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Obama chows down and chats up with voters in Georgetown
GEORGETOWN - On his first stop in Ohio’s Appalachian region during a two-day campaign swing, Democrat Barack Obama chowed down and chatted it up with customers at the Fireside Restaurant in Georgetown in Brown County.
“Oh, my God,” waitress Heather Shepherd said on Thursday, Oct. 9, after meeting him. “I am awe struck. It was just awesome.”
Accompanied by Gov. Ted Strickland, who had pushed for the Appalachian campaign stops, Obama ordered a “Big O” cheeseburger sandwich and coconut cream pie.
Mayor Dale Cahall, whose son Nathan is Centerville economic development administrator, said he thinks Obama can carry the county even though President Bush won the county with more than 60 percent of the vote in 2004.
“;I just think he’s more in touch,” said Cahall, who was accompanied by his wife Barbara.
Strickland has encouraged Obama to campaign in person in Appalachia to court moderate and conservative Democrats.
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By dave
October 15, 2008 1:13 AM | Link to this
You dumbasses have evidently never studied communism, socialism, nor economics. I went to school many years ago and those were subjects in the ninth grade curriculum. You wouldn’t touch that man Obama with a ten foot pole if you had any idea what these things are. Economics 101- tax increases in a recession on the rich will be passed on to you peons who buy what the rich sell. Poor folks don’t give people jobs. Socialism- Government control of commerce with equal distribution of wealth through entitlement programs.Tax the rich give to the poor. Communism- Take what you need and no more. Government controls everything.By Raul
October 11, 2008 5:27 AM | Link to this
Republicans are so IGNORANT. The White House and the Congress were controlled by REpublicans for majority of Bush’s tenor. How can Democrats be blamed for the financial crisis? No LOGIC at all. If REpublicans have ties to SAUDIS, like Bush and his father do, that’s OK. THey can pal around with terrorists if you look at it that way. You guys are TOTALLY RIDICULOUS. Look at McCain’s IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR. Look at your candidates first before blaming the other candidate. I think that more Republican politicians have been convicted than Democrats. Why is that?By mwm
October 10, 2008 9:34 PM | Link to this
Apache dumb, your accusations are false. You probably are one of the misinformed republicans. Your language has no place in this blog. McCain will lose this election because of people like you. The republican base has no dignity or honor. As McCain has no dignity. And, McCain’s only focus is his own legacy. He does not care about the american people.By Apache Down
October 10, 2008 8:57 PM | Link to this
mwm- how much do you make at ACORN. You are such a dumbass. Everything you say is lies, lies, lies. You are an absolute a*s. Obama won’t win this campaign. If the honorable Senator McCain loses, it will be because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac beat him on the feet of the Dems who caused the mess to begin. But, as there is a Republican in office, he gets the fall. With the economy doing so poorly, That One should be ahead by 30 points. But he’s within a margin of error on most polls, when he wants to redistribute wealth and offer free heathc care, which he’ll never get through Congress. He’ll be floundering all through any administration. All it takes for McCain to pull this out is a terrorist reminder. If That One wins, he’ll be loathed by over 50% of Americans. For many, including me, he won’t be “my” President. Suspicions will haunt any presidency, and HRC will be in the background licking her chops as he fails. He is tied nationally to ACORN, Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac. Americans know he litigated, ruined the economy, and that Dodd and Frank destroyed $T in market capitalization. And while Pelosi will beam and make gay rights a national agenda, you’ll have a hatred between the parties which will never heal. When you have a secretary of state stealing an election in Ohio, the party is doomed for failure in the state. Strickland is headed for another Michigan, a state known for being business unfriendly. I don’t know what position he would have in a cabinet, maybe minister to Bill Clinton, but both people and companies will be bailing out of Ohio right and left. Obama won’t win, the only way McCain loses is if Frank and Dodd’s stupidy which merits a federal sentence, is so severe, FM/FM, AIG, the investor banking firms, bring McCain down only because a President who warned the Congress what to do, but was abused and neglected by Barney Frank placing his gay lover in a position and Obama taking campaign funds while it went under. That’s the truth, but you can’t handle the truth you ACORN a*s.By mwm
