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I agree... McCain's campaign is the dirtiest one that I've ever seen. You can't just insult and divide our country just because you're losing... Didn't he say he was going to run a honorable campaign? It's all about smear and fear tactics now! The Dirty Talk Express has arrived to your town...

Those smears are lightweight. There are more intresting facts, just google this:

obama foreign contributions

obama acorn

I am glad that Sen Obama has called Sen McCain and Gov Palin out. You don't have to be negative to get your point across. With all of the worries that Americans are facing today, I feel that it is disrespectful for McCain and Palin to try to distract people from the issues. If you took away all of the negative ads from McCain/Palin, what would you have?NOTHING!!!!!!!!

Certainly he doesn't have any real leadership to offer–just four more years of the Bush disasters. Please stop the smears.

Well the Obama camp is pretty good with the smear campaign too, just it seems that McCain is using facts in his adds.

I am so proud of Obama and the way his campaign has gone. Being a strong christian, I may not agree with everything other Democrats say but I definitely want a President that tells the truth and doesn't base his campaign on bad mouthing his opponent - specially when those comments are out right lies or misleading as have been the majority of the things the Republican campaign has said about Obama. The McCain/Palin campaign has proved to be dishonest now which leaves the door wide open for them to be dishonest if they were elected - heaven forbid!

John McCain has no where left to go except lies and false statements.
Sarah Palin accused of- ABUSE OF POWER- by 10 republicans and 4 democrats. Where have we heard that before- more of the same ABUSE folks!

I beg to differ with you, Mr. Obama, Sir. The McCain/Palin team also has abuse of power to add to all their other negative qualities.

Republicans are being made to look like Idiots and hate mongers .
how can America recover when the wound is so deep . in the eyes
of MCCain all he sees is hate . Disfigured by war and cancer ,
and 5 years in a hole .

This campaign has gone beyond decent ethics and I know McCain
knows and approves all of these tactics.. just look at his eyes when asked questions regarding them.. it will haunt him and all his supporters who approve of this type of rhetoric and sleazy tactics.
It is showing in the polls and most folks I know are "fed up" with this type of mud slinging.. both sides! It seems the issues are being ignored and America is in deep trouble and all had better wake up to that fact.. politics aside!

Truth is what is left out Sen. Obama. For the last 20 months, your line was "political smears again me" , "use of the race card" .. no matter who pointed that you are a talker. Remember Hillary? and Biden? and Richardson? and Edwards? they all view you are nothing but propaganda.

SMEAR OR NOT SMEAR THE GAME IS OVER BARACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE

HOW TRUE.... All McCain has left are smears ads and lies because he's tied to LOSER BUSH and his wars and rotten economy.

Good. Tell it like it is. But watch out not to be dragged down to the McCain campaign's level.

Out of one side of his mouth he tells his audience (proving that he is the only sane person in the room) to tone down the rhetoric. Yet his campaign continues to bottom-feed.

John McCain is either confused or he has no control over his campaign. Either way it proves that he is incompetent to lead this nation.

Yes, that is all Mc bush has left. It wiil be successful if the white race in america becomes afraid to vote for obama. As for all other races of people through out the world we are interested in seeing obama win this election.

This is so TRUE. Here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa there is a McCain supporter who made up a large sign for his yard.. White background with orange spray paint. The text on the sign is: "VOTE FOR THE TERRORIST OBAMA".

.......THE McCANN / PALLIN COMBINATION IS NO DOUBT A SAD NON WINNING TICKET

Can someone please explain the difference between the mottoes "Country First" and "Deutschland Uber Alles"? Besides the fact that one's in German on the other in English.

When this is over Palin will go back to Alaska and continue to a abuse the power of her position and most likely have more investigations into her Method of Operation of lashing out at those she feels have offended her in some way. McCain will continue to fumble around from one screwy idea to another to match the way the wind is blowing while telling everyone what a free spirit he is. What a sad state of affairs when this is the best the republicans can offer the country. Bob

I know I'm a Canadian .. but so interested in US politics. The latest trend with the McCain camp seems to be unreported ... and that is ... he has been slammed for his mean spirited attacks on Barack .. so now, he has resorted to having shills in the audience to ask the mean spirited questions and then appears to defend Obama ... shame on you, McCain. How low can you sink? ..

Yes! A pic with John and Ayers both and McCain praised his great work? Guess that line of attack blew up in their pandering and power abusing faces, eh? You want to be respected again McCain? Drop out and denounce in no uncertain terms the tone of your audience and the campaign you were forced to run. Then I will speak your greatness everywhere as a TRUE American hero.

During a McCain town hall meeting, he rightlyfully took the microphone away from a woman who referred to Obama as a Arab. McCain's response to the woman was that Obama was a decent, family man.

What John McCain failed to do was demonstrate statesmanship/leadership by not speaking to the fact that there are many Americans of Arab descent who are patriots, love and fight for this country, and that being Arab doesn't make one a bad person or a terrorist. What's interesting is that no media outlet has reported on this angle of the story.

Sums it up!! Game over

I used to think Sen. McCain would make a good president, but no more. He has shown himself to be negative, angry, impulsive, and lacking in judgment. I'm particularly concerned about his lack of judgment in choosing Sarah Palin, an empty-headed, mean-spirited, and dishonest person. It's very scary to think that she could end up as president. I'm sick of attack, attack, attack, by both of them, as well as their lack of integrity. I am definitely voting for Obama.

Polically, McCain's camp is empty, no convincing arguments, so they are taking the dangerous road no matter what will be the outcome. And Sarah who claim to be marverick is not, according to the troopergate report. So it seems that McCain and Sarah Palin are dancing Calipso, a dance where we don't have coherence, should dance who can "Move". The downside is that the dancer can get hurt by another one.

finally...

