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As Wall Street continued its nosedive, and markets around the world shuddered, John McCain's campaign launched an unrelentingly nasty assault on Barack Obama. Sarah Palin accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists." McCain co-chair Frank Keating smeared him as a drug-using "guy of the street." McCain contemptuously called him "that one." Rally speakers repeatedly referred to him as "Barack Hussein Obama." Rabid crowds responded with cries of "kill him!" and "treason." The party of Lincoln has gone from appealing to "the better angels of our nature" to evoking the darkest demons of our nature. Nevertheless, it was Cindy McCain who accused Obama of having "waged the dirtiest campaign in American history" -- a breathtaking display of projection.

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11:09 PM on 10/12/2008
Read about Obama's plan to help small business here:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/10/obama_proposes_small_business.html

It includes zero capital gains rate for small business, emergency lending to small businesses, a tax credit for small businesses who provide health care to their employees, and other tax breaks.
11:32 PM on 10/12/2008
How is he going to pay for it? Tax the rich? I own a small business, I can borrow money already, and I get a tax break for providing insurance. Capitol gains? Do small businesses have any capitol gains? I don't. Smoke and mirrors.
01:49 AM on 10/13/2008
The truth about the Republican record:
http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo53/blueb10109/fiscalconservative.jpg
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Bitsko
He of the smoldering eyes
11:02 PM on 10/12/2008
Remind me of this post in two years, okay? They said the same thing about Clinton's tax increase, which only gave us more prosperity.
11:14 PM on 10/12/2008
Such as when the tech bubble burst and investers lost millions?
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RumiSouth
Caerbannog!
10:44 PM on 10/12/2008
John Lewis is absolutely right: McCain is taking up the path of George Wallace. We shouldn't shrink back from the comparison because it's absolutely correct. Both of them have sold their souls to advance their careers. And just look at the people shouting for Obama's head at those rallies: they look like they were alive to vote for Wallace when he ran for president.

http://www.osborneink.com
11:01 PM on 10/12/2008
Where is the logic in comparing McCain to Wallace? The comparison by Lewis was made to intentionally imply that McCain/Palin have engaged in race-baiting, whereas you have twisted it to assert that the comparison is valid because "both of them have sold their souls." This is a disingenuous and unintelligent argument, rooted in hate for Republicans and conservatives.

By tying Obama to Ayers is not race-baiting. It is irrelevant, it is a diversion tactic but it is not racism.

Because McCain has racists at his rallies does not make him racist. He is the white guy running against a black guy in a two horse race. Guess which one racists are going to flock to? Unless you presume guilt upon McCain by association then we must also presume guilt upon Obama for his association to Ayers. Granted, they different situations but they both exhibit guilt by association nonetheless.

McCain demonstrated a bold defense of Obama in front of his more ignorant supporters. Could you have seen George Wallace doing that?

Although it would appear McCain is poor choice for president given his poor judgment and rash decision-making, this does not make him a racist. To suggest otherwise is to engage in the corrosion of the democratic process, much of which has been achieved by both candidates already.
10:42 PM on 10/12/2008
Isn't this where the Major McCain figures are right now?
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Sarah Palin - Violation of Alaska Statute for Misuse of Power

John McCain - Ethics Code Violation and support of Financial Criminal

Cindy McCain - She and her father continued business relationship with Keat5ing 11 more years!!!!!

Rick Davis - Fannie-Freddie Scandal - firm receiving check up until last month

What a great combination! No wonder their campaign is so Erratic and unprofessional!
11:19 PM on 10/12/2008
I won't go into Obama's associations you know who his mentors were, Are? Hard to tell, there all under the bus!
11:39 PM on 10/12/2008
Welcome aboard Rick Davis!
10:40 PM on 10/12/2008
Don't get me wrong I'm no big fan of Bush, except for keeping this country safe. But to me There is no possible way Obama can fufill all the promises he has made. This country is broke, in a bi-partisen way. We have to work together and get government off our backs and that aint gonna happen with Obama in office.
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Bitsko
He of the smoldering eyes
11:04 PM on 10/12/2008
Bush did nothing to keep this country "safe." Law enforcement people have done their job. Never extol an officeholder for just doing their job. That's the least they were elected to do. How about catching bin Laden? This New Yorker says that would be nice.
10:33 PM on 10/12/2008
But Obama is is saying 95% of tax payers will get a tax cut, Thats a lie!
10:37 PM on 10/12/2008
Tell us why, dude. Just don't sit there typing and not fill us in on the details...
10:44 PM on 10/12/2008
I'd like to hear why you think he's lying as well. Provide some (non-partisan) links please.
10:51 PM on 10/12/2008
I'm trying to find the link again
10:22 PM on 10/12/2008
Sen. John McCain's 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis, as HUMAN EVENTS learned from the letter shown in full text below.

McCain's letter -- signed by nineteen other senators -- said that it was "...vitally important that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac]...operate in a safe and sound manner.[and]..More importantly, Congress must ensure that the American taxpayer is protected in the event that either...should fail."

