What is the point of this story? I am finding this yellow journalism a bit pointless. Why is it even a subject? We need a new declaration of independence? Isn’t there some real news to be talking about and not this supposed conjecture? I would like to believe that we are trying to recover our nation. Not listen to how we are still participating in the same old same old. At least not until the man ascend to the office of the presidency and prove that is the case. I might as well have been at Newsmax or some other right wing journalist site to read this crap.
This is a side note that is not really directed at the Big (3) Three Auto companies only.
It seems that if we could ease the burden of health care from corporations it would free up funds to be allocated to investments in more innovative production? Not that I am pretending that the CEOs of the Big (3) Three Auto industries have not effed up by some of their own tactics.
It does make you wonder if some of their lobbying for deregulation was to ensure maximum dollar to enable them to keep meeting the ever rising cost of health care? Just a thought.
I must admit the task in front of President Obama is awesome at best. Every thing is in shambles, health care, the economy, our infrastructure, a needless war, energy, mortgages and the list just goes on and on. But also have to admit that it is refreshing as hell listening to someone speak that talks to us like we are adults and have a vested interest in fixing this mess. Yes, I will admit that his calmness and steadiness comes across with a soothing effect. Yet, he is not telling us fairy tales. He is telling us that the road will be long and our problems are deep and will take time. Do I appreciate that? Hell yes. I also took note that he is making sure people are not confused that he is acting like the president, yet. He is only assuring us that he is putting toge
I must admit the task in front of President Obama is awesome at best. Every thing is in shambles, health care, the economy, our infrastructure, a needless war, energy, mortgages and the list just goes on and on. But also have to admit that it is refreshing as hell listening to someone speak that talks to us like we are adults and have a vested interest in fixing this mess. Yes, I will admit that his calmness and steadiness comes across with a soothing effect. Yet, he is not telling us fairy tales. He is telling us that the road will be long and our problems are deep and will take time. Do I appreciate that? Hell yes. I also took note that he is making sure people are not confused that he is acting like the president, yet. He is only assuring us that he is putting%
Sorry folks, I am very tired. After 4 days of work I’ve got to get some early rest going on 8pm my time. When I get up in the wee hours I will continue. Let’s just call this one Bailout BS with Barbie sitting on top.
Here’s something I never thought I would see, Olbermann on the View. He did stay true to himself, but who would have known that he does not vote? This is funny. Here is this lone man up against a table filled with women, including the token republican, throwing questions at him constantly. It should also be noted that Keith Olbermann also received a new contract for $7 million per year for another 4 years from MSNBC.
This is an older speech by Obama where he confronts the right wing nuts and their divisive tactics. What part of his speech was a lie? It’s the truth. He said what he meant and meant what he said. This has been the strategy of the religious right for decades. They are out of touch, have breed racism, and division. Now that Obama has been elected the right wing nuts should start trying to understand what the bulk of us want. We as a nation or sick of this crap. People want other people to stay out of their religious business. We want religion out of politics. I am not an evangelical. I am a nondenominational Christian and do not have such a narrow view of the world, nor do I force my belief down other people’s throats.
I just lost listening to these conservative fools try to bring reason to why they lost. Let’s see if I got this right Bozell.
Liberal, left candidate (Obama) beat moderate republican (McCain). Yet,
Obama won as a conservative?
WTF? Are you people kidding me with this analogy? Oh, that’s right, since that is the case Obama can not enact any mandates…if he won as a conservative.
I’ve never seen such blithering idiots as the current crop of republicans. Obama ran as a progressive and won as a progressive and therefore he can and will institute any progressive mandate he so desire. Every day you losers have Obama all over the map. You lost. The world is not center right or even heavily conservative. Your time is up, over, see ya in the distant future, don’t call me, and have a happy cry.
Our polling showed that more than 60 percent of voters identified Obama as a liberal. Typically, a candidate is not going to win the presidency with those figures. But I think the country just disregarded it. People didn’t care. They just wanted the biggest change they could get.
It was reported today that Joe Lieberman met with Harry Reid today to discuss his chairmanship. The bigger question is do you turn your cheek and forgive Lieberman for some of the more explosive comments he made about Obama or do you just kick his azz off the team? Reid had in essence proposed that Lieberman can caucus with the democrats, give up his chairmanship and they would find a lesser seat on some subcommittee. Lieberman declined.
