A nonprofit group accused of using aggressive telephone “push-polling” to attack opponents of GOP hopeful Mike Huckabee shares major donors with Huckabee’s official presidential campaign, according to government records.

The nonprofit also reported that it had paid out more than $4,000 on Jan. 2, 2008—the day before the Iowa caucuses—to a suburban Washington, D.C., firm called CC Advertising, whose Web site says it specializes in conducting marketing and political surveys using automated calling systems equipped with voice-recognition software…calls to prospective voters using what he described as “artificial-intelligence dialogue.”

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/88754/output/print

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A family-owned trucking firm that has a contract to deliver Diebold electronic voting machines to 14 voting districts in Maryland is headed by the former chairman of Maryland’s Republican party, Wired News has learned.

Office Movers, which is owned by The Kane Company in Elkridge, Maryland, received the contract from Diebold Election Systems to transport the company’s machines from warehouses to the polls for the state’s Feb. 12 primary and November general election.

John M. Kane, president and CEO of The Kane Company, was chairman of the Maryland Republican Party from the end of 2002 until December 2006. He is also a member of the statewide steering committee for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. According to one news report, Kane has been tasked since last month with raising money for Romney in Maryland, a Democratic stronghold. His wife is a delegate on the Republican primary ballot for Romney rival Rudy Giuliani.

Even in this tumultuous election season, the company’s political affiliations might not raise conflict-of-interest questions were it delivering old-fashioned voting machines. But the Diebold touch-screen voting machines used in Maryland produce no paper trail and have experienced glitches that have invited close scrutiny after previous elections. A report compiled by the elections office in Montgomery County, Maryland, (immediately northwest of the District of Columbia) after the 2004 presidential election revealed that 189 machines (7 percent) there failed on election day. Of these machines, 58 wouldn’t boot up and were taken out of service, and another 106 experienced frozen screens. Other counties have experienced problems with the machines as well.

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The jerk has a book out called “How to Rig an Election”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_New_Hampshire_Senate_election_phone_jamming_scandal

And, of course, it is hardly a coincidence that they are completely ignoring this part of the Iraqi constitution in bypassing the Parliament completely. The reality is that the chances that the Parliament – the only piece of the Iraqi “government” that is even quasi-elected – would agree to what Maliki and the other puppets are agreeing to is slim to none.

Edwards made the point that as long as the United States has troops in Iraq beyond what is needed to guard the “embassy”, and in particular as long as there are any combat troops at all, there is an occupation. Therefore, neither Clinton nor Obama intends to end the occupation. I could not agree more. I would go further, and suggest that as long as that “embassy” is inhabited by Americans, and operational, there is an occupation.

Lip service costs nothing.

She never has given a damn

The next president will have no choice but to give a damn or no matter what kind of umbrella one has it won’t stop the carnage that will rain down on us.

Oh, and by the way, all that yapyapyap between Bush and the imported puppets in the Green Zone about a permanent relationship, etc. (read permanent occupation), is in violation of the Iraqi constitution. Under that document only the Iraqi Parliament can make those kinds of agreements, not that Bush cares.

If anybody would be better for Israel – and worse for the Palestinians – than Bush, it would be Hillary “her heart is in the human rights of women and children, except for Palestinian or Iraqi or Lebanese women and children” Clinton. At least Obama used to appear to care about the Palestinians. She never has given a damn.