In these dangerous times we need a proven leader in the White House. The economy is shaky and our enemies in the world still long for our destruction. Yet the war in Iraq is going well, we are winning. The economy has not collapsed, but there are some rough days ahead. Things could be much worse than they are today. This is not the time to punish an unpopular party. As the PUMA’s keep saying “Country before Party”.
The candidate with a record of reaching across the aisle to work with the other party is not Barack Obama. That man is John McCain. In the same spirit, as Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin also has a record of working with both parties in order to get things done. Joe Biden has no such record.
Barack Obama is a one term senator with no executive experience. What has he led, other than his campaign and the flock of Sheeples blindly following him? How is the party that set about destroying President Bush from the moment he took office going to be bipartisan? They’re idea of unity is complete power, sticking their collective thumb in the eye of at least half the country that disagrees with them.
How do we know Barack Obama will be a good leader? What do we know about Barack Obama? If you read the blogs you know more than most Americans, because the media isn’t talking about Obama’s past. Why?
McCain’s friends frequently appear at his rallies. I’m not talking about politicians, but real honest to goodness friends. We know who John McCain’s friends are because they’re out there talking about him. We know who Sarah Palin’s friends are because the media sent hordes of reporters to Alaska to interview them, trying to find anything to use against the Governor.
Who are Barack Obama’s friends? The only friends I’ve heard about are ones he’s had to denounce. Those friends can’t show up at rallies or do interviews to attest to the judgment and character of the man. Depsite fellow politicians, do you recall one true friend of Barack Obama’s that has come out to talk about what a great guy he is?
There’s too much at stake today to vote for an unknown, untested man to lead our nation. There are many theories out there, circumstantial cases made against Barack Obama and his true intentions for our country. Why do some of us believe it’s possible Obama is a stealth, far-left, radical socialist candidate? Because he hasn’t been able to refute the charge.
We haven’t heard from Obama’s close friends from his past. We haven’t seen Barack Obama’s college and law school records. Ever day it seems a new video from Obama’s past is released where he has shown his true intentions. From bankrupting the coal industry, to spreading the wealth and lamenting on the flaws of the US Constitution.
I teach my children to beware of strangers. I tell them that most strangers probably aren’t bad people, but if we don’t know who they are we have no way to know whether they are dangerous or safe. Would you leave your child in the care of a complete stranger, even if that person appears to be friendly and utters all the right words?
John McCain is a man we know. He’s a man who fought and nearly died for his country. He didn’t give up. He is a man I would trust with my children. He is a man I trust with my country. He is the man I will vote for tomorrow.
HERE is the problem… McCain is likely going to die in office and THIS stranger would be President of the USA- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDJXmTEqc3Q
Hard to believe you people think this is a good idea!
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Joe,
I’m wondering, are you a physician, because even physicians can’t predict when someone is going to die.
Melanoma is not like other forms fo cancer, unless it is found deep in the skin at time of discovery. Do you know anything about such matters? I doubt it, given you make these statements.
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Joe, why would you say he will likely die in office? Reagan didn’t! Bush Sr didn’t! McCain has GOOD genes! Look at his very lively and very sharp-minded mother who gets around better than me (52) at the ripe young age of 96! His family genes indicate long, strong, mentally sharp life!
Suck on those sour grapes!
Good article Lonely Conservative! I am 150% with you!
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I wouldn’t want to risk it… it’s too important. McCain is the one who chose his running mate… shows very poor judgement.
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Joe said……………..”Hard to believe you people think this is a good idea”
You people meaning what Joe? Those of us who think socialism is a failed system? Those of us who believe a person should earn their own living? Those of us who believe the government is supposed to be “by the people, for the people” as opposed to the people existing to serve the government?
Tell us Joe. Why is it that so many seem to believe that “uncle Sugar” is supposed to solve all our problems? What supporting ones self? What lack of character leads one to believe government is the answer?
Where is your base which you draw “good” judgment from Joe?
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Gary, Joe believes Marx was a benevolent philosopher.
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LC, It would seem that Joe and his ilk are destined to try and repeat history. What an outrageous shame.
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
Benito Mussolini
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There’s too many unanswered questions about Obama and his associations.Character matters in a presidential candidate.He also has a thin resume of accomplishment to base a evaluation on.
