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MRS CLINTON IS THE KEY FOR MR OBAMA TO WIN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION,SHE DESERVE A THOUSAND TIMES THE VP

Senator Obama , Senator McCain has enjoyed years and years of gratitude from the American people ! He demands it, and constantly talks about it. Enough already, why is he more deserving than the thousands of soldiers that never made it home, are suffering terribly as we speak! What about the families that suffer everyday in ways we can't imagine ? He is responsible for a horrific war that should never have been! Who the hell is this guy who says YOU have 'nt the judgement to be Commander in chief? He does not have an original idea ! Read Jack Cafferty's column, about McCain, it's right on the money ! Beware this man !

OBAMA in desperate need of VP. going down in polls.needs someone to prop him up. McCain going up in polls, justs needs someone who won't drag him down. where is that smugness now? the great obama reduced to scrambling for a running mate that will help him win the election. can't do it on his own. you can fool some of the people ect.

Obama neds to step down NOW and let a REAL leader take charge. The job of running the most powerful country in the world should not be handed over to a kid who has to ask his wife and his mother what he should do.
The game of lets pretend to be president is OVER!!
Our country needs a REAL LEADER and Obama is NOT qualified to lead this country.

IT's time , it's time, it is time, for SEN. OBama to break the baseballbat,
and go to work on John MCcrazy's knees, he must pick HRC, as running mate, so she can lay the smack down on the republicans.

EXPERIENCE DOESN’T GUARANTEE GOOD JUDGMENT. OTHERWISE PEOPLE WOULD NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. McCain has consistently shown poor judgment both in the senate and this campaign trail. HE IS TRIGGER HAPPY. Always ready to go to war. May be he is at war with himself. The reason why the media has not called him on his rants is what I can’t seem to fathom.

MRS HILLARY CLINTON IS A KEY FOR MR OBAMA

Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city.

A man of knowledge uses words with restraint, and a man of understanding is even tempered.

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his opinion.

He who answers before listening –that is his folly and his shame

Kaine has less experience than Obama, which is little. I don't get it!

Obama, will you stop saying "I honor his service, but". You are kissing his butt and at the same time attacking him. PLEASE, do not contradict yourself and attack him for who he really is. It's bugging the hell of me that you have to praise him first.

What are we voting for? Sound like the biggest bunch of garbage. Regardless of who wins, they are going to have their hands full. It doesn't matter which party wins. This country wants strong leadership. You can't make everyone happy. A lot of this unnecessary garbage trickled down from the CLINTON years. Read your history. What a headache. We sure do not want that repeated.
Sounds like the White House is competing in the Olympics.

CNN it is unfortunate that a Canadian has to tell you who the VP will be – but here goes...it will be Hillary.

Send me a thank you message after it is confirmed!!

Obama and Hillary will destroy the Repubs in this election.

McCain is still fighting his personal war in Vietnam. See if you can help him get some psychological help. It will be alright once he finally comes to learn that the war is over!

Seems like Obama is trying to keep the public confused as to his choice as VP. Trying to keep people guessing. Well, just think if he gets in the White House what it is going to be like. He is not going to know which end is up and what the left and right hand are doing. Everyone else will be running the show. He might has well throw in the towel.. Good loser.

Susan – guess you've not been paying attention again. With or without HRC, NOBAMA is already losing at the polls!

I READ THAT VIRGINIA IS NOW $2 BILLIONS IN DEFICIT SINCE KAINE WAS ELECTED. GOOD SHOW!

Who?

I agree with McCain. Lower taxes for corporations and people making over $500,000 every year and pay for it by raising taxes on people making less than $100,000 a year. It is brilliant!

Obama thinks that by giving all the tax breaks to people making less than $100,000 a year that they'll spend it all paying off their debts and buying things from their local businesses. What nonsense! Only rich people can save our economy. The little people should be on their knees thanking us rich people that we give them jobs.

Michael Phelps could be Obama's VP and it wouldn't matter. Although it would double Obama's foreign policy experience with Phelp's time spent in China for the Olympics.

Great! Obama! Now stop praising John McCain!! He is not your friend! McCain is getting nothing but "praise" in the media, in the frm of "Puff-pieces" like CNN is doing.......Show your contrast Barack.....Show McCain for the mythological creature he truly is!! He is no "hero", except maybe in his own mind!! And he had a "call to serve", purely on ambition!!!

If he doesn't pick Hillary he is a bad decision maker and loses my vote. I will give him the benefit of the doubt until he makes a stupid decision. Not putting her on the ticker is a stupid decision. He is running for president of the US not prom king.

Writing in Hillary on November Ballot – hey you morin, why hasn't mccain released his VP choice yet??!!! He has been campaigning singularly a lot longer than Obama. God, what ignorant folks you are. You can't even think of why you hate Obama, you just know that you do. I think mccain would probably be a worse president than bush in alot of ways, besides being ghetto minded but I don't hate the jerk. Jeez!

Raymond Duke – Raymond, raymond, raymond. Remember it was Hillary who said that white, uneducated people voted for her my love. That is a fact, so stop with your usual trash talking and try and tell the truth for once. And yes, we've read your blogs and indeed think you are a racist, uneducated, unenlightened moron.

