Corruption is expected of Democrats.  They hate and fear an honest person in political life.

leave it to the paranoid and delusional glass house dwellers here to work with felon drug and gun dealing sociopaths. vince foster’s ghost will be haunting your offices next… [BTW: nice dye job don… it looks so… natural… really…]

oh gosh, what a terrible person to admire:
He was known for steering millions of dollars towards social programs that benefited schools, hospitals, and society’s most needy.

wysiwyg: racism and sexism and pedophilia is expected of republicans. they hate and fear an honest person anywhere.

Oh, you mean like Rev. Wright, Fr. Pfleger, Frank Marshall Davis, B. Obama, Robert Byrd, etc.?  How is Obama’s own words, “White folks’ greed runs a world in need” not racist?

One thing I’ve learned – Any fault the Democrats accuse the Republicans of having is one they have themselves.  Likewise, any fraud or crime they try to pin on Republicans is one they are committing.  The main difference is that when we find it in the Republican Party we throw them out.  The Democrats keep re-electing them and even promote them.

Democrat or Republican, white or black… people are people. We are all the same and if you think differently, you best look at yourself in the mirror.

Wysiwyg Your delusional. Of course there is going to be corruption in ANY party, but the republican party has the most corruption today then either of the two have had in history.

They have taken more bribes to shape policy from lobbyist in the last 30 years then at any other time in history. It’s also gotten exponentially worse in the last 12 years to the point that we are in now, where the majority of congress’s time is spent passing bills on whether to allow drilling or not instead of focusing on getting us off of fossil fuels all together. Fossil fuels such as crude oil and hydrogen, Gasoline actually being able to kill you just from unburned fumes, when we should be working on making Electrically Driven Vehicles more viable then they already are with better batteries, and motors that are even more efficient then they are now.

The reality is EVs could replace all cars on the road right now!Any car being capable of being converted to a EV Today! All with a third of the investment it would take to get hydrogen cars on the road, but the Oil industry doesn’t want you to know that because then they won’t make money from forcing YOU to the pump anymore and will have to resort to just making rubber etc., or move into green tech. like photovoltaic cells.

Using Affordable government price-levitated EVs and stopping the use of Oil all together would do more to secure the US and help the Budget then any drilling or wall street bailout could do.

Could you imagine if you bought a car that cost about 10-20,000 more then a car of the same size(after Gov. Help), but your gas bill in comparison was .01 a gallon you got 100 miles to the gallon in comparison, and your maintenance was virtually nonexistent? Add to that, the batteries only costing 10,000 dollars maximum to be replaced, and only needing to be replaced after an average of 125,000 miles? Well guess what it could happen NOW!

Can you imagine how easily people could pay off all those evil mortgages if they weren’t paying 3-4 dollars a gallon at the pump(averaging 50-60 dollars a week at the time of this writing). Can you imagine how quickly our economy would pick back up if we didn’t have to pay for cars to be constantly “fixed” by the dealership we bought them from because of a warranty then have things tacked on that the warranty “Doesn’t cover”. Come on do you really think Mechanic shops will loose much money? People will still get in wrecks, people will still want body and paint work done, and there will be tons of people wanting their old cars converted to a EV rather then buy a “strange” looking new EV. I know I’d love to have a old 1968 Mustang or Camaro converted for myself!

Hell for low income families they could actually buy the car for them, or the conversion, then with the thousands of dollars the family saves on gas they can pay the government back for the car. Have oversight in place to make sure the family doesn’t just pocket the cash.

The point is we need to stop burning harmful chemicals, and even though Hydrogen burns clean it does pose some very high risks to public safety in the event of fender-benders or crashes of any kind for that matter. Hydrogen under high pressure is very volatile and it will HAVE to be kept under high pressure. Also NOT ENOUGH is CAPABLE of being kept on-board the vehicle so you will CONSTANTLY be going to the pump, due to hydrogen’s LOW density.

Now I don’t know what you’ve been being TOLD but Washington DC has some real problems that need to be worked out. When approximately half the government isn’t willing to meet the upfront costs to make us completely nondependant on the resources of the planet and give our government more personal security there is something hidden going on in the background.

