politics, no whining or crying from either side.

Posted by: MIguy | Sep 19, 2008 11:55:27 PM

Jayhawk, doesn't McCain's lack of knowledge about basic facts trouble you. Partisn loyalty is one thing, but to so blindly support this man whose mental faculties are clearly deteriorating is quite another. He doesn't know the difference between Shia and sunni and THIS IS REALLY A BIG DEAL, doesn't know that Iraq and Pakistan do not share a border and wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years. He also thinks Czekhoslavakia is still a country and Putin is the president of Germany. He thinks Spain in in Latin America and his VP pick wants to have a war with Russia over Georgia. Clearly, this man is sliding towrads senility and he has now become Karl Rove's disciple which is about as sleazy as one can get in life.

Posted by: feminist50 | Sep 19, 2008 11:56:32 PM

Hey, isosure,

Don't be so sure.

The point was that those comments were among those made before the teleprompter scripted every word that your messiah says.

Get it?

And, get ready to read about some of the more recent gaffes that brought on the teleprompter.

Anybody But Obama...

Posted by: Jayhawk | Sep 19, 2008 11:57:44 PM

Keep trying Obama. Keep trying.... Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah....

Talk issues and position. Your loosing the independant vote. You have already lost mine...

Posted by: Perry | Sep 20, 2008 12:00:04 AM

How to spot a fake blogger: They are always talking about "losing my vote".

Honestly, no one on here cares who you are or how you will vote. Sorry if that hurts your feelings. Vote for whomever you choose, but saying once or a thousand times with whichever nickname you want doesn't convince anyone of anything.

Posted by: MIguy | Sep 20, 2008 12:02:15 AM

nice recitation of talking points. I'll take one. Others can debunk the rest of your copy/paste if they want.

Obama said that Iran was a tiny threat to the US compared to the threat posed by the Soviet Union in the cold war. Care to dispute that?

Posted by: xian | Sep 20, 2008 12:03:34 AM

chris: the republicans are trying to deregulate health care. they blindly support the insurance lobby medicare advantage programs which cost more to administer than medicare, do not provide better healthcare for the elderly, and pay doctors less. the latter will eventually lead to the ultimate deregulation, when doctors stop accepting medicare or reduce the number of new medicare patients they accept. it almost happened this year. it will happen in 2010 if a 20% scheduled cut to doctors goes through as the republicans plan.

Posted by: doc | Sep 20, 2008 12:08:07 AM

A fake blogger?

So, now there is a formal definition of a "blogger?"

Or, is that title reserved for the paid bots?

But, you are probably right about votes not counting.

Just remember, George Bush didn't need to win an election to be elected President...twice.

Chances are it will turn out the same this time.

"Blogger" or not.


Anybody But Obama...

Posted by: Jayhawk | Sep 20, 2008 12:18:50 AM

Obama is putting it nice. McCain had a senior momeny again. This will go on and on. We do not need McCain and his costant gaffes at any important meeting. He will destroy our international affairs.

Posted by: Mary,TX | Sep 20, 2008 12:20:43 AM

John Mccain = Bunch of lies

Posted by: Lie_Detector | Sep 20, 2008 12:22:43 AM

Comment was not directed at you, Jayhawk, as you seem to try and contribute something. It was directed to the bots that don't even bother spelling "loosing" or "independant" correctly.

Posted by: MIguy | Sep 20, 2008 12:29:10 AM

jayhawk if you are going to quote obama and say hes a gaffe machine at least quote him correctly


obamas gaffes have been small and inconsequential compared to mccains.

mccain has not put his country first in fact he sold out his country for his campaign with his political gamble of a vp pick palin.

hes been a deregulator up until tuesday, and then was for regulation, and now today... im not sure is he back to deregulation?

he wants to put social security where?


he has been launching complete FALSE accusations at obama, and mccains campaign has gone from straight talk to double talk.

accuses obama of fundraising with stars, yet just got back from a fundraiser with stars...

i mean, mcdole, err mccain is losing his mind

thanks but no thanks this pigs got Alzheimers!

Posted by: bhrandon | Sep 20, 2008 12:32:01 AM

September 19, 2008, 7:24 pm
McCain on banking and health

OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before reading this.

Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!

Posted by: bhrandon | Sep 20, 2008 12:33:50 AM

bhrandon: for those of us paying attention, and hopefully for those who are starting to, it is clear that the type of deregulation of healthcare they have been pushing is a frightening bad idea.

