" Thank you Peggy for inserting the facts into this often fact less debate. "

" You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Their will be only one judge on who's a christian and who's is not a christian and thank God it won't be anyone on this earth doing the judging as we have forgotten what true christian values are. "

" "Id say, if it walks like a Christian, talks like a Christian, and conducts itself like a Christian, it Is a Christian."

Democracts can't be Christians. God is a Republican. "

" I would say, he can't do worse than Bush and Cheney. "

" Obama may not have as much experience as some others, but look at Abe Lincoln- he's considered to be one of the best presidents of all time, and he did not have a lot of experience. I think sometimes having less experience also means less corruption. However, Obama may not have as much political experience, but he does have people experience, and he is committed and dedicated to helping all of the people. You can tell this just by listening to any of his great speeches. When people hear Obama talk, it is very inspiring and makes people want to do good things and be better people. This is who we need for president. McCain is only going to tear people down, as he has many ties still to the Bush Repubs, who are hoping to stay in office. Obama is our only hope for a better United States. "

" Arguing about who has experience is a waste of time.

I know all sorts of people with plenty of experience in their jobs but have a LACK of common sense or good judgment.

The way they've conducted their lives previously, the way they've stuck to their principles, the way they took on previous challenges and the things they say they believe in -- those are the things I look at when I vote or support a person for office.

John McCain's actions since 2000 turned me away from him. After the way Bush's team treated him, for him to turn around and support Bush over 90% of the time, even to the point of bragging about it on live TV - I cannot forgive him for backing down like he did.

Then to watch him in the last two years during his run for office again -- they way he's flip flopped more than any fish I've ever seen go biserk -- the way he's lied several times in the past month about Obama/Biden -- has finally put me over the edge with him as ANY office holder.

Sarah Palin and her problems in Alaska just says it all. The McCain camp hiding her from answering questions by reports (for VOTERS) - is an insult to voters.

No -- our economy's fundamentals are not SOUND Senator McCain and Gov Palin.

Barack Obama is the only person running that seems to 'GET IT' about America and her needs. "

" Obama, the son of two University of Hawaii students, went to Columbia and Harvard Law after attending a private academy that taught the children of the Hawaiian royal family. He made his name in politics as an aggressive Chicago vote hustler in Bill Clinton's first campaign for the presidency and consorted with terrorists and had a racist minister.

Yes, I see how they are similar.

Lincoln was the standard bearer for the movement to preserve the union. Obama is a political "boy band", created solely to look pretty, give fancy speeches, and play off of the guilt of white America.

The only similarity I see was that they both spent time in Illinois. "

" McCain's refusal to debate Obama on Friday is a real outrage. These scheduled debates are not part of the campaign. They are something that is done for the American people, not as a part of the candidates' campaigns. With the current financial crisis, there could be no more important time for this debate to take place. Obama ought to insist that McCain show up for the debate. Then, after the debate, both candidates could suspend their campaigns for a period of time. "

" Got Martial Law?

Coming to a community near us October 1. Makes you wonder if theyre not getting ready to steal another election.

http://tinyurl.com/44pogw "

" Obama refused to debate McCain in "town hall" style meetings. Why is that not an outrage? "

" The difference was that the Obama side didn't like the format. The McCain agreed to drop that demand. It was a compromise, ed. McCain's reasoning that the debate shouldn't go on during a crisis is a little silly. Here's the deal, eddie, neither McCain nor Obama is president. That's Bush's job for several months. McCain is acting like he's president now.

Maybe old John's just confused.

This is not the same situation, eddie. "

" Did you ever think that maybe McCain thinks the current crisis merits the attention of the congress as well? No, probably not, since your candidate only used the Senate to further his political career. "

" Where can I find information about his time spent at Columbia? I do not recall ever reading anything about his time there. Of course, I have only read the Audacity of Hope and neither of the other two. I do not think that he needs a book to notate what he as accomplished while in the Senate. He has rarely been there, and quite frankly, some of his cosponsorships are streching the truth. Some minor research regarding them will reveal the political motivation behind getting his name attached to the bill. "

" Coonbug, who are you trying to fool! You have been deriding republicans since Edgar was in office. If your hero Obama announced his intent to change parties, you would oppose him in a heart beat. "

" Obama can just debate Nader, if McCain chickens out. Let Nader, be McCains second, and let the scheduled debate take place. Lots of time and money, has gone into planning this, and McCain having other priorities than making his case to the American people, why he is a candidate to be president, is par for the course for his campaign. Distraction, misplaced focus, and fake outrage. For a campaign and race not about issues for them, they create a lot of drama and issues, to keep real issues out of their way. If this does not go down in history as the most inefective and misleading campaign in history, I will be completely surprized.

