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NO ,MATTER WHAT FOX ARE SAYING TO MIS-LEAD THE IOWA VOTERS I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT OBAMA IS ONE STEP LEFT TO MAKE HISTORY=== FOR AMERICA. HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN RESTORE THE AMERICAN NAME IN THE WORLD AGAIN. HE IS A GIFT TO US FROM THE WORLD. GO FOR OBAMA

"Former" Senator Edward can honk/attack and suggest ALL the programs all he wants from the "outside" and Hillary will get things done from the inside by becoming our President in 2009!

Thats called a polite political SLAP in the FACE Mr Edwards! Edwards can try all the issues, raise any objection, run all the 527 third party ads, but with public money he is no match for Hillary and/or Obama in 2008.

Go Hillary44 08! http://hillaryis44.org/

Come on people wake up! There is only one candidate out that that truly believes in the constitutional rights of the people, you know by the people, for the people, while all the other candidates believe in a government by big business for big business. He is the only candidate that will not accept or seek funding by big business because he will not allow them to own him. He is the only candidate who wants to return this great country to beliefs it was founded on and that is Dennis Kucinich, vote your hearts and beliefs and not who the media and big business say you should vote for. Vote Kucinich and return our country to the people!

Romney is just another lying, flip-flopping, two-faced pro-abortionist.

Ron Paul 2008! America, vote for freedom!

Why are all those posting here so adamant about their Democratic candidates? Look, I've been a Democrat my whole life, and frankly, aside from Joe Biden and Dennis Kucinich, we're really talking about different flavors of vanilla. Edwards, Clinton, and Obama all represent the same kind of irritating Democrat that John Kerry did - Dems who think government is a solvent and pay lip-service to the idea of actually ending the current corporatocracy in which we live. Learn about each of the candidates, folks. Stop supporting Obama, Clinton, and Edwards just because CNN says they're the front-runners. If you want real change, vote third-party; otherwise, the same cycle of craptacular politics will continue, leading us to the same end that was so often presented to Leo on 'The West Wing' - we'll yet again get the chance to vote "for the lesser of who cares."

"John Edwards is a liar and a hypocrite. Hillary Clinton is unfit to be president and she'd better not try to force me to buy insurance! Go Obama go! Obama '08!!!

Posted By RuthieM : December 26, 2007 1:21pm
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Ruthie dear chill ok – no one is going to force you to buy insurance if you'd rather not have any... But if you do, you should be aware that you are ALREADY subsidizing those who don't by paying higher premiums and bigger deductibles AND the cost of treatment is jacked up to offset the losses incurred by doctors, hospitals and the whole medical field when they have to "write-off" the uninsured care.

So plz if YOU don't have health coverage, don't get sick and go to the ER, b/c the rest of us are tired of having to pay for it (But for those who don't have health insurance b/c they can't AFFORD it – it's another story. Preventative medicine far exceeds the costs of having to provide for those who need it – rather than after they've been diagnosed w/any illness.)

Senator Obama shouldn't be instilling such misconceptions in his supporters. I thought he was running as a Uniter, promoting harmony for all of God's children, not fear mongering (as he accuses the other candidates of doing)...

John Edwards is a liar and a hypocrite. Hillary Clinton is unfit to be president and she'd better not try to force me to buy insurance! Go Obama go! Obama '08!!!

OBAMA SHOUD QUIT AND GET OUT-HES WASTING HIS TIME- WE DONT NEED JOB TRAINING PLUS HE HAS NO EXPRIENCE -PLUS NO EPXREIENC EIN HEALTH CARE ALL HE DOES IS TALK AND TLAK NO SUBSTANCE- GE TOUT NOW OBAMA – AMERICA DONR LIKE YOU UR MUSLIM-YOUNG NO EXRIENECE AND STOP FOLING PEOLE ALL OVER AMERICA- STOP CLINGING ON OPRAH- WOMEN HATE YOU- WOMEN REDUCE TO WATCH OPRA H WINFREY. U MADE ABIF MSIATKE CLNGING ON OPRAH.
OPRAH STAY UR JOB- DONT GET INTYO POLITCS-THIS SERIOUS.NOT EASY TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM S OF AMERICA.
NO MUSLIM PLEASE; BARA HUSSEIN -OABMA- HE ADMIT HES APRT MUSLIM- NBC NEWS WITH MATT LAUER.

