McCain hopes to harness an ugly, slavering beast comprised of far-right paranoia, hatred, fear, prejudice, and ignorance, and ride it to victory, but now he is starting realize that many Americans dislike his substitution of slander for an actual discussion of the issues.

His zig-zagging on slandering Obama is just one more example of his increasingly erratic behavior and poor judgment, and yet more proof that he has completely lost his moral center–the result of selling his soul to the Karl Rove faction of the Republican party. He is retracting some of his slanders, not because he has repented of them, but because he sees that they have backfired by alienating the undecided voters that he needs if he is to have any hope of winning.

McCain’s claim to be a ‘maverick’ are absurd-he has voted with Bush 90% of the time, has over 80 lobbyists on his staff, and has elected to veer to the far right in his campaign, to the point of taking advice from Karl Rove. A better description would indeed be erratic, as he claims Obama would raise taxes more than he would one moment, and then the next moment comes up his very own $300,000,000 pork-barrel give-away program to people who borrowed money they couldn’t possibly pay back.

Obama and Bush seem to agree on a lot as well…..

1. Abstinence: Bush expanded community-based abstinence education during his term, including a $28 million budget increase for 2009 in an effort to “Teach both abstinence and contraception to teens.” Obama concurred in April when he said: “We want to make sure that, even as we are teaching responsible sexuality and we are teaching abstinence to children, that we are also making sure that they’ve got enough understanding about contraception.”

2. Affirmative action: Bush said of the 2003 University of Michigan affirmative action case: “I strongly support diversity of all kinds, including racial diversity in higher education. But the method used by the University of Michigan to achieve this important goal is fundamentally flawed” — because it depended solely on race. Bush has said other factors, such as socioeconomic status, should be considered, which would include poor white students.
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Obama now agrees with that view. “Inside Higher Ed” referred in May to “Obama’s suggestion that he may be ready to change the focus of affirmative action policies in higher education — away from race to economic class. … In his debate in Philadelphia with Hillary Clinton, he said in response to a question, that his own privileged daughters do not deserve affirmative action preferences, and that working-class students of all colors do.”

3. Budgets: Obama voted for Bush’s budgets, which included 19 spending bills.

4. Capital punishment: Like Bush, Obama supports capital punishment. He spoke out in opposition to the recent Supreme Court decision that denied the death penalty for child rapists. And in his 2006 memoir, Obama said, “I believe there are some crimes — mass murder, the rape and murder of a child — so heinous that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.”

5. Education: Obama supports charter schools, as does Bush, and merit pay for teachers, and he voted in favor of supporting the president’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

6. Economics: Obama told reporters that he agreed with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Bush’s bailout package, then voted for the $700 billion plan. And despite routinely criticizing “the Bush tax cuts,” Obama is now offering tax cuts of his own (although only for the 95 percent of taxpayers earning less than $250,000 a year). What a concept!

7. Energy: In signing the $12.3 billion Energy Policy Act of 2005, Bush said it “promotes dependable, affordable, and environmentally sound production and distribution of energy for America’s future.” Obama voted for the energy plan and called it a “first step toward decreasing America’s dependence on foreign oil.”

8. Faith-based initiatives/fatherhood: Bush is well known for his commitment to the faith-based community — with initiatives for the poor and on fatherhood — and he expanded the ability to allow faith-based providers a seat at the funding table. Obama, who has railed against Bush’s efforts, has still found a way to embrace them, saying he would “expand” faith-based initiatives. He used his Father’s Day speech to echo the president’s Fatherhood Initiative.

9. FISA: Of the Senate bill passage that rewrote intelligence laws to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the Bush administration’s wiretapping program, Bush said: “This vital intelligence bill will allow our national security professionals to quickly and effectively monitor the plans of terrorists outside the United States, while respecting the liberties of the American people.”

