LA Hanna, putting on black face was an obvious gimmick for Al Jolson, a novelty that helped him get noticed. It is akin to McCain's adopting Obama's campaign on so many issues and policies in order to increase McCain's vote popularity. Like the black face, it is so obviously a sham.

McCain isn't going to go after lobbyists and wealthy campaign donors supporting the GOP and the GOP agenda. That is a flat out lie. That would be McCain cutting his own political stature and Party off at the knees. McCain doesn't do anything unless it benefits McCain. His life story is one of a rebel who goes after what he wants and to hell with the rules, the laws, and the people that might be hurt by it.

Look up the Keating 5, for example. McCain was the only one of the 5 with a direct investment conflict of interest, yet he received the least reprimand. This is a wheelin' dealin' man whose one lapse of true character was in Hanoi Hilton when he was shamed into staying rather than be released early by the suffering of his own prison mates. And he has milked that lapse of usual character for every possible ounce of advantage he could possibly squeeze out of it.

To this day, he can't give a speech, an interview, or a casual conversation without recalling his heroism and suffering. Real heroes don't wear their heroism on their sleeves and shine a light on it at every possible opportunity.

He is on tape lying about divorcing his first wife before taking up with Cindy. Documents date his divorce papers after he had taken up with Cindy. This is not something one forgets. It is a flat out lie. When confronted with it, he now says he doesn't remember dates that long ago. B.S.

What we have here is a very determined opportunist who lost one bid for president, almost lost this second by reckless management of his campaign funds, and now he insists he is the one to rescue our economy? Give me a break! I ain't buying it. And shame on McCain for trying to sell this horse hockey to the uninformed and those uninterested in the truth and facts. Integrity? I don't think so. A man in search of a legacy to vindicate his misdeeds in life, is more like it.

Viyer06,

The answer to your question, how can people buy this crap is complicated to answer.

Many white women can buy it because their agenda is focused on a putting a woman in the White House. Many white rural folks for whom the confederate flag still holds great symbolism, can shoot themselves in the foot in order to avoid putting a dark skinned person in the White House. Still others can buy the crap because they were trained to dismiss and diminish anything labeled liberal or progressive, and vice versa for that matter.

But, the main reason the American people are developing a history at this time for really BAD political choices like reelecting GW Bush, is due to a lack of education in the most basic fundamentals of politics and democracy.

In our schools we teach who you vote for is so very important. That is false, and 180 degrees opposite of what our founding fathers understood when adopting a democratic form of republic. Who you vote for is nowhere near as important as who you vote out of office.

Politicians will insure they stay in office without anyone ever voting. They will vote for themselves and stay in office if no one else votes. The power of the vote is not to reelect, but, to unelect. When government fails the people, as our government has in a myriad of ways these last 8 years, the logical thing to do is to vote for a challenger to the incumbent running for reelection.

It is after all, the incumbents who are responsible for the government that has failed us. These incumbents were either corrupt, incompetent, or at the very least, ineffective in making government what we expected. Therefore, the logical choice for voters is to remove these incumbents by voting for ANY challenger. To reelect incumbents is to reelect the very people responsible for the poor government the voters suffer under.

But, this is NOT what is taught in our schools. And so, this most basic fundamentals of democracy is lost on the vast majority of voters in America who reelect the same politicians at a rate of 90% or more, no matter how bad government becomes or is.

Obviously, this is not by accident. From the School Boards to the White House and Supreme Court, the power brokers know the lessons being taught in our schools and they have every intention of preserving what is being taught, that voting for a candidate is the most important decision one will make. Which of course is literally false. It is who you vote out of office, and not into office, that ultimately determines whether government improves or not.

There is no incentive for politicians to improve government at any cost to themselves as long as they can blame the other politicians for the wrongs done the voters and people. If on the other hand, 50% or more of incumbents lost their reelection bid each election, both the remaining incumbents and the new Freshman politicians would recognize that their political career is likely to be next on the chopping block if they don't put their personal and partisan concerns in the back seat, and put the voter's and the people's objectives in the driver's seat.

Democracy is one of the toughest and most complicated forms of government on earth. It demands intelligent, informed, and educated voters who understand this most fundamental of democratic principles, that the power of the vote is to remove politicians from office, not keep them in office. When government fails the people and the nation, the vast majority of voters logically should vote for any challenger.

That is how you improve government by giving incentive and motive to the new politicians to perform better than the politicians they just replaced. But, as I said, the power brokers don't want this lesson taught or promulgated in our schools. It is not in their political interests to have intelligent, informed, and educated democratic voters. Quite the opposite in fact. And so it is, as it is.

Viyer06, Ssshhh....!

You are giving the November Surprise away.

Don't ruin it for Republicans.

Yes, that has been a problem with the polling since the beginning of this year. Hillary's campaign failed to appreciate the youth vote, and lost to Obama who has nurtured and courted that cell phone constituency which can't be contacted by the pollsters who use fixed land line phone numbers of residences.

That is not to say, McCain can't win. But, the polls have to remain in his favor by a spread of at least 4 points plus the margin of error to compensate for the polling inaccuracy that will show up on election day, when the only poll that counts is counted (Diebold machines excepted of course).

Bob Jones, the video is a clever mix of truth and pure propaganda. There are blatant fallacious statements such as Carter turning Iran from an ally to an enemy. Iran chose that path for themselves. The worst energy crisis?

I don't think so. What we are witnessing today with the export of 100's of billions of American dollars overseas for oil, never to return and circulate in our economy, that is the worst energy crisis America has seen.

But, it is clever inasmuch as uneducated and ignorant people believe what they see with their eyes and believe what they hear with their ears, as if sight and sound manufactured by other people must represent the truth.

America responded to propaganda like this in support of GW Bush in 2000 and 2004, and now Republicans won't show Bush's name or say his name at their Convention due to the shame of having fallen for their own propaganda. Propaganda hid the truth from Nazi Germany's leaders, and they utterly and completely destroyed their own nation with their own propaganda. America is following a similar path.

America cannot and will not, except by serendipity, elect the best and most capable leaders because of the propaganda designed to prevent such persons from being elected, or even choosing to run in the first place. America's highly developed propaganda machines, through which billions of dollars are funneled each election cycle, are destroying America's future.

That is what I think of the video.