David Corn

Thanks for the great post. Corsi's book is repellent and the Times' attempt at being "fair" disappointing and disheartening. Mary Matalin is the editor for the book's publishing house I heard today as well. Media star that she is, she should be mentioned prominently and frequently in every reference to the book as well.

""One perpetual problem.... the inability to call plainly a lie a lie.""

well that problem is not exactly exclusive to the MSM.
is it.
there has been a whole lot of that going around ever since a certain day back in '01.
hasn't there.

The Times has abdicated its position as arbiter of anything at all in the media and society in general. Even though it knows the truth it declines to publish it and to hold anyone it knows to be a liar or miscreant to any standard at all.

The Times had many chances to bring to light criminal behavior in this administration and has always chosen to wait till the point became moot. It may be that the times fears the GOP's wrath and the reprisals that are sure to follow if it unmasks Republican criminality as it is happening.

"The old gray mare she ain't what she used to be"

I wonder what stories they are currently sitting on? The imagination can run wild!

Thanks for all of your work

Scholarship

I know that people like me are supposed to try to be fair...and balanced. (The Fox mockery of our sappy professional standards seems more brutally appropriate with each passing year.) In the past, I would achieve a semblance--or an illusion--of balance by criticizing Democrats for not responding effectively when right-wing sludge merchants poisoned our national elections with their filth and lies. And it is true, as John Kerry knows, that a more effective response--and a bolder campaign--might have neutralized the Swiftboat assault four years ago. It is also true that Corsi's book this time is far less effective than his Swiftboat venture, since it doesn't come equipped with veterans willing to defile their service by telling lies to camera.

But there is no excuse for what the McCain campaign is doing on the "putting America first" front. There is no way to balance it, or explain it other than as evidence of a severe character defect on the part of the candidate who allows it to be used. There is a straight up argument to be had in this election: Mcain has a vastly different view from Obama about foreign policy, taxation, health care, government action...you name it. He has lots of experience; it is always shocking to remember that this time four years ago, Barack Obama was still in the Illinois State Legislature. Apparently, though, McCain isn't confident that conservative policies and personal experience can win, given the ruinous state of the nation after eight years of Bush. So he has made a fateful decision: he has personally impugned Obama's patriotism and allows his surrogates to continue to do that. By doing so, he has allied himself with those who smeared him, his wife, his daughter Bridget, in 2000. Those tactics won George Bush a primary--and a nomination. But they proved a form of slow-acting spiritual poison, rotting the core of the Bush presidency. We'll see if the public decides to acquiesce in sleaze in 2008, and what sort of presidency--what sort of country--that will produce.

http://tinyurl.com/6k7ulz

I'm impressed with your comments on the new swift-boat attempt against Obama. However, as I was reading, I remembered the excellent article in the NYT de-bunking the anti-Kerry book with maps of Kerry's swift boat forays and many other debunking statements. It may have been on page Z18, and it may have been too long after the frenzy arose, but they did do a fine job.

What concerns me is that the famously low-information voter doesn't read the NYT. We live in the suburbs of Portland, ME. A gas station near us orders two copies of the NYT every day, and we can stoll in at 7 pm and take our choice, as both copies are usually still there. Though good for us, it's a look into the popularity of the Times outside the metro corridor that runs from DC to Boston. And talk radio in our area offers only sports, stupidity, or Rush (hmmm...that may be redundant).

Getting rebuttals out there against this sleeze needs other avenues, and Fox isn't offering. MSNBC may be up to the task; but CNN is too weak-kneed. It would be nice to see one of the major broadcast channels step up to the plate. Afterall, isn't informing the voter one of the main reasons for the existance of a free press?

A good job by Media Matters; thanks to Mr. Corn for spreading the word. And he's right that the NYT dropped the ball on this one. This "author" and a Media Matters rep were on Larry King, and the Media Matters man (and even Larry King) did a pretty good job of calling Mr. Corsi on both his slimy tactics and some of his specific gaffes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktlbQRQGi6Y

Troops Deployed Abroad Give 6:1 to Obama

During World War II, soldiers crouching in foxholes penned letters assuring their sweethearts that they'd be home soon. Now, between firefights in the Iraqi desert, some infantrymen have been sending a different kind of mail stateside: two or three hundred dollars -- or whatever they can spare -- towards a presidential election that could very well determine just how soon they come home.

