Being a small businessman myself, I see your support of Obama discouraging.

No, I don't make 250k net a year yet, so, his tax increases won't affect me yet.

But, I do know that if you raise taxes on small business, they will hire less, layoff more.

Give me one reason I should work 70 - 90 hours a week building this business, TO SHARE THE WEALTH with someone that thinks he or she should only have to work 40 hours or less a week and share in my hard work.

If this is Obamas plan, I will sale everything I have, get a job as a clerk, buy a tent, move into a campground, and wait for my share of someone elses hard work.

The small business owners I know feel betrayed by the current Republican administration and really don't want more of the same: hundredes of billions in welfare for giant companies, nothing for small businesses.

RainMan:

I don't think that's Obama's plan.

I think that's the way Exxon and other large, profitable, multinational corporations that would lose tax breaks under Obama want you to think.

Show them you're smarter, that you don't need to live in a tent. Do your homework and do the right thing for yourself, your family and your country.

Or consider this: If Obama wins, you might choose to go live like a nomad. If McCain wins and we get more of the economic policies of the past eight years, you might end up there without choosing to.

Its not the Republican party that has betrayed us Bramble.

Its those of the Democratic Party that have. They want to SHARE THE WEALTH, that is a socialistic view.

Lets see, who supports Obama, that would be Venzauela...Chavezes country, that would be the madman from Iran that wants to destroy Isreal and the West.

So, in my humble opinion, a vote for Obama is like saying you think Isreal and the West(which is the United States} should be wiped off the face of the earth.

elnuestros, I was watching Obama and plumber Joe on tv, when Obama said to plumber Joe, "Share the wealth".

That was not my imagination, or a fabrication of different clips put together. It is exactly what a vote for Obama means.

When I was less fourtunate myself, basically haveing a hard time supporting my family. Heres what I did. I mowed lawns during the day for money, I stocked shelfs at Toys R Us here in Naples in the evenings, and unloaded semi's overnight at the local Target store. I didn't wait forsome else to make my life better. I did what any self respectin person should do. I got off my lazy butt.

I agree that the turning point was the VP choice. Looking back on the last eight years the choice is clear. We can do better. We must do better. Our country deserves better.

RainMan:

You don't seem capable of opening your mind to thoughts you haven't already turned, like grains of sand, into shiny little pearls of wisdom.

But on the off chance that your thinking muscles still work, chew on this:

When the Bush administration gives $700 billion in taxpayer dollars to investment bankers to cover their losses for betting on bad loans, what is that but socialism for the wealthy?

The executives of the nation's largest insurance company, who were paid handsomely for "insuring" those risky loans, took their $85 billion in taxpayer buyout money and blew a half-million bucks a couple of days later on massages and saunas at an executive spa. How "socialistic" do you think that is?

I'll give you credit for working hard. So did I. But the people who believe wealth and value are a function of bank accounts are called "capitalists" for a reason. And they have a name for people like you, people who work three jobs to support your family while they pamper themselves on their dividend checks.

They call you a sucker. Which, in their worldview, is the same as a worker.

Vote Bob Barr '08, @ lp.org

Teach them to fish and they will provide for their families and all will eat for a lifetime, give them a fish and they will be eating their last meal!

Obama's bridge of brittle wood will collapse and a newer vaster society of people who's hand were out looking for something from someone else rather than earning it for themselves will fall into the economic and social abyss and the radical Muslims of this world will assume control without even having to try.

If the VP choice is what you use to make up your mind about this election.

Which one represents the most change.

Obama picked Biden, a man that has been in political office longer than McCain.

McCain picked Palin, a woman that has a short lived politcal career in comparison. A woman whom 80% of the people that voted her into office in Alaska still support her.

So, in my humble opinion once again, if something bad happens to Obama, you get more of the same in Biden. If something bad happens to McCain, you get a fresh person that truely represents change in Palin.

You all need to consider what's fair. The Bush tax cuts for the rich is not fair to the middle and lower class people in the US. Obama's tax plan considers these 95% that were left behind by Bush and would be left behind by McCain.

The people will speak at the ballot box. Can all of you hateful, die hard Republicans live with a democratic President?

I've lived with RainMan's choice for eight years, and I'm not better off.

This ex-republican is voting for Obama.

elnuestros, I have opened my mind and have changed the past 49 years of opinion.

I was a regesitered democrat until this year.

I am a former union man, having walked strike lines in Crystal River for the SIU/AFLCIO.

I believe more in what McCain/Palin say than what Obama/Biden say.

I am not voting Republican or Democrat. I changed parties so I could vote for Huckabee.

But, this election, I will be voting along the republican ticket. I believe in about 80% of what they stand far. I only believe in about 35% of what the Democrats stand for.

So, this year I am leaning towards the Republican. I would vote for Barr if I didn't consider that it would be placing Obama one vote closer to the presidency.

corn and beans, I didn't vote for either Bush. Nor would I if I had it to do over again.

You all say open your mind to a wider view.

I believe I have, when you consider one thing. Who is in control of Fannie and Fredie. Is it the Democrats or the Republicans. I believe it is and has been the democrats, for many many years.

