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STEP RIGHT UP FOLKS, HERE’S THE ANSWER TO MY SINKING POLLS!

By Divine Democrat on September 14, 2008 at 8:23 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Buffoon

Tired of hearing the truth? No problem! All you need is a swig of this special Oil of O’bama and you’ll rid your brain of all those unwanted facts! Don’t be fooled by my supporters telling you we have this in the bag…they’re just sayin’ what they’ve been told to say. A couple of swigs from this Oil of O’bama helps the lies just slide off their silver tongues. Now you can do that, too!

Why is this necessary, you say? Well, I’m only a few weeks away from election day and McCain is ahead of me in the polls, he just reached 50%, a three point lead over me!

Oh yes, we have problems…right here in the Democratic Party. And that’s “Problems” with a capital “P” and that stands for Palin!

Howard Dean didn’t see this one coming. And Axelrod? Well, he didn’t think this was possible. After all, didn’t we smear Hillary enough to scare away any woman who would want to try and break that glass ceiling?

This Oil of O’bama will fix that, though. Just look at the fine job Charlie Gibson did on Palin during her interview on ABC. Yessiree bob, he opened up one of these bottles of Oil of O’bama and shared it with his editors and Voila! Half the interview was left on the cutting room floor. Yup, they made Palin look like she didn’t have a clue as to what she was talking about just by cutting out half of her answers. That’s the beauty of this stuff, it makes it all look so easy!

Buy a bottle for your friends, don’t be afraid to pass it around your college campus because I’m starting to lose some of that youth vote.

I know you guys say you’ll never leave me, and you may think you’re immune to my powers, but you must beware. The next time I pull a stunt like I did with my FISA vote, you’ll want to fortify the brainwashing you received during the Primary. I don’t want to see a repeat of you guys complaining about losing your Constitutional Rights. Once I get elected, I just may re-institute the military draft and you’re going to need my Oil of O’bama to fortify you as you get your draft notices in the mail.

Drink up, people….we’re running out of time and I need to go on vacation.

  • RepublicanChick

    Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

    The story of Barack Obama and the DNC.

    • Denise

      Missing footage of the Obama and William Ayers connection. 50 seconds into this youtube video is Obama talking about working on the Anneberg Challenge specifically.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-45A6I-N5I

      • sowsear

        In the previous Sleaze article comment section there was a link “Obama on William Ayres”. Is that the same one with O’Reilly? When I tried several different ways to go to the site, a Google/Dell site zoomed over the Ayres link. Did anyone get a page shot? I love a free press and a free internet, don’t you?

      • http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/ timepasssages
      • Gail

        He never denied working on the anneberg challenge…don’t know why you are making it sound like a secret. william ayers is a very respected educator in the chicago area…whether you believe or like it or not! It is laughable that you are still referring to him as a terrorist. that is SOOOOOOOO over. trust me, no legs on this one.

        • ohio

          Trust me, it’s not soooooo over. He just wished he had done more. But I will be surprised if it’s not over for Obama.

          • red_sleeves

            Ayers killed his girlfriend with a bomb he built. He spent 10 years in hiding before surrendering. His case was thrown out due to prosecutorial misconduct.

            He is a piece of shit. He tried to do what Timothy McVeigh had succeeded at. If McVeigh had failed to kill anyone and had had his case thrown out would it be fine to spend time in his company?

            Ayers is the ultimate radical lefty. Go read about his ‘Sexual Politics’. In his autobiography he writes that he participated in infidelity, polyamory, and homosexuality as a matter of politics. That would be some hard kool-aid to choke down.

            • SportPolitics

              Ayers also held a young college woman in his room for another to rape. He blocked her exit, blocked the door, and she was forced to have sex with his roommate.
              She wrote about it recently it’s up on the internet, she hasn’t forgotton, she describes the forced rape in detail, it was several blocks from the bomb explosion that killed his other girlfriend.
              So what you have there – well nowadays I think he would be executed rather quickly. I guess the democrats in power just kinda left a bunch of people go.
              Ayers dad was CEO of the giant Commonwealth Edison, so I’d say there was quite a payoff to let him skate (in “hiding”).
              Somehow when the government doesn’t enforce criminal law I still see a criminal – I’m funny that way.

        • kbdabear

          The creep loves to brag about the domestic bombings, and told a NY Times reporter that he not only didn’t regret it, but would do it again.

          The main reason he’s a professor at U of Chicago, no doubt greased in by his former 60s radical comrades, is no doubt helped by endowments from his wealthy family.

          Ayers family wealth (his father was CEO of Commonwealth Edison) paid for his lawyers who got him and his nutjob terrorist wife off on technicalities.

          Two things will get you off capital felony charges. One way is to have a ton of money available and another is to rat out your co-conspirators.

          Or both.

        • athy

          Gail,
          its not over.

          Not until the money that Ayers received from the Annenburg foundation (I think it was around 160 million) is accounted for. And it has not been accounted for so far.

          The schools the money was supposed to help improve are worse off than before Ayer’s group received the money.

          Theft or very very poor management of project?
          Which is it?

          Trust me…it’s not over.

        • wry

          So if someone rapes your sick self and admits it and says he’s sorry he didn’t do it more, and 30 years pass…I should respect this guy?

          I guess that how it SOOOO is among the moral relativists in Obama’s world…and dopey immature types like you.

        • McHope

          Gail,
          He DENIED having any long term relationship with Ayers. “Just a guy in the neighborhood.”
          The Annenburg Challenge was not only a failure, but is also proof that Obama LIED.

        • Leisa

          Soo over, Ayers is a man born with connections and wealth. Those birth privileges helped get an admitted terrorist off on a technicality.

          What ever…

          • SportPolitics

            Yeah Leisa, I’m so over the terror bombers on 911, too, I mean they have saudi money connections, and good mountain friends helped them get off facing charges.
            I think I’ll run with their money backing me, I’ll call it the “downtrodden in sand challenge”.
            Oh, oops! Wait a minute – Obama already has that in his 200 million internet dollars.
            Oh well, who cares if terrorists back our next President, I’m soooo over it.

        • http://www.deathofthedemocraticparty.com xax

          The major problem with the annenberg thing is that he doesn’t seem to want people snooping around it. Although seeing that it looks like a BIG FAT FAILURE on his part, I can’t blame him.

          It’s like he wants you to give him credit for doing these projects even though he produced absolutely no results. Since when do you get credit for work you didn’t do. You can say it’s hard to succeed all the time at these ventures, but even people who do that kind of hard work come away with some victories. It seems like everything he does FAILS. If that’s the case, he definitely should not be president.

          I feel like he’s using this race a way to make up for his short comings. And I gotta give Palin credit, the Presidency is not a position for you to “find yourself.”

        • elise

          Gail I suspect you are too young to remember the Weather Underground. You should try some research on the subject. The real anti-war movement members in the 60s and 70s were appalled by the violence and Nixon tried to blur the line between the peaceful movement and the SDS, Black Power and Weather Underground. The massacre at Kent State followed, very probably, because the young, National Guard members believed the entire movement has turned violent. Weathermen didn’t end the war and that wasn’t their statement of intent. Violent overthrow of the government was. Black Power in no way resembled the Civil Rights Movement began by MLK and others. Passive resistance, sit ins, protest marches and voter registration advanced the equality of minorities, not violence. Ayers has never been and probably couldn’t be elected to any office because of his history, but that doesn’t mean his has changed his philosophy by becoming a teacher or because years have passed since he was last active in setting off bombs.

          ” In 1970 the group issued a “Declaration of a State of War” against the United States government, under the name “Weather Underground Organization” (WUO), and members adopted fake identities and pursued covert activities. They carried out a campaign consisting of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots. Their attacks were mostly bombings of government buildings, along with several banks, police department headquarters and precincts, state and federal courthouses, and state prison administrative offices.[5][6]“

        • Obama is a bum

          william ayers is a very respected educator in the chicago area

          And you just mentioned the problem — coming out of the corrupt sleazy politics of Chicago. Instead of the media, Democratic party, and the cultists swooning over Obama they should have been suspicious of this clown and investigated him at the get-go. Obama would have easily been eliminated long ago instead of this insanity where the media and others are soooo deep in the tank for this jerk they cannot get out.

          • SportPolitics

            I already read how Obama CAC office was in the same building as Bil Ayers office at the University. So they had lunch together for years – as Obama headed up some CAC operations with his position.
            Two bigshots at the University – one a terrorist the left “forgave” and threw as a tenured into their communist leaning institution, and there’s Obama right there with him, same building for years having lunch and all the impromtu meetings one could ever imagine – their social lives may have been very close – and Ayers was his “money boss”.
            So, there it is – Obama just lied like a rug, and his campaign tried to say he was only 8 years old.
            I guess they will NEVER explain how Obama’s CAC office was next to Ayers tenure office on the same building – or how many times they had lunch together every day of the week for YEARS.
            It’s just UNBELIEVABLE that this is the type of “news” we get that passes for news.
            I guess our propaganda pravda works is already so powerful and so set against the public knowing the truth it’s nearly a lost cause at this point.
            They “can’t let us know the truth” because we’d REJECT them associated with it.
            It’s just as spooky as some of 1984 and the twilight zone.
            I remember Olbermann’s twilight zone piece – how Bush and Cheney were the aliens on the hill watching Americans fight over the garage doors opening or something – it was over the top – but it was just a looney metaphor -
            Here we cannot even get the BASIC FACTS – it’s just flat denials – and it’s our COLLEGES and PUBLIC organizations, and BOMBINGS of the USA.
            Has onyone even heard HOW MANY bombings and over what years this weather underground operated ?
            Heck I was supposed to believe 3, pentagon capitol and police station – but I keep hearing additions here and there on very obscure sources – and nothing putting it all together.
            So we’re fed half cocked nothings with barely a surface scratching, then we’re told it’s nothing , then we’re told he was just a “neighborhood” home owner around Obama.
            LOL
            It’s one HUGE LIE of quite a few others IN OUR FACES, and we struggle for the truth, but the truth won’t come out and BE TOLD.
            Why are we faced with a candidate that has to cover up his very life over and over again ?
            THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA !!!!
            This is just frankly, insane.
            Thousands of hours of news coverage available and this is what we get ?
            I’m sorry, but our nation is like totally blown to smithereens already, it’s like the whole place is on DOPE!

    • CountryFirst

      I for one am beginning to get discouraged at the lack of objectivity from the free press. It seems no one except a few who are bloggin here (and the other anti-Obama blogs) really give a chit. More information comes out every day and no real way to disseminate it. Here’s more:
      Obama’s Plumbers: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=28508

      • Perry Logan

        I’ve been freaked out about the press ever since the 90s, when you could make up a lie about Bill Clinton on Sunday…and see it as headline news the next day.

        • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

          I stopped watching most news for MOST of the late 90′s because of that insanity. That and O.J.

      • Anne

        Steve Diamond stated on his blog that this one about Plumbers isn’t true, unfortunately.

    • mcpalin hill

      Republican Chick — We Dems lose even when we are unified — this should be a disaster. One of the reasons is that the electoral map favors Republicans. Since Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1965 the Dems have only won with Carter after Watergate 1976 and because Clinton had Perot running third party in 1992.

      Obama and Dean thought they could win with a 50 state strategy. Now Obama is taking resources out of places like Georgia and North Carolina because its obvious he can’t win these states.

      I will never get over the hubris of deciding he could get along without the Democratic Base because he could secure Republican and Independent votes instead.

