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Michelle Obama in Fort Myers

— While the husband is away, the wife is getting pay.

Michelle Obama, wife of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, held a fundraising event Thursday morning in Fort Myers. She spoke to some 650 supporters who paid $100 or $500 a ticket to fill the Broadway Palm Dinner Theater on Colonial Boulevard near the Midpoint Bridge. Her speech began around 9 a.m.

“It was very inspiring,” said Naples resident Katerina Taylor, 13, after the event, which she attended with her family. “She had a lot to say; she put her heart into it.”

During her speech, Obama alluded to the choice between her husband and Sen. John McCain, his Republican rival.

“In November, we’ve got a candidate who believes the world as it is is just fine,” Obama said. “And then we’ve got this one guy, Barack Obama, who believes we have to fight for the world as it should be.”

Throughout her speech, Obama threaded the idea that her husband can help shape the world into what it should be when it comes to the war on terror, health care, education and the economy. She also shared several personal anecdotes, among them how she met her husband. The first meeting reportedly took place at the downtown Chicago law firm Sidney Austin, when Obama was advising the firm’s summer associate from Harvard.

The event was the fourth in Florida in recent days for the presidential candidate’s wife, a campaign representative said. A fundraising total was not available from the campaign, the representative said.

Just a few hours after Obama spoke, her husband continued his tour of foreign nations by giving a speech at the Victory Column in Berlin, Germany. Many supporters attending the speech in Southwest Florida longed for the candidate.

“It was wonderful. It was awesome,” said Karen Sherwood, 61, who lives in St. James City on Pine Island and got $100 tickets for her family. “We can’t wait for Mr. Obama to be here.”

“I haven’t been interested in a candidate since John F. Kennedy,” said Joe Zednik, 67, a Bonita Springs resident who lives in Chicago during the summer and who flew in to attend the event. “John McCain is somebody that I’ve respected for years, but in the last few years, he’s changed.”

However, not everyone at the theater was in support of the Democratic candidate. In fact, Bob Kunst, 66, likely one of Obama’s most ubiquitous detractors in Florida, stood outside with a sign stating, “Obama’s Bad for America and Israel.”

Kunst, a Democrat for Hillary Clinton and a native of Miami Beach, said several people had driven by and given him thumbs up. He said he has protested at numerous Obama events around the state.

“He’s out to negotiate what’s been Jewish for 3,000 years,” Kunst said, adding that he felt Obama had relationships with several individuals in support of negotiations with Hamas and others in the Middle East.

But despite Kunst’s objections to Obama, he said he sticks to the facts and issues, foreign policy being number one. He does not spread or repeat the messages of factually incorrect viral e-mail campaigns that have accused Obama of being an unpatriotic Muslim terrorist.

“I don’t care about all that stuff,” Kunst said. “To me, that’s garbage. I want to talk about the issues.”

Bonita Springs Councilwoman Martha Simons also focuses on the issues. Following the event, she said Bonita residents would benefit from having Barack Obama as president, noting that he would prevent drilling for oil off the Gulf coast and address the economic downfall. Then she bought an Obama T-shirt.

“She laid out the plan for what we want for the future,” Simons said of Michelle Obama’s speech, “of our country and the world that it should be and that it can be.”

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Barak will LOSE in NOVEMBER!!!!!

#1 Posted by RockfordGrad on July 24, 2008 at 1:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

The only person to comment was a 13 year old? Outstanding job NDN.

#2 Posted by Carpetbagger on July 24, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)

RockfordGrad will LOSE his mind in NOVEMBER!!!!!!!!

#3 Posted by fearisfailure on July 24, 2008 at 1:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

LOL @ Carpetbagger. Better article is up on news-press.com

#4 Posted by fearisfailure on July 24, 2008 at 1:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)

BTW - Barack is on live right now giving a speech in Germany, watch it live if you're not at a TV, there's a link to view live video on msn.com

#5 Posted by fearisfailure on July 24, 2008 at 1:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I LOVE the pictures they have, 1 is of a man protesting Obama and the other is of a mom with kids that can't even vote.

#6 Posted by RockfordGrad on July 24, 2008 at 1:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Yeah RockfordGrad - he claims to be the head of a 'large' Jewish organization - he was the only one that showed up though LOL. Guess his friends left him hanging... Wow, now that I look closer at the photo, he does look kinda lonely hahah.

#7 Posted by fearisfailure on July 24, 2008 at 1:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I remember when the story first broke someone wrote in saying that they would end up having to cancel due to lack of interest. I guess they were wrong. Maybe they will now write back and admit it.

#8 Posted by reasonableguy on July 24, 2008 at 1:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I said that they would have to cance due to lack of local interest.

