If I was able to vote, Obama/Biden!!!!!

Anywayz, I'm unable to vote in this year's election! 2012's, though, here I come! I will legally be able to do it. (And I will be a senior in High School.) not very many people can say that they voted for the president in High School.

Are you aware of how difficult that would be?

The president of the United States, WHITE OR BLACK, is bombarded with bodyguards, special intelligence, and under-cover body guards. it would be extremely difficult to pull off an assassination attempt. "Many" Americans may not want a black president, but many Americans don't want another idiot such as McCain in office either.

I don't think so. Anything may happen, and I feel danger on Obama's part. Especially those haters.
I'd rather see a safe idiotic president than a full of danger president. Idiots may be taught to the right path anyways.

You're an idiot.

These people need to be wiped off the face of the earth

UGH. THAT VIDEO.

That one lady was so annoying, please. She has more experience than Obama

I heard people have been saying threats for Obama in some of Palin's speeches and she's not doing anything to stop them ... she needs to get knocked the hell out

If Obama wins he better get alot of security or he will be the next J. F. Kennedy.

The people in that video are just....ugh.

That's my greatest fear.

Oh, God! That's exactly what I've been thinking for a while now.

Obama saw it coming

This is what happens when you fuel hate with supporters and expect them to see logic:



McCain, obviously realizing that things are going to far, is starting to paint a more "decent" picture of Obama to his supporters. But for the most part, he's getting booed for it, and it's just too late.

ANCHORAGE -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin violated ethics laws and abused her power as governor in pressing to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, an independent legislative investigation concluded today.

In a report whose release was the subject of a high-stakes political showdown that went all the way to the Alaska Supreme Court, investigator Stephen Branchflower concluded that Palin communicated her displeasure with the trooper, Mike Wooten, and allowed her husband to apply pressure to have Wooten fired.

The report also found that Palin's unhappiness that Wooten had not been fired was "a likely contributing factor" in the firing of former Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan. Monegan testified that he had received repeated communications from Palin and her husband over Wooten.

However, the Wooten issue was "not the sole reason" Monegan was fired, the report said. Palin, who has been fighting off allegations of wrongdoing in the so-called Troopergate case since she was named Republican presidential nominee John McCain's running mate, has insisted Monegan was fired because he ignored her demands to cut budgets in his department.

The governor's husband, Todd Palin, has admitted he advocated forcefully to have Wooten removed because of his allegedly inappropriate actions, including driving under the influence of alcohol, shooting a moose without a permit, threatening Sarah Palin's father and giving his son a slight jab with an electric Taser gun.

"The evidence supports the conclusion that Gov. Palin, at the least, engaged in 'official action' by her inaction, if not her active participation or assistance to her husband in attempting to get Trooper Wooten fired," the report said, adding that "there is evidence of her active participation."

This activity was in violation of the state Ethics Act, the report said, which holds that public officials have a duty of public trust that prevents them from attempting to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action.

The report found that Palin "knowingly, as that term is defined in the [ethics] statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the governor's office and the resources of the governor's office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired." The report also said that Todd Palin at one point asked to see Wooten's personnel file.

The report made no specific recommendations on penalties or how to proceed. Legislators said they would await the findings of a parallel investigation by the state's personnel board and would be unlikely to discuss any further proceedings until the Legislature convenes again in January.

"We have the power to investigate. We have the power to change law based on the investigation. We don't have the power to convene a grand jury, for example, and seek an indictment," Sen. Kim Elton, the Democratic chairman of the legislative council, said in a telephone interview. "We understood at the beginning that we were on a fact-finding mission, but we don't have the power to prosecute."

Twelve members of the legislature's 14-member Legislative Council, the interim body that meets when the Legislature is not in session, deliberated in closed session over the findings for most of the day before voting unanimously to release the 263-page document publicly. One member voted by telephone.

Several Republican legislators had launched a legal effort to halt the inquiry, which they said had become tainted by politics after Palin's nomination to the GOP ticket.

But even the eight Republicans on the council supported the report's release, though many emphasized they were voting to make it public, not in endorsement of its findings.

"I would encourage people to be very cautious, to look at it with a very jaundiced eye, and to realize there's much more in it than just the one-page findings," said Sen. Gary Stevens, a Republican.

The McCain-Palin campaign has thrown its support behind the separate inquiry by the state personnel board. It agreed with the contention of the Republican legislators who filed the suit that the current report was bound to be politically biased.

"Today's report shows that the governor acted within her proper and lawful authority in the reassignment of Walt Monegan," said campaign spokeswoman Meg Stapleton. "The report also illustrates what we've known all along: This was a partisan-led inquiry run by Obama supporters, and the Palins were completely justified in their concern regarding Trooper Wooten given his violent and rogue behavior.

