Your help to Mainstreet Senator McCain is through wall street. Yes, it would trickle down; THAT'S WHAT I HEARD DURING DEBATE!

John is correct he does have at least two things bigger that he must worry about.One is the person he sees in the mirror,who is not even close to the John McCain of 2000.The other big worry is Sarah Palin who is comic relief for the rest of the world but not so good for McCain.The speed dating (vetting) tactic has failed miserably and it has got to suck to be John McCain right about now.Yeah I would have to agree McCain has bigger worries right now,then Obama kicking his butt all over the place and being a gentleman and Presidential while doing it.

Yeah! worring about why you were caught on national tv trying to find out where congress was holding the meeting (which they moved, because they knew you were coming), and when he finally got to the right place, the meeting was almost over. I would worry why as a great State Senator like me not be invited! ha! ha!

Palin echoes Obama on Pakistan so she is an ignorant moron?

Interesting conclusion by the media and the Obama camp.

Mr. McCain, keep your promise to the American People and think of country first! Resign your campaign and admit you are unfit to serve.

Slamming is what Obama does best….

Solving… not so much.

This is so misleading. Obama spoke first so was McCain supposed to repeat what he said. McCain did comment on several items.

Huh? What kind of reaction is that?

Obama/Biden '08

Obama does not practice what he preaches.

Makes money but can not save it.

Biden is a pauper- and thus even less good at managing his money.

Why are you not letting my comments be posted CNN?? Because the truth hurts!!

McCAIN'T , AS HE AINT GOING TO THE WHITE HOUSE, SEEMS VERY JUMPY AND EDGY THESE DAYS. THIS OUT OF TOUCH, LIVING IN THE PAST, LYING WAR MONGER OF AN OLD MAN, SEEMS ONLY INTERESTED IN SINGING HIS PRAISES AS A SOLDIER, GLORIFYING HIMSELF BY HIS MILITARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND CREATING A LEGEND,.. GUESS WHAT McCAIN'T? YOU AIN'T NO AUDIE MURPHY. WATCHING THE DEBATE FRIDAY NIGHT, HE KEPT REFERRING TO " OBAMA JUST DOESN'T UNDERSTAND". EXCUSE US McLIAR,… BUT IF YOU'RE SO KNOWLEDGEABLE, AND ALL KNOWING, HOW COME YOU PICKED SUCH A DUD FOR A RUNNING MATE?

McCain has bigger things to worry about…
Like putting another fearther in his cap, along with his 8 homes, 12 cars, trophy wife, etc…

The rest of America is worrying about affording food, keeping the heat on this winter, and being able to commute to and from their job.

No, WE DON'T have bigger things to worry about…

I don't envy John Mc Cains' many houses and vehicles. I do think that a person that owns that much can not know what it's like to have an income of less than 50k a year and understand what life is like.
I'm fortunate, I had a good job for 38 years and retired with a good pension. That sort of thing is not available to out kids. College isn't for everyone, I dropped out of high school and joined the army when I reached age 17. When I was discharged in 1964, good jobs were everywhere, with health benefits and retirement. There's nothing wrong with being factory worker, we can't all be business managers, but the factories are gone. We need them back. How can we reamain a Super Power without them? How we be a Super Power and continue borrowing money from China? I'd like to debate John Mc Cain and Barrack Obama myself.

when Mcbush picked Sarah, he lost my vote as an Independent!!!

yeah! I bet you got bigger things to worry about.
what would you do once you lose to Obama come November?

Obama 08

All McCain talked about was war. All I heard from him were stories about past wars and possible future wars. War War War, that's McCain.

Yes, i want to hear more of Barack. It is not about sarah or Biden, it is about Mccain vs. Obama!

All talk… no action.

He sure can spend 66 Million a month just to blow his own horn and to brag about how great he is and how great he will be.

McCain "has bigger things to worry about" HA HA HA He means his poor choice of a running mate. Gov. Falin. Can't keep her trap shut forever you old geezer. Obviously senility is beginning to set in demonstrated by his choosing her. That dingbat would be a heartbeat away from running things. Somebody help us please.

Obama knows how to spend other people's money… look at how he self-promotes with your campaign donations.

But neither He nor Biden have been able to save any of their huge wages to prepare for retirement.

Think about it, folks.

I trust McCain and Palin more as representatives of my hard work and diligent saving and retirement planning.

Hey Sen. Obama I would like to know how 5% of Americans are going to pay for your 95% tax cuts. This math just doesn't add up in my book. What about you touting that 7thousand for college kids. I didn't hear that in the debates on Friday night when you talked about education. It sounds like a gimmick to pull in young voters to me.

