“Friends In High Places” * Open Thread
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on October 29, 2008 at 11:40 AM in ACORN, Nancy Pelosi, Open Thread, Soldiers/Veterans, Voter Fraud
Ah, democracy. How wonderful that we have a system of checks and balances, ways to insure a fair election. A whole, entire Department of Justice to oversee and protect our electoral process. Hip, hip hooray for the DOJ! Except, not so much…Check out this video:
And this one:
So - just to be clear - the very people who are supposed to be on the look out for organizations like ACORN, which is now under investigation in at least FIFTEEN states, is backing off. Huh - so much for that whole “one person, one vote” democracy thing.
And one last video on voting. This one deals with our military and their ability to vote while serving oversees:
OPEN THREAD! Have at it.
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has a spatula.)
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Great story. Well, at least we still have the internet — for now, anyway!
PUMA!!
So many Pumas and so little time but watch out because Pumas are fast and furious.
I wonder what is going to happen to Obama when he looses?
ughhhhhhhhhhhh not soon enough for me!!!
Come Onnnnnnnn November 4!!
Obama’s campaign manager offers 3 million dollars to API in connection with Michelle Obama tape to be aired by Fox News Network
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/news-flash-obamas-campaign-manager-offers-3-million-dollars-to-api-in-connection-with-michelle-obama-tape-planned-to-be-aired-by-fox-news-network/
OMG! Jimmy Carter, where are you? Oh, he’s out throwing the election for Obama!
The election day will be a far bigger chaos than the ones we saw in caucuses. I hope the McCain supporters won’t give into the bullying like the Clinton supporters who ran away from caucuses without using their vote (or letting someone else to give to Barack).
“If they bring knives, we’ll bring guns”
-Barack Obama
Did he really say that? Sounds like Ayers. OK, same diff.
It’s a Connery quote from The Untouchables. Now he’s ripping off David Mamet!
yes…
and yes, he did say it at a rally or something….
welcome to the chicago way….
I can’t wait for Obama to introduce Daley and Rezko to Washington”
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yep, it was in Philly.
And the next line was how “we know you all love a good brawl in Philly.”
As I recall, some didn’t appreciate this remark in a city where the murder rate was way up and disproportionately in AA neighborhoods.
Interesting how W’s DOJ - that very political DOJ is now enabling another theft for B0. The same people who brought us W are now bringing Obama. In case anyone missed this detail.(Remember when Bush sided with Obama on Iraqgate?)
From what I understand W has no influence on that wing of teh DoJ, it’s in the tight grip of your Democrat buddies.
Balderdash. Obama is the new Dubya, same corrupt people corrupting the vote, same corporations cheerleading the One as cheerleaded Dubya. If any Republican ever claims that the Democrats are more corrupt than the neoCons or that they could possibly have worse administration, those Republicans are as stupid and Kool-Aid swilling as the Obamabots.
Bush + Obama=corporate takeover
This is such a great video:
http://www.nypost.com/video/?vxSiteId=0db7b365-a288-4708-857b-8bdb545cbd0f&vxChannel=PostElections&vxClipId=1458_411620&vxBitrate=300
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My open thread topic is pretty simple.
I really am worried that people are so polarized that they can’t agree to disagree.
I worked for years in a very conservative environment……..banking.
Banking used to be a very dull business. You make loans. You take in deposts. The difference….profit.
It was a “slow” industry, but predictable.
And then……the 80’s hit.
*hoohaw*
And then the crash came.
*ohno*
Anyway, a group of us from this very conservative business used to go eat Chinese and debate politics every Wednesday.
We enjoyed it alot.
Those who were too emotional, never joined us.
I have operated as though on-line people MUST be like my Wednesday Chinese group.
Perhaps I’m wrong.
Comrade, we find ourselves in very interesting times…
Dear Leader is such a true wonder to behold…
I Look forward to discussing Dear Leader and Glorious plans for the new age…
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When will you get it that Sen. Hillary Clinton is not on the ticket.
what?
you LIAR!!!!
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Hillary who?
We’re voting against Barack Obama and FOR John McCain.
Are you looking forward to all the tapes to be released in the next 24 hours?