Posted by: doc | Sep 20, 2008 12:47:33 AM

He said it during an interview on ABC with George Stephanopolous I believe. A mistake is a mistake. If he is going to attack McCain for Mis-speaks he had better never make one himself.

Posted by: Mack | Sep 20, 2008 1:51:13 AM

Somebody should do a parody of the campaign with Obama as Blade and McCain Palin as bloodsucking vampires. That means Joe Biden would be Whistler.

This weeks moment from the film would be Biden saying: "Catch you F*rs at a bad time?"

Posted by: Atomic Dogg | Sep 20, 2008 1:51:21 AM

Why yes, I have checked the electoral maps, and they show that you are losing. Funny thing. Now I guess if you do funny math, and eliminate the swing states all together, you could come up (on some maps) with a number that puts McCain ahead. BUT since in the real world, the swing states get a vote, and since Obama is winning in most of them, all the maps currently show him ahead. And they will follow the national polls (they lag behind a day or so). I note you all did not quote them when you were doing your victory dance that McCain was ahead in the daily tracking polls, because they showed him even further behind than he is now. Selective use of facts and statistics, a Republican specialty!

Posted by: Dee Dee Lynn | Sep 20, 2008 1:51:21 AM

So was McCain misspeaking when he said he doesn't know how many houses he has, or is that the truth ir was he merely lying? I have never been clear on that. And the "Spain" and "Yugoslavia" gaffes can not be classified as "misspeaking." One was a direct question that was put to him and he was at pains to answer (kind of like Palin on the Bush doctrine), and the other is something he has said repeatedly (just like the Iran is funding Al Qaeda gaffe). When one misspeaks, it is in the moment. Its not something that is repeated four or five times.

Posted by: Dee Dee Lynn | Sep 20, 2008 1:54:21 AM

It has been reported that after Sarah Palin speaks, the crowd starts to thin noticeably. Some Republicans don't want to hear McCain. His old and tired ideas aren't selling anymore, even among the faithful.
When is JawHawk going to give up, too?

Posted by: doug | Sep 20, 2008 1:59:30 AM

Here ya go. Enjoy.

"Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you, Sioux City. ... I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”

Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”

Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil-rights movement as a whole.”

Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multibillion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup: “Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”

I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense-authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear-waste site.

Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s Dreams from My Father: “Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”

And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us” — cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm — and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”

Posted by: Mack | Sep 20, 2008 1:59:38 AM

It just isn't going McCains way.

Posted by: Thinking | Sep 20, 2008 2:09:12 AM

"Some Republicans don't want to hear McCain. His old and tired ideas aren't selling anymore, even among the faithful."

I'd vote for a sock puppet before I'd vote for Barry. I'm not adverse to voting for Nader to keep Barry and crew out of the White House.

Posted by: Mack | Sep 20, 2008 2:14:05 AM

MCCAIN/PALIN;
BRIDGE TO NOWHERE !!
COUNTRY FIRST ? MY A$$ !!!
palin/mccain = LIERS & TRAITORS !!!
GO AND BURN IN HELL !!!!

Posted by: skyglider2008 | Sep 20, 2008 2:21:05 AM

Uh oh....

Ralph Nader is on the ballot in 45 states plus Washington DC and is a write-in in 4 states, for a total of 49 ballots. He is polling 6-8%.

Posted by: Mack | Sep 20, 2008 2:23:00 AM

Blind and ignorant comments! Shouting into cyberspace! Arguments about trivial and completely unrelated issues!

Posted by: Andy | Sep 20, 2008 2:33:00 AM

Meanwhile, McLies is out with another ad trying to connect Obama with Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president. The truth is harder to swallow however...

Marcano, C. & Tyszka, A. B. (2007). Hugo Chavez: The definitive biography of Venezuela''s controversial president. New York, Random House.

"Janet Morton lives about a half hour away from the White House....The unemployed single mother of two girls shares a small house with her sister in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Wasington, D.C. Morton does not know much about Hugo Chavez. But for her, the Venezuelan president is a hero...Morton is one of the 1.2 million poor Americans who get discounted heating fuel for their homes from CITGO, an Oklahoma-based oil company owned by the Venezuelan government" (p. xi)

McBush wants to act like he doesn't know this? Seriously? He''s going to try to scare Latinos with this rubbish when his own party turns a blind eye to the very dictator he rails against? Really? And people are going to fall for it? What an insult! More lies from a dishonorable, lying candidate...

