Do the voters know this?

McCain is making a call for all bigots and hate-mongers to join his parade of slime. He is desperate and it is a personal call to jihad for his campaign. And they are coming out of the woodwork, every right wing nut in the country is answering the call and coming up with the smear and fear garbage that McCain is begging them for. McCain is not a leader. He displays the same yellow stripe down his back that he displayed when he ratted on his Keating Five comrades to escape prosecution. Some crazy person even yelled Kill Him! at a Florida rally where Palin called Obama a terrorist- shades of the Nazi hate rallies. McCain is bringing great shame on the electoral process and his erratic behavior makes it clear he is not qualified to be president any more than his junkyard dog running mate.

The choice is quite easy:

McCain: Tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations (and yet he says he is for 'main street')
Obama: Tax cuts for working Americans, modest increases for the wealthy (less than they were under Clintons tax plan)

McCain: Shift health coverage to deregulated private sector with fixed tax credit to all income levels, more Americans would lose coverage (and again, favors the wealthy)
Obama: Provide an additional insurance carrier that would allow more people to get insurance, and with tax cuts to employers providing coverage saving them an annual $140 billion, which would also increase revenue for health providers by increasing insured patients.

McCain: Wants congress to investigate Enron loophole (even though congress has already tried twice to pass bills that would close it, and both were vetoed by Bush)
Obama: Wants to close enron loophole right away, causing an immediate drop in gas prices for all Americans

McCain: Wants to drill for more oil, and build nuclear plants (even though we would not see any output from them for 7-10 years)
Obama: Faster shift towards alternative energy sources and better utilization of existing resources.

McCain: a D- student with a navy background that was dismal in both character and quality
Obama: a Harvard Law school graduate, magna cum laude, and a constitutional law expert

McCain: Military shoot first ask questions later foreign policy
Obama: Diplomacy and dialog with military as option of last resort

McCain: No foriegn policy experience except for armed services
Obama: Member foreign relations, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and subcommitties on European, East Asian and Pacific, African affairs as well as International development and security.

McCain: Vast majority of introduced bills in Senate are directly related to the military.
Obama: Introduced bills for equal rights, environment, housing, health care, alternative and renewable fuels, safer drugs, constitutional rights, improved fuel economy and other issues relating to a better America and helping Americans.

Looking at the issues and what they would mean to our country, you would have to be as dumb as Bush to not vote for Obama.

Considering most Americans would like to hear the candidates thoughts on our countries current economic situation - McCain will lose.

McCain's own campaign advisor said they lose if they are talking about Economy.

ARORN IS A FRAUD AND SO IS THE GUY THAT ACORN REPRESENTS....... OBAMA. BUDDY OF USA TERRORIST, AYERS!! "I WAS ONLY EIGHT WHEN AYERS COMMITED THOSE ACTS." MY BUTT!!!! AYERS KICKED OF OBAMA'S FUNDRAISER WHEN OBAMA INITIALLY RAN FOR SENATE SEAT IN IL. OBAMA IS FULL OF IT!!

Seventy percent of all those making over $250,000 are small business owners. Obama socks it to them and many are going to pack up and leave for Ireland where the corporate tax tate is only about eleven percent. THEY WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO COMPETE IN A GLOBAL MARKET WHERE MANY COUNTRIES ARE CUTTING PERSONAL AND CORPORATE TAXATE TO BONE. AND THEN FOR USA ..... NOT RECESSION, BUT, AN OBAMA DEPRESSION!!!

McCain has a Navy background that was "dismal in quality and character"? You do know what a POW is right? He's a decorated war hero. Moving on, McCain has "no foreign policy experience"? He served in the Navy for 23 years, served in the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Committee on Commerce Science, and Transportaion, and has been in the Senate for 22 years. On what planet does that not count as experience. Yes, Obama went to Harvard, and George W Bush went to Yale. Is that really an arguement you want to use? Take of the blinders and get informed.

-- WAS ONLY EIGHT WHEN AYERS COMMITED THOSE ACTS --

Obama was only 8 when Ayers did what he did. McCain on the other hand has direct connections to terrorist activities, sitting on the board of the US council for world freedom, which funneled government funds to terrorists in central america and was directly related to the iran-contra affair. Latin american branch was, according to retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, who the chairman of the group had "knowingly promoted pro-Nazi groups" and was "virulently anti-Semitic".

McCain was directly involved with the KLA, an islamic terrorist organization in Kosovo. McCain supported the US military actions in kosovo and providing both funding and arms for the KLA which are responsible for beheadings, torture, rape, burning down churches filled with Christians, and other atrocities. To this day, the KLA insurgency continues the systematic persecution and genocidal cleansing of Serbian civilians residing in Albania, and to this day McCain supports it.

Tenuous guilt by association connections pale in comparison to McCains direct and continued involvement.

QUote: "Seventy percent of all those making over $250,000 are small business owners."

False. Please check the IRS statistics. Less than 5% of the population earns over $250,000, and less than 15% of 'sole pri' fillings are greater than $250K. In addition, corporate tax rates will not change under either candidate.