Obama 50% (+4)

Mccain 42% (-3)

Barack Obama leads John McCain, 50% to 42%, among registered voters in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday — just one point shy of his strongest showing of the year. (Gallup Poll).

I dont know why this is not being picked up by Major news outlets such as CNN.

REPORT THIS NOW CNN!

Obama is a relative newcomer to the senate and the political scene.
John McCain has worked for the people of this country for a very long time and has a proven track record.

I know this is an election year and that things are said that reflects misrepresentation…a parsing of words that is meant to benefit whoever is saying it.

BUT……..does Barack Obama think we are all fools out here? Does he expect us to believe that John McCain is a simpleton? even more so….does he expect us to believe everything he says and that this country will turn against a man who has already proven his worth?

I have many many questions, and John McCain is not the man they would be directed to. Obama may say many things, whatever he wants, but saying that John McCain doesn't care about the working, tax-paying people of this country is downright ridiculous. Try another line. Try addressing the reservations we have about you, Mr. Obama.

yeah! I bet you got bigger things to worry about.
what would yo once you lost to Obama come November?

Obama 08

Yeah, and I have better things to do, such as vote for Obama

Barrack! All I heard in that debate was that McCain HAS experience and you don't!! Every word from your mouth about foreign affairs - which is what the debate was about, right - was something you planned on doing. And the Libs are slamming Palin's lack of foreign experience. Oh, and nice answer to try to weasel your way out of McCain's comments about your heading a subcommittee on foreign affairs, and you never left Washington!

Oh, and about your comments on the economy - I don't think that I've ever heard you stammer, studder, and backtrack more since you put your name in the Presidential hat!! I guess that debate camp did not include how to answer questions you had already been spoon-fed answers to!

johnn mccain is an elitist out of touch with the average americans. i will never vote for this dude.

Can you imagine the tax bills that will be flying through the house and senate with a Democrat controlled congress and a Democratic president?

He may not raise taxes on folks in 2009, but I guarantee you that you will be paying way more than you are now under an Obama administration.

Funny how he did not answer Jim's question Friday night regarding what he would change because of the financial crisis. He totally avoided saying he would now decline to implement his corporate windfall taxes because even Obama has realized it would be lethal to the American economy.

So if it is a lethal move, wouldn't it also damage a healthy economy? Answer is yes. 10-4 is still 6 no matter how you slice and dice it.

So go ahead people, raise taxes, vote democrat! Don't come whining to Scott L when you are paying an extra 5-15% of your paycheck every year to support welfare, illegal aliens, and freeloaders looking for government handouts.

Well the only card left for McCain is the race card.I'd bet the farm on it.

CNN glad to see your putting the Fact Check portion in the article now as opposed to making it a separate entry on the thread.

P.S. Folks, if have not seen the SNL where "Katie" interviews Palin, it is a must see, ESPECIALLY when she answers the "700 billion" bailout question!

Too funny and sadly too true!

GET EM OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!! All McSame likes to talk about is pork spending and tax cuts for the rich. He wants to cut 20 billion and spend 300 billion. ITS ABSURD!!!!!!!! WAKE UP AMERICAN the GOP IS LYING TO YOUR FACE

OBAMA/BIDEN 08/12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 08/12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 08/12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 08/12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I agree McLame, Sarah Palin and Rick Davis are "bigger things to worry about."

I find it funny that Americans living abroad can actually vote…since most of the folks living abroad actually have no intent on coming back to America. Keep your vote and your opinions abroad as well! Go Obama go

Yes indeed. Mr. McCain has Mrs. Palin to worry about. His slogan, "County First" seems to ignore Mr. Palin's seven year membership to the Alaska Independence Party that puts Alaska first. Should a could be Commander in Chief be married to a successionist? Perhaps witches cast a spell on Mr. Palin causing him to temporarily turn his allegiance away from the USA thereby putting it in his home state. Perhaps the Pastor Murthee has successfully removed the spell. We can all sleep better now.

Obama should be careful…after all he is the one who likes to talk about rural americans behind their backs..I am not sure why more people don't realize that Obama's performance at the debate was just that..a well rehearsed performance..Obama spent days in debate camp, while McCain was in DC doing his job..all in all that makes McCain a clear winner. I follow things closely and Obama has a real gift in spin politics.

Bigger things to worry about indeed - like indoctrinating Sarah Palin with the slightest bit of knowledge in time for the VP debate. I think they could easily hide some kind of media feeder into that weird beehive of hers.

Obama is becoming more arrogant as the days go on!!!
He speaks as though he has just saved the country… what a joke!
900 million in earmarks in three years? Imagine if all of congress got what he did?He is quite sure of himself…he KNOWS he has the media, the talk and the image….how naive Americans are…and how very bias is all of the media… Wake up people, wake up!

Bye John.

