David Corn

Why would you take it as name-calling if I make fun of the MORAN dude?

A little touchy or do you include yourself for another reason?

Posted by Capt

Ah Capt, I don't care what drivel you post.

I was just throwing back at ya what you're always crying about when someone challenges you. You always come back with the " childish name calling, Ad Hominem, school yard taunts or stupid shit" comment when you can't defend one of your own posts.

Also, I never siad Bush never lied about anything, I've said that you are a liar, proven many times, just like the childish name calling comment!

Now get off your knees cuz I'm done with you!

Silly Cornnut~~~~

I didn't realize Pandemoniac was a hard-core Zionist.

Posted by Diff in reference to "Pansy the Texican Salsa Queen"

Hey Diff take it easy on Pansy, he's sensitive.

Now, the reason you didn't know Pansy was a hard-core Zionist is because you didn't know he is a member of Rev Hagees church. You know, the guy who thinks gays were the cause of Katrina. Ya that's right, he's belongs to a far right wing Christian fundamentalist church. He's still trying to figure out who he is in his twisted little world.

More on Jim Johnson: Obama bundler, lobbyist, and shady mortgage executive

By Soren Dayton

Earlier, I introduced Jim Johnson, the head of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team. He is also a lobbyist, operative for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale (is this the change we need?), representative of a former head of state, bundler for the Obama campaign, and disgraced mortgage executive who mistated Fannie Mae profits to get a bigger bonus. Oh yeah.

Today, the NY Sun tells us that he also got sweetheart mortgages from bankrupt (legally, not merely in other ways) mortgage dealer Country Wide Financial:

James Johnson, one of three people tapped by Mr. Obama recently to oversee the search for his running mate, took at least five real estate loans totaling more than $7 million from Countrywide Financial Corp. through an informal program for friends of the company's CEO, Angelo Mozilo, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

But I am sure that Barack Obama sees nothing wrong with that. After all, he got a subsidy on his own house from now-felon, then-FBI investigation target Tony Rezko.

So next time Barack Obama complains about the Housing crisis, ask him about his Vice Presidential search guy who gets sweetheart deals. Or even about his own sweetheart deals. He hasn't answered enough questions there only, "like eight questions." We agree with the Chicago Sun Times that that is not enough.

George Bush’s policies have taken us from a projected $5.6 trillion dollar surplus at the end of the Clinton Administration to massive deficits and nearly four trillion dollars in new debt today.

We were promised a fiscal conservative. Instead, we got the most fiscally irresponsible administration in history. And now John McCain wants to give us another. Well we’ve been there once, and we’re not going back. It’s time to move this country forward.

(Barack Obama)

John McCain takes great pride in saying that he’s a fiscal conservative, and he’s already signaled that he will try to define me with the same old tax-and-spend label that his side has been throwing around for decades. But let’s look at the facts.

John McCain once said that he couldn’t vote for the Bush tax breaks in good conscience because they were too skewed to the wealthiest Americans. Later, he said it was irresponsible to cut taxes during a time of war because we simply couldn’t afford them. Well, nothing’s changed about the war, but something’s certainly changed about John McCain, because these same Bush tax cuts are now his central economic policy. Not only that, but he is now calling for a new round of tax giveaways that are twice as expensive as the original Bush plan and nearly twice as regressive. His policy will spend nearly $2 trillion on tax breaks for corporations, including $1.2 billion for Exxon alone, a company that just recorded the highest profits in history.

Think about that. At a time when we’re fighting two wars, when millions of Americans can’t afford their medical bills or their tuition bills, when we’re paying more than $4 a gallon for gas, the man who rails against government spending wants to spend $1.2 billion on a tax break for Exxon Mobil. That isn’t just irresponsible. It’s outrageous.

If John McCain’s policies were implemented, they would add $5.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. That isn’t fiscal conservatism, that’s what George Bush has done over the last eight years. Not only can working families not afford it, future generations can’t afford it. And we can’t allow it to happen in this election.

(Obama)

Gallup Daily: Obama Takes Lead Over McCain, 48% to 42%

Has consistently led McCain since Clinton decided to suspend campaign

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This is just funny, "consisnetly led" since Saturday? lol

Not to mention it is all pollstrology. Especially five months from the election.

King Fossil loves global warming & removes McCain's mountaintop

[...]

Ironically, the chief loser in this defeat is John McCain. His good friend Joe Lieberman (I-CT), pushed it as a means of demonstrating a commitment to the environment on McCain's behalf. The bill was to be a "green" centerpiece to create some distance from George W. Bush, who had pledged to veto this bill.

But in the public eye, the GOP as a whole now owns the public burden of failing to fight global warming. That includes both McCain and Lieberman.

It also clears the path for a fresh approach. For as far as it got, the national debate on Lieberman-Warner made it clear that the national environmental community is unified in its support for a massive push for renewable energy and efficiency, is unified in its opposition to subsidies for new nuclear power plants, and is deeply divided about the cap-and-trade approach.

And it underscored the reality that a radical change in the White House and Congress must come before the US government can deal seriously with the spiraling crisis of climate chaos. For John McCain and Congressional Republicans, that can only be bad news.

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2008/1659

Straight talk? Come on, folks. When he said that Petreus drove around Baghdad in an unarmed humvee, he didn't mean totally unsecured. I mean, that's soooo obvious, right?

When he spoke those most sacred of vows to his wife, he didn't mean he would remain totally, 100% faithful to her. You know sometimes, the McCainiac comes out to play and he can't help it. And the ladies love them some war hero.

You see, sometimes he says things that aren't true for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes he says things because they are politically expedient. He lies out of raw "ambition."

From a 60 Minutes interview:

Let me bring up another issue that surrounded South Carolina in the year 2000. There was a political issue, a local issue about whether the Confederate flag should fly over the Capitol. You waffled on that," Pelley says.

"Yes. Worse than waffled," McCain acknowledges.

Asked what he means, McCain says, "Well, I said that it was strictly a state issue and clearly knowing that it wasn't."

"That's not what you believed in your heart?" Pelley asks.

"No," the senator says.

"What did you believe in your heart?" Pelley asks.

"That it was a symbol to many of, a very offensive symbol to many, many Americans," McCain says.

Why did he say that in 2000?

"I'm sure for all the wrong reasons," McCain says.

Asked what those wrong reasons would be, McCain tells Pelley, "For ambition."

CBS: http://tinyurl.com/5p6u3f
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The guy tells it like it is (about his tendency to lie when the chips are down): he lies because it benefits his political career.

There. He said it. All this "straight talk" nonsense is kinda like saying that Karl Rove is a "political genius." You know the DMW have a hilarious sense of irony.

So what did he mean by this?

A Fool or a Fraud?
by georgia10

John McCain:

"Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war. ...

....George W. Bush had this to say to American soldiers about two months ago:

"It must be exciting for you ... in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You're really making history, and thanks," Bush said.

vid DKos: http://tinyurl.com/4wpm2v
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See? Even here Gramps misses the mark. Mr. 20% is both a fool AND a fraud. A twofer.

Gramps gets no love from the Dingbat writers and pundits:

"Arch-conservative Bay Buchanan suggested that it may not matter what McCain does. Writing in Human Events on June 4, she declared:"

"In reality there is only one candidate. Barack Obama. In November he will win or he will lose. John McCain is relevant only in so far as he is not Barack Obama. The Senator from Arizona is incapable of energizing his party, brings no new people to the polls, and has a personality that is best kept under wraps."
Huffpost: http://tinyurl.com/4pk4wf
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Thad Cochran. Thad called him a red-faced something or other. Gotta look that one up.