      As you rightly said — The Dems Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

      • SportPolitics

        mcpalinhill – I think the democrats would win if they would put a “bluedog” up there. I believe that is the more center toward the right away from the left portion of the party. But when do we even see them on the msm ?
        In 2006 is was widely reported many of the congressional Democrat wins were centrist to right democrats, instead of the far left variety the news plays with all year long.
        Same reason the news brought McCain to prominence, he leaned leftward away from republicans center – many non republicans told me they would vote for him – he “betrayed” the center of the republicans over and over, and the news loved to show how “McCain” wasn’t a radical far right neocon (the “base” of the republicans the news always said).
        So you have this thing where your average republican is “a far right wacky right wing xtian zealout looner destroyer war mongering freak!” – so the MSM can bring the WHOLE WORKS over to the left…
        Same with the democrats – promote the very far left – the Obama crew – and stuff any traditional democrats in the closet never to be seen.
        Promote traitors to traditional republicans – mccain, buchannen, all 7 of the gang of 14 – just keep punping them since they move left, or became non repubs (buchannen for a prez run).
        It’s their whole MSM’s plotting plan – it’s what they do – heck if the soviets and communists and chinese and left wings of the entire world had control they couldn’t have done a better job.
        Now – everyone in PUMA has seen that the swing LEFT – has outdistanced Hillary – so she is thrown away and TRAMPLED like a dirty rag!
        So we’re at OBAMA – so far left his best buddies want a ‘COMMUNIST’ REVOLUTION TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT OF THE USA!
        Well, whatever revolutonary party politic it is – I don’t think “communism” exactly describes it – but an overthrow nonetheless.
        Obama’s 2 MAIN people – one a terrorist Ayers- the other Rev Wright – not much different really – but Reverands don’t bomb things.
        I’m just sitting here wondering what has happened to the USA – but it is clear it is a DECADES LONG continuation of the “68′ers” or hippy movement or antivietnam movement and all of that – sex drugs and rock n roll – that’s why we see these obamites with they’re perverted sex fantasies openly for Palin –
        The Iraq War has REVIVED the terorists of the 60′s – they own and run POWER already – that’s how OBAMA went thug stomping.
        So – it takes a LONG TIME to see it and get informed… then the media blackouts keep doubts and suspicions at an unconfirmed ebb… and perhaps one just shakes it off as “over reacting”.

  • http://JohnMcCain.com Berserk Ohitler is the embodiment of pure evil

    LMAO!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb9nuPRgNDg Shonester

    “The Obama Delusion”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb9nuPRgNDg

    SPREAD THE WORD!!!

    • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

      love the music too

      sent this one out, thanks!

    • mcpalin hill

      shonester — that video was amazing. Obama is a pompous ass. No matter how many times he changes his mind he is equally sure he is right. That Pakistan comment by him created quite a stir.

      I heard one pundit who was complaining about Palin’s lack of Foreign Policy experience say –Obama is well traveled. Obama’s world tour consisted of 1 day in each of maybe 8 countries. This is what Europeans laugh at Americans about. One tour of Europe at lightening speed and we are experts.

  • JoseyJ

    Country First – NO Hussein!

    Read my lipstick – Sarah Palin

  • http://deleted YES HRC

    hehe good one.

    You can tell who’s bought the oil. My 40ish boss giggles, crosses her legs, and swings her foot when she talks about The One. And tomorrow is Monday. :( The good news is that she’s the only one I know who’s voting for him — and I live near Chicago.

    • Gail

      Yup, there are a lot of racists in Chicago…i lived there for 20 years. you are one of them, I can tell by the way you talk.

      • vinnie

        Gail, did Barry’s camp only give you the race card to play with? You need to come up with another one sweetie.

        • richasis

          the race card is all you’ve got in an empty suit. :)

          • SportPolitics

            besides the race card they have a good local unrepentant domestic terrorist base.
            that sounds “crazy” but it is the truth.
            so they’ll kil you or blow you up if you don’t go along
            tell us PUMA what the thugs did again – one step short of shootings and bombings to get their way

      • ohio

        Gail, didn’t someone tell you the “race card” is sooooooooo over?

        • vinnie

          LOL, is she rolling her eyes when she said that?

      • wry

        The old “swinging foot” gave her away, huh?
        Or was it “giggle”? That’s code for …?
        Damn these racists! They’re insidious!

        • mcpalin hill

          wry — I can’t keep up with what’s racist anymore. I thought Community Organizer and Fairytale were racist — now swinging legs. Its sooooo confusing.

  • Steve1

    Poor, poor, poor “little Boots’” Payback is a Palin.

    • wodiej

      oooh, I like that one, Payback is a Palin!

  • Karen

    Wish I were more computer-savvy so I could link this. You have to go over to The Real Barack Obama and see the video they just put up entitled “The Lying King.” Truly incredible work. Maybe someone could post it here.

  • Pearl

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWP5ljQV79s

    This will probably be taken down soon so check it out while you can and pass it on.

    • http://www.lostinspacetv.com/ The Robot

      Wow, powerful video – a perfect description of what goes on at Daily Kos for example – has the radical-left pegged!

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      I like that…good video…thanks.

    • fooj

      The Media as hyenas…PERFECT! “Run in packs”…how true is that?

      Snake-oil salesman…PERFECT, as well.

    • street_parade

      Thank you for the link! That is one of the BEST videos on this whole debacle that I have seen.

      “The Lying King” – just great.

  • fluffy bunny

    The Atlantic’s PR Flacks: Jill Greenberg “Disgraced Herself,” But We Stand By the “Respectful Cover” That Did Run
    —Ace
    Respectful? The one where Greenberg says she deliberately allowed McCain to have as much red-eye as possible?

    Gay gossip site and antisemitic conspiracy newsletter The Atlantic is happy, at least, that Andrew Sullivan is no longer its most prominent deranged employee.

    However, it’s still bullshit. They knew what they were doing. They hired Greenberg to do exactly this. The picture they ran was unflattering in the extreme, under the headline “Why War is the Answer” (or whatever– I don’t care enough to get the quote right).

    What they’re angry about is that she outed them.

    And that — and only that — is the reason they now call her “unprofessional,” and it is only that provoking their anger.

    It wasn’t that she committed a crime. They hired her to commit a crime. They were her accomplices.

    Her sin is that she squealed on her confederates.

    The problem isn’t that she’s a deranged liberal — it’s that she’s a deranged liberal that doesn’t have the discretion to maintain the pretense.

    from http://ace.mu.nu

    • IvyLeaguer

      Tried posting before. Doesn’t seem like it went through. But worthwhile from newsbusters.

      The important thing here is not that Greenberg took and altered the pictures. The import thing is that she felt comfortable bragging about what she did! She expected to receive accolades and approval from the Left for her dirty trick. This tells us a lot about what kind of ethics Greenberg believes the Left approves of. Given her immersion in the upper class, urban, articulate intellectual culture of the far Left, her assessment is probably correct.

      The far Left has long since adopted the world view of the radical Marxist in which political utility equals truth. Incapable of believing themselves capable of intellectual error or moral failing, they see themselves obligated to acquire power by any means necessary. They view democracy as only a means of acquiring the legitimacy to use that power. If they must do so under false pretenses, then they will. They believe that the enormous benefits of their enlightened rule outweigh any consequences of the dishonest acts that bring about that rule.

      Politics is an ugly business and dirty tricks abound. Individuals from every part of the political spectrum stoop to low tactics to win. What we see on the contemporary far Left, however, is a lack of shame about doing so and complete unwillingness to punish those who go too far.

      We should worry if that mindset really does gain power.

      http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/09/14/atlantics-editor-appalled-lib-photographers-altered-mccain-pics.

      • Zee

        Oh, YAWN with the Marxist yadda yadda yet again.

        You do realize WE, unlike the RIGHT, are PROTESTING our thug? We are organizing against Obama in a way you loons on the right FAILED TO DO AGAINST BUSH.

        • Bellevue_NW_Voter

          Zeee, that’s a fascinating observation.

          Is the only way to learn certain things, “by example”? E.g., the Repubs backing Palin after the Dems villified Hillary? And now us saying “Nobama” to our uncomfortably non-moderate candidate after the Repubs failed to do so with theirs?

          Seriously, does anyone have any thoughts on why we’re standing up against Obama, and the Republicans didn’t do the same against Bush? Did Obama just diss the wrong (significant) constituency within the party (that spent decades being dissed and did not find the prospect of going back to that kind of society a positive)? I’m trying to think of a Republican constituency that Bush blatantly dissed or insulted — not just ignored — and can’t come up with one.

        • Judy L. NC

          Huh?

  • QUEENIE

    Why would anyone in their right mind send in a bunch of thugs into Florida..especially with all our seniors..and ..especially after stealing our vote and think for one minute they are going to win Florida and our 27 electoral votes?
    We warned the DNC, we warned the campaigns..do not take our votes…or there will be serious consequences..they refused to listen.

    Do notice what they call these thugs..“fellows”

    I call them “brownshirts!”

    They are losing even after spending this kind of money!

    BOY SOME LOUSY RETURN OBAMA HAS GOTTEN FOR ALL HIS MONEY SPENT IN FLORIDA ..EH??????? AND ALL HIS LITTLE MINIONS HE SENT INTO MY STATE..FIRST THEY STEAL THE ELECTION..THEN THEY SEND IN THEIR THUGS AND THEY WONDER WHY MCCAIN IS WINNING??????
    WHAT A FREAKING JOKE!

    http://www.fladems.com/content/w/obama_backers_will_blitz_florida

    Obama backers will blitz Florida
    By Adam C. Smith, St. Pete Times Political Editor

    Tuesday, June 10, 2008

    Get ready to see a Democratic presidential campaign the likes of which this state has never seen.

    Starting next week, some 400 specially trained Barack Obama campaign “fellows” will fan out across Florida, including the Tampa Bay area, for an intensive six weeks of registering voters, mobilizing volunteers, as well as working to bring Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters into the fold.

    The Obama campaign has 20 paid organizers in the state – compared to John McCain’s two - and within days is expected to name its Florida campaign team. With more than 150,000 Florida supporters signed up for volunteer duty, the campaign is talking about an unprecedented voter mobilization effort.

    Much as the Bush-Cheney campaign roared to Florida victory in 2004 with neighbor-to-neighbor campaigning, the Obama campaign sees a volunteer army large enough not only to target key voting precincts, but even specific streets and blocks.

    “Field programs have made a tremendous difference in races in Florida that were targeted, but this is going to be that on steroids. We’ve never seen a statewide effort like this before,” said Kirk Wagar, Obama’s Florida finance chairman.

    The campaign started a voter registration push in Florida and across the country in May, but the real campaign kicks into gear this weekend with two two-day training sessions in Gainesville and Tamarac for the 400 “fellows” assigned to Florida.

    These are volunteers, including many college students and retirees, who applied for the six-week program in which they commit at least 30 hours a week to the campaign. Two-thirds of the fellows are Floridians, and the campaign is providing housing through local party activists.

    “It’s our sense that the environment in Florida could sustain

    click link to read the full story

    • fooj

      Just like the above HYENAS (video) …they run in packs!

      Problem is, it’s not working in Florida, is it?

      • QUEENIE

        not working in Fla!!!

    • IronMan

      Hmmm… me thinks these “fellows” are not honorable fellows.

      Are these more of Obama’s ACORN thugs? The Florida Attorney General’s Office and Secretary of State needs to keep an eye on their activities down in Florida.

      ACORN people have already been charged in other states for voter fraud.

      Get the word out!

      Anyone in Florida have a video camera or a good PI to put a tail on the group? Someone should.

    • beverly leslie

      When is the final day of voter registration in Florida?

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    Did you see this one?
    I Believe… Vol. 1: “Protection”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hL60VjLNUE&watch_response

    it is in response to the lying king

    • Pearl

      Yikes, I just saw this one. The P-Diddy line is my fave:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4mKWceq0vY

      • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

        I watched it a bit ago..I e-mailed it out..wonder how long it will be left up.

        • bemused

          If you have Real Player you can download it, ~6.5 MB.

    • TeakwoodKite

      30yrdem, I don’t get it. That is in response by who?

  • Perry Logan

    May I suggest a complete Obamectomy?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_fPi-24Iw

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      lol…it is good…

    • workingclass artist

      Hmmmm…..Obotomy….chuckle….

      • TeakwoodKite

        Nurse Rachet to the Shock Therapy Dept. STAT!

    • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

      LOL ur so silly

    • Zee

      Another one who shouldn’t give up the day job. I clicked only to see how LONG you made this one. Over 9 AND A HALF MINUTES? Really?

      No…you aren’t cute and aren’t that interesting.

      NOBAMA, for sure, but also NOPERRY.

      Spare us.

  • http://lnab.newsvine.com/ Linda OKC

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/barack-isotoner.html?cid=130698384#comment-130698384

    Barack ‘Isotoner’ Obama to Take Off His Third or Fourth Pair of Gloves and Get Tough

    need to get a few PUMAs over there to wise ole Jake up!

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      I have seen people saying …how many times is he going to get tough…lol…that can’t e-mail video kinda blew up…really got tough.

  • WMCB

    Hey, this is funny, and perhaps telling!

    For months now, I have been replying to all my Democratic Party emails, telling them NoDeal. I always just hit reply, and they always went through.

