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He needs to watch the debates between Reagan and Carter. What sealed the deal for Reagan - he asked the American people a question - are you better off now? If McCain can ask "are you better off now" and then do a compare/contrast between himself and Obama that might tip the scales... He also needs to hit home with the Middle Class - imagine mainstreet entrerpeneur who opens a tire and brake shop - to truly succeed in the American dream he needs to build 2-3 locations right? He does that and guess what he is now making $250,000...

Dear Fellow FReepers, I don't intend for this thread to be a vanity. I'm posting this thread because I thought it might be a way for interested, active, activist-minded FReepers to share thoughts and brainstorm today on how best we can make a difference these final three weeks, and HOW to go about implementing these ideas. The intention is to win the victory in 2008. Let's all come up with some ideas and get ORGANISED! I've added a [2008 Victory Caucus] tag in emulation of the set up that the Religion Moderator has for religious threads - a "Caucus" thread...

Listen up people! This is not about John McCain, this is a about America. America as our country, and America the idea.For those of you complaining about this and that and the other. Get over it and get out and do something positive to defeat the biggest threat our country has faced in our lifetime. We all must do all we can to get involved and win this. Keep doing anything and everything you can think of that will be effective. We can't give up! Success is directly related to the EFFORT and intelligence employed toward a goal. We have...

Here are some of my musings reagarding this election. This morning I'm reading a lot of information about how McCain blew the election. Did he blow it? I really can't answer that... I can see why on Friday he distanced himself at the town hall meeting in Lakeville, MN. He didn't want to be branded a racist, which ironically, the dems keep raising the issue, even Obama himself. The one thing McCain can do between now and election day is come up with a detailed plan on the economy, something Obama has not done. McCain should also distribute the letter...

I do not put anything past Obama. He has some of the brightest communist minds behind his campaign and the rest of his supporters have imbibed in the organic juice with the union label. What is to stop Nancy P from bringing congress back for an emergency session to vote on the stimulus package and making part of the bill an ammendment to Immigration Act making the last changes retroactive? Could this happen? Wouldn't this make both issues of being natural born mute? I keep thinking that even the Dems aren't so arrogant to support a man that at the...

Why are we angry? We spent years and years hearing how our President murderded innocent Iraqi terrorists. The constant raving chant of "Bush Lied, people died" was giving aid and comfort to our enemy. These people on the left for years stopped short of committing treason. After we started in the Iraq war, it was as if nearly a quarter of our country was fine with crossing that line daily. The hatred of the left was difficult enough to swallow, but the press wallowed in it. They daily shoved our noses in it. Any troop died, and it was celebration...

Question: Is there still any hope that this could knock Obama out of the race? I recently was asked by a freind about what would happen if it is found to be true that Barack Obama was not a natural born citizen of the US. When answering the question something stuck in my mind and I've been pondering it all day. If it happens after the election and Obama wins the election, Biden will become POTUS, but if it were to happen before the general election, the Democrats will have a chance to change thier nomination, meaning Hillary is back...

Voter registration fraud, thanks to ACORN, is so endemic in the swing states that it can swing the election in McCain's favor! "Take Back Your State" should be the battle cry of the McCain camopaign. McCain needs to show pictures of thousands of forged registrations provided by ACORN, and then run the video of Obama addressing ACORN and saying how ACORN would be central to his agenda as president. Hit the Obama $824K donation to ACORN also! They should show the map from NY Post online that shows the swing states and how they were systematically targeted by Obama and...

Friday, October 10 Hour 1: Jerome R. Corsi: WorldNetDaily.com Senior Staff Writer and author of "The Obama Nation"

This started as a reply on a birth certificate lawsuit thread that was locked before I could hit post. (It had reposted the unsigned order draft from the lawyer.) I don't have an opinion on whether or not Obama is a natural-born citizen. I just want to address what happens if he turns out to be ineligible. First, before the election. The primaries and conventions are over. If Obama were to be knocked out, Hillary isn't going to appear on the ballot. The definite (or practical) answer is that the Electors can vote for whoever they want—provided he is eligible...

