Decision Obama

I think McCain was a clear winner here. He answered the questions and answered them with precision. Obama obviously skirted many questions and added his own twist to what was asked. He avoided many accusations as if they weren’t presented. So now, have at it! cut me to pieces and call me a scumbag, but the liberal media will trash McCain and push Obama to forefront. The format sucked and Tom Brokaw kept interjecting his own views. As I am listening to the media give their views that they didn’t hear anything new from McCain I get disgusted because I am just not seeing anything new from Obama either. In all honesty, they both were pretty bland as far as the present crisis goes. Neither of them showed any umf or anger at the other and many times agreed with the other. It was kind of weird.

#2 – You took the words right out of my mouth, too. McCain is toast, nobody cares about his trash talk when everyone is worried about putting food on the table. He’s four more years of the same shit, different day.

#6-why not try understanding that washington is run by democrats for how many years??? oops guess its the dems that got us into this mess. The dems have the majority and therefore they are the ones who have squandered away the american dream with their special interest groups and the little perks like Dodd and Obama have recieved(Obama 2nd on the list of those who have benefitted from the mismanagement and underhanded deals). Whats amazing though is that the American people are falling for the crap the dems are spewing in huge piles about the republicans being the cause of everything from global warming to Mac and Mae. Just another bunch of horse doo doo that the liberal media is more than willing to spew along with them. What ever the outcome of the election somebody has alot of shit to shovel to build up the failing economy.

ACORN Raid Reflects GOP Anger at Voter Registration Drive
By Daphne Eviatar 10/8/08 6:15 AM

Yesterday’s raid on Nevada offices of ACORN reflects the increasingly aggressive Republican attempts to derail voter registration efforts among poor and minority voters.

As The Washington Post reported, the Nevada chapter of the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, had planned a potluck dinner at its Las Vegas office Tuesday night to celebrate the 80,000 newly registered voters its staff had signed up in Clark County.

Before that dinner could start, however, Nevada officials raided the ACORN office, removing 20 boxes of documents and eight computer hard drives. The state officials claimed that workers for the community-organizing group, who are paid by the hour, had submitted almost 300 voter registration cards that included names and addresses that don’t exist in Nevada, or are duplicates of previous registrations.

A former ACORN employee said she started making up names to fill out the registration forms to avoid having to work in the heat outside. Workers are expected to sign up 20 new voters per shift.

As I noted in my post yesterday, Republicans have been aggressively attacking ACORN for alleged voter fraud, and using any false or erroneous registrations submitted by the group to claim there’s a problem of widespread voter fraud that’s tainting the elections.

But not only are the numbers of illegitimate registrations found tiny in comparison to the 1.3 million valid new registrations the group has signed up, but neither the Nevada GOP, nor anyone else, has presented any evidence that these duplicate or false registrations have any impact whatsoever on the validity of the vote.

After all, unless poll workers are sleeping on the job, no one can show up and vote twice. And there’s no evidence, and likewise no charges, that anyone is showing up at the polls and impersonating the nonexistent voters that have been signed up.

Still, ACORN has been making huge efforts to try to prevent this sort of fraud — cooperating with local authorities by flagging suspicious registrations and having workers individually call new registrants to make sure their registrations are legitimate.

Of course, the group has good reason to cooperate with local authorities to prevent fraud. After all, even assuming the Republicans’ allegations against ACORN workers are true, the only fraud that’s actually been perpetrated was on ACORN itself -– not on the government or the voters of Nevada, or anywhere else.

Even the NY Post reports McCain lost the debate, and they support him.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10082008/news/columnists/navy_man_mac_looks_lost_at_sea_132680.htm

and

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10082008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/soothing_smoothie_obama_beats_foe_at_own_132617.htm

#13: That’s just dumb. Most of us in the Obama camp don’t assume that anyone supporting McCain is a racist.

Sarah Palin, however, is playing some very dangerous racist games, and she thinks she is being cute and clever. This isn’t the place for that.

CORRECTED WARNING: Do not criticize Obama. If you do, you’re a racist!! Repeat after me: Obama is great! He’ll make a great President and save our country. McCain and Palin are white rich Bush-loving war-mongering bigoted racist pigs! They’ll bring our country down if they’re elected!! I’m voting for Obama.

There; I just assuaged my white guilt and immunized myself from being called a racist or an assassin.

Don’t you all ever change your tunes? Nobody is listening any more. Perhaps if your rants were based on logic rather than fearmongering you might get some undecideds to listen.

