Barack Obama Will Defeat John McCain—This One's Over
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McCain is too old and hopefully will lose
I hope he wins as I don't think McCain will be able to handle the pressure at his age. Just think how old McCain will be in 4 or 8 years. It is a job that is extremely demanding and overall is a stressful job that is difficult at times for a young person yet a man of McCain's age and just think if something happens to him then she will take over which would be absolutely awful.
John McCain will win 4 Nov
Your supposed journalistic articles have been so biased toward Obama I will no longer read your trash. And in fact, I will petition your advertisers to stop spending any funds advertising in your publication.
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sincerely,
Barrack fr president
Barack will influence US polotics but will alo affect hte economies of the world includunng smaller nations such as NZ. Its time Amareica got past its racist past and embraced a man of the people in the same tradiyion,as JFK GO barrack ,go the elections and spport aman destined to be the greatest leader of modern times in the history of sincne Jfk since Martin Luther and of course the man of integrity Thomas Jefferson
What if Barack Obama is Al Qaeda's Trojan Horse?
I just wanted to post the following opinion:
McCain can still win this election! Americans just need to think what’s at stake and choose the lesser of two evils.
There’s something about this presidential race that brings to mind the falling of the twin towers. It has a sudden, surreal, frightening quality. Americans have to choose between right or left wing politics. I have to agree with Lou Dobbs that either choice is problematic.
Hilary Clinton would have won the primaries --had Obama not been running -- and she is a very reliable, reputable and solid person. She could have become president and even groomed Obama for future office. However, democrats were seduced by Obama, who had a meteoric rise in popularity. When I first tuned in to the race, I thought he sounded like an Anthony Robbins, a mentor or fitness trainer. He was vague about policies, but still drew huge crowds. Do we know who is giving Obama greater financial backing than the highly established Hilary Clinton and John McCain put together? Doesn’t this seem a little dangerous in these Al Qaeda times? What if Obama is a Trojan Horse?
Too bad Americans are so conditioned by T.V.-- by American Idol and the sound bite. Americans are hungry for glamour and excitement. We need to remember that this is a president we are electing, not a performer. People are very unhappy with Bush, but to elect just anyone different knee-jerk style, might be going way too far.
Obama seems like a really impressive person, an intelligent, competent, resourceful, energetic, charismatic leader. His policy ideas seem very sharp. But are we ready for him?
The problem is that what matters most is Obama’s AGENDA and nobody really knows that. It matters what Obama would like to do, especially since he is very intelligent. He may not be revealing just what his goals are. Nobody really knows Obama. Only a huckster gets upet if you say --I’m not sure I can trust you, yet. Sometimes, if a person is complex and does not reveal certain facets, two years and even five years is not enough time to “know” him. A person can seem very friendly and pleasant --con artists excel in this.
We do have some sense of Obama’s leanings because he was a community activist, working to help poor blacks. We might think that Obama supports the middle class because his mother and grandparents were middle class. But why jump to conclusions? Also, it is hard to see how anyone can help the middle class by taking more of their hard-earned dollars. Even if Obama expects to and hopes to help the middle class, how can he? Where will the money come from? The poor have no money and the rich are already highly taxed.
It’s a pity that Americans are not allowed to visit Cuba and see what far left policies look like! Would it be possible for Obama to turn the U.S. into a country more akin to Cuba? Is America ready for Obama? If not, and if Obama is reputable we’ll find out and he can still get his chance.
WHY JOHN MCAIN LOST 2008 ELECTION to BARACK OBAMA
WHY JOHN MCAIN LOST 2008 ELECTION to BARACK OBAMA
WASHINGTON POST ENDORSEMENT - BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT
WHY JOHN MCCAIN LOST WASHINGTON POST ENDORSEMENT
“But the stress of a campaign can reveal some essential truths, and the picture of Mr. McCain that emerged this year is far from reassuring. To pass his party’s tax-cut litmus test, he jettisoned his commitment to balanced budgets. John McCain has not come up with a coherent agenda, and many times he has seemed rash and impulsive. And we find no way to square McCain’s professed passion for America’s national security with his choice of Sarah Palin as his VP running mate who, no matter what her other strengths, is not prepared to be commander in chief.”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE ENDORSEMENT - BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT
In 2008, the Chicago Tribune endorsed a Democrat for president for the first time in the 160-year history of the paper!
