Let's spoil Obama's party, it's not too late.

Yessir, great to See Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Colorado and well over 300 electoral votes say enough to Dubya's 27 % approval rating and McCaint's anger trips!!(Obama can keep his cool)
Here's to upholding Roe vs Wade from an Obama redmeat eating voter from Montana!!
Here's to tax breaks for the middle class and fair taxes for HUGE corporations that got the break under DUBYA!!
A very decisive victory, DARE I SAY
REAGAN-ESQUE!!
Congrats to the 1st african american president!!
BARACK N ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!

And Now to govern

When fear knocked at the door and faith answered it, there was no one there.
Hope triumphed over fear.
President Barack Obama!!!!
Woo Hooo

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel

hah - rah

Well said.

Jorge - you must be from the liberal east coast. If you are going to post to a newspaper site in Kansas City (KC Star) you might want to get the state right. To you it probably doesn't matter since we are west of New Jersey. Go post to your NY Times. They love you.

He's f*ckin with the environment. Kind of makes you think he KNOWS there won't be a fellow R to screw stuff up any more.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4A117D20081103?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

A striking feature of Ross Balano's strident commentary is the repetitive refrain "If you don't want..." Although the election outcome is not yet certain, a likely Obama win reflects a campaign designed to appeal to what ordinary Americans want rather than what they don't want - the appeal to hope rather than rejection.

In the past, negative campaigning has been deemed the best way to win elections, but voters have changed, particularly as the media have focused on times when a candidate's main effort was to tear down an opponent. More voters than previously are rejecting that approach, and Independents in particular have been alienated.

It seems likely that by tomorrow morning, we will have to chance to see whether the tear-down tactic still works, or whether we've gone past that to a nation of voters who prefer a candidate to tell them what he will do that's good rather than what the other will do that's bad.

Fred Moolten

"I love the smell of desperation in the morning"

Smells like VICTORY!

Poor Ross. You and your candidate must be running scared if you have to drag out Rev. Wright and Bill Ayres again even though they've been non-issues for months now.

And puh-leez, Obama et. al. are hardly the "radical left" although I can see how it might be difficult for a hardline neo-con to see the difference since you all paint things in black and white (sorry no racial pun intended, although if the shoe fits...)

While I might have been able to stomach the possibility of Big Mac being President the thought of that low-grade moron, bimbette being a heartbeat away from being leader of the free world scares the beewhoozis out of me.

Just stay in your narrow-minded little "flyover" state and let the big boys pick the President this time around.

The pot is calling the kettle black. Gore and Kerry were the victims in the past, and now that the shoe is on the other foot, you are suddenly all righteous and indignant?
Obama is flawed like everybody else. But I don't see how his "associations" with Ayers and Wright are any more disturbing than McCain's corruption in the Keating 5 scandal that milked the taxpayers big time, nor do I see Obama's tax plans any more costly than McCain's 100 year war in Iraq, his financial bail out of the banks, or his proposed attacks on Iran. I don't see the sort of character flaws in Mr Obama that caused John McCain to reveal classified secret information to his vietnamese captors in exchange for preferential treatment. I don't think that McCain, with his volatile temper and tendency to make stupid snap decisions (like Palin) is going to give the US more comfort than the steady, thoughtful leadership that Mr Obama has exhibited. I don't think that John McCain's pandering to the lunatic fringe of the extreme religious right wing, coming years after he excoriated the same fanatics for their intolerance, will give us any comfort in assessing his sincerity, since his sudden move to religion is from convenience rather than from conversion. I don't want the fate of this country left in the hands of an aging, agitated, bigoted, confused, and erratic loose canon, especially when a likely stroke would put a witch hunting pentacostal intellectually challenged bimbo into the white house.

Good statement on the messiah....

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/04/man-parks-manure-near-democrats-campaign-office-protest-obama/

the messiah, closet racist, socialist, pacifist, anti-semite. Unfit to lead our country.

Clinton = balanced budget, left Bush2 with a surplus equal to 2% of the GDP. Within a year, W turned that surplus into deficit of 3% of the GDP. And that was BEFORE he went to war.

It won't be easy, but Obama is much more likely to reign in spending than McCain would have been. We spend $700 billion a year on defense. 20 times more than China or Russia. Obama seeks to address that, McCain would not. That alone will offset any additional spending an Obama administration might incur.

The interest we pay on the current $10Trillion deficit is MORE than we spend on education, health care, entitlements, and infrastructure combined.

Our priorities have become lopsided, and it's killing us. Time for the Republicans to GO. They fulfill the vision of the military industrial complex that the last great Republican - Eisenhower - warned us against.

Understanding Obama's tax plan requires simple arithmetic. Not a common skill in Kansas, I suppose.

"Spreading the wealth" means taking it from the mega-rich and giving it to the middle-class. Sounds good to me.

Balance in the Supreme Court is a good thing. There are 9 justices so there won't be a monolithic ideology that could corrupt the country.

Why simply invoke Pelosi and Reid? You must have some personal problem. Listening to too much Rush lately?