Moderator, whoever you are. I like you. You are funny posting a self deprecating jab towards you, but not including quotes from Thomas Paine or Bob Barr or the Libertarian Platform that relate to Real issues.

Snaps for the moderator!! snap snap

great to finally see obama fight back

HRC will never be VIC-POTUS nor will she ever become a POTUS as long as she remains with Bill. That being said if you support HRC then get behind Obama and the Democrats so we can get our country back. We will see change once this happens. So people don't accept fear anymore. Hope is where we need to be and hope is where Obama and the Democrats will take us. Believe in CHANGE and change will happen.

I always see plenty of name calling. McThis and McThat, do you folks really think that calling McCain names will make Obama any better of a candidate.

Face it people ... the Obama ship is taking on water.

Go McPresident McCain!!!

The reason CNN has to duplicate post is because so many of the bloggers are ignorant of the reality of the issues–and will post different responses on the same issue just based on the key words.

Real change, no BS, and living by the same principles as you do:

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Its been almost a year now and I have had the same home phone number and cell phone number and I have NEVER EVER EVA EVA EVA been polled. So my advice to all you who have not been polled, don’t believe this because after almost a year of campaign polls that the media keeps reporting on you cant tell me AFTER A YEAR they could not have found the time to call either of my phones by now.

As a matter a fact no one I know has been polled. I bet CNN won’t post this because they don’t want people to know that these polls are a load of BS and that they are Media Driven.

CNN STOP INSULTING MY INTELLIGENCE

Kaine.....Biden...Bayh.......ok guys but the ONLY one who can save Obama's butt from defeat is HILLARY.

To-Raymond Duke Of course he will probably lose West Virginia after call them uneducated Cracker racist after Hillary won the state.Stop your Lying DAVID DUKE

Note that Obama, in the CNN poll of polls, is at 46% right now compared to McCain's 43%. He's been at 46% consistently for the last couple of months. This is even factoring in all the PUMA types who insist they will never vote for him. So consider, even with so-called Democrats saying they'll never vote for him, Obama still has 46% and even will all the so-called Democrats saying they're going to vote for McCain, McCain is still behind Obama.

There's a lesson there.

If the ignorant posts on CNN are driving you crazy, go to the New York Times – much better.

W O N D E R F U L--D E F I C I T-–W O N D E R F U L--D E F I C I T--

N O-–P L A N-O T H E R--T H A N-–T O-–T A X--G R E A T ! ! ! !

An old song once said...

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing, ya gotta hve something, if you wanna be with me....

Obama has nothing. He has nothing new. It's all the same old tired Democratic shell game of tax the rich and give to the poor. The top 50% of the wage earners now pay 97.2% of the taxes.

Let's tax the oil companies and give money to the poor. If you make above a certain income, even though you're an earner, you don't deserve a refund check.

Sooner or later, the camel's back will break.

it wont be Kaine

Stephanie – right on! I totally agree, it does speak volumes about his great character and should show americans something. Sadly, alot of americans have a gutter mentality and cannot appreciate a man like Obama. And to all those repugs out there attacking him, I feel sorry for you that you can never ever spout john's good qualities cause they are few and far between so all you have left is to attack Obama. How sad for you sheep.
And Obama, say NO to hillary!

I want to ask a question to ALL of you people that say Senator Obama is not experienced enough, or his resume is thin, If Bush was experienced and had a thisk resume and knew how to run this country, why are we in the shape that we are in. High gas prices, high food prices, people loosing jobs. Why didn't Bush experience stop this from happening?

Can all of you idots for McCain and Independents, Shawn Hannity, Rush L., answer this question?

Sharon Walker,

That is the worst poetry (I think that's what you were going for) I've ever read. However, it probably sounds better if you goose step while reciting it.

Headline:
Waiting for Obama VP gets Old, Tired, then Funny.

did I miss something? is Obama choosing McCain as VP? THAT's truly reaching across the aisle. What if McCain also announces Obama as VP choice???

Obama/McCain?
or
McCain/Obama?

A little history lesson.

It's popular to slam Jimmy Carter, but he was more honorable than many who have served in the White House. His main downfall was the hostage situation in Iran. How many of you know that Reagan/Bush were making secret arrangements to have the hostages held until the inauguration? They met in Paris with Iranian officials to accomplish this.

Jimmy Carter is one of the most successful ex-presidents we've ever had. You don't have to agree with his politics to admire his work with Habitat for Humanity, for instance, and his efforts to bring peace to different areas of the world.

I hope CNN prints this.

Sharon Walker:

That was the most frightening post I've ever seen on the Ticker, and that's saying something.

Does that not seem just a bit Nazi-esque?

I can't believe what my country is becoming.

Obama is by far the most intelligent candidate we have, light years ahead of H. Clinton and especially of J. McCain.
McCain is DAngerous, egocentric and delusional. I can't believe we Americans don't realise how out of touch he happens to be.

OBAMA/ Gore 08

Please include flames, jabs and lies to have your posts posted.

