Comments on: CBS Poll: Uncommitted Voters Favor Obama

Forty Percent Give Edge To Obama, 26 To McCain And 34 Percent Say It Was A Tie

[bellasw3]

I would love to say that race does not matter, but it does. This election only stirs up the inner racism within America. In Europe I am considered an American, but in America I am classified by race and that would be African American. My husband is white and we have two children. Both of my children look white, and I even sometimes get the stare more that I am the nanny rather than their mother. My first child is an American citizen by birth. My second child is not. I can choose to have my second child become an American citizen, but I am hesitant to do so. It is racism in America that keeps me from allowing my second child from being an American citizen. I love America. My husband and I have fights over who''s country is better. He asked me how can you love a country that discriminates based on skin color? I have no answer. It made me realize no matter how great I believe America is, I will never be able to explain to my children that skin color matters in America. I am convinced that America is the best place on earth, but the truth is America is a race hating country. Do not get me wrong, because I know the hatred goes in many ways. Abraham Lincoln said, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." This election is proof that racism will destroy America. Which is greater, racism or love for the United States of America?

[hatesthecolt]

Toby2958: I am not sure I am willing to go quite thatfar. Generally speaking, I find Repubs to be a tighta$$ed bunch but their are exceptions. For example, my parents are both repubs but my father is pretty tolerant (he''s a capital class repub... likes the economic policies, not so interested in the social ones... pretty willing to live and let live. My Mom is a racist-in-denial but I regard it as a factor of how and where she was raised; she really doesn''t intend it to be meanspirited but cannot bring herself to trust those who are different. And she''s too old to change now.

I reserve my disgust and disdain for those who are using and inciting these folks'' worst instincts, and can and do know better. I put George Bush, *** Cheney, Karl Rove and McCain''s handlers at the top of the list. They are trying despearately to Willie Hortonize this election. I pray they don''t succeed.

[noloyalisti]

True Americans do not support wars against innocent civilians. Real Americans support the laws of the land for EVERYONE and the Constitution. True Americans support conventions like the Geneva conventions and support the truth. Real Americans support the civil rights of everyone, minorities, women and Muslims.

Kind of unlike Proisreal and the GOP who are NOT really Americans.

[toby2958]

So I revert to my point that a lot of folks have this underlying racist rationale but are anxious to post a non-racist altruistic reason.

Posted by Hatesthecolt at 04:58 PM

Extend "racism" to include bigotry against minorities of all types, and you have just come up with an absolutely perfect and complete definition of the Republican Party.

[hatesthecolt]

Well put WhatIThink. There is much truth in what you say, particularly about the first gulf war and the reasons for going back. I wish as many folks were as concerned about the DoD IG Audit report on Halliburton as they were about Bill Ayers. The true level of corruption and cronyism is staggering and the public has just been in an unseeing daze.

As for proisrael, I don''t know if you saw his other post, but like archiebunker2, he finally revealed some subtle racist motivations. So I revert to my point that a lot of folks have this underlying racist rationale but are anxious to post a non-racist altruistic reason. And while I am interested somewhat in proisrael''s "public" rationale, I continue to be convinced that there''s another subliminal and less savory one.

[hatesthecolt]

CBSSENSORSu2, we are going to ignore you over here too because you don''t make any sense. Go back and clutter the other board.

[acseegull]

Have the candidates repeat the pledge of allegiance!

[bretster7]

What? Nothing , I mean absolutly nothing about ACORN, Ayers, and Dorn etc, etc, etc, here on the cB.S. ? There is a storm coming all you koolaid drinking mind numbed robots of the "O"
This is going to be fun, fun, fun.

[tallyman2008]

Poor ol John, God Bless Him



One of his ''handlers'' should teach him how to use a microphone

However, maybe it was just me - I do have an ear for these things

But, did you hear ?



