The choice is Obama or McCain. The way our system works is limited to 2 candidates which is really stupid. If Americans were not so lazy and dumb, we'd do something about that giving rise to valid, REAL 3rd, 4th, 5th parties giving us real choices. However, that's for 2012. Right now, it's Obama or McCain. Actually, the only choice is Obama. At least, Senator Obama has not completely insulted our collective intelligence with the outright lies of the McCain/Palin ticket. Here's a few.

1. "We're winning the war. The "surge" has worked."

This is heinous, we were NEVER going to "win" the war with Iraq. It's a Kharma thing. We have to own the fact that we attacked a much smaller country, that had been much disarmed before we went in, killing, maiming, orphaning, making homeless millions of men, women and children that had no ill intent towards us. BTW, the standard McCain uses to claim victory for "the surge" is less violence/attacks by the insurgency which is not the result of "the surge" but rather the peace making skills of the different factions of the Iraqi insurgency. The insurgents have come to an understanding in order to rebuild their country and move on. Now, they just want us to leave their country, haven't we done enough damage already?

2. "McCain was 'tested' in the Cuba missile crisis"

Since he was on an aircraft carrier awaiting orders to attack". Come again? How is that being tested as a leader? I'm sure he was not the only one doing so at the time.

3."The whole 'Joe the plumber' crapola"

This is wrong on so many levels. I saw the video, "Joe" pushed his way forward to ask Obama a question. Obama answered his question calmly showing "Joe" that under his plan, that taxes would be lower, that he would be able to grow his business and when his income would be over $250,000, his tax level would go up 3% ($7,500 on $250,000). Further, I wish that people would realize that taxes are paid on net income by small business, that after all the standard deductions are made, the small business has grossed far more than $250,000 for any particular year. That by paying the additional 3% on taxes will not force companies to forgo growth or creating new jobs. The expenses to do those things are legitimate tax deductions and as such, brings down the net figure. "Joe the Plumber" was not imposed upon by Obama, he was not investigated by Obama's campaign. "Joe" is a fraud and all the grandstanding on his behalf is old already. I have to give the McCain people credit - "Joe" is their most successful ploy to divert attention from the fact that McCain is the lesser of the two choices.

McCain has nothing to offer us but smoke, mirrors and "Joe the Plumber". The economy has all but crashed, Congress had to implement a $700,000,000,000 bail out of Wall Street so that the financial system doesn't tank completely, millions of American families are facing being evicted from their homes as they can't afford to make their mortgage payments, there has been a loss of about 800,000 jobs this year (so much for the tax cuts as proposed by McCain creating jobs or "opportunity"), our education system is so poor that fully 33% of high school graduates are functionally illiterate - how are those young people supposed to compete in the market? What kind of jobs can they do. Seriously? We don't need that many pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers. Plus, the prisons are full, the US has the most people incarcerated in the world. All this and the only thing McCain can offer is a continuance of Bush tax cuts, "the surge is working", I'm a war hero and the most negative presidential campaign in a while. Everything Obama proposes McCain attacks while not offering any alternatives to solve the many problems we have.

It's true that we might deserve better than Barak Obama but he's our only choice given that McCain is a tired old man who's being run roughshod by his "hockey mom" running mate who clearly has her own agenda. McCain should have told the party that Joe Lieberman was his choice for VP, or he should have really "put country first" by getting over his personal dislike of Mitt Romney made him the VP but no, McCain was too cowardly to do so and is stuck with this "Northern Exposure" hockey mom, pentecostal Christian whose pastor laid his hands upon to pray for protection from "witches", whose nasally whine while lying about their policies and assassinating the character of Obama is as pleasant as nails on a chalkboard. By accepting Palin as his running mate spoke volumes. It showed that McCain doesn't have the courage to stand up for his convictions to the religious right faction of his party which is unfortunate as that is not "presidential". The people of the USA need a leader who will have courage in the face of adversity within their party, not the broken down old bitter man that McCain has become after have been thwarted by Karl Rove on behalf of the president McCain came to agree with 90% of the time thereafter. Again, no principal. John McCain needs to see that he was never destined to be the president and start being honest with himself and the people for whom he claims to be fighting.

I've had an odd thought cross my mind a number of times starting maybe a month or two ago and it's that I wonder if McCain or McCain-Palin aren't actually saying all of these nonsensical things about Obama in order to actually boost voter support for him, Obama. Maybe McCain's always been a goof actor like he's been in or during this campaign for the presidency, for I don't know about him except for what I've learned over the past year or so and therefore can't speak from prior knowledge of him. But he still has been causing me to wonder if his team isn't really working to get Obama elected, which of course would be kept secret; knowledge only for the [insiders] to know about.

See the quick and good reference article by Prof. James Petras linked in my following post and in which he strongly enough, while briefly, highlights the extremely corrupt, voir evil, nature of Obama's national policy team of "advisers", i.e., controllers, or directors. They aren't filling an advisory role; they're [directing], and Obama's the front-stage actor.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/29-2#comment-1067620

I don't know that McCain's intending to do as per above, it's just something I've thought or wondered a little about. There are differences that also cause me to think that maybe it's just that McCain's ... quacky. F.e., Obama has promised to never allow Iran to develop or process uranium, and in totally threatening terms, while McCain's said that he'd allow Iran to process uranium as long as it's done in Iran. And McCain, I've read more than once, is actually better, maybe not much better, but at least somewhat better than Obama is in terms of national policy, some national policies anyway. Obama's dead wrong on those and many other things, and I don't believe he'll do anything really good for national policies; while McCain's at least right about Iran's right to process uranium and some other issues. Maybe he, McCain, is just a goofball; or possessed by a very odd demon that likes to "clown around" for the sake of apparences. (?) Obama's a fraud, liar though, and he knows what he's doing; just doesn't tell his supporters the truth. In that respect, I don't know if McCain's a real liar, or just a ... nut.

