By that time, McCain's defining and framing of Obama may have quick dried and all the money in the world will only dent the image.

If he loses this election and his ignominy will rank with Bush and McCain in the annals of American history. Seems like he's doing his best to do just that. It's almost like he's a Manchurian candidate for the Republicans.

Posted at August 18, 2008 8:03 PM in response to McCain Outspending Obama By Hundreds Of Thousands In Many Core Battleground States

Obama is letting a 71 year old suffering from dimensia run rings around him.

I'm starting to believe that Obama is inviting defeat. He's the third or fourth iteration of Democratic candidates trying not to offend conservatives for the sake of inclusion. Back before he moved to the center he had bigger %s. He's on his way to losing this election the way so many democrats have lost before: afraid to call out the republicans for their long list of failures.

The democratic party doesn't know how to play politics. They are the Washington Generals and the republican party is the Harlem Globtrotters - except the Republican's don't know how to govern. So the nation is doomed to an inevitable collapse. Sometime in the next 8 to 16 years.

Posted at August 18, 2008 2:37 PM in response to Report: Obama's Rural Outreach More Aggressive Than Past Dems

Did Johnson have Hillary's negatives? I dont thing so.

Posted at August 18, 2008 11:36 AM in response to Poll: McCain Pulls Even With Obama In Ohio, But...

In another eight years we'll all be n*****.

Posted at August 18, 2008 11:35 AM in response to Poll: McCain Pulls Even With Obama In Ohio, But...

Every thing will be worse. Much worse.

We'll be going from a President with a mind eaten away by a lifetime of abuse of drugs and alcohol, to one with a mind eaten away by torture and dimensia.

The decline is going to be geometric.

And this time the decline is going to be irreversible because the nations seed corn will have been gutted too.

This country is teetering on the verge of major cratering.

Posted at August 18, 2008 11:32 AM in response to Poll: McCain Pulls Even With Obama In Ohio, But...

Thou hast forgotten her extremely high, bolted on, negatives.

Posted at August 18, 2008 11:27 AM in response to Poll: McCain Pulls Even With Obama In Ohio, But...

This election shouldn't be close.

Median family income is down well over 5% from 2001, food prices are up, education is up, gas is $4 a gallon and oil is $100 a barrel (up 5%) over 2001, we are more reliant than ever on oil despite it funding most of our would be enemies, Americans are loosing their homes as record rates, two American cities had to be abandoned in the last eight years, one American city has effectively been lost, we are hated and have more enemies than we did eight years ago, the military is over stretched, Russia which was on life support only 11 years ago invades an American ally with impunity, our constitution has be shredded, our treasury ransacked for the sake of making billionaires more comfortable.

This election shouldn't even be close.

If it is close its because Obama will have clusterf*cked it and/or Americans are completely stupid and deserve to live in the squalor and suffering a McCain presidency will permanently saddle the nation in while he sends our children and what remains of our treasure off to endless wars. My god the American people don't deserve anything good but the suffering their going to get.

Posted at August 18, 2008 11:24 AM in response to Poll: McCain Pulls Even With Obama In Ohio, But...

The claim isn't the rich aren't paying taxes.

The real problem is concentration of wealth.

That occurs from an imbalance in bargaining power.

That creates unnecessary suffering and squalor for our fellow citizens - many have families, children, parents, to support.

I find it shocking that you don't acknowledge the problem this represents. Obviously, you just don't care about other people. As Roosevelt said, "it's not just immoral, but it's also bad econonomics."

When wealth is well distributed, people can afford to feed, house, cloth, educate their families. They can more than provide, they can take them on vacations, spend more time with them, you then have a less disfunctional family.

Even more, when wealth is distributed, not only do the poor get richer, but every body get's richer.

And when every body is richer, the Rich do not have to share as much of the tax burden simply because they have all the money - every body bears a little more of the tax burder so the wealthy don't have too.

And regardless as to your statements, I've read in multiple places in the past that Warren Buffet pays about the same amount of tax, perhaps a little less then, his secretary.

I also have a friend who is rich. He lives off of $70k a year, and pays about $700 in federal taxes. That's it. Even he realizes that our system is bad and wrong.

So a more stable society where every body lives better, what's not to like?

Oh, maybe its that you have to share power with lowly people, some of them being brown, black or hispanic. I can see no other reason for embracing regressive economics.

Posted at August 15, 2008 6:56 PM in response to The Absent Presence

She's quite good at the bald faced lie.

Posted at August 14, 2008 4:55 PM in response to Georgia On Our Mind

If I am Georgian, the thing that would worry me about the independence of South Ossetia or it's inclusion in the Russian Federation would be Geography.

One look at the map shows that South Ossetia would create a geographic cleft into Georgia, where their appears to be little barriers between South Ossetia and the heart of some of Georgia's most important centers.

Complicated indeed.

Posted at August 14, 2008 2:32 PM in response to Georgia On Our Mind