Posted by: Jane | Sep 20, 2008 2:39:18 AM

Unfortunately, Mack, anyone who will vote for Nader is someone who McCain needs to vote for him. mcCain is the one who needs to win votes. Obama has the majority of votes devoted to him now.
Also, I love that the people who comment on Obama's use of a teleprompter probably had no comment on George Bush's use of an earpiece dictating his speech to him. His operatives didn't even want to resk his reading it because they feared his phonics.

Posted by: Hank | Sep 20, 2008 2:40:25 AM

Screw Obama! There is so much McCain can chide him on....his "muslim faith" he said to George Stephenopolis, or the "57 states" he's campaigned in (thinking of course of ISLAMIC STATES). That s--t. That's OK because we're all just finding out about the guy who's going to jail for hacking into Gov. Palin's email.....the son of Dem. Tenn. Senator, who is on the OBAMA CAMPAIGN!!!! What a surprise. Dirty Chicago politics is what BO is all about and he wants to DIRTY OUR WHITE HOUSE....NO WAY
McCAIN/PALIN!!!!!!!

Posted by: Emma | Sep 20, 2008 2:50:35 AM

Don't vote Nader, don't sit it out, don't do a write in......there are two candidates and only one worth voting for JOHN SYDNEY McCAIN...NEVER BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!

Posted by: Emma | Sep 20, 2008 2:52:52 AM

Here is what the BBC found when polling the entire planet...

"The countries most optimistic that an Obama presidency would improve ties were US Nato allies - Canada (69%), Italy (64%), France (62%), Germany (61%), and the UK (54%) - as well as Australia (62%), along with Kenya (87%) and Nigeria (71%)."

It doesn't look like many of the countries fired up about an Obama presidency are overly Muslim are they? Besides, what is wrong with being a Muslim?

Posted by: Jane | Sep 20, 2008 3:01:03 AM

McCain never said Spain was in Latin America. Obama said that McCain thought that. Wasn't that nice of him to say that and the rest of you dumb people just pick it up as if it was true. The reason McCain doesn't like Spain is because the new leader there doesn't much like the US. They made a big deal of taking their troops out of Iraq after they had that terrorist attack. Gee it must be nice to be Spain and just withdraw from world affairs just cause you get blown up. Why don't they try being the US just once and have to deal with a 9/11 attack.

Posted by: Sandy | Sep 20, 2008 3:10:57 AM

Sandy: First, the U.S. is NOT dealing with 9/11. If this was the case, we would not be in Iraq. Second, the Spanish interviewer asked about four times if McLies knew who he was referring to. Mclies own campaign helper-bee said McLies knew who the interviewer was talking about. Somebody in the McLies campaign is lying...again. Either he knew who he was and said what he said or he didn't know...either way, it doesn't bode well for him...he has NO HONOR...

Posted by: Jane | Sep 20, 2008 3:16:46 AM

Obama should make fun of his own intelligence. He thought USA is made up of 57 states. Oh, I get it. He still thinks there are 57 states in thos country.

Also, we would like to know the economic recovery plan he has planned and is not willing to disclose. He voted Present once again. He didn't want to vote and get caught. What confidence he will inspire in his leadership. No Plan Obama.

Posted by: Roger Miller | Sep 20, 2008 3:18:12 AM

ENOUGH OF REPUBLICAN LIES AND CORRUPTION.

ENOUGH OF REPUBLICAN MANIPULATION OF THE TRUTH.

REPUBLICANS NEED A BREAK FROM OFFICE.

8 YEARS OF REPUBLICAN MONARCHY ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH.

THIS TIME,

DEMOCRATS TIME.

Posted by: Al | Sep 20, 2008 3:24:10 AM

I'm assuming you haven't seen his Web site...perhaps you're not too "web literate." Try going to his Web site, there you will find more reading material on Obama's economic plan than you can shake a stick at. Or, you could just pay attention to his commercials, you know, the ones with a link to his plan plastered all over it...sucker.

Posted by: Jane | Sep 20, 2008 3:25:20 AM

Roger Miller,

JUST THINK AND THEN SPEAK.

IT IS A GREAT EXERCISE AND A WONDERFUL LESSON IN LIFE.

ENOUGH OF REPUBLICAN LIES.