Also from the same article:

Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, has posted a PowerPoint study asserting that McCain currently hold slight leads in Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri and Nevada, and that Ohio is "a dead heat" and that Pennsylvania could go Republican. "This is a very good position for our campaign to be in," Davis contends

In fact, the survey data is not as favorable as Davis claims - Obama leads in all five of the most recent Pennsylvania polls by an average of 5.8 points, and he leads in Wisconsin by 2 points. Polling in the 19 states identified by RealClearPolitics as battlegrounds shows Obama in a better position than McCain, ahead in such Bush '04 states as Colorado and Iowa, and running very close in Virginia, New Mexico and Nevada.

In addition, the data on RealClearPolitics dispute another of Davis' claims --- that McCain has stronger favorable/unfavorable ratings than Obama. Instead, the recent average for McCain is 47.3 favorable to 40.8 unfavorable, or a +6.5; for Obama, it's 50.3 to 38.5, or +11.8 .

In not-for-attribution interviews, a number of Republicans were neither optimistic about his chances nor positive in their assessment of his campaign so far.

"I think we've got a world of problems," said one Republican strategist with extensive experience in presidential campaigns. He said this came home to him with a thud when he watched Obama and McCain give speeches last Tuesday, with the Democrat speaking before "20,000 screaming fans, while John McCain looked every bit of his 72 years" in a speech televised from New Orleans.

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Dead. Gramps. Walking.

That McSame Ad runs here in NM and when I hear those words:

"Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war. ..."

The refrain from Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran fires up the earworm.

Is there anything he hasn't flipped or flopped on yet? I think Johnny is under the impression that taking both sides on every issue covers all the bases.

Maybe that'll work.

Already, some young freek has put up a youtube mashup using McBush's recent TV ad and old footage of Gramps and Mr. 20%. It's called John McCain -- the fool on the hill.

Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/5vwgo8

It's pretty funny. Almost as amusing as the Late Nite Funnies:

"Well, congratulations to Barack Obama, who secured enough delegates last night to get the nomination. Congratulations to him. Hey, Hillary Clinton is still not conceding her campaign, because she says there's still a chance of the vice presidency. In fact, she's going to offer it to Barack one last time."
--Jay Leno

"So that's the big question on everybody's mind. What does Hillary want? Of course, the bigger question is, who's going to tell her she can't get it?"
--Jay Leno

"Well, according to sources in Hillary's camp, Hillary Clinton says she is open to being Barack Obama's running mate. Here's my question: How can she ask him for a job when she won't admit he's the guy that's going to be doing the hiring?"
--Jay Leno

"Barack Obama reportedly tried to call Hillary Clinton twice last night, and got her voice mail both times. Got her voice mail. Doesn't that sound like a bad breakup? 'I tried to call her, she wouldn't pick up.' Apparently, Hillary only answers the phone at 3:00 a.m."
--Jay Leno

"Actually, Barack Obama also tried to call John McCain, but McCain had the TV up so loud, he couldn't hear."
--Jay Leno

"Oh, and in his speech last night, John McCain said we must get off of fossil fuels. See, that's why a lot of people admire McCain. That's why he's considered such a maverick. Here you have a fossil, coming out against fossil fuel."
--Jay Leno

"What a day here in New York City - the weather, it's 71 and hazy, kind of like John McCain."
--David Letterman

"There's no denying it, last night was truly historic. For the first time in the history of American politics, John McCain stayed up past 7:00 p.m. At McCain's rally, well over a dozen people electrified the atmosphere. After the third chant, they forgot his name"
--Stephen Colbert

"Before we even get started, Barack Obama, of course, wrapped up the nomination last night. That's the big story. And now that Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, Americans are going to have to choose between the 46-year-old Obama and the 71-year-old John McCain. That's the choice. In other words, it's a choice between the Hillary-defeater or the Wal-Mart greeter."
--Conan O'Brien

"The big news today is that Democrats finally seem to be in agreement that Barack is the Obama-nee."
--Jimmy Kimmel

"John McCain's wife, Cindy McCain, has been taking high-speed driving lessons at the Bob Bondurant Driving School in Phoenix. High-speed driving. Well, that's important. When you're married to a guy as old as McCain, you have to know how to drive an ambulance."
--Jay Leno

"And former White House press spokesman Scott McClellan has written a book highly critical of the Bush administration. And while in Utah, President Bush told an audience he has not read McClellan's book. He doesn't plan to read it. It's nothing to do with McClellan, just general principle. It's a book. It's got big words, and not a lot of pictures."
--Jay Leno

"Our vice president, our old friend, Dick Cheney got in some trouble, made a joke. Did you hear about this? Made a joke about West Virginia, but he apologized. He did apologize for the joke he made about West Virginia. Nothing yet on the Iraqi war."
--David Letterman

Capt, the bomb iran song is also part of the Fool on the Hill video. Funny you should mention it.

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William Kristol:
In any case, with the battle against Hillary Clinton behind him, everything seems to be going swimmingly for Obama. Meanwhile, the McCain campaign dog-paddles along. And almost every Republican I’ve talked to is alarmed that the McCain campaign doesn’t seem up to the task of electing John McCain.
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Even a turbo-powered ad campaign will not help sell Gramps. It is unfair to his staffers for Kristol to blame them for his campaign's (lack of) progress after months of free time to raise money and sharpen his message.

Robert Novak:

"Shortcomings by John McCain's campaign in the art of politics are alienating two organizations of Christian conservatives. James Dobson's Focus on the Family is estranged following the failure of Dobson and McCain to talk out their differences. Evangelicals who follow the Rev. John Hagee resent McCain's disavowal of him."

"The evangelicals are not an isolated problem for the Arizona senator. Enthusiasm for McCain inside the Republican coalition is in short supply. During the four months since McCain clinched the nomination, he has not satisfied conservatives opposed to his positions on global warming, campaign finance reform, immigration, domestic oil drilling and how to ban same-sex marriages."
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In Ohio, people are still walking around shaking their heads about Gramps:

"CINCINNATI -- As the architect of Ohio's ballot measure against gay marriage, Phil Burress helped draw thousands of conservative voters to the polls in 2004, most of whom also cast ballots to reelect President Bush. So Burress was not surprised when two high-level staffers from John McCain's campaign dropped by his office, asking for his help this fall."

"What surprised Burress was how badly the meeting went. He says he tried but failed to make the McCain team understand how much work remained to overcome the skepticism of social conservatives. Burress ended up cutting off the campaign officials as they spoke. "He doesn't want to associate with us," Burress now says of McCain, "and we don't want to associate with him."

via DKos: http://tinyurl.com/63t9ra
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Nobody likes Gramps, either on the left or right of the political spectrum. He's like Zombie Chow, nobody's buying except for Homeschool.

Sarkozy presses for reduction of fuel taxes

Jun 9 03:10 PM US/Eastern
By GEIR MOULSON
Associated Press

French President Urges Healing In Lebanon

STRAUBING, Germany (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy asked European leaders to cushion the shock of soaring fuel prices at an upcoming summit, arguing that "Europe must protect" its people.
Sarkozy, faced with protests over sky-high fuel costs that have since spread to other European countries, last month urged the 27-nation European Union to suspend part of the value-added tax in an effort to counter prices that have hit a string of new records.

