Food for thought [Updated and renamed]
By SusanUnPC on October 31, 2008 at 7:35 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama
Dr. Lynette Long — a frequent contributor to this blog, a recent and influential member of Democratic national committees, a prominent supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, and now a McCain/Pain supporter — just forwarded this to me from her “contact,” and asked that this be posted immediately. It is an astonishing read. Feel free to grab this for your own blogs, and send it on to friends by e-mail.
UPDATE AND CAVEAT: I just spoke with both Lynette Long and Larry Johnson. Lynette is redoubling her original verification of this post. Regardless, as Larry Johnson points out, this post has INTERESTING and VALID POINTS TO MAKE, no matter who wrote it. Regard it as an opinion piece that is worthy of conversation, and for heaven’s sake don’t get bogged down by the source or where else you think you saw it. That doesn’t matter. It is the IDEAS that MATTER. – Administrator
After a long and careful consideration of all the implications and possible consequences of my actions today, I have decided to go through with this in the hope that our country can indeed be guided into the right direction.
First, a little personal background… [We await verification, so skip below. - Ed.] I am a female grad student in my 20’s, and a registered Democrat. During the primaries, I was a campaign worker for the Clinton candidacy. I believed in her and still do, staying all the way to the bitter end. And believe me, it was bitter. The snippets you’ve heard from various media outlets only grazed the surface. There was no love between the Clinton and Obama campaigns, and these feelings extended all the way to the top. Hillary was no dope though, and knew that any endorsement of Obama must appear to be a full-fledged one. She did this out of political survival.
As a part of his overall effort to extend an olive branch to the Clinton camp and her supporters, Obama took on a few Hillary staff members into his campaign. I was one such worker. Though I was still bitterly loyal to Hillary, I still held out hope that he would choose her as VP. In fact, there was a consensus among us transplants that in the end, he HAD to choose her. It was the only logical choice. I also was committed to the Democratic cause and without much of a second thought, transferred my allegiance to Senator Obama.
I’m going to let you in on a few secrets here, and this is not because I enjoy the gossip or the attention directed my way. I’m doing this because I doubt much of you know the true weaknesses of Obama.
Another reason for my doing this is that I have lost faith in this campaign, and feel that this choice has been forced on many people in this country.
Put simply, you are being manipulated. That was and is our job – to manipulate you (the electorate) and the media (we already had them months ago). Our goal is to create chaos with the other side, not hope.
I’ve come to the realization (as the campaign already has) that if this comes to the issues, Barack Obama doesn’t have a chance. His only chance is to foster disorganization, chaos, despair, and a sense of inevitability among the Republicans.
It has worked up until now. Joe the Plumber has put the focus on the issues again, and this scares us more than anything. Being in a position to know these things, I will rate what the Obama campaign already knows are their weak links from the most important on down.
1 – Hillary voters. Internal polling suggests that at best, we are taking 70-75% of these voters. Other estimates are as low as 60% in some areas – particularly Ohio and western PA.
My biggest problem with this campaign’s strategy was the decision NOT to offer Hillary the VP slot. She was ready and able to take this on, and would have campaigned enthusiastically for it.
This selection would have also brought virtually all of her supporters into the fold, and the Obama campaign knew it. Though I have no way of knowing this for certain, and I do admit that I am relying on internal gossip, Senator Obama actually went against the advice of his top advisors. They wanted him to choose her, but the only significant opposition to this within the campaign came from Barack and Michelle Obama. In short, he let personal feelings take precedence over what was the most logical thing to do.
Biden, by the way, has been a disaster inside the campaign. Everyone cringes whenever he gives an interview, and he creates so many headaches as the campaign has to stay on their toes in order to disseminate information and spin whatever it was he was trying to say.
2 – Sarah Palin. Don’t believe what the media is telling you about how horrible a choice she was. Again, our internal polling suggests that though she has had a minimal impact on pulling disaffected Hillary Democrats to McCain, she has done wonders in mobilizing the base for McCain.
Another thing – we were completely taken by surprise with her pick. In my capacity in the research department, I looked into the backgrounds of Leiberman, Romney, Pawlenty and Ridge, and prepared briefs. I don’t mind bragging that we had pretty good stuff on all of them. With Leiberman, the plan was to paint him as an erratic old-timer who didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing (pretty much a clone of McCain). In Romney, we had him pegged as an evil capitalist who cut jobs. Pawlenty was going to get the “Quayle treatment”, or more precisely: a pretty face, with no valid experience. Tom Ridge was going to be used to provide a direct link from McCain to Bush. As you can see, we were quite enamored of all of them.
Then the unexpected happened – Sarah Palin. We had no clue as to how to handle her, and bungled it from the start. Though through our misinformation networks, we have successfully taken some of the shine off. But let there be no doubt. She remains a major obstacle. She has singlehanded solidified “soft” Republican support, mobilized the McCain ground game, and has even had some appeal to independents and Hillary voters. This is what our internal polling confirms.
3 – Obama’s radical connections. Standards operating procedure has been to cry “racism” whenever one of these has been brought up. We even have a detailed strategy ready to go should McCain ever bring Rev. Wright up.
Though by themselves they are of minimal worth, taken together, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Pfelger, and now, Rashid Khalili, are exactly what the campaign does not need. The more focus on them, the more this election becomes a referendum on Obama.
The campaign strategy from the very beginning was to make this election a referendum on Bush.
Strategists have been banging their heads on how successfully McCain has distanced himself from Bush. This has worked, and right now the tide is in his favor. People are taking a new look at Barack Obama, and our experience when this happens tells us this is not good news at all. When they take a look at him, one or more of these names are bound to be brought up.
McCain has wisely not harped on this in recent weeks and let voters decide for themselves. This was a trap we set for him, and he never fully took the bait. Senator Obama openly dared him to bring up Ayers.
This was not due to machismo on the part of Obama, but actually due to campaign strategy. Though McCain’s reference to Ayers fell flat in the last debate, people in the Obama campaign were actually disappointed that he didn’t follow through on it more and getting into it.
Our focus groups found this out: When McCain brings these connections up, voters are turned off to him. They’d rather take this into consideration themselves, and when this happens, our numbers begin to tank.
4 – The Bradley Effect. Don’t believe these polls for a second. I just went over our numbers and found that we have next to no chance in the following states: Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire and Nevada. Ohio leans heavily to McCain, but is too close to call it for him. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico and Iowa are the true “toss up states”.
The only two of these the campaign feels “confident” in are Iowa and New Mexico.
The reason for such polling discrepancy is the Bradley Effect, and this is a subject of much discussion in the campaign. In general, we tend to take a -10 point percentage in allowing for this, and are not comfortable until the polls give us a spread well over this mark.
This is why we are still campaigning in Virginia and Pennsylvania! This is why Ohio is such a desperate hope for us! What truly bothers this campaign is the fact that some pollsters get up to an 80% “refuse to respond” result. You can’t possibly include these into the polls. The truth is, people are afraid to let people know who they are voting for. The vast majority of these respondents are McCain supporters. Obama is the “hip” choice, and we all know it.
As part of my research duties, I scour right wing blogs and websites to get somewhat of a “feel” as to what is being talked about on the other side. Much of it is nonsense, but there are some exceptions which give the campaign jitters.
A spirited campaign has been made to infiltrate many pro-Hillary sites and discredit them. A more disorganized, but genuine effort has also been made to sow doubts among the unapologetically right wing sites such as redstate.com.
Don’t you guys get it? This has been the Obama campaign’s sole strategy from the very beginning! The only way he wins is over a dispirited, disorganized, and demobilized opposition. This is how it has been for all of his campaigns. What surprises me is that everyone has fallen for it. You may point to the polls as proof of the inevitability of all of this.
If so, you have fallen for the oldest trick in the book.
How did we skew these polls, you might ask? It all starts with the media “buzz” which has been generated over the campaign. Many stories are generated on the powerful Obama ground game, and how many new voters were registered.
None of this happens by coincidence. It is all part of the poll-skewing process. This makes pollsters change their mixes to reflect these new voters and tilt the mix more towards Democratic voters. What is not mentioned or reported on is not the “under-reported cell phone users or young voters” we hear so much about. What is underreported is you.
I changed my somewhat positive opinion of this campaign during the unfair and sexist campaign against Sarah Palin. I will never agree with her on the issues and will probably never vote for her, but I am embarrassed of what has happened. I can’t ignore our own hand in all of this.
What I do know is that I will not be voting for Obama this time around. Treat that as you will.
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I have no reason to doubt this, mainly because circumstantial evidence supports it. But, can anyone (like Dr. Long) vouch for its authenticity?
It doesn’t seem genuine to me because it reads like a “fram” (spam from friends and family).
Yea..I mean we’ve all heard the “80% refusal rate” multiple times…um, it’s a biiiig world out there. Seems funny that that number hasn’t changed…it just keeps being repeated.
No offense, but I’m not buying this post. There are NO surprises in it; it reads as if it’s been written by one of us.
Three moles blow their cover.
Anything for the cause, eh?
Dude, I’m not a mole. I stated that I have no reason to doubt this and hope it’s authentic. No one despises Obama bin Biden more than me.
I think this is bait to get us talking and telling on where we are at with the election. Obama’s campaign is based on the blog activities and always has been..nothing has been disclosed lately by PUMAS.
Additionally, WE ALREADY KNEW ALL OF THESE OBAMA TACTICS ALONG WITH THE FACT THAT HE IS RUNNING A LYING SWILLFULL CAMPAIGN.
Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has had a great positive effect on voters especially Hillary voters! Mac heard us. He promised PUMAS to pick a woman and he did. There is lots this writer doesn’t know about and that is PUMAS connection to McCain after the RBC meeting. Mac was there for us when the party kicked us to the curb. This is no accident that PUMAS are voting for McCain! Mac earned our vote and the Good Governor solidified it.
This Obama worker/writer needs to know, that it is Palin who will, and has cleaned up corruption and put government in the hands of the people.
Her personal choices for herself may not be her political choices for us. She certainly is a live and let live person. Her main duty will be to get us moving on a path of self supported energy policies and to clean up corruption in Congress. Those are her policies and if the writer can’t agree with that them, then bite me!
Hillary Dem for McCain/Palin ‘08 !!!!!
The explanation – the part about being a graduate student working for Senator Clinton’s team and then moved to Senator Obama’s, becoming disenchanted with Senator Obama, etc… may all be fabricated or embellished. I wouldn’t be surprised.
The strategy the Obama campaign has used to combat the associations with the nefarious and unsavory characters in his background – that’s true. I think it’s true that 60 to 80% of Senator Clinton’s supporters are currently voting for Senator Obama. Governor Palin didn’t win over the average Clinton woman, she did though lock in the Republican base.
