Jack & Jill Politics

Do you think foreign policy should be driven by so called end time prophecy?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/15/12640/...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8PscyFARt4

rikyrah: From HuffPost:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/bush-s...
Bush Strategist: McCain Knows He Put Country At Risk With Palin Pick

Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for George W. Bush's reelection campaign eviscerated John McCain on Tuesday for his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president.

Dowd proclaimed that, in his heart of hearts, McCain knew he put the country at risk with his VP choice and that he would "have to live" with that fact for the rest of his career.

"They didn't let John McCain pick the person he wanted to pick as VP," Dowd declared during the Time Warner Summit panel. "When Sarah Palin got picked instead of Joe Lieberman, which I fundamentally believed would have given John McCain the best opportunity in this race... as soon as he picked Palin, that whole ready versus not ready argument was not credible."

Saying that Palin was a "net negative" on the ticket, he went on: "[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with... He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that."

THERE IS MORE.


My response: TRUTH!!!! :>)

Great video.....starting at 1:06, watch for the white grandparents of a bi-racial grandaughter.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/o...

...at the very end, Barack says he's ready to duel McCain on taxes.

Anderson has a 10 Most Wanted list for the economic collapse. Phil Grahm and Greenspan are on it.

I posted about Grahm last night. The rats are running from the sinking ship; they don't even want to talk about it.

CNN is on board til the very end though.

Yes, I saw that. Notice the sea of white faces on the list? Where are the mug shots of poor minorities that the rethugs have been blaming?

TruthSeeker: AlanGeenspan - Andrea Mitchell Hmmmmm? :>) :>)

Great gets!! Alll 'em!! :>)

TruthSeeker, GreenLadyHere, a flashback of Pancake Mitchell at the RNC

GeenLadyHere, do I understand correctly that you've voted already? Prey tell.

http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/0...

spirit_55z: I vividly remember that scene. She looked so lost! Shoulda been use to the unusual - she's married to one! :>)

YES I DID!! :>) I am floating!! It looked sooo good to see his name [and Biden's] on the ballot! Whoooo! Hooo! :>) :>)

Obama-Biden '08

Here's the video of Obama and the Plumber, while canvassing in Ohio.

It is amazing...Obama's in complete control of the situation. He doesn't flinch, and answers honestly and without fear.

MUST SEE! (sorry if already posted)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFC9jv9jfoA

Truth,

Reading the comments over at JedReport, the plumber was immediately interviewed by Fox. He said that he was not impressed with Obama and that he doesn't have any charisma. This was a phone interview, which makes it highly suspect. Remember he gives a small business income right at the $250K threshold for O's plan? Having said all that..this may have been fixed. Even so, O did well stating his case. And said that he may not get his vote, but will work for him no matter what

Exactly...the plumber tried to interrupt O before he could finish his answer, but O took control of the situation. By the end of it, O turned it right around so he was in full control. This guy probably thought he was going to embarrass O with his superior intellect, preparedness and knowledge...when will these bozo's learn that O wasn't a Harvard grad and Senator for nothing? I think Obama read him right away, because he said he might not get his vote, but would be working on his behalf anyway...to which the Plumber giggled like a schoolgirl in response.

Anyway, it's probably a macho thing why the plumber couldn't admit to FOX that he was outmatched. Did he forget the world has YouTube to watch and judge for themselves??

LOL.

From Robert Reich's blog. The biggest economic problem Obama will have to solve:
http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2008/10/post-me...

Roland mentioned Todd Palin's inclusion in Alaska Independence Party on AC360. He's trying...

It's past time that it was brought out.

rikyrah: That MSM "filter' had some micro-holes. Nuttin' negative about The Gov../1st Dude was gettin' through!!

MUDFLATS has had them "ON BLAST" for soooo long!! And I know that they've [MSM] HAS seen this stuff!

IGNORING and IG-NANT!! Just a LITTLE LATE to the GAME!!

But, maybe their competitors will bite. Hope so.

Rick Sanchez reported on that today.

I heard from reading JJP. But, primetime real coverage would be awesome with Anderson Cooper or Campbell Brown.

greenlady: what has my ladt been doing?

Oh yeah, I have been wondering where you have been hiding. What's up with yo girl?!

barry4obama: Tacking BACK to the Center. LACKING the FULL-THROATED, "I'll Kick your butt", Black People will riot [if Clinton takes that nomination from Mr. Obama] - type ATTITUDE. Just gettin' WEAK, in general. One time [forgot host] asked a question about the negative actions of McAncient: **CRICKETS**.

I kept yelling to the TV - "Say something!! Defend Obama!" It went to black on that note. Wish I could remember the details. It's about this age thang!! :>) :>)

Ya had ta be there to feel the WEAKNESS! Sorry:>(

Obama-Biden '08!!!

This video of Obama speaking with a plumber about his business tax under his plan versus McCain's plan is a thing of beauty.

Watch and Enjoy!

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/10/barack-obama-a...

LOL...I just posted that again...it was a terrific answer...Did you see the new Obama/Biden tax calculator?

The widget should be posted in every nook and cranny of the internet...

http://taxcut.barackobama.com/

TruthSeeker: Good post! Thank you! :>)

I just made a donation on Mr. Obama's site. :>)

it's a great video! So polished, controlled, and reasobable. Reasonableness is valuable.

I'll check out the calculator.

Desperation is not a good look; and McCain is desperate. This is his last big chance. If he doesn't "win" overwhelmingly, he has trouble pulling in money for the next 3 weeks. Nobody wants to back a loser. His supporters become more angry and more likely to act out. More Republicans jump ship by coming out publicly against him. They will look for scapegoats, some blaming McCain and some blaming Palin. They'll start lashing out at tv hosts, like Frum did with Maddow. Then they'll continue blaming the poor and minorities...

Desperation is not a good look.

hey everybody, sorry i've been away for a while but i had 2 take a break from u guys, msnbc and michelle bernard.......hey greenlady, the hollies are ok but if u wanna hear a good a$$ version of that song then u need 2 hear jimmy and david ruffin's version........

barry4obama: Heeeeyyyyyyyy! :>) Yaaaaaa! :>)

OOPS! I have to apologize to RonnieB. Got him mixed up with you on Michelle. SORRY RonnieB. MY ABSOLUTE BAD!! :>)

Back to you Barry: O.K. I'll get ta SEARCHIN'

Annnnnd, ya really need to check your girl - of late! :>) :>)

Good ta hear from you!! :>) :>)

O.K. I went looking for a You Tube version. Cain't find it! Annnnnd, I STR8 don't know anything 'bout MP3 whatevea. :>) :>)

But I did hear it. SORRY. I need he'p!! :>) :>)

Obama-Biden '08!!!

Buckley's interview on Hardball
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/2718636...

rikyrah: Keith O. has his RANT ON!!! [Against McAncient/The Gov. for NOT controlling their CROWD!] I'll try to get the VIDEO.

As usual, he's ON IT!!! :>) :>)

rikyrah/ALL JJP: Passing along this song for INSPIRATION, as we support -

MR. OBAMA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HPqi5uVeo
HE AIN'T HEAVY HE'S MY BROTHER!


Obama-Biden '08!!!

Daily Kos
After November We're Gonna Make Palin Pay
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/14/182933...

Palin is having a grand old time right now. She gets to tour the lower-48 where she stands, Christ-like, before the adoring crowds with her arms held aloft, seemingly transfixed by their chants and screams of "off with his head" and "kill him." I'm sure that, in her own mind at least, she resembles a female messiah-like figure come to deliver the po' Republicans from what is looking more and more like an overwhelmingly crushing victory at the hands of Obama and the Democratic party.

But she's going to find the next two years after this election to be a much different experience than her two years before. We're going to target Palin for defeat in Alaska - we're going to pay her back for her lies and demagoguery by pouring money into the coffers of whichever Democrat opposes her and we're going to destroy her. Palin has earned the deep enmity of every Democrat and many non-Democrats as well. She should enjoy her time in the sun now because in two years, when she's shit-canned from Alaskan government and sitting in the never-ending darkness that comprises an Alaskan winter, the dreams of her time in the sun will be all she has left.