When will YOU get it? Hillary Clinton is not on the ticket because Obama and his surrogates are crooks. So, now votes for crooks.
When I become detached and apathetic about the harm that’s being done to our country - when I view politics as an intellectual exercise that can be dispassionately debated over Chinese food - then maybe I’ll fit in with your group.
And that’s gonna happen NEVER!
From now until forever I will remain “too emotional” for your taste. Thank God!
AnninCA
This isn’t about *YOU*
The posters here don’t give a shit if you agree with them.
you are hijacking and harping
why dont you STFU and go away?
Start your own blog, with many pictures of yourself.
You could say anything you like!
Talk to yourself all day!
I think I said something like this a few weeks ago.
same story different day
sigh
well then start an online chat w your chinese restaurant friends.
??????
Careful you fall off your soap box.
Gee AnninCa. I thought this is what we’ve been doing all along–expressing opinions! Openly disagreeing with you and you, continuing to make your own opinions known. Unlike personal meetings, there’s really no yelling or screaming. So I don’t understand your continued carping.
yeah but when she can’t reach over and kick your ass its just not the same…
-=chuckle=-
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that is a joke…
ahem…
anybody?
The internet is not funny, Mr. gerard. This is no place for people to be screaming, pounding the *&^&) keyboards, ROFLMAO and generally acting like feces flinging monkeys. It’s serious. We’ve got our reputations to think of.
AnninCA is visiting from the ‘Darkside’..
It’s appalling that Barky is stopping the Service men & women from voting by using the jusdicial system…And Pelosi stopped the bill to expedite their abilty to vote…looks like only 5% of Armed Services will be able to have their votes counted.
bite this!
from PINK Ladies on the Bin Biden ‘mettle’gaffe.
“This is an extraordinary statement by Senator Biden. I don’t ever recall a vice-presidential candidate predicting that the election of their candidate for the President of the United States would invite forces in the world to test the mettle of the person elected. It has to mean that Joe Biden continues to harvest serious doubts about whether Barack Obama is prepared to be commander-in-chief as he famously announced a year ago.” — Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani
“This statement is what Michael Kinsley once famously called a gaffe, ‘a politician inadvertently speaking the truth…the next President of the United States will be tested. There are enemies of the United States that are awaiting the results of this election. John McCain has passed every test in his life. He’s spent over two decades wearing the uniform of this country. He’s spent over two decades traveling the world, learning the issues, getting to know the leaders, and taking very difficult positions. Senator Obama’s chief claim to experience is leading in the front lines of community organizing and doing legal work with ACORN. As Joe Biden said, Senator Obama would invite testing and his responses would not be the right ones.” –Randy Scheunemann, McCain Foreign Policy Advisor
Pelosi stopped it? Remember that Army Times poll out showing more than two-thirds active service, enlisted and officers, support McCain? Democrats don’t want to count their votes.
Because she is paid to change the subject and move the discussion away from anything that might be “uncomfortable” for the ONE.
But for good measure to fake being “one of us” she will agree with a comment, etc.
Several weeks ago someone using this screen name had a tizzy fit and threatened to leave ’cause s/he didn’t like what and who we were discussing. Peace for awhile and then the screen name shows up again. Singing OFF KEY again.
OMG!!!!!
i just found out NAZI’s are on the loose in america!!!!!!!!!
word is they are spreading out across america and committing voter fraud and suppressing votes…
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!
WE MUST DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!
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Obama’s Mansion, Saddam’s Money
by Daniel Pipes
Philadelphia Bulletin
October 29, 2008
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/5996
can i just say…
i love how the Jerusalem Post has a section just for Obama’s Favorite Holocaust Denier™
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/IndexParMult&cid=1145961369337
isn’t that cute?
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‘My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
‘ I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.’
— Barrack Obama
-=chuckle=-
that Obama… he has a way with words doesn’t he?
“I was only 8 years old when Bin Laden was bombing America”
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OK - I can’t beleive an email I just got. It was forwarded by a friend who has been, as agasht as I have by the sexism in this election cycle. It was from a left wing university prof. in Chicago.