    They are not going through anymore. I guess the DNC must have been getting too many negative replies, so fixed the system where you can’t reply anymore.

    LOL!

  • IronMan
    • sowsear

      Help Larry!
      This link also goes to Google/Dell site. Anything you can do to protect this site?

      • IronMan

        What? The links worked fine for me.

      • fluffy bunny

        sowsear, you may have a virus or spyware or something?

        try this site:
        http://www.nakedemperornews.com/

        • sowsear

          I was able to get the Riley interview and this one, but the link down under called Obama on Wm Ayres keep rolling over to Google/Dell site. I wasn’t sure that they were all the same-which they are. I do have a Dell computer, if that has anything to do with it. The links to that British request for BO help also wanted to go to the Google/Dell site but I was able to finagle those two to my e-mail.

    • sowsear

      Larry, Help!
      These links are being sabotaged by Google/Dell like the one on “Obama on William Ayres”

    • csuzeq

      Oh, great! Chicago Politics goes global!

      Keep Chicago politics in Chicago people!!!!

    • athy

      IronMan
      Thank you so much for this link.

      THIS IS URGENT.

      Will someone PLEASE investigate this further.

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/2958590/Gordon-Brown-seeks-Barack-Obama-aides-to-help-beat-David-Cameron.html

      URGENT SHOUTOUT
      to All independent journalists and others-especially
      Naomi Klein, Seymour Hersch, Greg Palast, Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill (first we privatize the military now we privatize the American election process and rules and procedures???)-

      PLEASE INVESTIGATE THIS FURTHER-You have the contacts & the resources. Let us know how we can help you.

      This is what foreigners view the office of the American presidency as?

      This is what American elections are viewed as overseas?

      What happened to our constitution. Sen Obama and his team have pimped out our campaign process.

      A well-oiled marketing machine to engage in bloodless coups?Is this what they view our elections process as?

      Will someone PLEASE investigate this further…
      What on earth did Sen Obama discuss with these officials on his overseas trip? Was he marketing Axelrod’s campaign related services?

  • http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2a7maeftqt9 Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright

    We are in the last stretch of the Election cycle.

    Its going to get heated and nasty.

    Just remember. After what they did to hillary, a member of their own party, nothing is off limits.

    Be prepared for the most vicious disgusting tactics coming from the obama camp. They will do and say anythng to win this and so will their followers.

  • fluffy bunny

    Oh, this website seems to be a 1 stop shopping experience for Nobama merchandise, the more I look at it:

    http://www.nakedemperornews.com/

  • Felizarte

    Talk of replacing Biden with Hillary must be in earnest. I just got a follow-up survey from –William Arnone Phone: 212-773-3285 asking me if I would change my mind about voting for McCain if Biden was replaced with Hillary.
    I wonder if someone could find out who this character is. I of course said NO, a hundred times.

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      Guest Op-Ed: My Hillary Dejection
      by William Arnone

      http://usliberals.about.com/od/guestcolumnistopeds/a/WmArnoneOpEd.htm

      here is a piece he wrote

    • SJ

      That talk seems to be making the rounds I saw on another site that Biden was to drop out after the VP debates saying its because of health reasons.

      Hillary must be one sick person to accept this now after all that was done to her, sorry but if this comes into play I would of lost all respect that I had for the Clinton’s

      • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

        Me too…she should have fought at the convention…

        McCain/Palin ’08

        I won’t vote for any ticket with Obama on it…sorry Hill.

        • athy

          SJ-

          Pure speculation here onmy part but lets see how this might play out.
          We know the following is about to explode:

          1- Sinclair Gate
          Has Joe Biden’s son turned Delaware into a police state? Look what they did to Larry Sinclair.
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1IS_WHBjQA

          2- Berg Gate
          BERG LAWSUIT
          Why is This Story Being Buried By The Main Stream Media?
          Born in the U.S.A.?
          By: KEITH PHUCAS, Times Herald Staff
          08/25/2008

          http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20089295&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&rfi=6

          Obama Sued in Philadelphia Federal Court (Constitutionally Ineligible for the Presidency)
          | 8/21/08 | Jeff Schreiber

          http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065855/posts

          A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States.

          3- Rezko Gate?
          http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-tony-rezko-sentence-delay-webaug21,0,7342747.story

          Rezko’s sentencing date has now been pushed back to at least October 28, 2008, which is less than a week before the November 4, 2008, General Election.
          Additionally, “Rezko’s attorneys, led by Joseph Duffy, now have until Sept. 19 to file motions,” Coen wrote.
          The power (and memory) of a verdict in early September would have had some time to dissipate by the end of October. A verdict at the end of October will continue to roll and tumble in the media spin cycle right up to the very day when voters step into the voting booth. Add to this the possibility of numerous motions reported by the Chicago press, things look to be getting interesting.
          Tony Rezko will not be forgotten quickly enough for Obama.

          4- Ayers Gate?
          Why Does Sen Obama Continue to LIE about his relationship with Ayers? What is he hiding?

          http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/10/lies-money-and-barack/#more-4698

          If Sen Obama is forced to resign as the Presidential candidate for dems…and IF Sen Clinton , by that time , has already accepted to take over Biden spot as VP, then IF sen Obama is forced to resign-will she step in to fill his shoes as presidential candidate?

          And what will this mean? Sen Obama is once again a free agent with all those contacts and networks in place? All this ‘unofficial’ power?

          I wouldn’t do this if I were Sen Clinton. This will severly taint her reputation .

          • MrMike

            Rezko’s sentencing date has now been pushed back to at least October 28, 2008, which is less than a week before the November 4, 2008, General Election.

            USA Patrick Fitzgerald doesn’t seem the type to play political games. This could mean that Tony Rezko has seen the writing on the wall and has started to co-operate in hopes of a reduced sentence.

            • http://nobho.blogspot.com/ Johnny at Work

              That is Fitzgeralds MO, apply pressure to get perpetrators to name co-conspirators.

              I think Obama’s tanking in the polls helps also. Rezko must be realizing that a Presidential pardon will not be in the cards.

          • an observer

            Concerning Obama’s eligibility for the presidency.
            What if native born citizen Frank Marshal Davis is his father?
            Then the adoption papers are illegal and subsequently the dual citizenship issue also goes out the door?
            Since it has now been exposed that Frank was a pervert and engaging in orgies it is not out of the realm of reason that O’s father participated in such since I suspect Frank was well known around the University?
            In his book Frank admits he and his wife engaging in sex with a 13 year old so a little pot and group banging with college students also would not be out of the realm of reason?.
            Because of Frank’s position a cover-up would be necessary.
            Get one of the students to claim to be the father.
            Or maybe it was a toss-up who the father was?
            That could explain all the deception.
            Frank “raised 5 children” in Hawaii? I can’t find a damned thing about that.
            And his white socialite wife from Chicago, I can’t find a damned thing about that either.
            A son of Frank Marshal Davis, because of Frank’s prestige in Chicago, would get an awful lot of breaks in the liberal elite educational community.
            Kinda like O has gotten.

      • MrMike

        Hillary must be one sick person to accept this now after all that was done to her, sorry but if this comes into play I would of lost all respect that I had for the Clinton’s

        I don’t think there is any possibility of this happening but if it did would her party loyalty overcome her judgment?

      • street_parade

        Pure speculation and desperate speculation at that. If BO tries to drop his VP, his first and ONLY executive decision, the Republicans will eat him alive (even more than they are already). He will be (quite correctly) portrayed as weak and indecisive – and that will be the end of that.

        For better or worse, BO is stuck with Joe. My 2 cents is that I think BO was turned down by Hillary back in June. Even HE is smart enough to know that he needed her on the ticket, but she was smart enough to see where his train was going to end up. Over a cliff.

        • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

          who said that Biden should get it in writing at the convention because Obama flip flops so much…was it Americas Mayor or Fred?

          • http://safari McAnnie, Carmel Barracuda

            Guiliani.

      • maniaco

        from the mind of one “SJ” comes this, re VP-replacement offer/rumor:

        “Hillary must be one sick person to accept this now after all that was done to her, sorry but if this comes into play I would of lost all respect that I had for the Clinton’s”

        hmmm . . .

        now, is this what you describe as a “CONCERN TROLL?”

        jus’ wonderin’

    • Pearl

      How did he get your phone number or address, if you don’t mind me asking?

      • Felizarte

        I don’t mind your asking at all. I think he got it from the Hillary campaign. That’s the only place I left it in when I signed up to be part of the seniors advisory group. Maybe I will call him and ask why he is conducting the survey. He did state in the article linked to somewhere above, that he was part of the Hillary campaign.

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    Obama believes he can buy this election…remember how he out spent Hillary in the last several states…didn’t work then…won’t work now.

  • athy

    OT but IMPORTANT -can someone confirm or refute : Voter Fraud-Acorn-Michigan:

    http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-front-group-busted-for-voter.html

    Sunday, September 14, 2008

    Obama Front Group Busted For Voter Registration Fraud In Michigan

    The stakes in this election could not be higher. Democrats are frustrated by the red state electoral college majority that has emerged in recent presidential elections.

    By hook or crook, they are determined to win back the presidency. To this end, we’ve been told about the millions of new registered voters Democrats have added to the election rolls this year. The group at the forefront of this effort is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a group with which Sen. Barack Obama worked closely as a community organizer and which is now spearheading his voter registration and GOTV efforts. In Michigan, a key battleground state where Obama is struggling against McCain, ACORN has registered 200,000 new voters in recent months.

    Election officials are only now beginning to uncover massive fraud committed by those “paid workers” of ACORN.

    The Detroit Free Press reports:
    Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      Bad voter applications found
      Clerks see fraudulent, duplicate forms from group
      http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809140383

      • workingclass artist

        DOH!….Homer moment….wait till the Documentaries on the Caucs frauds come out across the nation….MSMPORN is just tryin to cover their ass….Sheeesh!

        • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

          I bet Obama thought we wold have caucuses in the GE…you know how well he knows history…57 states….I will never forgrt…(my husband says it all the time….lol…)

        • athy

          workingclassartist-
          you mean facts like these?

          View the video’s released on August 9th 2008 by the Sam J
          Ervin Jr, former chairman of Watergate commission, library and museum in Morgantown NC. According to producers, the DNC (with the support of the MSM) has perpetuated a crime and fraud against the American voters by claiming Obama as the presumptive nominee.

          Part 1

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPCunsrI1Q

          Part 2
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Khsg8iKjU

          Superdelegates votes can not count until convention

          Part 3
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXpz8AJk8TM

          *VERY IMPORTANT PART: Why Obama is not the presumptive nominee
          - these videos are very educational, interesting, and well-researched and documented. People are indeed repeating history. What is happening in 2008 has happened several times in the past. Educate your fellow voters. Forward these links to others.

          http://www.lynettelong.com/caucusfraud/

          This is excellent site too…

          http://wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/video/index.htm
          Obama & Vote Theft

      • Pearl

        Shouldn’t Jimmy Carter get involved or does he just oversee election fraud in foreign countries?
        Hmmm….

        • richasis

          OUTSTANDING QUESTION! :)

      • athy

        30 year dem no more,
        thanks for the confirm…

        • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

          sure….hey someone on here got a early vote ballot mailed to there home…lived there 48 years and never got one before….she/he said he lived in a blue state….looking for that comment…again..

          • sowsear

            I received the absentee ballot.

    • fluffy bunny

      I read that ACORN submitted over 50,000 new voter registrations in Cleveland and that lots of them were fraudulent, and officials are working hard to try to sort them all out in time.

      What does it say that Obama/ACORN are nervous enough to have to steal the election in Michigan. Michigan!?!

      • sowsear

        Some 100,000 McCain absentee ballots have been ruled unacceptable because the McCain campaign printed the forms with an extra box and the Dem. leadership got a legal expert to say that altho the box is not necessary, because it is there, it has to be checked. May have been MN??, not sure. The state must notify those people and get them new ballots, but they’re not hurrying. Sorry I don’t have a link-I’m on my laptop away from home.
        Anyone else see this?

        • athy

          sowsear
          I heard on radio this morning-
          My first thought was-
          call me jaded-but my first thought was that Axelrod’s team may have been involved with this somehow.

