Obama peaked to early. It is sad really!

Gallup shows the tides are changing!

Palin and McCain rock!

Democrat for McCain - Palin 2008

As a foreign observer of the US elections, I really do want McCain to win in November.

This is not because he is the better than Obama. He will only fast track the downfall of the US as the most powerful country in the world.

America's standing in the world has diminished over the last 8 years and many people in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe can't wait for it to finally collapse both economically and politically.

History teaches us that empires reign but they also fall at some point. A lot of people outside the US really like Obama and believe that he can lead America back to the position it was during the Clinton years of prosperity and global respect.

However, we dont want him to win because the world is tired of America's dominance. Hence, John McCain will better serve the purpose of finally putting to rest the American dream...ha! ha! ha!

Please vote for the dullard and unintelligent JOHN McCAIN and SARAH PALIN who believes that the world is just 5,000 years old!

A people deserve the type of leader they get.

McSame tries to convince people he is not like Bush, with whom he voted 95% of the time. Yeah, right John. So why did he appoint an extreme right-winger evangelical who is more like Bush than Bush himself? McSame is a hypocrite, and Palin is a lightweight.

Palin is one of the biggest pork wranglers in the country. How exactly is she going to help McCain reform earmarks?

All you big Palin supporters need to understand 1 thing. McCain is using her to get you. I'll guarantee you right now that, if he wins, she will be stashed in a basement office while he and Joe Lieberman run the country. You are being used and are too naive to 'get it'.

When it comes to ideology and the issues, Sarah Palin stands for everything the world doesn't like about America.

Half of Americans couldn't care less, for they don't care about the world, they care about Palin's provincial ideology and talking points.

As a result, a McCain-Palin victory in November will put an end to America's international stature as a Super Power of western ideas and values.

It will put an end to the greatness of the United States.

We'll be another province, another international Alaska.

BILLIONS of people, all over the world, will feel VERY sorry about that.

In the meantime, Americans are enjoying, while tearing up, the pics in US or PEOPLE of the Palin family... hunting... snowboarding... playing with the kids... and that little Trig...

Poor America! Once the Home of the brave... Once the great producer of fresh ideas and strong values, the pusher of the frontiers of liberty, the great fighter for justice and equality...

America 2008... a country that supports torture, that spies on its own citizens... a country that spits on its own brilliant Constitution....

I feel bad.

"Welcome to Alaska. Set your watch back 20 years." Sarah Palin, Governor.

Clarice Feldman:

Sunday Biden says life begins at conception. Over the weekend Obama said he'll not rescind the Bush tax cuts if the economy remained in trouble. Earlier on O'Reilly he said the surge did work.

Backtracking on the surge, taxes and abortion. Hmm. Next thing you know Obama and Biden will start campaigning in red open-toed shoes and frameless glasses.

As a foreign observer of the US elections, I really do want McCain to win in November.

This is not because he is the better than Obama. He will only fast track the downfall of the US as the most powerful country in the world.

America's standing in the world has diminished over the last 8 years and many people in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe can't wait for it to finally collapse both economically and politically.

History teaches us that empires reign but they also fall at some point. A lot of people outside the US really like Obama and believe that he can lead America back to the position it was during the Clinton years of prosperity and global respect.

However, we dont want him to win because the world is tired of America's dominance. Hence, John McCain will better serve the purpose of finally putting to rest the American dream...ha! ha! ha!

Please vote for the dullard and unintelligent JOHN McCAIN and SARAH PALIN who believes that the world is just 5,000 years old!

A people deserve the type of leader they get.

Since I know of at least ONE of these BUSH-LINKS to be false, I have to assume the rest are suspect:

" Like Bush, supports the teaching of Creationism alongside Evolution in public schools;..."

FACT: Palin does not support Creationism to be taught in the school. In fact - her father was a Science teacher.

When questioned about creationism in the school, she clarified an min-interpreted remark that while she believed if the topic of creationism came up as discussion in school - the discussion should not be forbidden.

