I look at Colorado, Iowa, Virginia, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio and North Carolina…..see those former red states going for Obama….and I conclude that Obama's unity message is, like, working.

When Obama wins by an exponentially higher percentage than Bush did in 2004…will that be a mandate….or would Obama have to win all the electoral votes and 75% of the popular vote to be considered, you know, really elected?

And my previous point was, you can't call it "unity" when you leave out half the country. That's simply partisanship, not unity. Let's say Obama wins with 48% of the vote, and McCain gets 44%. What is united about that ? The unity call is just political gamesmanship, that's all. If I were a politician, I'd be too embarrassed to even talk about stuff like that. The political differences won't go away just because Obama wants to be Der Fuehrer.

The GOP may at one time have been an honest broker…..but with Gingrich, DeLay, and now Bush-Cheney….they've copleted the outing of themselves as a nothing but a quasi-crime family.

Add in their despicable Rovian politics of division and hate….and it's no wonder Tuesday will bring a Democratic landslide.

"In the conservative era, America's hypercompetitive society has been very quick to throw away people who haven't made the cut in some way — people without money, connections, or education; people with disabilities that make them economically less viable; people who come from the wrong racial or religious group or the wrong part of the country. You only deserve what you, personally, are capable of earning. If you're badly equipped to do that, it's your own damned fault. If you can't afford health care, you deserve to die. In no case is it the taxpayers' job to step in and make it right."

Unity over division is now empty headedness?

What-the-heck-ever.

A belated welcome aboard the McCain Train!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/30/rachel-maddow-interviews_n_139402.html

You are a real hoot. You destroy your own arguments as fast as you make them.

And in case you haven't noticed, and it seems you haven't, Obama himself preaches the politics of division. Small business vs. large business, redistribution of wealth, middle class vs. wealthy, the playing of the race card, liberal vs. conservative, union vs. non-union, capitalism vs. socialism. He promotes constant class and political warfare. "Unity" means – quiet the opposition, as always.

Obama also lies continuously. He lied about Rev. Wright and William Ayers. He lied about campaign financing. He lied about Born Alive. He lied about ACORN. He lies about his voting record all the time. He takes both sides of many issues, and reverses positions on the fly, at the drop of the hat. Even his central campaign premise, that McCain=Bush, is a lie. McCain promises to shrink government, while Bush grew it. The Obama campaign even suggests that Bush raised taxes on the middle class, another boldfaced lie. Obama says there isn't one significant economic policy difference between McCain and Bush. That is another lie. There are several differences.

Not to mention that Obama's tax and spend policies are the worst possible thing we could do to the economy right now. I think Obama knows that himself. That's why he's still adjusting his economic policy one week before the election, by adding a work requirement for his tax cut, and the $3,000 business tax credit for businesses who keep employees in the US (I'd love to hear how that one will work). If a poll came out tomorrow and showed that every American would vote for a candidate who mandated people to plant carrots in their front yard, Obama would add it to his platform the next day and be airing commercials about it.

A few frilly words like "hope", "change", and "unity" may impress you, but not me. I've been hearing pols say that stuff for 50 years. I stopped believing them for about the last 40. The policies are what matter. Every election is a "change" election. Every one.