1. joescmoepolitico | 10.11.08

According to the article at aei.org, “Big-Spending Democrats Squander the Trust of Voters,” “from 2001 through 2007 total government spending increased a whopping 47 percent, from $1.86 to $2.73 trillion.

It didn’t do that all at once, but rather, grew each year an average of 6.2 percent. The worst year during that time period for government growth was 2002, when it increased 7.9 percent.

The best was, perhaps surprisingly, 2007, the last year that was mostly baked by the Republicans. Government spending only advanced 2.8 percent that year. Republicans tried to reform themselves, but did too little too late.

How did the Democrats do? Spending has advanced this year an astronomical 8.3 percent, to $2.96 trillion, exceeding even the worst of the Bush years.

Total spending this year was more than a trillion dollars higher than it was when Bush took office in January 2001, and more than $200 billion of that increase was accomplished in just the last year.”

2. Matt | 10.11.08

Ross Perot is awesome.

3. MCaulfield | 10.11.08

It’s no secret that the media espouses the ideas of socialism. The socialists have invaded America — taking over our public schools, our institutions of higher learning, the state, local and federal governments — and of course, the media. Therefore, it’s only logical that they would offer the King of Socialism, Barack Obama, a sweetheart media deal. He represents the ideals of fellow socialists Nancy Pelosi, Michael Moore, Barbara Streisand, Harry Reid, Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd (the latter three are the real instigators of the subprime scandal). They created the crisis, and now they want to “fix” the crises by selling out the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights and increasing their power through big government, higher taxes, stricter control and forced wealth redistribution. The last person who introduced “change” in such as sweeping fashion was Fidel Castro in the 1960’s. Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.

4. Jake | 10.11.08

Great news for Obama! It is up to the American voters to ensure that this man is elected.

5. W. Buffet | 10.11.08

Money Talks and TV listens. Interesting move.

6. aegis | 10.11.08

“Everything is above board. The campaign is being charged the “lowest unit cost” as mandated by federal law.”

This apparently didn’t stop your rag from using a sensationalist and inaccurate headline though, did it?

7. jake thomas | 10.11.08

When republicans start acting the way they have been acting in just the last two weeks they are getting that sinking feeling.
The rabid rallies where the fury is akin to that of a klan meeting or anti-semitic rally. The cries of socialism or communism or “that arab” sound like frustration. Its the frustration of a party that has had control for the last 8 years and look where we are at. Its a party that worried more about gay marriage and abortion and now find themselves on the short end of the stick when those pesky little peripherals like the economy or the never ending war get in the way.
I got to say seeing a rabid republican foaming at the maw with talk of socialism or cutting off obamas head is comforting. It means the white whale of the mortgage crisis/stock market fibrillations are dragging them down.
And it looks great when republican rallies start to look more like reichstag/skinhead gatherings then people who really want to change america.

This is one exciting election….

obama rules!

8. JD | 10.11.08

Aegis,

I like your name. It’s ironic that it’s the same name as our missile defense technology, that the Clinton Administration sold to the Chinese, and that Sen. Obama has claimed he would reduce funding for.

BTW, the Russians just launched a new strategic missile into the Pacific ocean, as a show of strength. Obama’s rhetoric of eliminating all nuclear weapons, slowing the production of future combat systems, and not “weaponizing space” only show weakness to countries like Russia, N. Korea, Iran, and Syria.

http://www.offeringcommonsense.blogspot.com

9. Amanda | 10.11.08

Please America don;t let this man in the White House. I look at it this way I an but voting for McCain but against Obama. One can only hope that Americans wake up before the election.

10. Snake the jake killer | 10.11.08

Yeah, if you wanna compare apples to apples, why not compare some of Jermiah Wright’s sermons to the reichstag/skinhead gatherings instead?

Or would that be too intellectually honest for you?

Obama rules….and that’s the problem. We need someone to govern, rather than rule…

But lemmings like you never see the forest for the trees until AFTER you’ve jumped off the cliff.

11. James R | 10.11.08

Keep up the lies and distortions, MCaulfiled — it doesn’t seem to be helping your side. You can throw out stigmatic labels and ridiculous comparisons to dictators to scare people, but the facts are out there.

