McCain mocks Obama's premature inauguration plans, but...

John McCain has mocked Democrat Barack Obama all week as so cocky that he is already “measuring the drapes” in the White House Oval Office. The Republican's audience usually boos on cue.

On Saturday, McCain found new ammunition (see video by clicking on the Read more line below) in a newspaper story on White House transition planning that every presidential campaign begins by now (inlcuding the Republican's).

Campaigns, however, are usually careful to keep such planning behind-the-scenes to avoid inconvenient accusations of being presumptuous or over-confident.

Today's erroneous New York Times story said that part of Obama's transition team, John Podesta, who was President Bill Clinton's fourth chief of staff and now is an Obama advisor, already has drafted a sample inaugural address for the Democrat .

Obama aides quickly pointed out that Podesta wrote the speech even more prematurely -- when he was still working for rival Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign -- and published his offering in a book last summer.

A statement posted on the website of Podesta's think-tank....

...says the suggested speech was written last spring for inclusion in a book on progressive policies and that Podesta re-wrote the foreword, but not the speech, in June when Obama's Democratic nomination victory was confirmed. 

Addressing a sun-washed rally in the Old West plaza of historic Mesilla, in southern New Mexico today, (see video below) McCain did not address when the speech was written and happily twisted the news to his advantage.

“We just learned from a newspaper today that Sen. Obama’s inaugural address is already written,” McCain declared, as a crowd of about 1,200 responded with jeers. “I’m not making it up.”

“My friends, when I pull this off, I have a request for my opponent,” McCain continued, a broad grin etched on his face. “I want him to save that manuscript of his inaugural address and donate it to the Smithsonian. And they can put it right next to the Chicago paper that says ‘Dewey defeats Truman.’”

That would be the famously premature 1948 early edition wishfully announcing in a banner headline on page one of the Chicago Daily Tribune that Republican Thomas E. Dewey had beaten incumbent Democrat Harry S Truman. Truman's reelection victory was confirmed later that night (the famous photo was taken the next day), and he's been hailed ever since as a patron saint of underdog political campaigns.

“I’m a little old-fashioned about these things," McCain added today with a laugh. "But I prefer to let the voters weigh in before presuming the outcome.”

Obama’s campaign did not laugh back. “While this charge is...

completely false and there is no draft of an inaugural address for Senator Obama, the last thing we need is a candidate like John McCain who just plans on re-reading George Bush’s,” campaign spokesman Bill Burton snorted in an e-mail.

Burton's statement, some might note, does not dispute other details from the Times story, including reports that campaign staff members are already reviewing resumes for job applicants in an Obama administration, drafting policy options and choosing the location of Obama's first news conference as president-elect when his victory becomes certain.

--Bob Drogin

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Comments

[brodriguez]

"Mock's"? That's the state of journalism these days? You might as well make the headline

"McCain mock's Obama's premature inauguration plans LOL!!!1!11!!"

[margaret]

Why would we expect McCain to get straight whether Sen. Obama has written his Inaugural address yet? He hasn't gotten much else right either. Let's see if he keeps making the claim even after the Podesta speech has been explained...Oy vey.

[OIFVetsForMcCain]

I would probably fall out of my chair with laughter if McCain won after Obama put the finishing touches on his so-called "victory stage." If indeed Obama does win, the whole country will wait for him to pull a rabbit out of his hat while trying to make "Obama Math" actually add up. Look for a four year Carter-type presidency and hopefully a 21st century Ronald Reagan on the horizon for 2012. Of course the numbers in the polls have closed and are still closing. We just might see a Truman-Dewey finish on the morning of November 5th. In the mean time, listen and read the frantic and hateful Obamanites pound frantically on their keyboards at the slightest hint of a coming McCain victory.

[pogo]

yeah, and I heard that the LA Times ran the McCain obit this morning, too... and I will bet you anything that the LA Ti8mes and NYT and the Guardian and the Telegraph and the WashPost and every single paper with its pulp has an obit ready for Senator John McCain, including Times, London and Reuters will have a little box under the article requesting the reader to spread the story.

