Comments on: Warning Signs For McCain And Obama

CBSNews.com Analysis: Past Performance Suggests Barack Obama And John McCain Each Have Unique Strengths - And Weaknesses

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MyCane was among seven senators given a ZERO SCORE in 2007 by the League of Conservation Voters.

A zero meant MyCane was absent or voted against the environmental position on all of the issues being tracked -- 15 votes the group used to compile its 2007 rankings. The votes ranged from approval for an increase in automobile fuel economy and imposing new taxes on oil companies to offshore oil development and prioritizing flood-control projects.

[taddles2]

"Read the U.S. Consititution. Can Rev. Wright be classified as an enemy?

Posted by BajaJohn1 at 04:54 PM : Jun 04, 2008"


No more than you can...1st amendment trumps son.

[noloyalisti]

Knuckleheads, what does Obama have to do with Rev Wright? They are not the same person. The frightened righties can''t stand the truth and because they have no material all they can do is criticize. Just like their candidate McBush.

At any rate, keep writing and speaking to reveal to all the world exactly how ignorant you are about liberals, politics, Obama, race, gender, diplomacy, war and peace, etc.

[taddles2]

"As far as this race, it''''s slim pickings.

Posted by downsteamjim at 04:50 PM : Jun 04, 2008"


I''m glad that high school students are getting an education from someone who understand the need to think independently.

I happen to disagree with you concerning the pickings, I think both Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama would be excellent presidents.

I also retract my comment concerning Marx as you most likely have read him if you are in fact a teacher. However you would be in the minority on this forums if that were true.

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''I have witnessed incidents where he (McCain) has used profanity at colleagues and exploded at colleagues,'' said former Senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican who served with McCain on the Senate Armed Services Committee and on Republican policy committees. ''He would disagree about something and then explode. It was incidents of irrational behavior. We''ve all had incidents where we have gotten angry, but I''ve never seen anyone act like that.''

Fits of anger over the Mount Graham red squirrel, which has gotten in the way of McCain''s pet projects in AZ, seem to be McCain''s achilles heel. Robin Silver and Bob Witzeman, both medical doctors, met with McCain at his Phoenix office to discuss the endangered squirrel. At the mere mention of the issue, McCain erupted...''He slammed his fists on his desk, scattering papers across the room," Silver said. ''He jumped up and down, screaming obscenities at us for at least 10 minutes. He shook his fists as if he was going to slug us.''

Looney ain''t it?

[downsteamjim]

To Taddles2: Swiftboating means that when people who know what happen tell what happened. Why not? It''s not like CBS creating documents.

[taddles2]

"who did? Shouldn''''t we know?

Posted by lightnin001 at 04:52 PM : Jun 04, 2008"


Shouldn''t you learn how non-profits work before posting stupid questions?

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downsteamjim, secretly hates high scool students and mocks them over the interweb. Don''t tell anybody.

[taddles2]

"As far as changing v following the rules, in Obama''''s first election he was legally correct, but I doubt you would consider his actions morally correct.

Posted by downsteamjim at 04:43 PM : Jun 04, 2008"


Politics is tough, if you can''t hang with the big boys you shouldn''t be in the game.

Was it moral when the 521''s swift-boated Kerry? Was it moral when Bush attacked McCain with the "black baby" adds? Was it moral when voters were disenfranchised by the secretary of state in Ohio in ''04 and in FL in ''00?

Obama played by the rules, he used them to his advantage, that''s not immoral, that''s smart.

[lightnin001]

Heard on the news a couple of days ago that, over the past 15 years, while "Rev." Wright has been spewing his hate-filled, racist, anti-American, anti-white speeches, and Obama has "not-heard" any of that, their "church", which recently gave a Lifetime Achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, has quietly been the recipient of $15,000,000 of our tax dollars! They are probably still getting it!

How''d they arrange to get that much of our tax money, who set that up, do you think? Separation of church and state? Has that been repealed? Do you think anybody should ask Obama if he had anything to do with getting that "church" this money? If he didn''t, who did? Shouldn''t we know?

[downsteamjim]

Taddles2: It seems we have met a point of agreement. I work with High School students. I neither show pro or con. I don''t care who they support, but I want them to show some thought as to why they support whatever. As far as this race, it''s slim pickings.

[johnny343sc]

RACE IS --EXACTLY-- THE POINT IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE -----WHETHER OR NOT THE MEDIA THAT LOVES OBAMA WILL ADMIT IT.

HE "LOOKS" DIFFERENT, THEREFORE PEOPLE THINK HE IS DIFFERENT... DON''T BE FOOLED! HE IS GEORGE McGOVERN/JIMMY CARTER IN BLACKFACE. THIS ISN''T CHANGE--- SAME WINE, NEW BOTTLE.

WHEN WE DON''T MENTION the candidate''s race or gender at all, then we will have ---true---- change

;)

[taddles2]

"Why not expose youth to history? I asked one young voter why he was pro Obama. Reply, "He is cool". I then asked if that is what it takes to be a good President. The confused look on his face indicated that he had never put any thought into the decision.

Posted by downsteamjim at 04:41 PM : Jun 04, 2008"


Asking the same question out of a Republican would get you the same answer 9 out of 10 times, your point is moot. The electorate is not informed, the posts on this website demonstrate that fact amply. Most people don''t bother to do any research on any candidate and just go by what they hear from the talking heads because it''s easy. Again, this site is a great example of lots of noise little knowledge.

[downsteamjim]

As far as changing v following the rules, in Obama''s first election he was legally correct, but I doubt you would consider his actions morally correct.

[taddles2]

"You really don''''t believe that there are strong similarities between Obama''''s beliefs and those of Marx. Perhaps you are need to read up on your hero.

Posted by downsteamjim at 04:37 PM : Jun 04, 2008"


One can find similarities in any historic writing to events and ideologies today...that''s really not much of a stretch.

Perhaps you need to actually read Marx.

[downsteamjim]

To Taddles: Why not expose youth to history? I asked one young voter why he was pro Obama. Reply, "He is cool". I then asked if that is what it takes to be a good President. The confused look on his face indicated that he had never put any thought into the decision.

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"Even if you want to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, it%u2019s hard to give him the benefit of the facts.

As a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2003, Obama said he would %u201Cunequivocally%u201D oppose President Bush on the war. But once in office, he voted for every war-funding bill %u2014 until he decided to run for president.

After the invasion, Obama did not favor an immediate pullout from Iraq. Right around the time he delivered his brilliant keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in July 2004, he told the Chicago Tribune that when it came to the war, %u201Cthere%u2019s not much of a difference between my position and George Bush%u2019s position at this stage.%u201D"



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[taddles2]

"Mugabe just arranges the law to fit his actions. Sounds alot like Chicago politics.

Posted by downsteamjim at 04:35 PM : Jun 04, 2008"


I don''t know, call me crazy here but most people would call that "changing the rules". Seems like what Obama did was "follow the rules". I could be wrong but I''m sure if I am you will point to the exact rule that Obama broke.

[taddles2]

"The two most successful youth movements of the last century are Hitler Nazism and Mao''''s Cultural Revolution.

Posted by downsteamjim at 04:30 PM : Jun 04, 2008"


Wow, again with the really bad an inaccurate analogies. Way to win over those millions of new voters by calling them Nazis and Commies, I''m sure they will come out in droves to vote Republican in November.

[downsteamjim]

To Taddles2: You really don''t believe that there are strong similarities between Obama''s beliefs and those of Marx. Perhaps you are need to read up on your hero.