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Posted By not2needy 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsBarack Obama began sketching the outlines of his expected presidential contest against Republican John McCain on Saturday, saying the fall election will be more about specific plans and priorities than about questions of political ideology or who is more patriotic.
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not2needy1 year, 1 month ago
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Barely mentioning Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama said he was open to campaigning with McCain in "town hall" events. But he also warned that controversial issues such as McCain's ties to the Keating Five savings and loan scandal are fair game, and he called McCain's proposal for a temporary halt in the federal gasoline tax a pander and a gimmick.
Go Obama!
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mark-stevens1 year, 1 month ago
My only fear is exit polls showing Obama winning by 8% and McCain wins anyway
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 1 month ago
While he is not the candidate yet. I'm glad to see that he is setting his sights on beating McCain.
The Keating five, along with his acceptance of Bushes torture and war policies should go along with McCains non knowledge of the economic problms we face. Ask him questions about how he intends to strengthen the economy. Helpthe middle class and working man.
McCain will stumble as he has no clue. LOL
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not2needy1 year, 1 month ago
The only way McCain will be able to compete will be if he can debate by memory, and i don't see that happening, especially in light of the fact that he made the same mistake regarding sunni and shiites over and over!
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Blackacereturn1 year, 1 month ago
Cowboy - I am assured of this, not only is Obama a very smart man, that's a given but more so the people he has around him the campaign leaders, these have to be the best political minds we have in this nation today. As a black man, and ill admit him being black played a part in my support for him but a very small part. I started out as a Clinton person. I am not just saying this go back and look at my history on here when it come to the Clinton's. However, this guy who wasn't on my radar at the start had been able to make me feel like I felt when the first Clinton ran. There is no doubt that they will cover any and all angles there is to cover. They make the people that got president Clinton elected look like grade schoolers, with all the race that went into the conversation just before NC and Indi I thought he would be done for, and they pulled it off. I mean against the media that lied and say she won PA by 10 points when it was 9, and the press core with Wright and all of that.
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 1 month ago
Sadecaller:
McCain first has to know the correct question. I don't even think he has the right questions down yet.
Like: Why are so many Americans fed up with Bush and his administration?
How can we as a nation begin to return to the America that respects the constitution?
How are we going to sucessfully get out of Iraq and still keep our national interests and those of the rest of the world from collapsing?
How are we going to bring back manufacturing to America?
Just to name a few.
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automan9091 year, 1 month ago
McCain will easily win in the end.
Obamas' being a racist and anti American will be his demise.
Blacks will still vote for him because he is black but his inexperience and stupidity will ultimately do him in.
He can't compete with a true patriot.
In the end, socialism will lose and capitalism will win.
Racists will lose and America will win.
Obama can go back to his racist anti-American church and worship in hatred on Sundays as usual, and America will still be the greatest nation on earth.
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ETproductions1 year, 1 month ago
How predictable. Spin and lie, smear and fear. Spin and lie. Smear and fear.
Obama is running against just such smear and fear politics. By doing so, this relatively unknown upstart is within sight of the primary victory running against the most powerful and entrenched political machine in the Democratic party.
Be afraid, ConMen. It's no longer going to work. The people have seen through your tactics.
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quiteman1 year, 1 month ago
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To automan909,
And of you racist people out there that don't want to vote for Obama you need to check yourselves; your trying to paint Obama as being a racist about Rev. Wright but you need to look into McCain's own back yard first even though I know you don't want to.
McCain's "Spiritual Guide" Wants America to Destroy Islam
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Blackacereturn1 year, 1 month ago
automan909 - You have no idea what a racist looks like. Here is how you get an idea, look in a mirror and the person looking back at you well that there would be your racist. What has Obama done/say that makes him a racist and anti-American?
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memestryker1 year, 1 month ago
The vice presidential selection could make it or break it.
My $0.02--Obama has the young vote, black vote, gay vote, will have most democrats and women once Clinton pulls out, and he's always had the ultra-liberal vote.
