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Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 1 year, 2 months ago in NewsABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is a " skilled politician," but the country doesn't know much about her yet, said Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in an interview that will air tomorrow exclusively on " This Week."
"He chose somebody who may be even more aligned with George Bush – or **** Cheney, or the politics we’ve seen over the last eight years – than John McCain himself is," said Obama.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
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With the economy in the toilet, why not a single word about an economic plan at the Republican convention? Because they have none. "HaHa you whiners make us sick."
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Palin wanted to secede from the country, now we should stick her in charge of it? Hey my mayor is a woman and she's actually a republican I think. We have more people in my town than they have in Alaska. Of course we are NOT the biggest recipients of earmark pork in the nation. Come to think of it why would Alaska be? They get all that oil money? Why am I subsidizing them at all?
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miklkit1 year, 2 months ago
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Palin is an ultraconservative. As such she made the budget of the little town of Wasilla bloom. She has proven herself to be an incompetent executive who was forced to hire an administrator to run her little town for her while she redecorated her office many times. Who is really running Alaska now?
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If McSame thinks this is a good executive record, what does that say about his judgment?-
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Marrabella1 year, 2 months ago
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Better than Barry who never even ran a bicycle shop. Barry never stood up for anything. Thats why DNC crammed him down our throats. They thought they could control him. Whoever the mega-donors are behind Obama (Soros and his ilk ).... they do not have our country's best interest at heart.
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sinophil491 year, 2 months ago
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Marrabella - You know nothing about Barack Obama.
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First, Barack was his father's name and his given name. His nickname Barry was put on him by his white grandparents when they had to take care of him. Barack has always been his real name and his use of it signifies his pride in his own identity. May be we should all start calling McCain by his middle name Sydney.
Secondly, after becoming editor of the Harvard Law Review and being first in his class (not sure about this), he could have had any job in any high-faluting law firm he wanted. Instead he chose to return to the Chicago southside where he had already worked for several years helping the poor. He found jobs for them. He fought for justice. He fought city hall to clean up the asbestos in housing projects. He organized the assorted pastors to fight crime collectively. He gave up a 6-figure salary for $10000 a year salary. All because he believed in social justice.
McCain married Cindy, his 2nd wife, who is worth over $100 million. They own at least 7 houses (9 in one report I read). He was a good friend of Keating whose S went bankrupt and cost taxpayers $3.5 BILLION dollars. Before that Cindy McCain also had dealings w/ Keating and profitted by several million (don't know the exact number on this).
In all the past elections, Republicans have outraised the Democrats for campaign funds from oil, tobacco, auto, financial, and insurance industries. This is the first campaign where the Dems have outraised the Reps - thru the internet.
ALL politicians accept money from lobbyists. Remember Abramoff, DeLay, Hastert. All Republicans and all corrupt to the core. Just from the historical amounts raised, the Reps owed and have favored special interests far more than Dems have. That is why Reps have consistently lowered taxes on the top 1.2% of income earners, increased corporate taxes, and cut social services to the poor.
Republicans have NEVER had the country's best interest at heart. McCain has voted w/ Bush 95% of the time. He now embraces the 100-yr war in Iraq. He says he will continue Bush's tax policies and perpetuate the temporary tax cuts to the rich.
Obama will raise taxes on the rich and increase tax credits to the middle and lower classes (this lowers taxes in case you weren't clear).
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AntiNeoCon1 year, 2 months ago
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Little Ms Palin's media honeymoon will soon be over as soon as the country gets over the shock of McCain selecting her as his VP candidate. The truth will come out and she will be exposed for what she is...maybe, just maybe the people will not vote for another Bush administration this time. You would think they would have learned after nearly eight years of Bush.
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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The blood just might be Biden's
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JOE BIDEN: PATHOLOGICAL LIAR AND FRAUD: It was also discovered that, while at Syracuse Law School, Biden had plagiarized a law review article in a class paper he wrote.
