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"...Barack Obama, who says the results point to clear limits in the effectiveness of attack ads he expects this fall."

What is it about the Democrat Party, that it throws up one narcissistic, power-mad creep after another? With Clinton, Gore, Obama; it's all about them. The Earth revolves around them. Why and how can people vote time after time for these nutcases?

Read Friederich Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom”. In that fairly short book he tells us why socialism will always fail, and points out specifically that people who want power are almost always the very ones you don’t want to get it. They want power because they have a view of how life and society should be, and they intend to make us all hew to that vision, no matter how wrong or destructive it may be.

I think the news and entertainment media has much to do with what happens at the polls. The good people in this nation are too busy trying to make a living to go out there and research all sides of the issues so they get their view from the media. I am now a senior citizen and I have watched the use of fear and envy succeed in electing politicians time after time. That is what built class warfare in America. Remember the influence of the Johnson ad against Goldwater which showed the little girl picking daisies and then the nuclear explosion? Obama knows the powerful influence of political ads and that is why he made this statement. The one thing I fear most as I watch what is going on is the inexperience of youth. I think back to my own self before my late forties and I listen to the young 30 something pundits on the news talk programs on television and I fear. They feel immortal and they have never known huge tragedy or war or famine or disease pandemics. Many do not believe in God and I read this a.m. where a new “study” links obesity to global warming. This is the kind of insanity we have to contend with folks. The video game population has taken over before it's time and the old gray heads who wore out Dr. Spock when they reared the parents of these grandchildren do not have enough fire left to fight a generation who grew up on fantasy and who seems bereft of basic common sense.

What is it about the Democrat Party, that it throws up one narcissistic, power-mad creep after another? With Clinton, Gore, Obama; it's all about them. The Earth revolves around them. Why and how can people vote time after time for these nutcases?

The best way to explain it seems to be the old story about the turtle and the scorpion, and I may have the players wrong, but the principle stands. As I recall it, the scorpion needs help getting across a creek, and so it asks the turtle if it would help it cross the creek.

The turtle says, "But you'll sting me, and I'll die a painful death." The scorpion says that he will not sting the turtle, and after a few more rounds of doubts by the turtle and reassurances by the scorpion, the turtle agrees to carry the scorpion across the water.

Well, right before the turtle finishes crossing the creek, the scorpion stings the turtle. As he is dying a painful death, and sinking in the creek, he says to the scorpion, who has since jumped to safety, "You promised me you wouldn't sting me!"

The scorpion said, "I'm a scorpion...that's what I do."

The answer to "what is it about the Democrat Party?" is that they're Democrats, and that's what they do, that's what they are, that's how they work. For all this talk about change that the Rats spew, one good series of ads can finish them, and all related to two items over which they claim superiority. "change" and the price of oil.

When the Democrats "took power" in 2006, the price of a barrel of oil was $58. Less than 18 months after that election, and less than 16 months after this pathetic Congress was sworn in, the price of a barrel of oil has more than DOUBLED.

I don't think that's "change" America believes in, and she sure doesn't like it.

The same way that the same type of people voted Adolph Hitler into power...Ignorance is expensive...and will cost this country dearly if these people get back in power.

I don’t like McCain. But I will hold my nose and vote, because I don’t believe in surrendering to the enemy. And make no mistake - the Dems and Liberal Repubs ARE the enemy.

I know McCain is a “moderate”. He will buck us on some issues and piss us off mightily. However - I cannot in good conscience stand idly by and do NOTHING (i.e., not vote) and let the likes of B. Hussein Obabma and the long line of letfy/socialist/communist scum behind him, propping and propelling him forward, get control of the country.

He/they will control the military and the coercive force that it represents. Remember Waco? Remember Ruby Ridge? That’s what you get with Dems in control. Murdered American Citizens.

He/they will control local and state law enforcement, and the coercive force that THAT represents (witness what is going on in Philly right now with DEM mayor Thugnutter and DEM police Chief Thugramsey and the DEM controlled City Council - hell, pick ANY Dem-controlled city/state). Want to exercise your Constitutional, Civil, and basic HUMAN RIGHT to keep and bear arms and defend yourself? Forget it. That’s what you get when Dems get in control.

He/they will have a criminally-collusive Congress to tax the middle class right out existence. Want to keep what you earn, so you can better your own family? Forget it.

He/they will have Treaty-making power to bind us to the UN and other international socialist global-control organizations. Want to be dragged before a World Criminal Court for publicly critizing Hugo Chavez (like in here?) or some other commie thug dictator? You’ll get it.

If anyone wants this, then stay home. Don’t vote. You’ll get it. Maybe not immediately, but then again, we really don’t know what kind of timetable they have, do we? They may want to strike while the iron is hot. They’ve been building their little revolution for the last 50 years now.