I’ve never believed one poll that indicated Senator McCain was losing Florida, Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia and Nevada. I’ve thought all along it was close to dead even in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico and New Hampshire. I think it’s very close in Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan and these are states Senator McCain can win – especially if he’s inundating the airwaves this weekend. I won’t be surprised to see Senator McCain take Michigan by several thousand votes on Tuesday night.
I believe the polls are skewed by all the new voter registrations. There were record new voter registrations in ‘04. The polls reflected all those liberal college kids. On crunch day, the polls were wrong. The polls are only as good as the person creating the poll and the person analyzing the poll. We already know thousands if not hundred of thousands of those new registrations are for dead people, the same people counted not twice but sometimes a hundred times, etc… Are the pollsters taking this into account or are they expecting legions of college students and African Americans to storm the polls on Tuesday who have never voted before? How weighted are the polls that the two demographics are going to vote Democratic? If the polls are including those assumptions, they’re flawed.
I believe it’s true that over half of the people asked to participate in polls are refusing to do so. I have a neighbor who is thirty years older than me. Every day, from May to November we walk two miles on the beach in front of our houses. We discuss our day, the news, the economy, her husband, my s/o, the neighbors, friends, our pets, the neighbors’ pets, the city council, the shells and glass that have washed up, etc… Since June, part of each walk has been dedicated to my latest political research discovery or tirade on the DNC and Senator Obama. My neighbor refused until a few days ago to tell me who she was voting for. If Gallop, Rasmussen, Zogby, etc… call her and ask who she is voting for, she will give the flippant answer: “Whoever my husband isn’t voting for.”
Since discovering Senator Obama isn’t who he thought he was, my s/o is keeping his vote to himself. He says he’ll decide in the voting booth.
I don’t think my neighbor and my s/o are alone in keeping their political leanings private this year, I think half of the country have followed them. Especially people who favored Senator Obama at first and then discovered he wasn’t who they thought he was. Other people have been energized by this campaign and people who would have never put a political sign in their yards before (my Dad is one) have done so this year. However, when the pollsters call – most people don’t want to participate. This election is private, personal or both to people and they don’t want to be a part of a statistic. The polls can’t reflect that and since they aren’t, we can’t trust the numbers.
I believe it’s true that people leaning towards Senator McCain are turned off when he raises Ayers, ACORN, Wright, Rezko, etc… They know this stuff. What they want to know is how Senator McCain is going to be different than Senator Obama, how he’s going to fix their world for them. They’re looking for Senator McCain to clinch their vote in debates and interviews, not recite a laundry list of why they shouldn’t vote for Senator Obama.
The above letter states it’s going to share a few secrets. None of what the author revealed was a secret to me. Most of it is factual in my little corner of a peninsula and the rest that I haven’t verified – I strongly suspect is the truth. The content of the letter, I have no problems believing to be the truth. The reason for writing the letter that the author gives – it won’t surprise me if the reason is a fabrication. However, in the scheme of things – the author’s reasons are irrelevant to me since from my research and personal experience in this election – the content is factual.
Monet – I agree 100% – politics this election became so emotionally charged early on (thanks to Obama’s race baiting) between life long friends and family members, that I think people have decided that discretion is sometimes the better part of valor. I also think that many americans no longer trust that a private conversation – especially over the phone is private or that people are who they say they are.
Easier on the eyes shared off of Google Docs:
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.d051ca2b-b9b2-40f5-accf-d209c8095a8f&hl=en
Live link: http://www.reanimality.com/hidden/NoquarterExclusive.pdf
MCCAIN IS UP BY 1% ACCORDING TO ZOGBY POLL COMING OUT TOMORROW!!
Where did you get this information. It is so wonderful and delicious. I hope you aren’t pulling my leg!!!!
Hannity tonight on Fox
It’s on the Drudge Report too.
http://www.drudgereport.com/
keep in mind Zogby himself is wayyyyyy in the tank for obambi and always has been, and swayed his so called ‘legit polls’ long ago and often in an attempt to destroy Hill’s candidacy.
ZOGBY: MCCAIN MOVES INTO LEAD 48-47 IN ONE DAY POLLING
VOTE LIKE YOUR COUNTRY DEPENDS ON IT PEOPLE!!!!
NOTHING IS INEVITABLE!!!
NOTHING!!!
YOU ARE THE MASTERS OF THIS COUNTRY’S DESTINY!!!
NEVER FORGET IT!
ZOGBY SATURDAY: McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, one day, polling. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all… from Drudgereport
Also for your viewing pleasure:
ARNOLD GIVES OHIO STRAIGHT TALK!!
TERMINATING THE OBUMMER
If you missed it this morning enjoy the youtube replay
btw the MSM reported this as a few thousand a FEW thousand people. Look at this video and tell me how people who clearly failed math class get to play reporters on TV!
a few thousands times 10 is what they meant to say. typical.
Thanks for posting this!! Arnolds video is awesome, very uplifting!!
yes, Arnie, let’s do something to beef up barry’s economic ideology. Throwing crumbs to the poor just to keep them happy and not question the government is not what this country wants.
Oh my gosh! Arnold was amazing. One of the best campaign speeches of this election!
Our Democracy is NOT for sale!
Make that video go viral.
McCain/Palin ‘08
Dang–they should have had “Ahnold” out there all along. He’s great on the stump.
I don’t think that Maria would let him go. Besides, CAW-LI-FOUR-NYA is so BLUE!
If you live in Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico and Iowa, GET OUT AND VOTE, AND TALK TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
Vote early and vote often? lol
Nevada here usually goes red, we shall see how it sways this time. Population and ethnic bkground changes so rapidly here it’s hard to say-
Here on the Horsey Side of Hooterville… er, Henderson, not a single Obama sign is to be seen, versus 21 McCain signs.
Probably more Obama-ish over towards Green Valley and Seven Hills.
East Las Vegas and NorthTown are likely overwhelmingly Obamaland due to large non-Caucasian populations.
Yes… I just read it on Drudge – Today’s poll for Friday that will be announced tomorrow: McCain 48 Obama 47..
yes, FOX inform us hat McCain is in leading….
Having the advantage of seeing an “Axelrod Effect” campaign before, Mass gubernatorial race in 2006 where he was Duval Patrick’s campaign strategist, I have been looking at the Obama campaign more clinically than I would any other campaign. I think this post is legit. The Axelrod staff can run an electable state race but it is harder to control a national one. They did a good job because they got the media behind them early (in my estimation as early as 2004) and ran with the Obama bio and the ‘historic nature of the candidacy’ which they knew the MSM would eat up like starving rats. I also think it is legit because it makes sense with respect to the desire of the campaign to try to bait McCain with the Wright/Ayers/etc stuff, figuring that it would be a turn off for the Independents who are more issue oriented and the race card works so well for them even having some say that there would be major race relation problems if he didn’t win, if you get my drift. It also makes sense in the use of the ‘inevitability factor of trying to ‘emotionally suppress’ conservative, Republican, and Hillary supporters. Especially those who said they would just stay home if she wasn’t the nominee. If they couldn’t get them, they wouldn’t want them running to McCain.
I hope this goes viral, real or not, because it may give fence sitters pause to see just what a nasty campaign this really is.
I am still a die hard Hillary supporter but I have to say that I like Sarah Palin. I do not agree with her on all issues but I think she is one gutsy broad and I like that. McCain was right when he said ‘no one is going to tell her to go sit down’. I have listened to Lynn Forrester who has actually met Gov Palin and I agree she is a lot smarter than anyone gives her credit. Man, if McCain wins (and I think he has a really good shot) but only serves one term, it sure will be an iinteresting 2012 race. Obama won’t run again because as I recall Michelle Obama said “they would not run again because they would be too rich and therefore not be able to relate to us peons (my choice of the last two words)”
One question I have always had that I wish someone on the inside of that campaign would answer- Do they bus in Acorn workers to those rallys to make them look bigger than they actually are?
My vote is goin to McCain/Palin.
Hillary in 2012.
YES, the do bus people in for the rallies. Offering, food and drinks, and other free things. Most are followed by a concert of some sort….
I have no doubt about this either, I read this post a few days ago on redstate, I find it to be legit because I don’t see any reason why someone would come and say this, lets pretend this is a trick and this is some Obama supporter doing this, this doesn’t benefit them because us McCain supporters will go to the polls and vote for McCain. Also, the stuff about the polls ARE true, she says that Iowa is in play, check out how Sarah will be going there on Monday and Obama was there today, everything that this woman has said is true. Obama does NOT have this election in the bag, he just wants people to think that way so that we won’t go out and vote
I think it’s fake but I don’t think it’s a troll. Fact of the matter is it doesn’t benefit anyone.
Sounds fake but who knows.
Lizzie, in your most objective view, who is going to win? I think McCain is but I what do you think?
Fake or not it doesn’t really matter. The bottom line is “do not loose your perspective and don’t listen to the polls; just go and vote for McCain/Palin.” It’s not a complex science. Too many people fret that Obama might win so posts like this help center those frightened people so they still stand up for what they believe in. If that is all this post does, then it is very valuable.
Whether it’s fake or not, PUMAs have thought all these things for real for many months.
not so much fake as lacking worthwhile substance- seriously i read it expecting to read something that would surprise me, shock me or i’d find worthy of passing on or remembering.. seriously it reads (to me) as a big nothing- i mean how dense an adult do you need to be to (not) know this kind of crap goes on anyway in big campaigns?
aside from that, i was distracted with her endless use of “as to”, and making them 2 words instead of the one word it should have read.. and not as often!
I kinda question it also, but like you I don’t think it really benefits one side or the other. It’s more an opinion piece of working from the inside, so I don’t really see any reason for faking it.
But, then again I am one of those people that trust and believe everyone till they give me a reason not to. Then I don’t believe anything they tell me. Even if they have the proof right there and it’s staring me in the face. This election has made me cynical of a lot of the things I once believed in…
[LIZZIE, your comment is off-topic to the post. We have open threads. Use those for philosophical discussions about war. Or go to your own blog, HillBuzz, and chat about it there. Your comments have been removed. ]
The question of whether or not we should be in Iraq is moot. The question is how are we going to leave (and how are we going to leave Iraq)? That is what the debate on Iraq concerns.
Amen.
agree the question is different now
I’m never going to agree with how we got in but I am sure not going to accept bringing them OUT w/out HONOR
no way that will happen if the far left is in charge
they really do NOT like GUNS or the MILITARY and unless you’ve actually served or know someone who served it’s easy to see how they can neglect us and be ignorant to how things really RUN…… remembering how MUCH they propagandize things on BOTH sides.
When did we start getting so picky about being off topic around here????
This post looks a lot like the one at Hillbuz, makes me a bit wary, esp. given the adherence to the ‘Bradley-effect’.
