Obama says McCain equals 4 more years of Bush

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TonyUS at 12:19 PM JST - 4th August

hahaha the great words from the extremist on the right..(neo-cons) I believe the peolpe of the US will be smarter than to vote in a nother Bush, the sell out to China :) Even Ohio
USAPatriot at 12:23 PM JST - 4th August

TonUs; Tou obviously have no grip on the economy or the war on terror.

The economy can only continue to grow under McCain. Only he can continue our victorious battle against the evil ones. 4 more years of supurb governence sound fine to me.
narnia1963 at 11:48 PM JST - 4th August

i'm just moving to japan. everyone in the states can just deal on their own.
TonyUS at 02:27 AM JST - 5th August

USA the figures are out there for even you to see.
TonyUS at 02:28 AM JST - 5th August

Also the scare tactics the republicans use does not phase me in the least because anyone in office will keep that in mind after Bush let the terroists get away with the biggest attack on our soil in history
USAPatriot at 02:57 AM JST - 5th August

TonyUS; Republicans do not need scare tactics. Common sense will tell anyone if we want 4 more years of freedom, we must vote for McCain. He is a real man of the people, not an elitist like Barack Hussein Obama.
USAPatriot at 03:06 AM JST - 5th August

TonyUS; Heck!! We were attacked on 911 because Clinton did not kill Bin Laden when he had the chance. Heck!! he was a coward like Obama , who would let the evil ones destroy our nation. Only McCain can continue are fight for freedom and justice.
SezWho2 at 12:33 PM JST - 5th August

USAPatriot,

I think that is Obama's point. Except I think that he said that McCain can only continue Bush's fight for "freedom and justice". The Bush-McCain plan offers us plenty of rockets red glare but no way out.
USAPatriot at 12:39 PM JST - 5th August

McCain will continue are final push against the evil doers. The good guys have almost won. Don`t forget the economy is booming, eduction, healthcare and public services are thriving. This country is in great shape, and getting better every day.
TonyUS at 01:07 PM JST - 5th August

USA , you are so blind to facts. Clinton did not kill him?? hahaha And bush has had eight years to do so at the cost of how many billions of dollars after Bush let the towers come down and killed 4,000 people and another 4,000 plus in troops. Still Bush has let Bin Laden go free. Had him cornered in Tora Bora and called a cease fire and let him get away again. Bush was warned of AlQaida and the threat, he was warned about the actions they were going to take with the planes, and was warned about the timing of the attacks and all went as if nothing was going on...

But as we see all the far right wingers, want to blame it on someone else, when it was the GOP with all the information needed that could have prevented the disaster and they did NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your great party did NOTHING!!!!!!

So we should be scared if this dumb republican based administration goes forward with another 4 years, what will be the next target the terrorists will hit since they do hate this administration so much. So many things has went on with this Bush administration and the republican party over the last eight years that has been just disgusting, Laws changed to keep officials out of jail, Lies told so to go to war, and these were lies told to the world body...all fabricated to get these politicians rich along with their buddies, such as Cheney and Halliburton. what a crock of Sh*t, and here you are USA Patriot backing such crap, and trying to push more of it as you try and blame others for the ruthless non-action of those you try and play as gods.. What a mental lapse. Just as our economic woes are from eight years ago because of Clinton.. yeah right, why not go back 10 years to bush senior or earlier to Reagan.. Blame anyone but those that has created it today! But that is the republican BS.

IT goes on and on of the incompetence of these guys in charge just as the warnings of not enough troops to take care of the action from the start, but, bushy boy and friends said , nope we have enough, not until 4000 troops dead and 7 years later, hey lets add some troops,, New Idea??? Old idea that was not taken seriously and ignored from the beginning. It goes on and on and on and on…
TonyUS at 01:10 PM JST - 5th August

Sorry, not back 10 years to Bush senior but 16 years back to Bush.Sr. and not 4000 killed in the towers, but 3000, which 1 would have been too many
TonyUS at 03:00 AM JST - 6th August

Sarge and USpatriot,, take note…

New McCain add.. We are worse off than we were 4 years ago, Washington is broken...

Some here backing McCain says we are so well off now and prosperous since Bush has taken over..

What about it republican straight liners, right wingers…now what words do you support????? Bush,, or McCain?? You say everything is so well under Bush’s administration, but you support McCain that says it is not.. Wow what a dilemma , the brain cells must be smoking now.

We have Bush's you support with the economy and now you support McCain and he says you and Bush are are wrong!!!