According to an analysis of campaign contributions by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Democrat Barack Obama has received nearly six times as much money from troops deployed overseas at the time of their contributions than has Republican John McCain, and the fiercely anti-war Ron Paul, though he suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination months ago, has received more than four times McCain's haul.

Despite McCain's status as a decorated veteran and a historically Republican bent among the military, members of the armed services overall -- whether stationed overseas or at home -- are also favoring Obama with their campaign contributions in 2008, by a $55,000 margin. Although 59 percent of federal contributions by military personnel has gone to Republicans this cycle, of money from the military to the presumed presidential nominees, 57 percent has gone to Obama

http://tinyurl.com/6hodqx

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I don't see where Obama is having any trouble with the military.

Sixty percent rocks! Gramps can't keep the guys and gals in uniform in spite of his military cachet.

From NBC's Doug Adams

Sen. Pat Roberts (KS) is now the eighth Republican senator to announce that they will not attend the GOP Convention in St. Paul, Minn., next month.

Roberts spokeswoman told the Topeka Capital Journal today that Roberts will be campaigning that week, finishing up his 105 county statewide tour during the convention week.

Four others who've announced they won't be attending are -- Ted Stevens (AK), Elizabeth Dole (NC), Gordon Smith (OR), and Susan Collins (ME). All are running for re-election and are in close races. (Collins may have the easiest race, but she's never been a close ally of McCain.)

Three other GOP senators who are retiring this year have also said they'll skip the St. Paul festivities -- Larry Craig (ID), Chuck Hagel (NE) and Wayne Allard (CO).

And the list could grow. Two more GOP senators locked in tough re-election races -- John Sununu (NH) and Roger Wicker (MS) are still undecided about attending.

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That's not GOP support we can believe in my friends.

lolololo

McCain: Pro-Choice Ridge OK, But Not Pro-Gay Bloomy

NEW YORK -- John McCain has pitched himself as a different kind of Republican but not, apparently, when it comes to gay rights.

In a interview with the Conservative magazine Weekly Standard , McCain was asked if he was considering a pro-choice vice presidential pick like former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. In his answer he volunteered Mike Bloomberg as an unworthy candidate:

"I think it's a fundamental tenet of our party to be pro-life but that does not mean we exclude people from our party that are pro-choice. We just have a -- albeit strong -- but just it's a disagreement. And I think Ridge is a great example of that. Far more so than Bloomberg, because Bloomberg is pro-gay rights, pro, you know, a number of other issues."

Asked about it today, Bloomberg predictably dodged jumping into the mud by praising McCain as someone who's done great things for this country but then added this dig, "I think that choice and gay rights are personal things -- particularly if you are a conservative, the government should get out of the bedroom."

So what are the odds of Bloomberg endorsing McCain now?

http://www.wnbc.com/politics/17191174/detail.html

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Pro-life just not pro-gay-life.

So McCain would pander to the most hate filled jerks?

Maybe there are enough of them to get him elected, I hope not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBfngOsvmA0

A Cut-and-Paste Foreign Policy

The discovery that John McCain's remarks on Georgia were derived from Wikipedia, to put it politely, is disturbing and even depressing -- but not surprising. Under the tutelage of the neoconservatives, who revealed their superficial understanding of Iraq both before and after the invasion, he favors bellicose grandstanding over strategic thinking. So why delve deeper than a quick Google search?

Worse still, neither he nor his advisers yet grasp how our misadventure in Mesopotamia has diminished American power and prestige. In fact, the Wikipedia episode -- an awful embarrassment that would have devastated the presidential campaign of Barack Obama or any other Democrat -- revealed an underlying weakness in Sen. McCain's vaunted grasp of foreign policy.

http://tinyurl.com/55c6z8

NRA Dirty Tricks

When the National Rifle Association asks its members for their next contribution, they might want to disclose how much of that money will be spent to spy on gun violence victims and their families.

