Thinking Right

By mm

October 23, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Hey Jim. You do realize McCain has run the most negative campaign in history. 100% of his ads have been negative.

See the correlation?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 23, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. One’s initial inclination is to greet our genial host’s argument with the language of our kids, “well, duh,” (an “expression of affirmation” for those of you who are not conversant with modern youth) but that should be resisted. If nothing else our penned-thoughts create an archive for future anthropologists, who may someday be interested in the causes of our social disintegration and total cultural failure. Yes, the MSM is mostly leftist, has been since Murrow died, and may have been before then – I barely remember John Cameron Swayze.

To the substance of the particulars of Mr. Obama’s shady associates – indeed, aren’t all of his associations with shady people? - Chairman Ann has a sharp analysis (if you care, you know where to find it) of the Obama-Ayers connection, mostly focused on Ayers’s recent work, which has been only slightly less destructive than bombing government facilities. She closes with a valid question for Chauncey, which, of course, neither Face the Nation nor Meet the Press would ever probe: “Forget about Ayers’ domestic terrorism when Obama “was 8 years old.” Does he agree with Ayers’ idiot ideas right now?” I think the stock market knows the answer to that question.

I am amused by that silly essay that recently popped up in the leftist MSM press, affirming that “socialist” is a term applied only to suggest a racial characteristic, an “absence of pallor.” Nevertheless, in the spirit of comity, I will henceforth use the term “socialist” only in reference to white democrats, as in the phrase “the national socialists are rallying behind Obama.” I will henceforth use the term “Marxist” to refer to black democrat supporters of Obama. As Obama has multi-racial blood lines, I am conflicted as to how to refer to him. While there is little question that he shares the national socialist credo, perhaps “Marxist” would be the more pc term for such a transformational personage. “Marxist” it is.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 23, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

Dear Churchills’s Mom, Dan Henninger provides your article for today. If I may quote the first six sentences:

“The abuse being heaped on Sarah Palin is such a cheap shot. The complaint against the Alaska governor, at its most basic, is that she doesn’t qualify for admission to the national political fraternity. Boy, that’s rich. Behold the shabby frat house that says it’s above her pay grade. Congress has the lowest approval rating ever registered in the history of polling (12%!). She isn’t the reason polls are showing people want the entire Congress fired, with many telling pollsters they themselves could do a better job.”

The essay covers much more than Magna Sarah, although she is the canvas for his work. Henninger is always good, but this analysis of “politics in the first decade of the new millennium” is a work for the ages. He even discusses those mindless epithet-flinging leftists on this blog.

By Reality Check

October 23, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

It is unfortunate that this kind of report is even nessasary, but the Mccain campaign has decided that the best way to look good is to make Obama look bad. The Republicans in general have made running for office super hard because as soon as they get down, the claws come out and the mud gets thrown. This is not to say that Dems are without sin, but evrything from Willie Horton to Saxby saying that Jim Martin let a kid in his care die…. well you ge the picture. I liken it to this: he Dems give paper cuts that annoy you, but the Repubs give a bullet wound, and that kills.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 23, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Now, the jbmlaw innovation for the day. Despite my oft-expressed aversion to amendment of the Constitution, let us amend the Constitution to provide for a single-question national referendum to be conducted on May 1 every even-numbered year: “Shall the entire Congress be fired?” A 50%+1 affirmative vote nationwide disqualifies, from election to Congress for two years, each individual who has served in the Congress in the preceding 483 days.

Second jbmlaw innovation for the day: A majority vote of each house of Congress disapproving any particular Court ruling shall preclude any Article III Court from subsequent reliance on, or favorable reference to, the ruling. The legal effect of such disapproval may be rescinded only by a subsequent majority vote of each house of Congress.

Finally, my contribution to today’s political analysis for future anthropologists:

“I think at this point there needs to be a focus on an immediate increase in (government) spending and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second seat … I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of the money.” — Barney Frank, October 20, 2008

Clearly Mr. Frank - last seen heroically protecting FNMA and FHLMC against conservative constraints and augmenting the pockets of its leftist leaders by ramping up massive taxpayer guarantees - was greatly impressed with the efficacy of President Bush’s $600 per person gift. The jbmlaw perspective is that Mr. Frank and President Bush deserve each other. What a waste of time and tax dollars, these lame attempts to resuscitate Keynesian economic theory. The Fed’s bizarre clinging to the Philips Curve (otherwise most recently applied, obviously unsuccessfully, during the administration of President Carter) is what got us into the mess we wade through today. One hears Mr. Frank’s real words, “We’ve got to do something to protect our phoney-baloney jobs.”

Thus is set President Bush’s legacy – a brilliant, even far-sighted foreign policy (too far-sighted for most democrats, as intellectual myopia is a congenital cause for leftism) but he is just a typical Harvard democrat on economic affairs. Even his one intelligent and effective domestic initiative – the tax cuts – was an idea stolen from Jack Kennedy.

By PinkoNeoConLibertarian

October 23, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Perhaps it is the tenor of the campaigns themselves which set the tone of the press and not the other way around? Chicken? Egg? Pot? Kettle? Wooten? Bookman?

Pffttt…who cares? The only vote that matters to me is mine and that has already been cast for Barr. Yes, some of us have principles that we actually do more than pay lip service to.

By Churchill's Mom

October 23, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Jim are you mad about our Gal spending $150,000.00 of GOP money on clothing? Well that’s what all hockey MOMs do. Jim if you don’t do something on Soon to be Vice PresidentPalin tomorrow you’ll be gone monday.

McCain Tries to Push Past Palin Backlash Campaign Says She Rallies Key Voters

By Michael Abramowitz and Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, October 23, 2008; Page A02

GREEN, Ohio, Oct. 22 — Sen. John McCain campaigned across Ohio with Sarah Palin at his side Wednesday, drawing energized crowds of GOP partisans while his campaign dismissed the latest controversy over his running mate as coming from elitists and not representing the opinions of average Americans.

McCain Tries to Push Past Palin Backlash McCain Slams Obama’s Economic Policy In Ads, GOP Stresses Obama’s Ties to Chicago Developer Wooing Va. Before Heading to Hawaii Obama Rallies for Patriotism in Leesburg, Va. In Real America, Shining a Light on Faux Pas

It’s Not Yet Curtains for A Moth-Eaten Metaphor Campaign Curriculum After a $150,000 Makeover, Sarah Palin Has an Image Problem The Budget Breakdown Sarah Palin’s Wardrobe Disconnect The Price Tag For Politics Appearing before a cheering throng of supporters at a high school football field near Akron, McCain and Palin reprised their criticism of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama as a big spender intent on raising taxes and redistributing wealth. But McCain reserved some of his sharpest rhetoric for a round of media interviews, telling radio talk show host Don Imus that he was “entertained by the elitist attitude” toward Palin and attributing criticism of his running mate to the fact that she was not part of the “Georgetown cocktail party” circuit.

“I think she’s most qualified of any that has run recently for vice president, tell you the truth,” McCain said, citing her experience as a small-town mayor and Alaska governor. He added: “Bill Clinton was pretty well derided when he came out of a small state to run for president of the United States,” and he pronounced himself “amazed” at the criticism.

McCain’s language underscored the frustration inside his campaign over the wave of negative publicity that has surrounded Palin in recent weeks. When she was first introduced to the country as his running mate in late August, Palin provided a jolt of energy to the campaign, helping McCain consolidate restive conservatives and pull even with Obama in the weeks after the GOP convention. Obama has since opened a lead in most surveys, including a lead of 11 points in the most recent Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll, released Wednesday.

But there is little sign that Palin has expanded her appeal beyond the GOP base, and she has been dogged by a steady of stream of politically damaging news, including the continuing investigation into her role in the firing of a state trooper in Alaska, her struggles in a series of network interviews and comments about “real America” that she later apologized for. The latest controversy involves a report that the Republican National Committee spent $150,000 on makeup consultations and clothes at high-end department stores such as Neiman Marcus and Saks in New York and St. Louis.

McCain aides dismissed the story, first reported by Politico, as of little significance in a period of financial and foreign crises. But some senior Republicans in Washington expressed concern that the disclosure could undercut her image as a “hockey mom” who can relate to ordinary citizens. “Voters are more worried about the economy,” said McCain adviser Mark Salter, dismissing the suggestion that Palin had become a drag on the ticket. “She generates big crowds,” he said. “She generates excitement everywhere she goes.”

Palin has hardly been the only contributing factor in McCain’s lagging fortunes. From the start of the general-election campaign, he has run against the headwinds of an ailing economy, an unpopular president of the same party, a GOP brand that is in disarray. Obama, meanwhile, has avoided major missteps and built significant financial and organizational advantages.

Where the selection of Palin was once seen as an asset, a majority of voters now say McCain’s vice presidential pick reflects poorly on the decisions he would make as president, according to the Post-ABC News poll. Overall, 52 percent of likely voters said they are less confident in McCain’s judgment because his of surprise selection of Palin; 38 percent are more confident because of it. That represents a marked reversal from the initially positive reaction to the pick.

Several GOP sources expressed anger about the damage the clothing story was likely to do to the ticket, coming just as the campaign is making its closing argument by employing “Joe the Plumber” in an appeal to average Americans. “That’s what grates me. We’re the party that talks about looking out for the little guy,” said one top Virginia Republican, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about the GOP ticket. “Then something like that pops. It smacks of being hypocritical.”

Saul Anuzis, the chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, said Palin remains a popular figure, particularly with conservatives in his state. “She has still been a net plus for us,” he said.

But he conceded that the national party spending $150,000 on clothes for her was a “dumb political decision” that was not likely to play well among many of his hardscrabble voters. “You’re talking to a guy who wears Lands’ End shirts,” Anuzis said. “I don’t even know how you would spend $150,000 on clothes. You can get a pretty darn good men’s suit for $300 to $500.”

Mike DuHaime, McCain’s national political director, called Palin’s addition the ticket “a shot of adrenaline to our entire base, and not just our conservative base,” adding: “She can appeal to conservative Democrats, to working women, and she can certainly rally Republican voters.”

By Road Scholar

October 23, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Jim, you contend that the writer of the article which stated that Ayers and Obama were/are not close got it wrong because he/she couldn’t have known that. So where is your detailed source that they were? Haven’t heard that yet not only from you, but from anyone else.

While you are searching, find the source where NcCain snuggled up to Liddy, met with him, and attended a fundraiser at Liddy’s home. A convicted felon (Liddy) which has shown no remorse and actually proposed ways of killing ATF officers is a lot worse than someone who was not prosecuted (Ayers charges dropped).

McCain’s campaign has lacked organization, a clear pertinent message, and a VP candidate who is not qualified for VP. These reasons are not cause for comments that criticize?

By Republicans are Evil

October 23, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Forced to defend what should be reliable red state turf, John McCain and Sarah Palin finally showed up in North Carolina over the past few weeks. So far in October, the GOP running mates have appeared at four campaign rallies here. And in the wake of their visits, a string of election season crimes have occurred around the state involving violence, vandalism, and harassment.

First, a reporter was assaulted at a Palin rally held last Thursday at Elon College. Greenboro News & Record reporter Joe Killian was kicked to the ground by a Palin supporter as he was trying to interview protestors at the event who backed Obama. From Joe’s blog:

“Oh, you think that’s funny?!” the large bearded man said. His face was turning red. “Yeah, that’s real funny…” he said. And then he kicked the back of my leg, buckling my right knee and sending me sprawling onto the ground. An MSNBC sound technician was hit in the head by a rock thrown by another Palin supporter at this same rally.

Next, over the weekend, about 30 Obama supporters had their tires slashed while attending an Obama rally that attracted an overflow crowd of more than 10,000 at the Fayetteville Crown Coliseum. Among the citizens left stranded were a single mother and toddler. “This is an embarrassment to this city and to me as a citizen,” said a nearby resident. “This is a crying shame.”

