AOL Straw Poll: June 20-27

None of us know him up close and personal
...but when you read the inspirational articles that the people who
are close to him and have known him for years write about him we can
formulate our own opinions. I have posted a article that one of his
professors wrote when he attended Harward, there are articles from
people that work with side by side,....I have never seen anything
come close to what people have to say about Obama for McCain or even
Hillary.

I will post it again and some other things as well. These are from
people who know him. We read and we listen. The guy is a gentlemen,
he is intelligent, compassionate (he worked community service to help
the poor) and he is patriotic. Contrary to what some say he does love
our counrty.

Go Obama!!!08and12

OBAMA NEVER

JUST ANOTHER DEM FOR McCAIN

SAID IT, MEANT IT

OBAMA NEVER NEVER NEVER
OBAMA NEVER NEVER NEVER
OBAMA NEVER NEVER NEVER

I WOULD RATHER HAVE RON PAUL !

FOR ARE FREEDOM !

I WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA !

2008 -- John McCain claims he has a plan for Iraq and that
"[w]hen Iraqi forces can safeguard their own country, American troops
can return home." But the reality is, Senator McCain doesn't have a
plan to bring our troops home from Iraq--he doesn't even think it's
important to have one. Yesterday when asked on the Today Show if he
had an idea of when troops in Iraq could come home, John McCain said
"No, but that's not too important." [johnmccain.com, accessed
6/11/08; NBC's Today Show, 6/11/08]

The American people would beg to differ. With American troops putting
their lives on the line everyday and American taxpayers spending
billions of dollars a month on this war, voters want a president with
a plan to end the war responsibly, something Senator McCain has yet to
offer. It's clear that John McCain is out of touch and not the strong
leader we need.

McCain Says Bringing Our Troops Home From Iraq "Not Too Important."
Asked on the Today Show this morning if he has "a better estimate of
when American forces can come home from Iraq," John McCain said "No,
but that's not too important." [NBC's Today Show, 6/11/08]



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JUST ANOTHER DEM FOR McCAIN

SAID IT, MEANT IT

OBAMA NEVER NEVER NEVER
OBAMA NEVER NEVER NEVER
OBAMA NEVER NEVER NEVER

WE DON'T NEED A SENATOR WITH JUST 2 YEARS IN THE SENATE !

I WILL VOTE MCAIN !

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Instead let's make them Hydrogen stations...put the gas pumps in museums

http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/

The Zero-Emission Sedan of the Future. A Reality Today.

IF HONDA CAN DO THIS TODAY...DETROIT CAN DO IT BETTER!

YES...WE...CAN!!!

will we wait for them to start selling them here and not change with the times?

The FCX Clarity is capable of traveling about 270 miles before refueling,* a reasonable distance for most people. When you do need fuel, it’s easy and safe to do at one of the designated hydrogen refueling stations in your area. The fill-up only takes a few minutes.

Invest in U.S. Manufacturing: The Obama comprehensive energy independence and climate change plan will invest in America's highly-skilled manufacturing workforce and manufacturing centers to ensure that American workers have the skills and tools they need to pioneer the first wave of green technologies that will be in high demand throughout the world. Obama will also provide assistance to the domestic auto industry to ensure that new fuel-efficient vehicles are built by American workers.

Create New Job Training Programs for Clean Technologies: The Obama plan will increase funding for federal workforce training programs and direct these programs to incorporate green technologies training, such as advanced manufacturing and weatherization training, into their efforts to help Americans find and retain stable, high-paying jobs. Obama will also create an energy-focused youth jobs program to invest in disconnected and disadvantaged youth.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/economy/
Boost the Renewable Energy Sector and Create New Jobs: The Obama plan will create new federal policies, and expand existing ones, that have been proven to create new American jobs. Obama will create a federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) that will require 25 percent of American electricity be derived from renewable sources by 2025, which has the potential to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs on its own. Obama will also extend the Production Tax Credit, a credit used successfully by American farmers and investors to increase renewable energy production and create new local jobs.

-Invest in a Clean Energy Future
-Invest $150 Billion over 10 Years in Clean Energy:
-Double Energy Research and Development Funding
-Invest in a Skilled Clean Technologies Workforce
-Convert our Manufacturing Centers into Clean Technology Leaders
-Clean Technologies Deployment Venture Capital Fund
-Require 25 Percent of Renewable Electricity by 2025
-Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/energy/

"Country I Love" TV Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylVTBiGh00c

so does John McBush stand for anything more than Bush's 3rd term? Seriously....i have not heard anything about how he will be different than Bush from any of YOU GUYS.....you are so busy talking about my candidate that i have not learned one bit about how he will really be different than Bush....i am sure the readers want to know...

seriously...

