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    yabits

    Democrat Barack Obama accused Republican opponent John McCain of launching a smear campaign to reverse his slide in the polls and cover up his “erratic” behavior in the face of America’s financial crisis.

    Exactly right, and the perfect counter-attack. As McCain-Palin launch these attempted smears, keep countering with the truth.

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    yabits

    The upcoming debate is critical because McCain has dwindling chances to regain momentum. McCain suggested to supporters that he would take the gloves off and go after Obama more forcefully.

    As John McCain erratically morphs into Filthy McNasty, Obama's sheer cool will ensure he and running mate Joe Biden a victory in November. And a real victory for the American people in their quest for better leadership.

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    coulrophobic

    That's rich, coming from a Chicago hack.

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    SuperLib

    I used to respect McCain although I didn't support some of his policies.....but now I can say that my respect level for him is reaching new lows...

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    RomeoRamenII

    If Gov. Palin questions obama's connections and history with domestic radicals and bombers, then it's a "smear".

    Heh, that argument might hold water if were not for the fact that obama based his entire campaign against Mr. McCain on his connections and history with President Bush.

    So, in obama-o-vision, you are allowed to trash Mr. McCain on his associations, but if anyone questions his, they are "smear" tactics.

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    RomeoRamenII

    Obama also delved into McCain’s own political past by releasing a web video late Sunday about the Arizona Republican’s connections to Charles Keating

    Team obama apparently doesn't know that the other four senators involved in "Keating 5" were ...... democrats.

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    USAFdude

    So in romeo-o-vision, being a Democrat involved in the Keating 5 is "scandalous", but for McCain, being a Republican, it's somehow OK...

    But gang, I have to admit: I've changed my mind. I'm now voting for McCain! Why? Because Sarah Palin is the greatest thing to happen to Saturday Night Live since John Belushi!

    McCain/Fey '08

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    Sarge

    What's Obama whining about? The election's over, McCain's toast!

    USAFdude - "I'm now voting for McCain!"

    You are not. However, I'll have you know, I've canceled out your vote for Obama with my absentee vote for McCain.

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    USAFdude

    Can't cancel out all of the US troops' votes for Obama, Sarge, but hey, keep tryin' if it makes ya feel better, ya Joe-SixPack American, you! Can you see Russia from your house? xD

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    yabits

    Team obama apparently doesn't know that the other four senators involved in "Keating 5" were ...... Democrats.

    It's nice to know that, when it comes to corruption and scandal, McCain was willing to cross party lines.

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    Sarge

    USAFdude - You can't cancel out all the U.S. troops' votes for McCain, Dude, just mine.

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    USAFdude

    Thanks for the link. As for cancelling out votes, not to worry; I'm from a state that's safely in Obama's camp, so unless you're from my home state, your vote won't do much to ours.

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    Sarge

    For Obama to win this election, he'll need to have at least a 10 point lead in the polls, because I guarantee you a lotta people who say they're going to vote for him will in fact vote for McCain once they step inside that voting booth.

    If it weren't for this financial fiasco, it would be a landslide for McCain.

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    Sarge

    Dude - I see part of the problem is you've been surrounded by people who are going to vote for Obama. They're a bad influence, you should beware of them. Actually my vote may well be for nought as my state went for Kerry 4 years ago...

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    USAFdude

    Whatever, Sarge. All Obama needs is more electoral and popular votes, not a "however-many-point" lead in polls. He's safe, and by extension, so is America.

    If it weren't for blindly partisan Conservative racist a**holes, it would be a landslide for Obama.

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    isthistheend

    "If it weren't for".....but it is. And that's why Obama has the chance with the voting MAJORITY. Not the ditto heads. 46-48% is going to do it for Mr. O. And let's hope he'll work to make the country and the world a better place for you and me. We can hope, can't we?

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    USAFdude

    I see part of the problem is you've been surrounded by people who are going to vote for Obama.

    Yep, I'm surrounded by good, patriotic, American troops just like me. Hardly a bad influence.

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    FandB

    USAFdude- Were someone to raelly be surrounded by patriotic Americans, they would know they would vote for McCain.

    Obama has been found out to be not just an appeaser, but a terrorist sympathiser and associate. Palin did not smear Obmaa, should told the facts.

    True patriots in the military or not, would not dream of voting for a person of such dubious nature.

    F&B

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    kaitoukage

    Romeo: Thank you for mentioning that. I was going to also say that much of Obama's campaign has been centered around smashing McCain. That doesn't make Palin's so-called "smears" acceptable. However, it doesn't give Obama anywhere to stand on the moral high ground. Unfortunately, a lot of people are going to eat it up regardless.

    I really dislike how most of American politics has revolved around who can tear down the other person better and then pretend like they never did it in the first place.

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    USAFdude

    Were someone to raelly be surrounded by patriotic Americans, they would know they would vote for McCain.

    If troops are "unpatriotic" for voting their consciences (which is this case is overwhelmingly for Obama), then why do we serve? You seem to think that only those few troops who would vote for McCain are patriotic; sounds rather Nazi-esque to me. Nazism? Not in my Air Force.

