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Title: Specter says he's switching from GOP to Democrats - Obama: "Thrilled to have you."
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URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97RJ5B01&show_article=1
Published: Apr 28, 2009
Author: By DAVID ESPO
Post Date: 2009-04-28 13:03:44 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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"I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans," Specter said in a statement posted on a Web site devoted to Pennsylvania politics and confirmed by his office. Several Senate officials said a formal announcement could come later in the day or Wednesday. Specter, 79 and in his fifth term, is one of a handful of Republican moderates remaining in Congress in a party now dominated by conservatives. Several officials said the White House as well as leaders in both parties had been involved in discussions leading to his move. With Specter, Democrats would have 59 Senate seats. Al Franken is ahead in a marathon recount in Minnesota, and if he ultimately wins his race against Republican Norm Coleman, he would become the party's 60th vote. That is the number needed to overcome a filibuster. Specter faced an extraordinarily difficult re-election challenge in his home state in 2010, having first to confront a challenge from his right in the Republican primary before pivoting to a general election campaign against a Democrat. "I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate," he said in the statement. "I don't have to say anything to them. They said it to me," Specter said, when asked in a Capitol corridor about abandoning the GOP. A senior White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because no announcement has yet been made, said at 10:25 a.m. EDT Tuesday President Barack Obama was handed a note while in the Oval Office during his daily economic briefing. The note said: "Specter is announcing he is changing parties." At 10:32, Obama reached Specter by phone and told him "you have my full support" and that the Democratic Party is "thrilled to have you." Specter had publicly acknowledged that to win in 2010, he would need thousands of Pennsylvania voters who switched from Republican to Democrat last year to vote for Obama to flip back to the GOP to cast ballots for him. Specter says he's switching from GOP to Democrats 
Apr 28 12:45 PM US/Eastern
By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent
(3 images) WASHINGTON (AP) - Veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter disclosed plans Tuesday to switch parties, a move intended to boost his chances of winning re-election next year that will also push Democrats closer to a 60-vote filibuster-resistant majority.
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#14. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
Old " Magic Bullet" Specter should have gotten his personal one a LONG TIME ago.
Remember the senate hearing when (Michigan Militia Brigadier General) Norm Olson said to Specter, "I'm not the one who came up with 'the fictional magic bullet story', Senator", or words to that effect. And the whole gallery laughed out loud, a deep, roaring belly laugh that humiliated Specter! Specter then tried to calmly explain why that grotesque assassination fairie tale was factual and indeed plausible but to no avail. From that moment on he had to wonder if his staff, his fellow politicos and even the whole country is deferential in his presence and tippy toes around it but disbelieves him and that whole crock o' dewdie known as The Warren Commission Report because of his blatant lies. (which was confirmed by President "Isn't there an escalator here someplace?" Ford shortly before his death) Perhaps Specter is being positioned to validate the questionable evidence for the next assassination and it will that much more easy to sell coming from a Senior Democrat. I mean, is tapping Specter to chair the next commission any more absurd than the attempt to put Kissinger on the 9/11 Damage Control Team? The irony of this defection is, we're supposed to believe that he's changing parties as a matter of ideology and principle. The real truth is the GOP is dying, having allowed their party to be abused by Israeli Zionists, the MIC and all of BushCo's buddies who strip mined the treasury, and they never gave any thought to how the party would survive once they openly sold their souls for the privilege of an eight year orgy of greed and lust for power. (But this poses no problem for "goal oriented chameleons and "dual loyalists" (sic) like Specter, Lieberman, David Gergen, Ted Turner, etc. And, Specter's move will force the GOP to either get on their knees and deliver everything that AIPAC demands on Israel's behalf, or, back the principled conservatives who are trying to restore the party and take their chances without Jewish financial support. Both with likely prove to be too little, too late, and the graves are being dug as I type. Even the Socialist Republicans (seniors, farmers, all who want govt health care and see this as the chance to get it) will have no choice but to vote in their own interests, and only the extremist "Young Republicans for Christ" and brainless loyalists who'll vote "Republican" no matter who or what their current sales campaign is based around will lemming over the "cliff of losers". And, they won't have the numbers to defeat the majority that has now ripened and are ready to vote themselves govt benefits and not be sidetracked by ancillary issues such as abortion, school prayer, Evolution-Intelligent Design and other issues that don't feed the bull DAWG. President Obama is about to wield the most power of any president since FDR, and all efforts to defeat him will exemplify the futility of resisting an idea whose time has come. That time is, "The Fall Of Rome Book Two".
And the whole gallery laughed out loud, a deep, roaring belly laugh that humiliated Specter! Specter then tried to calmly explain why that grotesque assassination fairie tale was factual and indeed plausible but to no avail. I can't listen to the audio right now but is this that clip?? There is also a link to the full vid at the youtube link. American Militia Commander Norman Olson Speaks at Senate
I hate to say this but I have seen Army footage that makes the magic bullet possible. Not saying plausible just possible. They showed high powered rifle shots into gelatin. The bullet did everything but dance. There were loops and curves like you wouldn't believe. They also showed some footage that matches the video of the head shot. He was supposedly shot from behind. Government version anyway. But his head snapped backwards. Well in the Army footage, melon shots this time, the melon always jumped forward when shot. It wasn't being struck from the front that made the melon jump but the blowout on the other side causing the melon to jump in the direction the shot came from. Not commenting on the assassination here just saying is all.