          I had flashback to the race baiting that went on earlier in primary and how it was later disclosed that Obama campaign may have started the incidents to make it seem like Hillary or Bill or others started the racial antagonism.

          http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aa0cd21b-0ff2-4329-88a1-69c6c268b304

          The New Republic, “Race Man” by Sean Wilentz

          http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070219/hayes

          The Nation, “Obama”s Media Maven” by Chrisptoher Hayes. 2/19/08 issue

        • fluffy bunny

          That sounds like the thing Obama did in his first election, where he got all his opponents disqualified for a silly little technicality…like they printed their names on a form instead of signed it or something?

          The McCain campaign’s going to have to be much sharper than this….

        • ritamary

          Absentee ballots for what election? And why would the McCain campaign be printing ballots? The Secretary of State of each state is responsible for printing ballots. Campaigns do not print ballots.

        • kcfromtx

          The McCain campaign does not print ballots. Try again.

      • vinnie

        Can someone tell me if these voter registration forms indicate on them that ACORN is the one submitting them? If so, wouldn’t that signal a red flag to those accepting them?

    • Hill Dem 4 McPalin
      • maniaco

        HillDem4McPalin~

        can you please fix that ACORN Fraud link for us? looks like too many “http’s” in there . . .

      • maniaco

        Hill Dem 4 McPalin~

        can you please fix that ACORN Fraud link for us? looks like too many “http’s” in there . . .

  • innocent bystander

    About those political polls–

    The Palin bounce may be fading. The RPC poll average shows McCain’s lead has now dropped to 2.1 points; that average is still being inflated by the 10 point lead McCain has in the USA Today/Gallup figure–which hasn’t been updated since September 7.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/

    • StrawberrybitesBarky

      What was Biden’s bounce again?

      • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

        lol-1

      • workingclass artist

        Ehemmmm….Biden Who ?

      • QUEENIE

        was that bounce before or after he said Hillary would have been a better vp pick than himself?????

        • just me

          Biden? Ohhhhhhhh the missing man!

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      Both candidates get a bump after the conventions…then we will see more polls and go from there.

    • http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2a7maeftqt9 Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright

      Polls are going to fluctuate over the next 8 weeks.

      There are only 3 more polling snapshots of interest:

      3 days After the VP Debate

      3 days After the Final Presidential Debate

      Friday through Monday polling results going into Election week.

      And the one post election analytical Snapshot everyone is waiting for:

      Final pre-election results from monday vs Exit Polls vs Actuals on tuesday…everybody wants to know what the Bradley effect and the “un-polled” Cellphone effect will be.

      In any event its been an exciting campaign season and I look forward to the following items

      1) the many gaffes and whines still waiting to come out of the Obama camp as the 527′s start to ad drop,

      2) the many explanations from both campaigns as they spin the debate results

      3) The shock as the MSM is forced to wrap their bitter lips around the phrase “President Elect John McCain”

      4) the threatened riots which will be endlessly rerun on the news channels like a bad episode of Cops Gone Wild!

      5) the many op eds about what a racist country we live in when America rejects Fauxbama on November 4. I will be starting a fund to ship liberals extremists who hate America to the country of their choice when all the votes are counted.

      6) The anouncement that Keith Olberweenie has been hospitalized due to a complete and total mental breakdown.

      7) the forthcoming indictment of Barack Obama regarding his involvement in the kitchen cabinet pay for play scandal he helped set up for his friend Tony Rezko aka Chicago’s New Edith The Canary Piaf.

      9) the farewell to america tour as Donna Brazile burns her US passport and boards a plane to China.

      8) the announcement that Hillary Clinton will begin working towards her presidential campaign in 2012.

      • http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2a7maeftqt9 Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright

        whoops switched 8 and 9 and forgot to renumber. but the cool smiley is appropriate!

      • richasis

        “the threatened riots which will be endlessly rerun on the news channels like a bad episode of Cops Gone Wild!”

        IF I WERE PRESIDENT McCAIN, I WOULD “VETO” ANY BILL TO REBUILD THE CITIES THAT HAVE BURNED AND ASK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO VOICE THEIR OPINION THROUGH THEIR CONGRECRITTERS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT TO APPROVE ANY SUCH FUNDING FUNDING.

        IF “YES”, SO BE IT – THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER SHALL REBUILD THE CITIES.

        IF NO, LET THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS REBUILD THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS!

      • Katy

        Jeremiah,

        I am from London and I do not understand why is MSM (main stream media) called that as it does not in any way represent interest of main stream population. The way I see it is more like militant left propaganda. I am shocked how is that possible in a democratic country. I grow up in socialsm and reminds me of comunist propaganda. What is so sad is that Europe builds is oppinion based on the information by the same media. You should all have joint action against those that act as a propaganda outlet for Obama. I have some ideas if you are interested. My background is in trend forecasing and specialize in media hype.

    • Pearl

      Wasn’t that pre lipstick-gate? I’d be interested to see the Gallup polls tomorrow (I think) which will be “post” lipstick and the Charlie Gibson interview – should be very, very telling.

      • http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2a7maeftqt9 Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright

        well lets not forget the gimp-can’t-email-gate came right after lipstickgate. The polls are going to be very interesting this week.

        • Pearl

          Yep and I’d love to see a double-digit lead!

          • http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2a7maeftqt9 Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright

            that wont happen.

            Only way a double digit lead materializes if if obama totally tanks in the debates AND major embarassing stories come out about him…oh wait…

    • Susan1968

      Doesn’t matter – look at the electoral map. Look at all the red states Obama said he would turn blue.

      McCain is ahead by 20 electoral points he was down by 20 over a week ago. He made up 40 points in a short time.

      Georgia and North Carolina which Obama thought he could swin are now solidly in McCain’s column with 11 and 13 point leads.

      And some states that were leaning toward Obama have now slipped back into the toss-up column. Most importantly – Pennsylvania & Michigan — Obama’s lead in both states has slipped.

  • fluffy bunny

    check this out: become a poll worker

    http://www.eac.gov/voter/poll%20workers

    Become a Poll Worker
    Poll workers are essential to ensuring that elections are a success, and HAVA instructs EAC to assist election officials in their efforts to recruit, train, and retain poll workers by conducting research and administering the HAVA College Poll Worker Program.

    Contact Your Election Office
    Poll Worker FAQs
    Poll Worker Requirements by State
    Poll Worker Quick Start Guide

    This site had to be created by republicans, but the bumper stickers are funny:

    http://www.nobamanetwork.com/

    ATTENTION: Hillary replacing Biden just after the VP Debate!!!!

    Rumors are flying around the internet that Obama is planning to relieve Joe Biden of his V.P. position and replace him with Hillary Clinton. But, I have a very credible source that told me that Obama IS going to make up an excuse (probably medical reasons) to get rid of Biden and replace him with Hillary. I love Hillary, but am Nobama all the way. The only chance we have of stopping this staged event from happening is for us to “announce” it first. If we let the world know what their plan is, everyone will know it is contrived when it happens – in fact it might preclude them from doing it.

    Please go viral and let people know that the Dems are so desperate that they are planning this.

    Keep in mind:

    * Both Obama and Hillary said he did NOT vet her.
    * Obama’s choice of Biden was a sign of weakness (he had to pick him after the problems in Georgia because in 3 days he made 3 different statements about how the situation should be handled and showed his ineptness regarding foreign relations).
    * The fact that he now needs Hillary is also a sign of weakness – he can’t win without her.
    * He is using Hillary to get what he wants, after he cheated her out of her win.
    * He did not pick Hillary because he is arrogant and thought he could win without her AND he is sexist.
    * It took the Republicans to get the Democrats to put a woman on the ticket.
    * Hillary said that Obama is not qualified to be president, but she and McCain are.
    * Hillary said that all Obama has done is make a nice speech – he will NOT be ready on Day 1.
    * Hillary said, “Shame on you, Barack Obama,” when he sent out direct mail that was filled with lies, i.e., she called him a liar.

    Please get the word out today! WE ARE ON TO YOU OBAMA!

    • IronMan

      Someone should stand up and ask Biden this question at his next appearances. The cameras will be rolling when he answers.

    • jbjd

      Keep your eyes on the ball. The general election ballots will reflect only the names of the major party candidates nominated at the nominating convention. Obama/Biden run as a team.

      THE PROBLEM IS ELECTION FRAUD. A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL HAVE NO IDEA THAT THE ELECTION FOR POTUS IS A STATE BY STATE AFFAIR. IF THE PERSON WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING ELECTIONS IN YOUR STATE, THAT IS, EITHER YOUR SECRETARY OF STATE OR, IN SOME STATES, COMMISSIONER OF ELECTIONS IS CROOKED, THE STATE ELECTION IS CROOKED.

      I will try to get up another primer on volunteering to monitor elections. Believe me, if you do not become expert at this stuff, BO’s minions will.

      (And start paying attention to who is the state chair of the Democratic Party in your state. I heard that BO is installing his people in all 50 states. These are the same people who submitted BO’s documents to the S’s of S to get onto the state general election ballots.)

      • richasis

        ABSOLUTELY!

    • vinnie

      that photo of Palin with the motorcycle and barry on his bike is hilarious.

  • Babs

    Help!! I was just reading Greta’s most recent blog on “The Latest from the Campaign Trail” about Biden campaigning today, and in the comments at 10:03 there is a letter from a gentleman who leaves his name, address, phone and website address, so I think he’s legit. Anyway, he says he did the paperwork for Biden’s financial disclosures when he ran in 1988, and Biden stiffed him for the $15,000.00 bill. Now he says he’s on the Board of Directors of a private jet management company, that Biden used the jets in the primary, and now he has stiffed the company for $150,000.00, saying he is out of the race and has no money. Can someone go find this and link it over here? Biden is a skank.

    • fluffy bunny

      Sigh. I feel sorry for Biden. It’s like he’s a pawn in some big nasty game.

      If this dope really let Biden use 150,000 worth of private jet flights when he owed him 15,000 from 1988….well, he’s an idiot.

      It sounds like BS to me. Do you let somebody who owes you 15 grand (and has owed you 15 grand for 20 years) use your car even?

      • sowsear

        This may be a set up so BO can get rid of Biden—for unsavory conduct, conduct unbecoming to a Dem. VP, or something.

        • Rob in Chicago

          Didn’t precious raise about 66 million from his homies in Gaza during this past month of August, and he can’t even spare a paltry $165,000 to bail out his Vice President? With friends like these…

          • dana b

            “his homies in Gaza” ??? You are transparent, Rob.

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      Comment by McMullin – McCain/Palin
      September 14th, 2008 at 10:03 pm

      I am reposting this from a while back. Here’ s different view of Biden
      http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/09/14/latest-from-campaign-trail/#comments

    • fluffy bunny

      And no, Joe Biden is not a skank.

    • http://safari McAnnie, Carmel Barracuda

      My God, isn’t Patty Solis Doyle running his campaign?

  • dormantDem

    don’t do it Hillary. Stay away from o, far far away.

    oh yeah, for the record..I Won’t vote for a o/Clinton ticket.

    nobama
    EVER

    I own my vote!

    • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

      yea if Hillary accepted it at this point she’s a bigger fool than I ever imagined

      but if BAMBI should have to step down and Biden picked Hillary as HIS VP I would go for it

      otherwise no way unless HILLARY is at the top

      I don’t hate Biden at all
      I do hate Bambi & his friends & his freak wife

      and I rarely hate

      • audacity

        u r totally ignorant.
        this was the most ignorant comment on this site in the past 6 months.

        hillary bidet’s VP?!!!!!!

        take your pills. u forgot them. very sad

  • SJ

    Sorry but Obama cannot use Hillary unless she wants to be used I have stopped making excuses for Hillary a long time ago.

    She was out on the stump for Obama today talking crap about he is the American dream I wonder how and where did she figure that out from, I am totally disgusted with Hillary and her stance in this little show.

    If she wants to settle for the VP bone now, after she was kicked all over the place by Obama and crew well she must really want to be in government and will do anything just to get there, that to me is really sad I expected more from her.

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      I told my hubby about the rumors….he said

      “people won’t vote for her now because she didn’t stand up at the DNC……it was fixed …they had started planing for him to speak at the convention on the MLK. anniversary thing almost two years ago…now they are losing because they have been found out…Hillary didn’t expose things she could have people have lost trust in her now…plus Obama is still on the ticket”…

    • beverly leslie

      Yes, I agree. I’m kinda getting over Hillary stumping for this guy. There is really no reason she needs to do it anymore, and I’m sick of the excuses.