Biden said the act was inadvertent due to his not knowing the proper rules of citation, and Biden was permitted to retake the course after receiving a grade of F in the course.
Biden also released at the same time the record of his grades as an undergraduate which were C's and D's and an F in ROTC during his first three semesters.
Further, when questioned by a New Hampshire resident about his grades in law school Biden had claimed falsely to have graduated in the "top half" of his class, (when he actually graduated 76th in a class of 85-
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gamahuche1 year, 2 months ago
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"Unions begin big election effort"
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Extremism leads to extremism.
This is about the fertile ground prepared by the hideous effects of neo-con rule.
Of course people who are fearful of losing - or have already lost their jobs will listen to ANYONE who holds out any promise of relief.
Would you rather they sat around in bars running up a tab that they can't pay - a poor man's way to mimic the "government" of the neo-con loonies.
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obiefrommuskogee1 year, 2 months ago
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Did you hear McCain on Face the Nation? He told us how Palin had to make executive community decisions as mayor like what to do about an "abandoned house."
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Is he freakin kidding? Is this code for something? Or is this truly as STUPID as it sounds?-
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sinophil491 year, 2 months ago
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gw - Obama has said several times that involving Rezko on his home purchase was a mistake. Rezko did NOT purchase Obama's home. He (or I think it was his wife) purchased the adjoining lot so that the owner would agree to sell the house to Obama for a lower price. The decrease was (?) $200000 or 300000.
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Nothing to explain. A young father trying buy a nice home for his family grabbed a deal. A mistake. But you also failed to mention that Rezko was NOT indicted for anything involving the Obama house purchase.
Now explain how McCain, who is supposed to be very experienced, ethical, truthful, and smart got involved w/ a slimeball like John Keating. When Keating's S went bankrupt, it cost 3.5 BILLION in tax money.
Cindy McCain also had dealings w/ Keating's firm. I don't know how many millions she benefitted from Keating.
McCain's sin was over 10,000 times more costly than Obama's. And it involved our tax dollars. McCain has also admitted he made a mistake about involving himself with Keating.
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gamahuche1 year, 2 months ago
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The quote in the header is very sinister and it seems to tie in with the conjectured part played by Karl Rove in selecting the Palin pitbull with lipstick. She and McCain may complement each other but they do NOT look like a "marriage made in heaven" - though of course neither of them seem to subscribe to any concept like that in respect to their own marriages either.
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It would be very interesting to know what was going on in that hotel room in St Paul for three days and who was doing the coaching..-
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
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This is traditionally the time the candidates soak up free publicity by appearing on news and talk shows for free as guests. They have said Palin will talk to no one for 2 weeks. (they pulled off letting her read from a teleprompter, but if she is asked a question,... it isn't even her vast lack of knowledge about national and international affairs they are worried about, ...it's that she might state what she really believes and that would be devastating) . I'd like to know who her "Henry Higgins" is?
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lbrtyordeath1 year, 2 months ago
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During the two weeks she'll be undergoing a crash course in Rovian tactics, which she displayed her skills at, albeit in their infancy, at the RNC. They're making her memorize propaganda as we speak.
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Reminds me of "My Fair Lady"
"The blame for the economic drain lies mainly on McCain....and his GOP buddies."
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chevydog1 year, 2 months ago
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It strikes me that Sen. Obama is hardly a disinterested party making that particular observation.
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One thing that has bothered me for the last few election cycles is that both parties seem to have gotten into a primary-heavy nominating process. That this identifies the best candidate to win elections I do not doubt. But ultimately, the election winner has to govern. And there is no guarantee that the person who can win elections is the same person who can govern well, or perhaps even at all. Though it may be heresy to some, we may have been better served by the proverbial smoke-filled room.-
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
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Chevydodog, you are probably right about the primary process being flawed .
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I can't agree that those smoke filled rooms always worked well though. One could argue that even under a monarchy, sometimes a blueblood would actually govern well and fairly. I personally feel citizens would be well served if there were at least one more viable party. The more the merrier.
