i have been wondering since i heard the report that Halibuton was moving there headquarters to Dubia why there hasn't been an investigation into the reasoning for the move. i feel theres something fishy about the move. also once this is done our government will not be able to sieze any records in cases i think are going to come about from the war in Iraq. why the move now when the former C.E.O is our vice president, i think there hiding something and don't want to get caught. this should be investigated i feel since they are a major player in the war in Iraq.

I think it is great what Tyson is doing for us.Maybe 1 day we can all go to work for CNN!

I am in total shock with this election and have really lost faith in the intelligence of the people of this great country. Considering the Clinton scandals (proven and\or suspected) i.e. Lewinski, Foster, White House and law firm thefts, etc., why are there still people wanting to put this immoral family back in the White House? Do we NEVER learn? My vote is for Obama in the primary and, if he is not the Democratic candidate, I will not vote in November!!!

My synoptic opinions upon the election :Senator Obama expresses himself with more confident of an presidential final nominee

All this "talk" about change. I haven't seen change in campaigning. The only changes I've heard anything about are the change of race or gender in the White House. If I don't vote Obama will I be racist? If not Clinton will I be anti-feminist? If not McCain, then will I be against old folks? Tell me how you can benefit me. I'm still here you know. I need someone with morals and character to vote for. I need a candidate who can hear me instead of one who only listens for whatever might win him the election. We go on voting for people who run for office; but, we never seem to get to vote for the leadership we need.

My hat goes off to Senator Obama! He is bold and concerned enough about this country, to step out on faith and make this speech. He has a lot more to loose than to gain. I was a strong Clinton supporter until I started to see the clips from Rev. Wright! "God-Damn America".....is it possible that this too has been taken out of context? My opinion is as others are just opinions. I thought what Rev. Wright was saying was "God-Damn" America (God will Damn America) for the bad things that have been done in America, slavery, discrimination, and the acts against other countries such as what's being done in Iraq today. However, if you want to put a real spin on things, just keep showing the clips from Rev. Wright...and the hatred will continue to grow. But if we take the Senator's speech in its entirety and not just bits and pieces we will as a nation, maybe as a world learn a lot. So listen and read his speech and hear what he is saying. This is a man that is trying to bridge the gap of whites and people of color in this country and make a difference. Let each individual read it or listen to it and judge for themselves. We will still have some who feel it was racial what Rev. Wright said and why didn't Senator Obama leave that church. We will have some who will understand that in Rev. Wright's time he was a man that did make a difference. He served his country in the Marines. He has helped the homeless and the down-trot ten, he has answered the call to preach the gospel. He, like myself know that you will not be able to hale a taxi in some places still today if you are black, depending on where you are. He understands the "N" word has been used and he also understands that discrimination and slavery did happen and it is still practiced, in some form or fashion, so what is wrong with the fact that God may very well Damn this country. Look at the economy, who gets bailed out? Look at who is running for the republican party....more of the same....can only a "white" man hold that office? Many people will continue to make an issue out of the "short" clips of Rev. Wright, but Senator Obama, decided to risk his nomination and speak out. WOW! If more of us could speak our minds and not be afraid of what might happen. We would rather hold on to what we think we have than risk speaking out. We fail to realize that all that we think we have is given from GOD! "To whom much is given, so very much"more" is expected." This is a changing of the "old guard." After all, "the bible tells us that the last shall be first and the first shall be last." Could that be the fear that faces America? You have a black man and a white woman running for the highest office in the land. The nay-sayers of this country and the world would rather neither of them win. So see this for what it really is, "a changing of the times." We can still love this country and not like the very things that have happened to us in this country. My end to all this is Senator Obama will be elevated by the very cynics that have tried to paint the negative pictures of him. They may have just given him the nomination and the "oval office."

I have one very simple, to the point comment:
THERE'S NO ROOM FOR RELIGION IN POLITICS!
We need to keep politics in the home and religion in the church. These are the two things that most people will start fighting about as soon as it is brought up in a conversation. We need to keep them seperate from each other, THEY JUST DON'T MIX WELL.

I have to voice this to someone. I'm not sure if this is the proper forum, but you're stuck with it anyway!