    • MrMike

      Hillary is a loyal Democrat when others in her party aren’t. If she thinks that her taking the Veep spot will help put a Dem in the White House she will do it. She will throw herself under the bus for the sake of a party that has repeatedly stabbed her and Bill in the back since his first term.

      • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

        you said

        She will throw herself under the bus for the sake of a party that has repeatedly stabbed her and Bill in the back since his first term.

        SHE WILL?????

        Then she’s NOT the American I thought she was.
        That sounds like a victim to me.
        Being continuously trashed and dumped on for YEARS and to keep coming back for MORE? and then to throw yourself under the bus for the sake of a PARTY that’s been STOLEN???

        She would or will lose my vote if she becomes tooo wishy washy. Some of us do NOT like blatant fraudulent behavior no matter how it’s couched.

      • beverly leslie

        Well if being a “loyal democrat” means throwing your country under the bus, I have no respect for her and I’ll find her quite pathetic.

    • Tattie

      I was voting aganist Obama by supporting Hillary. There is no way in Hell I would vote for that S.O.B All we went through with her means nothing to her. She fliped to him in a New York minute

      • MrMike

        What part of loyalty don’t you understand? Right or wrong Hillary feels a Democrat in the White House is the answer America needs now. Even a flawed Democrat like Obama. She has put the party before her dreams and ambitions.
        You do her a disservice when you say she flipped in a New York minute. I’m sure it was a decision the Clinton family agonized over for weeks.

        • beverly leslie

          MrMike. Sorry, the whole scenario sounds pathetic and like a cult. If what your saying is even remotely true, Hillary needs to be deprogrammed.

          • audacity

            yes. sooner the better. she let down 18 mil. voters.

            where is her loyalty to the voters ….or to america

            she is loyal to the fraud of the DNC

        • AnneinPA

          ummm.. how are bill and hill supposed to get the AA vote back in their camp for hill’s future election runs and bill’s legacy if they tell O to go to h…?
          they have no choice…

          haven’t you noticed the weak cheer for O in her
          blah and boring rally speeches for him?

          that no way, no McCain/Palin is weak, weak, weak

          and they know it and you should too.
          only Obots haven’t figured it out.

          they’ll be voting on their secrect ballot McCain
          not O.

        • QUEENIE

          MMIKE..what part of leadership..and loyality to one’s country do you not understand?????

          I would never ever support anyone with Obama..i say that because my loyality is to my country..not any one candidate or party.

          And if Hillary took the leap..she will be finished in politics..for good..

          I believe most people now see it as a matter of loyality to our nation..and if you can not understand that..i must question your loyality to this country.

          This is so much bigger than one person..our country and her people are at risk of a incompetent boob..in Obama..it doesn’t matter who is in the 2nd seat now..he could easily neuter any VP pick..by sending them to the sidelines and keeping them there..who is kidding who here???????

          Loyality is to nation first..and to our constitution first.

          Not boy wonder and his traveling band of ignuts.

          • frenchman47

            The hyperbole is a bit much here:

            “I believe most people now see it as a matter of loyalty to our nation…and if you can not understand that…i must question your loyalty to this country….”

            Questioning someone’s loyalty to their country because you think they might not agree with you for one reason or another is Way over the top and certainly not the way to get someone to see things your way.

            We all have differences of opinion on this or that, I don’t think we need to go the route of questioning someone’s patriotism if they disagree with us.

            Apology really is in order here.

            And, why is it that we want to keep pummeling Hillary Clinton about what she does/does not do?? Discourse is one thing but again, this post appears to be questioning Hillary’s patriotism too. I sometimes wonder if this is a Republican site after all.

      • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

        Amen to that…she didn’t fight for democracy…the dem party has a big loss coming and they deserve it.

    • maniaco

      SJ ~

      “there you go again . . . ”
      –R.Reagan, 1980

      CONCERN TROLL warning issued to you yet?

  • Jess Terr

    The voter fraud is going to be unprecedented in many states. Michigan is investigating ACORN, obambi’s former employer for duplicate voter registrations and nonexistant voter registrations. NObambi voters are going to have to turn out in droves as VOTING BOOTH MONITORS! Check your local election office to volunteer to act as a voter monitor in your state. NObambi has a history of vote manipulation. After all, he WAS a community organizer… i.e. Chicago slum lord and community felons, rezko, ayers, dohrn, etc.

  • arg[pgr arioja[operbaer

    [ADMINISTRATOR: Comment removed for inappropriate content.]

    • fluffy bunny

      SEEK HELP

      • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

        really!! what WAS all that shiate? :-?

        something from overseas no doubt

  • MrMike

    If I asked if Oil of Obama could be used as an anal lubricant to ease the O-bots daily meme updates would that be construed as sexist?

  • http://deleted Buzz Latte

    snapshot polls?

    If they polled ALL the democratic voters in our household Obama would get exactly

    ZERO votes.

    We have never been polled, however.

    Still plenty of time for the 527s and one showing of the whitey tape to effectively put this empty suit thug on a crash course with political oblivion.

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      We have been polled 4 times this election…never before…

      • sowsear

        I received an absentee ballot (blue state) which I didn’t request. I’ve lived the last 42 yrs. in the same house and have never requested an absentee ballot. They seem to be trying everything.

        • beverly leslie

          Yes, that’s why I say bring out all the dirt on Barky. He will do whatever he can to win and your story is a perfect example. Hoping you will vote by mail and send someone else to the poll to vote under your name.

        • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

          contact the election board…I would let the republican party know in your state also…get the word out about this.

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    Are you guys watching FOX?

    They have on this show called: America’s Future- The Terror Threat.

    They keep comparing Obama and McCain and what they have said the last months while in debates and on the trail…..it is interesting…it talks about how they voted on the war and stuff.

  • JohninCA

    Hanky Panky Alert

    On the Riverdaughter blog, ‘Felizarte’ writes:

    Talk of replacing Biden with Hillary must be under discussion. I just got a follow-up survey from –William Arnone Phone: 212-773-3285 asking me if I would change my mind about voting for McCain if Biden was replaced with Hillary.

    Let’s have an appropriate show of contempt to discourage the O Team from any more electoral stunts.

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      Some one else here got one up thread.

  • Pearl

    To Babs re Biden jet rumor:

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/bidendebt.asp

    At the very bottom there’s an update that states the bill was paid.

    • fluffy bunny

      really, really sad. It appears the dirty Team Obama now has its eyes set on hounding Joe Biden off the ticket.

      pathetic

  • fluffy bunny

    Amy Goodman:

    U.S. Election Turns Global

    By Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. Posted July 31, 2008.

    Obama’s historic candidacy serves as an inspiration to people the world over. TALLINN, Estonia — When I arrived in Estonia last week — a former Soviet republic that lies just south of Finland — everyone had an opinion on Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin. The headline of the British Daily Telegraph we picked up in Finland blared “New Walls Must Not Divide Us,” with half-page photos of the American presidential candidate silhouetted against a sea of 200,000 people.

    One of the first people I met in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, was Abdul Turay, the editor in chief of The Baltic Times, an English-language weekly that covers Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the three Baltic nations. Granted, he’s not a typical resident for this country of largely fair-haired, light-skinned people: Turay is a black Briton whose parents come from the West African nations of Liberia and Sierra Leone. And he is Muslim. While Estonia has no mosques, he notes with pride that the Quran has just been translated into Estonian, and to the publisher’s surprise, it’s been an instant best-seller here.

    I asked Turay what Obama’s candidacy means to him. “It’ll open doors for me personally if he becomes president,” he said. “It’s a momentous thing to have a black president, given America’s history. Some people say it’s not a big deal, but it is a very big deal. The U.S. is a model for the world. If people see a black man can be president of the U.S., maybe they will see me differently. If he’s special, I’m special.”

    As for Obama’s politics, Turay says he doesn’t actually think Obama’s foreign policy will be that different from fellow presidential candidate John McCain’s. He said he was surprised after reading Obama’s first book, Dreams From My Father: “He’s almost talking about black nationalism. He’s very liberal. He’s very much a black politician, whereas today he’s a politician who happens to be black.” I asked him to explain. “I think that’s a question for Barack Obama, not me,” he said.

  • Nobama

    The Obama campaign site is telling people not to worry about the polls because the right-wing media is manipulating them and Obama will certainly win and will win the electoral college easily. I also saw this post on there that I just had to share:

    I heard a commentator on CNN tonight mention that Hillary may work her way on to the ticket–I HOPE this is true.
    Although I deeply respect and like Joe Biden, I think it would be in the best interest of our country if Biden step aside and insist Hillary take his place.
    I say this as a person who was appalled by Hillary’s behavior during the primaries and also, I DID NOT support Hillary because she voted for Bush’s war–but so did Biden.
    I was FOR Gore or Webb for VP–someone not connected with the war.That has not happened.

    The way I see it is if BO was going to pick someone who voted for the war,he may as well of picked HILLARY CLINTON–she DID earn the VP spot more than Biden (although I like Biden more).

    I might be wrong, but my feeling is that we need her to win. The repugnants are playing dirty. In addition to needing her to beat those McSames, she can contribute to the improvement of this country–I DO believe that.
    I am humble in this request–so I hope I do not upset my fellow BO supporters.
    The truth is, I will be devastated if we loose–I can’t go through another four years of these morally vacant JERKS running our country. Please get this message to BO.
    God Bless.
    Chelsea

    http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5ZXk/commentary#comment-gG3cHf

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      OMG….this is just to funny…now they are begging for Hillary to bail them out….

      GO McCAIN and PALIN!!!

      • John Smith

        Yea before they were booing her. Now they want her help. What BO should do is run as the VP and let Hillary be the POTUS candidate. They there is a chance they will win.

        It is very naive to think that the Republicans off all people will play nice during an election.

        • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

          but then what would RowanNoir Martin, DonnaBrazileNut, Keif Olberdouche & TweetyMcMatthews do?

          We’d lose these 4 great news giants to spontaneous combustion!

          no,no,no, we can’t have that! POOF! go the dragons of lair obama

          • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

            Hillary won’t do it and Obama and his bots can just..

            “GET OVER IT!!!”

    • vinnie

      sorry, hill…no can do.

    • fluffy bunny

      Well, if she actually takes the veep spot, it just makes her look terrible…it’s damn sad what the Obamabots are doing to Joe Biden.

      My guess is Biden’s royally PISSED about that McCain “email” ad … not only was it stupid, but Biden and McCain have been friends for years. That ad was a true below the belt mocking attack on a guy’s disability…not to mention how he got that disability to begin with.

      I guess Obama can’t just let Biden quietly step down, he has to try to smear him and destroy him in the process?

    • QUEENIE

      it won;t help you or Obama now..get over it will ya!!

      We won’t vote for Obama even if santa claus with a bag full of money was delivered to us..

      Now as you obamabots have said enough …get over it..we took Brazile the cheater for her word..they don’t need us..so fuck them now!

      I will vote Mccain /Palin now no matter what!

      and personally ..i have grown to really like and enjoy Sarah!!..and Mccain..i have more trust in them than i will ever have for the scum bag and party that stole my vote…and the votes of so many that were stolen, with the delegate vote stealing at the convention..those votes represented Americans all over this nation…THEY MAY HAS WELL HAVE PISSED ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY WITH THAT STEALING THAT THEY DID AT THE CONVENTION…so fuck the dem party and barky..got that?????????

  • IronMan

    Meet Obama’s new Bill Ayers associate

    Ex-Communist tied to terrorist scrubbed from campaign website

    http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75282

    Wow! Some good stuff out there tonight!

    Who is Mike Klonsky?

    ANSWER: In the 1970s, Klonsky became a top Communist activist and leader of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party.

    What is Obama’s involvement with Klonsky?

    Anyone have the original webpages before Obama scrubbed it?

    Who has “friends” and “associates” like this? Radical anti-American people, that’s who!

    • IronMan

      From WIKIPEDIA:

      Michael Klonsky (born 1943) is an American educator and political activist, a leader of the New Communist Movement.