Obama, who supported it, after opposing FISA last year, said: “Given the grave threats that we face, our national security agencies must have the capability to gather intelligence and track down terrorists before they strike, while respecting the rule of law and the privacy and civil liberties of the American people.” Almost identical, huh? Are we sure they don’t share the same speechwriter? But Obama did take heat for his change of heart, as The Washington Post reported that: “The Illinois senator’s reversal on the issue has angered liberal groups.” Guess you can’t please everyone.

10. Gay marriage: Both Obama and Bush agree that marriage is and should remain between one man and one woman. As far back as 2004, Obama said: “Gays … should not marry.” And in a 2007 Senate debate, he said: “I agree with most Americans, with Democrats and Republicans, with Vice President Cheney, with over 2,000 religious leaders of all different beliefs, that decisions about marriage, as they always have, should be left to the states. … Personally, I do believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.”

11. Global AIDS: Obama has said the U.S. must “lead the global fight against the AIDS virus.” And earlier this year, he encouraged lawmakers to “Use whatever works with AIDS, including teaching abstinence.” Obama has given Bush kudos for his efforts to combat global AIDS and the record amount of funding ($15 billion over 5 years) the president has earmarked for the fight. Obama said in September, “I think President Bush — and many of you here today — have shown real leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS.”

12. Health care: While they don’t share similar views on universal health care coverage, Bush and Obama agree that the problem with health care is “about affordability” and there is a need to address minority health concerns with more coverage and targeting. That is why Bush expanded community health care centers, covering the uninsured and targeting urban areas, to the tune of $1.5 billion for 1,200 centers “coast to coast.”

13. Middle-class tax cuts: While he hasn’t voted for such cuts, Obama is pushing his biggest economic initiative yet: tax cuts for the middle class. “We’ve got to help the middle class,” Obama said Tuesday. Perhaps unbeknownst to him, Bush has already been there, done that. In signing the 2001 Tax Cut Bill, Bush said: “Tax relief is an achievement for families struggling to enter the middle class. For hard-working lower-income families, we have cut the bottom rate of federal income tax from 15 percent to 10 percent. We doubled the per-child tax credit to $1,000, and made it refundable. … Tax relief is an achievement for middle-class families squeezed by high energy prices and credit card debt.”

14. Minority homeownership: Obama adopted the Congressional Black Caucus principles “to increase minority homeownership” as it is “one of the best wealth-creation vehicles for minority families.” These principles were developed as part of Bush’s vision to expand minority homeownership to 5.5 million new homeowners by 2010. “Across our nation, every citizen, regardless of race, creed, color or place of birth, should have the opportunity to become a homeowner,” Bush said.

Similar comparisons can be drawn for their positions on small businesses and on businesses owned by women and minorities.

15. National security: Obama voted yes on preauthorizing the much ballyhooed Patriot Act, sought by the Bush administration.

16. Offshore drilling: Bush has consistently pushed for drilling offshore, while Obama, who until recently opposed it, now says he’s for it. In Nashville, Tennessee, he told an audience: “We’re going to have to explore new ways to get more oil, and that includes offshore drilling.”

17. Racial profiling: Obama’s campaign literature states that he will call for a ban on racial profiling, even though Bush issued a directive that banned racial profiling in 2001. In his order, Bush said to the attorney general: “I hereby direct you to review the use by federal law enforcement authorities of race as a factor in conducting stops, searches and other investigative procedures. … I further direct that you report back to me with your findings and recommendations for the improvement of the just and equal administration of our nation’s laws.”

18. Religion: It is widely known that Obama is a person of faith. He has said: “I am a proud Christian who believes deeply in Jesus Christ.” Bush, who shares the same faith, has been just as much, if not more vocal, about his faith. He once told The Washington Times that he doesn’t “see how you can be president without a relationship with the Lord.”

19. Supreme Court ruling on gun ban: Despite his past endorsements of some gun control measures, Obama’s reaction to the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutional right of individuals to own handguns mirrors the administration’s. Obama now says: “As a general principle, I believe that the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms.”

