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I hope that iReporters get to some of the polling stations to get documentation of what is going. The word on CNN and other stations is that new voters are being blocked from voting by some thugs trying to scare them into not voting..Another issue is tampering with the forms and changing a person's party to Republican. This is against the law and I hope this gets exposed. Thanks

all of the voting site's should be over seen,i realize it's not an easy thing to do.but they should have security in place.i also would like to know,about sara's hidden e-mails since she is so concerned about obama's ties to ayers.a this joe the plumber stuff it would not have been such an issue if mccaine had not stuck his old nose in others business.it's just that he has nothing to tell the people so anything is better than his nothing campaign.

I am a black American woman, lawyer, former legislative assistant to Senator Lloyd Bentsen, former law professor at Ohio State University, former senior attorney for the City of New York, and former member of the White House Staff in the Carter Administration. I am well educated, well traveled both domestically and internationally, intellectually honest, and as well exposed to personal and professional relationships with people who are not black as any black person in this country.

I worked hard for Bill Clinton and even raised money for his first campaign. I was an early Hillary Clinton supporter who donated a substantial amount (or me) to her campaign. When Senator Omaba announced his candidacy for the Presidency, I listened long and hard to what he had to say. It was a difficult, even tortuous process, as I took weeks to decide decided whom to support. I listened, read position papers and talked to friends and colleagues before deciding to support Sen. Obama in the Democratic primary contests and in the general election. It was a difficult decision, not because he was black, but because his positions and vision were compelling and Hillary was also a compelling candidate. If Barack Obama is elected, it will be an historic moment for our country representing the dissolution of a major racial barrier, yet that was no part of my decision, at least as far as I can consciously detect. (I pledged my support to Hillary personally and called the campaign daily for about a month in an attempt to explain my decision personally before I told anyone. It was the honorable thing to do. I never received a call back, so I assumed my support was not needed.) 

I consider myself to be politically informed, even sophisticated. My friends know my background, my tendency to research issues endlessly, and, my thoughtfulness. Even so, the first person to whom I announced my support of Obama, a "white" friend, who had accompanied me to a Clinton fundraiser (and who now supports Obama), asked me, "Is it because he is black?" I was shocked by the question. Rush Limbaugh's comments really made me think. I knew the race issue would have to be faced in this election to a degree that it has yet to be faced in this election campaign. I believed we would have to confront and deal with our racial issues in order to elect Barack Obama. I believed the race issue would show up in an explosive way. I still believe we can deal with it in a civilized, if not in an entirely respectful, way. I think that may finally be starting now in the late days of this campaign to see the racialism that has been under the table, as people who never thought it was remotely possible for Barack Obama to actually win the election begin to wake up to that real possibility. I suspect (and acknowledge that I cannot know) that when we ascribe motivations to others, the likely source that informs our view is our own motivations. I suggest that Rush Limbaugh's certainty about Powell's motivation says more about Limbaugh's motivations that it says about Powell's.

More important is the unfortunate superficiality of Limbaugh's view of Powell and my friend's view of me. Surely, I hold my country and my responsibility as a citizen in higher regard than to base my political views simply on race. It is irrefutable that Colin Powell is anything but a thoughtful and loyal patriot. It is the disconnect between who we are and who people think we are that is the great racial divide of our country. It is evidence that no matter how much education, experience and service a black citizen amasses, he or she cannot escape the view of many people that this singular racial characteristic governs our actions and choices.

We will resolve our long standing and deep-rooted racial issues. For good or for bad, it will take people with Rush Limbaugh's views and people with my views telling the truth. We will have to face the truth before we truly move on.  I suppose one could conclude that it makes total sense for a black person to support a black candidate for president because he is black. I suppose there are black people who are doing just that. It makes about as much sense as a white person supporting a white candidate because he or she is white. Many white people in this country have been heard on tv saying they could never vote for a black candidate. They are consequently voting for John McCain because he is white. I suppose the latter happens often enough to make the former seem obvious.

Racial motivations are all about what we suspect about other people.  We are so certain about what we suspect about others that we cannot fathom that anything else can be so. We cannot know what is in another person’s heart. Our national life is shrouded in unspoken motivations that hamper our country’s power both internally and domestically. We will resolve this issue, perhaps not in the next 14 days, but we will resolve it.

