If/ when Obama wins, we will have a completely liberal government with way too much liberal power (congress). This is Bad, very bad!

Within a year they will pass a law bannng elections as they hurt the losers feelings so they will select Obama's replacement via silent voting to protect the innocent.

Hmmm, mightn't be such a bad idea... it would eliminate all this Repub vs Democrat BS every 4 years, stop all the political name calling cos there'd be no more Repubs, end the bickering between friends and families... and more importantly, save billions in electioneering costs that could go to much better causes; ie, the homeless and hungry, aged care and better health, not to mention cheaper fuel and free beer.

They said that the bailout will cost each taxpayer $ 2,300 or something like that. They should have opened etrade accounts forevery taxpayer for $ 2000,00 and let them do some investing. This would have boosted the market incredibly while allowing people to choose what to do with their cut. Trickle up for once.

Just another uneducated thought..... 

Your blinders to the truth are even more so.

Everyone should realize that the "Secret Muslim" and "Terrorist" smears are just code for racial fear and bigotry.  Since neither of them are true, it gives cover to bigots to claim these are the "real" reasons they won't vote for Obama, since few bigots want to proudly admit their ignorance to those around them. 

Reminds me of the Nixon years and the communist smears.  Plenty of negative ads being pitched at Obama here locally.

Actually, I believe this is the essense of POLITICS, finding compromise and balance between the disparate positions of the electorate.  It's just that I believe that McCain/Palin will be right wing idealogues once in office, continuing the ignorant agenda of telling people what their values should be and how they should act (while secretely acting against those values).  While I believe the Democrats understand that we're all human and that such fundamentalist hypocrisy has no place in government or its intrusion into our lives.

But in order to be elected under the current right wing "gotcha" smear environment, even being "purple" like the vast majority of Americans is enough to keep one from being electable.   Even Palin stood up and bald-face lied about her positions during her debate, stating THE position on a number of issues that matched Obama's word for word.  These are the "election hurdle" phrases that pollsters and pundits force candidates to regurgitate now...and while it's pathetic...it is politics.

For example, I don't care whether a given Senator (insert list of recent Republicans here) is gay.  I do care that he SAYS he isn't, passes laws meant to assuage his own moral guilt on the rest of us, and then turns out to be massively in the closet and stooping male pages in-between votes.  Again, the very definition of hypocrisy.  Which is one of the reasons I laughed out loud at Brad's thinly veiled assertion that somehow the "liberals" were more hypocritical than "conservatives".

McCain said this ONCE, meanwhile authorizing the smear ads, hiring the goons, and sending Palin into the field with the fear and bigotry agenda.

Obama has held his so-called "negative" ads down to a level of 34% (him) to 100% (McCain), and FactCheck.org has determined that the majority of McCain's are "misleading" or "outright lies", Obama's have been almost entirely fact checked as "TRUE" or at worst, "misleading".  Look it up.  The organization is NON-partisan.

Meanwhile, he has told all of his people not to mention McCain's failing health, the Keating 5 scandal (talk about associations!), made Palin's childen and home life OFF LIMITS, etc. etc.

When Obama tries to bridge the divide by agreeing with McCain during the debates on issues where we all have no differences, McCain's response to to put out ads deriding Obama for saying "I agree the with the good Senator" and to respond dismissively to a man with a higher IQ and a much better memory as "he doesn't understand" over and over again.

When PALIN stops inciting racial hatred disguised as "terrorist" fearmongering, then I will know that McCain is stepping back up to the plate as the man he USED to be 10 years ago.

Notice how Biden has never even started to take the Palin attack dog mode in this campaign?  Who do you think made the executive decision to run his campaign this way and commanded the respect to enforce it?

Indeed.  Politicians have always used fear as a tool of power.  "The huns are at the gates of Rome, make me the Emperor and I'll save you!"  It used to be that the fourth estate had a check on that fearmongering, but now it drives ratings, and so their agendas are one and the same. 

In the last year though, some journalists have started getting their "balls" back, and this has given the American people the chance to go apeshit over things they sucked up a few years back.  That is why there is such pent up "hatred" for Bushco and by proxy McCain/Palin. 