TruthSeeker: This has been made easier because MANY blogs [especially MUDFLATS] have sprung up recently! I've been posting them and the information on the PRO-OBAMA and ANTI-PALIN RALLIES in ALASKA!!

I hope this happens. :>) She and her LYING butt DESERVE it! :>)

Today's Polls

Colorado Suffolk Obama 47, McCain 43 Obama +4
Colorado Quinnipiac/WSJ/WP Obama 52, McCain 43 Obama +9
Michigan Quinnipiac/WSJ/WP Obama 54, McCain 38 Obama +16
Minnesota Quinnipiac/WSJ/WP Obama 51, McCain 40 Obama +11
Ohio SurveyUSA Obama 50, McCain 45 Obama +5
Pennsylvania SurveyUSA Obama 55, McCain 40
Obama +15
Pennsylvania Morning Call Tracking Obama 51, McCain 38 Obama +13
Wisconsin Quinnipiac/WSJ/WP Obama 54, McCain 37 Obama +17

National Rasmussen Tracking Obama 50, McCain 45 Obama +5
National Reuters/C-Span/Zogby Tracking Obama 49, McCain 43 Obama +6
National Hotline/FD Tracking Obama 48, McCain 42 Obama +6
NationalGallup Tracking Obama 51, McCain 42 Obama +9
National LA Times/Bloomberg Obama 50, McCain 41 Obama +9
National CBS News/NY Times Obama 53, McCain 39 Obama +14

This is CRAZY. Has anyone seen this? I went on the sites and saw nothing so they might have been pulled already. Ad implies the only solution to Obama is a noose... DISGUSTING.

http://www.myleftwing.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=...

Finally!!!!

Obama-Biden Tax Calculator
http://taxcut.barackobama.com/

Widget embed:
http://www.clearspring.com/widgets/48f203eebb67...

Not sure if this has been posted yet. And this is nothing important but it highlights how much Obama and his campaign is way ahead of everyone else.

Ads for Obama campaign: ‘It's in the game’
Presidential candidate is the first to buy ad space inside a video game
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27184857/

Too busy playing video games to watch presidential ads on television? Barack Obama has found you, too, by becoming the first presidential candidate to buy ad space inside a game.

Nine video games from Electronic Arts Inc., ranging from the extremely popular "Madden 09" football game to the street racing "Burnout: Paradise," feature in-game ads from the Obama campaign. The ads — they appear on billboards and other signage — remind players that early voting has begun and plug a campaign Web site.

Whattt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Obama got game.

You know the game he is playing is Chess. And he is playing the game like a Grand Master. The man has consistently been 3 to 4 moves ahead of everyone else. McCain plays the Ayers card, and he has his Keating 5 13 minute video ready to go. Obama has been so in front of the crowd, and steps ahead of everyone else.

I bet that someone would make a tons of $$'s if they made a behind the scene movie as to how he and his campaign pulled this thing off. Sort of like Primary Colors except done in documentary style. In the end his campaign will be used as a model for years to come.

Suprk: BIG TIME CO-SIGN on ALL POINTS!!! :>) :>)

It was posted earlier. Its a GREAT example of Obama's campaign innovation. There is NO WAY McCain's team has ANY idea that this exists and has the capacity to influence men 18 to 35- shoot and kids who choose to influence their parents!

You mean Tucker Bounds doesn't play online games?

He clearly has no friends, so maybe he does play the games that involve shooting his high school peers and such.

MsKitty beat me to it.

'Iron Man 2': Terrence Howard's out, Don Cheadle's in

"Not sure what to make of the news, in today's Hollywood Reporter, that Don Cheadle will be replacing Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2. The article hints that Howard wanted too much money for the sequel, which will see his character, sidekick Jim Rhodes, playing a bigger role, perhaps fulfilling his comic-book destiny as Marvel hero War Machine. But the absence of a deal with Howard also allowed Marvel to "take the role in another direction" by approaching Cheadle, the Reporter says."

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/10/iron-ma...

I came here to post this. I would kick his ass.

Hey now!

The wife should cook him breakfast...a hot pot of grits...while Mr. "Takin' One For The Cause" is in the tub.

They are a Jerry Springer episode waiting to happen.

rikyrah: 2 posts from MUDFLATS

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/cather...
Catherine Stevens To Testify and Emails To Be turned Over To Prosecutor

With the nation’s eyes on Palin and the Presidential race, Alaskans have not forgotten the importance of the other races to be decided on November 4th. Indicted senior Senator Ted Stevens is holding his own in the polls against Democratic challenger, and mayor of Anchorage, Mark Begich. Stevens is an institution who is as much a part of Alaskan history as the gold rush. Frankly, there are plenty of Alaskans who wouldn’t hold it against Uncle Ted even if he did “get a little something extra” for himself. They almost feel he deserves it, even though they might not say it out loud.

The presence of Palin on the ticket this year will bring out many Republican voters who may just cast their vote for Ted while they are there. So, the outcome of this trial is pivotal to Alaska’s chance of sending a Democrat to the Senate.

THERE IS MORE.
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/the-ob...
The Obama Sign Cam Hits the Big Time

Remember Mudflatter TeachKids, and her son Preston? They’re the ones who had their Obama sign stolen from their front yard in Oregon. Twice!

Preston had the brilliant idea of putting a web cam on the yard sign to catch the thief. TeachKids mentioned it on Mudflats and presto! A round-the-world community of sign watchers was born! Mudflatters flocked to the sign and chatted the night away, and the day away, and the next night, and so on for the last month, 24/7!

They’ve been on the local news, and the video above was on CNN! Congratulations TeachKids and Preston!

To visit the Obama Sign Cam live, right now, click HERE!

This is cute! :>) :>)

IMHO, it's important to know about the BATTLE that is being waged in Alaska FOR Mr. Obama and against Palin. The "FIGHTERS" there are really helping Mr. Obama secure more VOTES from that typically RED state!!

Obama-Biden '08!!!

Orlando Sentinel column:

Crist knows that Obama is going to beat McCain

MsKitty: You know he's miffed 'cause he was a "RUNNER UP!" :>) :>)

they kicked Christopher Buckley out of the National Review because he endorsed Obama.

rikyrah: He was just on Chris Matthews! He don't care!!

rikyrah: Ya gotta follow me on this one. It comes under the heading:
THANK YOU LORD FOR THIS DAY!

Back in the day, we use to play a rhyming game: "I'VE GOT IT!"

Examples: I've got it: It's on the ROOF; One hundred PROOF!

I've got it: (next person) It's in the HALL; not on the WALL!

I've got it: (next person)It's on the DOOR; not on the FLOOR!

O.K. I have ONE!

It's in my HAND; Annnd I'm going to VOTE FOR MR. OBAMA and MR. BIDEN TODAY!!!!

I RECEIVED MY OFFICIAL MAIL-IN BALLOT!!! YAAAAAAAAAA!! :>) :>)

How do I feel?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLY7yI1xV-M
O HAPPY DAY!!!- OCTOBER 14, 2008!!

Whooo! Hoooo! :>) :>)

Obama-Biden '08!!! Their names are FIRST!!! :>)

FIRED UP!! READY TO GO!!!

P.S. Y'all won't tell -huh? It's a SECRET BALLOT ! :>) :>)

Take some pics and share! ('sOK, you don't need to show us how you voted!)

Happy joyous day!!!

... been a long time coming

Anderkoo; Thanks! Your comment is particularly poignant in that my mom - 92 years living, is MORE than seeing an answered prayer! It is such an unexpected reality that she still has trouble believing it!! :>)

She's a HAPPY CAMPER!! She is BLESSED!

Annnnnnd, her "daughter" wasn't expecting this either! :>) :>)

She's ecstatic!! :>) :>) She is BLESSED! :>)

Greenlady,

Do you live in Cali? You can check on the Obama website where you can vote early in person

I found my place.

Texas_Girl: Cali-Girl UP IN HERE! :>)

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

What I'm 'bout ta do is: 1. Get some "popcorn".

