Monday - October 27, 2008

Whittle While You Work

Bill Whittle weighs in on today’s viral video.

Once again, the words straight from Obama’s own mouth ought to be a campaign killer. Once again, not one person with half an active brain cell and a cat’s lick of common sense and knowledge of what America is all about should be able to vote for this turkey. Not one.

But Bill says it better, as he always does:

The United States of America — five percent of the world’s population — leads the world economically, militarily, scientifically, and culturally — and by a spectacular margin. Any one of these achievements, taken alone, would be cause for enormous pride. To dominate as we do in all four arenas has no historical precedent. That we have achieved so much in so many areas is due — due entirely — to the structure of our society as outlined in the Constitution of the United States.

The entire purpose of the Constitution was to limit government. That limitation of powers is what has unlocked in America the vast human potential available in any population.

Barack Obama sees that limiting of government not as a lynchpin but rather as a fatal flaw: “…One of the, I think, the tragedies of the Civil Rights movement was because the Civil Rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways we still suffer from that.”

There is no room for wiggle or misunderstanding here. This is not edited copy. There is nothing out of context; for the entire thing is context — the context of what Barack Obama believes. You and I do not have to guess at what he believes or try to interpret what he believes. He says what he believes.

We have, in our storied history, elected Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives and moderates. We have fought, and will continue to fight, pitched battles about how best to govern this nation. But we have never, ever in our 232-year history, elected a president who so completely and openly opposed the idea of limited government, the absolute cornerstone of makes the United States of America unique and exceptional.

If this does not frighten you — regardless of your political affiliation — then you deserve what this man will deliver with both houses of Congress, a filibuster-proof Senate, and, to quote Senator Obama again, “a righteous wind at our backs.”

That a man so clear in his understanding of the Constitution, and so opposed to the basic tenets it provides against tyranny and the abuse of power, can run for president of the United States is shameful enough.

We’re just getting started.

McCain on Fire!

Horry Clap, McCain’s on fire. Catch his speech from Ohio today; I’m sure Fox will have it as well as McCain.org and JohnMcCain.com, etc. He’s all over today’s viral video of Obama’s 2001 radio interview video. The old man is up on the podium, actually raising his voice! He’s energized! He’s shouting! He’s against big government! He’s against out of control spending! He’s against Socialism (but he doesn’t call a spade a spade and he doesn’t identify the obvious). He’s not lying down and giving up. It’s like a rally! It’s almost sounds like he’s a Republican!

The before the speech transcript from the NY Times is pretty close to what he actually said.

Stand Up! Stand up and fight for America!

It’s been a long campaign and we’ve heard a lot of words, and great campaign trail eloquence. The amazing thing is that we’ve learned more about Senator Obama’s real goals for our country over the last two weeks than we learned over the past two years. It is amazing that even at this late hour, we are still learning more about Senator Obama and his agenda. He told Joe the plumber right here in Ohio he wants to quote “spread the wealth around.” It’s always more interesting to hear what people have to say in these unscripted moments, and today we heard another moment like this from Senator Obama.

In a radio interview revealed today, he said that one of the quote—“tragedies” of the civil rights movement is that it didn’t bring about a redistribution of wealth in our society. He said, and I quote, “One of the tragedies of the Civil Rights movement was because the Civil Rights movement became so court-focused I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.”

That is what change means for Barack the Redistributor: It means taking your money and giving it to someone else. He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs. He is more interested in controlling wealth than in creating it, in redistributing money instead of spreading opportunity. I am going to create wealth for all Americans, by creating opportunity for all Americans.

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Let me give you the state of the race today. There’s eight days to go. We’re a few points down. The pundits have written us off, just like they’ve done before. My opponent is working out the details with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid of their plans to raise your taxes, increase spending, and concede defeat in Iraq. He’s measuring the drapes, and he’s planned his first address to the nation for before the election. I guess I’m old fashioned about these things I prefer to let the voters weigh in before presuming the outcome.

What America needs now is someone who will finish the race before the starting the victory lap ... someone who will fight to the end, and not for himself but for his country.

I have fought for you most of my life, and in places where defeat meant more than returning to the Senate. There are other ways to love this country, but I’ve never been the kind to back down when the stakes are high.

I know you’re worried. America is a great country, but we are at a moment of national crisis that will determine our future.

Will we continue to lead the world’s economies or will we be overtaken? Will the world become safer or more dangerous? Will our military remain the strongest in the world? Will our children and grandchildren’s future be brighter than ours?

My answer to you is yes. Yes, we will lead. Yes, we will prosper. Yes, we will be safer. Yes, we will pass on to our children a stronger, better country. But we must be prepared to act swiftly, boldly, with courage and wisdom.

I’m an American. And I choose to fight. Don’t give up hope. Be strong. Have courage. And fight.

Fight for a new direction for our country. Fight for what’s right for America.

Fight to clean up the mess of corruption, infighting and selfishness in Washington.

Fight to get our economy out of the ditch and back in the lead.

Fight for the ideals and character of a free people.

Fight for our children’s future.

Fight for justice and opportunity for all.

Stand up to defend our country from its enemies.

Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. America is worth fighting for. Nothing is inevitable here. We never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.

Now, let’s go win this election and get this country moving again.

Palin’s Problem

What is Sarah Palin’s problem with McCain/Palin Campaign aides? It’s simple, they are a bunch of sexist pigs who think she’s a stubborn bitch. What you have here is a gang of egotistical control fools who don’t want to admit Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin has brains and a mind of her own. They don’t want Kathryn Janeway, they want June Cleaver.

Now Palin is fighting back. Sarah has burned her bra, taken back her maiden name, and is opening her own doors. The way those aides were acting you’d think she was busy castrating them with a dull plastic fork. Middle aged men with castration anxiety. As if they had any use for it.