Mother Jones Magazine today reported that someone the gun violence prevention movement believed was a committed gun control activist was, in fact, a gun lobby spy.

Mother Jones focused on the activity of Mary McFate, also known as Mary Lou Sapone, a woman who has apparently led a double life for over twenty years, performing industrial espionage services for a variety of anti-environmental and gun lobby organizations – including the National Rifle Association.

http://tinyurl.com/5tswee

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Nice mention on the Brandy Campaign Blog of some excellent work that should be all over the M$M.

It would have been in the old days. *sigh*

I still think the biggest story of our time is the abject failure of the M$M to just tell the truth. It is getting worse not better.

Clinton Campaign Didn’t Grasp Rudimentary Proportionality Math

[...]

The upshot is that the Clinton camp missed easy preparations and unnecessarily wasted and/or misdirected valuable effort. With limited post-Iowa resources, they made miscalculations that surely gave away free delegate points at a time when the pledged delegate race was very tight. With the nomination now long-settled and many other mistakes pointed out by others, the purpose is not to belabor what went wrong because assuredly many things did. Simply, as a site dedicated to the efficient and accurate use of data by political campaigns, we could not let this revelation from Josh Green's piece pass without comment.

At this point, it’s much more a cautionary tale for future campaigns to make sure they hire people who know how to work a calculator and look up some basic information. High school interns would probably do it for free. In short, one key aspect of the epitaph on Clinton’s 2008 campaign will be that simple numbers that any old math-minded person could figure out escaped her top people.

http://tinyurl.com/5bz5a5

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These are the "go to" guys for information down to the detail level for all things polling.

They have also been the most accurate (lately) and are numbers guys - Nate also does badeball stats and predictions.

McCain Takes $2300 Contribution from Owner of Gay Sex Site Manhunt

And it appears John McCain has accepted the maximum individual campaign donation from the owner of America's largest gay sex hook-up website.

http://tinyurl.com/5zblzd

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It only makes sense. Who cares where the money comes from? Surely not the GOP. They should be supporting all the weird stuff they are into. Nothing wrong with that.

Audio of Corsi's interview on CNN is here:
http://www.entertonement.com/collections/2088/Jerome-Corsi

David Schuster Gets His Clown On!

Real quick, I doubt if the link is up yet but just ten minutes ago on MSNBC's Hardball representatives from People United Means Action PAC and Say No Deal (sic) two hyper Hillary groups were subjected to David Schuster showing the glow that elevated his status before he got "pimp" with it during the primaries, made these two hyper-HRC supporters look downright buffoonish at best and possibly even subversive. He achieved this by questioning their understanding of

1 how the Democratic primary process works

2 their grasp of the primary numbers (popular vote)

3 their definition of "democracy" (for them the Super delegates should switch votes and overturn the will of 19 million Democratic primary voters and this number does not include caucus numbers). When Schuster asked the representative of PUMA PAC, did she support abortion rights and she said yes, he asked incredulously, "Then why would you vote for John McCain?" The look in his eyes really asked, "What the *uck is wrong with you?"

http://tinyurl.com/6pn4n5

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These hill shills have all the political acumen of a high school student body candidate. They are completely clueless. They thought the "popular vote" in the primary would mean something?

Kinda sad to see these PUMA's make such fools of themselves - worse to see HRC take them seriously?

These are not democrats.

These folks:

1 the PUMA rep has given $500 to McCain in the past

2 PUMA PAC have only raised $50k total which Shuster pointed out makes them not credible

3 claim that they support the democratic process but won't accept it

PUMA PAC says it's more important to change the DNC membership than elect a Democratic President
they're nuts... the list goes on...

(kos)

Sounds familiar?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fNgA5xLxao

LOL Baracky II is the funniest clip I've seen in AWHILE. Bet it's even funnier if you had seen the movie those faces were pasted in. I saw the first Rocky and it just verified what I already knew... that I hate faked fighting, a first cousin to 'pro' wrestling... so I didn't go see any of the sequels. Hella clip tho. My favorite part was Obama grabbing Bill Clinton and pulling him into the pool.