2. Put on ALL my OBAMA GEAR - head to toe!!

3. VOTE using my BEST penmanship!!

4. Take this to the Registrar of Voters, in my plain clothes. And say to anyone within earshot. . . . .

5. It's ON!! :>) :>)

6. "DAP" anyone who heard the "dogwhistle" - FOR OBAMA!~!!!


It's gonna be MY DAY!! :>) :>)


Obama-Biden '08!!!

Ok. Just wanted to make sure you knew that you can vote in person, rather than mailing it in. Don't want to take any chances.

Texas_Girl: THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

The reason I requested the mail-in was because I will be working at a POLL on Nov. 4. This is my 2nd time. I have to go in for a training tomorrow. :>) :>)

But you have cited an important reference source :>) and I thank you, again!

Cali - Girls gotta have each other's backs!! :>) :>)

Obama-Biden '08!!!

Behar - I wouldn't want a guy to do to me what Bush has done to this country.
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6004579

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/palin-...


Palin: I ain't got nothing to lose by attacking Obama!

That's true. She hasn't any dignity or class or political future. She will forever be the lady racist and election killer... Too bad, so sad, bye-bye.

evita: All I need is a minor stimulus: bye-bye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfnVVIspY_s&feat...
Bye! Bye! Bye! -NSYNC

ENJOY!! :>)

She is right. She has no dignity, no character, and no class. So she is correct when she says doesn't have nothing to lose.

Suprk: LOL!! With a co-sign!! :>)

Get out of my brain. LMAO

Damn skippy, she aint got nothin to losse, now please SARAH, MAKE LIKE A HOCKEY STICK AND GET THE PUCK OUTTA HERE!

Behar - Palin is Cheney in a dress

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6021610

The View

Behar - Where are Palin's Family Value
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6030611

Val: Well; did anybody FIND them?? Guess NOT!! They DON'T EXIST!! :>)


Annnnnnnd, what the FAUX SPEWS is E.D. Hill doing there? She has just as much "AIR" in her head as Elizabeth!! Didn't I just DISLIKE HER INTENSELY a couple of months ago?

DANG!! And Behar doesn't like here either!! I can tell!!

The WHITE GENE is a powerful fathamotha!!!

Obama-Biden '08!!!

Rikyrah: Just received this. It comes under the heading - - "Neva A Dull Moment!:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain...
McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam In Lobbying Effort

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.

During the same period beginning in 1992, Timmons worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park, on a previously unreported prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil. Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through.

SKIP

John McCain strongly supported the 1991 military action against Iraq, and as recently as Sunday described Saddam Hussein as a one-time menace to the region who had "stated categorically that he would acquire weapons of mass destruction, and he would use them wherever he could."

Timmons declined to comment for this story. An office manager who works for him said that he has made it his practice during his public career to never speak to the press. Timmons previously told investigators that he did not know that either Vincent or Park were acting as unregistered agents of Iraq. He also insisted that he did not fully understand just how closely the two men were tied to Saddam's regime while they collaborated.

THERE IS MORE.

SORRY if this is a duplicate. I just returned from an errand. Annnnd, gotta go back out. SORRY. I'm missing 2 much! :>(

OOPS! I'm slapping my hand. It IS a DUPLICATE. SORRY. :>(

OMG...I know y'all covered this last week when I was gone...OMG LMAO...I can't stop laughing....I just can't...somebody please help him…why is he just wandering around…where are his kids? They need to come get their daddy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/10/the-mc...
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvSzQq5Igh8

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gb1JrPCc2gTa...


Cindy girl, you remind of the people who ignore their relatives when they're alive but throw themselves on top of the casket and jump into the grave after they're dead. Cindy McCain didn't have anything to do with her half sister but she's "deeply saddened" now that she's dead. SMH.

LMAO at the vision of Cindy McCain jumping into the grave.

Town, you are too much :)

Palin: Alaska is a microcosm of America.

is that right...

Palin's Rural Adviser Quits Over Native Record
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/palins...

Natives bristled early in Palin's administration when she named a white woman to a game board seat held by a Native for more than 25 years. An Athabascan Indian eventually was named to the post after protests.

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Did The Palin Administration Exclude Blacks?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/...

Palin Probe Expanded Beyond Troopergate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/post_1...

McCain which country do you really put first
McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam In Lobbying Effort
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain...

If I were McCain, and I just had to bring up Ayers, and I got this in response, I would pose this question: "What's worse; an American doing his job for a country that we once supported, or an American who wanted to violently overthrow his government?"

I don't think this will be made into the issue you want it to be.

Come D you really reaching with that spin.McCain's transition chief pallin around with Saddam,remember most people think that the Weathermen is a indie rock band.We went to war twice with Saddam you people at your party rallies introduce Obama using his middle name Hussein demonizing him.If for one second you think that even the knuckle draggers in your party wont say whoa then there is truly no hope for republicans."Country First" my ass

At this point, its all about what sounds good to the base. They'd love that-or, to use one of your more questionable statements, they'd have wet dreams over it.

Never mind if it makes sense or not.

McCain has to at least hold the line. Unfortunately, the line is waaaaaay to the right. So whatever sounds/looks/smells good to them, that's where he's going.

Having said all that, the guy's a lobbyist. They're all suspect in one form or another, and I'd imagine that most of them have worked for one shady character or another. If we were talking the Taliban, yeah, there'd be some issues. But no one-or maybe, no one intelligent-is gonna get bent out of shape about a lobbyist working on behalf of a country that we once did support.

Sounding good to the base ain't good enough for McCain. Everyone knew that. You can blame the far-right wingnut Republicans for insisting on a far-right campaign. And you've got to give McCain himself most of the blame for going along rather than standing up.

If I were you I'd ask for my money back and seek revenge on the wingnuts in your own party. The GOP went for McCain knowing their only chance was to claim the middle. I assume you, as a smart and rational person, were one of them.

Purge your party. It'll be good for America.

Say it ain't so D :) I agree that there has been a lot of back and forth with our support of Saddam. But the truth of the matter is when we didn't find those pesky weapons of mass destruction, many on the right said that the Iraq war was still justified because Saddam was an evil guy--which he is. So conservatives can't have it both ways--or they shouldn't try to.

If Obama is suspect for sitting on a board with someone who committed horrible acts 40 years ago, then McCain is suspect for hiring someone who has ties to the man that gassed his own people. Fair is far.

And that sir is why the republicans will lose.Your base is only 40% and falling.

Now I'm really hoping Gramps brings up Ayers tomorrow so he can get knocked upside the head with this.

Seriously, what was he thinking?

LISBON, Ohio (CNN) – Joe Biden told reporters Tuesday afternoon he is disappointed John McCain is planning to bring up Barack Obama's acquaintance with 1960s radical Bill Ayers at Wednesday night’s debate, but said all Obama has to do to win is repeat his last two performances.

This is such a blatant trap.....if McCain is dumb enough to walk into it...wait....oh damn....he's gonna walk straight there.

McCain's in a pickle.

If he does bring up Ayers, he's walked straight into Obama's fist.

If he doesn't bring up Ayers, he looks like a punk ass bitch.

Looking like a punk ass bitch would be the worse outcome for McCain because then all his remaining support dries up.

My Magic 8 Ball tells me that McCain will bring up Ayers but Bob Sheifer will shut that topic of conversation down BUT allow McCain to get in other digs elsewhere.

talk about a homerun for Obama...I doubt we hear Ayers talk now or maybe this is all Obama's fault!!!

A shitstorm of calamity has befallen John McCain ....

Watch this ad:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/gossip...
Gossip Girl And MoveOn Cut Ad For Obama

Bush Strategist: McCain Knows He Put Country At Risk With Palin Pick
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/bush-s...

Dowd proclaimed that, in his heart of hearts, McCain knew he put the country at risk with his VP choice and that he would "have to live" with that fact for the rest of his career.

"They didn't let John McCain pick the person he wanted to pick as VP," Dowd declared during the Time Warner Summit panel. "When Sarah Palin got picked instead of Joe Lieberman, which I fundamentally believed would have given John McCain the best opportunity in this race... as soon as he picked Palin, that whole ready versus not ready argument was not credible."

Saying that Palin was a "net negative" on the ticket, he went on: "[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with... He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that."

the fact that he knows this and ha not dumped her yet tells you all you need to know about the man called "maverick" mcsame.

