McCain shows passion for the country, while Obama is aloof and condescending. Obama is certainly a good orator. McCain can (& HAS) walked the talk though.

Additionally there are fundamental discrepancies in the dollars that Obama is preaching he will be saving the American people. I do not want him managing and spreading my money around.

What else would you expect though when your staunchest supporters are celebrities who don’t have to worry how they will live paycheck to paycheck, or how their children will receive quality care (most of them have nannies- plural- who take care of their children), or how they will afford healthcare (nosejob or botox anyone? Hell, many families can’t even afford to take their sick child to a doctor!)

OBAMA: Said that if families get a $5,000 tax credit for buying health insurance and the insurance then costs $12,000, that’s a loss for them.
THE FACTS: The tax credit offered by McCain is more generous for the vast majority of people than the current tax break, which they would lose, according to the Tax Policy Center. Now, people don’t pay taxes on the health benefits they get from work. Obama’s statement gives the impression that $5,000 is all that workers will be getting to help them pay for a health plan, but that’s just what the federal government will provide. Economists say most employers would still contribute to their workers’ health insurance. The Lewin Group, a health care consulting firm, found that by taxing health benefits but providing a tax credit, the average family would come out $1,411 ahead.
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OBAMA: “Every dollar that I’ve proposed, I’ve proposed an additional cut, so that it matches.”
THE FACTS: The bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that his programs would add $281 billion to the deficit at the end of his first term. The analysis includes Obama’s proposals for saving money.
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OBAMA: “One hundred percent, John, of your ads — 100 percent of them — have been negative.”
THE FACTS: The statement is true when it comes to McCain’s current commercial spots. But by saying McCain’s ads “have been” 100 percent negative, Obama ventures into misleading territory. McCain is currently running all negative ads, according to a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But he has run a number of positive ads during the campaign.
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OBAMA: “I want to provide a tax cut for 95 percent of working Americans, 95 percent.”
THE FACTS: Obama constantly says this. But the independent Tax Policy Center says his plan cuts taxes for 81.3 percent of all households in 2009
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OBAMA: Said he would be “completely supportive” of late-term abortion restrictions “as long as there’s an exception for the mother’s health and life.”
THE FACTS: Obama leaves himself a lot of latitude in this answer. A woman’s “health” has been so broadly interpreted that it can include conditions, including psychological conditions, that are difficult to diagnose or prove. Anti-abortion advocates say that makes the ban meaningless, because it leaves too much subjective judgment in the equation
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OBAMA: “We can cut the average family’s premium by $2,500 a year.”
THE FACTS: If that sounds like a straight-ahead promise to lower health insurance premiums, it isn’t. Obama hopes that by spending $50 billion over five years on electronic medical records and by improving access to proven disease management programs, among other steps, consumers will end up saving money. He uses an optimistic analysis to suggested cost reductions in national health care spending could amount to the equivalent of $2,500 for a family of four. Many economists are skeptical those savings can be achieved, but even if they are, it’s not a certainty that every dollar would be passed on to consumers in the form of lower premiums.

McCain shows passion for the country, while Obama is aloof and condescending. Obama is certainly a good orator. McCain can (& HAS) walked the talk though.

