Reader comments: Obama ads have bucks; McCain's have the bark

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Phoebe | 7:57 a.m. Oct. 10, 2008
And nearly all of McCain's ads were slime.
Just Me | 10:19 a.m. Oct. 10, 2008
I really get tired of hearing the mud slinging that goes on during the campaiges. I really just want to know what each canidate is going to do for our country and for me. The only reason McCain asked Palin to be his running mate is because he thought she would be able pick up the Clinton followers. Palin is not ready to be vice president. I feel they rail roaded her husband into taking the blame for her in the trooper-gate problem. Palin seems like she would hold a grudge.

Sorry, just spouting.
We love McCain & Sarah | 1:26 p.m. Oct. 10, 2008
The H-bomb has been dropped twice here in the last week by speakers who referred to Obama by his real name at McCain-Palin rallies. And it happened earlier in the week at a Palin rally in Estero, Florida, Lee County, Florida, Sheriff Mike Scott, and he is being investigated by law enforcement for this. Yes. He is being investigated by law enforcement for this comment. He said he's got a name, and so we're using his name, Barack Hussein Obama. "You can't do that! You can't do that! How dare you?" What's wrong with saying his name? It's his name. Getting awfully uptight here about things, aren't they? Getting awfully uptight. They see rallies far more excited than Obama rallies. By the way, Chris Matthews apoplectic over the use of "Hussein" as a name for Obama. Yelling out from the crowd from the podium, from the stage, his name's Hussein. Very ethnic. They're billing him as a furtive, dark figure of danger who's got connections with terrorists, who may get foreign money. I mean it seems like they're building the case he's in a sleeper cell, practically. You heard it first right here folks, the real truth. Vote McCain
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McCain's ad's tell the truth | 1:46 p.m. Oct. 10, 2008
destroy the freedom of speech also by means of legal intimidation at the UN and elsewhere. Blunt charged that four Missouri state officials along with the leader of Obama’s campaign in Missouri have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign. In declaring an intent to prosecute those who spread what they considered to be falsehoods about Obama, they were, said Blunt, abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment. Obama and his supporters, were trying to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election. That's why we all are going to put McCain & Sarah in The White House - 0-bamacon's lie to much.

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