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Obama | 8:29 a.m. July 8, 2008
A tall empty suit, ready to redistribute the wealth of those who are working to those who want to live off the backs of others.
He is not a modern day "Robin Hood". Robin Hood took back the taxes that the King/Government had taken from the poor ... which means, when he becomes President/King, then we will need a "Robin Hood".
Everybody hold on for a rough ride, "Jimmy Carter, the sequal" is coming!
Brother Chuck Schroeder | 8:35 a.m. July 8, 2008
After 143 days of work experience, Obamaism believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan. 143 days. I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that. In contrast, John McCain's 26 years in Congress, 22 years of military service including 1,966 days in captivity as a POW in Hanoi now seem more impressive than ever." So there you go, 143 days. So this is the key. All of these so-called flip-flops, all these changes in position, they are due to his inexperience. His inexperience and his incompetence lead him to make goofs, to lie, to flounder around. I think if people see Obamaism as dangerously incompetent and floundering, it might lessen his appeal.

Obamaism is a big joke only folks.
Obama rulers, not leaders? | 8:35 a.m. July 8, 2008
Now, the flip-flop, calling Obama a flip-flopper is not going to be enough to win on. It's just not. It's going to be better over the course of the next weeks and months to proclaim and describe his inexperience and his incompetence and to say that these flip-flops are really just the result of incompetence and inexperience, which are leading him to make goofs, which are leading him to lie, which are leading him to flounder around. All of these flip-flops have got to be referred to as the result of inexperience. He just doesn't know what he's doing. Obama's attitude is the attitude of kings, it is the attitude of rulers, not leaders.
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Obama needs to step down now | 8:39 a.m. July 8, 2008
The thing about Obama that bothers me the most, including his incompetence and inexperience that he has, he's like all liberals, he has a condescending attitude toward the people of the country, people are genuinely stupid and susceptible to a cynical campaign like his, thinks they're going to buy everything he says because he's The Messiah. He uses a variety of strategeries. He tears down the country to justify his change message, and then claims his change message is new, when we know it's nothing but more and bigger government. He brings up race when he thinks it will help him, he denounces the use of race when he thinks it will help him. He talks center, he talks to the right so he can claim multiple positions on certain tough issues, and the purpose of that is to never allow himself to be tied down or pinned down on any one position. That's what you get when you have a fabricated candidate.
Hautletoh | 8:49 a.m. July 8, 2008
Brother Schroeder, you oughtn't keep leftovers in your fridge so long. Issues of health aside, no food will taste good after being wrapped in foil for so long.
Brother Chuck Schroeder | 9:45 a.m. July 8, 2008
Re: Hautletoh

Thank you for your advice, however, the American should not keep leftover's in a Chair in Congress either, meaning liberal's, that are "do nothing's", such as what they were doing for the past 3 years, and, longet to. As for my " leftovers in my refrigerator", that was a on topic figure of speech, both on-topic, not misrepresentative, not offensive, but the truth, and not abusive, as you, "Hautletoh", missed the whole point, only to change the topic from true point's of interest.

CONGRATS Hautletoh, that's what liberal's do best you know?.
Tom Paine | 11:44 a.m. July 8, 2008
4 years of McCain is 4 more years of Bush.
Anonymous | 2:10 p.m. July 8, 2008
First off, Obamaism lost the female vote for what he did to Hillary Clinton

Hillary was a fan of The Alice Paul / Molly Yard movement in the 70's also

Back than they were known as

Main Entry: fem·i·na·zi
Pronunciation: fe-mə-nät-sē
Function: noun
Etymology: blend of feminist and Nazi
Date: 1989
usually disparaging : an extreme or militant feminist

Think about that folks......

It's a landslide for McCain than, women like the older man anyways.
Re: Tom Paine | 2:13 p.m. July 8, 2008
Democrats are going to get at least seven seats in the Senate and maybe 20 to 40 more in the House. How many believe that? Why does anybody believe this? This is a template that's been created because winning is what Democrats do. It's the normal thing. When Democrats win, that's the essence of normalcy. When Republicans win, it's panic city! Something's wrong! But now we're back to normal. "Democrats are going to win everything. Everything is hunky-dory," and nobody's challenging this, even though it's just polling data and even though nobody knows what's going to happen in these elections. The experts think they have an idea because of the polling data and the retirements, where they're coming from, which party has more seats up for reelection, more seats to save and so forth. The idea that the Democrats will just walk away with all this, this year, it's a template. It's become an action line. It's just a matter of time now waiting for it to happen. Frankly, I don't buy it.

Vote for McCain - Tom, you'll be better off.
The GOP better get busy | 5:00 p.m. July 8, 2008
Most Americans do not want a permanent state of decline. Most people want opportunity and growth, not just for themselves, but for their children and their grandchildren. The Republican Party has always stood for that, even when it's been run by the Rockefeller country club blue-bloods. Here's the president up there: "I hope that the Congress will pass the legislation I want to drill way offshore," and so forth. You hope? Get out there and do a speech and lay it on them, and explain who's obstructing the very growth and progress, explain who is obstructing any plan, any action that would significantly increase the supply of oil and thus lower the price of gasoline. Now, this all may sound obvious to you, and if so, I congratulate you. I'm just telling you the Democrat Party ought to be the party on the run. The Republican Party ought to be full of optimism for what tomorrow brings. That's what this country is all about. Tomorrow is a better day than the previous day in this country. If the GOP Had Any Onions, They'd Whip the Democrats on Gas Prices.
Mark B | 9:29 p.m. July 8, 2008
Competence is when your organization, headed by a black guy with a funny name, beats the tar out of eight competitors, one of which is headed by one of the nation's best-known names.

Incompetence is Iraq, Katrina, Abramoff, Gonzales and "Justice" Myers, plus about a thousand other things that the company's new spokesman, McCain, is very quiet about.

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Sen. Barack Obama appears to gather his thoughts before making a call to backers in Charlotte after his plane had mechanical problems. (Jae C. Hong, Associated Press)
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Sen. Barack Obama appears to gather his thoughts before making a call to backers in Charlotte after his plane had mechanical problems.