[Micheli]

McCain and Palin should spend some of their time talking about important issues ...instead they have spent 90% of their time pointing fingers and keeping Palin from making a fool of herself by answering REAL questions..
If they win I am leaving the country for awhile...I,m proud to be an American ...but if they win .....it's gonna be a bumpy road...
This is not American Idol.......This is the President Of The United States...

[lisa]

McCain's going to get kind of embarassed when Obama does win, isn't he?

[Old Man McCain]

McCain wrong again.
Why do I envision a knee-jerk McCain administration invading some country searching for non-existant weapons. You can't blame John, he's old and confused.

[C in MT]

If John McCain loses, they should donate *HIM* to the Smithsonian. I'm sure they must have an antiquities wing, full of weathered old relics. He's gotta be older than half of them.

[Steve]

Maybe if McCain started offering real substance, I could take him seriously and consider voting for him.

[Darrell]

People are sick of McCain not being able to talk about issues, America wants to hear the truth and how he would fix our problem, not childish negative politics. After picking Palin for a running mate who can have faith in the Republican party.

[Kim]

No this is not American Idol. Wish it were. Obama would have been booted so fast the door would have it hiom in the arsffffffff.

[DNick]

I don't know about you but a plan is a plan; and it is better to have a plan then none.

I see this as a different light and I hope that Obama is truly planning his office. This means that Obama will be able to execute at an amazing speed and bring about the much needed change faster. Think about how fast Obama was able to reorg the DNC. Many was stunned by how fast it happened.

If McCain hasn't plan anything with 2 less than 2 weeks to voting, then McCain will clearly NOT BE READY on day one.

[Purl Gurl]

Many have known for a long time Obama is a megalomaniac. Seems to me Obama is no different than George Bush.

This type of egotistical over-confidence is precisely what led Bush to become the worst president of our American history. Bush is so egotistical, so smug, he has not sense enough to critique himself, not sense enough to question his decisions. What a mess Bush has made of America and of our world.

I am deeply concerned Obama is more egotistical, more arrogant than Bush. My deep concern is when, not if, when Obama makes a bad decision none of his advisors nor Americans will be able to persuade him to change his mind or, at least, give more thought to his bad decision.

I sincerely believe Obama will lead America down a path to self-destruction for no reason other than ego satiation, Obama's own ego.

With a Democratic party controlled Congress, House and Oval Office, Obama will become America’s first despot. There will be no checks and balances, no balance of power. These are circumstances ripe for abuse by and mistakes by a megalomaniac president who sees only one vision for America; his own egotistical vision.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

[Chris]

our government really has our millitary brainwashed, a 21st century ronald regan whoever says stuff like that need their head examined, ronald regan was a horrible human being and whoever voted for him may god have mercy on their soul, for they are truly lost.

[Bob]

What is particularly laughable about this is the notion that Obama needs Podesta or anyone else to write his inaugural speech.

Has the old man already forgotten that it was a speech that Obama wrote and gave at the Dem convention in 2004 that put him on this path?

Obama could give a better speech talking in his sleep than McCain could on the best day of his life.

Besides, the last time someone made charges about an opponent that was jumping the gun, he ended up getting caught flat-footed and far too many positions were left vacant long after the inauguration.

The reason McCain is losing is because he continues to spew this crap instead of talking about what needs to be done. "I have a plan", he says. Of course, that plan changes about every week or so. Moderates have plenty of concerns about Obama, but after all the talk and all the posturing by both sides, I still hope Obama can do at least a decent job. It's utterly obvious that McCain would be another disaster.

[James Sweet]

The writers of this blog are almost as clueless as John McCain.

[David]

Obama is already measuring the drapes? I've forgotten all about the economy.

[Dianesef]

Hmmmm. McCain compares himself to Truman - the man with the lowest approval rating in presidential history - just above ....... George W. You are known by the company you keep.....

[DEm voting McCain]

If Obama actually gets in the White House, the real joke is on the American People. The UNinformed American people.
Thank you Media. Obama must say that every hour.

