Yeah, it's about race.

I grew up in NJ town 20 minutes from Times Square. It was absolutely a machine down; had it's very own. And there was lots bad about the machine, but for the residents there was lots good. Of course we were, all 50,000 of us, white. And the machine made it stay that way.

It's a f**cking racist ad.

Steve Bobker

“The Obama Campaign Responds”

Again and again and again. It's sickening.

How about “The Obama campaign Attacks”

The ghost of the kerry campaign rises. Does Obama not actually want to win?

to talk about this putz speaker. He's not a Jew, never will be, except in his own sick mind, and in the literature he hands out. Indeed, he expects all of us real Jews to become dead one, except for a few like probably the Lieberman clan of CT.

Republican VP nominee presumptive Sarah Palin may have many wonderful qualities, but experience in dealing with a diverse population is not likely to among them. She comes from Wasilla, Alaska, a town near Anchorage. According to the 2000 Cenus, Wasilla had 5470 residents of whom exactly 0.6 percent were Afro-American. That’s 3. She may have known them. The town has grown and by the time Ms. Palin left for Juneau (the capital) it had grown to roughly 8500 people. So may there were 5 Afro-Americans by then.

There are, again from Census data, 21,787 Afro-Americans, statewide predominantly in the big cities and on the many US military bases. Alaska, in 2000, had 628,932 residents. Thus the percentage of Afro-American was 3.5%.

It’s unlikely she ran into any Muslims or Jews in Wasilla. Again according to 2000 figures, there were approximately 6000 Jews in the state, virtually all of them in Anchorage and Fairbanks. There were 3100 Muslims, most in Anchorage. There were 3 synagogues (2 in Anchorage) and no mosques, although one has been planned and should be completed by 2009. Can you see her dealing with the Middle East?

Jim Webb. If offered as a command from the future C-in-C he will take it.

Well, we can be sure McKinney won't be good for Israel. Too many Jews there and she and her dad have never bothered to hide their feelings about Jews. I'm particularly fond of the time her dad, explaining one of his daughter's losses, not only mentioned Jews, but spelled it out (J.E.W.S.!!!) for the reporters and others. Just in case they didn't know what he meant when he accused the Jews of all manners of things, but mostly of being the cause (the cause, singular) of her loss. She'd make a damn fine President.

I'm a a Jew, and Joe makes me ashamed . He may certainly be a devout Jew, but so much of what he says and does is opposed to the tenets of Judaism. He makes me sick.

Obama will be a fine or OK president. He may not get done (a la Carter), but fine or OK is fine by me. Look at the others and shudder.

I'm a Jew who is one-quarter Palestinian Jew. I'll very happily vote for Obama, even if I think at best he'll be a so-so President. But so-so is orders of magnitude better than the schmuck who is now President, and orders of magnitude better than Mr. Hot-Temper McSame. Mr. McSame was about as unlucky a Naval pilot as you could imagine back in Vietnam days. He was on Oriskany when the flare storage locker blew up and the fire that resulted killed many of the pilots.He was on the Forrestal when that horrible fire happened, and indeed, barely escaped with his life. Then he was unfortunate enough to be shot down over North Vietnam. His karma wasn't too good.

casey is a bit of a misfit as a PA senator. If he ran against anyone but the wonderful Ricky Santorum, he's not be a Senator. So a nice firm job offer and voila. Nothing wrong there; just plain politics as usual. No problem, no big deal.

A primary is part of the electoral process, no? So you want to exclude me now because you don't like Florida, but you want me to come back later?

The odds are very high I will vote as I suspect a solution will be reached that I, yes, I find acceptable.

As for right now, please crawl back into your hole troll.

And it's not about some group or some people telling me to vote for someone or someone else.

It's very simply about voting. If I can can vote and have a full vote, then don't ask me for money as you do nearly every day, and don't ask me to vote for someone I was denied any part in selecting. I won't give money, and I won't vote for President. I don't care who heads the Democratic ticket; either is miles superior to McCain or for that matter any Republican.

I'm rather disgusted by the calls for allowing me a half vote. The original version of the Constitution did better allowing me a minimum of 3/5 of a vote. Calls for half a vote only show the paucity of American education.

steven@bobker.com