After the rally finished, a mob of white McCain-Palin supporters jeered and harassed a steady stream of mostly black Fayetteville residents standing in line to vote early at the downtown Board of Elections office. According to the Washington Times correspondent who reported the story, “people were shouting about Obama’s acknowledged cocaine use as a young man, abortion and one man used the word ‘terrorist.’ ” In doing so, they almost certainly violated the Voting Rights Act of 1964, which states:

“No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for voting or attempting to vote”

And this Monday, a black bear cub was killed and left at the entrance to Western North Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., with Obama campaign signs wrapped around its body, including two taped together over its head. Police reports are calling the incident a “prank,” and claim seven students are being questioned. Whatever the motive, this latest development was met with immediate public revulsion and condemnation. As the Asheville Citizen-Times editorialized today, “It was an innocent bear cub that lost its life this time as some deranged person or persons expressed their political rage. Next time, it could be an innocent person.”

These incidents have all been perpetrated by or linked to McCain supporters, and stirred up by McCain and Palin’s angry, hateful campaign rhetoric. Like during Palin’s first stop in the state at a Greenville rally on Oct. 7, when she continued trying to smear Obama over his tenuous connection to Bill Ayers. With uniformed service members standing in the crowd behind her, she again peddled her discredited attack line that Obama was “palling around with terrorists” by asking, “He didn’t know that he had launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist?”

The McCain campaign is currently flooding the state with robocalls making identical false charges. The N.C. Republican Party is aiding the attack with a scurrilous mailer sent to N.C. voters headlined, “Obama has close ties to domestic terrorist,” with mug shots of Ayers from 1968 and a recent photo of him wearing a Cuban national baseball team jersey. This is the same ridiculously far right state GOP party that ran an attack ad during the primaries tying Obama to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, which McCain repudiated at the time.

Only days after McCain suddenly realized the angry tone of his rallies was turning off voters, and rebuked an elderly supporter who called Obama “an Arab,” he was back in the gutter at their final debate. Before 56.5 million people, he linked Obama to the community organizing group ACORN’s voter registration efforts, and hysterically insisted ACORN was “on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.” On Saturday, McCain recorded a radio address in Concord, N.C. in which he claimed, “Barack Obama’s tax plan would convert the IRS into a giant welfare agency,” before appearing at a rally attended by several thousand supporters.

Last week, Palin told big donors at a fundraiser in Greensboro that she was thrilled to be visiting the “pro-America areas of this great nation,” a gaffe so ill-advised and guaranteed to offend that she actually apologized for it, a first for Palin. But it was entirely consistent with her worldview, which is warped and narrow minded, categorizing anyone who doesn’t share her extreme beliefs as “haters” and enemies.

On the same day, she was asked by a local reporter what she thought of the late Sen. Jesse Helms, who was the last unapologeticly racist U.S. politician of the segregation era, held legendary, disgraceful campaign rallies of his own, and whose ultra right wing views were cut from the same cloth as Palin’s. No wonder she expressed admiration for the man, admitting that “I do respect those years of service that he had provided.” She also did her best to whitewash Helms’ shameful legacy by falsely claiming he had apologized for his past misdeeds.

Interviewed by the Washington Post for a recent story on McCain’s early political career, former executive director of the Arizona Republican Party Jon Hinz gave some insight into why McCain shows little concern over his campaign stooping to such lengths to trash Obama. “He needs to make enemies of the people he’s going against in order to get fired up,” said Hinz.

The violent incidents we’ve witnessed in North Carolina are all lower than low, in fact, they’re despicable. But McCain and Palin are to blame for creating an environment where their more unbalanced supporters feel these kinds of actions are legitimate.

They show what dangerous ground McCain-Palin are traveling by relying on increasingly desperate, unfounded character attacks on Obama in their attempts to distract our country from the ongoing economic crisis. Yet as polls continue to show, these attacks have backfired. They are contributing to voters’ distaste for the Republican ticket.

And they’re leaving behind a hollowed out party destined for minority status. As independents and moderate Republicans like Colin Powell abandon the McCain-Palin GOP in droves, all that remains are increasingly bitter, frustrated, far-right voters. This election’s coming Democratic tsunami will exile Republicans to the political wilderness, where they will have to decide whether to keep clinging to yesterday’s politics of fear.

As for John McCain and Sarah Palin, shame on both of them. After resorting to careless demagoguery and stirring up hatred and division so recklessly, neither deserves to hold public office.

by Eric Ose

By Joe 6 Pack

October 23, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

If the war/surge is such a success why isn’t Bo Chambliss in Iraq instead of making all the country club booze parties in D.C.? What’s going to happen to that “surge success” when the Shiite militia calls of the cease fire and the thousands of Sunni insurgents (aka the “CLC”) we are paying millions to get tired of fighting for a country they hate, and there is still no political progress on the most significant contentious issues?

Some 70,000 former insurgents are now being paid $10 a day by the U.S. military. It costs about a quarter billion dollars a year in the three trillion dollar fiasco that’s helping to usher in Depression II.

Ole Saxbuh voted 99% with Bushie in the last eight years. His pronouncements during the passage of the illegal wiretapping debacle were simply false statements meant to take advantage of an indifferent and uneducated populace who is getting the democracy they deserve including the bills Bo writes for the Chicago Mercantile exchange.

Saxby still flies Corporate Jet Air free on company owned planes in a familiar quid pro quo.

“It leaves when you want to leave. It goes where you want it to go when you want it to go there. You don’t have to go through the normal security, and you get a lot more than peanuts.”

Little Bo is a recipient of this largess as well.

A spokesman for US Tobacco, Mike Bazinet, said that it received more requests for planes than it could fulfill and that it generally sent a representative on the flights. A spokeswoman for Federal Express, Kristin Krause, said it was policy to do just that. Ms. Krause rejected the notion that FedEx lobbyists had undue access.

“The way you get there is less important than what you do while you’re there,” said Mr. Chambliss, who spent more on corporate jet travel than any other incumbent senator, the Political Money Line said.

Mr. Chambliss said he never spoke to a lobbyist “about any particular issue” on his trips.

I wasn’t on the plane, but ole Saxbuh flew for free on corporate jets than any other Senatuh.

Here’s lookin at ya Bo and Saxbuh:

Saxby the Sugar Stooge. One of the biggest corporate stooges in the Senate, Saxby took corporate loyalty to a new level at a Senate hearing on Friday.

Based on his demeanor at a Senate hearing on Friday you would think Saxby owned Imperial Sugar Company.Well maybe Imperial Sugar owns him.

Saxby is arguing that a “whistleblower” is responsible for a February explosion that killed 13 people at the Imperial Sugar company plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia. Keep in mind that Graham. H. Graham (the man being questioned) had only worked at the plant for three months, while others allege years of safety violations.

Let’s follow the quotes and then follow the money and even Saxby’s son ,the corporate lobbyist, and his connections:

The Article in the Houston Chronicle says

“Chambliss also said he has not been influenced by any lobbyists for the Sugar Land, Texas-based company or by his son, Bo. The younger Chambliss is an in-house Washington lobbyist for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which also is represented by an outside firm that lobbies for Imperial Sugar. “My purpose has been to try to get the facts out,” Chambliss said. “This guy (Graham) is an agent of the company. How anybody can interpret that I’m doing something for the benefit of the company when really I’m chastising their agent is beyond me … The company’s got to stand on their own. I’m not about to defend them in any way.”

However that is countered by Graham and his attorneys as well as the other Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson.

“Hilder and others have accused Chambliss of doing the company’s bidding on Tuesday when he sharply questioned Graham at a Senate hearing. Chambliss’ questions raised eyebrows because no one aside from Imperial had publicly doubted Graham’s claims. That includes Chambliss’ fellow Georgia Republican, Johnny Isakson. The two rarely split, but Isakson says he has full faith in Graham’s account.”

Let’s follow the money for a second

This might show a little inisght as to why the questions of bias arise.

Look at Imperial Sugar’s PAC $1,000 to Saxby Chambliss this cycle- $2,000 of which was contributed by John Sheptor

John Sheptor is President and CEO of Imperial Sugar who is compensated quite handsomely.

There are several others with ties to Imperial Sugar that have contributed to the PAC Harold Mechler - CFO is a $500 Contributor to the PAC

Gaylord Coan - $1,000 contributor to the PAC is a director

(Apparently Savannah Congressman John Barrow returned some of the money he was given by Imperial and he’s not even questioning them at a Senate hearing)

Saxby Chambliss has received $21k from the Sugar industry this cycle.

Saxby Chambliss has a son Bo Chambliss who works for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as a registered lobbyist (the quote is correct there)

Clarence “Bo” Saxby Chambliss has given $2,000 to the Chicago Mercantile PAC.

The Chicago Mercantile lobbyist works on behalf of several companies with ties to the Sugar Industry.

Googling lobbying and CME, we found one article that shows that

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is employing the son of Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) to lobby members of his father’s congressional committee and other lawmakers on legislation that may increase trading at the exchange. Clarence Saxby “Bo” Chambliss Jr. is one of two staff lobbyists at the Merc charged with “providing information on issues that impact our industry to decision-makers in Washington,” Merc spokesman David Prosperi said Friday. Saxby Chambliss heads the Senate Agriculture Committee, which jointly oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and must this year pass legislation reauthorizing the futures regulator through 2011. The CFTC’s current authority expires Sept. 30. The panel may vote as early as this month on a bill to reauthorize the CFTC, said a committee spokesman.

Now there isn’t much recusing Bo Chambliss can do with one other lobbyist unless that lobbyist is doing the heavy lifting while Bo is giving mulligans to Judge Smails

Probably not much of a stretch to say that Saxby has some questions to answer about his claim that he is not biased. We will keep searching to see if we can find more connections between Saxby and Imperial Sugar. Or we will let you know if Saxby follows suit of John Barrow and returns the PAC contributions. Conclusion: Saxby Chambliss needs to go home or get a job at some Sugar Refinery (Remember what he did to Max Cleeland) and remember Saxbuh faked a knee injury that was not examined with any modern degree of medical comp;etence and Bo chooses not to serve like so many other Republican cowards.

Thanks to TPM for the research on Saxby aka Saxbuh the Sugar shill

By Peter

October 23, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

Jim………. I guess you don’t go to church, if you did you might find the explanation simple !

“You reap what you sow”……

You can’t be almost 100 % negative, as McCain is with his ATTACKS…….. Allow the making of Robo calls with LIES, and then expect others to talk positively about you.

The Angry, short fused McCain is getting what he sows……..

Gee even DUSTY said the other day……… “it is time to get Angry “………..

Bad Karma Jim………. That is what one gets !

Gee I thought you had “Common Sense” ?

By Chad Harris

October 23, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

The Ayres story is as patently stupid as Karen Handel’s attorney briefs are in her clear attempt to supress Democratic voters. What Mr. Wooten needs competent help in realizing is that it has helped cost McPalin the election. Wooten and his party would have been much better off if they had not mentioned Ayres. Continuing to raise it, like continuing to showcase the moron Palin, is helping Obama run away with this election.

To explain simply to the reader’s hear, your attorney general has made an argument that it needs to cross off people they match to a data base that is wrong 80% of the time without giving those people any due process opportunity to correct the misinformation. With 13 days to go, they tried (and are now going to fail to deny these people the opportunity to correct the information that is nearly always wrong on federal data bases. The feds also have a TSA no fly data base with one million names on it, and over 90% of those entries are erroneous as well.

The attorneys for Mr. Morales have filed briefs that you can read at the link below that list a series of examples of people born in georgia who are listed non-citizens by the data base.

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/moralesv.handel.php

**Further the Georgia legislature is so consommately stupid that in fact, the Secretary of State has absolutely no authority whatsoever over the 159 election registers who are supposed to make a decision on whether the person is allowed to vote.

Finally, Handel violated federal law, as did Deputy Attorney Dennis Dunn when they began their data base checks without pre-clearance with the Voting Rights Division of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. They have only recently filed for clearance of their illegal system after they were sued and the DOJ entered the case against Handel and the State of Georgia as an amicus.

