Would John McCain have fared better with a different running mate?

You have no idea about equality, when you rank yourself as more important than the innocent unborn.

Oh jeez... put a lid on it already. Stop trying to shove your personal anti-abortion agenda into everything.   Kram here was simply answering the question.

Spiteful: perhaps one sentence too far.

Spiteful,

Hey Buddy breath deep.  Your scaring everyone.

Msski - this discussion had nothing to do with abortion. It still doesn' have anything to do with abortion. I realize you are a tad frustrated after last night, but please respect everyone's democratic right to do what we did last night, and to answer these questions in peace.

Hope your day gets better.

Jack, well said. 

Regarding the question, Palin was one of the issues that lost the race for McCain, but not the only one.

Msski --

He could have picked from MANY conservative anti-abortion women -- WHY HER? 

I hear what you are saying, but can absolutely guarentee that there were plenty of people who went with McCain because Obama was black.

Now the part that hurt McCain is that many people who would hate someone like Obama or being black, would also be turned off by the downsides of Palin.

She was just a really really bad choice for McCain. This would have been way tighter a race i someone had not sold the republican party on that woman.

I voted for Obama only on his ideas and what we need for the USA and what he is going to do for us and our children's future.... not on his race it never was an issue for me. I did not see black I saw a fellow American who wants to help build USA back to being what it was meant to be. If McCain had spent the majority of his time telling us what he wanted to do that was different then Bush's and not on putting Obama down, he may have won. The issues were way too important in our world today for McCain to have run a campaign for the President the way McCain/Palin did, it would not have matter half as much who is running mate was if he would have told us how he was different and what he was going to do for the people of the USA. But the point is he didn't.... and instead of putting down the winner or loser we should be supporting the new President and encouraging him because the task he has in building the USA up to be the nation it should be is not going to be an easy task by far. I for one will be doing my part to help us rebuild the USA. God Bless America we sure do need it.

You don't seriously believe any other African-American candidate would have made it past Hilary in the primaries, do you?

Obama isn't some stooge the NAACP propped up in the write-in box, you know. He's only the most exciting, inspiring presidential candidate we've had since Kennedy, in the most eagerly anticipated election since 1980.

I'm sure you also didn't mean that people voted for Obama even though they disagreed completely with his stance on issues.

If the chance to make history swayed voters between two otherwise equally capable candidates, well, them's the breaks.

What an interesting perspective. When was the last time anybody won something just because they're black?  It doesn't happen that way in this country.  There were many who thought Obama couldn't win because he's black, now you say he only won because he's black. Make up your mind America, you can't have it both ways.

Obviously your focus, like tons of McCAIN voters, was race.  That's exactly part of why you lost.  I like how you tried to spin it though.  Funny, not clever, but very funny.  McCain didn't do enough to seperate himself from Bush politics and focus on what was important, but instead dispatched that dingbat Palin on a mission to criticize President Obama every chance she got.  It's a shame, yet expected, that people like you can't appreciate how far America has come with race relations and would rather see everything stay the same.  I will pray for your children and their children because they won't know how to cope in an America run by an African-American president if they havet to listen to you everyday.

Well Upset, in one way I will have to agree with you.  It wasn't too long ago that black Americans couldn't vote, couldn't eat with us, had no voice, and were attacked in the streets, because of their color.  In my opinion, they have every right to support him and rejoice in his winning.  The victory means a lot to them, especially those black Americans that are old enough to remember the pain.  And I think it is wonderful for our black countrymen to know that over 50% of their fellow Americans can see past race and elect a man, an American man because we believe in him, and we trust him as commander in chief of our great country.

But, remember, there have been many black politicians that did not unite the whole of America like Obama did.   Obama spoke of uniting us, all of us.  Many, many white Americans voted for Obama too.  I am one of them.  Obama is a good man, and he rallied the most diverse group of Americans with his message of hope.   Most of us, black and white, are tired of the divisiveness.  We want to work together to make this country strong.  It's time for a change in this country, time for the hate to stop.  Yes, it is a victory that all black Americans have every right to cherish.  I think it's wonderful, and I support Obama as my president.  He is a wonderful person, and I am so PROUD of my countrymen!  We voted for change, and we won!

