Obama says public tired of hearing about his former pastor

[EricDallas]

Lisa wrote:

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I am not, my point is that you are grasping at straws. It makes me wonder if you are as confident as your posts suggest.

What if my father was iranian, and I was born in America. I went back and forth to visit my family. My father was in the ministry of the Irani Government.

Don't you think there should be some questions asked?

Maybe Obama has no intention of being a bad person, but for future generations, we should modify the constitution prohibiting these dual citizens from being president. There s a clear conflict of interest here.

[Purl]

Lisa wrote:

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Sorry but I do not consider your reasons valid ones. This is McCain's spiritual advisor and he is no better.
http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2008/05/mccains-...
Just wait until the dems have a nominee and then we shall see how well the old man holds up when he has to actually run against someone instead of sitting back as you say. I don't think he has the intelligence to hold his own against either dem candidate.

I don't care about what their spiritual advisors may or may not have done; what do you not get about they lied? And do you think I care whether you consider my reasons valid or not, I do not even know you. All I know is what I here from the democrat candidates and I can see why McCain's not concerned.

[Purl]

Lisa wrote:

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The time when the question was whether or not to attack Iraq in the first place. Please do not condemn the man because he did not abandon the troops by voting to support them once they were there. Goodness sake.

Oh how cute your response is.

[BlueLamp]

Lisa wrote:

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There is already a law prohibiting a citizen born out of the USA to be president, but since it was a navy base an exception is made. Maybe I will write my congressman, nah, I am not scared of McCain. We can win this election anyway.

The republicans can win the election in a failing economy with a man who claims the economy is 'not his strong suit'? Are you serious?

[BlueLamp]

Lisa wrote:

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There is already a law prohibiting a citizen born out of the USA to be president, but since it was a navy base an exception is made. Maybe I will write my congressman, nah, I am not scared of McCain. We can win this election anyway.

Geez, sorry. I read your post too fast. I see now, you're anti-mccain. Sorry.

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Lisa wrote:

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The time when the question was whether or not to attack Iraq in the first place. Please do not condemn the man because he did not abandon the troops by voting to support them once they were there. Goodness sake.

How about the money that was used to send more troops in?

[TypicalWhitePers on]

Lisa wrote:

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Would you say you are typical for a McCain supporter? I hope not. I have nothing againest his person only his politics. But people like you are down right scary. Try to be more American and allow us all an opinion without hate.

Its against NOT againest.
If you want to belittle others on their grammer you best be on top of your game, but I guess your not that bright. See Below:
BUNNIE wrote:
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It's "BUNNIE", but you're not bright enough to copy correctly. Hate to tell you I have beautiful teeth, long straight, shiny hair and no guns. I leave the gun stuff to my man who'se in law enforcement.

Lisa wrote:

<quoted text>Whose does not require an apostrophe but I guess you are not bright enough to know that.

[BUNNIE]

BlueLamp wrote:

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Geez, sorry. I read your post too fast. I see now, you're anti-mccain. Sorry.

She's antiAmerican if she's supporting obama.

[Stuipd Citizens]

MCCAIN HATES MLK HOLIDAY:
On 40th year anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. It's a day when many of us will celebrate his legacy, the values he espoused, and his vision for a better America....[The media will likely focus a great deal on politicians who give speeches where they try to align themselves with his legacy.
McCain will brought his "Service to America" tour to Memphis in April, but many people don't know the service he touts includes voting against the federal holiday honoring Dr. King. In August 1983 he fought the holiday, voting to block a piece of bipartisan legislation honoring him that was supported by even conservative Republicans--including Dick Cheney--and signed into law by President Reagan.

McCain went on to resist recognizing a King holiday in his home state of Arizona. When Arizona's state legislature failed to pass a bill recognizing a holiday honoring Dr. King, the governor at the time, Bruce Babbit, created the holiday by executive order. Babbit's successor, Gov. Evan Mecham rescinded the order as his first act in office, doing away with the holiday. John McCain's response? He defended the governor, not Dr. King.(After undoing the holiday, the same governor went on to publicly support referring to Black people as "pickaninnies")...
In 1990, seven years after his initial vote, McCain went along with establishing a King holiday. On the campaign trail in 2000, facing questions about his history on this issue, McCain declared he had "evolved."

Looking at the rest of McCain's public record, even recently, it's hard to see much evidence of an "evolution". In fact, McCain has consistently opposed a civil rights agenda:
• He voted an amazing FOUR times against the Civil Rights Act of 1990--a bill designed to make it easier for employees to prove job discrimination and imposing harsher penalties on bosses who discriminated.
• In 2004 he opposed affirmative action in college admissions--a key component of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that is among King's key legislative victories.
• He has voted at least 8 times against raising the minimum wage.
• And as recently as last month, he argued against federal intervention to help Americans, disproportionately Black Americans, who have faced foreclosure during the housing crisis.
For more info on McCain's record, read this factsheet:
http://colorofchange.org/mccain_facts

[TypicalWhitePers on]

Lisa wrote:

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Why then did Hillary vote for the war when Obama did not?