My friend was asking her to at least admit the Palin is a C— tee shirts were over the top. Her response
“So what - if she is one, we should be able to say so.”
It took my breath away.
We must elect McCain/Palin! Tonight while The One is on TV - I for one am going to be making Get Out The Vote Calls for McCain/Palin. We must work to STOP this nonsense!!
I got one better. One of my girlfriends, whom I sent the photos of the punks wearing it, said to me “I would rather be called a c*** then a b*tch because it’s at least part of my body.” WTF? When did women find insults not insults at all?
it wasn’t from this professor, was it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tMb1VkSDg4
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Just saw about 30 seconds of a report on Fox from the reporter who’s following the 0bama camp (Marshall somebody?).
Anyway, in the small part I saw I heard him say that the 0bama campaign is “more nervous.” Will have to keep the TV turned to Fox to get his next update, I guess. Or, anybody hear all that he said?
They should be extremely nervous. Joe the Plumber was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Joe connected with the Reagan Democrats.
Major Garrett. Close, though.
Yes - thank you! Oops!
yeah i heard that one…
Obama’s Favorite Holocaust Denier™ has been so busy prepping for Dear Leader’s coronation that he has simply run himself into the ground…
word is he has just checked into a hospital for “exhaustion”
Of course Dear Leader is worried sick….
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oopsy
forgot the link:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017626041&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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gerard “barracuda” Nedich:
I noted the headline from that Jerusalem Post story:
Very astute media over there in Iran.;) Anyone here in the U.S. could have told them that Ahmadinejad is one sick bastard, and he has been one sick bastard for a long time.
how are we supposed to BUILD a dialogue with Obama’s Favorite Holocaust Denier™ if you keep talking trash about him?
you are so un-educated!!!!
this is the kind of behavior that is making the whole world hate america!!!
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hey that is a joke…
in case my humor doesn’t come across on the interweb…
but yeah, he is a nutjob….
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Yes, it does.
LOL
From the Patriotroom.com:
October 28th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Virginia Attorney General Saves Military Ballots in Fairfax
» by Bill Dupray in: Democrats, Election, Law, Military, Virginia
The Republican Virginia Attorney General, Bob McDonnell, has advised the Democrat Registrar in Fairfax that he cannot toss military absentee ballots due to a lack of a witness’s address. Keep in mind that though the state law requires the address, the ballots themselves were not printed with a space for it.
Virginia’s attorney general told state election officials Monday that they must count perhaps hundreds of federal absentee ballots despite a state law ordering some of them to be cast aside.
A dispute arose last week after Fairfax County’s registrar said state law bars him from counting dozens of federal absentee ballots because the witnesses failed to include their addresses on ballot applications, as required by a 2002 state law designed to stamp out voter fraud.
In an advisory opinion Monday, Republican Attorney General Robert McDonnell said that federal law trumps state law on this issue, and federal law calls for the ballots to be counted.
Here is the official press release from McDonnell’s office.
McDonnell Opinion: Count Absentee Military Ballots
Opinion Finds Federal Law Preempts State Law; Federal Ballots without Witness Address Are Lawful, Must be Counted
FAIRFAX - Attorney General Bob McDonnell released a formal opinion today concluding that federal absentee ballots from overseas military voters lacking the printed name and address of a witness must be counted. The opinion affirms that federal law preempts state law, thus clarifying the state and federal statutes regarding the issue. The confusion centered over whether a state law requiring a witness’s printed name and address controls federal absentee ballots or the federal law governs this issue. The opinion was requested by Delegate Bill Janis (R-Henrico). Click here to read it.
In the formal opinion the Attorney General finds, “It is…. my opinion that the applicable provision of Virginia law, § 24.2-702.1(B), interpreted to require an overseas military voter submitting only a Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot to include the printed name and address of the person who signs the witness statement is preempted by the provisions of the (federal) Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. Finally, it is my opinion that general registrars may not reject a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot submitted by overseas military voters for the November 4, 2008 federal election that does not include a printed name and address for the person who signs the witness statement…..”