I believe it was Pelosie(a democrat) whom said they wouldn't vote for the bail out, even though they had enough votes to do it without the republicans, unless the republicans voted for it allso.

I personally don't want someone decideing what is right for me if they don't have the decisiveness to do what they know to be right or wrong on their own. And that is exactly what we will have if we elect Obama this year.
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If you truely want change America. Vote out every encumbent, regardless of Party, locally, state wide, and in washington.

The sun is up, its time to sow some seed, work on my old car, and share some time with my family.

It has been an interesting morning bloging with you'all. Have a good day. And may the sun shine upon your path today.

Why do people think Obama is more qualified than Palin? Because he has a Harvard law degree? I think that is part of the problem with Washington, too many people in government with Harvard, or Yale or whatever law degrees. I would rather have a regular American with good morals, reasonable intelligence and a good dose of common sense.

Do you think in a crisis she would be stuck in a room to make a decision by herself? No, she would be surrounded by advisers. Even so, I would trust her decisions more than Obama's. Why? Because her values are much more like mine.

In the sprit of Lord Obama I am going green. I am canceling my subscription to NDN. I calculate that since 1992 I have personally discarded over 2000 pounds of your newspaper.
I predict that your endorsement of Obama will encourage many others to cancel their subscriptions.

Thank you NDN. You have just saved many trees.

John McCain is far from the perfect candidate. But there is nothing in his record that justifies large portions of this country, including this newspaper, disregarding the past of the other candidate who has been a member of a racist organization for 20 years and has been "hip and thigh" with a couple who has been at war with America for decades.

If McCain had been a member of the KKK, and had a colleague who is a proud abortion clinic bomber, he would have been universally reviled.

We don't even know for sure if Obama is an American since he refuses to release his birth certificate. His Kenyan grandmother brags that she witnessed his birth in Kenya. No wonder Obama is fighting the federal lawsuit seeking him to prove where he was born. John McCain turned over the appropriate documents as soon as he was asked. BO has been fighting that request tooth and nail. As far as we know, he is not only constitutionally ineligible to be president, he is an illegal alien.

After 161 years of endorsing a republican, The Chicago Tribune endorsed Obama yesterday. Basically the Trib said the main factors were McCains temper, inconsistency, and putting his campaign in front of America by choosing an unqualified VP when he could have easily found a much more competent women VP.

Hey, Lier, refute the accusation that Obama has been a member of a racist organization for 20 years. Just do that. Skip the other stuff and do that. Put up or shut up.

VIVA NDN !!!!!

Calling Palin unqualified while endorsing Obama is really funny. Now we know that the extent of Obama's experience is doing training for ACORN.

Another view

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinio...

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This is the theology of Obama's church during his 20 years as a member:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community.... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy."

From "Black Theology and Black Power" by Dr. James Cone. Jeremiah Wright claimed Dr. Cone as his theologian. Now, someone tell me that the quote above is not racist. Obama threw his pastor under the bus when it became politically necessary, but he did not repudiate the racist hate that he has been steeped in.

That the NDN could endorse the black equivalent of David Duke is incomprehensible.

#18 that is the american way! free to speak, vote, disagree,collect welfair if you dont want to work ,lie, cheat, steal,and tell more lies when your called out! the only change I see is bigger and better lies in the future .thanks NDN Im out of here too.

Wow! You could knock me over with a feather!

The Naples Daily News, generally regarded as a small somewhat disfunctional, arm of the Republican Party is endorsing, tepidly, a Democrat! I never thought I would see the day.

Congratulations to the NDN for making an informed decision instead of following the usual Republican party line.

mountains of evidence, all lies!

the endorsement shows the desperation to keep the gravy train rolling.

#16, I am with you also. Monday morning I am cancelling my subscription to the NDN, and I encourage others to do so as well. The NDN sister paper, The Coller Citizen, has endorsed John McCain.

The editorial board of the NDN has always had a liberal slant and Jeff Lytle has always been a typical, closet liberal. Just ask all the local folks he has taken to task with his poison pen and barrel of ink when their views differed from his; much in the same vein as the liberal, national press that is trying to discredit "Joe the plumber" for asking an honest question.

Joe's question was honest and unfortunately for the democrats Obama's answer showed his socialist designs for us all.

The Republicans have their warts but imagine a White House full of Jesse Jacksons, Nancy Pelosis, Al Sharptons, William Ayers, Harry Reids, Louis Farrakans, Saul Lewiskys, etc. Why not just mail the keys to our country to the Communist Chinese?

God save us all, if this Manchurian candidate is elected!

Alright, Steve:

This is called putting up:

Palin's husband was a proud and public supporter of a group that sought secession from the United States, violently if necessary. The group's founder died violently as a direct result of his un-American activities. He also hated the flag.

Palin was first promoted for office by paramilitary and secessionist interests in Alaska.