My son is in the army and he is hearing that the medical benefits will be discontinued for people who retire after 20 years. Also, he has been told that he cannot draw his retirement until he reaches 59 years.

Can anyone tell me the facts about this? Thanks

Jane

B. Obama said in one sentence that this was the greatest country in the world. His second sentence invited everyone to help him change the greatest nation in the world. What changes does he plan for this great country?

To the Politico Team.

I am offended that you sent me an email telling me you pulled my blog because it was too inflammatory. I found this quite amusing. The reason I found this so amusing is exactly indicative of these times in which both African Americans and Whites across the nation all say they want to have a discussion about race. Give me a break no one wants to talk about race unless of course you are African American and you want to slam whites in the head or you are whites and want to make fun of Angry African Americans and walk away saying "see how angry they are."
This is even more reason why my comments in fact hit the nail on the head. If you go back and read any of my postings you will see that I am just a voter; contrary to the little hot heads on the Obama campaign and that of the CNN staffers who follow this blog. I am a voter. No more, no less. I am just a voter with a little time on my hands, who as so many have been caught up in the progressive down slide of the democratic campaign. I am an independent who in fact has been undecided as to who to vote for. I lean toward the Republican side, but since I liked Bill Clinton I thought I would watch Hillary Clinton, but I voted for Bush last election, not once but twice, I voted for Hillary Clinton in the primary hoping Obama would change my mind because we all want change… So basically I would say I am as many independents most of the time "sitting in the middle of the fence". If you know anything about the independent party that is what we do…we are middle of the road on everything, but in the end someone gets our vote because we always vote.
So for all of you who said I was somebody from the Clinton campaign or from the McCain campaign get a grip. I am a middle age woman who basically retired five years ago from the corporate world as a Sales & Marketing Exec. to become a farmer.
So now you can all rest. I am not a "political agitator" I don't feed stories to the blogs, or do anything else other than vote and farm.
If I offended anyone in the past or do so now I apologize as that is not my intention but was most likely a "poor choice of words."
But I suggest you first read the entire blog not just the "snipits" which everyone seems to want to draw an opinion from an perhaps we might be able to have a discussion without the name calling, without the hate comments or without Politico being pressured into pulling my comments from the blog. You can disagree, but disagree constructively; that is if anyone really wants to move ahead to grow from this and talk about race issues so everyone can see everyone else's point of view.