I guess they had to bus them in from Sarasota or somewhere.

#9 Posted by RockfordGrad on July 24, 2008 at 1:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Democrats would never admit they were wrong.

#10 Posted by RockfordGrad on July 24, 2008 at 2 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I heard there was a free rock concert there right before Obama arrived. So that must be the reason for a rather large crowd...

#11 Posted by thinker on July 24, 2008 at 2:05 p.m. (Suggest removal)

LOL RockfordGrad - are you saying YOU are a Democrat?

I tried to get a ticket day before yesterday but they were all sold out unfortunately, there was a group of us wanted to go. Just hope there'll be another one soon for those that couldn't get there this time.

I also recall RockfordGrad saying Michelle Obama was not welcome here and nobody wanted her. I like Michelle, what you see is what you get - completely real, honest and very strong. Is that a threat to you RockfordGrad? Does she intimidate you? She's going to be a great first-lady. Not everybody wants to have a cookie-baking, recipe-stealing rich, out-of-touch, never-had-to-work-for-anything heiress to show our daughters how a perfect example of a 'wife' should be. I want my daughters to be strong and independent like Michelle - not weak and submissive.

It tells me a lot about Barack too - the fact that he married a strong and intelligent woman who can hold her own shows me he is a man of substance and believes in equality for everyone. I don't think you'll ever hear him say a womans place is in the kitchen, chained to the sink baking cookies.

Will a Republican admit s/he was wrong?????

#12 Posted by fearisfailure on July 24, 2008 at 2:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)

WOW! What a speech Barack Obama just gave in Berlin.

John McCain might as well CONCEDE NOW!

Barack Obama is the unifier this nation needs. He can bring the world together far better than McCain could ever wish to.

Imagine the Republican's outrage if Cindy McCain's story of being a drug addict and a thief was that of Michelle Obama.

The McCains failed to pay their home taxes. The Obamas have class and dignity, and will make us the proud nation we used to be.

Obama in 2008

#13 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 2:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I AM A REPUBLICAN AND I WAS WRONG!!!!

Dang, just trying to help them......

#14 Posted by CutthroatLiberal on July 24, 2008 at 2:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Go Obama....McCain was in a german restaurant in Ohio trying to remember why he was there

#15 Posted by coolkraft on July 24, 2008 at 2:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I wander if John McCain has any regrets questioning Obama's plan for Iraq, and his (McCain's) insistance that Obama needed to go there and see first hand what is going on. Since his trip began, he has been warmly welcomed by American forces, the Presidents of Afghanistan, Iraq and now Germany, and the King of Jordan. The President of Afghanistan surely likes Obama's contentions that we need more troops there. The President of Iraq is in total agreement with Obama's plan to remove U.S. troops, and his tour has commanded enormous media attention here and abroad. McCain has trouble getting anyone to even listen to his ideas, and has at times, behaved like a forgotten child this week. McCain's next big idea is to have town-hall style debates with Obama...Hmmm, wander how that would play out?

#16 Posted by swfljim on July 24, 2008 at 2:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Ironside,
I understand your enthusiasm for Obama, and I know you're not alone on this blog.

But, just out of curiosity, why do you find it necessary to denigrate Cindy McCain in expressing your support for BO.

Do you really think it makes your posts more effective, or are you just trying to get a rise out of someone? Personally, I think the only one getting a rise is you.

Are your shades pulled?

#17 Posted by almasonlybar on July 24, 2008 at 2:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)

YES!!! I am a REPUBLICAN who will vote for McCain.

And at least McCain is in the counrty, while Obama is TRYING to start a Foreign relations program with 3 months to go till the election.

He should chose Hillary for VP.

That would help him.

#18 Posted by RockfordGrad on July 24, 2008 at 2:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Cindy McCain looks like fireballs are going to start shooting out of her eyes...

#19 Posted by tee on July 24, 2008 at 2:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I love the lady in the blue dress, blue eyes and double chin.

#20 Posted by RockfordGrad on July 24, 2008 at 2:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Even though the economy is down the toilet, the armed forces are overextended,our international reputation is shot to pieces and we have an idiot in the White House America is still the most powerful nation on earth. We must show the rest of the world in Nov. that we are not so stupid that we would vote for more of the same.

#21 Posted by jimboaw on July 24, 2008 at 3:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Alymason, some posts are serious and some are just fun....
We all poke each other in the eye from time to time here.

Rock, you people say he isn't international, and when he goes overseas you jump him for it.
OK, here's your poke in the eye......PING!