McCain - Unfit To Lead (Draft version)

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

Great vid! "Unfit to Lead" is an understatement.

DC,

Corsi is a creepy guy, no doubt!! And the fact that he is the ONLY author for this book makes his claims easier to attack - the swift boat book was co-authored with one on Kerry's "comrades-in-arms, making much of that book's claims based on first hand facts.

But for you to have the "hubris" to make this statement -

"A new best-selling book by the co-author of the 2004 book that falsely accused John Kerry of exaggerating his Vietnam War record contains significant allegations about Barack Obama that are false, according to an extensive Times review of the charges."

- shows your unmitigated blindness to the facts.

Whether you agree or disagreee with the Swiftboat Vet's motivations for participating in the Kerry "outing", it is a FACT that the book did indeed PROVE Kerry exagerated about his Vietnam War record, i.e. as it relates to his "Christmas in Cambodia" story, throwing HIS medals over the White House fence, etc.

If anything, knowing what we know about the FACTS of Kerry's "misrememberances" of his War Record, Obama's recollections must be put to the same test (re - Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Anton Rezko, Draft registration, etc.).

Cheers.

"Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick rode another legal roller coaster yesterday as he was granted permission by one judge to travel to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, only to have another rescind the privilege hours later. The judge in the morning removed Kilpatrick's electronic tether. The judge in the afternoon ordered it back on."

HA!!! Exactly what the Dem convention needs - more delegates in ankle bracelets!!!

Oh, and a Hillary vote too!!!

Cheers.

"HONOLULU (Reuters) - Barack Obama's presidential campaign said on Thursday a potential hike in payroll taxes for wealthy Americans under an Obama administration would not occur for 10 years while taxes on dividends and capital gains would be capped at 20 percent.

Obama previously had not given a timeline for a plan he says he would consider to increase payroll taxes for people making $250,000 or more annually. The increase would be used to shore up the U.S. Social Security program.

Andrew Busch, a global foreign exchange strategist at BMO Capital in Chicago, said the new tax policy details reflected Obama's move to the political center after a rise in poll numbers for McCain helped boost U.S. stock markets, which he said were jittery about an Obama White House.

"The (opinion piece) that we saw today in the Wall Street Journal is part of a path that Obama's taking which takes him back more towards the middle, more towards McCain's policies," said Busch."

BHO will "shore up the U.S. Social Security program" -
IN TEN YEARS!!! At least offshore drilling will have an effect on gas prices in five!

Cheers.

TAPPER: Would you have compunctions about voting for someone who had cheated on his wife?

WARREN: Absolutely I would. Absolutely I would. Because if you can’t keep your faith to your most sacred vow – "’til death do us part" -- how in the world can I trust you to lead my family? My government? My nation?...Absolutely I would. I think people first need to ask forgiveness and then earn trust back over time Can trust be re-earned? Absolutely but it takes time.

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Did he just dis McCain?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eUkc9GCMEQ

Phil Gramm returns to McCain’s side.

Phil Gramm, who stepped down from the McCain campaign after revealing that he believed America had become a “nation of whiners,” is “back with the campaign’s top advisers this weekend.” Gramm was seated in the front row during a McCain event in Aspen, Colorado today. “I am a supporter of John McCain,” said Gramm. “I am helping him with fundraising. We have a fundraiser today and I will be with him today and tomorrow.” Gramm has been rumored to be a possible candidate for Treasury Secretary if McCain wins.

Update:

At dinner in Aspen last night, McCain personally praised Gramm, saying "Phil Gramm and I and Wendy (Gramm) and Cindy and I go back many, many years, and I’m always grateful to see my friend, Phil Gramm. Thank you, Phil, for all your friendship and support.”

http://tinyurl.com/63v2rh

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Maybe no one will notice?

PUMA follies

Oh man, those PUMA jokers are hilarious! Their lofty and self-aggrandizing proclamations do nothing but set them up for one bomb after another.

