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The Storm Before the Calm
The McCain campaign starting to unravel, showing the consistency of the Palin thought process.
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Bush might bomb Iran if he thinks Obama will win?
On Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol implied that President Bush is more likely to attack Iran before leaving office if he believes Barack Obama is going to win the election because he is confident that John McCain will continue his Iran policy for a third term. On Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol implied that President Bush is more likely to attack Iran before leaving offic... more
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Sarah Palin booed at hockey game
America's favorite hockey mom gets booed at a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game.
The arena had to raise the music volume to drown out the booing.
Look at the people behind Sarah Palin when she drops the puck. They're giving her the thumbs down and holding Obama/Biden signs. America's favorite hockey mom gets booed at a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game. ... more -
Obama's spiritual mentor preaches gospel of hate
Obama's recent claims about his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright contradict Obama's own bestselling memoir.
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McCain, Palin accused of inciting hatred
John McCain and Republican Presidential candidate have been accused of inciting dangerous hatred in their campaign against opponent Barack Obama.
McCain has been forced to try and tone down his supporters at his rallies as they increasingly shout out "terrorist", "liar" and even "kill him" when Obama is mentioned.
"He's a decent family man (and) citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign's all about," McCain said at the town-hall meeting in Lakeville, Minnesota.
The plea, which seems to undercut the thrust of his aggressively negative ad campaign, drew boos from the crowd but appreciative recognition from Obama.
Critics say the seething anger seen at McCain rallies has been whipped up by campaign ads which have accused the Democrat of associating with terrorists.
Civil rights campaigner John Lewis today said McCain and Palin were "sowing the seeds of hatred and division" with their incendiary rhetoric against Obama.
"As public figures with the power to influence and persuade, Senator McCain and (Alaska) Governor Palin are playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all," Lewis said in a statement on Politico.com
McCain has also been forced to sack a prominent Virginia Republican figure after he wrote a newspaper column mocking a potential Barack Obama administration.
MCCain spokesman Bobby May was dropped from his job as McCain's Buchanan County campaign chairman for writing that Obama would paint the whitehouse black and hire rapper Ludacris to rewrite the national anthem. John McCain and Republican Presidential candidate have been accused of inciting dangerous hatred in their campaign against opponent Ba... more -
Support Obama, sell your unused gold jewelry. Preserve American Democracy as we di...
My suggestion is to have Obama supporters sell their old gold jewelry at the Obama campaign centers or on their own. We should all be vastly concerned that even if we get the message out that these criminals will tamper with the Voting Process and other ways.
PLEASE NOTE:
This idea is independent of Obama Campaign but I thought I would throw it out there.
I have used KITCO ( see link) in the past and found it easy and they seem to pay fairly...you can donate all or a fraction of the payment. Please use your own judgment on best option for selling. My suggestion is to have Obama supporters sell their old gold jewelry at the Obama campaign centers or on their own. We should all be ... more -
The last great power grab!!!
a simple multi media rap about the bailout!
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Elections 2008: Sign the Youth Agenda!
How will you feel on November 5, 2008?
Chances are, you'll either be ecstatic or crying hypsterically, depending on who wins the presidential election. But as campaign anticipation fades and the reality of a new administration sets in, we'll be looking for our next president to turn those lofty campaign promises into practical agenda items.
That's why WireTap, as a member of Generation Vote, is proud to introduce the Youth Agenda. Organizers representing upwards of 1.5 million young people from 20 organizations chose their top eight issues. As the first ever national issues agenda written by youth organizers from around the country, the platform is a national call to action around issues such as education, jobs and healthcare. The goal is to present our issues to the next presidential administration and rally them to take action. Less than two weeks after the election, young people from around the country will meet in Oakland at the Youth Policy Summit to strategize effective actions.
According to Mattie Weiss, Director of Campus Camp Wellstone and GenVote member, "We came to the pretty movement-changing realization that to win on all of these issues, we’ve got to start by winning on one."
You can get involved, too. Take a look at the agenda, endorse it and pass it along.
Still need more information? We sat down with Mattie to talk about the significance of the Youth Agenda.