General Colin Powell uses brain power to speak his mind.

Why has Obama not answered any of the questions into his background? There are some pretty shocking, supposed, accusations about his history, associations & money contributed to campaign. Why isn't the media pressing the issue on his background? For instance, ACORN, Dr. Khalid al-Monsour, Frank Raines, Tony Rozecko & many others. Most are radical extremists. Does this not concern anyone?

For an example, check out the link below. There are hundreds more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs

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Thank you

April

ALL BIDEN CAN SAY HEY FOLK, HEY FOLK, OBAMA'BIDEN/REV. WRIGHT/HOLLIWOOD ELITE AND THE CORRUPT CONGRESS AND SENATE AND WALL STEET,INCLUDING NANCY PELOISIE!!!WILL TAKE AMERICA DOWN, THEY WILL STRIP US ALL OF OUR FREEDOMS!!!! WE WILL NOT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THE ECONOMY, THE TERRORIST OR OUR CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN!!!! BECAUSE WE WILL NO LONGER BE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!OBAMA/BIDEN, HAVE NO CLUE WHAT REAL PEOPLE, POOR MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE HAVE TO LIVE IN!!!!!!!!!LOOK THESE FOLK HAVE DONE NOTHING!!! BUT CUT DOWN , PALIN AND McCAIN!!!!!JOHN McCAIN AND SARAH PALIN, WILL GET RID OF ALL THE CORRUPT PEOPLE IN W.D.C., PERIOD!!!!!LOOK THE OBAMAS" PARADED THEIR TWO YOUNG GIRLS AND THEMSELVES AROUND THE ELITE ,RICH ACTORS AND ACTRESSES, AND JUST LIKE THEIR MENTOR OF MORE THAN 20 YEARS, THEY HAVED BEEN MENTORED VERY WELL AND IF YOU ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO FALL IN THEIR TRAPS YOU DESERVE TO HAVE TERRORRIST IN YOUR FRONT DOOR!!!! WAKE UP!!!!! VOTE FOR McCAIN/PALIN , SO THEY CAN CLEAN UP THIS CORRUPT, DRUG, MONEY ,GREED,FRAUD SO CALLED GOVERNMENT!!!!

I want someone to tell me why "Liberal" has become such a bad word? By its very definition even McCain would be considered a liberal. According to Websters it is an open mindedness to new ideas and tolerance of others views.If we ever needed some open minds to new ideas and views it is now in all the crisis's we are facing. Conservatism is fine in regards to religion, holidays etc. In today's fast and changing world we need new ideas to keep competitive. How many businesses would fail if they stuck to to the same old ideas?

My comment is why can't reporters be honest job lay offs go up as obama votes go up! his tax breaks are as employers lay off people they can rehire and get tax breaks than their right back to where they started, Hope your Jobs are high on the food chg. 2/ can someone answer this if the med.ins. chg.are the Dr. going to accept the insurances because, there dropping alot of them including medicaid try to find a decent Dr. to accept these.

Oh YEAH if OBAMA has aquintances like he has Ayres, Wright ECT. if we had the same could we get hired by the FBI> or any Gov. security Job I don't tink so!

I have been trying to delete my I report account and all the videos that are on it. But there is no delte button.

what happened was, I actualy read the terms of use, and did you know Ireport can distribute your creations with out you knowledge and even make money from your creations with out even giving you credit?

so, How can I delete my videos?

how can I delete my account?

I have written Ireport hundreds of times asking to be deleted from theif dreadful piss poor website, but all I get are computer generated replies telling me about how great Ireport is..

what does a guy have to do do to get his account deleted and to retain back all of the ownership of the content that was posted on this crummy site?

I don't wish to flood Ireport with Porn videos, but if that's what it takes to have my account ended... I will resort to this..

I will post porn uo on every page possible till you suspend me, But what of my ownership of my films that I worked so hard to create. they do not belong to ireport and I do not agree to let ireport distribute them.

first will come the porn, then will come the law suits..

can any one help?