No you won't

If Obama wanted to really change the politice's in washington then why did he choose old politice's Biden as his running mate why didn't he pick someone like Palin. he just doesan't make any sense at all.

So the guy who has done nothing but attack McCain for voting with George Bush 90% of the time, but who himself votes with HIS party 97% of the time, now expects voters to believe he with "buck his own party" if President??

Yeah, right...................

Yeah, he'll "buck his party" by becoming just another George Bush.

Proof is in the pudding! He has done nothing for the country, NOTHING. No one believes him any more.

Palin has already done so much.

Palin is all that Obama wishes he was!

Dem for Palin/McCain

One of my reservations about Obama and the Democratic Party in general, is the increased influence of the ardent left wing/DailyKos apostles. They don't represent moderate middle class Democrats and it's very difficult to consider voting for a candidate who would give these groups any real power.

Obama has never reached across on anything - he kept a very low, safe profile when he bothered to actually vote on anything. And to hear him say he wil increase the military is laughable. There is not a Democrat (with the exception of Lieberman) who would do anything but gut the military.remember, these are the folks who repeatedly voted to cut off funding for our service people who were in a hard fight, just to server their masters, the Democrt party. If we add up everything Obama has promised across the primaries, we will all be broke. Obama saying he will stregthen the military is as big a lie as his claim he will reduce taxes. Where will he get the money to pay for his mile long list of proposed govt programs? Robbing 7-11's?

The more he try to SPIN it, the more his polls numbers are falling ...

Even before the full effect of RNC Convention Bounce is kicking in, the average of all polls (CNN, CBS, Gallup, Ramussen, Hotline) is showing Obama leading by a wafer thin margin of 1.8%. McCain is now 44.6% snapping away at Obama 46.4%

I know a lot of Obama supporters are going to say they do not believe in polls....they are afterall .... JUST POLLS !!!

Did anyone else notice how George corrected Obama's Freudan slip regarding him being a Muslim???

Then watch out for another woman that Obama campaign have scorned :

The "Play Victim Card" that Obama pulled on Geraldine Ferraro will return to bite Obama/Biden this Fall.

Ferraro remains angry at the “sexist treatment” of Mrs Clinton by the media. “In New Hampshire, someone put up a sign saying ‘Iron My Shirt’. Nobody spoke out. Imagine if Hillary’s supporters had said [to Obama] "SHINE MY SHOES". Everybody would quite rightly have been jumping on it. Women in politics should not be treated better than men, just FAIRLY.”

A host of "Ferraro Bridgade" will be pulling the lever this Fall. I do not want to speculate how they will be voting...but IT IS GOING TO BE a BLOC to be RECKONED with, now that PALIN on McCain ticket !!!

i am not impressed by a "HOCKEY MOM"

Actually both parties will raise taxes because they will have to -- the Bush debt will require a tax increase.

The difference is that Obama will raise taxes on those who can pay them and McCain will continue to short-change the middle class.

Interesting that the Republicans never mentioned the middle class, healtcare, or jobs at their recent convention. Of course, how could they since they have done nothing on thess issues.

No actually, Obama does have some bipartisan legislation to his name (the Lugar-Obama bill, the Coburn-Obama bill are two examples).

These statements " X votes with his party Y% of the time " are somewhat subjective because a lot of votes are not party-lines and it isnt' clear which way the person is supposed to be voting.

Similarly saying things like "Obama is the most liberal" or "McCain is the most conservative" is mostly just a matter of someone's opinion and can't be backed up in any sort of fact.

However, McCain actually bragged that he voted "with Bush more than any other senator". That gives you an idea of what kind of policies he will have in the future
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No, Obama never said increase troop.

He will never break his party.

He will never cross party, he is never friend of McCain or any Rep. high profile.

As I said he is just a calculator. Once he wins, he will do lots of things anger Dem.

Dem. made huge mistake nominating him.