#22 Posted by CutthroatLiberal on July 24, 2008 at 3:05 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Just a few thoughts on this matter since every time I read these articles they make me laugh. I do have my positions on things, and I do get upset with political issues, but really it just makes me upset that it doesn’t matter who we elect they all lie to us. I do not believe any politician can bring the world together Republican or Democrat because we cannot come together as a community long enough to help someone change a tire on the freeway. We cannot have our community suffer from a natural disaster without someone attempting to steal what few possessions a neighbor may have left. We cannot hire a law enforcement officer to make our neighborhoods safer while promising their family they will return home safe at the end of a shift. We cannot spare 42 cents from a fountain, but now were going to fix the world come November because some politician says we can. I believe events, and not politicians bring people together as that is what history has taught me. December 8, 1941 we seemed to be on the same page as a nation. That didn’t last very long, but 11/23/1963 we came together again, and then again 1/29/86,2/2/03, 9/12/2001 but only for a few days did we as a nation agree to become one, and only due to tragic events did we set our differences aside and unite behind a common goal. I doubt these days these promises of unity will be enough without the efforts of all around us. When World War 2, the Death of a President, The loss of 2 space shuttles, and the collapse of the twin towers didn’t bring us together so how is it Barack Obama, or John McCain can? Rather than try to get the entire world get along how about starting at home with say the United States of America. Then again Florida, or maybe just southwest Florida, or just start with Naples because when we cannot agree as a city it seems impossible to agree as a state, a nation, and the world seems a little far fetched. It’s Hurricane Season again so I assume were all going to see just how unified we are soon. Just wait until that storm warning come on the TV, and then go attempt to pick up a loaf of bread…………, and should we have luck on our side I’ll be looking for this great unity the day after Thanksgiving as people are pushing, and stealing from each other just to get into Best Buy for that sales item. The truth is we are our children’s role models, and not Michelle Obama when she doesn’t even know your name. Enough of the bickering already we’ve got work to do here at home if we have any hope of a better life in the near future. I ask that the local politicians just tell us the truth, and come together as the great minds we know your able to be, or drop out of the election so someone who really cares about the job can get things done! We don’t need any more lies, and we cannot afford any more empty promises at home, or in Washington.

#23 Posted by Messina on July 24, 2008 at 3:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)

OOPs, I was wrong.
200,000 in Berlin to see President Obama.

#24 Posted by CutthroatLiberal on July 24, 2008 at 3:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)

A poor republican? Must be that real estate investment.

#25 Posted by CutthroatLiberal on July 24, 2008 at 3:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)

fearisfailure
If that is truly your opinion of Cindy McCain, then obviously you know nothing about her. Check out her background. Yes, she did inherit the company, luck of the draw, but she runs the company and has grown it in size many times over. In addition she is very active in a wide variety of charities. Check your facts before you engage your mouth.

#26 Posted by fromhere on July 24, 2008 at 3:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)

John McCain arrived in New Hampshire two days ago and there were no people and only one reporter there to meet him.

If he keeps drooling all over himself in the cheese section with those slowly blackening old feeble eyes he may lose in an epic loss akin to that of McGovern.

#27 Posted by kneejerk on July 24, 2008 at 4:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I was wrong. I thought in 2000 I liked John McCain. I got to know him better. I doubt the McCain of 2000 would even vote for the McCain of 2008. I honor his service to America, and I feel for his treatment by his captors in Vietnam. He made a noble decision to not leave the POW camp until others captured before him were released. But none of this makes him Presidential Either you have it or you don't and John McCain just hasn't got it. Barack Obama does have it.

To POST #17:
almasonlybar, I am making a serious point. Just take a moment and imagine Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity had Cindy McCain's story of being a drug addict and a thief been that of Michelle Obama.
http://www.politicalplace.com/phpBB3/...

Or imagine had the Obamas not paid the taxes on one of their eleven homes, if the Obamas had eleven homes like the McCains do.
http://www.politicalplace.com/phpBB3/...

#28 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 4:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I heard Elvis was there????

#29 Posted by wsdnaples1 on July 24, 2008 at 4:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)

here's a fact for you fromhere -

she was caught stealing prescription drugs from one of her non-profits. Stealing from those poor people so she could get high.

I wasn't even going to mention it, but you pulled it out of me. It's all fair game now isn't it, you now now that your party is going after Michelle with the attacks... right?

You say Michelle is fair game, isn't cindy?

#30 Posted by fearisfailure on July 24, 2008 at 4:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

yeah, i know i have a typo in there before you point it out.

#31 Posted by fearisfailure on July 24, 2008 at 4:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)

OBAMA name soon to be a distant memory.

Mark my words.
He has about as much shot at winning the Oval office as I do winning the Florida Lotto.