Remember when they talked big about their planned RBC protest, and this many showed up? That didn't deter them! They decided to have a conference, and oh and it was going to be the bestest, most exclusive and lavish conference ever! Brooklyn blogger Kevin K at rumproast has the side-splitting story, which begins with the usual bombastic rhetoric.

http://tinyurl.com/5mbnz7

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Read the whole thing - it would be side-splitting if it wasn't so very sad.

HRC really believes these losers?

I guess they can retire her debt so . . .

***************BREAKING NEWS**************

Does Jerome R. Corsi still have any credibility??

THE ANSWER IS "HELL NO"!!! He is a Well Document “BIGOT” Against Jews, Catholics, Hispanics ETC!!

THIS BOOK IS SIMPLY A COMPILATION of ALL THE HATE MONGERING and RACIALLY CHARGE Talking Points That "Right Wing Nut" Noise Machine and FIX (fox) News has been Pushing All Year!!

CORSI IS THE SAME SCUM-BAG THAT BRAINWASH FOOLISH AMERICANS in 2004 WHEN HE WRITE "UNFIT FOR COMMAND" Smearing The Decorated War Hero, John Kerry!!

IN THIS 2004 BOOK HE WAS BASICALLY TELLING US THAT GEORGE W. BUSH WAS MORE MENTALLY FIT, and MORE INTELEGENT TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY!! We Now Know How That One All Turn-out!

THE FACT IS THIS IS WHAT THESE GUYS DO EVERY ELECTION, WRITE A BOOK TO SLIME THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE!! IN THERE HATE MONGERING EYES, "NO" DEMOCRAT IS GOOD ENOUGH TO BE COMMANDER and CHIEF Period!!!

Does Corsi still have any credibility?? HELL HE NEVER HAVE any to begin with!!

Does Corsi Ever Write an Anti-Book About His Crooked Repugs?? Hell No, Only About Democrats!!!

YOU BE THE JUDGE, SEE IF Jerome Corsi, The Writer of the Latest Anti-Obama Book, Is Good For America!! CORSI Has Defended All These “FISCAL CONSERVATIVES” over the Years!!!

CLICK> http://static.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/greenberg21.jpg

“FLIPPER” John’s World of delusion…….
CLICK> http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Y395Tftgz0E&feature=rec-fresh

LOVE the Greenberg cartoon!

The video is good too.

Thanks

Bush hits Russia on 'bullying and intimidation'

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Friday accused Russia of "bullying and intimidation" in its harsh military treatment of Georgia, saying the people in the former Soviet republic have chosen freedom and "we will not cast them aside."

Bush ratcheted up his rhetoric against Moscow as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Tbilisi, Georgia to pursue a diplomatic solution to the week-old crisis. Standing alongside Rice, pro-Western President Mikhail Saakashvili said he had signed a cease-fire agreement with Russia that protects Georgia's interests despite concessions to Moscow.

http://tinyurl.com/5lwqgz

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I don't think Bush is trying to be helpful. The Russians and the Georgians have already signed an agreement.

Swift Boat Author Smears Self

Shocking Revelations Unveiled in Corsi's New Autobiography

http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/swift-boat-author

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Too funny!

Reformer McCain is long gone

Use of Reed shows he’ll do anything for contest

As Sen. John McCain makes daily statements about the conflict in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, his campaign is answering questions regarding how his top foreign policy adviser, lobbyist Randy Scheunemann, made a killing in lobbying fees from the Georgian government.

But that’s not McCain’s only Georgia problem. Ralph Reed is fund-raising for the Arizona senator’s Aug. 18 fund-raiser at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta, and that has made even the most ardent McCain backers scratch their heads.

Wasn’t it McCain’s committee that surfaced all the connections between Reed, the former Christian Coalition head, and the convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff? Didn’t Reed campaign to defeat McCain during the 2000 presidential primary using sleazy tactics?

Wait, isn’t McCain a reformer? Not so much, apparently.

http://tinyurl.com/699a2z

McCain On Swift-Boating Book: "Gotta Keep Your Sense Of Humor"

The Obama campaign, eager to make it known that it's responding forcefully to the new Swift-Boating book by Jerome Corsi, is jumping on a John McCain moment today where he appeared to sidestep an opportunity to condemn the book and its multiple falsehoods about Barack Obama.