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The French are lowering gas taxes while the Dimwit Dems in congress want to add a .53 cent a gallon gas tax increase in new global warming bill?

Hey Pansy, is this the secret famed Pelosi gas plan of 2007?

Nobody likes Gramps, either on the left or right of the political spectrum. He's like Zombie Chow, nobody's buying except for Homeschool.

posted by Pansy the Texican Salsa queen

Except for 99.9% of hispanics~ I'll give you the .01 for yourself since you're so confused about your own idenity.

Obama Has Same Corporate Insiders He Regularly Blasts

Judicial Watch ^ | June 9, 2008

Barack Obama campaigns with promises of change and he regularly blasts corporate insiders yet a high-ranking campaign advisor and top fundraiser has received millions of dollars in the sort of highly questionable loans that the Illinois Senator blames for infecting the economy and creating a home foreclosure crisis.

A major newspaper broke the story over the weekend that contradicts Obama’s infamous change rhetoric and ardent critiques of well-connected corporate insiders who get perks that most Americans cannot even fathom. It turns out that the bundler (committed to raising at least $100,000) who is in charge of finding Obama a running mate has some serious skeletons in his closet.

Longtime Democratic Party power James Johnson, got at least five real estate loans—at rates below market averages—worth more than $7 million from Countrywide Financial Corp. through his close friend, Countrywide chairman and executive officer Angeleo Mozilo. In his nationally televised change speeches, Obama has denounced these types of insider perks and blamed them for infecting the economy and hurting hard-working Americans.

In fact, during one of his animated pep rallies in Pennsylvania Obama specifically criticized Countrywide’s CEO for getting millions of dollars in bonuses while people were at risk of losing their homes. “What’s wrong with this picture?” the senator asked a pumped-up, rowdy crowd. It turns out that the answer is a prominent part of his campaign.

This is hardly the first time that Obama’s illusion of a “squeaky clean” image has been tainted. One of his top political fundraisers and close friends, a shady slumlord named Antoin Rezko, was recently convicted for taking huge kickbacks on government deals. The chairman (Hatem El-Hady) of an Islamic “charity” shut down by the U.S. government for funding Middle Eastern terrorists is one of Obama’s top fundraisers and the senator tried steering millions of federal dollars to his wife’s employer and the company of a top campaign donor.

Yet Obama assured Americans early in his campaign that he was the only presidential candidate not corrupted by Washington politics. The undisputable facts clearly contradict this.

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So what ya got to say about Obummers lobbist friend here Capt? Damn those facts anyway!

Obummer sure likes those slum lords~~

McCain going on offensive against Jim Johnson

McCain surrogates and the RNC have been hammering Obama all day on Jim Johnson, the Democrat's designated veep vetter who reportedly got a mortgage deal from Countrywide.

Now, the candidate himself is set to weigh in.

In an interview with Fox's Carl Cameron set to air tonight, McCain said "I think it suggests a bit of a contradiction talking about how his campaign is going to be not associated with people like that."

"Clearly he is very much associated with that," McCain said.
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Go Gramps, go!

Obummer is a liar~~~

No wonder 50% of Democrats in W V think Obummer is untrustworthy~~

How bout it Pansy and Capt, should Johnson be asked to step down?

Can't anybody on the right say something complimentary about Gramps?

From an article in The Nation (via Freepistan, sorry):
If you've followed Senator John McCain at all, you've heard about his tendency to, well, explode. He's erupted at numerous Senate colleagues, including many Republicans, at the slightest provocation. "The thought of his being President sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper, and he worries me," wrote Republican Senator Thad Cochran, shortly before endorsing McCain.
Freepistan: http://tinyurl.com/6bnzqw

Scarborough and Buchanan agree:
"So when he says more war," Scarborough commented, "he is promising you, if he gets in the White House, we'll not only be fighting this war but starting new wars. Is that what conservative Republicans want?

"I don't say he's starting them," Buchanan answered. "He expects more wars. ... I think he's talking straight, because if you take a look at the McCain foreign policy, he is in everybody's face. Did you see Thad Cochran's comment when he endorsed Romney? He said, look, John McCain is a bellicose, red-faced, angry guy, who constantly explodes."
via Rawstory: http://tinyurl.com/3dhhpw
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Even after wrapping up the nomination months ago, Gramps can't get his supporters to stop saying horrendous things about him. Dead. Gramps. Walking.

McClellan To Testify Before Judiciary Committee

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, whose scathing memoir about his time in the Bush administration sent waves through Washington D.C., has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, a senior committee official told The Huffington Post.

http://tinyurl.com/3s4jty

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This could get interesting. Watch the WH try to jump in between, so far all those that have refused to testify even under subpeona have been loyal Bushbots, Scotty quit that crew. Now he will out the lies and the lying liars.

How tax-friendly Obama cuts his own

MSN MoneyCentral ^ | June 9, 2008 | Tim Middleton

How tax-friendly Obama cuts his own

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would raise taxes on the rich, but as an investor, he seems eager to cut his own.

By Tim Middleton

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wants to raises taxes on the wealthy, but as a member of that social class, he isn't eager to fall victim himself. He has invested at least $1 million in a fund that yields tax-free income.

The Illinois senator's latest campaign-finance disclosure shows that his investments have nearly tripled in the past two years to as much as $7.4 million, and his income in 2007 surged past $4 million, not counting his government salary.

Obama reported accounts with Morgan Chase Private Client Asset Management, an elite firm that deals only with the rich, as well as a host of retirement accounts, some in the name of his wife, Michelle.

Because the required disclosure forms allow candidates to report their assets in ranges, such as $250,001 to $500,000, Obama's net worth at the end of 2007 -- not including his home and other nonfinancial assets -- was pegged between $2,022,016 and $7,356,000.

Tax-free income By far the largest account, valued between $1 million and $5 million, was in the Northern Municipal Money Market Fund. It generated tax-free interest in 2007 of between $15,001 and $50,000.

Northern Trust "has built a well-deserved reputation around being the banker for the überrich," says Andrew Richards, a Morningstar equity analyst. In a report on the Chicago company's stock, he writes, "The firm estimates it serves roughly 20% of the richest families profiled annually in the Forbes 400."

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CHANGE?

In an interview with Slovenia TV, Bush was asked whether he believes “the American brand needs a makeover” in the eyes of the world. Bush conceded, “They may not sometimes necessarily like the President, but they like America.” And they’ll certainly like America much more once the current President has left.

(thinkprogress)

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Even Bush knows he is a failure. He is getting an ear full from the Europeans.

Senate Democrats Want Trillions in New Taxes

Monday, June 9, 2008 8:30 AM

By: Newsmax Staff Article Font Size

The spending plan approved by the Senate last week fails to extend President Bush’s tax cuts — and could lead to the largest tax increase in U.S. history.

“Make no mistake: This tax hike is gargantuan,” the Investor’s Business Daily states in an editorial.

“Simply by not making Bush’s tax cuts permanent, taxes will rise by a minimum of $2.8 trillion between now and 2018.”

The IBD says that if the tax cuts are allowed to expire in 2010:

Spending will rise by half a trillion dollars over the next five years. And the Democrats will pay for it by raising taxes by $683 billion — “the biggest such increase ever.”

About 48 million married couples — “the heart of the middle class that Democrats say they want to help” — will see an average annual tax increase of $3,007.

The tax bill for the elderly will rise $2,181 a year on average.

A single parent with two children earning $30,000 a year will see a tax hike of $1,600.