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John McCain: The Nuclear Option
Building 45 new nuclear plants in this country is insanity and will doom the waterways of this country and put our national security at risk. For a candidate who also talks about fighting the 'war on terror' as well, how could this thought even be entertained in the world we live in? Nuclear energy is not safe, it is not CO2 free, and I am truly getting tired of John McCain talking about what he really knows nothing about. He was on a nuclear submarine that didn't get blown up so that is how he assessed nuclear power is safe? Does he even understand the process of how the uranium is extracted and the toxic pollution it causes to our waterways and land? Does he understand how the toxic waste causes cancer? Does he understand the radioactivity of the waste? The immense amount of water nuclear uses? (Not good in a country now experiencing droughts, especially in the US Southwest) The cost in dollars and in potential lives?
My one message to him and yes, Obama as well who has now flip flopped to say he too engages nuclear is: STOP LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. The strides being made in solar, wind, and geothermal are here and now. We could take the money their congressional subsidies give out for their nuclear pipedreams and repower this country! I will make a pledge that should John McCain be corronated I will call the White House every day regarding this issue and 'clean coal.' And I will do the same if it is Obama.
It is unconscienable to me that they could ever want to foist this antiquated unsafe energy source on us just to appease backers and the lobbyists who get the subisidies from Washington Dc. The nuclear option must be out of the question. It is antiquated. It is unsafe. It is toxic. It wastes water. It is expensive. It puts our national security at risk, and will take too much time in light of the reports coming from peer reviewed scientists regarding the current state of our world. Why don't these candidates ever pick up a report instead of a poll to craft their policies? Building 45 new nuclear plants in this country is insanity and will doom the waterways of this country and put our national security a... more -
Russia's Medvedev test fires long-range missile
President Dmitry Medvedev oversaw the test firing of an intercontinental Topol missile on Sunday and vowed to commission new generation weapons for Russia's armed forces.
A Reuters reporter said the truck-mounted Topol was fired at 3:23 a.m. EDT in drizzling rain from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, which is nestled among the taiga forests of Russia's north.
Half an hour later it hit the Kura testing site, 6000 km (3700 miles) away on the Kamchatka peninsula in the Pacific.
"I have just been told that the dummy warhead has landed in Kura," Medvedev said from the Topol launch pad where acrid smoke from the missile still hung thick in the air.
"We will continue to commission new types of weapons but we will also continue testing the ones we have now," said Medvedev. "Their effectiveness has been proved by time. Our shield is fine."
Russian nuclear submarines also successfully test fired two ballistic missiles from the Pacific Ocean and Barents Sea on Sunday to targets inside Russia, the navy said.
Medvedev, who was sworn in as president in May, has moved to beef up Russia's armed forces after a five-day conflict in Georgia this August which sparked a row with the United States and European Union.
Dressed in the army's new-style leather jacket -- with a badge saying commander-in-chief -- Medvedev inspected the 21.5 meter Topol rocket before the launch.
The rocket is designed to pierce anti-missile defense systems such as those that the United States wants to build in Eastern Europe. The Kremlin has opposed Washington's plans.
Medvedev's predecessor, Vladimir Putin, raised defense spending during his eight-year presidency to revive Russia's armed forces, which had been drained in the 1990s by corruption, low pay and a lack of funding.
Russia's strategic bombers have restarted regular patrols over the Atlantic Ocean, irking NATO, and a group of the Northern Fleet ships is on its way to the Caribbean to take part in joint exercises with U.S. foe Venezuela.
Two Russian warships and their support vessels docked in Tripoli ahead of making the transatlantic trip. Russia on Saturday test-launched a strategic missile to the equatorial part of the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
NEW WEAPONS
The RS-12M Topol, called the SS-25 Sickle by NATO, has a maximum range of 10,000 km (6,125 miles).
"This missile and others which will be commissioned in the next few years are capable of effectively providing the nuclear deterrent and ensuring the security of Russia and its allies," Colonel-General Nikolai Solovtsov, Commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces, told Medvedev.