Personally I suspect a certain weariness is at play. Obama The Fad can’t stay ‘cool’ for too long a time, especially given the total overdose of the rookie Senator Government: talkshows, news, ads on tv; ads on radio; ads on computer games; ads on his cable-channel; sports suspended for informercial; robocalls; Hollyweirdoes laying praise on the Springfield monorail-salesman (song and a plan, no deeds). It’s just overkill.
The only thing I don’t understand is, WE did NOT fall for it. If anyone fell for the pushing of the polls, it WAS the non activists that just watch TV. But it also looks like that some may be figuring that out too.
After all, it was 70 percent that said the media was pushing who THEY wanted to win.
We shall see.
Frank Luntz on O’Reilly tonight was already talking about the first 100 days of an Obama administration. SICK!
UGH !!
Oh, he was in the tank and promoting Obama from before the primary started. I remember him and Arianna Huff. on Real Time agreeing about Obama’s marketing.
…those were some of the last days I watched Real Time …and then I cancelled HBO lol
His nose still looks a little brown.
he is really creepy. What a jerk.” I’m polling Obama’s first 100 days”
I like Hannity but there’s a lot of creepy people om his show.
OT What is the name of the 527 that is running such powerful ads these last few days? Can anyone help me?
Every time voters stopped focusing on his awful opponent (be it Hillary or McCain) and started focusing on Obama, voters pull back.
Maybe that’s what Luntz is doing.
Linda,
I have visited some of the Republican websites and a few of them (usually the more intellectually elite ones) have fallen for the cooked polls hook, line and sinker. Their articles then turn with disgust on McCain’s selection of Palin for veep and blame her for the cause of the decline in the polls. Personally I think they are as afraid of Palin as the Obama people. They actually believe the lies told about Palin and use those lies as a base for their attacks. For intellectual elites they are really dumb.
You are right about the PUMA’s not falling for the cooked polls. In my opinion the PUMA sites are the best with the best and most informative articles. PUMA’s rock.
Well, then they should get an injection after ZOGBY Reports tomorrow John McCain is actually now up gy 1
Linda, those psuedo intellectuals do not trust Zogby especially when the Zogby poll has McCain on top. I’ve seen their comments to that effect.
Lol, i agree with you about the PUMA sites, & i’m not even a Puma, but i’m sure glad to know you!
As for the pseudo “intellectual elites” they can go back to armchair obscurity where they belong. Republicans never truly had those fair weathers, and Republicans don’t need them! We are practical people with practical skills that tend to believe what you know is only as useful as what you can do with it. I can grow a garden, brew a batch of beer or wine, & cook a pot of beans. I can build a fruit press, an apple-grinder, or an out-house! I can also dig a ditch! Now how many armchair intellectuals can do that!
Actually this is the crowd that has perpetrated some of the negative gossip about Sarah Palin. I’m going to repeat myself here. MAKE NO MISTAKE, Sarah Palin was John McCain’s DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE from this group. When he selected Sarah he was sending a clear message that he was not going to play the role of PUPPET to the PAMPERED POODLES of the Republican Party. During Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican Convention the camera panned onto Peggy Noonan. The look on her face was priceless! She, and her ilk, have been whining under their breathe about Sarah Palin since the moment her nomination was announced. These snobs, twittering together, listening only to the sound of their own voices, actually convinced themselves that if they went public with their whining about Sarah, that it would start a movement to force John McCain to kick her off the ticket. Mind you, this was while Sarah Palin was drawing bigger crowds than anyone else in the race. I loved John McCain’s response when a reporter asked him about even Republicans complaining about Sarah Palin’s qualifications. A big smile came across John’s face and he said, only the ones that didn’t get picked. Priceless!
It was impossible to ignore the self-destructive backstabbing, to the point of self-immolation, from almost all the right wing punditocracy.
Yes KFaye, The Maverick choose another Maverick as his veep and declared his independence from the poodles. If McCain gets elected he has the potential to become one of the best POTUS in our history.
I enjoyed hearing Todd Palin tell Greta how much alike his wife and McCain are. It really shows. They make a good team. Not at all like grandpa Biden and The ONE or Bush and puppet meister Cheney.
How about some insider information on the media sellout for Obama and the despicable hit job on Hillary. And what about that turncoat Patti Solis-Doyle? Whether or not Obama is a socialist/communist, he uses their political tactics. As for the trap set up for McCain re Rev Wright, Ayers, etc, it’s really not too clear what was intended there. I personally think McCain should pound Obama into the ground on this stuff as demonstrated in his hardhitting comments on Obama’s Wed night infomercial.
Do you think she deliberately did Hill in?
DID WE ALL READ THE POST?
THAT THE OBAMABOTS are doing their JOB if they GET US TO SOW DOUBTS AMONGST OURSELVES, and to GET DOWN?
You both have taken the bait.
Huh? I don’t understand the implication. I did read the post. There is nothing I like better than insider information even it’s disinformation or misinformation.
My father said:
And my grandmother said:
God watches over fools and idiots.
hahahahaha….
Obama is returning to Pueblo, CO with Michelle on Saturday. Pueblo is a heavily Democratic area with a surrounding population of around 125,000. If Obama were not scared of the Bradley Effect, I don’t think he would be returning. As a local, I think the polls may be skewed but not because people are bigots; it’s because they don’t want to be identified as bigots. Big difference. If Obama wins in Pueblo, I am certain it will be the result of anti-Bush/Cheney sentiment much more than pro-Obama and/or voter fraud.
I though Colorado was a rap for Obama. What happened?
I don’t believe that Colorado was ever a rap for Obama. There are definitely Obama hotspots in the State, but Colorado Springs and the rural areas could easily support McCain at 70%. Pueblo is Democratic, but heavily Hispanic and with strong Catholic roots. McCain’s military service and Obama’s abortion stance could sway the vote, which could be decisive. I am not a political pro, but am a native who has lived or worked in every corner of the State and that is what I see.
I am a Colorado native too. This is the first time there was ever much of a chance to turn the state deep blue. It comes from the metropolitan areas of Denver/Boulder and wannabe Boulder–i.e., Fort Collins–and the “Hollywood” areas in places like Aspen and Vail. But Colorado Springs with Focus on the Family and the Air Force Academy and military presence is red, and I agree with you about Pueblo–the unions, there, however are strongly Dem.
It will be interesting to see, especially since we’ve had a lot of Californication happening to the state over the last few years.
I generally,however, like our state Democrats. They do seem to like to cross party lines to get things done. I am just appalled by what the DNC did and was ashamed to have the Roman-style apotheosis of THE ONE event held in the Mile High City, because I am aa proud Coloradoan.
Obama frenzy brings out the fear of being labeled a racist or any other derogatory term in many people who do not support him. It is easier to not answer at all, or just say you are for him, especially when you fear your job or family, and because your peers are drinking Koolaide.
A similar story came out from American Thinker [THAT IS NOT A RELIABLE BLOG IN MY EXPERIENCE - Admin.]. But has to do with PA and VA. It is an interesting read. How ever it is not verifiable just as this
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[I'm conservative, not GOP] American Thinker is an awesome site… I’m almost always impressed by what I read there.
Just my opinion.
Ditto. I’ve always been impressed by what I have read there. I also like the Patriot Room? Especially when I’ve been disappointed in something, their articles seem to get me fired up again. I also have both liberal and conservative beliefs. I tend to lean gravitate toward more conservative candidates/Democrats.
I think the older I get the more conservative I get.
Although, at times I’m starting to think the new conservative is the old liberal. The Democrats of my parents and grandparents era’s.
The new liberal is all over the map. Taken over by those with very radical agendas. Who would have ever thought we’d see some of the things we saw this year from the Democrats? Racist, misogynist, ageism attacks.
Bill and Hillary are still part of the old school Democrats. They have never cowarded to the radical parts of the party that I have seen. I think that’s why Bill’s had such a hard time campaigning for Obama and had to be careful how he’s chosen his words.
Worst case scenario–this Lynette letter is an Obot spam weapon…so what? Even if it is bogus (it sounds legit to me–too much truth in it), it just shows how scared the Obots are that they’re backsliding, and that’s gggrrreeeatttt!!!
We win either way. If it’s true–hooray because it confirms our suspicions. If it’s false–more evidence of the Obot’s Last Stand–like the Nazis in the Battle of the Bulge.
I am probably the most optimistic guy on this site. I think McCain will take CA. But I have to take anonymous stories with a grain of salt. I think we have to work on turning out voters and can’t become complacent. That is why I am going down to the Republican office to make phone calls tomorrow. If I offended anybody I apologize.
About my spelling. I was never a good speller.
I have to agree with you about McCain taking CA. just think about it for a second. Arnold did not go to the Republican National Convention, my take during that time, Arnold doesn’t want to get connected with McCain. As McCain surges in the polls, Arnold now stumps for McCain. why the sudden change of heart by Arnold. Arnold is a politician and politicians will take risks on endorsing someone only if it’s politically rewarding for them.
I believe that McCain might be surgin in California which is why Arnold is now stumping for McCain.
I don’t know if McCain can take California but McCain might just have a strong surge to do so!
Arnold is somewhat of his own maverick in CA. Many “hard core conservatives” accuse him of being a rino. To have him at the RNC would have given those soft or reluctant to McCain, a position to say, See, McCain is not “really” a Conservative, he associates with Arnold.
With Sarah Palin, Big Mac can go after the moderates and indies with at person stomping for him like Arnold.
I agree that California can go red this year. Internal polls shows that the race is tighter than expected. I’m volunteering in L.A. County, and our office manager told us that if we can turn the county red, we have a good chance the whole state goes for McCain.
Obama doesn’t have this in the bag and when I heard tonight he is advertising in Arizona I thought he is really desperate or he’s been doing the fake all along. Obama is trying to mind screw with McCain’s supporters. I hope the people of Arizona are disgusted by it. I think the Obama campaign is scarred.
He has already been advertising in Arizona. Sicko!! If he is so sure of everything, why does he not just sit back and relax? Why is he in all the battleground states? Must be unsure.
Interestingly enough, living in central phoenix, I see 0bama bumper stickers and signs everywhere. While I still see them, today I have seen a number of McCain/Palin stickers and yard signs (they have been sorely missing this past 2 months but are starting to make an appearance.
Oh TWS do I so want you to be right! Please be right!
I live in Chicago and I listen to local talk radio channels WLS AM sometimes..
All of a sudden out of the blue, it was like Obama was subsidizing the station.. it seemed like every commercial was Obama attacking McCain’s health care plan.
Illinois is not in doubt .. Obama will win. Why in the world would he start running ads? And my God,, do I feel sorry for people who actually have a competitive vote.. they must suffer under an avalanche of ads. Ugh. how unbearable.