If Sarah Palin agreed with Obama with her Pakistan comment- why do the Obama supporters consider her an idiot?

How can she be an ignorant moron and agree with the great Obama?

I don't get it.

I found her comment totally acceptable and in keeping with the position of both campaigns: KEEP Americans safe and take the necessary actions to do so.

Why would a guy with 12 house think about regular folks. That's why he's not in touch. I hear he has a house in Sedona AZ. I road through there to take my kids to the Grand Canyon it's the scenic route and what a scene( that will probably be the last vacation for a while). It was so ritzy. I don't even think they had a Home Depot or Quiktrip. Just trendy exclusive stores and eateries. It was from the twilight zone I thought.

Here is the GOP playbook as though I needed to expose it:

Stratagem 1: MISLEAD by any means necessary, omission of the truth or outright lies OK
Strategem 2: DISTRACT (via multiple outrageous actions and statements)
Stratagem 3: INVERT your weaknesses and flip them onto your opponent
Stratagem 4: DENIGRATE the opponent via attack or dismissal of their legitimacy or policies
Stratagem 5: PARROT any ideas or language that is working for your opponent, and obfuscate the origin of anything that is working as intended for your opponent (see stratagem #1)

sounds like a recipe for "change", doesn't it? NOT. Sounds like Bushie. "That's fuzzy may-ath!"

I dare any republycanthrope to refute this post. DARE you.

September 28, 2008
Gallup Daily: Obama Moves to 50% to 42% LeadObama registers strong performance over Thursday-Saturday time periodUSA Election 2008 Gallup Daily Americas Northern America PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama leads John McCain, 50% to 42% among registered voters in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday — just one point shy of his strongest showing of the year.

When you can only view one thing at a time thru a "single lens" a lot of things appear fuzzy and out of focus!

There is no doubt that Obama won. I can skip the last two now, if the was Magoo's "strong suit" and I have heard all his old war stories and "loving" and "take care of them"! His tired bear joke and we know you did not win Miss Congeniality, you have used that line in all stump speeches and you told us twice during the first debate. so the save the old stories for the next time you are giving a speech at the VA hall, or at the Thanksgiving table for your grandchildren

The rest of us are looking toward the future, not the past, and especially, not your past.

Mr. Magoo was so angry, that he had to share a stage with Obama. He appeared old, small, gray and bitter. MaGoo was very condescending and dismissive of Obama.

Observations about from the debate:

Harvard graduate vs a septuagenarian with an IQ just north of his shoe size.

indeed, McCain has much much more "things to worry about than that"…. such as how to position his campaign for the upcoming Biden-Palin debate. The conservatives are claiming that Biden's gaffes excuse Palin's performance in recent interviews. Unfortunately, gaffes are not the same as incompetence. Bush may be mocked for his blundering oratory, but this is not the reason he is despised the world over. In the upcoming debate, Palin will surely be able to pull off a few zingers, but it remains to be seen whether she will prove comprehensibly competent. Meanwhile, Biden is certain to produce gaffes, but it is certain that he will demonstrate a deep understanding of the major issues facing the United States. I can deal with gaffe-rich, but competent. I have problems with all-zinger, but no-substance.

"I've got bigger things to worry about than that."

Being dismissive is the fastest way to turn off an independent voter. Thanks, McCain, for letting me know that you are just not the guy to vote for.

People overstate and spin things on the campaign trail so the right thing to do is dismiss your opponent. No big deal. However what McCain said wasnt very presidential. Yes it's a word thats been used in the media alot the past few days but in this case it simply means that maybe a little bit of his famous temper was showing through. After all, its been a very tough week and I am sure hes tired and fustrated. Hes in good shape but still 72.

How in the world doesl Sen. McCain expect us to beleive that he will LEAD change in this country when all he is doing during this campaign is FOLLOWING! Doesn't he have a mind of his own? Why is it that for every ad that Sen. Obama does McCain copies? For example, he now has the audacity to say that Sen Obama did not use the word "victory" once. Give me a break.! Sen. McCain is proving to be, amongst other things, the most overtly disingenuious person that I have had the displeasure of listening to in a very long time! Sen. Obama is right. McCain is a great imitator and one who I am now sure wiill be "more of the same"!

Things are broken in Washington and need to be fixed. No more repubs this time around to make things worst.

Obama/Biden will fix things and make America properous again for all Americans and not only for the few well connected.

Obama/Biden 08/12.

Obama's campaign adds are all half truths and lies and he has the nerve to criticize McCain. He should half the record McCain has of helping people. He's all talk and no action.

How can either one of them say anything when they both are going to vote yes for the bail out? What no one is mentioning is our constitution and the value of the dollar. This is like putting a band aid over a gaping wound. Everyone should be calling, writing, and visiting their congressmen and telling them you oppose the bailout.

