"Are you kidding me, the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska? Yeah, that’s who you want in the White House during a time of crisis. When she got a phone call at 3 in the morning, it was because a moose had gotten in the garbage can." --Bill Maher

WOW....oldtimer gets into the racist game and look who is first to give him a kiss!!!!!

the resident racist....Rejoice....

"HER BLACKNESS"...really oldtimer and Rejoice why would you use that word when "her endorsement of Obama"....or "her Democratic leaning" or something similiar would have made the same point....if both of you were not making a racist statement????

Ms. Winfrey then issued the following statement:

"The item in today’s Drudge Report is categorically untrue. There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over."
New York times....9/7/08

tell me Rejoice...what did your minister say about your potty mouth????

FOX NEWS ran a "fair and balanced' one hour piece last night on Sarah Palin. Hopefully, yawl can get past your "egos and emotions" and learn something about a "women" who in her own right is real, smart, attractive, experienced, confident, educated, a mother of five and appears to have better judgement than the other three candidates put together.

Regardless of you party affiliation, this is a must see to understanding this tremendous human discovery.

Her biggest attribute is that she is from an average background and education. This "average person" has decided to be all she can be and she is succeeding!

What a breath of fresh air!!

Remember... we all start out as "average/equal if you will" what happens after that is a different story for each one of us!!

Not one of our former Presidents walked on water. Remember the Peanut Farmer of the 70's. If he could be President, you can to!!

Just "be all you can be"!!!

Have a great day and a better tomorrow!

When I read all the extreme right wing (Naples normal) comments regarding McCain's choice as his successor (and she will be if McCain is elected because he won't last through his term) I have to conclude that the republican inbreeding in Naples is rampant). No sane person would want this extreme right, religious fanatic (she makes radical Muslims seem like teddy bears), gun toting, baby popping novice to be in charge. By the NDN letters though, lots of Naples folks would welcome it. As I said-inbreeding-think about it. You all aren't to sane. You know, after living in Naples since 1979, I knew that.

as always Rejoice ...you only read the portion that fits your right wing agenda........

none of the candidates will appear on Oprah's show until after the election

is that too difficult for you to understand

NOBODY!! means NOBODY!!

not even Sarah Palin who has not yet been released for prime time interviews

"His (McCain's...my insert) campaign manager, Rick Davis, who spoke on “Fox News Sunday,” said the campaign would make her available according to its own needs.

“She’s not scared to answer questions,” Mr. Davis said. “But you know what? We run our campaign, not the news media. And we’ll do things on our timetable.”

He added: “Why would we want to throw Sarah Palin into a cycle of piranhas called the news media that have nothing better to ask questions about than her personal life and her children? So until at which point in time we feel like the news media is going to treat her with some level of respect and deference, I think it would be foolhardy to put her out into that kind of environment.”

New York Times.....9/7/08

Congratulations, Julie Sprague!

You have what it takes to be on the School Board of Collier County. Your first hand experience is what it will take to help build back the strength and understanding the board needs.

November 4th will be your day and you will have the support of all.

Keep up the excellent work of informing the public with the important issues at hand.

Your character speaks for itself.

Vote Sprague on November 4th!

The NY Daily News........

Sarah Palin's mother-in-law uncertain about how she'll vote
BY NANCY DILLON
DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF

Updated Sunday, August 31st 2008, 2:27 AM

Sato/AP

Faye Palin, Gov. Palin's mother-in-law
WASILLA, Alaska - Sarah Palin's hometown rallied around her as mayor - now Republicans wonder if the rest of America will warm up to the surprise pick from cold country.

Though her mother-in-law has doubts.

Faye Palin admitted she enjoys hearing Barack Obama speak, and still hasn't decided which way she'll vote.

"We don't agree on everything. "

Oh oh. Can she use her government authority to fire her mother in law?

in post # 2 Rejoice posts that according to
New York Times interview Obama said that the
Muslim prayer is the prettiest sound on earth at sunset......

of course he got this from a radical right wing blog which picked it up from Jerome Corsi's new hatchet book "The Obama Nation" which has been roundly critisized for it's factual errors and unsubstantiated claims and the above is not true

The REPUBLICAN PARTY HAD TOLD IT'S MEMBERS NOT TO BUY THE BOOK

but of course Rejoice publishes it anyway

Why conservatives should denounce anti-Obama book | WE BlogObama then recited the Adhan, or the Muslim call to prayer. Obama described the prayer as, “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” ...
blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/08/why-conservatives-should-denounce-anti-obama-book/

(following is the comment from the above site)

Why conservatives should denounce anti-Obama book Peter Wehner, a former deputy assistant to President Bush, wrote that it is in conservatives’ self-interest to denounce Jerome Corsi’s new hatchet book, “The Obama Nation.” After noting some of the many factual errors and unsubstantiated claims in the book, Wehner wrote: “Conservatism has been an intellectual home to people like Burke and Buckley. The GOP is the party that gave us Lincoln and Reagan. It seems to me that its leaders ought to make it clear that they find what Dr. Corsi is doing to be both wrong and repellent. To have their movement and their party associated with such a figure would be a terrible thing, and it will only help the cause of those who hold both the GOP and the conservative movement in contempt.”

