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Obama losing favor

Considering that McCain is running a lackluster campaign and that Obama just completed his “I am the world� tour, McCain should be seeing Obama’s taillights disappear over the horizon. Yet, Obama can’t seem to shake McCain.

The American people, or at least a very large population of people, are continuing to not find substance in Obama as the proverbial onion continues to be peeled. Remember, early on in a campaign the political types of both parties are paying attention, but as the campaign continues on, those non-political undecided voters begin to pay attention. These are the folks who Obama is not winning over, and McCain is becoming the default go to guy, for lack of anyone else being remotely viable.

So far, we have observed that Obama makes poor judgments in the choice of acquaintances, he can turn on an issue rapidly if he believes it is in his best political interest. He is an income redistributionist, and anti small business candidate, who prefers higher gas prices to force those “bitter� people to dump their trucks and SUV’s in favor of inefficient corn ethanol powered vehicles. He is against drilling as a means to achieve his vision of a fossil fuel free world, no matter how many people get hurt by this sudden lurch away from traditional fuel toward renewable fuel that is not ready to fully drive this nation.

His trip to Europe demonstrated who the French and the Germans like, but it is not a referendum for this country’s Presidency - our society is dramatically different than Europe.

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Ken,

What this shows me is that people who don't want to vote for Obama will use any excuse, whether it's true or not. For instance, tell me how Obama is slammed relentlessly for Rev. Wright, yet 12% of the public still believes he is a muslim? Or, how does Sean Hannity and John McCain slam Obama for not visiting troops, while showing footage, shot by the D.O.D., of Obama making that jumpshot in a gym FULL OF TROOPS? Why does the fact that McCain has sought the endorsement of racist preachers and had his economic plan written by the same folks who brought us the Enron loophole (who also told us that our recession is mental, and that we're a nation of whiners) get absolutely NO press and is overlooked by the voters? The obvious answer is that a) some of these people are racist and can't stomach the idea of a non-white president, and b)some of these Republicans are the rich and powerful who represent the only folks that have truly benefitted from the Bush years. It's become clear what some of the coding is, and you even used some; income redistributionist sounds quite fancy, but the fact is everybody is a an income redistributionist. The design of the Bush tax code, I'm sorry, the Republican tax code, redistributed the country's wealth from the Clinton years into the wealthiest pockets. McCain wants to keep them there, Obama wants to give the small guy a fair shake. As for your other charges, Obama was never the hard leftist that he is being portrayed as, he has not changed his position on the war, but he has run on the idea of compromising for the greater good. I don't believe his antiwar stance was all that popular when the invasion of Iraq started, so to say he was somehow against the war for political expediency is plain false. Of course, that won't stop Republicans in the neo-con, Rove era. Why let a little truth get in the way of winning?

What better political metaphor is there than Cormac McCarthy's brilliant novel and Oscar Award winning film adaptation, "No Country For Old Men" in illustrating the tottering, reeling collapse of McCain. Each day provides a shocking insight of the increasingly pathetic and desperate attempts to smear Barack with attacks being launched by the McCain campaign. The veneer of civility has vanished and McCain is finally being exposed as a senile, angry, confused old man who is clearly haunted by his Viet Nam demons. He is a wreck- damaged physically, mentally, and emotionally.

The recent craven and deranged garbage coming from the Rove B Team is a revelation of what the alleged, self proclaimed “War Hero� truly is all about. McCain is a vain, pompous old man that still thinks he's got it going on with women. After all, he dumped his first wife to marry his much younger beer heiress, has "allegedly" had an affair with some Lobbyist “Ho� and now is up against an incredibly cool, athletic, handsome opponent. Barack draining a three pointer in Iraq was the beginning of the end for McCain. The image of a incredibly fit, athlete in the prime of his life performing in front of cheering troops unhinged McCain- igniting a broken down, decrepit, old man into a enraged fit of jealousy.

The portly little Warmonger, with his few remaining strands of white hair plastered across a cadaverous skull, and a mug that looks like it was used as a Pit Bull's chew toy just isn't GQ material. Nor will he ever be the "celebrity" he accuses of Barack being, a role that a senile, impotent old man can only wistfully dream of. He is a relic from the failed past and as he helplessly witnesses Barack's brilliantly executed campaign, with a landslide trouncing looming on the horizon , McCain can only bitterly confront the reality that this is "No Country For Old Men..."

Barrack Hussein Obama wrote:

Praise be to Allah.

Look everyone. It's a Bushbot.