How much is CNN being supported by Obama's campaign? I really would like an article of how much money his campaign pays you folks for advertising? It seems that everytime I pull up your website there his big ole' ears are staring me in the face on your website. Obama will revive CNN's poor ratings because Obama can do anything possible….he's our saviour! Also everyone slams Governor Palin because they know she is more qualified than their presidential candidate - KoranObama!

McLiar is worried about bigger things than us: his own defeat.

McMooseburger is slated for humiliation Thursday.

The entire GOP feels the Obama Tsunami closing in from all sides and desperately seeks higher ground. . . .but they don't know where it is!!!

Obama is an elitist.

To all the ditto heads screaming Obama will introduce the United States to socialism. Since republicans appear to have a difficult time with both facts and how to obtain them, and ditto heads seem partial to having decisions spoon fed to the them in small easy to remember sound bites, much like a baby eating his or her daily morning pabulum, therefore I have done the research for you.
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“All socialists share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth into a small section of society who control capital, and creates an unequal society. All socialists advocate the creation of an egalitarian society, in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly, although there is considerable disagreement among socialists over how, and to what extent this could be achieved.[1]”.

One of the extents to achieve socialism is called “social democracy”.

“Social democrats propose selective nationalization of key national industries in mixed economies combined with tax-funded welfare programs”.

As a result, under the last 8 years of republican control in the White House now and control of Congress since 1996 until 2007 the U.S. government now owns an insurance company, two main home financing companies and very soon will own investment and banking firms both national and international in what used to be the private sect.

The bill that will introduce us to socialism is now in Congress and was introduced by republicans under President George W. Bush

So, to recap:

President Obama will INHERIT an economy that is ALREADY a democratic socialist economy that was set up by republicans as a welfare program to bail out the fat cats on Wall Street!

During the first Presidential debate, I noticed bi-partisanship in action.

1. Obama: “John you were right…”

This shows that Obama is admitting that he does not have all the answers and is willing to listen to all sides of an issue before making a final decision. This is a very good trait to have in a President that wants to represent ALL of America.

McCain would not even acknowledge Obama when Obama was talking directly to him. He appeared bothered and angry that he had to waste his valuable time explaining himself to Obama. McCain’s disdain for Obama was apparent in his demeaning and snide comment stating Obama being so far to the left that it was hard to reach across the aisle in a bi-partisanship manner. McCain came across as a small-minded, petty, angry and bitter old man. Not good traits in anyone, but certainly not in a man vying to be the President of the UNITED States.

2. McCain: “Senator Obama does not understand…”.

It was obvious that the contrary was true, Obama did indeed understand, what McCain obviously meant was that Obama did not understand issues the same way McCain does, which is obviously the ONLY correct way in his mind.

Moral:

McCain claims that as a “maverick” he likes to make quick decisions and then live with the consequence. We are looking to future, and want to see how McCain would interact with Obama, Congress and the citizens, we do not want some old story line where in the past you did this with that Democrat and that with this Democrat. Your current demeanor speaks volumes as to your ability to be “bi-partisan” in the futures.

Question to America:

Do you want to place the future in the hands of a man that makes quick, erratic decisions without research and have the consequences affect the lives of your children?

I have to say, Obama's plan to create jobs in the US building green technologies appeals to me more than another round of tax cuts for the wealthiest under McCain. It's time this country started producing things again.

Yeah you do have bigger things to worry about. Your failed theatrics last week and your pandering, insulting VP pick.

He certainly does….Thursday evening, for example.

McCain is certainly out of touch with his NINE homes and THIRTEEN cars… plus he picked that loony Palin for his VP… She's totally unqualified.

yeah who does he think your talking about beign bitter and clinging to guns and religon oops.

Sen McSame, wants the WH sooooooo bad that he forgot that he had sold his soul to devil, oh i forgot he's STILL selling oops!

This is why Obama has my vote. I want someone to worry about my needs everyday in the White House. This goes beyond party lines and choosing the right person for the job. Obama is the answer.

Obama/Biden '08

lol "However, McCain strategist Steve Schmidt said Sunday, the Republican nominee does deserve recognition for bringing the parties together."

yeah sure…that's why he said not a single word in the white house meeting, not even when Barack asked him to take position… sure. That's why he blasted the meeting and the progress on thursday's meeting…

Clear it's his plan. Well pay some credit to McCain, first there was the Blackberry, and now the Bailout plan… this campaign is a bunch of idiots…

"Who did he think I was talking about, about the necessity of helping the American taxpayers and income" –> Well lobbyists like the 7 top-lobbyists within your campaign, idiot.
Obama/Biden by landslide