I believe Obama is trying to entice John McCain to defend Arizona and spend money on ads there instead of battlegrounds states. it’s simply a strategy move by Obama, but I doubt that McCain will take the bait.
McCain is surging in the polls and the momentum will be hard to stop for Obama.
If the momentum continues, McCain just might win the election by 3 to 4 points!
Let’s not get swayed by the messiah, every vote for McCain counts!
get out the vote on Nov 4 for McCain/Palin!
My first thought when I heard this was there are not enough hours left in the battleground states to spend all his money on ads – so he’s added Arizona. When he loses on Tuesday, his ego will feel a little better if he’s closed the gap a bit in Arizona.
Pamela’s posted the story on Her Blog as well. It’s going viral for sure.
Another reason that Obama wants to maintain the perception of inevitability is so that in the event that McCain wins, which I believe is likely, Obama surrogates and supporters can more easily scream foul and accuse the Republicans of stealing it as a means to de-legitimize a tight, but solid, McCain win.
Obama is already saying “expect it to get nasty”. He is sowing the seeds of rage, probably because he knows it’s going to be close.
Sowing the seeds of rage. That’s leadership.
That is obvious by HBO tonight..two movies on prime time are “RECOUNT” AND “HACKING DEMOCRACY’ WITH BEV FREAKING HARRIS!
the nerve ..when it was the dems who stole our votes in the dem primary because my state got rid of the damn DRE machines!
The damn nerve of any dem that now brings that up..it was the people in my state fighting to get rid of the DRE voting machines that was used as the excuse ..that helped Obama and H. Dean to steal our primary votes..
screw them..
They stole my vote in the primary and they did not get my vote for the GE..AND I FEEL DAMN GOOD ABOUT THAT!
I voted repub for the first time in my life..38 years of voting dem…and I am a lady who worked my ass off for the dem party and was elected as a delegate in 2004….I voted Republican as a protest vote..because it was my own party that ignored the problem and told us to shut up since 2000 about the DRE voting machines..when many many of us begged the dem party to help us get rid of these machines..we were ostrichized because we were vocal trying to get the dem party to help us.. then the dem party used the very fact that “we the people” of Fla.. got rid of the damn DRE machines that the dem party used as an excuse to screw the pooch and steal our primary votes for Obama..
They can all rot in hell in my book!
And no, I did not re-register..I REMAINED A DEM UNTIL AFTER THIS ELECTION..SO THEY WOULD NOT KNOW HOW MANY VOTES THEY NEEDED TO STEAL TO STEAL THIS ELECTION!!.. And I was one of the dems who voted absentee for McCain/Palin..futhermore I voted repub all the way down the ticket, because it was the cowards in the Fla dem party that allowed the DNC to steal my vote in January!..and again on May31st!
They may never get my vote back again..until this dem party is taken down and people with integrity replace these damn crooks!
Oh and ifIi sound bitter..I am ..people died for my vote..people sacrificed for my vote..with their lives..and livelyhood..People in our history gave up everything ..for my vote..and I regard my vote as the most valuable thing I own!
No one can steal it and then think they can have my vote..not today, not tommorrow..never!
Too bad Democrats piss on the votes of those currently defending us against the barbarians.
I voted early at a supermarket yesterday. The poll worker said, “Welcome.”
I said, “I killed a shitload of strangers with whom I had no argument for this privilege, and haven’t missed an Election since I did Absentee Ballot from the asshole of the Planet in 1968. Wouldn’t have missed it for the world.”
And they all moved one pace away from the old fart with the tattoos and the ponytail…
Who’d suspect that Curmudgeoning would be so much fun?
Actually speaking my mind is one of the things i’m looking forward to when I get old.
I speak my mind now, but I try to be civil. I wont have to be that way when I”m old.
Queenie –
I’m in FL too … and I say DITTO to every word you wrote.
And when I got a call from the local DNC office looking for $$$$, I told him “Things are tight, you know. Can’t. sorry. But you can count on my vote.”
He says – “Vote Democrat down the ticket.”
I say (in honor of Palin): “You betcha!”
He didn’t get it. YEah – I lied — for the same reason you say — I don’t want them to know the real numbers and play games on Voting Day.
I also voted Republican down the ticket.
First time in a GE EVER. And I feel good about it too!
The first thing o’zombies lost was their sense of humor.
I stopped into my local Republican office this week to pick up a township supervisor sign (the guy who mows my lawn is running for re-election and my previous sign had disappeared). They were out of the signs, but they asked me to sign their log, which asked if people were voting Repbulican for president, senator, Congressional representative and state representative. Most people checked the box for president. The majority either chose not to respond about how they’re voting for the other offices or they’re voting Democratic. The man volunteering at the office engaged me in discussing politics, he seemed to believe McCain won’t win. He has a conservative Constitutional blog and appears to spend a lot of time on the internet perusing blogs – he was very well versed in all the unsavoryness in Senator Obama’s background.
My next stop was to the local Democratic office where I picked up a sign saying “Vote yes for proposition 2″ and one for a woman running for judge. The woman working this office didn’t try to engage me in talking politics. She was friendly and very helpful in finding the signs I wanted, but she didn’t try to gauge if I was a strong Democratic voter, a disgruntled Hillary voter, PUMA, Republican or Independent like the guy over at the Republican office. She did ask me to sign their log. The log in this office didn’t ask people to check which offices they were voting Democrat for.
As I signed the log, I mentioned that the Republican office was collecting that information, she seemed surprised by it and then said she thought it was ridiculous since anyone entering the Republican headquarters would be voting Republican. Which I guess explains why she didn’t try to sleuth out who I’m voting for, she just assumed that since I entered the office looking for two signs for my lawn, I must be an Obama supporter. I told her that while the majority of signatures indicated they were voting for McCain, most didn’t check that they were voting Republican for the other seats that are up for election. She seemed interested in that. Which she should be, the county I live in is very Republican, quite often local Republicans run unopposed, no Democrat wants to waste the time or money to lose since the majority of voters vote a straight Republican ticket.
Back to my point. maybe the lady at the Democratic office was tired, I walked in a few minutes before she locked up. But she assumed if I walked in the door, I was voting for Senator Obama. I think that is a problem the Obama campaign is going to have on Tuesday. They have assumed from the very start that without reaching out to every demographic who leans Democratic – that they have their vote.
But I haven’t seen this on the ground in Michigan. My affluent, well off liberal friends aren’t Obama friendly. Nor are the UAW retirees or are the high level executive Big 3 retirees who live in my neighborhood. The weekend neighbors who live downstate – both blue collar and white collar aren’t Obama friendly either.
The polls keep telling me that Senator Obama is at least 15 points ahead of Senator McCain in Michigan. On the ground here – I’ve never seen so many affluent liberals and UAW workers/retirees who are voting for a Republican for president.
Who is telling the truth? Are people lying to pollsters? Or are they lying to their friends and neighbors? Are they putting out McCain signs in their lawns and planning to vote for Senator Obama? Is no one lying and the pollsters are biased in how they’re forming and analyzing the polls because they believe the blue collar vote in Michigan isn’t going to break tradition like it did for Reagan and Bush I?
All I know is that the people manning the local party offices in my little town believe the polls that Senator McCain doesn’t have a chance in Michigan and will lose the election. But talking to the voters in this state, there are more McCain friendly voters than Obama friendly ones. Tuesday night is going to be fascinating.
I’m another one who won’t be surprised if McCain takes California. If he does, point to the Hillary supporters, zip to Senator Obama for ignoring them.
B R E A K I N G
“illegal campaign appeals Michelle Obama made today”…
” the Obama campaign violated state law by offering a backstage seat with Obama on election night for $25 donations. Remember, Obama has been charging press thousands and thousands of dollars for backstage access — so that $25 you contribute is an entry into a lottery that could win you a prize worth thousands. State law around the country bars a political campaign from holding a lottery like this. Why can’t a news outlet enter this and hopefully win a pass for $25 instead of ponying up the thousands Obama is charging to be back there? Shockingly, Chicago media is asking this question — since it was BURNED big time by those Obama demands for large payouts for access to the Election Night event.
Obama believs no one can touch him on things like this — but others in Chicago believe he may have stepped too far.
More later on this…”
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/so-much-to-tell-you/#comments
Obama is a federal candidate, not a state candidate. That should be obvious. Because state elections and campaign finance laws do not have bearing on federal elections, I recommend the jokers at HillBuzz retract the article and apologize for their lack of integrity and responsibility.
I thank you for your prompt and anticipated cooperation. And remember to read the law before you publish diaries.
Enjoy the evening.
US CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I
SECTION 4
In other words, the States have the power to establish whatever Laws they like regarding Congresional (and now Senatorial) elections; however, Congress can override any State regulation with a National one.
And notice that the law you cite pertains to Congressional races.
Fair enough:
US CONSTITUTION
Article III
Section 1
Clause 2
In other words, Electors actually determine who is elected President. States have the power to determine the manner by which the Electors are selected. Therefore, other than setting the date this selection occurs (See Article II Section 2 Clause 4) , the States have the power to make any number of Laws regarding the Popular Vote.
you are referring to the allocation of electors, not the manner whereby a campaign is run or financed. such laws are drafted by congress, and any complaints or inquiries are handled by the federal election commission.
Didn’t he do this in the primary as well?
It is irrelevant, for it is legal. Indeed, Hillary had similar offers to those who submitted contributions.
Did she not vouch for it by sending it and asking that it be posted? I took that an a “vouch”.
Uh – how is that a vouch? Sounds more like an ouch vouch.
While I have quite a few black friends, a black significant other, and live in a progressive city, I am very quiet about my Nobama position – and not because of what my black friends will think.
Everybody I work with is vocally for Obama, and I definitely feel on the outs there.
It’s not the Bradley effect. It’s the Obama brownshirts effect.
I am very vocal among my friend about not voting for this Charlatan! I can’t wait to place my vote AGAINST him on Tuesday. Anybody but Obamabi! McCain would have to be overheard with communists planning a black Genocide for me NOT to vote for McCain. Obama’s thug candidacy has dealt the race card too many times and caused too much damage to an all too important process. His loss is the only way we get this country back on the right track! I can’t believe that something or someone would come along and be more of a threat to America’s existence and fine reputation than George Bush. Incredible! It’s like a twilight zone!
B.M.N.4.O! I remember you from the Taylor Marsh days! Glad to see we’re both still on the SANE side
You go BlackMan!!! Charlatan is right. Obama’s leading all his Koolaid-addicted brainwashed Obots off the cliff with him.
This sounds like exactly what I’ve see and been feeling all along. I believe it.
This and he are the biggest con job in history and the country may be falling for it.
Go Johnnie Go
No contest. People should be scared shitless.
It’s certainly a believable strategy for the Obama campaign. Whether this is a legit insider memo, I have no idea.