I was reading today in Eric Voegelin’s, Autobiographical Reflections, when an eerie comment caught my attention. The similarities between the political situations in Germany in the 1920’s have and now can be frightening. Voegelin, trying to explain the seemingly inexplicable rise to power of Hitler in Germany in his own day, had this to say: “The phenomenon of Hitler is not exhausted by his person. His success must be understood in the context of an intellectually or morally ruined society in which personalities who otherwise would be grotesque, marginal figures can come to public power because they superbly represent the...

Here's our booth at the Farmers' Market. Bboop in green top + feisty friends. Maverick poster in background.

I was born on July 4, 1776, and the Declaration of independence is my birth certificate. The bloodlines of the world run in my veins, because I offered freedom to the oppressed. I am many things, and many people. I am the United States. I am 300 million living souls – and the ghost of millions who have lived and died for me. I am Nathan Hale and Paul Revere. I stood at Lexington and fired the shot heard around the world. I am Washington, Jefferson, and Patrick Henry. I am John Paul Jones, the Green Mountain boys, and Davy...

That's it. I'm doing vote-by-mail, partly because I must travel during election day for business reasons, but also because I just want this to be over already. It's sort of sad, in a way, voting in this fashion. In previous years, I went to the school or the nearby residence hosting the voting, and felt such a surge of pride and great satisfaction, no matter what was on the ballot or even the swarm of Democrats surrounding me as I voted. Indeed, I didn't care they were Democrats. We were all Americans, sharing in this experience of participating in the...

I think it is time to be reminded of a few things: First, remember what Winston Churchill said: “Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense” “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” Second, remember...

Admin moderator: I hope you will agree that this deserves wider readership. It is a post I came across in Chat. Timeout is spot on in this vanity. I think Freepers will agree that it makes some very valid assessments of the root causes of the current economic crisis. Please allow it to be posted in News. ......The "Politically-Correct Crash" of '08 self | 10/10/08 | Timeout Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 10:27:13 PM by Timeout What does one get when one combines political correctness with macro economics? A Politically Correct Crash. Rather than just focus on Fannie/Freddie, let's...

Is it any coincidence that the recent financial firestorm occurred over the last two or so weeks as we approach the November Election? Democrats gain to benefit in a HUGE way despite the fact that logically it makes no sense.... after all, the Congress is Democrat controlled and they control the 'purse strings' as well as the legislative dynamic vis-a-vis the economy as a whole...taxes, regulation etc etc etc BUT IT ALL BLEW UP ALL OF A SUDDEN JUST AS MCCAIN WAS GAINING IN THE POLLS BY MID SEPTEMBER!!!! WOW! what a coincidence..... But not really, Ladies and Gentlemen..... The...

Barack Obama went to Kenya in 2006 for campaign for Raila Odinga. That would be considered the first violation of the Logan Act. The other violation of the Logan Act would be the secret dealings with the Iraqi government by Barack Obama to delay troop withdrawals by the Bush Administration. Interfering with Iraq at a time when US Troops are in harm's way is a very serious offense for a US Senator to be involved in. I believe both charges could result in Impeachment hearings for Barack Obama -- whether he wins or loses the election.

If the polls are right, and McCain is in such trouble...why is he campaigning in Minnesota and Wisconsin...2 states that went fore Gore and Kerry and ones he doesn't need to win? Is his campaign that stupid or do they know something we don't? I find it hard to believe he would be spending precious time in states like this is he was in such dire straights but then again his campaign seems to be really all over the place in terms of sound decision making.

Why the increasing rage at McCain rallys? Obama is emmersed in a dozen scandals..he has a dozen dark and dangerous associations...he has no verifiable CITIZENSHIP....he enjoys untraceable, anonymous donations in the MILLIONS...he sports a spotty, erractic and suspicious idealogy. And he is agonizingly PROTECTED by the propagandist MEDIA MACHINE 24/7. ...while Palin has been drawn and quartered for non-issues with 1/100 of the gravity. CITIZENS ARE BOILING OVER WITH RAGE AT THE INJUSTICE DEMONSTRATED BY THE ELITE MEDIA MACHINE ACTING IN A TOTALITARIAN FASHION TO DICTATE THE OUTCOME OF OUR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. THEY SHOULD BE CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR PERPETUATING FRAUD...

