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Midwest Mom, Illiana — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:31:20 GMT

Wow! Lots of content today, guys. I am most interested in education plans from both candidates. But, the differences in the Social Security policy couldn't be more stark. You'd think McCain, as an elderly man, would be a little more sensitive on that issue... after all, most 70 year olds don't marry young and rich... although, perhaps that's the alternative he's hoping to promote?

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donna — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:33:13 GMT

Hussien, is driven from the root word hasan, in Arabic. Hasan means good. Hussien means, the best!

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lkki — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:34:08 GMT

i love the website it great i just wish fox news would stop being a propaganda machine

What about the Asian Americans.
Candidates on equal pay.
McCain Getting Special treatment
DNC Should be more like RNC
Most unattractive states during the primary

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donna — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:36:58 GMT

With regard to Mrs. Obama.

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I love her. She is strong. We need that in our First Lady.

He, or she who has never complained, as a citizen of this great Nation, spew the first bashing.

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thats a fact jack — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:48:26 GMT

the media should be doing some hard digging on facts of both campaigns and present the facts just the facts and nothing but the facts.

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kyd70, SC — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:51:58 GMT

Ok. About the smearing, everyone has a right to free speech. So Obama has a right to counter any claims against him.

I just hope that McCain doesn't tie the hands of every GOP leaning organization, because I just listened to John Cusack on Morning Joe call McCain's support of ANY policy that Bush supported as "criminal".

McCain is going to stick to the issues and the only thing that I hear Obama sticking to the BS message that McCain=Bush.

Anyone with a brain knows that is false.

Everyone knows that if the ucrrent tax cuts are allowd to expire, then WE ALL will be paying more to the federal government. I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would want to do that?! I lived in the DC area for several years and know people that work for the Fed. They are my friends and great people, but I DON'T want them, or any bureau like the ones they work in, to touch my healthcare. It is totally INSANE.

How can you complain about Bush and the gov't did this and did that, blah, blah, blah, then turn around and say that you want that same gov't to handle your and your children's health! Dem's will not be in power forever, and longterm thinking should be at work here. Do you really want your health being kicked around like a political football? Look at Soc. Sec.!

Once the American people look at the policies of each candidate (assuming Obama gets off the "McBush" bandwagon and actually verbalizes a policy), then we can have a decent discussion.

McCain '08

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Just the news! — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:53:56 GMT

As viewers we can drive what is covered by the MSM. If we turn off Pat Buchanen and his racist remarks eventually they'll get the message.

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Eric, Salinas, CA — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:55:17 GMT

Privatizing Social Security would kill that program for the people who need it most and it's about time to take the wage limit caps off the social security tax to make it a fair flat tax just like the repugnant ones want. Why should the lower end of the wage scale pay a higher percentage of their pay for social security while the rich and greedy pay a lesser percentage? Time to make social security tax fair by making it flat for all wage earners on all wages earned. Companies that can afford to pay such high wages can afford the extra social security tax.

Go Obama 08/12!

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Diane from Illinois — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:01:29 GMT

Why would McCain even be concerned about Social Security when he's married-up to a multi-millionaire when he dumped his first wife after her crippling car accident? You think he's going to draw a pension? Well, maybe, since he's currently drawing one from the military. Isn't that pathetic? Or does he deserve it because he was a POW? Give me a break. He's got more money that he'll ever need. Give it to the guys who actually NEED the income for FOOD.
I'm glad the Obama camp is trying to deflect some of the GOP smears, also. Can't let the swiftboating occur again this year. NOT THIS TIME!

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MI Chick — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:03:52 GMT

Did anyone see that bigot Pat Buchanan on Verdict last night, calling Obama "exotic", and then complained that Obama was using "confused" as code word for "old"?

What the eff was "exotic" supposed to me, Pat? One of the other commentators (an AA woman - can't remember her name right now) called him on it, but still...this is all the RNC's got?

Stick to the issues, please. Oh wait - you don't want to because you lose on that front. Ooops, sorry.