#32 Posted by naplestrek on July 24, 2008 at 5:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)

NOBAMA

#33 Posted by mt348 on July 24, 2008 at 5:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)

naplestrek, you're in for a big surprise if you really believe that.

#34 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 5:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)

What Presidential candidate was involved with the biggest bank scandal in the USA?

John McCain....One of the Keating Five.

#35 Posted by dooley on July 24, 2008 at 5:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Iron and others will have to find other amusements after the election. Maybe buy new tires for their homes. Should be able to offset the costs somewhat by selling the cases of "Rose Colored Glasses".

#36 Posted by cousinjed on July 24, 2008 at 5:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Since Michelle came out with her this is the first time i've ever been proud to be an american statement I wonder what it is today.
Obama's biggest feat was a community organizer in chicago and now we have groupies coming out of the walls telling us he's gonna change the world when in fact he's gonna give 20 million illegals free health care and were gonna pay for it.
LOL you dems slay me

#37 Posted by grouper25 on July 24, 2008 at 6:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Well, first of all....I'm not voting for the first lady,I am voting for President of the United States...Secondly Barack Obama has done drugs in the past, where as McCain, I don't beleive has.

John McCain 08

#38 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 6:05 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Just take a moment and imagine Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity had Cindy McCain's story of being a drug addict and a thief been that of Michelle Obama. LOL

#39 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 6:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Republicans are campaigning on their own Audacity of Hope. They are hoping no one will have the audacity to bring up the unmentionable: John McCain is The Adulterer and Cindy McCain is The Other Woman. They are hopeful that voters are so consumed by their struggles of filling up gas tanks and putting untainted food on the table, that the memory of that atrocious summer of self-righteousness from ten years ago has long been forgotten. But what goes around comes around.

It was the Summer of '98, that the Gladiators of Virtue were riding high. They were strutting their stuff with Ken Starr and his seven million dollar witch-hunt. They had Bill Clinton just where they wanted him. He had done the hot and nasty with a young intern, and was lying about it, so by God, he was going to pay for his sins. Many of those sultans of sanctimony, who are now surrogates and staff for the McCain campaign, have strangely become as quiet as little church mice when it comes to discussing the fact that John McCain has always had a reputation for being as horny as a three-balled tomcat. Loving the sinner, but hating the sin, the Moralizing Crusaders in the Republican party have suddenly laid down their swords.

It is downright hilarious to hear Senator Lindsey Graham wax rhapsodic about the personal integrity of the senator from Arizona. His pronouncements of McCain's principled, virtuous wisdom are as convoluted as a stand-up routine on The Comedy Channel. This is the same Lindsey Graham who rose to prominence in 1998 as a manager in the House prosecution and impeachment trial. Never hesitating to intone with umbrage the moral malfeasance of Bill Clinton, Graham possessed high-toned puffery that was legendary. Forced to discuss every subject from thongs to naughty word for oral pleasure in the House impeachment hearings, poor Lindsey shouldered the burden of more righteous indignation than any one man should ever have to bear. Ten years hence, however, he stands reverentially beside his buddy McCain, as if fooling around and family abandonment have simply ceased to be biggies.

After the infamous Senate floor blistering of the President for his sexual affairs, one might conclude that Senator Joe Lieberman, a Republican by any other name, would be much too ashamed ever to support a candidate whose moral compass had directed him to cheat on his wife and leave his family. Yet, Lieberman, seemingly ever-present on the campaign trail, advises McCain and lavishes him with such obsequious praise that the affair between John and Cindy seems considered to be nothing more than a dusty memory that is gone with the wind.

#40 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 6:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Imagine, for one moment, that it had been Barack Obama instead of John McCain who had cheated on his wife by having multiple affairs. Suppose it was Barack Obama who had married his mistress, a younger heiress of a billion dollar beer empire only a month after the ink was dry on the divorce papers. Pretend it was Michelle Obama instead of Cindy McCain who had been so addicted to painkillers that she stole money from her own charity and had been investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The vilifications, smears, and berating from conservatives would be louder than a 747 takeoff. The castigating and crucifixions by the Limbaughs and O'Reillys of the world would never end. Faux piety and bellicosity from the pumped up blowhards in the religious right would flow harder than the flooding waters of the Mississippi.

But the Family Values Party has made new rules that even Woody Allen could love. "The heart wants what the heart wants." Judging the awful personal misconduct committed by a Republican is distasteful and off base. Judging the awful personal misconduct committed by a Democrat is the necessary application of social cost. It's the same Pharisaical stuff we should always expect, because when it comes to hypocrisy, Republicans are in high cotton in any season.

http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/C...