Approximately 100 Federal Write-In Absentee Ballots have been set aside in Fairfax County pending a legal conclusion regarding the discrepancy between state and federal law. Additional Federal Write-In Absentee Ballots may also have been received in other jurisdictions. The Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot is most commonly used by members of the military who are stationed overseas and have not received a state absentee ballot. It is a means by which service members can be guaranteed a vote in federal elections.
A copy of this formal opinion was provided to the State Board of Elections this afternoon.
Chalk up one more for the good guys.
Obama’s Favorite Holocaust Denier™ will be so upset…
This isn’t the kind of news he needs at this time…
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Ah, democracy.
We’re not a democracy, never were, and when educated folk don’t know what form of government we have, nobody should be surprised that this country is now heading over a cliff.
This country is and always has been a republic– now very much in danger of becoming a banana republic.
Dick Morris’ Political Insider RSS ARCHIVE
McCain Closing the Gap
Zogby, Rasmussen, and Gallup all report McCain closing the gap to within 5 points. Zogby had him 12 back, Rasmussen 8, and Gallup 6 in their previous polling. McCain’s use of Joe the plumber, combined with the tax issue, is working!
Unilaterally, John McCain agreed to disarm himself by refusing to use perhaps his most potent weapon in exposing Barack Obama: the Democrats’ relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
The McCain campaign and, at its direction, the Republican Party, have banned use of footage of Rev. Wright from their campaign commercials. Perhaps for fear of being accused of racism, they are not bringing up the single most compromising association in Obama’s past — his close liaison with Wright.
But it does not matter that Wright is black, white, or brown . . . or purple. What matters is that he spews hatred of the United States and that Obama was an active participant in his church.
Or are we supposed to believe that Obama regularly attended church with Wright for two decades, chose the reverend to baptize his children and officiate at his wedding, titled his book “Audacity of Hope” after hearing a sermon, but did not know of his anti-American views?
Nonsense.
The only time the issue has been used was during the Democratic primary when Obama’s ties to Wright were first revealed and the reverend’s horrific anti-American sermons were aired on television. Even then, Obama tried to distance himself from Wright in the mildest of possible terms, only denouncing him more sternly after the relationship had begun to sap his standing in the polls.
Fortunately, one independent expenditure group — NationalRepublicanTrust.com — has the courage to bring the truth about Wright to the attention of the American people.
http://www.newsmax.com/morris/mccain_gains/2008/10/28/145058.html
Window dressing really. Mac and the GOP can ban the use but as pointed out any 527 can use Wright.
please don’t think i have gone all ‘tinfoil hat’ on you guys…
but i have always thought that the players behind Bush Jnr are and will be part of the players behind Obama…
why?
because Obama makes a perfect puppet… he will do anything they want for a slice of the action…
and will have no concerns about what is best for america….
Hillary would stand up to these jerks…
so would mccain….
kinda makes sense when Colin Powell endorses Dear Leader… as well as those other nutjob Bushies supporting Obambi….
ahem…
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I think the puppet has his masters fooled. He will soon be a moot point though thanks to Joe the Plumber.
Thought has crossed my mind as well.
I keep thinking I need to add foil to my grocery list.
Are you really surprised? Obama is related to Dick Cheney after all!
Hillary is not standing up to them now!
No tin foil required for this theory — this makes perfect sense. I have felt for some time that O is Bush3. His action betray plenty of evidence for this assumption.
Ding, Ding, Ding, DOJ US Attorneys firings scandal. . .US Attorneys fired because they refused to press bogus voter fraud cases. . . resulted in the resignation of Alberto Gonzales. Oh yeah, I forgot, reality has a liberal bias.
Our local paper spread disinformation…this is the same paper who didn’t publish the correct McCain Hqs address before Palin came to Roswell…gave us TWO of Obama’s address!!
Went to do ‘in-person absentee voting’ which we were led to believe involved getting and filling out the absentee ballot request, getting the ballot, then filling it out on the spot. NOPE….meanwhile, people are complaining the haven’t gotten ballots they requested 2 weeks ago…
The person who took our info was someone I had known from a now-closed pet store. She put our data in on the spot…but I saw a pile of them in front of her.