      Klonsky’s father, Robert Klonsky, had been arrested as a communist in the 1950s and convicted of violating the Smith Act.[1] In the late 1960s Michael Klonsky was the national secretary of the Students for a Democratic Society,[2] which he joined as a student at San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge).[3] He was one of five S.D.S. members arrested on May 12, 1969, when prank phone calls sent police and firefighters to the S.D.S. offices in Chicago.[2] In the 1970s he headed the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist),[4] in which role he was one of the first westerners allowed to visit the People’s Republic of China.[4][5]

      More recently Klonsky has been a professor of education at the University of Illinois, Chicago;[6] his academic work focused on small school size as a solution to the problems of inner city schools. He is now the director of the Small Schools Workshop, a school outreach program associated with UIC.[7][8]

    • IronMan

      Shocking information about Mike Klonsky and William Ayers

      http://www.politicalwrinkles.com/elections/3723-mike-klonsky-obama-blogger.html

  • http://www.sugarnspice.typepad.com SUGAR

    How many days to the election as of today? 50? 49? I’m ready for this to be OVER!!!! I’ll be so damned glad when the name Barack Obama is but a distant memory.

    • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

      sigh

      do you think it will EVER end??? :-?

      lol ugh I ditto that {{Sugar}}

  • Nobama

    From Phillip Berg’s site:

    I received an email this afternoon and here is a portion of it:

    “We have received information from sources high in the Democratic Party that , in a total desperation move, Hillary Rodham Clinton will replace the hapless Joe Biden as V-P candidate on the Obama ticket. I will send out more information on this in several minutes. Hillary Clinton has said that Barack Obama is not qualified to be Commander-in-Chief. He hasn’t grown any more qualified presumably in the past few weeks. As the saying goes, “It took a Republican to have the Obama Dems name a woman to the ticket.”

    http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/hillary-replaces-biden-biden-steps-down-obama-next-philip-j-berg-lawsuit-obama-not-qualified-obama-indictment-soap-opera-can-democrats-survive-drama/

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      well it has to be real…this makes 3 of them I have read about….was it from William Arnone?

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      Do you guys think they are REALLY putting out this to see how it plays or it is just some joke gone viral?

      It won’t work…we still won’t vote for Obama.

      • beverly leslie

        I think they are doing this to see how it plays out and to possibly move support to odumbo. I don’t think it will happen and Hillary isn’t stupid enough to make a move like this.

        If I’m proven wrong and she does do this, I still will not vote for odumbo, and she can forget ever getting my vote, money or time for anything.

      • street_parade

        Joke gone viral. They’re probably seeing who they can get to pick it up. Possibly Matt Damon? I mean he believed that Sarah Palin thinks dinosaurs were alive 4,000 years ago, so he’ll believe pretty much anything.

        Be skeptical, of everything. Anything COULD be true, but it rarely is.

        • QUEENIE

          DON’T OPEN THOSE LINKS EITHER.. they could have a virus or be capturing your address..or a trojan horse..

  • Babs

    Thanks, Pearl. Now I actually feel sorry for the guy – teaches us all to be darn careful what we write in an e-mail!!

  • Alice Paul

    I see others have heard the rumors that Biden will drop out and Hillary would replace him.

    I got a survey from Soda Head. Not that that means anything but it got me thinking.

    I hope she doesn’t do it. I still could not vote for BO and it just wreaks of desperation of BO’s part. Also picking her second just because his numbers drop is degrading to her.

    I do wonder what that meeting was all about with Bill though the other day.

    I think he might have a shot at winning if Hillary does join the ticket and that will be disturbing.

  • Jess Terr

    If hillary accepts a token vp slot now, she diminishes all possibility of ever being Pres. If she stays as is, and lets NObambi implode, and take his communist thugs down with him, she sets herself up as a vindicated true Democrat, with the exceptional chances of winning in 2012. If she takes the vp slot now, she will go down with NObambi. Too many people despise NObambi, now, and it will only get worse. Mccain broke 50% in rasmussen, and they are calling it the GIBSON bounce. Does hillary really want to get 2nd spot on a filthy ticket?

    • MrMike

      She damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t. If it happens (a gigantic big if) and she refuses she will be pilloried as sabatoging the election of America’s first black president if Obama loses. If she accepts and Obama wins her aspirations for 2012 are done. What ever she does and what ever the outcome she’s toast.

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    Leahman Bro. are filing bankruptcy

  • MrMike

    Could this Hillary thing be a trial balloon? Depending on the reaction by likely Dem voters to the thought of replacing Biden they could do it if the response is positive or just claim it was some rumor started by an internet nut.

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      You know they do that before they pick to get public reaction…but they usually only pick once….

      he will be a joke if needs to pick Hillary to win and because McCain was smart and Picked the Maverick Palin.

      • MrMike

        What do you mean “he will be a joke …” He is.

        • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

          yup! you are right about that MrMike.

    • CheatedFLVoter

      Do you think this could be what obama was talking to Bill about? Maybe this is why Bill was smiling?

  • mj

    I heard that Obama met with Bill to ask him to campaign for him at the end of this month to appeal to the woman voter.

  • ritamary

    My problem with the Democratic ticket is not Joe Biden. Can’t Obummer drop out and replace him with Hillary?

    • Liberty Belle not for Obama

      Agreed. Amen. Anything is possible, especially if Obama had to drop out.

  • Babs

    My God, what would ever, ever prompt Hillary to even consider the VP nod? Tell me she would trust Obama to do anything he may promise her. A strong women might be used once, but she never lets it happen again. I don’t think the Democratic Party in its present condition is worth saving, and the thought of Hillary legitimizing all that has happened this past year by now agreeing to join the ticket just turns my stomach. I did everything in my power to get her my state’s primary victory, I will support her once again in 2012 with every fiber of my being, but I will not help her or anyone else elect Barack Obama. Not now, not ever.

  • Alice Paul

    This election (primary included) will go down as the most convoluted in history!

  • Liberty Belle not for Obama

    Starting to think this talk of Hillary replacing Biden may have some basis in fact, but not sure.

    Check out the discussion over at River Daughter’s site, The Confluence. The have a letter to the editor and op-ed from Mr. Arnone, and identify him as a pollster, and former Clinton adviser. Reading his comments, can see he’s definitely a supporter and defending of Hillary.

    He also polled Hillary fundraisers after the DNC convention, and found how many will support Obama (77%) vs. have defected to McCain, or will remain independent, sit this one out, etc.

    Is he testing the waters, or floating the trial balloon for the DNC or Hillary?

  • Jess Terr

    If the reaction on other blogs to a O/hillary ticket is any indication, even the most loyal hillary supporters would NOT vote O/anyone. Hillary jumping on the Otanic is political suicide.

    • Alice Paul

      But it may sway undecided’s and a lot of Hillary supporters that were going to sit this one out!

      I pray this doesn’t happen. It’s going to be a long seven weeks!!!!

  • Inquiring Minds Want to Know

    So what would happen if Hillary replaced Joe Biden? I presume all NQ photos of Senator Clinton would be purged and replaced by photos of Sister Sarah?

    (Purely a hypothetical scenario. It isn’t gonna happen.)

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    Comment by sowsear | 2008-09-14 22:08:56

    I received an absentee ballot (blue state) which I didn’t request. I’ve lived the last 42 yrs. in the same house and have never requested an absentee ballot. They seem to be trying everything.
    **************************************************

    I read awhile back, can’t remember where…that if you vote by absentee ballot…you should call and make sure your vote got counted for the right person…there was more but I can’t remember who had it…something is defiantly up with this be sure to report it to both party s and let us all know what they say…please….did anyone else you know get one?

    • http://lnab.newsvine.com/ Linda OKC

      you should contact your election board about that

      • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

        Linda you in OK.?

  • fluffy bunny

    Talk radio will go nuts if Hillary bumps Biden off the ticket. All the CDS haters will feel vindicated in their portrayal of her as a power mad, evil harpy.

    It will also destroy my respect for her…I thought since June that she turned Obama down for veep because she knew all the slime on him and wouldn’t associate herself with that.

    The mud will fly back on Bill because everybody will assume that 9/11/01 lunch date that Bill requested was his plan to get Hillary on the ticket.

    Hopefully this is just another Obama attempt to try to force Hillary to become his veep by putting these rumors out in the press.

    • smellthecoffee

      another attempt to try to force Hillary to become his veep? you’re kidding, right? Where do you people get this stuff?

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    We all keep saying we have never seen anything like this election…I still can’t believe my state NOW HAS more registered Rep. than Dem..first time in the states history….yes this election will go down in the books all right…

    • smellthecoffee

      Then you must live in one of three states where registered republican voters outnumber democratic by a maximum of 3%. Two, only boast 1%

  • Joeconservative

    I’m beginning to think some of the bloggers on this site are pro-Obama trolls posting as McCain advocates. How else can you explain such an infantile posting? Obama Oil? Photos from his vacation? Linking to obscure sources and claiming them as fact? This kind of posting is exactly what we need to steer clear of as it makes us look childish and validates the latest attacks coming from the Obama campaign.

    This latest news regarding Lehman Brothers makes it essential that we hit Obama hard on the economy as that will be the most important issue. Enough with the talk of lipstick and ‘Obama Oil”. We need to start talking about the issues.

    • Nobama

      He has connections to enough advisers (like Franklin Raines) who are dirty in the mortgage scandal to make something stick. He is also the third largest recipient of Fanni/Freddie donations. Senator Biden (much to his shame I am sure) is also stained by the 2005 bankruptcy reform bill that he joined with the Republicans to pass. Anyone wonder why?

      • IndianaDem

        Yeah, but McCain has got his Phil Gramm connection.

        Ol’ Phil’s deregulation schemes gave us Enron, and the repeal of Glass-Steagall Act gave us the subprime mortgage crisis.

        (See Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, Pub. L. No. 106-102, 113 Stat. 1338; also see Results All Around Us.)

        • Nobama

          That’s fine because they balance each other. Where Obama loses is that he always claims he is different, a ‘new’ politician. He is nothing of the sort and that is probably one of the reasons he is not pushing the issue in any sort of detail.

          A true ‘new’ politician would be a rare thing indeed on a national ticket. There are few major-party candidates without some dirt. What hurts Obama is his holier-than-thou attitude (I don’t take money from lobbyists, just earmarks that are an end-around for sneaky guy to get money from people who get earmarks) and his attitude and image of himself that he is above it all. he is full of it and can easily be exposed if he goes down that route.

          • ming the merciless

            Do you think Obama is out-holier-than-thou-ing John McCain? I mean, John pretends he’s running a respectful and dignified campaign, while the whole thing is nothing but a series of personal attack ads. John and Sarah are protected by the flag and the bible, while their campaign staff runs attacks from the gutter.

    • tskTsk

      Has it ever occured to you that many Hillary supporters are now for McCain and have been since she suspended her candidacy? Easy there easy. Accusing people of being trolls posing as McCain supporters “but are really for Obama” is dangerous ground. You never have to wonder if they are for Obama. It’s plain obvious. If you are wondering then you are probably wrong. ‘Are you from confluence? They are famous for calling Hill supporters trolls just because they are for McCain now. Hill is gone. Get used to it.

      • smellthecoffee

        Over 70% of Hillary supporters are for Obama. Anyone who was voting for Hillary, on the issues, would not be voting for McBush now. Those who claim to, were never supporting Hillary for the right reasons. More the “no Obama” voter.

  • Alice Paul

    If this were to happen it will happen sooner than later. The VP debates are October 2nd I believe so it will have to be before then.

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      some where on here someone posted that it would be after the first debate…i think is just a rumor, a distraction if you know what I mean…

      Joeconservative
      yes I am ready to talk about issues…if Obama ever would…he avoided it as much as he could in the primary.

      • vinnie

        you know, Barry keeps on complaining about McCain not talking about issues but didn’t take McCain’s offer to do town hall meetings. Isn’t that where he and McCain could have talked about the issues? BS is a coward.

        • smellthecoffee

          yes, Senator Obama should have taken up Mac’s offer of town halls … NOT! It’s clear from watching Sen. McCain’s townhalls that dissenting views (on his side) are not welcome and his audiences are carefully screened. It would have just been another set-up like the Saddleback forum. Wake up, folks! You are almost over the edge of reason. Wake up before its too late and McC has us attacking Iran and Russia, borrowing more money to cut corporate taxes … and God know’s what else. His judgment is seriously flawed and he could care less about our country as he made clear in his selection of Palin for VP. McCain is really willing to lose his integrity to win an election.

          • imustprotest

            What a lame statement. The town halls are like the debates. No one campaign controls them. Obama’s team of thugs would have just as much say in the audience and other details as McCain’s, in fact probably much much more because the MSM is in the tank and kissing on Camp Obama they should get a room.