[Bill]

Absolute nonsense that Mr. Obama has already appointed himself as President of the USA.

It's about as UnAmerican as his ties to Ayers/Wright/Kilpatrick/

I hope Mr. Obama loses by a landslide for being such an arrogant Pr***!

Just imagine... if Obama becomes President, he won't do it his job then either, because then he'll be spending all his time on being elected WORLD LEADER!

NOBAMA!!!

[BasilP]

This whole Joe the Plumber schtick is so far out of context. Obama is so very well spoken yet so many don't understand Obamanomic's. He said "spread the wealth" but it's obvious he means " to seed the wealth". Instead of giving back $150B he wants to create jobs to get $150B of WORK thus creating "living wage" jobs (where one can buy a house & support a family) and producing perhaps a windmill or other alt energy mean of production and reduce $'s sent abroad to fuel America. These wages will be spent on workers' needs creating more jobs as they spend and before long $1 turns 4x or 5x rippling through the economy! This is the multiplier effect of government capital expenditures. Like a many tiered totem pole, by shoring up the bottom tier the entire structure benefits and grows stronger as time goes on such that even the top tier can go higher. In essence, by "seeding the wealth" as Obama advocates we will ultimately produce greater wealth. Those who say he will rob Peter to pay Paul , i.e. redistribute wealth, are thinking in only finite terms. There is only one way to go and that is forward. I wish the R's get off the 8yr negative kick & quit trying to buffalo the people!

[Al]

More desperation from a bunch of losers. This is why they're losing! Losers lose! Winners win. Obama worked for everything he got. McCain had everything handed to him by his influential relatives. I am 4 months younger than McCain and spent 6 years in the carrier navy. He is a disgrace!

[sallievoter]

America is mocking mccain for his stupidity in naming palin vp......mccain is irrelevant foolish and mighy sad, Does he have solutions? NO.

Mccian is so sad. Empty, sour, bitter, and sad. Thank heavens we have a real leader ready to serve---go obama!!!\

Mccain is a fool, and a very mean and ugly man. palin is WORSE....she is brainless AND ARROGANT.

[steve rodriguez]

Hey Liberal media LA Times, thanks for once again reminding us that the Messiah can do no wrong!

[d Miner]

"OOOoohhh! He's measuring the drapes", says John McCain. "We can't have that." "How dare he MEASURE THE DRAPES?" "Now you have to elect me, I'm not measuring the drapes."

"MEASURING THE DRAPES!?'

This is what is on John McCain's mind as we lose our homes and our futures because of Bush, McCain and the Republicans? The tired "measuring the drapes" cliche, that cry of desperation? It's time for McCain to "measure the drapes in a retirement home".

[Ted]

i don't understand why everyone is so into Obama? He is nothing special. I hate the way he holds his hands up in the air like he is trying to reach God.Like he is some kind of preacher.Obama is only into himself. you can see that with all his ads and his Obama tv.. give me a brake a tv about your self...lol.. what a joke.every other ad is Obamas. Obama is spending to much money and boy he is loving it every bit of it.They do stories about Palin and her cloths..lol.. What about Obama and his designer suits and his wifes cloths she is not buying at wal-mart.And every time you see his kids they are all dressed up. But i have never heard a word about what he has spent on cloths.The media is starting to look like china's media.only says what the big boy Obama says to write.Now he is some prefect man for seeing is grandma, give me a brake, he is only doing what one would do that loved his grandma nothing special there its a given but not with the media they are making a big deal out of it and what a man he is because of it.if Mccain did that you would be saying he is running from the campaigning.i am so tried of every other thing i read or hear on tv is about how good Obama is and the rep are black haters. Obama is the only one who has talked about his color.Obama made this about his skin color.Obama will bring this country down.Look at what his cousin Odinga has done in Africa. what a mess there and Obama supports him. what a joke.Odinga solgan was i am for change and i am for the pooe. i will take money from the rich and give to the poor and now thousands of people are getting killed. NOW Obamas solgan is i am change and i will spread the wealth.two peas in a pod. God be with us if he does what he really wants to do bring us down. Biden is right Obama will be tested big time and i bet he fails.