The briefs for the voting rights groups and ACLU are startling in their documentation of Handel law breaking. These are Mr. Wooten’s cronies who believe that it is just fine to violate the law as long as you are disenfranchising Democratic voters. In one state race, Handel has manipulated the race so that Democrats are not even allowed to enter a candidate. This is partisan politics manipulated to violate the law at its most egregious and this is the conduct Mr. Wooten champions.

It appears that Albatrosscuda, now a drag on the McPalin ticket via every statistic, has shown the world how a Walmart Soccer Mom dresses by spending over $150,000 at Neiman Marcus and Sac’s Fifth Avenue for clothes for the moron and her family.

Here’s our daily composite of the six major national tracking polls. Barack Obama’s lead just keeps getting bigger:

• Gallup: Obama 52%, McCain 44%, with a ±2% margin of error, compared to a 52%-42% Obama lead yesterday.

• Rasmussen: Obama 51%, McCain 45%, with a ±2% margin of error, compared to a 50%-46% Obama lead from yesterday.

• ABC/Washington Post: Obama 54%, McCain 43%, with a ±3% margin of error, compared to a 53%-44% Obama lead yesterday.

• Hotline/Diageo: Obama 47%, McCain 42%, with a ±3.4% margin of error, compared to a 47%-41% Obama lead from yesterday.

• Research 2000: Obama 51%, McCain 41%, with a ±3% margin of error, compared to a 50%-42% Obama lead from yesterday.

• Zogby: Obama 52%, McCain 42%, with a ±2.9% margin of error, compared to a 50%-42% Obama lead yesterday.

Adding these polls together and weighting them by the square roots of their sample sizes, Obama is ahead 51.3%-43.1%, a lead of 8.2 points, compared to the 50.5%-43.1% Obama lead from yesterday.

Hat’s off to Michelle Bachman, the moron from Minnesota, whose McCarthiesque comment has caused her to have all RNC funding withdrawn from her campaign and soon she will be removed from employment in the House of Representatives by the voters.

Thank you Republicans because now Palin has become the top concern for voters and a huge drag on your ticket—her negatives are higher than her $50,000 a month clothes budget as the Republicans are in the midst of foreplay for the Great Depression II they have created thanks to Phil Graham Chairman Senate Banking 12 Years, the way overrated and damaging Alan Greenspan, and their control of Congress for years as well as the White House.

Socialist Palin has illegally put her kids on the state tab. The Associated Press is moving a story that says that as Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin charged the state some $21,000 in expenses for her children’s travel as she conducted official state business.

But Alaska law is unclear as to whether children can have their travel reimbursed. And a lawyer for Palin says she did nothing wrong.

She helped lose the election for McPalin so there she did something very right.

The maverick gambler took a horrible bet on Palin and now he’s losing his shirt along with the rest of the country. Palin will cost you millions of votes and help cost you the election and many downticket races. Wooten won’t write a column on Palin’s grasp of foreing and domestic affairs. How many countries can Wooten see from his office @ AJC and does that make him a foreign policy expert? If Wooten can see the Omni from AJC can he dribble behind his back while flying down court? I kind of doubt it.

Now, Palin’s qualifications to be president rank as voters’ top concern about McCain’s candidacy — ahead of continuing President Bush’s policies, enacting economic policies that only benefit the rich and keeping too high of a troop presence in Iraq. Respondents were read a list of things and were asked to pick the two that most concern them about McCain. Thirty-four percent named Palin, versus only 23% for the runner-up, which was that it seems likely he’d continue Bush’s policies.

That would seem to suggest that Palin may have become a greater liability for McCain than Bush.

*Separately, the poll’s toplines show Obama with an expanded lead of 10 point-42%. s over McCain among registered voters, 52-42% and not even the distorted Rasmussen polls look good for the Rethugs.

Yeehaw Wooten, Eric Johnson, Karen Handel, Saxbuh, and Dick Williams. Enjoy crying in your drinks at the Buckhead Club.

The party of Jim Wooten is the party of the fraudulent Robo Calls and the fraudulent ACORN hysteria.

Try reading (http://www.factcheck.org) on ACORN that’s reading all you Palinistas something your idiot never does even when she quotes the articles on Ayres in NYT. Thank you Republicans because now Palin has become the top concern for voters and a huge drag on your ticket—her negatives are higher than her $50,000 a month clothes budget as the Republicans are in the midst of foreplay for the Great Depression II they have created thanks to Phil Graham Chairman Senate Banking 12 Years, the way overrated and damaging Alan Greenspan, and their control of Congress for years as well as the White House.

The maverick gambler took a horrible bet on Palin and now he’s losing his shirt along with the rest of the country. Palin will cost you millions of votes and help cost you the election and many downticket races. Wooten won’t write a column on Palin’s grasp of foreing and domestic affairs. How many countries can Wooten see from his office @ AJC and does that make him a foreign policy expert? If Wooten can see the Omni from AJC can he dribble behind his back while flying down court? I kind of doubt it.

By Ga Values

October 23, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

Stole this from the AJC Insider hope LibertyLand doesn’t mind

By LibertyLand

October 22, 2008 9:09 PM | Link to this

Martin had a million in the bank, And is bringing in Bill Clinton for a shot in the arm, Saxby has a million in the bank, and is getting help from various and sundry republican 527’s. As noted right here on the Political Insider, Allen Buckley has somewhere around $4000. Talk about an underdog.

I wish that the 70,000 or so people that voted Libertarian in the last election would go to BuckleyforSenate.com and drop one dollar on his donate button. If Allen Buckley had $70,000 for the last week of this campaign, it would help throw this race into a runoff.

Think about that.

If you vote for Allen Buckley in the general election, you will have the opportunity in the run off to second guess yourself, as well as cause confusion and consternation to the entrenched, established and eternally corrupt Republicans and Democrats. Just thinking about it brings a smile to my face.

By GayGrayGeek

October 23, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

Nothing the “liberal” (snort) media reports about Mr. Magoo can be as damaging as his own actions, caught quite literally on the National Stage: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/16/strange-mccain-post-debatn135325.html

By PinkoNeoConLibertarian

October 23, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Ragnar@9:12

You are actually very close in your proposition to one that I have espoused for decades, i.e. I would propose the voter can cast their vote either for or against a candidate. A nay vote would remove one vote from that candidate’s total. Whomever ends up with the highest positive total would win. In the very likely event all candidates ended up with a negative total (pardon the pun tie-in to the column topic), they would be removed from the ballot and a special election would then be held which excluded them.

Needs some work, but I’ve always felt there were too many politicians that claim a “mandate” after winning an election, when in fact the populace was actually just voicing their greater displeasure with the opposing choice.

By The Anti-Wooten

October 23, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

Jim,

Perhaps the reason that there are more negative stories about the McCain/Palin ticket is that they are incredibly poor choices for America.

Not to mention the atrocious campaign that they’ve run without a hint of organization.

Now we see the entire Republican sphere of influence devolving into McCarthyism and you’re not much better with your recent libeling of any person that posts here in disagreement with you and your faithful sheep(yes, I’m talking to you Dusty, JBMLaw and the rest). Rep. Robin Hayes R-NC, Michelle Bachmann R-MN and now the former mayor of the local city of Mountain Park, GA conflating all Democrats and Obama with anti-American attitudes, being Fidel Castro and worse.

http://mountainparklife.com/e107plugins/forum/forumviewtopic.php?2915

Karma’s a b*tch.

By GayGrayGeek

October 23, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

Well, let’s try that again:

Post-debate picture of a “Presidential” McSame

By Ga Values

October 23, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Here is Allen Buckley’s Homepage, He is the only CONSERVATIVE in the US Senate race. Unless you think Voting for a $700,000,000,000.00 Bail out of Wall Street with $153,000,000,000.00 of pork is CONSERVATIVE.

http://www.buckleyforsenate.com/welcome.asp

By Frost

October 23, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld

You have too much time on your hands!!Why dont u sign up to teach Constitutional law to young kids at a college.That would appear to be more valuable than spending time,all day,trolling the internet.

By findog

October 23, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Jim,

“The two may or may not be close, but the asserting news organizations are not the court of last resort on that question.” Who would you propose is the final arbiter of that question? I read the New York Times article recommended by Governor Palin and I thought that while documenting the association it did not have them “palling around.”

As far as bias it cannot be removed anymore than first hand accounts from a breaking news story. Editors and publishers would either not print poorly sourced articles that later prove to be true or over manage content to remove any redeeming value the story may have for the informed reader. In a free press, free speech, free society, some form of competence in the people must be expected with plenty of opinion makers, like you, around to fill in the blanks for those too lazy to self educate themselves. Yet another example of the nanny state…

By getalife

October 23, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Here is John finally telling the truth about w and his party

Voters should read this before they vote.

By Frost

October 23, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously-John Mccain.

OBAMA has been saying the above for months,now Mccain is on board. Too bad,the Vice-President slot was taken already by Biden, John would have been well qualified!!

By ron

October 23, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Good mornng,I find that bias,like beauty,lies in the eye of the beholder.I’ll cut to the chase and answer the unanswerable question with a yes.The major news media is leaning toward Obama like a tipsy drunk leans.It does not surprise me that a majority of reporting about McCain is negative,or that the same majority think that Obama is wonderful.Others will look at this and see it commpletely different.

Case in point;I watch the News Hour on PBS because I see it as trying hard to erase bias.My Republcan friends foam at the mouth at the mere mention of Jim Lehrer.I read Fox News on the web and my Democrat friends call me bad names.

Ragnar—-I have always favored term limits.The Congress limited the President and they should have limited themselves.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 23, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Anyone care to “guess” Jim the Editor’s point of view? Yo, Careless Jim the Idiot of the AJC, your repuke bias is showing, again….save the ajc, fire the Idiot….as a matter of fact, fire all repukes, everywhere….I know I will not hire, nor will I retain a Republican in any capacity….they steal too much, they lie too much, and frankly, they smell bad…

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 23, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Dear Pinko @ 9:23, not bad, I could go for that.

Dear Frost @ 9:26, thanks for the idea, but I seek a better audience. Who wants to associate with attorneys? (Besides, your idea reflects no acquaintance with the real world – what college hires a conservative lecturer?)

Dear ron @ 9:49, term limits are not bad. I prefer my idea as it carries an element of repudiation - insult them, don’t just give them a gold watch.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 23, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

It is not by what comes out of the media that makes McCain’s campaign unclean, but by every utterance that comes out of his own mouth.

Nixon’s playbook recommends playing to people’s fears. Nixon claimed that voters dont respond to love. Only fear. Lets follow Wooten’s logic here: Maybe Obama is a terrorist conspiring to gain access to THE button, and nuke the world for Allah. It’s possible. The timing is right for an Islamist plant to have made it this far. The background just murky enough….

What’s entertaining is to see Wooten himself becoming the Andy of the blog, with barely disguized rants about how the news is presented; The cooler head prevailing with a reasoned objection to nebulous news reporting.

AMC just showed “Citizen Kane” on TV. Nothing has changed. Are you a citizen Kane, Mr. Wooten? You can keep writing nonsensical rants all you want, Mr. Wooten, and maybe you’ll run out of nonsense……in 60 years!

In case it escaped the blog-simples who read Wooten, this article today represents the final stages of a partisan newhound gone sniffers. (How do I know? What attribution or qualifiers can I present to back my statement up?)

Obama 08: Voting Attributes and Donating Qualifiers

By Peter

October 23, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Negativity Breeds Negativity……..Pure and simple folks…….

But Hey Republican’s have been doing this for years…….

In fact that is what they do the most…..

By El Jefe

October 23, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

I see it all now.

To the leftistas - if I say something truthful, but bad about Mr. BO, I am an idiot, racists or plain stupid. I will be called names and have my integrity impugned.

My background will be investigated and every error will be magnified to the nth degree.

Gee, that really makes me want to vote for Mr. BO.