Here is my point. The Dem's started out on the same foot, It began with race and it will end with race; it came from both sides stop pointing the fingers. In any race issues there are always two, never just one, who participate….One the victimizer, and one crying the victim of it.. Same thing, same press lines different outcome.
That in it self sadly, will be the history of this campaign. Not the fact that we are all proud to be part of a country who is demonstrating that anyone, regardless of race, color, religious beliefs can have the opportunity to become President in this and only this country in the world. Not the fact that every country is watching us "put the words of the constitution into practice. And sadly believe it or not, this is at a time when the United States needs friends. Important things are happening in this election and not just the selection of our President…. for whatever reason you choose to elect whomever….but because we do need real change. We need to improve our reputation as a national leader, we must gain friendships and cross over boundary lines and we must find immediate solutions to find new oil sources until our nation can move ahead through alternative sources without penalizing Americans in the meantime. That means new relationships with some of the oil countries we may have hated for their ideas and opinions of the past. We also are in a war in which no matter who is elected, we as a country will have to downsize our army and pull some troops out. This is not because of any presidential move, but rather the pure economics of it. The Republican administration is already moving to make the war a "non issues" so don't let the rhetoric about the war fool you into believing how any candidate voted on it or "if any candidate did not vote for the war really matters. It doesn't. It is just more politics to get your vote and it prays on those who don't follow economic conditions, economic sanctions or any other social situations that plague our country. This is a must and everyone knows it is a must; the only real question is "how." The when does not matter because we all agree it is an "economic must" and it must be done correctly so all candidates MUST consult with the armed forces to do ANYTHING. Do not believe any of their rhetoric….because the outcome on that issue is the same. I will skip the oil issues but would honor the debate an exchange of ideas on that subject it is probably the most powerful discussion of this campaign.
Now, lets get to the race issue. We as Americans love sensationalism. We get glued to the TV and stuck on the minutia of anything. We are a young, impatient society that can't even read or listen to a full news clip without cutting someone else off in mid sentence, without voicing our opinions and overshooting others all without the facts being clear, we love the story, but we lack the patience to properly write one or prepare one. In this presidential campaign everyone has consistently wanted Clinton to go home, bow out, at times so did I. Because Obama wants to win but doesn't really want to "win it" without going all the way to really "win it." Ask yourself, is that right? It is just indicative of these youthful times where most lack the patience and perseverance or attention span to continue on to the finish line. So drop out so the other can win?
Race talk makes white America uncomfortable is rhetoric. White America is like African America; we all want to know more about it, we all want to understand it, but unfortunately there is no one to properly open up the dialogue without getting our head cut off or being called a racist, or worse told to "shut up".
This is a "social condition of today's youth, turning epidemic…. that is opening up its head again and turning us backwards to the 80-90's. But stop and think for a moment….this is not the "baby boomer" generation talking here, we are not the angry ones here, it is our new youth and that is why we need to be careful how we discuss this race issue. We have a generation gap here that is being mixed up in race issues many of us older folks thought we worked through and through time we "learned to get a long and grow". Never before, have we had an election in which so many young people have turned out to vote. But these young people of today have opportunity that their mothers and fathers did not have except through Affirmative action and that was the point Ferraro was trying to get at before she so shockingly has been called a racist……..today's youth do not have the history their parents had with race issues…because times have changed. They have changed quite a bit from the 80's to now. But the media propaganda would have us think differently. Just like their old outdated war clips, running over and over combined with the rhetoric of the Rev. Wright.
Lets look at CNN, shame on you CNN, you propaganda yourselves….you pick from all of the African American community, two of the most angry African American women you could find, you bring on Roland Martin who was so angry during the OJ Simpson time that white America can't get past that to even listen to his words. You rile up the youth….Ask yourself Why? If you did not add the "angry" black component to the CNN format you would have an educated discussion that would in fact be comfortable enough for all to participate; black or white. Once again you use an "old media trick" to unfairly paint a portrait of Black America. Something Bill Cosby worked years to fight against in the media. Something youth is unfamiliar with, but the Baby boomers know this old trick intimately.

The media ads to the racial division under the guise that they are bringing "us the message" when in fact they bring us a " censored message" without bringing us the "total message."
Last night on Hannity, Sean would not let the Black Panther group leader even speak, even get his point out… he had to shout to be heard….Is that right? Is that helping our situation? Is that dialogue….Come on, I wanted to hear what he said, I wanted to know why Obama removed this man from his web site…I am white, and yes I want to hear it, I want to know it without the censorship of the news media.
And final, in my comments I made previously I said "Martin Luther Kings dream died with this last speech from Obama"
I feel it did, Let me explain that. It died because Obama blamed the white man, not in the same tone and way previously used by the Jackson and Sharptons but in an educated cleaned up way and it was offensive and directed to rile up our youth voters- no different than the days of Louis Farrakhan who used our youth as he traveled from campus and campus to recruit the angry black youth of the 80's.
Once again the media clamped on it, praised it and compared it to that of Martin Luther Kings great speeches, Nonsense! Martin Luther King did not lie to the public, he stood proud and today he stands tall. He didn't use those lies to poison our youth.
White America is uncomfortable about the Obama lies and the Obama press machine, plain and simple, and they are uncomfortable about the way in the end no matter how much progress we think we made, it takes someone with no history at all in fighting for black rights to get us today to where we are; angry….one man' speech took us back again to feel the shame of those times of which he himself had no experience of at all. And make no mistake Obama did so not to open up dialogue, but rather to stir up the youth vote. That is shameful.
We have come far, just not far enough. Parents tell your children about what it was like to not ever have a black American on television, than progress a bit but be disappointed that for a black person to be on TV you had to be stereotyped as murders, muggers, and rapist. Tell them what it was like never to have a black news commentator, parents tell your children what it was like to be called the "n" word and feel the sting and bite of real racism as reflected by being turned down from every single job you applied for time after time after time again. Please tell your children what it was like being rejected from white college campus's across the nation, because that was the 80's slowly moving past that after the Jessee Jacksons and Al Sharptons came to fight, and the Bill Cosby's, and the Rev. Wrights, the Farrakhans, affirmative action, and on an on until the mid 90's. Than tell them how far we have come, thankfully to all of these people who played a role in that progress positively or negatively, never the less they all played a major role in opening our eyes to the clear, un-blurred signs of those times.. As did affirmative action which is what Ferraro was trying to explain.

