Selling hate, fear and failure as salvation

You're right when you say Palin's rhetoric is empty and offensive. Anything now goes for the McCain campaign, because when you got nothing to lose, nothing's off the table. Signs reading "Country First" are really the most bizarre because John McCain put his country last when he caved into the far right and chosen a person not close to being qualified for VP. It's refreshing to see the polls, the battleground states and critical red states, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana, moving in Obama's direction. Gives you hope that the majority see through these tactics.

If I did not know better I would swear that the McCain campaign had been taken over by a group of escaped lunatics experiencing acid flash back. Regardless of how informed you may consider yourself, you really have no idea what is going to come out of their mouths next.

As to Ms. Palin, it is my thought that on or around Nov. the fifth she shall slowly recede into the foot notes of history quietly and without a whimper, she has had her fifteen minutes and for me the fifth cannot come soon enough.

Tough questions as usual Pamela.

At an overview level (and offered merely as a neutral observer) Republicans must be able to claim their fair share of successes that have contributed to what America represents. Against that backdrop, it is really hard (nay, inexplicable) why these two are so hell bent on destroying everything with the way they are running the campaign. And why their party is allowing them to continue doing so. Why allow what is a pretty sorry situation to get so much worse?

Do these two not realise how much harm the way they are running their campaign doing to America's standing in the world? At exactly the time when it needs to start thinking of reversing that perception. It really beggars belief.

Once again, Pamela, you've nailed it.  This is a pitiful situation when we are supposedly able to choose the best of the best.  What a statement about this country that cheerleading, smirky liars are embraced by so many.   I understand Palin's smirky, winking appeal on the surface but I cannot understand so many swallowing it whole without question.  God forbid we try to have real issues discussed...there's that gotcha elite media.  What a disgraceful joke!

Both Presidential Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have sit on boards of various organizations, and the McCain Campaign wants to insist that the mere fact that Senator Obama set on a board of some organization with what they called a unrepentant terrorist who done his bad acts when Obama was 8 years old some how demonstrates bad judgement on the part of Senator Obama. But now we get the revelation that Senator McCain was a member of a organization and set on the board of a group that supported and collaborated with Nazi sympathizers as part of the Iran/Contra debacle in South America . I have a question which is should a sitting United States Congressman or Senator have been actively or passively involved with any group that supported or espoused the ideas of the Holocaust that happened at the hands of Nazi Germany, and systematically were routinely murdering innocent women and children and even killing some innocent Catholic Priest and Nuns in the process of trying to hunt down and kill people that they deemed inferior and unworthy of existence. John McCain was a fully grown man and as well as a member of Congress when these acts that his organization supported were being carried out while on the other hand when the acts of William Ayers that the Mccain Campaign has decried and railed so forcefully against Senator Obama for and about were committed Senator Obama was a 8 year old kid going to elementary school.

I've met people like McCain before. They're the @!$%#up sons of wealth. They tend to have little ability to judge risk because they've been bailed out of every sticky situation they've gotten into, and yet they've no empathy because they've been spoilt and lauded not for their achievements but their connections. They die in car accidents, airplanes, and drug overdoses. They're ego driven and failure prone. They're stupid because they never needed to make the effort.

Most of all they have bad tempers. Stamping their foot worked all their lives, and they expect it to work now. Make no mistake Palin's attack on Obama over Ayers is part of this, as is McCain's continual return to the only thing he deserves credit for - his days as a POW. A greater man might have been made great in that forge, but we see in his eventual, self-serving support of torture by the US that this man is in no way great.

Where I've met these people in person, they've run a series of businesses into the ground while engaging in sharp practices and mistreating their staff. We've seen a country run into the ground by one and heaven help us if we put the creaking shell into the hands of another one.

It is heartening to see that lots of regular people are finally fed up with all the political b.s. and wild attacks -- I mean, mocking community organizers, for pete's sake. Voters have grown up enough to handle the bad news and listen to the reasoned voice of calm competence in Obama, over the snappy catch phrases and buzzwords uttered by pitbull Palin. McCain is almost a blip in this campaign -- have you noticed? It is all Obama and Palin that people talk about, and just about universally they say that yeah, Palin is no way ready for the VP and God forbid the Oval Office. McCain is actually pretty smart to lie as low as possible because the more that folks realize what a loose cannon, what a volatile personality he is, the more they will decide that there is no way we can put him near the button.