You say Obama’s for “big government”. Care to look at the current administration’s illegal invasions of our private lives? You say he is “selling out the US Constitution”. Are you seriously suggesting Cheney and his cohorts have done anything but? You say “those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it”. Care to update your history book with the last 8 years of incompetence and downslide?

I’m amazed that you think we’ll still have an America left to defend if we keep running it into the ground. I know you’d prefer to ignore that your guys have exploded our debt and destroyed our standing in the world, but that’s the reality. We desperately need a change of pace.

P.S. Please take care to read the article next time: “The campaign is being charged the ‘lowest unit cost’ as mandated by federal law.” Some insider media deal, eh?

12. John | 10.11.08

Amanda- we’re not asleep, and we are voting for Obama.

13. Esther | 10.11.08

lucky for Obama he has the media licking his backside. Is this NETWORK time he’s getting for such a pittance? What a scam. If I were another advertiser paying 10x or 20x or more than that, I’d be screaming!
The media should be ashamed of itself giving Obama break after break, and ignoring all his despicable ties to criminals and hatemongers.

Obama’s friend Bill Ayers belongs in prison! Obama’s friend Tony Rezsko is going to prison! Rev. Wright is pals with white-hater and Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan.

Stock markets across the globe are sinking in fear of an Obama win. And he will only make it worse. America, please wake up! VOTE MCCAIN!

14. Clare | 10.11.08

People like me who have kept sending in those small contributions, just what we can afford at the time, have enabled Mr. Obama to buy this time. I’m glad and I may scrape together some more. I am not wealthy, and Obama/Biden given me hope for real democracy and real representation for real people. Obama may need the time to correct the twisted stories coming from the McCain/Palin campaign. Schmitt, Karl Rove’s former trainee, has continued to practice the politics of division, distrust, and disinformation. We Obama supporters want our candidate to stay calm, truthful, and correct the disinformation. Our candidates have given us even more than we’ve asked for! Bravo, Barak! You go, Joe!

15. aegis | 10.11.08

Actually, before that it was the bag in which Zeus placed his lightning bolts. Also, it is not only the name of a missile defense system, it is actually the name of a FLEET defense system. And finally, the clinton administration didn’t sell the technology to mainland china, but to the democratic “Republic of China”, known in most circles as Taiwan. China’s technology, like so many of its products, is based on a copycat phased array system from Russia called “Sky Watch”, not the US Aegis both lesser systems hope to emulate. But I’m sure none of those facts matter to you, since you’re a foreign policy expert :/ with your talking points to defend.

Don’t worry - three weeks from now and it will all be over, with Obama in the White House and the vapid Palin on a bus back to Wasilla. Sadly, John should have been the candidate in 2000, but it appears the desire of republicans to have candidates as uninformed as they are is a deep seated desire. Instead, they chose Bush as the guy they’d most like to have a drink with, and now they are getting behind a woman who can hardly run a small town and an ex-beauty queen. I don’t know, but I guess I’m old fashioned to want a president who is more studied and experienced than me. Hence, I’ll be voting for “that one” (more studied) and “Joe” (more experienced).

16. Da Truth | 10.11.08

—Are we about to elect our first MEDIA INDUCED PRESIDENT!

The media has favored (fawned over) Obama to an unprecedented level:

-‘Skunk Man’ Jay Leno’s and David ‘Gap toothed’ Letterman’s non-stop jokes about McCain and few if any about Obama!!

-The Saturday Night Live Crap-Crowd & Tina Feign’s non-stop indoctrinations (which poles have shown indoctrinate feeble minds).

-CNN and the rest of the liberal media ‘fawning’ over Obama in such blatant fashion.

-Hollywood entertainment type programs showing their bias for Obama, very blatantly.

ETC., ETC., ETC.

Is the Media Helping Obama to steal an election!!!

17. Smith | 10.11.08

Amanda, You can’t wake up America in your bad dream. America has already woke up and America is voting Obama in 2oo8.
I wonder what has this administration done to you to vote for McCain?

18. Tammy | 10.11.08

Thank god we will have other choices on TV that night. I feel that this country is headed for Marxism.

19. Steve in Austin | 10.11.08

I see people (Republicans?) increasingly confuse Socialism with society. No one calls it socialism when we tax people to build roads. This is part of what living in a society is all about. You may disagree on how much should be spent on roads (for instance) but to call it Socialism is incorrect. Are we still living with the effects of the Red Scare during the Cold War?