Any allusion to, or similarity to facts will be immediately censor...er....deleted.

obama will not pick hillary,susan.quit saying that on every thread.it loses it's affect after,10 times a day for 2 months.why dont you spend your time raising money to help your precious hillary pay off her debt,instead of expecting obama supporters to pick up the tab for you people after the way he's been trashed by her and you.i wish you'd all fall off the face of the earth.

CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,CLARK,OBAMA/CLARK 08!

Obama will never be president. If he does not choose Hillary Clinton as a running mate. A lot of women will vote McCain period.....

John McCain will be the next president!!!!!

Clinton VP or McCain!!!!!!!

If it happens, Kaine will be the biggest mama's boy to be the nominee and ultimately the VP (if Obama wins) and then potentially the biggest mama's boy to become the President (if he runs for the office after Obama's is done with his 2 terms)...... all is great but a mama's boy potential President who will start every sentence with

".... and my mama loves that".....

I like him but for VP and for the P, I am NOT so sure

Unite the party and pick Hillary for VP.

Let all democrats have what they deserve...the strongest possible ticket to not only win the general election, but to CHANGE things for the greater good of this country and it's future.

McCain has been Senator for 26 years. For 20 of the past 28 years we have had Republican presidents – and look where it has gotten us. McCain is a part of that GOP club. He wasn't able to accomplish anything significant in 26 years so why should I vote for him now? GOP – goofy old party.

Michael Moore or George Soros would be the most obvious best choices for Mr. Obama.

Dear writing in Jillary @3:29:

Get over yourself, you will not get to "vet" the VP candidate. Obama has competent people doing the job thank you. All you and your PUMA buddies want is another thing to complain and blog about. Enough already. The Great Hillary will not be chosen. Deal with it.

I challenge someone, anyone.... (even one of the paid RNC posters on here) to explain to me WHAT MAKES OBAMA A COMMUNIST OR SOCIALIST....

Please, be policy specific.

No UNFOUNDED accusations of "he's gonna tax you... " re-distribute '

THEN explain to me why Bush/McCain is NOT labelled a FASCIST.

waiting......

Man would that be sweet – the Old Dominion could get rid of Taxin' Timmy as Governor! Sadly though, it could mean that the Country would be stuck with him.

Michael Moore...please stick to your unilateral, socialistic documentaries. And yes, Obama should pick Caroline Kennedy as his running mate because her name sounds good. Mmm hmm. Good sound logic there MM! Please do us a favor and move to Cuba.

Is he really considering anyone–or just hoping he can see a change on the VP-ometer back in the DNC headquarters before the party big-dogs select his running mate? How much control does Obama really have now that Dean and gang are in charge?

@"Old" white lady for Obama

Just FYI, Hillary suspended her campaign a couple of months ago, so it shouldn't be offending you any further. Thought you'd be glad to hear...

I love how easy people are so quick to jump on every name that he mentions as his VP. Good grief!

They are both like corporate lawyers–they'll do whatever is necessaryto further the company goals.
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Bill Clinton was a good President with little experience at start.

R U down with me?

Why do we need to "bring freedom to other nations of the world" while at the same time we reduce our own freedoms. Democrats and Republicans AUTOMATICALLY get on the ballot. Anyone else, well, you need thousands of signatures gathered in each state....talk about limiting choice and dialog.

Be PRO-"electoral" CHOICE !!

gary: You're an idiot.

Note that Obama, in the CNN poll of polls, is at 46% right now compared to McCain's 43%. He's been at 46% consistently for the last couple of months. This is even factoring in all the PUMA types who insist they will never vote for him. So consider, even with so-called Democrats saying they'll never vote for him, Obama still has 46% and even will all the so-called Democrats saying they're going to vote for McCain, McCain is still behind Obama. What lesson do I take from that?

Obama doesn't need PUMA to win. And even with PUMA, McCain can't get ahead.

I don't know how anyone can vote for McCain. I am a strong Obama supporter...but I would have voted for Hillary just to keep McCain out!!!!

McCain is all about war and nothing about you and I. McCain again and again has shown that he is just like Bush and even worse. The fact that he says that if he is elected he will have a pro-life presidency and administration proves that he every intention of repealing Roe v. Wade with any justice appointments.

On this very fact alone...any women that would vote for McCain must not care about being told what to do with her own body. I JUST DON'T GET IT!!!!!

Does anyone, particularly the Hillary supporters, realize that by continuing to support her that they are further dividing their own Democratic party?! Rather sad that people cannot seem to unite even within their own party.

I respect Sen. Obama so much for his decency and dignity. We Americans have been brainwashed by Rove/Bush/Limbaugh/Hannity and others and don't realize how wonderful it is for a politician to speak to the issues instead of demonizing his opponent. McCain has serious ethical, mental and leadership flaws too; I'll let Obama's VP and surrogates bring those out,

Obama says correctly McCain's economic and foreign policies are completely wrong and out-of-touch for the 21st Century. Let's hope Americans are not "Bush-wacked" and made cyncical by McCain's negative message, but realize the real differences between the candidates.

Having experience for McCain means to stick in the old framework. Dangerous in a global world.

P from CA, thank you!! You are utterly correct. The level of "debate" in the blog is at about a 3 year old "mine, mine, why, cuz, so? so? so? so?"