WHY JOHN MCCAIN LOST CHICAGO TRIBUNE ENDORSEMENT
“It is, though, hard to figure John McCain these days. He argued that President Bush's tax cuts were fiscally irresponsible, but he now supports them. He promises a balanced budget by the end of his first term, but his tax cut plan would add an estimated $4.2 trillion in debt over 10 years. He has responded to the economic crisis with an angry, populist message and a misguided, $300 billion proposal to buy up bad mortgages.
McCain failed in his most important executive decision. Give him credit for choosing a female running mate--but he passed up any number of supremely qualified Republican women who could have served. Having called Obama not ready to lead, McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. His campaign has tried to stage-manage Palin's exposure to the public. But it's clear she is not prepared to step in at a moment's notice and serve as president. McCain put his campaign before his country.”
LA TIMES ENDORSEMENT - BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT
2008 marks the LA Times' first endorsement in a presidential election since 1972, when it backed President Richard M. Nixon's re-election. Barack Obama will become the first Democrat ever to receive the LA Times' endorsement.
WHY JOHN MCCAIN LOST LA TIMES ENDORSEMENT
“John McCain distinguished himself through much of the Bush presidency by speaking out against reckless and self-defeating policies. He earned the LA Times' respect and endorsement in the California Republican primary for his denunciation of torture, his readiness to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and his willingness to buck his Republican party on vital national issues such as immigration reform. But John McCain has lost his sense of honor to be elected President by pandering to conservative Republicans votes. John McCain reversed his denunciation of torture and voted against his own immigration bill. Worse yet, John McCain has inhumanly redefined torture in such an insidious way to embrace torture of POWs and what he once abhorred including “torture by water boarding”!
The 2008 presidential campaign has rendered john McCain nearly unrecognizable. His selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate was a highly dangerous gamble with America’s national security, as Palin is the most unqualified VP nominee of a major U.S. political party in living memory. The decision calls into question just what kind of thinking and temperament would drive the White House in a McCain presidency. Fortunately, the public has shown more discernment, and the early enthusiasm for Palin has given way to national ridicule of her candidacy and McCain's selfish judgment that indicates his flawed moral character would do anything to get him elected U.S President.”
NEW YORKER MAGAZINE ENDORSEMENT - BARACK OBAMA for PRESIDENT
WHY JOHN MCCAIN LOST NEW YORKER MAGAZINE ENDORSEMENT
“Since the 2004 election, however, John McCain has moved remorselessly rightward in his quest for the Republican nomination and abandoned all his principles, positions, and integrity. He paid obeisance to Jerry Falwell and preachers of his ilk. He abandoned immigration reform, eventually coming out against his own bill. Most shocking, McCain, who had repeatedly denounced torture under all circumstances, voted in February against a ban on the very techniques of “enhanced interrogation” that he himself once endured in Vietnam as long as the torturers were civilians employed by the C.I.A.”
“Perhaps nothing revealed McCain’s cynicism more than his choice of Sarah Palin, the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, who had been governor of that state for twenty-one months, as the Republican nominee for Vice-President. In the interviews she has given since her nomination, she has had difficulty uttering coherent unscripted responses about the most basic issues of the day. We are watching a Republican candidate for VP cram for her ongoing exam in elementary domestic and foreign policy. Palin has no business being the backup to a President of any age, much less to John McCain who is seventy-two and in imperfect health.”
