Comments on: In Final Days, Dirty Tricks Rear Ugly Head

Efforts To Confuse Or Scare Voters Once Again Appear As Election Day Nears

[len134]

Hopefully in four years the Republicans, having realized that they majority of Americans will no longer stand or accept their trash politics of fear and smear, will campaign in a civil manner. Too many of us were fooled by their disingenuous tactics and allowed Bush/Cheney into office.

Can we hope for a better politics? I think, that after eight years of Obama, the American conscience will have been raised to the point that the fear and smear tactics of McCain will go down in history as the last and most egregious example of negative politics.

America needs to drag the last of the mistaken conservative right wing haters into the 21st century, and forge a new consciousness, a better society, and a better global example.

Obama/Biden 08

Remember, Polls mean Nothing, The Vote means Everything.

[irmcvet97]

I am Barack Obama and I aproved this measage

I am a clown, I have no real experience, I am just a taliking head and I let CNN and CBS run my campain for me.

Posted by Kingfisher10 at 05:06 PM : Nov 02, 2008

We THE PEOPLE are better than this! WE are! We are the son''s and daughters of people who DARED to believe that the COMMON Man could Govern himself. The son''s and daughters of people who picked leaders like Abe Lincoln and FDR. Fear is not in our make up and we MUST stand with those who are under attack in just this manner. This poor uneducated LOSER doesn''t give us a reason to vote FOR his guy. No! He only attempts to scare us into voting against the Guy who OBVIOUSLY has been in OUR shoes!! Obama 08

[CNH]

This country has been slowly evolving into that which we have sacrificed countless lives opposing--a militant nation with an agenda driven by religious extremists who promote freedom of thought only so long as it does not conflict with their own ideas. Sound familiar? We have become the enemy.

Ever since the 1960''s, the GOP consistently has been, and will always be, the party of exclusion, the party that attempts to diminish those who look different than themselves, pray to a different deity, or follow a different lifestyle. They are the party that uses fear and hatred as a weapon to intimidate any who do not share their points of view.

It is time for a fresh perspective, a new philosophy of America''s place in the world. It can no longer be us versus them at all costs; the world is far too small for such a narrow-minded point of view.

It is time to embrace those who are different than ourselves and accept them for who they are--it would be the "christian" thing to do.

[CNH]

The problem with the McCain campaign is that they have no positive, productive message of their own, no specific policies for improving the economy that differ from those of GWB, no solutions for improving America''s standing among foreign nations, no significant platform whatsoever. He is a one-trick pony pushing his vague concept of being a "reformer" and a "maverick".

As a result, he has relied on negative attack ads and speeches from the get-go. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and McCain is a desperate man whose blind ambitions have clouded any sense of judgement, fairplay, and code of ethics. (Palin, on the other hand, never had a code of ethics--only a holier-than-thou sense of morality.)

McCain and Palin have regressed from "gutter politics" to "sewer politics".

[frillysunshi]

McCain supporters are bordering on villainous. They''d go to any lengths to make sure Obama doesn''t win. I bet none of them have any morals- I mean stooping so low as to disenfranchise voters- in a f-ing democracy! None of them happen to think that America
can''t become socialist anyway. We''re a capitalist nation- we don''t do regime changes.

[willkurz]

This type of dirty trick is the reason moderates are desertting the GOP in droves. It is organised fraud and has, at least, the silent complicity of the RNC and the McCain campaign.

The only thing the GOP has learned since Watergate is how to reduce the chances of getting caught and to have a compliant right wing TV network (Fox)divert attention with red herrings about the alleged transgressions of ACORN.

[blackyowe]

Racism is an ugly wart on the face of America and we need to cut it out!

[kingfisher10]

I am Barack Obama and I aproved this measage

I am a clown, I have no real experience, I am just a taliking head and I let CNN and CBS run my campain for me.

[red1952]

The McCain campaign with the help of the republican party will use these last two days promoting fear, lies and hate. Obama will use his last two to promote change, hope and promise. Is there any wonder why people are looking to Obama to lead. It''s time to put to rest the politics of hate once and for all. Hopefully on November 5th, a new day will shine brightly for the US.

[doctajim]

Alas, the war against Communism - such an old and worn cry of witch hunts. As early as 1933, Hitler, Goebbels, Hess and the rest of the Nazi ilk had one cry that brought them together - defeat Communism! You talk about history, try Lowen or Zinn and learn some history that wasn''t brought to you by Fox, "Rush", and the facists. This election is the power of truth against the evils of discrimination, abuse of power, lies of government, the hypocrisy of Republicans (from Idaho bathrooms to Wall Street), and real Socialism (brought to us all by GW Bush). I hope the incoming Democratic AG has a focus on the RNC, Bush, Cheney and the application of RICO.

[todded67]

The dirtiest trick in this election, is the NETWORK NEW being in the tank for Obama and refusing to investigate or cover any of the myriad of questionable judgements by this man. It is an historical point in America where the media creates their own candidate and ensures his victory by deceit.

[kazoodan]

So typical of the Republican party.

[cdfoxtrot4]

Seems like all of these dirty tricks are by the Republicans. Do you have to be a total scumbag maggot in order to be a Republican? Do Republicans have ANY sense of shame???

[dredigga]

I am thankful that this is almost over and Sen. Obama looks to be headed for victory. It saddens me a little that he appears he is going to govern from the center ( though us left-leaning liberals deserve to see him govern our way) and since it is the far-right policies that got us in the position we are in today. Regardless, we should unite behind which ever one wins as we have to unite and get this great country headed back in the right direction.

[formrusmcsgt]

RNC enlists Clinton to attack Obama

NEW YORK (CNN) %u2013 The Republican National Committee is using Hillary Clinton%u2019s past criticism of Barack Obama to plant seeds of doubt in the minds of undecided voters in the final hours of the presidential campaign.

Full script:

%u201CI am calling for John McCain and the RNC. Listen to what Hillary Clinton had to say about John McCain and Barack Obama:

%u2018In the White House there is no time for speeches and on-the-job training. Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign and Senator Obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002. I think that is a significant difference.%u2019

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I thought that McCain would pull this out a couple of months ago, but he obviously chose to use it as a last minute shot.

BTW, thanks Hillary.

[misha128-2009]

Better questions --

What happens when a campaign and a candidate misinforms their own voters when election day is?

What happens when a candidate either gives away war plans or mistakenly claims we are at war with a nation?

Welcome to Gov Sarah Palin''s Sunday. Today alone she has told voters to vote on Nov 5th (should have been Nov 4th) and that the McCain / Palin administration, if elected, would be addressing wars in Iraq and IRAN in their first 100 days in office.

[roadracer9x]

The penalty for election fraud or any of these dirty tricks should be loss of citizenship and expulsion from the country, no matter which side does it. We don''t need these people and they are NOT Americans. If we cannot have fair elections who in the world will ever trust us?

[dburfears]

Republican platform:

If you can''t BUY the election, then STEAL it.