Beware of all of the all thebad things that are said about Obama sometime it can come back to bite you in the butt.. We are all Americans and should behave as people of such. We are so full of hate of our follow man until we will never get ahead because other countries are looking at us and laughing.

With due respect, McSame has shown no exceptional qualification to be President. That is why he desperately chose now so quickly FAILIN' Palin. In fact, his current political adversity has him flailing desperately and demonstrating, in the process, the truly snarly, nasty, muck-raking nature lurching below a surface of fake-affability (“My friends”).

OBAMA/BIDEN FOR A DECENT WHITE HOUSE BASED ON INTEGRITY, INTELLIGENCE, HIGH COMPETENCE AND HOPE.
Independent.

What is that smell? Oh, that's the McGimmick's campaign staff.

Great ad..McCain is only trying to change the subject from the economy (Which is all Americans care about right now) to anything other than the economy! It won't work, it is not working and that's why McCain is now back tracking on those nasty comments because it backfired on him. He's down 10-11 pts in some polls. This race is basically over because he's losing in the battleground state, which if this holds, will give Obama a blowout on Nov 4th....

How tragic:
John McCain used to be a decent Republican, a politician able to cross the isle and a maverick.

Now he is an old man, grumpy, erratic and his campaign and stump speeches, far from being those of the maverick we have admired, are a tired and stale imitation of Rove's led G.W.Bush Presidential campaign.
Only difference is that this time many Republican and Independent voters are no longer falling for that trap.

The maverick McCain is gone, only to be replaced by a McCLOWN.... what a waste!!!

It is sad that this once-respected man has resorted to this. I once respected him for the years of service he gave his country but now, especially with the Palin nighmare, I have little respect or sympathy for him. He is not a fit role model for our children and grandchildren and certainly not fit to be our commander-in-chief.

McCain's pick of Sarah Palin is just another example of his horrible judgment. Sarah Palin along with her husband are very vindictive characters. The only thing Sarah is good at is smearing others. She claims she is an "expert" on energy but has consistently gotten her facts wrong about her own state's oil and gas policies and figures. She has no experience in alternative energy, just oil and gas and even that experience is questionable. She abused her power as governor and has cited "executive privilege" in a call for her refusal to release official state emails that her own husband was included on.

McCain and Palin clearly have no solutions, they only have smears to run on.

It was clear from the start, when Sarah Palin presented her GOP convention speech, that the McCain ticket was intent on taking the low road; her speech was made up of sniping and negativity, delivered with cutesy smiles.

That tactic is now being taken to extremes by Palin, in particular, and by Sen. McCain as well. The accusations they toss about so freely in relation to Sen Obama are gross exaggerations and inaccuracies, not actual fact.

Why is it that nothing is being made of the REAL FACT that, until recently, Todd Palin belonged to an organization that preaches anti-Government sentiments and wants to SECEDE from the rest of the country? And the illustrious governor spoke at one of their rallies! She needs to remove that American flag pin from her lapel, as she obviously does not believe in what it stands for. She and McCain only want to win the election to satisfy their own blind ambition and, as seen in the past few weeks, they will resort to the lowest tactics to acheive their goal.

Is it November 5th yet?

Maybe the two sides can get together and talk about the smears like Obama's false claim the govt invented the computer at Katie's Restaurant where Biden goes to find out what's on the minds of voters, oh that's right it closed TWENTY YEARS AGO.

Great! I'm glad Obama has defended himself well! That ad says it all and is indeed true! The republican ship is sinking and there are no life preservers left marked "terrorist" & "fear mongering" to throw. The raging mad lynch mob right is empty and will soon be gone for good in a few weeks. Even McCain is getting booed by his own crowd. It's out of control within the republican right! They can't win by telling the truth. That's why Obama is leaving McCain and his followers in his review mirror. Obama/Biden 08!

This has been a recurring theme throughout history, actually. The losing side in any conflict becomes desperate, pulling out "all the stops" in order to increase their odds of winning. In the case of McCain-Palin, the campaing is resorting to the standard Republican tactics of fear and division.

This is how it works: the party scares people by suggesting that we as a nation are falling apart, that we are divided, and then gives us reasons to be divided. Then it turns around and says that it (the GOP) will bring unity and prosperity to the nation. This, despite the fact that all of our division and economic crises have been caused by who? That's right, the Republicans.

This is not to say that all Republicans are fear-mongers. Only the leaders are. The followers are usually just uninformed or misinformed. Generally this can be attributed to faith-based thinking. The same people that can believe in religion without verifiable evidence of ANY of the claims religion makes, are the same people that believe anything the Republican party tells them. They have the horrible, crippling disease of faith. What logical or rational creature can take everything they hear without a shred of evidence to support it?

This policy of McCain's is nothing new, so I'm almost wondering why I'm reading this here...

Yes, Mccain did do good by letting one of his supporters know that she was wrong about Obama. However, he only put out a fire that he and his campaign started.

John McCain needs to take a good hard look at his campaign and the people attending his rallies. Does Senator McCain want to be remembered for the kind of hate mongering supporters that now make up his base? His own people booed him when he said that Obama was a decent person and a family man. Those aren't the kinds of supporters the McCain of 2000 would have thrown in with.

The McCain/Palin Campaign has taken to instill hate, bigotry and fear. Country First?
How sad....I hope that they can live with the probable violence that their Campaign will be responsible for creating. God Bless America

the Mccain ad that is

McCain is now a shell of his former self. The most patriotic thing he can do now is stop the smears and lose with dignity. Sarah Palin is a puppet. I don't think she's welcomed in Alaska anymore. They are indeed a 21st Century American political tragedy. Print this!