…Reid said in a written statement that negotiations will continue.
“Today Senator Lieberman and I had the first of what I expect to be several conversations. No decisions have been made,” he said. “While I understand that Senator Lieberman has voted with Democrats a majority of the time, his comments and actions have raised serious concerns among many in our Caucus. I expect there to be additional discussions in the days to come, and Senator Lieberman and I will speak to our Caucus in two weeks to discuss further steps.”
It seems Lieberman was offered a deal but declined and rather put his fate in the hands of the Democratic steering committee, whose members decide committee chair assignments. Lieberman emerged from the meeting making his sells pitch to democrats, via reporters, by stating that he wanted to do as Obama wants to do and get working on bringing our country together and solving our economic woes. Funny Lieberman did not feel that way when he was kicking it with McCain.
Me think that what Lieberman is offering is just a little bit too late. I remember clearly when he declared that Obama was not American enough and how he feared the country’s fate if Obama was elected. On the upside, for us, Lieberman’s begging will probably result in this happening:
Unfortunately for the Connecticut Senator, it is highly unlikely that Democrats would act against the wishes of Majority Leader Reid, who wants Lieberman to give up his chairmanship. Moreover, progressive activists have been anticipating this move for months, and have organized efforts to pressure steering committee members to strip Lieberman of his perks.
This is another defining moment of Obama’s, he has Bill Clinton singing his praising. Yea even after the GOP’s dirty tactics of their so called disliking one another relationship. My take: Go Obama. I must say in all honesty, Obama is greatness waiting to pour on us. He has the potential to be that.
I guess, as usual, McCain was for taxing the rich before he was against it. I’m sorry, but I’m in the middle class and I see nothing wrong with receiving a tax break. Why should even more tax breaks go to the rich and major corporation who have nothing but a bunch of loop holes that reduces their taxes anyway? Under the republican presidency the middle class have been given nothing. When the hell is it our turn? What’s McCain pushing? More tax breaks for the rich and major corporations, just like Bush (more of the same).
Oh now Blacks are important? What is this a message? Is this a note to McCain to get the republican party suppression machine working better? When Blacks came out for Clinton this kind of press coverage was not significant. But now that we have early voting to decrease the impact of (so we believe) of voters suppression, Black voters matter? Very interesting. Did they bother to note the turnout of college students? No. Why not? They are the biggest group backing Obama. Way before Black people. Obama is ahead in the polls simply because some of us are tired of this road that Bush/McCain are traveling on. WE WANT CHANGE. NO MATTER YOUR AGE. THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CONCERNS US ALL (exception to all racist, we know what concerns you people).
Believe me, this year’s vote will be rocked and if the republican party’s voter suppression does not get the steam it needs then it will be a blow out for Obama. Good thing for us that Obama put a strategy in place that went around the republicans favorite states of voters suppression (Ohio, Florida, and Michigan). Although the republicans did try to suppress votes in Philadelphia. No luck though. The people got tired of that kind of nonsense and sued the government (previous post) and won. Heck even California had enough and kicked the automated machines out of 26 of the 29 counties to make sure this election was above par. Considering all the states that are thinking about leaning Obama and those that are actually leaning Obama, that’s a lot of suppression. I don’t think the republicans can participant in fighting all the states. That would be way too obvious.
Power to the real people of America in all our diversity and with our love for America being one nation, undivided. Screw racism and hate. We need money not pathetic ideologies.
Well it is more than official that the blame game has commenced and will be going on right up until November 4th. Everyone in the republican party is looking for someone to blame for the horror of the McCain’s campaign strategy. They are pointing fingers at Barbie, the staff and McCain. Here’s how Bush’s wonderful speech writer/neocon David Frum feels about McCain’s chances:
After months and months of wan enthusiasm among Republicans, these last weeks have at last energized the core of the party. But there’s a downside: The very same campaign strategy that has belatedly mobilized the Republican core has alienated and offended the great national middle, which was the only place where the 2008 election could have been won.