McCain accepts money and the endorsement of G. Gordon Liddy, who served prison time for conspiring to commit violent and illegal acts against political adversaries with the blessings of higher-ups in the Nixon administration. He later spoke publicly on his right-wing radio show about the best place to aim if a listener wanted to kill a federal agent entering a home in search of illegal weapons.

These, of course, are verifiable facts and therefore meaningless to steve, whose encyclopedia is full of Rush-isms, and whose obedience to the bells and whistles engineered by Rove's direct-marketing genius is supreme, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

It will be wonderful when his type is again reduced to the fringe Bircher status it once enjoyed and we can stop worrying about the threat to the republic he and his lemming-like corporate lackey ditto-heads represent.

You guys are a bunch of whack jobs. Manchurian candidate? Good God, what kool-aid have you been drinking?
No wonder the Republicans are in disarray....their base has fallen over the edge of insanity.

RainMan...I understand your view on Biden, but what are the chances for a black man selecting a woman as a vice president?."Zero"

Jeff Lytle a liberal?

God, what a sense of humor.

Lytle's been a water carrier and a lackey, the self-appointed nanny to a legion of readers given no vote in the matter. He's been a scold whose self-satisfied smugness would shame a bluenose librarian in the middle of snake-handling country. He has blathered banalities about growth and development and offered us reader snapshots as a substitute for the local heritage whose passing he justified.

But he's no more a liberal than Palin is a "reformer." Unless, by reformer, you mean she knocked the king off the mountain so she could take his place herself.

Kind of like Lenin did Trotsky. Some reform.

Obama and McCain gave $700 Billion to the bailout they both voted for it, if Obama was really for change why did he note vote against his party?
Remember this package passed through a house and senate controled by democtrats whose change will be rubber stamped by Obama (thank you to Connie Mack (R) and Bill Nelson (D) for representing their constituents and voting no)

I cannot begin to imagine the damage that will be wrought to America under the rule of Queen Pelosi, her consort Prince Reid and the court jester-in-training, Obama.

Hard-working men and women will have to do everything possible to hide their wages and savings from the clutches of these socialists who want nothing else than to "distribute the wealth" to non-working indolents and immigrants, soon to be new, grateful democrat voters.

Eat human excrement NDN. Please ban me.

THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE! This is unreal!!! Just because other newspapers decided to get in to the race of picking a president does not mean that all the mass media channels have to do it! I believe journalism is a respectable profession; but nowadays with newspapers like this NDN you have denigrate the profession to a level never seen before. Your job is to report accurately the facts and offer a diverse analysis.
On the other hand, what are you going to report when you the chaos, abuses and wait of resources that Obama’s administration (if elected) is going to bring? The minute you insinuate that he is failing, you would be shot down. Please refer to history of those countries with Socialist/Communist dictatorships. Americans do not know what means to leave in a Country where the Government makes the most basic decisions for you, the wrong ones for the people the best for those in position of power. When the government takes over and allow the people just what they want (make money below $250,000) you are calling for mediocrity, for dependency, for making poor alliances with others than want to take advantage of your resources on behalf the “common interest” and making friends around the world at people’s expense.
Please read the newspapers of those countries that once were reach and now their poverty level is unthinkable. This is the vision that you want for USA? THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE!!!!

#39 elnuestros RIGHT ON! The sooner the better; this country needs to move beyond these ultra right wing sub-intellectual cretins. Getting so tired of all their misinformation being disseminated, promoted and treated as fact.

Predictable and yet still disappointing.

The NDN has fallen into line with the blinders on, ignoring and excusing Obama's deceit and lies of his past, all in a liberal "ends justifies the means" mindset. Buying-in with a man who embraces an admitted and unrepentant domestic anti-US terrorist is enough to turn my stomach.

How can you think you won't be faced with an administration of lies and deceit if he is elected? You thought Nixon was bad?

And for this unethical poser, you eschew a true American Hero, who has repeatedly given all he has and all he can for his fellow countrymen? I disagree with John McCain on many policy issues, but not on his character or patriotism.

This is not about a lapel pin, this is about sacrifice. If we citizens are to be called to sacrifice for the greater good, it would be best to be led there by an honest man. One who will be first in line... again.

WOW NDN I'M IMPRESSED!!

It's about time you recognized that Collier County is not 100% republican.

Good for you.

I’ve never understood the concept of newspapers endorsing political candidates. Weather they endorse liberals or conservatives, its total hypocrisy of everything they claim they are throughout the year. How can you claim you’re a nonbiased newspaper that just reports the news and facts when you try and sway your readers with a political endorsement?

Newspapers and TV news outlets have become so blatantly biased that nothing can be read or watched without first thinking what their motive is. NDN just endorsed a socialist candidate in a region where conservatives outnumber liberals over 2 to 1.

The battle over this country and its direction is just beginning and the media outlets will be one of the first casualties. The rapidly declining subscription rates of newspapers will soon make them as reliable to read as the weekly gossip magazines.

NDN, great coverage on the Tim Mahoney affair. When Mark Foley was in office you spent 5 weeks trying to tear him down. Did you even mention the Tim Mahoney affair? Where is the non-stop drumbeating of “morality” I heard two years ago?