I think the process is interesting, complex, and full of possible strategies that might be utilized to win. Yet you are right, face it, he who has the biggest sum of money wins.
In a sense, the presidency is simply bought.
At least the bulk of Obama's campaign money is from 2 million citizens giving $25 a shot. He owes the people he is supposed to represent. Who does McCain owe? Is there a single person on his staff who is not a lobbyist? Does anyone believe a campaign funded and indeed run by lobbyists will "change" Washington?
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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Obama owes his soul to the unions.
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Unions begin big election effort, By John Wojcik, People's Weekly World
With the primary season over, labor is wasting no time jumping into the fall campaign. The 10-million-member AFL-CIO is expected to endorse Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, shortly. The Change to Win federation has already endorsed him.
Once the AFL-CIO officially endorses Obama, it is expected to deploy large numbers of ground troops for the election. It has already budgeted $54.3 million for its own get-out-the vote drive and may, according to its political committee chairman, AFSCME President Gerald McEntee, spend as much as $60 million on the effort.
The Steelworkers have already begun what they say will be 30,000 or more worksite visits by union activists, talking directly to workers about Obama’s positions. They’re emphasizing his proposals for fair trade policies and for creation of millions of good paying “green” manufacturing jobs. The jobs they are talking about include production of solar cells, industrial-sized windmills to power electric turbines, and hybrid automobile engines.
The Service Employees (SEIU), the largest union in the Change to Win federation, voted at their June 2–4 convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to spend $85 million for the fall campaign to elect Obama and a bigger Democratic majority in Congress.
An additional $55 million will be spent for a legislative campaign to push for creation of a “universal, comprehensive and affordable national health care plan,” according to a union statement issued after the convention.
In a unique move, SEIU voted to spend $10 million to mount campaigns against legislators on any level who go back on promises they have made to the labor movement.
The SEIU info
Organizing in Oregon
The Civil and Human Rights Committee of SEIU Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union sponsored and hosted a talk by Communist Party Vice Chair Jarvis Tyner, Local 503 retiree activist Ann Montague and union organizer Bob Novick on Friday, August 8 in Portland, Oregon.
The forum was held to reflect on past civil rights struggles and to tie these to the present political moment. The panel featured three slightly different perspectives on the past and on the Obama candidacy. Communist literature was briskly distributed. One woman who attended took a number of items with her for her non-union paper mill.
Plans are in the works to follow up on the weekend with mailings, personal contact and e-mails. Three people have expressed an interest in joining the Party and several more heard about socialism for the first time at these events.-
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lbrtyordeath1 year, 2 months ago
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And my entire working family 50+ years back owes the Unions. We owe the Unions big time for fair wages, for putting bread and butter on my table as a child, for looking out for working people.
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You freakin bastardized Reaganites just love to strike down the Unions. If it weren't for labor unions, it wouldn't be upper, middle, and lower class. It would be the HAVES and the have-nothings. -
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sinophil491 year, 2 months ago
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Klarissa - This is the first election in my memory where the Democrats finally have out-funded the Republicans. YYAAAAYYYY!!!
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Republicans had always dominated over the Dems in funding by the oil, tobacco, financial, insurance, auto industries and the NRA in the past. So whose soul is purer and more holy?
Your holier than thou attitude about these issues is quite distasteful. ALL politicians need money and actively seek money. Politics is expensive. All politicians get pressure from lobbyists.
The question is not whether a politician gets this or that money. The question is - Will that politician ultimately work for the greater public good or will he use his political victory to benefit himself or only a priveleged segment of society to the detriment of the greater good?
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
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One would think...almost all the primary debates were ruined by phony dumb questions and non issues though. Who has the biggest flag pin?