But, we are left with the comforting knowledge that this nation of voting age 3 year olds will decide the next leader of the "free" world.

Well now, I think Michael Moore is just being far too humble (as usual). Why, isn't it immenently obvious that he would be the perfect vice president for a President Obama? Food for thought, food for thought...

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Dedicated to All those who serve in the military and wars of the USA!

They volunteer to serve!
Others do not come but run!
They have no nerve!

Objectors, dodgers, no nerve!
Carving peace, Oh daughters and sons!
Pride, respect well deserved!

Uniformed proud I am who serve!
Reflecting childhood in the sun!
God watches over them as they serve!

Glory!Hallelujah! God love not reserve!
So proud are we the seeds of LOVE!
Blessed America for those who serve!

Salute the soldier of America!
Amen! Amen! Amen!

I cannot understand why CNN prints so many blogs that say the same thing over and over again with varying degrees of literacy. We get the point after the first ten or more. Surely there are comments more worthy of publication than the repetitive nature of the ones you do post.

any body think he announces this man kaine as vp tomorrow?

Question:
Uncle Sam August 20th, 2008 3:28 pm ET
Why does it always seem to be Obama supporters who bring up race?

Answer:
Raymond Duke August 20th, 2008 3:14 pm ET
You better hope like H@ll he does because Virginia usually goes Republican. I would not bet the farm on Obama winning the state with a first term Governor. Of course he will probably lose West Virginia after call them uneducated Cracker racist after Hillary won the state. Of course he did that to a lot of states that voted for Hillary instead of him. I did not vote for him either in the primarys so I guess that now I must be an uneducated racist.. So I guess I will vote for the old white man that does not call me names.

Sorry, Uncle Sam, you have to bear the cross for morons like Raymond Duke (and that is the kind of person you are voting with).

For the record: Obama only made the unfortunate and incorrect "bitter" comment. If I remember, it was Dick Cheney who made the comment about West Virginia (the state where 22% of the voters ADMITTED that the voted based on race).

They weren't mocking Kerry's service to the country with those bandages....they were mocking the fact that he had to beg for his purple hearts when he shot a couple bullets off a rock and the shrapnel apparently knicked him.

They were mocking the fact that he had to go over his direct commander to be awarded his three purple hearts so he could go home.

You know....sort of the opposite of John Mccaine

Barack Obama's one gift has been to be better than most at projecting a carefully crafted image of greatness to cover up his many flaws and his lack of a record of accomplishments.

Unfortunately, now that the novelty has worn off, he is proving himself to be an otherwise mediocre candidate.

Why didn't the failed leaders of the undemocratic Democratic Party see this coming?

Most of their constituents did.

I doubt very seriously that OBAMA makes his announcement until the last day of the convention. He would be wise not to, or otherwise the Hillary supporters are going to trounce that convention – and there will be nothing left standing, not even OBAMA's ego.

Obama is a waste of oxygen!

Obama and McCain will have 3 debates and their VP candidates will have 1, after they are made the official candidates at their respective party conventions.

This is the way it's been done for decades. Should be interesting.

HUSSEIN OBAMA: CHANGE YOU CAN NOT AFFORD.
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MCCAIN 08!
HILLARY 12!

P, CA: RIGHT ON!!

im so sick of the posts people put on here, acting childish, as if the world is over if a certain candidate does not get their vote, as if their threats of throwing the vote to the other side is REALLY going to stop us in our tracks. please TRY to sound intelligent, and for once, can we Americans start taking responsibility for voting some of these sorry politicians into office, and start taking responsibility for the fact that we are the only civilized country that votes on who we would rather have a beer with?

We vote for the wrong people because we can't possibly take a second out of our paris hilton obsessed lives to learn about our candidates, and start to blame everybody else but ourselves when the country goes down the drain!!

people, can we at least try to ACT educated in this country?!?!!?

VOTER FOR AN EDUCATED AMERICA!!

to Uncle Sam,

Because this has become about race. Unfortunately, the world is ready for a black president but America is not. So sad, but true. We truly live in two Americas.

Obama will only debate if he is given a teleprompter. I am sure that he wants to follow McCain so he can copy and modify his answers...just like he did with Hillary.
This guy is a Joke. Bush will look like a genius if Obama gets elected.

Hey, Obama, who have you been talking to here in Virginia? Kaine has NOT been doing a good job as Governor. I agree that Warner did a fairly good job (except for the HUGE tax increase), but Kaine has done nothing except ride Warner's coattails. Please pick him as your VP so that we can get rid of him. Thanks!

"Exxon- McCain '08

Obama has no substance at all, and it's finally coming to the surface.

Just send me the txt msg already, Obama... 'nuf with the speculations.

Get your election coverage from CBS, NBC, ABC, or MSNBC.

CNN is no longer in the news business.

Tim Kaine is not liked in most of Virginia. Tried to raise taxes just like Mark Warner did.
Obama may want to rethink this man as VP.
Native Virginian not liking Timmy Boy.

