It makes you wonder how Obama would do without the liberals group-think mentality.  I really love how people disregard 0bama's association with Ayers, and all these other anti-American "friends" of his, just by saying we all have "crazy uncles".  That is the most ridiculous thing I have read.

Why would 0bama start his political career with a known radical and domestic terrorist?  Why?

Alternatively speaking, that is.

It's pretty obvious you know nothing about Ayers, otherwise you wouldn't be copying Obama talking points. 

I agree, the 0Bama-Biden ticket is pathetic.

a refresher for ya Daiwa...

The "association" smear is precisely that.  It is fallacious and self-delusional to claim otherwise.

And I was raised Canadian until the age of 4 when I moved to America and became an American citizen by choice.  Do you think for a MINUTE I remember anything about being "Canadian"?  Do you think it has any affect on my politics or religious beliefs, etc. today   At 4 years old?!  Puh-lease.

And I've worked directly with three recent Presidents.  That doesn't mean I'm senile or helped bring down the Berlin Wall, a spy who's responsible for Noriega AND Saddam, or would cheat on my wife, now does it?! 

No, I expand the definition of ignorance to those who bury their heads in the sand so as to remain willfully ignorant of the facts just to keep from shaking up their personal ideology.  There is uneducated and then there is ignorant and then there is willfully ignorant. 

Ah, NOW we get to the meat of it.  Are you one of those "America, love it or leave it" people who the corrupt count on when they sling that "your flag pin isn't as big as my flag pin" hooey?

In an effort to clear up the misrepresentation of those of us who love America enough to want to see her get back on track after being whored out to the highest bidder for the past 8 years, here is a list of what I don't think we believe in:

We don't believe we should put American soldiers' lives at risk by premptively invading already declawed countries just to slide a trillion dollars of graft to our cronies.

We don't believe that the Constitution is an anachronistic document that should be actively isubverted.

We don't believe that our systems and balances are quaint and should be ignored by an unchecked executive branch.

We don't believe in ceding the moral high ground our predecessors fought 200 years to establish.

We don't believe that you are guilty until proven innocent. re: the (un)Patriot Act.

We don't believe that our private lives are any of your goddamn business.  re: recording US citizen phone calls.

We don't believe that this country has the "god given right" to treat the rest of humanity (and the planet for that matter) like shit, just because we were in the right place at the right time for the industrial age.

And we can't believe we are the only remaining industrialized nation in the world that still lets these HMO scumbags (thanks Nixon! ahem) kill our own citizens in the interest of more pennies to the stockholders.

We don't believe in torture.

We don't despise this country.  We despise the LEADERSHIP of OUR country - what Bush's administration has done to OUR nation and we're holding anyone associated with it, including McCain, accountable.

I love this country.  I, like you, Brad, and like Obama, have had more than my fair share of the American Dream.   And I see that dream dying all over this nation.  It is simply not possible for some people to get out of the holes they've been squeezed into by the policies of this administration.   And I know that no amount of individual charity can counter the machines that are deliberately bleeding the poor and middle class of this country dry.

So, I think this GREAT nation can do better.  And I love America enough to do whatever it takes to see her stay a superpower and remain the most blessed nation on the Earth.

And we aren't going to be able to make that happen with more decades of "me first" and "I need to save another 1% on my taxes" thinking.

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." --  Thomas Jefferson

In fact, nowhere do the founding fathers say anything even remotely like "America, love it or leave it."

re Reply #334...that is a tour de force of a response Excalpius;clearly, you truly are a learned & great man who has walked amoungst the greatest minds & achievers of your nation - my gawd...that 'from the heart' listicle would have been worthy in tonight's "Joe the Plumber" debate...and you are correct in stating that what your American electorate is hungering for & needful of, is what you so passionately articulated...not what the 'base' was high fiving Senator McCain for.... 

Does no one realize that this election has basically de-evolved into a scene from Napoleon Dynamite?

"Vote for me, and all of your wildest dreams will come true."

Pedro '08

Inaccurate.  The Democrats only gained the majority of the HOUSE of Representatives in 2006.  Without control of the Senate and/or a veto-proof majority in both, the Democratically controlled House is and was unable to override Bush's veto and veto threats.  This has meant the control has been in a stalemate for 2 years, with the Democrats unable to end the war in Iraq, etc. and the White House stopped in its tracks to a large extend by Democratic filibustering.

So, nothing could get done.  It's part of the checks and balances of our system of government and why the Senate and House are structured differently from each other and the Presidency as far as term limits, voting cycles, and responsibilities.

It's American Civics 101 and it helps A LOT in separating the spin from the truth.

What downright and utter bollocks!  America will no longer be a superpower if McCain/Palin get elected.  Osama bin Laden and his cohorts will descend upon her with a vengeance with such an obvious airhead as Palin at the helm.  I mean, why would they respect her when the majority of her own countrymen/women don't cos she doesn't know which magazine she reads... er, looks at the pretty pictures in  Like whoa, even her teleprompter has pictures on it cos she finds it easier to understand.

Well you didn't seriously think McCain would actually be there??  Apparently he likes fishing, so he's gonna take time out to fish with the other grumpy old men.

Oh, that's right, you wouldn't have heard!!  Yeah, various Repubs discussed MacCain's bumbling senility and felt it was a liability to the Party, so he was going to announce his retirement from politics after his final debate with Barack Obama last night.... trouble was, he forgot to while he was forgetting not to attack/assassinate Obama's character... and how to debate real issues.

We baled out AIG so the execs could go on a luxurious spending spree.

It's ridiculous that taking from the poor to give to the rich is ok but taking from the rich to give to the poor is socialism.

Everyone talks change yet we are a confused country that fears change.    

Is that a roll of toilet paper representing US currency ob George Dubbya's desk?????

Now ya know why the economy went down the shit-shute