"John McCain's VP pick is the governor of Alaska, a unknown hockey mom named Sarah Palin that no one ever heard of. The only other job she had in politics was the mayor of a small town known as Wasilla, Alaska, and now she has the opportunity to be on a ticket opposite of Barack Obama, the first black man she's ever seen." –Bill Maher

All this HYSTERIA about a "failed Mother running on the GOP ticket isn't surprising. It's the result of the dramatic contrast of complete ineptitude and corruption of the last eight years, and an old man that promises more of the same. Even a "moose skinning" burger "mama" looks "appetizing" to a politically "starved" party. Watch for the "ecoli" the next few weeks.

Rejoice: How many of your sisters have you slept with? It sounds like you are the product of what I spoke about. You jump on a typo and that's about all you have to jump on-except of course, your- well, I won't go there. You people are all cut in the same mold. You have no substance, you have no point. All you can do is call people names and that is pitiful, as you are pitiful.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Republican vice-presidential running mate Sarah Palin is offering her first televised interview to ABC News in the coming week in Alaska.

Palin, the surprise pick of Republican presidential nominee John McCain, has been giving campaign speeches alongside the Arizona senator since the party convention but has not sat down for an interview about her views.

A McCain-Palin adviser says an interview was offered to ABC's Charlie Gibson several days ago and that they expect it to happen in the latter part of the week in Alaska.

Palin is the governor of Alaska and is expected to return home at midweek after more joint appearances with McCain.

well they are finally letting her speak.......in her hometown with the right wing ABC Gibson...how many "softball" questions can they ask in an hour????

well Rejoice...so far this night you have managed to post racism against Blacks.....insulted Catholics...again insulted the French Canadians and then thrown in an insult against "socialist" Canada

you really are living up to your rep as resident racist!!!!

I guess your goverment rescuing Fannie May et al with YOUR MONEY is really biting you where the sun doesn't shine!!!

outed twice tonight with incorrect and untrue posts but has no shame!!!!

The Republicans have taken the art of talking out of both sides of their mouths and turned it into a science.

The sincerity is overwhelming.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/ind...

why are obama supporters ok with this?!?

www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html

www.abcnews.go.com/blotter/story?id=444378&page=1

MCCAIN/PALIN 08!!!!!

excuse me, i meant to say why are SOME of the obama supporters ok with this...i already know why MOST of them are...

algonquin - thank you for help with posting links

actually, i'm not aware of any racial inequality and civil rights violations nowadays...unless you're talking about reverse.

michelle obama is clearly aggravated at the "white man" and both she and obama have for 20 years attented a church where a racist reverend preaches to them (and marries them and baptizes their children)

it bothers me that obama has voluntarily subjected himself to such radical preachings and now claims he doesn't really agree with the reverend on everything...really, obama, 20 YEARS? and you don't agree?!?!? gimme a break!

MCCain/Palin is a "great GOP ticket", but McCain and anorexic Ann Coulter would have been better. At least she , too, is a New York Times Best Seller (For GOP "nut" cases starved for lies and distortions) authoress, ala Corsi. Palin has the necessary "whining" voice, but hasn't learned to "write" yet. Maybe she can take the "crash course" ala what she is doing now prepping for "her interviews"? She's so "deliciously abstinet"!

The average of polls now show McCain/Palin even with Obama/Biden in the race for President. How scarey is that?
With everything that is wrong with our country Obama should be ahead by 10%, even if he is half black.
Obama asked a question recently 'Do they [mccain/palin], think we are that stupid'? The new polls show Americans are that stupid and they deserve what they get. Four more years of the same is now a possibility

ColPopcorn - it is very very hard to believe anything you say. Why? You did not put "Algonquin999" in your list (unless you beleive that he and Boulder Billy inhabit the same skull). With that omission, I doubt your knowledge.

In his book The Real McCain, author Cliff Schecter claims that John McCain made extremely ugly remarks about his wife Cindy McCain during a tirade witnessed by three reporters and two aides. "At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, 'You're getting a little thin up there,'" Schechter writes. "McCain's face reddened, and he responded, 'At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you .unt.' McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days."

Boy, gramps remarks ought to help with the female vote, just none that I know. To think that someone would refer to a woman that had his child with this terminology is way beyond comprehension.

unlike you Rejoice.....resident racist I own up to my mistakes and sourced the Kristof column and he does claim Obama said what you stated

so I was wrong when I said it did not happen but in my post I made no reference to Kristof whatsoever so you are wrong to claim that!!!

but as always you only only quote the portion of the column that suits your agenda

you do not say Kristof also said that Obama IS THE MOST EXPERIENCED to be the next President!

