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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
Adviser calls BlackBerry 'miracle' McCain 'helped create'
Post Date: 2008-09-16 17:25:32 by Ferret Mike
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(CNN) -- Sen. John McCain's senior domestic policy adviser said Tuesday that the BlackBerry mobile e-mail device was a "miracle that John McCain helped create." The adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, discussing the nation's economic woes with reporters, said that McCain -- who has struggled to stress his economic credentials -- did have experience dealing with the economy, pointing to his time on the Senate Commerce Committee. Pressed to provide an example of what McCain had accomplished on that committee, Holtz-Eakin said the senator did not have jurisdiction over financial markets, then he held up his Blackberry, telling reporters: "He did this." ...
YouTube censors viral video documentary on Palin's churches
Post Date: 2008-09-16 16:26:34 by Ferret Mike
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Censored video at another site Sarah Palin was baptized at Wasilla Assembly of God and attended the church for over two and a half decades, and she has been publicly blessed by a number of pastors and religious leaders employed by and associated with that church. Last Sunday our research team released a video, a ten-minute mini-documentary, focusing on the Wasilla Assemblies of God and the video seemed on the verge of a massive "viral" breakthrough when YouTube pulled it down, citing "inappropriate content". At the point the video was censored by YouTube it had been viewed by almost 160,000 people. The short of it is that YouTube has censored a video documentary that ...
Barack Obama's speech in New Hampshire ROFLMAO!
Post Date: 2008-09-16 13:34:43 by nikki
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Barack Obama's speech in New Hampshire Courtesy of the Obama campaign, here are Barack Obama's remarks from New Hampshire earlier tonight (as prepared for delivery). If I get the text of Hillary Clinton and John Edwards' speeches, I'll post those too. Remarks of Senator Barack Obama - New Hampshire Primary Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Nashua, New Hampshire I want to congratulate Senator Clinton on a hard-fought victory here in New Hampshire. A few weeks ago, no one imagined that we'd have accomplished what we did here tonight. For most of this campaign, we were far behind, and we always knew our climb would be steep. But in record numbers, you came out and spoke up for ...
Todd and Sarah Palin's Jewish Roots
Post Date: 2008-09-16 13:10:04 by PoliticallyIncorrect
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No wonder the Zionist power brokers who run DC were willing to toss Joe Boy Lieberman overboard, they have two of the "Chosen Ones," Todd and Sarah Palin. On this Wikipedia link, there's no mention of who Sarah's grandparents are, but on this Wikipedia link for hubby Todd, Sarah is described as descending from Kings and Queens in England, yet no mention her grandparents. She is supposed to be from King Henry III's bloodline and he from Charlemagne. How cute. Ever notice that when the rich or famous do a family tree, that their heritage always includes being descended from royalty? No one ever says that their ancestors were stable boys, or milk maids or scooped up ...
Powell still undecided, says Obama win would be ‘electrifying’
Post Date: 2008-09-16 00:51:45 by Ferret Mike
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Powell, a Republican, has said he may not back the GOP pick this cycle. (CNN) — Former Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that he has not yet decided which candidate to back in this year’s presidential race. The election of an African-American president “would be electrifying,” Powell told a George Washington University audience, “but at the same time [I have to] make a judgment here on which would be best for America. “I have been watching both individuals, I know them both extremely well, and I have not decided who I am going to vote for. And I’m interested to see what the debates are going to be like because we have to get off of this ...
More Obama Resume Inflation: His Days at Business International
Post Date: 2008-09-16 00:10:16 by Horse
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Sweetness & Light (S&L) has the goods (HT Michelle Malkin) on yet another instance of resume enhancement in a Barack Obama book. It is also yet another example of something an inquisitive media has failed to discover in the 21 months since an Obama presidential run became likely. It's too bad. It's clear, from an underlying 2005 post at Analyze This, and other information S&L gathered, that had anyone in the media undertaken an effort to speak to Obama's co-workers at Business International, the firm where he worked after earning his bachelor's degree from Columbia, they would have found that the reality of that job differed sharply from how Obama described it ...
Brutal: Sarah Palin's Record on Aerial Wolf Hunting
Post Date: 2008-09-15 22:01:46 by Ferret Mike
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-- Brutal: Sarah Palin's Record on Aerial Wolf Hunting
Poster Comment:I am strongly opposed to this hunt she supported this last year. It did nothing to enhance caribou herds and perpetuated an inaccurate, cruel and brutally inhuman hunt. I am motivated by environmental issues more then some here are. This is my pet peeve issue concerning this individual.
FOX News/Rasmussen Reports Poll: Race Remains Close in Swing States
Post Date: 2008-09-15 19:09:57 by PoliticallyIncorrect
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Polling in five key battleground states shows John McCain and Barack Obama neck-and-neck with seven weeks left until Election Day. McCain holds a slight advantage over Obama in Colorado, Florida, and Ohio, while the candidates are tied in Pennsylvania and Virginia. In only one state — Florida — does the gap between McCain and Obama exceed three percentage points in polls with a four-and-a-half percentage point margin of sampling error. The overriding message from these results is that the race remains very close. The biggest change is in Colorado, where McCain now leads by 48 percent to Obama’s 46 percent. Just a week ago, Obama had a three-point edge in this western ...
