The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

Michele Obama Robot Gets New Head
byAndy Borowitz
"We have the technology."

That was the message out of the Obama camp today as Sen. Barack Hussein Obama unveiled a newly refurbished Michele Obama robot, featuring a state-of-the-art replacement head.

While the Michele Obama robot had been a fixture during the primary campaign, appearing at the senator's side at hundreds of campaign events, an Obama campaign aide went out of his way to indicate that with its newly installed head, the MicBot-9000 was ready "to take it to a whole new level."

"This new head is going to enable the Michele Obama robot to do things that it could never do before," said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. "For one thing, it will now be able to talk."

Mr. Plouffe said that while the robot's previous head had been able to emit simple sentences such as "I've always been proud of my country," the replacement head will have a 400-word vocabulary that will enable the android to simulate human-like speech.

"The robot will be able to talk around the issues without really talking about the issues as well as Sen. Obama himself," Mr. Plouffe said.

He also said that the newly improved Michele Obama robot would have increased data storage, enabling it to store up to 2,000 recipes from a variety of online cooking sites.

Appearing with Sen. Obama at its unveiling, the MicBot-9000's new head appeared virtually identical to the previous one, down to its Straight Black hair and glassy-eyed stare.

Beaming with pride, the Democrativ nominee remarked on the new head's resemblance to the old one: "She still plasters her makeup on like a trollop."
Elsewhere, President Bush announced plans to "Drill Here" and Drill Now" and offered a challenged to the liberal camp. You know, that body we laughingly refer to as the US Congress, to explain their anti-american rhetoric. To explain why they feel that we lowly Americans are incapable of environmentally friendly solutions as Sweden, Norway, France, etc., etc., etc. To tell us why America is incapable of accomplishing what these countries have with their "Drill There" and "Drill Now", AND their generating electricity from nuclear energy (on a greater scale than ever before) and on an environmentally friendly basis.

Adolf Hitler also rode on the "change" promise from nobody to the leader of a great nation, elected fair and square, enjoying popularity like never before. In fact, he did keep his promise, the "change" was indeed delivered. Or shall I say, administered. To the great nation.

All those obamaniacs who swallowed the "change" bait, you better hope it's just a bait for brainless sheep like you.

Hope for what? Change to what?
Posted by: CarolTate2 | June 26, 2008 6:12 PM

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www.barackobama.com - its all there for you, when you have the time.

realitycheck - Real people are donating to President Obama's campaign in droves. Get use to it. Nobody is buying Obama. The people are paying for the campaign because we like what he stands for. Posted by: ob08 | June 26, 2008 3:04 PM ***** OR so bama SAYS & we've all seen what his word is worth. There is no proof of this whatsoever they don't keep records of these kinds of donations (how convenient)

McCain = FEAR
Obama = HOPE
We decide.Posted by: | June 26, 2008 12:12 PM ********

Since when is telling the truth about a person considered fear mongering? As for the hope bama spreads its like dangling a carrot in front of the donkey to get them to move. Hope for what? Change to what? just empty words.

Republican Women Say No To McCain

Full news article here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/0 6/18/MNS211BBRL.DTL&tsp=1

Short quote from the article: "The challenges facing Sen. Barack Obama as he tries to woo supporters of former rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could pale in comparison with Sen. John McCain's troubles with female voters - if the voices of a growing number of prominent Republican women are any indication. "I cannot see a more counterproductive candidate for women," said Jillian Manus-Salzman, a leading California Republican activist and generous GOP donor in the nation's most populous state, an ATM for presidential campaigns. "I cannot vote for McCain."

When will we, "the people", get a look at this proposed agreement? Of course the number of casualties is a great concern, but it sure hasn't been a concern to McCain until now.

