Polls Tighten * Open Thread

It’s called milquetoast Melanin Love

Obama even with his $150 million in September coming from the terrorists of the world cannot close the deal against the old geez, George Bush the II, and the non-experienced caribou barbie air head….Well, what does this say about THE ONE? Maybe he is not the one!
Watch out boys and girls, This year’s revolution will not be televised…

The best way to form an opinion is to study the matter. I can only offer help with the issue:

1. Colin Powell is the liar who, using areil photos, claimed that Saddam Hussein was wheeling nukes around in mobile trailers. He later recanted saying it was not true, which it wasn’t.

2. Colin Powell is a Republican, or so he says, but how can he abandon so quickly his “long-held” beliefs in conservatism to reach out of the most radical extreme liberal (Hussein Obama) in the Senate? Powell’s integrity and honor have at last given up the ghost. Mr. Powell’s word is not worth a single grain of sand.

Google some and you’ll find Mr. Powell’s reputation took a big hit since he was caught up in lies about Iraq.

What’s more important is knowing about Barack Obama: He’s an extreme socialist with ideas about redistributing the wealth in America. Raila Odinga, a relative of Obama’s tried this in Kenya with Obama’s help and failed.

Americans by an 84% to 13% reject Obama’s redistribution of wealth ideology.

How extreme is Obama to our Christian nation?

Here’s a quote from the Barack Obama book, “Audacity of Hope” — “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

And this man wants to be President? I and several tens of millions of people think NOT.

Vote for John McCain — Honorable patriot — President of the United States of America.

Yeah — like we funtioned better with Bush and both parties under Republican control in 2001-2006?

Yeah, just look at the big cities that have only one party. They are a mess. One party = massive corruption.

McCain’s camp should look into kool-aid bloggers KOS and Democratic Underground. They have raised and awful lot of dough in a short period of time. DU struggled to get $50,000, then Obama asked for $75,000 and they raised it (supposedly) in less time than the $50K.

Someone or some country is funneling money through these Obot blog sights. No doubt about it.

Nooooooooo Colin is not mislead..he is a bold faced liar and part of the new world order..he joined when he lied to the entire world and knew damn well he was lying our soldiers into a lie of a war..I am sick of the excuses for Powell..he is a damn liar and he is responsible for each and every one of our soldiers deaths..and the deaths of over 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilian deaths..you do know that prior to Powell helping start this war..over 50% of Iraqi citzens were under the age of 15 don’t you???????

Powell is responsible for each and every one of those deaths..there is no excuse to not know this info..it was in papers around the world..with the internet there is no excuse to not know the truth..and to keep up the lies is dispicable.

I have posted this many times today..and I will keep posting it until people wake up..Obama is owned by the same shadow government as Bush and Cheney..to think otherwise is only lying to yourself..

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Colin Powell lied us into war..he lied our soldiers into a war..he lied our soldiers and over 100,000 Iraqi’s to their deaths..he is no citizen or General who should be held up to any high esteem..any military man who would send our troops to war based on lies is guilty of treason…and Colin Powell should be in prison for the rest of his life..not endorsing anyone for President and any real democrat that cheers this man endorsing any candidate is not a real democrat anyway!

These article i have held in my files..in case this filthy pig Colin Powell were to try to do anything to clear his name..let alone endorse a democratic candidate for the highest office in this nation..

I keep trying to post with the links and they won’t post so i will try this way..
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UK war dossier a sham, say experts
British ‘intelligence’ lifted from academic articles

Michael White and Brian Whitaker
Friday February 7, 2003

Guardian

Downing Street was last night plunged into acute international embarrassment after it emerged that large parts of the British government’s latest dossier on Iraq – allegedly based on “intelligence material” – were taken from published academic articles, some of them several years old.
Amid charges of “scandalous” plagiarism on the night when Tony Blair attempted to rally support for the US-led campaign against Saddam Hussein, Whitehall’s dismay was compounded by the knowledge that the disputed document was singled out for praise by the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, in his speech to the UN security council on Wednesday.

Citing the British dossier, entitled Iraq – its infrastructure of concealment, deception and intimidation in front of a worldwide television audience Mr Powell said: “I would call my colleagues’ attention to the fine paper that the United Kingdom distributed… which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception activities.”

But on Channel 4 News last night it was revealed that four of the report’s 19 pages had been copied – with only minor editing and a few insertions – from the internet version of an article by Ibrahim al-Marashi which appeared in the Middle East Review of International Affairs last September.