Fa ct check.org said that this ad was false and misleadin g

at this point in the campaighn mccain should call a press conference and do the honorable thing and actually suspend his campaign for good, take some time off away from politics and send palin back to alaska

I'll go one step further. Smears are all McCain ever had. Pathetic. Barack deserves to win in a landslide.

Now that America knows the truth about Palin, this race is over. The MCcain KKK type rallies will get smaller and smaller and the smart Republicans with intergity will distance themselves by not voting or joining Obama.

Republicans show George Bush and John MCcain that you are not stupid.

Vote for OBAMA

Considering McSAME's views on the policies, that's all he had froom the beginning.

For many of us the financial security we have worked so hard for has evaporated in the last few months. McCain does not have to instill fear in us–the economy has already done that. If a politician runs a dishonest and unethical campaign we have a pretty good idea of how he will govern. Thanks, but no thanks to McCain/Palin.

I lost my job yesterday. I was not alone. Now I am scrambling, trying to figure out what to do. The McCain/Palin campaign is an insult to me and other Americans like me, thinking that we would even care about these pathetic smears. Their hate mongering is bordering on dangerous, and is terribly irresponsible. Obama, all the way – the only SANE choice.

You're darn right all he has left is smears.

McCain and his supporters scare me. It's gone beyond anger, and into hate and racism.

Yeah, I said it. Racism. Don't believe me? Think I am playing the race card? I'm a 25 year old white woman. The second I heard a McCain supporter refer Obama as an 'Arab', I knew that things had officially turned the ugliest it could get.

Shame on you, McCain and Palin, for letting it get this far. Your supporters are so angry now, no amount of calling Obama 'decent' will calm them down.

I'm so disappointed in what you've become, Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin. Let's look at hope – and, ahem, ethics.

Every time McCain puts out a round of smears, Obama gains a point in the polls.

Keep smearing Grumpy, and by all means get Caribou Barbie to step up the attacks before she goes to jail!

Senator McCain's campaign is hurting. His rallies are looking like they are on the verge of becoming lynch mobs. They are full of angry people furious that he is losing to Senator Obama. When your supporters are shouting "Kill him", "Off with his head", Terrorist" and other incitements to violence when Obama's name is mentioned, it shows people out of control and irrational. It is the undecided voters who are looking at this and seeing the people who are for McCain acting crazy. This does not help John. His supporters need to realize that they are hurting his cause and whatever small chance he has left of turning his campaign around.

Very apparent. Now we may have not only an ignorant V.P. , but a crooked ignorant VP. This election is a smear to our country.

GOOD JOB!

With all their mudslinging, John and Sarah starting to look a little dirty themselves.

Way to fight back Obama!!!

If Obama/Biden run our country as well as they have ran this campaign, then we have a good chance of changing this economy and regaining our standing in the world!!

It true Mccain only has smears... Its sad really I used to have lots of respect for him because he was different. Not anymore. Hes just like Bush now!! Respecting other canidates was Mccains thing and he sure has thrownthat out and hurled some crap at Obama and it not going to stick. Americans aren't going to be fooled this time. I just saw some crazy white people on youtube at these Mccain Palin rallys. There not rallies there hate fests. Its sad, and sooo not american. These people need a talking to and Mccain should say this isn't why I fought for this great country. It was for equallity for all. I am just sickened by these people. Just sick. Oh by the way I am a white married mother of two, walmart mom voting for Obama. We need him for President. He will unity our country!
Obama/Biden 08

Um, isn't this a smear ad? Just saying...

Sen.Obama acts as Presential as I would and I only have a high school GED., which I received when I was 51 years old, which was in 1980!!!!!!!! THe disrepect he shows SenMcCain is BOLD and Brazen.

McCain - slams Obama one day, defends him the next - erratic behavior - ya think?

Palin - GUILTY as charged - sounds like the current Administration to me.

It's time for a change! Obama for America!

And Senator Obama is totally, unequivocally correct in this fact. That's why I hope and pray that the American people can see beyond Senator McCain's idiotic attacks that have abosolutely NOTHING to do with what me, my friends, my family or my co-workers are dealing with.

When McCain looks in the mirror,
he sees the picture of Dorian Grey.

The idea that John McCain has inherently bad judgment use to be more of a coincidence than anything else. But over the course of these last 3-4 weeks, I would say, without question, that John McCain has proven to be lacking in the judgment department. His inability to process, correctly, concerns me. His VP pick is one of many examples. His erratic behavior. He grandstands to score political points at any cost while insisting he puts country first. The lists go on and on. I used to mock him. But I have run out of bad things to say. Maybe the POW experience is catching up with him.

A concern citizen

John McSame ought to be ashamed of himself. He is no longer the man he used to be. This campaign has changed him. As a former Republican, I am sorry to see this.

Republicans have gone too far. Not only are they responsible for this financial mess and the war, but they want to smear the other guy!

Did I detect a glimpse of the old Sen. McCain yesterday, when he told his ranting constituants that Sen. Obama was a good man?
How refreshing.

I am an ex-republican and I approve that message.

I do not see smears, i see them trying to shine a light on the dark corners of Obama's past. The pst he has tried so hard to hide from the American people.

As an independent, I am trully appalled by the tone of the McCain/Palin campaign. It shows that they have no intention of a united America which is what is required if we are to get ourselves out of this economic mess.

McCain's judgement is very questionable on a number of issues, moreso in his choice of sarah Palin as his running mate; and his intent to incite hate among radical GOP members. He had better centre his campaign on the issues, otherwise he will not only lose this election, but what is left of his already damaged integrity.