[Dude]

Obama is change change we can not afford.This country is already divided because of him and it will only get worse.it won't get because of being black or white it will be because of money.right now Obama needs to spend 12.5 million a day to spend all his money and he is asking for more? wow what a man he is asking the poor to give 10 more dollars to him even tho he already has millions. don't you see its all about money. he wants it and he thinks he needs it. This money he raises of yours will be his at the end of this election and you guys don't even know it. He won't spend it all so he can raise his bank account.if he was really for the poor he wouldn't be asking you to spend your last ten dollars to pocket his bank account he would instead say i have enough money go buy your kids food but nope he says give one more time.. and you all eat it up. He wants to make history by raising the most money ever by taken your money.He wants to be the first black president shouldn't anything to do with his color. Should be what he stands for.

[Hugh]

"“We just learned from a newspaper today that Sen. Obama’s inaugural address is already written,” McCain declared"

Because the crowd is queued to boo every mention of "New York Times", he said "a newspaper" so the crowd wouldn't drown out his sound bite.

[pepper]

what are Obamas solutions? to give away money from people who are rich to people who do not deserver it because they haven't earned it? this country will become a bigger wealth fare country then it already is.and by the way he will taxes on anyone who makes $200,000. if not married or $250,000. if married. What next taxes on some one who makes A $100,000 OR $50,000. He keeps changing it but then he says he is the one for change.

[Dane]

Are you a conservative? When did you decide to be one? Is it because you were raised as a Christian, or were 'reborn' and are no afraid of going to hell by 'supporting' infanticide' or 'immoral' actions between same sexes?

Please realize that there is more to reality than your selfish deisre to follow a plan laid out by human beings wanting to control you for their own power to supposedly represent God.

Please realize that true happiness comes from loving and letting others love.

For the most part: Obama inspires and creates hope, this is his focus, for the most part, McCain fearmongers and inspires hateful paranoia.

This is why I must support Obama if I wish to be eithical and unselfish.

[Freedom7]

All Obama is doing with the rich folks taxes is returning them to the same level as those of the Clinton years. Why is that Socialism? The economy was pretty good during the Clinton years.

Even McCain himself a few years ago denounced the Bush tax cuts as irresponsible. Why is he now calling his own stance on this socialistic? Flip-floppin' again! In a video posted on his Web site, McCain says, "The last eight years haven't worked very well, have they?" Well, then why is he planning to follow Bush’s failed policies? Is it because corporate lobbyists are literally running his campaign?

He wants to cut taxes on the wealthiest even MORE. He wants to TAX health care benefits. He wants to continue spending $10 Billion a month in Iraq ad infinitum, when our economy is bleeding.

Trickle down economics hasn't worked. Under Bush, the richer a corp or person was, the bigger the tax cut. The corporations that got the cuts increased the salaries of CEO's and sent American jobs abroad. Employment is the lowest in 6 years. The economy tanked. Our national debt is $10 TRILLION. And what do the Repubs want to do? Give a TRILLION dollars to the rich corporate CEOs and bankers to bail out their failed businesses, using YOURS AND MY MONEY. That TRILLION dollars is gone, baby gone. Into the pockets of the rich folks. You know what the Republican Neocons really want. It is more money in their pockets and the pockets of their cronies and corporate lobbyists. The lobbyists are running John McCain's campaign. They are using Joe the Plumber to YANK YOUR CHAIN. Don't fall for it.

[GT]

Yeah McCain's pretty amusing. Both campaigns are planning for the transition -- anyone who gets this close to being president in a couple months damn well better have already begun planning for the transition months ago. All responsible candidates do this. If McCain isn't already planning on what he's going to do when he gets to the White House, he's not qualified for the job, he's too irresponsible. The difference between the two candidates is, although they're both planning for what they'll do when they get to the White House, McCain's the only one of them dishonest enough to pretend like it's an issue. He's counting to stupid people to think Obama's "arrogant" for doing what any and all responsible candidates do.