October 10, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this
You republicans have really lost it this time. Once again, Rove style, lies, deceptions and propaganda. McCain is using hate filled rallies and inciting anger among his minion. Every attack the republicans throw will be countered and Obama will continue to be dignified. The honorable man is Obama. The liar is McCain, an old irrational man. McCain is unfit to command. Palin is a ditz.By Leslie
October 10, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this
Jim, I guess you would know better. According to a recent analysis by the Tax Policy Center, the average U.S. household would have lower costs in 2009 under the proposal, which would replace an income tax break for employees who receive health insurance from employers with a refundable tax credit of as much as $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for families to purchase coverage through their employers or the individual market. Under the proposal, the average household would save $1,241 in 2009, the analysis found. Tax Policy Center Director Leonard Burman said that the refundable tax credits would more than offset the change in the tax code under the proposal.By Jim
October 10, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
Leslie, You have it all backwards. McCain, BIG BUSSINESS, and the Republicans have been getting rich off the middle class. They are now trying to play the victim game. They constantly tell you how they want to help the middle class, yet their policies do just the opposite. We have poor that are not taken care of and the middle class is IN FACT struggling. Now McCain wants to tax health care benefits and wants to give the bankers full value on bad mortgages at the tax payers expense. McCain is all about deregulation, turning everything over to the greedy in big business, and turning his back on Main Street.By Leslie
October 10, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
Obama and the democrats have been getting rich off the middle class. They play the victim game. They constantly tell you how America is unfair. We have poor that are not taken care of the middle class is struggling. They say these things over and over to convince you things are bad. Then they tell you they will help you and make things better. Well are you better? Well they sure are at our expense. Did you know Barney Frank got a bill passed this summer so that us middle class can pay more taxes to help low income buy homes. Now this was before the crisis. But it was at the beginning. Was he trying to get more to cover up Fannie and Freddie. The dems caused our economic crisis, they knew it was starting to fall apart. They just were counting on Obama to get elected first so that they could cover it up. To late! These people intervened with the free market, they used strong arm, bullying, guilt baiting tactics to make money. The democrats very deceptfully feed off the poor. Now that the democrats have screwed our economy why do people believe the people that made this mess can fix it? Obama and his democrats did this to our economy! Obama cannot and will not fix this! Wake up people don’t you realize the wealthy are not dumb. When they started to realize that Obama might actually get elected they started pulling out of the stock market. They started shifting their funds. Why? Because if Obama is elected he was going to take 1/2 of it. Obama is fooling you if you really think only the wealthy will pay the taxes.By TS
October 10, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this
mwm- The Prophet aka Nobama admitted dabbling in coke, pot, and heroin. Still no response to fed order to produce valid birth certificate. Barack Obama’s supporters often try to sidestep questions about his character and judgment by saying that we should stick to what they arbitrarily define as “the real issues.” But Senator Obama’s record on specific issues is as bad as his record of repeatedly allying himself over the years with people who make no attempt to hide their hatred of America. Among the so-called “real issues” are earmarks for Senators’ pet projects, like the “bridge to nowhere.” These are among the most indefensible parts of the inbred Washington political culture, which Obama has so often claimed to be against, as part of his promise of “change” to “clean up the mess in Washington.” Yet Senator Obama not only voted in favor of the bridge to nowhere, he voted against anti-earmark amendments proposed by Senator John McCain. Obama has had more than two dozen of his own earmarks in the past fiscal year, and he knows the Senate well enough to know that, if he voted against the bridge to nowhere, his own earmarks might get nowhere. Those earmarks, incidentally, included a million dollars of the taxpayers’ money for a facility where his wife works at the University of Chicago. Her salary rose by nearly $200,000 when her