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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
O-Rahm-a
Post Date: 2008-11-07 12:21:45 by Jethro Tull
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Despite their very, uh, different personalities, Obama and Emanuel have one big thing in common: David Axelrod. Emanuel is one of Axelrod's closest friends; Axelrod even signed the ketubah at Emanuel's wedding. -Snip
Poster Comment:Had enough yet?
Obama: return to elite status quo
Post Date: 2008-11-07 11:06:40 by christine
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The election triumph of Barack Obama and the return of power to the Democrats was a cause for a split second of relief, but not elation. What the world learned is that it will not be subjected to a McCain-Palin presidency, which certainly would have ushered in horrors, violence, and insanity that likely would have dwarfed those of Bush-Cheney. But the arrival of Obama as the new imperial figurehead of the Anglo-American empire is not a victory of, or for, the people. It will not signify a dramatic upheaval, in any way, and by no means is any sort of revolution at hand. Nor is Obama’s ascendancy about “you.” It is about “them.” This election was a necessary ...
Will Supreme Court have say in presidency?
Post Date: 2008-11-07 01:30:56 by TwentyTwelve
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ELECTION 2008 Will Supreme Court have say in presidency? Schedule includes campaign response to questions on Obama birthplace Posted: November 04, 2008 6:51 pm Eastern © 2008 WorldNetDaily U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter has rejected an emergency appeal for the court to halt the tabulation of the 2008 presidential election results until Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama documents his eligibility to run for the office, according to an attorney who brought the action that challenges the Illinois senator's standing in the race. However, the issue isn't going away, at least for now, since Souter set a schedule for a response from Obama to the challenge ...
Getting Teary? Just Get Real.
Post Date: 2008-11-06 20:00:08 by Turtle
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THE crowds worshipping at Barack Obama’s feet on Tuesday weren’t crying tears of joy because the nation had just voted for his tax policy. The adoration of this US president-elect following his great victory isn’t from voters ecstatic that the country’s health system may now be reformed. And ABC Radio yesterday didn’t joyously play the American national anthem because its commentators were all weepy to think the US economy would now be re-regulated. To make what seems an obvious point, these tears, these hugs, this reverential celebration of Obama’s win from Washington to Wagga Wagga have been unleashed by Americans voting for their first black president. ...
How the President-Elect Did It [ from Karl Rove's perspective]
Post Date: 2008-11-06 16:43:22 by scrapper2
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Intense and gripping, the 2008 election was also historic. The son of a Kenyan immigrant and an American mother has risen to the presidency of history's most powerful nation. Who was not moved by the sight of Jesse Jackson standing silently among strangers with tears streaming down his face as he thought of a long journey towards equality and acceptance? So how did Barack Obama win? Some of it was fortune: He was a fresh, gifted, charismatic leader who emerged at just the moment that people yearned for something entirely new. Some of it was circumstance: The October Surprise arrived a month early and framed the election in the best possible way for Mr. Obama (and the worst possible ...
Obama's Pick for Chief of Staff Tops Recipients of Wall Street Money
Post Date: 2008-11-06 14:18:41 by bluegrass
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A day after being elected president and acknowledging "the worst financial crisis in a century," Barack Obama asked one of the biggest recipients of Wall Street campaign contributions to be his chief of staff. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois congressman who was an aide in the Clinton White House, was the top House recipient in the 2008 election cycle of contributions from hedge funds, private equity firms and the larger securities/investment industry--not the most popular of industries in the current economy. Since being elected to Congress in 2002, after working as an investment banker, Emanuel has received more money from individuals and PACs in the securities and investment ...
Obama's Friends Appear Poised to Hold Clout in Washington
Post Date: 2008-11-06 11:20:43 by christine
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Barack Obama owes a lot of favors. His successful bid to be America's 44th president was aided by unprecedented fundraising, and he gained the early support of mutinous Democrats who rebelled against the better known and more experienced candidates in the primaries. Now Obama's effort to craft his administration and his agenda before he becomes president on Jan. 20 could be influenced in large part by those who helped put him in the position to be making those decisions. Much as George W. Bush brought his Texas advisers to Washington, and Bill Clinton tapped his Arkansas connections before that, Obama can be expected to bring Chicago to the nation's capital on Inauguration ...
Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wages
Post Date: 2008-11-06 09:38:19 by christine
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Indianapolis - Lines were long and tempers flared Wednesday not to vote but to get paid for canvassing for Barack Obama. Several hundred people are still waiting to get their pay for last-minute campaigning. Police were called to the Obama campaign office on North Meridian Street downtown to control the crowd. The line was long and the crowd was angry at times. "I want my money today! It's my money. I want it right now!" yelled one former campaign worker. A former spokesman for the Obama campaign said 375 people were hired as part of the Vote Corps program and said people signed up to work three-hour shifts at a time. Three hours of canvassing got workers a $30 pre-paid ...
Obama wins, America loses
Post Date: 2008-11-06 09:29:25 by Jethro Tull
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Obama wins, America loses Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Voters turned out in record numbers on Tuesday to chart what they're convinced will be a long-overdue "new course" for America. Unfortunately, it's likely to be a sloppy tack through the dire straits of rocky shoals that could scuttle this nation. Democrat Barack Hussein Obama, 47, the junior U.S. senator of Illinois, was the longest of longshots when he announced his candidacy nearly two years ago. But yesterday he was swept into the presidency in commanding fashion by a nation blindly demanding "change." And coupling President-elect Obama's gross inexperience with the liberal extremists ...
Ron Paul on Alex Jones Discussing Obama Presidency (Audio)
Post Date: 2008-11-06 00:42:29 by christine
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64.72.126.49/Archives3/nov2008/AlexJ835h/1105081.mp3
Question: Anyone have a great kenyan recipe for BBQ goat?
