DISQUS

O. Johnson · 1 year ago

To John Zaugg, only one party tries to tell me who I can sleep with and in what positions; only one party says it gets to listen in on what used to be my private phone conversations; only one party tries to tell me that, in times of war, we should suspend our Bill of Rights (aka liberties) so that the president can "temporarily" behave as a military dictator. Only one party tries to tell me that this country will be characterized by one particular religion at the exclusion of all others. That party is Republican, and THOSE are losses of liberty.

Gwats · 1 year ago

White voters over 50 are faced with with what they perceive to be a difficult choice.. to keep the Presidency a very exclusive club, or take a chance and vote in their own best interests and go in a new direction and elect someone who does not look like them and has an unusual sounding name. As a minority voter over 50, I'd like to say I'm impressed with this group of voters because without them, Barack could not have come this far this fast. it would nice if Obama can seal the deal and win the selection, but even if he doesn't win, the political landscape has been changed forever and America finally is the
land where ANY child can grow up and become President.

Juan · 1 year ago

"Democrats are consistently and resolutely opposed to human liberty."

Bwhahahahahaha!

Romulus · 1 year ago

Why do people ignore the difficulty of a relative newcomer challenging a well established political figure? The Carter-Reagan polls were very tight until the end when voters finally felt comfortable with Reagan. Likewise Obama will steadily increase his lead as people see him in the debates and contrast his calm demeanor, knowledge and articulateness with the erratic grandstanding and personal attacks of McCain.

Silvia Blanchard, Lakewood · 1 year ago

B. Henderson left off one image of Obama that he failed to mention, top of his class Harvard graduate. Obama's face are the face's of our country in the near future. Deal with it!

Scott D · 1 year ago

Race is a legitimate reason to vote for a president. Blacks are going to vote nearly in a 100% bloc then Whites should be free to do the same. I happen to think that McCain will be a better president but ir is also ok to vote for him because he is White and familiar.

JohnCOS · 1 year ago

I belive that Obama has a lot of good ideas, and I am upset that McCain has moved way right from where he used to be in order to get elected President. So it sounds like I will vote Obama?, sorry but no I won't be. While he has good ideas I am more afraid of what a congress and executuve branch controlled by the unions will do to this country than I am about McCain as a 3rd Bush term would do. Yes, I believe gridlock is good, and I hope we get it in November.

dave c · 1 year ago

I read these posts and can't help but shake my head. This petty partisan bickering is akin to Nero fiddling while Rome burned.
Well I have have a suggestion as to why this race is so close, and it has nothing to do racists, condesencion or any of that nonsense.

There's no substantive difference between the two candidates. Period.

No matter which of these two you vote for you will get more war and our empire will remain unchallenged with 700 bases in 130 countries, there will be more spending, government will get bigger, our debt will continue to grow, lobbyists will still rule the roost, our civil liberties will continue to be eroded and the Fed will continue to print money out of thin air. The idea that there is a substantive "choice" between these two candidates is laughable and pure fiction. And that's PRECISELY how the power elite want it.

Here's a quote from Bill Clinton's political hero Carroll Quigley...
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."

Starting to see the picture?

Holy Reality · 1 year ago

Condescension towards voters?

McCain says, "My Friends" and the condescension seethes out of his face. Obama uses intelligence and a thoughtful process that comes across as elite because dumb people fail to understand what he is saying.

See Idiocracy, "talk like a fa g";
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

The main weapon McCain has is fear, the dreaded socialism card is constantly played by McCain voters. Somehow if Obama wins the USA will instantly become a 21st century USSR where private property, profits, gasoline, guns, and birthdays, will be verboten.

This mythology is reinforced when Obama puts an intelligent sentence together without GOP buzzwords like 'values'.

Frank25 · 1 year ago

Allow me to disagree with all of you. I bought both of Obama's books, and the two books against him, googled Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times, and read the archived reports there over the years. Funny, the same stuff is in the books against Obama, and are footnoted. So I believe them to be true. But after all of this, and all the emails, I still do not know who Obama is. He has not produced a valid birth certificate, marriage license of his mother and father, and explained the facts stated and documented in "Berg vs Obama" in Philadelphia eastern district court. Judge is setting on case since this is political season, but when he hides the documentation, just as Kerry did, then don't we have a right to wonder? Just who is he? And by his own books, he received a lot of affirmative action in his lifetime. Are the grades and honors truly earned, or ????
I don't know, and he has not explained. And it is strange that his friends over the years have all been very leftist, even terrorists. Why would he gravitate to them? What was he trying to learn, or gain? (Side note: In my military life, I carried a weapon with my fellow military, to guard our terminal from being bombed, when Weather Underground (SDS affiliated) called our commander with threat. Really put military and our families under stress for next 2 months). That may have tended to warp my opinons. Know he was only about 9 at that time, but he found Ayers and Bernardine in Chicago, and others. Of course he has thrown them "under the bus" but I still have that nagging question. Just what is the final goal he is searching for? And will Americans suffer?