By ron

October 23, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Dear Ragnar,There’s an od joke from years back where the whoLe kit and kaboodle of them are lined up on the steps for a group photo.Instead of a camera there’s a short burst from a machine gun.After the dead and wounded are hauled away the rest are sent back inside to resume work.They are told that if things haven’t improved in the next 6 months that another picture will be taken.Is this repudy enough for you?

By Steven Daedalus

October 23, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

Wouldn’t you love to have loved to listened to Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reily etc. if Hillary had of spent 150 grand on clothes for her campaign, it would have gone on for years.

By El Jefe

October 23, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Steven Daedalus,

Wonder how much the junior Senator from Illinois spends on his suits and such? Seems like a dumb question for Mr. BO.

Seems okay for Mr. BO to spend his millions from his campaign on supporting questionable causes, but let them spend money on a woman and the media gets their panties in a knot.

I guess Greek columns are okay, but clothes aren’t..

By Republicans R Crooks

October 23, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

I place the curse of Cancer on Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reily and all their family and ilk….May they all die at a painful and moderate pace….make it so…..

By Chris Salzmann

October 23, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Oh come on Jim. The news coverage of the McCain/Palin campaign is generally negative because they’ve gone negative. I mean, which part of America do you live in, Jim??? Are you part of the “real” America? See what I mean?

Also, Obama’s relationship with Ayers is pretty well documented. I find it amazing that Sarah Palin can question his patriotism on this when she herself is more than palling around with a former secessionist.

McCain’s history isn’t that clean either. His relationship with P. Gordon Libby is well documented.

What does the Bible say about casting the first stone?

The bottom line is that with the economy tanking into a deep recession, people really don’t care about this. They are more interested in someone helping them get over this hump. Obama’s decision not to bring up Todd Palin’s secessionist past and McCain’s relationship with Libby is a wise choice. Except for the partisan base, no one is really interested in all this mud-slinging. That’s why Obama come’s out ahead looking like the more mature candidate.

By Vonnie

October 23, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Jim, I must say it is hard to imagine that someone would think that the McCain/Palin rallies have not been more negative than positive. How can anyone report anything positive for this campaign? For starters, start talking about what you are going to do about education, energy, this recession we are in (that so many don’t want to admit is the case) infrastructure, home foreclosures, economy which seems to get worse each day. All we hear is Obama this and Obama that, WHO CARES? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

After reading the comments of Eric Ose, (of which I agree) I suspect a lot of conservative republicans KNOW that Sarah Palin is not VP material. She seems to talk out of both sides of her mouth. She really is an embarassment to small town America. She tries to court them, but then spends 150,000 on clothes. Clearly, she is part of the borrow and spend mentality that has dominated this country for the last 8 years. So McCain won’t raise taxes, but he will lower them for those who don’t need the tax cuts. Somehow, those tax cuts for the wealthy did not trickle down to the middle class. The middle class is shrinking but maybe that’s what they want, a two-class nation, the rich and the poor.

By Chris Salzmann

October 23, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

El Jefe,

You said: “Wonder how much the junior Senator from Illinois spends on his suits and such? Seems like a dumb question for Mr. BO. “

Actually, Obama buys his suits from the local Chicago clothing line of Hart Shaffner & Marx (HSM). Their suits run between $450-$800 a piece. That’s pretty normal for a quality suit these days.

Here’s a picture of Obama’s shoes.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/22/9355/4279/150/638528

What I like about this is that they kind of look like mine. He resoles his shoes when he wears them out.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 23, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Did someone mention the bible? Remember, the bible is a history of man, not God. My Father in Heaven only wrote ten lines. That’s hardly a bible.

It reminds me of a para-parable. There was an aging woman who had partied her looks away, and was now alone. When she was approached by pimps to play a discount house, she eagerly complied. She thought of all the dough, the fun, and the sex.

to be cont

By El Jefe

October 23, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Chris Salzmann,

After Ayers admitted to being a Marxist, after the triad from Rev. Wright, after being bless and anointed by the crooked Chicago political machine, after his ties to the Kenyan Raila Odinga were made public - after all of this, the idiot left seems to think it is all right - but Sarah Palin taping a welcome message to a fringe convention is so outrageous that she must be bent on no good for this country.

In a sick way, I hope the socialistic, progressives get what they want. Personally, I will continue to cling to my God and my guns.

By fearless fosdik

October 23, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

By Chris Salzmann

October 23, 2008 10:45 AM

Chris, I saw the picture of Obama’s shoes on TV last night…

Not much like the $500 + McCain spends on his shoes!

El Jefe and his ilk are just grasping at straws to explain away the $150,000 spent on Ms Palin’s wardrobe.

By the way .. GOOD POST!

By Dusty

October 23, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

I don’t understand how any “hockey mom” could spend $150,000 of campaign money on clothes in a couple months. Yes, I understand candidates have to look good. I’m all for the professional wardrobes, and grooming, and all that. But… jeez. A hundred and fifty grand — holy bejeebers. And from campaign donations of people like me and “Joe the Plumber”, no less. And after you’ve just spent two months painting yourself as a salt of the earth small-town hero, a “real” American who doesn’t go in for all that stuff?

You know, Palin really is beginning to come off as a con artist — a confidence man. Pure Harold Hill stuff. She says some pretty words, bluffs her way through all the situations that require active knowledge, the crowd cheers, and all the while fleeces everyone around her for travel, and fame, and clothes, etc., etc.

Her ridiculous levels of professed self-confidence, during all of this, just adds to the overall vibe that she’s playing everyone for rubes, and is enjoying every minute of it. It’s not a job or even an election to her, it’s a game show, and she won the Big Prize.

What an exceptionally dislikable person she seems to be. From the first moment she stepped onto the national stage, there hasn’t been a single retold aspect of her personal history that would inspire confidence, or respect, or anything but revulsion. She seems the perfect example of a shallow, petty, self-centered person rising in power simply because being shallow, petty and self-centered are the only tools necessary to do so. I half expect her to make off with McCain’s wallet at some point, and be found two weeks later in Atlantic City.

By Steven Daedalus

October 23, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

El Jefe, Hold on to your God and guns, you’ll probably have to sell both pretty soon, after 8 years of trickle down.

By dirty harry

October 23, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

By El Jefe

October 23, 2008 10:53 AM

El Jefe,

You might want to read this article written by conservative columnist Stephan Chapman concerning McCains association with convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy.

You might learn something albeit .. not what you want to learn!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped1023chapmanoct23,0,3571457.column

By Billy

October 23, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

You know, Jim et al, I’ve never seen anyone offer any proof that John McCain doesn’t eat babies and rape dogs, so I guess it’s a question worth investigating…

By Adam

October 23, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

It is ironic that McCain who has always tried to position himself so as to appeal to the MSM and gain their favor has now become their favorite whipping boy. McCain seems to have always been more guided by his own sense of “fairness” rather than any particular philosophy or even principles. He prided himeslf as one who would always attempt to reach acorss the aisle to the point that he was perceived as a quasi-democrat. But now his MSM friends are kicking him to the curb in favor of the real-deal leftist.

McCain is suffering due to his own naive notions that the press would be honest and objective. The MSM has developed a culture within itself that keeps moving further and further left.

Once “Dear Leader” is inagurated and he begins to appoint his leftist thug associates to cabinet and regulatory positions will the compliant MSM still be getting tingling feelings running up their legs? Or will they rise to their responsibilities as professional journalists? Don’t count on it.

By Chris Salzmann

October 23, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

Jefe,

My point is that it’s kind of hypocritical of Sarah Palin questioning Obama’s patriotism when she’s sleeping with a secessionist. Todd Palin gave up his membership in 2002 when she started running for Lt. Governor of Alaska in 2002. Coincidence, eh?

John McCain has received the endorsement and financial support of G. Gordon Liddy. Look him up on Wikipedia if you don’t know who he is.

I think Obama explained his relationship to Wright pretty well. As far as the corrupt Chicago political machine is concerned, I’ve got news for you: Politics is a dirty game. I have no doubt that Obama twisted a few arms and bruised his knuckles to get to where he is. But that’s the nature of the game. When you’re a politician, you sometimes have to run with a pretty rough crowd. Just ask John McCain. He should know considering the crowd he’s run with in the past, i.e. Keating, etc.

As far as the Kenyan Raila Odinga is concerned, you’re reading too many of those emails. Can you show me something regarding this that’s in the mainstream media instead of coming from some viral email or from some right-wing website??? I mean next you’ll be telling me that Obama isn’t a US citizen because you got an email saying that too.

By Turgid Terri

October 23, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

The AP calls it “writing with authority.” If something is plainly a fact, write it that way and don’t bother bogging down the story with needless attribution. However, I believe you are correct JIm that in this case, the nature of the relationship is not plainly clear one way or the other.

By getalife

October 23, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

Yes, while Jim and his ilk were cheerleading the destruction, folks on the left were screaming outrage.

Which ones are real Americans?

By Richard

October 23, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

This entire campaign on all sides has been an embarrasment to the point where I’m finding it hard to vote for anyone associated with it. I’m yet to hear a single candidate give a legit reason to receive my vote instead of just bashing the other guy. Everything that comes out of these guys mouths is either in an attempt to slam their opponent with false or misleading claims, or a promise that’s so blatently false it makes me sick just listening to it:

You’ll provide universal health care? And youre going to pay for it how?

I know how to find Bin Laden? Well thanks for telling us now Mr. Country First.

The BS from them is incredible. The BS from the entire media is worse. If these guys aren’t good enough to state one positive thing about them beyond “I’m not the other guy” I’m worried about both their abilities to lead this country.

We’re screwed. (But at least Bush will be gone)

By reader110

October 23, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Maybe the MSM is kicking McCain to the curb because he has kicked all of his principles to the curb. Where is the McCain of 2000 who chose to run an honorable race for the Presidency? For that matter, where is the McCain of a year ago that promised the same? Where’s the “maverick” who used to rail against the excesses of big government? Siding with ones who created the excesses of government.

McCain sold his soul for the chance to be President, and the press knows it. The reason there are so many negative stories about McCain is because there are so many negative things to write about McCain, his judgement, his VP, and everything that comes out of his mouth these days.

By GayGrayGeek

October 23, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

Speaking of “real” America…why don’t any of the wrong-wingers here - including our Gracious Blog Host - cut the cr@p and admit that “real” is a code-word for “white”???

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 23, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

Dear ron @ 10:24, we could improve the quality of photography by using SEALs or Marines to shoot the pictures.

Dear Chris @ 11:20, in the Ragnar administration, Liddy will be Attorney General and Todd Palin will be the ambassador to NASCAR.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 23, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Dear getalife @ 11:33, while the Bushies were destroying al Qaeda, the folks on the left were screaming monkeys jumping on his shoulders, inhibiting the heavy lifting.

By Peter

October 23, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Come on Now name stealer…….

By Dusty

October 23, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

This is not the Dusty we all know…… !!!!!

She is Republican to the end !

By Chris Salzmann

October 23, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Ragner:

You said that in the Ragnar administration, Liddy will be Attorney General and Todd Palin will be the ambassador to NASCAR.

It would be difficult for Liddy to be Attorney General after he advocated people to shoot federal agents in the head, don’t you think? LOL

By Republicans R Crooks

October 23, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

Evita Palin will bankrupt America by buying fancy clothes for herself….Just say no to Evita and Juan McCain…

By Peter

October 23, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

This is Funny stuff………

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 23, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Dear getalife @ 11:33, while the Bushies were destroying al Qaeda, the folks on the left were screaming monkeys jumping on his shoulders, inhibiting the heavy lifting.

When did America do anything to Al Qaeda ?

They are getting stronger each day, they is the reason we are fighting more wars……….

Bush gave Bin Laden the “Terrorist Protection Program ” !

By lwwmm7

October 23, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

Could we all say a little prayer for Repubs R Crooks and maybe ease his obvious pain just a bit? Must be horrible to live in such hatred and bile every day.