How can this be an Obama strategy? Care to explain what you mean? Cheers.
Lizzie it’s what we’ve been seeing all along. It’s their strategy. Remember Joe Trippi spilling about Obama’s cyber war room?
Not all Hillary voters are going to McCain but I sure am, a lot on this blog sure are. And I travelled to Oregon for Hillary – I met African Americans for Hillary (not a lot, mind you, but a few, and they were convincing) who had travelled for her because they couldn’t vote Obama.
How can this be an Obama strategy? Common sense. Whether this memo was leaked from Obama’s camp or manufactured by a McCain supporter is another question all together.
Keep fighting!!! Keep fighting!!! For the kids and for our future!!
Country First!!
Does anybody think that Obama campaign might have people inside the polling agencies that are screwing the results. At this point I would not put anything past them.
He had people inside the Ohio state government to check into Joe the Plumber.
Of course he does. Count on a lot of people volunteering to skew results for him. That’s called organisation!
Experimenter Bias
This is something all Psych major learn about.
That’s why double blinds or sugar pills are used rather than the real meds being tested.
If there is a bias on the part of the person conducting the experiment that bias can influence the outcome (results) — EVEN if the experimenter isn’t consciously trying to bias the experiment.
People doing the polling need to be neutral in the way they ask questions.
Perhaps team Obama is dumping a lot of money into polling companies — and this could influence the results in Obama’s direction — because Obama is paying the bills.
I think a whole lot of pollsters have sold out — and who knows team O may have gotten to key people in different organizations to help tilt the numbers.
This is psy warfare — because so many people get discouraged when they see the numbers constantly in O’s favor.
O has run one of the most dishonest campaigns EVER — and he has been using psychological mind games. He has trained hundreds if not thousands in his style of “community organizing”.
But here’s what’s really funny…the people who are working tirelessly for Obama to create chaos and discourage us have HUGELY underestimated the intelligence of regular people. Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out what was going on, but I DID figure out that we were being played for fools by the media, etc. You are counting on us being force fed crap and loving it, but we are rejecting it and McCain will win.
Two things here if you please.
1. Bots who themselves are of – let’s say – substandard intelligence cannot by definition understand people are smarter than them. This is not only logical – it’s been researched. Stupid people really think everyone is like them.
2. David A has not underestimated anyone.
How those two things mesh is anyone’s guess.
I think that happens with all people. You just naturally assume that everyone else is of the same intelligence that you are. That’s why some of us get so frustrated with people who are just plain stupid like the obots are.
Axelrod is simply selling a campaign strategy. It is business. I know little about the man, but my guess he has no true loyalty to anything beyond his own bank account.
Does anybody think that Obama now running ads in Arizona reflect his need to capture another state or is it just his typical hubris showing?
No, he’s trying to make people think that he has it in the bag so easily that he can waste money in McCain’s home state, it’s just another fallacy, Obama is going DOWN. He is doing EXACTLY what he told Odinga to do, cause mass confusion
Couls also be nation ad buys. I see McCain ads here in IL.
I agree Saracuda. I think it’s major BS. and can hear Sen. McCain laughing at it right now.
Obama has been running ads for several weeks now. It is not a new thing.
Here’s what Johnnie Mac’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, thinks:
“Expanding the Field: Obama is running out of states if you follow out a traditional model. Today, he expanded his buy into North Dakota, Georgia and Arizona in an attempt to widen the playing field and find his 270 Electoral Votes. This is a very tall order and trying to expand into new states in the final hours shows he doesn’t have the votes to win.”
This line is from a memorandum the campaign just sent out.
He wants all of the votes and all of the money.
so doesn’t this pretty much ruin PUMA’s argument?
What it ruins is an Obambi Presidency they can’t afford to lose roughly 4.5 million established democratic voters at 25% or almost 8 million at 40% Nice try though
You’re assuming the letter’s legit. That’s highly unlikely.
Really? Because the likelihood of millions upon millions of people being bullied and tricked and coerced without a single person speaking out about what they know seems even less likely.
mcnope, you sure have a very poor understanding of history and political dynamics.
Right because there were never any moments in history or politics in which someone with inside knowledge spoke out against a corrupt political entity. Nor where there any who spoke of campaign strategy.
But if you have another understanding, please share.
You could start with Watergate.
stodgy adj. , -ier , -iest . Dull, unimaginative, and commonplace.
Do the frikken math asswipe! What it means, and perhaps you can go get mommy now to explain the big words, is that any statistics which show early voting for Obama based on the fact that registered Dem’s have voted, is terminally inaccurate without taking OUT the calculated 7-8% of all registered Dem’s who will vote for McCain.
Once that number gets tossed into the equation, McCain goes ahead in EVERY state. 7-8 % exceeds margins of error too.
PUMA’s are the difference…
Normally, Obot, and listening carefully – the party candidate gets 85-90% of the party faithful. PUMA and Hillary disenfranchised voters were 45% in June, still 45% mid October, with 23% saying they would vote for McCain, and the balance saying they would refrain from voting for a presidential candidate.
Personaly I think the 23% could easily be 35-40% come election day. I mean, heak, you’re in the booth right, you waited that long, why not vote for Palin (Hillary) and stick a fork in Obama (McCain).
Why risk an Obama presidency?
I am still of the belief that all the Obama cheating will backfire. He will lose states he thinks are in the bag! and that will offset the Ohio foolishness. Watch NJ or NY not go for him and the whole shabang is gonna be in disarray MSNBO and CNNOBAMA are gonna have fits!
Thank you for having the courage to speak up.
My brother in law is black and is voting for McCain/Palin also.
He is not on speaking terms with the rest of his family, because he is so outspoken and will not be brainwashed.
I also believe that Obama’s tactics will backfire and McCain/Palin will win.
My vote is that NJ will flip for McCain. I’m a New Yorker and at best the race will be tighter than anyone expected, but ultimately will go to 0bama.
You’ll have to pick me up off the floor if McCain wins.
Be assured, I will have done my part in that upset.
NO…lots of Dems left to vote McCain…he continues to appeal to them…and he needs them.
Obama kicked off the news media from his jet to make room for Essence and Jet magazines. This was on O’Reilly tonight. He said dumb move for Barky.
You know what’s pathetic about this? He has ignored the black press all campaign long. Has not spent any of his vast war chest advertising in AA media. Hello? These are small businesses trying to survive. And now he offers 2 media outlets, both owned by the same company, btw, crumbs off the table.
0bama is a prick!
That more AAs, like myself don’t realize this speaks to a kind of desperation and ignorance that I frankly find embarassing and mind-boggling.
I can’t wait to vote against this prick on Tuesday. Election Day can’t come soon enough for me.
I just pulled out my copy of Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” to quote a passage or two illustrating how similiar this insider tell-all matches with the tactics of Obama’s mentor. Problem: I couldn’t just pick one…or ten…or a hundred. Looking back over Saul Alinsky’s Community Organizer primer, I see Barack Obama’s entire public life. Incredible, chilling, and just a little cheap. Flim-flam-con-man Barry-O. What an incredible story.
I’m going back to Nevada this weekend to GOTV for McCain Palin. We knocked 30,000 door slast weekend. From what I saw, this is far from over. I had people who stated they were voting McCain, refuse bumper stickers…..”I can’t put that on my car where I work” they would say, and re-acknowledge their support for the McCain – Palin ticket!
God Bless America!
This will do much more than my 1 vote in California!
Thank you so much for your hard work!
Don’t rule out California. We might surprise you.
thank you!!
Excellent KZnextzone –
My college age daughter in NYC is going to go on the bus to Pennsylvania to work!!! YEAH! Wish so much I could be there.
This is the reason juries of our peers work. Ordinary people have common sense and can see through the crap being put out by Obama.
The thing that is really killing Obama now is the fact that Joe the plumbers of the world are figuring out that Obama is a communist. He’s doomed!!
Now GET OUT AND VOTE!!!!
RE: No, he’s trying to make people think that he has it in the bag so easily that he can waste money in McCain’s home state, it’s just another fallacy,
Obama is going DOWN. He is doing EXACTLY what he told Odinga to do, cause mass confusion
Just what Larry Sinclair said!
snark snark
Alright, i am keeping a pretty low profile because of anger management issues. Yesterday I punched my Monitor when some fat lard on the Strategy room said Elections over.
Luckily my 8 year old Mitsubishi flatscreens are amazingly resilient.
Alright, let me point out something as many of you know that I tend to be pretty derisive of some of these heavily skewed polls.
Here is how things work.
Acorn and the Obama campaign claims to have registered millions of democrats (remember they claimed 1.3 but turns out only 400K are legit at this point).
Now pollsters take these new registrations into account to determine how many Republicans vs democrats to poll in their samples.
Also have you all forgotten how many republicans were registering as democrats in the primaries to vote for and against Hillary?
Many of them will not change their registration back until after the election because they do not want to compromise their votes.
These registrations affect how pollsters weigh their results.
On top of that you have many people who simply will not give their opinion in this politically charged environment. Think about it, you hear these stories about the Obamagestapo in Missouri, you see people’s property get vandalized, you see the Obama Nutjobs who are bullying and threatening, you see good normal americans from BIll Clinton to Joe the Plumber get smeared as Racists and attacked by surrogates of the Obamascumsucker Campaign and then you get a phone call out of the blue from someone who obviously knows your number and possibly knows more than that about you asking about your voting habits…how are you going to answer?
The polls are meaningless right now. Go out and vote and take as many freinds with you as you can.
In the end thats all that will determine who wins, not the shitty polls, not the in the tank soaker of cork media asshats, not scumbag spin doctors and campaign talking pinheads, not the radical retired terrorists, not the nutjobs screaming OBAMA 08 on the John Gibson show, only your vote matters.
If you have been with us since the beginning of the primaries and seen how blatently biased in the tank and dishonest the MSM has been to the american public in service to pushing their little Darling Messiah, why would you believe anything from them at this point?
I urge you to vote and not only for McCain, vote Down Ticket Republican too. Send a shockwave to the DNC that says, get your collective heads out of your jackasses…let them know, after Hillary, Never Again!
Maybe that will shock them to grow some scruples again.
If there is any Karma in the universe McCain will win and the talking head lying whitewashers in the MSM will have to control their heads from exploding and thats worth tuning into MSNBC to watch.
Good and thoughtful comment Jeremiah GDA W.
Thank you.
So Worth Reposting from Upthread!!!
ZOGBY: MCCAIN MOVES INTO LEAD 48-47 IN ONE DAY POLLING
VOTE LIKE YOUR COUNTRY DEPENDS ON IT PEOPLE!!!!
NOTHING IS INEVITABLE!!!
NOTHING!!!
YOU ARE THE MASTERS OF THIS COUNTRY’S DESTINY!!!