I could pile up the poll numbers here, but frankly . . . it’s too depressing. You have to go back to the Watergate era to see numbers quite so horrible for the GOP.
McCain’s awful campaign is having awful consequences down the ballot. I spoke a little while ago to a senior Republican House member. “There is not a safe Republican seat in the country,” he warned. “I don’t mean that we’re going to lose all of them. But we could lose any of them.”
Then you have the ex-Bush Official, Nicholas Burns, talking about how Obama is right concerning diplomacy.
Are McCain and Palin correct that America should stonewall its foes? I lived this issue for 27 years as a career diplomat, serving both Republican and Democratic administrations. Maybe that’s why I’ve been struggling to find the real wisdom and logic in this Republican assault against Obama. I’ll bet that a poll of senior diplomats who have served presidents from Carter to Bush would reveal an overwhelming majority who agree with the following position: of course we should talk to difficult adversaries—when it is in our interest and at a time of our choosing.
The more challenging and pertinent question, especially for the McCain-Palin ticket, is the reverse: Is it really smart to declare we will never talk to such leaders? Is it really in our long-term national interest to shut ourselves off from one of the most important and powerful states in the Middle East—Iran—or one of our major suppliers of oil, Venezuela?
Of course there is also Kristol and Rove who were on Fox News blaming the staff (previous post). This is so bad that you have republicans for McCain arguing with republicans for Obama (unfreaking believable). I suspect as this last week progress we will see more defection by the republican camp (who mostly are non appreciative of Barbie’s pick for VP).
Its also to the point people are wondering if McCain could lose his own state.
Project New West, which aims to build the Democratic Party in the Intermountain West, says McCain leads Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the Grand Canyon State, 48 percent to 44 percent.
The pollsters call that a “dramatic shift” from a survey they took in mid-September, which had McCain ahead by 14 points, 54 percent to 40 percent.
And you now have Libermann trying to make nice to save his own butt.
Lieberman, a self-proclaimed “independent Democrat” who was chosen by McCain to make the case against Obama at the Republican National Convention in early September, said his comments have been within bounds.
“When I go out, I say, ‘I have a lot of respect for Sen. Obama. He’s bright. He’s eloquent.’”
You have more conservative papers endorsing Obama then anyone would have expected (due to Barbie once again). The newspapers endorsements has Obama leading McCain 4 to 1.
Throughout all these issues none of the reporters will report the reality of what is really going on with McCain’s lackluster speeches (some of the pundits will say it). McCain’s refusal to deal with the issues. He has spend his whole campaign with name calling, demonizing his opponent, and pandering to racist. That strategy may work wonders for the yahoos but it does not do one damn thing for the rest of us that are looking for a little meat on the table. McCain’s strategy to avoid the issues is turning out to be the worst mistake of his political career. We are sick of the whole voters suppression. We are tired of listening to the whole my opponent is a this or a that. Get the message McCain. We don’t care about Ayers, have no interest in the whole terrorist angle, could care less about Rev. Wright, much less give a fig about some criminal in jail name Rezko. We need talk regarding the economy. Sorry…no…I will fix it will not do as an answer.
Let’s talk about delusions of grandeur. It seems John McCain’s brother (no reflection on McCain) has issues with traffic. Why would any one call 911 over traffic? Why not turn on your radio? Then the jerk has the nerve to complain? John, your brother is a jerk.
A new poll came out that puts Obama in the strong lead. You know, Obama, the guy that can’t close the deal as per the talking heads and pundits. Well I guess some one should have told the Pew Poll that should be the only talking point. They seem to have a different opinion.
Obama’s strong showing in the current poll reflects greater confidence in the Democratic candidate personally. More voters see him as “well-qualified” and “down-to-earth” than did so a month ago. Obama also is inspiring more confidence on several key issues, including Iraq and terrorism, than he did before the debates. Most important, Obama now leads McCain as the candidate best able to improve economic conditions by a wider margin (53% to 32%).
Obama’s gains notwithstanding, a widespread loss of confidence in McCain appears to be the most significant factor in the race at this point. Many more voters express doubts about McCain’s judgment than about Obama’s: 41% see McCain as “having poor judgment,” while just 29% say that this trait describes Obama. Fewer voters also view McCain as inspiring than did so in mid-September (37% now, 43% then). By contrast, 71% of voters continue to think of Obama as inspiring.
