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Monday, September 22, 2008 07:06 AM

re: Race

You can thank the delegates for choosing a black muslim candidate in a majority white christian country.

To the people who blame the Clintons for racism and for Obama's eventual loss......your the ones who supported an unknown black junior senator with 134 hours of experience, it's your fault for pushing the racism button. If you could have waited until Obama had some actual experience or make him the VP instead, the Democrats would not be losing the easiest election since Nixon resigned.

Monday, September 22, 2008 07:24 AM
Original article: My candidate, myself

The American media's credibility problem

Over half of U.S. voters (51%) think reporters are trying to hurt Sarah Palin with their news coverage, and 24% say those stories make them more likely to vote for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in November.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20080904/pl_rasmussen/palinmedia20080904;_ylt=AjET5dQmIXHrL1jvm0IORFDvj9AF

When the media has such a pro Obama bias in an election such as this, all the facts in the world won't change some people's minds. The media have already proven themselves to be liars, why should the people believe anything else they say???

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 06:44 AM

Since Obama has no record we have to go by his actions when he began his campaign

In the beginning he said he would run a differant kind of campain, less negative.....then he smeared Hillary and Bill as racists.

He was against counting Michigan and Florida delegates when he lost those states to Hillary but then favored counting them when Hillary dropped out of the race.

He said he would bring the troops home almost immediately but when the surge began to work he changed his mind.

He opposed off shore driling until he saw the polls then changed his position.

He said he would raise taxes on the wealthy until the mortgage companies collapsed so in addition to using tax payer money to save a private corporation he now says he won't raise their taxes.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 06:50 AM

taxpayer money for private corporations

Only seven percent (7%) of voters think the federal government should use taxpayer funds to keep a large financial institution solvent. Sixty-five percent (65%) say let the company file for bankruptcy.

These numbers are generally the same across Republicans, Democrats and unaffiliated voters.

While many adults are worried about the potential for a major financial crisis, most are still confident in the U.S. banking system and the safety of their money. Sixty-four percent (64%) of adults say they are confident in the banking system, while 31% say they are not. Those results have varied little from a separate survey conducted in July that found 68% were very confident in the system.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/general_business/just_7_favor_fed_bailout_for_financial_firms

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 06:59 AM

other polls have differant results

John McCain has held onto a five-point lead over Barack Obama in Florida for the second straight week. The latest Fox News/Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds McCain on top 51% to 46%.

The latest Fox News/Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds John McCain holding onto a modest 50% to 46% lead over Barack Obama in Ohio.

A week ago, McCain had a 48% to 45% in the Buckeye State.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 04:14 PM
Original article: Mean girl

dumb boy

WASHINGTON - Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to a financial crisis.

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,'" Barack Obama's running mate recently told the "CBS Evening News."

Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. There also was no television at the time; TV wasn't introduced to the public until a decade later, at the 1939 World's Fair.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_el_pr/biden_mistaken_history;_ylt=ArSS6N5JDNs9BGTMl1eNzH8DW7oF

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 08:54 AM
Original article: The fungible candidate

Biden disagrees with Obama on coal

ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: A conflict over clean coal is brewing on the campaign trail after video surfaced of Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., telling an anti-pollution campaigner in Ohio that he does not support coal plants in America.

The animated, close-talking Biden then put his hands on the woman’s shoulders and launched into a passionate, finger-wagging argument that he and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., do not support clean coal.

“We're not supporting clean coal,” Biden said. “Guess what? China is building two every week, two dirty coal plants. And it's polluting the United States, it's causing people to die.”

No sooner had the video surfaced then Republicans pointed out that Biden’s answer conflicted with Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention last month when he proclaimed his ticket’s support for clean coal development.

“As president,” said Obama, “I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology and find ways to safely harness nuclear power.”

And Biden’s remarks also stood in stark contrast to his own comments this weekend at the United Mine Workers of America annual fish fry in Castlewood, Virginia, when he told the miners that “we have enough coal in the United States of America to meet our needs domestically for the better part of the next 100 to 200 years.”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/biden-says-no-t.html?loc=interstitialskip

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