YOUR COMMENTS

Lewis:
I am a fine example of an Independent voter who has an open mind to both sides and am not a lemming to the right or left.
And as such, I do not prejudge a person because of their party. While I will admit Republicans have historically led our country in military affairs, most of the social advantages and freedoms we enjoy come from the left.

And as for Barak Obama and the experience question, there is one person who ran for President with even less experience than Obama and who also had no military experience… And he was our greatest President and led us through the bloodiest war in our history.

BTW - at the end of the Clinton administration my mortgage was low, my taxes were low, I could afford to attend a Red Sox game with my family, and I didn’t have to work overtime to make ends meet. I wish I could say the same after 8 years of the Bush administration.
- Angelo Mullen, Manchester

From an outsider looking in, I cannot believe that the American people could once again shoot themselves in the foot. Maybe you are too close to see what is really going on in your country. I can understand the wealthy wanting more of the same, but that represents about 1% of your nation. You finally have a chance to step outside the box and vote for someone who has some new ideas. I have lost all respect for McCain. He may have been an honorable man at one time, but that is no longer the case. The fact that he is spending his money on dumb ads demonstrates that he has nothing new to say. Don't get your back up that an outsider is commenting. You claim the US is the worlds leader - we all get impacted by your decisions.
- Cathie Holden, Ontario, Canada

Angelo: You are the fine example of the superficiality of the voters who don't want to see the forrest through the trees, because once you do, you'll find out the Liberals are empty and meaningless and historically unsuccessful
- Lewis Horne, Epping , NH

I am excited to hear this intelligent well educated man speak.
- Pattie Buntel, Alstead,Nh

The right wing talking heads have it all wrong...

Yes it’s true that the comment about Lipstick on a pig was about Sarah,
But it’s because SHE is the Lipstick on McCain’s “piggy” campaign

It’s a simple analogy that no one seems to get!

The line Obama used immediately afterwards regarding "an old fish wrapped in new paper still smells bad" was a continuation of the same analogy.

McCain was losing points, he was looking old and tired, so he brought in the fresh new pretty face to shift the focus

Sarah is the lipstick in the joke !
- Angelo Mullen, Manchester, NH

By choosing Palin, McCain effectively distanced himself from George W. Bush, the man many Democrats hoped to run against this fall. The new "couple" is McCain and Palin, not McCain and Bush. Smart.

By choosing Biden, Obama effectively distanced himself from Hillary Clinton, no matter how many campaign appearances she may be making for him now. That may or may not have been a smart choice. But it is hardly one Democrats should invite voters to revisit in this post-Palin era. The casual and sometimes unconscious sexism of so many liberals in the two weeks since Palin was picked has raised hackles, which reminders of how Hillary was passed over by Obama can only exacerbate.
- Ken Hall, Exeter, NH

I am trully amazed at the levels of denial in the minds of people that believe Obama will win by land slide, in fact he will lose by a huge one. He is competing against a real fighter and he does not know that he will be smashed to bits by a much more experianced warrior and maverick. No pity from me, though. The Chicago kid is in for a real pounding
- Tony & Patty Jenkins, N Andover. NH

Why is he coming here?

We cling to guns and religion. I was going to go to church and to the target range this weekend.

Those should horrify and disgust him.
- Jason Entres, Hollis

Hey Brian, thats pretty low attacking McCain's honor. That man is the definition of honor. He doesn't have to define honor. He IS honor. When Obama supporters start going after McCain's honor and dedication to this country, things are getting pretty low in politics. Your comment disgusts me on o many levels not because you attack a politician, but because you attack a man's national hero status.
- Ryan Feltner, Manchester, NH

I can't help but laugh at some of the PrObama people here who are clearly hypocrites. To pamela lheureux, weare, Sarah isn't taking a break from the campaign trail, she went home to Alaska to see her son off to war. Perhaps it's you who needs to get you facts straight.

And to Dave MacCrellish of Sandwich perhaps Obama will lower the direct tax we pay but you're blatantly ignoring the fact that the business taxes he intends to raise will be PASSED ON TO CONSUMERS, which is in effect a tax hike on all of us. An indirect tax hike is still a tax on most everyone.