Republican members of congress, said they would not support the bailout, while he was out on the stump, railing against it. Some of them have a shot at getting re elected. He swung the usual on second thought about face, and got out of the way of progress by doing so.

For all the consevative, fans of small government, What is Small or conservative, about 12 trillion nearly in debt?

A new article on the bridge to nowhere, points out the two alaskans, were heads of the committees that drafted the Capitol spending plans. Two such bridges were approved, and both had three to five each, tag on funding measures snuck into the huge bill. One bridge is still in the process, of moving foreward. It is going to reduce the commute, from the Wasilla area, to the big city. "

" Perhaps qualified is moot, and attention span, should be focused on instead.

Seventy two, and figuring out you have ADD, is a lot to hit the same week, as a debate. Hopefully his seing eye aids, can get him a pill, get him from Washington to Mississippi overnight, and reign him in, to state his foreign policy for the American people. He has had a quarter century to work on the pending economic crisis. Now is the time to debate, or get off the pot. "

" Could it be McCain decided doing his job is more important than the election at this moment? It's probably moot anyway as I think the PResident has asked both candidates to come back to Washington to talk. McCain is the person who, if you remember, said he would rather lose the election than change his principled stand on Iraq. And guess what? he was right on all counts. "

" And Godzilla from Wasilla had to cancel her campaign too? Why!


Get this inane comment:


" McCain is the person who, if you remember, said he would rather lose the election than change his principled stand on Iraq. And guess what? he was right on all counts. "

Sorry granny, I ain't buying that one. Considering that McCain has flip flopped on every principled stand he ever had in his quest for the White house, that was a little lame, or possibly naive on your part.

And hey, you never did answer that Zeke question. Why is that? "

" Did anyone else watch old John talking to the autoworkers? I wonder why he didn't tell them his sugar momma drives a Lexus? I actually felt sorry for old John as he was confronted with shouts of Obama! Obama! Obama!, and all he could do was look confused as Cindy led him away by the hand. I'm not sure if it's still on You-Tube or not. But it's worth checking out.

Poor John, things aren't looking too good for him right now. Maybe a nice nap is in order, or say a postponement of the debate so he can allow the dementia meds to start working. "

" It was only a matter of time. The first piece of evidence that Sarah Palin thinks man and dinosaur walked the earth together has finally emerged.

I don't know "valley activist" Philip Munger," but I do know Salon's David Talbot, so I'm inclined to belief at the very least that the reporting is accurate when Talbot quotes Mr. Munger as follows:

Another valley activist, Philip Munger, says that Palin also helped push the evangelical drive to take over the Mat-Su Borough school board. "She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board," said Munger, a music composer and teacher. "I bumped into her once after my band played at a graduation ceremony at the Assembly of God. I said, 'Sarah, how can you believe in creationism -- your father's a science teacher.' And she said, 'We don't have to agree on everything.'

"I pushed her on the earth's creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she'd seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them."

Sometimes you just wish God, assuming He does exist, would come down and say: "You people are crazy. The idea that a nation of humans is considering electing you to high office frightens and insults Me."

So old Godzilla has seen footprints of man and dinosaurs? Absolutely amazing. "

" Dedicated to my dear friend, Martha:

TO BE A REPUBLICAN ... You Need to Believe the Following:


1. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
2. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's Daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.
3. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is Communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.
4. The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.
5. A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multinational drug corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.
6. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches, while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.
7. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.
8. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our longtime allies, then demand their cooperation for money.
9. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy, but providing health care to all Americans is socialism. HMO's and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart.
10. Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.
11. A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense, but a president lying to enlist support for a war 943 times in which thousands die is solid defense policy.
12. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet ...
13. The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's driving record is none of our business.
14. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.
15. Supporting "Executive Privilege" for every Republican ever born, who will be born or who might be born (in perpetuity.)
16. What Bill Clinton did in the 1960's is of vital national interest, but Bush's coke use in the '80's is irrelevant.
17. Support for hunters who shoot their friends and blame them for wearing orange vests similar to those worn by the quail.
FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE REPUBLICAN. :-) "

" I think it's kind of shady for McCain to back out of a debate at a time like this, when we want to hear what the candidates have to say about the economic crisis more than ever. I agree with Obama's statement that "the President should be able to handle more than one thing at a time." Look at all of the problems the President is going to inherit! We need someone who is a really leader and not afraid to talk to the American people. That person is Obama. Like Hillary said, "If you can't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen!" "