Asked by a reporter today to comment on the book, McCain said: "Gotta keep your sense of humor," before his aides whisked him away.

That prompted Obama spokesperson Tommy Vietor to launch approximately a dozen tactical nukes in McCain's direction:

"The old John McCain used to boast about honorable politics, while the new John McCain finds Roveian smears funny. Honor is not a laughing matter. What does John McCain think is funny about an intolerant smear artist who called Pope John Paul II senile and claims the government lied about 9/11? McCain has said he wants to run an honorable campaign, but his belief that these smears are funny makes people question whether he now approves of the same reprehensible politics used to smear his own character eight years ago."

(TPM)

Howard Dean, Head of the democrat party, is a racist. Does his latest statement, below, speak for all Dems? -

"If you look at folks of color, even women, they're more successful in the Democratic party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the [laughs] Republican party."

And then there's the new democrat attack on Mitt Romney -

""He is the most intellectually inconsistent politician in the history of politics," Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said of former Massachusetts Gov. Romney. "I have never seen anyone so completely without any commitment to any particular principle and so willing to say whatever he thinks will help him win the next election."

"Frank has long been a vocal critic of Romney and has been a controversial figure himself. He is an openly gay member of Congress who was formally reprimanded by Congress in 1990 for his relationship with a male prostitute who claimed to run an escort service out of Frank's apartment when he was not home."

What principle is Frank, and the democrat party he speaks for, committed to?

Just askin'

Cheers

(jerome corsi)
"an intolerant smear artist who called Pope John Paul II senile and claims the government lied about 9/11"

the govt did lie about 9/11.

"the govt did lie about 9/11"

So, at least half of what he writes in "Obam Nation" is true?

http://tinyurl.com/643r68

Wow. I thought we could actually make it to the end of the Bush regime without complete armageddon. Will McCain be able to smear his way into the White House and finish the complete destruction of the United States of America? When I see so many talking monkeys out there who actually believe the smears I am not optimistic about our chances.

Hey capt! Check out my videos!

http://www.youtube.com/user/socomcorky

In a July 15th appearance on CNN's Larry King Live, Barack Obama announced that as President he would seek the foreign policy counsel of former President Bill Clinton, former President George Herbert Walker Bush, former Bush Sr. Secretary of State, James Baker, former Bush Sr. National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft, and former George W. Bush Secretary of State, Colin Powell.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/16064

Corky!

I just got on - had family visiting (first time in 20 years)

I'll check out your tubes!

I hope all is well with you and yours.

John McCain on Russia: Angry, Bellicose, Belligerent and Extreme

John McCain increasingly sounds like a right-wing blogger. His arrogance in claiming that he speaks for the American people during a dangerous crisis demonstrates greater hubris than anything he will accuse Obama of doing.

McCain's belligerence, bellicosity and bluster on Iraq and Iran and now Russia demonstrate clearly the dangers he would pose as commander in chief when his right-wing blog-like rhetoric could become American military policy in a dangerous world.

Let’s elect John McCain the president of the right-wing base of the Republican Party, where he can talk his talk of World War III while calmer, cooler and wiser heads walk the walk of protecting our national security.

http://tinyurl.com/6x2kl5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXcY-u7MJM

The Truth about PUMA Conference 08 … You Can’t Spell “Conference” Without “C-O-N”

http://tinyurl.com/5ojm88

No reason to take these PUMA's seriously, eh?

All 60 of them!

lololo

" Sanchez says she’s happy for the chance to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Democratic National Convention — and she predicts that as many as half of the Democrats in the House could join her."

"“I believe there are a lot of supporters for Hillary among the superdelegates, especially now that they’ve agreed to place her name in nomination. I think half the House Democrats would probably be Hillary supporters, especially women. ... I felt she was the most experienced and the best candidate and I still feel that way.”