"Op-Ed Columnist Obama: Man of the World By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
WASHINGTON JUNE 18/08

The conventional wisdom about Barack Obama is that he’s smart and charismatic but so inexperienced that we should feel jittery about him in the Oval Office.

But that view is myopic. In some respects, Mr. Obama is far more experienced than other presidential candidates.

His experience as an antipoverty organizer in Chicago, for example, gives him a deep grasp of a crucial 21st-century challenge — poverty in America — that almost all politicians lack. He says that grass-roots experience helps explain why he favors not only government spending programs, like early childhood education, but also cultural initiatives, like efforts to promote responsible fatherhood.

In foreign policy as well, Mr. Obama would bring to the White House an important experience that most other candidates lack: he has actually lived abroad. He spent four years as a child in Indonesia and attended schools in the Indonesian language, which he still speaks."

you can read the rest of the complimentary column yourself...and remember....you cannot trash the author as you have already praised him to high heaven!!!!!

Mini me's attempt to divert all the criticism to Miss Moose and keep the spotlight off all of his shortcoming is failing.

The interest in the mayor of Podunk has diminished. He can't hide under her skirt anymore, even though he felt most comfortable as her cheerleader. Learned that from his mentor.

Let the real games begin. It will be interesting watching him crack when the pressure increases, just like in Viet Nam. He may end up doing ad's for the opposition by Nov., just like he did for the North Vietnamese.

The mans uncontrollable temper will do him in again, as soooo many times in the past.

Conservative Lawrence Kudlow (Business host) is
leading towards Obama to restore the economy. This
was stated on Business News Today (Sunday).

Rejoice.......

BTW...the column by Kristof was March 2007 not June 18/08

that date refers to McCain's visit to Ottawa..invited by the Economic Club of Toronto

at this luncheon McCain sang the Canadian National
Anthem...reportedly with with "gusto"

does that make him "a socialist" anymore than Obama reciting the Muslim prayer makes him a Muslim

from the National Post: June 18/08

OTTAWA -- It may the most sought-after ticket in Ottawa, but when Republican presidential nominee John McCain addresses a sold-out luncheon on Friday it will be hard to find a Conservative politician in the crowd.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be out of town -- rumours suggest his absence is more than just convenient timing -- and he declined to meet with Mr. McCain, sources say. Mr. McCain's advisors had hoped for a formal meeting with the Prime Minister or someone from government, but were told there would be no meeting during his Ottawa visit.

The Prime Minister's Office, concerned about the optics, also advised staff working for MPs to avoid the speech. Tickets for Mr. McCain's speech sold out in an hour but, among the 380 guests, the federal Conservatives will be limited to those with official reasons to attend. David Emerson will be there as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Conservative MP Rob Merrifield will also go in his capacity as co-chair of the Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group.

You see, it might make sense if it was a Biden/Obama ticket.

Then you would have the experience like McCain/Palin.

But nooooo! The loony left went for the charismatic upstart with no experience to justify his meteoric shooting star.

Hope he sputters and disappears.

You are right Col.

"Clinton didn't just say things like that about women."

We leave that to the neocons and their traditional disrespect for women. Their pandering went too far this time. Must have forgot the two months left until the election. Too much time left to focus all the attention back on grampa. He c.nt handle all the heat coming his way. He has a well deserved history of folding when times get tough. Stories abound from his fellow vets that he let down by confessing.

Their recollections will hit the airwaves this week. As Karl Rove preaches, hit them at their strength. Parading as a war hero when ones actions were in fact traitorous will be his downfall.

The Pickens Plan looks good, right?

Did you know it is a front for a water grab?

http://dontgomovement.com/2008/08/11/...

First it was the Air America radio fiasco! Now msnbc fires the two most LIBERAL/HATE mongering nuts on televison Mathews/Oberman! How about that for justice being done!

It just goes to prove that the "majority" rules and that includes television "ratings"!

The catholics pray to St Anthony when something is lost. Hopefully they will pray to St Anthony for something found...SARAH PALIN!!!!!!!!!!!

Have a great day and a better tomorrow.

Rejoice, your point about Oprah: Is she a racist?

John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency." [...]

Quote from Bill Kristol, Conservative,

Canuck, remember that big rally Oprah had with Obama?

Are you blind?

Gonefishin.....what the h**l has your post #84 got to do with having NOBODY on the ticket ON HER SHOW...she is a private citizen ...she can visibly support anyone she wants just as the McCain ticket has their celebrities

is this a jealous thing???? Obama'a celebrities have a higher profile than McCain's?????

one more time:

Oprah has said NOBODY on the Presidential ticket will be on her show until the election is over!!

Canuck, kinda too late for her to take back her huge support for Obama, don't you think?

She helped get him nominated.

BTW - I now know for sure the AllGone and silly are the same. What an absolute loser. Stay with one name and try not to talk to yourself like a typical liberal.

jimbo, she still has a McCain sticker on her car.

When you have nothing to say, you smear.

Dooley,
On your comment about Larry Kudlow, all that crack is starting to make you delusional.