If you added Obama and Kaine's experience together, they still don't have enough for either pres. or VP. it's going to be the blind leading the blind. And I'm still laughing over Caroline Kennedy. Has she even held a job?

the journey so far,dont fall for there lies,u all most did it go barack and the democratfamily,if u cant get it now then is going to be inthe next 8 yrs of same of the same,fail policies empty promises and arecess in the economy.

*yawn* Who care's if it's not Clinton. She's the only one that'll give him any bounce.

It's sad to watch all the hysterical Obammunists delude themselves into believing they're riding some big wave of change in America, and the MSM's naked advocacy of Obama has only fed that delusion. It doesn't matter how loud your little echo chamber of friends is – the fact is, America is still as divided as ever (see presidential polls), and will remain so in spite of all your candidate's pretty rhetoric and false promises.

2000: Gore 48.4%, Bush 47.9%
2004: Bush 50.7%, Kerry 48.3%
2008: McCain: 49.6%, Obama 48.2%

Invest your money in Kleenex and Prozac, because the Obama supporters will be buying those by the case in November

SO,poll show McCain 5 point over Obama. finally America waked up.People who love Obama say Obama judgment ,Obama judgment,What judgment, His body's,Fresco , his church and opposed the surge and prediction it would not work. Come on, what judgment?

My respect for Obama continues to grow, whereas any respect I once had for McCain and/or Clinton is just about zero. Their campaigns are sadly lacking in integrity.

Just like Cnn is reporting untrue stories about death of a congresswoman, the same they will report about obama vp choice......
what a shame.

Journalism dead this year!!

Rudy NYC August 20th, 2008 3:28 pm ET

"Obama is trying, without much success, to call McCain out on actual issues. These guys need to have an actual debate. Obama spoke from his gut, heart, and mind at the recent Forum. McCain recited talking points from the campaign trail.

Obama is campaigning to be President of the United States.
McCain is campaigning to be Commander In Chief.

Does that make a difference to you? It does to me."

They do need to have a debate, Obama has refused to do joint town hall meetings and is only doing the minimum required.

Obama is campaiging for US Secretary General or King of the World after his Germany speech.

I want to know more about McCain and his relationship to Randy Scheunemann and Randy Scheunemann's extensive lobbying on behalf of Georgia. Randy Scheunemann is McCain's Foreign Affairs Advisor. There's a LOT more to this than meets the eye and CNN and others are avoiding it. Why?

CNN gets all hot and bothered about Obama's VP choice, but skips this story entirely? Why?

Obama will never be president. If he chooses Hillary Clinton as a running mate, he's got a better chance but even then... he's still not fit/qualified for the job.

John McCain will be the next president, get used to it.

"We need to elect Barack and remove the homophobia within the African American community and include them in the fold. "

I'm confused. Do African Americans think Obama is gay?

Barack Obama's Speeches......Wonderful
Barack Obama's Fundraising Abilities.....Amazing
Barack Obama's Body.....Beautiful
Not Voting For Barack Obama for President...............Priceless.

For everything else there is Visa Debit Cards

Caroline would be a great choise for Barack and would definately bring in women votes. She is the best match as a VP so far!

Give it up Obama! No thinking person believes you anymore.

Obama, you have the worst judgment of anyone who ever considered a presidential run, and you flat out lie! You are out of touch with mainstream America, and your record on abortion is abysmal!

Obama, you are going to lose.

McCain is the candidate of change America can believe in! And, he has the record to prove it.

Actually, I'm campaigning to be Professor-in-Chief.

Jim- Kudos to you sir. I agree 100% and would like to add the use of "flip flop" and "swift boating". Not to mention the media constantly viewing itself from the third person, with headlines such as: "Is the media biased twords Obama?" and reporting on VP speculation, even though any specualtion is that caused by the speculation story in the first place.

NO ONE CARES ABOUT THESE BLOGS. WERE JUST A BUNCH OF CATTLE , NAME LESS . WE ALL ACT LIKE WHAT WE SAY MATTERS BUT IT DOSN;T CNN IS GOING TO KEPT ON TEARING DOWN ANY HOPE . WE WILL HAVE TO PUT UP WITH A IDIOT OF A PRESIDENT.AGAIN. MCCAIN IS CNN BABY, HOW COULD YOU TUCK THAT BABY IN AT NIGHT . BUT THEY DO EVERY NIGHT AND WITH KISS. CNN-UNFORGIVEABLE

Susan – Can you move on already. Hilliary is not going to be the one, but if Obama loses she will be the one everybody is going to blame becasue of Hilliary hatefull angry women like you!

Well, let's see.... He's complimented Biden, Warner and Kaine. So he still has to say nice things about Bayh, Richardson, etc. to keep everyone guessing. What if it's the guy no one is talking about?

America has its time and this is its moment to get ahead.
We should vote for the guy who inspires us ang gives us hope!

Rudy you are absolutely right! And it matters to me!

Obama complimenting Kaine makes me believe Kaine's not the top contender....you always say "good job" to the guy who got second or third place. I want to see Biden rip that other guy apart.

Barack inspires as to believe in ourselves.

I have never heard him demonize Mccain. The media keep not focusing on Mccain voting record and keep covering obama in a negative way.

I challege the media to tell Americans what Mccain stand for apart from drilling.......

