Gary,

The only one bringing race into this is you. Are you saying it's not ok to question a man's backround and affiliations without people like yo playing the race card? This guy is seeking the highest office oin the free world. Why don't you think he should be vetted? Are you a journalist or a puppet? If McCain kicked off his campaign in David Dukes living room would you be writing about it? You betcha! :o)

The fryunny thing is that you dems actually think that yo will be better off if Obama gets elected. How so? Are you down on your luck thinking thathe will take care of you? Pay all your bill, educate your kids and give you healthcare. How about getting off of your butts and accomplishing something? Don't you think it's funny taht people come from all over the world (including Europe) to work and open business's here. Why? Because it's the greatest, freesest country in the world and they know it. but freedom isn't free. You have to protect it. Why is it that we have so many people who were born here that can't feed and clothe their gfamilies. Of course they can, but not if people like Barack Obama keep telling them that t4ehy can't. That they need him to take care of them. how about personal responsibility? Go for a drive right now in the closest inner city near you. You will find healthy adult males standing on street corners or playing cards in the middle of the day. Sure, this is the main Democtratic constituency. They can pick them up and drive them to vote for a pack of smokes and promise them the world. Yet keep driving. Stop at afew restaurants or construction sites. You will see workers from South Amerian working. Yea, working. The Dems haven't gotten a hold of them yet and told them they can "hang out" all day and have as many kids as they want. We will take care of you. As long as you vote for us.

When does it stop? How much can we take until we are a third world country?

gkrevvv and the rest of you kool aid drinking nut jobs. Where the heck do you get your information? This forum is hysterical if not pathetic. Not only do you reinvent history but you say and believe irrational things. "9/11 happened because Bush didn't follow what Clinton was doing"? Where on earth did you get that from? Clinton decimated the military. Now Barney (There's nothing wrong at Fannie Mae) Frank wants to reduce it 25%. How about the aspirin factory that Clinton bombed or his retreat from Somalia? Or the inefficient (law enforecement) manner in which his adminsistration "investigated" the first WTC bombing? And let's not forget Jamie Gorelicks wall between the CIA and FBI that forbid them from sharing information. Or that Clinton could have captured or killed Bin Laden three times but chose not to. But of course if he did you guys would call that irresponsibly aggressive. Or would you?

The article blames President Bush for Katrina. Not just the federal response but the hurricane itself. And the insurance costs that went with it. Incredible. How about the democratic Mayor and Gov who were so completely incompetent in their response and incompetence in suring up the leveies even though they were given federal money to do so? Compare how Giuliani and Pataki handled 9/11 in NYC.

President Bush inherited "Peace and Prosperity"? The current Irag War (Gulf war ll) is actually a continuation of Gulf War l. For those uniformed who respect facts you might recall that Iraq invaded Kuwait and raped and pillaged it's citizens. We drove them out and back to Irag. A peace treaty was established that stopped us from going all the way to Bagdad at that time. Suddam Hussain agreed to curb his agression, let in weapons inspectors and disarm all WMD. Remember he had gassed and poisoned over 400K of his own citizens (Kurds). In the end he violated 17 UN resolutions by not letting the inspectors move about freely. Constantly fired on US and coalition planes patrolling the airspace around Iraq (as agreed in peace treaty). So please, let's not let the facts get in the way of your revisionism.

And regarding the economy, Clinton presided through the Dot Com bubble (smoke and mirrors) which burst in 2000/2001. Was brought kicking and screaming into budget reform by Newt Gingrich et al (Contract with America). Bush inherited the Dot Com burst and 9/11 right off the bat. After getting his bearings he led us through 6 years of the largest economic growth this country has ever seen. Economies are always cyclical, but the community reivestment act which force baanks to loan money to non credit worthy people at risk of loosing their FDIC charter coupled with incompetence and corruption at fannie mae (all Clinton appointees, see Gorelick) and yes some greed on wall street (they had to push this crap off to someone so they packaged and resold as derivatives.

I am a headhunter in NY. After 9/11 there were no jobs to fill for over a year. Currently, "in the worst econonic crisis since the great depression" I am working on million dollar openings having difficulty finding good people available. There are no gas lines as there were in the Carter adminsistration. And certainly no bread lines.

But there certainly is a whole lot of Kool Aid.

OK Dick,

Give us the left wing revisionist version then.

Trainman,

Yes, it's true thatGorby officially ended the Cold War. And that communism was indeed collapsing. (Another good reason not to implemnt it here). But the fact of then matter is thatReagan forced hios hand not just in their meetings but with the arms race that essentially bankrupted the already weakend country. Just imagine Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton accomplishng this. Gorby would have laughed at them.

And Barack, I'd be surprised if Putin even meets with him.