A family of four earning $50,000 a year will be hit with a tax increase of 191 percent.

The 2009 budget for the first time ever spends $1 trillion on discretionary items — non-defense, non-entitlement.

“This is a foretaste of future fiscal recklessness under a Barack Obama presidency (he voted for the bill),” the IBD observes.

Noting that the budget would weaken the economy and kill job growth, the IBD concludes: “This is supply-side economics in reverse — creating massive disincentives to work, save and invest, and shrinking the pie.”

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Thank you Democrats for all that you do!

How tax-friendly Obama cuts his own

MSN MoneyCentral ^ | June 9, 2008 | Tim Middleton

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Nice!

Obummer doesn't give to charity and he doesn't pay his fair share of taxes.

Iran, Iraq agree to boost defense cooperation

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran and Iraq agreed to boost defense cooperation during a visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Tehran on Monday, Iran's official IRNA news agency said, giving few details on the content of the agreement.

Iran's Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar signed a memorandum of understanding on defense cooperation with his Iraqi counterpart, Abdul Qader Jassim, IRNA said.

Mine clearance and the search for soldiers missing in action would be part of the planned cooperation, it said.

The two majority Shi'ite Muslim countries fought an eight-year war in the 1980s, in which 1 million people were killed, but ties have improved since Sunni Arab strongman Saddam Hussein was ousted in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSDAH94592720080609

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Assuming the neocons aren't flat-out lying about Iran, this is what our troops are fighting and dying for? By every measure the warmongers offer - this is a situation created by the Bush maladministration. Now Iraq is a Shi'ite Muslim majority country.

"Mission Accomplished"

Things are rough all over for Gramps:

McBush Pressed On Past Marital Infidelities During Town Hall (VIDEO)

"During a town hall meeting on Monday, Sen. John McCain was asked, very subtlety, to address how his own marital infidelities - a taboo subject of sorts on the campaign trail - comport with his pledge to protecting the sanctity of marriage by opposing such unions among same-sex couples."

"Upon returning from Vietnam, McCain received news that his wife had been in a terrible car accident, which, in subsequent surgery, had led to the loss of inches in height and crippling injuries. The marriage gradually fell apart. After a bit of philandering, he met his second and current wife, Cindy. As the New York Times reported,"

" As John McCain puzzled over his career, he also found himself sorting out his marriage. In the Navy, many considered it appropriate for a swashbuckling pilot to pick up a girlfriend here or there, and stories began to spread about Mr. McCain and young women."
HuffPost: http://tinyurl.com/4hfzex
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Somebody had the gall to ask Gramps about the sanctity of marriage?

I thought everybody knew that story already:

"When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again. But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance"

"Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons"

"Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit. ‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’

"But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics. ‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said."
Dailymail: http://tinyurl.com/6gbzhw
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Maybe THAT'S why the family values crowd has turned on Gramps.

Alaska. You know the DMW is in trouble when even a state that hasn't gone for a Democrat since Gramps had real teeth is in play:
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AK-Sen: Republican pollster Hellenthal and Associates has polled both the Senate and House races in Alaska, and the Senate poll gives us excellent news.

It shows Democrat Mark Begich leading Republican Ted Stevens, 51% to 44%.

Caveats:
-This poll is one month old; it was conducted May 6 to 10.
-The poll has a very high margin of error, at 6%.
-Other than that Hellenthal is generally a GOP pollster, I have no knowledge of their general reliability.
DKos: http://tinyurl.com/4xsuac

More numbers:
A poll commissioned last month by Alaskan lobbyist Sam Kito shows Dem candidates Begich (Senate) and Berkowitz (House) with large leads over Republican incumbents Stevens and Young.

Hellenthal and Associates. May 6-10. MoE 6%

Stevens (R) 44
Begich (D) 51

Young (R) 38
Berkowitz (D) 58

That's a huge MoE, and the poll is definitely an outlier. Research 2000 had a Daily Kos poll in the field the week after that poll was conducted, and found a tighter race.

Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 5/12-14. Likely voters. MoE 4% (12/3-6 results)

Young (R) 40 (42)
Berkowitz (D) 50 (49)

Stevens (R) 43 (41)
Begich (D) 48 (47)

Dkos: http://tinyurl.com/3lvxef
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Dead. Man. Walking.

Sarkozy presses for reduction of fuel taxes

Hey Pandemoniac Texican Supreme, is this the secret famed Pelosi gas plan of 2007?
Posted by: LBH June 9, 2008 5:59 PM

Roadblock Republicans want to know, when will Democrats solve the housing crisis, Gas Crisis, pass a farm bill and help Americans get better health care. They filibuster every bill that comes down the pike. Mr. 20% vetoes anything that squeaks through...(especially if it threatens his precious friends who own big oil companies).

And the DMW wonder why they're in the minority.
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And rolling downhill.
GOP hopes Chambliss keeps seat
source: http://tinyurl.com/53z2g8

The chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee says Sen. Saxby Chambliss will be a key part of the firewall the party wants to build against stronger Democratic control of Congress.

Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., set a floor on the number of Senate seats the party must control: 41.

"The number that we get to is really, really important in the U.S. Senate," he said. "That's one of the reasons Saxby absolutely must hold his seat." Republicans hold 49, with 23 up for re-election this year, and five GOP senators retiring. Democrats only have to defend 12 seats this year.

By holding at least 41 Senate seats, the GOP would prevent the Democrats from having the 60 votes required to end filibusters, which prevent votes on bills.

Mr. Chambliss said last week that he expects a tough contest no matter who the Democrats run against him.
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That's their firewall? Geogia? Pathetic.

They filibuster every bill that comes down the pike. Mr. 20% vetoes anything that squeaks through

Posted by Pansy the Texican Salsa Queen

Dude, they filibuster all the trash the Dems try to sneak through. If Dingy Harry had any clout at all, the crap they write would pass.

So you agree with the Dimwit Dems that we need a .53 cent gas tax hike ~ hey? Now that's a fight I would love to see the Dems take on!

Jim Johnson? That's all the DMW has? Jim Johnson?

Marc Ambinder: http://tinyurl.com/3z2chw
"This an overblown story about what appear to be completely above-board transactions. The Wall Street Journal even admits that they don’t have a story-noting that it’s “impossible” to know the factors that went into these arrangements."

Even the WSJ story that this pile of bullshit is based on says that it is impossible to know if Johnson got any special favors. Impossible. Get back to me when the FBI or SEC (somebody, anybody) is probing Johnson and Mozilo's loans.

And to make matters worse, the stories out distort Obama's countrywide statements.

"Americans know that we face a critical choice in this race-and isn’t about the terms of an outside advisor’s loans. This race is about leadership, and which candidate will crack down on fraudulent lenders and bring real relief to Americans struggling in the grip of the housing crisis.

"Barack Obama has offered a real solution to the housing crisis-John McCain hasn’t.

"Barack Obama understands what homeowners are going through, and he’s put forward a detailed proposal to crack down on fraudulent lenders and help folks stay in their homes. As President, he’ll penalize predatory lenders and create a $10 billion Foreclosure Prevention Fund
to help families stay in their homes. And among other steps, he’ll give a tax credit to middle class homeowners that would cover 10 percent of the interest on their mortgages every year.