Almost every time McCain took a breath to speak:


Wheezing and geezing




Poor ol John, God Bless Him




You Betcha

[hatesthecolt]

"Obama is a megalomaniac as evidenced by his grandiose manner and unbridled ambition"

OHHHHHHH, you mean he''s UPPITY!!! Well, there''s the codewords I was looking for.

Reread your post. Greek columned coronation??(you know that was intended to reflect the Lincoln memorial, right? Abraham Lincoln, whom we all revere now?)

You are going entirely on appearances which is at the heart of racism (I don''t care what white Democrat you once voted for).

[exaag]

to hatesthecolt: Obama is a megalomaniac as evidenced by his grandiose manner and unbridled ambition. he has already authored two autobiographies and he has yet to achieve any meaningful thing in his public life. he went to Berlin and told the Germans "this is out time" (the Germans wondered when they elected Obama and what "our" meant). His greek-column coronation in Denver was, and is, a disgusting excess. Obama is a conceited empty-suit, and you need to drop the KLool-aid glass long enough to look. By the way, I voted for Kerry.

[exaag]

A final note to "whatithink" re: your queries to me. Change is a term that requires definition. Nothing is static, but the Constitution, civil rights and free enterprise are foundations that must never be changed. The problem with Bush, just as with Obama, is the threat to the Constitution posed by each man, albeit from a different direction. Before you sell your freedom to Obama, listen to one whose family lived under socialism. Listen for one whose relatives were machine-gunned by the government. Listen to one who saw news mediashut down and children marched through the streets at bayonet point. Then listen for the jack-boots of the Obamanistas..they will be coming for you.

[nicolas127]

Chamberlain gives in to Hitler''s demands; the Munich Agreement gives Hitler Czechoslovakia''s Sudetenland. Chamberlain returns to London in triumph with a letter from Hitler declaring he thereafter would continue to work for peace.

Crowds cheered when Chamberlain said, "I believe it is peace for our time."

In Parliament, one man rose to state his opposition: "We have sustained a total, unmitigated defeat." But Winston Churchill was shouted down.

In 1939, Hitler gobbled the rest of Czechoslovakia. Czechs were killed or enslaved. In September 1939, 1.5 million German troops defeated 30 Polish divisions in 18 days, as Russia invaded the rest of Poland from the east. World War II had begun %u2014 and Germany rapidly took one country after another until finally Chamberlain was replaced by Churchill in early 1940.

Why dwell on all this history? Well, history tells us that showing weakness or appeasement by negotiating with tyrants is both gullible and dangerous.

When a young JFK after the Bay of Pigs failure met with Khrushchev, the Soviets immediately moved to build the Berlin Wall. It stayed in place for 28 years. Next, the Soviets installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, threatening to turn the Cold War into WWIII.

[hatesthecolt]

exaag, megalomaniac? Are you serious? I''ll bet you voted for Bush and there''s no bigger Megalomaniac than Cheney. And if you want to spot a fascist scene, take a good hard look at the Sarah Palin rally and all those folks yelling and screaming.

On what basis do you call Obama a megalomaniac? He hasn''t tried to expand the powers of the executive office. If that is your objection, turn your attention to the current administration. And why would we think McCain Palin would be diffierent? Also why would it be Obama invoking hope that would be fascist... Bill Clinton did it and I think the country was in pretty good shape after his 8 years.

Your post is nonsensical.

[nicolas127]

Hitler said he wanted peace and people believed him. But in 1936 he marched into the Rhineland. France did nothing; Hitler said he had no further territorial demands in Europe.

In 1937, he intimidated Austria and took it over. Only Britain''s Neville Chamberlain and France protested. Jewish people were sent to concentration camps or extermination centers. Now we''re up to the equivalent of 1938 on our Nasdaq chart %u2014 where we are today.

Hitler stirs up demonstrations in Czechoslovakia''s Sudetenland, claiming ethnic Germans are being persecuted. Britain''s Neville Chamberlain visits Hitler in September 1938. Hitler wants Britain and France to let Germany take the part of Czechoslovakia with a German population.

