IN GOP's response to Obama's attacks on Sen. McCain in FW

Some people still say they don't know who Obama is, so here goes:
1. Eight year record in IL senate http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/07/29/...

2. His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These included:
**the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became law),
**The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act,(became law),
**The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate,
**The 2007 Government Ethics Bill,(became law),
**The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill,(In committee), and many more.

3. Republican endorsements
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/u...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/... endorsement

4. Obama, only candidate who was successful at passing a healthcare reform (in Illinois). In 2003, he passed a bill that offered health-care coverage to an additional 150,000 people but only after an attempt to push a bigger, universal health-care proposal stalled.

5. On the Iraq war, Obama's 2002 NO-HOLDS-BARRED Iraq speech risked his run-for-the-Senate WHILE the wise Democrats of Congress, fearing to look weak, voted as a group for the war resolution.
http://www.digg.com/politics/Full_text_of_Bar...

6. In Aug 2006, Obama took criticism from both parties, for his vocal case for attacking terrorists in Pakistan. They said he was endangering our only ally Musharraf. Obama: "Let me make this clear: There are terrorists holed up in those mountains, that murdered 3,000 Americans,...If we have actionable intelligence about high-valued terrorist targets and if President Musharraf will not act, we will."
In December Bhutto was assassinated by terrorists and in January the Washington Post reported that in late January, a CIA aircraft fired on several buildings in the Pakistani town of Mir Ali, killing a senior al-Qaida commander and several others. The paper, quoting anonymous U.S. officials, said that the action was done without seeking approval from the Pakistani government. In February, Musharraf was voted out of power; US has spent $11B trying to prop. up Musharraf.

7. Obama took a stand on talking with our enemies with preparation but without pre-conditions, aka Nixon and Reagan who were also criticized in their time for opening up relations with China and the Soviet Union, respectively.

8. In February '08, senior Democrats that have worked closely with both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama are endorsing Obama. Russ Feingold expressed high regard for New York Senator Hillary Clinton, with whom he has clashed in the past. But he spoke at great length about having worked with Obama on ethics legislation in the Senate, and hailed the Illinois senator's ability to judge people and hold firm against pressure from interest groups and party insiders. Chris Dodd says "I believe that Barack Obama has the experience, the ability the vision to lead this country, to make a difference both at home and abroad"

9. Obama is building a bi-partisan, deep bench of foreign policy advisers, including several ex-Clinton advisors: former national security adviser Tony Lake, former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig and Susan Rice, who was assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Obama's chief foreign policy adviser on the campaign is Dennis McDonough, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

I would like to know if Mr. Obama is Muslim, and what is his position of his pastor's commentary about the hate to the United States of America. Also, I think that he hates to our country because he did not want to contradict
to his pastor, and he has his formation.

I wrote my comment one minute ago

Murray Clark is illinformed. How Obama mischaracterize John McCain's words? Obama has already declared his position on the war on numerous occasions. Maybe Mr. Clark wasn't paying attention. How about we have the Straight Talk Express explain how the "war on terror" was a better choice for securing America than capturing Bin Laden in Afghanistan.

I beleive Obama has every right to go after McSame the way he is doing. He should go after him being the same as Bush. That is what we get with McCain in the White House. The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer if he gets in the White House. All the power to Obama to bring all these points out.

Roberto Loa wrote:

I would like to know if Mr. Obama is Muslim, and what is his position of his pastor's commentary about the hate to the United States of America. Also, I think that he hates to our country because he did not want to contradict
to his pastor, and he has his formation.

Sure, I'll answer your question. But first, I'd like to know whether you have a brain. No? Well, then there's no point in trying to answer your stupid, illiterate, racist, question.

Valerie let me get the right you want to know if Obama is a Muslim and in the same statement you ask questions about his pastor??????

Obama is not a Muslim and his pastor stated before and after his comment that those was not his words but foot notes. The pastor was stating someone else words. Listen to the whole speach and not just with the media feeds you

Roberto Loa wrote:

I would like to know if Mr. Obama is Muslim, and what is his position of his pastor's commentary about the hate to the United States of America. Also, I think that he hates to our country because he did not want to contradict
to his pastor, and he has his formation.

Sen. Obama has never been a Muslim! He has attended the same christian church with it's controversial minister for some 20 years. He has stated that the comments made by his pastor stem from a generational gap & that Rev. Wright went through Jim Crow & the Civil Rights movement & therefor has opinions that Sen. Obama DOES NOT share. I think it shows Sen. Obama's basic human compasion that he has disagreed with his pastor's words but will stand by him as a long-time friend.

The only way that the Dems can contrast the policies of McCain from theirs is to bring up his own words in all the stump speaches McCain has given during this campaign. We have noticed that
McCain has done a 180 on most of his policy issues
to be comparable to those of Bush which destroys his "maverick" status & this is fair game for Sen. Obama now & in November. McCain should have stuck with his more liberal policy opinions & he might have had a greater chance to show the voters that he stood for change in the Republican Party. As it stands now we should look forward to another Bush term if McCain wins & I doubt the country can survive!

