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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (30600)	9/4/2008 8:17:10 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

How many voters will do their homework before they vote...?? huffingtonpost.com <<...Some of the unreleased pages in McCain's Navy file may not reflect well upon his qualifications for the presidency. From day one in the Navy, McCain screwed-up again and again, only to be forgiven because his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. McCain's sense of entitlement to privileged treatment bears an eerie resemblance to George W. Bush's. Despite graduating in the bottom 1 percent of his Annapolis class, McCain was offered the most sought-after Navy assignment -- to become an aircraft carrier pilot. According to military historian John Karaagac, "'the Airedales,' the air wing of the Navy, acted and still do, as if unrivaled atop the naval pyramid. They acted as if they owned, not only the Navy, but the entire swath of blue water on the earth's surface." The most accomplished midshipmen compete furiously for the few carrier pilot openings. After four abysmal academic years at Annapolis distinguished, according to his own books, by mediocrity and misdeeds, no one with a record resembling McCain's would have been offered such a prized career path. The justification for this and subsequent plum assignments should be documented in McCain's naval file...>>

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (30600)	9/4/2008 8:36:21 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Obama Says Surge in Iraq Successful 'Beyond Our Wildest Dreams' By Kim Chipman and Julianna Goldman Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama said that the surge of American forces in Iraq has ``succeeded beyond our wildest dreams,'' though the Iraqis still haven't done enough to take responsibility for their country. ``The surge has succeed in ways that nobody anticipated,'' Obama, Democratic presidential nominee, said in a recorded interview scheduled for broadcast tonight on Fox News's ``The O'Reilly Factor'' program. Fox published portions of Obama's comments on it's Web site. Obama has come under repeated criticism from Republican rival John McCain for opposing President George W. Bush's decision last year to send 20,000 extra combat troops to Iraq. While he's said before that the additional forces have damped insurgent violence, his comments on the program were some the strongest he's made on the issue. The Illinois senator, who's promised to pull most U.S. combat troops out of Iraq within 16 months if he's elected president, repeated today his call for Iraqis to take more control of their own nation. ``Understand this, the argument was and continues to be when are we going to turn over responsibility to the Iraqis for their own country,'' Obama said during a campaign stop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Obama's interview will air on the same night Arizona senator McCain gives his nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Although Obama has appeared nine times this year on the News Corp.-owned cable station's interview shows, it was his first appearance on ``The O'Reilly Factor,'' the network's highest-rated program. Reaching an Audience Obama adviser Robert Gibbs said the candidate agreed to it because many swing voters tune into the Fox News Channel and the network was likely to have high viewership during the Republican convention. ``It makes sense to talk to all of your audience,'' Gibbs said. While some Democratic candidates complained of unfair coverage by the Fox network during the primaries, Gibbs said ``we think we can get a fair shake.'' The interview was one of the results of a meeting earlier this summer between Obama and News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, who built Fox into a top-rated news channel in less than a decade, and Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, Gibbs said. Murdoch initiated a ``truce'' between Obama and Fox, according to a report in Vanity Fair magazine by Michael Wolff, Murdoch's biographer. Obama had accused Fox News of abusing him and his wife and portraying him as ``just short of a terrorist,'' according to the magazine. To contact the reporter on this story: Kim Chipman in St. Paul, Minnesota at kchipman@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: September 4, 2008 19:52 EDT

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (30600)	9/4/2008 9:33:46 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Palin is a strong candidate and Biden needs ti be careful debating her. She has overseas travel to her credit and she has met with US troops overseas. 37 million Americans watched her speech last night. I am surprised. IN fact she has more following that John McCain. This election is turning out to be between Obama and Palin. This is Bush all over again. I know this woman is not good and yet, she is going to sell Americans a bill of goods just like Bush did. She is no Obama....not even close. And yet I can see people making the comparison.