Barack Obama's aunt is a walking advertisement against illegal immigration. Not only is she in this country illegally, but she lives in public housing in South Boston. "It's that fundamental belief--I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper--that makes this country work," Barack Obama told the Democratic National Convention four years ago. That idea makes families work, not countries. Obama's misconception of "I am my brother's keeper" burdens you with being his brother's keeper and relieves him--a millionaire--of any such obligation. It's hard enough to be your own "brother's keeper," as Obama's hut-dwelling half-brother shows. Think of how difficult it is to be a "brother's keeper" to people who aren't even in your family. What does this "brother's keeper" ideology make President Obama? Big Brother.

This is how Obama looks at the nation as a whole. He will provide as long as it's somebody elses money. Why should he dig into his millionaire pockets when he can dig into yours?

You know, it amazes me how arrogant Obama is. Coal power constitutes the generation of half of our electric power and the Messiah has blatantly stated that, through Cap and Trade, he will essentially shut down the coal industry. Then he plainly states that this will cause electric rates to skyrocket.

How, how, HOW can people know this and still vote for him?

Among other things, this guy is nuts. Question is, how nuts is the electorate?

I'll tell you how people can still vote for Obama, even when they know these things: they believe him to be the "lesser of two evils." Just like many (most?) of those voting for McCain reason.

My counsel? Don't vote for either! After all, why encourage them.

You can already see it on the other side of the election. Krugman's column today points out that the remaining Rs in Congress may fast become "the party of intolerance."

Guido

Well, in fairness to Obama he did sponsor incentives to convert coal to oil which would reduce our dependence on foreign oil. See: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06229/714268-28.stm

This technology needs STRONG encouragement, IMO.

It just goes to prove that, knowing what is known about him, one can not have a working brain if one supports him.

It's got to be either white guilt or the beaten wife syndrome because everything about this guy throws up red flags and even when he clearly and unapologetically tells people what he’s going to do to offend them; they still go along with it.

My contention is that we as a society have gotten too refined through education and too civilized as a result. For many of us, this has given us a false sense of security and has taken away our normally inherent survival mechanisms. And there used to be something known as common sense.

How else to explain people who seem to be looking for a beating and will not defend themselves?

Don’t vote for either of them? Knowing what chaos Obama will bring with him, that’s not a valid option.

Seriously Homer. This jamoke wants to do away with all of nasty old fossil fuel. He thinks we'll be running our cars on wind power within ten years. Do you believe anything he says in this regard?

Hey, he co-sponsored the Bill, so he obviously supported the idea. I try to be fair.

"Don’t vote for either of them? Knowing what chaos Obama will bring with him, that’s not a valid option."

Sure it is -- knowing the mess McCain is likely to bring: starting with his renown temper and impudence and going all the way through his buy-ins on "climate change"-alarmism, security-at-all-cost-to-American's-civil-liberties, ever-increasing-restrictions-on-political-speech, and a global war on terror that includes aggressive, "pre-emptive" wars on nations that had not a thing to do with 9/11, among a plethora of other abhorrent stances. (And how pathetic that the best argument McCain has going for him is over-the-top scare-mongering re: his opponent. There are hardly any compelling positive reasons to vote FOR McCain, from an old conservative point of view.)

A friend recently sent me a youtube demonstrating the coming Obama brownshirts. Scary stuff with some validity to it. But I also fear the possibility McCain's storm troopers and blitzkriegers. Not a chance in hell I would vote for either of these guys.

The Republicans are not entitled to my or any other conservative or libertarian vote. And all their language suggesting otherwise is the height of arrogance. Very insulting. Further, this mindset from the so-called "conservative" party helps explain how a once-free nation has so easily slipped into an entitlement State, both domestically in terms of redistributionism, and internationally in terms of empire-building and global-war-trotting that is repugnant to the considered advice of America's Founding Fathers and Christianity, esp. the Christian Just War tradition.

No thanks.

He must have forgotten his commitment to converting coal to oil by Jan. 17, 08 when he spoke about how his intention was to essentially to put the coal industry out of business.

I know you're playing fair here but this is guy who two years ago talked about converting coal to oil but will block legislation to drill?

Doesn't make sense. Although, there's not a lot about him that does.

I don't care if we don't drill if we really find a way to produce oil from coal in a cost effective way (and if we Americans can't do it, who can?). From what I've read (and I sure as hell don't know enough to tell if it's true, but...) we have more oil -- if we produced it from coal -- than the Saudis have crude.