The Sarahcuda is simply doing what John McCain needs to do, put a bunch of power hungry weasels in their place. McCain gives his aides too much credit because they supposedly know more than him. In contrast they don’t impress Sarah Palin. Since the aides hate people who stand up for themselves, they bitch, moan, and kvetch about what she’s doing, having none of the maturity needed to recognize she has to stomp on them, and stomp on them hard, for her to have any real role in a McCain administration.

And, it’s something John McCain needs to do if he is to have any real role in the McCain administration. John McCain, like Barack Obama, puts to much credence in his advisers. John McCain needs to start putting his foot down and reigning in people before they screw the pooch and start looking for ways to deny paternity of the puppies.

Good on ya, Sarah! Tell ‘em the truth, and give ‘em Hell!

McCain and Palin aides at war.  (oh great. so we’re fighting among ourselves now?)

Just what I bloody well need to start the day, on top of everything else going on around here.
And in a foreign paper too.  Good. Show everyone how divided we are among our own kind.  Gee people, when the heck did the enemy become US?
Does Democrat/Liberal/Obama/Supreme Court/Taxes and heaven know what else, does any of that ring any bells?  Jeesh!

Have any of you seen Mrs. Palin in blue jeans?  Gosh she looks good in everything. I’m glad she answered her clothing critics and now we need to move on and stop the political death wish that seems to be encroaching our ranks.

PALIN IN 2012!  Y E S !

McCain and Palin aides at war
Aides to John McCain and Sarah Palin have exchanged bitter barbs over the handling of the campaign.

By Alex Spillius in Washington
Last Updated: 12:39AM GMT 27 Oct 2008

One adviser to Mr McCain was reported to have called the Republican nominee’s running mate a “diva” after her allies complained bitterly that she was too tightly controlled by Mr McCain’s aides.

The Alaska governor’s supporters said that she was so frustrated by her role in the campaign that she threatened to “go rogue” more often and do things her own way.

With Mr McCain already struggling to stay in the race with Mr Obama ahead in the polls, the row over his vice-presidential nominee is threatening to drain energy from the uphill challenge of beating his Democratic rival. Despite the strains in his campaign, and an average poll lead for Mr Obama of 7.8 percentage points, Mr McCain maintained a plucky outlook, declaring that he was still capable of a squeaking a narrow victory on Nov 4. “I believe that I’m going to win it. It’s going to be tight, and we’re going to be up late, but we’re going to win,” Mr McCain told NBC’s Meet the Press.

For encouragement he clung to the example of a new Reuters-Zogby poll that put his rival’s advantage at five points, compared to others placing it at 11 points. “The polls are all over the map,” he said, asserting that American voters were growing wary of Mr Obama’s plans for tax increases.

Yet again, he was forced to defend Mrs Palin, whose favourability ratings have slipped to 40 per cent from a high of 64 per cent shortly after her nomination two months ago.

Asked about the $150,000 (£93,000) spent on designer clothes for Mrs Palin and her family by the Republicans, Mr McCain insisted: “She lives a frugal life.”

However his backroom staff appear to be at war with Mrs Palin’s aides. As mutual hostilities rose within the Republican campaign at the weekend, an ally of the Alaska governor cited the bad publicity over the shopping spree as an example of how poor treatment by McCain staffers had tarnished her image and turned her into the butt of late-night comedians.

A senior Republican complained to Politico.com that “she never even set foot in these stores”, and had no idea of the cost. He blamed the fiasco on “completely out-of-control operatives”.

Adding that she had “lost confidence in most of the people on the plane,” referring to the staff who accompany her, he said she wanted to “go rogue” more often.

“These people are going to try and shred her after the campaign to divert blame from themselves,” said the insider, referring to Mr McCain’s chief strategist Steve Schmidt and to Nicolle Wallace, the former communications director for George W Bush who has overseen Mrs Palin’s media strategy.

An opponent of Mrs Palin within the McCain camp however lambasted her for branching out on her own and for criticising tactical decisions made by the senator and his advisers.

“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” a McCain adviser told CNN. “She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”

(A McCain adviser?  Really nice quote from someone who’s supposed to be ON OUR SIDE.)

Over the weekend Mrs Palin once again took a campaign message further than her senior partner. For days both have warned that Mr Obama’s tax policies are tantamount to “socialism”. But speaking in Des Moines, she warned that the Democrat would create the kind of country “where the people are not free”, raising the spectre of a communist state.

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Just out of curiosity.  Are you folks seeing this at home?  This report I mean. With days to go till election, this can’t look very smart. 

   Friday - October 24, 2008

Shovels and Hip Waders Required

Get a load of this whopping pile of bullshit.

ACORN: McCain and Conservative Media Suppressing Voters!!!11!!

Caught with their hand in the cookie jar yet again, our leftist superiors at ACORN lash out with the predictable argument worthy of a 3 year old: “I know you are, but what am I?”

The conservative media and the McCain campaign are involved in a voter suppression effort, according to a top official with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

“There is an orchestrated campaign – coming from the right – that is ultimately about voter suppression,” ACORN spokesman Brian Kettering said in an interview. “We know that conservative media – and CNS is probably one of them – conservative organizations and the McCain campaign are running a concerted, coordinated effort,” Kettering said.

“One of its key strategies is to attack and de-legitimize the work of ACORN,” he said.

The Associated Press reported last week that the “FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election.”

“We’re not saying that the FBI is involved in voter intimidation,” Kettering said. “The intent of the campaign is to draw law enforcement into the fight.”

When CNSNews.com asked Kettering whether conservatives had succeeded in drawing in the FBI, he answered, “Absolutely.”

In an Oct. 18 statement, ACORN said the investigation was a partisan attempt to “taint” the election and undermine both its efforts and the Obama campaign.