Gonefishin...just don't understand your logic...she is not taking back her support of Obama.....she is just not using her show for ANY ONE on the ticket...what is so hard for your to understand.....please don't go the way of Rejoice or that ex-Jag soldier who spin for their own agenda

we really don't know how many on this site are operating under different names....you have been accused of also posting under Rejoice!!!!

in the meantime I can understand the right's preoccupation with Oprah because of the following from National Examainer.com Aug13/08:

"The list of celebrities who have endorsed Republicans in the primary campaign is a fairly short one. Kelsey Grammer, Adam Sandler and Ben Stein gave money to Rudy Giuliani way back then. Chuck Norris donated to Mike Huckabee once upon a time.

But what celebrities support the guy who will be on the ballot in November, John McCain?

We went to WikiAnswers to find out. The answer field was blank.

So we went to Yahoo Answers. Another resounding zero. The answer there came in the form of a question: Why don't celebrities support McCain?

Finally we Googled "celebrities who support John McCain." And there we found the entire list. Heidi Montag.

We hate to say it, but that's definitely not going to be enough to make a celebrity out of McCain's wannabe daughter Meghan McCain, no matter what she posts in her blogette.

At one point, candidate McCain, enthralled by his celebrity endorsement, actually said, " I never miss an episode of 'The Hills.' "

That's a good one. As if anybody over 70 watches MTV. "

Oh no, say it ain't sooooo.

mini me is gonna get hit from both directions.

From the Huffington Post.......

"Romney knew it would be rude to be a sore loser. So, even though he thought he had endorsed McCain in the Feb. 7 speech that ended his own presidential bid, Romney submitted to cameras and questions a week later to reiterate that support for the rival he once said lacked the economics background to be president.

Romney also established the Free and Strong America PAC, a political action committee dedicated to helping not only McCain but also like-minded congressional and state political candidates. But the PAC also gives Romney a vehicle to raise money and travel the country, promoting himself as much as the candidates he wants to endorse.

He used a similar committee, and his 2006 chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association, to build the network of advisers, contributors and supporters he relied on during his presidential campaign. The Free and Strong America PAC also allows gives Romney a headquarters where he can remain in contact with his inner circle of advisers.

Should McCain continue to fail, it's no stretch to see Romney hitting the trail again well before Nov. 5 in pursuit of the job he wanted from the start."

The Republican Party unity is collapsing and the true threat to an OBAMA presidency is gearing up.

Mitt will split the party between the extreme right wing Bush/McSame/Palin pro war wing and the moderate Romney supporters that beleive in the sanctity of the constitution.....

Someone tell Miss Seal Blubber that it is "bye bye Miss American pie......She will be home well before her indictments hit Nov.1.

Canuck: Who cares what celebrities think? Do you really care what Tom Hanks eats for breakfast? Just because someone can act doesn't make them intelligent. Just look at some of the nut-bag causes they espouse.

But when Oprah uses her celebrity to help Obama, then stays out of the situation (was McCain ever on her show?), you've got to realize she is scum.

Face it: She's just as wrong on Obama as she was on that book.

When some idiot double poster uses the exact same phrases under two names, you know he is a tool (especially when they keep rolling on the floor like a babbling madman).

Better to skip those posts.

"Rejoice, your point about Oprah: Is she a racist?"
Post #42 - Gone Fishin

The answer to this question is a resounding YES if the words quoted in Canuk's post #3 actually came from Oprah's own mouth:-

"At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates."

In all her years in showbusiness, Oprah has never before felt the need to publicly announce her party affiliation.

Coincidence?
I think not.

It's really a stretch to try to make Obama's saying McCain hasn't attacked my Muslim Religion to mean something other than what it was. Obama said McCain hadn't gone around lying that Obama was a Muslim. You know what Obama meant, so quit trying to make it into something else.

Also, you can't criticize his 20 years in Rev. Wright's Christian Church and then call him a Muslim.

Also, after having been so severely discriminated against, why is it hard to understand Blacks trying to find a sense of themselves, separate from Whites? The transition for older blacks has been difficult.

Obama is not of that generation and hasn't lived the discrimination. He worked as a community organizer to try to help in some way their plight after so many had been laid off of their jobs in the steel industry.

I believe Obama also wanted to get a sense of what the inner city was like and what their struggles are. To ridicule that is disgusting. I believe it is admirable and of far more recognizable importance than being a mayor of a small town.

Sarah has not a clue of the duties of a community organizer. Someone wrote that for her, and she merely read the words and then thought she was clever. But her speech writer didn't have a clue either. And that's not the only thing her speech was way off on. A real big one was that Obama would raise your taxes. She said that to a group of people that I doubt very many made over $250,000 a year. So, here we are again, right from the start. Lies, lies, lies.

Canuck: Good to see your government is working just fine.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/america...

TRULY fair & balanced:

Watch the one hour video just posted of
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) speaking at an AARP 50th anniversary celebration via satellite on health, Social Security, and other issues.

http://www.c-span.org/Default.aspx
http://www.aarp.org/aarp/events/Life_...