Meanwhile, the computers where DOWN and there were a lot of confused people trying to vote on the machines! I think some were just leaving…
Rather than take a chance on machines, I opted for having the absentee ballot sent. If it doesn’t arrive by Friday, I have the clerk’s direct line…may have to vote “provisional” for the first time ever!
But since this is NM, I wanted to vote on an real absentee form…so I took the chance…One time I voted a couple of elections ago on the touch screens–the guts of a machine was lying on the floor, a guy came over, put it back in…and I was supposed to trust my vote to THAT????
By the way, all you have to do to “prove” who you are is give them an address…don’t even need to give them proof of a BILL!!! So why do I have my voter ID registration card??? Or a license? Why just be required to give an address….she didn’t indicate I need to show anything to prove it…what’s up???
Voters should all ask for a PAPER Ballot.
Anyone seen the pics of Rev Wright’s new mansion courtesty of government church grants via Obama? Interior pics available by googling.
We taxpayers have paid for Wrights new mansion!
Post election headline:
Joe the Plumber saves America!
It is fitting, considering he represents the “average Joe/Josephine.”
Quote of the Day, brought to you by the “Friends” of Barack Obama:
Bernadine Dohrn (wife of un-repentant terrorist William Ayers) speaking about the murders of actress Sharon Tate and others by convicted killer Charles Manson:
“Dig it! Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach. Wild!”
Palin message to LA times:
http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/10/29/governor-palin-has-tough-words-for-the-la-times/
This LA Times thing is a win-win for Mac/Palin. Not releasing the video may in fact be better than releasing it. The story is alive and now people are forgetting about the nauseating infomercial Der Precious thought would dominate the news. Way to go Mac spin team!
yes, plus the average american voter can lose sleep at night just imagining Obama and his terrorist friends eating babies at their satanist cult party…
woot woot!!!!!!
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Thanks for the link.
Go, Palin, go!!
Hillbuzz says something is definitely up with Sarah remarks today about the LAT and the Khalidi dinner tape.
Much more at the link…
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/something-is-definitely-up-palin-is-setting-the-stage-for-something-today/
Well at least with this speculative rumor we only have to wait one day to see how much if any is true.
Is it true that McCain chaired a committee of some sort which gave Khalidi to do social research on the Palestinians? It was back in the 90’s from what I understand.
However, a committee simply giving $$ to an professor is a far cry from attending an affair in which Khalidi and Obama sit through anti-Semitic remarks…and don’t leave or criticize them…Same situation as sitting listening with Wright….
sorry, I missed the $$… something like $500,000 or so to Khalidi to do research….
If this tape surfaces after the election, the LA Times will lay off more than 75 staffers. They will go out of business and someone will have some ’splaining to to.
If you want to contact the LA Times about releasing the tape before the election, you can go here:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/29/contact-los-angeles-holding-obama-khalidi-videotape/
THanks, I did already.
PUMA
From yesterday’s WSJ - In Memo, McCain’s Top Pollster Sees Tighter Race
Pretty interesting…
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/28/in-memo-mccains-top-pollster-sees-tighter-race/
The more I learn about Barack Hussein Obama the more I dislike him and will never trust him.
As I said yesterday, we need to enact laws to protect us as citizens of the USA, against people like Obama these crooked judges and lawyers, Senators, Mayors and the like.
The have run amok all over our country and do as they please, if we attempt to do the same thing they are ready to throw us in jail.
Well I say Jail the lot of them, they are a disgrace to our country they need to forfeit their positions and go back to being private citizens. God help us if Obama gets into the White House.
I am so angry I do not know what to do. I will be putting out more fliers this week-end right up until Election day.
I wish a O-Bot would get in my face, it will be H*LL to pay. I am sick and tired of all of them, including members of my own family.
How did we let ourselves get to this point???? We are too trusting of our government officials and they took advantage of us. I say NO MORE, We have to take back our country and send these scags straight to jail. We need better laws in place that do not leave any wiggle room for these lowlifes to get around the law to suit their propose.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS!
WE WILL REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!!!!!!
PUMAS ROCKS!!!!!
