ALASKA GOVERNOR - RECALL!!!
I am a Alaskan life voting Republican. This 2008 Election, I will [with pleasure]  vote Democrat! This Alaska Governor has destroyed “MANY GOOD ALASKAN PEOPLE(s) Professionally and Politically during her “VERY SHORT” term position as Mayor in a small community Wasilla, Ak (Approx 5,000 + residents during her reign) and current Alaska State Governor.(of approx. twenty months).  Whenever Palin is confronted with a question that she does not know, does not have a clue or simply does not want to answer, her indignation which turns to…ANGER…is familiar. McCains’’ V.P. selection Sarah Palin unequivocally has no business being the Alaska Governor, let alone, a USA candidate for Vice President…. Maverick??.....        ****AMERICA SHOULD BE FEARFULLY CONCERNED****. I voted for Sarah Palin in Alaskas 2006 Governor Election. MISTAKE! Never Again… I repeat-NEVER AGAIN!!...Alaska Governor Palin is an absolute Embarrassment to the Alaska People and “IS” proven to be an insatiable Liar!! How can she possibly ASSUME the ability to clean up America, when she cannot clean the ‘MESS” she has created in Alaska. Yes, A Mess FOR Alaskans to clean up. McCain, you should be ASHAMED of yourself!!!! This victim (palin)has no business in this Presidential Arena.

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Mr. Obama is a Christian who attends Christian services more than Mr. McCain - does McCain attend church other than when he’s shaking down the pastor for political support?

Obama’s mother is white. That not enough to be considered white?  is it skin tone?  Then most of my white friends become “black” in the summer, when they acquire tans close to the tone of Mr. Obama.  Should that affect how we view Mr. Obama?  Shouldn’t other things matter more?

Is McCain really a devout “Gambler” than Christian?  He attends many casinos - more than churches, riding on their thanks to his shameless promotion of casino interests - how do devout Christians feel about McCain’s frequent gambling in Reno and Las Vegas? 

If you think that a candidate should be white and Christian as Mr. Obama, not a faithless gambler as Mr. McCain, perhaps Mr. Obama is your candidate.

I’d rather people vote for the candidate who’s policies make the most sense for our national interest, setting aside race or religion or even taste for gambling. The Constitution constrains government from setting a religious test for public office.  Do people believe the Constitution was wisely drafted on that point? 

Meanwhile, on substance, Mr. McCain both helped engineer and then supported Bush’s policies that lead to the current unsuccessful wars, disaster rescue failures, and financial system failures. He helped cause the current mess.  Mr. Obama is the better candidate on substance.  Let’s hope people focus on that.

Re: nvt9

You’re mistaken about Obama’s religious views, but I suspect you know this already.  Even if it were true, however, what difference would it make? In America, we have freedom in religion . . . but maybe you aren’t American and just didn’t understand this.

Thanks for the “101” clarification, Jamal Dajani.

If you go to various European news sites, you will notice that the name “Ahmadinejad” is typically hyphenated, which gives you a much better indication as to how it should be pronounced. The better spelling is “Ahmadi-Nejad.” The hyphenation indicates the compound nature of the name, much like “Abdul-Jabbar” for the famous basketball player.

Of course, our masters in Washington would never trouble themselves with such minutiae as learning to pronounce a foreign president’s name correctly. After all, they view themselves as masters of the world, and they’ll pronounce it any damned way they see fit.

Maybe McCain, before saying he won’t meet with a foreign leader like the dastardly leader of Spain (yes, he actually said he would not meet with the leader of our NATO ally until he was convinced Spain was committed to “democracy”), should learn the leader’s name, and maybe even how to pronounce it.

In the “debate” propaganda and ignorance joined together, especially with Palin’s tired old baloney about the US as responsible for success with “the surge.” Illusions over the middle east and the hunt for votes prevent any mainstream candidate from crediting Iran for its influence on Iraqi leaders, including Moqtada Al Sadr and restraining his forces, in cutting down the violence over the past year in Iraq. Iran should get much of the credit. But mythical nonsense about the nature of the conflict downplays Iran’s influence, centuries old and re-asserted following Saddam. We don’t need to go to war with Iran or North Korea, whose postures are mainly defensive. Biden and Palin talked the talk to the hostile choir conditioned by the Bush administration’s ambitions in the middle east over the past 8 years. Let’s wake up and get it right, can’t we?

this is the saddest thing of all because we allowed george bush and dick cheney and all their neocon buddies all the way back to the 90s to embroil us in continuous war with continuous disregard for human life and limb. we hear the ridiculous claims of the “surge”, only to learn it was secret new techniques that caused the violence to be reduced in iraq. woodward and the defense department won’t tell us what they are, but i can guess a couple. escalating air war and what? 50,000+ imprisoned irakis? when i think of the horror of those prisons… and i can’t get the pictures out of my mind.

then for biden, joe biden, to claim that the u.s and france chased hezbollah out of lebanon, confusing them with syria? how embarrassing. how destructive. how criminel in the end.

i think what is obvious is that these are not wars of ideology at all, although our leaders have gotten a large portion of the u.s. to hate arabs, persians, and anyone associated with the middle east, and we see the escalating hate crimes associated with this kind of racism. ah, the christian ideal! the u.s. always needed an enemy to prove their ascendancy over all.

please, america, know that it’s all about who is going to control the remaining oil resources and has nothing to do with people or freedom. we stay in iraq for the oil, and we’ll stay in iraq to protect the oil companies, korea-style, once, if ever contracts are negotiated. so viva john mccain! viva barack obama! what’s the difference on these issues? one country, take your pick…

but god help the women, children and men of afghanistan and iraq, and who knows where else next. as robert fisk says, we are in THEIR countries, that’s the problem! one day, perhaps, we’ll be able to say “viva la paix.” but it will be only be able to come to pass when we elect leaders who will tell the truth. for all his intelligence, i’m still waiting for barack obama to do this when it comes to the middle east. but first, they must stop pretending to understanding it.

This report confirms and affirms what I said earlier under different thread, which is that the one and only winner of the debate between Palin and Biden is Israel.

What a repeated and boring political circus that has no elements of innovation or change in it! So, the new slogan for both parties on foreign policy should read, “The No-Change Surge You Can Count On!”

And how sad it is that despite American continuous dependence on and entanglement in the Middle East, its leaders and aspiring leaders, from the president down, can always exhibit the most embarrassing ignorance about basic facts related to this strategic part of the word.

For American ignorant and blinded or bought politicians, the Middle East, with its thousands of years of history, started only sixty years ago when Israel was founded, as a Western colonial post, to make up for the moral failures of the white Europeans at the expense of a helpless and armless natives of Palestine!

Wait…I know Joe Biden’s name isn’t O’Biden!  I’m qualified to be VP!  I know that “up in Alaska” they’ve got SNOW!  I’m qualified to be VP! I know that if I sit down in the tight skirt I’ve worn for this debate I’ll split the seams…I’m qualified to be VP!  I know that if I can throw a barb at Gwen Ifill and call her “moderator” instead of her name, and mention the word “maverick” fifteen times at least, I’m qualified to be VP! I’ve got FIVE kids and we sit around the “kitchen table” and talk about our “financial troubles” in our $500,000 home…I"m qualified to be VP!  Woo-Woo!

Ahmadinejad, Ahmadinejad, Ahmadinejad…I’ve said it and I can see Mexico from San Diego; therefore I’m qualified to be Vice President!