Barack Obama Will Defeat John McCain—This One's Over

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.

Lois Jenken 4:25AM November 03, 2008

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

val anderton of AL 5:08AM October 28, 2008

Joe Biden says the election of Obama may lead to a new conflict, terrorist attack, or a third war. A careful analysis of history says he may be correct.

http://strategicthought-charles77.blogspot.com/2008/10/can-we-afford-third-war-that-obama.html

charles of TX 1:31PM October 21, 2008

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.

DR. PATRICK HILL of CA 3:23PM October 18, 2008