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Obama says McCain trying to divide country
Atlanta News.Net
Friday 10th October, 2008 (Jim Malone )
The political rhetoric continues to heat up in the U.S. presidential race.
On Friday, Democrat Barack Obama accused Republican John McCain of trying to divide the country with angry remarks and negative television ads. For his part, McCain demanded that Obama answer questions about his relationship with a 1960's anti-war radical, William Ayers.
Democrat Barack Obama continued his campaign swing through the critical state of Ohio by focusing on the economy.
Obama urged Americans to remain calm even as they tracked the hour-to-hour volatility of the stock market and their dwindling retirement accounts. "So now is not the time for fear. Now is not the time for panic," he said. "Now is not the time to turn Americans against each other. Now is the time for resolve and steady leadership."
Obama also noted the continuing attacks on his character from the McCain campaign. Obama said it was part of a McCain strategy to divert public attention away from the ongoing economic crisis and whip up anger among Republicans attending McCain rallies.
"Nothing is easier than riling up a crowd by stoking anger and division, but that is not what we need right now in the United States," he said. "The times are too serious. The challenges are too great. The American people aren't looking for someone who can divide this country. They are looking for someone who can lead this country."
Senator McCain campaigned Friday in another key Midwest battleground state, Wisconsin. McCain urged supporters to rally behind his campaign in the final weeks before the election on November 4.
"I am here this morning to ask your help in a tough and hard-fought election," he said. "And it is tough and we are the underdogs and we are going to come from behind like we have every time in the past. How many times, my friends, have the pundits written off the McCain campaign? We are going to fool them again. We are going to fool them one more time."
McCain argued that he would be a stronger leader to deal with the financial crisis.
But McCain also kept up his attack on Obama over the Democrat's ties with 1960's anti-war radical William Ayers. Ayers and Obama live near one another in Chicago and have served together on charity boards, but the Obama campaign says the two men are not close.
During his Wisconsin rally, McCain said it was time Obama was more forthcoming about his relationship with Ayers. "Rather than answer his critics, Senator Obama will try to distract you from noticing that he never answers the serious and legitimate questions he has been asked," he said.
The McCain campaign has also released a new television ad that accuses Obama of lying to cover up his links with Ayers. Many political experts question whether McCain's strategy of attacking Obama's character will have much of an impact in the midst of a financial crisis.
Larry Sabato directs the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "They will be determined on the basis of those big issues, especially the ones bundled with the economy," he said. "That is what will determine this election no matter how many charges are made back and forth about William Ayers or the Keating Five or all the rest of it. These are almost irrelevancies."
The continuing focus on the economy seems to be helping Obama and hurting McCain in public opinion polls.
The latest Reuters-Zogby-Cspan poll gives Obama a lead over McCain by a margin of 48 to 43 percent. Other national polls in recent days put Obama ahead of McCain by margins of anywhere from three to eight percentage points.
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Anonymous
10-11-08, 02:15 AM |
Obama says McCain trying to divide country
obviously Mccain is appointed to divide the country between jews side and non jews side.
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Anonymous
10-11-08, 02:16 AM |
I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration.The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.
In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.
For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.
If you do not exclude them from these United States, in their Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives our substance and jeopardized our liberty.
If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.
Jews, gentlemen, are Asia tics, let them be born where they will nor how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American’s, and will not even thou they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asia tics, are a menace to this country if permitted entrance, and should be excluded by this Constitutional Convention.
-Benjamin Franklin
1787, at The Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Johan
10-11-08, 02:27 AM |
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If the America people are as wise or intelligent as the British or French people, they should know that Obama should not be the one working so hard to win their votes.
Just imagine, as an American, waking up after election day to know that McCain-Palin are your new leaders for the next 4-8 years:
1. How can you ever forgive yourself for such a fatal mistake?
2. What will happen to your beloved Constitution?
3.What would you live to tell your children about this wonderful opportunity for change? Was it “racially or simply party motivated? And is it really worth the Risk you took? If want your children and grandchildren to know the AMERICA that you always loved and been so proud of, you will never vote McCain
McCain, a man who either didn’t know or didn’t remember that Czechoslovakia hasn’t been a country in 15 years.
McCain, a man who said last year he doesn’t know anything about economic, now you want to risk your country future by electing the same person to fix your economic problem?
McCain, a man who doesn’t know how many house he own while you are losing your home and jobs.
Palin wants teenage protected from any sex education and look what happened to her own daughter, do you want that for your children and grandchildren?