Post Date: 2008-11-05 23:07:27 by TwentyTwelve
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Please post the recipes here.
oboma supporters the day after
Post Date: 2008-11-05 22:37:38 by freepatriot32
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Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
ENJOY THIS ONE
Post Date: 2008-11-05 22:30:05 by rowdee
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Click on the url source and when you arrive at the webpage, click on the video..."Obama Win.........I believe you will get a laugh or two---yes, you can!!! :)
U.S. Stocks Post Biggest Post-Election Drop on Economic Concern
Post Date: 2008-11-05 21:48:04 by TwentyTwelve
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U.S. Stocks Post Biggest Post-Election Drop on Economic Concern By Elizabeth Stanton Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The stock market posted its biggest plunge following a presidential election as reports on jobs and service industries stoked concern the economy will worsen even as President-elect Barack Obama tries to stimulate growth. Citigroup Inc. tumbled 14 percent and Bank of America Corp. lost 11 percent as the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average sank more than 5 percent. Nucor Corp., the largest U.S.-based steel producer, slid 10 percent after bigger rival ArcelorMittal doubled production cuts amid slowing demand. Boeing Co., the world's ...
Fox News Angrily Smears Nader For Daring To Criticize Obama
Post Date: 2008-11-05 17:08:58 by TwentyTwelve
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Fox News Angrily Smears Nader For Daring To Criticize Obama Fawning host and panel angrily proclaim end of Nader’s career, imply Nader is a racist, for failing to worship president elect Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, November 5, 2008 A Fox News host and his panel angrily proclaimed that Ralph Nader’s career was finished after the Independent Party candidate dared to criticize Barack Obama’s record of toadying up to corporate interests, as top liberal websites applauded Fox News for their aggressive defense of the president elect. The corporate media’s frightening obsession with maintaining Obama’s messianic complex now apparently extends to ...
The Jewish Vote: 78% for Obama, 22% McCain
Post Date: 2008-11-05 16:50:09 by Jethro Tull
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Obama's Neocon in Residence
Post Date: 2008-11-05 14:02:29 by christine
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The grip that the Israeli lobby has over both political parties means that any real shift in U.S. Middle Eastern policy is unlikely, whoever is elected president today. It might also be argued that no change in policy outside the Middle East is likely either, except that Obama might talk before he bombs. Given Joe Biden's warning that Obama will respond decisively to a foreign policy test in his first six months, it might even be suggested that a new regime could prove more trigger-happy than the current one. That said, there is a real substantive difference between the Obama's foreign policy team and John McCain's. The latter is neocon-dominated, with advisers such as Bill ...
Shaft Opening Scene 1971
Post Date: 2008-11-05 13:58:13 by Turtle
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GOP Silent on Bush's Failures
Post Date: 2008-11-05 13:38:15 by Rupert_Pupkin
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PJB: But Where Did Bush Go Wrong? By Patrick J. Buchanan After losing control of the Senate and 30 House seats in 2006, the GOP is bracing for losses of six to nine in the Senate, and two dozen to three dozen additional seats in the House. If the party “were a dog food,” says Rep. Tom Davis, “they would take us off the shelf.” Bush’s approval is 25 percent. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton left office with ratings more than twice as high. But while John McCain and others have deplored the Bush failures, what, exactly, did he do wrong? What were the policy blunders to which Republicans vehemently objected at the time? That Bush is a Big Government Republican is ...
Why the Wealthy Voted for Obama ( middle class voted for McCain)
Post Date: 2008-11-05 13:19:37 by scrapper2
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Among the demographic groups that helped Sen. Barack Obama cross the finish line last night were the affluent and wealthy–the very voters who could become the target of tax increases promised during Sen. Obama’s campaign. Exit polls show Sen. Obama did best among two main wealth brackets–the bottom and the top. (The middle was split about evenly). According to the polls, Sen. Obama won 60% of the votes of those with family income of less than $50,000. He also won 52% of the votes of those earning $200,000 or more. That compares with Sen. John McCain’s 46% showing for the same group. Sen. Obama’s showing among the affluent is about 15% better than Sen. Kerry’s ...
I Didn't Vote!
Post Date: 2008-11-05 06:27:11 by Ada
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Being a principled nonvoter on Election Day is a little like being a turd in the punchbowl. At least that's how all the people running around yesterday blissfully participating in the American civic religion of statism viewed it: I'm some sort of a downer, a crank, a loonie, a jerk. Voting Is Evil It's not that I view voting as pointless. Even some active voters admit as much, but they still go through the motions because, "You can't just do nothing." (I don't think not voting is equivalent to doing nothing, but we'll come back to that.) No, I don't vote because I believe voting – and here I am talking particularly about national elections – ...
Prediction: Stock market to rally at least 500 points on Wednesday [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-11-05 00:31:01 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Note: I correctly predicted Obama's landslide, many months ago. Now, I predict that the stock market is poised to take off unless Double-you does something stupid again or shows up on the teevee and says something (by definition stupid).
McCain Conceeds Defeat
Post Date: 2008-11-04 23:19:41 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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On Fox News now
It looks like we got a new prez-elect. Let's wish him well [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-11-04 23:05:47 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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CNN projects 297 electors already. And that's WITHOUT Florida, S Carolina, Indiana, Colorado or Montana. You may not want to agree but, this is HUGE, people. I'm finishing my Scotch now.
80% of Hispanic voters disapprove of Bush
Post Date: 2008-11-04 22:24:39 by Jethro Tull
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Gotta love it! How many of us were tossed from various forums when we warned Rs they were inviting the Goths behind the gate? For Bush & MadMac to get it in the neck by this newly invited voting block is ironic to say the least.
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