I'd vote for neither, but Obama's supporters and supportive 'crackpot realist' critics need to wake up to true [reality]! See Prof. Petras' article and that should clarify the 'crackpot' part; as well as much that's very important to [learn] about Obama's "team".

This is why you don't see me wasting time trying to point out all, if any, of McCain's goofball words about Obama. McCain, imo, should be forgotten history by now; although he might actually make a somewhat better president, a [little], than Obama, whose team promises, and based on concrete knowledge of them, extremes that will be 'shock and awe' more than what Bush-Cheney have committed, so far.

People must cease letting themselves be fooled based on apparences. Obama is not about any real change; the most we have of that with him is his skin colour, nothing more! It takes truly [responsible] citizenship to do the readings that are necessary to understand what his team really consists of; and he has already and clearly stated that at least his foreign policy team during the campaign will constitute the or much of the FP team of his presidential administration, if he's elected, which seems to be a certainty.

BEWARE ... of "wolves in sheep's clothing"!

Dafoe
In another article in today's common dreams is one about dumb white males, and lo here they are, talking up the GOP line. What do you expect from a pig but a grunt. There are times when one wants a 40 day election and thinking that any drunk off the street could do better. The saying that graveyards are full of indispensable men and women particularly applies to presdents and candidates more than ever.

"Barack Obama is not qualified to be president of the United States". Yeah. Right. A U.S. Senator and a Professor of Constitutional Law. Pretty lousy resume'.

And to those of you planning on casting your vote for a 3rd party candidate, let me just say this:

I sympathize. I really do. I'd rather have a President Nader or McKinney (or Kucinich) in the White House. But you and I both know it just ain't gonna happen. And if you truly believe that there's no difference between McCain and Obama then you've been asleep these last eight disastrous years. The ONLY hope for a progressive revolution is to (first) elect Obama. Then keep the pressure on him to deliver the goods. A vote for Nader or McKinney won't just be a harmless expression of conscience; it will be a de-facto vote for McCain. Please. Don't do it. Not this year. Too much is at stake.

The Fred Phelps of right-wing PACs, and about as effective.

Deborah Johns has either:

1) seriously lied, or
2) been brain dead for 8 years, or
3) been blindfolded and locked in a closet for 8 years

How could anybody have missed Dubya's wholesale privatizing profit and socializing loss? Not to mention his looting the US Treasury and incomes of the working class?

To wit:

1)Dubya turned a huge surplus into a huge, ever growing deficit.
2)Dubya, Greenspan and the Wall St. pirates created higher inflation than the US has seen in 3o years (at least wages were rising during 1970s inflation) Inflation is the ultimate tax on wage earners.
3)Under Dubya, "A" grade performance by the working class has resulted in lower wages and higher taxes for workers, while corporations that performed at "D or F" grade were given corporate welfare, huge tax breaks and bailouts that resulted in record corporate profits.

Deprogramming is needed for voters of BOTH parties, not just the Republicans. I kow many people who consider themselves "peace activists" yet they vote for pro-war candidates & parties. They vote against their best interests, regardless of which of the two Republicrat parties they choose as their "BRAND".

Read: Matt Gonzalez, "What Do They Have To Do To Lose Your Vote?"
http://www.counterpunch.com/gonzalez10292008.html

If Obama was really a socialist, I might find some degree of common ground in what he represents... but since the only real-world view of "spreading the wealth" that he has demonstrated has been directly to corporations and politicians in need of filling their pork barrels... I can not bring myself to view him in any light that resembles a "socialist".

To me, he is just one more self-serving power-hungry pol who will screw "The People" at the drop of a dime. He is NOT qualified to lead this country. He does not deserve anyone's vote... except those corporatists whom he represents.

Obama... just one more right-wing war-monger who licks the boots of corporate fascists.

Our Country Deserves Better

A PAC formed with the intent of being AGAINST somebody. Interesting. I think that means they don't have ideas themselves, they're bored, and so they are critizing someone else.

Not really very bright, are they?

Must watch videos:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caGjG_9nFwY
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07kO9TtHYzQ&feature=related
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbBq29qGxaA&feature=related

“Johns replied with a story about a hard working, straight-A student and a lazy, irresponsible D student.”
Unfortunately, the lazy, irresponsible D student is he current president. It is the school bully, not the school principal, who will take your homework. While led by disingenuous sociopaths like the directors of this PAC, rank-and-file conservatives suffer from clinical schizophrenia by the terms of which they cannot distinguish themselves from the United States and they project their own behavior upon their perceived enemies.

Par for the course, I guess, for the Republicans. Irate "citizenry" who are really pr puds making money. Why anyone still trusts the Republican Party is a mystery to me. Toss these guys another couple hundred grand and they'd be banging the drum for Nader. In the meantime, the American people buy this manipulated tripe. Sickening.

So let me get this straight ...

Obama isn't really a US citizen, and the Democrats are hiding that fact from the American people.

And the Republicans are too stupid to seize on this obvious disqualification of their opponent.

And that's a reason why anyone should vote Republican ... because stupid leaders is what real Americans like best!?