NEVER FORGET IT!
ZOGBY SATURDAY: McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, one day, polling. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all… from Drudgereport
Also for your viewing pleasure:
ARNOLD GIVES OHIO STRAIGHT TALK!!
TERMINATING THE OBUMMER
If you missed it this morning enjoy the youtube replay…also the stupid msm claimed it was only a few thousand supporters there….look at the crowd and tell me if thats a few…
Did anyone else hear the news report of Obama going “postal” – screaming and yelling – at some folks who just looked at him taking his two daughters trick and treating tonight?
The man has lost it! He’s totally LOST HIS MIND!
Link! Link, please!
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE49U82620081031
Here it is.
Ha! He started running away from one of the photographers. This guy is so darn weird.
What’s he going to do in the event he steals the White House? Photographers are going to be documenting his every breath…
the real Barry emerges.
I know. All of it was done for photo ops anyway. The pumpkin, walking his daughter after rushing from a rally. Then he’s angry because photographers are there. Doesn’t make any sense.
Did you catch the inevitability point in the article though? Yes, he’s a weirdo freak, yelling at photographers- just let him eat his damn waffles. But he could only walk his daughter down the block on Halloween because he’s got this in the bag. L.O.L.
Was Obama wearing a skeleton costume? That skinny ass body of his with those skinny ass arms that have never lifted anything heavier than a book is a natural for a skeleton costume. I’m just sayin’.
I think Obama knows he is gonna lose, that’s why he is losing it. You are all witnessing the unraveling of a whack job
Lucky for us he’s afraid of guns.
Give him a break! He’s just trying to enjoy the last Halloween he’ll get to spend with his kids. After Nov 4th, when he loses, he’ll spend a few months trying to fight to stay out of prison, finally accept a plea and go away for a couple years.
Poetic justice afterall.
LMAO!
He didn’t really “go postal,” but he is clueless. Does he realize he is running for president, and it’s 4 days before the election? AS IF there wouldn’t be news crews. He is immature.
I didn’t like the format so I converted it to PDF and have it shared off of Google Docs:
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.d051ca2b-b9b2-40f5-accf-d209c8095a8f&hl=en
dead link
it’s up on Drudge
My apologies: I didn’t realize Google Docs was so damn archaic not to support publishing a PDF link
http://www.reanimality.com/hidden/NoquarterExclusive.pdf
Never forget!
Most of the Blogosphere OBOTS were BUSHBOTS in 2000 and 2004!
I think it was on the Laura Ingalls Show on Fox Radio.
Lol, i thought Laura Ingalls was still back at her Little House on the Prairie?
So what you are saying is Obama has no chance in hell to win this? Like we didn’t know already.
PUMA 2008!
Truman v. Dewey all the way.
Interesting, but it doesn’t affect me. I voted last week via absentee ballot. Republican down the ticket. Remember, it isn’t just Obama that has brought us to this precipice. It’s the Franks, Pelosi’s, and Reids who helped bring this fraud to the nomination, captained by Dean. Leave the Dems in control of the congress and it will be calamitous.
Sadly, we have to add some notable Kennedy’s as accessories. Vote them all out. The Democratic Party is now the neo-Nazi party. How can you deny this when the party leadership itself allowed the election crimes and irregularities, carried out so blatantly. How is this different than the ’20’s and ’30’s in Europe? Face it folks, it isn’t. These people are dangerous.
By the way, has anyone seen Perry lately?
That’s like reminding someone they have hemorrhoids…
Now that’s funny, LOL. I doubt he’s drank the koolaid, maybe he’s hanging out at Nader blogs.
“hanging” out… hee hee
I am so glad you pointed this out. It’s the Democratic Party. Period! Pelosi, Dean, Reid, Frank, Richardson… the whole rotten bunch.
Obama will make McGovern look like the Miss Universe Pageant winner!
THE MEDIA DOESN”T DECIDE THIS ELECTION
WE DO !!!
WE SHOW THEM WHAT DEMOCRACY IS ALL ABOUT….
so what’s the deal? new puzzle? could we get a straight answer? i don’t know how much longer i’ve got to live here. thanks!
Regular people are not going to vote for obama the sleazy liar. The people who will vote for him are sleazy themselves and have no idea of what they are doing to the country! I know McCain has two votes. These are the two that will take him over the top!
Flash of anger from Obama on Halloween night
“That’s enough. You’ve got a shot. Leave us alone,” Obama
He grew especially testy when a Polish television cameraman tried to approach them.
“Come on guys, get back on the bus,”
Obama “then broke into a sprint, leaving the journalists behind.
Secret Service agents and vans followed closely behind, and stunned trick-or-treaters broke into shouts of “Obama, Obama” as he rushed past.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE49U82620081031
IS THAT A SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SKIT OR WHAT? BIZARRO WORLD INDEED.
Mr. Waffles is BACK!!!
See above please.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE49U82620081031
OK much as I love to Obama bash, adjusting to instant fame is really hard, especially with young kids. Imagine, he’ll never be able to take his kids trick-or-treating again without Secret Service.
Sorry to be a Debbie Downer.
(On the other hand, that whole “inevitability” line in the Reuters story is suspect. Maybe the O campaign issued a press release where and when they’d be trick-or-treating to show he’s inevitable.)
Trick or Treat in the Joint won’t be much fun for Barry…On the other hand, I hear that the drugs and gay sex are to die for, so he’s got that goin’ for him…
He’s had nearly 2 years to adjust to the fame.
just setting the record straight: they weren’t trick-or-treating. the article says they were going to a private party.
Obama went trick-or-treating in his neighborhood, sounds like fun, did he get some candy from Ayers, Rezco, and Farrakhan, I do love candy but damn, I would NEVER get candy from THAT neighborhood
Good night folks and Happy Halloween! See all you gals and guys tomorrow.
NQ is what keeps me sane!
Yeah Ayers and all had tricks, er treats. They were they ones such as apples with razors in them and LSD candy dots.
lol
drudge:
ZOGBY: MCCAIN MOVES INTO LEAD 48-47 IN ONE DAY POLLING
I just hope that the sanior pars in this country (and hopefully on this blog) is praying for the defeat of Obama.
I saw this SAME POST on the Greta Wire Blog last night. Someone posted it and said she had cut and pasted it from another topic area from Greta Wire.
I almost cut and pasted it myself. I also had no idea if it was real or fake, but it sounded realistic considering all that we’ve witnessed this entire election season.
Great post, and here, slightly OT: Garry Trudeau (and his Doonesbury) anointing Obama and now even leaking his pre-Obama victory Doonesbury frames: yet another predictable 60’s-era liberal who still hasn’t recovered from the ease of the earlier Bush-bashing era, still doing the same-old, same-old…some of us have had to move forward.
I don’t remember the everything-correct-on-our-side-Trudeau excoriatiing the folks who burnt Hillary and now Sarah Palin at the stake. Where were ya, Gary?
PUMA
Gary was having lunch with Meshell at the Waldorf, fav hangout for Limo Libs.
ZOGBY: MCCAIN MOVES INTO LEAD 48-47 IN ONE DAY POLLING
Breaking – McCain is going to do this people!!!!!!!!!
I’m crying right now. I’m so happy that we might overcome this Obama scourge. God may be answering our prayers.
How dare Obama tell folks making over $120k that they’re selfish and unpatriotic.
The democrats are playing class warfare..
Next thing you know it will be $50k is the rich mark and if you aren’t taxed at 50% you are the devil incarnate. A lady for Obama today on Cavuto said that $47k was rich and should be subject the the highest taxes. CRAZY!!!
I’ve heard that rich is relative but that is breathtaking.
Heck, it’s so low that all the o’voters who think they’ll be living rent-free off our labors will be paying the same confiscatory taxes we are.
thanks! one point is all that is needed.
ask yourselves what would the reverse psychology of such a “tell all” be?
in other words, if the o-camp is still trying to mind-screw all of us, they might just release a faux “tell all” that meets or exceeds our suspicions.
why?
to take the edge off our anger? to make us less likely to vote? to drive us further insane w/conspiracy stories?
dunno. just seems too, too, too something: too predictable? too patronizing?
ZOGBY: MCCAIN MOVES INTO LEAD 48-47 IN ONE DAY POLLING
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please, let that one day polling be November 4.
Word.
Gary’s old. He needs to get out of his coffin more often.
…an effete, flaccid old fart, who is insulated from all of the agenda he supports…a typical Limo Libber.
Not sure about this information but it doesn’t hurt to post it as it backs what the more positive of us have been saying for weeks. I was wondering if/when someone from Der Precious’ camp would either defect or leak something. Seeing how criminal the farking bastard is I am not surprised someone might.
It does not include Massachusetts as being in play. I know for a fact Der Precious was looking for volunteers yesterday for Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Is Massachusetts in play? The bluest of the blue Massachusetts? PUMAs are going to kick Barky’s scrawny ass!
You saw this right
So Long, Democrats. A speechwriter for Obama, Edwards, and Clinton on why she’s voting McCain.
Thanks, it was one of those things I meant to read but did not.
McCain is going to win.
I believe that this post has truth in it. Obama has failed to run out the clock and he has no tricks left in his bag.
State employee says she was ordered to check out Joe the Plumber
Vanessa Niekamp said that when was asked to run a child-support check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher on Oct. 16, she thought it routine. A supervisor told her the man had contacted the state agency about his case.
…
The reason Niekamp said she was given for checking if there was a child-support case on Wurzelbacher does not match the reason given by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Director Helen Jones-Kelley said her agency checks people who are “thrust into the public spotlight,” amid suggestions they may have come into money, to see if they owe support or are receiving undeserved public assistance.
Niekamp told The Dispatch she is unfamiliar with the practice of checking on the newly famous. “I’ve never done that before, I don’t know of anybody in my office who does that and I don’t remember anyone ever doing that,” she said today.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/31/joe.html
Buck passer. LMAO.
Thanks for posting this NQ–fascinating stuff indeed. And it pretty much confirms what we’ve suspected Obama and his Bots have been up to. The truth is finally getting out about this thug, and it’s not too late!!
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Good night. Sleep tight.
Go McCain!
“Flash of Anger From Obama on Halloween Night
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE49U82620081031
And this part – real objective journalism, donchathink?
Yeah, I loved that one.
The anger could be from the real reason. He’s gonna lose the GE.
there are a lot of us who “get it” and we are telling our friends and family who also “get it” Obama is the one who doesn’t “get it” and he’ll pay the price for that in just a few days!
Thank you John and Sara for doing such an amazing job for America!
Barack has very soft support and they’ll not be showing up on November 4th to elect him!
Sarah on Greta right now.
Just said she admired Hillary.
Can the bots say……Vice President Palin ??