Here is his voting record on veterans' issues (that is, when he bothered to show up 40% of the time to vote):

22 May 2008 - expressed opposition and did not bother to show up to vote on Webb's GI Bill

September 2007 - voted against another bill that would have mandated adequate rest for troops between combat deployments

On a needed $1.5 billion increase for vets medical services for FY 2007 (to be funded through closing corporate tax loopholes) he voted no - also voted no on a trust fund to bolster under-budgeted vets hospitals

May 2006 - voted against a $20 billion allotment for expanding swamped veterans medical facilities

April 2006 - he was one of 13 Senate Republicans who voted against an amendment to provide $430 million for veterans outpatient care

March 2004 - voted against and helped defeat on a party-line vote a $1.8 billion reserve for veterans medical care (also funded by closing tax loopholes)
MAD (McCain Assured Destructions)
The only things I'm angry about right now is the Iraq War, the Patriot Act, and the price of gasoline. I don't see John "The Beer Man" McCain doing anything to help me with that trifecta. My sense is the women who are real Democrats will gravitate back to Obama because they pay the bills and they've had enough of Republican "trickle up" economics

To post pro-bama articles is posting lies perpectuated by his supporters. Ya'll sound like parrots.......don't any of you ever think for yourself. Hey anyone read the article where the Liberal Military wants to test new weapons upon the people in the U.S. before it uses them on our enemies. This is just one of your precious liberal plans for OUR country..........

How can you be a President if you have no how to use a computer? McSame said that he does not know how to use a computer. Instead he relies on his stealing receipe wife to do the computer work for him. How backward is that.

America is too far in advance to have McSame as President to hold us back.

President Obama forever.

realitycheck - Real people are donating to President Obama's campaign in droves. Get use to it. Nobody is buying Obama. The people are paying for the campaign because we like what he stands for.

Obama's creed - you are living in the past and you are full of hatred. Get use to President Obama.

THIS presidential race is about race and BLACK racism. Let the race begin!

Barrack HUSSEIN Obama's church for over 20 years, the BLACK Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the BLACK Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. They believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These BLACK Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever BLACKS are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:

1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the BLACK Community
3. Commitment to the BLACK Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the BLACK Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the BLACK Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting BLACK Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all BLACK leadership who espouse and embrace the BLACK Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the BLACK Value System.

Please read the "BLACK Value System" again -- only this time, substitute the word "White" for "BLACK."

If your church had such a "White Value System" Jesse and Al and the NAACP would have 10,000 demonstrators out front in a heartbeat."

you write "Obama is all over the place on all the important issues. Who can trust him?"

That is not the point as, even if his intentions can be trusted he is just another cog n the wheel. We have shown the world over and over again what idiocy we have transformed our so-called democracy into. It's a farce, and most of the world is either laughing at us or fearing us.

Our crime rate and prisoner execution rate among the highest in the world, yet we allow people to carry guns as if we still lived in the wild west. We refuse to pay 1% more in taxes to help our fellow citizens, while 35,000,000 American live below the poverty line. Don't even mention health care. We bomb the world into submission and insist they embrace our way of life to be "free".

Our press is controlled by the wealthy neighbors of the wealthy bosses who live next to the politicians, and all send their kids to the same schools. And we think compared to the rest of the world we have an incomparable freedom of the press.

We pollute more than any other nation, eat twenty times as much meat as is healthy for us and get laughed at even more because we are a collective of obesity.

You may be right implying Obama can not be trusted, but...if you think any top politician can, you are fooling yourself and others. All good will in our country dies as it reaches the steps leading to halls of power and, if it doesn't die of its own accord, it is killed off.

Ours is a society not at the fore of ideas and freedom, but on the contrary, we are in a downward spiral and risk collapse. Watch out for those that equate controlled capitalist anarchy with freedom, they will soon be our masters.

Good luck to Obama, may he surprise us all...

Obama is all over the place on all the important issues. Who can trust him?

This blog is a terrible disappointment. I got tired of all the hatred on the Sun Sentinel blog in Fort Lauderdale so I came here. Same old, same old. This country is full of angry stupid people. It is no wonder there have been two Bush administrations. You get what you deserve.

McCain = FEAR
Obama = HOPE

We decide.

If I were to seriously consider voting for Senator McCain (which I won't), even as an Independent I do not know which McCain I would be voting for. As quoted recently in one of the print media: "the anti-torture candidate supports torture. The pro-immigration candidate opposes immigration. The candidate who opposes tax cuts for the rich supports them. The pro-campaign finance reform candidate has a campaign that is run almost exclusively by lobbyists, and exploits loopholes in the law to skirt spending limits--even the laws the candidate wrote. The candidate who opposes "agents of intolerance" in the Republican Party embraces them. The candidate with the foreign policy experience frequently confuses Sunnis and Shiites and misreads Iranian influence in the region, but is proposing permanent war. The candidate who claims to be a fiscal conservative wants to bust the budget. The candidate who claims to take global warming seriously does not want to take any serious action to address it." Will the real Senator McCain please stand up?