"A longtime Clinton adviser said it was “crazy” to guess at numbers but estimated that the former first lady would garner between 600 and 1,200 delegates - considerably short of the approximately 1,800 she had collected at the time of her departure from the race in early June."

"Another New York delegate, speaking on condition of anonymity, predicted that as much as 30 percent to 40 percent of the New York delegation would pick Clinton over Obama during the symbolic vote."

Oh, for the love of God!!!! Not more disenfranchised Dems!!! Why is it only the Dems who get disenfranchised?

Cheers.

That's too-fkn-funny! Putting 'Corsi' and 'Swiftboat' and 'facts' in the same post. haha

A Slick Politician Trapped in a Politician's Body

http://tinyurl.com/6rnmmz

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I miss Hunter S.

Group tied to al-Qaida backs McCain for prez
'They will do all they can to turn Kosovo into a jihadist camp in the heart of Europe'

Posted: March 02, 2008
9:07 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain has enjoyed strong support from a lobbyist group that backs the Kosovo Liberation Army despite allegations the KLA is a Muslim terrorist group with ties to criminal drug networks and al-Qaida.

http://wnd.com/index.php?pageId=57678

Corsi's previous appearance on "pro-White" radio show was streamed live on "White Nationalist" Stormfront.org

Summary: Jerome Corsi's appearance on the July 20 edition of The Political Cesspool Radio Show -- during which he promoted The Obama Nation and criticized Sen. Barack Obama -- was streamed "Live" on the self-described "White Nationalist" and "White Pride" website Stormfront.org. Prior to Corsi's appearance on the July 20 broadcast, host James Edwards claimed that "most Jews ... regard[] Jews and whites as two different races," and co-host Winston Smith repeatedly referred to Obama as a "mulatto."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200808150009?f=h_top

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKKSg39WjdM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLRGfNJRX40

LAKE FOREST, California (Aug. 16) -- Barack Obama said Saturday his greatest moral failure was selfishness. John McCain said his was the failure of his first marriage.

"Whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. ...."

"And so for me, the goal right now should be — and this is where I think we can find common ground — and by the way, I’ve now inserted this into the Democratic Party platform — is ‘How do we reduce the number of abortions?’ Because the fact is that although we’ve had a president who is opposed to abortions the last eight years, abortions have not gone down."

"That last statement is incorrect. Abortions are actually at their lowest rate since 1975 and dropped nine percent between 2000 and 2005. Thus far, only FOX News made a note of this."

So, BHO's new motto is "The Buck Stops Somewhere Else"!!! Change - Yes He Can!!!

And by the way, if you are not capable of addressing an issue by your own admission, don't try to make a point with incorrect data.

Cheers.

Wow, I missed a chance to quote our host relative to my previous post!!!! Beter late than never -

"One perpetual problem of the MSM was illustrated on Saturdayday: the inability to call plainly a lie a lie. Or a liar a liar."

Yes we can!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNWsQGlbU-A

Along with other prisoners, he worked in the fields day after day, in rain and sun, during summer and winter. His life appeared to be nothing more than backbreaking labor and slow starvation. The intense suffering reduced him to a state of despair.

On one particular day, the hopelessness of his situation became too much for him. He saw no reason to continue his struggle, no reason to keep on living. His life made no difference in the world. So he gave up.

Leaving his shovel on the ground, he slowly walked to a crude bench and sat down. He knew that at any moment a guard would order him to stand up, and when he failed to respond, the guard would beat him to death, probably with his own shovel. He had seen it happen to other prisoners.

As he waited, head down, he felt a presence. Slowly he looked up and saw a skinny old prisoner squat down beside him. The man said nothing. Instead, he used a stick to trace in the dirt the sign of the Cross. The man then got back up and returned to his work.

As Solzhenitsyn stared at the Cross drawn in the dirt his entire perspective changed. He knew he was only one man against the all-powerful Soviet empire. Yet he knew there was something greater than the evil he saw in the prison camp, something greater than the Soviet Union. He knew that hope for all people was represented by that simple Cross. Through the power of the Cross, anything was possible.