“This is a right-wing attempt to set the stage for a massive voter suppression operation,” the statement read. It also characterized the FBI investigation as a “nakedly partisan attempt to taint the election, ACORN, and the candidacy of Barack Obama.”

Today’s ACORN statement is pure projection. Blatantly guilty and totally partisan, ACORN screams that they’re the victims and that it’s all a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Holy shiite!

Today’s smut is pure perfection. With or without a tan. Holy shiite also, but in a much better way!

Police fear riots if Barack Obama loses US election.  (News from the USA. Tell me you’re surprised)

Well, that’s the report from the USA to this newspaper.  Funny thing, I was thinking the same and that was a week ago.  Bet some of you were as well.

I really think you guys need to read ALL of this article.  Much of this really causes some anger because it appears our side is ALWAYS automatically guilty.
Then too we know damn well there are certain life forms among a certain minority who will riot at the drop of a hat.  It’s their national pastime and all they need is the slimmest of excuses.  Or no excuse come to think of it.
If I start writing all I think at the moment, in between these lines in answer to various statements, I’ll end up with a book too long to read.  But I do believe the headline. Don’t you? 

Police fear riots if Barack Obama loses US election
US police fear riots could break out if John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, wins the election next month.

By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
Last Updated: 7:51AM BST 24 Oct 2008
Barack Obama rally Indianapolis - Obama prepares massive operation to mobilise vote
Commentators point to the surge in voter registration and large turnout in the primaries as reasons why there could be problems on election day Photo: AP

Law enforcement officials say the intense public interest and historic nature of the vote could lead to violent outbreaks if people are unhappy with the results, encounter problems casting their ballots or suspect voting irregularities.

Police departments say they cannot rule out disorder and are mobilising extra forces and putting SWAT teams on standby.

In Oakland, near San Francisco, police will have tactical squads, SWAT teams and officers trained in riot control on standby.

“We always try to prepare for the worst,” said Oakland police department spokesman Jeff Thomason.

“This election is going to mark in history a change in the presidency: you’re going to have a woman in the presidency or an African American as president. I think everybody around here is voting for Obama, so if he gets in the White House everybody’s going to be happy.

“But we’ll have our SWAT teams on standby and traffic teams here, so if something goes off we’ll organise and take care of the problem.”

There have also been internet rumours about plans for protests or civil disobedience by supporters of Democratic candidate Barack Obama if he is beaten by Republican rival John McCain on November 4.

He said Oakland was prepared to deal with unrest as Oakland Raiders fans rioted in 2003 following their Super Bowl loss.

Other cities that have experienced unrest include Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia and are also planning to deploy extra officers on election day.

James Carville, a strategist for former President Bill Clinton and advisor to his wife Hillary’s 2008 presidential campaign, hinted Democrat supporters could be angry if Mr Obama lost, given his lead in the polls.

“If Obama goes in and he has a consistent five-point lead and loses the election, it would be very, very, very dramatic out there,” he told CNN.

James Tate, of Detroit’s police department, which dealt with violent celebrations after the Detroit Tigers won the baseball World Series in 1984, told congressional newspaper The Hill that problems could flare whichever candidate wins.

“Either party will make history and we want to prepare for celebrations that will be on a larger scale than for our sports teams,” he said. “The worst-case scenario could be a situation that requires law enforcement.”

In Chicago, where Mr Obama will hold a rally on November 4, the police department has been meeting to discuss security plans for the night. Law enforcement departments in Philadelphia and Cincinnati are also making preparations in case of problems.

Commentators point to the surge in voter registration and large turnout in the primaries as reasons why there could be problems on election day, questioning whether the system will be able to handle so many extra voters.

Election officials in Virginia are stepping up security at polling booths amid concerns over long waits and issues such as voter registration and identity verification.

Despite efforts to improve voting systems after the problems of 2000 and 2004, the Pew Research Centre has warned high turnout could again cause problems such as lengthy delays at the polls. Unexpectedly high number of voters in states with early voting such as Florida have already encountered long waits.

Hilary Shelton, director of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People’s (NAACP) Washington bureau, said there could be a repeat of problems witnessed in some black inner cities in 2004, where voters waited for up to eight hours to cast their ballots.

In response to the expected high turnout among racial and ethnic minority voters, intense interest in the election and online rumours about unrest, the NAACP has written to election officials in every state asking them to try to prevent any problems that could lead to voters being “stymied” or “disenfranchised” such as too few voting machines or staff.

He was also concerned about the possibility of extra police presence causing intimidation.

“Our antennas go up in terms of what happens when law enforcement moves to provide additional security and support and what happens on election day and how that comes across.

“The issue we’re raising now is are they being sensitive to the issues and the possibilities of intimidation and disenfranchisement, which could very well come out of them being too heavy handed. (Sometimes) the wrong strategy by law enforcement can actually create a problem rather than prevent one and it is our hope that we don’t see those kinds of problems on election day and people are able to enjoy the security of our democracy.”

Right-wing websites and blogs have been fuelling speculation about election unrest with unconfirmed reports of an online petition that pledges “civil disobedience” if Mr McCain wins.

Meanwhile, in a blog posting entitled ‘A McCain “Win” Will Be Theft, Resistance Is Planned’, David Swanson, Washington director of Democrats.com and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, writes: “If your television declares John McCain the president elect on the evening of November 4th, your television will be lying.

“You should immediately pick up your pre-packed bags and head straight to the White House in Washington, DC, which we will surround and shut down until this attempt at a third illegitimate presidency is reversed.

“We may be there for days or weeks or months. But we must be there. We must be there by the millions. We must show each other, and the nation, and the world that we have had enough, that we will not stand for one more stolen election, that we will not give in to fear, lies, theft, and intimidation.”

Mr Carville told The Hill that “a lot of Democrats would have a great deal of angst and anger,” if Mr Obama lost. He predicted that on November 4, “the voting system all around the country is going to be very stressed because there’s going to be enormous turnout.”