McCain has never been particularly protective of the second amendment, which Bill Clinton suggests won G.W. Bush the presidency. That leaves McCain's dependable base as conservative white males and ultra-conservative females. I think a significant number of conservative blacks will vote for Obama. And a significant number of Republican women are against criminalizing abortion, so McCain's base gets shaved off there, too.
I can't wait to see who they choose for running mates.
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nikkibabe1 year, 1 month ago
Questions for McCain:
. Talk about your association and scandal with Charles Keating when you both bilked thousands of small depositors out of their life savings. He went to prison; how did you avoid prison time?
. You denounced religious right in 2000 as forces of evil, now you embraced them as your buddies? Why?
. You opposed Bush tax cuts for the filthy top 1% of the richest in 2000, now you want it and also make it permanent. Why?
. Whole country and the world knows that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was for oil. The country has been destroyed, millions of refugees, thousands dead and displaced, costed already close to $1 trillion. 78% of the people oppose it and want to end it. Why you want to continue? Al Qaeda was not there before.
. Your health care proposal sucks. How can your tax credit proposal help people who have no jobs and when they lost jobs. Employer provided plans offer COBRA which guarantees continuation of health care for 18 months. What does your plan do.
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newbie04201 year, 1 month ago
So Obama starts off by saying he wants the election to "be more about specific plans and priorities than about questions of political ideology or who is more patriotic"
then he goes straight on the offensive attacking McCain about the Keating 5.
Can this guy get any more hypocritical?
How quickly would McCain get attcked for bringing up Wright and "not sticking to the issues"?
Yet again, it's okay when Obama does it....
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Ratskii1 year, 1 month ago
Didn't neg you because I don't generally neg people just for making arguments. But I will contest your accusation of hypocrisy. The Keating 5 scandal is about a major issue. It is about the influence of lobbyists, the pandering to special interests and the willingness to sell out the average American for the sake of a few people with money. I can think of few things more germane to current economic issues
McCain appears to have participated with others who committed criminal acts that cost America 600 billion dollars. That is very much on the table since it directly relates to how he might act in the future and where his sympathies lie. By the way, I don't think McCain ever repudiated or apologized for his actions.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 1 month ago
"be more about specific plans and priorities than about questions of political ideology or who is more patriotic"
That do you take more about to mean? Only? This is about specifics he did this, it's speculative weather or not Obama heard rev Wright say god damn America before we all did, besides that Obama is asking about something McCain did not something someone else said that has been taken out of context to sooth your needs. If McCain mentions wright i would ask him if he is willing to have a debate on the entire tapes not just the parts shown on the networks.
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nikkibabe1 year, 1 month ago
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"Obamas' being a racist and anti American will be his demise."
. This is news. So did the Negroes bring whites from Europe for slavery? The statement appears to imply that. So the history has been rewritten.
. Anti American. I have not seen sign of that. He is opposed to the invasion & occupation of Iraq. So, does this make him anti American? Patriotism is something that sits in a person's heart and not on a jacket. Con artists and criminals disguise & impersonate with outwardly show of a difference. That does not make them American and patriotic.
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Dionys1 year, 1 month ago
It's just more of the usual garbage and lies from the Repugnant Con party. He's not a racist, nor is he anti-American. Unless you count being for the citizens instead of the Corporations being anti-American.
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TheSatyr1 year, 1 month ago
Obama's lack of judgement,inexperience and book will do him in. His own book makes him sound like a rascist,but his supporters say it's ok cause he's black. I consider Obama and Ron Paul to be the biggest con men in politics right now.
Funny how Ron Paul supporters think it's perfectly ok for neo-nazi groups and the KKK to send money to Paul's campaign and it's funny that Obama's supporters aren't questioning why Hamas has come out in support of Obama's campaign.
What do these groups know about these 2 candidates that we don't?