Obama on the other hand is clearly more focused on the issues and has proposed reasonably good and realistic economic policies. If he runs the country with the discipline and organised structure in which he has surprisngly run his campaign, making the right decisions; and reacting swiftly when required. His choice of Joe Biden could not have been better. It's not surprising these guys have a double digit lead in the polls, according to the last two gallup poll surveys. If they stick to the issues they are most likely to win by a landslide.

I sure would like to see their (our) money spent on more constructive things like the economy and our troops coming home. I have herd more than enough negative ads.

Those are the facts...i have yet to hear McCain present a coherent plan on the economy. McCain having to correct people at his rallies and talk them down from what his campaign has been saying about Obama reflects McCains lack of leadership. McCain is not running his campaign – the campaign is running him and that's how a McCain presidency would be ran; many different unconnected narratives with no true leadership in the White House.

You are right Obama. They have nothing to talk about, no plans, no ideas, no solutions.

Good job by you and your team staying respectful and focused on economy. When a losing campaign has no end at the end of the tunnel, people always become negative.

We already know these attacks are nothing but false! The rupblicans are a disgusting hyocritical bunch! The racist ones who are so quick to buy these smears are simply looking for a pocket to hide their racism! As bad as things are thats affecting EVERYONE including Bill Gates who lost 1.5 Billion and all some folks are stuck on is 'color'!
Focus on the ISSUES and who is best able to fix it.
That my friend is Sen. Barack Obama!!!
Fl is now going strong Dem we have had ENOUGH of the negative attacks and the smeas the EDUCATED voter with a collage degree knows better! The distractions will not work this time.

The McCain rallies where he and Palin speak so badly of Obama that they solicit comments like ‘kill him’, traitor, ‘bomb Obama’ are very similar to the Hitler rallies where he incited violence against the Jews – and we know what happened next.

America must rise up against this hatred speech and demand that it stops. Some nutcase is going to try to kill Obama and it will be McCain and Plain’s fault.

STOP THIS NONSENSE

Yup! McCain Campaign = LOSER!

The apocalypse of a self-made "marverick"

McCain this is what happens when Red Meat Republicans
are out of control and turn on you as a “Happy Meal”!

Obama & Biden ‘08
Hillary & Warner ‘16
McCain 88 Hitting & Holding ‘24

Old man with no career left.

It's too bad that McCain can't get the rest of his campaign to show the decency he did yesterday. They know they can't win on the issues and the mind set is to "win at all costs".

The Republicans have proven over and over that the truth doesn't matter as long as they get the desired results. Why should this campaign be any different?

In 2000 I supported John McCain because of who he is and what he represented. In 2008 I felt that man had gone, replaced by a "do anything to win" politician who had lost the honor he so often displayed previously. It was nice to see him defending Obama against the misinformation his own supporter was stating at a rally: that Obama is not an Arab and that he is a Chrisitian. It looks like the man who lost his way when he got into bed with the Republican Machine is trying to become the man he once was: to reclaim the honor and integrity that he lost. There may still be some honor left in this man, although I fear it is gone from the Republican Party for good.

you know what! all blacks should leave the usa. and move to the middle east and africa. leave the military and let the white man fight his own wars.

It would seem that in order for the Republicans to keep their seats they should ditch John McCain now and endorse Barack Obama. I'm not a Republican, but I don't really like the idea of them being such a huge minority in the House and Senate. We really need the ideas of both parties and Independants to be heard and considered. Our country was built on democracy and what's more democratic than a good argument in our congress.

MCGREEDY HAS DEDICATED HIS ENTIRE LIFE

GRABBING FOR MONEY & PRAISING HIMSELF.

HE HAS NO PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL RECORD

THAT INDICATES IN ANY WAY THAT HE IS ALL OF WHAT

HE SAYS HE IS & HIS CAMPAIGN PROVES IT WITHOUT

A DOUBT. HE IS NOTHING BUT THE BUSH SIDEKICK.

A drowning 'giant' will hang onto to anything–even a log of wood with snakes and scores of scorpions...and not to mention the hysteric babbling. So it is with McPalin. Oboma 08.

A McCain/Palin administration will make Bush/Cheney look like choir boys.

McCain's smear campaign is the sign of a struggling candidate who's value is being sold off at a lose, just like Wall Street. McCain's life experience should have told him to choose the path of tranquility, and that his political rallies should be introspective, opposed to his choice that uses ignorance, and anger, by dividing people within his own party.

Even if Obama did launch his poitical career in Ayers living room, what does that have to do with his ability to get this nations economy back on track?....Exactly nothing!!

Bottom line is...Ayers has to answers for his actions and Obama has to answer for his own.

As far as im concerned Mccain has now got many more problems on his hand outside of being down in the polls and his own past with the Keating Five and NOW with Palins Troopergate scandal which is exactly what many folks have been saying before Mccain brought her in .

You go Obama! Show the American People you are no John Kerry and the American People desire you to be our next President of the USA. The United States of American is a United country not this divided country the McCain/Paliln ticket will be. They revoled hatred and smears while the USA is going though a Finanically crisis.

I had admired McCain in the past and truly thought he was a different sort of politician. I'm not sure whether my belief was ever warranted. However, I believe he has lost all honor and integrity in his effort to become elected. While I can appreciate how much he wanted this position, that desire doesn't excuse his actions in picking Sarah Palin as a running mate, running deceptive ads and making false statements, and permitting the creation and encouragement of a mob mentality.

It is sad because the John McCain that I believed existed would have won this election. The John McCain that has emerged does not appear likely to win, at least based on the polls. And he will have lost not only the election but his good name. He should be ashamed of himself–and I am ashamed of him.

