Comments on: Obama: Presumptuous or Taken Out of Context?

[TommyCraig]

Anyone about half tired of politics by now? If we could get this much energy from our politicians during the off-election years!
And, do we really need a president?
(satire)

[txgrouch2006]

So what if he DID say it as it''s quoted?

IT''S TRUE!!!

[nowdecided]

I can''t believe that Senator McCain is stooping so low in this campaign, when he said he would run a respectful, positive campaign. I can''t believe he hired someone from Karl Rove to do these kinds of things. He''s going to push a lot of people like me off the fence and into voting for Obama.

[smiley676]

Why must the republicans always take things out of context? It seems the only way they can make themselves look good is to lie about what others have said! It is aparent that if you take half of what someone said and portray it as all they said you are lying, because you are not repeating what they said but only your version of what they said.


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Posted by gurv07728

Really? Like the Democrats didn''t completely misquote McCain when they said he said he would stay 100 years in Iraq? Did you ever bother to read what he really said? The Dems cut out almost a whole sentence in between Iraq and 100 years.

This is the nature of campaigns. Both sides missquote the other. Don''t ever be fooled into thinking one side is better than the other.

[peterp111]

This is really getting ridiculous- out of hand- over the top- quite ego driven, self centered, and way too much nonsense-all about a man, ( well,barely) who with some luck, bounced his way to win a primary, and voices empty rheteric, promises pie in the sky socialisist dreams, and does not believe in a few amendments, did not vote many times in the senate ( all of his ''glowing'' 2 years) and claims to have experiance to lead a country. WHAT AUDACITY. . Anyone who prefers to live in ''his fantasyworld'' better take a second look, last I heard it was quite expensive. You think you have it tough now? He will rasie your taxes and provide nothing of any subsequent change that will benefit anyone. Sad as it is, and as blunt as this sounds, Obama is very wrong for the USA

[govwatch-2009]

All well and good but, Obama Hussain said it. "Oh I did not really want to say, but if I were to say, I would say....."

[broncfan1661]

AMEN!! Wake up for God''''s sake. McCain is another "proud of my lackluster performance in school" politician. Let''''s give brains a shot.

Posted by OneOpinion at 11:22 AM
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You had your chance to do that, but you all voted for Obama!

[dnsallday]

We need to be aware that there are people trying to use us to spread misinformation and do their dirty work for them. We live in a democracy and there are powerful interests who fear the idea of letting us choose our own leaders. Some have exploited the flaws in our democracy to get their hands on the levers of power and they don%u2019t want to let go. One of their standard tactics distort an actual quote so that it fits with the perception they are trying to push, trusting that we will blindly distribute it to all our friends. This is terribly destructive; not only to democracy, but to our personal lives because the tactic exploits the trust we share with those who are closest to us.


A question I urge you to ask yourself is why the exploiters of power who started this lie don%u2019t have the integrity to be honest with the American people? The vast majority of Americans know that the economy is not working and the country is going in the wrong direction. But a few are profiting like never before at our expense and they are afraid of policies that would respect and value the efforts of hard-working Americans. Rather than challenge such policies head on, they prefer to use us to spread their propaganda.

Smears like this are meant to draw our attention to some moral failing in our leaders. The real moral failing is in the people who concocted this smear in the first place and thought so little of us when they sought to hijack the democratic process that makes America great.

[oneopinion]

hese are the same fools who voted for bush not once but twice and are responsible for the rotten state this country is in now! They''''re too stupid to learn anything!!!
Posted by suzyku

AMEN!! Wake up for God''s sake. McCain is another "proud of my lackluster performance in school" politician. Let''s give brains a shot.

[anotherview2-2009]

Here we go. Obama''s campaign telling us what he really said.

Obama is doing exactly what he did during the primary with the media''s help. Acting as if he is it.

[gurv07728]

Why must the republicans always take things out of context? It seems the only way they can make themselves look good is to lie about what others have said! It is aparent that if you take half of what someone said and portray it as all they said you are lying, because you are not repeating what they said but only your version of what they said.

[broncfan1661]

This is ridiculous, the WAPO "mis"quotes Obama, leaves out the first half of what he "really" said and the idiot right wingers are posting here, buying the lies. The ignorance and stupidity of these people is beyond belief! These are the same fools who voted for bush not once but twice and are responsible for the rotten state this country is in now! They''''re too stupid to learn anything!!!

Posted by suzyku at 11:12 AM : Jul 30, 200
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With this post you are not only showing YOUR stupidity but you short temper as well. By the way, I am not a Republican but I do NOT like Obama.

[bobnjersey]

the republicans are using misleading statements to get their sheep to follow ... who would have thought this to be at all possible?

[notblue]

The libs don''t like it when the shoe is on the other foot, as if the press never takes any statemnent given by a republican out of context! LOL! That''s the leftwing way twist to suit an agenda! Unfortunatley the 67 percenters always believe.

[gurv07728]

Why do the Republican''s want a traitor and druggie in the White House. Do they think it will be easier to control them or what????

[suzyku]

This is ridiculous, the WAPO "mis"quotes Obama, leaves out the first half of what he "really" said and the idiot right wingers are posting here, buying the lies. The ignorance and stupidity of these people is beyond belief! These are the same fools who voted for bush not once but twice and are responsible for the rotten state this country is in now! They''re too stupid to learn anything!!!

[gurv07728]

I notice they do in-depth looks into Michelle%u2019s back ground and report what ever insinuated or slightly bad thing they can find, while not mentioning Cindy%u2019s drug use and stealing of drug prescriptions from the charity she ran not even a mention in passing. Brief bio:

Much has been made of allegations of possible youthful use of illegal drugs by Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush. Meanwhile, his chief GOP opponent, Arizona Sen. John McCain, has admitted that his wife not only illegally used drugs but walked away from criminal charges. The McCains have worked to make Cindy McCain''s addiction into a political asset--despite the fact that she stole the drugs from a charity she directed and used them while mothering four young children.
In 1994, Mrs. McCain admitted that she had solicited prescriptions for painkillers from physicians who worked for an international charity that she founded, the American Voluntary Medical Team. She then filled the prescriptions in the names of her staff.

[broncfan1661]

"BARACK OBAMA" A LEGEND in his own mind!
Also in the minds of the networks and NY Times.

[gurv07728]

McCain came into conflict with higher-ranking personnel, he did not always obey the rules, and this contributed to a low class rank (894 of 899) that he did not aim to improve.

McCain was then stationed in A-1 Skyraider squadrons, on the aircraft carriers USS Intrepid and USS Enterprise, in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. The planes he was flying crashed twice and once collided with power lines, but he received no major injuries.

McCain requested a combat assignment, and in December 1966 was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal flying A-4 Skyhawks. McCain''s combat duty began when he was 30 years old, in summer 1967, when Forrestal was assigned to a bombing campaign during the Vietnam War. In August 1968, a program of severe torture began on McCain. He was subjected to rope bindings and repeated beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery. Further injuries led to the beginning of a suicide attempt, which was stopped by guards. After four days, McCain made an anti-American propaganda "confession". He has always felt that his statement was dishonorable, but as he would later write, "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."

[gurv07728]

When it comes to what their pastors and the pastors that gave them public endorsements, what Obama%u2019s says is still making news on an almost daily basis by way of constant reminding of what Rev. Wright said, while it was barley mentioned at the time and is never even mentioned anymore period.