Obama COULDN'T vote for the war he WASN'T a senator at the time !!!!!!!!!!

Oh Brother !! Do you even know anything about the man you support ?

[Stuipd Citizens]

Meet President McNasty
John McCain's depressing tour of places where he used to be young has also reminded America of his high-school nickname, "McNasty." Even before he was a brain-damaged old psychopath, McCain was a mean, angry creep. Let's remember all the times Walnuts went nuts in public, so we can prepare for the inevitable campaign-trail explosion that will end his campaign to be America's Oldest President.
McCain "often insults people and flies off the handle," the New York Times reported.
The Arizona Republic was writing about his "volcanic temper" the last time he ran for president, in 1896 1999.
His former colleague in the Senate, Republican Bob Smith, says McCain is a nutter: "I have witnessed incidents where he has used profanity at colleagues and exploded at colleagues ... He would disagree about something and then explode. It was incidents of irrational behavior. We've all had incidents where we have gotten angry, but I've never seen anyone act like that."
Former Congressman John LeBoutillier, another Republican, says this: "I think he is mentally unstable and not fit to be president."
Basically everyone on Capitol Hill has been the victim of McCain's sociopathic tirades, and many have the apology letters from McCain to prove it.
"Nowhere is that sentiment stronger than in the Senate, where McCain has few friends or supporters. In fact, when McCain ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2000, only four Republican senators endorsed him," writes the conservative website NewsMax.
When two Arizona medical doctors met with McCain to discuss a local endangered squirrel, "He slammed his fists on his desk, scattering papers across the room .... He jumped up and down, screaming obscenities at us for at least 10 minutes. He shook his fists as if he was going to slug us."
Says another GOP colleague in the Senate, "I Didn't Want This Guy Anywhere Near A Trigger."
A furious McCain regularly throws F-bombs at his colleagues for no apparent reason.
In 1995, at the Capitol, McCain had a "scuffle" with 92-year-old Republican Senator Strom Thurmond. That's right, McCain tried to beat up the one person who was even older than McCain himself.
"It was election night 1986, and John McCain had just been elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time. Even so, he was not in a good mood. McCain was yelling at the top of his lungs and poking the chest of a young Republican volunteer who had set up a lectern that was too tall for the 5-foot-9 politician to be seen to advantage, according to a witness to the outburst."
"The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine," Republican Senator Thad Cochran said about McCain. "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me

[Mack David]

You see the special interest group supporting Clinton who does not want peace in the world needs to harass Obama.

The problem is the true racist is causing trouble the question is who is smart to figure it out.

[Stuipd Citizens]

America is in Recession: Admit It

85,000 jobs have been lost this year. Owners’ equity in their houses hasn’t been this low since 1945. U.S. Consumer confidence is at its lowest since 2002. Inflation and economic worry is headline news in China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.

President Bush said Friday that “it’s clear our economy has slowed.”

At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC we are “slow.” For two small business owners I know we are tragically in economic failure: but there are no buyers for the businesses.

On Friday, the economists at JPMorgan Chase — who only last week had told clients they thought the economy was still growing — reversed course and said a recession appeared to have started earlier this year.

On January 10, 2008, we wrote in Peace and Freedom and Now Public:“Home sales are in crisis, unemployment benefit applications are at an all time high, and retail sales in December were the worst in 5 years. Recession? The Federal Reserve says no. The Wall Street traders we spoke to said,“Yes. Absolutely.” To say the U.S. is not in a recession is to deny the trouble – the problem – and not face the urgency of our difficult times. The question is not ‘Are we in a recession?’ The question is ‘When will it end?’”

Two months on the President and his White House are a combination of illusive and evasive. Why?

Because just saying “The ‘R’ word” can make things worse. And because we are in an election year. Republicans saying “The ‘R’ word” may cause voters to go the other way.

To me, this is an unforgiveable lack of forthright honesty from the President and his White House. Because I own a family business myself and it is slipping into oblivion.

If you don't believe that a recession is already in progress, come take a walk with me down mainstreet where every shopowner will tell you the same thing: they are hurting.

[Stuipd Citizens]

Warren Buffett declares America in recession
Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, today declared that the United States was in a recession as he withdrew an offer to bail out the increasingly troubled bond insurance industry.

Mr Buffett, the world's third-richest man, said that "from a commonsense standpoint right now we're in recession", despite the fact America had yet to report two consecutive quarterly falls in gross domestic product, the technical definition of a downturn.