By Dusty

October 23, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

You know, I actually watched some footage of Obama answering Joe the Plumber’s question today. I was very surprised at how articulate the negro was. He was also very polite, though I was not at all impressed with how often he felt it was okay to actually touch a white person. Still, there was nothing rude or nasty about his answer at all, so now my brain is confused because I was so sure that Obama was hating on all the Real Americans and now it looks like he wasn’t. My brain hurts a little so I need to find someplace in the lab to take a little lie down now.

By Dusty

October 23, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

You know, I actually watched some footage of Obama answering Joe the Plumber’s question today. I was very surprised at how articulate the negro was. He was also very polite, though I was not at all impressed with how often he felt it was okay to actually touch a white person. Still, there was nothing rude or nasty about his answer at all, so now my brain is confused because I was so sure that Obama was hating on all the Real Americans and now it looks like he wasn’t. My brain hurts a little so I need to find someplace in the lab to take a little lie down now.

By Ima Marxist

October 23, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

WARNING PARENTS: Be careful choosing a college for kids-profs could be a Socialist/Marxist!!!!! We’ve heard many times of these liberal/Communists/Socialists/Marxists and now 3000 of them have come out of the closets to support a terrorist!!!

Thousands of academics sign on to support Bill Ayers RAW STORY Published: Wednesday October 22, 2008 More than 3,000 academics have shown their support for embattled University of Illinois professor William Ayers. “I think he’s doing a lot of positive, progressive, constructive work right now” in the field of education, said Brown University English professor and inaugural signatory William Keach to the Brown Daily Herald. Ayers, a co-founder of the Weather Underground in 1969, has been connected repeatedly with Senator Obama by the McCain campaign, which paints Ayers as a “domestic terrorist” who “bombed the Pentagon.” Governor Palin charged in a Colorado speech on October 4 that Senator Obama is “someone who sees America…as so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” The Weather Underground’s protests of the Vietnam War were part of a “Declaration of a State of War” against the United States government, which included marches, riots and bombings of banks and government buildings. Senator Obama has distanced himself from Ayers’ Weather Underground days, noting that he was eight years old when the group was formed. Obama and Ayers worked together in Chicago while living in the same neighborhood in the 1990s, with Ayers hosting a “coffee” for Obama’s first run for office, which has prompted accusations of Obama launching his political career “from Mr. Ayers’ living room.” Obama and Ayers served together on the board of the anti-poverty Woods Fund of Chicago between 2000 and 2002. Both have worked in education reform. “It’s easy to paint someone with a broad brush,” added signatory and lecturer Constance Crawford, who emphasized appreciation for Ayers’ more recent accomplishments rather than focusing on the Vietnam era. “It’s easy to vilify, but it’s harder to consider.” http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Thousandsofacademicssignonto1022.html

By Republicans R Crooks

October 23, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

lwwmm7 - ha ha ha, I don’t keep the bile and pain, I give it to Repukes like you and yours….here, have a good dose of Cancer….

By Jason

October 23, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

Let’s be honest: McCain and that syntactically challenged pop-tart he’s running with dish out mountains of fodder for criticism, so of course he gets more negative news coverage.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 23, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Dusty, this is an official note of reprimand: You missed the Klan meeting last night at Jim’s basement den….Now ya gotta wash, dry, and iron all the sheets….especially the one’s from jim’s bed with those ugly yellow urine stains…yeah, brother jim is wetting the bed again…everytime Obama goes up in the polls, little jimmy’s anxiety gits the better of his bladder….

By Copyleft

October 23, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Hey, I hear that Britney Spears has gotten a lot more negative media coverage than Kelly Clarkson.

I wonder why? That darn media must be biased or something.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 23, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

Taranto essay from yesterday:

The New York Times headline seems a candidate for bottom story of the day: “Hate Groups Mostly Quiet in Election”:

“So stands the state of organized racism in 2008, paralyzed and at a crossroads in what would presumably be a pressing moment of action—the possibility that Senator Barack Obama will become the first black president—but has so far not been… .

“What we really haven’t seen is white supremacists really rallying over an Obama presidency,” said Mark Potok, the director of intelligence at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups. “Hate groups are in a more or less stunned position right now; they haven’t been able to figure out how to proceed just yet.”

Could this be because “hate groups” are something of an urban legend? Obviously white supremacists exist, but the Times was able to find only one to interview: the delightfully named Bill White, head of the American National Socialist Workers Party.

The report details the recent activities of a few other putative white supremacists, although they do not seem all that devoted to their putative ideology. The notorious David Duke, the Times reports, “has, in fact, written positively about the prospect of Mr. Obama’s being elected,” and he is not alone:

“In one sign of shifting mores, James Knowles, a former Ku Klux Klan member who was convicted in a 1981 lynching, said in a Discovery Channel documentary by Ted Koppel that Mr. Obama was a potentially acceptable candidate. “People need to vote for him because of his ideas and the veracity that he displays in what he does, and not because he’s African-American,” Mr. Knowles said.”

We live in an era in which not only is a black man heavily favored to become the next president of the United States, but former Ku Klux Klan members use the term “African-American.” It seems reasonable to surmise that hate groups have been more than “stunned,” as the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok says. They have been all but eradicated.

So why does anyone pretend otherwise? Well, cui bono? Mark Potok for one, who gets paid to “track” these groups. If they no longer exist, neither does his job. Also Barack Obama pals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who, as blogger Steve Bartin notes, have a new book coming out bearing the odd title “Race Course Against White Supremacy.” The belief that white supremacy remains a significant force in American life also entails psychic and political rewards for liberal Democrats, who get to feel morally superior to putatively bigoted GOP voters and scare blacks into remaining in the Democratic fold.

By Chad Harris

October 23, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

It amuses me to see superficial readers b*** about main stream media as “liberal.” Anyone who monitors a considerable number of print media outlets and websites knows that there has been a compelling Copnservative biasis for years.

A quintissential example is the coverage of warantless wiretapping. It barely gets a mention in the AJC and Eric Lichtblau at NYT whose main focu is on terrorism and situations like warantless wiretapping missed most of the key elements in his coverage of the passage of the hypocritical, pathetic bill which was never needed in the way that multiple REpublicans particularly Chambliss and pathetic Blue Dog Democrats depicted.

It is not surprising that Rethugs cannot comprehend that they are not getting slanted coverage or McPalin is not getting slanted coverage.

Palin is patently stupid. You should have prevented her selection. The right wing base was patently stupid in not vetting her to find out she is an imbecile but apparently looking okay in a $6000 outfit that is bought for her is the only requirement of most of the base for being next in line to the Presidency.

Moronic choices like that one are why Rethugs thing they are getting slanted press coverage. They are getting accurate coverage of the only way in which McCain qualifies as a “maverick”—that he gambles with wreckless choices and often loses.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 23, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

You should see the bashing Evita Palin is getting in the Washinton Post….I haven’t seen a beating like that since Poland in 1939….

By Republicans R Crooks

October 23, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Choosing Evita Palin as his running mate demonstrates Juan McCain’s poor decision making skills….Just say no to Evita and Juan McCain….

By Redneck Convert

October 23, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Well, picky, picky, picky. First of all, you can’t buy much clothes these days for less than $150,000. The poor woman was just about buck-nekkid to start with. The women on this blog will tell you the cost of clothes is out of sight and you need to take a wheelbarrow full of cash with you if you want to buy a outfit. Never mind that old sweatshirt Sister Dusty wears. When she wants to get dressed up and buy a size 32 dress she has to pull 50,000 or so out of her checking account to buy something. But the media want to blow everything up when it comes to stories about Republicans.

I don’t know why they don’t like us. Just because of no jobs and a tanking stock market and two wars and bailouts of big business and stuff like that they want to jump on every picky little thing we do. That ain’t our fault. Clinton was the one that done it all and that intern besides.

Anyhow, if we want a real free and fair press we need to lock them all up. Except for Fox News people and Wooten of course. Then we can be sure the stories about McCain and Palin will be fair and this Obama will get what’s coming to him. If this keeps up we will have one of Those People in the White House so we need to round up the slanted media people fast.

Have a good day everybody.

By Andrea

October 23, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Boo Hoo Wootsie! Wootsie today is your lucky day because I am about to enlighten you.

McCain assumed that he was going to win this election hands down. In his mind, Obama never had a chance of winning this election. Therefore, McCain only had a plan A. He didn’t have a plan B just in case Obama began to hit his stride because again, McCain assumed that Obama never had a chance at winning.

So, if you are a candidate such as McCain with his way of thinking, then you feel as though you can do pretty much anything like choose a VP who he knew would be totally out of her depth.

Pay attention Wootise, this is where you get enlightened.

Obama turns out to be a force of reckoning; Obama is actually ahead in the polls. McCain did not see it coming and he was not prepared; that plan B I mentioned.

When you don’t have a plan you lose your way and you begin to do things that don’t make sense. You don’t know your a* from your elbow and the more you lose ground the more desperate your actions become because you were not prepared.

Additionally, McCain’s intentions were not about “Country First” but more like “Self First.” To choose a running mate squarely for the purpose of making himself look good and not because they are the best person for the job is not putting country first.

McCain should be ashamed of himslef because he has not exemplified the type of leadership that America needs and the blame falls at his own feet; not Obama and not the media. McCain has been his own worst enemy and he should be ashamed at the way he has run his campaign; not the type of legacy I’m sure he wanted to leave but there it is.

By Commander Guy

October 23, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

I wonder how Ragnut is going to deal with this news. He’s the last believer standing now the Mr Andrea Mitchell has been forced to admit that his entire life’s work was a fool’s errand.

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Greenspan: ‘Crisis Broader Than Anything I Could Have Imagined’

By Howard Schneider Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 23, 2008; 12:19 PM

Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan called today for imposing some of the same sorts of regulations on mortgage securities he resisted when he was in office, acknowledging that the current financial crisis had exposed “a flaw” in his view of how the world and markets function.

The absence of significant controls on how mortgages are repackaged into larger and more complex securities has been cited as a central cause of the current financial crisis.

In testimony before the House Government Oversight Committee, Greenspan said that as a result of the current situation the United States is heading for a “significant rise in layoffs and unemployment” and a continued downturn in home values as the world works through a crisis that is “broader than anything I could have imagined.”

Greenspan, who called the current financial crisis a “once-in-a-century credit tsunami,” said that he remained “in a state of shocked disbelief” that banks and investment firms did not do a better job of analyzing the risks involved with investing in home mortgages extended to less creditworthy borrowers.

Under questioning from Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the committee chairman, Greenspan acknowledged that the failure of that expected self-regulation represented “a flaw in the model” he used to analyze economics. “I was going for 40 years or more on the perception that it was working well.”

As Fed chairman for 18 years, Greenspan opposed regulation of the practices that allowed those sub-prime mortgages to be bundled into larger securities and sold to investors. Those securities subsequently weighed down the balance sheets of banks and other companies when the underlying loans began to sour.

“It was the failure to properly price such risky assets that precipitated the crisis,” Greenspan said, by encouraging investors worldwide to look at U.S. subprime loans as a “steal” rather than an uncertain bet that relied on escalating home values. “The whole intellectual edifice … collapsed in the summer of last year.”

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Let’s savor that last line, people. “The whole intellectual edifice … collapsed in the summer of last year.” Will Ragnut join The Oracle in his confession of a lifetime of stupidity?