SEND THAT ONE OR THE ZERO BACK TO THE SLUMS OF CHICAGO OR TO PRISON. I do not care where just get him out of the public eye SEND HIM TO KENYA.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! I am mad as H*LL AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!
I just voted and I feel great. It didn’t hurt one bit to vote Rep for the first time in my 64 years. Not only did I vote McCain/Palin, but I voted straight down the party line. I figured they could use some help. This one’s for Hillary in 2012. You know, this is the first time I feel like my vote counted in a while. Go Pumas!
I’ll be doing the same as you on November 4! PUMA power!
This bitter voter cast a ballot for Mac/Palin and all repubs on the down. It still smarts that they stole the primary election from us and ‘our girl’.
Pelosi has to go! How’s Cindy Sheehan doing running against Pelosi? Can she win?
Me too. Already voted straight Republican for first time by mail.
me too. straight repub for the first time since my first election in 1980 (i would have voted in ‘76, but i was active duty military overseas and curiously, no one made absentee ballots available to us), and for those folks on my ballot whose affiliation is unknown or unavailable i left blank. i didn’t want to accidently give even one dem candidate my vote - that’s how bitter and over the dem party i am. although, i must say, i am surprisingly very pro mccain/palin after being forced to look elsewhere after the 5/31 tragedy. i like them both very much and feel confident they’ll win (i predict a massive landslide of epic proportions).
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from national review’s Jim Geraghty:
“What I’m happy to hear, but am not putting too much stock in:
Comments from a McCain campaign source that their man is running 6 percent ahead of where Bush was in key parts of Ohio, that Obama is running behind Kerry in key parts of Pennsylvania, that McCain surging in Minnesota and Michigan, Sununu back up in NH, Coleman tied in Minnesota, the race is tied in Iowa, McCain safe in Florida and Colorado, and Obama’s team is worried that his lead Virginia isn’t as solid as the polls would make it appear.
More Republicans have shown up for early voting than Democrats in California.
A sudden surge in McCain advertising in swing states. I’m not sure the waverers are going to decide based on a commercial in the final week.”
Well what are the waverers going to decide on? I think they will decide on ads in the last few days. The reason they are waverers to begin with is that part of them wants to vote for Obama but they just have too many lingering doubts. Those doubts are being brought to the forefront and many new ones revealed in this endgame. The trend is important and the trend is for McCain. Obama knew this was coming and the BIG AD tonight was intended to blunt the trend. Will it? The msm will do all they can to make it so, but I have a feeling people are sick of seeing him. We are in a state of Obama saturation. The last time it was at this level was when he made his big euro-tour, and it was right after that his numbers tanked.
I wrote to the LA Times, here is the reply:
Thanks for your email. I understand your concerns. I want to direct your attention to the story below, which appears in today’s LA Times and offers an explanation regarding the tape and why it can’t be released.
Gary Weitman
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-video29-2008oct29,0,7568849.story
McCain campaign accuses L.A. Times of ’suppressing’ Obama video
The Times says its promise to a source prevents the paper from posting the video, which shows Barack Obama praising Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi at a 2003 banquet. The story first appeared in April.
By a Times staff writer
October 29, 2008
John McCain’s presidential campaign Tuesday accused the Los Angeles Times of “intentionally suppressing” a videotape it obtained of a 2003 banquet where then-state Sen. Barack Obama spoke of his friendship with Rashid Khalidi, a leading Palestinian scholar and activist.
The Times first reported on the videotape in an April 2008 story
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obamamideast10apr10,0,5826085.story > about Obama’s ties with Palestinians and Jews as he navigated the politics of Chicago. The report included a detailed description of the tape, but the newspaper did not make the video public.
“A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi,” said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb. ” . . . The election is one week away, and it’s unfortunate that the press so obviously favors Barack Obama that this campaign must publicly request that the Los Angeles Times do its job — make information public.”
The Times on Tuesday issued a statement about its decision not to post the tape.
“The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it,” said the newspaper’s editor, Russ Stanton. “The Times keeps its promises to sources.”
Jamie Gold, the newspaper’s readers’ representative, said in a statement: “More than six months ago the Los Angeles Times published a detailed account of the events shown on the videotape. The Times is not suppressing anything. Just the opposite — the L.A. Times brought the matter to light.”