I will vote for McCain this time. So, Hillary will have chance in 2012. I'm die hard Hillary supporter.

someone like palin lol

are you kidding me... what has palin done besides lie constantly as shes hit the stage

mccain said his vp pick would be a extremely important due to his age... HE SAID THAT

he also said this is a dangerous world and a presidential ticket cant have someone that needs on the job training...

what has palin done?

mccains political gamble has payed off with the base, but the rest of us arent morons who fall for them.

why wasnt she vetted?

mccains judgment cant be trusted and why is she not giving interviews

can you say crash course in policy and foreign policy

her world view is absolutely the worst thing i have ever seen. she is a very scary person

McCain vetted palin the same way he vetted the iraq war... not enough.

obama was running for the senate when he opposed the iraq war...

how is that safe?

just because you say something doesnt make it true

you republicans act like you can just say a fw elines and the last 8 years and last 19 months of campaigning can just be washed away

karl rove says tim kaine is too inexperienced as a governor with 4 years experience and only in charge of hte 105th largest city in the us

but palin is fine because she was in charge of 9k people and has 2 years

cmon

Does anyone know where I can find a clip of the Debra Bartshevich ad? The woman who the DNC stripped as a delegate because she was for Hillary but now is voting for McCain... Her ads have been pulled.

George Stephanopoulos,
After seeing your interview with Barack, I'm confident now more than ever that #1)you're an a**hole, #2)you're a racist! It's because of obvious racist journalists like you that make our country so screwed up, just like the McCain politicians you support. Make sure the next time you interview an African-American, you wear your white hood! You should be reporting for your true news network, FOX News, where you would feel at home. You're no unbias interviewer, just pathetic!
And all that support his reporting, and the ones who left the negative comments about Obama below, goes to show that there are still idiots in this country. Who in the hell would vote and show support for a man who has no true change for our country. Not to mention, a man that has said and voted that Bush was right over 90% of the time, and someone who is now stealing Obama's "Change" phrase. Oh, I know who, Racist white people who do not want to see an African American run our country, no matter that he's the best candidate running for office. African Americans always have to work or fight harder for the benefits of white america! I'm tired of this, and change is coming, whether you racist idiots want to see it or not! And in a decade or so, you all will be the new minority in this country, so you'll know what it feels like. If Obama had an ounce of the problems that Palin and McCain had, George and those like him would be all over it, but the media is down-playing a lot of this. I'm glad Barack is where he is because he's exposing all of the true racist white people in this country, and I'm keeping a mental note of all of this! You all, along with Steponopoulos, are pathetic. Make sure this November you all go into the voter's both with y'all white hoods on!

Obama hasn't done anything? Obama hasn't reached across party lines? You people really need to do your research. Obama worked with a Republican on a measure to help keep WMDs off the black market. He has championed ethics reform. He bucked against his party on the FISA bill because it was a compromise measure that gave him some of the things he wanted, but not others (that was unpopular with his party).

Obama has already shown that he will work with Republicans. He has already shown a willingness to compromise and work out bills that will pas rather than get stuck with each side demanding an all or nothing mentality.

The Dems did want to cut off troop funding, in order to bring an end to an illegal and immoral war. That does not mean that Obama will not grow our military. We need more boots in our Army, and fewer cold war projects that have hampered us so much. Obama helped get the GI bill passed, while McCain, once again, opposed helping our veterans.

Palin has done more than Obama? Yep, she sure has. She requested more earmarks for her state (per capita) than any governor in the country. She attempted to ban books from the town library. She had to hire an administrator to run her town when she showed her incompetence in doing it. Her town receives 20 times the pork per person than the average citizen. Despite record surpluses, she increased consumption taxes on things like food, borrowed money to pay for unneeded projects while she left the infrastructure untouched, and left her small town 22 million in debt. She swept her veto pen as Governor. Unfortunately she used it on everything she didn't understand, and the state congress was forced to restore most of those projects, as they were vital to Alaska. She sued when the polar bear went on the endangered list, because that would protect land that big oil wants to drill on. She has shown a NIxonian attitude as a politician, and viciously attacks anyone who does not agree with her. She NEVER works across party lines, and is an all or nothing radical right wing ideologue.

McCain? He has flip flopped on more issues than I can count. WHenever he thinks he can get a vote, he changes his mind. He is no Maverick. What policies he HAS talked about, he is squarely in the Bush camp. His idea of change is to do things the Bush/Cheney way, just bigger and more of it. His campaign is run by lobbyists. His foreign policy is written by foreign lobbyists. SOme of his campaign lobbyists are lobbyists to dictators with ties to terrorists. Some change there.

If you want change, how can you possibly vote for the party that created the mess we are currently in? McCain has admitted that his party has failed and has become corrupt. Why should we trust it?