He conceded that the economic environment was "nothing like '73 or '74", when the US was in recession and inflation reached 12.1 per cent, but he said that investors should not rule out the possibility of a severe downturn.

Evidence that the recession in residential construction has spread across America's entire building industry emerged today after official numbers showed a sharp slowdown in public and corporate projects.

Construction spending overall in January dropped 1.7 per cent, far worse than Wall Street's expectations of a 0.7 per cent decline. However, for the first time in two years, non-residential and public sector building - which includes new hospitals and office blocks - shrank 1.2 per cent.

The grim construction data suggests that the credit crisis which erupted last summer has hit company spending, spilling over from the financial sector across corporate America as a whole.

Manufacturing data published yesterday also showed another sharp slowdown in February with output at its lowest since April 2003.

Wall Street is expecting another half a percentage point interest rate cut this month, which would see the cost of borrowing fall to 2.5 per cent.

Meanwhile, Mr Buffett also confirmed that a deal to reinsure $800 billion (£403 billion) worth of government-issued bonds, known as municipal bonds, was "not on the table" any longer.

The bonds had been underwritten by MBIA, Ambac and Financial Guaranty Insurance and a deal would have provided a significant boost to the industry. It is feared that insurers will not have sufficient funds to pay billions of dollars worth of claims on toxic investments.

It is understood that Mr Buffett had offered to reinsure the bonds but only at a steep premium which was rejected by the three insurers. However, Mr Buffett had kept his offer on the table until today.

Last week his company, Berkshire Hathaway Investments, revealed an 18 per cent fall in fourth-quarter profit as income from insurance underwriting fell. Full-year profit rose by 20 per cent to $13.21 billion.

Berkshire Hathaway invests in 76 businesses including Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket, of which it owns 2.9 per cent.

[TypicalWhitePers on]

Lisa wrote:

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And finally when will the people who still support Bush get their heads out of their asses and realize this country is in dire need of a decent president, a Democrat who will have the interests of all the citizens at heart?

Only a Demoncrat can make for a decent president ? Wow ! Thats a little bias, no ?

Lisa wrote:

<quoted text>Not a candidate who thinks he knows what is best for us and tries to push his will upon us in the form of lies like GWB.

Lies ? What did GWB lie about ?

[Stuipd Citizens]

McCain:‘A lot of our problems today are psychological (TOLD YA HE"S PSYCHO)

I’m very concerned about it, Neil. And obviously the way it’s been going up is just terrible. But I think psychologically — and a lot of our problems today, as you know, are psychological — the confidence, trust, the uncertainty about our economic future, ability to keep our own home. This might give them a little psychological boost. Let’s have some straight talk, it’s not a huge amount of money.

While he now states that America is in a recession, McCain earlier this year dismissed such concerns as “psychological.”

To find out how little money McCain’s gas tax “holiday” really delivers for average Americans, go to the Wonk Room.

Transcript:

CAVUTO: I think you know, Senator, we’ve been in and out another all time high for oil and gas prices today. Oil hovering around 113, 114 dollars a barrel. Many are sort of jumping on your proposal to nix the federal gas tax — a little north of 18 cents — throughout the summer. Are you afraid though, by the time we get to the summer, we’ll be up that much and more in gas prices?

MCCAIN: I’m very concerned about it, Neil. And obviously the way it’s been going up is just terrible. But I think psychologically — and a lot of our problems today, as you know, are psychological — the confidence, trust, the uncertainty about our economic future, ability to keep our own home. This might give them a little psychological boost.

Let’s have some straight talk, it’s not a huge amount of money. But it might be nice to be able to save a few bucks and maybe buy something else the next time that they have to fill up their gas tank and say,“You know I’m going to be able to afford that little expense now.” A little psychological boost. That’s what I think it would help. But we also, I think, we need to stop competing for a limited supply, as far as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is concerned. Let’s just stop buying that as well. But it might be a nice thing to happen.

There’s nothing wrong with your mortgage payments; it’s all in your mind.”

There’s nothing wrong with the way our government operates; it’s all in your mind.”

There’s nothing wrong with the progress in Iraq; it’s all in your mind.”

“IT’S ALL IN YOUR MIND, DAMMIT! WHY CAN’T YOU FU(KING IDIOTS GET THAT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULLS???”

McCain, Please make sure you give more tax breaks to the Oil Executives, not that they need them,$400,000 million for the sacrifices they make is not enough. We appreciate the 60 cents a day we will receive. Let me caluculate that out by seven days,$4.20 a week, that will cover a gallon of milk.

I know we should be more grateful, and less bitter, about the handouts we receive from the government. We know that all of you, could care less I mean, are looking out for the middle class families.

In fact, they are. It’s psychological to issue widespread subprime and predatory loans, and it’s ignorant to refuse containment of the damaging effects.

