Comments on: CBS Poll: Obama Has Edge In Final Debate

By Large Margin, Uncommitted Voters Say Democrat Won The Last Debate Before The Election

[david1737]

McSubprime


McCain chose Phil Gramm as the Vice Chairman of his campaign.

Phil Gramm caused the subprime debakle when he slipped into an omnibus spending bill a provision called the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA), which prohibited any governmental regulation of credit default swaps, those insurance policies covering losses on securities in the event they went belly up. As the housing bubble ballooned, the face value of those swaps rose to a tidy $62 trillion. And as the housing bubble burst, those swaps became a massive pile of worthless paper, because no government agency had required the banks to set aside money to back them up. The CFMA also prohibited government regulation of the energy-trading market, which enabled Enron to nearly bankrupt the state of California before bankrupting itself.

As one of the Keating 5 you would think that McCain had learned his lesson about deregulation.

Change?

[david1737]

Bottom line McCain was Charles Keating''s business partner. McCain was one of the Keating 5.

Neal Bush, Jeb Bush, Bush senior and W Bush were all involved in the Savings and Loan scandal of the late 1980s. This debakle cost the tax payers over $1 trillion. It was caused by the DEREGULATION of the Savings Banks, and is a template for the Subprime meltdown, also cause by deregulation. McCain has had decades in the Senate to learn his lessons, obviously he has learned nothing.

Change?

[surf723]

In the mid-1990s, Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn hosted meetings at their Chicago home to introduce Barack Obama during his first run for the Illinois Senate.

In 1995 Ayers whose stated educational objective is to "teach against oppression" as embodied in "America''s history of evil and racism, thereby forcing social transformation" founded a "school reform organization" called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). He appointed Obama as the group''s first chairman.

CAC archives show that Obama and Ayers worked as a team to advance the foundation''s agenda, with Obama responsible for fiscal matters while Ayers focused on shaping educational policy.

Ayers made presentations to board meetings chaired by Obama. Ayers also spoke for the Chicago School Reform Collaborative before Obama''s board, while Obama periodically spoke for the board at meetings of the collaborative. CAC granted money to far-leftist causes, such as the radical Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which %u2026has done work on behalf of Obama''s presidential campaign."

Obama chaired the board of the CAC, more than $600,000 was granted to an organization founded by Ayers and run by Mike Klonsky, a former top communist activist. Klonsky was leader of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party.



But according to Obama - he was just a guy in the neighborhood.

Why does this matter - it is from relationships with people like Ayers is formed his opinions and ideas.

wake up!

[david1737]

89% of Americans think that our country is going in the wrong direction.

McCain voted for 4/5 of Bush budgets.

McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time.

A month ago McCain''s policies on the economy were 100% Bush, tax cuts for the rich and deregulation.

Sorry McCain it''s too late to claim that you represent change.

[ohio-viewer]

I think many Obama supporters really DO a great job at fact finding and "doing thier homework", thank-you!

All these McCarthy era "guilt by association" slams against Obama are ridicuolus! Being on a board with someone does not make them best friends and does not make all the people in the chairs around the table "terrorists" if their co-worker was a terrorist in the 60''s! Like it or not, many people in Chicago have interaction with Bill Ayers every day! Republicans, Democrats, all kinds of people! Maybe it''s upsetting that Ayers never did time in prison, but that''s not Obama''s fault and it''s not the fault of every person who interacts with Bill Ayers over his lifetime! I guess if you want to be alarmed, you better worry more about all the students who have Bill Ayers as a professor! That would have more influence than sitting on a board with someone! Are you going to write the university where Ayers works and demand he be fired?

[noloyalisti]

Posted by dragonfly125 Wear do you come up with this ridiculous junk? Quit making stuff up and lying like McSame and McBush, it''s really worn thin. The righties have no plans, no program and no hope. Face up to your failure.

[dragonfly125]

READ all 2001 articles on Bill Ayers and then you
decide if you want a President who launched his
political career in Ayers house.........i think not
America..........Please please do your homework.

[dragonfly125]

No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen this is from a 2001 11
article after 9/11 anyone considering voting for Obmaa really ought to get to know Ayers and then
reconsider your vote...............



By DINITIA SMITH
Published: September 11, 2001

''''I don''t regret setting bombs,'''' Bill Ayers said. ''''I feel we didn''t do enough.'''' Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970''s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The long curly locks in his Wanted poster are shorn, though he wears earrings. He still has tattooed on his neck the rainbow-and-lightning Weathermen logo that appeared on letters taking responsibility for bombings.

[lalabradle]

I think Obamma would make a fine used car salesman. He''''s such a smooth talker and has an appealing appearance. That should not be the criteria for electing a President of the United States. What do we really know about him? He wouldn''''t pass the screening requirements for being an FBI agent, and we want him to be our President?