20. aegis | 10.11.08

Actually, before that it was the bag in which Zeus placed his lightning bolts. Also, it is not only the name of a missile defense system, it is actually the name of a FLEET defense system. And finally, the Clinton administration didn’t sell the technology to mainland china, but to the democratic “Republic of China”, known in most circles as Taiwan. Without Taiwan and Japan possessing these systems, the ability of the communist navy would be significantly more dangerous.

China’s technology, like so many of its products, is based on a copycat version of the real thing - in this case a phased array system from Russia called “Sky Watch”, not the US Aegis both lesser systems hope to emulate. It is LIKE aegis, in that it is based on similar platforms, and in its own right quite capable but it is NOT AEGIS.

But I’m sure none of those facts matter - they rarely do.

21. Steve in Austin | 10.11.08

Amanda: I was afraid when Bush took office. And when he was re-elected, too. It turned out as badly as I thought it would (personal freedoms, the economy, the war). What is it about Obama, especially at this point in our history, that scares you?

22. Steve in Austin | 10.11.08

JD: Russia is in demographic meltdown (again). The brief rise in oil helped them, but they are in big trouble in just about every other area. Someone needs to plan for all those weapons when Russia goes down for the 2nd time. That should be a key defense goal, lest these weapons end up in places like Afghanistan.

23. FC | 10.11.08

To all the Republicans posting here:

I’m really tired of getting stuck with the government you deserve. This time why don’t you all join Christopher Buckley (yes, son of William F. and a writer for the National Review) and vote for a Democrat this time. We can’t afford 4 more years of the same.

24. Rick | 10.11.08

Another night of more BS spreading by Nobama. Typical racist he is.

25. Cat | 10.11.08

No, the real nightmare would be waking up and finding out President McCain had died and Sarah Palin is sitting in the Oval Office with her husband Todd sitting at his desk right beside her calling all the shots! Now that’s a nightmare!

26. JG | 10.11.08

What we have here is a country that is being taken over by FACISTS NOT SOCIALISTS. (look it up if you still aren’t getting it)
fascism |ˈfa sh ˌizəm| (also Fascism)
noun
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
• (in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice.
The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922–43), and the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach.

Sound familiar. It worked great in Hitler’s Germany. For a while.

Obama seems the least likely to let corporations run rough-shod over our ecenomy, as McCain and his friends have been doing for years.

Please think for yourselves and stop listening to “spinners”. Have the guts to make up your own minds.

27. juan del diablo | 10.11.08

Republicans wake up, if you wanted to stay in office you should have done a better job. The people will have their say on the matter. Stop the fear, stop the hate, and start packing Peace in the middle east.

28. McCain or Bust | 10.11.08

What a great marketer! That’s all Barack Obama is. He is acting like a president so the masses of undecided voters will think that he is presidential. Come on Obama, people are much smarter than that, but you are hoping that they aren’t. You tried to get away with your presidential seal, your naming of your airplane. Wow, talk about being subtle. You are saturating the market with your name and all the hot air that comes with it. Honestly, if you win, I don’t want to be right about you. I don’t want to tell my friends “I told you he wasn’t any good.” I hire people that have more experience than you. Tell Bill Ayers I said hi.

29. LakeParker | 10.11.08

You can say what you want about John McCain - but I know where he comes from and where he is going. Obama… another story. As my father always said, “Show me who your friends are, and I will show you who you are”. America better wake up. America has already given Nancy, Barney and the gang a pass on Fanny and Freddie. Remember this, talk and promises are cheap and easy. “The one” has been sitting back and taking the easy road, talking a billion here, a billion here, knowing Joe Sixpack isn’t keeping up. “If he says it, it is true”. Think again. With the 770 BILLION - he isn’t giving you nothing he promised - no health care, no college for ALL, no tax breaks etc. Think folks, think!

30. JoeyCatsenburger | 10.11.08

Amanda, like you, I am also begging America to vote against McCain. That man can only take our country to the brink of moral bancruptcy. As long as his health is okay, that would be the worst of our worries, imagine how much worse it would be if the Palin team (Sarah and Todd) got to be in charge!

31. KansasGirl | 10.11.08

So Hussein is getting a deal? Kind of like the NYT giving Moveon.org a deal over Petraus? These libs are getting desperate.