" Hey Yeakel, tell me, does McCain still think "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," the way he did a week ago?
That hurricane sure came in handy when the Republicans wanted to avoid having Bush attend their national convention, didn't it? And now the economic crisis comes in handy when McCain is afraid to debate Obama. "

" LOL. Now McCain wants to kill the vice presidential debate as well.
CNN reports that McCain officials are "trying to negotiate with the Obama campaign and the presidential debate commission" to change next Thursday's planned vice presidential debate into a McCain-Obama affair. The VP debate would be postponed to "another date."
Afraid of what would happen once a smart, articulate opponent like Joe Biden got the brainless Mrs. Mooselini in his sights? "

" Quick, pass the trillion-dollar, no-oversight bailout before the market goes any higher! "

" Here are those McCain "principled stands" of yours, Yeakel - just a few dozen of the issues on which McCain has COMPLETELY FLIP-FLOPPED at least once:
* The drilling moratorium.
* A windfall profits tax on oil companies.
* Bush's warrantless-wiretap program.
* "Privatizing" Social Security.
* Abortion rights in cases of rape and incest.
* The estate tax.
* Unlimited detention of terrorist suspects.
* Litmus tests on nominees
* Whether telecoms should explain their role in the administration's warrantless surveillance program.
* Storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
* Moving "towards normalization of relations" with Cuba.
* Whether the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Hamas.
* Whether the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Syria.
* Whether the NRA should have a role in the Republican Party's policy making.
* His own lobbying-reform legislation from 1997.
* His political support from radical televangelists like John Hagee and Rod Parsley.
* The Lieberman/Warner legislation to combat global warming.
* Whether he would pledge not to raise taxes.
* A "rogue state rollback" as a focus of his foreign policy vision.
* Whether he considered joining John Kerry's Democratic ticket in 2004.
* Raising cigarette taxes.
* His economic worldview.
* A long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq.
* Whether Americans are both better or worse off than they were before Bush took office.
* Earmarks for Arizona.
* Whether homeowners facing foreclosure should be helped or permitted to sink.*
* Whether he would balance the federal budget by the end of his first term.
* The use of torture, specifically waterboarding.
* The Law of the Sea convention.
* Whether legal status should be granted to illegal immigrants' kids who graduate from high school.
* His own legislation on immigration policy in general
* Whether grassroots lobbying coalitions should reveal their financial donors.
* Whether the Iraq war will be won easily.
* Whether the U.S. was or was not on the right course during the years of the Iraq occupation.
* The repeal of Roe v. Wade.
* Whether gay marriage should be allowed.
* Whether TV preacher Jerry Falwell was "an agent of intolerance."
* Bush's tax cuts for the rich.
* Whether he ever SAID he opposed those tax cuts.
* A major campaign-finance reform measure that bore his name.
* A holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr.
* Whether presidential candidates should campaign at Bob Jones University.
* Ethanol.
* State promotion of the Confederate flag.
* Whether he would never, ever associate with Henry Kissinger, or name Kissinger the Honorary Co-Chair for his presidential campaign in New York.
* The wisdom of checking your tire pressure.
* The fundamental soundness of the U.S. economy.
* Financial deregulation. "

" AYNIL wrote: We need someone who is a really leader and not afraid to talk to the American people. That person is Obama. Like Hillary said, "If you can't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen!" "

I don't think Hillary originated that statement.
I think the 'real leader' is the one who is trying to do his job. The one who reached across the aisle and said to Obama, let's take care of this crisis first, then go back to campaigning. But, as always happens when dealing with Dims, McCain was rebuffed. But the blind partisans on here will turn this into something it's not (as they already have) and then throw Palin into the mix somehow because beating up on a woman seems to be how they get their kicks. And AYNIL, Washington, DC is "the kitchen." "

" I'm sort of hurt, I keep asking grandma MKY questions and she keeps ignoring me. boo hoo... "

" And how about that apology for besmirching my name, granny! "

" Net comment on Martha's favorite VP (on the outing of a agent and Cheney's involvement), well right after Spiro Agnew anyway.


I do not give a rat's a$$ who you are. Or what the title may be on your door. When you are told that the entirety of the Department of Justice will not support your legal reasoning because it is fatally flawed, and you bull ahead anyway? You are a dangerous egomaniac and you have no business ever again being anywhere near the levers of power.