husband became a United States Senator— no doubt a shrewd investment by the university that paid off. When a highly publicized bridge collapse in Minnesota in 2007 led Senator Tom Coburn to propose taking money from federal spending on bicycle paths and use it for maintaining and repairing bridges instead, Senator Obama voted against it. The kind of people who vote for him want bike paths. Moreover, the very idea of taking money from one thing to use for something with a higher priority— something that we all have to do in our own personal lives— is foreign to the liberal big spenders in Washington. When they want more money for some purpose, they simply raise the tax rates. They don’t cut spending somewhere else. The idea that Barack Obama is somehow different from other liberal-left politicians can only be based on his rhetoric, because his actual track record shows him to differ only in being further left than most liberals and at least as opportunistic. His talk, however, is another story. The speech that Obama gave at the 2004 Democratic convention— the speech that put him on the national map politically— was one which has been aptly described as a speech that would have been almost equally at home if it had been delivered at the Republican national convention. In the world of rhetoric— the world in which Obama is supreme— he is a moderate, reasonable man, reaching out to unite people and parties, dedicated to reform, opposed to special interests and a healer of the racial divide. It is only in the real world of action that Barack Obama is the direct opposite. He has pushed for federal subsidies for ethanol, for example, as other midwestern Senators have, since a lot of corn is grown in the midwest to be turned into ethanol. He is 100 percent behind the teachers’ unions in their fight to preserve their grip on the public schools and exempt their members from being judged by performance instead of seniority— which is to say, he is throwing the students, and especially minority students— to the wolves. Senator Obama would never call voting for ethanol subsidies a vote for “special interests,” any more than he called his total support of the teachers unions a matter of special interests, even though teachers unions are the biggest obstacle to changing the status quo in public schools that have failed American children in general and minority children in particular. Barack Obama’s track record on so-called “real issues” is no better than his track record on issues of character and judgment. The media’s track record of conveying the facts to the public is a travesty of their claims about “the public’s right to know.” If John McCain had made half as many gaffes as Barack Obama— “all 57 states,” for example— they would be picturing him as senile. Meanwhile, the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran supplying its terrorist surrogates with nukes does not interest the media nearly as much as scoring “gotchas” against Sarah Palin.By mwm
October 10, 2008 5:06 AM | Link to this
Bush is a former alcoholic and may have dabbled in cocaine. Bush had a DWI conviction in the 70’s. Cheney also has prior DUI incidents. In some cases, a DWI conviction could barr a person from a security clearance. Obviously, the republicans ignored that.By joyce
October 10, 2008 2:10 AM | Link to this
Obama is a former drug user.Will he legalize drugs? I would like to have all the canidates take a drug test and make it public so we will know if they are drug free. Will Obama rehire federal employees who have been fired for using drugs? Why has no member of the media not asked Obama any of these questions?By anghiari
October 10, 2008 12:54 AM | Link to this
Governor Palin keeps asserting Senator obama’s questionable associations…why don’t we have a look at hers. Dexter Clark, current head of the secessionists group The Alaskan Independent Party. Why is the mainstream media not invoking Dexter Clark and Joe Vogler, both men have headed the Alaska Independence party (secessionst party) when Governor Palin wants to talk about “associations” Dexter says about Palin, ” Our current Governor is a pretty good looking gal and the joke going around is that we are the coldest state with the hottest Governor.” He goes on to say she was a member of AIP before she became Mayor of Wasilla, but that was a non partisan job, when she decided to run for governor, she had to go along to get along, so she joined the Republican party. Dexter Clark, American Independence Party in Chattanooga, the Second Secessionist Convention video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK2sFJebGc (he speaks about sarah Palin at 6:15 into the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E46ZVzBf9U (speaks about Palin about 2:29)By Tom Sowell
October 9, 2008 10:37 PM | Link to this