#18-I am fearful of what will happen if Obama becomes president and I can tell you, its not because he’s black but because he has no backbone to stand up for the American people. As you have all said before during other campaigns about different candidates they say anything they can to get your vote and when they get into office they give you the old Italian salute and hopefully you’re not bending over at the time. And before you go all huffy about the Italian comment, I am Italian and those of you out there who are will know what the Italian salute is…just hope you don’t have an elbow sticking out yer butt! Politicians can say what they want to get your votes but it is their experience and track record that counts at the end of the day and I’m sorry to say but Obama has neither!

Yeah, ok and I believe in santa and fairy dust! I have racists, biggots and sexists but what I hate more is when people abuse those words in order to get something they don’t deserve. Its the same as if you ask your boss for a raise and he says no so you retaliate by filing charges of discrimination, sexual harrasment and God knows what else but and that a big BUT you never took into consideration that yer damn ass didn’t deserve a raise in the first place cause you actually have to do your job in order to get a raise. As for the C*nt comment, perhaps you might want to go to snopes and look it up. The lady they say said it says she never wrote the thing and never said a damn thing remotely close to what you are saying http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/vacation.asp so get you stories straight. And hopefully you are right when you say the voters aren’t stupid, otherwise Obama will be our next president.

#22 – #23 is correct. You have (unsurprisingly) your facts wrong.

Look at this thread from yesterday, post #10: http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/10/06/bickering/

#25: That wasn’t the link I meant. I’ll look for it again.

What is it about the GOP? From Georgie Boy flipping the bird at the camera, to Darth Cheney’s “F*ck Off” captured on mike in the Senate, to Potty Mouth McCain dissing his wife in public with the “C” word. Do I see a pattern here?

He was asked about the incident, where he called his wife a rude name in front of others, and did not deny it. He told the questioner, a minister, that there were people in the audience who did not appreciate that kind of language and had the guy escorted out.
Why didn’t he deny it, loud and clear ?

It’s not in the snopes article. That is unrelated. The comment to his wife is noted by the author of The Real McCain. The article is in the current issue of the Rolling Stone. Read that before commenting again.

#30: As Senator McCain and Governor Palin would tell us, anything that addresses a candidate’s character is fair game. Therefore, this is our business.

By the way, you are still confusing two different issues. This has nothing to do with the “vacation” story.

#29: Some Democrats no doubt do have potty mouths, but we are talking about the candidates for the presidency. Mr. Obama does not. Mr. McCain does. Moreover, Mr. McCain has had a lifelong problem with a nasty temper and meanness. In fact, in high school, his nickname was “McNasty.”

No matter which one of these politicians get in, they will do 98% of what they want and not what they promised. The middle class will take it in the rear no matter who gets elected. If Obama is elected and the Dems sweep the house and senate, then the ball is in their court, and they will rise or fall on their operation of the Government. It might be the best thing that ever happened to the Republicans. Let me repeat the middle class will come in last again in any case.

Obama Campaign Runs Afoul of Finance Rules

An investigation of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign finance reports has turned up more than 2,000 cases in which individuals have made donations far above the legal limit of $2,300 per election.

On Aug. 31, for example, the Obama campaign filed a report listing a single donation from a Debra Myers in “Rancho Palos Verde, Calif.,” for $28,500 – more than 10 times the amount the law allows per election. Although Debra Myers is identified as a physician, only two individuals with that last name have a listed phone number in Rancho Palos Verdes (the city’s name actually does have an “s” at the end). Neither is a Debra or a “D” Myers, or a physician.

The Obama campaign also identified Woodrow Myers Jr. of Indianapolis, Ind., on Aug. 31 as having given $28,500 to the campaign. Woodrow “Woody” Myers is a former Indiana state health commissioner who spent $2.1 million of his own money in a failed special election to challenge Andre Carson, the grandson of U.S. Rep. Julia Carson, who died in December. The younger Carson won the race this year, with heavy backing from lobbyists, the Democratic Party and related PACs. (Interestingly, Woodrow Myers’ wife is identified as Debra, although Newsmax could not confirm whether this is the same Debra Myers the campaign report lists as being from Palos Verdes.)

Ok, but does it change the fact that there’s some things untoward with donations? I just googled obama campaign financing under scrutiny after I read #40 and there’s a ton of links to the same type of indiscretions. So who the author of that piece is may or may not be important.