Mr. Obama, what a shame you have to spend money to defend yourself when all the American people want to hear is your clear vision of leadership and how together we will all work to make this country strong again.
Vote Hope Not Hate
Obama/Biden 2008

yes thats all he has left . and what he will always be remembered for . what the history books will say.. the way our children will be taught .. this is what he leaves behind. .anything good he has ever done is overshadowed by the behavior of him in this campagin. and he is held accountable for everything sarah palin says. dishonesty is all we see now. mean and hateful ...what a way to be remembered!

It is evident that McCain will go to any extreme to become president. McCain/Palin have divided this country with their hate crime attacks, lies, and deceit. Both McCain/Palin should be brought up on charges for these crimes.
Palin broke the law when she abused her power that violated ethics code in the trooper case.

My questions: Why aren’t these people held accountable for their ACTIONS???? Why are we quick to punish certain criminals but NOT ALL???

The McCain campaign took a disgusting turn when they let Palin open her mouth about Ayers. Whatever happened to McCain's promise of running a clean campaign?

John McCain's once sterling reputation has been greatly diminished with the truly vicious campaign he and Palin have been waging. I was shocked and disappointed - I expected better from McCain. I was pleased when McCain defended Obama from two of his audience who made vicious comments about Obama. That is the McCain of the year 2000, the one admired and respected. As for Palin, she has no place on the national scene and should be removed from the campaign. My vote goes to Obama/Biden.

American investors just lost $2,500,000,000,000 in the stock market and Republicans are upset that Obama knows an old hippie radical? Their priorities seem to be a bit skewed. Maybe they should give this a little more thought before election day.

McCain not only lost his honor, but lost the election with these types of attacks. There was plenty of things that Obama could have said about McCain past relationships, but he chose to take the high road. Obama is the leader, and I will follow his lead. I turn my back on John McCain.

GETT'EM BARACK!! Show'em how to take it as much as they can dish it out!! The Rethugnicans want to go there, you go right back there with them by showing them the truth and then hitting them right in the kidneys with their own hypocrisy! WTG!

It looks like the stock market thinks Obama is going to win, thus the capital flight. Get ready America, Obama = Economic Depression.

If John McCain loses the election for any reason, we (the American people) are the real losers. It's really sad to see Obama using fear tactics race baiting to win the election.

sen obama is definitely right about sen john mccain smears because he doesn't have any ideas and he is runing out of time that's that only thing he could do

Smears is all McCain ever had

Is anyone concerned that Louis Farrakhan is saying Obama is the Messiah. When the Messiah talks the young listens. If Obama is a muslim Messiah, is he a false prophet to christians? Just who is Obama. What is happening to our youth? This is a man who took his children to a church that the preacher dams the US. Has he met with Louis Farrakhan. Why does Farrakhan think a christian is a muslim messiah? Is this why Obama said we have been waiting for him? Does he think he is the messiah? We will just have to wait for these answers. Pray they don't come to late

Florida Dem

Yes, this is all McCain has left it is time for The Candidates to tell how we will get out of this financial mess. The next President will inherit Bush's mess and will need to get the nation back on track. I wish the dirty McCain Campagning would stop and maybe he can keep what respect he has left..

Lies and hate is all that McCain has left.

Oh yeah, and an unethical veep pick. As proven by an investigation.

Can he sink any lower?

Poor McCain. He's completely lost it and is resorting to such low blows. Bye MCSHAME AND PALIN

It is unfortunate that since McCain does not do well in the polls, he has resorted to dirty politics. Shame on you John McCain, you cannot be definitely be an agent of Change for such Traditional Dirty Style of Campaigning!

that's all he has left, milk it while u can John cause come Nov 4 it will be all over for u as America elects Obama/Biden , we can all turn a new page from all the smears u have resorted to.

The sad thing is that many folks will fall for it. Have you seen the republican campaign events lately?

Barack,

If you were almost senile, couldn't keep your stories straight from day to day, had a hot temper, and were an angry old man, you would only have "smears" left too.

This is how you do a negative ad, folks.

I'm not being sarcastic, the Obama campaign hit the nail on the head, and shut down the McCampaign with this one. Meanwhile, John is finding himself in the awkward position of telling rabid supporters to "calm down and be respectful". Unfortunately, it was his campaign that opened that can of worms.

This ad is powerful, and on message.

Weez wants Obama as our Preseeedent, but weez really can't splain why.

All of this anger and hate being generated scare me. Racial shouts, religious fear mongering, ethnic slurs; It is reminiscent of the atmosphere stirred up with crowds during WWII. Is this what the Republican party has come to?
We are at a moment of great economic woes and panic ensues. Instead of talking about solutions from the next would-be president and vice president, crowds get incited to rage. Good going, Sarah!

It is evident that the Mc Cain's campaign is frustrated by Obama"s lead, and when your adversarry is a guy as impressive as Barack Obama ,smearing is your last resort.

It is not a smear if its true.

Who is the Real Sarah Palin??

With both McCain and Palin having committed ethics violations, and abuses of power, McCain with keaton and Palin with troopergate, they have no credibility. Why then do the media continue to advertise the campaigns of such people? Is the media conspiring to defeat Obama? If no conspiracy, why is there no detailed reporting about McCain's involvement with Keaton? Or about his involvement with Vicke Iseman? Do such involvements by McCain raise legitimate issues of judgment, more so than do the innuendos of McCain/Palin about Obama? If sound judgment is the issue, then Trooper gate and Keaton Five clearly show McCain/Palin to inferior to Obama's, who has never been charge of accused of comitting any wrongs...

Obama has stayed so positive only having to explain when mud has been slung.just sorry the pubs cant run on the issues,Obama-Biden have my vote.

"The Socialist States of America"

That is what we as americans can look forward to if Obama and his cronies are allowed to take over this country!