32. t.b. | 10.11.08

McCain has more experience and knowledge in one of his little fingers than
Obama will ever have! Obama will tax us all into the Poor House if he were
to be elected. Maybe Obama can get Bill Ayers to help him run our country.
Maybe his Rev. Wright will help guide him as Obama lays out his vast experience to offer change, change…… Hahhhhh Of course his vast leadership in the ACORN group will be a real asset.

33. Evets | 10.11.08

It may must the “lowest unit cost”, but NOT for Prime Time. Their average 30 second spot cost is $149,000, and their lowest is $100,000. That would make a half hour $6,000,000, NOT $963,000.

Blue light special? Hardly. More like the “red light district” 0bama is accustomed to.

I know **** be selected POTUS (more like anointed king), and I can’t wait to hear you libs whining and shedding tears, along with your money and your freedom.

34. Simmy | 10.11.08

Steve… uh, I mean “Evets,” it seems to me that the loss of money & freedom describes the last 8 years during which we’ve seen what the conservatives give us. I guarantee you that 8 years of an Obama presidency will see the erosion of our civil liberties reversed and an improvement on their insane spending that has been the hallmark of the Bush years.

35. Sheryl | 10.11.08

At first, I misinterpreted “The campaign is being charged the “lowest unit cost” as mandated by federal law.” Then when I read some of the comments, it hit me. Another way of saying it is that federal law requires that the campaign be charged the lowest unit cost. Presumably the McCain campaign could get the same deal, so the title of this article seems a little misleading.

36. dale | 10.11.08

I do not confuse Socialism with Society. If Society is dependent upon God, people serve one another and work hard. If Society is dependent upon Government, the focus becomes on self, becoming lazy, and asking ‘what is in it for me Government?’ Which do you depend upon?????

In the Bible, a hungry guy named Jacob foolishly sold his birthright for a bowl of soup. At what price will you sell your soul to big Government?? Ultimately, the cost will be loss of personal freedom (for all not in charge). I prefer freedom!

Yes, Government has grown big under Bush. It grew big under Clinton also. Let’s be ‘fair’. Who do you think Government will grow the quickest under, McCain or Obama? If you ’soak the rich’ there go your jobs. If he does not raise taxes on those who make less than $250k (as in the TV ad) then where is that money coming from? The top 5% of taxpayers in America pay 80% of the taxes already – they supply most of the employment for America. The stock market still dropping. It is scared of what Obama might do (Soaking the rich) and probably won’t settle out until it sees consumer confidence. Wall Street works on speculation! The more people downgrade America as the problem then the more people do not want to invest in it. It is not just the rich that have investment in the Stock market. I see no glamorous government on the earth (except for those that Socialists are in power of).

Why did we have the S&L debacle??? The extreme Socialist forced liberal handouts of homes to people that could not afford the homes caused the most recent debacle, and will affect the future. Carter started it, Clinton enhanced it, and Congress under Bush made it easier than ever to get the loans. I hope that truth is revealed and people quit falling for media con jobs.

Let us not forget Obama. Obama was not only an activist and trainer with Acorn but on their board. Groups like Acorn embezzled and coerced banks into making loans through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, etc to people who could not afford the loans. In other words, people like Obama created the Savings and Loan debacle. (Of course in the name of caring - like most Socialist inroads have been made in America. Yeah, they care about power, control, and money.)

37. Dave | 10.12.08

People like me who have kept sending in those small contributions, just what we can afford at the time, have enabled John to buy this time. I’m glad and I may scrape together some more. I am not wealthy, and McCain given me hope for real democracy and real representation for real people. John may need the time to correct the twisted stories coming from the Obama/Biden campaign. Ayres, Raines, Howard, Johnson and ACORN the Fanny Family trainees has continued to practice the politics of division, distrust, and disinformation. We McCain supporters want our candidate to stay calm, truthful, and correct the disinformation. Our candidates have given us even more than we’ve asked for! Bravo, McCain! You go, John! (Names changed to protect the guilty).