The two largest threats to the United States of America in 2008 are: 1) The resurgence of Communist States (China, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, et al), and 2) Islamic terror states (Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria, Jordan) who have already demostrated their hatred of the US... Let's think about this... Barack Hussein Obama (a.k.a Barry Soetero) is a Communist Muslim...the sworn enemy of American values. How can one candidate have every one of America's enemies in his resume? Do you understand why Hamas endorses him, along with Hugo Chavez? He needs to be stopped. Call, put out...

You two have been very popular lately. The most important presidential campaign ever in history revolves around you and some unanswered questions about your interactions with Barack Obama. But not a peep from either of you. Why hide? Do you not consider yourselves highly gifted, able to understand with a level of intelligence unreachable by most? Do you not think your ideology absolutely essential to the establishment of order in this world? Be men! Don’t hide like little girls. (I don’t know, maybe you guys want to be little girls. But never mind that.) Ayers—surely your propositions are worth more...

Who wants to start a nation-wide protest of all tv and newspapers next week or the week after? We would demand that the media tells the truth about Obama, the economy, the war and everything else they lie about. We could make signs and hand out flyers. Telling everyone how the media is literally destroying this country with there lies and deception. We could set up a website to promote our cause and sign up for protests at different media outlets. If this went national, the media couldn't ignore it. What do you say? Do you think it could be...

MRS. OBAMA, WHITEY, AND THE N-WORD With the stock market in an unprecedented freefall, with disturbing tales of banks and bailouts filling our newspapers and TV screens, and with Obama breaking out with a commanding lead over McCain, a little levity is in order and you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ooBhnjl5v4&NR=1. That link is to a parody of the whole, “Did Michelle Obama use the derogatory term, Whitey, at some point in time brouhaha” and, being a parody, that YouTube tape sheds no light on the question but is nevertheless amusing at the same time it raises some questions. (Mrs....

SENATOR JOHN McCAIN’S ARTICLES OF SURRENDER John McCain still doesn’t get it. A good man, a proven war hero and a patriot, Senator McCain seems ready, willing, and able, to surrender the presidency rather than backtrack on his longstanding tendency to “reach across the aisle” and work with Democrats to find solutions for the many ills our nation faces. That’s all very charitable and diplomatic of the senator from Arizona, this self-characterized maverick, but it makes no sense when sitting on the other side of the congressional aisle are other senators and congress people who have repeatedly demonstrated they care...

It's becoming a American tragedy.... a younger generation brought up in affluence and political correctness --where image matters more than substance--where "political hipness" is the coveted fashion accessory --these are the influences shaping the future. Let's face it--the older generation, those that have built their lives with hard work, faith, common sense...many coming from the depression era--they are dying off. It appears we will have to completely melt down into the full blown socialism that the "messianic" media ( far more enlightened than us, "they" in their wisdom must lead us to a 'better world'), the obscenely wealthy entertainers and...

To all you lurkers of Free Republic, let me tell you why Ayers MATTERS! The number one job of the President is to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC!!! John McCain gave the best years of his life doing just that. What has Senator Obama done? Senator Obama launched his political career in the home of a domestic terrorist!!! I know he says that he didn't know at the time (just like he had no idea that Jeremiah Wright was a racist) but what did he do when he found out? Well, allow me to...

It is no coincidence that this dangerous candidate is well-connected with Islamic figures, supports, terrorists, funds and cheered by the Islamic world! Here's convincing proof and a CLEAR pattern! Fits like a jig-saw puzzle. What attracts Islamists to Obama? I believe they perceive clearly that his worldview and his view of America is similar to their own! Obama was the first major party presidential candidate to recite the shahada...Obama was sending a signal to the Muslim world he he is one of their own, while the non-Muslim world did not catch the significance! Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam , Raila...

