Mister Mustard says:

A breath of fresh air. He’s going to make a great president. And after 8 years of the Chimperor-in-Chief, it will be like being released from a dungeon.

Dc says:

I would like it better if they said “No more religion in Politics ever”.

How is it that most of the Country requires its leader to believe in an imaginary friend that guides their actions. How about we start using that little known resource called Common Sense and Human Dignity? How about we decide that All religion is bad when it deals with multi-cultured societies, and that any religion is available to be practiced as the leader and messiah of that religion commands:
“But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”

Peter iNova says:

At last. A man whose notions avoid the principles expressed in; “My mind is made up; don’t confuse me with the facts.”

But there are a lot of Bush types in the world who will disagree with open-mindedness.

As Obama noted from his constitutional law classes at the U of Chicago, “I found that my students often felt they knew the Constitution without having really read it. They were accustomed to plucking out phrases that they’d heard and using them to bolster their immediate arguments, or ignoring passages that seemed to contradict their views.”

I want this man to uphold and defend the Constitution.

The Man says:

That man could sell…

jbenson2 says:

Comparing his presentation skills using a pre-approved script and teleprompter to his bumbling when talking off the cuff, he comes across as a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde character.

Throw in his growing list of highly questionable character associations and his poor judgment skills and it just gets worse.

The Warden says:

boy, some of you are quite clueless. Obama’s great strength is that he can read a great speech written by others but has no ideas of his own or ones he won’t openly discuss unless passed through Axelrod. Without a script, Obama is clueless as we have seen time and time again when he tries to give off the cuff speeches or at debates. Many of you are confusing the speech writer who is not Obama with the man himself. The Cult of Obama is here and many of you are becoming his minions.

The Warden says:

Julieb,

You are right but in the opposite. McCain can’t give a scripted speech if his life depended it on but when not scripted, he does fine. It’s why he wants open town hall debates with Obama while Obama doesn’t.

Both candidates are horrible.

KwadGuy says:

#8 (John Dvorak) sums it up in two words that will resonate soundly with anyone old enough to understand: “Adlai Stevenson”. Obama, in terms of his appeal and in terms of how the public is reflecting their hopes, wishes and desires off him, is the second coming of Stevenson. And we all know how that turned out.

jbenson2 says:

#12 But McCain is not trying to control behavior with the tax code.

The great unreported truth of tax revenues under the Bush administration is that the rich pay more as a percentage of federal revenues now than they did during the Clinton administration — in part because of the Bush tax cuts.

The big cut in the capital-gains tax rate encouraged more investment and more diversity on the part of major venture capital funds. That allowed more businesses to open, more jobs to be created, and more profit to tax, increasing revenues to the federal government.

Obama, on the other hand, wants to wage war on wealth through the tax code. He would restore the tax rates on those earning more than $250,000 a year to pre-2001 levels, remove the cap on payroll taxes for upper-income earners and push the current 15 percent capital gains tax rate to 28 percent.

Mr. Gawd Almighty says:

#8, JC,

I’m sure that 95% of the readers have no idea of what you meant.

Adlai Stevenson wanted the nomination but didn’t campaign for it. Yet his backroom deals and extremely forceful speech at the 1952 Democratic Convention got him the nomination.

Real Life says:

I own a company. I pay myself $275,000/yr. I employ 12 people. They all make over $100,000/yr.

If my taxes are raised, I will have to increase my salary to keep the same amount coming in. And I’ll have to increase my employees’ salaries to match as well.

Which means I’ll have to lay one guy off.

People don’t seem to understand that high taxes DO NOT result in better economic times. They result in worse economic times.

I could really afford to hire another person if I wasn’t already taxed so much now.

So, go ahead. Raise them taxes. I’ll just send to this board and let him tell you about how high taxes have made his life better.

gregallen says:

>> He’s still a member of the Dempublican party and therefore will continue to bankrupt this country.

When we Dems were in power last, we ran surpluses.

You don’t have to like us but please don’t lie about us.

sir_mel says:

#16- I look forward to driving down the Obama expressway, we need more of those in Chi-town.

Either that or change O’Hare to O’Bama International Airport.

Cursor_ says:

And again he has fallen for the myth that the USA is a CHRISTIAN nation.

It never was, is not now, nor ever will be.

Christ gave two commands to his followers, ONLY TWO. The USA has NEVER followed any of them. Neither has any other nation and 98% of chrisendom.

Two commands. Can’t do it. And yet Christ said that most will have trouble following just those two.

Sad really.

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julieb says:

@ #29

Good point MM.

I think some people feel like they are above the whole thing because there is no perfect candidate to meet their narrow definition. Meanwhile the country is going broke and fighting useless wars. They also tend to be the ones who are clueless on issues.