#41 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 6:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Nice copy and paste!...X's 2!

#42 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 6:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Bush experimented with drugs too. He wasn't an addict and didn't steal for them. Cindy McCain did. This article is about a potential first lady, making this relevant.

#43 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 6:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I don't waste my time with copy and paste...I can read the stories on my own. I am still not voting for first lady...Just for a President,or next the President.

#44 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 6:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)

AquaMan, here's an idea. You leave a link if you want to and I'll post as I wish.

Thank you. :)

#45 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 6:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)

lol 8D

#46 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 6:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)

It must be difficult to let go of a dream. Obama is not what all of his supporters hoped or dreamed. I grew up in Chicago. Lived there for fifty years and have a very clear and unbiased understanding of how thinks work in Chicago and Illinois. Obamas has no personal vision or plan which he has arrived at through his own independent reasoning. His whole existence is a very professionally orchestrated campaign conducted by David Axelrod.

History does not lie and offers simple facts for those who wish to learn about them. Richard Joseph Daley, the first Mayor Daley, envisioned a machine which would control Washington so that he could have everything he ever wanted for "his" Chicago. He gave the Kennedys the election over Nixon and they gave him nothing in return before John died. He felt nothing short of violated by the new liberals at the convention in 1969. He was stuck with Jesse Jacksons and the riots in the black communities of Chicago. It disappointed him greatly that residents of his housing projects vandalized their building and he died before his vision came true.

Now you have the son, Richard Michael Daley, who knows no better than the way it had been done, looking to fulfill his fathers dreams of controlling the money geyser of Congressional Appropriations. He can not become President and he does not want this person, Obama, to stick around Chicago and Illinois and get in his way. So Daley's people takes on the project of making Obama President. How do you think that Obama had the opportunity to give the 2004 Democratic Key Note Speech in 2004? Daley's people made that happen. The quid pro quo of this relationship is Obama becomes President for Obama's promise to re-assign Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. Department of Justice Office's Special Counsel in charge of the investigations. Who after sending former Governor George Ryan to jail, has Daley so focused on his radar, Daley's image is burn into Ryan's radar glass. Google search how many people from Chicago's City Hall have been indicted during the last few years. I have mentioned in previous posts that Obama is also restricted from taking about Chicago's American on American terrorism. Almost a day does not pass without someone shooting or stabbing someone else within Chicago. Obama will not address how he will help his own constituents in Chicago with ideas or plans to get rid of the violence and terrorism they experience every day here in the United States, rather he is giving the assignment to read some "rock concert style" utopian speech in Germany about terrorism he can not even address at home. He is not allowed to talk about American on American terrorism because Daley does not want to lose the Olympics. There is no independence in this person Obama. His strings are pulled by Axelrod at the behest of Daley. Sorry for those who hoped for more, it is not there.

#47 Posted by LookingForLeaders on July 24, 2008 at 6:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

While a great force on Obama, Daley does not even begin to touch the other influences which will fall in Obama's lap if elected. Google search Minister Leah Daughtry, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, whom has posters in the style of "Uncle Sam" hung in her "church" of an African American family with the word "You Owe Me!". When Harold Washington was elected Mayor of Chicago, not that Washington himself was a bad person, it was that people who shared his ethnicity crashed down the walls ready to loot (patronage jobs were they believed they would get paid for doing nothing) the City of Chicago. If not for Edward Robert Vrdolyak wrestling control of the City Council, Chicago would have been torn apart. This issue pertains to Obama, no different than the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" issue pertained to Clinton on day one. There are persons of Mexican ancestry who believe California should be reclaimed by Mexico. There are Mexicans who refuse to learn English, unlike every other ethnic group whom ever immigrated to the United State, so they can maintain their La Raza non-United States pride. They do not want to become citizens of the United States. There are people from half of Obama's ethnicity whom believe they are entitled to money from the United States Government because Kenyan War Lords sold african prisoners to some United States land owners who held then indentured. First not all indentured were african, second not all persons of African ethnicity living in the United States today had ancestors who were indentured. Until Obama makes it clear he will not support these groups and their radical interests, the walls of Washington will come down with looters if Obama is elected.

History offers facts and Chicago's history is being repeated on a national scale. This is not "Bush" speak nor "Fox News Spin", this is fact.

#48 Posted by LookingForLeaders on July 24, 2008 at 6:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Here are some energy issues to compare the candidates with.

Obama - Voted YES on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies.
McCain - No Vote

Obama - Voted YES on making oil-producing and exporting cartels illegal.
McCain - No Vote

Obama - Voted YES on factoring global warming into federal project planning.
McCain - No Vote

Obama - Voted YES on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's ANWR.
McCain - Voted YES on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's ANWR.

