“Friends In High Places” * Open Thread

The election day will be a far bigger chaos than the ones we saw in caucuses. I hope the McCain supporters won’t give into the bullying like the Clinton supporters who ran away from caucuses without using their vote (or letting someone else to give to Barack).

“If they bring knives, we’ll bring guns”
-Barack Obama

Just saw about 30 seconds of a report on Fox from the reporter who’s following the 0bama camp (Marshall somebody?).

Anyway, in the small part I saw I heard him say that the 0bama campaign is “more nervous.” Will have to keep the TV turned to Fox to get his next update, I guess. Or, anybody hear all that he said?

From the Patriotroom.com:
October 28th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Virginia Attorney General Saves Military Ballots in Fairfax
» by Bill Dupray in: Democrats, Election, Law, Military, Virginia
The Republican Virginia Attorney General, Bob McDonnell, has advised the Democrat Registrar in Fairfax that he cannot toss military absentee ballots due to a lack of a witness’s address. Keep in mind that though the state law requires the address, the ballots themselves were not printed with a space for it.

Virginia’s attorney general told state election officials Monday that they must count perhaps hundreds of federal absentee ballots despite a state law ordering some of them to be cast aside.

A dispute arose last week after Fairfax County’s registrar said state law bars him from counting dozens of federal absentee ballots because the witnesses failed to include their addresses on ballot applications, as required by a 2002 state law designed to stamp out voter fraud.

In an advisory opinion Monday, Republican Attorney General Robert McDonnell said that federal law trumps state law on this issue, and federal law calls for the ballots to be counted.

Here is the official press release from McDonnell’s office.

McDonnell Opinion: Count Absentee Military Ballots

Opinion Finds Federal Law Preempts State Law; Federal Ballots without Witness Address Are Lawful, Must be Counted

FAIRFAX – Attorney General Bob McDonnell released a formal opinion today concluding that federal absentee ballots from overseas military voters lacking the printed name and address of a witness must be counted. The opinion affirms that federal law preempts state law, thus clarifying the state and federal statutes regarding the issue. The confusion centered over whether a state law requiring a witness’s printed name and address controls federal absentee ballots or the federal law governs this issue. The opinion was requested by Delegate Bill Janis (R-Henrico). Click here to read it.

In the formal opinion the Attorney General finds, “It is…. my opinion that the applicable provision of Virginia law, § 24.2-702.1(B), interpreted to require an overseas military voter submitting only a Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot to include the printed name and address of the person who signs the witness statement is preempted by the provisions of the (federal) Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. Finally, it is my opinion that general registrars may not reject a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot submitted by overseas military voters for the November 4, 2008 federal election that does not include a printed name and address for the person who signs the witness statement…..”

Approximately 100 Federal Write-In Absentee Ballots have been set aside in Fairfax County pending a legal conclusion regarding the discrepancy between state and federal law. Additional Federal Write-In Absentee Ballots may also have been received in other jurisdictions. The Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot is most commonly used by members of the military who are stationed overseas and have not received a state absentee ballot. It is a means by which service members can be guaranteed a vote in federal elections.

A copy of this formal opinion was provided to the State Board of Elections this afternoon.

Chalk up one more for the good guys.

Post election headline:

Joe the Plumber saves America!

It is fitting, considering he represents the “average Joe/Josephine.”

Palin message to LA times:
http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/10/29/governor-palin-has-tough-words-for-the-la-times/

The more I learn about Barack Hussein Obama the more I dislike him and will never trust him.

As I said yesterday, we need to enact laws to protect us as citizens of the USA, against people like Obama these crooked judges and lawyers, Senators, Mayors and the like.

The have run amok all over our country and do as they please, if we attempt to do the same thing they are ready to throw us in jail.

Well I say Jail the lot of them, they are a disgrace to our country they need to forfeit their positions and go back to being private citizens. God help us if Obama gets into the White House.

I am so angry I do not know what to do. I will be putting out more fliers this week-end right up until Election day.

I wish a O-Bot would get in my face, it will be H*LL to pay. I am sick and tired of all of them, including members of my own family.

How did we let ourselves get to this point???? We are too trusting of our government officials and they took advantage of us. I say NO MORE, We have to take back our country and send these scags straight to jail. We need better laws in place that do not leave any wiggle room for these lowlifes to get around the law to suit their propose.

COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS!
WE WILL REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!!!!!!

PUMAS ROCKS!!!!!

SEND THAT ONE OR THE ZERO BACK TO THE SLUMS OF CHICAGO OR TO PRISON. I do not care where just get him out of the public eye SEND HIM TO KENYA.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! I am mad as H*LL AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!

A message to all members of Team Sarah

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or even….

Obama Answers Immigration Questions from Chinese Newspaper

World Journal, Posted: Oct 27, 2008

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Barack Obama said he will address immigration reform in the first year of his presidency if he’s elected, according to the World Journal. The Chinese newspaper interviewed Obama on immigration, one of the top issues for the Asian community because a large percentage of Asian Americans are immigrants. Obama said he will work to legalize undocumented immigrants. He encouraged immigrants to apply for citizenship, so that they could participate in the U.S. political process. Obama also supports issuing driver licenses to undocumented immigrants for safety reasons.
source: news.newamericamedia.org/

What the Mother Fuck?

I am so pissed off by this.. I think I”m going to puke I’m so sick at this.

(Third attempt) I see a few comments here trying to relate the firing of Attorneys to what is going on in this situation.

From what I understand , there’s a special division of the DOJ that has jurisdiction and that’s the Civil Rights Division.

The Civil Rights Division is separate from the general “division” where all the US Attorneys are.

The Civil Rights lawyers don’t take orders from the President and have the discretion to do whatever they hell they want. And that these Lawyers are basically Democrat partisans.

This has been a problem throughout Bush’s term.. there were so many people held over from the Clinton years who were totally opposed to the new policies and quite a few of these folks (in the CIA, Dept of State, etc..) did their best to sabotage the implementation of policy they didn’t like.

I could be wrong.. i didn’t research this yet.. i’m at work.

Yes, keep treating everything on a level playing field, keep treating this as if the tape doesn’t exist.

The Times tape does not even need to exist. The story has taken on a life of its own. Any attention to it helps Mac. Now all of a sudden the infomercial is not the big news.