It is time to return the Dems to power. Last time they were in power we had a great economy, and were respected in the world. It is time for us to return to those values.

You are not what you say you are. You are what you have done.

Obama has never and will never buck his party.

He is simply full of it.

How can we believe you will buck your party as president when you voted 97% of the time with your own party?

Can we take a 3% chance? And McCain voted 88% with the Pubs. At Harvard, did they teach you that 12% was greater than 3%?

"Obama has already shown that he will work with Republicans."

This is just just plain silly.

No he won't - he will do exactly as his puppet masters say - Axelrod, Biden, Pelosi, Dean, Kerry, Brazile and God Help Him, Kennedy.

Also, let us not forget his two greatest advisors, Michelle and dear, dear Granny - who was pulled out from under the bus briefly for a campaign ad and then thrown back.

We know Obama cannot do or say anything without "direction", a script and a teleprompter.

PUMA! McCain/Palin 2008 - In lieu of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her sex.”

- Susan B. Anthony

Yeah right. Another lie from Obama. I am shocked. He tells people what he thinks they want to hear.

Obama will and has gone against his party and general public opinion by saying that the Iraq war was the wrong war to be fighting. He said it long before it was a popular thing for people to say and he said it while he was a candidate for office. Obama has the courage, the fortitude, and the intelligence to lead this country. Most of all he will not make rash decisions that put our country at risk and he will not lie to us...something that Bush/McCain/Palin seem to have no problem doing.

Sarah Palin threw her entire family under the bus by allowing her political ambition to make them a public spectacle and fodder for tabloid magazines.

Obama has not bucked anything in his career thus far. This Obama cannot stop lying.

This is the interview in which Sen. Obama says, "...my Muslim faith..." is it not?

Does he even know who or what he is? Republican or Democrat? Muslim or Christian? For the war or against the war? For drilling or against drilling?
For FISA or against FISA? For public financing or against public financing?

The list goes on. And, what I most want to know is he Pro American or Anti America?

With friends like Wright and Ayers, it's a valid question.

And, a question which has not been answered to my satisfaction. Even though I disagree with McCain/Palin, at least I know from where they're coming.

And, I don't worry that they don't like this country very much, as I do with Sen. Obama.

I don't understand what convention folks were watching when they wrote the RNC "never mentioned the middle class, healtcare, or jobs at their recent convention." I highly recommend to either "read" the transcript of McCain's speech, or watch a video of his speech!

He did address these areas!

"My health care plan will make it easier for more Americans to find and keep good health care insurance."

"Keeping taxes low helps small businesses grow and create new jobs. Cutting the second highest business tax rate in the world will help American companies compete and keep jobs from moving overseas."

"Doubling the child tax exemption from $3500 to $7000 will improve the lives of millions of American families."

"Reducing government spending and getting rid of failed programs will let you keep more of your own money to save, spend and invest as you see fit."

"Opening new markets and preparing workers to compete in the world economy is essential to our future prosperity."

"I know some of you have been left behind in the changing economy and it often seems your government hasn’t even noticed. Government assistance for unemployed workers was designed for the economy of the 1950s. That’s going to change on my watch. My opponent promises to bring back old jobs by wishing away the global economy. We’re going to help workers who’ve lost a job that won’t come back, find a new one that won’t go away."

"We will prepare them for the jobs of today. We will use our community colleges to help train people for new opportunities in their communities. For workers in industries that have been hard hit, we'll help make up part of the difference in wages between their old job and a temporary, lower paid one while they receive retraining that will help them find secure new employment at a decent wage."

"Education is the civil rights issue of this century. Equal access to public education has been gained. But what is the value of access to a failing school? We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition, empower parents with choice, remove barriers to qualified instructors, attract and reward good teachers, and help bad teachers find another line of work."

Obama bucking anything... hmmm... he has such a long strong record of... oh wait, he doesn't have a long record of anything... except self-promotion...

He said he was against the war before he had any power to make a difference to the Senate vote. By the way, we only have his "word" he said that he would not support the war. No tape exists of that momentous event.

He also later said he agreed with Bush’s policy and conduct of the war, but that was later scrubbed from his site.

When he came to the Senate he voted to support the war. As quoted by Hillary Clinton, “So I think that once you’re in a position of responsibility and you actually have to be counted by what you do or what you look for, his record is the same as many of us.”