38. Nathe Leo | 10.12.08

Do we want more years of fear, deception, lies etc? Have not had enough with this president, the worst of our history? Please do not be afraid of having an African American president. It will help heal our long history of discrimination and racism. It will elevate us. WE need to learn from South Africa.
Please don’t be afraid

39. Kathy | 10.12.08

Dale–Jacob didn’t sell his birthright. Esau did. Jacob’s the one who gave him the pottage for it, pretty much stealing it from Esau. Neither one of these guys were making very good decisions at this point. Fortunately, they both managed to get their lives and priorities straightened out over the years, and both ended up quite well off. So the Jacob/Esau story really won’t do for illustrating the evils of government, especially as both these men ended up self-governing. As a matter of fact, it’s a great story to illustrating the virtues of wanting to share what you have to bless your brother.

A look at republican and democratic administrations since WWII show that under the democratic administrations there was always more economic growth, and better take home wages to cost of living ratios for the middle and lower classes than in the republican administrations in roughly the same time periods. In other words, regardless of which administrations were taxing at higher rates, the largest segment of the population always fared better under democrats.
Democrats didn’t demand that home loans be made to the unqualified, but, rather, that the same standards be applied to people of all races, ethnicities, and both sexes. The major problems came with making loans to people who self reported income, essentially letting them “self-approve,” or even to people who had had trouble making payments in the past. That was never a part of the law. How do I know? I have family members that helped make these loans and helped cause this problem by seeking out and making loans to people they knew would default, all to make money for themselves. I’m ashamed of them.

40. Ex-Pat in Australia | 10.12.08

For all of those people who denounce ’socialism’ as a wholesale measure… I think you need to get beyond a) your conservative talking points and b) ayn rand. Why the latter you say? It’s quite simple. The danger Rand warns us about socialism is not that it is community minded per se, but rather that we might follow such an ideology rather blindingly. However, the same is true of ‘free-market’ capitalism which Rand hypocritically espouses.

The point is that socialism doesn’t just lead to dogmatic and repressive forms of government intrinsically, after all the same can be said about liberal capitalism. Critical thinking, is critical thinking. To believe that socialism is somehow or more guilty then of a blind irrationality is a notion we must reject.

Thus, there is nothing we should fear about socialism that should cause us to reject it outright. Those who do so misunderstand the notion of what constitutes a ‘democracy’.

41. $15 donation to obama | 10.12.08

the only reason people would vote for mccain are
-you benefited from bush administration
-you are already making more than $250,000/year
-or you are just plain stupid and want to continue living in the past where the whole world is moving forward

soooooo many bright and talented minds wasted because old politics told you that it is not patriotic and the only way to serve your country is to die at war

42. Watching | 10.12.08

This is hilarious. Really it is. i usually just read these things but it is getting so funny to read the desperate throes of the last of the “republic” and maybe then we can have some real “democracy” People want to blame Obama for all the transgressions of anyone he may have talked to. its not his fault if other people make bad decisions. like he said “To try and hold someone responsible for the actions of a person that he had a conversation with 20 years ago is ridiculous”. and it really is, but in order to defeat the beast, u must make him show his face. and this is where we are america. pay attention. the Mccain campaign is a farce. he just happens to be the one that was too stupid to quit while he was ahead. look at rudy and mitt. they got out of the way. fast. mccain wasnt “selected” by the republicans. he was the last man standing. they didnt even vote. …..(lets all pause and think about that for a moment)………

43. littlequeenie | 10.12.08

MCaulfield, I don’t know what you mean by socialism but Obama is nowhere near a socialist. Have you really even looked at his record or are you just spouting talking points you’ve heard from other people? Obama is even more moderate than liberal.

How can you justify blaming Obama, Dodd, Frank et al for this economic crisis when most objective economic experts have admitted it to be the product of way too little regulation and way too much greed? Deregulation was the brain child of Ronald Reagan.

Oh, and tramping on the Constitution? That would be Bush and Cheney’s department. As a former constitutional law professor, Obama will be RESTORING the constitution.

44. edster | 10.12.08

Karl Rove said it best: “We have a can’t win party running a can’t lose candidate, and a can’t lose party running a can’t win candidate”…

Neither Obama nor McCain will really change anything, we will continue down the same “biggger government is better” path we have been on. The only way to truly change America is to change the tax system, it is the cause of our woes.

This should be interesting for the next few weeks!

45. dom | 10.12.08

Half-hour infommercials reek of third-party nowheresville. Perot immediately comes to mind. Where’s his organizaton now? Nowheresville. Do you remember Lyndon Larouche infommercials as well? Larouche who? That’s the point.