I’m from deep blue Illinois and he is not popular in my neighborhood because he did nothing in the state senate.He is a good talker though !
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Paul, what did he and his cronies do to improve anything in Chicago? From what I’ve heard the answer is nothing.
Gary, have you noticed Obama talks about improving math and science but never mentions history? I agree that math and science are important, but Obama benefits from a good portion of the electorate being totally ignorant on American and world history. Today children learn about McCarthyism, but they don’t learn about the milions of human beings slaughtered by communist and socialist regimes.
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LC, of course history has to be minimized, for if history were taught unabridged, our youth would begin to see that we are a Christian nation, our constitution and laws based on the Ten Commandments and biblical precepts. We are a constitutional republic, ((1): a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law) Sadly, this is no longer taught, and is quickly becoming a group of citizens responsible to the government.
BO wants to further our decline, and many seem to fall for his particular brand of charismatic obfuscation.
As to improving math and science, that is not within his power elected or not. Math and science are just gorilla dust to draw ones attention from the fact that the man is a socialist.
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And has anyone noticed that liberals have been in charge of our education systems for decades, yet rail on and on about our failed education system? Doesn’t anyone see that? Same thing with cities – liberals control them and scream when factories close and crime is out of control. Americans need to start educating themselves, hopefully it’s not too late.
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I live in suburbia near Chicago but when one looks into his legislative record a gasp would be appropriate ! Many people are voting for a legislator who did noting for the state and is a no name U S senator !
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Paul, have you seen this:
http://www.notanotherconspiracy.com/2008/10/demoralizationdestabilizationcrisisnorm.html
Bezmenov (ex KGB agent) warns that you can give people all the facts and they will simply ignore them. The interview was done in the 80′s but it is so relevant today.
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Sadly, I know NOTHING about McCain v.2.0 He reinvented himself and is no longer what I thought he was for decades. Thus, he is a total stranger now. What happened to the maverick, who, in the face of being called RINO and asked to leave the party, showed backbone when opposing Bush and the Republican party strongly to vote against BOTH of Bush’s tax revisions (2001 and 2003.) He cited credible reasons for his opposition (only one of 2 Republicans to vote NO) which have mysteriously disappeared from his “convictions.” He was STRONGLY opposed to ANWAR drilling, and, again, showed maverick-ism in that regard, but he has…. “changed” his beliefs. On and on the list goes.
The “maverick” John McCain is dead. The man on stage and on the podium is not the John McCain many of us had come to respect and expect “straight talk” at all times from. This new version, this new reincarnation of John McCain, is a complete stranger to most of us. That is one of the main reasons he will lose big tomorrow. We actually know more about Obama in the 2 years he has emerged on the national scene than we know from THIS John McCain.
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Gary, you might want to read McCain’s comments from 2001 and 2003, the reasons why he so vehemently opposed Bush’s tax cuts. He actually considered them redistribution of wealth in the wrong direction, felt that the upper income earners were doing well enough already, did not need a tax cut AT ALL, and that THEIR tax cut came at the EXPENSE of the middle class and the poor. Why do you support the guy who made such “socialistic” remarks?
BTW, when Republicans decided to simultaneously remove most of the “Earned Income Tax Credit” from the working poor while giving the lionshare of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts to the upper income earners, they practiced wealth redistribution, but they also lost a lot of electoral support from those hard working folks who could not understand why the GOP would be content to pull the rug out from under them, effectively raising THEIR taxes to lower them on others. Payback is bear, though.
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George, watch this:
http://www.conservativeedge.com/Barak-Obama-lies-as-easily-as-you-and-I-breathe-wa
Then watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI
Do you believe John McCain is leading people to believe they no longer will need to pay for gas or their mortgage?
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crickets
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Lemming
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MCCAIN 08!!!
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“Barack Obama is a one term senator with no executive experience. What has he led, other than his campaign and the flock of Sheeples blindly following him?”
Yeah, other then an organization with a 700 million dollar budget and that employs more people than the government of alaska. Let’s dismiss the biggest examples of either candidate’s executive experience and pretend Obama hasn’t outmanaged, outworked, and outmanuevered McCain through the entire process.
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Also, anyone in this topic that calls Obama a stranger but hasn’t even lifted a finger to read his autobiography is a complete hypocrite.
