Obama's staff say they expect a foreign policy boost now that he's called governor Perdue & offered to help him negotiate a settlement with the Russians.

Don't blame the ignorant--we're all racist. Behind the media's glib "politically correct" language is the euphemistic racial doublespeak invented in the South. The media use it, white liberals use it, hispanics use it, Jews use it (remember "macaca"), intellectuals use it. The only one who talked about racism overtly was Bill Clinton, and look how far it got him and his wife-candidate.

But, ironically, all of the same people are even more bigoted against women, which is why Obama won. Even Bill is sexist. His wife's campaign imploded largely because he wouldn't let her run it. But for his name, she wouldn't even have been in the running.

The Democratic party can't win for losing. If the Democrats had stuck with their top white male, John Edwards, look what fun McCain would be having now.

Just a guess

AT THE CONVENTION, RECORD THE HILLARY CLINTON VOTE. Her delegates are there, personal donation funds (not tax-deductible) paid for them to be there, the voters sent them, we (the representative states, and the nation) want their (or rather OUR) votes counted. If that can not be done in the convention hall, then those delegates can charter some buses there in Denver, go to a local auditorium, conduct a roll call state by state, and the votes will be recorded. Oh yes, also please invite the press so they can cover it as well. In that way, we will get the word. Thank you.

It's glaringly obvious that you haven't read the letters. Your Eureka-moment has been preceded by equally dazzlingly original discoveries. No real evidence has been offered to substantiate what is not a "prima facie" case. I hope, for everyone's sake, that jurisprudence rests on less shaky ground.

Why aren't the american people crushing all politicians ...... and throwing all their asses in jail ????

http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/12/news/economy/corporate_taxes/index.htm?cnn=yes

In the primaries, Senators Clinton and Obama had similar vote totals, but different constituencies. To round up, both Senators had about 20,000,000 votes. Assume 5% of Senator Clinton's supporters refuse to accept Senator Obama, either because of substantive differences, or because they feel the nomination was not won fairly (issues of disenfranchisement of Florida nd Michigan, awards of delegates through caucuses) -- that costs 1 million votes.

Then, Senator Obama had the votes of young idealists. At least some have voiced disapproval on his shifts on public financing, FISA, gun control, death penalty, and offshore drilling. If 5% change their minds, that's another 1 million votes lost.

That's all it takes.

nobody mentions the elephant in the room: the reason obama is having such an uphill fight is obvious: race.

Puleeze don't say this is 'playing the race card'==i am not running for anything. i am just observing.

if you think race is not such a big deal in this election, and then you realize that a swing of only 5 or 6 percent--that much down for mcC, and that much up for Obam--would make this a rout, then you are forced into the position of arguing that there are not five or six percent of voters for whom O's race is a problem.

and you know and i know we would feel damned proud if indeed it was ONLY five or six percent of our neighbors who felt this way!

nope, it's the race of the candidate that's holding him down to 'only' beating--rather than pulverizing==mcC in most polls.

i wish i were wrong. you wish i were wrong. but i ain't wrong.

It'll be curtains for McCain.

Back to basics. Why isn't Obama crushing McCain? McCain may not be crunchy enough but, although Barack dresses in a boring style, he might have a secret yearning for crushed velvet and that might be stronger than his urge to pound McCain. I hope this is helpful and opens up new vistas.

1) For 20 years, Obama attended a black racist church whose pastor, subsequent to 9/11, shouted "God damn America!" Given that, it's amazing Obama still has any chance at all of winning! If it had been the other way round---had McCain been attending a white supremacist church in which the pastor had shouted "God damn America!" McCain would have been dead in the water.

Why was it OK for Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell to say essentially the same thing after 9/11? IOKIYAR?

2) Obama is the MOST pro-homosexual, MOST pro-abortion candidate this country has ever seen.

a) the majority of Americans are not anti-abortion.

b) the majority of Americans don't give a damn if a person is gay or not. Though I see you seem to have a problem with the idea.

3) Obama has stated he intends to nationalize/socialize health care. Great idea, given that the government ALWAYS destroys ANYTHING it takes over.

It is well-known that government-run bureaucracies in the field of health care operate at a lower cost then their counterparts in the private sector. A good deal of overhead can be cut out when advertising is not a cost.

I'm curious - do you think that government destroyed "national defense"? Has government "destroyed" research science? Did government "destroy" the Interstate Highway System?

I will say this: when people who think like you do are in fact put in charge of government, they do tend to destroy it. When a person thinks an entire process is intrinsically farcical, it's inevitable that whatever they do will result in a farce.

Like what happens when a horse show lawyer is put in charge of FEMA.

4) Obama had proposed a trillion-and-a-half dollars of new spending even before he'd clinched the Democrat nomination.

The federal debt under Bush increased by far more than a trillion-and-a-half dollars. I believe we've spent about a trillion on the pointless war in Iraq alone.

I'm sorry, but before the GOP took charge of all three branches of government, wingnuts like you could pretend that the GOP was somehow the party of "fiscal responsibility". But the truth is that they have no interest in fiscal responsibility. As Cheney said, "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter." So the GOP simply increases spending while cutting taxes (favoring the wealthy and the corporate interests, mind you).

5) Obama is out of touch with the average American. His own comments and his wife's comments have shown it time and again.

I think you are the one "out of touch with the average American". As for McCain, he's the one with over half a dozen luxury houses to choose among. Is he the one "in touch with the common American"?

The Obamas at least have a middle-class background. But that's not what you care about, is it? Your type loves rich white folks and despises any kind of "uppity" blacks. Right?

6) Obama has been friends with William Ayers and Tony Rezko.

Like anybody has any idea who those people are.

Meanwhile, McCain is not only friends with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, he has resolutely stood by their failed administration and supported the policies that have been wrecking America for the past 7 years.

7) Obama is against the Second Amendment.

I'm fairly sure that you pulled that one straight out of your ass.

8) Obama has made it clear he will appoint social activist, law-making judges to the Supreme and other courts.

McCain will appoint corruption-enabling conservative activist judges in the mold of Scalia, Alito, and Thomas who would complete the erosion of our civil liberties in favor of a surveillance state where the President can spy on anybody he feels like without any judicial supervision or any need for a warrant. Justices that McCain would favor would rewrite American laws to allow torture, indefinite detention, wider Presidential powers (as long as the President was a Republican) and, basically, entrench the anti-democratic forces who have been running things since 2001.

I encourage you to go out and explain just how much McCain is just like President Bush and will protect the country from the nasty socialists who plague your nightmares. The more you talk, the better Obama will look to "the common man".