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   Thursday - October 23, 2008

John McCain should realise: it’s the taxes, stupid.  (OK, back to the USA for this)

Not too much too say.
Have lost musician friend of 30 years and will soon post.
But this stuff is very much alive and of interest to us all. 
But it ain’t over yet. Not till the last ballot is accounted for on election day.

Catch the rest of Kim’s take on things: => http://www.theothersideofkim.com/index.php/tos/

“I would feel better about electing a President in times of economic uncertainty if either candidate had the slightest familiarity with economic issues.” Kim du Toit

John McCain should realise: it’s the taxes, stupid
By Frank Luntz
Last Updated: 11:01pm BST 22/10/2008

Barack Obama will be the next President. For a pollster and message consultant to declare the outcome with 10 days to go is risky. But John McCain’s campaign has shown no capability to capitalise on events, and the Obama campaign just doesn’t make mistakes.

Republicans eye Palin for 2012 presidential campaign

It didn’t have to be this way.

McCain could have stood up and said no to the $700 billion “taxpayer-funded Wall Street bail-out”.

McCain could have been a hero for the middle-class
Sure, it’s now called an “economic rescue plan” by the White House, but the Bush Administration’s rebranding came too little and too late. He could have declared that “Main Street should not have to pay for the sins of Wall Street”, that it’s “time for the corporate con-men to do some time for costing us some dime”.

That decision alone would have made him a hero to tens of millions of hard-working middle-class voters who resent seeing their tax dollars handed over to fund the retirement packages of the Billionaire Boys Club. But he didn’t.

McCain also could have personalised the taxes that every American pays. He could have leapt from his seat in the so-called “town hall” debate, his second televised clash with Obama, walked over to each person in the audience, and gone through the litany of taxes they all have to pay.

“When you wake up and have your first cup of coffee, you pay a sales tax. Go to your garage, pay an automobile tax. Drive to work, pay a gas tax. At work, you have an income tax. Come home, pay a property tax. Turn on your television, there’s a cable tax. Have a beer, pay an alcohol tax. Even when you die, you pay a death tax.” But he didn’t.

As for Obama, he could have done what the Left-wing blogs wanted him to do and ripped into his opponent the way John Kerry did to George W. Bush in 2004. Instead, he chose a conciliatory path, often agreeing with - and even praising - McCain for his positions on some issues and only occasionally going on the attack.

Voters awarded him victory for that strategy after all three debates. And in a survey of non-partisan “independent” voters released yesterday by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, Obama has opened up a double-digit lead among the voters who will decide the outcome.

The only time in the past 50 years where a candidate came from this far behind to overtake his opponent was Ronald Reagan in 1980. But that race featured a debate just five days before the election - and everything was melting down around Jimmy Carter.

There are no more debates - and McCain is hardly the Great Communicator. Everything is melting down around the Republican Party. With stock markets still plummeting, unemployment still rising and the entire global economic system in chaos, it’s tough to see how someone of the same party as the most unpopular president in modern times could possibly overcome such obvious barriers.

And when a lifetime’s worth of savings is now worth 30 per cent less than it was 100 days ago, it’s very difficult to listen to the candidates tear each other apart. The candidate who offers hope becomes a lot more appealing than the candidate on the attack.

In fact, the real untold story of 2008 is what is happening at state and local level. Republicans are in danger of losing the Senate seats they need to be able to block Obama’s legislation - and the House of Representatives looks even worse. This election is starting to look more like Britain in 1997 than anything America has seen in decades.

On election night, the polls in Virginia and Indiana close at 7pm, and both states could end up in the Democratic column for the first time in decades. It will be a long night for John McCain. If the current trends continue, it will be an even longer four years for the Republican Party.

Frank Luntz is a pollster and communications consultant

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   Wednesday - October 22, 2008

SSDD Part 3

It works both ways. The GOP drags out the same old junk time after time too.

Didn’t we hear the exact same thing about Kerry and Gore too? So it’s either part of the DNC platform, or just more of the same old same old. But coming out this late in the game it just seems like scare tactics. And I’m sick of that.

Next we’ll be hearing from AARP, crying how (insert Republican candidate here) wants to cut funding for Medicare, because they hate old people and want them all to starve to death in the snow. Then we’ll hear from the teacher’s union, demanding that you support Obama or else your children will become instant morons due to the Republican’s wish to eliminate all forms of school funding.

After that ... gak. I can’t take it any more. Are Americans really this stupid and gullible? Can’t we remember anything that happened more than a day ago? There was this big voice at the beginning of this election cycle promising Hope, and Change, and Not Politics As Usual. Funny, all I see is politics as usual. From both sides. And it gets so tiring.

If I had to guess, I’d say that at least 97% of the people who will actually vote had figured out who they were going to vote for at least 3 months ago. Heck, 6 months ago. A year? And they’d already figured out what they’d do if the person they liked didn’t survive the primaries. So I think this endless brain-numbing 24 hours a day assault from every possible direction is all for those indecisive idiot 3%ers. Thanks a lot, butt munchers. Please take part in yet another poll, and respond differently each time. Because none of us have even heard that there’s an election on, and we have to learn all we can in just a few weeks, so we need ten times as much political coverage and advertising.

SSDD

CNN reminds us that it’s the Republicans that are out to rig and steal the election.

“It almost felt to me like an election might have been stolen”

Ex-GOP operative tells cautionary tale about ‘how to rig an election’

Allen Raymond is living proof that political dirty tricksters do exist. The former Republican political operative went to federal prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of phone harassment. He jammed the phone lines of New Hampshire’s Democratic Party on Election Day six years ago. 
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The operation also jammed the lines inside a firefighter’s union hall in Manchester, New Hampshire, where Jeff Duval and other local firefighters were lining up car rides to help senior citizens get to the polls.