Amen.... "

" Hey, Yeakel. Here's that brilliant Sarah Palin mind you admire so much hard at work.
----
"The logistics that we are already suggesting here, not having enough troops in the area right now. The... things like the terrain even in Afghanistan and that border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where, you know, we believe that-- Bin Laden is-- is hiding out right now and... and is still such a leader of this terrorist movement. There... there are many more challenges there. So, again, I believe that... a surge in Afghanistan also will lead us to victory there as it has proven to have done in Iraq. And as I say, Katie, that we cannot afford to retreat, to withdraw in Iraq. That's not gonna get us any better off in Afghanistan either. And as our leaders are telling us in our military, we do need to ramp it up in Afghanistan, counting on our friends and allies to assist with us there because these terrorists who hate America, they hate what we stand for with the... the freedoms, the democracy, the... the women's rights, the tolerance, they hate what it is that we represent and our allies, too, and our friends, what they represent. If we were... were to allow a stronghold to be captured by these terrorists then the world is in even greater peril than it is today."
----
Kinda gives you a warm, safe glow all over, doesn't it? "

" to benefit his career or not or w/e Obama is the man we need, not Mr. Excuses McCain who was number one absent voter in the senate "

" " Dedicated to my dear friend,HARRY POTTER and all of his alias
1.) Selma Got Me Born - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to
>>> have you
>>> in 1961 -
>>> Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. (Google
>>> 'Obama
>>> Selma' for his
>>> full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its various
>>> untruths.)
>>>
>>> 2.) Father was a goat herder - NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well
>>> educated
>>> youth,
>>> who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
6.) My Name is African Swahili - NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and
>>> 'Baraka'
>>> (from which
>>> Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also
>>> Arabic and
>>> so is Obama.
>>> Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be
>>> the first
>>> Arab-American President,
>>> not the first black President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50%
>>> Caucasian from
>>> his mother's side
>>> and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side.
>>> While
>>> Barack Hussein
>>> Obama's father was from Kenya, his father's family was mainly
>>> Arabs.
>>> Barack Hussein Obama's
>>> father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father's
>>> birth
>>> certificate even states
>>> he's Arab, not African Negro). From....and for more....go to.....
>>> http://www.arcadeathome.com/newsboy.phtml?BarackHusseinObama-Arab-American,only6
>>> .2525_AfricanI Was Fluent In Indonesian - NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you
>>> could
>>> speak the language.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer
>>> ON
>>> LEAVE.
>>>
>>> 19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior
>>> lecturer ON
>>> LEAVE.
>>>
>>> 20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - NOT EXACTLY, you didn't
>>> write
>>> it, introduce it, change it,
>>> or create it.
>>>
>>> 21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14
>>> days
>>> from
>>> start to finish.
>>>
>>> 22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - NOT EXACTLY, your bill was rejected
>>> by your
>>> own party for its
>>> pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your
>>> Nuclear
>>> donor, Exelon, from which
>>> David Axelrod came.
>>> "

" Kinda gives you a warm, safe glow all over, doesn't it?

Well, actually, yes it does. Do you have a problem with what she said?

Oh, that's right, you'd rather see the Larry interview with Ahmedinejad: *Hey, Acccch'! How's the wife and kids? Naw, you don't say, twenty wives, fifty kids; everything's good then, right? Be right back after this important commercial break.* "

" If McCain is a no show for tomorows debate, the 5 million the folks spent on getting it together, should be billed to his campaign. Any travel, and logistics expenses, for anyone involved, needs to send their bills to the McCain camp as well. Networks, need to bill the campaign, for the scheduled airtime he wastes. The 40 million who tuned in to see what he and palin had to say, eventually need to be compensated for their time being wasted as well. But they can donate my share of it, to sylvan, or some other tutoring children effort.

The Palin debate needs canceled, or people need to be sure not to have supper right before it. Run it at 9pm, or something. A full hour of that kind of carnage, needs to have a disclaimer, scrolling across the screen. A ref may need to stand by, to cut to commercial often, so overabundant braincell loss, doesn't run too long at a time. Kids don't need to see that sort of thing. This campaign could possibly dumb down America in unpresidented fashions.

Why didn't they hire Jessica Simpson, Jessica Rabbit, Britney Spears, and a few other dizzy bodies to be in a class on poltiks with this gall, to effectively prepare her for this.

They put their best on this, and kept her quiet for a month, and this is all they got. This is a special ed tutoring emergency. If this is the top of the ticket in politics in Alaska, the pool of something is pretty thin up there. She got a hundred thousand votes from somewhere. It is the scariest reality show ever produced. If the folks we have in local office, went to Alaska, they would be way above the bar evidently up there.

