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USNinJapan2
A Presidential candidate shouldn't have "fans"...
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rjd_jr
A rather weak attempt at defending Obama's honor in replying to that ignorant "Arab" slur. Interesting that it took him this long to even respond to all this hatred and ignorance. If mccain can't even do it halfway decent, then he shouldn't say anything at all.
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Everton2
The current attitude of those Republican supporters is reminiscent of the days of Governor George Wallace.
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VOR
everton, the same can be said for Obama. The current attitude of Obama supporters is reminiscnet of the days of Joseph Stalin, so whats your point?
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MrDickMorris
USAKuma- The only candidate likely to assasinate anyone would be the one with proven terrorist connections.
Obama can rally his fanbase, but he will never be president.
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ProfessorJ
This is just pathetic. The US and the world face a higher risk of more terrorism by re-electing a warmonger.
You've obviously been reading all the newspapers.
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coulrophobic
“You will make me some pie?” he asked. “What kind of pie do you make? Sweet potato pie?”
As the crowd roared, he poured it on. “We’re going to have to have a sweet potato pie contest,” he said. “I’ll be the judge, because I want my sweet potato pie.”
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SushiSake3
www.huffingtonpost.com/
Interesting...
The Pollster.com composite now has Obama above 50 percent for the first time. And looking at the individual polls, one can get a better sense of just how difficult it would be for McCain to surpass Obama. First of all, there are just four polls all year that have shown McCain over 50%, all of them outliers:
Gallup, 1/10-13: M50, O45 Rassmusen, 3/22-25: M51, O41 Gallup, 9/5-7: M54-O44 Rasmussen, 9/11-13: M50, O47
In the same time frame, there have been about 36 polls that have given Obama a +50 percent result. Since October 1st, Obama has cracked 50 percent in 10 polls, while McCain has been unable to crack 45 in any. But McCain's inability to approach 50 percent isn't a recent trend -- it's been a systemic problem for his campaign all year.
McCain has had two bumps. The first was during Wrightapalooza, the second was after the RNC convention. But other than those two bumps, McCain has consistently hovered below the 45 percent mark. Truth is, he's never had much traction.
Obama, on the other hand, has consistently hovered between 45 and 50 percent. People have wanted to like him, but "he's a Muslim" emails and whatnot have gotten people to hold back, trying to determine whether to believe the smears or not. That line of resistance has burst in October, fueled by the Democratic ticket's three winning debate performances and the deteriorating financial picture, allowing Obama to surge to his best numbers (by far) of the year.
So the problem for McCain isn't just knocking Obama down a peg or three. He's been trying unsuccessfully all year to do that. More worrisome for his campaign is that the American people have never embraced him, and he's never been able to break 46 percent even during his post-convention high-water mark.
People simply do not like John McCain, **and no amount of smearing of Obama is going to change that, **not when 100 percent of your advertising and message today is negative.
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ProfessorJ
People simply do not like John McCain, and no amount of smearing of Obama is going to change that, not when 100 percent of your advertising and message today is negative.
Here here.
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coulrophobic
"People simply do not like John McCain, and no amount of smearing of Obama is going to change that..."
Linking Senator Obama to admitted communists like the unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers is not a smear.
Americans have every right to know that the man who will most likely be leading the country, the guy with the most liberal record in the Senate, is much further to the left than he lets on.
Photographic proof that Obama was a member of the socialist New Party in 1996, something his lying handlers have until now denied, if nothing else because the mainstream media have more than signaled their willingness to support such behavior:
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-file-36-how-socialist-was-obamas.html
The photo and literature from the party, btw, were dug up by bloggers in New Zealand.
Our media is so deep in the tank for Obama they should be reading the propaganda they call news while wearing scuba gear.
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coulrophobic
Bush came to the WH after proving himself as governor of a state roughly the size of France and with an economy as large as Canada.
Obama has zero executive experience.
His most devoted worshippers even concede the point.
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cleo
And after proving that you can push state executions to new heights.
Pity individual states don't have the power to declare war, voters might have had a better idea of what they were voting for in 2000. Doesn't excuse them for 2004, though.
I'm no great fan of Obama, but an old man pushing the same policies as Bush is simply a disaster waiting to continue.
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VOR
The good thing about the American system of government is that it isn't designed for anyone to make any real big changes. It doesn't matter who gets elected, just more of the same.
We get a black guy as president, good we are no longer a rascist nation. We get a female VP, good we are no longer a sexist nation.
Its all about spin and political correctness. Judging from most peoples comments, it boils down to less about the truth and what is right and wrong and only about personal biases.
What a crock of a system and the people who contribute to the madness.
Welcome to the Disinformation Age.
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moonbeams
VOR,
Have you not been paying attention for the past 20 years?
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coulrophobic
"The good thing about the American system of government is that it isn't designed for anyone to make any real big changes. "
It's different this time. Dems will most likely get the House, the Senate and the Oval Office.
Reid and Pelosi made sure you the voter had no say in how much you pay for gas.
They also made sure you had no say in getting the federal government to take the radical step of actually providing oversight of what had become a quasi-governmental corporation holding half the mortgages in the country.
Both Reid and Pelosi have also played politics with this economic crisis, with wildly irresponsible comments that in Reid's case led to a run on insurance stocks.
Imagine the damage they can do when they have the most liberal senator in the country and the most unexperienced presidential candidate in American history in the White House.