I suggest to everyone here to stop drinking their candidate's Kool Aid and really *think* about the effect of each candidate's proposals. I'm not pro-McCain or anti-Obama but anyone with some basic economic sense knows that Obama's tax hikes will hurt this economy.
- Bryan Lemire, Nashua

And speaking of Honor - McCain would not define honor when asked. He puts up sleazy ads and has little plans to change anything from the Bush administration. He may have been honorable once, but not in the last two years.
- Brian Andrews, Dover

Instead of taking smears for fact, lies for truth, you should all investigate for yourself the record of either Senator. NH is not McCain/Palin country. Obama does not want to raise taxes on the middle class. Investigate for yourself, and enough with the bias and lies. And its not Kool-aid, its critical thinking - try it out for a change.
- Brian Andrews, Dover

The UL has a policy which clearly states that “Your full name and home town are required in comments about political candidates”. The online editorial staff has been inconsistent in its enforcement of this rule from the beginning. To their credit, there does not seem to be any bias to the inconsistency. As seen below, trolls from either side of an argument are able to post their semi-anonymous vitriol here and elsewhere.

The question: If a policy is to be implemented only when the mood strikes, why have it?
- Kevin Drew, Milford

Kory Wood do you even follow McCain and his speaches. He is the one that repeatedly used the lipstick on a pig comment in four separate speaches. It had nothing to do with Sarah Palin who by the way needs a break from the tough campaign trail so has gone home to Alaska to be with her family. She should stay there then if she can't handle the campaign trail then she sure as hell cannot handle Washington full-time!
- pamela lheureux, weare

The Republican attack machine is out in full force this morning I see, tearing down the candidate with blatant lies because they have so little to point to in their own record that's positive. Their message is so bad, as a matter of fact, that now they've had to steal Obama's slogan, pretending that they have any intention of changing the way things are run in Washington. Right. Excuse me- McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time these last 8 years.

They will lie on the stump about policy ('I said no to that bridge to nowhere'). They will lie in TV ads and suggest that Obama wants to teach kids in kindergarten about sex (he tried to protect children from sexual predators). McCain boldly and without shame will lie and say Obama will raise your taxes, though his plan clearly shows that for everyone making less than $250,000 (that's most of us I presume) our taxes will actually be the same or less.

Wake up people. Truth Matters.
- Dave MacCrellish, Sandwich, NH

Mike, you would think we would be offered money to represent the best choice this election, since you're party promotes the 'me' first attitude. In fact, because of that "attitude' Obama will certainly lose- in so many ways. McCain has earned this position and the fact that the liberals do undertsand what "earn" means is the main reason they will fail in America.
- Jack Harris, Salem, NH

Obama/Biden-Get out of NH; we DON'T want to become Massachusetts north! Take Carol Shea-Porter and Shaheen with you!
- Kevin Lyons, Raymond, New Hampshire

I think we should all dress up as pigs and show up at the rallies so he can make fun of us like he did Governor Sarah Palin!
- Kory Wood, Manchester, NH

Oh great, its another dose of Obama "kool-aid" for all his blind supporters in NH to drink. I swear that if every Obama supporter actually knew anything about their candidate, Obama would lose supporters left and right. And when I say "knew anything," I don't mean watching NBC, CNN, ABC news because they are just an extension of Obama's campaign. Go online and look at his voting record or research his affiliations with the political mobster Rezko, the pentagon bomber Ayer, and others. I promise that the results will horrify you.
- Tom Moore, Plymouth

Veterans Park huh? Regardless of your view on the war, its kind of a joke for him to have a rally there when as a senator, Obama voted to send our soldiers into harms way without adequate body armor ect.. when he voted not to support funding for our troops. You can be against the war, but not supporting funding to protect our men and women overseas is wrong and proves that the last thing our country needs is a commander in chief who won't protect our soldiers.
- Chris King, Manchester Nh

I though New Hampshire would resemble a state where people "clung to guns and religion," so why would Obama want anything to do with us up here in a rural and small town-like place such as NH?
- Shannon Lee, Manchester

New Hampshire is McCain/Palin country. I know Obama is so used to corrupt politics after being in Chicago, so perhaps he'd do better in Massachusetts where he belongs.
- Greg Ballard, Nashua, NH

Obama will do anything necessary to win NH or any state. He proved that to us in the primaries, and I expect nothing less in the general election. I'll give you an example from the NH primaries. Obama knows that a strength of his is college students, so he actually sent out his supporters to college campuses in NH (I personally saw it on St. Anselm's campus) and actually went up to out of state students from places like Massachusetts, Connecticut, ect, and had them re-register as NH voters even though their home states were NOT NH so they could cast their vote as NH residents for that one election since their votes were more important here than in other New England states. So he was getting students who live on a NH campus for a few months out of the year to vote as NH residents for this one time.

Maybe this practice might be legal, but I for one think it is wrong and it just proves that Obama will find any loophole to manipulate the system and get votes. We need to get out there and work it for McCain and work hard because Obama will do anything to win regardless of how dishonorable it is to win.
- Ryan Feltner, Manchester NH