Perhaps its something to do with the air in the lower 48, being dangerous to air heads, from that close to Russia and Santa, at the same time. One would hope, what we have seen wouldn't be reflective of her campaign for govenor. It might be she has been over coached, and is trying way too hard to stick to the Republican IV. She crammed for the test, sat down to take it and went blank from fact overload. It happens, I suppose. But this is stuff she is running for office to represent America on. It is just a shame, people have to be subjected to what ever is really the cause of this.

This is exactly why this paper needs to focus on informing the people better on local issues. The uninformed mind, is a terrible thing. Perhaps the Regional, can take up the mantle instead. We need to be sure that our citizens are informed, and if they are impressionable, it isn't for a lack of information that they are. We need to take every step, to avoid the Palin effect, in our children, our citizens, and our future. "

" Gringa: You do a great imitation of Larry King....even over the internet! Funny! "

" Some people have become so blind to their own partisanship that they can't even hear any more either. Bunch of misogynist fools or maybe one or two misogynist fools pretending to be a bunch. "

" Gringa I would like to ask if you have any ideas of your own that you would like to talk about?All I have seen so far is everybody else but you actually start a conversation about an issue and then be faced with the consequences of explaining your position.I will say that even if I don't agree with everybody I won't hold it against them for having the courage to be straightforward.I will look forward to your next impromtu intervention;-). "

" Everyone is so worried about the debate because that is Obama's only strong point, talking in front of people.

What is Barack Obama for? His campaign motto is "change." But even a 6-year-old child understands that "change" can be either good or bad. Lacking specifics, the invocation of "change" as policy is completely empty. As we witness Obama's minions mindlessly endorse the meaningless maxim of "change," it only can call to mind the barnyard animals in George Orwell's "Animal Farm" chanting "four legs good, two legs bad!" "

" Good, another book about Obama's qualifications.

Go to www.obamaresearch.com

A comprehensive, factual book about presidential candidate Barack Obama has finally been written. Based on hours of research, listening to dozens of speeches and discussing various topics with dozens of his supporters, this book accounts for all the presidential qualifications of Senator Barack Obama.

Some of the various topics this book discusses are:

* His Detailed Plans of Change
* His Senate Accomplishments
* His Presidential Qualifications
* Important Points He Has Made Without a Teleprompter or Prepared Script

This book includes a title page, a table of contents and a conclusion.

Each book's chapters, however, are BLANK! "

" Martha K. Yeakel wrote on Sep 25, 2008 9:21 PM:

" Some people have become so blind to their own partisanship that they can't even hear any more either. Bunch of misogynist fools or maybe one or two misogynist fools pretending to be a bunch. "

Now that's funny, considering it's from one of the most rabid partisan posters on this site, who suspiciously seems to have information as to who other posters are. Remember her Zeke identify claim incident?

This makes me wonder if Martha really disappears for months a time after throwing one of her whiny hissy fits, the ones where she gets all huffy and says I'm out of here. Perhaps she merely comes up with a new name to air her partisan drivel.


Anyway, thanks for the laugh. "

" In his run for office in 2000, McCain braged at being a kick the tires and light the fires, kind of guy. Check lists are for sissys. Or something along those lines. Its probably good he didn't get to be a commercial airlines pilot. But is politics the best place for those values either. Rush to action, and forget important details, is exactly what GW Bush has done, for his term.

Is a to heck with the rules, kind of guy the best man to decide any government issues. We have councils and boards filled with slightly different versions of this same guy, and they can't do their jobs either. "

" Silence, please help me understand your comment about my posts. In reality, very few ideas in this world are indeed original. Re-presentation and freshening up of old ideas is generally what we all consider great new ideas. The debaters may be new, but the ideas being debated are as old as dirt.

Except for technological advances that aid our discovery of age-old truths, there's really nothing new in this world. It's no surprise that we are impressed, even infatuated at times, with our high tech world, but it's sad that we so seldom recognize that "That's the way it's always been. We just never knew it before now."