"Lacking evidence to support the original Monegan allegation, the Legislative Council seriously overreached, making a tortured argument to find fault without basis in law or fact."

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) -- Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor and violated state ethics law by trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state investigator's report concluded Friday.

"Gov. Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda," the report states.

Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan's refusal to fire State Trooper Mike Wooten from the state police force was "likely a contributing factor" to Monegan's July dismissal, but Palin had the authority as governor to fire him, the report by former Anchorage prosecutor Stephen Branchflower states.

However, it states that her efforts to get Wooten fired broke a state ethics law that bars public officials from pursuing personal interest through official action.

Monegan has said he was fired in July after refusing pressure to sack Wooten, who had gone through an acrimonious divorce and custody battle with Palin's sister.

Palin and her husband, Todd, have consistently denied wrongdoing, describing Wooten as a "rogue trooper" who had threatened their family -- allegations Branchflower discounted.

"I conclude that such claims of fear were not bona fide and were offered to provide cover for the Palins' real motivation: to get Trooper Wooten fired for personal family reasons," Branchflower wrote.

The Branchflower report states Todd Palin used his wife's office and its resources to press for Wooten's removal, and the governor "failed to act" to stop it. But because Todd Palin is not a state employee, the report makes no finding regarding his conduct.

The bipartisan Legislative Council, which commissioned the investigation after Monegan was fired, unanimously adopted the 263-page public report after a marathon executive session Friday.

About 1,000 more pages of documents compiled during the inquiry will remain confidential because they involve private personnel matters, according to the council's chairman, state Sen. Kim Elton.

"I believe that these findings may help people come to a conclusion on how they should vote" in the presidential election, Elton said.

McCain-Palin campaign spokeswoman Meg Stapleton said Palin would cooperate with the Personnel Board investigation. The Palins' lawyer has said an investigator named by that board wants to question them in late October.

Stapleton called the investigation "a partisan-led inquiry" run by supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, but hailed its finding that Monegan's firing broke no law.

"Gov. Palin was cleared of the allegation of an improper firing, which is what this investigation was approved to look into," she said.

Stapleton went on to say that the Legislature exceeded its mandate in finding an ethics violation. "Lacking evidence to support the original Monegan allegation, the Legislative Council seriously overreached, making a tortured argument to find fault without basis in law or fact."

Rep. John Coghill, a Republican who criticized the handling of the investigation, said it was "well-done professionally."

He said Palin "bumped right against the edges" of the state's ethics laws but that he would give "the benefit of the doubt to the governor, though, at this point."

Palin originally agreed to cooperate with the Legislative Council inquiry, and disclosed in August that her advisers had contacted Department of Public Safety officials nearly two dozen times regarding her ex-brother-in-law.

But once she became Sen. John McCain's running mate, her advisers began painting the investigation as a weapon of Democratic partisans.

Ahead of Friday's hearing, Palin supporters wearing clown costumes and carrying balloons denounced the probe as a "kangaroo court" and a "three-ring circus" led by supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

The state senator managing the probe, Sen. Hollis French, fueled those complaints with a September 2 interview in which he warned the inquiry could yield an "October Surprise" for the GOP. But Palin's lawyers already had begun pushing for the state Personnel Board to launch its own investigation, calling it the proper legal venue for the matter.

"The report speaks for itself," French told CNN Friday night.

Palin is a dumbass. Period.

Unfortunately by 2012 I'll be 20 so I will have to wait until I'm a sophomore in college. Better than nothing, though! Hopefully I will be re-electing Barack Obama.

Are you kidding?

It's a risk either way. You would rather have an awful, Bush Part II president than a smart guy who would actually change the country? Just for that reason? That's no better than the people voting for McCain because they want a woman in the white house.

Now, if it's just an excuse, say so. If you're a closeted Republican, don't come out this way.

This is one of the worst videos I have ever seen.

The Republican Playbook thus far:

-Obama doesn't put hand over heart for National Anthem: Failed
-Obama doesn't wear flag pins: Failed
-Obama & Rev Wright: Failed
-Barack HUSSIEN Obama: Failed
-Obama is a Muslim: Failed
-Obama is hiding his passport because he wasn't born here: Failed
-Obama's wife referred to a white person as "Whitey": Failed
-Obama's wife hates America: Failed
-Osama...oops I mean Obama: Failed
-Obama is an elitist: Failed
-Obama wants to teach your kids how to have sex: Failed
-Obama called Palin a pig: Failed
-Obama & Ayers: Failed
-Obama & Ayers 2nd Attempt (aka Obama likes Terrorists): Still Pending
-Who is the real Obama (aka He's not one of us): Still Pending


Anyone supporting Republicans this year should be embarrassed. If they were right on the issues, they wouldn't have to beat this drum of desperation and division. No excuse.