;-)

SYNCHRONICITY

Bush-McCain Challenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUBDM16ylvU

I'm Voting Republican :-O
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQJ9Xp0xxU

How to Speak Republican
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXk4P12p1tU&NR=1

OBAMA IS TO LEFT ! HE SOUNDS LIKE A MARXIST !

WITH OUT HILLARY ! I HAVE TO VOTE JOHN McCAIN !

I'm Voting Republican
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQJ9Xp0xxU

Democrats...you must see this...this video shows you that what you believed all along....

IS TRUE!!!

http://www.imvotingrepublican.com/

How to Speak Republican
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXk4P12p1tU&NR=1

Here ya go Michelle...I found an article about the Texas fundraiser
problem for McCain. I kept hearing about some problem on the news but
I did not hear all of it.

Doesn't this fit with McCains stance on women? These guys are always
trying to associate Obama with shady people -McCain seems to have the
same problem then-
The way these people think if you know someone who as a certain way
of thinking you must think that way also
-isn't that what they say- so tell me do you think that McCain thinks
that women should enjoy getting raped!!! his friend thinks so!!



Obama Hits McCain Over Fundraiser's Rape Joke

Monday, June 16, 2008 2:40 PM

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Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama savaged John McCain
Monday over the Republican's ties to a Texas fundraiser who once
joked that rape victims should "lie back and enjoy it."


The presidential candidates also rejoined battle over the economy as
Obama outlined his plans to restore US competitiveness with a speech
in the rusting heart of Michigan's auto industry.


With McCain assiduously wooing supporters of Obama's vanquished
primary foe Hillary Clinton, the Democrat's campaign pounced on the
controversy surrounding Texas oilman Clayton "Claytie" Williams.


Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan noted that McCain had Friday canceled a
planned event at Williams's home, but was refusing to return more
than 300,000 dollars raised by the prominent Republican for McCain's
White House bid.


"The only thing more insulting than John McCain's willingness to keep
hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash raised by Claytie
Williams is his attempt to get away with it by simply changing the
venue of his fundraiser.


"It's clear that John McCain is more concerned with dealing with a
'perception problem' than in condemning these despicable remarks or
in living up to the straight talk reputation he brags about," Sevugan
said.


Friday's fundraising event was canceled after media reports recalled
the remark by Williams. It has since reportedly been rescheduled for
later in the summer, without the oil industry executive attending.


During an unsuccessful run for the Texas governor's office in 1990,
Williams compared rape to bad weather.


"As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy
it," he said.


A McCain spokesman had condemned the "incredibly offensive" remark
and in a briefing with reporters Monday, the Arizona senator said his
staff had been unaware of it when the fundraiser was scheduled.


But the Obama camp, fending off McCain's charm offensive with female
voters in a series of "town hall" meetings, sees political mileage in
the controversy as well as in the Republican's commitment to extending
the tax-cutting policies of President George W. Bush.


"Instead of reaching for new horizons, George Bush has put us in a
hole, and John McCain's policies will keep us there," Obama said to a
rapturous audience in the decaying industrial city of Flint, Michigan.



"I want to get out of the hole. I want to take us in a new and better
direction," he said.


"I reject the belief that we should either shrink from the challenge
of globalization, or fall back on the same tired and failed
approaches of the last eight years."


Obama instead outlined proposals to revitalize industrial
competitiveness built on improved education, energy investment, new
infrastructure and a commitment to "fiscal responsibility and fair
trade."


In response, McCain supporters pointed to Obama's remark last week
that a "gradual adjustment" in gasoline prices would have been
preferable to the skyrocketing increase being endured by US drivers,
to improve conservation.


"The truth is Barack Obama fought to protect higher taxes on gas, and
it flies in the face of working people struggling at the pump --
Michigan doesn't need weak leadership, we need John McCain's record
of real reform," said Candice Miller, a Republican Representative
from Michigan.


Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant added: "Barack
Obama is wrong. Raising taxes on small businesses and limiting free
trade will make America less competitive -- not more competitive.