How's that for recycled "impromptu"? "

" Did you think Six-College Sarah sounded intelligent in that verbatim quote, Yeakel? If you did, we'll have to work on your verbal comprehension skills, won't we? "

" As I recall, you Republicans were all so eager to get the juicy details of John Edwards' affair from the National Enquirer. Don't you want to hear all about Family-Values Bible-thumpin' Sarah's sexual relationship with her husband's former business partner, Brad Hanson?
According to the Enquirer, the identity of Palin's extramarital lover was confirmed by "no less than three members of the man's family, including one by sworn affidavit."
Inquiring minds want to know, don't they? "

" So we know Six-College Sarah is magically shielded from witchcraft. Good. Too bad she didn't ask for another spell to protect her from extramarital affairs, eh? LOL. "

" Nice spin off of my question.Have you done work for McSame or Fox news:) "

" I think that McCain's whole "suspension" deal was merely a political ploy, to discredit Obama. Originally, Obama called McCain about issuing a joint statement. Instead of working WITH Obama, McCain put out the statement of suspending the presidental debate, campaign, ect. Only after he issued these statements, then McCain called Obama back and agreed to do a joint statement. Well, fortanentely, Obama saw through this political ploy. If Obama had agreed with McCain on suspending the debate, campaign, ect., then it would have made McCain look like the leader, and Obama the follower. However, because Obama is strong in his beliefs, he stuck to his guns and stated he wanted to continue the debate as planned, as we are very close to he election. I, for one, am glad that Obama stood his ground, for this truly shows he is a leader and not a follower, which was what McCain was trying to push him into. "

" Having affairs must be one of those core values deals Martha was yammering about. If so, that says a lot about her core values too. "

" Spin?

OK, Silence, I guess what you call spin would qualify as a direct hit from someone else's perspective.

Perhaps the reason you think I didn't directly address your point is because I honestly couldn't quite figure out what your point was. So, please, exactly what was your point? I couldn't figure out if you were complimenting me or criticizing me. "

" McBush blinked. He has changed his mind yet again (what a shock) and will apparently now work up the courage to debate Obama tonight. So much for his "vow" to stop his campaign until the bailout deal is resolved.
Another flip-flop, another phony excuse. McBush is an erratic, foul-tempered, unprincipled, pandering warmonger. A true Republican. "

" In 1995, after Republicans had taken control of Congress, McCain backed a moratorium on federal regulations of all kinds. He said that regulations were destroying the American family, the American dream and voters want these regulations stopped.
Thats the real McCain, to the extent that one exists. Everything he says now is a pandering, weaseling lie. "

" Clinton was recently asked, about the housing expansion, that led to Fanny and Freddie being more open to lending to the poor. He said it was not intended to open the door, to hobbling people, with debet for things, they could not afford. Intent, and regulation, is usually better represented if it is reflected in the actual bills, not just some sentiment held, and hope is all that is put forth to have it work correctly.

Housing regulation was needed. Business, got loosed to buy the housing debts. Debt investment, is a new commodity, that has been allowed limitless supply. The past several years, walls have been eroded, that kept things in some check. Business sheds assets, to avoid taxes. Business takes on debt, instead and pays interest. The system needs to be re subdivided, and huge companies, need regulated, or broken up, like the Ma bell issue decades ago.

A government that spent 12 trillion more than it brought in, in 7 years, and basicly has nothing to show for it, is as big an issue as business practice is, at this point. Social security could have been saved, with a fraction of this debt. Infrastructure, could have been substancially funded, with a fraction of this. Education, could have been completely funded and enhanced, with a fraction of it. Nothing got done, except the expansion of debt.

This is the equivalent of someone winning the 200 million power ball, and a year later, they end up completely broke. Government needs to be held more accountable. Business needs to be held more accountable, and people need to be only allowed to borrow, what they can reasonably currently afford to repay. The system, has completely broken down, on all levels.

Hopefully this is a wake up call, and government steps up to the challenge, of fixing thier own broken system, and builds the proper balances in business, through regulation and oversight coupled with accountability for all. I am not compellet to believe it will happen, but it is what needs to happen. "

" everybody was worried about the debate because mccain keeps making excuses to pretend he is already the president or something "

" god forbid we have a president who can speak right "

" TQ says: In 1995, after Republicans had taken control of Congress, McCain backed a moratorium on federal regulations of all kinds. He said that regulations were destroying the American family, the American dream and voters want these regulations stopped.

Come on TQ, you really need to quit injecting factual information into this debate. They only thing that does is confuse the Repugs and gets them all worked up and takes them off their RNC/Fox news talking points.

I suspect that's why Palin didn't directly answer any of the questions put to her and had to constantly refer to her talking points reference cards.

It was no surprise that Palin chose the folks at the Fixed news channel to give her only post debate interview. Those folks at Fixed news sure threw her some tough questions, like they always do when they interview a Repuglican. "