Then, after beating Hillary up for her vote on the war (while allowing himself to be endorsed by people like Daschle and Kerry, who voted for the war) he turned around and selected as his VEEP, Biden, who ALSO supported the war...

Yeah, Obama is a man of his convictions, all right, can't say enough about his "courage" in opposing all things he thinks is wrong...

Obama's opinions change like the weather and just about as often. True student of Kerry, first I was for, before I was against...

I guess that is what he means by change and “bucking the party” …
Spare me.

PUMA! McCain/Palin 2008 - In lieu of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her sex.”

- Susan B. Anthony

"Sarah Palin threw her entire family under the bus by allowing her political ambition to make them a public spectacle and fodder for tabloid magazines."
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Considering that Palin was already givernor of Alaska you can say that her daughter Bristol threw her family under the bus by getting pregnant out of wedlock knowing that her mother was a political figure. You argument is lame. You can say that about any public figure. It comes with the territory. If the Obamabots are so concerned about the welfare of Palin's family then stop bringing them up. I am sure they are proud of Sarah just like Obama's girls are proud of him.

1. When George S. asks a question, let the interviewee answer it! Too big of an idiot to be covering campaigns.

2. Goldgirlusa - voting for McCain so that Hillary can have a chance in 2012 has got to be the most moronic thing stated on this page. NO ONE is worth 4 more Bush-twin years. Clearly you have no idea of how much damage can be done in 4 little years.

3. Obama Supporter - read your post. Take your medication, man! You're sounding like some hold-over, LSD droppin', Black Panther from the 60's. I am not a McCain supporter, but it's rabbid, over the top ranting like yours that gives Repubs momentum. Regain your rationality and sanity, and don't paint all racists as white. Don't know your ethicity and don't care, but you are coming across as racist against whites and painting them all as racists and as republicans. Yes, in case it never occurred to you, racist is a person against certain RACES, not just whites against blacks.

4. If the "Geraldine F. Club" votes McCain just because his running mate is a woman, they will be proving to the he-man-woman-hater's club that they are right about how stupid women are. I think women are smarter and will make an intelligent choice. If we were going to vote based on gender, Hillary would be the nominee instead of Obama.

5. Original Pechanga - Of course Obama didn't break with the party in the senate - that would have been siding with Bush. What he said is that he has ideas that will not be popular with some Dems. If you're going to rant, then listen before you do.

6. At this point, the polls mean nothing. It's the polls three weeks out from election that will be the barometer.

7. In the days of Lincoln, the GOP used to be just that, the Grand Ol' Party. Now, it's a platform for the religious right. Back in the days when debates were intelligent and campaigns were truly about issues and intelligent discussion. When will we be smart enough to get religion out of politics. No one ever asked Lincoln if he believed in God, and no one expected him to make decisions based on religious faith. If you require expressions of faith from your candidates, you are begging to be lied to.

8. Saying Palin has foreign relations/national security experience because her state is so close to Russia is the same as saying Arnold does, too, because he's Austrian and California is close to Mexico, and all the north border governors do as well because they are close to Canada. If this is what McCain calls national security experience, we really should be terrified now!

Some ridiculous comments here from the Palinistas / McSamers, totally devoid of logic.

So let me put it simply:

McCain's party is the INCUMBENT that has driven the agenda in Washington for the last 8 year. They represent the status-quo.

Obama's party is the CHALLENGER that just by not being the incumbent and by opposing the incumbents on most major issues, represents change by definition.

By voting with his party, even if he is voting with his party 100% of the time, Obama is still voting for change in Washington.

But by McCain voting with his party 90% of the time, he has certainly not been voting for change!

Get it?

Do you think that Obama misspoke and "buck" was not the word he really meant? Let's all ask Chris Matthews.

Obama will buck ANYTHING that keeps him from being number one. Including: Grandma, his UNCLE, THE REAL DEMOCRATS, WOMEN, WoRKING CLASS. Yeah, he's a real uniter that one. Boy, he dropped that theme like a hot potato didn't he. He used it to bring in the idealist, then reality hit. The real Obama promotes division by sex, race, class and now he's trying religion.