Though that was not the only textual embarrassment No 10 seemed determined to tough it out last night.

Dismissing the gathering controversy as the latest example of media obsession with spin, officials insisted it in no way undermines the underlying truth of the dossier, whose contents had been re-checked with British intelligence sources. “The important thing is that it is accurate,” said one source.

What Whitehall may not grasp is the horror with which unacknowledged borrowing of material – the crime of plagiarism – is regarded in American academic and media circles, even though successive US governments have a poor record of misleading their own citizens on foreign policy issues at least since the Vietnam war. On a special edition of BBC Newsnight, filmed before a critical audience last night, Mr Blair stressed that he was willing to forgo popularity to warn voters of the dangers of weapons of mass destruction: “I may be wrong, but I do believe it.”

With trust a critical element in the battle to woo a sceptical public the first sentence of the No 10 document merely states, somewhat cryptically, that it “draws upon a number of sources, including intelligence material”.

But Glen Rangwala, a lecturer in politics at Cambridge University, told Channel 4: “I found it quite startling when I realised that I’d read most of it before.”

The content of six more pages relies heavily on articles by Sean Boyne and Ken Gause that appeared in Jane’s Intelligence Review in 1997 and last November. None of these sources is acknowledged.

The document, as posted on Downing Street’s website at the end of January, also accidentally named four Whitehall officials who had worked on it: P Hamill, J Pratt, A Blackshaw and M Khan. It was reposted on February 3 with the first three names deleted.

“Apart from passing this off as the work of its intelligence services,” Dr Rangwala said, “it indicates that the UK really does not have any independent sources of information on Iraq’s internal policies. It just draws upon publicly available data.”

Evidence of an electronic cut-and-paste operation by Whitehall officials can be found in the way the dossier preserves textual quirks from its original sources. One sentence in Dr Marashi’s article includes a misplaced comma in referring to Iraq’s head of military intelligence during the 1991 Gulf war. The same sentence in Downing Street’s report contains the same misplaced comma.

A Downing Street spokesman declined to say why the report’s public sources had not been acknowledged. “We said that it draws on a number of sources, including intelligence. It speaks for itself.”

Dr Marashi, a research associate at the Centre for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, said no one had contacted him before lifting the material.

But on the regular edition of Newsnight he later gave some comfort to No 10. “In my opinion, the UK document overall is accurate even though there are a few minor cosmetic changes. The only inaccuracies in the UK document were that they maybe inflated some of the numbers of these intelligence agencies,” he said.

Explaining the more journalistic changes inserted into his work by Whitehall he added: “Being an academic paper, I tried to soften the language.

“For example, in one of my documents, I said that they support organisations in what Iraq considers hostile regimes, whereas the UK document refers to it as ‘supporting terrorist organisations in hostile regimes’.

“The primary documents I used for this article are a collection of two sets of documents, one taken from Kurdish rebels in the north of Iraq – around 4m documents – as well as 300,000 documents left by Iraqi security services in Kuwait. After that, I have been following events in the Iraqi security services for the last 10 years.”

Iraq’s decision last night to let weapons inspectors interview one of its scientists for the first time without government “minders” signalled that Baghdad may be bending under international pressure.

But diplomats will be trying to determine over the next few days whether it is a token gesture or a real shift away from what they describe as Iraq’s “catch us if you can” approach to inspections. Hours before the announcement, a Foreign Office source in London signalled that this was the kind of change of heart that Iraq would have to make to avoid war.

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from the guardian..

Downing St admits blunder on Iraq dossier
Plagiarism row casts shadow over No 10′s case against Saddam

Michael White, Ewen MacAskill and Richard Norton-Taylor
Saturday February 8, 2003

Guardian

Downing Street yesterday apologised for its failure to acknowledge that much of its latest dossier on Iraq was lifted from academic sources, as the affair threatened to further undermine confidence in the government’s case for disarming Saddam Hussein.
MPs and anti-war groups were quick to protest that other features of Whitehall’s information campaign are suspect at a time when MI6 and other intelligence agencies are privately complaining at the way No 10 has been over-egging intelligence material on Iraq.

It emerged yesterday that the dossier issued last week – later found to include a plagiarised section written by an American PhD student – was compiled by mid-level officials in Alastair Campbell’s Downing Street communications department with only cursory approval from intelligence or even Foreign Office sources.