In addition, Sarah Palin appears to be a continuing – if not an increasing – drag on the GOP ticket. Currently, 49% of voters express an unfavorable opinion of Palin, while 44% have a favorable view. In mid-September, favorable opinions of Palin outnumbered negative ones by 54% to 32%. Women, especially women under age 50, have become increasingly critical of Palin: 60% now express an unfavorable view of Palin, up from 36% in mid-September. Notably, opinions of Palin have a greater impact on voting intentions than do opinions of Joe Biden, Obama’s running mate.
Let’s also recap more endorsements for Obama. So another defector GOP senators have decided to turn their backs on McCain. Hey the senator could be trying to save her own butt or not. A lot of GOP senators want McCain to cut the robocalls out, since they are back firing. It only adds more money to the democrat party. But what ever the reason for the GOP turning their backs on McCain it can not be viewed as a plus for McCain.
A longtime Republican State Senator in Wisconsin history announced on Tuesday that she would be supporting Barack Obama, in part because of the negative tone of the McCain-Palin campaign and, specifically, the use of “dishonorable” anti-Obama robocalls.
The old time comedians have put out an ad voting for Obama (let’s say it together, the older generation — the only group McCain had left, outside of the yahoos) do not see McCain being capable of helping our country or them.
Even Ben Bernanke is hoping for an Obama win, he just put his hat in the ring of endorsing Obama.
Ben Bernanke apparently wants four more years as Federal Reserve Chairman. At least that’s a reasonable conclusion after Mr. Bernanke all but submitted his job application to Barack Obama yesterday by endorsing the Democratic version of fiscal “stimulus.”
Just because I can, let’s throw even a little bit more in the corner of Obama winning this election. The conservative Mayor Boris Johnson of London wants Obama to win.
LONDON — The mayor of London, a member of the British political party that is a traditional ally of U.S. Republicans, says Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama “visibly incarnates change and hope, at a time when America desperately needs both.”
McCain is going down real hard. The only thing the media and the American people can wonder is how dirty and low will McCain go before the end? Please no bleeding hearts here. All McCain had to do was talk about change in a real and substance kind of way. This new strategy of attack, whine, attack, whine, attack, whine and on an on is not a strategy it is an excuse for his own failure to offer the American people a real plan. Guess what? More American would prefer to go with the young guy who smiles, is steady and has presented a plan. Maybe the plan does not give us all the details, but it sounds a hell of a lot better than just saying, I can fix it.
McCain and Barbie are stumping on Barbie being fiscally what? Judging by this video we can now call Barbie a spend thrift wasteful wannabe politician — that sure sounds like Bush.
Barbie has been immersed in abusing her power while in office a mayor and governor. Besides the fact that I know the woman is empty headed, why should we allow her to become VP so she can continue her abuse of power?
It’s not only Wisconsin that the RNC is pulling out of. Let me check my records. Hm…they also removed ads in Maine and Louisiana as well. Although it is being reported that McCain will stay in these states for another week or so; Let’s face a few facts here, the McCain camp needs to keep red states red and so far he has 4 that are close to turning purple if not out right blue.
Do I believe he is going to continue forging into blue states? Please. No. It will eventually be noticed that there are no more McCain ads in a lot of the battle ground states that McCain is losing by whopping margins (Virginia and Pennsylvania to name a few).
It has been reported yesterday, now North Dakota and Missouri have both become battle states. In fact McCain was in both North Carolina and Virginia and empty headed Barbie is headed to Indiana on Friday. Those are red states why do McCain need to defend them?
Can I dare say people are waking up to reality? It’s the economy stupid.
SurveyUSA finds Obama approaching a double-digit lead in Missouri, where McCain has held a solid advantage for much of the campaign. According to today’s poll, Obama leads 51 percent to 43 percent, with a 4.3 percent margin of error. McCain led 48-46 in the previous SUSA poll from late September.
Oh yea on an unrelated note, the Boston Globe endorsed Obama (yes I know that does not translate into votes) while McCain is having trouble filling seats for his next fund raiser. Something about investor having hard feelings about being accused for the economic meltdown.