Obama is probably an atheist using the church to advance his political power in the neighborhood.

How else coould he justify hanging out with cop killers and allowing a slum lord to thrive in his district and help him buy a house?

vshark1,

You're right, of course. The endless discussions on here won't change the way anyone votes, but the letters today are excruciatingly boring. We could try having a pleasant chat about suicide prevention or the pros and cons of broadcasting classical music in HD. We could discuss the virtues, or otherwise, of the Electoral College. We could always discuss (again) whether John Riccio's motives are honorable or not. But in the end, the presidential campaign is the single most important issue in America today.

I am reminded of the buid-up to the election of JFK. I was just a child, but I can recall the passionate debates my parents and their friends had, often into the early hours.

We are living in very exciting times. Who wants to discuss Bill Bond's religious claptrap when we can talk about being part of history in the making?

"I believe Obama also wanted to get a sense of what the inner city was like and what their struggles are. To ridicule that is disgusting. I believe it is admirable and of far more recognizable importance than being a mayor of a small town."

Post #56 - Truthmatters.

I don't think the truth matters to you at all.

Sarah Palin is no longer a mayor, she is the GOVERNOR of Alaska. That's a STATE, by the way, not a small town. If you think that compares unfavorably to the duties Obama performed (badly, from all accounts) as a community organizer, then I doubt there's any hope of you comprehending the truth about Obama anytime soon.

WOW...gonefishin...you really are an angry person today and I am seeing another side of you instead of posting those youtube smear videos

so let's see ...after getting on Oprah because she said she will not have ANYONE on the ticket on her show until after the election..you now say who cares what celebrities think...hard time getting over that logic....

right back at you...was Obama ever on her show???

as for our elections...unfortunately our prime minister is known as a "Bush lapdog" (he is alsoso evangelical religious right) so breaking his own law by calling the election did not surprise anyone as he has run a minority goverment secretly..not allowing his ministers to speak publically..and firing anyone who did not agree with him

sound familiar?

so feel free to comment on our election but do it fast as unlike the US the campaigning will only last 36 days as we go to the polls on Oct 14th

Simply look up Obama on Wikipedia. In my humble opinion, He is intelligent, but he actually thinks about, analyzes and studies issues with his own brain. He passed up high paying jobs to actually work with poor people and a sub- culture of people who have lost their jobs ( an extremely comman phenomenen in this country- even Anheiser -Busch has been sold to a Belgian company ) and registered 450,000 people to vote. He was a professor of Constitutional law for 8 years- I bet GWB, McCain or least of all Sarah Palin ever took one class on the subject.BHO wants to solve the problems in our country and make it better.The Republican party masterfully hypnotizes people with the flag waving and the emotional side of patriotism, and religion and "family values" nonsense, and brainwashes people that elections are about wedges issues like abortion.They are most successful in convincing people that the Democratss want to take your money in the form of higher taxes to give it to lazy black people in the form of a welfare check that they then spend on booze and drugs. The republican party is about making rich people richer.That was Sarah Palins role in Alaska. That was GWB"s role in the White House, the real reason behind the Iraq war and off shore drilling and everything else they promote.I feel sad for the believers- you are all being used and manipulated.Republicans don't have any problem with "Socialism" when all of us poor taxpayers are sharing in their losses- Fannie mae, Freddie Mac, Bank failures etc etc. But they want to keep their profits all to themselves.Please be more open minded about Obama
Algomquin et al- love ya

I hope everyone realizes the seriousness of a McCain/Palin administration who will invade or bomb Iran.

We financially and in our military cannot afford this, and the ramifications could fall on us in a rain of misery and loss beyond our wildest dreams.

Palin is of the End Times, Armageddon belief. They do not care if the Middle East goes up in a fire ball and we all suffer and collapse, because then the Rapture comes and all the Pentacostals and their ilk will revel in it, and all the rest of us will be thrown into Hell.

Pay close attention to those two up there. They offer nothing that will improve the condition of this country. They only offer goodies for their own favorites.

I say again, McCain cannot distance himself from the absolute failure of George Bush because he voted with him over 90% of the time.

His foreign policy is the clone of Bush's. We will have no hope, no future with McCain/Palin. And women, you'd better think hard before you vote entirely against yourself just because Sarah is a Woman. She's not a woman who cares about you. She cares about herself and her fundamentalist beliefs. She is an enemy to our country's people and our Constitution.

#63 commansense -

You have more than common sense. You have superior sense.

#55..BigG...using your reasoning Pastor John Hagee's endorsement of McCain would also make him a racist...oh wait a minute.....

he already is labelled a racist against Catholics..oops

well then...how about Daddy Yankee....that "well known" Hispanic reggae singer who is endorsing McCain ..the first time he endorsed anyone....I guess he is a racist also!!!!

and those women who are going to vote for Palin because she is a woman.... I guess they could also be called gender racists

truly laughable and unfortunately lamentable!!!

yet Gonefishin says "who cares what celebrities say"...seems like the right wingers care..because they do not have any!!!!