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    SezWho2

    RomeoRamenII,

    I don't think Obama questions McCain's association with Bush. I think he questions McCain's support of Bush.

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    coulrophobic

    "Not in my Air Force."

    Cyberspace is fun,isn't it?

    We can all pretend to be something other than we really are and call those who disagree with us "racist a**holes."

    http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/10/militarypoll100508w/

    "McCain, R-Ariz., handily defeated Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., 68 percent to 23 percent in a voluntary survey of 4,293 active-duty, National Guard and reserve subscribers and former subscribers to Army Times, Navy Times, Marine Corps Times and Air Force Times."

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    Nessie

    Well said, Sez.

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    RomeoRamenII

    Gov. Palin is tough. No matter what obama's dog walkers in the U.S. media threw at her she just kept coming back.

    Meanwhile, obama is -- and will always be -- a whiner. Boo hoo; they are picking on me.

    Even after obama is revealed to the American voters, there will still be some who will vote for him, because of this:

    http://s177.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid1...r.flv&fs=1&os=1&ap=1

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    RomeoRamenII

    Heh, two europeons agreeing with each other. What a surprise.

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    USAFdude

    coulrophobic - and we can all use cyberspace to wrongly accuse others of not being what they claim to be. Well, whine all you like; my colleagues and commander know that I'm an active duty airman who continues to serve with distinction. Your "beliefs" change none of that.

    Your "link" to AF Times, on the other hand, produced an interesting result. It says: the story you are looking for cannot be found. Why don't you try my link instead:

    http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/08/militarycampaigncontributionsobama_081408w/

    Military personnel are contributing more to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois than to his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, according to a nonpartisan group tracking donations to candidates.

    Game, set, match for the Dude! :D

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    USAFdude

    Oopsie! Find your "story", coulrophobic. You left out the underscores in your link: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/10/militarypoll100508w/

    Read on and see what the article really says:

    The results of the Military Times 2008 Election Poll are not representative of the opinions of the military as a whole. The group surveyed is older, more senior in rank and less ethnically diverse than the overall armed services.

    Funny how you left that part out! Cherry-picking is certainly a favorite sport of Republicans, isn't it? xD

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    zurcronium

    Landslide coming, end of corrupt republican party to follow.

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    zurcronium

    True patriots in the military or not, would not dream of voting for a >person of such dubious nature.

    They voted for bush, a drunk AWOL lifetime loser. Fact is that they voted for bush four years ago when they were fooled into thinking the the phony invasion of Iraq meant something. Now they know, everyone knows, it was based on lies, managed on lies and today is covered in lies. Five years or 100 years as mccain wants, as long as the repubs are running the show that is how long GIs are going to get killed for nothing. So now even the GIs are supporting the democrat to end the stupid, useless, failed war in Iraq.

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    jeancolmar

    That the current smear campaign against Obama is happening now and not a month ago shows only that the McCain campaign is running on empty and about to seize up. Palin is a joke but she diverts the public away from the fact that McCain is a bigger joke. Biden was smart enough to see that and hammered at McCain during his debate with Palin.

    A vote for McCain is a vote for your future misery.

    Given the stupidity that the American populace is capable of, they just might elect the Bush zombies.

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    NickTrop

    This dullard (Palin) bringing up Ayers will bury McCain. The "guilt by association" Ayers thing is beyond absurd. Ayers was involved in the WU in the 60's - Obama was 8. Ayers is now 63, a Prof. of Education, and was "associated" with Obama in a charitable organization. Anyone with 1/2 a brain will see this as a pathetic desperate move by McCain. Obama can now bring up Palin's Troopergate, McCain's involvement in The Keating 5 S&L scandal that cost the US tax-payer over 100 billions in the mid-80's. While he's at it, I hope Obama brings up Palin's and her husband's involvement with that Alaskan separatist group, Palin's blessing from a "witch doctor", does an add with the 1/2 terrifyingly dumb things Palin has said - including (incredibly) not knowing what The Bush Doctrine is, and while he's at it, he can talk about Cindy McCain stealing drugs from her own charity. Republicans are a cancer. They're destroying the country. Obama*Biden to stop the bleeding.

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    adaydream

    John McCain knows what smear politics are. george bush used it against John McCain in the 2000 election and knocked McCain out of the running.

    Now John McCain is running the same campaign against Obama that bush used against him. < :-)

    Moderator: Readers, please do not refer to Obama as the Messiah or Barack.

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    USAno1

    What's Obama whining about? The election's over, McCain's toast!

    Ahh, Sarge finally has come to his senses?

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    USAno1

    If it weren't for this financial fiasco, it would be a landslide for McCain.

    Oh ya? Proof? Naw... didn't think so.

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    USAno1

    True patriots in the military or not, would not dream of voting for a person of such dubious nature.

    Like McCain. Great call FandB!!

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    SuperLib

    Sarge: For Obama to win this election, he'll need to have at least a 10 point lead in the polls, because I guarantee you a lotta people who say they're going to vote for him will in fact vote for McCain once they step inside that voting booth.