Today, we have a problem, a problem we baby boomers thought we talked out somewhat by having our faces smashed into the mirror of hate offered up by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton who; have all grown beyond those days and now we can actually talk to one another and even respect one another's viewpoints. We don't forget those days, but we have learned to grow and move ahead for the sake of progress.

We are in dangerous waters here. People, do not let Obama for one minute make you think that today we are where we were in the 80's, because we are not. We just need to help our youth move forward and stop calling each others names. And more important we need to keep moving forward towards progress.

And final, people; be very careful, we are tattering so closing to the line of separation between church and state that it is so frightening to every one who actually knows and has read the full constitution.

Muslems are Coming!

Someone can contact me concerning this.It seems a local major food processing company in my area (Central USA) are TODAY ( march 25) bringing in around 20 Muslems from Africa to work inside their operation plant. They will work them on production lines

An employee there today me they will be assigned on second shift hour and existing employees were given on engagement with these new employees, such as certain gestures not allowed, as in summoning them with an upturned index finger, and other gestures accepted in the USA but considered offensive in their homeland...ALSO EMPLOYEES are not allowed to TOUCH these new employees...I'd find that difficult in a working enviroment

It is my understanding these Muslem will also be wearing their traditional apparrel within the processing plant

Additionally existing members within that plat have filed a greivence

Contact me for more info..THIS IS AMAZING!!An probabally illegal

Daniel at:

270-339-8222

or

wkychess@yahoo.com

They told them to hate us, but we were told in the Sunday school to love our neighbours as our selves.

nobody ever addresses the issue of congress everybody attacks the presidents its not just the president that needs to be voted outta there its these 100 year old fuddyduddies that gets paid to do what? i think the law should be changed so we can vote those guys out of there

obahma really? what was his middle name again? has this country lost their minds?

I CROSS THE OCEAN,
POOR AND BROKE,
TAKE BUS,
SEE EMPLOYMENT FOLK,
NICE MAN TREAT GOOD IN THERE,
SAY I NEED TO SEE WELFARE.
WELFARE SAY,
YOU COME NO MORE,
WE SEND CHECK RIGHT TO YOUR DOOR.
WELFARE CHECKS THEY MAKE ME WELTHY,
MEDICADE KEEPS ME HEALTHY!
BY AND BY,
I GET PLENTY OF MONEY,
THANKS TO THE AMERICAN DUMMY.
I WRITE TO FAMILY,
IN THE MOTHERLAND,
TELL THEM COME FAST AS YOU CAN.
THEY COME IN TURBANS
AND FORD TRUCKS
I BUY BIG HOUSE
WITH WELFARE BUCKS.
THEY COME HERE
WE LIVE TOGETHER
MORE WELFARE CHECKS
IT GETS BETTER
FINALLY WHITE GUY MOVES AWAY
NOW I BUY HIS HOUSE
AND THEN I SAY
FIND MORE ALIENS
FOR HOUSE TO RENT
AND IN THE YARD
I PUT A TENT
SEND FOR FAMILY
BUT THEY TRASH
BUT THEY TOO
DRAW WELFARE CASH
WE HAVE HOBBY
ITS CALLED BREEDING
WELFARE PAY
FOR BABY FEEDING
AMERICAN CRAZY
HE PAY ALL YEAR
TO KEEP WELFARE
RUNNING HERE
WE THINK AMERICA DARN
GOOD PLACE
TOO DARN GOOD
FOR THE WHITE MAN RACE
IF THEY DONT LIKE US
THEY CAN SCRAM THERES PLENTY OF ROOM IN PAKISTAN !!

I THINK WE NEED TO STOP MAKING IT EASY FOR ALIENS AND TAKE CARE OF OUR ELDERLY, THE ALIENS HAVE IT EASIER THEN OUR ELDERLY AND THEY BUILT THIS COUNTRY. ALIENS GET HEALTH CARE WHEN US AMERICANS CANT AFFORD IT.

HONESTLY WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US ?????

