Where was Obama when we saw clips of Father Pflager and Wright'ssermons and saw the crowds there stomping, laughing and yelling when they criticized Hillary !! Or when that racist Ludacris released his hugly music video that called Hillary names and berated people ? Or did Obama not see or hear them either ???

I cringe when I think of Bush representing us at this financial meeting with world leaders. It is embarassing but then I think of possibly Palin in the meeting and Bush doesn't seem so bad. It would be even scarier to have a President Palin in these troubled times. We need smart educated leaders representing the USA in these meetings. . . .like Obama/Biden. I get sick when I think that some people vote for the person they want to have a beer with. I vote for who I want in a meeting with world financial leaders.

Good for Obama. And good for McCain.

I can't believe how much this makes me happier about the campaign. We were spiraling downward toward, hate. Some of that will still continue, of course, but it is nice to see that the candidates themselves actually know how to be decent.

I have an idea! Just for fun lets have Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John McCain, and Sarah Palin take IQ tests and lets compare their intelligence quotient as teams! Wouldnt that be a gas? I doubt the republicans would want that. I think the score would be something like O/B 300-M/P 130, and that would be an, if youll forgive my language, conservative estimate.

Well Jack, maybe if conservatives had supported education and not become the party of anti-intellectualism we'd all be smarter...of course, if we were all smarter McCain wouldn't even be running. He has just as many ties to extremists and shady characters as you claim Obama does. And WHO'S the socialist? Obama isn't the one that wants the gov't to buy mortgages from people that were irresponsible and bought big houses that they couldn't afford. Please, your party has become a joke - and the irony is that you have NOTHING to be angry about. You had a republican president and a republican congress for six straight years - if anything you should be blaming your own leadership and yourself for voting in a bunch of incompetent criminals.

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Helllloooo. ACORN is a bipartisan group of people who try to get people in low income area to register to vote. They turn in their registation card to the proper voting authorities and those authorities validate the registrants. The people (lower income) that the Republicans are always trying to prevent from voting by using any challenge and scare tactic they can. Not a coincidence that Republican always seem to challenge voting in battleground states like Ohio (2004) and Florida (2000).

Its also a shame when potential leaders of our country support and promote hate and fear. It took 22 hours to RUSH to DC to help with the financial crisis and almost a week to realize that it is not good to incite hate and fear about "That One". What lowly thing with Republicans do or say next. His ethnicity, education, marriage...what?

These tensions will increase. Every citizen in this country knows Obama is black. And some can't handle that he might be president. By some white people's standards, he is stepping out-of-bounds. Some still consider him a "boy" and will not accept him being elected president. I keep saying all the time this country is changing, and that's a fact. Minorities will never, ever go back and will continue to move forward. Read the history of this country. We are on the verge of civil unrest. I saw all this about to happen because of Palin's hateful remarks and Obama inching ahead of McCain. I've seen statements on this blog that Obama will never be president. What you fail to realize if Obama never becomes president, there will be another black, maybe a hispanic, who will rise to the occasion, again. Some cannot ever see a black man elected president and because of their ignorance, they might consider extreme measures. They barely can handle a black secretary of state in office, but definitely not a black president. I their mind's eye, it should never, ever happen. This is how these morons think; that they own this country and wish desperately we could go back to slavery. Again, read about the past racial tensions in this country. It's gonna get worse. I'm certain the national guard is on standby. The McCain campaign has outright called Obama a terrorist. This is not good for our country. The statements made creates more tensions. We are on a path of self-destruction.
You can walk around with blinders on if you want to; just watch what happens. There is so much the U.S. needs to focus on, but we have again sunk so low as to judge a man by the "color of his skin". If you are an extremist, you will never be able to mastermind and take over this country. So get over it.

It's called diplomacy and he's already putting it to work. McCain is the one who is behind and he is the one who went negative. If Obama didn't respond, he would be mocked as too soft. As of Thursday, every ad McCain had running around the country was negative against Obama. 100%. Obama is turn was running 34% negative ads. I think Obama's recent statement of appreciation was to say that he is willing to talk about issues if McCain is done with his nasty baseless rhetoric.

Let's be fair about questionable associations. Look up John
McCain's close contact with Charles Keating and felon G. Gordon Liddy. Then come back and argue character flaws.

I have my respect for McCain for his honesty in defending Obama. However, I can not understand why his supporters are so out of touch. A lady accused Obama is an Arab! She has shown everybody that she has known NOTHING. How many more people like that? Scary!

It's good that McCain puts his foot down, but this will not stop anything. I doubt Palin will follow suit given she thrives in such hateful environment. I bet the racist biggots will be there at the next McCain/Palin rally.

It's pretty clear the Repubs will continue to inflame hate and fear by continuing their 'ethics' attacks. Their supporters do not care what it takes to win, as long as they win, they do not care if they become a bunch of hate, fear-giving biggots and fascists.