Eric, I can’t argue with what you say about McCain. I agree. But I’m fairly certain McCain will have the better interests of the United States in mind where I’m not at all convinced that the other guy will.

And you can throw the ‘old Conservative’ point of view out the window. In my opinion, the future holds few truly Conservative candidates who will have a shot in the two major party system.

With regard to O’s Brownshirts, they’re already in action twisting arms through ACORN and making sure the certain dissenters against The One are stopped in print and on the airwaves. And let’s not forget how he advocates the formation of the Civilian National Security Force that will be publicly funded similar to the Military.

Think they had a term for that in Europe in the 30’s.

You're right. There are S.A. volume reserves in North and South Dakota and some other parts out of the Northwest as well. In fact, this is just one part of the huge reserves of all kinds we have at our disposal.

And we can and should tap them It's the American way to be as independent as possible.

But there are political forces at work that are road blocking the development of our natural resources in the guise of environmentalism and I don't believe that The One is an advocate of any kind of American independence in the first place.

Remember, you’re talking about a guy who throughout the more recent gas “shortage” was saying it would be ok if gas got to be $7.00 a gallon.

The issue is that too many of the political class have greenhouse gases on the mind.

face it sad-f, you just really like to listen to yourself talk don't you. You talk fire and because of it no one likes you or listens to you. You call other people idiots but you fail to see your own flaws, making you the biggest clown. You are filled with hate, and need to get over your fears. No one is out to get you.

It makes me think that you were either the bully in grade school or you were the one who got picked on. Either way it appears that all you know is unhealthy relationships. Get help before you die of a heart attack.

Will there possibly be a riot on the streets when Obama looses, charging whites with stealing the election, again.???

Either answer asdf's arguments with your own or just dry up. No one is interested in petty invective (only the really big witty invective which is clearly not your strong suit).

If this were a typical election cycle Barack Obama wouldn't stand a chance. He would go down to defeat like a Mondale, a Dukasis, or a McGovern. In fact, his defeat would probably be the most decisive in history because he is on the far left and has a string of suspect associations.

The only reason why Obama may become the next president is due to the unpopularity of George Bush. That's it. Obama is ahead in the polls only because he's seen as something different from Bush. So ultimately it is George Bush -- not the media, not the electorate, not McCain's erratic personality -- that insures Obama will be the 44th president.

It is the conservative movement, which has defended George Bush to the end, that is responsible for an Obama victory. When liberals attacked the president, conservatives should not have reflexively jumped to defend the president. Instead conservatives should have assailed the president even harsher than liberals. Every leading conservative voice should have shunned the president, pilloried him for his policies, and mocked him constantly in their magazines and periodicals. If liberals attacked the president, conservatives should have attacked twice as hard.

However, the conservative movement did nothing but defend every boneheaded decision made by the president so that now conservatism is the art of Bush apologetics. It's no mystery why we are about to elect a Marxist.

Agreed.

My pulse it steady, I rarely get upset, I sleep very well and have never referred to anybody as an idiot. Necessarily. What I write I believe to be valid but am open to correction.

I don’t know The Messiah and I don’t personally have anything against him. But he along with others in the political class in this country have demonstrated to me that we should fear for our future if they get into any position of power over us.

Eric,

A lot of what you say is true. Can’t argue with people of all stripes suffering from BDS. You’ve accused me of being a Bush apologist. I’m not. But I am a Bush defender with regard to how, contrary to popular opinion, he is NOT Satan on Earth.

I think that’s the difference between people who disagree with Obama and people who disagree with Bush. The former don’t necessarily hate him. The latter do.

There are a lot of things to not like about McCain. And along with being in a bad place in history coming behind a fairly unpopular President who shares his party affiliation isn’t helping him. But the fact that the Democratic party along with their lapdog media have so utterly been in the tank for Obama to the point of hiding the truth and obfuscating his past and his shady associations has worked to catapult the most flawed political candidate in recent memory into almost surely being in control of this country.

This guy was never properly vetted and even now important information continues to leak out to show where his true politics and loyalties lie. So, yeah, Bush has been one reason but the more important reason that he’s gotten this far has been that all of the flowery speech and talk of ‘Change’ with the help of his enablers has masked the truth about who he really is.

