McCain is light years away from being like one of us compared to Obama.  It is shameful that Republicans rely on and enforce ignorance to gain and remain in power.

Cran Berry, you’re saying Obama isn’t wealthy enough to offer anything to the American people? Are you saying education and understanding of policy is not what Americans want?

I would like a president who understands politics, policy and the suffering of Americans. We have had too many billionaires in the white house. Don’t you think you’re a little out of touch with America?

If you can’t remember how many homes you own, chances are you’re rich. If you have photos taken of you standing outside the door of your private aircraft with a cup of Starbucks in your hand, chances are you’re rich and an elitist. If you have homes located on Coronado island, La Jolla, and Sedona, chances are you’re rich. Ok, big deal so John McCain’s rich; well so is Barack Obama although he doesn’t meet John McCain’s definition of rich, since McCain set the rich threshold at 5 million, and Barack only pulled down a little over 4 million last year. Obama’s definition of rich is a little more realistic - those pulling down $ 250,000 a year. Even in the San Francisco Bay Area, that is good coin.

What is important is that for decades Republican’s have gotten away with portraying Democrats at the party of elitists, and unrepresentative of the working class. They do by reinforcing the middle America’s bia’s against the east and west coasts of our country, Europe, especially France, certain sports like windsurfing, what we eat - arugula, lattes, and chardonay. These of course are major league stereotypes, but they are effective in dividing us as a nation, and the Republican’s are experts at dividing us. Why do they do this? Easy - they need to do this in order to distract American’s from any discussion of real issues that may truly impact our lives, like whether we will have a job, or be able to retire, or own a home, whether our military will be forced to fight in unnecessary wars, and whether we will have health care and a decent standard of living, and whether our country is looking out for our children and grandchildren in the war against global warming. You have to admire a political party that is so expert at distracting America and getting them to vote against their own interests time and time again. We have Richard Nixon to thank for this of course. His “silent majority” theme hit a nerve with a public fed up with anti-war protestors and counter culture types who were rebelling against conformity and middle class values. The media blew it up to be an even bigger divide than it was, and suddenly the good guys (liberals) became the bad guys. Liberals were personally responsible for all of the acting out behavior of the greatest generations children. Benjamin Spock became a bad guy because he came out against the war, even though he wrote the biggest selling child raising book of all time. Turns out all of the anti-war activists were right. Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic hawks lied to America about our reasons for going to war, and when Nixon got elected he accelerated the war rather than decelerating it as he promised. He almost singlehandedly sabotaged the Paris peace talks through Kissenger, because he did not want peace while Johnson was still president. Just think about how many American lives were lost because of Nixon. He should have been impeached because of that and because of our undeclared war in Laos. Nixon truly divided this country, and Reagan and both Bush’s have carried this division on to the present. Reagan promised a new morning in America and gave us a service economy with lots of minimum wage jobs. Bush I promised no new taxes and gave us new taxes. Bush II promised to be a compassionate conservative but left out the compassionate part when he became president. And he also became fiscally irresponsible and irrational in general after 9/11. Republican’s beginning with Nixon have been frauds and have gotten away with conning enough of the country to win the big one. Maybe this year we can break this cycle of lies and start turning the tables on the Republican’s by using their own techniques against them - the game of how many houses does John McCain own is a good start.

truthdogg: YOU ARE SO RIGHT! What is going on in our country today is: to many folks have been alerted to the fact that the “reps” or “dems” is a JOKE: this is dictatorship; it is NOT democracy or communism; it is dictatorship & run by the Wealthy & Corp’s & Institutions; it has NEVER been run FOR THE PEOPLE of this country since Woodrow Wilson’s day: when he lamented we were no longer a land of the FREE; nor even of majority vote; but rather under the rules & dictates of a few dominent men. YOU decide: any country that brings top Nazi’s here & sets them up handsomely to study them: to learn 1 thing: how did they do it? (and to improve upon it) is GOOD or EVIL? THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY!!!! that did this; SHATTER the “propaganda” BS YOU have THOUGHT you knew. Our country has actively overthrown Govs to set up DICTATORSHIPS: and trained torturers for Chad, & other countries; DO NOT BE DECEIVED any longer! Wake up Americans!

This house business is a silly joke. It doesn’t matter how many houses the guy owns. In fact, the electorate admires wealth far more than it does education or reason. Obama has lost because he doesn’t have anything to offer - houses or otherwise.

OUR Freedom Problem!! We are the USSR of Amerika

WASHINGTON — A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion, Democratic lawmakers briefed on the details said Wednesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/washington/ 21fbi.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin& adxnnlx=1219335252-MuONiR5Qd1GelWw1fBbgig& oref=slogin

This is the latest bad joke from the circus of American democracy!

Well, it doesn’t surprise me that a greedy capitalist and warmonger owns 4-7 mansions, plus one-million dollars garage and only an omni-scientist God knows what else! After all, this is what capitalism is all about: Worshiping the idol of money, wealth and power, and seeking high office to multiply that!

What really bothers me and makes me restless is that this irrelevant and senile soul does not even remember how many houses he owns to the point that he wants to refer the person who asked the question to his staff!

Well the serious question is this: If this old senile shadow-of-man cannot remember the count of his personal property ranging between 4-7, then how is he going to be able to count and account for the millions of disadvantaged Americans who cannot make ends meet?! In light of this, how he is going to count and account for the thousands of Americans he wants to send to his endless evil wars he’s planning to conduct against the invisible Al-Qaeda, Iran, Afghanistan and possible the Soviet Union.

Well, it’s easy for this coward war-monger to cheaply talk about the non-existent Osama Bin Laden he wants to follow to the gates of Hell, as long as he will be sending the poor and disadvantaged Americans to be burnt in the Fires of his Hell quest?!

Sad! Sad! Sad!