OBAMA: Said that if families get a $5,000 tax credit for buying health insurance and the insurance then costs $12,000, that’s a loss for them.
THE FACTS: The tax credit offered by McCain is more generous for the vast majority of people than the current tax break, which they would lose, according to the Tax Policy Center. Now, people don’t pay taxes on the health benefits they get from work. Obama’s statement gives the impression that $5,000 is all that workers will be getting to help them pay for a health plan, but that’s just what the federal government will provide. Economists say most employers would still contribute to their workers’ health insurance. The Lewin Group, a health care consulting firm, found that by taxing health benefits but providing a tax credit, the average family would come out $1,411 ahead.
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OBAMA: “Every dollar that I’ve proposed, I’ve proposed an additional cut, so that it matches.”
THE FACTS: The bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that his programs would add $281 billion to the deficit at the end of his first term. The analysis includes Obama’s proposals for saving money.
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OBAMA: “One hundred percent, John, of your ads — 100 percent of them — have been negative.”
THE FACTS: The statement is true when it comes to McCain’s current commercial spots. But by saying McCain’s ads “have been” 100 percent negative, Obama ventures into misleading territory. McCain is currently running all negative ads, according to a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But he has run a number of positive ads during the campaign.
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OBAMA: “I want to provide a tax cut for 95 percent of working Americans, 95 percent.”
THE FACTS: Obama constantly says this. But the independent Tax Policy Center says his plan cuts taxes for 81.3 percent of all households in 2009
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OBAMA: Said he would be “completely supportive” of late-term abortion restrictions “as long as there’s an exception for the mother’s health and life.”
THE FACTS: Obama leaves himself a lot of latitude in this answer. A woman’s “health” has been so broadly interpreted that it can include conditions, including psychological conditions, that are difficult to diagnose or prove. Anti-abortion advocates say that makes the ban meaningless, because it leaves too much subjective judgment in the equation
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OBAMA: “We can cut the average family’s premium by $2,500 a year.”
THE FACTS: If that sounds like a straight-ahead promise to lower health insurance premiums, it isn’t. Obama hopes that by spending $50 billion over five years on electronic medical records and by improving access to proven disease management programs, among other steps, consumers will end up saving money. He uses an optimistic analysis to suggested cost reductions in national health care spending could amount to the equivalent of $2,500 for a family of four. Many economists are skeptical those savings can be achieved, but even if they are, it’s not a certainty that every dollar would be passed on to consumers in the form of lower premiums.

Mcain- erratic- out of touch- DOSENT KNOW HIS FACTS!

IF your wrong when you voted for BUSH..Will you make the same mistake again?

McCAIN: “Sen. Obama is spending unprecedented amounts of money in negative attack ads on me.”

THE FACTS: Obama is spending unprecedented amounts of money on ads, period — negative or otherwise. Obama is outspending McCain and the Republican Party by more than 2-to-1 in presidential ads. At one point in August, 90 percent of the ads Obama was airing were against McCain. The study by the Wisconsin Advertising Project found that about 34 percent of Obama’s ads are now negative.
McCAIN: “We have to stop sending $700 billion a year to countries that don’t like us very much.”

THE FACTS: This is a reference to U.S. spending on oil imports. McCain has repeatedly made this claim. But the figure is highly inflated and misleading. According to government agencies that track energy imports, the United States spent $246 billion in 2007 for all imported crude oil, a majority of it coming from friendly nations including neighboring Canada and Mexico. An additional $82 billion was spent on imported refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and fuel oil. A majority of the refined products come from refineries in such friendly countries as the Netherlands, Canada, the United Kingdom, Trinidad-Tobago and the Virgin Islands.

McCAIN: Said of Obama’s running mate Sen. Joe Biden: “He had this cockamamie idea of dividing Iraq into three countries.”

THE FACTS: Biden actually proposed dividing Iraq into three semiautonomous regions, not separate countries. He was a prime sponsor of a nonbinding Senate resolution that called for Iraq to have federal regions under the control of Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis in a power-sharing agreement similar to the one that ended the 1990s war in Bosnia.

McCAIN: “Senator Obama talks about voting for budgets. He voted twice for a budget resolution that increases the taxes on individuals making $42,000 a year.”

THE FACTS: The vote was on a nonbinding resolution and did not increase taxes. The resolution assumed that President Bush’s tax cuts would expire, as scheduled, in 2011. If that actually happened, it could mean higher taxes for people making as little as about $42,000.
McCAIN: “Vouchers, where they are requested and where they are agreed to, are a good and workable system, and it’s been proven.”

THE FACTS: McCain’s education plan proposes more private-school vouchers for only one jurisdiction: Washington, D.C. It’s unclear whether the four-year-old Washington program is actually working. So far, the Education Department has found little if any difference in the test scores of kids who got vouchers to attend private school.

McCAIN: “We can eliminate our dependence on foreign oil by building 45 nuclear power plants right away.”

THE FACTS: For nuclear power to lower oil dependency would require a massive shift to electric or hybrid-electric cars, with nuclear power providing the electricity. No new U.S. nuclear reactor has been built since the 1970s. Although 15 utilities have filed applications to build 24 new reactors, none is expected to be built before 2015 at the earliest. Turmoil in the credit markets could force cancellation of some of the projects now planned, much less spur construction of 45 new reactors, as reactor costs have soared to about $9 billion apiece.