Thank God for the new Zogby poll numbers. They are a breath of fresh air. But we must not relent, we must continue unabated because it is but a single poll and we intend to have McCain ahead in the poll that actually counts, the one on November 4. YES. NOBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only for Those Who are Concerned About the Future of America
Again, this is not for the faint of heart supporters of Obama. No need for you to watch because you will only be upset and no one wants to hear your rants – but, in case you have children and grandchildren and have dreams for their future, then you need to make sure you see this and vote accordingly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeBK80YuOUA
The information in that post is nothing that we haven’t known and/or assumed all along. We saw this pattern in the primaries. Whoever this person is must not have been paying attention.
Well I for one think it rings true
I think the post is what we’ve all known for the last month. Ever since the mention of the LA video came out BO looks like a scared little toddler. No wonder he threw the reporters off the plane–his paranoia is intensifying, he’s told so many lies and has so many nasty friends he can’t know who might come out of the woodwork. And the insider is right about Palin, she scared the crap out of them, they still haven’t recovered–that’s why the attacks have been nonstop and vicious because of her value to the ticket. Nov 4th will show that the polls were all hyped and meant nothing–our voices will be heard. Go McCain/Palin 08.
Well, at least the Zogby thing lifted my morale. Being in California is like being trapped in a reeducation camp behind a bluestate bamboo curtain.
People’s Republic of California, throw off the liberal yoke!
Anybody in Tampa want to go to McCain rally Monday night??????..here is info..night before election.
I4 corridor..important rally!!
Florida Road to Victory Rally
Monday, November 3, 2008
Doors Open at 6:00 AM
Outside of Raymond James Stadium
4201 N. Dale Mabry Highway
Tampa, FL 33607
http://www.johnmccain.com/ste/eventrsvp.aspx?guid=be7497aa-ef47-497b-ba0b-82f89fca241d
John McCain will be in Tampa just hours before he is elected the next President of the United States! Tickets for the event are available for printing online (see link above) and for pickup at the Victory Offices listed below beginning at 11:00 AM on Saturday.
opps…fixing above link…***morning*** before election, not night..
Go Mac!
Ah Hell lets bookend the thread!!!
So Worth Reposting from Upthread!!!
ZOGBY: MCCAIN MOVES INTO LEAD 48-47 IN ONE DAY POLLING
VOTE LIKE YOUR COUNTRY DEPENDS ON IT PEOPLE!!!!
NOTHING IS INEVITABLE!!!
NOTHING!!!
YOU ARE THE MASTERS OF THIS COUNTRY’S DESTINY!!!
NEVER FORGET IT!
ZOGBY SATURDAY: McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, one day, polling. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all… from Drudgereport
Also for your viewing pleasure:
ARNOLD GIVES OHIO STRAIGHT TALK!!
TERMINATING THE OBUMMER
If you missed it this morning enjoy the youtube replay…also the stupid msm claimed it was only a few thousand supporters there….look at the crowd and tell me if thats a few…
hehehe
Comment by Linda | 2008-10-31 19:57:54
…those were some of the last days I watched Real Time …and then I cancelled HBO lol
But then I’d have to pay to watch “True Blood” on demand!
I hate losing all the good shows, no more Daily Show or Colbert Report since Jan-Feb., Real Time was always hit or miss (mostly miss), Sat. Night Live (Again mostly misses anyway), seems like there is very little TV worth watching. I’m sure they will pop up like spring daisies after an April shower within a very short time!
That’s always been true.
I recommend this exception:
MadMen on AMC
It takes you back fifty years to America at its height, when men and women drank and smoked like fish, when feminism was still kicking at its placenta.
Comment by Linda | 2008-10-31 19:57:54
…those were some of the last days I watched Real Time …and then I cancelled HBO lol
But then I’d have to pay to watch “True Blood” on demand!
I hate losing all the good shows, no more Daily Show or Colbert Report since Jan-Feb., Real Time was always hit or miss (mostly miss), Sat. Night Live (Again mostly misses anyway), seems like there is very little TV worth watching. I’m sure they will pop up like spring daisies after an April shower within a very short time!
There was a similar post from a supposed Obama campaign worker floating around.
She also claimed she was a Hillary supporter now working for the Obama campaign. Only her spelling was really bad.
Hmmmm. Could Hillary be trying to tell us something in these posts?
Sorry to bring this up but Joe the plumber is not even a plumber. If joe the plumber brings us back to the issue the only issue I can come up with is taken as a group republiCONs are hypocrites and liars.
Consider McSame has been in Washington for over 20 years he and his party are running as agents of change even though they have controled the Congress or the presidency or both for 26 of the last 28 years WTF
For all your republiCONs who say Senator Obama is going to raise your taxes consider the following.
Anything that comes out of Congress can be vetoed by the president
Over rides of presidential vetoes are extreamly rare.
By the time liar bush leaves office the defict will top 10 trillion
Of that 10 trillion some 70% was incurred under the watch of 3 republiCON presidents; reagan bush 1 and liar bush so the fact of the matter is republiCON hypocrites have out spent any tax and spend liberal you would care to name.
Insulting the plumbers of America is an interesting way of courting working class vote. But knock yourself out, bot.
As a Barack Supporter you should know better than to question anyone elses authenticity as it just shines the glaring light of “oh look at the deciet” back on your Fauxmessiah.
Begone troll.
HeyYouse,
Gafukyaself ya corrupt asswipe douche. Chicago pansies are a dime a dozen. Rezko suckas like you are so fulla shit, their mama’s can’t recognize them by smell anymore.
He’s not a registered Journeyman Plumber and unless you run your own business in plumbing you will never be a registered journeyman plumber, while working as a staff plumber for another organization.
If he we’re an independent contract plumber then yes he’d be registered under an LLC or Sole-proprietorship business license for the state of Ohio. The same goes for Washington State, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and varies slightly from the rest of the US.
So wait, Obama was up 7 and now McCain is up 1..THAT IS AWESOME!!!! Now I can sleep good tonight, you all just made my day
GO MCCAIN/PALIN, ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE BABY!!
Chicago, you just don’t get it do ya? Joe the plumber is every hard working American who wants to keep what he earns now, and when his dreams come true. That leaves you out. Y’d better vote for the fraud. He’ll pay you with Joes’s money for doin’ nuttin’, sittin’ on your fat ass watchin’ Oprah, the racist.
that’s what this lady thinks…barry will pay for her mortgage and gas money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ikOxi9yYk
If the former Mrs. Clinton supporters cross over and vote heavily(60+%) for Mr. McCain next Tuesday, and the Independents fall heavily in the McCain column too, Mr. McCain wins easily; unless “The Fix” is already in which means not even former President Ronald Reagan could beat the media darling…
God Bless America
http://clearblogs.com/larry/
Check out GretaWire:
http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/10/31/on-the-record-live-vote-11/#comment-2847796
Do you think that Gov. Sarah Palin will attract a substantial number of Sen. Hillary Clinton supporters?
I notice more Obama paid brownshirts posting tonight.
Something must be awry in the land of Hopey Changey.
Coming here to change people’s minds about Obama is really a waste of their paid-by-the-pots time.
Its baack. She’s baaack. That’s a good thing because I thought I was lost in the MATRIX or something.
Well she sounds like our intrepid Sarah P. She’s putting her heart out there – HOWEVER. She outed herself by saying she is one of a ‘handful of Hillary supporters’, she’s a 20 something grad student who ‘works in the research’ department. Duh!
One thing still bothers me though. She still has a hankering for the Democratic party that’s doing all this dirty work. Troublesome. Because its Obama-esque in a way. Just a little too slick.
Its that you Barack Soetoro Davis Obama? You’re going down, Tuesday, bro. My former ‘my dad was a goat herder’ fiendish friend. Down, I say. All the way to Hell.
Here is my take. There is something in this letter the Obama campaign is trying to get out. Here is my guess. It says they have a good stratigy for dealing with Wright, should he be brought up. Is that a bluff? Elsewhere, the letter contends that having Obama’s associations brought up now is the last thing needed.
My take — it’s a campaign from the Hillary camp saying:
VOTE McCAIN SEE YOU IN 2012.
Look at the messages — telling us Hillary had to support Obama for political survival.
It’s HRC sending us messages.
You betcha!
This is such good news…I have tears of joy and hope swelling in my eyes.
Thank you all for all your positive hard work…including many of you posters. If it wasn’t for you I think I’d be in Canada by now…thank you.
I sure hope you Hillary-crats and us conservatives will continue this constructive discourse if McCain wins. Its been a pleasure to hear from honest American loving Dems. I’m glad that we’ve been able to show that we can work together…even with opposing opinions. Obviously its possible…as long as each side’s ultimate goal is to see America prosper ….not fall (as the Obamistas).
God Bless you and America! Thank You.
I’m a lifelong Democrat and I feel the same way, Sally.
On certain social issues, I’m Liberal.
I despise the idea of abortion — I think it’s a tragedy. But what I despise more is the idea of the government telling a woman what she can do with her body. So there I may part ways with my conservative neighbors.
But when it comes to foreign policy in a post 9-11 world, only an abject fool (Obama) would think we can reason and play nice with our enemies.
And only an abject voting fool would cast their vote for Obama after Wright, Rezko, Ayers, Kalidi and a cast of other terrorist sympatizers.
My Granny used to say:
“Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.”
I’ve learned about Obama’s friends — I know who he is.
No thanks. NoBama.
Wow. Simply amazing.Yeah something is wrong in Obamaland and there thugs are out full force. Unbelievable. You would think by what happened that I had some kind of pull or clout. I rented space to hold a “town hall” kind of thing, nothing big, for some of the military spouses. Almost like a round table to coordinate rides for those who needed help to get to the polls, I was even giving a speech even though it was only 60 people coming. These were true fence sitting undecided people who I have been doing my best to pull towards Mccain. But based on facts and not the msm spin machine. I even came up with the idea to put together the policies sort of like a pamphlet (courtesy of kinko’s)…with the issues of Gov Palin and Sen McCain. Anyway, the location is no longer available. At the last minute,no longer available, all because I was stupid enough to answer a question on my blog about the location from someone who thought it was a great idea and they lived in NC and wanted to attend. Now that I read there words it was totally “bot behavior” and I should of realized it when they said how they “passionately” supported Clinton and the whole “no way, no how” will I vote Obama remarks. Two hours later SOL. They didnt even have the decency to talk to me but just left a message. And I cant even get my god@amn deposit back.
I cannot waite until the 4th to send this man, his supporters and surrogates BACK to Chicago.
Sorry to hear this Soldier.
Maybe you can get together in someone’s home?
I’ve got hatred in my heart for these fascists…hatred! My they burn in hell…all of them.
I’m so very sorry to hear this. Thank you for your service in the millitary and politically. Bless you.