Its all Bush's fault! i been hearing that for 8 yrs. its all bullsh*t. the man tried to hard to be liked by the libs. and it cost him big time. he isnt the best be he isnt the worst. i lived throu that loser carter and this doesnt compare.

Bush's approval rating is a little over 20%, meaning that he is probably one of the most disliked presidents in history. But how should we interpret this statistic? Is his unpopularity simply due to the liberal media? I don't think so. Every Republican president has had to contend with the liberal media and it didn't stop Reagan from winning two crushing victories. In fact, the influence of the liberal media has waned since then. We've seen the rise of talk-radio, Fox News, and the internet, which provides unlimited access to non-liberal information.

Bush has earned his low approval rating. He deserves it. The problem is the the so-called conservative movement thinks that Bush doesn't deserve it and this really indicates how far they've insulated themselves from the American people. They've basically gone into a little cocoon where they just watch Fox News, listen to talk radio, and read other conservatives who defend the partisan interests of the president. Thus, they really don't understand that Bush is toxic; he's pure poison. But Bush is unpopular because he's been a bad president. The conservative movement anchored itself to the fate of George Bush and now they're going down with him.

It didn't have to be this way. If the conservative movement had gotten behind someone (like Ron Paul) who had been a serous critic of the president then they wouldn't be looking at a crushing electoral defeat. In fact, people would see things correctly: that liberals had more in common with Bush than conservatives.

But I suspect those who call themselves conservative really don't have any beliefs independent of the Republican Party. To them whatever is good for Republicans is conservative.

It's conservatism, not liberalism, that delivered America to a Marxist. Congratulations.

"I sleep very well and have never referred to anybody as an idiot."

Wow, you wake up everyday like you never did anything wrong yesterday. It doesn't take much searching to find you saying ignorant obtuse statements:

http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/politics2008/the_invisible_man.html

http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/american_scene2008/down_jones.html

you are in denial about your high blood pressure.

"I sleep very well and have never referred to anybody as an idiot."

This is an example of the classic absrtact liberal thought process where the context of something that was never said or written is congealed into a dishonest quote.

We're used to that.

Yeah, and the Democratic Congress has an approval rating of 9%. Holy crap Eric, you can't back off and you accuse Bush people of being haters?

You make your point and then dilute it with your hatred of Bush and the Republicans. Smart but stupid as you have no tact in the debate.

Demonstrating, once again, how out of control you libs are.

This is why, in my opinion, your might win a battle here or there but never win the war.

ASDF,

This is another fact-free, logic-free critique of my comments. I oppose president Bush and policies and don't try to hide it. However, I think you're the one being disingenuous here. I think, when it comes right down to it, support president Bush, think he's a great president, and you simply don't like even the faintest criticism of him. Your first instinct is to protect the partisan interests of George Bush, not conservatism.

Also, comparing the approval rating of the "Democratic Congress" to George Bush is comparing apples and oranges. While people may have a low opinion of Congress as an institution, most people actually do support their congressman, which is why about 95% of Congressional incumbents are re-elected. Besides, Congressional approval rating has always been historically lower than the president's. My guess is that most people equate "Congress" to the government, and naturally most people have a low approval of government. However, most people do approve of their own Congressman (mostly Democrats) but not the president.

Bush's low approval ratings are historic and well-deserved. Your problem is that refuse to acknowledge the fact that Bush's historically low approval ratings are a legitimate response to his administration. The failure to understand this is why Republicans may face an electoral tsunami tomorrow.

"This is an example of the classic absrtact liberal thought process where the context of something that was never said or written is congealed into a dishonest quote."

Here, I will quote you in full... "My pulse it steady, I rarely get upset, I sleep very well and have never referred to anybody as an idiot. "

Wow, those first two clauses were essential to the context... NOT! You lie, and are in serious denial about it. Here are some other derogatory comments you have made:

"It just goes to prove that, knowing what is known about him, one can not have a working brain if one supports him."

"Question is, how nuts is the electorate?"

"As Mike Savage says: Liberism is a mental disorder."

"You leftists are so incredibly obtuse and uninformed."

"Horse is an idiot and you are right about the Dems."

in the last 30 days or so...

You are a hypocrite and a racist for calling Barak the Messiah and 'Barack Hussein'

(http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/politics2008/mile_high_nuremberg.html)

You are the scum of the Earth.

You must be a Fancy Lad.

I did NOT call Horse and idiot. And if I did, I really meant to call him an a-hole. Sorry for the confusion.