Okay, let's see... Overall global panic:"Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.- Luke 21-26"CHECK One world monetary system headed from Rome:CHECK Technology to mark and track every human on earth including financial records:CHECKTechnology to build "image" of a person that can speak:"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image

Has anyone seen any polls on how many people know that Obama has had one or more names? I think conservatives need to focus the attack to the question Obama American Liberal or Barry Soetoro International Socialist? Is he a Trojan Horse? Is Barack Obama the real person or is their someone different hiding behind the mask? The Devils only real power is deception. Shouldn't we rely on the facts about who McCain and Obama really are instead of relying solely on who they say they are? For the person now claiming to be Barack Obama, who are you really?...

My suggestions are simple: Keep the pressure on NObama - full force. All Truth. All Facts on NObama's connection to Ayers and any other unsavory people and groups. Define and publish any connections between NObama and the Sub-Prime debacleDefine and publish any connections between NObama and the 'Acorn' groupLocate the leading newspapers in every State that NObama is 'leading' in, and publish full-page factual content on the items aboveFully investigate all allegations of voter fraud, immediately Today's McCain's Camp met with very supportive, yet VERY ANGRY & FRUSTRATED crowds who want McCain/Palin to keep the factual pressure on NObama's campaign....

Okay, I know that there must be some people on here that could actually get some solid ideas to those that matter in the McCain campaign. After watching recent events and seeing John McCain's stump speech in Wisconsin this morning, I am convinced that this is the simple winning strategy for the McCain campaign. Obama is clearly seeing a major benefit from anxious people on the economy, and the McCain internals likely show this in a serious way too. The economy is by a huge margin the single most important issue to the voting public. Obama is just playing out...

If you must publish a vanity blaming the current financial meltdown on the Democrats, then at least read a little about Iceland and understand that the Democrats did not force Iceland into leveraged buyouts of Europe. They didn't force European banks to buy MBS at 48bp above treasuries because someone rated them AAA. They didn't force Greenspan to lower rates, and they didn't force Japan to keep theirs at 0.5% (carry trade unwinding rapidly now). All those factors above created the environment to make bad economic decisions, first mortgage rates that were too low to reflect borrower risks, but then...

Hey y'all, I am a mom of 3 boys. My oldest will be 18 in December. Even though the election will be over he wants to register to vote, which I think is great. While he is not immersed in politics, we discuss what is going on daily, especially with this coming election. He has always been on the conservative side with his opinions, challenging teachers, once writing an essay that the best two party system our government should have is Libertarian and Republican. We all watched this last debate together and I was so irate I was screaming at...

In the light of Acorn's admission of voter fraud, and the reported inability to verify these thousands of newly registered, reregistered and reregistered voters (alive, dead, human and otherwise)...I'd like to propose a tactic which may make it more difficult to vote "early and often" on election day.

Time to win. Palin may not have decades of experience, but she's certainly a darn sight better in (every) regard, than Junior Senator Hussein Obama. Time to discuss the possibility, of promoting Palin: To the TOP of the ticket.

Friends This morning on Squawk box (financial network), four experts agreed. Equity talking heads agreed that equity market crash is factoring in the very high potential that Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Obama will be leading this nation in 28 days. These Washington boneheads, are idiots. "their words not mine" This scary development to think the world meltdown in the equity is caused by the election of a democrat congress and president. Buy bullets. Chicagofarmer

I didn't see that issue raised in the campaign and it is probably a very important one. A reform of the voting process in a more fair and clear way appears as necessary

The current financial crisis in a nut shell: A client of mine buys, renovates and then re-sells houses. They purchased a home for $30,000, put $20,000 of improvements in and sold it for $70,000 to a "sub prime" borrower. Sub-prime basically means someone who has never paid their bills but whom the government has forced banks to loan money to since the mid 90's. This person did not pay the mortgage, stayed in the house without paying for almost two years, demolished the house and made it a dump which is now worth less than the original $30,000 paid for...