Obama, a leader we can believe in!

Great. This Virginian says keep him!!!!!!

P.CA:

I couldn't agree more! Although I DO call McCain "Grumpy" sometimes.

And the award for the most ignorant poster of 2008 goes to...

Raymond Duke!!!

for his post:

"Of course he will probably lose West Virginia after call them uneducated Cracker racist after Hillary won the state. Of course he did that to a lot of states that voted for Hillary instead of him. I did not vote for him either in the primarys so I guess that now I must be an uneducated racist.. So I guess I will vote for the old white man that does not call me names."

Bow down minions and prepare to receive a text from the exalted One.

My list is short. I may send it to you and let you vote.
Text back BIDEN to 23456 if you want him.
Text back KAINE to 12345 if you want him.

Nextel/sprint will tally the votes (and charge you $0.50) then I will announce with a text that will cost you money to receive.
Next on America's Top VP Choice...the newest celebreality show!!!

Thanks America for letting the election drop to this new low.

CNN, you've kept up this VP speculation dance a bit too long. Just let us know when the decision is announced, ok?

Barack Obama's one gift has been to be better than most at projecting a carefully crafted image of greatness to cover up his many flaws and his lack of a record of accomplishments Unfortunately, now that the novelty has worn off, he is proving himself to be an otherwise mediocre candidate.

Why couldn't the failed leaders of the undemocratic Democratic Party have seen this coming?

To Raymond Duke – Yes, you are indeed a racist. Please show us where Barack Obama called the people of West Virginia 'uneducated Cracker racist; ? Nope you made that up and the cracker reference proves your inability to get past the race thing. Get out of the 1950's please.

Just friggin' pick someone already!

My only comment to people who keep saying that Obama needs to put Hillary Clinton on the ticket is if she is so wonderful and will bring out the votes why didn't she win the primary?

Look she has way too much baggage and Obama would be too busy watching his back to get anything done. In fact with Hillary and Bill in the White House if I were Obama I would hire a food tester.

If you are a fan of the ticker then you must have seen the comments about the new draft. I have heard people saying that since the 2000 elections. People didn't go for it then and will not go for it now. Let me put it this way, if republicans are the war loving syco redneck killers that they are so offten made out to be then the democrats are little wimpy baby killers that would rather live on their knees than die on their feet, as so many republicans see them. The truth is that neither one fitts this discription and any claim to the contrary is fear mongering and nothing more.

Whoops – 12. I guess I should have finished 5 grade.

Yes, he is, and so are you, Mister President.

OBAMA 08

updated 7:31 a.m. CT, Wed., Aug. 20, 2008
WASHINGTON – In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.
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That's an 11 point drop, folks. Hillary was arrogant and thought she couldn't lose. Obama put his own name on a presidential seal mock-up, took a rock star tour, and now people are seeing his arrogance.

It's going to be his downfall.

If Obama does not pick Hillary, he will start losing in the polls. Hope he picks her & wins!

Obama/Hillary 08

Thats not all you people at cnn are scum sucking full of your self false ego bores do you have to put your brains in coat check when you clock in at Cnn,

I agree with P, CA:

I have been saying for weeks that I feel ill from the way both sides treat each other.

I am completely biased and don't know who I will vote for but I must tell you that if Obama supporters are trying to lose democrats and Ind. and even some Rep. they are doing the best job in alienating people from Obama by the awful hateful comments made not just about Senator McCain but about Sen. and President Clinton and even Chelsea.

I only hope these will read P, CA advise and Grow up!

I can't believe you Americans are actually going to elect that dim-witted, aging wingnut. He sung like a bird after being captured. His own father never spoke to him again and obviously he wasn't even much of a pilot, if he got shot down. weird.

OK, why is Obama waiting till the last minute?

Because he doesn't want us to vet his candidate...at least only a limited amount between now and the convention.

I absolutely won't vote for him anyway, but who he choses for his VP is very important, because that person has a statistical chance of becoming the next president.

Obama is trying, without much success, to call McCain out on actual issues. These guys need to have an actual debate. Obama spoke from his gut, heart, and mind at the recent Forum. McCain recited talking points from the campaign trail.

Obama is campaigning to be President of the United States.
McCain is campaigning to be Commander In Chief.

Does that make a difference to you? It does to me.

This election is crucial to me.

All Americans should refuse to be divided anymore.

We need to elect Barack and remove the homophobia within the African American community and include them in the fold.

We need Obama no matter how uneasy change is.The road is painful.
But we are ready for change!

In a collective history we ready to create America as it should be.

America always become better when people decide it is our time.

Obama can not do it alone and that is why I am not gonna rest with my powerful voice to tell people the truth and hope and possibility to drawn out the skeptics and the synics.

A better world foward!

Why does it always seem to be Obama supporters who bring up race?

I live in VA, and on one hand I hope Kaine isn't nominated. He hasn't done anything for the state since taking office, I can on;y imagine what he won't do for the US as VP... One the other hand, if he's VP, then we might get a governor who can run the state as well as Warner did.

if hillary supporters are mad how are they going to help obama in the polls

A thin resume can be nearly 30 years old and a thick one perhaps just a few. I have done a lot of research on McCain and do not find a man of great accomplishments–just a lot of time clocked in the halls of congress. With Obama there is a cadence that seeks to identify problems and work for solutions either in Illinois or Washington. I think this is what change means - it is not about how much time but the quality of the time. Obama addresses issues. McCain addresses personality in a pontificated fashion. He really has nothing to offer and the American people know it.

