Comments on: Obama: The candidate as Rorschach test

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:10:13 +0000

Christopher Hitchens? I think you forget that Hitchens is a Marxist, I believe of the Trotsky variety. He isn’t exactly some powerhouse of the conservative movement; he just happens to think the War on Terror is a good policy on average. By no means is he some sort of conservative.

By: Annabel

Annabel — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:27:22 +0000

April, it would be a great thing if our country was less polarized and more united. The problem is you’re expecting bipartisanship from the wrong candidate. Barack Obama has never been a uniter of conservatives and liberals. He talks a good game, but his record proves otherwise. He’s never taken on his own party, never crossed party lines except for things that were already popular with both sides. It’s John McCain who has the bipartisan record, sponsoring important legislation with Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold, etc. He’s the one who’s angered his own party over and over, refusing to be a slave to partisanship.

By: jack

jack — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:45:27 +0000

republicans should campaign on the merits of thier stand on issues not this anti-obama rhetoric! infact we are promoting his campaign because these personality attacks are only driving the independents to his camp. so much for a strategy!!!!

By: April

April — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:10:05 +0000

The Republican campaign has tried to do in this election what they have done for the last 20 years–divide the country into two parts: they say if you are not for them, then you are anti-American. Barack Obama has been subject to vicious lies and underhanded tacticts that have nothing to do with his race and everything to do with the conservative extremists that use God as their excuse for suppressing our liberties.

Some comments on here refer to Obama as wanting to be dictator. To paraphrase Bush, everything would be easier if this country WERE a dictatorship…but only if HE were the dictator. That is what the Republican party has brought this country to by misconstruing the constitution and giving no-bid contracts to the party elitists that take our money and run–leaving us holding the bill.

This election is not about race or even idealogies. It’s about class. The middle class is tired of working hard all their lives only to be told that we need to give more money to corporations so we can benefit from a “trickle down” economic philosophy that ultimately only benefits the peak of the heirarchal apex–the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer.

Open your eyes, conservatives. Open your eyes, liberals. This election is the most significant election in modern times. Don’t let smear campaigns and hate speech, lies and rhetoric, sway you.

Obama gives us hope and the possibility of unity. A commentator on FoxNews a few days ago actually condemnded Obama for his talk of uniting the country–as if it were a bad thing that conversatives and liberals would unite. Can you imagine if we did, though? If we could set our differences aside and actually work together instead of fighting amongst ourselves, we could be a great country once again, instead of being the laughing stock of the world, as we have become.

By: Captain Hate

Captain Hate — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:19:52 +0000

But I love this country too much to be bullied, and if Roger Simon’s America is a place where, to be considered a decent American, I have to spend the better part of the day condemning every citizen not supporting John McCain, count me out.

This is a joke, right? I’ll give Jay the benefit of the doubt and believe that some dorky pre-adolescent relative jumped on his computer and typed this with his name already entered.

By: Anita Hope

Anita Hope — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:14:57 +0000

This AM “CNN” called the Socialist cannidate for Pres. “Mr. Moore” to refute the stories that Sen. Obama has a socialist agenda, which he did, saying that
the Sen. was in no way considered a socialist in any aspect. CNN must be seeing evidence to the contrary taking hold and it more than likely can be layedat the door of the LA Times and that captured tape. The majority of middle class business owners have used most of their skills towards being just that, small business owners giving jobs to future business owners. They have followed business practices of the successful leaders in the corporate world to reach their goals, we have always refered to it as “learning”, becoming educated to the needs of the public and working to increase their ability to help others to achieve the same, but the “work ethics” is the driving force. Free hand outs is not what makes a strong invirornment to live in. Even the illegals coming in want work whether it is picking in the fields or any small job. Sen. Obamas’ plans would make a society of people larger and weaker to support and care for medically. He would lead this country into the type that ” HURRICANE” comes from, a country of sheep followers that cannot visually reason what is more than apparent to the thinking mind, it is called “Mind Control” and weakens ones strength to want to achieve.It happened in Germany and Russia among other European countries. America must never fall victim to loosing our freedom of choice and self success.

By: Jungus

Jungus — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:08:56 +0000

Hurricane,
Giving lower strata Americans more healthcare and other perks will not “raise them up”. What it will do is give them access to more resources for free so that they will no longer have to work for it.
At the same time those that already work for those resources will now have to work harder to get the same access that is freely given to others.
This is an incentive to both groups to work less so that they can collect on thier free entitlements.

By: Webrider

Webrider — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:56:01 +0000

Hurricane, read this and have someone ready to wipe up the mess when your head explodes. NOTHING in this post is refutable, it’s all the truth, and sadly, only a partial compilation of Obama’s duplicity and outright dishonesty about virtually everything he talks about.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120699/posts

By: xj

xj — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:43:14 +0000

That we as a people cannot demand more accountability from corporations and economic interest groups and expect them to support and help out this nation which allowed them to get so wealthy and powerful to begin with?

And there it is: the leftist notion that everything that happens, happens by, with and because of a dispensation from the almighty state. The leftist attitude towards productive business is like the relations of a medieval monarch towards his court Jews: "I'll let you get rich as long as I'm getting richer, but the minute I come up short I'll seize every florin you own and watch you die in the gutter." Hurricane, nobody allowed these corporations and individuals to get rich, except in the sense that the school bully allows a kid to keep his lunch money from time to time. They got rich because they found something that the public valued and delivered in great quantities. Or are you seriously trying to tell us that the popularity of, say, the i-Pod is the result of some kind of government program? Finally, with regard to your stale talking point about the Bush administration allegedly spending all its tax receipts on the war in Iraq: for your edification, please look at the actual data here.

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:46:09 +0000

Hurricane (Oct 30, 2008 – 8:46 pm)

How do you know only the government can develop the average American’s economy? How do you know the average American isn’t capable of developing his own economy?