I am a Buckeye, transferred to the Pine Tree State, and I am a Barack fan, but am annoyed the way Hillow
Top initiated negative comments earlier!!

obama talks good but he says nothing.

Birds of a feather FLY together. As far as Obama goes--- first he was there, then he wasn't there,then he heard and then he didn't hear.He is an angry young man. He sounds good because he can deliver a speech but if you listen closely there is a lot of anger against white people. After 22 years of Rev. Wright, something had to rub off.

It will be secure after they retreat all
the troops, all we have to do after that is tighten up security and with all the money from the war we can use it to supporting situations like that and the economy as well.

It is becoming increasingly evident every time I read one of these comment sections, that there are still a great number of people who cannot read or comprehend what they have read. A glowing indictment of how public school has failed so many. Its also increasingly evident that once a bias has set in, those people get stuck on stupid and will gobble up any and everything negative that gets passed on to them. Here's a rule to help you people out 1. Take the time to actually read or listen to the speech or comment in it entirety. 2. Give credit where credit is due. 3. be as fair to the other candid date as you would want others to be fair to your candidate 4.Make the media accountable to the way they report things, the media should not intentionally distort what a candidate has said or done, The media sometimes has bad intentions because they are being paid to do bad things. I keep saying I’m going to stop reading these comments sections because they irritate me so badly to see someone say something so stupid about things they could readily get the correct answers to if they were really interested. They don’t want an answer they just want to keep controversy alive.

Glad to see your are irrated by the media bias supporting Obama. Why is the media so wrong?

eyes are watching wrote:

It is becoming increasingly evident every time I read one of these comment sections, that there are still a great number of people who cannot read or comprehend what they have read. A glowing indictment of how public school has failed so many. Its also increasingly evident that once a bias has set in, those people get stuck on stupid and will gobble up any and everything negative that gets passed on to them. Here's a rule to help you people out 1. Take the time to actually read or listen to the speech or comment in it entirety. 2. Give credit where credit is due. 3. be as fair to the other candid date as you would want others to be fair to your candidate 4.Make the media accountable to the way they report things, the media should not intentionally distort what a candidate has said or done, The media sometimes has bad intentions because they are being paid to do bad things. I keep saying I’m going to stop reading these comments sections because they irritate me so badly to see someone say something so stupid about things they could readily get the correct answers to if they were really interested. They don’t want an answer they just want to keep controversy alive.

bljohnson wrote:

Glad to see your are irrated by the media bias supporting Obama. Why is the media so wrong?<quoted text>

in reply to bljohnson. First of all I did not mention any candidates name. I do not like bias reporting for or against any candidate. I think the candiates have enough room to create and address their own problems, without the media trying to create a problem for them. I see just as many negative reports about Obama as I do Clinton and thats fine as long they are true and not blown out of proportion. One thing that I have noticed lately is the media ploy to present Obamas' pictures in shadows or out of focus, but on the same page show Clintons' picture smiling and waving. This may look accidental but its a trick long been used by media to sway peoples' impression about a person. I despise the media sources that use such ploys.

It seems you are seeing things that I can not see. Possibly, you are looking through special glasses. Where can I find a pair?

eyes are watching wrote:

<quoted text>in reply to bljohnson. First of all I did not mention any candidates name. I do not like bias reporting for or against any candidate. I think the candiates have enough room to create and address their own problems, without the media trying to create a problem for them. I see just as many negative reports about Obama as I do Clinton and thats fine as long they are true and not blown out of proportion. One thing that I have noticed lately is the media ploy to present Obamas' pictures in shadows or out of focus, but on the same page show Clintons' picture smiling and waving. This may look accidental but its a trick long been used by media to sway peoples' impression about a person. I despise the media sources that use such ploys.

THE PATRIOT wrote:

SOME OF YOU PEOPLE ARE SO STUCK ON STUPID (BUSH SUPPORTERS) THAT YOU DON'T SEE THAT THERES A REAL CHANCE TO TURN THIS COUNTRY AROUND, BUT ALL YOU SEE IS COLOR!PUT ASIDE ALL YOUR FEARS AND DOUBTS AND GIVE THIS MAN, YES MAN A CHANCE AT RUNNING THIS GREAT COUNTRY THANK YOU!!!!!

This country has no chance as long as there is just the two parties in control. You want change, then boot both the Dems. and Repubs. out of the offices.

bljohnson wrote:

It seems you are seeing things that I can not see. Possibly, you are looking through special glasses. Where can I find a pair?<quoted text>

"None is so blind as he who will not see". but I think I admire your attempt at humor. If I had your address I would send you several pairs of glasses.:)