Even the dumbest Amercans KNOW we've been lied to BIG TIME.  Only the ideologues with their heads in the sand remain intractable, as they don't have the personal integrity to admit that they voted not just once, but twice in some cases, to put these war criminals and ultra grafters into the White House.  We all make mistakes.  That's just human.  Not admitting and correcting our mistakes is just another manifestation of fear. 

So, admit it if you fell for the Bush lies twice.  Admit you are complicit in the bankrupting, morally and finally, of this great nation.  Admit it's the BLACK man who scares you if he does.

And vow you'll never let FEAR drive your vote again.  Like going to confession, you'll fear better for it, I promise.

(and yes, this post is meant to deliver a grain of truth through a veil of satire) 

Exalpius.. Looking for logic in McCain's campaign will send you over the edge. Be careful you don't wear out some nuts and bolts.

However, you know what does worry me... McCain's actions since being released from Captivity. His actions do raise questions as to whether he was brainwashed or not. Alot of information is lost / hidden  beneath all his "Heroic" talk.

I'm just saying, that is you want to explore "manchurian candidates", look a little deeper.

I think this is an excellent analysis,

Ah, so that's why i feel all burned out, mentally drained and keep having to bend to pick up loose screws....

Factcheck.org is not completely "non-partisan" as they are funded by a far-left group that is connected with Obama.  Regardless, he has been proven a liar way too many times to count.  If you think 0Bama is truthful, then I don't know what else to say. 

How exactly is she enciting "racial" hatred?  The fact is 0Bama has surrounded himself with terrorists, and many other questionable people. 

I notice one thing here, nobody can refute what 0Bama does, they just keep using the racial card.

Bullshit.  This is the dodge BO's defenders use every time - ignore the facts/truth and throw the race/fear/bigotry card down.  Pure intellectual laziness.

The usual 'Have you stopped beating your wife?' tack.

Politicians at election time are surrounded ny many people... some they know, some they barely know, some are mere acquantances and some they don't know at all, much less about their business or associations, etc.  Out of all those, how many did Obama actually seek to have around him, and how many sought to surround themselves around him, perhaps for five minutes of fame?  To say Obama is surrounded by terrorists is rather narrow minded and myopic... and to say he is tied to Hamas because that organisation prefers him to McCain IS fearmongering... to say the least.

What I notice is that nobody has pinned anything solid regarding terrorists on Obama, that those who see things for what they really are are calling a spade a spade.

bitch slap to the head dept.

stellar ! bravo ! lol

ID, you've been blinded by too many commercials. McCain has surrounded himself with questionable people just as much if not more so than Obama. Don't fool yourself. there are quite a few shady people and dealings in McCain's past, too. the same can be said for you and me. we've all done something we aren';t proud of. I don't use the race card! If you want to vote for McCain, do so. I feel badly for you or anyone else who truly believes McCain is a man worthy of leading this country. He's proven his unworthiness with the completely shoddy methods of campaigning recently, his dishonesty about events in his life, and his pick of Palin. Hell, Palin still she she didn't do anything unethical in Alaska. Obviously, she can't read the report. I think the trooper should have been fired immediately for using the stun gun on his step-son. He's an ass for doing that. the fact is, she refuses to admit her wrong-doing.

I have my beliefs, you have yours. I hope the man I vote for wins. Experiance means nothing when it comes to being the Pres. Neither candidate has the qualifications to be Pres. It's always been a job that has on the job training. There's nothing a person can do to prepare himself/herself for the responsiblilites of that job.

Steve, you need to get your facts straight before posting, bud! Obama was NOT raised a Muslim! he attended a public school while his family lived in Indonesia after his step-father moved them there for a year. public schools there teach Islam. that doesn't mean he was raised a Muslim. he also attended a Catholic school for 3 years, also. does that make him a Catholic? no. by your reasoning, he's been raised a Catholic 3 times as much as he was a Muslim. your reasoning sucks! know what you're talking about before posting.

Once upon a time and far, far away from mainstream America, lived a U.S. senator named Barack Obama. Mr. Obama had a gift, a truly wondrous gift. He could spin troublesome facts into political gold. And perhaps, with enough spinning, he could even spin himself into the White House.