DEMOCRATS ALL THE WAY

Posted by: Al | Sep 20, 2008 3:26:40 AM

Where is the headline about the Dem Tenn Senator's 24 year old son who is responsible for hacking Gov. Palin's email? Senator is part of the Obama campaign....my what a surprise....Chicago thug politics from Team Obama? Let's get some coverage here guys, if the tables were turned and Obama's email had been hacked by a son of McCain staffer, CAN YOU IMAGINE NEVER HEARING THE END OF IT?
Get a headline here.
Also, word is BO is replacing Biden with Hillary on Oct. 5...Biden will bow out due to "illness"...and Hill comes in as VP....man Gov. Palin has gotten inside their brains....they're obsessed with her.
Sorry they're the team to beat.
McCAIN/PALIN!!!!!

Posted by: Emma | Sep 20, 2008 3:34:26 AM

Emma: why would Obama replace Biden when Biden is the most pro-female candidate out there? Have you even seen his record? LOL...as for the hacking...unless you're one of the investigators, shut it; you don't know the guilty party...period.

Posted by: Jane | Sep 20, 2008 3:40:36 AM

Jane, McCain has plenty of honor. Obama has no honor. He sat in his hateful church for 20 years and listened to his ugly preacher spew lies and hatred about the US. Obama isn't running for the President of the US. He's running for the President of the KKK of A.

Posted by: Sandy | Sep 20, 2008 3:40:51 AM

Obama proved that he is not ready to be president by simply displaying his lack of leadership. He wants to hold off on his recovery plan and he mocked McCain for not having on few days before.

Obama is an empty suit and unfit to be President of the U.S.A.

Empty suit. Empty brain. Empty heart with no courage in it.

Posted by: Roger Miller | Sep 20, 2008 4:17:16 AM

Obama would vote present if he is not sure which way the window is blowing or which way it will blow.

He is a chicken-little trying to play in the big league.

Obama voted present one more time. He dropped the phone when he got the 3 AM call.

Go home Obama.

Posted by: Roger Miller | Sep 20, 2008 4:19:16 AM

Barack Obama, who lamented Friday that “we have not managed our federal budget with any kind of discipline,” is nonetheless promising to spend $50 billion on a United Nations anti-poverty program that critics say will drive up American debt.

“The short-term weakness in the capital market is a reflection of long-term problems that we have in our economy,” Obama told reporters in Florida. “We have been loading up enormous amounts of debt.”

Yet Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, have pledged tens of billions in new spending on a U.N. program that promises cash to poor countries. The program is one of eight sweeping “Millennium Development Goals” the U.N. adopted in 2000.

This along with the higher taxes he proposes on business's that will cut jobs to offset will open soup kitchens in america. Open your eyes people, the man has ZERO Experience and without a teleprompter admits he is muslim.

Tax and spend, tax and spend, America cannot afford Barrack Hussien Obama and the $400000.00 a year he will receive for the rest of his life if elected. Democrats prey on the stupid, smarten up people!!

Posted by: djb | Sep 20, 2008 5:11:21 AM

People ---- People ----

Cut McCain some slack. He is 72 and probably missed his nap that day. It is normal for McCain to assume that Spain is in Latin America and not Europe.

Posted by: Beto | Sep 20, 2008 5:42:53 AM

To Roger Miller. Easy for you to blame Obama. The republicans have ruined the country with a war in Irak because of the WMA. Where are the WMA ? 1 Trillion $ for a lie. You must blame the failure of the Bush admin . And vote for the arizona senilator John McCain.

Posted by: Fred | Sep 20, 2008 5:44:19 AM

Did you guys listen to the Situation Room Friday? At a rally, Palin consistently referred to her ticket as the Palin-McCain ticket. McCain stood right behind her beeming and smiling not award of the significance of her words. Others more awake, had shocked looks on their faces.

Posted by: Beto | Sep 20, 2008 5:46:48 AM

yeah, it's gone from Sarah the Gov. of Alaska, population 650,000, to head of the Republican ticket.

Palin/McCain 08
NO WAY!

Being close to Russia does NOT constitute experience in foreign affairs.

Posted by: Gus | Sep 20, 2008 6:17:03 AM

Let's face it folks. McCain has always been a bit stupid. McCain has always had a bad temper and a foul mouth.
Ever since I heard that he called his wife Cindy the "C" word in public whenever I hear or see the name I think "McC**t." Just can't help it!

Speaking of which, have you noticed the way the wrinkly old dude looks at Palin whenever they're together on stage?

Way creepy, reminds me of Grandpa on the Simpsons. If I were Cindy I'd cut off his allowance, at least.