Obama - Voted YES on $3.1B for emergency oil assistance for hurricane-hit areas.
McCain - Voted NO on $3.1B for emergency oil assistance for hurricane-hit areas.

Obama - Voted YES on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%).
McCain - Voted NO on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%).

Obama - Voted YES on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
McCain - Voted YES on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Obama - Sponsored bill for tax credit for providing 85% ethanol gas.
McCain - Ethanol doesn't increase energy independence.

Obama - Reduce the consumption of energy and be more efficient.
McCain - Oil independence will take 25 years, not 5 years.

Obama - Nuclear power ok if we safeguard against waste & terrorism.
McCain - Climate change is real; nuclear power is solution.

#49 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 6:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)

McCain
2006 Senator McCain supported the interests of the Disabled American Veterans 20 percent in 2006.

2005 Senator McCain supported the interests of the Disabled American Veterans 25 percent in 2005.

In 2006 Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave Senator McCain a grade of D.

Obama
2006 Senator Obama supported the interests of the Disabled American Veterans 80 percent in 2006.

2005 Senator Obama supported the interests of the Disabled American Veterans 92 percent in 2005.

In 2006 Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave Senator Obama a grade of B+.

#50 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 6:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)

2008 the New GI Bill.

McCain - No Vote (he was campaigning instead), but he opposed it.

Obama - Voted Yes.

#51 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 6:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Here's a link to compare the candidates on other issues.

http://www.politicalplace.com/phpBB3/...

Just the facts!

#52 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 7:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Is this chick doing any better with her embarassment at being American?

#53 Posted by Naplestango on July 24, 2008 at 7:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)

John McCain:

"I didn't love my country until I was deprived of her company."

I guess he had to be tortured to realize how great America is.

http://www.politicalplace.com/phpBB3/...

#54 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 7:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)

messina- right on. It was encouraging to see all the support for Andrew Widman in the Ft. Myers community. Over 100,000 was raised for his widow and 3 young sons. It's the people that make the difference. We the People....

#55 Posted by raspberry on July 24, 2008 at 7:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Ooops, I got the quote wrong. Here it is exactly as McCain said it:

John McCain: "I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company."

http://www.politicalplace.com/phpBB3/...

#56 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 7:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Take that statement out of context....that might help your cause!

As well of Cindy McCain Mid 80's Back and knee surgery pain addiction rhetoric.

#57 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 7:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)

The video speaks for itself. SPIN IT all you want. It is, what it is.

http://www.politicalplace.com/phpBB3/...

#58 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 7:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)

John McCain on Foreign Policy.

http://www.politicalplace.com/phpBB3/...

Here are several VIDEOS. Unbeliveable.
He's another George Bush!
I didn't think that was possible!

#59 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 7:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Nice post Messina. I completly agree with you.

#60 Posted by jeb14 on July 24, 2008 at 7:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)

CORRECTION:
Unbelievable

#61 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 7:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Thanks, Iron.
Quiet now too.

#62 Posted by CutthroatLiberal on July 24, 2008 at 7:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I see that.
Shhhhhhhh..... LOL

#63 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 7:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

CTL join my forums... follow one of my links. :)
There are plenty of neocons there too.

#64 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 7:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I'll think about it Iron, thanks.
I am more of an off-the-cuff blogger, a cage rattler with a smile. Maybe I will.

#65 Posted by CutthroatLiberal on July 24, 2008 at 7:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Go put "your" spin on Polexcrementacal.com

Goodbye!

#66 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 8 p.m. (Suggest removal)

You should CTL. We have a few "cage rattlers" there now from both sides of the isle. I go to a few other sites and do some ratteling myself.

#67 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 8:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)

CORRECTION:
aisle

#68 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 8:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Geritol overload to you, Aqua.
Hey check my post on the Immo grocery murder.
You're killing me man. Threats?

#69 Posted by CutthroatLiberal on July 24, 2008 at 8:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Learn to spell....Correction...Correction,Correction,that is unless you copy and paste them!

Try proof reading one of your actual comments that aren't copy and paste.

#70 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 8:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I thought you left. LMFAO

Quote JunkMutt:
"Goodbye!"

I feel your pain. If my candidate was like McCain, I'd be grumpy too.

#71 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 8:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Pssst, there's a space after commas.

#72 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 8:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Alright Aqua. No sweat.
JYD is losing it, methinks.

#73 Posted by CutthroatLiberal on July 24, 2008 at 8:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Maybe we should all get together for a charity event. Like hoops or something. Probably be a bunch of too-talkative fat guys and wanna bees battling to a 8-8 tie.