OBAMA: “Every dollar that I’ve proposed, I’ve proposed an additional cut, so that it matches.”
THE FACTS: The bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that his programs would add $281 billion to the deficit at the end of his first term. The analysis includes Obama’s proposals for saving money.
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OBAMA: “One hundred percent, John, of your ads — 100 percent of them — have been negative.”
THE FACTS: The statement is true when it comes to McCain’s current commercial spots. But by saying McCain’s ads “have been” 100 percent negative, Obama ventures into misleading territory. McCain is currently running all negative ads, according to a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But he has run a number of positive ads during the campaign.
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OBAMA: “I want to provide a tax cut for 95 percent of working Americans, 95 percent.”
THE FACTS: Obama constantly says this. But the independent Tax Policy Center says his plan cuts taxes for 81.3 percent of all households in 2009
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OBAMA: Said he would be “completely supportive” of late-term abortion restrictions “as long as there’s an exception for the mother’s health and life.”
THE FACTS: Obama leaves himself a lot of latitude in this answer. A woman’s “health” has been so broadly interpreted that it can include conditions, including psychological conditions, that are difficult to diagnose or prove. Anti-abortion advocates say that makes the ban meaningless, because it leaves too much subjective judgment in the equation
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OBAMA: “We can cut the average family’s premium by $2,500 a year.”
THE FACTS: If that sounds like a straight-ahead promise to lower health insurance premiums, it isn’t. Obama hopes that by spending $50 billion over five years on electronic medical records and by improving access to proven disease management programs, among other steps, consumers will end up saving money. He uses an optimistic analysis to suggested cost reductions in national health care spending could amount to the equivalent of $2,500 for a family of four. Many economists are skeptical those savings can be achieved, but even if they are, it’s not a certainty that every dollar would be passed on to consumers in the form of lower premiums.

It saddens me to think that I still live in a world of hate and misinformation.
1st let me state that Senator Obama is NOT a muslim and Trinity United Church of Christ is not a muslim church. However the MEDIA put it out there to make it seem as if it was. I too attended Rev. Wright’s church for 15 years and although I did not agree with him politically that was not my reasons for going. I attended for spiritual nourishment. Rev. Wright is like most pastors (opinionated) and as a member I did not always agree with him however I agreed with his message of “GOD BEING GOOD ALL THE Time”. As far as his politcal views I could care less. However I will say this he is not a racist and he did not preach hate. If he had I wouldn’t have been a member nor would I be married to a caucasian man.
2 as far as the terrorist connections he has being from Chicagomyself and walking and working in some of the same circles we are ALL 6 degrees of seperation from some crazy person. Get over it.
The reason why the president is a civilian job is so that someone who is intimately close with war etc doesnt make hasty decisions. Barack is more than qualified to run this country and the sad thing about all of this is NO MATTER who wins this country will be divided.
Its sad that my ancestors fought to stop racism and in 2008 we are still here.
Grow up people because my fear is that you have children and you are teaching these children this same hatred and these are children who will be running our country in a few years.

My oh my, In 2008 people are still being judged by he color of their skin and not the content of their character, Obama supporters will vote for Obama and McCain supporters will vote for McCain can we stop bashing each other about it, whatever candidate you prefer then show it by casting your vote, it seems like everyone in the United States has taken a side and in doing so they have drawn a line in the sand, come on people our country is on the virge of bankruptcy both candidates have spent millions to tell you a bunch of lies and smears about the each other come on people rascism will be among us always so get over it, JUST VOTE!!!!!!

TO THE PERSON WHO WANTS TO CALL EVERYONE ON THIS PAGE IGNORANT, WELL ONE YOU ARE NO DAMN DIFFERENT! YOU ARE JUDGING ALL THESE PEOPLE ON THIS PAGE WHOM YOU DO NOT KNOW PERSONALLY AT ALL! IT IS EVERYONES RIGHT TO SAY WHAT THEY WANT AND FEEL THE WAY THEY WANT TO, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, ETC. THEY ARE ALLOWED TO VOICE THEIR THOUGHTS GOOD OR BAD! NO MATTER IF WE LIKE IT OR NOT. DON’T JUDGE BECAUSE IN THE END WE WILL ALL BE JUDGED! THIS COUNTRY IS NOT BEING DESTROYED BY MAKING THEIR VOICE BE HEARD IT IS BEING DESTROYED BY ACTIONS, THEY SPEAK LOUDER THAN ANY WORDS. IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE SOMEONES WAY OF THINKING, CALLING THEM IGNORANT IS NOT THE WAY TO DO IT. IN THE END OF THIS ELECTION ONE WILL BE VOTED IN AND EVERYONE IN AMERICA WILL NOT BE HAPPY WITH THE ONE WHO IS CHOSEN BUT WE WILL HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT! IT IS WHAT IT IS! ACCUSING MCCAIN SUPPORTERS OF SPEWING LIES IS BEING HATEFUL AND RACISTS THE VERY SAME THING YOU ARE CALLING THEM. I AM NOT SAYING I SUPPORT EITHER ONE BECAUSE IT DOES NOT MATTER. WE WILL ALL VOTE FOR WHO WE WANT