God Bless America!

UPSET IN TEXAS,

Get past the color of Obama's skin, or anyone else's for that matter.  Had Obama not been so eloquent and disciplined in his message, he would have gotten nowhere.  The fact that Obama is black only goes to show that he has probably overcome greater odds than an equally inspiring white man would have.  We should celebrate his perseverance and his intelligence. 

Maybe some voted for McCain because he was white, or because his running mate was female. 

unbelievable how out of touch with reality some people are

3.5 Most of us, black and white, are tired of the divisiveness.  We want to work together to make this country strong.  It's time for a change in this country, time for the hate to stop. 

 I really hope this is the way it goes.  I hope the Dem majority doesnt just try to shove legislation down our throats. I hope they truely do want to find compromise and common solutions to our problems.  I am hopeful!

We all will decide on our own - but since knowledge is power, I am passing this along...
A question of perspective :
Obama/Biden v.s. McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?... think about it.  Would the country's collective point of view be different? Could racism be the culprit? 
Ponder the following:
·What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three-month-old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
·What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
·What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
·What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
·What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?
·What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?
·What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to painkillers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
·What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
·What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
·What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
·What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?
·What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashi ng seven planes?
·What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?
·What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?
·What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
·You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are? This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
Educational Background:
·Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna *** Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
VS.
·John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.

Thanks MD66

I disagree that people voted for Obama solely because of ethnicity.  The well educated and well informed are still valued and respected in America.  Palin was neither.   I think it's a shame and a disgrace that members of the GOP are sending a message to our children that it is okay to be blithering idiots.

Well said.  God Bless America!!

Hey Yes-we did
Why are you saying anything about race when it was the blacks that voted over 93% for President and lets not forget he is only half black and raised by whites, so dont call white people racist when Obama got almost half of our vote.

Thanks TR.  Very brilliant analogy.  Most people did not vote for Obama because of his race (despite what the pissy little neocon whiners think).  We voted for him because we needed a positive change in this country.  People around the world (of almost every nationality) cheered when Obama won.  The Euopeans (tons of white people mind you) were probably more exited than we were over his victory.

From here on out, everything that is said against precious 'president' Lolbama will be construed as racist.  EVERYTHING.

that's ok texas!

I am sure there are many who didn't vote for him just for that reason.  Pretty ignorant huh?

I didn't vote for Obama because I could see through his media smoke screen and see that he was just a regular politician, Tell people what they want to hear, only do interviews with media that is kind to you, Promise the masses that you'll fight for them, promise the elite that you'll fight for them. Promise, Promise, Promise. He is not an awesome leader, he is a good politician. He has already started backing off on his promises - ON ELECTION NIGHT. What do you think he told the "Hollywood elite" when he was taking their millions and attending their parties? " You guys are going to regret throwing me this party because I'm going to pass tax increases on all of you because you make too much money??? No, I'm pretty sure he told them that he would pass laws that would help them keep their "hard-earned" money. Or whatever else they wanted to hear. How do you make the peasents work harder or believe in your ideals? Promise them a better life, even it is not in your human life, tell them it will be better in the afterlife. Look at the muslim extremists, Don't they also preach CHANGE and HOPE? They attempt to change the world to fit them and promise the suicide bombers HOPE in the afterlife. Then they give money to the remaining family members who did nothing to earn the money. Ironic how Obama's campaign and terrorist extremists have the SAME philosophy.

