McCain is not Bush 3 — Obama is and has shown it by his flip flops and touting Blackwater and faith based initiatives and Reaganomics and flip flopping on FISA and every other policy he claimed he stood for.

Your words sound like those of a concern troll and I don’t appreciate the word you used either.

Not working.

….because… we’ve never had David Axelrod in all his glory before. Mr. White Guilt himself used the race card and race baiting in Duval Patrict’s campaign for governor in Mass. He apparently thinks it must have worked for them so onward and upward.

According to a New Republic piece in Jan or Feb, “How Obama’s Campaign Played the Race Card and Blamed it on Bill Clinton”, race was intended to be a cornor stone of the Obama campaign starting in IOWA til the end in ND and OR.

We first saw it’s ugly head raised in SC by Rep. James Clyburn and Donna Brazile each feigning moral outrage at the Clintons’ who were just running a tough but NOT racist campaign. However, it achieved their sinister goal of keeping AA’s in line and angry at the Clintons.

The campaign even had/has a “Race Man” – Jesse Jackson, Jr., according to the New Republic article, who also was the jerk in charge of keeping AA elected officials (like Reps. John Lewis and Maxine Waters, both early Hillary supporters) in line by threatening if they did not come on board for Obama, they would have someone running against them. It worked – both Lewis and Waters switched to BO. This is the same guy who threw his own civil rights leader father under the bus when Jesse Sr. spoke disparagingly into a live mic about skinny little Obambi.

Looks like Axelrod and Jesse Jr. learned their political lessons well from the Chicago political mafia. It is a travesty that they and a slew of others can’t be sent to state penitentiaries for at least a decade for this kind of political crime.

The overriding thing to remember is that, much to our disappointment, Hillary (barely) lost and Obama (barely) won. But Obama is still the better choice in this election vs. McCain. McCain promises us four more years of the same failed policies that we have had under Bush. Obama may not be the best salesman or the best politician, but his policies are ones we have been hoping for for a long time, even if Hillary’s were better.

By the way, McCain called his wife a cunt. In public. Tell me again how he has respect for women. He just wants what he can get from them.

Now? Talk to the paw, Oborg.

what a shi**T** u are

I’m AA and I have to say your comments have just about tested the limits of the high regard I have for Indian people who enjoy one of the richest spiritual histories in the world.

The only people who have made this election about race is 0bama and his suporters. In the beginning, 0bama had the American voter at his feet and then, he played the race card on the Clintons. It’s been downhill for him since.

After that people started researching his background, listening to him, watching, examining his platform and policies, his actions. Now, some 9 months later, a lot of people simply are not enthused about him any more. All the ballyhooing about race is turning a democratic election into danger zone. It’s invoking lots of animosity and for what? To elect a biracial candidate who is not qualified nor sufficiently experienced to hold the job. He blew his first and most important decision: failing to choose Hillary Clinton as his running mate. Like it or not, had he done that, he wouldn’t be facing the opposition he is today. ( Now don’t get me wrong, I’m glad Hillary isn’t on the ticket. But that’s just me.)

But the real deal is this: we are in the midst of an election for POTUS. Every American citizen is entitled to their vote and to use it anyway they choose. Mickey Mouse gets his share of presidential votes. And although I personally find that a waste, I respect that person’s right to waste their vote if that’s what they choose to do.

0bama’s supporters need to accept that a lot of people see a half-white man and many simply don’t believe he has the experience to be president. And that’s why they aren’t voting for him.

But you can see it anyway you like. I’m not voting for 0bama because he cheated the Primary, he doesn’t have enough experience and so far he has presented himself in a way that doesn’t instill confidence in his leadership skills. And I certainly am not racist. And I support black candidates, I voted for both Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. So there!

I find it difficult to believe that you are from India. You are the first one I’ve heard speak so openly and with so much hostility about race and racism.

I find that sad.

In my opinion its the Republicans who are more pumped about this election. Obama appeared in Greenbay to a sparse crowd — last week McCain/Palin appeared before a crowd of 10,000 in the same venue.

The Democratic Party is split and the Republican party is psyched. Therefore, Gallop weighting this election based on a larger turnout for Dems is more smoke and mirrors.

RUSH: The bloom has certainly come off of the Obama rose. Let’s go to the polling data. Over at WhizBangPoll.com, they’ve looked at some raw numbers from the latest Gallup poll. Skip the opening paragraphs about trolls and you dive into the numbers. If you look at the raw numbers, McCain is significantly ahead of Obama, and his support is steady or growing in all categories. Meanwhile, Obama is steady or falling in all categories. Yet, the most recent Gallup reported Obama up over McCain by two points. Why? The weighting of voters. Now, listen to how this is done. “Basically, a guesstimate about voter turnout has changed over at Gallup. They favored Republicans during their convention but now favoring the Democrats. All polling organizations weight the numbers. The question is, how?” Here’s how weighting works, by the way. I’ll give you radio examples.

Back in the old days — it’s not done this way anymore, but back in the old days — minority and foreign language radio stations… Let’s take Kansas City, for example. I worked there for ten years. And there were two or three black music radio stations. They were always given more weight in terms of percentage of population in the market than actually was. They weighted it for a host of political and business reasons. But weighting basically means guessing, and you are assuming. For example, after the Republican convention, they assume that more Republicans are energized to turn out so they put that in their polling data. That has now subsided and for some reason, Gallup has decided to weight Democrats with more turnout. The question is how this is all done. Now, if that’s fascinating to you, it gets even more fascinating at this point.

WhizBang decided to reweigh the numbers to match ratios established by exit polls, that is polls of voters exiting the voting booth in the past few presidential contests. So they went backwards, and they actually looked at exit polls and then they applied what they learned by the exit polls to their other mechanisms here and that’s how they weighted Gallup’s own poll. What they came up was not Obama with a two-point lead. They came up with Obama 39, McCain 45 — in the current poll, weighted with past presidential election turnout figures. Could they be right? If voter turnout doesn’t change substantially, yeah, it could be right. One hypothesis that they would add here, Richard Miniter writing this, “Republican and Republican-leaning independents are now favoring McCain because they took his pick of Palin as a signal that he’s going to govern as a conservative, not a RINO,” and that’s why liberals hate Palin.

I may never live to vote for someone.

So why don’t Democratic leaders and superdelegates face these facts and shift to Clinton? One reason is race. It’s true, as Obama says, that being black in America has hardly been a political asset, given the fact that he’s the only African-American in the U.S. Senate.

But at this time, in this party, being black is an enormous asset. Given America’s long, torturous path toward racial justice, many Democrats simply cannot imagine denying the nomination to the first serious African-American candidate for president.

During Keyes’ runs for the White House, he never once brought up his skin color as being a detriment to his political goal, even within the “racist” Republican Party. While the prospect of having Alan Keyes as the GOP nominee would likely force me to leave the country, how in the world could the Democrats pull the “whites not wanting Obama as President means they’re racists” card?

That from a someone who is probably living off their social security check. You know the program McCain called disgraceful.

Reform Social Security: John McCain will fight to save the future of Social Security and believes that we may meet our obligations to the retirees of today and the future without raising taxes. John McCain supports supplementing the current Social Security system with personal accounts — but not as a substitute for addressing benefit promises that cannot be kept. John McCain will reach across the aisle, but if the Democrats do not act, he will. No problem is in more need of honesty than the looming financial challenges of entitlement programs. Americans have the right to know the truth and John McCain will not leave office without fixing the problems that threatens our future prosperity and power. (emphasis mine).
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/0b8e4db8-5b0c-459f-97ea-d7b542a78235.htm

I don’t see the word disgraceful anyway in the above.