Greg - all those southern democrats who opposed the voting right bill found their true selves in becoming Republicans - hence the solidly Republican south.

theo wrote, "just follow the money. if it ain't from you, it ain't for you.

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Obama's being bought and paid for by big corporations. That's why his policies have shifted. Even his convention is being funded by corporations. As the election gets closer and we learn more about Obama, he will lose support. His arrogance and self-centered personality will get old.

t-hurts - the devil in the details. i won't mind it at all if republicans forgo public financing and have 1.5 million passionate republicans contributing $100 or less for their candidate. but if you're rah-rah for any politician that forgoes public financing for fat-cat $2,500 a chunk contributions, that's a whole different ballpark ain't it dude.
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Take off your blinders. Hollywood had given Obama$4 million and recently put on a dinner that cost $28,500 for the liberal stars to attend. Obama staffers were expecting over 500 people to attend. In addition Obama has money bundlers working and gathering large sums of cash. So, if you choose to believe Obama, you may want to consider his change on FISA, campaign finance...........

As an European I cannot vote in an eleccion that will affect me... however I can enjoy the results, If you Americans vote for McCain I'll be able to come again on holidays since the dollar will continue to fall... if Obama wins the election, the dollar will provably be stronger and we'll have to look for another destination, but the world we'll be a better place to life
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If Obama wins, terrorists states throughout the world win.

Obama wants to keep the campaign focused on race and religious issues, so the American people will not focus on his specific plans for America which include:

In effect, he would legislate a 60 percent tax bracket for upper-income Americans, killing all initiative and innovation. He'd raise the top bracket to 40 percent. He'd apply FICA taxes to all income, not just that under $100,000 as at present.

So add 40 percent plus FICA's 12.5 percent plus Medicare's 2 percent plus state and local taxes averaging, after deduction, at 5 percent-6 percent, and you have a 60 percent bracket.

He would double the capital gains tax, saddling the 50 percent of Americans who own stock with dramatically higher taxes.

He'd double the dividend tax, hitting elderly coupon-clippers now retired and depending on fixed incomes.

He wants to cover 12 million illegal immigrants with federally subsidized health insurance, dramatically driving up costs and forcing federal rationing of healthcare. As in the U.K. and Canada, you will not be permitted certain medical procedures if the bureaucrats decide you are not worth it.

He proposes requiring Homeland Security operatives to notify terror suspects that they are under investigation within seven days of starting the investigation.

He says that unless they can establish that there is "probable cause to believe that a certain individual is linked to a specific terrorist group," Homeland Security cannot seize his documents and search his business. The current standard is only that the search be "relevant" to a terror investigation.

He does not oppose $5-per-gallon gasoline but only says that he wishes there had been a more "gradual adjustment" to the higher prices.

Obama can talk about the Rev. Wright and flag lapel pins and his wife's love of America all day long. But what he resists is a specific discussion of his own plans for our country. That's the discussion he fears and he avoids. And it's the discussion John McCain must force upon him if he is to have any realistic chance of winning the election.

he will absolutely win the oval office. NOONE in their right mind wants four more years of bush. noone. not anyone. obama will be voted in by democrats, women, the youth, disenfranchised republicans, independents, the minority, with ease. he's already leading by 12-15 points now and wait until all the democrat big wigs come out for him. and he will pick a strong cabinet and vp and he will win. all rove can come up with (and he's the MASTER of defamation) is "ummm...he's arrogant. ummm....he's liberal". that's it. the republicans wanted to run against hillary. they did not want to run against obama. now they're gonna pay.

The Obama campaign should be taking generics when the media is involved. Why is the Obama campaign indirectly giving the Republicans access to their general election campaign strategies?

Obama and his campaign to be constantly talking about the national issues publicly, but keep the media out of their planning stages. Obama and his campaign should simply be telling the media it plans to run a 50 state strategy and talk about issues important to Americans like the economy, Iraq, national security and health care.