Hello ! What a shallow reason. I think Kathy said everything eloquently ! It was time to get rid of the "Bushies" . Mc Cain was still hanging onto the Bush policies, and was a little out of touch with what is going on NOW ! Time for him to retire to his 11 mansions and play G-I Joe! New Blood, and Young Blood is the way to go. Thank God Obama is the man for the job, regardless of his color ! He has done more in 40 days than the last one did in 8 years ! Anyone who makes more than $250K a year and thinks they are amongst the poor are seriously in need of help !

Yes, because Bush and the gang had it on the right track, no?

We have taken a step towards re-establishing ourself as a true bastion of hope, democracy, and integrity across the world.  No president is perfect, Obama won't be...but he will defend this nation, he will lead by example, and the world will look to America once more with respect and admiration, not with disdain for the hypocritical arrogance with which our president has acted in the last 8 years. 

Bush was smeared by the media. I hope America stays divided.  I will always detest this new president as will half of America.  This secular progressive movement tonight will be a disaster, and it ALL started with the premise of lies about Bush.

FOR REAL!!!!!  WHAT CAVE DID YOU JUST CRAWL OUT OF

GOOD.

george bush took our country to war with a lie. mcain sided with him more times then not and with a nitwit for vp he should have expected to lose.

For you who continue Obama bashing, I have a message for all of you.

There will be change, for those who can envision and work for it.  Its the 21st century; its time this nation got back on track.  Its time the leader of this country spoke in terms of hope, of the everyman.  Its time that the leader of this country is one who did not grow up with a wealthy, privileged family background - who worked for what he has accomplished.

If your one of those who wants to do nothing but whine about the outcome of the election, be hateful and spout the same type of garbage that the RNC did consistently through this entire campaign, who doesn't want to help when and where he or she can, then you have no say in how this 'change' plays out.  The definition of change: to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone.

We don't yet know how this change will affect us. But what we have lived with the past eight years and what would happen if 'left alone' would certainly not be in the country's or its citizens best interest.  I'm not a fortune teller, but, then again, neither are the rest of you.  For you to assume the worst is hypocrisy if you voted for Sen. McCain - he also called for change and there was no clear idea on what he would accomplish while in office.  But if you believed in Sen. McCain at all then maybe you should go back over his concession address.   He gave the most coherent and stirring speech and if he had presented himself this way during the campaign he might have been our next President.  As it is you can honor his efforts by following his lead:

"These are difficult times for our country.  And I pledge to him (Obama) tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face.  I urge all Americans... I urge ALL Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together to find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.

If you keep on with the rhetoric that your posts contain then you belittle the man who you were supporting.  And that is not what Sen. McCain asked of you.

Ditto SlappyVandelay. I travel quite a bit to foreign lands and I can see the change in attitude of the people that got worsened year after year. I can't quite say much in defense because I agree with them! We are far too arrogant and have become such a bully. No one likes bullies. As to MSSKI, you are so ignorant and pathetic. You are a sad case. We are in a rut because of people like you.

Thank God it will not be the same...the last eight years has brought us down to a place this nation should never have been.  Not it is time for the long climb back up to what it should be and maybe better. The glass it not half empty it is half full.

Take a look around pal!  How secure is your job?  How's your 401k, IRA or investments doing? Are you still uninsured?  Is your son or daughter heading for Iraq?  Can you get a loan?  How's the value of your home..in the tank?  The worse is still ahead of us and when the bulk of the toxic credit default swaps hits during the next four years, they will make the mortgage backed by securities debacle look like a minor glitch in our economy!  Our economy is struggling now and it will get worse!

Thank God, I hope it is never the same...great minds think alike

Never be the same.....YEAH!!!!!!!

Better get started on that underground shelter, Tigger1. It's just that sort of doomsday mentality that has sunk the Republican party to new depths. Used to be one, but couldn't deal with the constant clarion calls screaming in our ears. The end of the world as we know it...right.

Hopefully you're right Tigger.  We'll NEVER be the same.

I agree Tigger.  This country will never be the same.  There is now hope that anyone in this country can be anything that they want to be for real.  It has never been that way before and America I have always been proud of you but now my pride is overflowing. 