Posted by: Bill in NC | Sep 20, 2008 6:31:20 AM

one candidate makes a gaffe every three months

another candidate makes a gaffe almost every day...

one candidate has been somewhere near the center of every slip up...losing us...

let's see

McCain Keating deregulation the s and L crisis

a trillion dollars


McCain Bush the Iraq war...

a trillion dollars

Mccain Gramm (Davis and Black as well) deregulation

a trillion dollars

at what point do people say the guy who is hanging out every time and fighting for the same policies as...the people and beliefs that cost us all this

should not have the keys to the economic engine?

Posted by: dl(the real one) | Sep 20, 2008 7:00:01 AM

and Roger Miller

that is the argument that got us George Bush, D!ck Cheney, Karl Rove, Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Brownie...

and the rest...

it is about temperament and making decisions like an adult...

unfortunately mccain clearly has shown...he doesn't know how to do that.

Posted by: dl(the real one) | Sep 20, 2008 7:03:03 AM

From:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/also-will-call-for-democratization.html

Thursday, September 18, 2008
Also Will Call For Democratization, Removal of Burger King

ABC News:

"At a joint rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Thursday, Republican John McCain slammed the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) for being "asleep at the switch" saying that if he were president, he would fire Chris Cox, the chairman of the SEC since 2005 and a former Republican congressman...
But while the president nominates and the Senate confirms the SEC chair, a commissioner of an independent regulatory commission cannot be removed by the president."

Perhaps he could name him President of Spain.

Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/also-will-call-for-democratization.html

Posted by: Marie Stewart | Sep 20, 2008 7:28:01 AM

I am convinced that the Republican ticket does not have the capacity to deal with the leadership of the United States and the complexities it entails. Even if Mr. McCaine was a younger man it seems that he has never shown the descipline and dedication to really accoplish anything on his own abilities except riding the coattails of others.

As for Palin she just is not ready for the international stage and the world cannot afford to wait four years for her to become knowledgeable about the magnitude of things that faces a President.

This Election should be a landslide if it werent for the closet racists. The Republican presidents always srew up the country and if you look closely they are more communistic than the democrats by placing most of the wealth in the hands of the few power elites and industrial complex.

They have done a very good PR job of making the american people think diffrent.

Posted by: mal | Sep 20, 2008 7:33:43 AM

Obama takes his advice from William Ayers, who bombed the Capitol, Pentag , several court houses and city halls in the 1960s and 70s. Obama served on boards with Ayers and Ayers hosted a fundraiser in his home (Obama attended). Ayers wears a ring recycled from a USA fighter jet shot down over N. Vietnam. He was presented that by the North Vietnam govt, in Canada.

Posted by: Colonel Reb | Sep 20, 2008 7:37:58 AM

the largest problem with mccain ---we do not know if he intentialy lies-----or if he is just that D-U-M-B PROBABLY A COMBINATION OF BOTH.

Posted by: rodney | Sep 20, 2008 7:41:58 AM

Obama/Biden all the awy to the WHITE HOUSE.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH OF THE 8 YEARS FAILED POLICIES.
McCAIN/PALIN= 8 YEARS BUSH FAILED POLICIES.

THIS IS OUR MOMENT, THIS IS OUR TIME.

Posted by: I.A.T smith | Sep 20, 2008 7:46:56 AM

Obama/Biden all the way to the WHITE HOUSE.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH OF THE 8 YEARS FAILED POLICIES.
McCAIN/PALIN= 8 YEARS BUSH FAILED POLICIES.

THIS IS OUR MOMENT, THIS IS OUR TIME.

Posted by: I.A.T smith | Sep 20, 2008 7:47:37 AM

MCCAIN IS THAT DESPERATE --HE LIES ABOUT ANYTHING----HE SHOWS HOW MUCH FANNY AND FREDDY EMPLOYEES GAVE TO OBAMA--------BUT HIDES THE 160 THOUSAND THE EXECS.GAVE HIM------WHAT A VILE OLD MAN HE IS.

Posted by: rodney | Sep 20, 2008 7:49:57 AM

Hmmm. Barak, is this like being in 57 states?

Posted by: david | Sep 20, 2008 7:52:47 AM

ORRR. Like not knowing a man was a racist after a 20 year relationship?