Some polls say John McCain is falling behind. I will believe these polls when I see headlines screaming : “Catholics, Evangelicals, and Whites abandoning McCain to support Obama” The media is reporting there’s a “ fight among Catholics over which party to support.” They offer wishful thinking, but no proof to support this claim. The last Catholic voter numbers said McCain led 57/36 among this group that will be 26% of voters. Where are the new “bad Catholic” numbers for McCain? Where are the “new” poll numbers of Evangelicals ( 15% of voters) showing shrinking support for McCain and Sarah...

Like any good magician the CommiecRats are shifting this market collapse to the last 8 years when actual graphs show it was the last 2 years that is the entire problem. As your 201K shows, the previous 6 years was a steady pattern of growth and economic stability. Ask yourself the most important question of your life, are you better off today than you were 2 years ago? Like any change of leadership the lag between takeover and your policies taking effect is 6 mos after your installation. Looking at the Dow Jones graph you can see that the slide...

It all begins and ends with Freddie and Fannie. Years of lies and misrepresentations of the financial health of these organizations by Democrats, and their resistance to greater oversight laid the groundwork for a global collapse. They have been operating these agencies on blind faith and have been selling worthless bundles of loans on the world market. The chickens have come home to roost with the democrats. This is not a result of failed Bush policies, it is a failure of the Democrats to heed Bush's warnings about the impending collapse of Freddie and Fannie and the onslaught of global...

The other night when Obama's spokesman was slandering Sean Hannity by calling him anti-semetic, Hannity asked him directly whether or not Obama ever met Farrakhan. He said he didn't know. Hannity asked him whether he would find out. I don't remember what is reply was, but I think Gibbs ignored him. Bottom line. He needs to be asked again. By the mainstreams. Of course it's up to a non-mainstream to get a mainstreamer to ask it.

I submitted a post on September 26 of this year entitled, “Has America Been Defeated Without a Shot Being Fired?”. Since then our leaders in Washington have given themselves the power over citizens property and their money by way of controlling our financial institutions. All of America is outraged and calling it ‘socialism’ but, I believe, it goes much deeper and is more sinister than socialism. It is the first implementation of Communism. Since President Reagan brought the Soviet Union to it’s knees by using their economic system against them, the Soviet Communists along with Communist China learned a valuable...

I think this message should be sent to every ACORN office.

Public lies as a POTUS candidate,relations with terrorists,illegal dirty fundings of his campaign,manufactured financial(not economical first)crisis... Can this man legally pretend to run for POTUS? Impeachment anyone?

I hate to blast you, because I know you don’t know what you are doing, but you think nothing of blindsiding me, so here goes. Sorry Jason, but I can’t let you get away with spouting the leftist dogma to me. Lets see, why do you think Farrakhan, Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Castro, Ayers, Rev. Wright, Odinga (why don’t YOU try looking into the facts about Odinga a little more deeply) all like this guy and why do they support him? Do you think it is coincidence? Or do you think there could something bigger going on, that whether you want to...

What do you folks think? Inform the American people that obamba is being sued by a democrat lawyer challenging his qualification to be president.Explain that obama has refused to provide the document. John could hold his birth certificate up and challenge obame to do the same. Or is this just to cheezey an idea?

ENOUGH!!! Can we just knock it off with all the doom-and-gloom in this place??? I swear I'm gonna bite my hand (or something else) if I see one more post about hoarding food and stocking on ammo. It's not the end of the world. Jesus is not coming yet. No Armageddon yet. It's just the market's response to years of greed, laxity, crookedness and all-around incompetence. Granted, times are tough, and livelihoods are on the balance, but we need to hang tough and ride the storm. I come from a place in which a decade ago the banking system actually...

He has three Repulican women about Sarah Palin so I turn it on expecting some feel good stuff. Two of the women HATE Sarah Palin, one is vile in her insistance that Palin leave the ticket. Almost HYSTERICAL. Bay Buchanon the lone supporter. It is anti-McCain/Palin 24/7 on TV. For those of you who followed the Reagan campaign years, (I was in college and didn't follow politics like I do now) was it like this? The hatred is so over the top..the bias so incredibly evident. HELP ME!