20. Welfare reform: An Obama ad this summer said he “passed a law to move people from welfare to work” and “slashed the rolls by 80 percent” (though all states had to as a result of the Clinton administration’s mandate). Obama said in 2004: “Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you they don’t want their tax money wasted by a welfare agency.” In 2003, Bush successfully called on Congress to reauthorize and expand on welfare reform efforts, “to make welfare even more focused on the well being of children and supportive of families.”

So, although he has been ranked as the most liberal senator by the National Journal and obviously hasn’t voted with Bush as often as Sen. McCain has — based on his voting “record” — Obama’s “rhetoric” still sounds a lot like, well, Bush.

Well, at least we now know where Michelle was during the 9-11 ceremony in NY. She was a little busy. Read more:
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-adultery-you-can-believe-in.html

P. S. Don’t forget I was the first to break the Edwards story almost year before the MSM.

Centrist, if that story is true, and judging by the lack of LSM coverage (they know about it already, just not reporting it), it may be true. But if it IS true that Obama had an affair then shipped the girl off to the Caribbean, then this election is OVER. 100%, no doubt about it O V E R! Obama will have added the last notch to his belt, adultery, and will unite dems like no one since Slick Willy. He could possible win 52-54 of the 60 states (his count, not mine). Michelle will be assured a senate seat from some state she has never lived in (delaware?) and a run at her own presidency in the coming years. Call it the race of scorned wives.

RE:
10.13.2008 11:10 am
McCain: ‘Come on, we’re down by just six’ (he hopes)
By Bill Lambrecht
—————–
Montreal, CANADA, October 4, 2008

TO THE NEXT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NEW PRESIDENT:

SIR:

“MAY I CALL YOU “O” ?”

Because of MAIN STREET !

Because of WALL STREET !

Because of the final electoral sprint - ending soon next coming november 2008 - while THE WHOLE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA has its eyes on YOU.

Everyone expects You to be democratically elected and see that something happen in America.

In March 1983, one of humanity’s most famous spokesmen, Pope John Paul II, came to our country - ‘Haîti’ - and loudly proclaimed what each and every one of us had been whispering:

“Something must change here !”

Today, more than ever, a lot of people of The United States of America stand up, longing for something and working to make something happen.

“Go thou America ahead and show us thy true countenance in a positive light.’ It is up to everyone to play his or her part in order to let thee regain thy mark of excellence !”

With this letter, I am communicating with You, SIR, and with the whole people of The United States of America.

You offer this country what it takes to be a ‘Wonderfull Land.’ Yes, let us say ‘with a great people living and working together.’

Go thou, America, go ahead, following in the footsteps of one of thy sons who is now becoming one of thy statesmen.

With this in mind, to whom else could I entrust this letter sent to his Holiness Pope John Paul II when he set foot on Haitian soil for the first time, as well as its acknowledgment by the Vatican?

That letter to Pope John Paul II is intended to draw attention to the problem posed by anti-Black discrimination and its negative repercussions on the advancement of scientific progress in the West, and more precisely in the realm of Optics.

In the Western world, according to Newton’s widely accepted theory, white is considered to be the synthesis of all colors. Actually, the opposite is true. White constitutes the analysis or ‘visible’ decoding of light or color, whereas black is its synthesis or ‘invisible’ composition.

In other words, darkness or blackness and, we might add, “Black Holes’” - a scientific misnomer designating invisible stars or ‘Black Suns’ - are a source of energy and light. Scientifically, Industrially and Economically speaking, what an asset !

That basic raw material of light energy culminates, in its most radiant form, in the neutralization of all the colors of the spectrum in the form of usually called “white light.”

Therefore “absolute blackness”, the absorption of all the colors, is a divisible component of light. Needless to say, Newton’s theory gives only a partial interpretation of the notion of light, by excluding black. Our contribution aims at demonstrating that the black color is not only an integral part of the color process, but its true synthesis. Light is therefore shown to be a divisible whole comprising an intensity or color scale in which black is the invisible or ‘absorbed’ form of the energy in question.