MariB3
Too bad you are uninformed, Obama is a Senator who has to go through a more thorough background investigation than an FBI agent. I work for the government, believe me I know. So contrary to your post, he could easily be an FBI agent.

[lalabradle]

Unbelievable! People actually think America will change, when in essence Americans don''''t want to change their behaviour,..they want handouts., they want government, they want,.. want,... want:

Well if we the people are paying our taxes, why is it wrong for us to want some of the benefits? I guess it''s not wrong for big corporations to ask for handouts though. And they are not benefitting anyone but their own greedy selves as seen in this bailout, not for the American people losing their homes, who paid their taxes, but to the people who caused this whole mess but not hurting from it in their own personal lives. (Maybe the 5%)

[lalabradle]

Obama is a Senator for God''s sake, he has been thoroughly vetted. He could not hold his position as Senator nor have been a member of the Senate all of these years if there was any proof of anything you people are saying. I work for the government and I am nowhere near where he is and they do background investigations every five years. So get over all of the accusations because there is no truth to any of it.

[jfrance5]

Fox has McCain winning about the same ratios as CBS has Obama winning here. In every presidential election democrats always seem to lead in the polls. I think Obama has peaked. But we will see. I don''t trust the man (forget about race) His past just has too many blemishes for me. In four year of being vetted going forward I could easily change my mind. It just seems to me that he is hiding something. But I don''t know what it is. Trashing Joe the plumber didn''t sit well with me. It seems like any time that something comes up about Obama the spin starts anew, stances change like the wind, and the democratic talking heads almost panic. Why should they do that if they are so convinced that he is pulling away? I''m not buying it.

[ubrew12]

john43218 said: "Obama thinks in giving you our wealth your attiude will change, that is the biggest lie I have ever heard. Socialism will destroy this country. Period."

Socialism hasn''t destroyed W Europe yet.

[Netterz]

"NOTE: This is not a scientific poll. The results above are for information purposes only, and should not be confused with the results of the scientific polls conducted by CBS News."

CBS was bought and paid for by the Democrats Demolition crew before this election even started. Media bias=bought.

Obama is obviously arrogant, watching him during the debate made it more than obvious. Did youo happen to notice that when he spoke, he got a single screen, while McCain did not, always on split screen. Obama sits and laughs at everything McCain says, as if its insignificant. What Presidential hopeful has EVER had enough money to buy his very own cable and sattelite channels? He is a JUNIOR senator, never ran a company, a city, or even a state. He has been hand picked and groomed by the DEMOLITION CREW. The chose a black man, so no one would want to use a race card, and have put him up as there puppet, to finish off this once great country. We have been living under a democratically controlled country for over 4 years now. How can we afford more of the same at the hands of the DEMOLITION CREW? If they have there way, everyone will have a Nancy Pelosi living in our living room. A vote for ANY Democrat, is a vote for the destruction of this country.

[lalabradle]

It''s funny how people keep harping on the taxes. It''s almost as if we have been tax free for the last eight years. No matter who gets in, we will be taxed. And when they can''t find any other excuses, they attack character and race. From looking at these blogs I can see why our country is so screwed up. It''s being run by a bunch of petty morons. From reading these blogs, it sounds like the Republican party is as portrayed at the RNC, bigots and gun toting *** backward rednecks. You don''t even have enough sense to look at your own lives in reality. I am pretty sure some of you have lost homes, jobs and are on welfare. It''s called voting Republican to keep the black man out. Fortunately, I don''t think the majority of white Americans share your ignorance.

[john43218]

Unbelievable! People actually think America will change, when in essence Americans don''t want to change their behaviour,..they want handouts., they want government, they want,.. want,... want:

That is called : Greed.


Obama thinks in giving you our wealth your attiude will change, that is the biggest lie I have ever heard. Socialism will destroy this country. Period.
Good luck, friends.

McCain/Palin have no chance anymore. Maybe some more hatemongering... but they''ll never win.

GO OBAMA!!!!

[lalabradle]

The CBS poll right here says 83% Obama and 14% McCain. Look for yourself.

[caldwellptr]

It is expected that you would find gutter politics here.

But gutter politics by the Candidates? Which means we get gutter government.

[hatesthecolt]

This is scary US citizens. I am curious as to why Obama''''s background is not a major issue in this debate. Are people ignoring the facts about who he keeps friends with as stated by McCain in last night''''s debate?
Posted by rebee1952
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Would you and or John McCain like to talk about Palin''''s friends?? You know, the ones from the Alaskan Independence Party that support the secession of Alaska from the United States???


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Posted by raflin001

So, under rebee''s standards, in voting for George Bush, he chose to vote for a cocaine snorting coward who hid in the national guard instead of serving his country, barely scraped thru college, whose father consorts with "ARABS" and was part of one of the most corrupt adminsitrations in history? If character was ever a factor, you already blew it!