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Even though Obama wasn't my favorite choice in the primaries, as a college educated young person that is just starting out in the working world and has been following the main issues of both, I feel most comfortable with him being president. I'm tired of seeing all our money go overseas to this war as we let things go from bad to worse at home. I am a former Republican turned Independent because that party no longer reflects the core values of conservative policy. Palin scares the hell out of me. Especially when it comes to foreign diplomacy. In a global world where we are losing our dominance, we can't afford any more bad relations than we have had the last eight years. I don't like the idea of the government taking control of our banks and handing out money to everyone, but we're at the point where it's saving our ass from economic catastrophe. I'm not a fan of big government (especially when it comes to Constitutional rights and privacy), but we have let Wall Street run amuck and putting regulation on them will restore order and get the crooks out. I don't think Obama will be able to accomplish all he has laid out, but I don't think he is all talk either. The key thing for me is that he has laid out a solid plan and stuck to it. He also has focused his campaign more on his policy rather than petty character attacks.

Around $2.79-2.89 here in Cedar Rapids for 87, but Des Moines is down around $2.59 from what I hear. My dad travels through there a couple times a week and there is a truck stop that is usually lower than anywhere else in the state. The Cedar Rapids-Iowa City corridor seems to have the highest prices in the state...I have no idea why.

Sounds like McCain is going to bring up the Ayers thing at the debate tomorrow. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/14/debate.preview/ Yeah, McCain, all about truthfulness....like your nose hasn't stretched numerous times this election.

Happy birthday!

Man, even North Dakota is starting to turn blue, a state that has been heavily Republican for decades. http://electoral-vote.com/

I think it's pretty pathetic that 232 years after our country was founded upon the principles of equality for all and 143 years after slavery was abolished, we still have people who are so intolerant and stupid that they are yelling death threats at presidential rallies. The demonizing of Obama as being some radical Arab that has been going on shows how paranoid our country has become since 9/11. His name doesn't end in Smith or Johnson, so he must be a radical Muslim. His skin is black, so he must have some hidden anti-American agenda. The attitudes this election are pretty disgusting.

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I love the Bonneville! Is that a '65?

Both Ford and GM are bargains right now. If you have little disposable income like myself, they're good buys. I've also been watching GE. It's pricier (21.50) but they have a pretty substantial investment in alternative energy and many analysts are saying good things about their future. Another great company is Baxter International (BAX). They're about $50 a share, but my firm is contracted with a ton of projects for this company and they are growing extremely fast. I'd love to buy some, but it's out of my price range right now.

And that calls for some photoshopping.

GM has a deep enough hole to dig out of by itself...they don't need any more extra baggage with Chrysler. GM-Chrysler = Chevrolet, Dodge, Pontiac, Saturn, Chrysler, Buick, Cadillac, GMC, Jeep, Saab, Opel, Holden, Vauxhall. That is one big mess. It will only give GM another excuse to kill off or neuter more brands. Say goodbye to Pontiac and GMC, and maybe Dodge or Chrysler if this happens. Merging GM and Chrysler will further dilute what makes each company unique.

I don't like the sound of any of this.

I feel the same way. Leave it for a true crisis (as in world war, diplomacy destabilization, drastically declining reserves, etc). McCain and Palin are totally shortsighted on this issue; drilling in Alaska will do nothing for prices or demand.

How can any middle class American relate to a guy that has 7 houses, grew up in a privileged military family, and married the hieress of the Hensley & Co. multi-million dollar beer fortune? People so easily dismiss Obama, even though he started from far more humble roots and worked his way up through law school and into the US Senate. The phobias against Obama are simply unfounded; people cry "socialism", yet look at the last eight years. Under Bush, we have seen the largest expansion of government since the Great Depression and FDR. We have eroded nearly all credibility we had in world affairs and have been led into an endless war based on lies. McCain wants to keep that endless war going. One minute he's for more deregulation, the next he's buddying up to the $700 billion bailout. The guy has done a complete 180 on his position in THE single most important aspect of this election. As fiscally conservative as I am, I recognize there are key things wrong with our country that simply need to be fixed before we fall even further behind. Our infrastructure is so bad we have bridges collapsing. Our education is so bad that we are outranked by 25 other nations in science and math. Our dependence upon oil is so bad that prices of food and basic commodities are at the mercy of OPEC. Our debt from this war is so bad that my generation will be reeling from a double blow when the Boomers retire and want their social security. McCain voted against alternative fuels. McCain voted against Amtrak. McCain has voted against a lot of things that other developed countries are pursuing or already have. We are being left behind, quickly. I want change, and I feel that Obama is the only one who will bring this country back from the brink.