"Meanwhile, John McCain has struggled for months to come up with a real plan to address the housing crisis. It took him three tries to come up with answers for struggling homeowners, and he still came up short. And when he laid out his economic agenda recently he couldn’t be bothered to talk about the housing crisis."
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“In a written statement issued in March, the senator called the payments ‘an outrage’ and suggested Mr. Mozilo and others had ‘tricked’ homeowners into unaffordable loans. ‘These executives crossed the line to boost their bottom line,’ Mr. Obama declared."
MSNBC: http://tinyurl.com/3tue53

Jim Johnson can take care of himself. He doesn't have to worry about Countrywide's subprime loans. The DMW finds itself stretching thin on accusations against Obama. They need to stick to what they're good at: racism. Whatever happened to the "scary black pastor" stories? Wasn't there another scary pastor that was supposed to doom Obama's campbaign a couple of weeks ago? How'd that work out? Obama's how many points ahead in all the polls, now? LOL.

Rezko. Rezko. Rezko. Keep trying. Maybe someday a REAL controversy will show up. Hell, maybe even the lies will stick. Gramps is good at lying, if it benefits him politically.

"So next time Barack Obama complains about the Housing crisis, ask him about his Vice Presidential search guy who gets sweetheart deals. Or even about his own sweetheart deals. He hasn't answered enough questions there only, "like eight questions." We agree with the Chicago Sun Times that that is not enough."
Posted by: LBH June 9, 2008 4:08 PM

These bozos can't even read a simple interview. If these idiots could learn to read a bit, they wouldn't have so many idiotic questions.

Obama's Q & A session on his home purchase:
http://tinyurl.com/4zaosx

The Trib's conclusion is definitive and easy to understand even for knuckledragging Dingbats that can't figure out a reason to vote FOR Gramps:

"U.S. Sen. Barack Obama waited 16 months to attempt the exorcism. But when he finally sat down with the Tribune editorial board Friday, Obama offered a lengthy and, to us, plausible explanation for the presence of now-indicted businessman Tony Rezko in his personal and political lives."

"The most remarkable facet of Obama's 92-minute discussion was that, at the outset, he pledged to answer every question the three dozen Tribune journalists crammed into the room would put to him. And he did."
Source: http://tinyurl.com/2gncfb
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This is their idea of a scandal? This is what will make up the 5 or 6 point deficit? Or will this desperation only make it worse at it did for HRC? Pen. Day. Hoes.

Americans know that we face a critical choice in this race-and isn’t about the terms of an outside advisor’s loans. This race is about leadership, and which candidate will crack down on fraudulent lenders and bring real relief to Americans struggling in the grip of the housing crisis.

Barack Obama has offered a real solution to the housing crisis-John McCain hasn’t

Barack Obama understands what homeowners are going through, and he’s put forward a detailed proposal to crack down on fraudulent lenders and help folks stay in their homes. As President, he’ll penalize predatory lenders and create a $10 billion Foreclosure Prevention Fund to help families stay in their homes. And among other steps, he’ll give a tax credit to middle class homeowners that would cover 10 percent of the interest on their mortgages every year.

Meanwhile, John McCain has struggled for months to come up with a real plan to address the housing crisis. It took him three tries to come up with answers for struggling homeowners, and he still came up short. And when he laid out his economic agenda recently he couldn’t be bothered to talk about the housing crisis.

(Time)

This is how you do a scandal:

Group files complaint against McCain campaign

Group's complaint questions transactions involving McCain aides
JIM KUHNHENN AP News
Jun 09, 2008 12:27 EST
TPM: http://tinyurl.com/68a35k
"A group that supports public financing of campaigns filed a federal complaint against John McCain's presidential campaign Monday, calling for an investigation into two financial transactions involving two top McCain aides."
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Now the FEC investigates and Gramps and his staff have to spend days defusing this legal bomb. Lawyer up, boys.

Then there's the lobbyist, McBush campaign staffer that has ties to Abramoff. And the Feds are investigating his connection to Abramoff.

McCain Camp: Advisor Linked to Abramoff No Longer with Campaign
By Andrew Tilghman - June 9, 2008, 2:01PM

"John McCain's campaign has taken down a web page that listed lobbyist Carlos Bonilla as an economic advisor."

"Bonilla, a former special assistant to the president for economic policy, was included in today's report about White House ties with Jack Abramoff as one of the White House officials who received tickets from convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff's firm."

"A McCain aide said Bonilla was dropped from the campaign a few weeks ago when McCain implemented a tougher conflict-of-interest policy barring most active lobbyists from his team. Bonilla is a senior vice president with the Washington Group."
Source: http://tinyurl.com/6mddn7
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Bonilla was a lobbyist and economic adviser. Foreclosure Phil was a lobbyist and economic adviser. This is what Gramps did while Obama was finishing off Mrs. Clinton? Firing all of his advisers with criminal ties? That's a lot of criminals.

Whew. Fired him JUST in time. Do you think the Bush DOJ gave Gramps a heads up and warned him that Bonilla was about to be investigated? Naw. The DOJ is an apolitical and nonpartisan agency. Right? LOL.

While the Feds are sniffing around McBush HQ, Dingbats try media-lynching Jim Johnson. Dead. Gramps. Walking.

Jim Johnson? That's all the DMW has? Jim Johnson?

Posted by Pansty the Texican Salsa Queen

I guess if your just a slum lord who screws the poor then it's OK with you Cornnuts ~ disgusting!

I laugh at you Pansy Queen~~

Pen. Day. Hoes.

(joke grenade)

I read it, re-read it - wrinkled forehead. Went back read is once more and BAM!!

I FINALLY got it!

lolololo

Dingbats try media-lynching Jim Johnson.

Posted by Pansy Queen

If your boy would have just told the truth that he's just another lying scum bag politician like everyone else then this wouldn't have been a problem for Obummer!

Change is for suckers named Pansy Queen!

McCain's Ties To Telecoms Questioned After Wiretapping Flip-Flop

If you've been wondering where all the telecom lobbyists went to lick their wounds after the House rejected retroactive immunity for wiretapping, the Electronic Frontier Foundation says it's found a bunch of them smack dab in the middle of John McCain's presidential campaign organization.

The group suggested Friday that the swell of current and former telecom lobbyists in the McCain camp might have something to do with the candidate's recent reversal on the legality of warrantless wiretapping. His most recent position "reads a lot like the talking points that a telecom lobbyist might employ," writes EFF senior staff attorney Kurt Opsahl.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/mccains-ties-to.html

*****

McSame is not going to be able to sever his lobbying ties nor erase his lobbying history.

Maybe people will like that and vote for more of the McSame?

Iraq Security Deal Unlikely Before 2009

(WASHINGTON) — The Bush administration is conceding for the first time that the United States may not finish a complex security agreement with Iraq before President Bush leaves office.

Faced with stiff Iraqi opposition, it is "very possible" the U.S. may have to extend an existing U.N. mandate, said a senior administration official close to the talks. That would mean major decisions about how U.S. forces operate in Iraq could be left to the next president, including how much authority the U.S. must give Iraqis over military operations and how quickly the handover takes place.

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1813053,00.html

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Impotent! Thank all that is good that Bush is the lamest of ducks.

McCain, who has portrayed himself as a crusader against the corrupting influence of money in politics, has already been compelled to cut ties with lobbyists who have worked for his campaign. On March 12, a New York Times story noted that a co-chairman of McCain's campaign and other campaign advisors had lobbied for European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., which beat Boeing for a contract worth $35 billion to build aerial tankers for the Air Force. The headline in the Times was "McCain Advisers Lobbied Europeans to Win Air Force Tanker Deal."