“It almost felt to me like an election might have been stolen,” Duval said. “I know for a fact that we received calls a few days later from people saying ‘we tried to call you.’ And I say ‘did you get out and vote?’ And they said ‘no.’ ”

In his book, “How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative,” Raymond details how he got caught. An hour and a half into the jamming operation he received an e-mail from a Republican official, frantically telling him to shut down the calls. The e-mail read: “Chairman wishes not to proceed with this project ... insists it violates federal law.”

One of Raymond’s alleged co-conspirators, James Tobin, was a top official with the National Republican Senatorial Committee that year. He went on to serve as George W. Bush’s Northeastern regional re-election chairman in 2004. Tobin was initially convicted. But he succeeded in having that decision overturned by an appellate court. Just last week, Tobin was again indicted in the case on two counts of making false statements to a federal agent. His lawyer had no comment.

Another co-conspirator and former chairman of New Hampshire’s Republican Party, Charles McGee, pleaded guilty to phone harrassment in the case and served seven months in prison.  Democrats insist the phone jamming operation in New Hampshire had national implications. The balance of power in the U.S. Senate was on the line that year and the Senate race between Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and Republican John Sununu was decided by just 19,000. Sununu won.

Some state Democrats remain convinced the phone jamming operation resulted in some votes lost.

“I think they were willing to do whatever it took to win, even if that meant breaking the law,” Sullivan said.

Allen Raymond learned that winning elections at all costs can come at a heavy price.

“I’m a felon,” Raymond said. “I think about it everyday. Everyday, everything that I do every day, I try to do in such a way that makes up for that mistake.”

Raymond doesn’t plan to stop talking about his trip to the political dark side. He told CNN a major Hollywood studio plans to begin production on a film version of his cautionary tale.

Oooh look! CNN puts this bit in to show how Fair & Balanced they are!

Conservative author and Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund points out there are dirty tricksters in both parties.

“No party has a monopoly on virtue,” said Fund.

Fund has also written a book about the problem, “Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens our Democracy.” His book focuses on the allegations facing more liberal groups like ACORN.

What, am I supposed to add some comment here? This is merely example 86,591,174 of media bias. Just a little reminder that Republicans are crooks. One guy messed with the phones of one office for an hour, therefore the election was rigged. Because that town must have had 25,000 senior citizens, all Democrats, who had never voted before and just had to call up DNC headquarters to find out where to vote.  Because none of them figured it out ahead of time. And then they couldn’t call the union hall to arrange for a ride, because none of them had any means of personal transportation. Republicans, EVIL!! And then the crooks behind this horror rigged the judiciary system to get off scott-free! Republicans, CORRUPT!!!

And that all that exists against the other groups like ACORN (like implies some other group THAN actually ACORN) are mere allegations. Probably false. Made by evil corrupt Republicans!!!!!

Is this bullshit over yet? I can’t wait until November 5th. I’m just sick to death of the whole damn thing.

   Tuesday - October 21, 2008

Well Said Charlie

Stolen from Vilmar who stole it from Charlie Daniels. This is pretty clear reading. Reminds me of the Comprehensive argument against Barack Obama over at Hot Air, only without the videos. The extensive post at Hot Air shows you that just about every aspect of Obama is false. Charlie Daniels’ essay points out that Obama is just the fin de sicle; Obama is just the sock puppet being moved by the not always unseen hand of Progressivism. And there is a worse thing that could happen to us other than electing Obama. That would be electing Obama and bringing in a super-majority of leftists into DC, and adding to their support by electing lefty state governors, city mayors, town councils, etc. I truly fear for America and I strongly feel that the results of the upcoming election will be with us for the rest of my life.

The Stealing of America

Lest you cherry pickers accuse me of developing a Johnny-come-lately idea due to the political climate, let me say that if you’d care to peruse my soapbox columns of several years ago you’d find that I was saying the same thing.

I have for many years felt that there is a movement afoot in this nation for a handful of elitist left-wing political groups to seize power over every aspect of American life.

Now I know this is not news to you levelheaded thinking people, but the rest of my opinion may be. You see, I think they not only plan on seizing power but keeping it permanently.

Impossible you say with our system of checks and balances and our free election process?

Well let’s take a look.

For the last several decades we have had what is basically an open border with Mexico and politicians from both sides of the aisle have done their best to shove amnesty programs down the throats of a protesting American public.

They absolutely refuse to do anything meaningful to stop the dangerous flow of illegals, under the guise of human decency and wanting everybody to have a shot at the American dream.

This claim, for the most part is composed of the same stuff we dig out of the lot where we keep our bulls. In my humble opinion the reason for laxity on the border is not concern or compassion but a political fallacy being purported on the American public by power-hungry politicians who had no business in Washington in the first place.

Can’t you see what’s happening here folks? The Democrats and moderates aided by wimpy, spineless Republicans in Congress are creating their own voting block, an alliance of undereducated immigrants, welfare families and fanatical fringe groups that seek to change the face of America forever.

We in America are lazy when it comes to taking the time to vote but you’d better believe that these people won’t be lazy. They’ll go to the polls every time they open and vote for the candidate and the party who promises to give them the most.

These people don’t care about democracy. Did Congress listen to the overwhelming opinion of the American people who didn’t want a seven hundred billion dollar government bailout of the banks? They care about power, and if they pull this off I believe we’ll see America fall into a cycle of government entitlements and vote buying that we have never had in our history.

Look around you at the voter fraud going on in this country. ACORN currently has allegations of voter fraud in at least 15 states, and many of those are considered battleground states. Do you think the Democratic-controlled Congress is going to do anything meaningful about it? No, because the illegally registered voters would all be voting for them and their party.