Palin's e-mail secrecy an open secret in Alaska
Post Date: 2008-09-15 12:27:35 by Ferret Mike
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ANCHORAGE — Moments after Gov. Sarah Palin's first speech as Republican John McCain's running mate, she sat with her kids backstage, thumbing one of the two BlackBerrys that are always with her. You can see them in photographs from that day on the campaign blog of one of McCain's daughters. The tech-savvy governor has one of the devices (which allow users to read and send e-mails) for state business and another for personal matters, but those worlds intertwine. Palin routinely uses a private Yahoo e-mail account to conduct state business. Others in the governor's office sometimes use personal e-mail accounts, too. The practice raises questions about backdoor secrecy ...
OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL
Post Date: 2008-09-15 09:41:55 by christine
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WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence. According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July. "He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington," Zebari said in an interview. Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to ...
Karl Rove Remark Delights Democrats
Post Date: 2008-09-15 08:28:01 by freepatriot32
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It’s not every day that Democrats embrace the wisdom of Karl Rove, but the Barack Obama campaign is e-mailing around a comment he made to Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” With the commercials of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) under attack for falsehoods, Rove said that both sides in the presidential race have “gone one step too far” — in McCain’s case, by “attributing to Obama things that are … beyond the 100 percent truth test.” "When Karl Rove is questioning the legitimacy of your dishonest tactics, you really need to take a moment of self-reflection," Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said when the campaign e-mailed the quote to ...
‘Alaska Women Reject Palin’ Rally is HUGE!
Post Date: 2008-09-15 06:39:29 by angle
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I attended the Welcome Home rally for Sarah Palin this morning. Hooo. It was an experience. About a thousand (maybe) hard-core Palin supporters showed up to hear her speak at the new Dena’ina Convention Center in downtown Anchorage. After shaking it off with a good double shot of espresso, and a brisk walk back to my car, it was time to head to the Alaska Women Reject Palin rally. It was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage. Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men. I had no idea what to expect. The rally was organized by a small group of women, ...
The scandal-tainted rise of Asif Zardari
Post Date: 2008-09-15 00:34:59 by Split
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Allegedly one of Pakistan's most corrupt politicians, Asif Ali Zardari has been elected president by the Pakistani parliament and provincial assemblies. All remaining corruption charges against him were dropped in the months leading up to his election. What follows is a brief history of the criminal and corruption charges which have linked him with fraud, money-laundering, receiving bribes, and even murder. 1990 Arrested on charges of blackmail. Accused of attaching a bomb to a Pakistani businessman, forcing him to withdraw money from his bank account. Charges dropped in 1993 when wife Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister for the second time. Serves as Minister for the Environment ...
Speculative thoughts on spectacular democracy
Post Date: 2008-09-15 00:16:31 by Split
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The ruthless unity in the culture industry is evidence of what will happen in politics. Marked differentiations such as those of A and B films, or of stories in magazines in different price ranges, depend not so much on subject matter as on classifying, organizing, and labelling consumers. - Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception It is increasingly apparent that the ominous insights of Adorno and Horkheimer into the culture industry as precursor to absolute political homogeneity have come to fruition in our times. The observations of these two German political philosophers and their colleagues can greatly assist any attempt to interpret ...
Rove: McCain Has Gone 'One Step Too Far'
Post Date: 2008-09-14 21:29:03 by Ferret Mike
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Well, maybe that goes a bit far, and its manner of introduction was not exactly one President Bush's top political strategist might have chosen for himself. Nonetheless, the campaign seized on Rove's comments on Fox News Sunday today to bolster its case that Republican presidential nominee John McCain has been lying about Obama's record in recent days. The Obama campaign has specifically decried two McCain ads: one that attempts to portray as an insult to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Obama's contention that McCain's calls for change are putting "lipstick on a pig," and another Obama says misleads viewers about the purpose of a sex eduction bill he supported. In ...
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
Post Date: 2008-09-14 19:07:26 by angle
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EXCERPT: Last summer State Representative John Harris, the Republican speaker of the House, picked up his phone and heard Mr. Palin’s voice. The governor’s husband sounded edgy. He said he was unhappy that Mr. Harris had hired John Bitney as his chief of staff, the speaker recalled. Mr. Bitney was a high school classmate of the Palins and had worked for Ms. Palin. But she fired Mr. Bitney after learning that he had fallen in love with another longtime friend. “I understood from the call that Todd wasn’t happy with me hiring John and he’d like to see him not there,” Mr. Harris said. “The Palin family gets upset at personal issues,” he added. ...