Obama may buck his party if elected but will he buck the terrorists, criminals, sex deviates and religious crazies that he has keep close all his adult life? I doubt it. They are sitting in the wings just waiting.
What change?-- He will bring in the Chicago/Illinois type of hoodlums to the Washington scene. I guess that is the change we will see.

Disappointed in Stephanopolis this a.m. No one spoke of s. Palin's qualifications. Talked around it. I guess they haven't read the IReport on Fri. where a constituant from Alaska cites other "firings" during her administration....looks like a pattern. this election is too important to take a chance on someone with a bad temper.
A Republican.

He didn't say he'd reduce healthcare litigation costs, he said he'd work on "how to reduce litigation costs", and specifically failed to answer Stephanopolous' follow-up question about Tort Reform.

Obama has taken millions of dollars from the same group of Trial Lawyers who put John Edwards into position, and has never, ever voted against Tort Reform in his entire career.

Isn't this a huge potential liability in his campaign?

People didn't have to ask Lincoln if he believed in God ... Just take a look at his Inaugural Address (3/4/1865)...
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Most important of all, we DO NOT want a government with Pelosi, Reid, Obama and Biden. That would be a huge disaster!! No socialism in America!!!!

If McCain become president this country will go further down a hole than it already is. Those who support McCain, the GOP and President Bush are obviously doing well, economically secure and rich enough to avoid serving in Iraq or elsewhere. Governments topple throughout the world when people start hurting. Perhaps, in the United States, it will take another 4 years of Bush/GOP economic policies for that to happen.

This, I think, was one of the most telling segments of George's interview. Obama has NEVER bucked his party. I wish George had followed up with questions on this one.
Take a look at the Rolling Stone interview last year. Obama is the consummate inside player, despite his personal aloofness. His campaign manager, David Axelrod, is a Daley machine insider.
He accepts large donations from the American Trial Lawyers Association according to USA Today's issue this weekend. He has managed to find the loopholes in the $2,300 individual limits for donations by getting the attorneys who represent big donors to bundle donations. That was also in a USA Today article during the Democratic Primary in about April. He is as much an insider as anyone. Even his pick of Jeremiah Wright's church was calculated because Wright was a political kingmaker on the South Side of Chicago. Wright gave Obama street cred. Obama is a lot of things but he is not a change agent.

Democrats are as clueless as the candidate they support, especially Obama Supporter. The whole claim of racism is ridiculous.

Sarah Palin is a right-wing extremist, from banning library books to cutting funds to help young mothers keep and care for their babies, to firing people she doesn't think are "loyal" enough to her, not believing in evolution and wanting creationism taught in schools, not thinking mankind has anything to do with global warming, not being pro-choice (which means the individual and her doctor decide what they do in their lives, not the government), and making fun of community organizers, the volunteers and low-wage people who actually work for the betterment of their fellow citizens. Like Habitat for Humanity, AmeriCore, Susan B. Anthony and Jesus. I want candidates who respect others, do not jeer at them, and who do not try to impose their narrow ideas on everyone else. Statesmen and women work for the betterment of humankind.
What I've always disliked about the Republican party is the mean-spiritedness and the real enjoyment they seem to take in picking apart their opponents at their conventions. John McCain has always said that he is against the extremist elements in both parties, but he's now using just such an extremist if it will help him get elected. She is scary, and so is he for choosing her.

Obama’s Plan to Promote Honest and Open Debate

http://www.nysun.com/national/anti-obama-bloggers-say-they-were-silenced/83179/

Obama has been successful because of the center, the left and the right wanting change, not all of them, but just enough of them to throw the Schmidt and Rove tactics off this election cycle. We will know in a few weeks just how much America wants change. McCain has run to the right with Palin who Schmidt is trying to package as a moderate. Her handlers are saying that she will never do interviews with Meet the Press or even a show like Georges. I don't understand why? George is a nice guy. He understands the voters what to know where the candidates stand on issues. Now don't get me wrong George will look very serious when he asks “What are the 3 issues where you will go against your own Party?” Of course the questions and answers are designed to make the headlines. But this is wants makes us comfortable with the candidates that they can communicate with us watching even with hard questions like this. Now George always has a light side and he showed it when he asked Obama if he would play basketball with Palin. George goes from a serious look to a smile when he asks this. I laughed about the basketball question. After the interview, I went on line and played some of my favorite basketball videos - Ultimate Pistol Pete Maravich MIX, Magic Johnson- Greatest PG of All-Time, Larry Bird – with John Mellencamp's Small Town track, and of course the man himself Michael Jordon.