Look at the opaque wall that has been built up around Barack Obama. To mention his hate-spewing pastor of twenty years, his friendship with unrepentant terrorist, Bill Ayers, his association with convicted Chicago slumlord, Tony Rezko, his shady association with Khalid Rashidi - a man who has ties to the PLO, or Obama’s own reluctance to release his college history, the doubt about the validity of his birth certificate and all the other things including his full name are forbidden and any one who tries to do so is branded a racist.

What Obama wants appears to be the Socialist States of America. He says that 95% of Americans will get a tax cut, but I don’t see any way he can keep that promise considering the trillion dollars in new spending he wants. Bill Clinton promised a middle class tax cut too, and how did that work out?

Obama is the purest example of a silver-tongued charlatan. When Obama says he’s not raising taxes on the middle class, what he neglects to tell you is that he and the other Democrats will allow the Bush tax cuts to expire which will result in your taxes going up while promising all along that he won’t be raising taxes. That’s what I call speaking with a forked tongue.

Under Obama’s plan, any person or business making more than $250,000 a year will end up with massive tax increases. The problem is that Obama won’t say if that $250,000 is the gross, net, or profit or personal. He also says that very few small businesses make more that $250,000, but that isn’t the case.

According to a recent report, 70% of small business with more than 10 employees DO make more than $250,000 a year, and not too long ago, in a year when major corporations were downsizing, small business created close to 100% of all new jobs.

In their last debate, both McCain and Obama talked a lot about Joe Wurzelbacher, the plumber from Holland, Ohio who challenged Obama on his tax policies. Joe wants to buy the plumbing company he works for, but that will automatically push him into the over $250,000 bracket, and when Obama knocked on Joe’s door this week in Ohio, Joe confronted him with his tax situation.

He asked Obama, “Do you believe in the American dream? I’m being taxed more and more for fulfilling the American dream.’’ Obama said that he didn’t want to punish him for his success, but he thought that it was important to “spread the wealth around”, and God bless him, Joe told him how he felt about that.

John McCain needs to put Joe the Plumber on the campaign trail to stump for him, because Joe’s not afraid to call Obama what he really is, a socialist.

With Obama’s “Hope and Change”, people will hope they have some change left in their pockets.

This is one big socialistic power-grab, and in my opinion Barack Obama is going to tear this country apart whether he is elected or not.

After all these years I’ll finally have to agree with James Carville on something. If the vote is close but Obama is not elected, I believe we’ll see riots in the inner city streets of America.

If he is elected I believe that on his inauguration day, America will go into what could well be an irreversible tailspin and armed with a Democrat Congress and Senate the damage done to this country could well topple America from it’s long held place as number one on the planet.

The really maddening thing about it is going to be that after their voting block is established there won’t be a single thing Americans who disagree with their policies can do about it.

This situation has been developing over many years and has reached an exponential rate of progress and the America we know and love hangs in the balance.

Louis Farrakhan actually called Barack Hussein Obama “the Messiah”.

But let not your heart be troubled. The real Messiah is still in charge and in a time like this it is so comforting to know that no matter what, God will take care of His own.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

October 17, 2008

Barack Obama: Why I believe he should be the next President.  (From the Mayor of London)

I just could not be more disappointed in this guy who I have long held in esteem and thought was a leading Conservative light here in the UK.

I really don’t think it’s right for someone in his position offering opinions on our political doings.  Least not publicly.  I don’t think he can sway American voters of course, minds are pretty much made up buy now.  But he isn’t being logical at all, and if there was one thing I used to think I liked about this guy, it was logical thinking.

I find it very hard to digest the fact that he is saying we should (among other reasons) vote Obama because he is “black.” Which of course is IS NOT.
But no matter. He’s brown right?  Mulatto.  Still don’t matter.

Thing is this .... what if a conserv. paper or editor wrote an article right here in the UK and said people should vote for Dave Cameron because is is NOT a Scot.
Or in a local election an editor wrote that ppl should vote for ‘X’ because ... why, he’s white.  Can you just imagine the storm that might cause?  Especially as there are some many of so many hues over here.

I am not going through all the other issues I may have with hiz honor.  That one is quite enough.
He suggests we tamper more with the Supreme Court which voting Obama would certainly be.  I guess Mr. Johnson for all his grand education and travel and family (sister a successful writer), knows less about my country then I thought he did.

Oh yeah, one last thing. Please read the comments in the paper at the bottom of his editorial.

Barack Obama: Why I believe he should be the next President

By Boris Johnson
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 21/10/2008

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There are all sorts of reasons for hoping that Barack Hussein Obama will be the next president of the United States. He seems highly intelligent. He has an air of courtesy and sincerity. Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.

Unlike his opponent, he visibly incarnates change and hope, at a time when America desperately needs both.

It is no disrespect to John McCain - a brave and principled man - to observe that he has chosen a difficult time to stand on the Republican ticket.

Barack Obama: Why he should be US President
An Obama win could signify the end of race-based politics

The legacy of George Bush may take years, if not decades, to determine.

But at present he seems to have pulled off an astonishing double whammy.

However well-intentioned it was, the catastrophic and unpopular intervention in Iraq has served in some parts of the world to discredit the very idea of western democracy.

The recent collapse of the banking system, and the humiliating resort to semi-socialist solutions, has done a great deal to discredit - in some people’s eyes - the idea of free-market capitalism.

Democracy and capitalism are the two great pillars of the American idea.

To have rocked one of those pillars may be regarded as a misfortune.

To have damaged the reputation of both, at home and abroad, is a pretty stunning achievement for an American president.

(BORRRRISSSS!  I don’t a F*&!*^&$"£$%&*## what people here think in MY election.  STAY THE eF OUT!)

It would be tough for any candidate to receive the Republican baton from Dubya, and McCain can be proud of doing as well as he is.

His chief problem is that he does not seem to offer any hope of repair to those American ideals.

Or, to put it another way, it is not clear how America under McCain would recover her standing in the eyes of the world.