The virus from the fallout is spreading, and McCain’s antidote is a water-and-sugar (wealthy tax-cut) syringe

At least this psychological cure won’t affect the bottom line of the oil companies. This guy is either very dumb, winging it, or is getting very bad advice from his handlers. I just cannot let myself believe this frickin nut case has any chance of actually being elected.
McCorpse = death for what is left of this country.

[Stuipd Citizens]

Well since we’re talkin’ all straight and stuff, lets discuss the fact that we’re broke, deeply in debt, and have about zero means of working our way out of this mess without a broader (world) war (the 20th century solution to economic crises and greed).

Republicans: Reality is coming, and it’s coming for you.

One thing I’m realizing about McCain is that he’s just not very bright. I’m not talking George W. Bush obtuse, but still just not a particularly intelligent man. The president of the U.S. should be smarter.

We lost another 80,000 jobs nationwide in March according to the US Department of Labor and the unemployment rate is up to 5.1%. I don’t call that psychological, that is called a Reality Check.

[restingnow]

Obama Nanny State wrote:

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And even the articulate part is coming into question now...a la Sweetiegate. Plus have you ever heard him off teleprompter??? Uhh uh uh you know. No wonder he stopped debating Clinton. I cant wait to hear him get owned by McCain in the debates. I may even tape them to watch over and over again.

"Not now, sweetie" is going to haunt him. I wonder how he and his ministers would like to be called, boy. This country has no need for a racist misogynist president. He's a real hypocrite.

[Stuipd Citizens]

JOHN MCCAIN'S economic instincts may be sound—he is, after all, the only solid free-trader in the race, and a genuine hater of government waste—but on present form he is not turning out to be much of a salesman. In two recent speeches, he has laid out his economic vision. He addressed America's biggest short-term economic problem (the credit crunch) and its most important one—the looming bankruptcy of Social Security (public pensions) and Medicare (public health care for the old). For the former, he proposed a more cautious fix than his Democratic rivals. On the latter, he hinted at fundamental reform. But in neither case has he offered nearly enough detail.

Mr McCain's approach to economics is moralistic. He thinks it wrong for Congress to waste other people's money, and wrong for chief executives to trouser huge pay packets when they mismanage. He has a tendency, though, to focus on the wrongs that are simplest to understand. Mrs Clinton's proposal to spend $1m of taxpayers' cash on a Woodstock museum was indeed egregious, but even scrapping all such pork-barrel projects, as Mr McCain promises, will have only a modest effect on the budget—since “earmarks” total only about $18 billion, 0.5% of the budget.

Mr McCain knows this, and promises some quite drastic changes. He would freeze discretionary spending for a year (exempting only funds for the military and veterans) and conduct a “top to bottom review” of the budget. He would end the “assumption that [government programmes] should go on for ever”. He would give taxpayers the option of switching to a simpler, flatter tax code. He would make private health insurance portable, so workers can keep it when they change jobs. But even so, none of this adds up to the savings he would require.

He is asking voters to trust him. He has been a fiscally conservative senator, so he will be a fiscally conservative president. Never mind that, as a candidate, he offers few examples of programmes he would axe. He says he would lower the corporate tax from 35% to 25% and keep the Bush tax cuts, which he once opposed. He says he can do this while still closing the budget deficit within eight years. But because he has so far been afraid to list the deductions he will axe and the loopholes he will close, his plans amount, at best, to half a fiscal policy, and the easy half at that.

In selling himself as the best man to lead America out of recession, Mr McCain faces two huge challenges. He is less adept than his opponents at oozing empathy. And the recession itself will hobble him, because he is a Republican. Ray Fair, a Yale economist, predicts election results using a measure of inflation and growth in average incomes. If incomes are flat this year (probably an optimistic assumption), his model predicts that Mr McCain will be flattened in November.

[Stuipd Citizens]

McCain says his economic plan is solid, based on extending President Bush’s tax cuts – the tax cuts McCain opposed until he got the nomination. Now all of a sudden he thinks they’re terrific. He thinks federal spending is the problem and pledges to “scrub” every government agency of wasteful spending. Where have we heard that before?

John McCain is also backing off from his promise to balance the budget by the end of his first term. Flip flop – just like with the Bush tax cuts. Now he says it may take two terms. And by then it will be somebody else’s problem.

Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that McCain’s proposed $650 billion in tax cuts per year – mostly for corporations and upper-income families – would either make the federal deficit “explode” or require unprecedented spending cuts equal to one-third of all federal spending on domestic programs.

One expert says the chances of McCain cutting spending by that much are “nonexistent.” In fact, a study of federal spending going back to 1976 shows there’s never been a cut in domestic spending as large as what McCain is proposing.