Though it now appears to have been a journalistic cut and paste job rather than high-grade intelligence analysis, the dossier ended up being cited approvingly on worldwide TV by the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, when he addressed the UN security council on Wednesday.

Downing Street yesterday toughed it out, insisting that what mattered was that the facts contained in the document were “solid” and helped make the case Tony Blair rammed home on BBC Newsnight. But the middle section of the dossier, which describes the feared Iraqi intelligence network, was taken, much of it verbatim, from the research of Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi without his knowledge or permission.

“In retrospect we should have acknowledged [this]. The fact that we used some of his work does not throw into question the accuracy of the document as a whole, as he himself acknowledged on Newsnight last night, where he said that in his opinion the document overall was accurate,” the No 10 spokesman conceded. “We all have lessons to learn,” he added. The four officials originally named on the website version of the 19-page dossier include Alison Blackshaw, Mr Campbell’s senior assistant, and Murtaza Khan, described as a news editor on the busy Downing Street website.

Professor Michael Clark, director of the International Policy Institute at King’s College London, said presenting such intelligence material “invalidates the veracity” of the rest of the document. The shadow foreign secretary, Michael Ancram, called for a cabinet minister to oversee government information on Iraq.

Even before the latest row some Whitehall officials were protesting that MI6 and other intelligence material was being used selectively by Downing Street. A well-placed source made it clear that the dossier had been the work of Downing Street and the Coalition Information Centre, the body set up after September 11 to put the US-British case on the war against terrorism. The source dismissed a key section of the dossier as full of “silly errors”.

Glenda Jackson, the Labour former minister, was one of several MPs to protest that the government was misleading parliament and the public. “And of course to mislead is a parliamentary euphemism for lying,” Ms Jackson told Radio 4′s Today programme.

Dr al-Marashi expressed “surprise” at the lack of a credit for his work, as did other authors whose research was quickly identified. One anti-war group, Voices in the Wilderness, identified a passage from No 10′s September dossier directly traceable to Saddam Secrets, a book by Tim Trevan published in 1999.

The Middle East Review of International Affairs, from which Dr al-Marashi’s work was lifted, is based in Israel, which makes it a suspect source to even moderate Arab opinion, and another reason why the origin of the information should have been listed.
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from the Sydney Morning Herald..

Colin Powell defends US policy on Iraq
January 9, 2004 – 9:46AM

Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged today that he saw no “smoking gun, concrete evidence” of ties between Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaeda terror network, but insisted Iraq had dangerous weapons and needed to be disarmed by force.

At a State Department news conference, Powell openly disagreed with a private think tank report which maintained that Iraq was not an imminent threat to the United States, and defended the case he made before the United Nations for a US-led war to force Saddam from power.

“My presentation … made it clear that we had seen some links and connections to terrorists organisations over time,” Powell said.

“I have not seen smoking gun, concrete evidence about the connection, but I do believe the connections existed.”

Three experts at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said in a report today that the Bush administration systematically misrepresented a weapons threat from Iraq, and US strategy should be revised to eliminate the policy of unilateral preventive war.

(ahhhhhhhhhhhh but Powell testified to a smoking gun..and sent our kids to die in a hell hole based on his testimony to the world..which was all a pile of bullshit lies…what a lying piece of vile excrement Colin Powell is!)

(Noooooo Powell your presentation was a pile of lies and plagarism..total bullshit and you knew it Powell!You should be in prison Powell..not endorsing anyone!)

Lets just open the jails and prisons and let everyone out. We need more of that on everyone around and on us.

McCain gave up on MI because of the economic blight there (read: auto industry). But OH, FL and PA – still part of the game.

It could mean obama is wasting his time in red states. And FL and OH are bad choices to use to prove your point. See 2000 for FL and 2004 for Ohio. Kerry won MI. So in the worst climate for repubs since nixon, more money than God, the “liberal media” wind at obama’s back for 18 months one would have to wonder why the election is even close. And yes it is close.

I thought that Dems “always” win Michigan?

WIth their economic situation, you’d think they’d be smart enough to try something different.

I remember the era of the razors. Don’t bring one to a gunfight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN2eZtAPLiY

Here is the link. Spread it around to show what a monster Obama is. He should call off his dogs and dogs they are. What does Powell think of this kind of negativity from Obama minions? He approves and endorses it?

Carpet bombing of advertising does win votes, lots of them. A lot of people vote for whom they would perceive as the winner, only because they want to get the feeling of wining and rebuke the losers.