Obama’s gotta buy it, with your donations Obama supporters, Palin just has to show up to get it.

46. dom | 10.12.08

Whose Marty? After hit Submit Comments for my comments about Perot and Larouche the page reloaded with Marty in the Name (required) field.

47. Sammy | 10.12.08

you what is funny is the dem’s keep saying this has been the worse 8 years in history.. Bush wasn’t president 8 years ago. Clinton was still president. If the last 8 years have been so bad then it must have started with clinton. He was the one that passed the bill and he was the one telling lenders to give loans to the poor not Bush. Bush just took office when it all started to fall apart and then it crash more or less in the last 2 years when the dem’s were in charge of congress… I was told by someone the reason why rep get all the blame is because the dem’s messed things up when they are in office and when the rep take over it crashes no fault really of the rep but from the bills the dem’s passed years before and it just caught up.You say Mcccain lies and is full of hate what about Obama? He told his people to argue with the rep and get in their faces if they don’t agree to vote for him, whats up with that? sounds like he wants a fight to start. He promised his family and the people in Kenya he would give money to the school there named after him and they say he hasn’t gave a penny. isn’t that a lie to say you will do something and not.He is not that holy man you think he is.

48. Marven | 10.12.08

n the period from high school in Hawaii, to Columbia University and then to the streets of Chicago as a community organizer, Obama is the classic angry young black man, describing his world thusly:

“We were always playing on the white man’s court — by the white man’s rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had the power and you didn’t. The only thing you could choose was withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage.”

Obama once described the white race as “that ghostly figure that haunted black dreams.”

“That hate hadn’t gone away,” he wrote, blaming “white people — some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.”

After graduating from college, Obama eventually went to Chicago to interview for a job as a community organizer. His racial attitudes came into play as he sized up the man who would become his boss.

“There was something about him that made me wary,” Obama wrote. “A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.”

49. Jane | 10.12.08

here is something interesting to read.
Also in his memoir, Obama writes of one of the watershed moments of his racial awareness — time and again in remarkable detail. It is a story about a Life magazine article that influenced him. The report was about a black man who tried to bleach his skin white. When Obama was told no such article could be found in Life, he says “it might have been Ebony.

He is 9 years old, living in Indonesia, where he and his mother moved with her new husband, Lolo Soetoro, a few years earlier. One day while visiting his mother, who was working at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Obama passed time by looking through several issues of Life magazine. He came across an article that he later would describe as feeling like an “ambush attack.”

The article included photos of a black man who had destroyed his skin with powerful chemical lighteners that promised to make him white. Instead, the chemicals had peeled off much of his skin, leaving him sad and scarred, Obama recalled.

“I imagine other black children, then and now, undergoing similar moments of revelation,” Obama wrote of the magazine photos in “Dreams.”

Yet no such photo exists, according to historians at the magazine. No such photos, no such article. When asked about the discrepancy, Obama said in a recent interview, “It might have been an Ebony or it might have been … who knows what it was?” (At the request of the Tribune, archivists at Ebony searched their catalogue of past articles, none of which matched what Obama recalled.)

50. betty | 10.12.08

the only change we will see if Obama is voted in is more spending and spending and illegals walking in from everywhere because of the freedom they will get that we don’t. More money going to Africa to help his family and more tax’s. With all the spending he wants to do 5 billion to the great lakes and so on they will have to raise our tax’s and he will say its for the good of the country. it will be for him.He wants the power you can see it. he doesn’t talk to you he preaches.All these wonderful things he wants to do cost money and wheres that money coming from us.Who will be the ones who will benefit from it it sure won’t be the middle class.

51. Jim Dandy | 10.12.08

It would truly be a terrible moment in our nation’s history if McCain and Palin were to be elected on their platform of hate and lies. There was a time I had some respect for McCain. But he has completely lost my respect. In fact I must have been mistaken all along to think that he had any honor. If he becomes president I will still have no respect for him. But even worse if he becomes president it will show the world that the days of an inspiring America are over. If he becomes president the world will see that America is ruled by hate, fear and bigotry and that every other country had better be afraid because a hate filled, angry old man and his ill-informed religious fundamentalist vp will be in charge and they are erratic and filled with negativity. In fact negativity is their platform.

