Comments on: The Experience Paradox

Jeff Greenfield: Common Campaign Debate Over Experience Takes On A Bizarre Twist This Year

[lalabradle]

The surge is not working. Our soldiers are practically running that war on their own. They get about as many answers as we do when it comes to this war. They are just being exterminated like insects and replaced with more. There is no strategy and no planning over there. It''s basically about personal survival. My son is going again for the 3rd time. He and his fellow troop members are hoping for OBama to win, they need and want change. That way they can feel good about being over there and feel like this country gives a ***. All of you sitting over here are just running your mouths which is easy when your life isn''t in any danger. I bet half of you would be too afraid to physically fight for this country.

[mr2258]

Then there is what we do know about Obama.He has very little record to stand on.Obama talks a big game.Obama has never scored.Just what has he done but talk??

[canesnut22]

McCain is now up by 20 points in North Carolina! Go Tar Heels/Go McCain-Palin!

[mr2258]

Obama does not get it.The media does not get it.So I''m going to tell you why Obama is going to lose.It starts at his birth.His Father is not an America.There is people that questio if Obama is.Then there is Obamas friends over the years.Rev.Wright,Al Sharpton,Louis Farrakhan,William Ayers and Anthony Rezko.Just to many unanswered questions.

[gun_tower]

smart4peace,

War wasn''t working too well.

The selection of a troubled beauty queen from Wasilla seems to have done the trick.

It is, for the moment a triumph of hype over every serious issue we face.

And yet...there is sufficient time for issues to regain their hold on our attention.

And when they do, Obama holds all the cards.

Every single one.

no kidding! LOL! so true. and now, how the world longs for those old days, when the biggest Q was how our pres defined his intimate relations.... remember the good old days???
Posted by smart4peace
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That''s the republicans and their high churchin'' buddies. They want the government outta their way, except for the bedroom of course. They give themselves the right to barge in there anytime. I''ve long held the opinion that they''re that way because they don''t have any "bedroom lives" of their own. Not that they''re happy with, anyway.

[gun_tower]

I don%u2019t believe anyone needs to be paid to post the truth about Palin-McCain.

There would be no market for it.

Too many are willing to do it for free.

OBAMA 08

[gun_tower]

it''''s the republican way!!!! war war war!!!!!!
-- Posted by smart4peace

War is convenient and profitable -- for some.

It focuses our attention from the reaming we are getting to the reaming someone else is getting.

It''s a useful weapon of mass distration, as McBush has so successfully demonstrated

can''''''''t speak for anybody else, but I ain''''''''t votin'''''''' for a VICE President. - Posted by hadenough43

Of course you are, if you vote.

Posted by Trapbreak
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No need to worry there, I gotta long voting history. Been telling all my disgruntled republican friends for eight year - "I didn''t vote for the SOB, didn''t vote for his daddy, either."

[mr2258]

For the last week Obama has paid hundreds of posters to stay on all sites 24 hours a day.Posting lies about McCain and Palin.This may work in Chicago.It''s not going to work this time...

Posted by smart4peace

Selecting Palin was nothing more than that good old cynical republican demagoguery, just like when the idiot-son declared himself "born again" in order to harvest the "holy war" voters. I wonder how those "holy warriors" are doin'' now that the idiot-son turns out to make Bubba look like the very paragon of moral virtue.

I can''t speak for anybody else, but I ain''t votin'' for a VICE President. I''m votin'' for the guy who emphatically opposed the war from the get-go. Just like I did.

[rowdyo]

Posted by RowdyO at 05:16 PM : Sep 09, 2008

not to mention, the terrorist showed up once we tore down the infrastructure. they were not there prior to the war, and this is not a secret. so rip a country to shreds to entice terrorists in, and then claim victory because we''''ve killed some and they''''ve killed some of us and many many civilians? logic maybe????


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Posted by smart4peace at 05:22 PM : Sep 09, 2008

Yes they were. Saddam''s own commanders testified to it!

BUT TO TRY TO PUT McCAIN IN THE BUSH CAMP WON%u2019T FLY.