You can tell it's a Bushbot because of the lies and deceit.

Notice the user name and the phrase accompanying it. Typical Bushbot lies and scare tactics. BOO !!!

Is lying the ONLY thing Republicans are capable of doing well ?

Oh, I almost forgot. They're GREAT at spending more money during a Republican controlled White House and Congress than the Democrats could ever hope for.

Oh yeah, before I forget. I don't like Democrats either.

I don't trust Obama, but I trust McBush even less. He is the poster child for the "Do nothing" Washington we've suffered through for decades now.

"That was followed by accusations that Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president, had resorted to racial politics by asserting McCain and other Republicans would try to frighten Americans because Obama did not look like past U.S. presidents whose images are on the country's paper money."
A claim that is entirely true, since I've heard that rhetoric come from Obama's mouth. This comment shouldn't have been included in the list of attacks by John McCain. Let's try for some objective journalism, shall we?

“I’ve been asked again and again for my response to the now infamous McCain celebrity ad. I actually have three responses. It is a complete waste of the money John McCain’s contributors have donated to his campaign. It is a complete waste of the country’s time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs. And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next President of the United States.”- Kathy Hilton, Paris Hilton's mother and a (former) John McCain contributor.

I guess his tactics are NOT a hit, eh ?

I don't see pointing out inexperience and using your opponent's own words against him as "negative" - rather I see that as normal political strategy. And, the idea that McCain is doing anything different than Obama and his surrogates is rediculous. Obama has claimed to be "above the fray" but he is just another politician with a lot of empty rhetoric.

Obama...a Chicago politician with Chicago ideas and Chicago backing,Daley can't wait for him to win,every time he comes to the windy city he'll have a blank check for Daley just like Clinton did...where is Colin Powell when you need him????

Obama is using his campaign to attack McCain just as they did Hillary. The man is still using people for his dirty work and trying to say he isn't the negative one. The only one that injected race into the campaigns was Obama, and Obama alone! He is more of a flip flopper than McCain. He take other's plans and then tries to say they are his. Does he have any original plans to offer? Will he be able to decide anything on his own? He gives a good speech but when asked questions, he has trouble getting a sentence together. His supporters are so over the edge that they can't see the man for the light he supposedly gives off. This once life long Democrat changed to Independent when the party decided against the wishes of the people to overide their choice and name this man their candidate.

How can this be....?
He was full of gas just recently.
Must have only been hot air.
Windbag
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How about that Jesse Jackass Junior,.....
Raising his hand for O*Bomb*a'ss's Senate seat.
Another udder loser.(hee, hee)
Tell him it will not be available for another four more years.
Then they can both have the boot.
"RIGHT".....in the booty.

More diversions designed to distract attention away from Obama's extreme left, socialist plans for America including among other schemes:

Obama will cover 15 million illegal immigrants with federally subsidized health insurance, dramatically driving up costs and forcing federal rationing of healthcare. As in the U.K. and Canada, you will not be permitted certain medical procedures if the bureaucrats decide you are not worth it.

Obama will legislate a 60 percent tax bracket for upper-income Americans, killing all initiative and innovation. He will raise the top bracket to 40 percent. He will apply FICA taxes to all income, not just that under $100,000 as at present. So add 40 percent plus FICA’s 12.5 percent plus Medicare’s 2 percent plus state and local taxes averaging, after deduction, at 5-6 percent, and you have a 60 percent bracket.

Obama will double the capital gains tax, saddling the 50 percent of Americans who own stock with dramatically higher taxes. If Obama is elected, watch the stock market crash as American’s sell their shares to avoid paying double the taxes on their profits.

Obama will also double the dividend tax, hitting elderly coupon-clippers now retired and depending on fixed incomes.

Obama wants Homeland Security operatives to be required to notify terror suspects that they are under investigation within seven days of starting the investigation. Why?

Obama is a first-rate con man to be sure, but nothing even close to presidential material.

stoltz61 wrote:

Obama is using his campaign to attack McCain just as they did Hillary. The man is still using people for his dirty work and trying to say he isn't the negative one. The only one that injected race into the campaigns was Obama, and Obama alone!

You are correct.

Obama has always played race games. For example, he used the words of super racist Malcolm X in Spike Lee's movie to incite a mostly African American audience in South Carolina.

Coincidence? Of course not. Obama knows exactly what he's doing.

"They're trying to bamboozle you. It's the same old okie-doke. Y'all know about okie doke, right?... They try to bamboozle you. Hoodwink ya. Try to hoodwink ya.”