"Obama can slap whatever label he wants on his tax-and-spend agenda,
but it won't create new jobs or promote prosperity," he said.


Last week, in their first full week of head-to-head clashes after
Clinton quit the Democratic race, Obama and McCain warred on the
economy as Americans reel from home foreclosures, rising fuel prices
and job losses.


The Democrats scent opportunity on the economy for November's
elections even as McCain tries to portray Obama as a "tax-and-spend
liberal" who would be a dangerous bet for US national security.


© 2008 AFP. All rights reserved.

I voted for McCain but will mostlikely not vote for either, but there was no option for that in this poll. Hillary should run as an independant

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Who is Behind these Lies?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/136440/page/2

David Bossie, who runs Citizens United, has paired with Floyd Brown for years. Bossie and Brown harassed the Clintons throughout Bill Clinton’s administration, with even George H.W. Bush calling his behavior in the 1992 presidential election—which included harassing the family of a recent suicide victim—“filthy campaign tactics.” After writing a 2000 book about Al Gore that went little-noticed, in 2004, Brown and Floyd Bossie, working as the group Citizens United, made a movie called Celsius 41.11 and ran television ads attacking John Kerry. In 1998, Bossie was fired from his job with the House Committee investigating Bill Clinton. When Bossie selectively released tapes, removing information that exonerated the Clintons, and improperly obtained phone records, even Newt Gingrich said he was “embarrassed for the conference at the circus that went on.”
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/28/se.02.html
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/05/07news.html

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WHY IS MICHELLE OBAMA'S THESIS UNDER LOCK AND KEY AT PRINCETON UNTIL

AFTER

THE NOVEMBER ELECTION????????????????

MAYBE BECAUSE IT'S EVEN MORE ANTI-WHITEY THAN HER OTHER ONE??????

DUMB WHITE DEMS. I"M NO LONGER ONE OF YOU.

McCAIN '08
DEMOCRATS FOR McCAIN

OBAMA NEVER NEVER NEVER
SAID IT, MEANT IT
OBAMA NEVER NEVER NEVER

Who is Behind these Lies?

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1733873,00.html
Floyd Brown, the leader of the National Campaign Fund, the Legacy Committee, Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America and the Policy Issues Institute, once bragged he was part of the “the heart and soul of the right-wing conspiracy.” has a history of surfacing every four years to make right-wing attacks against Democrats in presidential elections. Most infamously, Brown was responsible for the racist 1988 “Willie Horton” ad against Michael Dukakis. Brown harassed the Clintons throughout Bill Clinton’s administration, with even George H.W. Bush calling his behavior in the 1992 presidential election—which included harassing the family of a recent suicide victim—“filthy campaign tactics.” After writing a 2000 book about Al Gore that went little-noticed, in 2004, Brown and David Bossie, working as the group Citizens United, make a movie called Celsius 41.11 and ran television ads attacking John Kerry.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/04/25/floyd_brown/
http://www.apj.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1055&Itemid=2

The ExposeObama team consists of Brown, who is also president of Excellentia Inc., which according to his bio, is "a consulting company specializing in non-profit organizational strategy, development and the marketing of ideas"; executive director Bruce E. Hawkins, "a highly skilled political strategist" who has worked for such conservative as Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan and Mike Huckabee; treasurer and general counsel James V. Lacy, the co-founder and managing partner of Wewer & Lacy, LLP and the cofounder in 1978, along with the late anti-tax crusader Howard Jarvis, of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.

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Who is Behind these Lies?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/03/24/2008-03-24_gop_operative_roger_stone_helped_bring_d.html
Roger Stone boasts about being the sleaziest man in politics and that his rules are “Attack, attack, attack—never defend” and “Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.” As a young operative, Stone was involved in Watergate, causing him to be fired by Bob Dole. Stone was also forced to cut ties with New York Senate Republicans after he left a harassing message on the voicemail of Eliot Spitzer’s father. Even Republican Ed Rollins says Stone “always had this reputation of being a guy who exaggerated things, who pretended he did things. Roger was never on Nixon’s staff, was never on the White House staff. I don’t think you’ll find anyone in the business who trusts him. Roger was always a little rat.” Stone recently said “McCain himself should not run a slash-and-burn campaign, but a slash-and-burn campaign will have to be run by others.”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/02/080602fa_fact_toobin?currentPage=all

Reagan-era lobbying firm Black, Manafort & Stone.

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