Both candidates are saying they are going to reach across party lines. Who can do it best is the question voters need to answer.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation. - Susan B. Anthony

Obama asserted in a Colorado Springs speech that the U.S. needs a “civilian national security force” that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the half-trillion dollar Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force. In the July 2 speech in Colorado Springs, Obama insisted the U.S. “cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set.”He continued, “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”"Big Brother had nothing on the Obamas,” said IBD. “They plan to herd American youth into government-funded re-education camps where they’ll be brainwashed into thinking America is a racist, oppressive place in need of ’social change.

Obama buck his party? Which one is that exactly?
The Communist party perhaps?

Great to see Obama finally profess his Muslim faith though, even if he did so accidentally.

The voters drinking the Obama Kool-Aid by the gallons simply dismiss this as a slip of the tongue gaffe that Stephanopoulos prompted him to correct.
Of course the key word "my" in "my Muslim faith" tells all and the fact Obama did not catch himself tells more because why should the real Obama
subconsciously correct a truth.

So what's the big deal about his religious preference? None on it's face, only politically.

What everyone should be asking now:

How can we possibly know Obama's true agenda?

In what harm's way may this self-proclaimed national defense disarming, socio-marxist appeaser place our families?

Obama thinks he is playing a game of poker. He is trying to match the maverick of John McCain because he knows that is part of what people like about John McCain. It is true. John McCain has a reputation of standing up and opposing things he does not believe in. He also has a reputation of fighting for what he believes in. We know it already.

Obama will say what he needs to say to cover his behind in an interview. But, look out! The next time he speaks in front of teachers, lawyers, or anyone hoping to reduce military costs, he will "refine" what he meant. Everyone is still trying to define what he meant in the Warren interview about a decision being "above my pay grade".

Give him another rock concert in Germany or another fireworks/concert. He needs a boost full of rhetoric signifying nothing.

I will agree this nation is ready for an African American President.
I will also agree we need a "good" African Amercian President.

But Obama is not he. Thoughout Obama's campaign he has relied on decades old vicimization. And the only change we are seeing is what his positions are.
He won primaries espousing changes in hotbutton topics voters could identify with. Even though most of these topics are outside the scope of the president and congress. Go back and read these transcripts. Pay attention to what he says now.

Voter's are so gullible!

Throughout this campaign the media has treated Obama with kid gloves. Why?
It is not politically correct to vet an African American. I guess this is called reverse racism.

Is Obama racist? Just download his speech on racism. It is peppered with racist comments. Early into the speech he plays the victim card. "My wife has the blood of slaves in her" Well, guess what, this is a statement whites can make as well. They just have to go back several hundred more years. Not just 150.

I want a black candidate who does not play the victim card. I want a black candidate who will espouse some of what I have heard from Bill Cosby. One who will remove blacks from the influence of the Jesse Jacksons, Al Sharptons, Rev Wrights who have gotten rich playing the vicimation cards and have in effect been responsible to holding the African Americans down.

It has been 44 years since Johnson's civil rights legislation. Has there been change? Yes, but so much has not changed. What is the promise of America?
It is he, an individual, has the opportunity to lift himself up and achieve. Obama is an example of this.
But many blacks have sat on their asses and done nothing. More content to blame someone else (whites) for their failure to achieve.

In the late 1970's we allowed refugees from Vietnam to settle in the United States. The came here with "nothing".
They too, suffered from discrimination. After all, many American boys died in their country. Thirty years later where are these people? Their children?
Many have achieved the Amercian dream.
They have gone to college. Gotten degrees. Are they out there sitting on a perch decrying racial injustice?
They own their own homes. They began with nothing, could not speak the language. As in the words of Martin Luther King. They have overcome!
But they did it by working hard!

American jobs going overseas is not something the government can legislate.
We have a constitution that allows business owners to buy products from 99% of the world. It is you the Amercian public who controls this. Buy Amercian. Pay more for an American product. Jobs will return. It is you who has allowed this move to happen.
Now, if the government can ban the personal computer and ban the internet this could make a difference. After all, this technology has aided greatly making it affordable, in real time, to effect foreign commerce.