If the past eight years have been good to you and your family, then vote for McCainI watched Palin-Biden date, McCain must think American people are stupid before picking this woman, because this woman knowing nothing about the VP job, she used five answer for 20 questions. Imagine, if anything happen to McCain, this woman is going to your president.How can anyone in their right mind think of voting for McCain?
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CarolO
10-11-08, 05:51 AM |
Obama says McCain trying to divide country
People need to get over themselves. This is a country for all and if we look back at our fore-fathers, most of us will find none of us are exactly “pure”. My great grandfather was Swedish. I have English and German blood as well. My skin is not black but does that mean I am better than a black man? I have met very accomplished, highly educated blacks as well as toothless, uneducated rednecks. We have low, middle and high classes in all nationalities. For some reason, some of most uneducated, lowest classes of whites continue thinking they are better than every black man regardless of his educational upbringing and social standing. Blacks are shedding red blood in Iraq for these miserable souls.
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Anonymous
10-11-08, 09:09 AM |
Mccain & Palin. one is erratic & the other one is abusive.what a team!!!!
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the smarter
10-11-08, 09:38 AM |
Obama says McCain trying to divide country!! its a 100% true the Bushy McCain palin are the liars and power crazy nuts
hey guys see the true colours of these selfish McCain palin the cronies of bushy politicians who trying extremely hard to influence the voters against the down to earth GREAT OBAMA by making irrelevant remarks and nasty accusations, they want nothing but the power in any way hook or by crook whether they use a bad dirty politic techniques against the GREAT OBAMA or make fool the american people with their sweet talks and empty promises who they think will vote for them, their this kind of actions is already telling the world and american people how selifish and power crazy they are,they are the biggest threat to the society and terrorist on earth, if they come into power they will make more enemies for the american people, because their policies are very voilent harsh towards the other nations of the world!!! (my dear good hearted loving american good hearted people vote for Obama and see the love and peace arround you)
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` ~galljdaj+
10-11-08, 06:04 PM |
Barack, where have you been??
wonderful ronnie did that years ago! Divided the Country! He used Religion and Lies to set Americans against each other! He then used Firing Workers to further divide Citizens!
And Only now you claim loose lips mccain is trying to divide us!
Are you so silly to think your Bailout votes of corruption means we are united?
United against your crap and the crap from the rest of Our Government! If we could there would be no elected President! And the rest of the legislators would be thrown out with lil bush and his dickie.
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Anonymous
10-11-08, 08:08 PM |
And yet the one ducking all the quesions is Obama
Why does Obama duck and obfuscate all question regarding his questionable friends, past and decisions making?
After reading his own autobiography Dreams From My Father and matching that up with his ducking his Islamic background I gotta ask all you clowns rooting for him what’s wrong with you?
I’m also reading Obama nation a very revealing book. After reading his autobiography and the first three chapters of Obama nation I’m left feeling sorry for this guy he is very broken emotionally.
With that saidit makes sense why he has yet to truthfully answer working for Acorn.
You know Acorn the group fraudulently signing up people to vote for Obama in swing states.
After years of the DNC screaming about rigged eletions they get caught red handed doing just that!
His words were I have never organized for Acorn but the question was have you ever worked for them!
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/obama_lies_claims_he_never_worked_for_acorn/
Of course the mainstream media invested in electing Obama won’t tell you the truth!
He was legal counsel and worked for a wing of Acorn called project vote why will he not admit it?
Why will he not admit his own mistakes?
This guy is even more arrogant then the great decider we have in the office now.
Do we really need the harbringer of change who never really says what changes he will make?
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Unregistered in Singapore
10-15-08, 03:06 AM |
What American Television & Newspapers Don't Share
Why Can’t The American People SEEEEEEEEE?
Obama will bring America to her untimely death. His financial backing is from foreign thugs (corrupt world leaders and drug lords) that for years have been wishing to take America down from the inside out. His domestic associations are terrorists, liberals, political hasbians and the half-truth press. His childhood friends from Indonesia brag carelessly in Southeast Asian, Northern Asian, Australian, New Zealand, European - both eastern and western - circles remembering Obama as an anti-Christian, alternative race loathing, radical who joked of the USA’s destruction and the sheepish gulibility and stupidity of her patriots, proudly. He is married to a racist gangster with a law degree who only shows pride in her country when it suits her. He has zero experience in leadership and is an embarrassing fence walker - never yes, never no, just present -. Here in Singapore, we pray McCain wins. He is open, genuine, painfully honest and a team player, he’ll listen to the people and keep his heart and mind focused on where American needs it most: The people. Country First. Good luck.
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