It's not just one guy saying he had relations with Obama. It's like three or four of them and I think three of the four or two of the four (I can't remember which) were murdered or died suspiciously just after or just before they insinuated they were going to spill the beans on Obama.

Runs in my mind two of the dead men are from Obama's church.

Now if this was one guy, one incident, it would be hard to believe. But it isn't, there are multiple reports and they all spell that Obama is bisexual.

Again, it isn't an issue for me…suspicious deaths are. But if the GOP has this stuff in any compelling form at all..even insinuation of it…Obama is screwed. Any middle voters he may have now will drop him like a red hot potato. You may not take the video and polygraph stuff seriously but millions may….especially if it's pitched at just the right time in just the right way..

I think McCain is MUCH more of an unknown than Obama. McCain is still a Republcan and if you liked the last 8 years you really will get more of the same.

I truely do not understand the venom I see on those sites. McCain called his wife a C… yet none of you are bothered by that. He has a violent temper and I'm sure many a woman has had her share of bad experiences with men with tempers. I would agree with some who believe a Democratic Congress would impede some of McCain's worst instincts BUT for one, CINC. McCain will blow up the Mideast in another war and nothing Congress can do can stop that.

Would any of those issues be ones that actually matter to you?
like women's issues?
like SCOTUS appointments?
likte 'bomb bomb Iran' ' as a foreign policy>
like an unfair tax system?
like protecting discriminatory wages for women?

If they are just minor details to you, I understnd.
But, why did you ever support Hillary then, since some of those are her signature issues?
Is this an exchange of the mommy figure for the daddy figure ( ref. 'strongset candidate')?

i ca n't find the logic, no matter how I try.

He's going after the swing voters, obviously. His record,

http://nj.nationaljournal.com/voteratings/

or even a more flattering view like this (which puts Bush much farther right than where he belongs in real life),

http://voteview.ucsd.edu/Clinton_and_Obama.htm

shows that he's a reliable Democrat for liberals, while his current outreach is transparent.

http://www.charlotte.com/559/story/710744.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-lat_obam…

I think that the Democratic Party and progressives generally have gotten confused in getting trapped in this debate about are you liberal or are you centrist? I'm not interested in being a centrist or rushing to the middle, in the sense of just splitting the difference with a radically ideological Bush administration. And that’s how I think we got into trouble in many instances, was we just kept on splitting the difference until you find out you don't stand for anything, you just keep on compromising.

BARACK OBAMA, Tavis Smiley Show, Oct. 23, 2006

Funny how the day he got the nomination he rushed to the center isnt it?

Obama is not for impeachment.

Obama is for escalating the war in Afghanistan.

Obama pays tribute to AIPAC.

Obama doesn't propose true universal healthcare.

Obama wants to give money to church organizations.

Obama doesn't seem particularly interested in limiting the surveillance power of the government.

Etc.

Or that the earth is round, not flat? I'll do that as I feel moved to do it. Of course, Obama himself has described himself that way but you wouldn't and shouldn't believe Obama himself, either, should you? Or reviews of his voting records?

He's trying to appeal to centrists or moderates (more likely, to swing voters) because he's not stupid enough to neglect them; his campaign, fluffy sound bites and all, slick packaging and all, is for real.

Plenty of average people aren't going to necessarily robotically accept a liberal Democrat like Obama

Keep repeating the myth that Obama is a “liberal Democrat;” maybe someday it'll be true. But right now Obama's campaign positions have been centrist to a fault.

One gross over-simplification deserves another.”

You were deliberately incorrect and hateful for no valid reason whatsoever.

Plenty of average people aren't going to necessarily robotically accept a liberal Democrat like Obama, and it doesn't have anything to do with his race, sex, sexual orientation, or any other excuse angry lefties can invent for not voting the “right” way.

That's why McCain may yet gain more swing voters as his “default candidate, the other choice” campaign continues to plod unremarkably along.

* * *

“Maybe because Obama's stated policy positions make more sense than McCain's?”