[C C]

Wow.

Some of these anti Obama diatribes, particularly the LOOONG ones with ZERO sentence structure or punctuation, or spelling, or grammar...they REALLY underscore the reason why the GOP deserves to lose in a landslide. Notice how these posters literally MAKE UP things about Obama, to jusify their biases. Some of the more preposterous comments include:

"The media is starting to look like china's media.only says what the big boy Obama says to write"

"Obama is the only one who has talked about his color.Obama made this about his skin color"

"This money he raises of yours will be his at the end of this election and you guys don't even know it. He won't spend it all so he can raise his bank account.if he was really for the poor he wouldn't be asking you to spend your last ten dollars to pocket his bank account"

Absolute LIES that could not be proven, even if the liars' lives depended on it. Typical uneducated GOP lovers, who've been trained like pet monkeys to remain scared and STUPID. "He a uh, uh, uh, duh, a-rab," too, remember?

1. Obama is secretly running every media organization in this country, as well as the one outside of it endorsing him?

2.Show us ONE clip or soundbite where he's made race an issue in this campaign. ONE.

3. Stealing campaign funds is a CRIME, and he would go to PRISON. THERE WOULD BE NO WAY TO HIDE SUCH ACTIVITY. And besides, his supporters FREELY GAVE TO HIS CAMPAIGN. How can folks "not know" that he has their "ten dollars," and that he's spending it? It's called a DONATION. Have you EVER met anyone who made a donation, and didn't know it??

You people are amazing. Good thing our votes will overwhelm yours, since you too will benefit from that which you so ignorantly fear.

[Kevin O.]

I don't understand why anyone is getting upset at LA Times here, saying "thanks for proving that Obama can do no wrong". Hello! this blog was about McCain twisting an inaccurate report knowingly, cliaiming that Obama has already appointed himself president. This blog does not say Obama is the messiah. It does not say Obama knows all. It just says that once again, McCain is making an ass of himself.

[Sylvia]

Measuring the drapes?

Over 200 thousand Obama volunteers have been on the phone, knocking on doors, and holding parties at their homes this weekend. At the end of today we will have made 1 million GOTV calls.

We are taking nothing for granted and this is why Obama's campaign has been superior to McSames!

[George]

McCain and Palin claim Obama will take from the wealthy to give to the masses....sounds good to me. Obamma is not taking control of businesses or corporations, just needing to end the greed that exists within corporations, banks, etc. What's wrong with fixing the problems that have damaged our economy? Finally a candidate who will look out for the average wage earner....yes, YOU! McCain and Palin refer to people in certain regions in America as "true Americans".....sounds to me like he believes the rest of us are not. Our military consists of patriotic Americans from every corner in America, Americans who have died in battle, their families who have suffered, but McCain and Palin seem to say that they and their families are not "real Americans" unless they come from areas he and Palin deem and certify "truly patriotic." I find McCain and Palin truly offensive, that they would put themselves and others they deem fit above our nation and what it stands for, one nation UNDIVIDED! They are not worthy of the United States Presidency or Vice Presidency and everything it stands ..A UNITED AMERICA.

[ERIC COUFAL]

The current political crisis in the United States began with the fraudulent election of GWB, a nefarious attack to democratic principles, as endorsed by the US Supreme Court, so no wonder there is both a political and a financial crisis now.