Sorry, but since Palin and McCain had allowed these jerks to begin with, it shows the true character of their camp. They are no different than Osama Bin Laden when it comes to spreading fear and hate.

HP Boston...Well said.

It is unfortunate when you cry wolf enough times eventually people will stop listening, and if people don't stop inserting Racism where it does not exist, when there comes a time when there really is a case of true racism, people won't be listening anymore.

Talk about using scare tactics, the democrats wrote the book on using scare tactics, and crying racism at every turn is just another scare tactic and a form of racism in itself. I use to be a Democrat when I was younger, then I grew up, and grew wiser. The Republicans are not completely innocent either, both parties cater to special interest groups, but McCain has fought his own party in an attempt to bring some reform to how Campaign contributions are handled, and I though I have not agreed with him on some things in the past, that is one issue he has my full support. I may not always agree with the man, but I can at least admire his desire to want to change things, and his desire for change is sincere.

For a man who touts his leadership credentials he can't seem to control his own campaign. There is NO EXCUSE for inciting an angry crowd by calling your opponent a terrorist--no, wait, he didnt call Obama a terrorirst, he just IMPLIED it--like a coward.

The more the polls favor Obama the nastier the McCain campaign and his supporters get. They're scared, plain and simple. Don't worry, guys - I can understand what you're feeling. It's the same thing that this little dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrat felt when Bush was elected for the second time in 2004.
I sympathize with you, I do - but don't let hatred get the better of you. Now is the time for respect and understanding, not anger.

I too appreciate John McCain's trying to tone the violent hate at his rallies down. Sarah Palin needs to do the same thing. The main problem I see with the McCain-Palin almost totally negative campaigning is that it doesn't have anything to do with things that really matter. Retirees have lost 1.2 trillion dollars in retirement funds in a week. Three quarters of a million have lost jobs in nine months, and judging from what is happening around here, others are losing their jobs every day. People have lost homes, pensions, health care, retirement funds the ability to find work, and those same people are paying the highest inflation rate in 27 years. George W. Bush promised to be a compassionate conservative, and he ended up helping the rich get richer and the middle class get shafted. How do we know John McCain's sudden interest in the middle class isn't more of the same? How does harping about Bill Ayers (which all major news outlets have discredited) do anything to help hurting people? In a way, I think harping on the negative just insults the voters. It says, "Your hurting doesn't matter to us. All we want to do is to smear our opponent." I hope all the negative campaigning stops.

Republicans, in general, are a very scary bunch. Misinformed, immature, emotional, mean spirited- mostly clueless. I've got mine, & I want to keep it- the heck with anybody that wants to help those that need help. Power hungry, corrupt, decietful. I don't want to be associated with those whom are foolish enough to support the Angry Old Man Mccain, his vile wife, or his crazy running mate palin. I'll never vote for a republican until they fix their problems. & they've got a bunch of problems.
Worst of all, they fill up media time with repetive, untrue propaganda- obviously they're out of worthwhile things to talk about, lets tune them out en-masse-
Time for old man mccain to settle into a lounge chair on his patio & play some bridge, palin to go help her baby & her troublesome daughter, & for the overpaid cheating, lieing, arrogant idiots "running" mccains campaign to go out & try to get a real job.

Stop defending ACORN and Obama. He is involved in this voter fraud up to his ears. Its how he won the nomination, if you want to call it winning. Hillary Clinton supporters witnessed the fraud in the caucuses, how many knew that the dead rose from the grave to vote for Obama in Iowa, Nevada and Texas? and we saw it first hand in the DNC's awarding delegates to Obama he hadn't earned. Cheating is the ONLY way Obama won the primary, and its the only way he can win the general. He is not the ligitimare Democratic nominee, and if he wins, he will not be the legitimate President. This man is a fraud, a cheat, a liar, and the absolutes worst thing that has happened to the Democratic Party since Jimmy Carter, and if elected, he will make George Bush and Hoover look like saints in comparison. I was a lifelong Dem now an independent, because of the cheating and fraudulent actiivty in the Democratic primary, I will not support that kind of behavior, and I will not support a man who did not win the primary nomination honestly. Why in the hell would I support that same man for President?

i don't care what anyone says, that old lady was a "plant" she was put there to make that remark so that mcsame could say what he did in order to get some "brownie points" sorry, john it didn't work your people won't be happy until something happens to obama! stop talking all this mess put the leash on your "pit bull" and take defeat like a man!
and to liz- i so very agree with what you said, cause if its not obama there will be more since people seen how far he came in this election!
my vote is for that one!
obama/biden08

Boo hoo hoo. Palin got a scumbag fired who happened to be an ex brother-in-law. If that's the most they can get on her, and by God you know they've tried, I would say she's a true hero. You Dems jumped on that like flies on honey like it was a big deal. It's the ONLY deal and in reality, not all that big. Now let's go look at your guy. What about the secret meeting with the muslim faith group in September???

Here it is if you're curious:
http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/09/1525564.aspx