I like the ad!! McCain is now desperate with barely 3 weeks left to go! With his rabid crowd now chanting vile obscenities at Obama, please let us remember to put him in our prayers for protection against those hateful people.

NO WAY, NO HOW, NO MCCAIN AND DEFINITELY NO PALIN!!!!!!!!!!!

Smear me once, shame on you, smear me twice – We won't get smeared again!

John, clean up your own house first. Too many lobbyists, Keating Five in your past, and taking both sides of every issue. What were you thinking when you nominated Palin? You certainly didn't put "country first" when you let your little head think for your big head.

Maybe McCain should look in the mirror. Keating 5, his running mate abusing her powers as Governor and she still has another civil suit pending against her in Alaska. Someone please tell me how McCain has any judgement? There is no way he could of vetted Palin and still put her on the ticket as VP. The only reason he wasn't convicted of any charges in the Keating 5 Savings and Loan scandal was because he was a POW, his father/grandfather had the McCain Navel Base named after them and he had the money to backing him of a wealthy father-in-law and wife. Yet his talks about Obama's judgement in having been on some committee with someone who is presently a professor at a college. Give me a break.

Truer words have never been spoken. McBush doesn't even talk about his policy. He talks about things that don't matter in the long run.

Better Ayers than Bush

-Sarah Palin lied about the "Bridge to nowhere"
-Sarah Palin lied about the earmarks and her mavericky way to be.
-Sarah Palin lied about the how she sold a jet on Ebay.
-Sarah Palin lied about how she fired the state comisioner "troopergate"

And McCain knew all these lies but still elected her as a VP.

Well done McCain, you are worst than Bush.

Ok, now that we know the truth about Sara, do we really care about McCain?

Obama/Biden 08!!!

This add itself is a smear. McCain just made 2 good economic proposals this week. McCain is an honorable and bipartisan man, and he'll be a good commander in chief.

Go McCain/Palin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obama is scared to death that McCain is letting the world know exactly what kind of person he is. He isn't even a citizen, if he was he'd submit that vault birth certificate for ALL TO SEE. Guess he doesn't have one, so he can't produce it. Took one month to slur and slam Palin about Alaska but......it has been a whole year and the MSM hasn't mentioned a word about obama's lack of a birth certificate....Guess the constitutional crisis is coming whether he wins or not he will have to prove he is a citizen.

»MCCain/Palin,08=OF COURSE:I am NOT dumb!!

It's really sad to me that McCain is now having to try and control his own crowds and talk them down a bit.

What is even worse is that it seems that Sarah Palin has no problem stoking the fires of hate with her speeches.

Sarah Palin seems like a terrible terrible person.
She has abused her power and she will continue to do so if we elect them into office.

Agreed

Unfortunately, McCain has nothing to speak about.
The country is going down into a toilet and he's so, identified with this failing administration, that all he can do is smear and scare.
So predictable, for repugs. No fresh ideas, just OLD IDEAOLOGY, which we have seen fail throughout these past seven years.

He's old, tired, forgetful and hangs around a dimwit, who can only BARK and cause attendees in their rallies, to become scarey folks who would want to do harm to the other side.

McCain, should just go home, [but to which one?] and enjoy the time he has with his family. I think dementia is upon him.

John McCain and Sarah Palin have turned their campaign into a hate group.We have enough hatred in this country.Who is going to fix our country. Tell us your plans to fix this economy, that is what the american people need to know urgently.

What the Republicans don't seem to realize is that Americans are not stupid and they have memories. Bush has lied to the American public for 8 years and now that our country desperately needs a voice of a respected leader to pull us out of this upcoming depression, Bush finds that he not only has no credibility, he has NEGATIVE credibility. McCain faces the same situation. He's lied, mangled the truth, and engaged in low-road attacks so much that if he actually did run across something in Obama's life that would REALLY constitute an October Surprise, nobody would take it seriously. Same old same old.

And BTW, I guess Sarah Palin has finally proven that she has all the prerequisites to be a Republican VP. Even Cheney didn't start his abuse of power until AFTER he was elected.

If honesty and integrity is the big issue this week, then all Obama needs to do is show a picture of Palin and McCain together. Today's headlines of the "Trooper Probe" says it all. Say it ain't so Sarah

McSame and Caribou Barbie..y'all are the weakest links...

The worst smears of all are in McCains adult diapers.

Who is surprised by how things have unraveled in the McCain campaign? If you begin your convention with messages of anger, fear, derision and division it is not a big step down to what is going on today. John you wanted the support of the "base" well now you have it. Keep on smiling as you spread your message of intolerance and outright hatred. You are despicable.

McLame should go to Alaska and kill inocent animals from helicopters with palin. Leave running the country to those with the intellect, judgement and temperment needed to do the job.

Does anyone else "get this"?

Obama's ad says McCain's ads are "smears.

Well, isn't this Obama ad in itself..a Smear????

WHAT A PATHETIC DECENT FROM A MAN OF CHARACTER, INTEGRITY AND CREDIBILITY TO A LYING, BITTER, ANGRY, ARROGNA OLD MAN.

I THINK WE NOW KNOW WHO THE REAL MCCAIN IS!

SAD!

well, it seems the only thing mccain's negative ads has done is promote hate mongering. you have rabid supporters calling sen obama a terrorist and yelling kill him. i'm only 40 but i've never seen this before. now he's trying to take it back. his followers aren't buying it.

this ad cuts mccain's claim.

The really scary thing:

At a rally the Republican crowd booed *McCain* when he tried to calm them down. It loks like the inflammatory rhtoric is spiraling beyond his ability to control it.