By tcoach

October 23, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

Obama has spent more actual money on negative campaign ads than McCain. So why is the result of the study Karma? Are you all saying it is okay to spend more money on negative ads as long as you also have more ads about issues. Both have done nagative and positive, but Obama has spent more time effort and money on those ads.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 23, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

tcoach, I hope you can coach basketball a lot better than you can analyze facts….you are one of the ignorant sheep the neocons herd into the polling places every two years….they really do think of you as ignorant sheep…..and expendable sheep at that…..First step in analysis: ignore labels of negative and positive, just get the facts. Main fact for a poorly paid teacher/basketball coach: You will pay lower taxes under Obama than under McCain. Second fact: McCain’s poor decision making skills are most likely to lead directly to more foreign wars, and a nuclear exchange with either Russia or China. Now are you not supposed to be preparing lesson plans, grading papers, advising students, or at least sweeping the gym floor in your four free hours at school? I have never heard of a teacher getting three or four free office hours per day……

By Gator Joe

October 23, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

Wooten and his fellow Republicans are once again whining about the “Liberal” media and the alleged negative coverage of their flawed candidates. The coverage is exactly what is to be expected of two individuals with high negatives. McCain, a self-proclaimed “maverick,” aided and abetted an imcopetent, criminal administration 90% of the time. This “maverick” chose (in lieu of other highly qualified, intelligent Republican women) an unqualified, shrill, overly aggressive, running mate with a simplistic view of the world. You are receiving the coverage you deserve. I’m thankful for a free press even if means allowing Jim Wooten, Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, and others of their ilk to print and broadcast their “facts.”

By deegee

October 23, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Seems like all the news about the economy is negative. I’ll bet that the news outlets are in favor of more regulation and anti-free market. That’s what it is. It’s all a big conspiracy.

By HYDE YOUR MONEY

October 23, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

There are a lot of comments out there bragging about how the stock market keeps falling even after the bail out. Most if not all of these comments come from the lib dem new marxist left. The irony is that those emoticon lib morons do not even understand that the markets and investors are reacting to the news that Obama will be the next president, along with a fillibuster proof lib dem new marxist radical left congress. If Americans think things are bad now, wait until private business owner and corporate taxes get jacked up and profits limited. If Americans think jobs are disappearing and going overseas, wait until private business owner and corporate taxes get jacked up and evil profits limited. If Americans think the middle class is being squeezed now, wait until private business owner and corporate taxes get jacked up and evil profits limited. If Americans think our government has been spending out of control and the deficit is out of control under Republicans (lib dems have been in congress nearly two years now), wait until Obama and Pelosi get full control. Even Barney Frank, one of the genius mastermind socialist lib dems under the Fannie and Freddie meltdown, has already stacked the cards in their excuse favor for the future deficit by stating “the budget deficit is not as important as what we need to do for this country.” If anyone thinks a far leftist complete government would be responsible in any realm, let alone a fiscal one, they have their unused head up their butt and will get what they deserve down the road when this nation truly collapses from within due to investment riverbeds drying up. One can be assured that the bottom 50% of taxpayers who pay 4% of all federal income tax taken in by individuals, won’t be able to make up the difference in investment revenue loss. New Zealand is sounding pretty good these days.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 23, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Good news about Rupert Murdoch in today’s wsj: the little rat (imho) has lost 3.9 billion dollars so far in the market melt down, leaving the sneaky rat like thing (imho) with only 3 billion dollars and falling. Good, good, and great……

By Republicans R Crooks

October 23, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

John McLame has demonstrated his lack of judgement in selecting an unveted candidate for V.P. The fact that he has to commit valuable time to “nursemaiding” her through interviews and shield her from examination by the press further demonstrates what a bad choice he made. Spending $150,000 to “put lipstick on the pig” only demonstrates that the GOP knows she can’t be marketed on her intelligence and experience—in typical chauvanist thinking they expect her to just look pretty and read the monitor.

Palin’s ignorance of the Constitution speaks volumes when she stated in an interview that she will be “boss of the Senate”. With the U.S. Senate most likely going Democratic, she will have less say than even Biden would have. The liklihood of tie votes (the only power she will have) are greatly diminshed.

What is frightening to over 50% of the electorate is that her only other constitutional duty is to take over for a dead or incapacitated president. Every time I see McLame’s face I look at the results of the major skin cancer surgery on his face and his age and recognize that Palin could more likely be elevated into the Oval Office than be asked to break a tie in the Senate.

By A Patriot

October 23, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

LONGWOOD, Fla. — The home of a Central Florida Republican headquarters manager was shot up and damaged over his support of Sen. John McCain, the man told police.

This is the mentality of your typical radical Obama supporter..not all are radical like this of course. Cars with McCain bumper stickers get vandalized; homes with McCain signs get firebombed and shot at. The animals responsible for this are dangerous; very VERY dangerous. This is insanity, like that hate filled garbage that big overgrown left wing baby RR Crooks defecates on this blog.

By Wind Talker

October 23, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

No, GayGreyGreek, “real” is code for “hetero.”

By Republicans R Crooks

October 23, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

Just say NO to Evita Palin…and Juan McCain….

By Chad Harris

October 23, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

There is no comparison of Evita and Palin.

Eva Peron worked with labor groups to gain experience and was married to the President of Argentina. Palin wouldn’t begin to know anything about labor.

Palin could not be more unqualified, and any number of Chick Fil-A 15 year olds are emininetly more qualified to be VP.

They have a better command of foreign and domestic affairs when questioned than Moroncuda or as we know call her Albatrosscuda.

Here’s some reality on the ground for all you Wootinistas as the idiot Karen Handel is about to get rebuked and corrected for violating Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and not seeking pre-clearance as mandeated by federal law since 1964 for Geoprgia for checking against 80$ inaccurate lists and attempting to disqualify thousands of native Georgia voters and citizens, the vast majority of whom are far better educated than high school Handel.

Wooten head out to the Buckhead Club and have a few drinks:

Most of the national polls — including our NBC/WSJ survey — are now showing Obama with a double-digit national lead. And here come a slew of brand-new state polls that also suggest Obama is in command of this presidential contest. The University of Wisconsin’s Big Ten Battleground polls have Obama up 10 points in Indiana (51%-41%), 13 points in Iowa (52%-39%), 22 in Michigan (58%-36%), 19 in Minnesota (57%-38%), 12 in Ohio (53%-41%), 11 in Pennsylvania (52%-41%), 13 in Wisconsin (53%-40%), and nearly 30 in Obama’s home state of Illinois (61%-32%). Meanwhile, there are new Quinnipiac surveys that show Obama up five points in Florida (49%-44%), 14 in Ohio (52%-38%), and 13 in Pennsylvania (53%-40%). And finally, new CNN/Time surveys find Obama ahead by five points among likely voters in Nevada (51%-46%), four points in North Carolina (51%-47%), four in Ohio (50%-46%), and 10 points in Virginia (54%-44%). The lone state survey that shows McCain ahead: CNN/Time’s West Virginia poll, where McCain’s nine (53%-44%).

From Glenn Greenwald:

“Polls are now clearly showing Obama with an ever-widening lead, a lead that has grown — not diminished — as GOP character and patriotism attacks have intensified. Zogby — who, as recently as last week, was Drudge’s favorite pollster because he had the most pro-McCain results — said this today:

These numbers, if they hold, are blowout numbers. They fit the 1980 model with Reagan’s victory over Carter — but they are happening 12 days before Reagan blasted ahead. If Obama wins like this we can be talking not only victory but realignment.

This potential to drown the Republican Party is even more pronounced on the Congressional level. There are literally only a small — and ever-diminishing — number of incumbent GOP members of Congress whose seats are now safe. Most Republicans who can be removed from power in two weeks are scared. They know their standard, toxic tactics that have worked for so long aren’t working now and are even backfiring. That’s why they’re apologizing for and attempting to deny these accusations when they come tumbling out of their mouths.

Perhaps most significantly of all, the views typically attributed to Democrats and liberals to justify the “unpatriotic” and “radical” labels — particularly those in national security — are now views shared by the majority of Americans. I thought one of the most illustrative moments of the campaign was when Sarah Palin, in her debate with Joe Biden, snidely accused Obama of wanting to wave the “white flag of surrender in Iraq.” That taunt — an old, reliable favorite GOP trope — fell flat on its face. How do you convince Americans that Democrats are weak, America-hating radicals by virtue of views which a majority of Americans themselves embrace?

We’re gradually seeing not only the demise of the right-wing faction that has dominated the Republican Party for decades, but also the death of their ugliest and most toxic tactics. When numerous right-wing figures crawl across one’s television set desperately denying and abjectly apologizing for attacks on the patriotism of Democrats and liberals, that is potent evidence that, at least as a matter of political rhetoric, a genuine sea-change is taking place.”

By Republicans R Crooks

October 23, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

Dear A Patriot: No, the Repuke manager did the shooting himself, staging the whole event to git free publicity and sympathy fer McCancerface….the police are hot on his trail….

By Ga Values

October 23, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

I am STUPID, I spent 30+ minutes waiting on AT&T Customer service , all the time being told they had award winning service, after trying to explain what I wanted to some one in South Georgia she told me I could not do what I wanted even though their web page says I could. I tried for about an hour to log in to the web page with out sucess. Is it possible for Comcast to be worse, all I was trying to do was change long distance plans?

By Church Lady

October 23, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

Jim, I object to the dateline in the post at 1:22. It is obscene and should be removed. A “real” Patriot would know better.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 23, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Dear Commander @ 12:40, I will concede that, unlike your humble correspondent, The Oracle failed to anticipate the anti-market effects of such government activities as (1) sustained below-market interest-rate stimulus by the Fed (inside joke there – don’t ever expect The Oracle to acknowledge a Fed strategy was misguided), (2) regulatory effect of vigorous enforcement of CRA and related “Fair Lending/Equal Credit” regulations, mostly beginning in the Clinton administration, and, of course, (3) the Congressional-democrat shield protecting FNMA and FHLMC from meaningful oversight and granting ever-higher lending limits (both macro- and micro-), that cumulatively facilitated origination and pool-distribution of inappropriately underwritten mortgage debts. Further, I will acknowledge that almost nobody in Washington yet has grasped the jbmlaw cure for the problems, which cure has been extensively displayed on these pages. But funniest of all, the democrats still think government did not cause the problem, and that the market cannot cure itself. Just quit picking at it and it will heal.

Or maybe not. The market is clearly anticipating an Obama administration, and seemingly does not like what it expects to see.

By Tom

October 23, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

President Obama is directly responsible for the drop in gas prices and the days when the stock market has been up. George Bush is responsible for the down days. We owe it to him and to ourselves to extend President Obama’s term on Nov. 4.

– Respectfully, Thomas E. Dewey

By Commander Guy

October 23, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Ga Values — I suffered under Bellsouth/ATT for years and now am a victim of Comcast. There is no real difference. Customer Service is horrible and really seems designed to make you give up all hope. It’s cheaper that way.

Still waiting on some Ayn Rand acolyte to explain Greenspan’s comments today. To recap Greenie’s most delicious statement:

“The whole intellectual edifice … collapsed in the summer of last year.”

That pretty well wraps it up and puts a ribbon on top. Randian social theory is deader than Bob Dole’s dick. All you arrested development morons with your dogeared copy of Atlas Wanked will have to do some independent thinking based on reality now. Or maybe you can substitute Tolkien for Rand…it has about as much relevance to reality as Rand, but is written better and has a better story. And you can pretend that the Orcs are all Islamoterrorists.

And G0dd@mn if that quote doesn’t just about explain the entirety of Jim’s premise today as well. After years of swallowing the GOP bush-5hit, most of America is wising up. There are still deadenders like tcoach and Joe the Dittohead, but anyone with an active brain cell realizes that we’ve been had. And McCain is the dancing monkey that is going to take the pentinential beating. It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

C’mon Ragnit. Step up and take your a55kicking.

By BS Aplenty

October 23, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

It’s an interesting and well-founded thesis we have today.

The media are clearly opinionated in their presentation of political facts. I suppose, in a manner, we all are but today’s talking heads seem particularly uninhibited in voicing opinion when facts are all that’s necessary and sufficient. Even old-line commentators like Tom Brokaw engage in opinion-as-reporting. Reminds me of the admonition against “sins of omission” and that special place reserved in hell for those guilty parties.

What’s interesting, though, is that, in spite of this media bias, Obama clings only to a polster’s percentage point majority amoung the American electorate. A 1% majority lead in a year when the economy is in recession and crisis, and we are mired in an expensive, seemingly intractable, Middle East police action. Maybe the bias is there but over time it’s not as distorting.