Only we would win cause you guys would pull guns and we would hit ya with the huggin tree then you'd call ICE and we would lose our best post-up man but we'd sue you, take your money and give it to the masses. For 10 bucks you would give us the trophy.
Never work.

#74 Posted by CutthroatLiberal on July 24, 2008 at 8:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)

And Ironside shows his IQ...By calling Names once again.

Who's losing it here?

#75 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 8:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Ironside,
I say again, why try to make your case for your obvious choice by denigrating the other side??
What positive message comes from that?
If your side is above reproach, then let it stand.
All you're doing is making the hate gap wider.

#76 Posted by almasonlybar on July 24, 2008 at 9:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)

And A space after commas? Thats all you got?

Totally laughing and pointing at you!

#77 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 9:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Yep almasonlybar!

What happened to being nice CuttThroatLiberal person?

#78 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 9:05 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I AGREE WITH IRONSIDE....IRONSIDE FOR PRESIDENT.
I BET HE'D DO A BETTER JOB RUNNING OUR COUNTRY, GO DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!!

#79 Posted by Jesussaves on July 24, 2008 at 9:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Jesussaves,
Either get a life or go to bed. {ps, quit the hard drugs, now!}

#80 Posted by almasonlybar on July 24, 2008 at 9:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

almasonlybar, I am stating the facts. Show where I was incorrect about any of these facts.

Cindy McCain ia a recovering drug addict.
True!

Cindy McCain was a stole drugs.
True.

The McCains skipped out on their taxes for four years on one of their eleven properties.
True!

What's the problem? Do you not like the facts?

Obama in 2008!

#81 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 9:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)

CORRECTION (one for JYD):
was a thief and stole drugs!

#82 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 9:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

"Cindy McCain was a stole drugs.
True"

Can you translate that for us?

#83 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 9:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Too late....I beat ya to it! LMFAO!

#84 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 9:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Another one for JYD + 200 more.

And Obama's record is perfect of any wrong?

I can read also, let the past go. Even Ironside makes mistakes...as do we all.

Get over it!

#85 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 9:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)

How did you beeeeet me? Too it? They were posted at the same time.

Pointing and laughing at you again!

#86 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 9:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Ironside,
What in the world is your point?? Are you that blind with your hatred that your statements become laughable?? You sound as if you did not even get beyond second grade. I pity you.

#87 Posted by almasonlybar on July 24, 2008 at 9:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)

#94 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 9:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

#95 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 9:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I'm sure you can read. But then maybe I'm giving you too much credit.

#88 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 9:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I can you tell that in my lifetime (p)Resident George Bush was the only (p)Resident to occupy the Whitehouse while his Party controlled the Senate and Congress, and we see where we are today.

Bush used his veto pen one time in the six years the Republicans controlled the Senate and Congress, and that was on Stem Cell Research. In the 18 months the Democrats gained a small majority Bush has used his veto pen six times. The Democrats’ majority is too small to override a veto, unless the Republicans are inline with them. Obviously the Republicans aren’t going to go along with pulling our troops from Iraq and rescinding the Bush tax cuts.

When President Obama occupies the Whitehouse, his Party too will have a majority in the Senate and Congress. I believe the Democrats will get this country back on track.

The Capitalists don’t want corporate regulations and I think that’s dangerous to the American People and to our environment.

I think I’m in favor of a capital gains tax. I know I’m in favor of a windfall tax. The oil companies have had a free ride long enough. Since (p)Resident Bush has been in office, the top five oil companies have made profits of more than six hundred billion dollars.

The worst thing Clinton and the Republican Senate did was to pass NAFTA. Our jobs are now going overseas and corporations are getting tax breaks for doing so. Obama will give tax breaks to the companies keeping our jobs here.

Obama will rescind the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and give tax breaks to anybody earning less than $250,000 a year. I support that.

I own a small business. It's construction related. I'm getting by, but barely. I used to give to St. Jude Children's (cancer) Hospital EVERY month. But I had to quit doing so a few months ago because my budget is tighter these days. I was helping the economy by hiring a pool company and a lawn maintenance company. I had to let them go also.

Never has the economy effected me personally in such a negative way.

Obama is the 'common sense' candidate. How do you go to war on two fronts and cut taxes at the same time? Where does the money come from to pay for the wars? I'll tell you... CHINA! We are now deep into debt with China because of it.

The more McCain talks about Foreign Policy, the more he exposes it as one of his weaknesses, and he has many. He's already explained that he knows next to nothing on the economy. He doesn't like his own immigration bill and his healthcare votes are a travesty.

No thanks to John McCain and the status quo.