OK, I BET HE WILL FLIP FLOP ON HIS VP PICK..... HE WILL PICK BIDEN AND THEN SAY,,,,, OH WAIT, I MEANT KAINE...
WOULDN'T SURPRISE ME!

If I were republican I wouldn't use a Jimmy Carter comparison old guy, white hair, getting more confused with age. Were we discussing Jimmy Carter or John McCain................. see what I mean

P, CA – thank you! My sentiments exactly. Wouldn't it be great to come to these discussions and actually see some intelligent discourse?

Where's the Hillary haters and PUMA people? Somebody said Obama's name. They are sure to come out and say something negative. And oh, don't comment on the immaturity of people who post here. WE'RE AMERICANS! We can be serious and as immature as we want! YA DIG?

I watched CNN last night and Bill Maher who thinks that Obama should pick Hillary as his running mate. The rumors of his top 3 are 3 boring white guys. He needs Hillary Clinton because he needs to show bold stand and the ruthlessness of the Clinton's on attacking the key issues. Obama has moved to center and changed his stand on Oil drilling etc. Hillary would bring back the movement for the Democrats. Funny we don't hear about health care anymore.
Obama has lost his movement and that is evident with the fact he is not winning by a very large percentage after having 4 years of BUSH!!
I agree with Bill Maher.
GO HILLARY!!! I will write her name in…

i love the mccain supporters who shout that polls dont matter until he is up in one! Crackpots! Actually, if it matters to you, the more recent polls show Obama maintaining a small lead.

RCP Average 08/04 – 08/19 - 44.9 43.6 Obama +1.3
LA Times/Bloomberg 08/15 – 08/18 1248 RV 45 43 Obama +2
Reuters/Zogby 08/14 – 08/16 1089 LV 41 46 McCain +5
Gallup Tracking 08/17 – 08/19 2658 RV 45 43 Obama +2
Rasmussen Tracking 08/17 – 08/19 3000 LV 47 46 Obama +1
Quinnipiac 08/12 – 08/17 1547 LV 47 42 Obama +5
Battleground 08/10 – 08/14 1000 LV 46 47 McCain +1
IBD/TIPP 08/04 – 08/09 856 RV 43 38 Obama +5

At this point who ever Obama picks will be committing Political Suicide.

After Saddleback the fact that he isn't a viable candidate became VERY Clear.

The polls are just starting to reflect this truth.

McCain 08

McCain's attacks against Obama's patriotism is best summed up by Samuel Johnson.

ARROGANCE: if you think you can run the greatest country on the planet as POTUS then you must have some arrogance in you. So some of you need to shut it, because every president and presidential candidate that has existed has had ARROGANCE.

OBAMA WILL LOOSE IF HE DONT TAKE HRC. HIS YOUNG MORON FOLLOWERS DONT CARE NOTHING ABOUT THE COUNTRY ,JUST HATING ON THE CLINTONS. THE CLINTONS ARE THE SMARTEST IN POLITICS. TO YOU MORONS THAT SAY HRC DIDN'T RUN A GOOD CAMPAIGN ,YOUR FULL OF --. SHE WAS SWIFTBOATED OUT OF THIS RACE FROM O.B. ,DNC ,SUPER D. ETC. SO SAY WHAT YOU WANT. THE COUNTRY KNOWS SHE WAS SWIFTBOATED. ALL O.B.'S MONEY CANT HELP HIM WIN IF HRC ISN'T ON THE TICKET. SO KEEP HATING YOU YOUNG FIRST TIME VOTERS ,THAT DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT OUR PROBLEMS OR HAVE TO WORRY BECAUSE MOST OF YOU LIVE WITH YOUR PARENTS STILL. AMERICA GETS WHAT THEY ASK FOR.

stop saying hillary as vp

He'll do fine as a cabinet member; Biden for VP

Bush was leading Kerry by 9 points after the Republican convention in early September, 2004. You know, the convention where the delegates wore bandages to mock Kerry's service to his country.

You think the g.o.p. delegates this year will wear black-face or burkas?

PUMAs are a sick joke. If we get stuck with Johnnie Mac as president, his stupidity could easily cause us to cease to exist as a nation.

McCain's campaign runs not on issues nor on ideas, but on a propaganda machine. It's working well for him, but it's fundamentally corrupt.

Barkak Kaine. Almost sounds like "Broken"

Polls mean nothing! How come McCain isnt as far ahead in the RED STATE polls as he should be?

THIS ELECTION ISNT AS CLOSE AS THE MEDIA AND THESE POLLING COMPANIES WOULD LIKE FOR US TO THINK THAT IT IS!

Obama 2008

ENOUGH WITH THE VP GUESSING GAME. CAN WE JUST SIMPLY BE PATIENT? IT'S ONLY A COUPLE DAYS, GEEZ PEOPLE.