If the US government (at least the incoming administration soon after taking office) doesn't incarcerate a significant number of white collar criminals in the US and impounds their assets (both from the private and the public sectors; entrepreneurs and politicians alike, at the highest levels, whether members of the Illuminati clan or not) who are to blame for unfair business practices, political corruption, insider trading, favoritism on juicy war and other public contracts, self demolition of buildings and institutions, abusive secrecy about relevant information and technology that should be made public for the advancement of mankind (i.e. the Disclosure Project), including all sorts of tax / financial simulation and manipulation schemes, which combined blatant crimes have led the US to this collapse, and whose conduct is legally sanctionable by law and in equity, so as to demonstrate that there are rooted solid principles in the US legal system, sufficiently strong and valuable to shelter those main street citizens who abide by decent standards of living, and to punish wrongdoers until they repair the damage, with punitive and decisive action, the conclusion is simple: NO MONETARY BAILOUT WILL EVER BE ENOUGH FOR THE US TO REGAIN CREDIBILITY, because it is conducted at the expense of innocents and for the shared benefit of criminals. That is abuse of power … pure and intolerable injustice. If the Judicial system remains a silent puppet, just as the two other branches of government have clearly become noisy ones, the free fall of this crisis will not end, because what is being done is simply immoral, no matter how it is labeled or justified.

THE WORLD URGENTLY NEEDS A MORAL BAILOUT, and both the US Executive branch and the Legislature (composed of politicians mostly interested in their selfish careers, and not in the common good as public servants) don’t seem to have a clue of what that means or how to implement it, except with more of the same which wont solve the roots of the problem.

It is the Judiciary (not composed of biased politicians but by persons of allegedly good moral character with standards of ethical behavior), through the Supreme Court, the branch of government that is constitutionally in charge of administering Justice, so IT IS ABOUT TIME FOR THE JUSTICES TO DO THEIR JOB and save us all from what is coming.

Regardless of the merits, the US achieved international respect when President Nixon was impeached, which led to his removal from office after Watergate. During the last few administrations all kinds of lies and deceit by Presidents in the US have not been sanctioned and have not only been tolerated but continue to be even applauded, with a much worse component of dishonesty than the Nixon era, including shameless ridicule, so the outcome is exactly what we have and where we stand right now: economic, political and moral decay.

If a country has the government it deserves … there's no more time to waste and the US as a country should regain worldwide credibility, because further delays in taking effective action with a principled bailout will unfortunately turn over governmental leadership to others abroad, just to save those few liable criminals in-house (politicians and bankers), and that will be at the expense of freedom and international peace, let alone the continued bankruptcy trends of the US economy and its political system, fundamentally due to more than obvious moral insolvency from the top down.

Eric Coufal, Esq.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
admitted to practice in Mexico,
and in the United States by the
New York and New Jersey Bars

[steve rodriguez]

Obama is all about race! He will divide this country in racial divides like we never seen before! It will be Black vs. White!
Vote no to the Messiah!

[DSB]

It is hard to believe Mr Mcain and Mrs Palin didn't make a bipartisan attemp to show support but were blissfully missed at the inauguration and its coverage. Hats off to their party members who were man and woman enough to accept their NEW Commander and Cheif and show it. Not since Kennedy has anyone gotten so much support and had a people, no less a planet backing him.

Newly elected President Obama, Has earned all that he has accomplished and did it the old fashioned way. GRASS ROOTS! Every road block made him find a better way. Hmmm? Something I'm sure Mr Mcain would know nothing about. Thats why his race was juvenile, ill informed, reckless and ailienating. Except for those who Mcain himself had to stop from acting out ignorantly.You have to ask yourself HOW President Obama was able to do what he did while being 1) a first generation seed from another country. 2) Being the product of an interracial relationship, which I'm sure still has laws on the books somewhere in this country making it illegal. 3) Being half of what most ignorant or uneducated people still consider sub-human. That incudes People of color who use the "N" word like oxygen because somewhere down the line it became cool to sound stupid and insult the untold, nameless many who died over that very word. Spitting on their graves would be just pleasant. And then, there are those who use the "N" word because it makes them feel superior, above everyone and everything. I think they are afraid and don't want to understand that we all don't want their daughters or wives and won't rob them for drug money. As ignorant as that sounds alot of people think that way. It's not their fault. Our Families, the court systems and Policing have perpetuated that notion. Not to mention the grand old Media. Many people Don't think that way. Let me say that for sure! Those who do, need to get out and meet people. It's ok, there are people out here who are educated and would always help you. Not hurt you.