WOW! It’s been building up, hasn’t it? Bet you feel better now. You took the words right out of my mouth.

On the Colin Powell endorsement…..bravo! I hope they arrest him for war crimes and send him off to The Hague to stand trial. g. d. liar….he had a Profiles in Courage moment and he blew it.

I decided to save your post in my hard drive at whatever cost to me. Your post is truth to power.

I disagree in that I believe that in most cases, blacks and poor people that are lining in droves to vote for ‘the One’ will be the most negatively affected by their choice. They are the most vulnerable to the directives of the future masters of their lives.

Colin Powell just ‘John Edwards-ed’ himself.

LOL, that’s about right. Where is Johnny Edwards these days? Maybe he’s Rep. Mahoney’s speech writer, parsing from his own notes on the subject of cheatin’ on a spouse.

We must remember that Colin Powell is the guy everyone respected… before he let himself be a tool of the Bush Administration’s case to invade Iraq. He was the chief spokesperson to the UN and foreign powers advocating the existence of WMDs and the threat they posed, this despite the fact that the administration knew at the time that the claims were questionable. Colin Powell’s respectability is largely a media fabrication, and his behavior in the Bush administration called his judgment into serious question. He supposedly is indefatigably loyal, but the true test of character comes when loyalty and integrity are at cross purposes. He may be a great general, but as a judge of character, he has already shown lapses in the past. Sensible people should take his endorsement of Obama with a grain of salt.

BO is in a class by himself in his classlessness.

McCain has only one thing missing in his strategy. If he can as you say get Obama to come out an talk at least one more time to the press or to the public on an impromptu basis, he will get him. He just needs to get Obama to slip one more time.

Maybe Biden will slip again.

McCain needs to do one thing and one thing only. To insist that Obama answer a few questions. Keep insisting that he needs to answer a few questions either from reporters or from the public. Keep saying that, keep saying that. “Sen. Obama you need to answer these questions… and spell them.”

Otherwise if Obama can keep to his speeches and prepared performances, is going to be very difficult to beat Obama.

Good one, Indie. I’m copying to my file under “Lucid Thinkers.” Thanks.

HoBama outspent Hillary 3 to 1 in some states and still lost by 10 – 15 points.

Imagine Obama going back to the Senate. Imagine the current press doing everything to ingratiate themselves to McCain/Palin. Now image those two entites sweating it out right now.

Half a billion dollars down the drain. The bribes, the extortion money, the laundered money = BEAR MARKET for Obama.

There will be NO SECOND ACT for Obama and the Sucka Press.

Correct. He should be at least 15 points ahead at this point. The fact that he isn’t is bad news for the Obama campaign.

Coffee is for closers.

NoBama: I was at the rally today in Roswell, When she stepped from the plane, the roaring of the crowd was deafening. Sarah was great….she came off the plane carrying her baby. Southeastern NM will go republican, it’s the northern part of the state that will carry Obama. GO McCAIN/PALIN!

I am SO sick of the media always mentioning race. I think it will backfire. I was at the airport yesterday, looking for a magazine to buy. Of course Uhbama was on Time in half black/white. Other mags were also talking about race. Just sickening.

Obama is too inexperienced, too corrupt and hasn’t proven that he can get anything done politically. One of two things will happen if he gets elected…either he will be very hard-headed and just do things his way without listening to anyone, or Pelosi, Frank, Dean and the others will be pulling his puppet strings. It will be George W. all over again. I know quite a few people who voted for Bush and are supporting Obama because they made a mistake before. People never learn…they are making the same mistake again!

I was very surpise living here in Florida over 36 years with the miami people on the last debate.. The people that were undecided on Fox were all from Miami and the majority were voting for Mccain. 4 out of 23 were for Obama. They all felt Obama won the debate, but only 4 were voting for him. Let me tell you from experience with voting. Miami people vote for the blue collar democrats- Broward votes red and blue- The Palms vote red- Boca Raton votes red- and the rest of the north vote red- except Orlando that votes red and blue. I am very surprise to see Miami voting red. I guess the good old cubans know when they see a socialist.

Air America — some of them root for Osama Bin Laden.

So of course they don’t think founding a group that killed 5 people (including police officers) and destroyed a couple building and a Brinks Truck (grand larceny), is a bad thing.

The irony is that the caller was from Long Island — lily white, rich Long Island.