That is called FREEDOM OF SPEECH. People who are secure in their beliefs do not fear the open exchange of ideas.

You people are putting your faith in GWB II and somebody who has given one speech to the nation. Doesn't it bother you in the least that she didn't know what the VP's job was? What if McCain dies in office. Will she ask what the President does?

Obama is now reaping all the crap that he has sown. He had a chance to follow through on an originality theme but gave that up to accommodate big corporate bucks and DC business as usual.

This race should not be about Obama anyway. It should be about 8 years of disastrous rule by the GOP and the guy who promises more of the same! Issues, Issues, Issues.

Unfortunately for Obama, he had already made the Wright decision.

Obama should know he just been out smarted. If it had picked Hillary....he would have won! I hope that is what Bill is going to tell him at their lunch on Thursday.Hillary 2012!!

Some of you people are voting against your own interests by voting McCain. Obviously the future of this country is at stake and McCain/Palin are not the ones to fix it.

I was a Clinton supporter but now I am thrilled to vote for Palin and McCain.

I was clear from the beginning that Obama was all talk and no substance. It is great to have some real change makers to vote for in McCain and Palin.

Obama proved his lack of judgment when he voted against the surge and then again when he picked Biden over Clinton. Obama/Clinton would have been unbeatable but Obama's arrogance got in the way.

I am so glad that McCain picked Palin.

I am so excited about election day!

Posted by: Josie & Bill | Sep 8, 2008 9:15:27 AM

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How could a Hillary supporter be"thrilled" to vote for Palin?

Obviously one might be pleased that a woman is on the ticket somewhere, but if that thrills you, you were never a Hillary supporter for any substantive reason.

If your political motives are so shallow as to only want to vote for a female, then you are hopeless.

The differences between Hillary and Palin are so vast they could divide a nation, and they do.

To suggest that simply because Palin is ALSO a woman, and therefore "thrilling" is either a sign that America is lost, or that you are another Republican liar, thinking that other voters are as shallow as you in your ruse.

I highly doubt that there are ANY Hillary supporters that would go completely against the policies and ideology Hillary represents for America to vote for one of the most abysmal VPs of any election since Dan Quayle.

How unfortunate that you disrespect our intelligence with what amounts to pornography in your comments.

Obviously you would also have us believe that you are writing for TWO people, as if you both consulted and agreed, or that you both shared the keyboard to write this unfortunate commentary.

Either that or you suffer from multiple personality issues. Not to mention that having a bowel movement must "thrill" you as well, based on the feces you just posted here.

Can the super-rich former governor of Massachusetts — the son of a Fortune 500 C.E.O. who made a vast fortune in the leveraged-buyout business — really keep a straight face while denouncing “Eastern elites”

Can the former mayor of New York City, a man who, as USA Today put it, “marched in gay pride parades, dressed up in drag and lived temporarily with a gay couple and their Shih Tzu” — that was between his second and third marriages — really get away with saying that Barack Obama doesn’t think small towns are sufficiently “cosmopolitan”?

Can the vice-presidential candidate of a party that has controlled the White House, Congress or both for 26 of the past 28 years, a party that, Borg-like, assimilated much of the D.C. lobbying industry into itself — until Congress changed hands, high-paying lobbying jobs were reserved for loyal Republicans — really portray herself as running against the “Washington elite”?

Yes, they can.

On Tuesday, He Who Must Not Be Named — Mitt Romney mentioned him just once, Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin not at all — gave a video address to the Republican National Convention. John McCain, promised President Bush, would stand up to the “angry left.” That’s no doubt true. But don’t be fooled either by Mr. McCain’s long-ago reputation as a maverick or by Ms. Palin’s appealing persona: the Republican Party, now more than ever, is firmly in the hands of the angry right, which has always been much bigger, much more influential and much angrier than its counterpart on the other side.

What’s the source of all that anger?

Some of it, of course, is driven by cultural and religious conflict: fundamentalist Christians are sincerely dismayed by Roe v. Wade and evolution in the curriculum. What struck me as I watched the convention speeches, however, is how much of the anger on the right is based not on the claim that Democrats have done bad things, but on the perception — generally based on no evidence whatsoever — that Democrats look down their noses at regular people.