Raymond Duke and Susan are really republicans pretending to be Democrats, they are on every blog spewing some garbage. Just ignore them and maybe they will just go away. How much do you get paid by McLoser and Clan to be on these blogs anyway???????

Aren't you Democrats getting just a tab bit whacky?? Who gives a crap who Nobama's VP is? Sounds like a waste of energy to fuel this silly speculation. You could out inflating your tires and solving the oil crisis.

History in the making...a first term Senator and a first term Governor running way above their pay grades. Hard to determine if either one is qualified to lead us anywhere. Maybe they need advice from Jimmy (i surrender) Carter.

John McCain is a fraud. He is a traitor with ambitions to become President of the USA at all costs. He wrote this in is book. John McCain claims to be pro-life. How can anyone who is pro-war be pro-life. He is just a sick liar.

Obama is not reacting like Mcsame is. Obama is campaigning with his own style.

Hillary and mcain copy his strategy and demonize him.

Our country is hanging in balance and after 7years, I am going to settle for the world as it or work for the world as it should be.

We have two choices in this election.

Obama 08/12!

Obama is tired, let me help you out a little. If you do not select Hillary as the Vice President you will lose to Mccain.

Thank you

thank GOD our man is stepping up to the plate and putting McWAR in his place. i love you obama....keep up the pressure. the old man will cave soon. he can not compete with you till the end of the election. you now have him on the run!!! down with McWAR and up with OBAMA. our HERO!

Throughout the primaries and now in the general election I have never heard Senator Obama go negative with personal attacks against his opponents. He has always taken the high road despite the hits he has received on a daily basis and as a result has continued to rise above the divisiveness. The media with exception of a very few outlets have been biased against Obama and basically have him under a microscope yet McCain continues to get a positive free ride in the press. I like many other voters have my own suspicions as to why this continues to go on but still believe that despite these negative tactics Senator Obama will be known as the candidate who played fair despite how unfairly he was treated. This alone speaks volumes about his character.

Right on! Well said. McCain's politics are as sleazy as the man himself.

Folks you have a choice: if you like this war and want more-then vote McCain. If you want this war to end vote Obama.

If sleazy divorces and adultry mean nothing to you – vote McCain; if it bothers you-vote Obama.

If you want the rich to dictate your life-vote McCain
If not-vote Obama; and lastly,

If you feel the economy will be better under McCain-vote for him. If not, vote Obama.

Afterall, you have ONLY one vote. Use it wisely.

Well, he's running a good campaign so far, so I think he knows what he's doing. I for one will sit back and wait to see what happens. At any rate, I'll see Barack and his veep in Denver.

Denver or Bust !

Obama 08

OOOOOOOOOOH Please. I like Caroline but one inexperience person in the White House is enough..

Obama wouldn't know a good job if he saw it; he is another incompetent Jimmy Carter.

To the vast of majority of posters on both sides: Last time I checked, only children would:
1) call people names (Oblahma, McShame, etc.)Grow up!
2) act like they don't care ("So what?", "Who cares?") Grow up!
3) play little revenge games/dwell on the past (PUMAs, Hillary/McCain '08) Grow up!
4) TYPE IN CAPS/repeat the same phrase over and over/spell everything wrong (what loosers!) Grow up!
5) have nothing original to say/parrot things ("empty suit!", "liar!", "teleprompter!", "rezko!") Grow up!
Be the adults you're supposed to be. The current youth are making you look like infants right now. Didn't your parents teach you anything?CNN, if you're willing to post things that contain the above infantilism, you can post this. Thank you.

OKAY – WHERE IS THE TOWN HALL MEETING – I surely want to attend and already have the day off!!! GO OBAMA!!! GO TIM KAINE!!!

If Obama and his team are so arrogant as to not ask Hillary Clinton to be VP not only will they lose in November, they will deserve to lose.

I'm all veeped out. I'll just wait for the news when it comes in.

Too tired to guess, but still for Obama.

Barack/kane Leaders we can believe in!!

Yes we can!!

You better hope like H@ll he does because Virginia usually goes Republican. I would not bet the farm on Obama winning the state with a first term Governor. Of course he will probably lose West Virginia after call them uneducated Cracker racist after Hillary won the state. Of course he did that to a lot of states that voted for Hillary instead of him. I did not vote for him either in the primarys so I guess that now I must be an uneducated racist.. So I guess I will vote for the old white man that does not call me names.

I hate the comments they use these days to get the biggest reaction, they have to use the word "slam" to death for instance, just to make it sound like he's really getting at him, what a load...I cannot wait for the political season to end so I don't have to watch these shows and read these reports to keep up, I can't stand the deceptive wording and flat out lies, you can't trust the media and that's just sad.

Looks like Obama is trying to get someone just like John McCain for a running mate. Shall we start calling him McKaine?

The search for experience continues...

Yes, GREAT JOB!! As if Virginia is doing so well these days....(eyes rolling)

Keep them coming Barack!

Oh great, oshama the jimmy carter second term. Might as well name larry, moe or curly as his running mate.

If Obama does not pick Hillary, he will start losing in the polls. Hope he picks her & wins!

Obama/Hillary 08