Albany Herald

Each week Albany Herald researcher Mary Braswell looks for interesting events, places and people from the past. You can contact her at (229) 888-9371 or mary.braswell@albanyherald.com.

Unless in a coma (or a very young child), every person in the U.S. knows it is a presidential election year. Here is a look back at some of the many election year ‘squawks’ from 2008.

• If Obama and McCain are the best we have to offer in ‘08, I shudder to think what our candidates of 2012 will be.

• A Squawker says Obama lacks experience to be president. The last thing we need is anyone with Republican experience in recent administrations.

• Obama will make a great president with Hillary as his vice president and Bill as his personal advisor. Should be a great threesome.

• Conservative Republicans have elevated selfishness to a high science.

• Obama has made Jesse Jackson irrelevant.

• I am an elderly white Republican business owner. I agree with Obama that change is needed. My dilemma in voting for him is can he bring it about?

• I think maybe it’s time to give a third party candidate a chance.

• Liberal Democrats are generous to a fault as long as they are giving away somebody else’s money.

• Seems to me Obama is trying to mend fences for our country.

• Obama can make a three-point basketball shot. Let’s elect him president.

• Senator McCain, a sure winner. I’ll bet my Edsel on it.

• After January 1, instead of a chicken in every pot, you may have a car in every driveway - on blocks.

• All you people who want to leave if Obama is elected president should leave. It is not your country anyway.

• This year’s presidential election is substance versus style. You decide.

• America needs Obama right now to restore America’s moral standing in the world. Please Republicans, just give us four years to repair the damage done by George Bush.

• The Republicans are Lucy, the Democrats are Charlie Brown and the country is the football.

• I would vote to have McCain receive the Medal of Honor for his valor, not the presidency.

• Having worked hard all my life, I am now quitting so Obama supporters can give me part of their paychecks.

• Before you go to the polls Tuesday, please remove race from consideration.

• Get ready. When Barack Obama becomes president he will be setting the bar very high - with individual and collective responsibility and accountability.

• Obama can’t possibly spend more than George Bush has.

• I switched to Fox News yesterday and, to my amazement, found out there is more than one person running for president.

• For a teacher to wear her Barack Obama button does not mean she is imposing her political views on children. Last time I checked, children could not vote.

• To alleviate crowding at the polls, I suggest Republicans vote Tuesday and Democrats vote next Wednesday.

• Since Sarah Palin is an international relations expert because she can see Russia from Alaska, does the fact that I can see the moon from my backyard make me an astronaut?

• All you voters out there, be careful what you wish for. If it appears too good to be true, it probably is.

• You Obama haters need to get a life. This man has more knowledge and leadership abilities than any U.S. president over the last 40 years with maybe the exception of Bill Clinton.

• I don’t care who Colin Powell endorses. I am waiting on Ron Paul to tell me who to vote for.

• Would someone please explain how the Republicans can accuse anyone of being a Socialist after they proposed and passed a $700 billion taxpayer-funded redistribution of our wealth?

• I never thought in my lifetime we would nominate, much less elect, a man whose only experience is that of a community organizer and 16 months in the Senate.

• Let’s face it, we are in Socialism. It is just the Democrats want the money to go to poor people and the Republicans want the money to go to rich people.

• Cynthia Tucker is the perfect Democrat. Not influenced by facts and easily led to follow the party agenda.

• After the last debate, my only choice for president is Joe the Plumber.

• Contrary to the ultra- conservative belief, an Obama presidency will not be the end of western civilization as we know it.

• How can we trust any politician who spends more than $100 million of someone else’s money on a campaign for a $200,000 job?

• Ever since Barack Obama has been the front-runner, the stock market has plummeted. Imagine if he is president.

• With ACORN’s help, I understand that Barack Obama expects to get 128 percent of the black vote.

• Barack Hussein Obama is only a name. Look at the character of this man. He will help us get out of this jam.

• Obama states that McCain has no idea how to use a computer. Well, Barack cannot land a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier at night.

• Four years hence, Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin will be a shoo-in.

• My wife must be a Democrat. She is always wanting to change something.

• McCain spent more time in a Vietnam prison than Obama has spent in the Senate.

• Blaming Democrats for all the problems we have is like blaming the rooster for the sun coming up.

• An informed voter shatters all threat of a dysfunctional democracy.

• The lady who ran over the campaign signs is my new hero.