Looking comfortable, front-runner Obama teases a crowd

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Barack Obama blew through Colorado today on his fifth visit in recent months, and here in this tree-lined college town an hour north of Denver he had some fun with the crowd, as a comfortable front-runner might.

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He asked its members to raise their hand if they had already cast their ballots.

“That’s what I like to see,” he said. “If you have not yet early-voted, then talk to that person who is raising their hand next to you and find out how to early vote. It’s easy. It’s fun. You’ll feel morally superior having already cast your ballot while those lazy procrastinators are waiting until Nov. 4.”

Early voting has been a big theme of Obama's recent campaign. For one thing,....

m...it ends the arguments with his opposition and precludes any mind-changing should there be a surprise between now and Nov. 4 or inclement weather that day.

“I especially want you to vote early if you’re voting for me," the freshman Illinois senator added. "If you’re voting for the other guy, you should just wait until Nov. 5,” he added, chuckling.

“I’m just teasing," he added. "Nov. 4 is the election.”

Tomorrow, Obama heads to Canton, Ohio, and then Pittsburgh in crucial Pennsylvania, where Hillary Clinton clobbered him last spring with so many bitter, small-town, gun-clinging, religious voters.

Obama is scheduled to deliver his closing argument to voters, after a 22-month campaign.

The little bit of information campaign sources have released makes it sound like a retread of his stump speech of recent days, painting John McCain as a continuation of the Bush administration, and arguing Obama is the candidate who can rise over partisanship to fix the economy, clean up Washington, create jobs, provide healthcare access to all, fix schools, etc., etc.

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Comments

[George Robertson]

McCain should be watching his back not Obama.

This entire entry is only an opinion and while none, some or all of it could be factual it is presented as an opinion and not claiming to be fact.

Obama is going to be the only thing close to a friend McCain has left in the coming months.

It is my opinion that the following scenario is not only possible but likely and is probably taking place right now using the media and the public as tools or should I say fools.

Sarah's book is going to fry McCain like bug under a magnifying glass on a hot day.

She will blame her handlers for manipulating, controlling, bribing and even threatening her and her family to do what she has done, which she will claim was under extreme protest.

She will turn him into pig fodder so she can be all the things he said she was.

She is not going down with the ship and further, she will start or has started doing things now that will seemingly prove what she is going to write about.

He said, she was the new light, the change the Republicans have been waiting for, the breath of fresh air.

With that, he gave her the power to destroy him and she will do exactly that in her book.

If she will sell her soul to support him, then she will sell her soul to destroy him if the money and power is there and it will be.

The Republicans do not need McCain any longer, they only needed him because he had some value to them.

Now, he has unknowingly passed the torch, empowered her be the next leader in the party.

In fact he has already endorsed her for president.

Do not think that Sarah hasn't spoken to her family about that likely possibility of her being president in either scenario McCain winning or losing the election.

The Republicans will abandon McCain like used toilet paper and they will let her do what she does best.

He was correct, she is bright, intelligent and charismatic but she has little to no ethics.

He may have picked her for that exact reason. He taught her well, and she learns the game very fast.

She will use his own weapons of deception against him, with the blessing of the Republican party.

She knows exactly what do to Lie, Cheat and Steal causing fear, uncertainty and doubt to get to the next rung on her way to the top.

She also knows how to get rich doing it and that is certainly all the motivation she needs.

You cannot hire a mercenary like Sarah that has loyalty, because they only work for money.

However having said that, McCain is not so stupid that he doesn't see this coming.

What her arrogance hasn't prepared her for is that he has a plan also.

No real politician doesn't have a back up plan and McCain knows this game better than most.

The plan will have to show her going renegade, out on her own, saying things that get near or crosses the line of credibility. So much so that she and her actions will not be forgotten by the public and will be recorded as proof by the media.

Further, that information has to get leaked to the press from inside the McCain camp to retain the authenticity of the allegations.

That will give him reasonable deniability and provide necessary distraction from her book.

It will be interesting to watch this double betrayal as it unfolds.

What will also be entertaining is to see the Republican party sway back and forth as the public opinion moves from one person to the other.

[Michael in Indiana]

We voted early on Saturday morning. There was a long line, but the pleasant poll officials kept it moving rather fast. It took us about 30 minutes. I think it would be a very smart move, because the Nov 4th lines are going to be very long and schedules with work or school could interfere with a lot of folks getting to vote.

Obama supporters, don't get complacent or over-confident. VOTE!

[PicabosMom]

Please tell me what aspect of Barack Hussien Obamas plan for Americas future appeals the most to you?
Elimination of the work ethic?
Low productivity?
Punishment of the successful?
Paying people to not work?
Economic stagnation?

[SaveYourCountry]

The intellectuals, Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Sarah Palin, held a joint conference today in Orlando, FL.

The purpose of the gathering was to stamp out stupidity,
a subject in which both speakers were experts

[Opinionator]

Looking comfortable and presidential to you?

Illustrate your view point!

http://pixwala.com/GoObama.html

[Windfall]

From the Marxist Messiah...

"If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order. As long as I could pay for it I’d be O.K.”

“But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical.”

“It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf."

"And that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

Markets will react negatively to this irrefutable confirmation in his own words that the man who may be the next President of the United States is in fact a communist with no regard whatsoever for the Constitution or the Bill of Rights of the United States of America or the property rights of its citizens.

[Truth]

obama audio from 2001 bombshell discussing how to redistribute wealth using administrative means

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

[TheSiege]

I can't believe that so many people are whining about socialism. Actually, we don't need it; we need a free economy, not one controlled by extremists who hoard money as if it were a substitute for love.

The U.S. has to be built on a solid foundation of fair wages for work we do well, not on the irrational domination of the economy aby a relative few.

Imagine an America in which better wages are paid, more profit is turned back into building better businesses, and not everyone is out to make a killing from a free economy.

We can no longer afford an American dream that supports seven houses for some but foreclosures for others. We could do so much better by removing health care from the realm of business that needs to make ridiculous profits for a few while being unable to provide for all.

We could make the U.S. a shining beacon by looking out for the common welfare while taking what we need rather than more than we can possibly use.

[Pauline Batin]

Obama seems to have a Teflon quality because the American public is hesitant to criticize an African American. If Obama were white, he would have been crucified a long time ago.

All Obama says in his speech is empty hyperbole. And like a Gumby without integrity, he bends his words to fit what the public wants to hear, prostituting his words for a vote.

We know nothing about Obama, the only thing we know is that it is politically correct to vote for a black man and not ask questions. This need to vote for someone because of their race is an insidious and destructive form of discrimination.

But what the populous fails to consider is Obama’s past actions and associations which clearly demonstrate a hatred for this country and horrendous bad judgment.

And Instead of addressing the accusations of associating with terrorist and mob members, Obama reacts like a terrorist by threatening all who dare to criticize or challenge him.

I have never given credence to the idea of an Anti-Christ, until now.

[Zeerover]

"you’ll feel morally superior having already cast your ballot while those lazy procrastinators are waiting "

Perhaps we should get early decisions in jury trials also. It would save a lot of courtroom time, but I prefer to be "lazy" and wait until all the facts are in.