Commonsense,thank you for your excellent blog #63. You have pointed out so many important points to think about in this election. You have not resorted to enuendo or trying to find some illicit connection for McCain, Palin, Obama or Biden. We've heard enough of that garbage and reaching to find something negative to harp on, when it is the issues and the know how for them to tackle those issues.

It is about, who understands our govenment, our Consitution, our principles and what makes this country's economony go round.

What we need is a knowledgable person all the way around, and that is Obama. What we need is someone with judgment, someone thoughtful who will not just leap headlong without giving thought to what he was doing or giving thought to the ramifications as was done by Bush and backed by McCain in this Iraq war. Barack saw clearly what would happen, and he was right. It shows his judgment, like Bush Sr.'s, was good.

McCain is temperamental, quick to jump, he doesn't think; he just says, "I want." We cannot tolerate anymore of this kind of stupidity connected also with a stubborn personality that will not change course even when it's over a cliff.

Obama can see ahead. He has prescience, and that's a rare gift. We must go with him if we want to survive and if we want our children to have a future.

One more time yawl:

Change - "Alter, make different, exchange"

Change in politics: Term limits, line item veto,
all legislation to be specific no attachments, and no more "pork"!

These simple four "CHANGES" that will help to change the way we do things. Obviously a 51% majority will prevail as the "MAJORITY RULES".

Again, one person will not affect change. Please listen and try to understand this basic concept.

Airing your thoughts daily is our first amendment
right. If everyone would channel their efforts and contact their elected officals, rgearding any and all topics, a "majority opinion" would soon become apparent to them.

Be dynamic, be a mover and shaker by putting your opinions in the hands of those who work for us and must produce lest we "FIRE THEM"!

In the meantime continue to express your views which at the end of the day will not affect anything!

Have a great day and a better tomorrow!

I'm not going to vote Republican, but I think some of you are being unfair to Sarah Palin. Yes, she thinks like a conservative, but she has done some good things.

I agree with vashork1 #44. It gets tiresome to read the same things over and over by some of the bloggers. We should be voting on what we believe in and not personalities. I'm voting against McCain and Palin because my philososphy is different than theirs. Both McCain and Palin might be nice people, but I don't like what they stand for. It's only natural to vote for people that are more in line with what we believe.

We don't have to say things that ridicule and that have no bearing on the election. It's not hard for me to decide who to vote for, because I like the Democrat's approach to solving our problems than the Republicans. We all have a brain, so why don't we let everyone choose for themselves. Saying the same things everyday isn't going to solve any of our problems.

I agree with BigG. There are other things we could be discussing. Sadly, most people don't want to discuss anything but the election and sling their mud.

Eddie, you see they haven't found anything to sling at Palin, so they do things like post fake nude photos of her.

Rationalman, this is the most important thing before us now. Our future depends on it. And those two presidential tickets are as different as night and day.

We have to put our minds to this now. We have less than two months left to get the facts out so we can decide.

You should be careful saying how nice Sarah is. She's not nice. She's not nice to gays. She thinks they're sinful, and she would deny them their rights as equal human beings in this country. That's not nice. That's vicious. And I am not gay. But I don't like to see people treated so unfairly. I know you're not a woman, but maybe you could sympathize with what we women are going to face under this administration. A Constitution that will deprive rights and be fashioned in the mode of the Religious Right Wing.

They do not deserve your kind words. They are not kind to others. They are not nice. They are hard.

Boulderbilly, thank you for that interesting blog #32 about McCain's insulting his wife Cindy. I copied it. It says alot about him, calling his wife such a name when it was she and her father who got him started in the first place. What a jerk he is.

Also Big G. Sarah, in her speech, was comparing her being "mayor" to Obama's being a community organizer. Pay attention.

Canuck,

Re your post #66. You are clutching at straws, and you know it.

Oprah Winfrey is black. She has one of the most well known faces in the country and has never openly supported a presidential candidate until a black man entered the race. Pretty transparent stuff.

Pastor John Hagee is not a celebrity with the power to persuade millions of gullible people across America to follow his lead.

As for Daddy Yankee - he is Latino. How is his support of McCain racist? You're simply not making any sense.

This line shows just how silly your posts are getting:-

"he already is labelled a racist against Catholics..oops"

Since when did Catholics have their own race?

Gee, I'll have to start paying more attention.

"an extremely comman phenomenen in this country"

Post 63 commansense

The word is common - as in, you don't have a lot of common sense.

"The Republican party masterfully hypnotizes people with the flag waving and the emotional side of patriotism"

As for being hypnotized by a presidential candidate, the Obama followers are perfect examples. They ignore the fact that he says nothing, but swoon over the way he says it! Their adoration borders on worship. They seem to believe he was sent by God to save the world. Scary.

"Simply look up Obama on Wikipedia. In my humble opinion, He is intelligent, but he actually thinks about, analyzes and studies issues with his own brain."