NDN - TOTAL HYPOCRITES

I miss the previous John McCain who was a
magnificent gadfly, but who has become diminished by this Rovian campaign. Hopefully, his "old self" will return soon!

Obama 2008

A well thought out, articulate call to change. Thanks NDN...

Congratulations to the NDN - thought I would never see the day!! Obama is the right man, for the right time for the right Country. The only thing about Obama that has been disappointing is the ugliness it has brought out of my Republican friends. It amazes me how quickly people can resort to name calling, sleazy rumors and racial toned rhetoric. This is the 21st. century, can’t we act like we have evolved? If we are the county that preaches opportunity for everyone regardless of race, religion or class -when will we demonstrate this to rest of the World? If Obama does not have the intelligence, judgment and demeanor to lead this Great Country - who does? He has worked hard to get where he is. It is time to accept the facts. The latest twist "Spread the wealth, he's a Socialist" please… Who thinks 250k per year as defined as wealthy? Obama has made it clear that the large tax breaks for multibillion dollar are the real target of un balanced, un distributed wealth in this country. If I should be lucky enough to make $250k a year - after writing off everything I can - does anyone think it will hurt to pay an extra 3%? I’ de pay that today making half that amount - if I could get decent medical coverage. I'm paying 800.00 per month for coverage that doesn't do anything for me. As for Socialism - what do we call the multibillion dollar tax breaks that feeds these multi multi million dollar compensation plans for companies that have pillaged our workforce? Who paid for the fancy parties at AIG? Is this truly capitalism if the government gives such breaks to these "Wealthy" companies? Hell, I did not get an invite to the AIG fishing party and my tax dollars paid the tab. .

NDN endorsed a Democrat? Wow, I guess I need to put my ice skates on, because I think something just froze over.

Never thought I'd see it. Happy to say that I did.

I may sit this one out, but I am thinking about this:

I have been a lifelong Republican/Independent. I have been a small business owner. I've never made $100,000a year in my life.

My vote for congress is more important than my vote for president. They have to approve, and can modify everything.

My local politicians are struggling with revenue problems. They are more likely to cut services or raise taxes in the short term.

We have to get out of Iraq. It's killing our world political power and our economy.

We need to help people see that education and skill are the keys to lifelong employment. We need to create an economy that will provide such jobs.

Petty disagreements, and even small business taxes are not what we should be prattling about.

My prediction: Obama will be mainstream and middle of the road. His cabinet will still be mostly white men. Jesse and his ilk will have no influence.

Isn't it ironic that after 8 years of Republican rule we now have socialized part of the banking system?

In the end, can four Obama years be worse than 8 Bush years?

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For the repubbys who dont actualy know what the socialist party is..... dont believe the right wing spin.

While I am sure you are well intentioned, your conclusion is the result of shallow and reactive thinking. If Mr. Obama has his way, this is the beginning of the end of individual liberty in this great country. If he implements his plans, more power will be centralized in the federal government. In addition, a Democratic congress AND a Democratic executive is a recipe for one-sided governance.
The hard times you cite to justify this proposed change are not really hard at all. We are a prosperous and free nation. The market and economy are simply adjusting to the levels they should have held before the excesses of Democratic leadership that allowed the Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac debacle to create a house of cards.
Whatever you may think of Governor Palin, Obama's experience pales next to hers. He is the one with no experience and we should not entrust him with the future of American liberty.

This is a joke. Obama does not have the experience or judgment to be the leader of the free world. This is someone who belongs to a church for 20 years, names his book after a speech given by Rev. Wright and claims to never have heard the hate speech spewed by him. How can you believe that?

Truth is, if Obama was a white man he would not be where he is today. He may have potential, but let's let Mr. Obama get a few years experience under his belt to give us some substance on which to judge him. However, this is not the time to bring in a rookie quarterback to help turn this country back to a Super Bowl team.

I do not particularly care for any candidate in this election. I believe many share this with me. However, the number one job of the POTUS, before even handling the economy, is to keep us SAFE. My choice is McCain.

On another note, in a country so large and filled with many, many talented people, how do we end up the these 2 to choose from? Maybe next election we can have some better options.

I'm out-

Please remember this is an editorial! Not some biased slant on the news. Last time I noticed opinions are like noses...everybody has one.

Do any of you repubtarded people actually LISTEN to what sarah palin has said? She called Obama a racial slur...this woman is terrifying.

That's me mister shallow and reactive.....

I perceive so much fear and anxiety. People are uncertain about what is true because so much is changing.

I see people taking refuge in concepts they believe to be immutable. They seek black and white in a grey world. While comforting, it is not the way to prosperity.

And, Pat, I wonder about why these two also.

This is hilarious. Finally the NDN gets something right... I wish I could see the looks on the faces of their troglodytic readership this morning and all the right-wing, anti-immigrant scum with smoke shooting out their ears. Poetic justice.

PatrickBatemen... My question is when you know the older quarterback has not made a decent play or decision in ages? And, the younger one has been spot on right on every call.