    I think under normal conditions your argument would hold more water, but with the current economic situation and some miscues from McCain I don't think it will have as much of an impact.

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    Helter_Skelter

    If it weren't for blindly partisan Conservative racist a**holes...

    This is a good example of a smear. Palin stating the fact that Obama had an association with a domestic terrorist is not. And keep in mind, it was Clinton who exposed the Obama/Ayers connection, not Palin.

    A vote for McCain is a vote for your future misery.

    Since socialism has caused more misery to more people in the world than anything else, a vote for Obama is a vote for your future misery. Unless, of course, living in a third-world nation is your idea of a good time.

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    yabits

    Funny how you left that part out! Cherry-picking is certainly a favorite sport of Republicans, isn't it?

    An interesting observation, and of the type that has been known to turn coulrophobia to catoptrophobia.

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    yabits

    Since socialism has caused more misery to more people in the world than anything else, a vote for Obama is a vote for your future misery.

    I'm sure that Republicans used the same kind of fear-mongering to smear Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932. Mr. Obama is in very good company.

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    adaydream

    Let's look at the facts about the McCain health plan.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122315505846605217.html#printMode

    His plan will screw Americans like never before. Taxing health benefits paid by employers, reducing Medicare and Medicaid by $1.3 Trillion.

    John McCain talks about reducing taxes and then wants to tax you health benefits, he's a damn hypocrit. < :-)

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    Helter_Skelter

    Mr. Obama is in very good company.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt? More like Castro and Chavez and other socialist heroes of the left.

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    TheGreatEscape

    adaydream; My goodness, a liberal web article, how quaint. Bwahahahaha.

    John McCain will make sure all hardworking folk will be financially better.

    Only the lazy, ill educated and welfare claiments will not benefit, thank goodness.

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    adaydream

    I hate to disappoint and not give you articles from both sides, so heres one from Conservative Republicans and the POW records and John McCain's time in his POW camp. He wasn't nearly as mistreated as he would have you believe. < :-)

    http://www.mccainbetrayspows.com/

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    adaydream

    The people who are retired and receiving medicare and medicaid will lose.

    Employees will lose.

    But, to you Only the lazy, ill educated and welfare claiments will not benefit, thank goodness. < :-)

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    Good_Jorb

    Since socialism has caused more misery to more people in the world than anything else, a vote for Obama is a vote for your future misery. Unless, of course, living in a third-world nation is your idea of a good time.

    But Obama already lives in a country already filled with Corporate welfare (read socialism here), he couldn't make things that much worse. No other country, Capitalist or Socialist has ever written a 700+ billion welfare check. I would think that Bush would have more in common with Castro and Chavez than Obama, Castro nationalized everything, Chavez nationalized Oil and Bush nationalized banking.

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    TheGreatEscape

    adaydream; Your posts are in more bad taste and more desperate than ever.

    Were you so upset that Palin won the debate hands down? You betcha!!!!!!!

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    adaydream

    You didn't have time to see the video. It's especially good.

    I really like the parts about special treatment. < :-)

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    coulrophobic

    Oops - Senator Obama's ties with terrorist William Ayers discovered to go back 21 years:

    By 1995, Barack Obama had known Bill Ayers at least eight years since their shared involvement in the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools, if not longer. Bernardine Dohrn, once labeled “the most dangerous woman in America” by none other than J. Edgar Hoover, was also well known as the inspiration for the 1988 movie Running on Empty. Subtle terrorists they were not. * *As noted in the New York Times, Obama has tried to minimize his relationship with Ayers, dismissing him as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know.”

    Axelrod also tried to excuse the extent of Obama’s involvement with Ayers, stating, “Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school. … They’re certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together.”

    It’s an obvious fiction pitched by Axelrod, since the Obama children are presently in elementary school, while Ayers’ children are all grown adults, but the Ayers-Obama family connection doesn’t stop at the imaginary connections between the children.

    Article from Bob Owens

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    SezWho2

    Oops! Was Ayers a terrorist 21 years ago?

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    JoeBigs

    Desperation has set into the McBush camp. With no hope of winning he must revert to the Bush play book. But this time McBush is a bit too late with these sorts of attacks. He should have done these kind of attacks over 8 years ago when he was fighting to become the nominee. When people were not used to these kinds of attacks and easily suade by these tactics. But now we know these kind of attacks and as a whole we do not like them.

    Again he shows his lack of understanding of the present day. He seems more and more like a lost old man wondering the streets at night trying to find his way home. To bad, too bad.

    McBush at one time was known as a fair and honest man/politician. But now with his new tactic of smear and lies he has lost that. He made a promise to not go down this road but he has broken this promise.

    This shows you what kind of man he really is....Worthless

    Sad for him sad for our country!

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    Taka313

    Yep. This smear campaign will stop the American voter from remembering how the republican economy has worked for them. Good call. I fully expect candidate mccain's daily slide in the polls and Sen. Obama's daily rise in the polls to end any time because of this.

    There is no desperation whatsoever in the gop.

    And I am Santa Claus.

    Taka

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