Bill Clinton understood this. He called Mr. Obama's spin "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen." Like other fairy tales, this one requires a total suspension of disbelief. Jack (of Jack and the Beanstalk fame) had his magic beans. Mr. Obama has his magic facts. Consider the following so-called facts:

-- Magic Fact No. 1: Senator Obama will cut income taxes "for 95 percent of working families, 95 percent."

It would be truly magical to be able to cut income taxes on 95 percent of working families when only 68 percent of tax filers actually pay the federal income tax. According to the Internal Revenue Service, of the 136 million income tax returns filed in 2006, 43 million returns reported positive adjusted gross income but had no income tax liability because of assorted deductions, exemptions and tax credits.

So how do you give a tax cut to someone who doesn't pay income taxes? Mr. Obama proposes a massive program of "refundable tax credits." Those on the receiving end would simply get a check from the federal government. In other words, they would pay a "negative tax."

By wrapping a thoroughly liberal position - larger welfare benefits - in the mantle of tax cuts, Mr. Obama has very nearly managed to neutralize one of the defining issues of this presidential campaign. If that sleight of hand isn't magic, we don't know what is.

-- Magic Fact No. 2: Mr. Obama pays "for every dime" of his proposals.

According to the nonpartisan National Taxpayers Union Foundation, Mr. Obama has offered 73 proposals that would collectively increase federal spending $365.6 billion annually. That's literally a $1 billion-a-day spending increase. And, unfortunately, that figure doesn't include the cost of Mr. Obama's 88 other spending proposals for which no reliable cost estimates exist.

How does Mr. Obama propose to pay for these new and expanded spending programs? He begins by squeezing defense spending. He would then repeal "the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans." (Never mind that the Bush tax cuts are already scheduled to expire and that the revenue is already included in the government's budget forecasts.) Finally, he would "close corporate loopholes, [and] stop providing tax cuts to corporations that are shipping jobs overseas."

These steps would not come close to paying for the senator's spending proposals. Assuming they offset $100 billion of new spending, paying for the other $265.6 billion (still ignoring the cost of Mr. Obama's other 88 programs) would require an across-the-board income tax increase of 19 percent. And, of course, this figure does not reflect the tax increase that would be necessary to pay for Mr. Obama's "tax cuts."

The IRS reported earlier this year that the top-earning 5 percent of taxpayers shouldered 60 percent of the federal income tax burden in 2006. If Mr. Obama insists upon having a tiny fraction of Americans shoulder the cost of his spending and tax proposals, the tax increase on those taxpayers would have to be huge - far larger than the 19 percent tax increase described above. This would slow investment, employment and economic growth - and, yes, total governmental receipts.

Sen. Hillary Clinton once threatened, "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Perhaps she would have been Mr. Obama's ideal running mate after all.

-- Magic Fact No. 3: Economists overwhelming favor Mr. Obama's economic policies.

The Obama campaign likes to say it has the support of professional economists. Yet, that "fact" is based on two, methodologically flawed polls circulating the Internet. True enough, majorities of those surveyed said they favor Mr. Obama's economic policies. What else would you expect from a poll where Democrat responders outnumbered Republicans by nearly 3-to-1? Only 17 percent of the surveyed economists were Republican. In the second poll, Democrats outnumbered Republicans nearly 5-to-1. Only 10 percent of the respondents were Republican.

Meanwhile, more than 500 economists from across the country, including five Nobel Laureates, have signed a statement supporting Sen. John McCain's economic plan. (For the text of the statement and a complete list of the signatories, see www.economistsformccain.com.)

The fairy tale candidate may yet become the fairy tale president. But will the story end with "and the American people lived happily ever after?"

James E. Carter, a deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury from 2002 to 2006, is an economist with the U.S. Senate. James C. Miller III served as President Reagan's budget director from 1985 to 1988 and is now a senior adviser at Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP.

This guy's political philosophy has been informed and shaped by his associations over the past twenty years, including people BO himself has acknowledged as 'mentors' and admired leaders including Saul Alinsky, Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright.  Bill Ayers, at a time when BO knew exactly who he was and exactly what he had done, was his recruiter for CAC and a principal mover behind his entry into politics.  Yet you do this pathetic slip-slide shuffle and claim these people used Obama for their '5 minutes of fame', as if nobody had ever heard of these people before?

Christ, you are deluded.