--Barack Obama in a speech January 24, 2008 (video online through Google)

"You've been hoodwinked. You've been had. You've been took. You've been led astray, led amok. You’ve been bamboozled."

- Malcolm X
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If any other candidate gave a speech that included phrases from, say, a white power leader, he/she would be berated by the Obama campaign and the world would come to end.

Good riddance, Obama. Very soon.

Drudge Report is reporting that the Rasmussen Poll is going to release a national poll this morning that shows McCain is now leading Obama. Maybe the public is finally seeing through Obama?

Depot Jim wrote:

Maybe the public is finally seeing through Obama?

November can't come soon enough to rid ourselves of this astounding hack Obama.

Obama has already appointed himself president.

Is it necessary that we even hold the November election?

LOL

Obama is a peevish child who can't contain his arrogance and smugness. These are not the qualities of a supposed "uniter."

"Listening to a colleague at his first meeting of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama slipped a three-word note to a member of his staff:'Shoot. Me. Now.'"

Ben Wallace-Wells
"Destiny's Child"
Rolling Stone, 2/7/07

Beth wrote:

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November can't come soon enough to rid ourselves of this astounding hack Obama.

In political time November is still a long time away. I would not take much stock in the political polls until mid-September or October. But the fact that the current polls show such a tight race with most of the issues going the Democrats way possibly shows that Obama is not as strong as his followers would like everybody to believe. I believe we may have a split decision in the November election. The Democrats will gain seats in the Congress and the Republicans will retain the White House. But only time will tell. It will be interesting to see how the November elections play out.

or course McCain's negative strategy works -- it is being devised and run by many of the same people who played the race card against McCain himself in the South Carolina primary in 2000, when they were working for George W. Bush. Karl Rove and his protegees are now helping McCain. So are the people who got started in the extremely racist Jesse Helms machine in North Carolina. Anyone with half a brain would know that Obama was not playing the race card and pandering to an audience when he talked about how he is different from past candidates , in a speech in southern Missouri, which is heavily white, old Hearnes territory, and now Republican territory. He was warning against what he expected would be used against him -- by opponents -- and of course it already has been used against him in e-mails and the net. He anticipated the increased racist tinge of the McCain political operatives who have assumed control of McCain's negative campaign. One of their tactics is to accuse someone first, so as to give themselves the opportunity to play innocent victim, and then strike "back" with the nastiness they intended to use all along.(And the press is too dumb to investigate all these people and their backgrounds.) These people - the Rove-Bush operatives from the 2000 campaign - will take MCain further down this path, and away from the pledge he made to run a clean and positive campaign. It is too bad. It will certainly work in the short run. It worked for Hillary in places where she had fertile ground to sow her seeds of racial division when she said "hard-working Americans, hard-working white Americans.." The right-wing Republicans are picking up all the worst of the stuff that the Hillary campaign (that scum Wolfson, in particular) used in the primary. She too, got bad advice and had bad advisers, and it is a pity that she both lowered herself by the way she campaigned in South Carolina and appalachia, and the way she fed attack material to the McCain campaign. She can stay in the Senate forever, but I will never vote for her for President or Vice President. The woman to watch is a conservative, reformist Republican, Sarah Palin, the new Governor of Alaska. I probably would not vote for her on a national Republican ticket, but I probably would have voted for her for Governor of Alaska, beginning with the GOP primary. Bravo for those who did. Decency and honesty can make a come-back in the GOP, once they get rid of Rove and his evil disciples.

How are these attack ads? McCain is merely pointing out the truth. Obama gets the crowds and the media worships him, but can the "junior" senator with very little experience actually lead the country?

McCain has 10 times the experience and his ads are asking voters if Obama has the experience to lead.

Depot Jim wrote:

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In political time November is still a long time away. I would not take much stock in the political polls until mid-September or October. But the fact that the current polls show such a tight race with most of the issues going the Democrats way possibly shows that Obama is not as strong as his followers would like everybody to believe. I believe we may have a split decision in the November election. The Democrats will gain seats in the Congress and the Republicans will retain the White House. But only time will tell. It will be interesting to see how the November elections play out.

The only reasons McBush stands a cold chacne in helll is because of three things:

1) Obama is black, and hard core bigots will never vote for people of color.
2) Barrack Hussein Obama is not a popular name right now.
3) NeoCons are playing on the fact that Obama's father was a Muslim.

Otherwise, McCain would be enjoying a single didgit approval rating.

Notice that nothing there suggests any positive things about McCain.