STOP FALLING INTO THE TRAP OF EXPLAINING TO THE MEDIA HOW OBAMA WILL GET 270 ELECTORAL VOTES!

Do you know who Nadhmi Auchi is?
He's the Iraqi billionaire who was Saddam Hussein's money launderer in London. He lent 3.5 million dollars to Tony Rezko, who used some of it to buy the land next to Obama's house and then sell him back a strip of it. So, what's to prevent Mr. Auchi, and other foreigners with an interest in our election, from buying influence in a similar way?...Public financing of the election will, as the candidate opting into it can only spend the 83 million granted him...so what's to prevent Nadhmi Auchi from lending another "Rezko" another million or so?..... Please stop telling me Obama represents a Change from sleazy backroom politics! You're only allowing him to highlight YOUR naivite, as he betrays YOUR trust.

Senator Obama's Campaign is not still getting the point: So what?

I urge the Campaign to work on your policy issues, instead of trying to convince the Press. Who denied the access to the Campaign and now offering an official briefing? Give me a break.

Obama will never win, he has no place in whitehouse,he is a lier

As an European I cannot vote in an eleccion that will affect me... however I can enjoy the results, If you Americans vote for McCain I'll be able to come again on holidays since the dollar will continue to fall... if Obama wins the election, the dollar will provably be stronger and we'll have to look for another destination, but the world we'll be a better place to life.... your choise...

The truth, baby. It's gonna hit your butt on the way out the door. And you should have seen it coming.

The notion that Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, or Bush II... the notion that any of them were compatible with the American ideals of liberty and equality is absolutely absurd.

How stupid are you Republicans, really?

Republicans will go down in history for your beliefs. You perverted evangelicals into believing that blacks and jews are bad. The moral majority was neither. History will not be kind to Republicans. Not at all.

You have screwed up the world long enough. Get off the stage, read a book (preferably not David Duke or Pat Buchanan's) and come back again with a different clue.

Nixon was impeached. And Reagan and both Bush's should have been too. If you don't understand that then you need to study a bit. Arms to the Iranians, and money to the Contras, so they could flood our streets with Crack, was a BAD IDEA. The Savings and Loan Scandal was evil. Iraq I and II, I don't even have the time to tell you how duplicitous the Bush's were. And Enron... outsourcing our energy policy to a bunch of theives.

You guys want this stuff to continue... I'm not full of hate. I am a *REAL EVANGELICAL* Jesus would have kicked everybody's butt for this stuff....

Who is this JR guy? Is he hate-filled or what? And has he ever bothered picking up a history book? More Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than Democrats. It was Southern Democrats who opposed civil rights, not Republicans.

I know you guys are up, and are thinking up some more Iran/Contra/Crack stuff.

But save it. Go hang with David Duke and Pat Buchanan.

The streets of New York will never be have to suffer through the ramifications of your failed policies again.

McCain can go to Colombia. But we'll never let you guys get away with that stuff again.

There is a brave new world. And it is about to bury you Republicans.

Polls, like Republicans *lie*.

It is over.

Gallup will have no more credibility after the election. And the evil Republicans will have to either melt or morph.

Arnold is going to be in the cabinet. He's a survivor. The rest of the Grand Old Party is going the way of the whigs.

And history will not be kind to the party that fought against womens, black, jewish, and civil rights. Not kind at all...

The truth hurts, especially when people have been EVIL.

Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II.

Good luck in the books boys. You can't buy your way out of this one.

When Obama goes to Iraq in August, he should sit down and talk to Muqtada al-Sadr. I'd like to see Obama's policy of talking to our enemies in action. Practice what you've been preaching, or else shut up.

Polls indicate that it will be fairly close, but Obama is putting states in play like never before. When was the last time you heard people talking about the Dem's competitiveness in places like Virginia and Alaska?

Y'all know, deep down inside... that Obama is kicking McCain's butt.. and y'all know, deep down inside that it was wrong to oppose black, womens, jewish, and human rights.

We've got the majority, and it is only going to get stronger. There are no more evil games left to play. Duke, Buchanan and the rest of them need to go home.

And Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II need to understand that they are going to go *down* in history for what they did.

Live with that.