The bad press sparked efforts inside the McCain campaign to purge any real or perceived conflicts of interest. On May 15, the campaign instituted a new policy that bars staff from also working as "registered" lobbyists, requires unpaid advisors to disclose such activity, and prohibits those volunteers from trying to influence McCain.

The new policy was drafted by McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, himself a lobbyist until 2006. The new rules quickly resulted in the departure of at least two advisors, including a key fundraiser, Thomas Loeffler. The European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., which beat Boeing for the Air Force tanker contract, was one of his clients.

But the policy does not state that a campaign staffer can't be a former lobbyist. According to Justice Department records, Scheunemann halted his lobbying activities on March 12, the day the Times story on the Air Force tankers appeared. Scheunemann's partner continues to lobby on behalf of Georgia and Macedonia.

(salon)

*****

Sure seems like lobbying problems are far more substantial for McSame.

He can't hide from his long history of playing grab-ass with lobbyists.

McCain wastes no time in turning negative

The Democratic hopeful Barack Obama took his campaign to the Republican bastion of North Carolina yesterday, while his opponent, John McCain, launched the first television attack ad of the presidential election.

Despite promises to stay on the higher ground, Mr McCain's commercial uses imagery to suggest that Mr Obama is a friend of America's enemies. It shows an apparently badly shaven Mr Obama looking across at the bearded face of the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

It is a far cry from the candidate's pledge in April for a campaign that is more akin to a discussion among friends than a bitter clash of ideological rivals.

"We have nothing to fear from each other," he said as he reached out to disaffected Democrats. "We are arguing over the means to better secure our freedom, promote the general welfare and defend our ideals." As soon as Mr McCain clinched the Republican nomination his office sent out a memo calling for "a respectful campaign focused on the issues and values that are important to the American people".

http://tinyurl.com/4ojkhx

*****

Gramps and the DMW party are scared sh*tless.

Their weakness shows by their desparate acts.

McCain Opens Door to Media at Fundraisers

ABC News' Bret Hovell Reports: Before Monday, reporters covering Sen. John McCain had to guess at what the Arizona Republican might say at his numerous closed-door fundraisers.

But the wait is over -- McCain's campaign has opened up his “finance events” for the news media, and it turns out there’s not much news.

McCain’s camp has long maintained that he gives essentially the same speech while shaking the money tree that he does while asking for votes. But in recent weeks they have come under fire for not allowing reporters to verify that claim, even while contending that McCain was running the most open and accessible campaign in history.

Now the campaign allows a "print pool" -– a small group of reporters who take notes and then share the information with their colleagues –- into all of McCain’s fundraisers. But there are still not any cameras allowed. That, the campaign says, is to protect the identity of attendees.

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That is the sound of Senator McSame following President Obama's marching orders.

I effin LOVE IT!

Bill Clinton may walk away mad and not campaign for Obama

[...]

"Both Bill and Hillary felt the Presidency was owed to them and something the Democrats should have bestowed automatically," says one Democratic strategist, who refused to allow use of his name. "The nomination was, in their opinion, some kind of divine right. Neither believed it would be denied to them."

Others Bill Clinton is "seething" over claims that his angry outbursts and campaign missteps might have cost his wife the nomination.

"One sure thing about Bill Clinton is that he never, ever, takes blame for anything," says a former Clinton aide. "It is not in his DNA to ever take responsibility for his action. It is always someone else's fault."

Sources within the Obama campaign say the nominee is hesitant to use Bill Clinton on the campaign trail anyway because of the animosity the former President showed in the primaries and because no one is sure he can be controlled.

"It is important to stay on message in this campaign," one Obama strategist said. "We're not sure President Clinton is capable of doing that."

(CHB)

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I doubt the Obama wants to have a loose cannon without an iota of loyalty campaigning for Barack, it is too risky.

Sad that Big Dawg is such a pip these days.

If you think a candidate's behavior in his or her personal life bears relevance to his merits as a Presidential candidate, McCain's dalliances with other women and near gold-digging appear fundamentally disqualifying, roughly on par with anything Rudy Giuliani did to his spouses.

*****

If character is a fair issue - McSame loses. Hands down.

Hey, I'm no expert, but I've now heard from several people with medical background and experience confirm the phenomenon that people often experience changes in personality after heart bypass surgery. It alters blood flow to the brain and the operation itself involves very heavy anesthesia and having your blood oxygenated by a machine for an extended period.

I think it explains the unfortunate degradation in Bill's once indisputable political instincts... He's probably smart as ever, but his once-amazing intuitive ability to know the just the right thing to say in every setting has certainly abandoned him...

It's actually quite tragic. And in a .2% race, virtually any tiny thing can be blamed for the loss...

Hillary had her share of flubs too... I think she's a smarter and more effective politician in fact, but definitely not in the top tier in the charisma or speechifying dept...

...and obviously not in the magic one's league...

In an effort to raise the level of discourse, let's stop trashing the miserable losers... I don't see any way McCain (and all the R's) can avoid getting annihilated this Fall...

.... But it's only AFTER Nov. 5 that the real work starts. I think that's a far more interesting subject... Let's talk about the Obama Presidency.

In the first six months of the Clinton Presidency...

1. They took a courageous stand on gays in the military and got their asses handed to them by the entrenched homophobes in the Pentagon...

2. They passed a governing budget blueprint that set in place an economic program that ultimately balanced the budget.

3. They proposed a carbon tax that got filibustered by the Republican minority in the Congress.

4. They proposed an economic stimulus program that focused on massive investments in public infrastructure nationwide. (A few years later they proposed a major investment in New Orleans levees). They got filibustered and by Republicans in Congress on that too.

5. They launched the most ambitious effort for universal health care reform in this country's history.... They were blocked by not only Republicans but many "establishment" Democrats who deliberately muddied the waters with faux "plans" that weren't universal and were much more insurance-profit-friendly. They spent millions on a propaganda that lied about the Clinton plan and used a fictional TV coupled nicknamed Harry and Louise. (Obama mimicked these tactics against Hillary throughout the primary).

I'd like to hear about what Obama might do to match those efforts in his own first six to eight months in office, and how he expects to succeed where the Clintons failed...

It is called "Pump Head"

Here is a piece from 2004:

http://tinyurl.com/6bxocv

Sad if it is the case.

Wow, an entire article about how Obama cuts his own taxes that doesn't once mention a specific tax cut that Obama plans to implement for his benefit. As if the Dingbats couldn't pile the bullshit high enough.

MSN MoneyCentral ^ | June 9, 2008 | Tim Middleton
How tax-friendly Obama cuts his own
CHANGE?
Posted by: LBH June 9, 2008 6:19 PM

If you want to see who has REALLY proposed tax cuts that would benefit his family, check out Cindy Lou Homewrecker's finances. They get a healthy cushion from the womaniser she married:

Cindy McCain Reported Income Exceeding $6 Million in 2006
By Jonathan Weisman and Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, May 24, 2008; Page A04

Cindy McCain, the wife of presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, reported an income of more than $6 million in 2006, most of it from real estate, trusts and other unearned income from the wealth spun off of her family beer empire, tax returns show.

The McCain campaign released a two-page summary of her 2006 tax return late Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day weekend, just two weeks after Cindy McCain adamantly said she would never release them. Much of the return is missing, especially an itemized look at real estate earnings, royalties, partnerships and trusts.