I don't see the appeal of McCain. The latest mortgage proposal out of him is nuts. 250 Billion to buy mortgages at full face value when they are worth a fraction? Not leaving Iraq? Selecting Palin when you are 72? Massive tax breaks for the top 1% and nothing for everyone else? A healthcare plan that raises taxes and reduces the incentive for employers to give to workers? No addressing in that healthcare program the problem of insurance companies denying coverage to everyone who isn't healthy? Example, you may think you are doing great now...But, one serious illness and you are cooked. Let's say you get colon cancer... Employer covers you for awhile...until they let you go. Then COBRA covers you for a year... After that, you won't find an insurance company that will touch you with a ten footpole. Next stop- lose everything you ever had, put your family in bankruptcy...Once you are completely ruined, you can go on medicaid-- nice, eh?

Happened to my sister.

What does McCain offer in his campaign beyond Bill Ayers? How can you not look at that without laughing given that Obama was 8 and McCain has a long dirty laundry list that he accumulated as an adult? - Liddy fund raising for him? Taking perks from Keating while leaning on regulators on Keating's behalf? Dumping his disabled wife for a multimillionaire woman who could be his daughter? Then having his new father-in-law buy him his first Senate seat?--No one would have had the vaguest clue who the guy was had it not been for a huge infusion of cash from Daddy.

Long ago...well, long ago it seems now...

I had respect for him because of his efforts to balance the budget, stand against dirty politics etc. etc...I can't say I was a supporter...but, respect yes. Now what?

Thank you Naples Daily News! Along with the Chicago Tribune which broke its 150 year trend of endorsing Republicans to endorsing Barack Obama. Vision, hope, and return to accountability are all in these endorsements.

It's not a coincidence that many traditional well know republicans are endorsing Obama. Use your brain. Stop listening to Shawn and Rush. Shawn and Rush are evil, as specifically mentioned in the bible and the writings of Nostradamus.

The national blog Daily Kos had an interesting take on the NDN endorsement of Obama! Please review.http://www.dailykos.com/storyo...

Thank you NDN for your courage. I, for one, will activate a subscription, and know dozens of others who will as well.

I'm thrilled that the NDN is endorsing Obama. Four years ago they endorsed Bush. I'm glad they've come to their senses and are now endorsing the best candidate. Obama is so much more qualified than MCain, that I can't see why anyone but the dumbest among us can't see the truth. I guess only the elite and those who are on the side of the wealthy in this country want McCain as president. Obama wants to help those who are struggling, not those who don't need any help. The wealthy should be taxed more than those who are not wealthy. It's only fair. Has fairness disappeared from this country? I hope not.

Four years of McCain would be a disaster to this country in many ways. The wealthy would get more wealthy and the poor and middle class would get poorer and we might never get out of Iraq. Think about who you are voting for.

Why do McCain supporters have so much hate? Look at what most of them have written or inferred (I have corrected the spelling to avoid the constant use of “sic”):

Hugo Chavez of Venezuela supports Obama.

“Madmen” from Iran support Obama.

People who support Obama want to “destroy Israel and the West.”

People who support Obama feel that “Israel and the West should be wiped off the face of the earth.”

“Radical Muslims of this world will assume control.”

“We don’t even know for sure if Obama is an American since he refuses to release his birth certificate.” (Really? Obama released his birth certificate in June 2008)

“As far as we know….(Obama) is an illegal alien.”

Obama was “carrying out a secret election strategy that also included exploiting divisive tribal tensions and ultimately taking advantage of rioting that left 1,000 dead.”

“If Obama has his way, this is the end of individual liberty…”

These are not rational thoughts or arguments.

I supported John McCain in the 2004 primary. The actions of Karl Rove and George Bush in the South Carolina primary turned me against that party. I have been saddened to see John McCain sell his soul and hire the very same people who destroyed him in 2004.

For a brief moment, I saw the old John McCain during his interaction with 75-year old Gayle Quinnell of Minnesota when she said she was afraid of Obama because he’s “an Arab.” To his credit, McCain did his best to assure Quinnell that he is not. However, when Quinnell spoke to reporters afterwards, she told them she didn’t want to believe the truth.

She – like many people on this board - choose to live in fear and support that choice with misinformation and lies.

I subscribe to the Chicago Tribune, and receive it in paper form. And I have never seen any of those television shows to which you refer. I am a corporate executive for a major top 50 corporation, a wife of 37 years to the same spouse, proud mother to two children supporting Obama, and a person not afraid of looking to a new generation of inclusiveness, personal responsibility, and a calm reasoned demeanor and way of thinking. I don't think I am regarded by anyone who knows me as NUTS!

Democrat or Republican is the same devil with a different face.

Vote Ron Paul, or get more of the same. Simple as that.

Now that the NDN and the rest of you have come down to earth, maybe the 'staunch republicans' who make under $250.000.00 a year will stop using the GOP as a ‘status symbol.’

Congratulations to NDN for having the courage to voice an opinion that will be unpopular with the majority of their readers. To those who will react by threats to cancel their subscriptions, I can only say: Grow up, be reasonable, and respect the opinions of those you disagree with.