Domestically, the greed of mortgage industry at all levels, has crippled our economy. This has to play out a little longer. The government can not afford to bail out everyone.

Oil. Whether a consideration or not for why we went into Iraq it is in our interest to make their oil available to the world. Keep it out of the hands of terrorists. Iraq is important.
Should we drill or not? Already increase "world" consumption has helped deplete production surpluses. Will their be real shortages in 5 years, 10 years, if we do not drill now? The only plus to our waiting, I can see, is we use all their oil first and we will then still have our oil.
As to gas guzzlers. Gasoline is a garbage component of gasoline. If we did not have cars the oil companies would have to pay to dispose of it.
And what about the other 20 gallons per barrel used for heating oil, chemicals, jet fuel, asphalt. I have never heard there is a surplus of chemicals. What happens to our chemical industry if we were to use 50% less gas. One can't go a day not touching something made from oil. Be it clothing, carpeting, food containers, plastics, etc.

He said "my muslim faith" and when Steph corrected him with "Christian faith" he accepted the correction and repeated it. This act PROVES beyond a doubt that he IS a Muslim. The Obama campaign will try to argue that what he *meant* to say was to admit that, ok, McCain had not been talking about "my alleged Muslim faith" or "my so-called Muslim faith". In that case, however, he would have insisted on correcting the statement in a different way. NOT by inserting "Christian" for "Muslim" (as Stephanopoulos did), BUT by inserting "alleged". He did not, but rather accept Steph's correction. Which proves he realized he had just told the truth and was grateful for any help he could get out of it.

As a long time Republican I have to say that I am dismayed by the politics, the maneuvering and what i perceive as dishonesty of John McCain...I supported G. Bush as did McCain and I want a President I can trust. Come on John, drop this maverick spin you are trying to play...you are from the right and you have been behind George...don't deceive people..be a man and stand up to what you are instead of just saying what might work. The Republican party are supposed to be straight shooters and they are not right now...I must say that even if I am not that excited about Obama I will vote for him over McCain who is playing dirty.
I think he is capable of getting our country in more trouble than we already are in.

McCaint-Pollen have to 'buck their Party'; because the Republi-con Party IS CORRUPT!!

McCaint-Pollen are in effect acknowledgin that the Republi-con Party NEED CLEANSING!
THEY DESERVE NO 'brownie points'!

One only needs to go against one's Party when the Party is letting down the American people.

Ombama crafted Ethics Reform AGAINST BOTH PARTIES! lol

2007 Most Liberal Senators (ranked by Liberal Score)

#1. Obama, Barack, D-Ill. (95.5)
#2. Whitehouse, Sheldon, D-R.I. (94.3)
#3. Biden, Joseph, D-Del. (94.2)
#4. Sanders, Bernie, I-Vt. (93.7) (Socialist)
#8. Boxer, Barbara, D-Calif. (89.8)
#9. Reid, Harry, D-Nev. (89.2)
#15. Schumer, Charles, D-N.Y. (83)
#17. Clinton, Hillary Rodham, D-N.Y. (82.8)
#20. Kerry, John, D-Mass. (79.5)
#28. Kennedy, Edward, D-Mass. (76.2)

http://www.nationaljournal.com/voteratings/sen/lib_cons.htm?o1=lib_composite&o2=desc

I am reluctantly supporting barack, but whats with people saying he won't buck his party? He's already bucked half his party during the primaries by trying to silence voters of MI, and FL until it was too late matter and then again trying to silence democratic delegates by dragging his feet on allowing a roll call. LOL if it suits him politically he will buck the party.

Are any of you people who say Barack Obama hasn't done anything actually live in Illinois. If you don't why don't you come visit and see all he's done and stop listening to other people and make up your own mind. The republicans are going to stretch the facts to make them look like fiction.
Think about it isn't this a competion and hasn't anyone stretched the truth on you to the point that it doesn't even remotely match the facts.

The Democratic Party is now The Socialist/Communist/Liberal Party and its a joke.

Run by a bunch of anti war nutjobs and gasbags.

Obama will turn this country into WW 2 Germany if he wins.

Get ready to say Heil Obama

Obama will lose because he is a phony and he sucks.

Mccain/Palin 2008

Homer J Simpson said it the best

" LOUSY DEMOCRATS"

MCCAIN/PALIN 2008

MAKE THE ANTI WAR SCHLEPPS EAT DIRT!!!!!!