Warner Brothers Decides McCain Prison Interview Won't Be Shown Until After Election
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/warner...

The studio moved quietly over the last few weeks to block any promotional showing of an interview -- tied to the release of the first DVD version of the 1987 film "Hanoi Hilton" -- in which Senator McCain spoke of his imprisonment in the Hoa Lo prison during the Vietnam War. The studio is concerned that any pre-election showing might embroil the project in electoral politics.

"It's just us trying to be cautious and not affect the election one way or the other," said Ronnee Sass, a spokeswoman for the studio's home entertainment division.

Bush-Supporter Dennis Hopper Switches His Vote: "I Pray" Obama Wins
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/bush-s...

"I voted for Bush, father and son, but this time I'll vote for Obama," he told journalists at the opening of a show on his life and work.

"I was the first person in my family to have been Republican," he added. "For most of my life I wasn't on the left."

"I pray God, Barack Obama is elected," he said, calling the current administration's many "lies."

TruthSeeker: GOOD NEWS!!! :>)

Finally, the MSM is catching on to the idea that First Dude being a secessionist is not cool. Rick Sanchez on CNN is reporting on "The Palins and the Fringe" as we speak.

parker404: C-H-A-P-T-E-R 2!! I've been sayin' that I was waitin' for the CHAPTER 2 - the investigations into the WRONG-DOINGS of the 1st Dude!

Whoooooo! Hooooo! Here It comes - like a gift from SANTA CLAUS!!

SET Up - Annnnnnnnnd, PLAY -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5-OC_5rksk
Here Comes Santa Claus - Gene Autry

ENJOY!! :>) :>) EARLY!! :>)

FINALLY! This has been irking the hell out me!

wow, CNN!

thanks goodness.

Kill Obama, Again @ Palin's Scranton, PA Rally, TODAY

Why aren't these people ARRESTED?????

icebergslim: 'cause law enforcement is lifting up their heads, whistling into the air, and saying - WHAT?? I didn't hear anything?? :>)

Okay, so I went to a friend's church the other night and during the preacher's sermon. He threw in the fact that OBAMA WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT...At that point the church gets loud with praises of aggreement..during this time..the lady beside me started speaking in tounges...Now I know I ain't the holiest person in the world, and I can't translate tounges but I promise it sound like she was saying

OoooooBabababababamamamamama!!!! I'm sure the look on my face was...WHAT??? I almost died that day...LOL!!

I'm telling you, "Obama" is a magic word.

O (the universal sound of wholeness, completeness, purity)

BA (a common word for "father")

MA (the universal word for "mother")

lmao! good googah moogah!

I.Just.Fainted.

LOL..I wanted to!!

My friend is a Minister at the church and he looked down at me like you betta not say nothing..LOL..I was crying laughing...Lmao..Too funny with her Fake tongues!!!

I'm trying not to laugh! You know better!

CPR, I wish I was there to hear this first hand!

ROFLMAO!!!

CNN is doing an expose on The Interior Department - dirty #*$& happened there.

Hello JJP! I got this in an email..just thought I would share...

Tell me what you guys think.


WHAT IF...

Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?

.....think about it.

Would the country's collective point of view be different? Could racism be the culprit?

Ponder the following:

What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?

What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain had only married once and Obama was a divorcee?

What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?

What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?

What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five?
(The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings
and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)

What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?

What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?

What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?

What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?

You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

Educational Background:

Barack Obama :
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Vs

John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters ý journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.

If all that had happened Obama wouldn't have even been able to come through the door of the Democratic Party's local storefront office, much less been the nominee.

You are so right about that. That's what I was thinking when I read it.

Can you say SKA-POW!!!!
What Alaskan women think of Palin
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/14/14...

That was amazing...really smart young women.

Polls: Obama Surging In Four Battleground States:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/polls-...


Quinnipiac finds that Barack Obama now polls ahead of John McCain, and over 50 percent, in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. In three of those four states, Obama's lead is in the double digits.

In Colorado, Obama leads 52 to McCain's 43 percent. In Michigan he is up 54 to 38 percent. In Minnesota Obama leads 51 to 40 percent, and in Wisconsin 51 to McCain's 43 percent.

Barack Obama we speak you name.
Change is real. You are real.
America will speak loudly and resoundingly.
We will say it together on November 4th.

But until then, I will make calls, canvass, engage, and make them tell the truth until McCain is a just a case study on how to lose an election.

McCain Pledges to Bring Up Ayers in Debate

It appears Sen. John McCain will take Sen. Barack Obama up on his challenge.

In an interview on a St. Louis radio station, McCain said Obama's comments that "I didn't have the guts" to talk about William Ayers in the last presidential debate have "probably ensured" that the former 1960s radical will come up in Wednesday's debate.

I love it. Gramps is screwed either way. If he doesn't bring it up his base and the media will think he's a punk-ass bitch, and if he does bring it up Barack will have a little somethin' somethin' waiting for him. Ha!

Hah is right! Obama taunts him, and he bites. I think McLurch outmaneuvered himself on this one.

This has all the makings of a "When 'Keepin' it Real' Goes Wrong" moment.

You ain't lyin.......I've never seen a trap set so blatantly before.....as soon as McCain fixes his lips to say "Ayers", they should start playing that music from Friday the 13th when somebody's about to get merked.

Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to eff with!

Sorry, had to get my "Chappelle's Show" moment in! LOL

LMAO!

Damn! I wish he show still came on. Come back Dave!

LOL..That made my day!

It doesn't take much!

No you didn't quote Dave Chappelle...

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Wu-Tang!

(sorry, couldn't help myself)

Maybe I should just go ahead and write a half-assed endorsement of Obama. That seems to be all the rage among conservatives these days.

A back-handed endorsement might make you feel better, D.

But seriously... get the GOP's house in order... what is wrong with that crowd?

D: A wise JJP blogger said to me - "YOU be YOU!!

My opinion/advice to anyone of the "HALF-A$$ed persuasion

PUH-LEEZE don't come "HALF-a$$ed at this VERY IMPORTANT DECISION!

IFFF YOU ain't FULLY IN THE GAME for Mr. Obama - STAY OUT!
'cause I don't know how you will continue to play until the game is over. Can you be counted on for ALL PLAYS - FULL ON! Or would I have to waste time getting someone to watch you?

Nothing personal.

This is TOO IMPORTANT!!

Obama-Biden '08!!

LOL, i love it, greenlady! what was it people used to say back in the day... ain't no half-steppin'???

caligirl: You got it!! :>) :>) Ain't none!! :>)

Love the "back in the day" stuff! :>)

Nothing personal taken. :)

D. Good! :>)

I say McCain bring his BEST so Obama can serve that "can of whoop a racist's ass" on national television.

Obama's going to beat his ass.

I feel sick...the Supreme Court refused to hear Troy Davis's appeal...he's going to be executed even though nearly every witness has recanted and there is not a shred of physical evidence tying him to the crime.

Another reason to vote Democrat.Take back our courts and restore basic human rights.

How devastating! This is what is wrong with our "justice" system. Prayers are going up for him and his family.

BlackButterfly: Amen!

And for the "HEARTLESS FOOLS" making this LEGAL DECISION with NO MORAL COMPASS!!! [Or legal evidence!]

Lord help them!!

A good examination of McCain reaping what he sowed:

That Crazy Genie is Loose and Happy...and Hates It's G*ddamned Bottle

Barack Obama pays for in-game advertising in the Xbox 360 game "Burnout Paradise"

http://gigaom.com/2008/10/13/confirmed-obama-is...

Barack also has a virtual campaign center set up in SL, So he is definitely reaching out to the youth and gamer vote. He's a smart man!

Obama gets it. Really gets it.

INNOVATION.

Yep. Always thinking outside the box.

Interesting article about Obama's organizing years in a Uganda paper . . .

http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/feature...

Another rethug hypocrite exposed.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008/news/regio...

These are the people who shudder in horror at Barack Obama's vote for an early childhood education program to teach children how to be safe from sexual predators.

Hmmm . . . maybe they're actually worrying that the kids might get it, and the rethug predators will have fewer potential victims.