Vote for Jimmy Buffett!

Remember what Obama said in his book 'Audacity of Hope', 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political wind shift in an ugly direction'....
What better place for the Muslins to control our country, than in the office of the President of USA .

Obama has payed his way through this race ! I am voting for McCain Palin because they havnt been buying votes like Obama has with Acorn and tv ads and newspapers. Im voting for Mccain because I am a Cuban American I know what Obama`s CHANGE means it Socialism. Castro bros said change so did Hugo Chavez and guess what they bought votes and had groups like acorn make fake voter registration. People don`t be stupid Clinton was my candidate and Obama cheated nasty in the Primaries with Acorn and the delegates of the Democratic party. That s why I`m a Democrat for McCain Palin 08 !

dadso7
How do you define "the eroding of individual liberty"?
Do you mean the preferred treatment the largest of corporations receive? The slanted tax benefits the truly wealthy enjoy? The illegal wiretapping on American Citizens? The missing WMD that were led us into Iraq? The systematic exclusion millions are faced with, by Insurance companies? Predatory lenders approved by the government?

If I should be lucky enough to make the 250K, I’ll take my 3% hit, just get those other monkeys off my back!!!

OK NDN, if you want HIM, I don't want YOU. Cancellation submitted via email.

Gatoreagle:

We already did. He went by the name W.

They're both all hat, no cattle when it comes to anything but looking out for Number 1.

Don't wanna believe it? Look at the chief parrothead's little casino venture in the wake of Katrina. Looks like making music for money won out. Now he writes songs for the people he used to write songs about.

Since he cut his hair and shaved his moustache, he even looks like W.

SO!. Who allowed Chavez, most of South American presidents, Iran and Putin to flourish?..."Tough Republican Government".

I have read a lot of funny things in this paper and in the comments. The funniest to date is "journalism is a respectable profession." It should be 'journalism WAS a respectable profession. The comment confuses journalism with Opinion writers. I can think of no "journalists" and there are few worthy of the title, that are having any real and complete impact on political discourse in America today.

Both on the Right and Left commentators have replaced journalists in almost all of the print and electronic media.

It is sad to see the hate, ignorance, greed, and racism that has been brought to light by the Republican campaign. While I don't agree with any newspaper endorsing candidates because of the nature of their business, the reaction from their readership tells a lot about the state of our nation. McCain may be an honorable civil servant, but choosing Palin as VP is an obvious example of "campaign first" and her ignorance about the world has promoted and encouraged a level of hatred among conservatives that should not be ignored. I am sorry that those of you making over 250k a year believe that the other 95% are getting a free ride but the truth is we work hard as well, and are often taken advantage of by some small business owners who could care less about their employees and are only concerned about putting more into their own pockets. Trickle down economics does not work! A healthy economy is one where the middle class has enough to pay their bills and buy from businesses!

Many honest people of good will support Obama, including Powell. I do not for a variety of reasons including his complete lack of any relevant experience in any executive position. He is running for a Chief Executive position, with no relevant preparation. In addition, his redistributionist philosophy runs counter to the basic principles that the country was founded on.

That however does not justify the demonizing of those who hold differing opinions.

I fear for our principles.

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -- Benjamin Franklin

NDN, nowhere in your endorsement do you list any accomplishments of Obama legislatively that qualifies him to be President. You seem to be caught up in the hysteria to elect this guy. He is less qualified than the Repuplican Vice President nominee and when you compare him to McCain there is no comparison for experience and qualification. What are you thinking? Obama has already discredited his campaign by stating he may not be able to do all he has pledged do to the economy so exactly what will he do?

He also will not take us out of Iraq. He will maintain the Embassy, continue with what he will call support troops and maintain the US bases there. That embassy may even be there for a hundred years.

Your endorsement is as shallow as the candidate.

#39, you say you are "putting up" but you completely avoided the issue upon which I challenged lielobber to "put up or shut up."

So I challenge YOU to put up or shut up. Refute this: Obama was a 20 member of a racist church and has never repudiated its theology.

Just so you understand, to attack Sarah Palin's husband is NOT a refutation of the above.

It's too bad Colin Powell is not running for President. A man with integrity and American principles.

CTL news flash, McCain has the endorsements of FOUR Secretary's of State: Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger and Alexander Haig. I’ll take the NDN and wipe something but it’s not my eyes. I’m not crying.

Unbelievable! Didn't the NDN endorse Richard "Roman Hands" Calabrese because he wanted to "change" the way things were done in the Collier County School System? Now THAT turned out well, didn't it?
"CHANGE" = Socialism

Celtic (post 89)

I agree with you. In addition, Powell has a record of service, leadership and experience. I believe the only reason he is not running is the poisonous political atmosphere of contemporary politics. Given his wife's history and the terrible attacks on Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain I can't say I blame him.Regardless of the party, I would vote for him in a heartbeat against any of the men and woman that tried for the two party"s nominations.

p.s. Does anyone else find humor in the fact that the NDN site still highlights Obama as a spelling error?

Lielobber, #32, you called me a liar. Not so.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/commun...