What does it say about the ambivalence of the American electorate toward the Obama campaign when the perfect storm of political catastrophes is handed to you, the MSM media clearly massages your candidacy and yet you can poll no more than a simple majority of the voters?

It says, I surmise, that in spite of the bias in the media, the American people have accepted a set of facts about the candidates and have dispensed the additional information. They know about TUCC, they know about Ayers, Rezko and ACORN. They know about McCain’s war record and Palin’s wardrobe. The warts of the candidates have been exposed and the media bias & contempt were yours for no additional charge.

Yes, I think there is media bias, maybe more these days than in past political seasons, but with enough time and sources voters do sift out the clear bias in commentary and weigh what’s important to them. I just hope they remember to vote.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 23, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Dear Hyde @ 1:13, well-argued. I had not read your argument when I wrote @ 1:34, but I fully agree with you.

Dear Tom @ 1:40, funny, well done. Probably tire inflation saved us all.

By Billy

October 23, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

Ragnar — “Could this be because “hate groups” are something of an urban legend? “

Umm…No. I’ve given to the SPLC and I get their “Intelligence Report” which comes out quarterly. The most recent one discussed this very topic. Apparently you haven’t read everything the SPLC has, because in that report they discussed how there are some white supremacists who are supporting Obama. Why? A small reason is that they don’t like McCain’s less-than-hardline stance on immigration. The real reason, however, is that some believe that electing a black President will be the catalyst they need to incite a race war. They believe we whites will be stunned at the presence of a minority in the Oval Office.

As to whether hate groups exist or not? Well, yeah they do. If you put any stock at all into what the SPLC says, then you must believe they exist, since that’s the entire purpose of the SPLC. Maybe they’re not as easy to see anymore. The anonymity afforded by the web means regular meeting times/places are not necessary. SPLC-sponsored civil suits have decimated several groups, even awarding groups’ properties to the victims and their families of violent hate crimes. Furthermore, some groups, the Hammerskins for example, have splintered repeatedly into smaller, less visible factions. While this sounds good on the surface, these groups are less controlled and can be more violent than the larger parent organizations were.

Of course, these are somewhat complicated explanations for why you may not actually see hate groups that do exist. If you really want proof they exist, however, it shouldn’t be that hard to find pictures of a recent Klan rally. My town had to end its annual Christmas parade about 5 years ago. No, not because of liberals pushing the separation of church and state, but because the Klan wanted to march in it. I’ve seen their rallies with my own eyes, so, yeah, hate groups exist.

The biggest one? The Republican base.

By @@

October 23, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

That’s it. Flat out, an assertion by a major news organization without attribution or qualifiers that the two are not close — something the reporter or the news organizations couldn’t possibly have known to be true.

Ah yes! The all-knowing, all-seeing, all-deciding leftist media. I’m surprised the leftists’ SeeBS (all of them) not just the “C” for Communists media doesn’t sport the logo following all of it’s indisputable info.

That’s All Folks!!!! They do your thinking so you don’t have to. With OBlahMa leading the charge He’s just a guy in my neighborhood they won’t have to think at all.

By Turn Georgia Blue

October 23, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Wooten is whining like a biotch!

By Commander Guy

October 23, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

My apology Ragnit, your response appeared as I was calling you out. You may be stupid, but you at least showed up to the gunfight, albeit with a pea shooter.

D@mn and howdy, you just can’t let go. Your man in power, the the Randian ne plus ultra who studied at the Master’s knobby knees, has admitted that “The whole intellectual edifice … collapsed in the summer of last year.”, but you still insist that everything would have been peachy if only we had been more extreme in our adherence to lunatic doctrine. You would have made a great Stalinist — the doctrine never fails, but men fail the doctrine.

By Jason

October 23, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

Looks like HYDE YOUR MONEY is putting his neo-con talking-point-of-the-day calendar to good use. Bet he got it as a gift for fellating Neil Boortz.

By BS Aplenty

October 23, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

Why Obama Should Not be President

To know a man is to understand the gods to which he kneels.

A man’s speech may be used to inform or misinform others but his worship seeks to edify his own soul. Rarely is there need for deception. And so the journey to understand the candidate Barack Obama must pass through his place of worship, the Trinity United Church of Christ. A congregation where he worshipped, sang, taught and learned for twenty years. A congregation where he also found a life’s mentor in the person of TUCC’s erstwhile minister, Jeremiah Wright.

TUCC is a numerically significant and unique church among the United Churches of Christ. How unique? Unique in that it alone has adopted as doctrine the teachings of one James H. Cone, the theologian who systematized black liberation theology. And it is in the doctrine of Cone where one finds candidate Obama’s genuine worship. To many Americans that doctrine would differ markedly from what they view as Christian worship. In fact, one wonders what this archaic, racist doctrine has to do with Christianity at all as demonstrated in a doctrinal passage from Cone’s A Theology of Black Liberation:

This understanding of blackness can be seen as the most adequate symbol of the dimensions of divine activity in America. And insofar as the country is seeking to make whiteness the dominating power throughout the world, whiteness is the symbol of the Antichrist. Whiteness characterizes the activity of deranged individuals intrigued by their own image of themselves, and thus unable to see that they are what is wrong with the world. Black theology seeks to analyze the satanic nature of whiteness and by doing so to prepare all nonwhites for revolutionary action.

In passing, it may be worthwhile to point out that whites are in no position whatever to question the legitimacy of black theology. Questions like “Do you think theology is black?” or “What about others who suffer?” are the product of minds incapable of black thinking. It is not surprising that those who reject blackness in theology are usually whites who do not question the blue-eyed white Christ. It is hard to believe that whites are worried about black theology on account of its alleged alienation of other sufferers. Oppressors are not genuinely concerned about any oppressed group. It would seem rather that white rejection of black theology stems from a recognition of the revolutionary implications in its very name: a rejection of whiteness, an unwillingness to live under it, and an identification of whiteness with evil and blackness with good. [7-8]

It seems that for non-black Americans to know the soul of candidate Obama, that is, to understand what he thinks is soul-edifying worship for himself, his wife, his children, one must slog through Cone’s racist doctrine of yester-year. The ‘Change You Can Believe In’ sloganeering now simply reveals this candidate as all-too-comfortable with the politics of deception. And, Obama’s genuine worship shows him as wed to a doctrine wherein there is little tolerance for the larger American community.

The candidate then seems easy enough to parse, but what are we to make of his avid supporters who well-know the philosophical background of his church, who cheer on their candidate even with his well-known acceptance of racist thought like Cone’s? What are we to infer about an American media that seems decidedly negligent in reporting this to the voters? I’ll leave that to you good people.

TUCC recently responded to pointed observations about its racist doctrines and renovated its website removing the James H. Cone texts and other Black Liberation rhetoric. Previously, the Cone texts were the only doctrines sold on the TUCC website. The congregation has now substituted other texts for sale that do not mention Black Liberation Theology.

That “bump-bump, bump-bump” you heard was the sound of James Cone being thrown under the political bus to provide cover for the Obama campaign. During this political season, TUCC has found a way to cast out doctrine and preachers faster than Jesus could cast out demons.

Ah, can you feel the power of their political, er, religious conversion?

By Get Real

October 23, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

In Wooten’s own words:

The problems, potential of John McCain By Jim Wooten | Friday, February 1, 2008, 08:50 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

John McCain presents a real dilemma for conservatives.

On national security, he’s fine; better than fine, even. As the alternative to either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, he’s super. He’ll not leave troops hanging out to dry and he’ll not be driven by politics into a face-saving exit from Iraq that invigorates jihadists — and makes our children’s world less safe.

On pork in the budget, he has been among the foot soldiers of the Reagan Revolution.

With a Republican majority in Congress, he’d be a good successor to George W. Bush.

With a Democratic majority, which is likely, he’s a crapshoot.

• Judicial appointments? Crapshoot. Would he nominate a Ruth Bader Ginsberg? Probably not. David Souter, entirely possible. To conservatives, no difference. He says now his appointments would be in the mold of the four strict constructionists on the U.S. Supreme Court. But that was the signal, too, when Souter was appointed.

• McCain now supports making the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 permanent, something Clinton and Obama won’t. In Wednesday’s debate, McCain said his opposition to them stemmed from his determination to get spending reductions. “I disagreed when we had tax cuts without spending restraint,” he said.

He said at the time of the 2001 cuts that he opposed them because they benefited the wealthy. He and former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island were the only two Republicans to oppose the $1.35 trillion in tax cuts.

He opposed further reductions offered by Bush in 2003 — and was joined in opposition by Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and again by Chafee . “The tax cut is not appropriate until we find the cost of the war and the cost of reconstruction,” he said at the time.

On a number of other issues — illegal immigration and campaign finance restrictions among them — McCain has teamed with Democrats to offer legislation that alienates conservatives. They haven’t voted for him yet.

In three primaries he won, including Florida last Tuesday, McCain wins without conservatives. In New Hampshire, he lost the conservative vote to Mitt Romney, 38-30. In South Carolina, he lost it to Mike Huckabee, 35-26. And in Florida, he lost it again to Romney, 37-29. He won big among primary voters with a negative opinion of Bush, 40-26 in New Hampshire, 39-26 to Huckabee in South Carolina, and 45-23 in Florida. But of those who view Bush positively, he lost 27-32 in New Hampshire, 31-33 in South Carolina, and 31-35 in Florida.

McCain’s strength is among primary voters who consider themselves liberals, moderates and independents.

It’s highly unlikely that McCain will have the nomination sewed up by next Wednesday. Georgia and 20 other states vote Tuesday. Establishment Republicans eager to get a candidate quickly are rushing to endorse McCain.

Their eagerness is understandable. While it will be tough, the general election is very winnable for Republicans. Listening Thursday night to Obama and Clinton debate universal health care, Iraq and taxes, it was hard to imagine either of them prevailing when the cost and consequences of their ideas settle in on mainstream America. Hillary is a Clinton, with the advantages and baggage that brings. Obama’s much too confident in his rhetorical abilities; he’ll talk himself into trouble.

November’s winnable with a candidate who can unite the party. Bush planted some conservative seeds in his big-government presidency — school choice, health savings accounts and others. Four years or eight years of neglect, and the seeds are dead while big, costly, overregulated government sprouts.

Mitt Romney does represent the best chance to advance a conservative agenda, however slightly that may be with a Democratic Congress. That’s why more than 50 Georgia legislators endorsed him last week.

By Chad Harris

October 23, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

The market is clearly anticipating an Obama administration, and seemingly does not like what it expects to see.

The market is in the toilet clearly after Phil Graham Chairman of Senate Banking for 12 years, Chris Cox and Alan Greenspan among others put it there. The market has been severely injured by the stupid bail out plans from Bernanke and Paluson. Greenspan was on the Hill this morning admitting his stupidity.

The market does not “anticipate” any administration. The comments from Palinistas just keep on getting more erratic.

12 more days and McCain and Palin go off the TVs. And that includes the moronic law breaking shills like the hideous hate spewing Heather Wilson who trie to directly interfere with Voting Rights investigations and force phony prosecutions and should have been thown in prison for doing so.

By Wooten is always wrong

October 23, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Wooten was wrong then and he’s wrong now

By Wooten is Georgia's Comical Ali

October 23, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

Wooten has been wrong about everything!

He’s doing his best to keep Georgia from turning blue, but he sees that big wave coming right for him! It’s over Wootie, this is the last Presidential election you’ll cover and you know it. In four years you’ll be a relic

The link speaks for itself.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 23, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

Dear Commander @ 1:57, no offense taken, no apology required. But your argument is curious – because I argue the well-documented case that government screwed up as it always does, I am somehow guilty of blaming men for a systemic screw up? The fact that government was involved (standard caveat, “in something other than killing, incarceration, or theft”) pre-ordained the failure. I am pretty consistent on that.