            • smellthecoffee

              if the MSM was indeed in the pocket of the left, coverage would look more like MSNBC than FOX. Talk about lame. And what thugs are you referring to? The ones running McBush’s campaign? Those willing to lie so easily and obviously? A fact, btw, that will come back to bite them in the a$$. Senator Obama has run an exemplary campaign and if you don’t see that, its because you don’t want to.

              • imustprotest

                No the Chicago Thugs who intimidate caucus voters, Superdelegates and other high profile dems……Obamasoretoro’s team of blogger boyz who attack anyone who doesn’t support “The One” on every blog and tries to shut down blogs and threaten people who speak out publicly or who initiate petition……and on and on and on………Obama has run the sleeziest campaign EVER and if YOU don’t see that you’re probably another paid thug for Obamasoretoro.

                • smellthecoffee

                  I hear you but you have absolutely no proof. Credible sources, please. Paid thug? Man, you are gone.

        • smellthecoffee

          Sure. An African American running for national office, facing the kind of ignorance displayed on this thread and worse. Uh huh, real cowardly. Your inability to critically think is showing.

      • smellthecoffee

        30yrdem, Senator Obama has made every attempt at speaking on issues. Since the primaries, he has had to spend time responding to such BS non-issues as pigs in lipstick. Apparently, you see what you want to see.

        • imustprotest

          You forget coffee…..Obama was the one who brought up Pigs in lipstick as yet another smear slam against “that woman” The horrors!!!! Obama hates women, it’s obvious, stop smelling and start paying attention.

          • smellthecoffee

            No, “pigs in lipstick” is a common phrase when speaking of presenting an old issue as new when nothing about it has changed. Like the McBush camp stealing the “change” message. Its a phrase, btw, that McBush loves to use and has used it often in his campaign, even in referring to HRC’s health plan. Its you, dear, who is not paying full attention and your double standard on Senator Obama vs. McBush’s use of the phrase is very telling.

            • imustprotest

              hahahahahahaha! NO, Obama used it, clumisly of course, as a slam against Palin. He’s usually a little more passive aggressive and not as obvious, but he’s angry and this is what happens when you challenge a narcissist. He’s out of control, and you know it, or maybe you don’t….or you don’t care. So stop trying to re-write history, nobody is buying your lame “arguments”

              • smellthecoffee

                You don’t have to “buy” my factual statements but facts are facts. The only folks trying to re-write history are those so willing to repeat it.

                http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/706/

              • smellthecoffee

                Btw, I care so much that I will not let four more years of George W. Bush’s failed policies destroy our nation. And that’s all McCain is bringing. Through all the mudslinging and BS that is the bottom line. McCain/Palin would only bring more of the same and our once great nation will not be recognizable at the end. Do you realize that we are in dire straits? Or is your head stuck too far up your a$$? Or, is it possible that you are part of the top 1% elites? I think not, so you are proving my point for me.

    • QUEENIE

      do not forget some states have early voting..such as my state of Florida..ballots should be in the process now or finished being printed..

      here are the rules for Florida early vote..as per the state web site.

      Early VotingBack
      Voters may vote in person by casting a ballot prior to Election Day. The voter will use the same type of voting equipment that is used at the polls on Election Day. Early voting begins 15 days before an election and ends on the 2nd day before an election. During this period, early voting is conducted 8 hours per day on each weekday and for 8 hours in the aggregate for each weekend. Supervisors of Elections designate early voting sites 30 days prior to an election. Early voting will be offered in the main or branch office of the Supervisor of Elections. They may also designate any city hall or public library geographically located so that all voters in the county will have an equal opportunity to cast a vote. Contact your Supervisor of Elections for dates, times and locations in your county.

      I am pretty sure Tenn. has early vote as well..that begins on Oct 15th..please check with your state………I do not believe a candidate switch in October would be all to possible.

  • Docelder

    I think it is coming, because without trying it they already know all is lost. All McCain needs to do between now and elections is appear presidential. Obama has already lost any hope of that. He appears “rap star”. He would be the first President who ever gave his opponent “the finger” twice and still won. I don’t see it. Picking Hillary now further acknowledges that his 3 a.m. judgment is lacking. Even so, not picking her is admitting defeat. If she comes on board now, Obama will blame her for the loss. Both of them I think have misjudged the “Palin effect” they both think it’s that she’s a woman. Yes, but that fact is just a bonus. Had Gov. Palin been an energetic, personable male Governor came from the ground up and who stood up to “big oil”… we would be nearly in the same place now. But, I think Hillary also thinks it’s because Palin is a woman. To think that misses the point and is truly sexist towward Gov. Palin. If the tape exists, Hillary won’t be able to help Obama. I do not believe the MSM will try to hide the tape. It would be too much. Joining Obama at this point, would end the legacy I think. But we will see. Everybody has underestimated McCain, Palin and America to this point. I don’t see that trend reversing.

    • ming the merciless

      I especially appreciated how presidential John seemed at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

      You know, if the democrats were running half as sleazy a campaign effort as the Republicans are, they’ed be running a national TV spot featuring a few priceless Sturgis moments. Did you ever watch that video clip?

      • fluffy bunny

        Yeah, damn that man to hell for joking around with bikers. Why the nerve of that fellow!!11!!11!!eleventy!

        Francis, I feel faint…bring my blankie. An old sailor may have even told an off color joke, and his beer loving wife may have laughed at it. It’s all too much for my delicate soul!

        [swoons]

        /yeah

    • smellthecoffee

      Obama only seems like a “rap star” to racist minded dolts. His intelligence and thoughtful nature are clear and exactly what we need for our faltering country that the REPUBLICANS have all but destroyed, economically, militarily, and our reputation has been made a joke. This is because the right has become so adept at deception that many of you continue to go for the okie doke. ANYONE that can look at the state of our great nation, in a state of deterioration since the shrub took office 8yrs ago, anyone who can look with wide opened eyes and STILL vote the Repubs back into office is beyond foolish and should probably seek mental health treatment

      • imustprotest

        I think you’ve been smelling too much coffee…or something. Obama has no experience, no leadership qualities and his ego is achilles heal, a fatal flaw if you will. He is a flawed candidate and a fraud and has no business anywhere near the WH.

        • smellthecoffee

          Besides the fact that he understands the republican touted “family values” that keep husbands faithful to their wives, Senator Obama has run an exemplary campaign for as long as McBush’s VP pick has been governor.

          “Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.

          He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

          In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

          In the U.S. Senate, he has focused on tackling the challenges of a globalized, 21st century world with fresh thinking and a politics that no longer settles for the lowest common denominator. His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent. He has also been the lead voice in championing ethics reform that would root out Jack Abramoff-style corruption in Congress.

          As a member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. And knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America’s addiction to oil, he’s working to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars.

          Whether it’s the poverty exposed by Katrina, the genocide in Darfur, or the role of faith in our politics, Barack Obama continues to speak out on the issues that will define America in the 21st century. But above all his accomplishments and experiences, he is most proud and grateful for his family.”

  • IndianaDem

    Sure. Hit Obama on those economic policy issues. Just be sure to hit McCain with all the same questions.

    According to aide Jason Furman, Obama believes Lehman Brothers should seek a private solution rather than another taxpayer funded bailout. I tend to agree. Why should the taxpayers keep picking up the tab when the big guys make losing bets?

    The best news I’ve heard about Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac is that the top executives aren’t going to get their $25 million escape packages. It’s about damn time.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091401698.html?hpid=moreheadlines

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      McCain and Palin said these places were costing taxpayers to much money…remember they tried to smear her because she said it before the last bail out was hours away…

    • vinnie

      BOTH Barry and McCain say they favor private bail out.

    • QUEENIE

      ahhh IndianaDem, you do know that two of Obama’s top econ advisors were the guys who got Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae into this trouble don’t you??

      Just wondering..

      • smellthecoffee

        Credible sources, please

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    Has anyone looked at fight the smears? Not that it is a smear but a rumor…I have never been to that site…

  • TeakwoodKite

    Cold water is needed on this thread.

    Hillary will not be replacing Joe Biden.

    This a false flag op. Think about it as ya take the cold shower pleasssse?

    This same crap was run against Hillary in the Primaries.

    It goes to the unintended comment that Chucky made on MTP this am. That John McCain will get 70% of the indie vote. BO needs “48%” to be viable. Who is the only way he can do that? And on what planet would one have to be on to really believe that this will happen?

    Notice I did not “How”. His ego prevents him from doing this.

    It is however that BO will step aside when he does not respond to the discovery requests due on 24th.

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      I say it is a distraction from the real issues…what is BO up to now?

    • vinnie

      I agree. There is no way Hillary will be on barry’s sinking ship. The Dems will look desperate and pathetic, something that they don’t want to show publicly at least. Her strong presence will only make the one look even weaker and we can’t have that now can we? Meeeecheele would be angry, and you don’t want her angry…just like Bill Bixby used to say on The Incredible Hulk. shivers….

    • http://safari McAnnie, Carmel Barracuda

      You are entirely right. There is no way this train can be stopped or derailed. Biden is the candidate…and where is his marvelous campaign manager, Patty Solis Doyle?

  • anon

    joe conservative–
    yup, this appears to have been posted almost right after the telegraph article went out (although I’m not sure about time zones) agreed however that this is not very political. I don’t want to mock Obama supporters, I’m just worried that they’re being fooled. I mean, I accept that McCain and Palin aren’t perfect, but at least they don’t claim to be.

    in any case, this prolly not the best approach…

    • smellthecoffee

      When, exactly, did Senator Obama claim to be “perfect”?

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    I want to see a GE map that looks like this on Nov.5.

    http://news.aol.com/political-machine/straw-poll

    More history for the books…

    • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

      later all…have a good night

    • audacity

      yessssssssssssss

  • Stewie

    As I reported here last week, rumors are heavy that Biden is being given both a carrot and a stick to drop out by pretending to be ill.

    The alleged stick is if he does not fake an illness, Chicago thugs will give him an “illness” — a fatal one. The alleged carrot is that after the election he will “recover” and be appointed Attorney General — a slot left open by Edwards’ mistress scandal.

    Obama is rumored to have informed Bill about the plot in their meeting on 9/11.

    The more people who learn about this the less likely they will try to pull the scheme off.

    • richasis

      Given Bill Clinton’s demeanor after the meeting, I don’t think he’s staking his political life on that bet…

      But I neither doubt nor would be surprised by such ‘events’.

    • smellthecoffee

      bought any swampland lately? cuz you’re surely going for the okie doke if you believe this.

  • Stewie

    Speaking of rumors, there is a rumored plot by the Democrats to steal the election by having Obama forces in blue states vote absentee so they don’t have to be in their home states on November 4, and then on election day pour into swing ststes to vote fraudulently (possibly in coordination with ACORN).

    The rumored gameplan is for Obama troops to pour from California into Las Vegas; from Massachusetts and Vermont into New Hampshire; from New York into Pennsylvania; from Maryland into Virginia; and from Chicago into Michigan, Gary, Indiana, and Ohio.

    Federal and state authorities need to be on the lookout for this possible plot to steal the election for Barack, the favorite son of corrupt Chicago politics.

    • richasis

      It’s rumored that this strategy was employed during the Primaries…

    • fluffy bunny

      And where do you hear these rumors?

      Has anybody notified law enforcement about this possibility?

    • street_parade

      Rumor has it….that Stewie posts a lot of rumors.

    • http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/080820_NBC-WSJ_Released.pdf trixta

      This strategy I do believe. The only way Obama can win is by stealing the election. I believe he’s training his “civilian army” as we post on this thread.

      • cynic

        The republicans may have stolen both 2000 and 2004. There were all sorts of documented irregularites with voting and the subsequent count. They’re doing that “caging” scam again in Ohio this year. Maybe the dems figure they’ve got to play the same game the republicans have been playing?

        • Perry Logan

          Le’s put it this way–if you think America reelected The Worst President Ever™ by a comfortable margin, I’ve got some choice swampland to sell you!

