Barack Obama Elected President!

[Jess]

I enjoyed talking with Brian. End of statement

I'm so glad that Obama and Biden are standing up to Team Slime, and at the same time not letting it take over the campaign. The public wants to hear that somebody wants to get things done. Obama is very calm and seems interested in trying to reassure the country.

[Wales2004]

RNC Hits Obama Campaign for Meeting with Controversial Muslim Leader who Met with Bush

Jake Tapper October 10, 2008 2:24 PM

[bandbfan]

So now Palin is being officially accused of abuse of power, but she didn't break the law.

[bandbfan]

And way to go McCain for actually taking the high road and saying that people shouldn't be scared if Obama wins, that he's actually a decent guy and family man. Wah wah wah for the babies in the crowds who booed.

[Wales2004]

He seems to be attracting more than the usual number of nut cases at his rallies now. I can't believe that he had to clarify that Obama is not an Arab for one of them. They seem to be taking the terrorist connection that McCain and Palin have been making to Obama seriously. It was reported that a woman shouted "bomb Obama" at a debate between two candidates for the Senate.

I think it's good that McCain spoke up and hopefully he'll make a more forceful statement and seek a different way to make his point that he believes Obama isn't truthful. I just read an article stating that McCain's campaign is now connecting Michelle Obama to Ayers. The campaign member said that Ayers wife worked at a law firm that Michelle Obama joined three years later and that the two could have known each other from work. Next they will be accusing Obama's children of being connected to Ayers as well.

Palin needs to drop the whole line of Obama not being truthful in light of the fact that the bi-partisan panel determined that Palin wasn't truthful regarding that trooper terminaton.

[Jess]

I hope McCain realized that the rhetoric in this campaign has overheated. You know, I thought it was going to be Obama's campaign that exploded. In the end, John McCain has not been served well by his campaign team. They are making him look terribly bad.

You know, I don't care about the Palin flap. It is another example of a poor campaign tactic by Team McCain.

[Roman]

BREAKING NEWS

msnbc.com news services

updated 1 hour, 25 minutes ago

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.

Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report by a bipartisan panel that investigated the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain.

The inquiry looked into her dismissal of Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, who said he lost his job because he resisted pressure to fire a state trooper involved in a bitter divorce with the governor's sister. Palin says Monegan was fired as part of a legitimate budget dispute.

The panel found that Palin let the family grudge influence her decision-making even if it was not the sole reason Monegan was dismissed. "I feel vindicated," Monegan said. "It sounds like they've validated my belief and opinions. And that tells me I'm not totally out in left field."

Branchflower said Palin violated a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.

Palin and McCain's supporters had hoped the inquiry's finding would be delayed until after the presidential election to spare her any embarrassment and to put aside an enduring distraction as she campaigns as McCain's running mate in an uphill contest against Democrat Barack Obama.

But the panel of lawmakers voted to release the report, although not without dissension.

"I think there are some problems in this report," said Republican state Sen. Gary Stevens, a member of the panel. "I would encourage people to be very cautious, to look at this with a jaundiced eye."

The nearly 300-page report does not recommend sanctions or a criminal investigation.

[SnCCorinthos4ever]

And of course there will be some that will say that she did nothing wrong.

[Kay]

All week, 20/20 has been advertising that they'd be premiering a Britney Spears video on their show tonight. What they didn't advertise was the story that would run just before the video: basically stating that young voters should stay home because they were uninformed (like many older voters aren't uninformed). I thought that was pretty low of a supposed news show to lure in young viewers just to tell them to not vote-- just weeks before the presidential election.

I'd already soured on John Stossel's reporting. But this is just made me look at this show with new eyes. I know full well that they cherry-picked the most ridiculous answers to their political questions-- totally misleading.

[SnCCorinthos4ever]

I hate it when shows do that. And the fact that they also put the advertised item on towards the end making you watch the entire show cuz you don't know exactly when it comes on.

[Kay]

Exactly! The other story they aired about people wanting the gov't to help the average citizens was pretty slanted, too. Obviously, there were people rolling the dice with sub-prime loans. But that was not the case with everyone. Some people bought homes with conventional loans and still lost their job & heath insurance (unexpectedly) in Bush's economy.

[SnCCorinthos4ever]

OMG how could someone make such a [!@#$%^&*] up.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27122742/?GT1=43001

The only ballot's that should be vaild are the one's with the correct names on them.

When we vote here we have to mark the ballot papers in pencil, but each one is human checked and any that are defaced in any way are deemed to be invaild.

The only time our votes have anything to do with a computer is when one of the polling place's call in and tell the people on the other end that they have this many votes for each candidate

But we did have to go through each and every ballot paper making sure that it was vaild. It was a long day, but very interesting at the same time.

[Jess]

I get disgusted with John Stossel too. I think he has a superior attitude. I think it is lousy for them to discourage people from voting. The truth is most voters are ill-informed about much of politics IMO. Most people don't have a couople of hours a day to figure out who is lying and who is telling the truth. We all know the media doesn't do a very good job of helping people out.

[Southofnowhere]

Is Gary Stevens Ted Stevens son?

[bandbfan]

These McCain rallies are scary!

If anything, it's his campaign that's making things more partisan.