I will buck my party as President should be changed to i will F the country as President.

McCain will lose because he is the type of person who told nasty jokes in public about chelsea clinton when she was a little girl during the 2000 campaign. God will punish him for hurting her so (I mean, she was just a little girl... how could he do something so cruel?).

Sarah Palin strongly believes that Men must be paid MORE than women! Sarah Palin also wants to force women/girls that are victims of rape/incest to carry such fetuses resulting from the said rape/incest to full term, then deliver the baby - irrespective of the will of the victim or even her age. And to think that women are cheering Sarah Palin from the rooftops as the poster girl of womens rights who will spectacularly smash through that presidential/Vice presidential glass ceiling.

Some folks wrongly think that being a woman she will moderate or help turn McCain around from his opposition to equal pay to women. Like this statement one Dave from Baltimore, posted on another site:”I hope Palin breaks with McCain on equal pay for equal work - it would pave the way to a better future for her four children and grandson.”

Are you kidding me?!!! Gov. Palin is even more hardcore in her opposition to equal pay for WOMEN, than is McCain. Sarah Palin believes that women must be paid LESS than men - no ifs and buts about it. Period.

McCain, when pushed about his vote AGAINST giving women equal pay as men, has tried to flip-flop saying that ‘if women are to aspire to equal pay, they must first aspire to achieve college eduction”.

In other words, in McCain’s world, only college educated women shall be extended equality with men in terms of pay/wages. Sarah Palin’s views about (rather against) equal pay for women are very straightforward, and cast in stone: Women must get paid LESS than men. College educated or not, when it comes to pay parity, women are less than men. Coming from a Woman herself, its ironic, but true!

Kind of like an Afro-American person advocating slavery and segregation of the black population!! Wierd isn’t it?

Strangely, Sarah Palin is being trumpeted as the symbol of a woman smashing through the glass ceiling!

(We are not even going into her strident opposition to abortion even if the pregnancy is a result of rape/incest, and the victim wants to abort the fetus. Sarah Palin believes that such rape/incest survivors must be forced to carry the fetus resulting from rape/incest to term, then deliver the baby. NO exceptions, no termination. If such a woman chooses to abort the baby, she commits a crime, and must be tried as a criminal and punished for opting to abort the fetus. Even if the pregnant female is a MINOR child, she would still have to deliver the baby.

Just so you know, several courts in the country have allowed visitation/parental rights to rapists and the parents or rapists to meet and bond with children born due to the said rape.

I shudder to even imagine what happens when victims of rape/incest are forced to bear the children resulting from the rape (one Sarah Palin’s wishes becomes the law), and then having to drop off the child at the rapists (child’s father) door for court sanctioned visits to dad. What would go through the mother’s mind? Would such rapists not molest these children all over again. What if this rapist rapes this child/daughter all over again…repeating this unbelievably grotesque cycle!!!!!!

Is this American women we are talking about or some burqa clad subjugated women from some Taliban country?!

Sam

setu.madhavan@gmail.com

Obama proved today that he is indeed a Muslim. I have defended him in the past, saying there's no way he is a Muslim. No longer. His own words may have sunk his campaign. MCCAIN-PALIN '08

Obama proved today that he is indeed a Muslim. I have defended him in the past, saying there's no way he is a Muslim. No longer. His own words may have sunk his campaign. MCCAIN-PALIN '08

In my response, you probaly was not going to vote for him in the first place. They are many that want to continue suffering than to vote for Obama. He has my vote.
I PRAY FOR OBAMA AND HIS CAMPAIGN

"McCain Who? Palin '08"

I hear that a lot, and I'm in Arizona. Palin may be as broken as all of the other politicians, but I know one thing for sure. She is genuine. A "genuine" person will be humble and listen to, and embrace criticism, then grow from it. OK so she has had little experience in the eyes of some. I believe it's the perfect formula. She may make mistakes, but I'm confident she will learn from them. She has already pubically stated that she has learned from the pitfalls of taking earmarks, and has apologized for it. That's the kind of leader I want. Some say that's weakness, but in reality it's being strong and marks a true leader. Remember a leader is successful when those he/she leads wants to emulate him/her.

Iran’s leadership has expressed “great pleasure” at the prospect of a Barack Obama victory in November, according to Menashe