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I wonder if Palin will be permitted to talk (other than reading Rove's speech) by then? They aren't worried about gaffes, If she is questioned and answers honestly, the damage control will be stretched beyond it's limits. -
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sherinko1 year, 2 months ago
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That the Americna public could possibly be shallow enough to believe that Sarah Palin is after their best interests is appalling. We have two brilliant men running on the Democratic ticekt, yet we criticize that and focus on Sarah Palin's hair, glasses and children. How stupid can we be?
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Marrabella1 year, 2 months ago
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Say what you want about McCain. This campaign is of course about issues. However, in
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this particular campaign, character trumps issues. The DNC just doesn't "get it"
Obama's whole political history is one of Machivallian opportunism.
This fact is so apparent to anyone who cares to dig for the facts.
McCain and Palin have "walked the walk" - decades of charitable works
all over the globe. Obamas' only charitable act was $22,000 donation
to Rev. Wright's very wrong church. Amazing. He got down with slimy
Chicago dirty politics and ingritiated himself into their mud and
filth. One can only surmise - the people backing him so generously,
KNOW he can be bought. These mega-donors do NOT have our country's
best interest at heart.
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suniliptor1 year, 2 months ago
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When it comes to McCain campaign, How do you spell D E M E N T I A?
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Why did he pick a "teeny bopper" has a running mate any way? The "Young" vote verses the "Nursing Home" vote?
His pick was a slap in the face to all the republican politicians who worked so hard over the years to gain credible vast experience for the chance to atleast be a vice presidential running mate.
As for an economic recovery plan, does he have one , or know what a plan is?
Where is Osama bin Laden? Bush probrably is giving McCain a debrief as the three are eating dinner in the white house .
Why isn't McCain speaking about finding Osama bin Laden and the war on terror?
Why is such a trivial so called war taking longer than Vietnam to complete? When are we going to free Tiawan, Tibet, and Cuba?
All hail the New World Order! Support the Corporate Global Conglomerates who have moved into Communist Chinese territory! By The Way, what was the Support the Troops thing all about? American service people dying for what? So that the American corporations can support Communist China and lock out american worker to give their jobs to immigrants?
All hail the US Congress and the White House for jobs created for the immigrants! So much for being American and Buying American!
It's all a big Sell Out.
Look at your surroundings. What you see may be American but who really owns it or who operates it will surprise you.
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Ruggaboo1 year, 2 months ago
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Jack ass, scumbag liberals want to elect this socialist P.O.S.
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All you knuckleheads will bring about is the end of this country.
Obama is the Antichrist!
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huldaah1 year, 2 months ago
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What are you missing and where have you been all of American history? Obama is not the one who single handedly in 8 years caused the whole world to turn on America. Obama is not the one who has an oil contract with the Bin-Laden family. Obama is not the one who took the total focus away from Bin-Laden after 911, made Saddam Hussein his target, so that he would not lose out on his oil partnerships, and still won't go after Bin-Laden. Obama is not the one who sold American jobs to the chinese, and out sourced work on every level to foreign countries, leaving hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work. What is the name for someone who sells out their own country?
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lbrtyordeath1 year, 2 months ago
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And yet you're on it, talking smack.
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Chaos imagined: my government can spy on me and no one will stand up against it, we are invading sovereign nations that DID NOT (let me repeat DID NOT) attack us on 9/11, the US Treasury has been looted, we have gone from a MASSIVE surplus to an equally huge deficit, we are spending TEN BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH on Iraq, when they have an EIGHTY BILLION dollar budget surplus! And you Republicans want to talk about responsible spending? About personal responsibility?
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lbrtyordeath1 year, 2 months ago
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Neg me all you want Cons, but it doesn't change the FACT (yes, FACT) that the same people running ads talking about "out of control spending by Democrats in Congress" are the ones who voted to continue to fund a war that puts TEN BILLION DOLLARS a month in the pocket of Iraq, who ALREADY HAS EIGHTY BILLION IN THE BANK!!!
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NoWayMan1 year, 2 months ago
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only from the debates, which david gregory will now anchor.
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olbermann and mathews will still be on air and very visible as analysts throughout.
