As much as I think McCain is too far to the left on social and even fiscal matters, he is far to the right of Obama who is the most liberal Senator in the nation.

Rational_Thinker: By what standard - -your own intuition?

You have been misinformed.

Supreme Court justices (not "judges") are not appointed by the President. Under Article II of the Constitution, the President only has power to nominate justices. They are confirmed - or not - by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senators Leahy (D) and Spector (R) presiding.

Skeptic, I know the difference between a justice and a judge. A justice interprets the constitution. A judge decides what they want and imposes it.

As for Leahy (D) and SPector (RINO) I don't see your point.

The Republicans don't have the cajones to filibuster nominations like the Democrats did. If Obama nominates them, they get in.

No, you don't.

Don't worry, Rat_Tinker, there will be a special state reserved just for you where you can hide from marauding bands of farm animals who might wish to enter into a legal contract with you against your will, now that you would susceptible to forced indoctrination.

I was thinking Alaska. Palin was planning on having it succeed from the Union, anyhow, after the election she's going back there to run her own little fiefdom. How does that sound ?

"If" Obama gets elected?

McCain has Bush-Cheney, The Keating Five, old age, cancer, superstitious Sarah, two failed military occupations, a Republican-failed economy and the Dark Side with Palin as millstones around his neck. So let's toss him an anvil.

McCain is currently lagging 14 points behind Obama, due in part to a series of mean-spirited nasty personal attacks against the Democratic presidential candidate.

Today's (Oct. 15) CBS News and the New York Times Polls have Obama leading McCain by 53 to 39 per cent among likely voters with less than three weeks until election day. That is the widest margin of the entire campaign.

Among independent likely voters, Obama now leads by a whopping 18 points. Twenty-one per cent of voters said their opinion of the GOP has changed for the worse in the last couple of weeks, and the top two reasons cited were the negative campaign and McCain's choice of the clueless and corrupt Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Voters are justifiably skeptical about believing in the party that has lied to them almost daily for the past eight years.

But this election is about more than just the presidency. With hard work and a little luck, the conservative movement will lose both houses by filibuster-proof margin, and get set back two, maybe three generations. Republicans always worked better as a minority party, anyway. So let's see if they can be kept there, you betcha, My Friends.

You don't know the difference between a judge and a justice.

As for the standard of liberal vs conservative, here are a few advocacy group ratings...

Naral gave Obama a 100%, gave McCain a 0%

Americans for Tax Relief gave McCain an 82%, Obama a0%

http://nj.nationaljournal.com/voteratings/

McCain is rated at 82% which puts him 39th in the Senate Republicans as a conservative.

Obama was rated at 95.5% liberal which put him at #1 in the senate as the most liberal.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm - scroll to the bottom for the summary graphic which defines him as a hard-core liberal.

http://www.ontheissues.org/John_McCain.htm - scroll to the bottom for the summary graphic which defines him as a populist leaning conservative.

That's funny. I think the idea of McCain nominating Justices is a good reason to vote Obama. Isn't the fear of the other side picking the SCOTUS always a big reason to pick your own guy?

r_t, here's some other numbers to add to your list.

The non-partisan group Disabled American Veterans gives John McCain a 20 percent rating for his voting record on veterans' issues. It gives Barack Obama an 80 percent rating.

The non-partisan group Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gives McCain a "D" grade for his voting record on issues such as additional funding for combat body armor, and additional funding for post-traumatic stress disorder and other medical treatment. Obama earned a "B+" grade.

Members of the armed services overall -- whether stationed overseas or at home -- are also favoring Obama with their campaign contributions in 2008. Of money from the military to the presidential nominees, 57 percent has gone to Obama.

And Obama has received nearly six times as much money from troops deployed overseas at the time of their contributions than has McCain.

I got more if you want them.

Rational_Thinker: You're inaccurate. Don't believe everything you hear from the Hate-talk Express. You'll hear lots of lies now that McSame-Palin are trailing Obama by a whopping 18 points among independent likely voters.

- Americans for Tax Relief was founded in 1985 by Grover Norquist. Norquist is one of the most connected members of the neocon radical right movement, with close ties to the Party and GOP subsidized U.S. media. It's not surprising he detests anything Democratic. He also opposes all forms of tax increase, in keeping with his avowed goal of elimination of government programs by radically cutting "...government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." Swell. Then what?

The conservative National Journal rated Obama the "most liberal senator" in 2007 but not for his entire Senate career. He was rated 10th and 16th in his two previous years. McCain's anti-Obama smear ad makes the same claim. But how would McCain know? Sen. McCain has missed 408 out of Senate 639 votes cast in the current Congress, or 63.8%. He has the worst Senate attendance record in Congress.

R_T: Have you figured out the difference between a judge and a justice?

wrighter; There are a lot of "non-partisan" groups out there that will be used to make a particular point, but most people will agree...Obama is a radical leftist and McCain is a liberal-moderate Republican with a few conservative positions.

What you guys fail to observe is that I am not promoting McCain, but rather, pointing out the huge flaws with Obama.

They are both weak.

You cannot accept this. You HAVE to think Obama is the Messiah, but he is not. You are the brainwashed lemmings who accept everything you hear. I am critical of McCain, so therefore I must not be accepting everything I hear from his campaign, eh?

r_t says: "You cannot accept this. You HAVE to think Obama is the Messiah, but he is not. You are the brainwashed lemmings who accept everything you hear."

There are only two choices from which to describe you, r_t, and the first is that you are simply a a true definition of an internet troll who writes crazy @ss stuff in order to get a reaction, and will make stuff up off the cuff in order to play your silly persona.

Or, the other option is that you actually believe your own spurious and disingenuous statements and you are indeed just a batsh!t crazy crank living outside of reality but have a (mistaken) wish that you speak for the majority. If that is the case, you need some help.

Either way... be you dishonest, crazy, or both, you don't want to talk or discuss issues... you just want to play the fool and make outlandish statements with no actual desire for genuine debate and opinions.

Talk to the hand, dude.