[exaag]

Just a note to whatithink regarding african americans who vote for the Democratic candidate. Your remarks do not reflect history. The GOP was begun as an anti-slavery party, and is historically credited with electing the first African Americans to public office up to and including the United States Senate. Untile the turn of the last century, African Americans in the northern states were overwhelmingly GOP, and the GOP founded (AND ORIGINALLY FUNDED) the NAACP. The South, however, was different. The Democratic party had the KKK as its enforcement wing, and the Democrats lynched and bullied blacks into either not voting or "voting like they were told". The Dems gave us such institutions as "poll taxes", "literacy tests" and ''white primaries". Around 1900-1910 the Democrats undertook the "New Haven Plan" to increase party strength in Republican Connecticut. Under that plan, Democrat operatives began pitting blacks against Italians in an effort to create group envy and elect local politicians. The scheme worked, and was incorporated as Democratic national policy thereafter. Since the 1940''s, the Democrats have used group hatred and group envy as the cornerstone of their party. As far as "going after white bigots" is concerned, the KKK continues to hate "jews, N--- and Republicans" as any "yellow-dog" southern Democrat will tell you.

[nicolas127]

Wake Up America, drawing a parallel between today and a time in history where the world saw the rise of Hitler in Germany. It is a sobering lesson worth everyone''s consideration. This is why this election is so very crucial. Who do we really want in the office of president to stand up to Ahmadinejad, Putin, Chavez, al-Qaida, et al? Obama is an appeaser not so unlike Neville Chamberlain. We need a principled Winston Churchill-type man like McCain confronting our nation''s enemies from a position of strength. Do we have to repeat history or can we learn from it?

[exaag]

The thing about obama is that, in my youth, I saw him during the economic crisis that brought down the Weimar Republic and replaced it with "hope and change" under Hitler. I saw obama again in 1959, when Fidel Castro offered "hope and change" as an alternative to the corruption of Battista. Whenever there are tough times, a little megalomaniac with big ambitions always rides in and promises "hope and change", and the brainless mob reacts by putting the charlatan in office. Do you hate Bush? Fine. But unless you also hate the United States, please do not go from "bad to worse" by electing this prancing little Hitler/Mussolini/Castro/Somoza/Allende/Chavez-in-waiting. By the way..have we forgotten that during the Democratic Primary in Texas the TV cameras caught Che Guevara''s portrait hanging in the Houston HQ for the Obama campaign?

[hatesthecolt]

proisrael, I am not saying everyone who does not vote for Obama is racist, but the simple unvarnished truth is that some (and personally I think there are lots) are. And many of them are in denial about it. I know this because my mother is one of ''them.'' She''s 78 years old and cannot get out of the 50''s. So anecdotally, though you may not vote for Obama for whatever non-racial reasons, it is not unreasonable for the rest of us to challenge others (especially those like archiebunker2 who inadvertently out themselves by using code words) who appear to be basing their lack of support at least partly on race.

As for the Bill Ayers thing, that is such a slender thread, I wish everyone would get off it once and for all. It''s 40 years old and an incredibly tenuous connection. It makes anyone who throws it up look like a nutty Vince Foster conspiracy theorist. I can live with agreeing with McCain''s economic plan, or his foreign policy experience, but these nasty little character assasinations are stupid and trivial and demean the real arguments for and against the candidates.

[smittygizmo]

I don''t know what is with this Archie Bunker guy,we could not really care what he thinks.He really shows his ignorance,and Hillary Clinton wouldn''t want this idiot''s support anyway.By the way Bill Clinton is still a Democrat so wake up and stop the lies. They are really ridiculous, when they lie about people. Hillary and Bill give thier support to Barrack Obama nd Joe Biden.They have said this in public many times.where in the hell does he get this ***. he must pull it out of his a--.