Hey Sally!! I was a 20-yr Democrat…not anymore. So happy to a Republican!!! If you would have told me 4 years ago I’d be making that statement I would have said you gotta screw lose.
The only thing left in the Democratic Party I have any use for is the Clintons (still love them, and they love this country). Unlike the Oblasphemers who hate America.
USA Baby!! Yes McCain/NObama
They’re swarming Alegre’s blog tonight, for the first time in months. They are freaking.
That is so absurd they cancelled your reservation. Like it or not you have pull, soldier4hillary
That’s right Soldier!!
They wouldn’t have bothered with the charade if they weren’t scared of you. You go Girl!!
Your time will come Patsy. You know it. Remember what Hillary said at the convention. “When your hear the dogs barking, keep going! When you see the lights flickering, keep going!
If they cancelled on you your entitled to yur deposit back…. Your still available.
How about a golf club somewhere maybe they have a pvt room for a small cost :
Try a church basement. You can offer a small donation. call churches that rent out rooms for things.
Whether this is true or not , it’s true. If you get my meaning.
Comment by Faustina |
Comment by Faustina | 2008-10-31 20:08:13
I don’t believe that Colorado was ever a rap for Obama. There are definitely Obama hotspots in the State, but Colorado Springs and the rural areas could easily support McCain at 70%. Pueblo is Democratic, but heavily Hispanic and with strong Catholic roots. McCain’s military service and Obama’s abortion stance could sway the vote, which could be decisive. I am not a political pro, but am a native who has lived or worked in every corner of the State and that is what I see.
***
I gree with Faustina. I think the hot spots for Obama are Denver, Boulder and Pueblo. I can’t imagine him winning in CSprings or the more rural areas. I am still in contact with friends in other parts of the state and they agree.
I know 4 Democrats in Denver voting McCain. Not scientific, but I was pleasantly surprised these friends out west had seen through Obama. They’re usually Dem down the ticket. Not this time.
The “contact” is Patti Solis Doyle.
Hey John, or whatever your real name is. Thx for sharing, but you seem to think that everyone missed the tactics from the other side to dismantel the gop.
While watching CNN on the day after Palin’s announcement, there was immediate bias. So I changed the channel to msnbc,(they are the next network on the remote button) and they had some “bad news” about the govenor. Then in my dispair, I found a non biased network that was reporting things that made me believe in my gut that they were being truthful concerning Gov. Palin’s qualifications for making an excellent Vice Pres. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the strategy here. Dem’s were caught off guard and frankly, simply jealous that there was another dynamic female perfectly capable of assisting in running the country.It just happened to come from the other side. Although, you may not agree with me on this, I am SURE she is well qualified to fill the bill. (after all, not everyone is qualified to govern a state) so we need to take that into consideration. I know that every team has a strategy to “win” but this isn’t a football game or the sorts.
Some people just “know” when something is “right” and when something is just “wrong”. Tell B.O. to keep lavishing the media, I know for myself, without anyone letting me in on little secrets what the big picture is. And I’m not afraid of race issues. I’m white, and I’m not voting for B.O.’s white half. he is not presidential material. Too secretive. Too complicated. I’d like the racers to know also that Martin Luther King was a Republican and his family supports John McCain. Seriously, check it out. I’d like to tell anyone who wants to throw in race issues that I rely on a standard quoted by the father of civil rights himself”judge not a man by the color of his skin”. Enough said.
“My biggest problem with this campaign’s strategy was the decision NOT to offer Hillary the VP slot. She was ready and able to take this on, and would have campaigned enthusiastically for it.
This selection would have also brought virtually all of her supporters into the fold….”
AH, WRONG….DEAD WRONG
Obambi the prick at the top of the ticket, I’d spit in his face if given the chance, even if Hillary were so insulted to be set in the #2 spot…. below the arrogant asshole with no qualifications and no valid resume
Many, many of Hill’s supporters would NOT have come on board with her as the VP pick-
…fyi
Four huge Hillary fans in my house and NONE of us would consider EVER voting for the Sultan of Slime Obama.
Some of us have early voted for McCain and the rest of Still registered as DEMs will vote McCain on Tuesday.
I am going to proudly wear my PUMA wristband.
Hey, Obama! I have a bracelet, too!!!
McCain/Palin 08
PUMA
OK, I’m an almost obsessive longtime lurker on this site, but I’m really tempted to give my 2 cents this time around. I’m also a grad student in forensic psychology and my intuition tells me that there is truth in this letter but the person writing it is disguising their identity. Maybe I am uninformed about how campaigns work, but it seems to me that a grad student and former Clinton campaign worker wouldn’t be privy to this much inside information on all aspects of the campaign. As someone pointed out upthread, for a former Clinton campaign worker they didn’t make the observation that they saw a similar strategy at work in the primaries. I have thought since the Joe the Plumber incident that someone in the campaign made that decision to have BO spend time unscripted and among “average people” when they so clearly should have known that that was a recipe for disaster. If he loses on Tuesday Joe the Plumber will certainly be a major reason why. Since BO can’t take responsibility for having said something controversial he surely pointed fingers at those who put him in that position and they were let go. Even if he came up with the idea himself, he’d need to blame someone else. I’m sure there were bad feelings about this and now we’re seeing these purported insider reports shortly thereafter. Coincidence? Something tells me not. I’m reminded about Patti Solis Doyle being blamed for problems in Hillary’s campaign that fatally compromised it and becoming a turncoat shortly thereafter.
I hope people are still reading this thread–I always appreciate feedback on my crazy theories!
Good theory! Thanks for sharing it!
Don’t pay attention to any of this crap supposedly from people in the Obama campaign. There was a similar message posted on Hillbuzz a day or so ago as well. BO is trying to take our eyes off the ball. We have only one mission now…. get the vote out and vote for McCain/Palin, convince as many friends, family, anyone who’s undecided to vote for McCain/Palin!
Well, I don’t disagree with you but this letter has the effect of validating how we’ve been thinking and feeling for months. And it’s kind of funny to get a peek behind the curtain. It is unlikely to make anyone less likely to vote, since it’s made clear that that is the Obama campaign strategy.
Okay, I’ve been trying to post a link to an mp3 file from a Pittsburgh Radio station that reported GOP internal polls showing a possible McCain landslide but for some reason it’s not posting (bummer).
if you all want to hear the audio, it’s on Atlas Shrugs.
We Will Not Be Conned by a Chicago Hustler/conman.
We already know he’s been conning the American public. We have documentation of his hypnotism tactics as well.
The Repubs probably want to keep people guessing in order to get out the largest number of voters possible. And, as for the polls, I read somewhere that the pollsters often publish the truth a day or so before the election to salvage their credibility. Some, like pro-Bobo Zogby, might well try to make The One look inevitable till the very survival of his poll is at issue. Then, if McCain wins big, he can always claim there was a huge last-minute shift. One thing I can say: McCain is, IMO, a man who cannot easily disguise his feelings. And he seems ON TOP OF THE WORLD right now! Bobo, on the other hand, is tossing reporters from his plane and whining to crowds that the Repubs are calling him every name in the book. He probably IS busing in hordes to pad his rallies. When does he ever do anything the honest way?
Still Democratic
Still PUMA
Voting for McCain/Palin
note also that excuses for the polls being wrong are almost a cottage industry: racism, the “Bradley effect” (racism)…
note also the creeping of politics into every corner of life – of partisanship, I mean – into education, the arts, even science makes me suspicious of polls. If there are activist journalists, actors, artists, why not activist pollsters?
By the way: Aunt Zeituni, Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers… the list is too long: what do you call someone who uses a thing once, like a piece of toilet paper, and throws it away?
Alas TRUTH. I have reread this post three times – when my intuition meets reality it is such a sweet moment. Can’t wait to get to the McCain/Palin office in Philly today!!!
RE: Comment by Susan1968 | 2008-10-31 21:53:54
I notice more Obama paid brownshirts posting tonight.
Something must be awry in the land of Hopey Changey.
Coming here to change people’s minds about Obama is really a waste of their paid-by-the-pots time.
YEAH! YEAH!
You’ve got it Susan.
NOTICE HOW THE TROLL-BOTS ALL STICK TO THE SAME PATTERNS – IDENTICAL PATTERNS! BECAUSE THEIR EMPLOYER HAD GIVEN THEM SCRIPTS AND INSTRUCTIONS.
FAKE AMERICANS!
I do not know if this is live or Memorex. I have my doubts about someone in the 0bama campaign identifying themselves so specifically.
As far as me being shocked/surprised at the things she mentioned, sorry but I had all of this stuff figured out ages ago. What I need is someone to verify it publicly and someone not afraid to identify themselves.
What I am certain is this, that the 0bama campaign has been true-to-form about one thing: no leaks so far.
But it’s well-written in the sense that it reads real. With the exception of the person identifying themselves too explicitly.
Frankly, none of this is new information to me. 0bama should have chosen Hillary if he was serious about beating the pants off of McCain. Not that I wanted him to, but ultimately as time went along, I realized that I would have at the last minute softened my resolve if Hillary had been the VP.
Not now. It’s McCain/Palin all the way for me.
If it is anything it is well written and to the point.
The author points to sy-ops and “disinformations networks”.
The post confirms that in a national campaign, speaking “truth to power” is unheard of. Ironicly funny that…
If this the direction of this Country’s electoral process, the “body politic” is being made ill.
Short term gain over long term solutions is all I witness.
Food for thought.
This is a very important post. It should be bumped up to the front page again.
If we look deep into our souls, we PUMAs will realize that we were aware of this already through our looking glasses. This is just confirmation of that which we expected from Obama.
Well, it does explain the strange campaigning strategy in the final stages. One would expect Obama to solidify states he owns that add up to 270+, not to go for a landslide. For what purpose? Certainly the media have dirtied their reputations by being painfully incurious about the candidate but I always felt that was Boomer-generation vanity was at work.
My argument is that 5 out of the top 10 share ratings for new shows Fox out-rating CNN and MSNBC combined. That might indicate a freak in the polls. Also Matt Drudge, a one-man operation out-hit the NYT online! That also might indicate a loss of trust in the MSM.
But the really interesting bit was an 80% “It’s none of your business who I’m voting for.” Wow! If that’s true. Anyway, if you love democracy, you value the secret ballot. I NEVER tell pollsters who I’m voting for. It’s the right thing to do. It forces candidates to stick to issues and tell who they REALLY are!
Let’s vote for beloved Aunt Zeituni, who Obama threw under the bus yesterday. Aunt Zeituni? Don’t know her? the New Party? Who’s that? Ayers? Khalidi? Al-Mansour? Wright? Who are they? The voter? A distraction! The Constitution? Fundamentally flawed? Massive redistribution of wealth? Huh? Who?