Barack Obama Elected President!

[Wales2004]

I don't know why but I watched several minutes of David Gregory's Race to the Whitehouse.....well I do know why, it was because there was a beautiful backdrop of San Francisco and I was reeled in by it. He talked with John Harwood (CNBC) about the economy and Harwood said this kind of situation with Wall Street favors the Democrats because they're the government people and the Republicans are the Wall Street people, in the publics' mind. I think David Gregory wants the public to change their minds so he suggested to John Harwood that McCain has this plan to clean up Wall Street and something something something.....Harwood responded that there was nothing to indicate that McCain had been fighting against Wall Street the 26 years he's been in Washington and reiterated what he said about the Democrats and the Republicans. I thought it was kind of funny. I don't see how the idea of his cleaning up Wall Street is supposed to make the public feel better. I don't even think the public believes half the things that politicians say they're going to do. He should just go back to worrying about Obama's fund raising schedule.

I gave up my fascination with the back drop after I finished listening to Robert Reich pitch for Obama's economic plan which he called from the bottom up....he apparently doesn't like that trickle down stuff and David Gregory couldn't get him to flinch when he wanted to prod about how Obama could offer tax cuts at a time like this....is it going to work blah blah. Too bad he didn't have a Republican economic expert surrogate on so that I could see if he asked him/her whether McCain's tax cuts were going to work.

When those tactics blow up in your face then just try the next thing which is well we don't really know what's going to happen. That would have prompted me to ask, isn't your whole show based on speculation and exaggeration of piddly non news stories anyway?

This post is just an example of why you really might not want to know what some ill informed people are thinking when they're watching deep and provocative political shows. If they're like me they're fixated on whatever is in the background....except when it's Larry King.

Frank Caliendo's Bill Clinton sketch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj9PlNMQ3Y0

[Roman]

And this post is the reason why DG should not be host of Meet The Press.

[Greg's GL]

I understand exactly what you are saying Roman and IA.

This is just crazy. The way Obama was raked over the coals for his church - arguably fueled by the right - and now they are saying that SP's church is off limits? WTF? The fact that they believe they can "change" homosexuals is downright ludicrous and insulting. I simply don't have words to describe the way this makes me feel. IMHO, everything that was fair game for Hilary and Obama is fair game for SP. End of story.

I also believe that if Obama would have rolled up on stage with his pregnant 17 year old daughter, the religious right would have had a field day.

Does anyone really believe that the marriage between SP's daughter and her admittedly redneck boyfriend are fixin to enter into will last? They will end up a statistic. This is what the Repubs are trying to "protect" against gay marriage???

[Roman]

Palin had previously said that she oversaw nearly 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply, but that claim was untrue. A fact check showed that Alaska only produced 14 percent of the oil from U.S. wells, and the state’s total energy production was actually just 3.5 percent of the entire nation’s output.

[Wales2004]

Maybe not. I'm not an advocate of teen marraige or anything but my aunt got married when she was 15 and it lasted at least 40 years. The amazing thing is he discovered his spine one day...I'm not an advocate of men discovering that they're men after that long though

Those kids might grow together and make it work. Although if I were going on looks, I would say that it doesn't look like a plan of his.

So am I the only one that thought the end of that sketch where he's told about Anderson Cooper was funny?

[Roman]

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archiv...n_the_mccai.php

Who Needs Obama When The McCain Campaign'll Run Against Itself?

[Roman]

Oh, and before people start touting the lady who endorsed McCain, please read this:

http://www.mgwashington.com/index.php/2008...or-mccain/1738/

[Greg's GL]

Perhaps I could be wrong. I hope so, for the sake of the baby they are getting married for.

Ya know, Roman. For those that said you post only partisan left-leaning articles, this will prove them wrong. The links you post, IMO, add a lot of value to this thread.

[bandbfan]

I don't know how old your aunt is, but I'd say that she grew up in a different time. I'm assuming she's at least 55, doing the math. The divorce rate in general back then just wasn't as high.

[Wales2004]

True. My grandparents weren't happy about her marrying so young but they accepted it. I wouldn't recommend it. People don't know how much life there is to live until they're older and can't go back.

[Roman]

Thanks.

I mean, I don't care what they say. I know I try to post factual articles. Sometimes the opinion pieces ahve a decided slant to them, but that's why they are Op-Eds.

But, if there is any information that is wrong, and can be backed up by facts, no problem. I just don't want it to go back to "My opinion is right, therefor you are wrong if you disagree with me". I think at times, we all may do that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26763744/

Link to Bush still hurting McCain, poll finds

Please, take it with a grain of salt.

[Roman]

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattle...ives/149045.asp

Obama tops McCain in national poll

[Jess]

I think most of the articles are just this happened today stories. I don't know why those are offensive.

You know, I hope Gov. Palin's daughter has a happy life with the kid she's marrying. However, both of them are very young. I don't think being parents means you have to be married.

[Roman]

Which articles are offensive?

[Roman]

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archiv...cking_obama.php

Fact-checking Obama