The summary does not give an overall picture of Cindy McCain's net worth, but it does offer a glimpse into why McCain has been ranked as the 17th wealthiest member of Congress. The McCains have long maintained separate finances, and his income does not explain the family's outward wealth, with multiple homes and a picturesque Sedona ranch.

Her returns also show just how much the McCain family stands to gain from the Arizona senator's pledge to make permanent President Bush's tax cuts, which he voted against.

"She's pretty rich," said Leonard Burman, a former Treasury official at the Urban Institute, who is the director of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. "She would do well under Senator McCain's plan."

According to the summary, Cindy McCain earned $299,418 in wages and salary in 2006, much of which is taxed now at 35 percent but would be taxed at 39.6 percent if the Bush tax cuts lapse as scheduled in 2011.

The bulk of her income -- $4.55 million -- came from trusts, real estate rentals, partnerships and other passive ventures. The campaign did not release her Schedule E, which would have detailed them.
Washpost: http://tinyurl.com/5kafmg
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Gramps is gonna save his sugar-momma a bundle of sweet cash with his tax cuts for millionaires.

Hey, she's gotta recoup the $$$$ that she lays out to pay for the jet he uses to campaign in. That's how the 17th richest Senator gives a little quid pro his wife's quo.

If your boy would have just ...
Posted by: LBH June 9, 2008 8:27 PM

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) -
boy Pronunciation[boi] –noun
1. a male child, from birth to full growth, esp. one less than 18 years of age.
2. a young man ...
3. Informal. a grown man...
4. a son....
5. a male who is from....
6. boys....
a. a range of sizes ....
b. a garment in this size range.
c. the department or ....
7. boys, military personnel,....
8. Disparaging and Offensive. a man considered by the speaker to be inferior in *RACE*, nationality, or occupational status.
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Careful. Your inner-racist is showing. Par for the course for the DMW.

Pen. Day. Hoes.
(joke grenade)
Posted by: capt June 9, 2008 8:24 PM

I haven't used that one in a while. It's a pretty obscure reference unless you spend a little time with Mexicans or their foul-mouthed kin.

Jim Johnson? That's all the DMW has? Jim Johnson?
Posted by Pandemoniac the Texican Supreme

I guess if your just a slum lord who screws the poor then it's OK with you Cornnuts ~ disgusting!
Posted by: LBH June 9, 2008 8:23 PM

Dammit, Homeschool, how many times has Capt tried to learn you about the difference between "your" and "you're?" Seriously, I'm worried about you and your diminishing brain capacity. Pull the KoolAid Enema tube already, it must be cramping your brain.

Jim Johnson is a slumlord? Put down the crack pipe and swear off the cheap stuff.
bio: http://tinyurl.com/57cyb4
This is the guy that you think is a slum lord (or is being taken advantage of by a slum lord?). Either way, you put the Late Nite hosts to shame with your unintentional humor. Seriously, this guy's got a helluva CV.

Dude, they filibuster all the trash the Dems try to sneak through.
Posted by: LBH June 9, 2008 7:25 PM

You've already done the cut and paste calling the GI Bill unnecessary because the pittance that vets get will get them through any mediocre trade school. Why should we give the brave women and men who defend our country the best, right? And most of them are so hard up that they can't afford to take the time to move on and go to college. That's the whole point of the McBush GI Bill. Keep the vets struggling and unable to make it through college so that they have no choice but to stay in the military.

Now you're calling the bills to help Americans with home foreclosure problems and the energy bill and SCHIP and all the other bills that would help lower and middle income Americans "trash."

If the DMW keep this up, there will only be a handful of DMW dead-enders and KoolAid sippers left in museums and those still wearing orange jumpsuits.

Senate Democrats Want Trillions in New Taxes
Monday, June 9, 2008 8:30 AM
By: Newsmax Staff Article Font Size
Thank you Democrats for all that you do!
Posted by: LBH Author Profile Page | June 9, 2008 6:28 PM

Go back and look at when those taxes were set to expire. They were set to expire by the DMW congress early in Mr. 20%'s administration. If they didn't want the tax cuts to expire, they should've made them permanent. Idiots. This is why they got voted out of office in 2006. They've got their heads tucked so neatly into their behinds that they don't know how to cut taxes correctly. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

The DMW don't even have the character to accept their own shortcomings and mistakes. They expect Democrats to clean up all of their messes (and take the blame for them too). And these geniuses wonder why they're struggling to keep from being voted into extinction. Dead. Man. Walking.

You still trying to convince me that using 2000 consensus numbers is somehow relevant?
Posted by: LBH June 9, 2008 1:27 PM

No. Reading skillz, Homeschool. Ya' gotta work on the reading skillz. Look at the reply I left for you
2000 Census, Oregon is at 23 in PC income
2006 Census, Oregon is down to 29 or 30, well below Ohio and the bitter Pennsylvanians at 16.

Those are 2006 numbers, Homeschool. Again, Oregon is not the "affulent" state that you think it is. You need to travel more and see how the rest of America lives. It might give you a little perspective on why your state is going in the wrong direction. Then again, you thought Obama had an affair with a drug-addled escapee from a mental ward.

Like I said, I'm worried about you, Homeschool. You don't seem to catch things too quickly.
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Dude, why is it if LBH is such a homeschooled bad speller that you spend countless hours trying to rebut everything I say.
Posted by: LBH June 9, 2008 1:20 PM

Like I said before, I can do this in my sleep. I can do this from work. I can do this while watching a movie and doing my sudoku puzzle. Google is my friend and I can count on anything you write being at least 90% inaccurate. It's like you live in opposite world, every day of the year.

One reason that (despite your race-baiting and gay-baiting idiocy) I vouch for your presence on this blog is that you can be counted on to bring the silliest of Dingbat talking points for me to devour. Otherwise, I'd have to hunt them down and break them apart myself.

I must say that you're falling down on the job. You've missed a few of the Obama-lobbyist BS stories. And Jim Johnson is the wrong guy to go hounding. You should be posting that Novak (or was it Dick Morris?) piece that talked about the other veep committee member, Holden. Holden is the guy that got Big Dawg to pardon Marc Rich. HE'S the guy that you should be crapping your pants over. Holden, Scooter Libby and Bill Clinton, there's the trifecta for ya' right there.

Here's a perfect example:

McLaughlin: McCain Leads Obama Among Women, 49 Percent to 38 Percent?
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A women scorned? Obummer will feel the wrath!
Posted by: LBH June 5, 2008 3:25 PM

I thought that was a goofy poll because it contradicts what the Pew polls, Gallup, survey USA, and CNN polls have said (that Gramps lags way behind Obama in appealing to the female voters).

Along comes rASSmussen reports:
"Pollster Scott Rasmussen says that as of today, based on 3,000 automated telephone surveys over the past three nights, Obama gets support from 52% of the women in his national tracking poll compared with 40% for presumptive Republican nominee John McCain."
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Again, it isn't just these polls; it's every other poll that has come out in the last few months.

Using google, I can hunt down your post and the rASSmussen poll in less than 3 minutes.