McCain and Palin's attacks against Obama using the terrorism card reek of the same tactics Bush used to get himself re-elected in 2004. I know, because I voted for Bush mostly on the premise of national security. Under Bush, we have seen acts put into law with loose wording that can infringe upon the Constitution. We've had wiretapping, monitoring of e-mails, voicemail, and internet. We have secret prisons across the globe, and we have used tactics of torture, in direct violation of the Geneva Convention. We still have plenty of unanswered questions from 9/11 that sadly will probably never be answered. When I went abroad, the anti-American sentiment was everywhere. The last eight years, we have looked less like the Democracy we fought for and more like the Empire we revolted against. I'm tired of it, I'm tired of the lies, and I'm tired of the lack of accountability from Bush, Cheney, & Co. McCain is looking more like a Bush understudy, and his sleazy attempts at painting Obama as a terrorist and Muslim radical are beyond low. It reeks of desperation. America deserves better.

Mostly due to the panic and market shorters. Now that they are so low, the shorts are getting scared and getting out. I don't see Ford going much lower...and I definitely don't see it going down near $1. Ford has enough liquidity to last for at least the next 12 months, so it's highly doubtful they will go bankrupt.

There's a clip on YouTube from the 80s when he made some Veterans Affairs woman cry at a Senate meeting. Even in the debates, you can see McCain steaming behind his forced smile. The Rolling Stone article talked about him picking fights in high school due to his inferiority complex about his height. And he has a long history of wreckless behavior when he served in the military. I just don't get the vibe that he would be a stable president.

Both are a buy (don't listen to Citi), and I have stocked up on both recently. The lemmings are getting cold feet and selling...it just means more cheap shares for the rest of us.

Well, apparently my gut instinct was wrong...two polls have Obama winning this debate so far, with CNN by a pretty large margin. I thought Obama's quip about the wheel falling off the straight talk express was pretty good. One major mistake that McCain made was when he was answering the question of the African American guy, he made the assumption that the young man asking the question didn't know who Fannie and Freddie were before the crisis. I know McCain was trying to be "folksy" by acting as if that man were maybe just an average American that doesn't follow all the Wall Street hoopla (and the man did a pretty poor job of articulating the question), but it is a mistake to assume the intelligence of someone you don't know. He should have known that.

Wow, that's almost hard to imagine. That Caravan must have really been flying!

I hate to say it, but I think McCain has this one. Obama hasn't been as forceful and has had a lot of pauses in his speaking. Obama just doesn't seem as at ease as he normally is. Hopefully the closing statement ends on a stronger note.

Unless something big happens in the next hour, I think this debate will be a wash. Like balthazar said, both candidates are basically repeating what has been said in the past and not really straying beyond.

It is a Cobra R though, a special racing spec Mustang and only about 300 were built total. Never registered, 84 miles, factory fresh condition...I could see it.

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I'm annoyed that the campaign ads have started turning toward personal attacks rather than the real issues at hand. Once again, the McCain campaign starts it and Obama follows suit, but at least Obama is keeping his attack to a topic that is relevant (the Keating scandal and the economy) vs. McCain who is merely going after character attacks and ambiguous references like Obama "not seeing America like the rest of us." I have not read anything about Obama yet that makes me nervous about voting for him. I have read plenty of things about McCain that that give me serious doubts about his ability to run the country. His past is far more checkered than Obama's, and his status as a war hero is mostly embellished. He has a history of being hot-tempered and doing whatever it takes to get his way. Palin simply doesn't have the knowledge or experience to lead if McCain passes away. If she somehow happens to take lead, I fear for the future direction of America.