In health care, McCain co-sponsored, with John Edwards and Ted Kennedy, a patients'''' bill of rights. He joined Chuck Schumer to sponsor one bill allowing the re-importation of prescription drugs. All these measures were fiercely contested by the health care industry and, consequently, by Bush and the GOP leadership.

On the environment, he sponsored with John Kerry a bill raising automobile fuel-efficiency standards and another bill with Joe Lieberman imposing a cap-and-trade regime on carbon emissions.

McCain teamed with Carl Levin on bills closing down tax shelters and requiring businesses that gave out stock options as compensation to reveal the cost to their stockholders.

McCain voted against the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts.

Sen. John McCain%u2019s (R-Ariz.) voted against Bush%u2019s nomination of Gen. George Casey to become Army chief of staff the only republican to do so.

He co-sponsored bills to close the gun-show loophole, expand AmeriCorps, and federalize airport security. All these things set him against nearly the entire Republican Party. We all know about his McCain/Feingold campaign finance bill.

Posted by Trapbreak
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And then he sold out in order to get the republican nomination.

[rowdyo]

Posted by Trapbreak at 05:18 PM : Sep 09, 2008

EXACTLY! And we''ve witnessed all these things John McCain has done!

What have we witnessed in Obama effort? Scamming elections! PERIOD!

[rowdyo]

Posted by RowdyO at 05:05 PM : Sep 09, 2008


hmmm. i heard him lay out precisely what he would do with Iran. and any fool knows the surge, more troops, works. THE POINT IS that your repub rats did it too late. thousands of deaths later, OH! maybe we should try a new tactic! by that point, the intelligent factor said why?? why should we consent to any more of Bush''''s halfwit ideas? had the surge been done years ago, while our troops were getting their arses kicked, it would have been smart. but years out, to finally realize that more troops is what we needed in this useless war of Bush''''s personal self gain, sorry. by that point, the nuts and bolts were loose, and we all know it.


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Posted by smart4peace at 05:11 PM : Sep 09, 2008

Too late? We''ve hunted down over 20,000 plus terrorists! Made effort to unite Iraq in a common goal....and it''s working? What can you possibly mean?

Tell the American people how you plan to fix things in out government.

Posted by pporch77
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This is a real chuckle, this is. McCain WILL NOT willing discuss specifics or issues. Remember when Katy Couric tried to interview him? Did we hear a single word outta his mouth concerning issues during his speech at the RNC.
It''s why his campaign manager says: "This election is about personalities".
McCain''s got a long record in Washington, but he''s got good reasons for NOT wanting to discuss or examine it.
He desperately wants us to "judge the book by it''s cover". He sure don''t want us lookin'' inside until after we''ve bought it.

[rowdyo]

I agree with your comment....however, Obama has outlined his plan on every issue...the Repugs are running on "character" to avoid discussing the issues...


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Posted by jocro12 at 05:00 PM : Sep 09, 2008

No he hasn''t. All he''s done is mouth off about mismanagement krap...and was forced to finally admit the surge worked.

He still won''t say he''ll take military action against Iran...he stutters and stammers, claims they''re a major threat...then evades by saying they''re a not a part of the real problem?

I mean, what the hell?

[rowdyo]

Let me say from the git go that I refuse to watch FOX news but I did set my DVR for the 3 nights that Obama was on with Bill Oreilly....how come the neocons havent mentioned a word about the interview? It is because Obama cleaned his plow...it was a complete joy to see Bill squirm....if you havent seen the interview do a search and watch it....





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Posted by jocro12 at 04:53 PM : Sep 09, 2008

You mean the ones where Obama stuttered stammered, evaded and wouldn''t answer his direct questions?

[pporch77]

Sen Obama and Gov Palin have th same experience, Sen Biden and Sen McCain have the same experience, so let''s just find out what each party will do the fix the problems in our country. I''m sick of here from both parties stating they have the experience. THERE EQUAL. Tell the American people how you plan to fix things in out government.