52. JN | 10.12.08

The only people voting for McCain are:

1. Upper-middle class who benifieted from the Bush economy which only looked fter the rich and wealthy and are making over $250k a year.

2. Greedy bus8inessmen *see #1*

3. Complete embarrassments to these United States called bigots & racists who cant stand the fact that a black man is actually smarter than them and better prepared and capable of running this country.

There is no sound reason to vote against Obama which is why the only reasons you’ve ever heard are completly baseless and moronic.

As for Socialism…it’s better than FASCISM and that’s what we are under right now.

53. Ray | 10.12.08

At the core of every McCain supporter lies a racist!

54. Country First | 10.13.08

@Donation to Obama: Where do you think your job comes from if you make less than $200k/year? Are you telling me that you’d never accept a job paying more than that because it’d make you part of the evil “elite?” Or, better yet, once we’ve given the wealth of this country the squeeze so far they can’t make the expected payments for Obama’s plans, what’s going to happen to your middle class tax cut that Obama’s promising? Either it’s not going to happen or you’re not going to get your awful government bureaucrat-run health care plan.

55. Daniel | 10.13.08

McCaulfield:

If you really think that the “socialists” have taken over perhaps you could explain the 6 yrs (strongest executive ever, rep senate and house) why all the “abominations” you espouse were not dealt with. Each time a Democrat or Independent dare say anything other than the Bush policies they were immediately marginalized as un-American.
So the Administration and the Senate and Congress had carte blanche to make any changes they wanted. It was not until 2006 that the democrats obtained a very small majority in the House and Senate. So, if you are for social responsibility without exception then I think that you should review the decisions made or not made from 2001-2006. Secondly, please compare how, say a true socialist country compares to the US up until recently. I say recently because Bush has Nationalized banks on his own, using his own advisors and appointees. Please respond, what major industries are nationalized??? Even right-wing countries have public schools. Are our water and electricity and telecommunications Nationalized? Do you know what a socialist country is? Or are you just an uniformed recording machine that will say anything to strike fear into people using lies. SO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS I AM WAITING: what industries are nationalized in the US?

56. D.buis | 10.13.08

Lets assume that the laws passed by Carter and further by Clinton (this was a republican house/senate bill strongly voted yes on party lines ie the dems were against it, Clinton signed it instead of Vetoing).

Then all the foreclosures and bankruptcy claims and bad mortgages would be….. minorities, especially blacks. But being white, and knowing a lot of people in the Real Estate business……I hate to say it, but they are in the toilet.

57. Steve | 10.13.08

MCaulfield, I’ve got news for you. Its not 1955 anymore, the communists lost. And that sweetheart of a deal was mandated by none other than McCain himself. McCain Feingold campaign finance reform requires that networks give the candidates spots at these lowest prices.

58. AL | 10.13.08

Hey. Leave lemmings out of this

59. Mattn | 10.13.08

A large portion of the “Middle Class” are just “greedy businessmen” who employee equally greedy employees. Now my question for you is this: The last time you looked for a job, did you look for the ones paying $10 to $15 an hour? Or did you automatically go to the ones paying $5 or $6 because you were trying to make sure that your employer wasn’t in the “Middle Class”? Also, have you ever eaten at McDonald’s or just about any other food chain? Because guess what, the owners of those places were once “Middle Class” as well… We should be supporting the middle class whether you are fortunate enough to be one or not, because they are the ones who are going to get that next great idea off the ground that you might just buy one day. (By the way, I’m one of those greedy employees making $15 or so dollars an hour)

60. angela | 10.14.08

“Sarah Palin will probably still beat his ratings when she appears on Saturday Night Live in two weeks”

Considering as of late, the only reason why so many people are giving SNL it’s ratings as of late is to watch Tina Fey make fun of Sarah Palin. I hope people who support McCain (and his supporters) don’t actually takes this is as a ‘positive’ thing. Than again…some people still believe he was putting his “country first” when he suspended his campaign canceling Letterman to…go to Katie Couric.

61. helloman | 10.26.08

maybe socialism is the answer….at last

1. McCain to do Letterman - no this time it’s for real | csmonitor.com | 10.13.08

2. Obama’s online gaming ads raise eyebrows | csmonitor.com | 10.14.08