Posted by: david | Sep 20, 2008 7:54:33 AM

I'm really laughing when I read that NoBama thinks he has the elecion won. We want him and his followers to continue to believe this, even though McCain is ahead now in electoral projections. Obama is straight out of the Chicago "dirty" politics and continues to prove this. He will NEVER be POTUS, America will not let this happen to our beautiful country....NoBama will only stagnate the freedom we have. So, long...NoBama...America does not want you!

McCain/Palin 08!
"Country First!"

Posted by: Jane | Sep 20, 2008 7:55:05 AM

DAVID
IS THAT AS BAD AS LIVING IN AN ERA OF PROSPERITY DUE TO NAFTA------AS MCCAIN HAS CLAIMED----OR BOMB BOMB IRAN----OR WE ARE ALL GEORGIANS TODAY--OR THE ECONOMY IS FUNDEMENTALY STRONG----WOW THAT IS REALLY LAME

Posted by: rodney | Sep 20, 2008 7:56:43 AM

OUR PEOPLE ARE STILL DIEING IN IRAQ FIRST WE WON --THAT WAS YEARS AGO---NOW THE SURGR THE SURGE SOUNDS LIKE FANTACY ISLAND------AND C-H-I-N-A IS DEVELOPING AND HAULING THE OIL OUT OF IRAQ-----THE LAST 8 YEARS HAVE SHOWN HOW DUMB THE REPUBS ARE---AND MCBUSH IS NO DIFFERENT----OVER 4 THOUSAND LIVES AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS---AND FOR WHAT---OIL FOR CHINA---NO WAY NO MORE REPUBS

Posted by: rodney | Sep 20, 2008 8:06:47 AM

IF YOU VOTED FOR BUSH AND PLAN TO VOTE FOR MCCAIN THEN I SUGGEST THAT YOU CHECK YOURSELF INTO A MENTAL HOSPITAL BECAUSE YOU ARE CLINICALLY INSANE.

Posted by: GOPERS ARE STUPID | Sep 20, 2008 8:07:05 AM

Palin McCain Ticket - LOL. McC**t is sliding into dementia and the barracuda Palin is positioning herself on top of the ticket? Very Scary. And McInsane can't seem to stop her. He IS clearly losing his mental faculties slowly but surely. Why would any sane person take such a bellicose attitude towards Spain. The simple answer is he could not recall if Spain was a NATO ally in Europe or it was a country in Latin America run by a dictator. If McInsane is so clueless about this it is cause for great concern about how he will govern, He and Sara palin seem to be awfylly fond of starting wars and issuing bellicose statements. Their judgement is really a big issue.

Posted by: feminist50 | Sep 20, 2008 8:10:12 AM

DAVID--CHECK OUT PALINS MINISTER---WOW THIS GUY IS A REAL NUT.

Posted by: rodney | Sep 20, 2008 8:13:17 AM

There is no question about the fact that the supporters of the Palin-McCain ticket are INSANE.

Posted by: feminist50 | Sep 20, 2008 8:22:45 AM

SOME OFD YOU NEED TO GET PAST THE COLOR OF OBAMAS SKIN---REMEMBER HE IS HALF WHITE------IF YOU WOULD VOTE FOR A LIEING OLD GESER WHO DOES NOT KNOW FROM DAY TO DAY WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT.

AND GO AGAINST A BRILLIANT YOUNG MAN WHO CAN DO YOU SOME GOOD----YOU WILL BE LOOKING AT A GOVERNMENT WORSE THAN BUSH--MCCAIN IS SO FAR OUT OF TOUCH IT IS SCARY.
GOT TO GO
GOODBYE

Posted by: rodney | Sep 20, 2008 8:24:21 AM

And was Obama confused when he said there were 47 states or is it just his age or American history knowledge? What a joke he is!!

Posted by: virginia | Sep 20, 2008 8:24:51 AM

PETTY LITTLE CRAP WILL NOT SAVE OUR COUNTRY----BUT TALKING LIKE CHILDREN IN THE THIRD GRADE AT RECESS IS WHAT A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF YOU ARE ALL ABOUT--BUT THEN AGAIN IT TAKES ALL KINDS.
THE REAL ISSUES HAVE NO MEANING,PERHAPS SOME OF YOU ARE STILL IN THE THIRD GRADE.

Posted by: rodney | Sep 20, 2008 8:29:47 AM

Which Jane is which?
The LAST Jane I read seems to support McCain/Palin. However, the previous Jane who responded to Emma seems to support Obama.

Can either Jane clarify your position?

Posted by: Voter In America | Sep 20, 2008 8:33:10 AM