What about those “real issues” that Barack Obama’s supporters in the media say we should get back to, whenever some new unsavory fact about his past comes out? Surely education is a real issue, with American school children consistently scoring below those in other countries, and children in minority communities faring worst of all. What about Senator Obama’s position on this real issue? As with other issues, he has talked one way and acted the opposite way. The education situation in Obama’s home base of Chicago is one of the worst in the nation for the children— and one of the best for the unionized teachers. Fewer than one-third of Chicago’s high-school juniors meet the statewide standards on tests. Only 6 percent of the youngsters who enter Chicago high schools become college graduates by the time they are 25 years old. The problem is not money: Chicago spends more than $10,000 per student. Chicago teachers are doing well. A beginning teacher, fresh out of college, earns more than the city’s median income and that can rise to more than $100,000 over the years. That’s for teaching 6 hours a day, 9 months of the year. Moreover, a teacher’s income is dependent on seniority and other such factors— and in no way dependent on whether their students are actually learning anything. Obama has said eloquent and lofty words about education, as he has about other things— for example, how it is “unacceptable in a country as wealthy as ours” that some children “are not getting a decent shot at life” because of the failing schools. In a predominantly black suburb of Chicago, where the average teacher’s salary is $83,000 and one-fourth of the teachers make more than $100,000, Barack Obama noted that the school day ends at 1:30 PM. In his book “Dreams from My Father,” Obama said candidly that black teachers and administrators “defend the status quo with the same skill and vigor as their white counterparts of two decades before.” It is not a question of Obama’s not knowing. He has demonstrated conclusively that he knows what is going on. But, for all his eloquent words, he has voted consistently for the teachers’ unions and the status quo. “I owe those unions,” he has said frankly. “When their leaders call, I do my best to call them back right away. I don’t consider this corrupting in any way.” Only other politicians’ special interests are called “special interests” by Barack Obama, whose world-class ability to rationalize is his most frightening skill. Even when he verbally endorses the reform idea of merit pay for teachers, he cleverly re-defines merit so that it will be measured by teachers themselves, rather than by “arbitrary tests.” In other words, Obama placates critics of the educational status quo by being for merit pay in words, while making those words meaningless, so as not to offend the teachers’ unions. The failings of teachers are only part of the disaster of inner city public schools. Disruptive and violent students can make it impossible for even the best teachers to educate students. Administrators are reluctant to impose any serious punishment on those students who make it impossible for other students to learn. Partly this is because liberal judges can make it literally a federal case if more minority students are punished than others. In other words, if black males are punished more often than Asian American females, that can be enough to get the administrators drawn into a legal labyrinth, costing money and time, even if the punishment is eventually upheld. When a bill was introduced into the Illinois state legislature that would put more teeth into suspensions of misbehaving students, Barack Obama voted against that bill. A real reformer would want to crack down on both unruly students and unaccountable teachers. A clever politician would speak eloquently, demand “change”— and then vote for the status quo. Obama talks a great game.By Kahlil Gabrin
October 9, 2008 10:22 PM | Link to this
Obama is a fraud, an empty suit, a terrorist loving socialist. He, Barney Frank, Raines, and many Dems cost Wall Street $10 Trillion is losses, and O bots think this empty suit is God. America is going to hell in a hand basket.By zuq
October 9, 2008 9:16 PM | Link to this
Ohio, please don’t let the rest of the country down. You need to push your fellow residents to go out and vote for Barack Obama. There is too much at state. Bush has a 25% approval rating. McCain voted with Bush over 90% of the time. Who do you think will really turn this country around. The rest of the country needs OH to pull through! We’ll do our part in our state, please do yours and we can turn this country around. Go to the URL below. www.barackforus.com/2008/10/06/john-mccain-wants-to-cut-medicare-and-medicaid/By spcneedsmom
October 9, 2008 9:09 PM | Link to this
Obama needs to stay in the Ohio hills! Ralph Stanley, the bluegrass legend, has just endorsed Obama for president! You can check the video out on youtube. Ralph Stanley is the greatest; Obama should be honored to have his vote.