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SuperLib
Yep. And they do it willingly and knowingly.
Don't forget the flip side...if Obama loses we're a racist nation and if Palin loses we're a sexist nation.
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adaydream
No matter what people have to say, george bush will be out of office soon and Barack will be in. < :-)
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timorborder
Have tried to keep an open mind with regard to the high drama which is the US election.
I think McCain has been shafted by his own party as a bit of payback. The teaming with Palin is going to sink his Presidental bid. Also, I saw a clip of his "arab" moment the other day in Minnesota. Actually felt sorry for the guy. By and large, Obama and McCain have tried to maintain a level of decorum in the race, however, both must shudder when they come up against rednecks like the old grandma in Minnesota who accused Obama of being "an arab." Perhaps it is time that the right to vote be based on some form of intelligence test (only joking). I should also say that McCain was looking rather old (tired). Either it is the stress of a long campaign, or his age and background are catching up with him. Reckon the old fella should be sitting on his back porch with a beer in his hand, rather than trying to get elected to a very stressful job.
Then again, although Obama seems to be the flavor of the month at the moment and will probably end up in the Whitehouse, there might be clouds on the horizon. In addition to trying to clean up the absolute mess that America's worst President ever will leave behind (a huge deficit, a tanking financial system, a morasse in Iraq, etc), I am not quite sure if Obama will still smell squeeky clean once the feds have finished talking to this former campaign donor in Chicago. Perhaps it is all a front.
So there you have it, in electing the next US President, voters have a choice between a very old man and a young chap who might have some skeletons in the closet.
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coulrophobic
'...both must shudder when they come up against rednecks like the old grandma in Minnesota who accused Obama of being "an arab." '
How should they react when Obama's pal Whoopi Goldberg is on national TV (the View) asking aloud if a McCain victory would automatically mean the appointment of judges who would actually have the authority and the earthly power to restore slavery?
"do I have to worry about becoming a slave again?"
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2008/09/12/whoopi-worries-about-becoming-slave-again
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WilliB
Raila Odinga, Louis Farrakhan, and Mahmood Ahmedinejad join Madonna, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Michael Moore, and the collective Hollywood chiqueria in rooting for Obama. Interesting times ahead.
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SezWho2
coulrophobic,
There's still a difference between pointed comedy and hateful ignorance.
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SezWho2
USNinJapan,
Presidents have fans. Why shouldn't Presidential candidates?
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coulrophobic
"There's still a difference between pointed comedy and hateful ignorance"
I would have to agree.
Some of Goldberg's movies have their comic moments.
The View, however, is unrelieved hateful ignorance.
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SezWho2
Well, I've never seen The View, but I think unrelieved hateful ignorance would be consistently trying to denigrate a person, especially when combined with willful exploitation of any information regardless of source.
A case in point would be the New Zealand blog. It offers two pieces of evidence which are conflicting. The "photographic proof" clearly states that Obama was New-Party endorsed as equally clearly distinguished from New Party members. Now, if "page 2" (not shown) states that he is a New Party member, we have conflicting information.
There are a number of possibilities:
(1) the blogger is not giving us the straight skinny about page 2;
(2) the writer of page 2 was not giving readers the straight skinny about Obama's membership;
(3) the writer of page 2 made an error--perhaps an enthusiastic error--which the editor did not catch or let slide;
(4) page 2 is accurate but the caption on the picture is poorly worded.
I'm not sure if you've seen page 2 or not, but the blogger has an obvious agenda. (And why should a New Zealander be so exercised about this anyway?) If you choose to accept this at face value, that's fine. But there is very small value in contradictory information and when the most damning information is not even put into evidence there is almost none. Now the Power Line blog might show more, but at the time of this writing is inaccessible.
In any event, Obama won that election as the Democratic Party candidate, not the New Party candidate. He was promoted for the seat by a Democratic state senator who aspired to the House seat of a Democratic Representative whose seat had been vacated. You can look that up.
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McC72
Timorborder,
Why do you add the word ''jokingly''? What you said was perfectly right and no need to apologize. There should be some serious form of IQ test to voters. Imagine such an un/ill-informed person's vote becomes the deciding vote.
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SuperLib
Oh I have a feeling that Obama for President is becoming a very real thing as each day passes....
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goodDonkey
coulrophobic said:
Lincoln had less experience than Obama has as a presidential candidate.
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Wolfpack
Sen. Obama has every right to be confident - if not overconfident. Sen. McCain's campaign has unilaterally disarmed itself because he is afraid to be called a racist. Gov. Palin has been less reticent about pointing out the truth about Sen. Obama's tolerance for racist's but the MSM has attacked her with straight out sexism because of it. Let's face it, if McCain had attended a racist and anti-American church for 20 years, the Obama campaign, the Democrat party, and the media would ram the racism charge down his throat every day. It isn't fair but that's the way it is. America is turning into a European country. Demographics, massive illegal immigration, and the liberal public education system has brought us to this point. Obama should be very confident.
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SezWho2
Wolfpack,
Are you saying that Trinity church is a racist, anti-American church? If you are, I don't think that is correct.
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Sarge
Sez, The Trinity United Church of Christ isn't rascist or anti-American. They just have a congregation that comes every week to listen to a hateful, rascist preacher.
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SezWho2
Sarge,
I think that if you interview Wright's congregation you'll find that he was not a hateful, racist preacher. And if you interview people who were not in his congregation, they would have very little idea as to what Wright was all about.
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