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Pete - Albany, NY — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:17:15 GMT

Has FOX Noise apologized yet for the graphic referring to Michelle Obama as "Obama's Baby Mama" yet?

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B, New Jersey — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:22:06 GMT

ok in the Rezko piece, I am finding this so typical of how things are going now. You center on whether Rezko is a decent enough person himself to be able to say Obama is a decent guy. But you totally ignore the idea that "the Feds" were pressuring him for information on Obama. Pressuring him for info (and in this day and age, it probably didnt even have be true information, just enough to put it out there that Obama is being investigated for claims made by Rezko)! Wow. Who are the Feds here? Are they the SS, the KGB, the tontons macoutes?

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B, New Jersey — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:38:14 GMT

MI Chick (love your posts btw), on any show he's on, morning, noon and night for the past couple months, Buchanon has used the term "exotic". I guess he is getting more traction with it now.

Trust me, I am on the right side of the issue, and I know the spotlight of national attention (and the fact that his words reach millions) is different than lets say what goes on in my home on a day to day, but I kind of put Buchanon in the same category as Wright. Two people born to the times in which they were born (very racially divided times!), angry, bitter, and refusing to embrace the tolerance and interdependence that wants to be the wave of the 21st century. Both guys have enough friends of the opposite race to neutralize them to me, however, so half the time I can chuckle and say these guys are just over the top and not pay them any attention. I know I probably shouldnt, but I think of them as harmless old men (ie. they dont have any real power to me.)

The term exotic is a throwback word from the 80's and 90's and got particular attention from the feminist movement. It packs a punch but a different sort of punch now, not as negatively connoting as before in my opinion.

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The Truth Hurts — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:47:59 GMT

All is fair game in the campaign, the dems should not have nominated such a target rich candidate...

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Jeff D Evanston IL — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:48:29 GMT

B, New Jersey, the feds are not looking at Obama, they are looking at the governer!! if the feds were looking at obama don't you thing in your right mind that if the feds were looking at obama that the clintons would have got that out. you grasping at straws, no wonder you live in jersey!!!

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Walt, Ohio — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:56:28 GMT

Ward Connerly has been and always will be a fraud. Not because he opposes affirmative action; but because he refuses to recognize "nepotism" and "legacy" as methods that have been historically used to favor one group over another for advancement.
McCain is a prime example of nepotism; his Academy grades would have never qualified him for Flight School. Without his daddy the Admiral, he would have not received any of the breaks he received; his daddy probably kept him in the Academy.
Legacy gave us George W. Bush. Even Reagan recognized that when he stated in his memoirs that he dreaded meeting with George Sr. because he would bring George Jr around begging for a job; "a 41yo who never held a job".
Ward Connerly never made it on his own merits; neither did Clarence Thomas, John McCain or George W. Bush.
To state that Obama is somehow bad because he wants to insure everyone has the same, level playing field is disingenuous at best; fraudulent at worst.
People like Bob Johnson ans Ward Connerly are like "crabs in a barrel". Thankfully the old mindset is fading.

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Stop the Slander — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:03:24 GMT

"...whoever spreads slander is a fool"
proverbs 10:18

This is the only way the republicans can get into office. They lie and trash other peoples' reputations. Well, the Americans bought this foolishness and just look at the results. Do Americans want to continue to put foolish people in the White House?

I believe that Senator Obama is a good and decent man. I support him completely. I reject, denounce and dismiss all rhetoric about he and his wife by the republicans.

Obama 08

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S.B. Stein E.B. NJ — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:26:49 GMT

If the Republicans are really going to make an issue out of the name, then they really are playing on fear, aren't they.

It is nice to note that there was mention of policy here. I refering to the meniton of Obama's education policy and there isn't much of one from McCain.

I think Obama is making a major move for the religious vote in this country. Brody from CBN reported on it. This could be a major factor for McCain. If he can't pull the Reagan coalition back together that Bush broke apart, he might lose places that were solidly Republican because the religious conservatives either didn't vote for him or didn't vote at all; could they be willing to vote for Obama? That could become a possiblity if the meetings with them continue.