Could there be a more hypocritical bunch of people than these right wingers? Unbelievable.

What a slimeball.

(delving back into partisanship for a minute)

My friend, where is Rep. Tim Mahoney's seat on the hypocrite train? From The Hill:

ABC reported that Mahoney’s affair with Allen began during his 2006 campaign.

Mahoney won that race by stressing family values and morals.

An ad run by Mahoney’s campaign stated: "Congress is a mess. Corruption. Waste. Incompetence. Tim Mahoney is a common sense businessman who believes in faith, family and personal responsibility.''

What say you?

I say that he's already been discounted and busted by his own party, D.

It probably would have gotten more traction if the party he cheated on his wife with was a teen-aged boy, ala Mark Foley. But because its a woman who is the age of consent, he might not even lose his seat - though to be honest, he's a conservative DLC Democrat who should just change parties and become Republican.

Plus, I'd like to remind you that Senator David Vitter (he of "Vitter the Shytter; DC Madam" fame) is still sitting in the Senate and there's no hollering of any real opposition to him in terms of recall or re-election, either.

I have done my part to bring "evenhandedness" to this discussion.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming. LOL

Check and mate. Back to our regularly .......LOL!

That's gonna leave an ugly mark.........somebody get the first aid kit please.

Miranda: "BAND-AID???" :>) :>)

i also say it's a huge mistake for human beings to run on an anti-sex, anti-human nature, anti-acceptance platform. it gets them almost every time, and not just the republicans, though their brand of virulent anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-sex rhetoric makes them the most hypocritical of the bunch.


GOP = the Genitally Obsessed Party.

Agree in part. I don't think it makes them more hypocritical, but it damn sure makes the target on their backs bigger.

i say there's a big difference between fucking kids and fucking around.

what say you?

The women and men over the age of 18 can legally give consent. Children can't.

Additionally, if you're going to eff around with men or women, just don't be a hypocrite in the sense you campaign as a member of Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority", cause you will get caught.

I say they're BOTH equally hypocritical. Hypocrisy is generally a non-partisan effort.

Both hypocritical - whattttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!! One is clearly illegal!

as a hard core right wing partisan, you would say that.

it doesn't make sense. in general, democrats aren't strapping on their chastity belts, wrapping themselves in the pages of the Bible, and harping on the horrors of human nature and human sexuality.

that's the hypocrisy. your party is constantly making the failed case for abstinence, for NO sex education, for NO access to birth control for teens, for NO right to determine what happens with one's reproductive organs.

your party makes the case that gay human beings are simply sinners who make a choice and are thus undeserving of the same rights as others.

your party is sexually obsessed. and incredibly hypocritical on this subject. the two parties are far from equally hypocritical. people in your party bloviate on all of these things, then turn around and fuck kids, pick up prostitutes and get blowjobs in public restrooms.

but that's your choice. you should be proud of your humanity-denying, chastity-promoting, reality-avoiding party, D.

Now, wait....do I come off as a hard core partisan? I don't even fully subscribe to all the views you're speaking of (though I'm more than familar with them...).

I just think-and this got me in trouble about a week ago, oddly enough-that you really can't call one group on their shit when your group's doing the same shit. And that's not an argument for/against the moral difference between molesting children and having an affair...on any level, they're both wrong.

I don't think we're really in disagreement here. All I'm doing is taking your standard for a hypocritical Republican and applying it to an equally (in my view) hypocritical democrat.

fucking a consenting adult does not equal fucking a kid (or attempting to fuck one).

false equivalency.

But I didn't say it did, did I?

I just think-and this got me in trouble about a week ago, oddly enough-that you really can't call one group on their shit when your group's doing the same shit. And that's not an argument for/against the moral difference between molesting children and having an affair...on any level, they're both wrong.

yup.

McCain Camp Lies About VA Crowd Size

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain...


The Virginia Beach Fire Marshal's office estimated the size of the crowd to be 12,000. A McCain campaign spokeswoman claimed the crowd size was 25,000, but the Convention Center's capacity is only 16,000.

I don't know when they started counting, but no way 25,000 people were there. There was a lot of empty space. Not to mention that when McCain started speaking, a fair amount of people left (he spoke after Palin).

The Civil Rights Hero Vs. The War Hero(Or the Her or the guy who got captured)
http://newsone.blackplanet.com/elections/john-l...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/palins...

Palin's rural advisor (white woman) quits, saying there needs to be more Alaska Natives in Palin's administration and that an Alaska Native would be more effective in that position.

Town: The Gov. claims the DIVERSITY MANTRA because she says that the 1st Dude is "half-a$$ed - OOPS! [Now how do you do those STRIKE OVERS??] - HALF indigenous ESKIMO! My bad! :>) :>)

Of course, she hasn't trotted that out recently. 'cause she's tryin' to HIDE HIM!! :>)

Anyone hear from Susan Rice lately? wonder if Obama will tap her to be Secretary of State or will that go to Hillary. I like Susan for State and Hillary for Attorney General

Yeah, I guess Hillpatine for AG would be alright, since my first choice got busted with a Baby Mama in the wings and cheating on his sick wife - John Edwards.

And Susan will do a better job as Secy of State than her cousin. LOL

Sorry, I got my "Rice's " mixed up. It's civil rights attorney Connie Rice I was thinking about - although that would be cool to bring her in and restore order to the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.

I just watched some videos of Dr. Susan Rice on youtube and she is a beast when it comes to policy and does not play when she smells blood I mean she tore Joe Scarborough a new arsehole.

Susan Rice should be Ass. Sec. of State the position should go to Wesley Clark.He was NATO C in C and would have the know all to rebuild our alliance with Europe.Patrick Fitzgerald should be AG.This man do not care if you are a repub. or Dem if you f*** up do not pass go , do not collect money, go straight to the slammer

Forgot about Fitzgerald - he did get Scooter Libby for lying under oath.

Clark would be better served as Defense Secretary. Someone with a good military background, that is.

Press Secretary - give it to Donna Brazile.

Barbara Lee for Education Secy.

Caroline Kennedy should get a Cabinet post -

I LOVE the idea of Donna B. as Press Secretary. She's been a true soldier through and through.

What about my girl Clair McCaskill? She's been on point, too. Where would she fit in?

I'd put her in the Cabinet as Labor Secretary.

I like your idea of Donna Brazile for Press Secretary.

As for reaching across the aisle, do you think Chuck Hagel or Colin Powell will get a spot on Obama's team?

Obama can do for Powell what Powell did for him.

Hagel, maybe; Powell, not so much. I just remembered when Powell was offered a position by Bill Clinton, he turned up his nose like Clinton was some POS he found on the bottom of his Cole Haan loafers - yet he flat out prostituted and wallowed in the pigsty with Bush.

When he can explain himself on that hypocracy, maybe I'll regain my respect for him.

He didn't prostitute. He did what 35 years of military service taught him to do; dissent and advise against up until the order is given, then carry it out.

I don't know, D. Imagine for a minute how history might have been different if Colin Powell, when asked to pass off dubious evidence, did the only other honorable thing for a person in his position could do: resign.

THAT would have sent a message to the world.

At the very least, it would have left him with clean hands.

Doubt it. Powell's got nowhere to go except for Defense, and see what I said regarding Gates below.

Anything else would be a major step down.

I'm on the fence about Powell. I can't forget that he helped make the case to invade Iraq.

when will Colin Powell endorse Barack? thats the headline I want to see

After giving character testimony on behalf of Alaska's super-corrupt Senator Ted Stevens, I think Powell's endorsement is one Obama can pass on, because the ReThugs will find a way to use it against him.

CPL, Co-signing, co-signing, Co-signing!

What's the big deal behind Powell endorsing Obama? Is that some sort of unwritten requirement or something?

D: I saw him as a "gentleman" with a brain. One who is able to make decisions based on considering CHARACTER and CREDIBILITY. My evidence was based on his position, his ability to strategize and his decision-making skills [beyond partisanship].

For me - it would have had some significance.

But after his testimony - "THANKS! BUT NO THANKS"
[As some FOOL, allegedly said about that bridge ta nowhere.]