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huldaah1 year, 2 months ago
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I think most people understand that John McCain would not give a woman a second glance as his VP, if he had not seen the effect Hilary made on her run against Obama. It just goes to show how arrogant and disrespectful he and the republicans really are concerning women. Here is a "what if?" to consider: What if the plan is to use Palin to pull women so that McCain can have a better shot at getting into the Whitehouse, and if it works, she holds the VP position, just long enough, then steps down ( using all of her family issues as the reason) so that his real pick (one of the men he claims he didn't choose), can then step up? They may all be a part of it, after all, they do stick together, and we learned from Bush's second term with the Florida fiasco (Jeb as Governor), that the Republicans will try to win by any means necessary. Also, I am confused about the term "Maverick" being used by someone who is supposed to be a Christian. True Christians do not refer to themselves in terms that lead people to think that they cross lines, bust down doors, ignore the status quo, make up their own rules, and dare anyone to address them. Palin referring to herself as a "pit-bull" who wears lipstick, only confirms the charges leveled against her concerning the attempted firing of her brother-in-law. Also, no matter how they try to clean it up. If you teach and preach abstinence, you should at least wonder why your own child didn't take your advice. And this is the person ready to "step right in"? The Republicans can't even think of their own catch-all phrase to describe what their format is. That is why they have stolen Obama's description of his purpose of change. Doesn't anyone get it? The Republicans don't have a platform. Duh!
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Marrabella1 year, 2 months ago
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huldaah- Obama is an empty suit. If you research at all into his political life it is apparent. He never improved anything -- just profitted for his own good. ONLY charitable thing Obamas did was donate $22,000 to the very wrong, Rev. Wright. His politics in Ill. was self serving and opportunistic. Palin really changed things in Alaska. Obama grabbed all he could with his political power. I am a liberal dem. I am voting Republican. DNC needs to know they can't shove a Machivillain, poser down our throats and yell "Roe vs Wade" it "ain't gonna work".
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Marrabella1 year, 2 months ago
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Say what you want about McCain. This campaign is of course about issues. However, in
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this particular campaign, character trumps issues. The DNC just doesn't "get it"
Obama's whole political history is one of Machivallian opportunism.
This fact is so apparent to anyone who cares to dig for the facts.
McCain and Palin have "walked the walk" - decades of charitable works
all over the globe. Obamas' only charitable act was $22,000 donation
to Rev. Wright's very wrong church. Amazing. He got down with slimy
Chicago dirty politics and ingritiated himself into their mud and
filth. One can only surmise - the people backing him so generously,
KNOW he can be bought. These mega-donors do NOT have our country's
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Jimjn21 year, 2 months ago
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Same old rhetoric . … from the Dems and liberals that is....
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Anybody who doesn't agree with Dems and liberals is the same as George Bush. Come on. It's obvious by the new poll results that people aren't buying those witch hunt fanatics, attempts to trash candidates on a personal level and are seeing through the Bush scare tactics too.
The fact is John McCain is not Bush by a long shot and Palin is the exact opposite of Cheney where it counts for sure.
Sarah Palin is not for the big oil companies at all. She went after them and won. She also ran a boat load of corrupt politicians out of political office along the way. She balanced the state budget too by taking special interest groups to task and vetoing wasteful spending.…
None of that Cheney is like at all. As a matter of fact, Cheney would probably be sweating and quaking in his boots if he had to answer to her.
We need a president that has done more than write about himself and only vote "present" 129 times instead of in favour of or against bills and legislation. We also need someone who has a record of successfully working with both parties to get things done, not someone with no record at all.
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jrssjdca1 year, 2 months ago
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The political pundits, particularly **** Morris have said that the one thing McCain needs to do is to separate himself from George Bush in order to win the presidency. Obama said "He chose somebody who may be even more aligned with George Bush or **** Cheney, or the politics we’ve seen over the last eight years – than John McCain himself is." John McCain didn't have to do anything, Obama made the separation for him.
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