      • smellthecoffee

        Anyone who thinks Obama would be responsible for stealing elections is an idiot. Just look at 2000 and 2004. What a bunch of dimwits. You’ve really convinced yourselves of the projected lies promoted by the reich wing. Take a look at the reality.

        http://www.uncountedthemovie.com/

  • http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/18/born-in-the-usa/#more.3665 Pumawhisper

    FOLKS here is how it might work?
    1. Joe Biden’s health causes him to step down.
    2. Hillary replaceshim
    3. Obama is found to be unqualified (Berg lawsuit)
    4. Hillary moves up as Presidential nominee.
    5. Joe Biden gets well and becomes VP again
    6. Republicans don’t have a lot of time to destroy her.
    7. Hillary wins close race against McCain
    and becomes the FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT
    I LIKE THIS SCENARIO

    • Hill Dem 4 McPalin

      Debunked.

      Hillary doesn’t have to be the VP on the ticket to replace Obama if he’s deemed ineligible. The rules allow the party to identify a replacement in the event that the nominee becomes unavailable prior to the GE.

      good try, though.

    • jbjd

      Expend your energies and imagination to volunteer as a poll monitor in your state.

      Unless HRC is on the general election ballot, she cannot win the election. And since she failed to be nominated at the major party’s nominating convention then, according to the laws you enacted in your state, her name cannot be printed on the ballot.

    • fluffy bunny

      Um, sorry, but this isn’t New Jersey. You can’t win an election for POTUS with a Torricelli/Lautenberg switch. If Obama truly wasn’t eligible, the Clintons would have known that by the convention, and Hillary would have mounted the floor fight.

      If Obama’s dumped now, the party fractures and all hell breaks loose for downticket dems (especially any who acted as Obama superdelegates) … the party is discredited and likely goes the way of the dodo.

      All MHO, of course, but I just don’t see it happening.

      • Nobama

        If some type of scenario like the one above happened the Dems would lose all credibility and would probably have to rebuild from scratch. The best course of action for Senator Clinton is to quietly go about her buisness to see what happens and wait for the next fight.

    • richasis

      that’s assuming Hillary wins after all of that…

      i’m thinking 2012, but that’s just me… :)

  • Nobama
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  • Wiley

    Sorry, but I’m going to go OT here for a second.

    I just read this very human story about John McCain and wanted to share it with the NO Quarter folks.
    ————————————————-

    The Great McCain Story You’ve Probably Forgotten
    What an old anecdote about Mo Udall in the hospital reveals about McCain’s character.
    By Michael Lewis

    Back in 1996 and 1997, before John McCain was a presidential candidate or object of media fascination, Michael Lewis followed the Arizona senator around as he campaigned for Bob Dole and worked to reform campaign-finance laws. Lewis’ pieces for the New Republic and the New York Times Magazine portrayed McCain as a passionate, cantankerous, astonishingly honest political character who frequently acted in ways that brought him no political gain. In the recent back-and-forth over whether McCain is a regular politician or a true outlier, we remembered a wonderful moment from Lewis’ 1997 New York Times Magazine profile of McCain, “The Subversive.” The passage below comes at the very end of Lewis’ article.

    By 7:30 we were on the road, and McCain was reminiscing about his early political career. When he was elected to the House in 1982, he said, he was “a freshman right-wing Nazi.” But his visceral hostility toward Democrats generally was quickly tempered by his tendency to see people as individuals and judge them that way. He was taken in hand by Morris Udall, the Arizona congressman who was the liberal conscience of the Congress and a leading voice for reform. (Most famously—and disastrously for his own career—Udall took aim at the seniority system that kept young talent in its place at the end of the dais. “The longer you’re here, the more you’ll like it,” he used to joke to incoming freshmen.)

    “Mo reached out to me in 50 different ways,” McCain recalled. “Right from the start, he’d say: ‘I’m going to hold a press conference out in Phoenix. Why don’t you join me?’ All these journalists would show up to hear what Mo had to say. In the middle of it all, Mo would point to me and say, ‘I’d like to hear John’s views.’ Well, hell, I didn’t have any views. But I got up and learned and was introduced to the state.” Four years later, when McCain ran for and won Barry Goldwater’s Senate seat, he said he felt his greatest debt of gratitude not to Goldwater—who had shunned him—but to Udall. “There’s no way Mo could have been more wonderful,” he says, “and there was no reason for him to be that way.”

    For the past few years, Udall has lain ill with Parkinson’s disease in a veterans hospital in Northeast Washington, which is where we were heading. Every few weeks, McCain drives over to pay his respects. These days the trip is a ceremony, like going to church, only less pleasant. Udall is seldom conscious, and even then he shows no sign of recognition. McCain brings with him a stack of newspaper clips on Udall’s favorite subjects: local politics in Arizona, environmental legislation, Native American land disputes, subjects in which McCain initially had no particular interest himself. Now, when the Republican senator from Arizona takes the floor on behalf of Native Americans, or when he writes an op-ed piece arguing that the Republican Party embrace environmentalism, or when the polls show once again that he is Arizona’s most popular politician, he remains aware of his debt to Arizona’s most influential Democrat.

    One wall of Udall’s hospital room was cluttered with photos of his family back in Arizona; another bore a single photograph of Udall during his season with the Denver Nuggets, dribbling a basketball. Aside from a congressional seal glued to a door jamb, there was no indication what the man in the bed had done for his living. Beneath a torn gray blanket on a narrow hospital cot, Udall lay twisted and disfigured. No matter how many times McCain tapped him on the shoulder and called his name, his eyes remained shut.

    A nurse entered and seemed surprised to find anyone there, and it wasn’t long before I found out why: Almost no one visits anymore. In his time, which was not very long ago, Mo Udall was one of the most-sought-after men in the Democratic Party. Yet as he dies in a veterans hospital a few miles from the Capitol, he is visited regularly only by a single old political friend, John McCain. “He’s not going to wake up this time,” McCain said.

    On the way out of the parking lot, McCain recalled what it was like to be a nobody called upon by a somebody. As he did, his voice acquired the same warmth that colored Russell Feingold’s speech when he described the first call from John McCain. “When you called Feingold … ” I started to ask him. But before I could, he interrupted. “Yeah,” he says, “I thought of Mo.” And then, for maybe the third time that morning, McCain spoke of how it affected him when Udall took him in hand. It was a simple act of affection and admiration, and for that reason it meant all the more to McCain. It was one man saying to another, We disagree in politics but not in life. It was one man saying to another, party political differences cut only so deep. Having made that step, they found much to agree upon and many useful ways to work together. This is the reason McCain keeps coming to see Udall even after Udall has lost his last shred of political influence. The politics were never all that important.
    Michael Lewis’ most recent book is The Blind Side.

    Article URL: http://www.slate.com/id/2188545/

  • QUEENIE

    ut ohhhhhhhhh

    http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/09/14/lehman-bankrupt-merrill-bought-aig-collapsing-where-does-it-a/

    Lehman bankrupt, Merrill bought, AIG collapsing: Where does it all end?
    Posted Sep 14th 2008 10:04PM by Peter Cohan
    Filed under: Bank of America (BAC), Merrill Lynch (MER), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH)

    The global financial system teeters on the edge of a collapse the likes of which has not been seen in at least 80 years. Thanks to the complexity of the financial instruments involved, the amount of leverage used to trade them, and the global interconnectedness of it all, it could be the worst collapse in financial history. The key question at this point is “What will make it stop?”

    The latest news features a bankruptcy of a 158-year-old financial firm, the acquisition of one of the most storied names on Wall Street, and a major restructuring of one of the world’s largest insurance companies. Here are the details:

    As I predicted this morning, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH) is expected to file for bankruptcy tonight, according to Bloomberg News. That outcome was far from certain this morning as Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was expected to bid for the “good” part of Lehman. But the US declined to backstop Lehman’s bad part so Bank of America withdrew its offer and now Lehman shareholders will be wiped out. It is not clear how severely the Lehman bankruptcy will hurt global markets.
    The good news, as I posted this afternoon, is that Bank of America has agreed to pay $29 a share for Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER) according to the Wall Street Journal. This is great news because it gives Merrill shareholders a $12 a share premium and takes out what would have been the next firm to fail. I am not sure how Bank of America will make the deal pay off, but now attention focuses on the next domino to fall.
    American International Group (NYSE: AIG) — seeking “to stave off credit downgrades — may seek help from the Federal Reserve. [AIG has] turned down a private-equity investment because it would have meant turning over control of the company” according to Bloomberg News. AIG plans to announce a major restructuring Monday — CNNMoney reports AIG will “dispose of its aircraft-leasing arm, International Lease Finance Corp., which has a fleet of more than 900 airplanes valued at more than $50 billion.” The New York Times estimates it needs $18 billion to stave off credit downgrades.

    • tskTsk

      US is broke. The Dem congress filled their own coffers and the committees they are in charge of are broke. This is old news.

  • wodiej

    I don’t believe Hillary will go for President in 2012. I just think after all the BS she went through this time and how expensive it was and the stress, she won’t try it. Just my opinion.

    As for election fraud, I don’t think it has to be a rumor that Obama is going to try to steal this election. He’s got no values or integrity nor do his supporters. Also w his involvment in Acorn I think we can all expect that to happen. I am personally going to do my part by taking a vacation day on Nov. 4th and volunteer to work the polls all day. I am going to find out what I can do to watch registration. I am not sure in Indiana that will be an issue but I intend to find out. They are very strict here now because of what Bush did. We have the voting machines. And to vote you have to show photo ID plus you have to sign into a registration book and they match your signature. No match or ID, you don’t vote. I’m quite sure there will be some shady people trying to volunteer at the polls this year for Obama but usually it is seniors. But I am going to do what I can to catch anything going on. I think if Republicans just make sure they have people watching they should be ok. I don’t know about other states but the Republicans need to be aware.

    Part of this is the Republicans fault by condoning what Bush did. They did steal the election for Bush, not just once, but probably twice. You reap what you sow. The good, honest voters are suffering and the low lifes are crawling out from the woodwork.

    • jbjd

      Not sure election fraud will be a problem in IN? Where were you during the primaries? (Watch for out-of-state voters being bused in.)

    • http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com M. Simon

      I think if Republicans just make sure they have people watching they should be ok. I don’t know about other states but the Republicans need to be aware.

      They have a bunch of volunteer lawyers on tap to monitor for fraud.

    • Perry Logan

      If they somehow get Obama elected, Republicans had better be scared—very scared.

      The Obama organization with get to work on the whole voter system. He and his gang will set up a Chicago-style machine across the entire nation. We won’t have another Republican President for at least fifty years…

      …which would be good…except these are crooked Democrats.

  • http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com M. Simon

    Here is the kind of radical far right neocons that have ruined our government:

    Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. – John F. Kennedy

    • Perry Logan

      Before he was killed, the Right all called him a commie.

      • http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com M. Simon

        I was a Democrat then.

  • moi61537

    Has anyone seen this one:

    http://www.nypost.com/seven/09152008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/obama_tried_to_stall_gis_iraq_withdrawal_129150.htm

    The writer says Obama tried to delay the draw down of troops. Obama first evidently.

  • http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com M. Simon

    Top 5 recipients of contributions from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s PACs

    And the winners are!

    1. Dodd, Christopher J D-CT $133,900

    2. Kerry, John D-MA
    $111,000

    3. Obama, Barack D-IL
    $105,849

    4. Clinton, Hillary D-NY
    $75,550

    5. Kanjorski, Paul E D-PA
    $65,500

    http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-senate-recipients-of-fanni.html

  • Sassy

    The real Problem with a P is the Pretender!
    And we white trash hillbillys prefer WD40 to “snake oil”!
    McCain/Palin

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    REMOVE THIS COMMENT

  • vinnie

    that’s right, when all else fails and Barry Soetoro’s poll numbers start to go south…hurl insults. You represent your loser of an empty suit well.

  • Ms J of FL

    feel better now?

  • richasis

    ROTFLMAO – the condensed version of that comment? P-A-N-I-C !!!

  • StrawberrybitesBarky

    Yeah, you said that already.

  • IronMan

    barack, is that you? Shouldn’t you be working on your concession speech?

  • http://noquarterusa.net/blog/ Truthteller

    Thank you for inserting homophobia into this discussion, typical Obama supporter. I take it you are from the Donnie McClurkin wing of the Democratic Party.

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    DELETE PLEASE

  • AX10

    What’s wrong troll? Did your check from the Obama campaign bounce?

  • MrMike

    No, really , You’re a piece of work, how do you feel about Larry Johnson? Did you get Cheetoh crumbs all over the keyboard of your mom’s computer from laffing at your wit?

  • Ms J of FL

    best post today!
    i luv when we frustrate them.

  • tampagurl

    He accidentally said Larry, he really meant Obama.