The Topol, a highly mobile missile designed in Soviet times, is a key part of Russia's nuclear deterrent.
But Russia has extended their use way past the 10-year guaranteed operational life set by the manufacturer and the launch on Sunday was aimed partly at testing how the rockets would fire after having their operational life extended so far.
"An extension of the operational life of the Topol rocket complexes ... will allow the systematic replacement of rockets being taken out of use with new generation rockets without any peak load on the military budget," Interfax news agency quoted Alexander Vovk, an adviser to the head of Russia's strategic forces, as saying.
-----------------Another step towards an all out war. Russia is very pissed off at the Poland deal to put a missile shield there. And thats only the tip of their concerns. I am sure they are also pissed off that the west, namely the USA, is responsible for the collapse of their financial markets. If they go further with this 'cold' war, we will look back at 911 like it was small change...imho President Dmitry Medvedev oversaw the test firing of an intercontinental Topol missile on Sunday and vowed to commission new generatio... more -
"He's An Arab" - McCain Pacifies Hate On Campaign Trail
(Video wouldn't embed here, so go directly to the MSNBC video player to watch it...
It's from the Rachel Maddow Show, and the clip is called Hate On The Campaign Trail)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27125261#271252...
On Friday 10/10, McCain saw firsthand how his hate-and-smear-filled campaign is affecting the minds of his supporters.
Putting out Hate-Fires left and right at a rally in Minnesota, he tries to calm the crowd, and urge them to respect Obama as he does... and they booed him for it.
McCain actually had to describe to a woman in his crowd that, despite her beliefs, Obama is NOT, in fact, an "Arab," and "someone to be feared," but rather a respectable human being that would make a fine president, not to be feared. McCain actually had to DEFEND Obama because his crowd was getting unruly and vicious.
This is getting bizarre.
It seems that McCain has started seeing the terrifying results of feeding his supporters all this negativity. He is now being relegated to play the role of Daddy at his rallies - he ends up talking down to his supporters, treating them like a roomful of unruly children, in a desperate attempt to quiet the Hate.
Watch the whole video to really get the picture... (Video wouldn't embed here, so go directly to the MSNBC video player to watch it... ... more -
Secret Service investigates 'kill him' shout
Republican rallies have adopted an increasingly incendiary tone towards Senator Barack Obama, with shouts of "kill him", "treason" and "terrorist" interrupting speeches by Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin.
The negative approach taken by the McCain-Palin campaign has coincided with a series of aggressive expressions towards the Democratic nominee over his left-wing associations and background.
Apart from highlighting Mr McCain's connections to the Keating Five scandal, the Obama campaign has perceived benefits in staying above the fray but is always prepared with a defence when attacked.
With Mr Obama leading in the polls and only 24 days to go before the US presidential election, the series of outbursts have sparked the interest of the Secret Service, which guards the candidates and other dignitaries.
They launched a brief investigation after a man was heard, but not recorded, by journalists shouting "kill him", when Mrs Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, was speaking of Mr Obama's links to Bill Ayers, a former domestic terrorist who is now a professor in Chicago. The two men sat together on educational committees but have rarely been in contact for six years.
At a rally in Pennsylvania this week, Bill Platt, the local Republican leader, warmed up the crowd by several times referring to "Barack Hussein Obama", focusing on the Illinois senator's middle name.
When Mr McCain asked "Who is the real Barack Obama?" a supporter shouted back: "He is a bomb." Chants of "Nobama, Nobama" mingled with cries of "terrorist", as one banner in the crowd declared: "Go ahead, let the dogs out."
In question and answer sessions, impassioned Republicans have implored Mr McCain to take a tougher line in next week's final debate with Mr Obama.
At a McCain rally in Wisconsin on Thursday, a man brought the crowd to its feet when he took the microphone and bellowed: "I'm really mad. And what's going to surprise you is it's not the economy -- it's the socialists taking over our country."
Mr Obama, in Ohio yesterday, said of Mr McCain's hostile tone: "It's not going to work. There's nothing easier than riling up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that's not what we need right now in the United States."