Tigger and Msski, sorry things did not work out for you, but you have to realize as Americans we have a responsibility to get this country back toward "One Nation Under God", note the One Nation part. It is your type of bias that will slow progress down. This country needed a change, the change that was ushered in last night was a change which may heal a nation divided by fear which produces hate. Hopefully this hate, which is clearly displayed in your comments, will soften and we will in fact become One Nation.  

I am absolutely amazed that there are people who still support the corruption and lies that the Bush administration has shown us over the past eight years. I don't believe our country has taken a blow at all. I believe that this is finally a step in the direction Bush should have taken four years ago. What is it with authority not wanting to admit its wrong? Could we all realize that this is FINALLY something different? Finally a chance at something other than this. Do you even want more? Do you want progress? Because it seems the narrow-minded opinions are leaning toward the same old crap we've been putting up with for decades. Let's progress into the country we are capable of being, instead of constantly setting ourselves back. Thank God for Obama and his vision! It reminded me that our fellow Americans aren't as bad as they seem. 

John and all, please tell me what we are supposed to be united behind?  What principles does he bring to the table.  The guy's a lie.  One Nation under God? Please.  This guy abandoned his own church that he "just sat in" for political purposes for 20 years.  How is the nation supposed to be united under God, when the leader puts forth this kind of example?  Its funny that the general concensus, is since the majority drank the Kool Aid, then they must be right and "its these kinds of people" that have the problem.  That's a typical response from well frankly, hippies. See yall at the bread lines.

"Hippies"?

Thanks, Eric Cartman.

I will be glad to take my chances.  The people have spoken.  No fixes like Bush, a legit substantial victory.  The GOP needs to take its party back from the fools who ran it into the rocks.

Are you talking about in both 2000 and 2004 when we voted in a man who had only brief experience as a governor and only his name to recommend him?  Yes, at that time we reaped what we sowed.

We reaped what we sowed with 8 years of Bush.  We would have REALLY reaped what we sowed with a McCain who isn't even a shadow of the honorable man he was in 2000 and a woman who couldn't pass a high school US history exam being one breath away from the presidency. 

The Republican party (of which I am a member...or a former member as it isn't what it used to be) destroyed their chances with their incessant attempts at low-brow politics, gimmicks like Joe the Plumber - I mean, for God's sakes...the man was a SHAM...a phony character who wasn't even what he claimed to be and a man who cheated on his taxes...and he was being asked POLICY QUESTIONS BY PEOPLE AT REPUBLICAN EVENTS.   Please, even as a Republican I have to admit that my party has gone so far off course from the true conservative ideals I held dear for so long that Obama, despite my philosophical differences with the man, was by far and away the better ticket with Biden as his running mate than McCain and Palin.  Give me the Y2K McCain with Liebermann or Romney as a running mate and we have an entirely different situation.

Ah, I love this argument, as if the experience President Bush brought into office served him so well.  Intellectually, Obama runs circles around Bush and that to me is just as important.  What good does experience do if you never use it to make your decisions or you're simply too imcompetent to use it?  I'll take my chances with Barack Obama, thank you.

What and you think that McCain is a better choice, now you should rethink that because there is only one party now in America.

That's too bad.  We have a new president with a new set of ideals.  Instead of dooming us, be hopeful.  At least give him a chance.  We are all still Americans and we need to be United as such.  If he gets up there and does a bad job, then we were wrong, it wouldn't be the first time.  But at least give him a chance to do what he says.  Besides, I'd rather see someone with less time that hasn't been corrupted by the government yet.  We have a better chance of not having a bought out president that way.

im so tired of the experience card being trotted out unles youve been a president before everyone goes in with no qualifications sometimes a little common sense goes a long way and tonight america has spoken.

Bmom, I just can't allow myself to give this guy a chance. This is the same person who doesn't even give survivors of failed abortion attempts a chance by supporting infanticide. 