Hmmmm. Are you sure about that? I think he thinks with someone else's brain, then gets them to write speeches for him. he he.

commansense, you're a hoot.

TM,

I do not beleive being against Gay Marriage means you are against Gay Rights. And how does that relate to attitudes towards women? How can you be so blinded by your hatred of Republicans?

Truthmatters,

Don't tell me to pay attention. Where in post 56 did you say you were referring to Sarah Palin's speech or use quotaition marks? You were expressing an opinion, plain and simple.

BTW, your posts are becoming more and more hysterical. If you carry on like this, by the time the election rolls around, you'll have given yourself an apoplexy.

"Obama can see ahead. He has prescience, and that's a rare gift. We must go with him if we want to survive and if we want our children to have a future."

Do you really believe that if John McCain wins in November, it will be the end of the world?

Calm down and get a grip.

If Obama is so smart, thinks things through and can see ahead, then....

Why did Obama get into a shady land deal with Rezko?

Why did he hang out at the home of cop-killing terrorsts?

GoneFishin,

Easy, common sense is above his pay grade.

BigG......re your #74....my post makes as much sense as yours...calling Oprah racist because she exercises her given right to endorse a candidate to happens to be half white and black

recent blogs here by right wingers are saying how dare he call himself African American

as for Hagee....consult your dictionary about the word racist....when used as an adjective.....
"discriminatory on basis of race or religion"

apology accepted!!!!

BigG.....another point.....how do you know the reason Oprah is voting for Obama because he is "black"

do you not think that a woman who came from nowhere to become a billionaire has the smarts to disect the political rhetoric and endorse the person who she thinks has the policies best for your country...

are all the white folk who will vote for McCain racist because do not want to vote for a man of colour...or they falsely say he is a Muslim..like many posting here

that's why your statement is racist and has nothing to do with the politics of the election

Canuck,
"as for Hagee....consult your dictionary about the word racist....when used as an adjective.....
"discriminatory on basis of race or religion"
apology accepted!!!!

No apology offered.

When used in this sense, racism refers to a race of which virtually all the people are of the same religion i.e. Muslims. One cannot be racist against Catholics because you are not all of the same race. You cannot be considered racist against Atheists, because we are not all of the same race. Now bigotry, well that's another story altogether.

How do you know Oprah's decision to suppot Obama is NOT based on race?

Yes, I do believe a woman with Oprah's smarts can disect the political rhetoric etc. I just question why, after 30+ years on the public stage, she has chosen not to do so until now.

Fair question, dontcha think?

No, I don't think all the white folks who will vote for McCain are racist - I think they are capapble of disecting the political rhetoric and endorsing the person who they think has the best policies for our country.

On this INFAMOUS day in 1974 - A former football player who took too many hits to the head, Gerald Ford, UNCONDITIONALLY pardoned "the scum of the earth" Richard M. Nixon and saved the Republican Party for the "good of the nation". It was a travesty of justice and humanity!

Re#78 Gonefishin As to your BS!

If McCain is such a "sage", why was he so STUPID in the Keating S&L rape of taxpayers' and their money?

Why did McCain vote 90% of the time with "wrong way Bush"?

Why did McCain dump his 1st wife for a "Budweiser Dollar Queen"?

You better keep your garbage in your own back yard before trying spreading others around places other than GOP "strongholds". The "strongholds" deserve the stench of their own excrement!

Re# 36 Dooley, I concur with your comments. Kudlow is a charlatan and a capitalistic "thief". I have called him that to his face and he didn't like it. As a matter of fact he walked out of the room in a "huff" and I was asked to leave as well. He's a touchy guy when you bring up personal examples of dealings of mutual experience. Larry just figured nobody was in the audience that knew or saw how he operates. I'm still available to compare "notes". I'm impressed that he appears to be Alma's "pin-up" boy. It's so appropriate.

Re #43 Dooley Bill Kristol looks like a FROG! I really believe he might be one. He loves to quoke and sit on his FOX "lily pod" looking like a "target" for a frog leg enthusiast. He is the epitome of a detestable

# 43

BigG....I did not expect an apology and fully expected you to put YOUR OWN spin on the word

your "knowledge" is far superior to the dictionary?????....so you post a whole new meaning of the word to fit your agenda...which is mumbo jumbo

you completely ignore the "religion" portion of the explanation

blatant twisting of the word!!!!

you did not question why Oprah decided to endorse Obama.....

you called her a racist for doing so!!!

atheism is not a religion so a person cannot be racist who speaks against it

the question I asked was would you consider those white folks who will not vote for a person of colour racist??? as will many in this election....just as some will vote against a woman

I see the libs have come out with a new bumper sticker for McCain/Palin:

"THE OLD MAN AND THE C 08"

Big G, my apologies, I thought you were up on the speeches where Palin compared her mayor's job with Obama's Community organizing. So, I didn't go into a long preface of what I was referring to. Next time when I see your name, I won't assume you know anything.

As far as my getting hysterical over what an invasion of Iran would do to us, well, believe me, what I write is an understatement.