By Chad Harris

October 23, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

Wooten’s idea of national security is 3000 people burning when warnings were ignored and not translated by Condi Rice’s people.

The Federalist Martinets in the D.C. Circuit covered up Sybel Edmonds case using the state secrets BS to dismiss it. She had the translating expertise that could have warned this administration. Moron Guilliani refused to fix the frequencies that would allow the EMS, Police, and Firemen to talk to each other and killed several hundred firemen in the process.

The Republicans are being kicked out of the White House in less than two weeks because they don’t have a clue how to handle crises, or implement national security. They have been a systemic failure and a senile fool and his moronic running mate have as much chance of being President as you do while reading this.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 23, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

Dear Chad @ 2:07, you argue curiously, that people with real money on the line would not care if the US government were seized by a Marxist? I think you need to get out more.

By fearless fosdik

October 23, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

Today the Reuters/C-Span/Zogby poll realease showed Obama with a commanding lead of 12%.

The Big Ten Battleground Poll group finds that Obama not only leads in all eight states by hefty margins but has improved his standing since the last time the group surveyed these states.

The numbers are startling. Obama leads by 12 points in Ohio, by 11 points in Pennsylvania and by 13 points in Wisconsin. In Michigan, where McCain’s campaign has pulled out, the lead is 22 points. In Indiana, a strong red state, the Obama lead is 10 points, which is larger than in other recent polls.

The good news (for McCain) is he still leads in UTAH!

Can any one here say BOB DOLE?

By Commander Guy

October 23, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

Ragnit, your error lies in assuming that the failed policies would have worked if only they had been more extreme, ignoring the fact that the policy has no basis in real human behavior. Randian social theory is the oeprative equivalent to pure Marxism…neither will ever work because both ignore the nature of human behavior and fallibility.

Ah, what’s the use? If Taranto or Sowell or any of your other heroes loosed a stream of steaming 5hit in your mouth, you’d praise the innovative use of sauce. You really seem incapable of thinking beyond talking points.

Are we sure that Dusty and Shyster are not the same person? They are always fluffing each other and the lack of intellectual depth is curiously identical.

By catlady

October 23, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

A PRESSING QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED: DOES SHE GET TO KEEP THE CLOTHES, AND IF SHE DOES, WILL THEY “WORK” IN ALASKA? I AM GUESSING THE ANSWER IS: YOU BETCHA!

By AmVet

October 23, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

First. let us all not forget to do the Common Sense Right thing on November 4. Throw Suxtobeus Chambliss out and let him seek employment in the “private sector” (Probably with all of his very good buddies on K Street).

From the SlogansR Us” Department in the GOP - “Leninist”, “spread the wealth around”, “socialist” “income redistribution”, “Marxist”.

These new mindless and hypocritical Republican slogans have replaced in their soundbite/headline mentality, at least for the time being, “cut and run”, “moral equivalency”, “tax and spend” and “God tells us what to do”.

BUT…

Ever since Ronnie, the utterly misnamed “compassionate conservatives” were and still are obsessed with ferociously throwing poor Americans off the dole and under the bus.

YET, they turned right around and hyper-escalated a MUCH bigger problem - corporate welfare.

Any assistance provided by a government, which gives a private business an advantage over others. In the United States, corporate welfare refers to any number of favors, costing billions of dollars each year, bestowed on corporations by the federal government. It includes, but is not limited to, tax breaks, direct grants for corporations, and various other forms of special favorable treatment.

As with other forms of welfare, many individuals and groups oppose the concept. One of the main contentions concerning corporate welfare is the fact that it like other welfare programs is unconstitutional at the federal level. The Constitution provides no authority for Congress to redistribute money collected via taxation, in an effort to subsidize businesses or individuals. In fact, the spending power of Congress is specifically detailed and limited.

While entitlement programs ostensibly designed to assist families or individuals are often described as “leveling the playing field,” those who support public assistance rarely apply this position to corporate welfare. In fact, it is as inaccurate concerning corporate welfare as it is in regard to other entitlement programs.

Corporate welfare is accused of not leveling the field at all, but distinctly providing advantages for select industries or companies at the expense of other businesses and often consumers. Not only that, but the cost is astronomical, and the taxpayer doesn’t get a say in which companies will be propped up. Adding insult to injury, some say that the government seems to choose blindly when determining which industries or businesses will yield a return on this huge investment.

Corporate welfare is not always recognizable in its various forms. Along with cash bailouts there is also money provided to pay for research and development, insurance, or for subsidized loans. Favors also include acts of protectionism, shielding only certain American industries or businesses, from foreign competition. This of course, stifles free trade, limits other companies, and means that Americans often pay more for goods and services.

Many people believe that corporate welfare also breeds corruption. It seems that frequently, those that make the greatest campaign contributions receive the greatest windfalls. Aside from monetary concerns, certain industries sometimes have greater lobbying power when it comes to legislation. Can you think of any industry that has been able to persuade the government that the purchase of its product or service should be mandatory? If so, you have just discovered another form of corporate welfare.

How much is it? Hard to say for sure, but easily to the tune of many hundreds of billions of dollars annually.

And the “conservative” Marxists, Leninists, socialists, income redistributors and those who TRULY spread the wealth around, stupidly call others these names though they more than anybody want more and more and more of it…

By catlady

October 24, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

WHY WAS THIS BLOG CLOSED DOWN EARLY YESTERDAY? Have anything to do with the a**beating the Repubs were taking?

By catlady

October 24, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

McCain says Palin’s clothes will be donated to charity. Hope he told her first. It will be fun to see some of the Native Alaskan size 24 (short) women wearing her size 4 outfits!

By norman ravitch

October 24, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

People ought to stop asking, who is Obama? and start asking, who is Hoover?

By MikeB

October 24, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

$150k for the VP family wardrobe to be auctioned off afterwards?

I am sure Michelle Obama is getting her fair share of clothing freebies too (if a designer donates clothing, its the same as a financial contribution folks).

In the end is the clothing issue really a big deal????

If it is, then how come the real estate deal for the Obama family residence involving Tony Rezko doesn’t get the same attention in the the press????

Obama gets a discounted price on a property……. Rezko buys the lot next door, with the sole purpose of sealing off the Obama residence via selling a slice of the lot to Obama to enlarge his “discounted” lot and render the Rezko lot unbuildable………Basically giving Obama a 2 for 1 deal on two prime lots in the Kenwood district of Chicago, way under market relative to their values at the time………

Come on folks… Get real. If the media is going to make a big dust up about the Palin wardrobe issue, then this land deal needs the same attention to detail, and exposure…..

Otherwise the media should be fined for every slanted/biased article they write outside their Opinion/Editorial sections.

That would never happen though.

Good thing for all you Obama supporters who condone all of the trash and relationships in his past while waggling your self rightious “gotta get ours” finger at McCain supporters.

Keep throwing Keating and Bush around too… Its all you have.

Obama’s crew of criminals and shady people that we already know about is unbelievable and would if they were tied to McCain be the headline on every NBC/ NY Times/LA Times/MSNBC/AJC ect story from the beginning of the election process. But hey, this is Barrack Obama we are talking about…

What about the Obama associations and relationships we don’t yet know about?

Certainly the media has overlooked/covered up more that a few of these. Ya think??

McCain/Palin 2008

By MikeB

October 24, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

$150k for the VP family wardrobe to be auctioned off afterwards?

I am sure Michelle Obama is getting her fair share of clothing freebies too (if a designer donates clothing, its the same as a financial contribution folks).

In the end is the clothing issue really a big deal????

If it is, then how come the real estate deal for the Obama family residence involving Tony Rezko doesn’t get the same attention in the the press????

Obama gets a discounted price on a property……. Rezko buys the lot next door, with the sole purpose of sealing off the Obama residence via selling a slice of the lot to Obama to enlarge his “discounted” lot and render the Rezko lot unbuildable………Basically giving Obama a 2 for 1 deal on two prime lots in the Kenwood district of Chicago, way under market relative to their values at the time………

Come on folks… Get real. If the media is going to make a big dust up about the Palin wardrobe issue, then this land deal needs the same attention to detail, and exposure…..

Otherwise the media should be fined for every slanted/biased article they write outside their Opinion/Editorial sections.

That would never happen though.

Good thing for all you Obama supporters who condone all of the trash and relationships in his past while waggling your self rightious “gotta get ours” finger at McCain supporters.

Keep throwing Keating and Bush around too… Its all you have.

Obama’s crew of criminals and shady people that we already know about is unbelievable and would if they were tied to McCain be the headline on every NBC/ NY Times/LA Times/MSNBC/AJC ect story from the beginning of the election process. But hey, this is Barrack Obama we are talking about…

What about the Obama associations and relationships we don’t yet know about?

Certainly the media has overlooked/covered up more that a few of these. Ya think??

McCain/Palin 2008

By MikeB

October 24, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

$150k for the VP family wardrobe to be auctioned off afterwards?

I am sure Michelle Obama is getting her fair share of clothing freebies too (if a designer donates clothing, its the same as a financial contribution folks).

In the end is the clothing issue really a big deal????

If it is, then how come the real estate deal for the Obama family residence involving Tony Rezko doesn’t get the same attention in the the press????

Obama gets a discounted price on a property……. Rezko buys the lot next door, with the sole purpose of sealing off the Obama residence via selling a slice of the lot to Obama to enlarge his “discounted” lot and render the Rezko lot unbuildable………Basically giving Obama a 2 for 1 deal on two prime lots in the Kenwood district of Chicago, way under market relative to their values at the time………

Come on folks… Get real. If the media is going to make a big dust up about the Palin wardrobe issue, then this land deal needs the same attention to detail, and exposure…..

Otherwise the media should be fined for every slanted/biased article they write outside their Opinion/Editorial sections.

That would never happen though.

Good thing for all you Obama supporters who condone all of the trash and relationships in his past while waggling your self rightious “gotta get ours” finger at McCain supporters.

Keep throwing Keating and Bush around too… Its all you have.

Obama’s crew of criminals and shady people that we already know about is unbelievable and would if they were tied to McCain be the headline on every NBC/ NY Times/LA Times/MSNBC/AJC ect story from the beginning of the election process. But hey, this is Barrack Obama we are talking about…

What about the Obama associations and relationships we don’t yet know about?

Certainly the media has overlooked/covered up more that a few of these. Ya think??

McCain/Palin 2008

By MikeB

October 24, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

$150k for the VP family wardrobe to be auctioned off afterwards?

I am sure Michelle Obama is getting her fair share of clothing freebies too (if a designer donates clothing, its the same as a financial contribution folks).

In the end is the clothing issue really a big deal????

If it is, then how come the real estate deal for the Obama family residence involving Tony Rezko doesn’t get the same attention in the the press????

Obama gets a discounted price on a property……. Rezko buys the lot next door, with the sole purpose of sealing off the Obama residence via selling a slice of the lot to Obama to enlarge his “discounted” lot and render the Rezko lot unbuildable………Basically giving Obama a 2 for 1 deal on two prime lots in the Kenwood district of Chicago, way under market relative to their values at the time………

Come on folks… Get real. If the media is going to make a big dust up about the Palin wardrobe issue, then this land deal needs the same attention to detail, and exposure…..

Otherwise the media should be fined for every slanted/biased article they write outside their Opinion/Editorial sections.

That would never happen though.

Good thing for all you Obama supporters who condone all of the trash and relationships in his past while waggling your self rightious “gotta get ours” finger at McCain supporters.

Keep throwing Keating and Bush around too… Its all you have.

Obama’s crew of criminals and shady people that we already know about is unbelievable and would if they were tied to McCain be the headline on every NBC/ NY Times/LA Times/MSNBC/AJC ect story from the beginning of the election process. But hey, this is Barrack Obama we are talking about…

What about the Obama associations and relationships we don’t yet know about?

Certainly the media has overlooked/covered up more that a few of these. Ya think??

McCain/Palin 2008

By A different Joe

October 24, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

The real loser in an Obama victory is going to be Mike Luckovich.