Anger vs. steadiness in the crisis

First off John Fund is a right wing partisan hack. Faux News or any one from it is for one thing not a very reliable source for truth but rather they are more of a parody of it. They tend to parse words and spin any and every thing they get their hands on. You will notice that it always spins to the right to the point that they put a merry-go-round to shame. During the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove and other administration cronies, Faux News Network were always front and center for their causes. You could always count on FNN to play the role of a megaphone used for spreading the fear and lies of the administration. Look where that group has got us now.

If you have a 401k, how is it holding up? If you have a small business or work for one how secure is your future? If you are retired, I would keep a close watch on your Social Security as John McCain wants to privatize it. If Social Security was privatized right now it would be in the same “Titanic” situation that the stock market is in along with your 401k.

I realize that you are probably a republican and have been all of your life; however, based on the last eight years, I would recommend that you look into either switching or at least vote for Barack Obama. The Democrats will do their best at countering this colossal fiasco that the GOP (aka. God Owful Party) has created and will work on getting America back on its feet not only at home but abroad as well.

I will agree with you that the ACORN group is perhaps not the best and that voter fraud is a certain reality. However, your “Palinish” tactic to connect Obama to them is nothing more than an unsubstantiated claim. It boils down to nothing more than an intentional smear tactic or swift boating technique that the GOP is so famous for. What is ironic is how the GOP stole the last two elections with shady, underhanded, distasteful dealings, and techniques. Now that the outlook for victory of the presidential campaign is heavily favoring Barack Obama/Democrats, the republicans are starting to wriggle and wreath and cry foul to anyone that will listen.

Much of corporate America has been like a fat pig that has now become infected with gangrene. Thus the American public as a whole are beginning to see the affects of a republican run government system. I doubt that the democrats will stoop to a GOP level and try to steal this election. It doesn’t look like they would need to any way. I wouldn’t be shocked though to see the GOP attempt to do so since they have had at least the last two elections to practice their techniques. However, I do think we need to employ Sarah Palin’s pastor Thomas Muthee to cast out any possible witchcraft or witches out of the election processes. Don’t you?

Male or Female it doesn’t matter!
There is far too much at stake in this election such as: your future, my future and our children’s future. Hillary would have been one hell of a great choice. However,
I am not sure whether John McCain’s ‘Sarah Palin cocoon’ is going to be a moth, butterfly, praying mantis, or just some unknown insect misfire waiting to be unveiled. We as a nation cannot afford to be stuck with an abundance of buyer’s remorse in the aftermath of all of this excitement. Don’t be guilty of buying something just because it has a name brand on it. Sometimes things are not what they claim in spite of their label. Counterfeits are more common now than ever before. Please make sure of what you are buying when you vote. If you don’t know, then don’t vote just for the sake of voting.

I am more against McCain than I am for Obama at this point. Neither candidate is has all the answers, but I can't bring myself to hiring Bush 3. Sequals usually always suck. One of Baraks biggest issue is that he's too cerebral? We've got to be one screwed up place to think that's a problem.

In retrospect Obama does seem a bit too passive and somewhat nonchalant about our financial crisis and such but.. The man just needs time to think. He's a thinker. Its what he does. He sits down, relaxes, and thinks about how to solve our problems. The people seem to want answers and they want them NOW without really taking into account if the answers are correct or not. They rather have a bad solution than none at all, and that's not his style. His style is to take his time and try to come up with the best possible way to solve everything and try to keep everyone calm in the process. Sounds to me like what a president should do.

It's because Obama thinks with his head, and McCain thinks with his other head. McCain is much too giddy-up, cowboy-esque, in comparison to the pragmatic quality of Obama's actions. Think about it. Of course their actions and environments are much more complex, and rich with implications and indicators, and more of then than affect their thought patterns. But let's be simple. EGO. McCain's ego happens to be more virulent and fragmented. Obama's is understandably under control. Nevertheless, there WILL be hiccups of egotistic bursts, that HAVE BEEN construed as "elitist". But you misunderstand these implications. Obama is not elitist. People (FOX) would like you to think as such, when in fact these same people are elitist hypocrites as well. And the beat goes on...

Thanks for sharing, great article!

That's not steadiness, it's total inaction.

"Obama's performance in the first debate was Exhibit A. My first reaction was that Obama didn't make any mistakes, but he allowed McCain to attack him relentlessly without making an effective counterattack. I saw it as a toss-up, not a momentum changer; the public, however, saw it as a clear-cut Obama win. In retrospect, there were two reasons for this. The first became clear when I read the transcript: Obama was far more forceful on the page than he was on the screen. He just lambasted McCain quietly. A key moment was the Iraq question: McCain was very strong here, slamming Obama for not supporting the surge. But Obama's litany of things McCain had gotten wrong ('You said that we were going to be greeted as liberators ...') was devastating. And his bottom line — that the war in Iraq had been a diversion from the real fight against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan — made far more sense.

Obama's other great advantage was visual. He seemed, literally and figuratively, the bigger man. McCain's problem wasn't so much that he never looked at Obama; it was that he never looked at the camera. He seemed pinched, evasive, uncomfortable. Obama, by contrast, looked at both McCain and the camera. He addressed the public directly, seemed utterly confident and unflappable throughout.

The polls have McCain in free fall now. 'John's advisers are sitting around, trying figure out their next Hail Mary pass,' the prominent Republican told me. 'But most Hail Marys aren't successful. They fall to the ground in the end zone.' Sometimes a frantic heave will net a score, but you get the sense that even if McCain stages a last-minute rally, Obama will not be daunted. Under insane pressure — as brutal a year on the stump as I've ever seen — he has kept his head. He is the least angry man."
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1846401,00.html