Bmom, I just can't give Obama a chance. This is the same man who finds it alright to commit infanticide. What chance is he giving those newborns that happen to survive botched abortions. Don't get me wrong, I hated both candidates and didn't want to vote for either one. With that being said, I can't wait for an election that I can go and vote for someone with whom I share the same ideals as.

You truly show your ignorance, ma'am!  You are clearly a racist bigot and if I were you I would not worry about preaching to others!  If you truly believe in God you need to start praying for yourself!  You need to pray that He forgives your hatred and inability to accept others based on nothing more than the color of their skin.  You truly represent the worst of our Country!  Shame on you!  May God forgive you your bigotry and pettiness!  May God forgive your using His name & the Bible to justify your racism & hatred!  President-elect Obama is a child of the God whose name you invoke in the hatred that you spew and God loves him.  Pray for yourself madam, the rest of us will do fine!  "Judge ye not lest ye be judged"

If you can't give him a chance then move out of this country and see how well you fare some where else.

Just like we ae now, huh!  If God is just, we will reap what we sow, individually and collectively. 

Yep...we should have voted for Palin, who couldn't run a high school. Get over it, big mama. Try to learn to respect our democratic process.

I can only hope we reap what we've sown.  Because we would reap hope. 

Big mama the bible is clear that you always reap what you sew.  such as you win an election on questionable term (as in 2004) you reap a very questionable President.  You clearly elect a President who does not have all of the experience in the world but brings a message of hope and you reap hope.  Please join us and instead of speaking doom be hopeful that we as a nation together can do as we have always done and pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and become an even better nation.  It is so important that we instead of breeding sour grapes that we work on one accord to help one another to become an even better nation

I pray the reaping is plentyful. Will you pray for the same?

You took the words right out of my mouth -- I would've voted for 2004 McCain. I actually know three people who were diehard 2008 McCain supporters until he chose Palin, then switched their allegiance after such a diabolically moronic act.

Sad.

AMEN.

Shoot...I would have voted for McCain (who was still a moderate) in 2000 had he won the nomination. A hard right turn and the choice of an un-vetted cheerleader most definitely would have swayed me from voting for him, had I been undecided in 2008.

THere is nothing wrong with Palin. McCain was a bad Republican and that is why the party never got the faithful to rally around him.  Here in Nevada the State leadership disenfranchised the entire state GOP delegation to get McGain elected. 

I'm an independent, but registered Republican to vote for John McCain in the 2000 primaries. I understand that McCain's choice of Gov. Palin was largely to appease the conservative base that was unhappy with his nomination, but it backfired with his long-time moderate and independent admirers. I originally objected to Sen. Obama because of his inexperience, but when Gov. Palin was announced, she brought a wholde new meaning to inexperience and unpreparedness. She made me downright frightened to vote for McCain, given his age and health history.

McCain's integrity, statesmanship, and patriotism was in full form in his concession speech tonight. It's too bad he couldn't have been the 2000 Republican nominee, our country might have been a lot better off today. I'm sorry I won't get to see what he would do as  president, but with the debacle of the last 8 year's leadership, he didn't stand a chance. I admire the heck out of him for running under such tough circumstances.

it was scary to think of palin every being a heartbeat away from the presidency she was to far to the right and a proven liar I SHUDDER JUST THINKING ABOUT IT.

Gray1, Obama is also a proven liar. Don't tell me you actually believed half of the stuff that Obama spewed, or do you actually believe that families who make less than $250,00 or is it $200,00, or $150,00 (I give up because the amount changes every week) want pay higher  taxes. What happens when the tax cuts lapse in 2010 and everybody goes back up the the Clinton 36%-39% tax rates. Don't get me wrong, I disliked both candidates. I'm really tired of this voting for the lesser of two evils situations we the people have been put in since 1988.

I agree, the last swing in my vote was the fact that McCain "might" not make it and then we would be left with "President Palin", I SHUDDERED, at the thought.