Yes, it's that easy.

diff sez: And winning caucuses in deep red states is, in fact, utterly insignificant.
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Except that deep red states have dem delegates too and the primary is a delegates race. That thinking is part of the reason that HRC got routed in the caucuses. They thought they'd win the primaries and everyone would just fall in line in the caucuses.

diff sez: Look at Obama's current EV strategy.... Risk writing off economically-hard-hit states like Ohio, where the sold-out over-the-hill, left-behind "old economy" white working class lives and votes..
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Again, your ignorance is showing. He is contesting every state. He has offices set up in every state and already has leads in states like Colorado and Missouri. Perhaps you misinterpreted Obama's hiring of HRC's Ohio organizer as the first step in writing off Ohio. Look into it. You'd be surprised what you'll learn when you look up the actual facts of the matter.

diff sez: ...and win instead economically-thriving traditional "red" states like South Carolina, Indiana and Virginia...
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Chairman Dean calls it a 50 state strategy. Now is the time to implement that strategy, put the party infrastructure in place while the tide is in our favor, for that time when the tide turns (it always does). And again, polls show many of these purple states trending towards Obama. Why write them off?

diff sez: I guess comfortable and upper-class moderate Republicans in those states might like to "feel good about themselves" too... And they sense he's no actual threat in fact to their privileges...
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You are dismissively describing some pro-Obama (well, anti-DMW) Republicans on this very blog. They see Obama as a force for Change. And unlike you, they see Gramps as a third Bush term. And as a Red State Texican I can tell you, your "Obama-Republicans are upper-middle class moderate reds shtick" is a thick wad of baloney. Here in San Antonio, I've met, spoken to by phone, and even been to Obama parties where middle class, hard-working ex-Republican souls have organized to work for Obama. I thought it was a waste of time going after Reds who hadn't voted in the 2006 election; but those were precisely the folks that were ready for Obama. They only needed to be asked for their support. A few of the ladies who organized and led the charge in the caucuses in my precinct were former Republicans.

diff sez: Ironic having a Democrat run on such a Social Darwinistic strategy... Go with the winners and the rich and write off the "old economy" losers...
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This is getting old, your ignorance is showing again. Look at his legislative record (in Illinois and the Senate) and tell me that of the hundreds of bills that he sponsored or cosponsored were geared towards the rich. Failing that, admit that you're just talking out of your ass.

diff sez: That's called "elitism."
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That's called the funniest thing I ever read.

diff sez: To think that Obama represents even the slightest challenge to entrenched corporate power in this country is youthful wishful thinking...
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Fact-free chatter is for chumps. Back up your words by analyzing the hundreds of bills that he has sponsored or cosponsored; and we can talk. Your blather is tiresome.

diff sez: The population of the "old city" of Jerusalem is majority-Muslim ...
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Again, post-diaspora history is one thing. There's more to the story than that. Israel wasn't dropped where it was out of capriciousness. Jews have religious reasons for claiming Jerusalem that go back centuries. Saying that Jews have no claim on the city of Jerusalem is like saying that Native Americans have no claim on _________ (insert any major American city here).

diff sez: That you think nothing of walling them in permanently in an illegal apartheid-like....
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either cite the post where I wrote that or quit putting words in my mouth. The point of negotiations is not to abolish one group's human rights or wall them into any place. It is to find a peaceful solution that both sides find agreeable.

diff sez: Very telling your comment that selling out Palestinian human rights will cost Obama nothing domestically...
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the point of negotiations is to avoid such things and notice that I don't accuse you or any American of wanting to deny Israelis of their right to claim their holy city.

diff sez: The box 722 piece only reinforces that Obama's candidacy is really all about being a "symbol" .... and, in fact, has nothing to do with substance.
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The box 722 piece is about how the Civil Rights movement drove the politics of fear that Republicans capitalized on in the days before 9-11. They are about to do it again. And you seem all too happy to let them do it since you claim that Obama's history and accomplishments amount to nothing.

diff sez: He's not about "platform" at all...
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That is only true if you don't give a damn about the war or the economy or health care. And if you don't see how a third Bush term will prevent all of these accomplishments, then you are beyond help.

diff sez: Like Riverdaughter fears.... the Culture of Contentment (John Kenneth Galbraith) perhaps realized the Republican brand was in tatters and could no longer be relied on as a bulwark for their interests...
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No. Box 722 is why. Fear is an easier message to rely on. As a person of color who grew up in that era, in a place where bigotry flourished, I can tell you that Fear was the dominant message for the Comfort Class, seems like it still is.

diff sez: ...so now they have a perfect Ken doll to sucker and placate the plebes and dweebs... the comfortable, self-satisfied and narcissistic.... powerful entrenched interests in our country, like the Israel lobby...
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Utilitarianism is a bitch; but it keeps folks happy and wins elections.

diff sez: And before you start calling me an Anti-Semite, consider this: Ironic if the first African-American US President makes advancing apartheid in Jerusalem one of his first accomplishments...
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You can take that straw man and hump it someplace else. If Palestinians are relocated without negotiation, yes, you are right. Notice Not a Single person has advocated this.

diff sez: (Jerusalem as capital of a Palestinian state is the position of ALL Palestinians, by the way. especially Abu Abbas... Calling that the "Hamas" position is a poisonously deceptive propagandistic remark...)

Please name even one Palestinian even remotely interested in trading East Jerusalem.
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They are legion.

Your claim that Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine being the goal of ALL Palestinians was especially amusing. The plight of Palestinians living in Jerusalem isn't the simple narrative that you make it out to be. Read this story
http://tinyurl.com/3n4m3t
and you will see that Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine is not a goal shared by all Palestinians (just as some Israelis are ready to give up on making it the capital of Israel). Jerusalem is another battle in the turf-war that has become the ongoing drama between Palestinians and Jews. The notion that Palestinians won't ever give up their claim on Jerusalem is mostly espoused by ideological blowhards like you that presume to speak for others without knowing what they REALLY want.

"Many Palestinian residents opposed
"Those feeling skittish about the city's potential partition aren't just Israelis – who traditionally take the position that Jerusalem should be Israel's united capital – but also Palestinian Jerusalemites, who fear that their standard of living will fall if they come under the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA).

"I don't want to have any part in the PA. I want the health insurance, the schools, all the things we get by living here," says Ranya Mohammed as she does her afternoon shopping in Shuafat.

"I'll go and live in Israel before I'll stay here and live under the PA, even if it means taking an Israeli passport," says Mrs. Mohammed, whose husband earns a good living from doing business here. "I have seen their suffering in the PA. We have a lot of privileges I'm not ready to give up."

diff sez: And you're a fool if you think I'm an anti-Semite...
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Nobody's calling you an anti-semite. This is the charge that Obama is facing because some of his advisers recognize the destructiveness of AIPAC (not of JEWS, but of AIPAC).

The GOP is going from Dennis the Menace to Mr. Wilson!

McSame,

"You kids get off my lawn!"

lol

The McCain Girls are back with McCANIAC!

They wowed you with "It's Raining McCain."

They stunned you with "Here Comes McCain Again."

Now they're back with their latest and (according to Rolling Stone) greatest video yet. A career-defining achievement in songwriting and video artistry. Prepare to have your entire view of political pop music turned upside-down by the McCain Girls, as they launch their newest hit, "McCainiac."

http://tinyurl.com/65fojf

You may want to check out how Larry Johnson's blog has changed from a sort of non-partisan investigative one into Freeperland II. It's sole purpose now is to completely annihilate Barack Obama. You wouldn't believe the hate and vile comments amassing up there, it's like wading through a cesspool. My guess is Johnson is on the Hillary payroll. I am so glad I didn't vote for her.

I bring this up particularly here because you are on his blogroll, so I thought you'd want to know. I certainly wouldn't want my name anywhere near that mess.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/

If I were you, I'd want no part of that mess. Just sayin'.