Not to everyone, obviously, especially those of us who have learned things as we have lived. The issue with McCain is if he really offers a good (positive) alternative at all and can appeal to more people than he would repel by being dull or Dem Lite. In addition to Obama's appeal to the naive and idealistic and quite often the unrealistic, there are possible wrong-headed plans of his and what happens if he is aided by great Dem gains in Congress and they view this is a signal to lunge far to the left, which would obviously make most Americans recoil? Might not some who think ahead already be “at risk” of recoiling now? Yes.

This is a lie as well as slander.

One gross over-simplification deserves another.

Obama is a liberal Democrat who offers people sound bites. Why would all Americans necessarily trust him?

Maybe because Obama's stated policy positions make more sense than McCain's? I know it's fun to sit around and nitpick speaking styles and what the candidates ate for breakfast, but there are real policy differences between them.

This is a lie as well as slander.

That's because they are heretics or apostates. Next comes an Inquisition that makes Guantanano and Abu Ghraib pale morally. [grin]

“I believe Obama's big, long-term problem is Great Expectations.”

Not with the debates, though, M. I suspect that just as he has “let down” [sniffle] the progressives so far on one or two policy issues, and his speech in Germany was not The Sermon some were expecting, he may or may not ace the debates (I'm certain he'll win). I suspect given the experience of Gore losing the debates and then the general election in 2000, the Democrats may have learned a lesson and no matter how laughably some of the Obama voters worship Obama, they may be patient and “follow through” all the way through November. No, to me the Great Expectations, particularly among those cult worshippers, are going to be for what Obama and the Dems “should” do beginning next January. (Being far too ambitious, arrogant, and conceited is exactly the wrong them for them to do; this nation is not far left! They shouldn't misread anti-GOP sentiment for a desire to be regressive when it comes to liberal politics and policies.) The Great Expectations are for Obama and the Dems to perform miracles from the start of the new Obama administration. Where is the elimination of “greenhouse gases” while guaranteeing everyone but the Evil Rich a 200% increase in net after-tax income, with stem-cell organ regeneration by next March or April, etc.?

True, but Elrod is probably right. Next week Obama will pivot to focus on economic issues.

I believe Obama's big, long-term problem is Great Expectations. Come the debates, if Obama doesn't absolutely blow McCain out of the room … tossing thunderbolts in his wake, with his halo shining … he will be seen to falter.

The Obama team needs to tone things down.

I recall the lyrics to Bob Dylan's “Joker Man”:
“You're a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds,
Manipulator of crowds, you're a dream twister.”

Obama needs to get out of the clouds, and down to earth. The wall-to-wall media coverage may, ironically, not be helping him here.

Just like there are many Conservatives who do not like McCain and might not vote for him. The interesting thing is that you do not find those who are avid McCain supporters calling the conservatives “Idiots, morons and traitors” like the left/Obama crowd is doing with their Clinton supporters.

Nor is there a movement to call those moderate GOP'ers who are indicating they are going to vote for Obama being ostracized by the GOP and the Republican party as pariahs.

Meanwhile back at the ranch……anyone who does not support Barak Obama are lower then pond scum.

Great tactic to bring into the fold those who have hesitated in embracing Obama.

The economy. His Energy policy of walk to work till we can make electric cars affordable is hardly appropriate and neither is his “Punish America campaign” in which once again we see the Liberal far left showing their sad faces with the constant refrain of

Are you for real? You should look up the word 'caricature' in the dictionary.

Mission Impossible………..finding a nugget of truth in Neocon's last post.

The economy. His Energy policy of walk to work till we can make electric cars affordable is hardly appropriate and neither is his “Punish America campaign” in which once again we see the Liberal far left showing their sad faces with the constant refrain of

“We aint happy till your miserable” dogma. Even while Barak Obama tries to be hopeful, proud and full of “Oh Yes We Can” His supporters are stuck in the rut of “OH No You Can't” and so we end up with…………

“This tape will self destruct in 10 seconds……………”

Mission Impossible………..a left liberal to find something good, positive to say about anything.

Case in point………….
Quiet Average Citizen = Racist White Folk
You mean stubborn. Just like your matriarch.
This is a joke right? I assume you supported BILL FREAKING CLINTON.