Obama-Biden '08!!

Me too!

I think Gates should stay on at Defense. More than that, I think he'd actually want to stay on. He'd be the only person I'd trust to "end the war responsibily;" anyone else would probably tend towards a full-scale withdrawal regardless of what's happening on the ground.

I hate to say it but I tend to agree with you.Gates is one of the ones who is a grown up and you need continuity in that position in these times.

It doesn't hurt to occasionally agree; that's our one for this week.

DoD needs continuity of leadership now more than ever. Unfortunately (or probably fortunately, from your side), all of the neocons who make up most of the leadership there are seeing the writing on the wall...and will all probably be defense contractors come Jan. 20.

Wesley Clark for SecState?

I don't like the guy...but wouldn't he be better served at, you know, say, DoD? That is his background, after all.....

Maybe you dont like him because he really accomplish his mission in Bosnia without any lives list in combat?

Nope; I don't like him cause he sold whatever credibility he had to the highest bidder.

And-lest you forget-Obama didn't win that auction. Sure you want him around?

wasnt Pat Fitzgerald on watch when all of the Sept 11 high jackers were going to flight school in the US?

I'm tired.

I'm cranky.

And I'm not sure what shit storm is coming my way today.

I must be John McCain.

I had so much to say about the latest debacle about John McCain and his surrogates that I had to break it into two posts.

The first one is just for you, John McCain:
"You Flipped the Switch, John McCain"
http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/10...


EXCERPT:


"It isn't a coincidence that the party who has adopted Christianity as one of its main sponsors is paying the price for this. Over zealous religious believers have been some of our nations most dedicated and fervent oppressors, with centuries of practice under their belts, and even now, they have retained the unique ability to spit intolerance out of the same lips that they use to ask God for personal salvation."

Brown Man: Already, your excerpt has me sayin' NO he di'ent!! :>)

I'll be "Field Trippin'" sometime ta-day!! :>) :>)

Who should Barack tap as his Press Secretary?

Keith Boykin!!!

Good call, but I like him backing up Ed.

Ed Gordon.

If Ed Bradley wasn't meeting his Maker, I'd give him the nod.

I like Ed too.

Rachel Maddow!!!

No, we need Rachel and Keith O to stay where they are.

I have a girl crush on Rachel

rikyrah: co-sign! They have to keep the "BLAST" going - on the tv.!! :>)

Nah, I say we need Rachel Maddow right where she is - speaking the truth on MSNBC.

I second Dr. Rachel, she is brilliant. Plus an openly gay Press Sec talk about progressive.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Oprah! LOL

That's a downgrade for Oprah, B-Serious. LOL

I like Ed Gordon, with Keith Boykin and Jacque Reid on staff - just to piss off Bob Johnson cause, with the exception of Keith, he got rid of Jacque and Ed.

lol . . yup, I was joking about Oprah. She could run for office herself if she really wanted to. Plus, I doubt either Obama or Oprah would want to deal with the headache they'd get from all the media attention. . . might come off like a circus. Oprah probably wouldn't want the drama and grief that comes with that position.

Keith Olbermann! ;)

I vote for Robert Gibbs or Jamal Simmons

I vote against Jamal.

I think Barack would feel comfortable with the ever reasonable and calm Gibbs.

JJai: Me 2. Jamal has been OUT of the picture too long following Mr. Obama's nomination.

Annnnnnd, he's NOT forceful ENOUGH! IMHO>

This just made my day!!!!
The Death of the Modern Republican Party
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/14/91...

Have you all checked out this article yet on ABC News about how Democrats are trying to have a Super Majority after Election Day?

Oh man, a girl can dream: Sixty votes represents an operating majority in the Senate, given arcane rules that allow a minority of as few as 41 of the 100 senators to indefinitely delay action on almost any matter through the legislative maneuver known as the filibuster.

Yeah, like we had bipartisanship when the Republicans were in power?
Ummmm...NO.

GOOD!!! We just dont want to win. We need to destroy the neo-con, religious,racist, fascist part of the republican party.Maybe in 20 years when the grown ups disavow the ignorance that the repubs. have cultivated then we can have a conversation.

I agree with you, DJ, but O is more conservative than he looks. Don't buy the balloons and hire the DJ just yet. Also keep in mind that we, as a nation, are DEEPLY, deeply in debt. We're going to have to make sacrifices and we aren't going to like doing it. Finally, I think bipartisanship means a lot to O. I think he will try to find common ground and a happy medium, even though he doesn't have to. Thats just his way. Doing so will only enhance his bid for reelection in 2012 as well.

He ain't THAT conservative.

And that bipartisanship may not extend to Reid and Pelosi.

And what's to say they won't wake up one day and decide they don't like life under Obama? What the hell do you do if your majority in both houses conspires to throw you under the bus?

I'm for working with the other side like Dick Luger, Olympia Snowe ,Chuck Grassley but for the rest of them eff em.Obama may be conservative but I think he knows that like FDR we need a massive public works project to get us out of mess the republicans have given us.

That's honest, Teacher, and that's real. Obama can't waltz in and start making a whole lot of changes too fast, or he'll encounter so much bureaucratic resistance, it will make the Clinton years look like a birthday party.

You're not excited, are you? LOL

If Obama is elected, he will need as many Democrats in Congress to override the Republicans because the Republicans will make sure to block everything Obama does or says.

Town, he will need enough Democrats who have his back because he has detractors in the Congressional Black Caucus who are nothing but haters, and then there's a conservative factor in the CBC he will need to override as well.

But I don't want another rubber-stamp Congress. We have the shythole that is the Government because the Executive Branch of Government shat on the Legislative Branch and used the Constitution to wipe its ass, while the Legislative Branch abdicated its responsibility to put the Executive Branch in check - not to mention the Judiciary Branch got all politicized because of failure to check the Executive Branch...

IOW, the concept of Checks and Balances within the Government badly need restoration and a POTUS that will respect that concept while carrying out his duties - he needs a willingness to be held accountable...ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE.

I'm not backing down off this - if Obama gets in and starts even whiffing like he's catering to corporate interests, I will be THE FIRST to call his ass out, but I wouldn't do any less if it's McCain. I'm about accountability, and I don't want that "Executive Privilage" shyt coming out of Obama's mouth unless it deals with protecting the country and National Security that REALLY IS National Security.

Rant Over.

The Republicans who survive '08 and want to survive '10 will be either extremely pliable or extremely confrontational. The pliables will be voted out

There won't be a four year supermajority; remember, the President's party usually loses seats in the midterm. A lot of the people who will ride in with Obama this year may/may not be able to win on their own in '10.

The GOP is in disarray and about to commence in civil war. Unless a strong leader comes along and whips them into shape with a clear plan, the GOP will continue it's downslide.

In order for the GOP to survive nationally, they are going to have to start reaching out to and nurturing non-whites and non-white candidates. The country is becoming less and less white, and the white people are having more and more non-white relatives in their family. The standard GOP meme of Non-white = BAD grows weaker as time goes on because white people are sitting there like "hey, they could be talking about my son or my granddaughter or my cousin." Stop showcasing the specks of pepper in the salt when you want to claim "We diverse" but not letting the specks of pepper do anything except be props. Bobby Jindal knew what time it was, too bad Michael Steele and James T. Harris haven't figured it out yet.

The GOP has got to stop demonizing all other religions except born-again Pentecostals, evangelist Christians and Southern Baptists. Romney gets dissed b/c he's Mormon? WTF? To my knowledge Romney kept his Mormonism to himself and wasn't trying to push it on anyone. I laughed when I heard Cantor was being vetted, we all know the Dobsons of the GOP would have had a fit to have a JEW on the ticket. IMO that's the main reason they were against Lieberman.

The GOP has got to shut down the George Allen Macaca wing of the party. So far this election season:

blacks have been blamed for the financial/subprime meltdown

hispanics have been blamed for the failure of Washington Mutual

arabs have been demonized as "not decent people"

indian americans have also been thrown under the bus for praying to Buddha for Obama's election.

Who's next? Asians? Native Americans?


The GOP has got to start nurturing and developing CREDIBLE female politicians and supporting the ones they have. If Sarah Palin is the BEST they can do, the GOP is in trouble.