Smears (skidmarks) are all McCain/Palin have left. McCain has abandoned all dignity moral decorum, and Palin is an instrument of megalomania and has succeeded in lowering McCain to her wretched level. He should be relieved if he loses because he thought he was using her, but it's really the other way around.

Independent Centrist for Obama/Biden

THERE IS NO NEED FOR OBAMA TO DO AY MORE ADDS SAVE YOUR MONEY. MRS. PAILN HAS ABUSED HER AUTHORITY. GUILTY AS CHARGED. SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY AMERICA IS EVEN ALLOWING HER TO CONTINUE TO BE ON THE VP TICKET. SHE NEEDS TO STEP DOWN. SHE WILL BE JUST LIKE BUSH, AND CHENEY. THIS IS CRAZY AND SHE KNEW SHE WAS GUILTY, BUT THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING TO GET AWAY WITH IT!

OBAMA SAVE YOUR MONEY

McCain is simply a shell of a man he was in 2000.

It's sad.

I hope that Americans see McCain for what he stands for. When the major issue in this country is the economy and he wants to turn the page with no solutions and then turn around and just call his opponent names, setting a bad example for his supporters. John McCain is not fit to be President of the United States because all he do is divide.

Pardon the pun but looks who's calling the kettle Black! Seems the media have quickly forgotten all the smears adds coming from the Obama camp.

Is Obama now denying the facts that he did started his political ambitions in Ayers living room? Guess that's another one of his CHANGING stories. This man will say or doing anything to win an election. Someone said trying to nail Obama down on an issue is like nailing JELLO to the wall.

Is anyone surprised? When you're on the ropes, you fight dirty... too bad it makes you look dirty too.

Smears and hate speach are not an impressive way to run a campaign. McCain and Palin are appealing to the lowest common denominator in our society. America, we can do better! Vote for the bright guys with plans, not the haters with nothing but negativity!

Obama/Biden 08

»WAKE UP AMERICANS BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!!!! »» We are NOT in Indonesia!! WE are in USAMERICA!!!! Get it?!?!?

Lies, hate, anger, arrogance are all the McClown/Failin campaign have left. They have nothing to offer this nation except another four years of failure and humiliation.

This country needs real change and there is only one way to get it–Obama/Biden 2008.

He was once an honorable man. His praise of Obama at a rally tells me he is a victim of some real sleazy campain managment. I'm sure this isn't the road he chose himself.

You Go Obama! The truth will set this election Free. Now we have LiarPalin trying to discount she ever abused power. The republicans are running hate campaigns all because their losing, and then have the nerves to have ad visors on TV talking out the side of their necks. You have it right McShame "You don't have to be afraid of a President OBAMA"

Obama/Biden '08

»VOTE with your BRAIN!!»VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN=OF COURSE!!!

The TRUTH is, we have a GOP-shattered economy.

We didn't believe the lies to begin with.

Obama 08

Why can't Obama just show a picture of McCain standing next to Palin? That picture is worth a thousand words when it comes to judgement and honesty. The headlines today say it all today.

John McCain should be the American Hero we all know he is. He needs to continue this campaign with dignity and honor. If he doesn't win, so be it, but this is truly a sad sight. C'mon, John, the better man is going to win – get over it.

»A new AMERICAN President with a ARABIC(!!) NAME(!!)?!?!??!?! How SAD is this?!???! Are we in Indonesia or are we in USAMERICA?!?!??!?!

From war hero to sad little man in a matter of a few years.

Mr. McCain where is the promised of decent and honorable campaign? Too bad you stoop so low.

I agree and it's working though....against McCain himself. Sad, sad, sad.

McCain has lost it and he is creating hatred toward law abiding citizen. This is low and I am afraid McCain will go lower. What a shame.

It is so refreshing to see a Democrat actually fight back! Stay on them Obama, don't let them get away with these continuous lies! All they have done is use lies to encourage violence and racism. That is NOT the kind of leadership we need!

Y'all. Obama will win. It is written. Just watch the Nostradamus tape. He is savvy and mesmerizing. He will heal the global economy and everyone will worship him.

SO TRUE!

WHAT A BITTER, ANGRY, PATHETIC OLD MAN.

John has other things in his bag of tricks. He and sarah will put on their hoods and lead their mobs with tourches in gand and deal with anyone who disagrees with them. After all if you disagree with them you must be unamerican.

The McCain-Palin Republican Party campaign has dragged American politics to a shameful low. I don't want any individual or party that resorts to hate tactics incorporated by organizations such as the KKK and WWII Nazi Party. Senator McCain and Governor Palin have successfully and gleefully tapped into the ugliest of ugly: frenzied crowds yelling insults and death threats against a politician. It's frightening.

A whole lot of truth in this ad.

looks like McCain finally got the memo yesterday.

Mccain Has Nothing Left An His Arsenal But Smears! He Is Running Out Of Time And Money! This Is His Last Chance To Be President And Its Slipping Away! His Running Mate Has Abused Her Power And Will Be A Drag On His Campaign!

oh yeah he's Republican so I guess so. No substance just smears.

When John McCain is shown telling that lady that Obama is not an Arab, I almost felt sorry for him. He looked sad and lost, like he does not know how he got to this ugly place he is at. You were an honorable man JM, what happened, you know you have your own junk in the trunk, you should of left it alone!!!!

Obama has always told it like it is...he's doing it again

McCain has nothing left to offer so he's sticking to this absurd strategy of insults and attacks. He has sold his soul to the devil – talk about "blind ambition"...

He and Palin are indeed another Bush-Cheney. No way, no how...

mccain, give it up... one second you are respectful, the other you are feeding your people, manipulating them, look what you did to those people. Even you are in denial... all they do right is go around hating democrat, calling out kill him, terrorist, traitor, etc. This is how you want america to look like? With all these hateful people?