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 1 month ago
so yer not diggin Obabam or Paul...which is it? McCain or Hillary?
It's anonymous. You can answer.
or are you gonna write in Ozzy Osbourne or I.P. Freely?
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BTW, I wouldn't put too much stock in Hamas political picks. They may be better than us at winning hearts and minds, but I doubt they are really trustworthy analysts of the American political machine
By the by the way:
I think it's really funny when people say 'Aha! Osama wants the dems to win, like the opinion of mass murderers has value. He may be a bloodthirsty religious zealot who's invisible friend tells him he needs to kill women and children, but he's opinions have merit in the political arena, despite his own politics, which call for random bloodshed'
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Blackacereturn1 year, 1 month ago
Hamas was asked a question and they give an answer, what does that mean. Do you really think hamas would send a man to take over our government and keep it quiet all this time and on the heals of doing so blurt out that's our planted man? Your comments are not only idiotic it's out ans out stupid. Please go away and come back when you find your brains and not rushes he is a jackass. God I cant stand this level of stupidity...if you would get off your blind hate ride for a second you would see how stupid the hamas thing is.
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ladylou41 year, 1 month ago
The best thing all of us can do if we are really serious about "change we can believe in" is to support the Obama campaign with financial donations, make phone calls to potential primary voters, especially Montana and Oregon, and keep talking!!
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quiteman1 year, 1 month ago
All of you racist people out there that don't want to vote for Obama you need to check yourselves your trying to paint Obama as being a racist but you need to look into McCain own back yard first even though I know you don't want to.
McCain's "Spiritual Guide" Wants America to Destroy Islam
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 1 month ago
''And what's wrong with wanting to destroy islam?''
people are connected to it
Islam is an ideology
you can only kill an idea with an idea
unless you kill everybody, and then there's no one left to take up the idea
**hint hint, think war on terror**
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simonsez1 year, 1 month ago
It is hard to imagine how Obama can lose this, but he is, after all, a Democrat, and you know how Democrats have a knack for snatching defeat from sure victory.
It will be fun to see what transpires in the next few months.
It reminds me of the "Nanny" show, trying to calm down the siblings ...
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greenmac1 year, 1 month ago
I imagine you wouldn't......but....I also imagine a lot of thought doesn't take place before you make these types of statements.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 1 month ago
I think we can destroy Islam
I mean, look how good the Romans did at stomping out Christianity?
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greenmac1 year, 1 month ago
This is a list of the different religous sects and the number of followers of each them.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents...
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Randyrfd1 year, 1 month ago
The candidate of "NOT POLITICS AS USUAL" is outlining his plans against McCain? How about outlining how you are going to accomplish the plans to move America forward. Or is this what you meant by CHANGE? How does an inexperience man move an agenda forward? Not ready to conceede my vote from Hillary to Obama. I have a lot of Questions?
Hillary all the way to the convention
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scott42611 year, 1 month ago
Barack Obama is wise to be campaigning against John McCain at this stage, not against Hillary Clinton. And I believe Hillary will, in the end, support the inevitable nomination of Obama...complete with photo ops at the convention with Bill and Hillary, who will promise to campaign for Obama and win the election for the Democrats.
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pcknowledge1 year, 1 month ago
From your mouth to God's ears.
Another 4/8 years of Bush/McCain policies would be disastrous for our economy and in foreign politics. Bush has destroyed America from the inside and outside. McCain would continue on the same path of economic and political destruction that Bush got us into.
If Hillary is nominated, I'll vote for her. If Obama is nominated, I'll vote for him. And vice versa.
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not2needy1 year, 1 month ago
Me 2 pcknow. McCain has seen how lucrative being president has been for Bush, and he wants his piece of the pie! Probably so he can get out from under his wife's control.
Nothing more, nothing less.
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pcknowledge1 year, 1 month ago
not2needy
Agree 110%!
McCain has watched the Bush family's wealth grow during their Presidential terms. He wants his share of the pie.
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