Reader comments: Obama and v.p. choice to campaign on Saturday

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Tony McGuire | 6:13 p.m. Aug. 19, 2008
'Cell phone text message to supporters'.

What you want to bet he has a deal to get a kickback on the cost of all those text messages? Every time the 'supporters' get a message, the campaign coffers get 'supported'.
tell the truth about Obama | 6:14 p.m. Aug. 19, 2008
The reviews are in from Saturday's Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency, moderated by Pastor Rick Warren. The critics agree - John McCain's straight talk emerged as the big winner of the night.

After watching both candidates answer the same set of questions, it's become clear why Senator Barack Obama has run away from debating John McCain and refused joint town hall meetings. Senator Obama dodged answering the toughest questions. But John McCain gave straight and direct answers to Rick Warren and the entire audience about issues like national security, personal faith and values, education, taxes, energy, and the Supreme Court.

The bottom line is that John McCain will put our country before his own self interest. He has done so his entire life. And that is why it is so important we do everything we can right now to elect John McCain as the next President of the United States.
wrz | 6:45 p.m. Aug. 19, 2008
tell the truth about Obama | 6:14 p.m. -

"The reviews are in from Saturday's Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency, moderated by Pastor Rick Warren. The critics agree - John McCain's straight talk emerged as the big winner of the night."

And the B. Hussein Obama campaign quickly knocked McCain's big win out of the news by announcing that he will be picking his VP soon. Clever.
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Shem | 6:59 p.m. Aug. 19, 2008
"The bottom line is that John McCain will put our country before his own self interest. He has done so his entire life..."

You mean just like he did in 1980 when he left his crippled wife of more than 14 years for the 24-year-old daughter of the largest beer distributor in the Western US?
Non-Partisan voter | 7:18 p.m. Aug. 19, 2008
I love how the neo-cons have started bashing Obama before even reading the news article. Obama is announcing his VP choice, which I expect him to be Bill Richardson. This is just too funny how the battle already began. Guys, John McCain is George Bush Reloaded 2.0. :(
metamoracoug | 7:47 p.m. Aug. 19, 2008
to non-partisan:

interesting non-partisan comment.

john mccain may be george bush reloaded, but the illustrious senator from illinois is a charismatic, know-nothing. he is no more capable of being president than i am. And frankly, i'll do the job for a lot less money. so vote for me! i'm from illinois too. oh! i'm too norwegian . . . or maybe not muslim enough. i know, the real problem is i'm too mormon. after all, we can trust an muslim, but not a mormon.
kathyn | 8:41 p.m. Aug. 19, 2008
Ron Paul is starting to look pretty good about now.
KJB | 8:42 p.m. Aug. 19, 2008
You can really start to see the flopsweat showing on the conservatives around here. Care to tell us how Obama is a "charismatic know-nothing" or do you just hope saying that will make it true? And what does make you qualified to be President? Getting shot down over Vietnam and then dumping your wife for a new one worth millions?

And the "B. Hussein Obama" stuff is getting old. We know you're desperate, but do you have to be racist, too?
full blooded republican | 9:08 p.m. Aug. 19, 2008
Having never voted for a Democratic...never met a Lawyer nor a Democrat that I like.

That said...I thought McCain bombed at the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency, moderated by Pastor Rick Warren.

He was shollow in his answers, he had one liners, no thoughtful discussion. If I didn't hate what Democrates represent, I would be voting for them. McCain was my first choice throughout the primaries.
After his showing, or in my opinion any deep thoughtful discussion and presentation of his intelligent positions, I will stay home for the first time in my life. He won't need my vote in Utah and would have lost it had I lived anywhere else.

Please pull your head out McCain, returic is not going to win many undecideds. Treat us citizens with the same intelligent that we have.

Conservitive Republican bewildered by such a poor showing. If you disagree with me just read the CNN (I know, the liberal media, I agree), article.
Anon808 | 10:08 p.m. Aug. 19, 2008
Soon we will know what the Obamanation will look like. Then we can focus on defeating him. ( I did not invent that word but I wish I had and I picked it up quickly. I got it from either Beck or Savage).
KJB DUH | 11:07 p.m. Aug. 19, 2008
Be intellectually honest enough to look at the SENATE RECORD of Obama. If you think his senate resume= enough to become president then probably A LOT of other people qualify. Also calling him Hussein is not racist. Racism is when you are predudiced against someone based on their race. Last time I checked a name is a reflective of a culture or social background. So if anything you can accuse people who use HUSSEIN as being people who don't like perhaps a Muslim background. And can you blame them for being somewhat hesistant to like anything associated with Islam after all the violence and future attacks done/planned by it?
Ridgerunner | 2:12 a.m. Aug. 20, 2008
Obama will not be the Democratic Presidental candidate, it will be Hillary! Wait and see what happens at the dems. convention in Denver!
metamoracoug | 7:06 a.m. Aug. 20, 2008
thanks, duh! from my perspective, the only things that qualify obama to be president is that he is over 40 and a native u.s. citizen -- the very same things that qualify me to be president. the illustrious illinois senator is handsome, charismatic, and an above-average public speaker. these qualities do not preclude making a good president, but i have not seen or heard anything from obama that leads me to believe he will lead us wisely.

now before the liberals go jumping all over me, i don't like mccain either. he wants to come off as reagan-like, but he is a far cry from being in the same league as the best president we've had in the past 50 years. my fear is that the man has early signs of dementia. but even if he is ok cognitively, i view him only as the "lesser of two weevils," to quote russell crowe.

from my perspective, no matter for whom we vote for president, (sorry this includes ron paul) we are losers.

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