It has been business and politics as usual for so long. I think thats the only way a person like GWB could ever have gottenen elected in the first place. We all know how he made it in and out Texas but to make it to a second term says to me, people had HOPE, had FAITH and wanted to belieive that he could turn things around. Thank God giving a speech didn't mean life or death for him. We As Americans did him a great dis-service. A pair of flying size 10's in Texas would have saved him from going down as the worst president that had ever been in modern time. The Dynasty is over. Poor Jeb! Poor GHB who wanted to see another son screw it up. Or maybe "fix the darn thang"! Either way, we will never know. THANK GOD! Don't get me started on Chenney! All I will say is "THE BIGGEST CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN ANY WAR SITUATION".....(Halibertan) If thats spelled right, but who cares. Also Blowing someones face off and never answering a single question regarding his carelessness. History will not be so kind! Wish we all had at least one mistake like that in the bank! Don't you? Nothing like being above the law.

People GOT TIRED of the same old story. When Mcain didn't say or do something different his foundation began to errode. Like the Levi's in New Orleans. We saw how the voting public responded the same way our last administration did as Mcain and Palin were up on the "roof" waiting for help waiving rags of hope! I know Mcain is a vet and suffered but WE as AMERICANS couldn't risk our future and very lives on someone who would CHOOSE his running-mate based on votes rather than issues being addressed, conflicts being quelled, peace being demonstrated and global freindships being rebuilt. I commend Mcain and Palin for the effort they made because I'm sure their lives are not easy. However, with all that is at stake. All that needs to be done. With all that rides on our NEW President and Vice President. Lets not kid ourselves, do we want the blood of more young people and innocents on OUR hands? At least we know Palin is keepin an eye on the Russians for us from her deck!

The New President being detached from the old insitutions and doing the best he can to mend the old "sure" ways of business to the new and "courageous" ways presents a better picture for our fututre. Mcain should have stayed home because politacally and viably he fell way short of what it's going to take in moving this country forward. And that IS, "the support of her people"! "Together we STAND, devided we FALL! Remember that old saying? Seems like not many do. Right now, were in mid air! I beleive this new administration is going to be the hand and the ARM that breaks our fall so that we can get our feet under us again as we move confidently toward the finish line. All the people who are more worried about what President Obama's Clothes cost, what hospital he was born in, his relatively short political carreer and how good looking the First lady is, bought into the old way of thinking AND are MISSING the point. If your not part of the future, then your "dead weight" just slowing us down. If your not open to new idea's or interested in the promises that were made in OUR CONSTITUTION. Then YOU are not an American and I wouldn't have voted for you either!

In closing,

God bless you all!

And May GOD continue to bless these GREAT UNITED STATES of AMERICA!

For she has finally coughed up the fourty achers. The Mule is in the mail I understand.

Take care and I'm keeping an eye on the mailbox.

DSB

[Caroline Kunioka]

Obama is a class act. He hosted a dinner for McCain the night before the Inauguration and the two of them heaped praise and admiration at each other. As for McCain, he may have been at the ceremonies, he just may not have been photographed or reported on. There were lots of important peope there, more important than The Loser.

And I heard (was it CNN?) that Obama "likes the drapes" in the Oval, and they're staying for now. He's got more important things to do.

Good luck, Mr. President. So many see you as African American, but I see you as the first Hawaiian - eater of Spam musubi and shave ice, lover of surf and sand, a real poi dog. The first multicultural President. May the angls protect and bless you.

[Caroline Kunioka]

Obama is a class act. He hosted a dinner for McCain the night before the Inauguration and the two of them heaped praise and admiration at each other. As for McCain, he may have been at the ceremonies, he just may not have been photographed or reported on. There were lots of important peope there, more important than The Loser.

And I heard (was it CNN?) that Obama "likes the drapes" in the Oval, and they're staying for now. He's got more important things to do.

Good luck, Mr. President. So many see you as African American, but I see you as the first Hawaiian - eater of Spam musubi and shave ice, lover of surf and sand, a real poi dog. The first multicultural President. May the angls protect and bless you.