Die Republicans. I hope you come back better and nicer,

The election is getting more interesting. With the issue of electability, both Obama and McCain are unique in their own way. The key issue is while many may see Obama as more electable, McCain supporters are claiming too that he's more electable. The bottom line is, vote for the one you think will do the job for you.

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Obama sounds like a broken record every time he opens his mouth. He says that a vote for McCain is a vote for Bush by association. He needs to reminds himself and the American people that a vote for Obama is a vote for the hate-mongering Wright, who served as his moral compass for the past twenty years.

Obama sounds like a broken record every time he opens his mouth. He says that a vote for McCain is a vote for Bush by association. He remind himself and the American people that a vote for Obama is a vote for the hate-mongering Wright, who served as his moral compass for the past twenty years.

HERE YOU GO JERRY-
For the Gallup Poll Daily tracking survey, Gallup is interviewing no fewer than 1,000 U.S. adults nationwide each day during 2008.

The general-election results are based on combined data from June 22-24, 2008. For results based on this sample of 2,600 registered voters, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±2 percentage points.

Interviews are conducted with respondents on land-line telephones (for respondents with a land-line telephone) and cellular phones (for respondents who are cell-phone only).

In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.

2600 VOTERS- 45% MCCAIN 45% OBAMA

I don't know where the gallop gets its information or its just misleading because Obama is defeating Mccain in every other poll except the gallop Poll and every other issue accept terroism. I'll just wait and see what the other polls show. I'm not convinced at all that Mccain is tied with Obama. Not at all.

Not this woman.

Yeeehah! Cancel my newsweek subscription! E
June 25, 2008
Gallup Daily: Obama, McCain Tied at 45%Obama had held at least a slim advantage for most of JuneUSA Election 2008 Gallup Daily Americas Northern America PRINCETON, NJ -- The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update on the presidential election finds John McCain and Barack Obama exactly tied at 45% among registered voters nationwide.

t-hurts - the devil in the details. i won't mind it at all if republicans forgo public financing and have 1.5 million passionate republicans contributing $100 or less for their candidate. but if you're rah-rah for any politician that forgoes public financing for fat-cat $2,500 a chunk contributions, that's a whole different ballpark ain't it dude.

hillary counted on the fat cats, who ran out of juice half-way. mccain and republican national committee are hosting dinners right and right for fat cats and lobbyists to raise as much $2.5k chunks as possible. and if you think that represents your interests, you've been brainwashed with one-liner us-versus-them propaganda for too long.

just follow the money. if it ain't from you, it ain't for you.

This will be a 50+1 state contest. Obama has changed positions faster than he plays the race card. Even his supporters don't know how to defend him. Obama attacks, so they attack because they have no ideal what he stands for. They just know he gives a great speech. It is funny watching Obama kick the left to the curb as he changes positions on FISA, campaign finance which they will come to regret because politics runs in cycles, so don't b1tch when the next republican skips public financing. Now, he is not even sure if he will have troops out of Iraq by the end of a first term. Bend over and inhale lefties.

I do not want to analyse your articles, I just want to see more pro-Obama articles in all your newspapers and CNN. I have been told that most Americans get their news from television - so where is the television channel that sticks up for Obama? CNN should be it, but it is full of snide, unintelligent commentating. Fox is just awful and CNBC is as pro McCain as you can get. Where is this so=called liberal left?, I keep reading and being told about? I know that the American population is scared and has become cowardly under Bush, but that is no reason to vote in an old, tired man.

McCain = FEAR
Obama = HOPE

McCain is dead meat in November. Obama will take him by 2 million votes and carry a lotta red states, including my home state of Virginia.

Will they overreach on the red state strategy? Too many ads in Alaska can have dire consequences in, say, Ohio. Eyes on the prize...

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Most of the country already knows that Barack Obama has the experience and the judgement this country needs at this critical time. I'm glad his campaign has a comprehensive plan to make sure everyone learns the truth.

Obviously McCain has been in Washington way too long. He's so out of touch that he'd be a great poster child for term limits. It's even more troubling how he is going back against his principles on many issues (tax cuts for the rich, offshore drilling, etc.) to try to get conservatives excited about his candidacy. He's more likely to lose votes from people who used to respect his prior independence and principles.