BTW Senator Obama is considering running as an Independent too w/Bloomberg =

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/30/obama-bloomberg-hold-mystery-meeting/

Sheldon, Overseas: December 26, 2007 9:31am and Eric, Des Moines, Iowa: December 26, 2007 2:34am

Two Words = Try Googling

before you claim Hillary doesn't have any experience...

I agree with you Grace in Florida - I hope Ron runs as an Independent. Personally I think more of the country would get behind any candidate just for not being associated with either Dems or Reps - the parties are crippled and do nothing but fight each other. We need real change. Ron Paul has my vote secured.

"aABH".....anyone, ANYONE But Hillary. She may have the least experience of all, needs to have 2-3 positions on each issue, pushes jobs overseas while actig as if she supports the people. Baloney.....she would be the worst thing for America.

It would really be nice to get the real truth about Hilary Clinton's actual experience in foreign policy or any other claims she has made for that matter. I dont know if it is me alone, but she seems to speak in generalities and depends on nice catch phrases to get the crowd going but i don't hear anything of substance. I have been watching CNN closely and have not seen a single report questioning her claims and I would think that as the front runner, she would be scrutinized more closely. I have just read an article which I found on msnbc which raise some significant questions about her claims. You can find the article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22395503/

National perfidy by the pyrrhic parties must end.

The United States of America is suffering from a bi-party disorder which is found afflicting all of its legislative branches. Canada and many other commonwealth nations also suffer from a greater form of this bi-party disorder known as multiple party government disorder. Individual citizens of the United States of America with your vested and billed rights: declare these afflicted government branches unfit for duty as they seem to require directional constitution instruction assistance.

David – Oregon City, Oregon. I love it how people who support Huckabee play the victim when it comes to other conservative commentators actually getting past his wry humor and looking at what he did as Governor. The ironic thing is, you have been trusting these commentators for decades to tell you who the REAL conservative is. And now when they tell you, even though you have a "gut" feeling about Huckabee, that he is nothing more than a liberal in conservative clothing, you somehow don't believe them. Then the namecalling.

Here's an interesting tidbit from the site you cited. Here's what they say about Huckabee. "He's been calling on big Arkansas donors, including real estate and banking tycoons, to raise money for him. But after the 3rd Quarter, he's still struggling to catch up to candidates who have raised tens of millions of dollars more than he has."

Pandering to real estate and banking tycoons, yet no money. Maybe they can see right through him too.

http://opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.asp?id=N00007539&cycle=2008

So Mike, now that Christmas is past, what exactly is your platform? Running on Christmas '08 already?

I'm sick of Hillary's constant appeal of experience.

EXPERIENCE is not the only thing that is REQUIRED to be the President of the United States of America.

CHARACTER is either as important, or more important than experience.

If we analyze Hillary's "experience" as has been done, we can assume that Obama has as much "experience" as her even though the experiences are DIFFERENT. She may have a slight advantage because she knows some of the insiders in the White House, but at the end of the day, she still needs AT LEAST HALF of the senate to AGREE with her. The PROBLEM: MORE THAN HALF THE SENATE DOESN'T LIKE HER.

WHY? Because of her CHARACTER. She does not seem to have the INSPIRATION, CHARISMA, HONESTY, LEADERSHIP, and ABILITY TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER like Obama and some of the other candidates do.

So although it can be argued that some of her SKETCHY experience is perhaps a little more than Obama's, Obama's character is A LOT more PRESIDENTIAL than Hillary's.... BY A LONG SHOT. WAKE UP AMERICA!!

Where is our values & morality? Convicted Ex- President, whose wife, said she has experiences, naive of her scandalous husband’s infidelities, lying to a grand jury?
Is she lying to us which is it? What do we tell our children, about electing her?

Make sure to check these just-released detailed rankings of the state of play in the Republican race as well as here in the Democratic race. With a week to go until Iowa, the GOP race especially is in big movement... and these rankings have the shocking analysis of putting McCain on top!

Woohoo! =D I'm very glad to hear Bill Richardson is going to be able to cash in his NRA chips. In a tight race amung disinfranchised republicans, he can take some votes with that key endorsement. I know it's not a particularlz democratic endorsement, but such is the ability of Richardson to unite the parties.

BR 08!

Too bad for the AFSCME. When Obama wins the election, they will receive no favors.