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Posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 pm
# Joe Said,
crickets
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
# Lonely Conservative Said,
Lemming
Hmm, no rebuttal of the points I made, which, after all, are not in any way calling the two of you any names but is a serious attempt at showing you WHY McCain is about to lose the presidential election (well, amongst other things.) Is there anything you can say to counter my contention that McCain is no longer the maverick he once was, has changed virtually ALL of his previously held “convictions,” and is therefore exactly the “complete stranger” to most of us that is described as unelectable in this thread? And, why can’t anyone answer my point about wealth redistribution that McCain correctly identified as such in 2001 and 2003 when the EITC was basically defunded while tax breaks towards the other end of the spectrum were fully funded? Do you not understand that that type of shifting of resources away from the working poor comes with electoral consequences via exactly those people who feel that their taxes were increased unfairly by the Bush administration?
Now, if one of you will answer the POINTS made credibly instead of engaging in name calling, I promise I won’t use terms like ditto-head on ya, either.
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So the known leader is Obama and the complete stranger is McCain, considering John ver.2008 is nothing like John ver.2000. Interesting take. (that was all sarcasm, in case you couldn’t figure it out). Good luck in 2012.
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Adam, no. McCain v. 2.0 is a complete stranger, and Obama isn’t all that well “opened up,” either. But what I know is that McCain is not sincere, has no core convictions (look at the 2000 up to 2004 McCain and his radical conversion to today’s McCain for proof,) basically just goes where the wind and the media attention takes him. The verdict on that is still out on Obama. Does he have core convictions, or will he, like Clinton, adapt and bend them to “please”? We shall see.
Either way, all of that makes the headline of this thread false: “A known leader vs. A complete stranger”? What the heck? It should be “Two complete strangers.”
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George, you have made the assumption that I support McCain, you have assumed wrongly. If you will read post#10 you should be able to deduce I support the constitution, the very document that was brought about to protect the people from governmental control. The very document that has been taking a thrashing from the left and the right as it suits them to further their own agenda.
As unfortunate as it may be, our constitution, our second line of defense against a totalitarian government is being interpreted by overly educated fools wishing to bend the document to their will. As a simple example define “shall not be infringed”, or better yet define unalienable rights as in ( that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights).
I don’t believe either candidate, or party has the best interest of “We the people” in their hearts.
I don’t know who you support, nor do I care. Suffice it to say, opinions are like ——– everybody has one.
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Since I just watched Senator McCain’s concession speech a minute ago (one of the finest speeches I’ve ever heard from an American politician and one that increased even further the deep respect I have for this noble-hearted, courageous and inspiring man — unfortunately. McCain’s message of unity won’t be understood by some at this site) so I don’t feel any more reason to exchange insults. But here are some answers for Lonely Conservative, and her team:
Regarding the President Elect’s education, this information is from a Wall Street Journal article, hardly a secret: Obama’s grades seem to have been poor, or just passing, after he transferred from Occidental College to Columbia. He acknowledges this in his memoir so it’s hardly a secret. Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983 with a degree in political science, specializing in international relations. His GPA must have been about 3.3 to allow him to enter Harvard Law.
Here he got over his teenage lethargy and hit his stride. graduating magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (the second highest honor available) in 1991. He also was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, which is a very prestigious honor, out of reach for anyone with less than superb grades, abilities and skills.
Lonely was concerned about Obama’s friends, though she can’t name any friends of Senator McCain’s. I’m sure McCain has many friends. He deserves them. Obama has many personal non-celebrity friends from college, church, and the neighborhood. Friends are not just for dragging into the spotlight, though, so Obama doesn’t list them. But they include Scott Turow, George Clooney, Rob Reiner, Ariana Huffington, Michael Eric Dyson; Manning Marable; Cornel West; Barbara Weinstein, Laurence Tribe, Michael Ratner; Danny Glover, Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon, Spike Lee, Bruce Springsteen; Ted Kennedy, John Conyers, Luis Gutierrez, Barbara Lee, Major Owens, Jan Schakowsky, Colin Powell and of course a good number of publicans and sinners.
Well, I’ve just heard Obama’s acceptance speech, and it impressed me as being as inspiring, optimistic and strong as Senator McCain’s speech. These are two great men, and with that I will close this out as my last contribution to this site. The race is over and now the serious constructive work begins. I wish all of you the best.
GBA!
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