As I said all Republican BS and those that blindly support any Republican leader.. even though both in the same party contradict each other..

That must put you guys in a real tizzy to where you actually do not no where you defecated last, as is common when one follows instead of leads with their own ideas and mindset.
teaabe at 09:28 AM JST - 6th August

go zion
zurcronium at 09:15 PM JST - 6th August

This is why McCain will simply be four more years of Bush. All repubs have the same corrupt view of government. Bush has been failure on steroids for the last eight years.

Misgovernment by Ideology

It is just this: Fantastic misgovernment of the kind we have seen is not an accident, nor is it the work of a few bad individuals. It is the consequence of triumph by a particular philosophy of government, by a movement that understands the liberal state as a perversion and considers the market the ideal nexus of human society. This movement is friendly to industry not just by force of campaign contributions but by conviction; it believes in entrepreneurship not merely in commerce but in politics; and the inevitable results of its ascendance are, first, the capture of the state by business and, second, all that follows: incompetence, graft, and all the other wretched flotsam that we've come to expect from Washington.

The correct diagnosis is the "bad apple" thesis turned upside down. There are plenty of good conservative individuals, honorable folks who would never participate in the sort of corruption we have watched unfold over the last few years. Hang around with grassroots conservative voters in Kansas, and in the main you will find them to be honest, hardworking people. Even our story's worst villains can be personally virtuous. Jack Abramoff, for example, is known to his friends as a pious, polite, and generous fellow.

But put conservatism in charge of the state, and it behaves very differently. Now the "values" that rightist politicians eulogize on the stump disappear, and in their place we can discern an entirely different set of priorities -- priorities that reveal more about the unchanging historical essence of American conservatism than do its fleeting campaigns against gay marriage or secular humanism. The conservatism that speaks to us through its actions in Washington is institutionally opposed to those baseline good intentions we learned about in elementary school (about government for and by the people).

Its leaders laugh off the idea of the public interest as airy-fairy nonsense; they caution against bringing top-notch talent into government service; they declare war on public workers. They have made a cult of outsourcing and privatizing, they have wrecked established federal operations because they disagree with them, and they have deliberately piled up an Everest of debt in order to force the government into crisis. The ruination they have wrought has been thorough; it has been a professional job. Repairing it will require years of political action.

Conservatism-in-power is a very different beast from the conservatism we meet on the streets of Wichita or the conservatism we overhear talking to itself on the pages of Free Republic. For one thing, what conservatism has done in its decades at the seat of power is fundamentally unpopular, and a large percentage of its leaders have been men of eccentric ideas. While they believe things that would get them laughed out of the American Sociological Association, that only makes them more typical of the movement. And for all their peculiarity, these people -- Grover Norquist, Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff, Newt Gingrich, and the whole troupe of activists, lobbyists, and corpora-trons who got their start back in the Reagan years -- have for the last three decades been among the most powerful individuals in America. This wave of misgovernment has been brought to you by ideology, not incompetence.

The fact is that 99% of Americans have been robbed blind as Thomas Frank says and the deluded few who still pretend to support John McCain aka McBush have been punished the worst by the repub overlords. Can they every wise up? Some people just love failure it seems. But most Americans know now they have been robbed to pay the rich and they have had enough of it. That is why McCain will lose to a black man with a funny name and in the House and Senate the Repubs will be routed.
TonyUS at 12:08 PM JST - 7th August

zurcronium Great post. I hope the prediction is right, I do not really like the gap in percentages between McCain and Obama closing.. This off shore drilling topic, I do not understand Obama not continually explaining the oil would go into the world market and have not much affect at all on oil prices and price of gas at the pump. I have heard this maybe one time but it is an issue that seems to be silent when it seems is very important when talking about the issue. It has become a topic of interest with McCain pushing it again and again when the benefits would be none except of course the oil industry and not for energy prices, and wondering if unless it could be made to kept right here at home for only domestic use, which I have not heard anything about that happening. But it seems the democrats have a very hard time exposing truths on topics and informing the public on the truth of any issue. Same with Kerry when the democratic nominee with them knocking him on Vietnam, not able to defend his stance at that time when the majority was against the political lead war in Vietnam and he could not find a way to defend himself on that??? I found his stance pathetic by not being able to shrug off such a strategy by the republicans.. Just how many was against that war and even with loosing it, how many was happy we were finally out of there and with Kerry’s help from his participation in events that finally raised public outcry to get the hell out of there, and he could not shrug off the allegations put against him.