The NRA supporting Richardson. LOL. He's the guy that wants to pipe water from the Great lakes to the south west desert towms. LOL. Stay home Bill. jerrysrollin.bolgspot.com

You know, it amazes me that we can grow into such an irritated state. At the end of 2000 America had an "up-beat" feel. Now we are all "harder" and more cynical...why? The answer is in the White House right now. Think about yourself 7 years ago. There is only one answer: Restore a Democrat as President of the United States. People, middle class republicans have more in common with middle class democrats than they do with upper class republicans. Think about it.

If it were just between Romney and Huckabee, I will take Romney any day.

Third Party schmird party! There's not been nor will there ever be an effective 'third alternative' to Dems and Repubs. Ross Perot, a former Repub., came as close as anyone can get, but then he fumbled the ball on the one-yard line, leading to to turn over and it was back to the stadium for this cartoon character.

Is Russ Limbaugh helping the Demarcates take the White House again in 2008! This time he has additional help….

Does the 2008 election look a lot like the 1992 election? Is Rush Limbaugh selfishly trying again to influence voters away from other conservative candidates the same way he tried to influence Ross Perot voters away in 1992. Well, it did not work then and it will not work now. In 1992 Limbaugh handed the Presidency over to Bill Clinton, but then continuously cried for months that the defeat was due Ross Perot and his supporters, not Limbaugh trying to shape the election with his Kool-Aid drinking followers. The only difference this time is Limbaugh has the help of people like Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham to help the conservatives get their heads handed to them by the liberals at election time.

The conservative voters who are supporting Mike Huckabee are not Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham Kool-Aid club members. They are hard working, God-fearing Americans who do not need elite talk show hosts to filter their candidates through the Wall Street elite Boardrooms before elections day, as Limbaugh did in 1992 when Bill Clinton took the White House away from President Bush.

P.S., was Ross Perot Right about immigration and NAFTA? “Well, the historical lesson is clear. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace reports, "Real wages for most Mexicans today are lower than when NAFTA took effect." Post-NAFTA, companies looking to exploit those low wages relocated factories to Mexico. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the net effect of NAFTA was the elimination of 1 million American jobs. Can you hear that “sucking sound” of jobs going to Mexico and over seas that Ross Perot was talking about?

America’s Elite Talk Hosts’, If you don’t have the “set” to run for President your self, then shut the #^@$% up! You are hurting America with your preconceived selecting of Wall Street candidates.

Rudolph W. Giuliani (R)
Top Contributors:
Ernst & Young: $255,200
Elliott Management: $228,400
Credit Suisse Group: $166,450
Merrill Lynch: $150,275
Bear Stearns: $147,866
Source:
Center For Responsible Government - data through Sept 30. For more information go to: OpenSecrets.Org.

Mitt Romney (R)
Top Contributors:
Goldman Sachs: $181,225
Merrill Lynch: $145,050
Marriott International: $115,050
Bain Capital: $112,200
Morgan Stanley: $109,550
Source:
Center For Responsible Government - data through Sept 30. For more information go to: OpenSecrets.Org.

IF RON PAUL DOESN'T WIN THE GOP NOMIN.
I WILL BEG HIM TO RUN 3RD PARTY.
TAKE TIME OUT TO CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS.
TELL THEM TO VOTE FOR H.R. 219.
RON PAUL INTRODUCED IT.... THE
SOCIAL SECURITY PRESERVATION ACT.
THE BABY BOOMERS HAVE DECADES OF
INVESTMENT IN S.S. THEY SHOULD NOT
BE CHEATED BY CUTTING BENEFITS.
H.R. 219 WOULD PROHIBIT CONGRESS
FROM SPENDING THE S.S. SURPLUS,
RESULTING IN ENUF FUNDS TO CONTINUE
S.S. BENEFITS FOR DECADES WITHOUT
CUTTING BENEFITS OR RAISING TAXES.
CLICK ON TO H.R.219 AND CALL ALL THE
SPONSORS OF IT IN THE HOUSE. I DID.
AND VOTE FOR RON PAUL. HE'S LOOKING
OUT FOR YOU.

All these people who aren't Obama do is attack because they have nothing to run on because they aren't real leaders.
Obama's healthcare plan is the only one that doesn't force Americans to buy health care. I don't want to buy health care John and Hillary. Please don't force me to.

Hmm, headline seems misleading: I thought it was about the Greens or the Libertarians or ...