LENIA could not have said it any better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the only change on madonna’s mind she be to stop cheating on her husband!!!!!
John M. all the way

Believe it! We’ve done the research. We know what he means by ‘change’ - THAT’S the problem.

I cant believe some of the remarks you people are saying about Obama. You guys are so busy using your hate to spill out more hate about this man but none of you are displaying issues of McCain to boost your canadites issues. You guys have a chance to talk about important issues about our country but decide to use your chance to put down a man that is trying to make a change.

LENIA - remember that silly kid’s saying, ‘he who smelt it, dealt it’? Well, she who claims ‘racist’ is usually racist.(BESIDES, whether or not he’s muslim, is NOT even a racial discussion - my point proven)No one is daring to say ANYTHING out of the way,and YOU KNOW IT - esp. McCain. He’s actually being TOO nice. One TINY little misconstrued word, look, or gesture from anyone, and it’s ‘OMG! RACIST!RACIST!’ I think oprah’s a racist. She never took so much of an interest in politics before, just like the other celebs. Why? You know why. And I think THEY are being racist. I, myself, don’t subscribe to any of that, and I resent when certain people try to convince you that you are a bigot, no matter what you say, do, or prove. There are many valid, substantiated, poorly hidden reasons why MANY won’t be voting for barack - NOT ONE has to do w/ his being (what, 1/3?)black

I cannot belive the ignorant rascist crap I have read on this page. What frightens me is that misinformed ignorant people will be voting in this election. It is clear the the McCain/Palin supporters only know how to spew lies and hate. Try getting out of your comic books and do some actual reading and understand that this country is being detroyed because of ignorant people like all of you.

Poor Lenia, you must not know your facts either. McCain/Palin are not breeding racism. Never were. It’s folks like you who are misinformed. What they are doing is pointing out that Obama has close ties to folks who have had the same values as some of our terrorist “friends”. When you take someone into your socializing circle who have had threatened violent actions against these Unites States, how can you then claim that you are not guilty by association. I am a Democrat - however will be voting Republican in this election. I can’t see how voting for a true patriot such as McCain could be wrong for our country. I know I want someone who believes in our country and has the tenacity to vote what is right in our Presidential position.

McCain?Palin all the way! Obama is a sneaky sleeze…….the only way he will win is his ACORN fraudulent votes BUT mostly….all the $ he has backing him. We can say that money will win this election - not brains.

SOOOOO sad - Oprah is snowed by this horrid “partial truth telling”, and McCain bashing, unexperienced, smoooooth talking, EGOMANIAC OBAMA. You’d think she’d understand that someone who sat in Rev. Wrights church for 20 years HATES white people.

Obama/Biden 08!

Is there anyone really listening when the “material girl” talks? Oh, that’s right she’s a living example of what a woman should be!!

Anyone who is stupid enough to vote for Barak doesn’t belong in the United States. We need to be more concerned about this country and our troops! Barak doesn’t stand for this country, and people shouldn’t vote for him just because he is black. Skin color won’t run this country. Someone who knows of war should run this country. Someone who believes in God, Jesus, the Bible and our Flag should be running this country. That someone is NOT Barak Obama!

You are all misinformed. It is a shame that you do not follow politics in a better manner. Obama is NOT muslim he is Christian, his mother was ahteist, and his grandparents were Protestant. By making all of these racial comments you are all breeding the same hatred and racism that McCain/Palin are. Oprah is a good person, you must not know her history either. Do your homework before you all encourage future hatred and racism in this country! MAMA 4 OBAMA