This is from the Obama campaign website:

Senator Obama said, "I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That's what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That's the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”

Lielobber, please help me understand. Are you saying that Obama was not a member of a racist organization, Or, it doesn't matter that Obama was a member of a racist organization? Which is it?

Another first, the NDN endorses an admitted drug user for Preident.

Great example for our youth. Go ahead, get some blow. I't won't matter. You can be President too!

BTW, it does matter to me.

LieStarter... It is a vicious blow kind of like the winds of change blowing across this country.

Smells like a FART.

i know its dry and long but this is the voting record that speaks volumes of his position on important issues,http://www.votesmart.org/voting_categ...
please dont tell me its all a lie.

CTL, you’re talking out your butt. You and ironside continually disgrace McCain and every single POW that survived torture by the hands of the enemy. A torture you would not have endured for one minute before you whined like a baby. Then you go on and state that Powell’s military resume is important to you. McCain’s 27 year military career is not important to you but Powell’s is? Explain.

Okay, I was wrong. Obama never "trained" with ACORN. What Obama did with ACORN was "organize." He didn't train, he organized. I get it now. Obama says he organized with ACORN, and ACORN says he organized with ACORN. But he never "trained" with ACORN. The charge that he trained with ACORN instead of just organized with ACORN is just a Republican lie.

Glad we cleared that up.

http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/w...

project vote funds acorn and represents them in legal matters, per michael slater, executive director of project vote.

Project Vote was done in partnership with Acorn. So Liestopper is technically correct.

Obama's radical leftist friends (birds of a feather flock together)and his spread the wealth philosophy(Marxism/Socialism). Russia (Putin) becoming buddies with Chavez and putting weapons and bases in Venezuela. I think we had better think twice before voting for O.

For those who care about facts and statements for ACORN about Obama's training role

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“Since then, we have invited Obama to our leadership training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he ever ran for office. Thus, it was natural for many of us to be active volunteers in his first campaign for State Senate and then his failed bid for U.S. Congress in 1996. By the time he ran for U.S. Senate, we were old friends. And along about early March, we started to see that the African-American community had made its move: when Sen. Obama’s name was mentioned at our Southside Summit meeting with 700 people in attendance from three southside communities, the crowd went crazy. With about a week to go before the election, it was very clear how the African-American community would vote. But would they vote in high enough numbers? “

Source: Case Study: Chicago-The Barack Obama Campaign

Author: Toni Foulks

Toni Foulkes is a Chicago ACORN leader and a member of ACORN’s National Association Board.

stevepk

You were correct and as usual, Liestopper was effective as Liestarter.

I have to laugh at all the criticism of Obama's thin Washington resume....that is the reason many are voting for him..they are sick of Washington and what it as done...excuse me NOT done

Liestopper,

You obviously cannot tell the difference between attacking you and correcting your mis-statements and factual errors.

CTL -
Red I do not speak badly of McCain as a person or vet.
Read post 35. You wrote it, moron.

Thank you NDN. It's a shame there are too many right wing nutjobs in this area; and they will still vote for people their own age.

McCorpse picked Palin. Enough said. What was he thinking? She's a nutcase with a woman of allegedly ill repute for a 17 year old daughter who I guess doesn't know about birth control because her religious wing nut mother won't let the schools tell her about it. He husband denounces America since he is a secessionist. The crypt keeper will probably croak in the next four years, even if he does not become president. Do you really want a hockey mom of a retard who has never traveled the world leading this nation? Why has she had fewer press conferences than any VP candidate in the past 8 years?
Did she answer any questions during the debate? Stevie Wonder can read a teleprompter better than her or McSame.

Oh wait, most of the old farts down here don't even know what a teleprompter is.

Redistribution of wealth was the primary goal of the Bush and Cheney years. Far from trickle down it was more like a pyramid scheme ensuring those at the top got disproportionately more from those in the middle class. Where do you think all the growth in our productivity went when it failed to be translated into greater wages? Where did all those trillions of dollars go when they disappeared? Granted much was always illusionary like referring to the credit card debt of Americans as wealth...because it increased spending power...but wealth to whom?

"One [hedge fund] manager — John Paulson of Paulson & Co. — earned $3.7 billion last year, which management consultant Peter Cohan pointed out means Paulson in 2007 made 30 times in one hour what the median family made all year.

Driven in part by fees hedge fund managers are making, income inequality in 2007 was at the highest level since 1928, the year before the Great Depression began." http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/0...

The Republican notion of redistributing the wealth was by stealing from the pockets of the working class and giving it to the wealthy through legislation such as reducing the taxes on the wealthy, eliminating safeguards and regulations on the finance industry and so on.

The crashing sound you hear and feel in your life savings is the failed Bush policies shared by McCain.

Applause to the NDN for taking this bold step and showing an understanding of the real issues in this campaign.

CTL I don't need you to to make me see anything. Now why does Powell's military career impress you and McCain's 27 year one not?