Sen. Obama did not sign the letter, nor did any other Democrat.
10:34 PM on 10/12/2008
CYA with no relevance!

We have all written such CYA and it is a meaningless activity to protect yourself not to help AMERICA!
DIdaho
Born in the Air Force (Texas), moved to Idaho in 1
10:35 PM on 10/12/2008
Interesting, but irrelevant. Fannie and Freddie do not originate a single mortgage. Not one. they are the end of the chain, not the beginning. It was mortgage brokers, unregulated (and not, incidentally, subject to any of the "affirmative action" recommendations of congress) that sold these mortgages.

Look, I worked telephone sales many years ago in Columbus, Ohio. Tried to get people to meetings where they'd be sold on time shares. Got paid by the number of bodies who showed up, not the number of sales they made. Same thing here. Mortgage salesmen pocketed the commission on deals made, not on deals paid. It's not nearly as complicated as people think. It's just greed, plain and simple.
10:39 PM on 10/12/2008
That is what I have been stating also!

This is a "RED HERRING" by the Republicans on "FOX EM"
Professor73
Constitutionalist
10:21 PM on 10/12/2008
Face it folks, politicians will tell you anything to get your vote, so the only thing you have to go on is the character of the individual. "Where there is smoke; there is certainly a fire. Obama has a lot of smoke surrounding him with various questionable political and personal associations.

It is hard to look the other way when you consider the long-term business relationship Obama has had with Resco, the political association with Ayers, the legal council Obama provided to ACORN and the religious association with Wright and Flanigan.

The office of the President of the United States, the most powerful office in the free world, is not the place to be teaching Ethics 101.
DIdaho
Born in the Air Force (Texas), moved to Idaho in 1
10:41 PM on 10/12/2008
Sigh... Okay, one more time. There is no political association with Wright. None. The original meeting was a coffee for the previous State Senator and a meet and greet for her choice to succeed her, Obama. He didn't call it, didn't know anybody there. The only other "association" was they sat together on a board. I'm on the board of my Chamber of Commerce. I have absolutely no idea what anybody else on the board did 40 years ago. If one of them shows up as a child rapist, does that make me an accessory?

And don't get me started on "religious association." Hagee? Parsley? Witch Doctors? I'll take Wright seven days a week compared to those whackos.

And it's Rezco, not Resco.
10:14 PM on 10/12/2008
Well I have tried to post some pro McCian stuff here and it gets dumped every time so I guess no disenting opinion allowed here. All you BHO supporters will be very sorry when he lets the Bush tax cuts expire and EVERYBODY's taxes go up!
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Snowball
10:22 PM on 10/12/2008
Not mine, I make under $250 thousand a year.
Professor73
Constitutionalist
10:34 PM on 10/12/2008
As do I, but it is not about your personal income. It is about those hundred of thousands of small businesses that have to file their tax returns using individual tax rates. When you cut into that base, you will cut into the creation of our 75% of all jobs in the United States.

You need to think way beyond your personal W-2.
10:22 PM on 10/12/2008
IN THE MEAN TIME KEEP SALIVATING ABOUT BUSHES "WAR ON ECONOMY"
10:07 PM on 10/12/2008
In a Saturday conference call with Alaska journalists, Palin said she was "pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing ... any hint of any kind of unethical activity there."

I AM SPEECHLESS
10:22 PM on 10/12/2008
Sen. John McCain's 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis, as HUMAN EVENTS learned from the letter shown in full text below.

McCain's letter -- signed by nineteen other senators -- said that it was "...vitally important that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac]...operate in a safe and sound manner.[and]..More importantly, Congress must ensure that the American taxpayer is protected in the event that either...should fail."

Sen. Obama did not sign the letter, nor did any other Democrat.
09:56 PM on 10/12/2008
I am formally announcing my agenda to become potus given the stupidity of the Mccain Palin ticket.

1. no taxes (dont need them to support the nation)

2. balance the budget first term (get the wealthy to provide charitable donations when they feel like it)

3. Give every american a tax handout (because america is just like Alaska)

4. Any rape victim must have the child then that child can go into servitude maybe as a domestic servant to the wealthy

Please support this agenda and add to it as you see fit
10:08 PM on 10/12/2008
And, McCain has just asked Obama to apologize to him - It's more than amazing -
09:49 PM on 10/12/2008
Why didn't JMC go with Romney....I'm glad he didn't!
09:46 PM on 10/12/2008
Why no mention of troopergate?

The media blackout on this is unbelievable!
09:52 PM on 10/12/2008
"Troopergate"? It never happened...
Professor73
Constitutionalist
10:22 PM on 10/12/2008
What media black out? i have heard it on every major news channel from NBC to FOX.
11:04 PM on 10/12/2008
That is untrue. You must be a republican.
09:38 PM on 10/12/2008
Is this ALL that McCain and Palin have to offer the American people? Lies and smears?