His chief selling-point is his grasp of foreign affairs, and his staunch belligerence in the pursuit of American interests.

(the pursuit of American interests. Oh well crap. We can not have that in a president. Can We.)

He is certainly owed the respect due to a man who fought for his country, was captured and tortured.

But is this bellicosity really what the world is crying out for today? 

(Screw the freeken world. I’m not conerened with the world or what they feel or want. I’m concerned with MY COUNTRY!  Period!)

When asked what his policy was towards Iran, Mr McCain sang - to the tune of the Beach Boys - “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran”.

No doubt he was joking, but if I were an Iranian politician, those words would make me want a nuclear deterrent all the more.

McCain seems to stand for perpetual sabre-rattling against the terrors of abroad, and Obama wins because he seems to stand for hope, not fear.

(OF COURSE, THERE’S NOTHIN’ TO FEAR OUT THERE. IS THERE?)

Not that the Democratic candidate is a pushover.

He has shown terrific steel, beating off the Clintons, and defeating McCain in all three televised debates.

If elections were decided on the ruthless efficiency of campaigns, then Obama would already have it in the bag.

The defining image of the battle so far is of the two candidates leaving the stage after the last TV debate - Obama moving confidently off, after another grave and measured performance, and McCain gagging like a gargoyle, tongue out, as he realised he was about to walk over the edge.

I am not suggesting that McCain is a buffoon, or that Obama is quite as Messianic as some of his supporters seem to believe.

He gave a speech of unrivalled torpor in Germany, for instance. He needs to stick up more vigorously for free trade, and we must hope that any ill-considered new taxes will be thwarted by Congress.

But then again, he is patently not the Marxist subversive loony Lefty that some of his detractors allege.

I revere Melanie Phillips, and I have carefully studied her blog entries about Obama and the vote-stealers, or Obama and his association with a quondam terrorist called Ayers.

In the end I gave up, goggle-eyed and exhausted, having trolled the wilds of the Neocon internet without finding anything remotely approaching a smoking gun.

Obama’s terrorist chum is now a professor, and his last act of terrorism took place when the candidate was eight, and it is not really clear that he and Obama are chums at all.

The entire set of allegations seem to be an attempt to smear him by association, and are about as damaging as pointing out that some of Tony Blair’s colleagues used to be Stalinists, or that Tory party conferences used to feature people who advocated the hanging of Nelson Mandela.

Obama deserves to win because he seems talented, compassionate, and because he offers the hope of rejuvenating the greatest country on earth in the eyes of the rest of us. All those are sufficient reasons for desiring his victory.

And then there is the final, additional reason, the glaring reason, and that is race. Huge numbers of voters, whether they admit it to themselves or not, will hesitate to choose Barack Obama for President because he is black. And then there are millions of white Americans who will undoubtedly vote Obama precisely because he is black, and because he stands for the change and the progress they want to see in their society.

After centuries of friction, prejudice, tension, hatred - you name it, they’ve had it - America is teetering on the brink of a triumph. If Obama wins, then the United States will have at last come a huge and maybe decisive step closer to achieving the dream of Martin Luther King, of a land where people are judged not on the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.

(So tell us Boris .... who’s your pick to win the office of PM here among the many coloreds you have here?  Has there ever been a Negro PM? Indian? Pakistan? Caribbean? )

If Obama wins, then black people the world over will be able to see how a gifted man has been able to smash through the ultimate glass ceiling.

(NO SIR! What they will learn if brains in gear, is how much money it takes to run for office in the USA.  And that is a shame!)

If Obama wins, then it will be simply fatuous to claim that there are no black role models in politics or government, because there is no higher role model than the President of the United States.

If Barack Hussein Obama is successful next month, then we could even see the beginning of the end of race-based politics, with all the grievance-culture and special interest groups and political correctness that come with it.

If Obama wins, he will have established that being black is as relevant to your ability to do a hard job as being left-handed or ginger-haired, and he will have re-established America’s claim to be the last, best hope of Earth.

http://tinyurl.com/6pvzpc

   Monday - October 20, 2008

Obama very well funded

Obama Campaign Raises Over $604,000,000.00 So Far

Six Hundred and Four Million Dollars. Far more than half a billion. That’s a huge amount of cash. That’s more campaign money than ... anyone, ever? everyone, ever?

Barack Obama’s staggering fundraising prowess—the Democratic presidential candidate raked in a record-breaking $150 million in September and more than $604 million since the start of his campaign—has raised the game of political cash as well as questions over whether the public financing system is now obsolete.

Public financing, which restricts how much cash a candidate can raise, is meant to curb the influence of money in presidential campaigns. In an interview on “FOX News Sunday,” John McCain took issue with Obama’s war chest, saying the exorbitant amount of cash Obama has raised has created the potential for scandal and lays a “predicate for the future that can be very dangerous.”

“I’m saying that history shows us where unlimited amounts of money are in political campaigns, it leads to scandal ... this is the first since the Watergate scandal that any candidate for president of the United States, a major party candidate, has broken the pledge to take public financing. We enacted those reforms because of that scandal,” McCain said.

Indeed, contributions to Obama far outdistance those of McCain, who kept a pledge to use the public financing system employed by all previous presidential candidates since the Watergate-era reform was enacted.

Obama is the first major party candidate to opt out of public campaign financing in the general election since the law was enacted in 1971 and revised in 1974. George W. Bush dispensed with public financing during his 2000 Republican primary battle, in which he defeated McCain. By accepting public financing, McCain was given $84 million in funds to use between the Republican National Convention in early September and Election Day. His campaign spent $37 million in September and has had an additional $47 million available since Oct. 1. In comparison, even before September’s fundraising haul, Obama had $77 million on hand. When October fundraising is counted, Obama is expected to surpass the $695.7 million that John Kerry and President Bush—combined—raised in 2004.