60% of Independents went Obama. Palin may have shored up the base, but someone forgot to tell the campaign planners that the base doesn't get you to 270, no matter which extreme constitutes your base.

Wrong! the Media did their best to "where is bonso" her and you lapped it up!

she did it to herself everytime she opened her mouth.

Yes today she refused to say who she voted for...errrrr....how bizarre. 

Nobody "made her look stupid", she did that all by herself, everytime she spoke.

Speaking of Stupid, where IS Joe Biden?

Don't you love all these freaked-out neo-cons?! Look at this Paul Lucero, for instance! The world- THE WORLD is cheering today! why? look at we've become under the GOP "mark of Cane"

As for "Free of the Ravages of intelligence", It was the Republicans own intellectual leadership- George Will, Colin Powell, Kathleen Parker, and Senator Chuch Hagel that couldn't even stomach what the Republican party has descended into. There are almost seven billion people in the world- and there are only  and only about one in a hundred (70 million) wanted Republicans or their (ridiculous) candidates to continue running it.

JohninBrazil--exactly

How long do you think we are going to listen to the whinning.  I know for darn sure that the next person who (in my presence) states "Obama won--because hes BLACK" I am gonna have to @!$%# slap!!

The man won because he is the BETTER CHOICE.  People, People, People -- 64Million people voted for him (possible the same ### that donated to him), yet you still cling to your fantasy that it is all about RACE!!!!

If you dont like it ---MOVE!!! Find another country that you can whine and cling to your guns and religion.  OH THATS RIGHT--IT IS ONLY IN AMERICA WE LET YOU DO THAT WITHOUT HANGING YOU (unless, of course, your black!!!)

Here's a consolation prize to the neocons of the world.  If McCain had been elected, I would have prayed every day that he stay healthy for his entire term (even if he served two terms).  Simply because the thought of President (DEFCON 1) Palin scared me almost as much as the thought of President (Apocalypse Now!!) Cheney.

Word of advice:  If the Republicans want a better showing in 2012, leave people like Limbaugh, Rove, O'Reilly, Hannity, Savage, and the other rich neocons in Hell where they belong.  These people are nothing but a cancer and the Republican party needs some serious chemotherapy!!

MOVE YOUR BASE TO THE CENTER, AWAY FROM THE FAR RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

That's funny McKenzie. We had a candidate that was to the center and we lost. We had a President who was far to the right in Reagan and he won his reelection by the largest amount ever. Why would anybody vote for an imitation Democrat, when they can have the real thing.

The Republicans need new and fresh faces and I know you will start to see them in 2012. Here is to taking back some seats in the Congress & Senate in 2010 and to Palin/Gindall ticket in 2012! Still doesn't change the fact Obama won and congratulations to him. 

Wrong she made him marketable and that is the only reason he got the following he got today. Without her this would have been twice the route  is was.

paul luceo is really joe the plumber who wasnt really named joe and wasnt really a pllumber and wasnt really registered to vote .........

i think you are wrong. I challenge anyone to do her job and do it well.  She was thrust into the national limelight with little preparation and little experience with the national press. A press that was and is biased toward Sen. Obama. She is the modern woman: Mom, soon to be grandmother, wife, and works outside the home.  Isn't that what most of us do?  I challenge most Americans to face that pressure and come out strong and still have a sense of humor at the end.

 No, if the people wanted another depression they would elect the professionals who know how to cause them, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Before you commit suicide, please read President elect Obama's economic plan which was endorsed by Warren Buffett.  Yesterday, I made up 8.46% of my losses when the stock market declined in October.  I am confident my IRA and investments will recover as we get through this recession!

I thank God for the speech Senator MaCain gave last night.  It was full of hope and full of the spirit of cooperation.  Mary if the Senator can do it and he was the candidate then why is it so hard for you to follow his lead since you were at least willing to follow his lead if he were elected.  I say to you that instead of speaking death to the nation speak hope that this nation as great as it is and as great as all of it's people are can all work together for the Good.  The power of life and death is in the tongue.  I urge you to speak life

You lost.  By a lot. Get over it.