The McCain campaign has said that, amid the hubbub, the candidates could not hear inflammatory remarks. Republican rallies have adopted an increasingly incendiary tone towards Senator Barack Obama, with shouts of "kill him", �... more -
Factchecking the Ayers connection
For most of the election, Sen. John McCain's campaign has been somewhat subtle about trying to tie Sen. Barack Obama to the former '60s radical William Ayers.
No longer. A 90-second Web ad released Oct. 8, 2008, features sinister music, side-by-side photographs of Obama and Ayers, and a series of dubious allegations about their past connections, including this one:
"Ayers and Obama ran a radical education foundation together."
Ayers was a founding member of the militant Vietnam-era anti-war group the Weathermen. He was investigated for his role in a series of domestic bombings, but the charges were dropped in 1974 due to prosecutorial misconduct. He is now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and actively engaged in the city's civic life.
The McCain campaign said the "radical education foundation" to which they were referring is the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a charity endowed by publishing magnate Walter Annenberg that funded public-school programs in Chicago from 1995 to 2001.
We'll look at whether the foundation was radical. But first we have to grapple with whether Obama and Ayers ran it.
Obama served on the foundation's volunteer board from its inception in 1995 through its dissolution in 2001, and was chair for the first four years. So an argument can be made that he ran it, though an executive director handled day-to-day operations.
Ayers, who received his doctorate in education from Columbia University in 1987 and is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was active in getting the foundation up and running. He and two other activists led the effort to secure the grant from Annenberg, and he worked without pay in the early months of 1995, prior to the board's hiring of an executive director, to help the foundation get incorporated and formulate its bylaws, said Ken Rolling, who was the foundation's only executive director. Ayers went on to become a member of the "collaborative," an advisory group that advised the board of directors and the staff.
However, Ayers "was never on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge," and he "never made a decision programmatically or had a vote," Rolling said.
"He (Ayers) was at board meetings — which, by the way, were open — as a guest," Rolling said. "That is not anything near Bill Ayers and Barack Obama running the Chicago Annenberg Challenge."
Now, was the foundation radical?
The McCain campaign cited several pieces of evidence for that allegation, including a 1995 invitation from the foundation for applications from schools "that want to make radical changes in the way teachers teach and students learn." The campaign appears to have confused two different definitions of the word "radical." Clearly the invitation referred to "a considerable departure from the usual or traditional," rather than "advocating extreme measures to retain or restore a political state of affairs."
(more at the link) For most of the election, Sen. John McCain's campaign has been somewhat subtle about trying to tie Sen. Barack Obama to the forme... more -
Bush has bigger heart than Obama
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Obama calls increasing taxes and giving them to the needy a matter of "neighborliness." Vice presidential running mate Joe Biden calls it a matter of "patriotism."
Yet when it comes to charitable giving, neither Obama (until recently) nor Biden feels sufficiently neighborly or patriotic to donate as much as does the average American household: 2 percent of their adjusted gross income.
In 2007, President George W. Bush and his wife had an adjusted gross income of $923,807. They paid $221,635 in taxes, and donated $165,660 to charity — or 18 percent of their income. Vice President and Mrs. Cheney, in 2007, had a taxable income of $3.04 million. And they paid $602,651 in taxes, and donated $166,547 to charity — or 5.5 percent of their income.
Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, earned between $200,000 and $300,000 a year between 2000 and 2004, and they donated less than 1 percent to charity. When their income soared to $4.2 million in 2007, their charitable contributions went up to 5 percent.
Joe and Jill Biden, by contrast, made $319,853 and gave $995 to charity in 2007, or 0.3 percent of their income. And that was during the year Biden was running for president. Over the past 10 years, the Bidens earned $2,450,042 and gave $3,690 to charity — or 0.1 percent of their income.
Liberal families earn about 6 percent more than conservative families, yet conservative households donate about 30 percent more to charity than do liberal households. And conservatives give more than just to their own churches and other houses of worship. Conservatives, especially religious conservatives, give far more money and donate more of their time to nonreligious charitable causes than do liberals — especially secular liberals.