TRUE, Bless his heart!

and that stain of a VP choice.

I am really turned off by either party showing so much negativity to the other. It is not like political run, but rooster fights, like dog fights. It goes back and forth, never ending story. No chance of change.
Where is the decency, diplomacy? Where are the real issues?
Both sides have something not appealing. NOne is saint. None is perfect.
We do not have great choice so far. I am so disappointed.

McCain is a silly old man who dosn't what day it is and Palin, well after today what little credibility she had is totally gonski

McCain & Palin, lies, smears, lies, smears and more lies and more smears. They have no answers, judgement or leadership...so this is all they have left!!!

Thats all the Republican machine has to offer. Distract and point fingers! Thats NOT what America needs now or ever. We need leadership and thats what Obama brings to the table. While I had hesitation about his experience, I realized that no one is ever 100% prepared to be President. But leadership skills are what count in the end.

McCain, his wife and Palin are disgusting. Sarah Palin UNLAWFULLY FIRED the state Trooper and ABUSED HER POWER AS GOVERNOR. Wow! What a surprise!
And all the time trying to point to Obama to take the heat off them!

Obama has been honest with his past, Palin has not!

Palin is obviously as corrupt at the rest of the BUSH/CHENEY/MCCAIN REPUBLICAN LYING MACHINE

They have no positive things to say about their own campaign so all they can do is attack Obama on made up lies. Now Cindy McCain is crying that Obama is attacking THEM??? I think she is back on her meds!
It's no wonder that the polls are shifting in Obama's favor!

Americans are finally getting smart about not believing everything they hear. After the BUSH administration and 8 years of lying, people are able to sift through the lies and innuendos and make intelligent.

McCain will have a tough time going back to the senate after he loses the election and the Republicans lose 60 seats in the senate. He may have to retire to one of his 8 luxury homes. Poor John!!

Be careful, Dems. Negative attacks do work for and to the uninformed. Ignore them at your own peril!

Please Obama, stay on the high road. You've already seen McC changing his tune. Now be the bigger man and stay focussed! You don't need any negative ads. Just be Barack Obama; listener, speaker, hard worker, ethicsl, smart, caring, empathic, husband, father, leader.

It's pathetic to see McCain running such an dishonorable campaign.

McCain turns into the leader of a lynch mob. Hate speeches, brown shirts and a mob that is completely "hannity" in their blind uneducated rage.

McCain prostituted himself to the Rovians and Bush handlers. A hero, a maverick he is not.

It is ABOUT TIME that Barack Obama addressed this.

If you say the same LIE over and over again, and no one challenges it, many people (many stupid people) will believe it as TRUE.

Hitler used the "big lie" technique. I am disappointed that McCain is doing likewise.

John McCain is done, he has nothing left to talk about that I am interested in hearing. Let's hope he keeps his supporters civil before and after he loses.

BUT McCain now has 3 minutes of defending and praising Obama in his resume. Doesn't that negate everything he has done to this point?!? [sarcasm]

McCain is down to one wheel on the straight talk express!!

Since Mccain is openly embracing nefarious tactics like this, by default, Mccain should be charged with all of the smear tactics that have been used since the beginning of this race two years ago.
Don't we do this with criminals who get caught for commiting crimes of similar ones conducted in the past, and tie all of them to the criminals to add to their sentence? Then I do not see why Mccain is free from the allegation I raise, especially when he is openly embracing the divisive hatred he knows millions of Americans still have, in order to win.

McCain is an old man who dosn't know what day it is and Palin, well with todays news her credibility which was already crap is now gonski

so true smears and lies . And don't forget he has the trooper gate liar on his ticket.If she can't be trusted to tell the truth about that ,how could you vote for a liar to put in the White house.Liar , hum sounds like Bush again

I am glad that Obama said this, because he is exactly RIGHT! All the McCain team has left are lies, hate, rage, and anger, and I am sick of it. They can't win on the issues, so they will employ nasty Rove-tactics to win-the same tactics used on McCain in 2000. It is just plain shameful. I have lost all respect for John McCain and if he wins the White House, he will NOT be my President. The second he and that idiot Palin takes the oath of office, every American-young and old, rich and poor, Black and White, liberal and conservative-will be witness to the beginning of the end of America.

But, my mind and soul will be at ease when I vote for Obama and Biden. At least I can say that I voted for the other team. My affliation with the Republican Party has ended.

Go get em 'that one'

Sarah Palin UNLAWFULLY FIRED the state Trooper and ABUSED HER POWER AS GOVERNOR. Wow! What a surprise!
And all the time trying to point to Obama to take the heat off them!

Obama has been honest with his past, Palin has not!

Palin is obviously as corrupt at the rest of the BUSH/CHENEY/MCCAIN REPUBLICAN LYING MACHINE

Is this what you want for 4 MORE YEARS?

REALLY!!

We need to get rid of the Corrupt Republican Leaders in Washington.

WE NEED CHANGE, NOW!!!

ONE MORE REASON WHY I AM VOTING OBAMA/BIDEN ‘08

Obama is wrong in one regard. McLame has more than smears left. In the next 3 weeks, I'm sure we'll see plenty of "Hail Mary" plays in his desperate attempt to win the election at any cost.

McLame at least showed a thread of decency yesterday in defending Obama when that idiot woman at his rally called Obama an Arab and a Muslim. It just goes to show how pathetically stupid many of our citizen are. Disgraceful.

Sad but true.. Where's the McCain America used to know?

You are right President Obama, it is all him and his power abusing VP have left!! It is time to take back our country for true Americans, not for people who want power so they can make people do what they want them to do!!

Obama/Biden '08