TRADITIONAL MEDIA CONSERVATIVES HAVE ABANDONED JOHN MCCAIN
Traditional media conservatives are abandoning John McCain like rats deserting a sinking ship. Andrew Sullivan questioned his integrity, Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker his judgment. William Kristol advocate McCain fire his entire campaign and start from scratch and even Charles Krauthammer seemed perplexed by his frenetic behavior while admitting Obama passes the Reagan presidential-mettle test. Stinging as those resounding critiques may be, the final nail in John McCain’s campaign coffin may have been hammered in by endorsements.
Andrew Bacevich endorsed Obama in March and Wick Allison did it in September. Then there were the two iconic Christophers: recently Hitchins and last week Buckley, son of National Review founder William F. Buckley, who is widely credited as the father of modern conservatism. Hitchins endorsed Obama Monday in a rebuke of McCain's temperament and character, while Buckley cost himself a job at his late father's magazine the NATIONAL REVIEW by announcing he will vote for a Democrat for the first time in his life when he pulls the lever for Obama in November.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY ENDORSEMENT - BARACK OBAMA for PRESIDENT
The son of William F. Buckley has decided to vote for a Democrat Barack Obama!
SORRY, DAD, I'M VOTING FOR OBAMA by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
“John McCain has changed. This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking? All this is genuinely saddening, and for the country is perhaps even tragic, for America!
As for Senator Obama: He has exhibited throughout a “first-class temperament,” pace Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s famous comment about FDR. I’ve read Obama’s books, and they are first-rate. But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will surely understand that traditional left-politics aren’t going to get us out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money from the special interest groups against whom he railed during the campaign trail, then he will almost certainly reap a whirlwind that will make Katrina look like a balmy summer zephyr.
Obama has in him “the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.” So, I wish him all the best. We are all in this together. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship. And so, for the first time in my life, I’ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November. As the saying goes, GOD SAVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”
AS IF IT COULDN'T GET ANY WORSE FOR JOHN MCCAIN’S 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAGN, WE WILL HEAR THE REVERED COLIN POWELL OFFER HIS SUPPORT OF OBAMA on MEET THE PRESS - OCTOBER 19, 2008 SUNDAY MORNING.
Let's hope you are wrong. Obama is the most radical Leftist ever nominated in American history. He proposes the most massive wealth re-distribution ever proposed, which could result in over $10 trillion of new government spending in the next 8 years if he is elected twice. Can America afford this? He gets his talking points and campaign speeches straight out of "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky, the handbook for radical 1970s extremists, including the New Left and the Communist Party USA. His tactics are slick, deceptive and designed to sell a lie to the American people. Why have his radical associations with Bill Ayers, Tony Rezco, members of the PLO and others been completely brushed off by the media?
America can do better than this. If you are right, and he wins, it will be a disaster!
Dem to run Congress and White House
Its not I am so much for either one. I dont trust Obama and I dont think McCane can keep up the White house pace and keep his team running well. Frankly I would rather vote a Obama/Palin ticket. The President yes is suppose to lead but it's congress I worry about no matter which group is in power. What concerns me if haveing Obama signing any thing Nancy Poloski has to do with. She is in my opinion the Democrate worst night mare. Get her out out office and one or two of her cronies and the Democrates would have a better chance of making life better for all. So currently I have hard time to punch the Obama ticket just to keep power in balance.
Did any of you see the Front Line special last night? Showing where McCain was about to swich partys severl years ago because he was not backing Bush policys. It make you wonder !!
The Race
Quoting Yogi Berra's philosophical comment: "It ain't over til it's over" or "the fat lady sings" - or. . . .
from your mouth to God's ears!
I'd like to agree with you, but Obama is up against a lot of dirty-dealing right-wing undermining, having nothing to do with who he is, how he would govern, or why he will be a good President.
So, let's not risk a too-early prognostication. It tends to lower the voter turnout, and we cannot afford to have that happen if Obama is to declare victory on November 4th.