From rumors I hear McCain had an left his old wife for his current one.  From rumors I hear McCain was involved with the Keating 5.  From rumors I hear that McCain has a vicious temper.  Oh, wait, those are all true.

The rumors spread by the right about Obama were just pathetic attempts to distort and marginalize.  But this is the party that picked a veep candidate who was endorsed by a which hunter that would run women out of villages for being 'witches' and who believes dinosaurs were here a few thousand years ago.  Rumors are all they have at this point.

The election is over and still you're trying to smear Obama.  Do they teach you in Wyoming that Hawaii is a foreign country?

to whathastheworldcometo:  Just like you said, "rumors"... As a person that experienced negative comments/rumors myself during a mayoral campaign, it's easy to step back and research the rumors myself... Instead of accepting rumors - do some research! 

I'm from Wyoming and it's not  that we are smearing Obama we are stating the truth by saying WE yes we are in trouble...!  With a Democratic House, Senate, and President we are screwed!!! We might as well just give our guns to the government because we won't be able to keep them, to hunt, not Kill something you people might know nothing about...! and the sad thing is it's not about smearing Obama it's about fearing for our well being and our economy the well being and economy of our state!!! Wyoming is probably more common sense smart than a lot of other places!!!  Smart enough to know that Obama might not be the right choice, not saying McCain is the only choice, just saying from the 2 candidates we had to choose from, McCain was the choice!! but it's ok, at least wyoming is smart enough to vote for the right person, even if he didn't win!!!

Can you explain, then, why our economy is in ruins and our international image is completely tarnished since the Republicans had the House, Senate, and White House for 6 consecutive years starting in 2000?  You need to stop worrying about Democrats and start piecing together what's left of the Republican Party because nobody recognizes it anymore. 

Ken in W I fear for you too!  The fact is the president elect still has to prove he is qualified.

Why is Wyoming in trouble with our new president?  And.. RUMORS are not facts.

Google Obama's birth certificate and you will find it I did.

Why is Wyoming in trouble with our new president?

Perhaps they are worried about guilt by association. Cheney was a Congressman from there as I recall, and it may be that the enormity of his crimes may now see the light of day. 

Wyoming in trouble because of Barack Obama?  You are joking of course!

Still beating that same old tired horse.  How pathetic.  Obama won, get over it.

There you go again, listening to rumors, the preferred source of information for low-information voters.

Have you ever lost your guns under a democratic president?  Really?  Have you?  I could care less about your guns, and I voted for Obama.

Wow impeach him now!!!!!!! He does have a birth certificate, a social security card and a passport and belive it or not the best intrest at heart for this country.   My theory is to stop being petty and let's work together to grow this nation to higher hieghts

Good Lord!! The Official Election Committee verified his birth certificate months ago.  Will you get away from BERG's idiotic blog and back to reality!!!

If you are so scared of OBAMA--MOVE!!!  I hear Mexico is excepting!!!!

Wait... people live in Wyoming?

Oh, and if Wyoming is more common-sense smart, then why are they upset about this president? Anyone who has an ounce of common sense in their body would know that change is good and Obama is the representation of change. Your precious guns will be safe, as I believe that as a democratic nation (and even though I'm a liberal) that you have a right to your firearms. I think these red states need to open their eyes, and get used to change. Because, like we liberals and democrats had to deal with for the last 8 hellatious years, Republicans will not have the final say. Enjoy it, because perhaps this will give you a different perspective on how you should be living your life. 

Thank you, there was no way in the world ANYONE who liked Hillary was going to vote Palin in. And with McCain's age against him (and let us be honest, that factor was an issue from the beginning) the person who MIGHT take over should he pass on was a big deal. And he picks a Beauty Queen from Alaska? Sorry the "female" factor alone doesn't win the Hillary Vote.