Obama raised $454 million dollars during the primary campaign—covering the period from the start of his presidential bid to Aug. 31, 2008, days after he accepted the Democratic Party nomination. McCain raised $240 million during that same time.

Obama has bought a good deal of television ads, particularly in traditional swing states like Ohio and Florida, as well as some new battleground states like Colorado and North Carolina. And the campaign has said it intends to increase its ad spending in the final two weeks before Election Day, Nov. 4.  In an unusual move, the campaign has bought a half hour of political ad time to air concurrently on CBS, NBC, and FOX on Oct. 29. Obama’s campaign paid $3 million in total to air the 8 p.m. program on the three networks.

With $604 million, the campaign could buy about 201 prime-time, half-hour blocks to be run simultaneously on all three networks.
For $604 million, the Obama campaign could buy all the shares of La Salle Hotel (with $58 million left over) and almost all the shares of Papa John’s Pizza (with a market cap of $606 million).
The campaign could also buy almost all the shares of the Cheesecake Factory (market cap of $640 million) and more than 50 percent of Fannie Mae’s outstanding shares (market cap of $1.016 billion)

For the average American, the figure could buy 25,036 Ford Tauruses and more than 140 million gallons of milk.
An individual making $50,000 a year would have to work 12,080 years to earn $604 million.

I think there may be something fishy going on here. $604 million is more than 1500 times what the job pays. It’s an amount so large, from so many sources, that tracking down any illicit ones will be just about impossible.

I could live with defeat, says embattled McCain.  (yeah but we’ll have to as well. damn it!)

I could live with defeat, says embattled McCain

By Paul Thompson
Last updated at 12:52 PM on 20th October 2008

US presidential candidate John McCain tried to shrug off disappointment that his ‘friend’ and fellow Republican Colin Powell has come out in support of his Democratic rival for the White House, Barack Obama.

Speaking moments after General Powell, the former Republican Secretary of State, had endorsed Mr Obama, Mr McCain said: ‘I don’t dwell on it. I’ve had a wonderful life. I have to go back to Arizona and live with a wonderful family, and daughters and sons that I’m so proud of.

‘I’m the luckiest guy you have ever interviewed and will ever interview. I’m the most fortunate man on earth, and I thank God for it every single day.’

If he lost, he said, ‘don’t feel sorry for John McCain and John McCain will be concentrating on not feeling sorry for himself’.

Obama campaign rakes in $150million in a month as he gets thumbs up from Republican Colin Powell

Senior aides fear General Powell’s ringing endorsement for Mr Obama could be the turning point in the final two weeks of the election. His backing could boost the foreign policy and national security credentials of the Illinois senator and appeal to moderate and independent voters.

The retired four-star general said he considered Mr Obama an ‘inspirational leader’ and criticised Mr McCain for choosing someone as inexperienced as Sarah Palin for his running mate. Mr McCain did not directly comment on Gen Powell’s decision other than to say it came ‘as no surprise’.

Earlier, he said he was happy to be trailing Mr Obama in the polls. ‘I love being the underdog. You know, every time that I’ve gotten ahead, somehow I’ve messed it up.

‘We’re going to be in a tight race and we’re going to be up late on election night. I’m confident of that. I’ve been in too many campaigns not to sense that things are headed our way.’

The one bright spot in Mr McCain’s gloomy weekend - which also saw Mr Obama announce he had raised a record £75 million last month - came in a new poll which saw Mr McCain narrow the gap on his rival.

The Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll had Mr Obama slipping three points in his lead over Mr McCain following the third and final TV debate.

Mr Obama still leads by 48 to 45 and pollster John Zogby said the numbers were good news for Mr McCain. He had appeared to have solidified his support within the Republican base - where nine out of 10 voters now back him - and was also gaining ground among the independents who may play a decisive role on election day, 4 November.

http://tinyurl.com/5d8f75

Colin Powell backs Barack Obama: Endorsing change, THE WORLD AWAITS AND LOOKS FORWARD TO OBAMA

NOTHIN’ TO SAY.

AND IF I DID, IT’D ALL BE SOUR GRAPES.  BAH! BUT WAIT. WE AIN’T LOST YET. AND YA NEVER DO KNOW FOR SURE TILL AFTER THE FAT LADY SINGS.

Colin Powell backs Barack Obama: Endorsing change

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 20/10/2008

In endorsing Barack Obama, Colin Powell did not give the impression of a man carried away by his emotions. His manner was measured, analytical, even-handed. But in the end, he was clear. Senator Obama, he said, “has met the standard of being a successful President, being an exceptional President. I think he is a transformational figure.”

To understand why that verdict matters, consider a survey carried out by Fox News in August. American voters were asked whether their impressions of President Bush’s former Secretary of State, as well as Senators Obama, Clinton and McCain, were positive or negative. Despite his inglorious involvement in the build-up to the Iraq war, Powell swept the board. In the same poll, 35 per cent of America’s voters (and 37 per cent of independents) suggested that a Powell endorsement would make them look more favourably on the Democratic candidate.

Even if that figure is an exaggeration, the announcement was very good news for Senator Obama, already buoyed by record fund-raising last month. The support of such an experienced military man undercuts the claim that Obama lacks the experience to lead and will be weak on national security. Yet the more interesting thing is what Powell’s decision says about the Republicans, to whom the bulk of his thoughts were devoted. Powell voiced his regret over what he saw as the Rightward shift of his party, its negative campaigning tactics, its attitude towards Muslims, its selection of the underqualified Sarah Palin, and more.

The election itself is still more than a fortnight away, and Senator McCain may yet pull off a victory. But their abandonment by one of the few Bush appointees with any reputation remaining speaks volumes about the state of the Republicans. There is a growing sense that this election is the Democrats’ to lose.

http://tinyurl.com/5f5olf

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