" It would be an amazing feat if everyone could stick to the true issues at hand, promote their own candidates based on their experience(s), & stopped playing along with the left & right smear machines, seeing who can make the other look worse.

My bet is that alot of folks will end up just passing on voting, or quickly vote uninformed, because they really know nothing about either candidate, because the supporters for each are too worried about bashing the other, instead of truely supporting their own.

The smear machines are running rampid, & it's a damn shame, & each candidate will end up paying the price for it.

Build your own candidate up, instead of tearing the other down! "

" This letter takes the prize for being the stupidest and most poorly written in at least the last month. "

" i don't know whether this letter is humorous, and to chuckle....or to feel embarrassed for the author. "

" Good thoughts, Paula. Don't be distracted by the critisism by those who think they are the elite of society. "

" this letter was almost in the right direction but it just couldn't stay neutral could it lol "

" You and sapient iz rite Paula. Who needs them fancy elitists with there book learnin', all there teeth, and reglar bathin'. Edukashun, smedukashun, I like sumwon who shoots frum the hip like Jack Pierce, John McCain and Sarah Palin. Everbuddy else is just a bunch of New Racists who think all other races is just as good as white peepul. Whut idiuts! "

" "Everbuddy else is just a bunch of New Racists who think all other races is just as good as white peepul. Whut idiuts!"
An excellent summary, Hahvahd. "

" "He didnt serve it, so how do you really expect him to run it?"

He can't do any worse than someone who served in the Texas Air National Guard.

Seems to me Jefferson, Adams, Wilson, Roosevelt and Clinton did pretty good.

By the way, Carter was ACTIVE DUTY (not the reserves like Bush, Bush, Reagan, and Ford.) Does that make him a better leader?

I'm sorry, but waving the flag, chanting USA, and being POW does not make you a great leader. I'd have liked to heard something positive about the issues from one side by now. But as someone said, it's not about the issues for the vast majority of the idiots in America -- it's all about the person.

Britanny Spears for President. "

" The Question wrote on Sep 8, 2008 5:46 PM:
" "Everbuddy else is just a bunch of New Racists who think all other races is just as good as white peepul. Whut idiuts!"
An excellent summary, Hahvahd. "


Translation for non-democrats.....

If you don't vote for Obama, you are a racist and personally responsible for slavery and discrimination. "

" Paula,you might have been called worse by someone bigger, but brighter or better, no way. William Addison fully earned those 3 little letters (PhD) that he so modestly did not include with his name. In some cases, one opinion is better than another; when opinion is backed with reasoning and research it holds more value than when it is expressed with biased ignorance. It seems you have had a little trouble interpreting the content as well as the intent of Dr. Addison's letter. "

" So, in a nutshell, since Mr. Bean has a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, we should also hold everything he says, in the highest regards, & believe everything he says, as well.
LOL! "

" Take away Obama's poise, good looks, charisma, wit and concern for social justice, and what have you got left? Nothing but the penetrating intelligence of a constitutional law professor. "

" It's hard to believe that someone is still supporting the hateful rantings of an angry old racist. "

" Paula: To have a debate, one must first listen to what someone says before they respond. You have not done this, and therefore, are not really contributing anything.

Jack's letter stated this:

1). Obama is black
2). Black leaders in Africa do bad things
3). Since Obama is black, he will do bad things as our leader

Problem is, the only similarity between Obama and African leaders is the color of their skin. They were shaped by two totally difference social experiences. You even note this when you said Obama will not forget what his ancestors went through.

If you think Obama will be a bad leader simply because he is biologically predisposed to be a bad leader, that is in fact racist.

You sort of forgot three-fifths of what Jack's letter was about. You didn't read his letter. You didn't comprehend his letter.

Criticizing Obama because he didn't serve, supposedly didn't wear a flag pin until such said time, because he got his home through proported shadey means, etc., is fine -- that's not racist. Making sweeping, broad statements that all black people are bad leaders because some people who look like them half-way around the world are bad leaders only by merit of the way the look is, well, racist. "

" TQ (BNA): " Take away Obama's poise, good looks, charisma, wit and concern for social justice, and what have you got left?

I would say you have a radical left wing socialist who is going to tax and spend this country in oblivion, greatly expand the size of government, and ruin the best health care system in the world. "

" Expand the government...more than the Patriot Act...not likely. "

" And what could Obama do to Canada's Health Care System "

" Explorer: And why, if Canada's health care system is so good why do so many come across the border to the U.S. to get surgerys. Also most of Canada's high risk pregnancies come to the U.S. for health care. "

" Well expressed, Locke. And this woman won't understand a word you're saying. "

" I'm not a big advocate of nationalized health care, but I have noticed that the Canadian citizens seem to be happy with their system, according to the polls I have read, and the biggest critics seem to the people that obviously have little knowledge of it, like sapient, who seem to be shooting from the hip and can only come up with anecdotal reasons to criticize it.

I would think the Canadians who live with a system would have more credibility than some one like sapient, when it comes to evaluating the pros and cons of the Canadian system. "

" I wonder what Paula thought of Bush's holding the American flag upside down at the Olympics and the picture floating around the Net showing him with his hand on his stomach during the National Anthem? My guess is that like the rest of the Bush apologists around here, she would make excuses for him. "

" even people with a PhD can lack common sense! "

" " Obama didnt even wear the flag pin until someone brought it to his attention."

Oh PUHLEEZE!!! See all the photos of McCain, Rice and several other Republicans that aren't wearing flag pins.....if you dare :)http://sparklepony.blogspot.com/ "