The fact is the majority of the country is not made up of angry white Joe Sixpacks living in Pleasantville while Sally Sixpack stays at home and cleans the house and Billy and Mary Lou Sixpack go to their all-white school and all white church and live a happy Wonder Bread Leave It To Beaver life. The GOP is putting themselves out of business by catering to resentful white people simply because the country is becoming more and more diverse which means less and less white people.

Can't disagree with you; I've said some of the same.

It won't be civil war, though...Republicans/conservatives may have to lose in '10, '12, AND '16 for us to really get the picture.

There'll be some noise made in '12, especially if Obama falls through on some of his promises (say, we've got several brigades camped in Iraq. Or someone realizes we can't afford univeral healthcare cause of that bailout)...but even that will be mostly for show. Truth is, if Obama wins this year and survives politically, he'll be a damn near shoo-in for '12. I wouldn't want to run against him.

I have to agree with you, D. That's generally been the trend, ever since the Republicans snatched both houses of Congress back in 1994. That was a bloodbath. The American People are funny that way.

But it's also good, because it means the basic concept of democracy is still at work. What I don't want to see is the lunatic fringe that took over Congress and became so caught up in ideology that their governance is responsible for the polarization that is in Congress now, and that has been present in this election.

If '94 was a bloodbath, what's 2008 gonna be? A bad day?

I like how its going to look in '08 - kind of gives me retribution for 1994. 2008 is a massacre for the Republican Party, and there will be casualties that don't deserve it because they didn't have the gumption to stand up to Bush when it was needed.

I like Olympia Snowe and she's not up until 2010 - but her colleague, Susan Collins, might be taking a fall as a result of hitching her wagon to Bush and McCain for the past eight years. Maine is a majority white state and yet, they're acting like they're in Berkeley, California. I expect Kay Bailey Hutcherson to run for Governor of Texas, so she'll be leaving her seat soon, and they're already predicting Melissa Hart of Pennsylvania may have a hellva fight to retain her seat (she swept in in 1994 or 1996).

Heather Wilson played a big role in the firing of the U. S. Attorney's (which is why Pete Domenici up and retired to try and leave his Senate seat for her, but she can't go after it because of this scandal), and she might lose her House seat this year.

All these women were imminently more qualified than Sarah Palin, and they walked on Capitol Hill with McCain every day. He committed an act of TREASON when he bypassed these women and selected Caribou Barbie who pimps her kids for personal gain.

Just when I thought the Dark Sith had the market cornered on selling out for personal gain, along comes Sarah Palin.

GAME OVER.

Course you do, LOL.

I'll probably half-ass this...but I'm not sure what McCain did that would be considered treason. Stupid, maybe...but treason's a bit of a stretch, don't you think?

It was TREASON to put such an incompetent heifer in the second in command of the country, D. Especially if he croaks midway through his first term.

CPL: CO-SIGNING on the "incompetent heifer"!!!

The way McCain has been looking lately, if elected he might beat William Henry Harrison's short term.

Those numbers will make a big difference in determining how forcefully Dems can push a progressive agenda in the coming years.

Reporter Kelly O'Donnell was on Morning Joke trying to downplay the KKK McPalin rallies.

I bet Joe has a shot of alcohol in that coffee cup...the days when he actually makes sense, that cup isn't on the set. LOL

And Kelly O'Donnell isn't a reporter. She is only at MSNBC because she flunked the "bimbo" test at Fake Noise.

CPL: Cain't tolerate Kelly!!

LOL. . . "Morning Joke"

I like it!

Kelly O'Donnell is a tool.She has been carrying McCains water since day one.I guess those B.B.Q's were really good.

Re: carrying McCain's water

I get the feeling we're going to see a lot more of that in the coming weeks. The media wants to see a close election and Obama's impressive poll numbers threaten their tv ratings for Nov. 4th.

McCain has embraced the underdog role. . . look for the media to play it's part . . . starting with tomorrow's debate analysis. I think they're gonna do everything they can to declare McCain the winner and give him momentum heading into the final weeks of the campaign.

Expect to hear a lot of . . . "McCain's found his voice"/"The Maverick is back" type of bs. Again, they're ratings depend on it.

But there are too many Republicans who feel McCain needs to shut up at this point. The MSM might buy it - the American People have "NOT FOR SALE" signs up these days.

More Hatred at a Palin Rally in Johnstown, PA
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrExRHZnm0
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30 Days | 30 Reasons : His Campaign (#22)
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=OOW2aE2OPUk
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MUST SEE!
Palin Supporters say Fox News is Fair and Balanced on ACORN
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ50oZRVTuw
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rikyrah: McAcain Attack Ads Called Inevitable - - And Ineffective
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

Joe Trippi, the veteran Democratic strategist, said there's a reason John McCain's attack ads don't seem to be hurting Barack Obama.

"I don't think they matter hardly at all," Trippi, who worked for John Edwards during the primaries, said of both sides' commercials. "Most people are looking at the financial crisis, looking at their 401(k)s, and in between they're seeing the two candidates beat the living daylights out of each other and rolling their eyes."

Alex Castellanos, the veteran Republican strategist, said Obama's image is hard to tarnish because voters have come to know the senator from Illinois.

"They've seen him for a year and a half in debates," said Castellanos, who worked for Mitt Romney in the primaries. "They've been barraged with television. To come up now and say, 'Don't believe your lying eyes -- this candidate is not who you think he is,' is a very tough challenge."

THERE IS MORE.

Good statement. "They've seen him for a year and a half. . . "

Don't LIE. You know who he is!! He's the African--American that YOU don't want to be PRESIDENT! BUT, he will be!! :>) :>)


Obama-Biden '08!!!

rikyrah: 'cause HE'S DA MAN!! :>)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122392884291329...
Obama Bulks Up His Economic Agenda

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama unveiled a series of new proposals to deal with the financial crisis, including a partial moratorium on mortgage foreclosures.

THERE IS MORE!!


Obama-Biden '08!!

How long before McCain changes the font, renames it, and feeds it to the MSM as his ideas?

evita: COUNTING DOWN - - In -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 COPY!!! :>)

rikyrah: So McAncient "DISSED HIS DONORS!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122393943185530...
Wall Street Donors Resent Being Blamed by McCain

NEW YORK -- Sen. John McCain badly needs the cash infusion and momentum from a Tuesday night fund-raiser in New York. But the senator's recent demonizing of Wall Street made it tough to lure contributors, with Wall Street and corporate executives balancing their aggravation with the Republican presidential hopeful against their rising unease about his Democratic opponent.

he Republican presidential candidate's "populist stuff sounds good on the campaign trail, but it's caused a lot of trepidation," says John Faso, onetime Republican candidate for New York governor and one of the event organizers. Sen. McCain's relationship with corporate America "has hit a bump in the road," says Mr. Faso, who is an attorney.

Even big business names are advising Sen. McCain to quit looking to assign blame for the economic crisis and instead offer more-detailed solutions. "I told the campaign that McCain must do a better job talking about ways to make corporations -- their executives and directors -- more accountable," activist investor Carl Icahn, a McCain supporter who doesn't plan to attend Tuesday's fund-raiser, said in an interview. "Frankly, Obama is doing a better job, and it's resonating for him."

THERE IS MORE.

Guess McAncient "FORGOT" - - "YOU CAIN'T BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU!! :>)


Obama-Biden '08!!

Talk about biting the hand that fed you, Green Lady.

I don't know that it can get any worse for McCaint, but I'm willing to place a wager.

CPL: LOL! :>) I'm betting on your side! :>)

rikyrah: Women on the Gov.

http://www.newser.com/story/39832/palins-stumbl...
Palin's Stumbles Make Women of All Stripes Cringe

(Newser) – John McCain must not understand affirmative action. “You don’t run out and hire the first woman you find on the sidewalk and call it a day,” writes Susan Reimer in the Baltimore Sun—you take the time to find someone qualified. But it’s painfully clear McCain didn’t do that when he picked Palin, and now women of all political persuasions are cringing as she stumbles.