Thus Mr. Giuliani asserted that Wasilla, Alaska, isn’t “flashy enough” for Mr. Obama, who never said any such thing. And Ms. Palin asserted that Democrats “look down” on small-town mayors — again, without any evidence.

What the G.O.P. is selling, in other words, is the pure politics of resentment; you’re supposed to vote Republican to stick it to an elite that thinks it’s better than you. Or to put it another way, the G.O.P. is still the party of Nixon.

One of the key insights in “Nixonland,” the new book by the historian Rick Perlstein, is that Nixon’s political strategy throughout his career was inspired by his college experience, in which he got himself elected student body president by exploiting his classmates’ resentment against the Franklins, the school’s elite social club. There’s a direct line from that student election to Spiro Agnew’s attacks on the “nattering nabobs of negativism” as “an effete corps of impudent snobs,” and from there to the peculiar cult of personality that not long ago surrounded George W. Bush — a cult that celebrated his anti-intellectualism and made much of the supposed fact that the “misunderestimated” C-average student had proved himself smarter than all the fancy-pants experts.

And when Mr. Bush turned out not to be that smart after all, and his presidency crashed and burned, the angry right — the raging rajas of resentment? — became, if anything, even angrier. Humiliation will do that.

Can Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin really ride Nixonian resentment into an upset election victory in what should be an overwhelmingly Democratic year? The answer is a definite maybe.

By selecting Barack Obama as their nominee, the Democrats may have given Republicans an opening: the very qualities that inspire many fervent Obama supporters — the candidate’s high-flown eloquence, his coolness factor — have also laid him open to a Nixonian backlash. Unlike many observers, I wasn’t surprised at the effectiveness of the McCain “celebrity” ad. It didn’t make much sense intellectually, but it skillfully exploited the resentment some voters feel toward Mr. Obama’s star quality.

That said, the experience of the years since 2000 — the memory of what happened to working Americans when faux-populist Republicans controlled the government — is still fairly fresh in voters’ minds. Furthermore, while Democrats’ supposed contempt for ordinary people is mainly a figment of Republican imagination, the G.O.P. really is the Gramm Old Party — it really does believe that the economy is just fine, and the fact that most Americans disagree just shows that we’re a nation of whiners.

But the Democrats can’t afford to be complacent. Resentment, no matter how contrived, is a powerful force, and it’s one that Republicans are very, very good at exploiting.

She has more baggage then f ormer President Clinton.What was McCain thinking just using her for the vote..He is riding high now but the fall to the ground is with a bang...She is DIRTY in every dealing she has ever done...The biggest FLIP FLOP in the election....Time we knew all about her,,Go get her ladies and gentlemen

The differences between Hillary and Palin are so vast they could divide a nation, and they do.
Posted by: Jackie | Sep 8, 2008 9:40:16 AM

I was a die hard Hillary supporter who said I would never vote for Obama. After listening to McCain, I found he was for everything that I am against.

Anyone who was for Hillary would not be able to vote for McCain/Palin because it is against everything she stands for and has fought so hard for.

I am a Democrat voting for John McCain, and it has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton. She wasn’t the best candidate, either. I am voting for McCain/Palin because I am a fiscal moderate who believes that raising taxes on corporations, dividends, capital gains, inheritance, etc. will harm the economy rather than hurt it. I realize that McCain has little credibility on the economy, but Obama is no better. Raising taxes will send this country into a recession. “Universal” healthcare sounds great – but who’s going to pay for it? There aren’t enough rich people in the country to subsidize healthcare for the rest of us. The middle-class will pay, as we always do. I don’t care about the other issues – abortion, is he or isn’t he a Muslim, etc. If he was a Muslim and knew how to fix the economy, I’d vote for him in a minute. McCain/Palin isn’t the ideal choice. In my mind, they are a better choice than Obama/Biden simply on the economy.