Reader comments: Obama campaigns for dramatic change in D.C.

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Obama's America | 9:46 a.m. Oct. 9, 2008
Do you want B.O. because you think he is going to change things, or because you hate Bush? The Economy you think Bush has given you? Or the war you think Bush has given you?

I have news for you. If you think our country will be better off in four years under an Obama, Pelosi, Reed government you are sadly mistaken. After they have given the nation a “New, New Deal,” there won’t be much left in America.

Under this New Deal:
* More companies will move more jobs outside of the U.S.
* Unemployment will be 14%+
* Gas will become $6.50+ a gallon because Obama has no plan to produce more.
* The Dow will drop to below 7,500 erasing most people’s chance to retire. Ever.
* The dollar will be worth half what it is today and countries will “unpeg,” leaving us unable to pay our debts.
* Inflation will reach 12%+
* There will be another terrorist attack on a U.S. city.

Welcome to the new America. Thanks to the Bush Haters who vote Obama. Change we can believe in. Welcome to the depression of 2009-20013. Good luck Bush Haters.
Obama's America | 11:06 a.m. Oct. 9, 2008
You are like the rest of the Replublicans trying to scare the rest of us. Let's face, we heard the same stories before Clinton was elected and he finished with a surplus. I'm hoping that Obama along with a new congress (whether Republincan or Democtrat)can turn the economy around.
Brother Chuck Schroeder | 11:48 a.m. Oct. 9, 2008
Why McCain and Sarah will win 2008. Obama's books reveal him as having the personality of a man embittered by being abandoned by his African father and his unconventional white mother, and who came to believe that race is the issue that trumps all else and must be used for the redistribution of power and wealth. Obama sought out relationships with the socialist-radical Saul Alinsky, the unapologetic bomb-thrower Bill Ayers and his Weather Underground associate Bernardine Dohrn, the Communist poet Frank Marshall Davis, leftwing Muslim-supporting politicians in Kenya, the corrupt political fixer Tony Rezko, and the black-liberation-theology Reverend Jeremiah Wright who preaches hate America and accuses the United States of creating the AIDS virus to kill blacks, he established his relationship with these radical characters and then, when they became embarrassments, progressively changed his responses in order to distance himself from his friends. Obama's disavowals are not persuasive.

Vote for President McCain and VP Sarah 2008.
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Full name | 1:09 p.m. Oct. 9, 2008
I am curious to know why it's politically incorrect to use Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein? William Jefferson Clinton was used all of the time, but what is the shame or concern from everyone about Obama's middle name? What is he trying to hide? What is the problem with full disclosure and using someone's middle name, especially someone who aspires to lead our nation? I don't get it, would someone explain it?
Lewt | 2:46 p.m. Oct. 9, 2008
"Hussein" is a perfectly fine Arabic name. But what if Eisenhower's middle name had been "Adolf"? And no one's hiding anything. Around these posts people try to make a big thing out of it as if there were some secret. All garbage.
Re: Lewt 2:46 PM | 3:59 p.m. Oct. 9, 2008
Personaly speaking here, I feel B. Hussein 0-babacon is out of touch, perhaps has Tourette syndrome as well, he's flipping off America, and never putten Country First, hiding who he truly is, what he is all about, and what he would do in the White House if elected (and we all know he won't be), so in short, when the finger of blame, with its Tourette syndrome in it, points in another direction, the Tourette syndrome he has will point it backward right at him, and, when McCain and Sarah takes over the White, for REAL CHANGE IN WASHINGTON, and 0-bamacon lost, he'll point his Tourette syndrome ticked off finger to you, than, where will YOU HIDE AT?. Think about that. It's true. And, liberal's hate the truth.
Full name | 4:02 p.m. Oct. 9, 2008
I agree, it's a perfectly fine Arabic name and I do business in Arab countries and some collegues there feel as if he's ashamed of it and his heritage. It doesn't make sense still, Saddam Hussein has nothing to do with Obama, yet it's incorrect to even say it out loud without getting criticism from both sides of the aisle? Something doesn't add up here.
Re: Lewt | 4:07 p.m. Oct. 9, 2008
NASCAR is planning on starting random drug tests. Can you believe that? The test isn’t gonna be as sophisticated as it is in other sports though. Drivers will be asked at random to say “Dick Trickle” three times, real fast. Whoever says pickle will be asked to sit the race out. (I don’t know if that’s funny to anyone but to myself let’s move on.) And finally, (thank you Lord) ya ever take a poop so big ya have to get out a book of names? Well I did. It actually took two flushes just to get Hillary down. (That’s funny I don’t care who ya are!)
Sorry Obama - YOU LOST. | 4:59 p.m. Oct. 9, 2008
The serious hatin’ on Barack Obama is in full force among racists in cyberspace and has spread to countless computers in homes across America. Since Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in the Democrat primary, clinched the Democratic presidential nomination and could become America’s first black president in November, racist groups, white supremacy organizations, neo-nazis and skinheads have all increased their activity on the Internet and stepped up their hateful online denunciations of Obama. It’s a hate experts say is now reaching a fever pitch. For his part, Obama has spoken about race on occasion but plays down his race as a reason for voters to embrace him. He has talked about his multi-cultural heritage from the perspective of an American who is also half-white. The half-white part of Obama’s lineage seems lost on those posting comments on sites like Stormfront because they view Obama as inferior. Blacks can never reach their full potential, resurgence of hate groups comes as a new poll by The Washington Post-ABC News shows that nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice.

McCain and Sarah 2008.
Obamacon on Health Care? | 8:37 p.m. Oct. 9, 2008
Health care is not a right. It is a service, just like the food service, or transportation. They may be important to out lives hey, food is more critical than medicine. But they are not rights. We cannot demand food at the grocery store, and pay according to our ability. We cannot force a care dealer to sell us a care at “Medicare” discount rates because we need transportation to get us to work. Barack Obama is a smart guy. He’s Ivy League-educated and is surrounded by a bevy of similarly bright educated people. Yet he promotes a policy that has failed everywhere it has been tried Universal Health Care. We continue to hear how miserable American medical care is, and how expensive it is. Yes, there are problems some that are inevitable, and most dating to the sixties advent of Medicare and Medicaid. It is fine to look for improvements, but why do Barack, and his predecessor Kerry, look to socialized Europe or Canada for solutions? Universal health care appeals to the well, but fails the sick. Socialized systems allow young, generally healthy people to obtain free low level medical care.

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., greets supporters following a campaign rally in Indianapolis, Ind., Wednesday. (Darron Cummings, Associated Press)
Darron Cummings, Associated Press
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., greets supporters following a campaign rally in Indianapolis, Ind., Wednesday.