Why Obama? The majority of bad points about Obama have been hate filled myths. He's a terrorist, Muslim, Liberal Extremist - but not many rational comments on his thoughts or ideas. Most the ideas, when I think about them – make sense. Most the bad points about McCain have been about his policy and similar policies with Bush. The results of which have not made any sense. I for one - dislike personal negative attacks. My 8 year old son came home from school last week - speaking that his best friend does not like Obama "cause he kills babies" - really? I heard Obama's answer during the debate - "it is a tragic issue for everyone - best solution is to lower unwanted pregnancies". I did not hear he WANTS to kill babies. Do the Right Wing nuts really need to spew their hate into their young kids minds at such an early age? Reminds me of China and the Red Revolution - when kids were brain washed to kill their own parents.

Yay, NDN! I've lived here over 30 years, and don't remember this paper endorsing a Democrat. A wise choice, this year.

All you wingnuts who are cancelling your subscriptions because of this, how pathetic. Are you *so* threatened that you can't even bring yourself to read a newspaper that generally runs very conservative, whose only weekly columnists are very right-wing (Sowell, Ambrose, et al)? You'll get cooties by even touching it?

Those of you who are bent out of shape about Obama's comment to Joe the Plumber about "spreading the wealth around" must be super rich, otherwise I don't understand your hysteria. Obama isn't a socialist. But over the last (at least) eight years, wealth has been more and more concentrated in the top 1-5% of Americans, while the rest of us have lost ground -- lower wages, and way fewer ways to make progress and get ahead. If you're *netting* over $250,000 a year, surely you can cough up an additional 3%.

Though I disagree with John McCain on just about everything and probably wouldn't vote for him under any circumstances, his choice of Sarah Palin for VP totally cemented the deal. It was utterly irresponsible. Yes, she's a Governor -- so was Bush, who was also a business owner and has an MBA, and look where that got us -- but the population of her state isn't much more than the population of Collier County during season. And yes, Obama hasn't been a Governor or run a business. But look at the difference between the two of them! There is no comparison in terms of temperament and judgment.

Palin is can barely string a coherent sentence together. She thinks she has foreign policy cred because Alaska and Russia are neighbors, she can't think of a single newspaper she reads, she can't name a Supreme Court decision she disagrees with -- and she would have us believe that she was so horrible in those interviews with Katie Couric because she was "annoyed" by the questions?!?!? And she's utterly dishonest. Never mind the "bridge to nowhere" that she lied about constantly, now she comes out and says that the bipartisan Alaskan legislative committee completely exonerated her in the Troopergate investigation when in fact they found that she had violated a state ethics law. Unbelievable.

Obama is the only responsible pick for President this year.

I have wanted Powell to run for years but I will never vote for him now.

Obama is the only responsible pick for President, Sally, if you want to live in poverty and support terrorism.

Obama is the only responsible pick if you think what Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad do is correct.

Obama is the only responsible pick if you think a big government socialist state (which hasn't worked in the history of socialism / communism) is the way to go.

I fear for our nation under Obama.

Colin Powell has integrity?

Where was he when the neocons behind Wolfiwitz and the oil men behind Cheney and the technocrats like Rumsfield ganged up on the truth to start a war in Iraq?

They ignored the truth Powell had expressed years before, during Desert Storm: Killing Saddam is too expensive to be worthwhile. And if you break Iraq, then you own it.

Condi Rice try tried on shoes and played cheerleader on the sidelines. She wouldn’t use her education or her brains to tell her tempermental lout of a boss something he didn't want to hear.

Colin Powell never risked his comfort, his security or his career by speaking his mind loudly enough to be heard. Like a good soldier, he followed orders he knew were the product of an unholy alliance of organized religion, nationalist pride, a need for revenge, and a chance to make millions -- all lined up against a tinpot dictator straight out of central casting.

As he remained quiet, Fox news persuaded thousand of Americans that Saddam was behind 9-11. As his responsibilities as secretary of state were usurped by Rumsfeld, he quietly soldiered on.

Blackwater and Halliburton profited greatly because a few wrong-thinking people manipulated the fundamentalist movement sweeping the country into opening a can of you-know-what on the "ragheads" and "sand niggers" they blamed for everything from 9-11 to gasoline prices that had put a dent in most of the things American families did for fun.

God was on the side of the guys who hired Filipinos to build barracks with showers that electrocuted our GIs. God backed the guy selling defective body armor. God was okay with selling unarmored Humvees instead of saying, like Samuel Colt might have, that he wasn't inerested in selling soldiers stuff that would get them killed.

Our GIs get clipped for ten bucks a pop for bottled water, sold to them in the middle of the desert by a worker brought in from some rathole African nation to service the captive market our soldiers represent to "Americans" so patriotic that they moved their corporate headquarters offshore to avoid U.S. taxes, regulation, or oversight.

Powell could have spoken out when it might have done some good. Only he knows why he didn’t.

But whatever he was showing, it sure wasn’t integrity.

sally,

You have quite a convenient set of morals there. You criticize Palin for what you consider to be lies and yet you will vote for Obama who has been proven a liar and he is the actual Presidential candidate unlike Palin. Amazing hypocrisy.