Allow me, SIR, in order to support my statement concerning Black Holes and radiation, to pose a question asked by Hubert Reeves, Doctor of nuclear astrophysics and Scientific Consultant to NASA:

“What would have become of the Sun, if it were plunged into a high temperature radiance like the one that existed at the beginning of the Universe? [our translation]”

“Instead of emitting light, it would absorb it and, in the end, it would be completely reabsorbed into the cosmic fluid.”

The cosmic fluid is what, due to an “optical mistake”, is called “darkness” or the “blackness of Space”. We are talking about the electromagnetic flux, that immeasurable ocean in which the planets and stars are bathed, like the sea which links all the continents together. Darkness is thus “The Sea of Space.”

“What would have happened if, instead of an ordinary star like the “White Sun”, a Black Hole or “Black Sun” were injected into that primordial radiation?”

“According to Einsteinian Physics, a Black Hole is a place where gravity is so formidably intense that nothing can escape it, not even visible light. Such a hole should suck in and absorb radiation and increase its own mass: E=MC2, always.”

“But after Einstein came Bohr, Heisenberg, and Quantum Physic. From then on, nothing was the same as before.”

“The Einsteinian version of the Black Hole is equivalent to a statement that the matter inside the Black Hole is definitely there to stay, in that volume of space. Let us quote Hubert Reeves: “Such an absolute statement is thus contrary to the “Quantum spirit”, affirming that nothing is definitely localized in one place. There is always a probability of escape. If the enclosing wall is too high, a tunnel will be dug; if the prisoners are patient, they will escape. One has only to wait.” [our translation]

“According to that principle, Black Holes “evaporate”. Matter constantly escapes as radiation. Black Holes “shine!” Their surfaces behave like those of any body heated to a certain temperature and that radiation endlessly feeds that marvelous “Cosmic Fluid” which, wrongly and in bad faith, people keep calling “Darkness.”

Nigra sum “sed” formosa!

Yes, but should we not say instead, I am black “and” comely?

Darkness, which is both source and vehicle of light, does not have to defend itself for being the beautiful and infinitely discreet raw material of the Universe. Darkness is the “Mother of the Universe.”

Also, beautiful and discreet art thou, Haiti. Discreet, yes, but never outshone! Just like the Black Virgin who inspires and sheds her love on thee from the hilltop and even beyond Cité Soleil (Sun City).

Our purpose was to offer a more constructive approach aiming at correcting the abusive traditional, so-called scientific, theories of Optics.

It’s like to say that in the exceptional circumstances in which we live today - in the point of view of FINANCE and ENERGY - no exploration in the mid or long term, by the american expertise , of an additional source of energy, at the same time safe and economically profitable, should not be ruled out.

That is why, we wrote to that authentic witness to the signs of this age, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, the prophet of the new era.

Congratulations to You, Sir, and congratulations to the PEOPLE of The United States Of America - for having made it possible for this day of November to come - to mark the beginning of a “New Era of Hope !”

Lucien Bonnet

PLease, SEE :
LETTER TO POPE JOHN-PAUL II
in ‘BILL A RI AND THERE WAS LIGHT !
http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca

No, yappers, “poor people” didn’t cause the credit crisis!

http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/10/13/are-poor-people-responsible-for-the-current-economic-meltdown/

The Lost Dispatch needs to stop inserting their opinions into a news story. That is not journalism at all, just give the people the unbiased information and let them decide. (this is why I go to different sources for news and have not bought the Post for years, and judging by the subscription decline and the very thin news paper I am not alone)

TIM HOGAN, WE GOT THE MEMO, YOU’RE VOTING FOR OBAMA.
REPUBLICANS EVIL, DEMOCRATS GOOD.
THANKS!

Poor people didn’t case the credit crisis.
But they helped.

I found a great website to check out regarding Obama’s left-wing agenda:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html

It seems to be very well supported and I have to spend some more time dissecting it, but, if true, paints a very scary picture of what this country may look like at the end of an Obama presidency…with Pelosi and Reid’s support.