The original article said that Obama’s friendships with Palestinian Americans in Chicago and his presence at Palestinian community events had led some to think he was sympathetic to the Palestinian viewpoint on Middle East politics. Obama publicly expresses a pro-Israel viewpoint that pleases many Jewish leaders.
In reporting on Obama’s presence at the dinner for Khalidi, the article noted that some speakers expressed anger at Israel and at U.S. foreign policy, but that Obama in his comments called for finding common ground.
It said that Khalidi in the 1970s often spoke to reporters on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Khalidi later lived near Obama while teaching at the University of Chicago. He is now a professor of Arab studies at Columbia University in New York.
Dear LA Times, We don’t believe you. Yours Truly, America
Fun Stuff! Hi NQ Buddies, long time..no see
: Israel News, Nicolas Sarkozy
Source:
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1031943.html
Hi McKatmoon,
We missed you!
How can anyone not understand that our allies don’t trust Obama and our enemies can’t support him enough?
gee, kinda funny how that works out that way?
hmm…
is this what is called a “Red Flag”?
no pun intended….
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b. mccain
or even….
Obama Answers Immigration Questions from Chinese Newspaper
I just read that the reason why the Khalidi video tape won’t be release is because of what Obama said.
“Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine”
Now, don’t be so hard on him. That just can’t be true. WORM is “Israel has no Obama-given right to occupy Palestine.”
pretty sad, isn’t it? All the more reason to work like crazy for the next few days on GOTV efforts and phone banking for McCain/Palin!
Hey friends,
Is this real, or not?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O_4eJIZxUo
Mideast Conflict
It probably is true, I found this from the same poster. You can’t make this BS up. Biden at his dumbest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDyG05bKrpw
I never heard anything about this, till now.
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*•. .•* * McCain*Palin ‘08 Country First
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Thanks 30yrdem!
wow…
‘ol Hair Plugs is really slimey, isn’t he?
-=shudder=-
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b. mccain
america first!
I saw ABC or some network do a segment on this prior to the end of the Dem primary. These young dudes do nothing but write emails and blog all day for their messiah. Funny thing was, the reporter didn’t even bat an eyelash in her commentary after wards about foreigners being so involved in our political process.
I found this in comments at a McCain YouTube and thought you all might want to use it, pretty cool huh?
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*•. .•* * McCain*Palin ‘08 Country First
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Preconditions
I did look in the comments but have you all seen this?
So Long, Democrats
A speechwriter for Obama, Edwards, and Clinton on why she’s voting McCain.
LOVE the Preconditions video…
i pissed myself laughing when i read Obama’s Favorite Holocaust Denier™ had drawn up a list of pre-conditions….
Obama is a menace to democracy…
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b. mccain
america first!
I hope it plays on TV and not just the net.
this guy rawks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is6TdNndcmI
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b. mccain
america first!
Love it!
_./’\._¸¸.•¤**¤•.¸.•¤**¤•..•¤. .
*•. .•* * McCain*Palin ‘08 Country First
/.•*•.\ •¤**¤•.,.•¤**¤•.,.•¤**¤**. .
What the Mother Fuck?
I am so pissed off by this.. I think I”m going to puke I’m so sick at this.
Biden, all alone…
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1854640,00.html
hilarious!
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b. mccain
america first!
(Third attempt) I see a few comments here trying to relate the firing of Attorneys to what is going on in this situation.
From what I understand , there’s a special division of the DOJ that has jurisdiction and that’s the Civil Rights Division.
The Civil Rights Division is separate from the general “division” where all the US Attorneys are.
The Civil Rights lawyers don’t take orders from the President and have the discretion to do whatever they hell they want. And that these Lawyers are basically Democrat partisans.
This has been a problem throughout Bush’s term.. there were so many people held over from the Clinton years who were totally opposed to the new policies and quite a few of these folks (in the CIA, Dept of State, etc..) did their best to sabotage the implementation of policy they didn’t like.
I could be wrong.. i didn’t research this yet.. i’m at work.
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