Every time the Democrats, or ANY OTHER party affiliated politician for that matter, tries to put things in motion to make this country more independent; the large majority of the Republican party makes an unabashed attempt to burn their efforts to cinders. If you don’t think that’s true then just look at what happened when they first tried to get hybrids made; those vehicles the republicans try oh-so-much to say are the future! The future is to NOT BURN anything AT ALL that’s what the future is you freaking idiots! Combustion engines are a thing of the past. If EVs had beaten the gasoline fueled car back in the 1800s with better horsepower/torque, then we wouldn’t be in the climate situation we’re in today. If we replaced the power plants we currently have with Solar, wind, water, and thermal power ones and used EVs; we would be on the road to true security and better able to survive on other planets later with better renewable energy research done after its proliferation. We have the Vanadium battery technology today needed to make renewable power plants completely viable, and could easily come up with something better! In addition to that the maker of the original Vanadium battery is working on a second generation concept that is cheaper to build and takes up a third of the physical space for the same comparable power capacity, and she already has a working prototype!

If you Really think that corrupt politicians and old world technology are the way of the future then You are Delusional. Wysiwyg You and anyone else not willing to accept that the old ways of doing things have never truly worked other then in WW2 are going to be the end of this country. If you sit back and listen to us then sure at first you’ll see some deficit but after all our investments pay back themselves (and then some!) you’ll kick yourselves for not listening sooner!

I’d like to add that up until about 3 years ago I was a complete republican, with mostly conservative views, but the more I saw how corrupt my party had become, the more I realized that if I wanted my party to get back to business and stop screwing around listening to lobbyists they needed a swift kick in the pants! I became a independent about 2 years ago and early last year the Democrats finally convinced me they were the best choice. I was not fully a Obama supporter at first. I was more for Mr. Gravel, but when it came apparent that my hope for a candidate more like the presidents of old was not going to make it I had to listen more closely to the leading three for both parties. Obama proved me to be wrong; he proved to me that just like Gravel he was more like the presidents of the past, but looking forward. Obama proved that he could spur social movements toward the betterment and unity of America. Obama IS the best option we have, Biden being the VP pick in reality doesn’t make much difference for us as a nation. He would have been in the Senate either way. Not to mention he has always, from the beginning, had a strong sway in the senate. Obama isn’t going to die on us any time soon like McCain legitimately might could. McCain has been deathly ill, and near death several times within the last 3 years!

The Obama administration will also be more willing to make social reforms that are much needed, such as federally legalizing the California MMP and helping countless people that are truly suffering using marijuana derived medications(like the pills they give patients undergoing Chemotherapy in California, that limit the side effects of Chemotherapy). The MMP however, contrary to popular belief, does not call for the smoking of marijuana; as that releases tar into the lungs, and is detrimental to your health. Patients undergoing Chemotherapy and some patients suffering from severe Fibromyalgia are, under MMP guidelines, sometimes told to use herbal vaporizers with the marijuana plant, because the pain relief benefits are greater without the harmful byproducts of burning/smoking the plant; such as no tar, or burning related chemicals released.

In the end I believe Obama will win, because all this nit picking idiocracy will come back to bite McCain, Palin, and all the other anti-Obama/Biden political advisers in the butt.

One such example is that the McCain supporters keep saying that FDR was president before the distribution of the Television so couldn’t have made a speech on television, but his four terms in Office did not start until 3 years after the first year of commercial Television distribution across America(1930). He in-fact made several speeches on all forms of communication, including black-n-white television, at that time; one of them being the “Day of infamy” speech after pearl harbor in 1941. If you don’t believe me do a search on “FDR” and “The Television”, not everyone during the great depression was poor and most people had a radio, or access to one, poor or not.

Biden was most likely referring to FDR’s “New Deal” speeches that won FDR the first election. While not necessarily on Television, Biden may have had well-to-do ancestors that actually got to see the speech on television and told him about it. If you grew up in such a way, you would probably assume a lot of people had Television sets. I would assume by the time Biden was born and old enough to remember, everyone he knew had a television set. My mother born in 1960 was not well to do, she was actually a small farm girl, and everyone she knew growing up at least had a black-n-white Television set. So it’s not that much of a stretch to think that Biden just made a misinformed assumption that a large percentage of Americans had Television sets in 1933, or that he may have meant to say radio as well but only said television. McCain supporters are trying to blow it out of proportion though, and make it sound like Biden is out of touch with reality and a crazy old man with dementia or Alzheimer’s. All I have to say to that is people in glass houses should not throw stones; McCain is as much in that box as Biden, if not more so, and to say he’s not is a gross misrepresentation of the truth.

I also agree with all the previous posts. Is it really that despicable to mention having fond memories of your grandfather talking to you about a social reformist?! When they say that Flood steered millions to schools, hospitals, and the most needy; they mean programs for them like the ones meant to give more supplies to schools such as fervently needed text books, and funding for science and math classes. They DID NOT mean special interest groups like we have today!

Biden is a great guy, glad he got nominated as VP