Let's move.....AAND FAST - REAL FAST?
A new theory for Faster Then Light Speed Space Travel has hit the book market. The name of the author is Rodney Kawecki of Los Angeles California. The book title " The Supertellic Electromagnetic Gravitational Universe Technology Theory ". The author of this defiines the means for faster then light space travel within the frameworks of the standard model of the Universe. His formula stems as an extension he calls 'The Quantum Constant that mathermatically is equal to 372,000 miles per second. THE FIRST BOOK EVER COVERING A MATHEMATICAL FORMULAAE FOR FASTER THEN LIGHT SPACE TRAVEL.
The basis of his theory illustrates a passage in the Universes physical structure that allows for FTL within the framework of relativity and E=Mc2 entailed by Einstein's atomic energy constant. But what does cahnge is the velocity. Kawecki explains that the theory of relativity developed by Einstein is a science of gravitation. Gravitation being the interuption entity that slows objects as they accelerate. Since matter velcoities on the earths suraface are slowed down by gravity which he explains is not an actually field as Einstein claims. But that gravity slows objects from them having the ability to travel at their full potential. It is this potential that in empty interstellar space allows a speed of an object to increase by. From traveling at the speed of light - 186,000 m/s the light constant called the Kawecki Constant in the Supertellic Universe book increases to twice the velocity or as I mentioed 372,000 m/s. The interuption of TIME in Kawecki's theory is bound by the new velcoity that in relativity the infinite future is dialogued. But in The Quanta Physics Study " is increased where time flows baackwards as a result from traveling at the speed of light and traveling the infinite future dimension frame.
Kawecki has transformed the dialogue of advance modern physics to a fantastic intermeiate literature. Believed to be a fact of the science in modern physics Rodney Kawecki beleives his theory is unique enough to be accepted as a sound and protective dialogue for future scientific exploration technology. SEGUTT short spelling for the title of the book. Is an ambitious book literature comparable to quantum dynamics and relativity and those physicists in the developement of classical modern physivs advancements. Even though The Supertellic Force' asserts a faster velocity then relativity its mathematics are in sequence with relativity equations. Acting as an extension SEGUTT or The Quanta Physics Study ' illustrates an increase in objectal velocity traveling through open interstellar space assumed to Albert Einstein to be the same as his gravity field figures. This diivsion of space and field desrciptions are separated in Q.P.T. study math and
explained as separate entity fields. That approach not relevent with Einstein's work that is contradicted.
As such this book is a must read for community intterest groups that are most interested in science especially modern physics and controvercy about the Universe space time and future exploration technology. Written well enough that a layman can read. This book I guarentee won't let you put it down.
THE IMPORTANCE OF FASTERT THEN LIGHT SPACE TRAVEL IS WITHIN THE DESIGN TO TRAVEL TO PLANETS OUTSIDE ARE OWN SOLAR SYSTEM. THE WAY SCIENCE IS TODAY SUCCH FEATS ARE IMPOSSIBLE. THIS HAS BEEN PUBLICED IN ALBERT EINSTEIN'S SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL'S IN GENERAL AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY. ALL THI IS ABOUT TO CHANGE. ALONG WITH IT A LOT OF SCIENCE BASED ON EINSTEIN'S LIGHT CONSTANT SPACE TRAVEL SPEED LIMIT CALLED " THE UNIVERSAL SPEED LIMIT "".

Election 2008,, as you know, none of the 3 candidates
in the race have not one single solution to our problems
, any type of solution they think they have will take
years to solve the problem..I havent heard the smooth talker give any solutions, he has Americans hypnotized.
He would make a great cult leader.

If any person wanting to be the next president should
contact me, I have all the solutions and can solve these problems "NOW" imediately.
Great economy, low gasoline prices, millions upon millions of new jobs,, lower tax, health care, social security , . the war. Closed border.
This is but a few of the things i can do for AMERICA.
If any candidate wants the answers they may contact me.
Or you can put me in office and i will give you a new AMERICA "NOW"

? Obama's judgement?? They say that he should of known about Rev. Wright. But Hillary should of known about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, And that is in her own house.
Also in the Compassion Debate hillary was ask if she recieved the Holy Ghost, (she did not know) and they ask if God put her on theis journey and she said "no"