Is this really McCain's last viable chance to win the election? Can't the economic crisis - or voter skepticism over McCain's ability to handle it - going away anytime soon. It takes at least a week or two to gain real traction with whatever anti-Obama message McCain carries out on stage with him.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Unfortunately, for McCain his campaign trip to the gutter cost him our family of Republican's votes. We will be voting for Barr.

Why arent the some questions regarding McCains association with the very controversial group "the Council of World Freedom" being questioned??

-- McCain has "no foreign policy experience"? He served in the Navy for 23 years, served in the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Committee on Commerce Science, and Transportaion, and has been in the Senate for 22 years. On what planet does that not count as experience. --

On what planet does 23 years in the navy and being on the Commerce, Science and Transportation committee constitute foreign policy experience?

And yes, his military record is dismal, have you read his book? Have you ever considered why, with a father and grandfather being admirals he only obtained the rank of Captain in those years?

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It's time for the American people to get it right and NOT vote for McCain-Palin, instead vote for change. It's time for this country to turn the page and seek a new and better future for ourselves and our children.It's time for REAL change in Washington, it's time to elect Barack Obama for president !

Obama-Biden are the wiser and stronger team to solve the crucial challenges we have in this nation and abroad !

Temagami – turn off the caps lock. Anyone with an internet connection can fact-check claims about Ayers. For example, go to Fact Checker at the Washington Post. The only hard facts that have come out so far are the $200 contribution by Ayers to the Obama re-election fund, and their joint membership of the eight-person Woods Fund Board. Many people have been involved in education reform in Chicago over the past two decades - they know Ayers, have worked with him, and many respect his work on improving education for Chicago's children. This includes Mayor Daley, foundation presidents, university researchers, community organizers and school reform advocates, both Republicans and Democrats. Does this mean all these people are tied to the Weathermen of 40 years ago?

Seventy percent of those making over $250,000 are small business owners. Obama messes with their money and they are going to be small business owners somewhere else, say Ireland , where the corporate tax rate has been cut to about eleven percent - the place is rockin - went from massive unemployment to full employment!! Obama socks it to these business owners to pay for his entitlement gunk and we will no longer be in a financial crises - WE WILL BE IN A FULL SCALE DEPRESSION!!

Natasha,

Two excellent posts.

2 TRILLION DOLLARS in retirement savings have been lost in the last year.

Our financial sector is in ruins.

The stock market is nose diving.

The housing market has tanked.

Unemployment is growing.

We have record international borrowing which has devalued the dollar and put inflationary pressures on the already weak economy.

We have a two front war that is costing tens of billions each month.

But McCain and Palin want to "turn the page" on the financial crisis. They want to move on. Their own campaign stated "if this election remains focused on the economy, we lose".

Why? Because they have no plan. They offer no solutions. Just a stay-the-course policy and a bunch of generic platitudes. They are both out of touch.

McCain and Palin now feel that name calling and futher division is what our nation really needs.

Even with the economy aside, if this election is about character - Point goes to Obama!

Manitu-In 2005 (the last year for which there is both data on nonemployers and employers at the U.S. Census Bureau), there were 20,392,068 nonemployers with a total income of $951 billion (Source: Nonemployer Statistics, 2005, Total for all sectors, United States). Small business employers1 numbered 5,878,784 (Source: Statistics of U.S. Businesses, All Industries, 2005). The total number of all employer and nonemployer businesses in 2005 was 26,375,614, of which 26,270,852 (or 99.6%) would qualify as small businesses as I’ve defined it above. This would be why people respond when you threaten to increase taxes on small businesses - there’s a LOT of small businesses.

But look closer at those numbers. The average income per nonemployer small business is the total income divided by the number of employers, which in this case is only $46,635. What that means is that the vast majority of nonemployer small businesses (which we can probably fairly say are mostly sole proprietorships) would be unaffected by the Obama tax cut. In fact, since they make so little, they’d get a tax cut, not a tax increase.

Yes, you read that right: the average small business would get a tax cut under Obama’s tax plan, not a tax increase as McCain has suggested.

(Scholars and Rouges)

-- Seventy percent of those making over $250,000 are small business owners. --

According to IRS data, it's only about 15%. Even so, it will only effect them if they file with a personal return, since Corporate tax rates will remain unchanged.

The argument about putting small business owners out of business is bunk.. I'm one of them, and I have done my homework. You are simply repeating already proven sound bites coming out of the GOP.

Manitu, posting the same incorrect statistics twice won't make it true.

But as Natasha tried to explain:

Less than 5% of the population earns over $250,000, and less than 15% of 'sole pri' fillings are greater than $250K. In addition, corporate tax rates will not change under either candidate.

Natasha.

Your McCain terrorist connection is pretty far out. I see that you do not dispute Obama's connection with Ayers AND NEITHER DOES OBAMA!! DOCUMENTED THAT AYERS HOSTED OBAMA'S INITIAL CAMPAIGN KICKOFF FOR IL SENATE. YOUR FIGURES ALSO DO NOT RELATE TO THE FACT THAT SEVENTY PERCENT OF THOSE MAKING OVER $250,000 ARE SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS. THE POINT IS, THAT WHEN OBAMA SOCKS IT TO THEM - THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COMPLETE IN THE GLOBAL MARKET.