Obama in 2008

#89 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 9:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)

What is your point? I can't read, and you can't spell?

#90 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 9:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)

The Republican and Democratic Conventions:

The Democrats will have theirs in Denver with about 70,000 attending on the Anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. “I have a Dream” speech.

The Republicans will have theirs in Minneapolis, the home of the infamous Larry Craig restroom stall with about 30,000 attending.

Watch the VIDEO here:
http://www.politicalplace.com/phpBB3/...

This may be one of the greatest Presidential elections in American history!

#91 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 9:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)

LOL JYD! Good one. :)

#92 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 9:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)

No thanks to Obama and status know nothing.

McCain in 2008

#93 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 9:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)

And now you drag Larry Craig out of the restroom stall?

You never cease to amaze me.

#94 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 9:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)

During the debates, Lincoln argued that his speech was not abolitionist, writing at the Charleston debate that:

"I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_...(1849%E2%80%931865)

#95 Posted by swamp4u2 on July 24, 2008 at 10:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I'm proud to be voting for Barack Obama. He's the candidate for change. John McCain is the candidate for the status quo.

When Bush took office seven years ago, gas was under $1.50 a gallon. Gas at the pumps has tripled since then. Under no President has that happened until this (p)Resident.

On off-shore drilling:
Even John McCain recently admitted that his offshore drilling proposal has mainly "psychological" benefits.

The Republicans support drilling 50 miles from our coastline, and some even include Alaska's ANWR.

The Democrats on the other hand support drilling on the 68 million acres of already leased land reserved for drilling, uncapping the existing wells that have been shut off for decades and tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

On the War on Terror:
The Democrats (and Iraq's leaders) support us leaving Iraq and negotiating with Iran first. The Democrats support building the forces in Afghanistan to go after the Taliban and those whom actually invaded our nation on 9/11/01..... al Qaeda.

Republicans support staying in Iraq indefinitely and invading Iran and now also support building forces to fight the real war on terror in Afghanistan, after Obama's plan.

On the Environment:
McCain doesn't even seem to understand his own plan to deal with greenhouse gas emissions by saying he doesn't support "mandatory" caps, which are essential to his proposal.

Democrats support the G8 proposals.

On Health-Care:
McCain's not familiar with his own position on insurance companies covering erectile dysfunction drugs but not birth control.

Democrats support universal health for everybody, including those with pre-existing conditions. The Republicans don't.

On the Economy:
McCain was one of only two Republican senators to vote against the 2001 cuts and one of only three to oppose the 2003 cuts.

On the campaign trail, McCain says he now supports making the Bush tax cuts permanent. All while fighting war on two fronts, and possibly a third in Iran.

Obama supports tax cuts for everybody earning less than $250,000 a year and rescinding the tax cut benefiting those earning more than that.

On Immigration:
McCain is now against his own immigration bill.

Vote for Barack Obama in 2008.
John McCain is no different than George Bush.

http://politicalplace.com

#96 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 10:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Blah,blah,blah....

Goodnight Jonboy!

#97 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 10:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Too funny JYD,
You hit the nail on the head, So much ranting.

#98 Posted by almasonlybar on July 24, 2008 at 10:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

My pleasure almasonlybar.

#99 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 10:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)

And too all A goodnight, and goodnight too all!

Notice, I put the comma in there?

#100 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 10:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Did she tell any stories about her and her husband doing drugs?

#101 Posted by KR on July 24, 2008 at 10:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Good night JYD.

#102 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 10:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I don't think so KR! Let me Google that. Man I love the internet!

I'll save it for the morning!

#103 Posted by JunkYardDog on July 24, 2008 at 10:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Ironically it comes down to this:
Do you want a black or white President?
If you're white, how many black people did you have dinner with this week?
And if you're black, same question.
The black population in the US is just under 18%.
Latinos are edging 20% (13% MIGHT vote)
Thank-God for the Republicans that the YEEHAWW! moron is calling the shots for the Democrats.

#104 Posted by Naplestango on July 24, 2008 at 10:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I honestly can't imagine her as First Lady.

#105 Posted by DOBERMAN on July 24, 2008 at 11:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Naplestango, I'd never be so ignorant as to vote for somebody by skin color. It's disappointing to hear you say that "it comes down to this." I doubt many Republicans would agree with you. I think most rightwingers vote like liberals on ideology. You're in a minority on that one.

How pathetic!

#106 Posted by Ironside on July 24, 2008 at 11:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)

DOBERMAN,

I can imagine the Obama Family at the White House.

It's very easy to imagine...as well as a better way of life for Americans.

They are so down to earth, too.

The McCainiacs can't touch the way they relate to the public.

McCAiniac just fired his top dog