Obama didn't spend his "formative years" with either of those clowns. The record is clear. This is another weak argument that shows you have no real argument to stand on.

Obama is not radical left. Perhaps he looks that way to the radical right, but you might want to take a look outside your little village and see the rest of the country.

Your small-minded state can stay in the dark ages while he rest of the country leaves you behind. As long as you believe and repeat the lies fed to you by the rich who pretend to be righteous, you will remain oppressed. Your vote doesn't count anyway. The electoral college system has ensured that Kansas can go either way, and Obama will still win.

Sure, perhaps as a non-American, I don't have a right to sound off on this. But when you the world leader, you must also assume a responiblity to the world community to do the right thing and the right thing is to elect Obama to the White House. I live 10 minutes from the US/Canada border, I claim William Bradford (Mayflower/Plymouth Colony) as my 11th grandfather and I am deeply concerned in the direction that my American cousins are taking one of the best countries in the world. Please, vote Democratic on your ballot. The fate of world unity is in your hands.

The neocons and their silly ad hominem attacks on Obama and the utter lack of civility from the right makes me wonder who is clueless. Fact: 80 percent of all national debt ever has been from the last 3 Republican presidents. Your party's fiscal responsibility is terrible. I am all for spreading the wealth. Since when is it a bad thing for the middle class to expand. Your choice told people get a second job to help pay the mortage if they are going to lose their house. Yeah please vote your choice thats what we need more rich people and lots fewer of the middle class. Poverty here we come. By the way, unlike you extremists I want you to vote I am not scared of the media even thought it is overwhelming conservative owned and most major news outlets are owned by megacorps because the truth will get out: The right has been taken over jesus freaks who could care less about the poor or the middle class.

You are about to elect a President and a legislature who will give you a bigger government and more spending. Your new President will give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, drastically increase the number of H-1B visas, and eliminate E-verify at a time when millions of American Citizens are out of work. Your new Commander in Chief will keep American soldiers in Iraq against your will. Your new Chief Executive will borrow, spend, give away, and waste billions of dollars when the national debt is passing $12 trillion. Against your wishes, your new President helped Bush give $1 trillion to the banks as his parting gift. Your new President and Legislature will continue to take your moneyu and give it to someone else. No matter how much you object, neither Public Servant Number One nor the legislature will listen and will continue to implement their own agenda. It doesn't matter if it's Democrat or Republican.

You are responsible for what you're going to get so, no whining later.

http://ewebsmith.com/Finance/notlistening.html

Ross!

I was beginning to think you'd taken to your bed with a headache but no, here you are heroically rallying your troops for a last charge (like Pickett's I hope). I admire your fortitude and salute you.
R.M.

It’s really too bad America is governed by a two party system. If only the right wing faction of this country could govern all the time, you folks would be happy as clams. But then we might as well be Cuba.
The country has endured 8 years of the conservative candidate of choice, and we are certainly no better off than during the Carter years. Isn’t it time for a change?
The biggest difference I see between red and blue is that liberals are optimistic, conservatives are pessimists; liberals care more for other people than they do themselves, conservatives are basically selfish (“I don’t want MY taxes raised”…even if it would help the country get back on its feet?).
My hope is no matter who takes office January 20 we can come together as one nation and work for a common goal: the best and strongest America that we can be.
Can the right have an open mind? Do they call everyone with a dissenting voice or differing opinion "clueless" and mock them as naive, or worse? Or are they going to continue to prove they are hateful, as hateful as the nasty campaign McCain ran?

While I am an independent with Liberal tendencies, I find it unfortunate that you need to tar and feather all liberals as "clueless", or think that any Obama supporter, regardless of who they are or their reasons for supporting him, need "professional help". People can have honest differences of opinion, but that doesn't mean you need to personally attack them. My views may be different from yours, but I would rather discuss those differences than attack you personally.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

Liberals are clueless, they want to be be free to speak their minds and to hell with everyone else. valsmom is a typical example. Anyone who actually believes they will be better off under Obama needs professional help. Remember Jimmy Carter, he brought us Ronald Reagan. Carter was going to change things too and he sure did........gas rationing, hostages overseas, home loans at 15%, yeah Obama all of America wants it to be like that again................NOT

And Yael wants the 'undecideds' to stay home! Ross, you've got it right. Let's just hope that if Obama gets in, they won't have 60 in the Senate. And 'valsmom' says you are mean-spirited. Has he/she seen the Jerimiah Wright video? Now THAT is mean-spirited, and he's Obama's spiritual advisor. It's the left that wants to shut the conservatives up. I have not seen any evidence of the conservatives wanting to shut the libs up. And it's the libs that evoke free speech every chance they get (ala ACLU).

If Obama wins you're exactly the kind of person that will make it difficult to govern this country. You're mean-spirited and not too bright if you think we should have 4 more years of Bush and "Bible Spice".

It is too late.

You have had a horrible run for the average American over the last 8 years and it is time Everybody who lives in the US gets a fair shake.

And save me you "tax us to death" crap. You have been pushing the trickle down theory down our throats and its been bullsh*t.