Not commenting on the assassination here just saying is all. That's right. The gelatin tests showed how bullets perform in ballistic gelatin. But, the "magic bullet" passed through Kennedy, made a right turn and a left, (performing an "S curve maneuver" if you will) in the airspace between JFK and TX Gov. John Connally, and then proceeded to straighten out its slightly downward trajectory to end up in Connally's forearm. It defied all known laws of physics and external ballistics, and has never been seen before or after it was required to "calm the American people" and keep us from throwing most of our govt out on their asses. In fact the events of 9/11 proved what we suspected, that the laws of physics may be suspended when our criminal cartel of a govt needs to hide their culpability. They learned to do this with the JFK assassination, and after getting away with it for 38 years they were confident that the people weren't any better educated in 2001 than in 1963. The law of mathematical probability alone could easily prove that 9/11 was the result of careful planning and positioning of demolition charges and no other explanation is possible. But, to the average American the intangibility of mathematical science is simply too abstract to grasp, as is the absolute and irrefutable proof it offers in the murder of JFK on 22 November 1963 and the murders of nearly 3,000 people on 9/11/01. Oswald's brother (of all people) participated in a demo to "prove" that 3 shots could be fired in 6 seconds. He was filmed using a slick, tight, Weatherby rifle instead of a sloppy Carcano with the scope mounted too low to permit rapid cycling of the action, and he aimed at and hit absolutely nothing. So, (just as with ballistic gelatin tests where the bullet velocity, weight, range to target and other important variables are all unknown) he proved that a slick, tight, Weatherby rifle can be fired 3 times in six seconds as long as no moving targets are involved. And to many Americans that may have constituted "proof" of something meaningful about the assassination of JFK.
I've shot animals in the brain at close range with high powered firearms and their head has never violated Newton's physics and came towards the the firearm and I have never seen any blast of brain matter coming in the "rocket effect" out of the penetration.
#114. To: tom007 (#69)
Same here. In any case the technology now exists to positively determine the direction of travel of the projectile that struck Kennedy's brain. (The wound to the side of his head was tangential and avulsive, both entrance and exit) Even if the damage to the skull and scalp was inconclusive, scanning electron microscopy of the brain would now answer the question assuming the "experts' didn't claim to be unable to determine the top from the bottom, the left from right side of the brain. The inevitable development of this technology is why for many years the brain has been missing from the electronic safe in which it was stored. There were only a few people who had the combination so we can safely assume that removing this evidence was not a crime to the govt, just as they assumed that the American people wouldn't give sour owlshit about learning the truth someday. And, the death of John John (who was certain to win the senate seat now held by "Bruno" Clinton and eventually the presidency and who vowed to punish those who conspired to murder his father) makes me think thoughts I shouldn't be thinking. Those rotten bastards are still at it and still certain that no American law enforcement agencies or oversight committees or media outlets will dare to cross them. Apparently if you have the power in America (just as it is in the countless banana republics we've instructed in the proper way to attach electrodes to genitalia) then "might makes right" and only the Pollyannas like me refuse to accept this political reality. And, frankly, I lose patience with people who'd argue with me endlessly about this but they wouldn't dream of haranguing the evil govt types who made the evidence and witnesses disappear- people like Vincent Bugliosi, who apparently decided that being the darling of the forensics talk show circuit was so important to his self esteem that he'd allow his good name be used to hide the truth. He made perfect sense with irrefutable logic when explaining why OJ was the murderer of Nicole and Ron Goldman, but he gets real stupid when discussing the assassination of my president.
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#22. To: tom007, Deasy, James Deffenbach, litus, Artisan (#14)
Old " Magic Bullet" Specter should have gotten his personal one a LONG TIME ago.
#24. To: HOUNDDAWG, twentytwelve, original_intent, rotara, psusa, christine, deasy, farmfriend, all, *Bilderberg and NWO Watch* (#22)
Remember the senate hearing when (Michigan Militia Brigadier General) Norm Olson said to Specter, "I'm not the one who came up with 'the fictional magic bullet story', Senator", or words to that effect.
#42. To: Artisan, HOUNDDAWG, twentytwelve, original_intent, rotara, psusa, christine, deasy, (#24)
Specter then tried to calmly explain why that grotesque assassination fairie tale was factual and indeed plausible but to no avail.
#62. To: farmfriend (#42)
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I hate to say this but I have seen Army footage that makes the magic bullet possible. Not saying plausible just possible. They showed high powered rifle shots into gelatin. The bullet did everything but dance. There were loops and curves like you wouldn't believe. They also showed some footage that matches the video of the head shot. He was supposedly shot from behind. Government version anyway. But his head snapped backwards. Well in the Army footage, melon shots this time, the melon always jumped forward when shot. It wasn't being struck from the front that made the melon jump but the blowout on the other side causing the melon to jump in the direction the shot came from.
#69. To: HOUNDDAWG, farmfriend (#62)
ut, the "magic bullet" passed through Kennedy, made a right turn and a left, (performing an "S curve maneuver" if you will) in the airspace between JFK and TX Gov. John Connally, and then proceeded to straighten out its slightly downward trajectory to end up in Connally's forearm.
Replies to Comment # 69. I've shot animals in the brain at close range with high powered firearms and their head has never violated Newton's physics and came towards the the firearm and I have never seen any blast of brain matter coming in the "rocket effect" out of the penetration.
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