Obama Camp Reports $66M in Donations in August (declines public funds)
Post Date: 2008-09-14 14:00:11 by buckeye
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Barack Obama’s campaign says the Democratic presidential candidate raised $66 million in August, making for another record fundraising month. That tops the record $55 million Obama raised last February. Campaign spokesman Bill Burton also said Sunday that Obama reached the $66 million mark with help from contributions from 500,000 new donors. More details are expected later this week, when the campaigns file their monthly financial reports with the Federal Election Commission. Obama decided not to accept public financing for the rest of his campaign, opting to spend as much as he can raise. Republican candidate John McCain has accepted public financing, which limits his direct ...
Curious Family History (Obama & McCain; Selective Service Mentioned)
Post Date: 2008-09-14 10:40:11 by buckeye
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Curious Family History Obama has ancestors who owned slaves, but none in America were slaves themselves. George Washington Overall, a great-great-great-great-grandfather, and Mary Duvall, a great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, both owned slaves. Two of Obama’s great-great-great-grandfathers fought for the Union in the Civil War: Christopher Columbus Clark served in the Missouri militia, as did Harbin Wilburn McCurry, who was forced to fight after being arrested by Union forces in Arkansas and charged with fleeing south to avoid enlistment. Meanwhile, Obama’s great-uncle Charles T. Payne was part of the 89th Infantry Division that liberated Ohrdruf, a Nazi work camp in ...
Lie-ing King
Post Date: 2008-09-13 22:33:48 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Overstream allows you to add your own lines to any video. This is a spoof of the media's treatment of Sarah Palin based upon the German edition of Lion King. I am still voting for Nader as neither McCain nor Obama is an anti-war candidate.
In Anchorage, an Anti-Palin Protest
Post Date: 2008-09-13 21:49:26 by angle
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ANCHORAGE -- A couple of hours after Gov. Sarah Palin returned to the Outside, as Alaskans call the Lower 48, her local critics swarmed an Anchorage intersection to correct the widespread impression that the whole of the Last Frontier endorses her candidacy. The midday protest outside a city library drew a crowd in the high hundreds -- perhaps surging past a thousand -- from the city's relatively liberal environs, who seemed very happy to see one another and be reminded that they are not alone. "The whole thing grew out of frustration," said Charla Sterne, one of the organizers, who like several people at the rally declined to say where they worked (several said they were ...
Tax expert Rangel mangles facts in ethics mess
Post Date: 2008-09-13 08:36:48 by Disgusted
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Tax expert Rangel mangles facts in ethics mess The Associated PressPublished: September 13, 2008 WASHINGTON: Even when Rep. Charles Rangel tries to explain how he got into his tax mess, he mangles the facts so much it's easy to see how his accounts — and accountants — are muddled. And this from the lawmaker who has such a big say in determining who pays taxes and how much. The chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee spent the past week reeling from a series of embarrassing revelations: He failed to report about $75,000 in rental income over two decades from a beach villa he owns in the Dominican Republic; he owes about $5,000 in back taxes to the ...
Whites lift McCain to slim lead over Obama in poll
Post Date: 2008-09-12 20:00:31 by PoliticallyIncorrect
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WASHINGTON (AP) - An overwhelming advantage in experience and lopsided support from working-class and suburban whites have lifted Republican John McCain to a slender lead over Barack Obama less than two months from Election Day, a poll on the presidential race said Friday. The Arizona senator has a 13-percentage-point lead over his Democratic rival both with men and senior citizens, and a 23-point advantage among rural residents, according to the Associated Press-GfK Poll of likely voters. He's also doing better than Obama at consolidating support from party loyalists: 94 percent of Republicans back McCain, while 83 percent of Democrats prefer the Illinois senator. Obama has good news, ...
Palin's Foreign Policy Expertise - "I can see Russia!"
Post Date: 2008-09-12 12:14:17 by Rupert_Pupkin
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Pressed about what insights into recent Russian actions she gained by living in Alaska, Palin told Charles Gibson of ABC News, "They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEfyqLFvfuE Pressed about what insights into recent Russian actions she gained by living in Alaska, Palin told Charles Gibson of ABC News, "They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.">Click for Full Text!
Poster Comment:According to Palin, standing on your coast and seeing another nation's coastline gives you policy ...
Will Joe Biden be dumped off ticket? Speculation rises about last-minute VP switch for party [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-09-12 11:32:16 by christine
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Will Sen. Joe Biden be dropped from the Democratic Party ticket before Election Day? Television pundits, talk radio personalities and blogs have been buzzing with speculation about a last-minute VP switch for the party. On Fox's "Hannity & Colmes" last night, Sean Hannity asked Gov. Ed Rendell, D-Pa., "Will they replace Biden with Hillary?" Rendell replied, "No, absolutely not. Joe Biden is here to stay. Next vice president of the United States." However, according to recent polls, Biden's popularity is not as high as Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Results from a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. national survey released yesterday ...
Sean Hannity Tries To Bully Robert Kuttner (Worth the watch!)
Post Date: 2008-09-12 06:50:52 by angle
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Sean Hannity Tries To Bully Robert Kuttner
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