SKIP

I don't want as vice president a car-pooling mom who runs a state like a part-time job and who can't find her way from a subject to a predicate. - Susan Reimer

Lovin' the "subject-predicate" line!! :>) :>)


Obama-Biden '08!!!

Would love to see a whole lot of Obama surrogates put the smackdown on this axxhole's premise.

Jonah Goldberg, LA Times - Obama's getting off easy
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/la-o...

...Liberal Democrats have a long tradition of tarring opponents as the monolithic forces of hatred and prejudice while casting themselves as the enlightened proponents of peace, love and decency. And this election shows that tradition is alive and well.

...Over the weekend, civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis of Georgia sold off another chunk of his reputation by coughing up some absurd partisan talking point about how the McCain-Palin campaign reminds him of that of Dixiecrat segregationist George Wallace.

...McCain has done nothing to fuel racism.

...If Obama were a white Democratic nominee named Barry O'Malley, the GOP would be going after him twice as hard. But many liberals would still caterwaul about fomenting hatred and racism, because that's what they always do.

To smack down Jonah, just do three things:

(1) Talk about his mother and go beyond "Playing the Dozens" with her Crypt Keeper-looking ass;

(2) Tell him to go and enlist in the Armed Forces and really support the troops, instead of being a member of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists Corps, and;

(3) Tell him to "come out of the closet" or you'll get Jeff Gannon to verify their tryst in the White House when they both were supposed to be "covering" Bush. He'll know what you mean. Tell him Wonkette sent you...and see what happens.

Goldberg is a bitchass.
Always has been.

phuck him.

I wrote about him months ago. He pulled another bitchass piece like this one.

This is the difference . . . Obama has never argued that McCain is a physical threat to the safety and security of this country. He has never questioned McCain's patriotism. He has never argued that McCain can't be trusted because "he's not one of us." He has never linked McCain to terrorist organizations (remember, a few months ago, McCain said Obama was the candidate of Hamas).

I'm sick and tired of this lame attempt at "evenhandedness" by the mainstream media. Bottom line, I'd rather be called "erratic" than a terrorist.

This is so tired . . . conservative pundits say McCain can't be held responsible for something another person says or does . . . but . . .

Then they want to turn around and use the Ayers/Wright argument to hold Obama responsible for (you guessed it) things he didn't say and didn't do. And the media never calls them on it.

Morning Joe is such a joke. They have the nerve to talk about a racial double standard after they've spent the past month and a half warning people to treat Sarah Palin with kid gloves. Tell me, how would Joe and Mika respond if it was Palin and McCain getting the death threats?

Give me a break. They can talk about double standards all they want. It's nothing compared to the way McCain's uses his P.O.W. history as a shield or the way the GOP has used Sarah Palin's gender as a shield.

The only reason I see Mika going along with that shyt is that during the discussion on waterboarding as torture - Joe Scar tried to defend the indefensible and Mika told him to get real. Joe said on the air "Mika, how much do you like working here? Just kidding..." but it wasn't long after that that Mika began spouting talking points in agreement with the Scar and Willie "the mild-mannered bigot" Geist.

Mika's dad is Zbigniew Brzezinski; a former top ranking Foreign Policy man who served in four Administrations, turned Republican, has a son working for McCain, but he himself, supporting OBAMA. I say all that to say Mika doesn't have to take the shyt she takes off Joe Scar; she chooses to do so. Cause after Scar threatened her on the air, MSNBC should have canned his ass on the spot, for sexual harassment.

And no one ever asks him about that dead staffer found in his Congressional office in Pensacola when he was in Congress, so I'm wondering how the hell he got this gig?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski

Morning Joe is acting like that Goldberg's article is the Holy Grail of divine truth. So annoying. Now McCain's racism is Obama's fault. Uh, yeah.

I keep saying it . . . Morning Joe SHOULD NOT be MSNBC's morning program. It's the MSNBC version of Hannity and Colmes. This is how every show plays out:

-Joe Scarborough gives his rant
-Mika agrees (wow, that's a real left/right debate isn't it?)
-Pat Buchanan says something crazy . . . Mika and Joe think it's cute(funny, they'll talk about Jeremiah Wright, but turn around and give Buchanan an open mike every morning???)

Look, I don't care about Scarborough's politics. But he's presented as some type of neutral, moderate analyst when he's far from it. If NBC felt they had to demote Olbermann and Mathews for the sake of neutrality, then they should take the same approach to Morning Joe.

And they should start by asking Joe Scar about this:

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausut...

rikyrah: From The Daily Kos -

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/13/16...
Republicans Ashamed of Their Party [pics]

And I noticed a funny thing. Looking at Republicans targeted by Red-to-Blue or Orange-to-Blue (etc.), they don't seem too eager to let people know what their party affiliation is. Check it out!


Obama-Biden '08!!!

rikyrah: Conservatives DUMP on McAncient! :>) Jed Report - VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbjg9Hh17lI&eurl...
Conservatives Blame McCain As Obama Landslide Approaches

Grab the "popcorn"! Sit down! Get ready to get your "LAUGH ON!" :>)

Obama-Biden '08!!!

OOH that was nice pick me up!

evita: Glad to make your day!! :>) :>)

Obama-Biden '08!!!

Video of McCain To ACORN: You Are 'What Makes America Special'

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/10/mccain-to-acor...

Tee hee hee...

And, another gem from The Jed Report:

Republicans Jump Ship

The official list of Republicans and conservatives jumping ship,
pointing fingers, or otherwise abandoning the McCain campaign

http://www.jedreport.com/shipjumpers/

Okay ... I had to stop when I reached # 28 because I was in such hysterical laughter

Michigan GOP (Thu Oct 9):
"The Michigan GOP is in disarray, and said the following about those jumping ship in an email they sent to local supporters: "In the meantime, there have been several individuals, including some disgruntled former employees, who have tried to take advantage of the situation by stealing cell phones, and other electronic equipment, as well as substantial amounts of collateral materials. In at least one instance there was an employee who vandalized their victory center on the way out the door."

HA! The Titantic stood a better chance - yeah, they best to grab the life jackets!

Love The Jed Report

Anovelista: Just about to post this, but. . .

I still have a congruent VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WQ6Q_65qck
So Long Farewell - The Sound of Music

Last line: I'm GLAD to go; I cannot tell a LIE! :>) :>)

ENJOY!! :>) :>)

The Hardball BIG Number tonight was 95.


95

The number of events Barack, Michelle and Ride or Die Joe have had in battleground states since the Convention.

Country Last's number?

55

and that is with Joe taking almost a week off to see Beau off to Iraq and with Jill's mom's death.

Additionally, with McCain/Palin tag teaming rallies since McCain can't pull a crowd and with Cindy not a competent speaker and the First dude not adding much they are really handicapped. **I did read on Politico that the first Dude stumped on his own recently to a crowd of about 500.

Laslty, they can't get to the battlegrounds because they are too busy protecting red states like North Carolina and Indiana.

Michelle is out their grinding on her own. Meanwhile, Cindy is standing directly behind her man. What kind of work will Cindy be capable of doing on her own? Oh yes, she'll read books to babies in the hospitals. Michelle is going to change the way we look at the First Lady's role.

I am in awe of Michelle Obama. And she is STILL ABLE to be there for the girls' first day of school!

I read somewhere that McCain was in the habit of taking weekends off. I bet Palin did a chunk of those 55 events.

That's a lie. He was taking naps.

That's about right.....McCain can only afford about 57% of what Obama can.

found this in the comments at MyDD.com...

I was in southwestern Virginia this past week. This is usually solid GOP territory, and yes there were a lot of McCain yard signs, but also a fair number of Obama signs. The most amazing sight though was a trailer home with a confederate flag on their flagpole and an Obama sign in their yard

now, if THAT isn't an image, I don't know what is...LOL

If you liked that one, Rikyrah, feast your eyes on this website:

http://rednecks4obama.com/

Had to do a double take. They like to hunt, fish, shoot and they support Obama.

I wish I had seen that while I was out there.

Monday, October 13, 2008
Ron Walters on the Bradley Effect: Not to Worry.
My Take on the Bradley Effect
By Ron Walters

http://sociologistsforobama.blogspot.com/2008/1...