So let's sum up. The "compassionate" liberals — at least based on charitable giving — show less compassion than "hardhearted" conservatives. The rich pay more in income taxes than people think. Voters, clueless about the facts, want the rich to pay still more. Copy and Paste the Link here - http://www.creators.com/opinion/larry-elder.html ... more -
Music Video of John McCain's "That One"
That One. Now a music video Now a T-Shirt. Now, ahead in the polls by 7 points! Listen Here!
That One's Biography
That One was raised by a single mother and his grandparents. They didn't have much money, but they taught him values from the Kansas heartland where they grew up. He took out loans to put himself through school. After college, he worked for Christian churches in Chicago, helping communities devastated when steel plants closed. That One turned down lucrative job offers after law school to return to Chicago, leading a successful voter registration drive. He joined a small law firm, taught constitutional law and, guided by his Christian faith, stayed active in his community. That One and his wife Michelle are proud parents of two daughters, Sasha and Malia.
EARLY YEARS
That One was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, That One Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.
That One's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton's army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii.
It was there, at the University of Hawaii, where That One's parents met. His mother was a student there, and his father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams in America.
That One's father eventually returned to Kenya, and That One grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia. Later, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.
THE COLLEGE YEARS
Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, That One put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in ------------more at link..and more videos! That One. Now a music video Now a T-Shirt. Now, ahead in the polls by 7 points! Listen Here! That One's Biography ... more -
ACORN and BIG OIL v.s. RFK.jr. in New Mexico on KSFR
RFK,jr. arrives just in time in the Land of Enchantment.! As the Republicans make ACORN the scapegoat -trying to steal the election again, and Big Oil tries to wield its muscle in the Galisteo Basin, Robert Kennedy fights innuendo with fact. Kennedy gave an interview to Debrianna of "twodee" in the KSFR public radio newsroom. Bill Dupuy interviews Rick Davis. RFK,jr. arrives just in time in the Land of Enchantment.! As the Republicans make ACORN the scapegoat -trying to steal the election ag... more
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Palin contradicts McCain on North Korea being removed from US terrorism list
Sarah Palin took questions from the press (gasp!) while at a market/gas station in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Sunday, October 11 and shared her position on North Korea being removed from the US terrorism list.
Unfortunately, she forgot to check with John McCain to see what his position was on this issue ... Sarah Palin took questions from the press (gasp!) while at a market/gas station in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Sunday, October 11 and sha... more -
Fox News' faux documentary sets new low
Sean Hannity's Sunday report, 'Obama and Friends: The History of Radicalism,' relied on innuendo and guilt by association to label the Illinois senator a dupe of the shadowy forces of the left. Sean Hannity's Sunday report, 'Obama and Friends: The History of Radicalism,' relied on innuendo and guilt by associati... more
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Palin heightens rhetoric on abortion
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin charged into the culture wars Saturday in Pennsylvania, painting Sen. Barack Obama as a radical on abortion rights. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin charged into the culture wars Saturday in Pennsylvania, painting Sen. Barack Obama as a radical on abortion ri... more
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'Minnesota nice': McCain calls for calm
The Friday-evening crowd in the Minneapolis suburb of Lakeville was fired up for Sen. John McCain's arrival for a town hall meeting in a hot high school gymnasium.
The senator's supporters jeer after he calls Obama "a decent person."
They largely felt their candidate was getting a bad shake from the national media, and there was a sense throughout the question-and-answer portion of McCain's event that the audience needed to make a point to McCain.
"I'm begging you, Senator, to give them a different choice on Wednesday night," one woman said to McCain, referring to the upcoming presidential debate next Wednesday.
"The people here in Minnesota want to see a real fight this next time you debate," a man said. "We want a strong president to lead us for the next four years."
And a third: "I respectfully tell you that you have to talk a little bit, and bring to the attention of the voters – the press is not going to do it for you – some of the gamey associations, some of the associations that have really marred Obama's life…You gotta do it." The Friday-evening crowd in the Minneapolis suburb of Lakeville was fired up for Sen. John McCain's arrival for a town hall meeti... more
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