Solzhenitsyn slowly rose to his feet, picked up his shovel, and went back to work. Outwardly, nothing had changed. Inside, he had received hope.

[From Luke Veronis, "The Sign of the Cross"; Communion, issue 8, Pascha 1997.]

Seems Panama John is a Solzhenitsyn fan as well as a plagerous liar?

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/solzhenitsyn-at-work/83117/

No "cross in the sand" for McCain in 1973 [Updated] Story unlikely to be true

Shortly after John McCain came back from Vietname in 1973, he wrote a detailed 12,000 word report of his experiences that was published in US News and World Report.

Even though McCain goes into a lot of detail in that story and mentions religion a few times, there is no mention of the cross in the sand story, even though it would have fitted in well with the whole narrative. There are numerous mentions of Vietnamese guards in the reports, mostly bad ones but also good ones, but there is no indication at all that any of them would have been Christian, although "[a] lot of them were homosexual".

http://tinyurl.com/6bws27

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Oh dear, I think he has bee caught in another major fabrication? Maybe gramps just can't remember or maybe he really believes what his handlers are telling him?

Either way, not presidential material. Just another GOP figurhead willing to say and do anything to get elected.

Maybe it's just me?

I fully believe that Solzhenitsyn didn't make this story up to sell a few more books and make a few more Rubles. But, I do question if John McCain had read this story, seeing as McCain thinks Solzhenitsyn "was a writer with unusual gifts, utterly devoted to his art, brilliant and exacting, producing work that would stun not just literary worlds but the entire Cold War political world." And I do question if John McCain has, in a mix up of perception or clarity, claimed this story as his own.

If you had had this extraordinary experience. And a famous writer, a writer that you have written about your admiration for, had a very similar experience. Wouldn't you publicize it? Wouldn't you write about it? And wouldn't you have talked about it last night at the faith forum when you we're relaying the story?

You and Alexander Solzhefrickingnitsyn have this incredible shared experience of being imprisoned , having someone draw a cross in the dirt, it inspires you and you don't publicize it? You don't talk about it? You don't write about it even as you write specifically about Solzhenitsyn and your admiration of him.

So, there are different versions and there is an example of a famous author having a very similar experience.

I call bullshit on this story.

(KOS)

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No, not just me I guess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFM1xqqTX_g

McCain, Circa 2003

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McCain had adopted the neocon doctrine of rogue-state rollback, and he hammered away at that after 9/11

arguing that the United States should go on the offensive as a warning to any other country that might condone such an attack. "These networks are well-embedded in some of these countries," Mr. McCain said on Sept. 12, listing Iraq, Iran and Syria as potential targets of United States pressure. "We're going to have to prove to them that we are very serious, and the price that they will pay will not only be for punishment but also deterrence."

So much for McCain's good judgment. It's wrong even to imply that McCain's disjointed thoughts amount to a doctrine, unless that doctine is: "Kill them all!" The Times also references McCain's near-psychotic readiness to blame Iraq even for the 2001 anthrax attacks, concerning which he said on TV: "Some of this anthrax may -- and I emphasize may -- have come from Iraq."

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/345831

Ready to Rumble, Obama Hits the Trail

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"Basically what John McCain's done is he's hired the same old folks who brought you George W., Bush. Same team. And it's the same strategy," Obama said. "They don't have something positive to say about what they're going to do for America, what they try to do is they say, well this other guy, he's unpatriotic. Or this other guy, he likes French people. That's what they said about (John) Kerry."

"They try to make it out like somehow Democrats aren't tough enough, or aren't macho enough. That's their strategy and they do it every four years," Obama continued. "And then you end up with what we've got right now. I've got news for John McCain. My plan's not going to bring about economic disaster. We already have economic disaster because of John McCain's president, George W. Bush."

As for the celebrity taint, Obama added, "The McCain campaign wants to make this election about me, because the issues aren't on their side.... Don't get fooled by Paris and Britney and nasty e-mails that folks are sending out. Don't get fooled by them. This election is about you. It's about us. And whether we are going to meet the challenges that lie before us."

http://tinyurl.com/6s5z3q