Just as Bush and McCain both think that we somehow should invade, control and run the Middle East, we should be able to see by now what that is doing to us. We should be able to comprehend that a debt nearing 10 trillion dollars is getting out of hand. But also, we have to see that we continue every year to add to that debt over 400 billion dollars.

Now Our government has taken over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because they couldn't let it fail. That initial cost will be about 500 billion dollars.

And remember every one of those billions makes our interest payments go up, forever.

If you on the Right Wing don't realize how precariously we sit and to whom we owe much of this debt, then I'd have to say, you're no Republicans. What we have been doing is fiscal insanity. And what you right wing war hawks recommend is beyond fiscal insanity, it is also a complete lack of understanding of how our power stands next to the rest of the world.

You've all heard I presume of "The Tipping Point?"
Well, I think we're approaching it, and that isn't hysteria, that's just plain common sense and seeing where we are, what we face and what are the ramifications of our choices.

Invading Iran will bring disaster upon us. We are too weakened to withstand what will be coming at us because of it. And, if you think Oil prices are high now, you haven't seen anything yet.

The best we could hope for is that other countries whom we've been making enemies of don't get involved. If they do, America will be unrecognizable.

Scoff if you like. But just think about it a moment or too, and then tell me how I'm wrong. Don't just say I'm hysterical.

More people live in Collier and Lee counties combined, by far, than in the entire state of Alaska.

Palin's sh'' is about to hit the fan. Check out her church and what she say's in her 'speak'.
She believes God sent us to Iraq, her church speaks in 'tongues', and believes Alaska is where everyone will come to when God gets mad and destroys the rest of America.
Palin is WAY out there.

MikeM..post #92....don't you just love it when these right wing poster only tell you half the story....only that which suits their agenda.....in the above MikeM posts:

George Obama also told the magazine that “I live here on less than a dollar month,” and “if anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed.”

note he uses closed quotes as this is the complete sentence and leaves the impression he is ashamed of being related to Obama..

now following is the exact quote from US magazine August 20/08

note the rest of the sentence after ashamed

"I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist," said George, who has the same father as the Illinois senator.

"If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related," he added. "I am ashamed," he said of the way he lives.

George, who recently enrolled in a local technical college, has met Obama twice: when he was 5-years-old and in 2006 when the senator visited Nairobi.

and now the rest of the story.......

"Last night U.S. senator Barack Obama took his place in the history books as the first black presidential nominee of a major political party.

Obama opponents have accused the Illinois senator of neglect. A Texas Republican advert, poses questions to his supporters, "If Barack Obama cares so much about your family, why doesn't he take care of his family first?"

This is after an Italian magazine "Vanity Fair" reported that Obama has a half brother George Hussein Obama living in a slum on the outskirts of Nairobi on "less than a dollar a month."

George who is the youngest of Obama's six half brothers told the local Daily Nation newspaper that he did not live on less than a dollar a month and that "life is good." He's weary of speaking to swarms of journalists who have visited him at his home saying he fears skewed interpretations of his interviews may jeopardize his brother's presidential campaign.

Malik Obama, who is seen as the family's spokesman in Kenya said the attention was unnecessary.

Obama's Kenyan family is keeping a close eye on the campaign and hope their brother will make it to be the first black American president."

New Tang Dynasty Television...online

it is just too easy..and this story can be put to rest once and for all!!!!

Re #90 MikeM Sure, we are better off under Bush and the GOP. Just ask anybody with a mortgage in foreclosure. Just ask a Republican during an election campaign. Just ask anybody gassing up their car. Just ask a "dreamer". Like the commercial sez... "Let Mikey do it"!

MikeM, Wall Street paints a different picture this week than your IBD. Unemployment is over 6% and that doesn't include those whose payments have run out, or they gave up looking.

Our National debt is about 10 trillion, up 5 trillion from when Bush took office, and that doesn't include all the FICA taxes they've thrown into the regular budget which makes it look like less of a deficit each year. Our total debt also includes 53 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities like Soc. Security etc.

The Fed just took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to keep the financial markets from collapsing. That will initially cost about 500 billion dollars.

People's energy costs are killers and winter is coming. Groceries are up and I question that figure that reflects the average income. If that includes a lot of wealthy who made much more money, that would skew the figure.

The job losses are the biggest we've seen in a long, long time. And our Iraq expenditures that they manage to put a lot of them off budget, how they do that I don't know, but they continue at 10 billion a month.

Also, we deficit spend every year about 450 billion which adds quickly to a rising debt. All of this increases our interest payments in huge amounts which grow every year.

And now Crazy McCain will invade Iran if he gets elected. And just as crazy is the religious fruitcake, End Times Palin who will welcome Armageddon in the Middle East that could start with our invasion of Iran. Fun times ahead under McCain Palin.

MikeM, you'd better take another look and quit trying to paint a picture of this country that is unrecognizable. Face the facts and quit trying to sugar coat them for your lunatic duo.

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