David Corn

DC,

The politics of hate is old and yet for many years it has been effective. I hope it is fading with time. I can see racism fading and the next generation doesn't seem to have the same issues. The younger folks I know are not impressed with the "us versus them" stuff. The hate isn't even selling in the heartland these days. Time for a change.

Great piece!

Thanks

ELECTION DELUSION NEARLY OVER

http://tinyurl.com/59gtyy

Someone at the top okayed anchors to take on topics like the Dole ad calling Hagan Godless, and Goldfarb saying Obama pals around with anti-semites.

Is this change you can count on, or just token support for sponsorship?

"If he gets whipped on Tuesday, it will be bad news for others who would practice the poltiics of hate."

Let's hope so!

Get real - conservatives thrive on hatred, fueled by moral superiority, bigotry and a sense of grievance. Without it, they would lose their most effective tools. You dance with the one that brung ya.

Fmr. Reagan Chief-Of-Staff Slams McCain For Picking Palin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ImySRVdO4

*****

Side note - The VP sits on the board of regents at NASA and the Smithsonian.

David Corn --- I'd call it good news.

Good in that it means 'the politics of hate' won't be practiced again for a long time.

David Corn has his own problem with facts.

Presenting one of his themes in "The Lies of George W. Bush", here is a quote from a Corn article in the Nation:

"To deal with the criticism that his plan was a boon for millionaires, Bush devised an imaginary friend--a mythical single waitress who was supporting two children on an income of $22,000, and he talked about her often. He said he wanted to remove the tax-code barriers that kept this waitress from reaching the middle class, and he insisted that if his tax cuts were passed, "she will pay no income taxes at all." But when Time asked the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche to analyze precisely how Bush's waitress-mom would be affected by his tax package, the firm reported that she would not see any benefit because she already had no income-tax liability."

This is a lie!

The Deloitte & Touche report did not analyze Bush's waitress-mom. It analyzed three different types of families; comparing Bush's tax proposals to Gore's. One of the family types was a single woman with two children, but Bush's waitress was a single woman with one child. A single woman with one child WOULD get a tax break under Bush, but a single woman with two children would not.

Corn lied when he stated "Time asked the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche to analyze precisely how Bush's waitress-mom would be affected by his tax package"

And he lied when he said that the Bush waitress was "a mythical single waitress who was supporting two children"

My proof is in a Time magazine article of September 2000.

Palin's Spiritual Warfare Network Partners With Homeland Security

A new 36 page report [read online / PDF file], from an independent research team that has specialized in studying Sarah Palin's faith, contains ground breaking information on a religious movement Sarah Palin is closely and intimately tied to.

In a few days, Americans will vote for the next president and vice president of the United States.
Sarah Palin has confirmed relationships, substantiated by Palin's actions in political office, with two top leaders in an international religious and political movement most Americans don't even know exists; one of those leaders has urged movement members to "infiltrate" politics and government. The other has claimed Palin in her Spiritual Warfare network. In an October appearance on Focus on The Family had James Dobson's radio show, Sarah Palin thanked prayer warriors around the nation.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/10/31/115724/94

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But if this election is about anything, it is about judgment most of all. It is hard to accord McCain that most precious personal commodity and to visualize him as either Commander-in-Chief or steward of the economy. The whole "Joe the Plumber" thing is an affront to most Americans. To have plucked this person from anonymity and placed him on a stage with candidate Palin shows a lack of judgment so vast as to beggar the imagination. The man has such right-wing views and is so incredibly ill-informed that using him as a spokesman answering questions on the campaign trail is a sign of moral bankruptcy and political cynicism. The Plumber Guy is working on a deal for a singing contract in the country music field when he's finished doing his McCain gig.

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/Davidow/55

TRICK OR TREAT!

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/31/palin-stumps-in-pennsylvania-on-halloween/

David Corn, you wrote, "On MSNBC this week, McCain aide Michael Goldfarb pointed to Obama's association with Rashidi to claim Obama pals around with anti-Semites. (Rashidi is no anti-Semite.)" Unless Goldfarb appeared on MSNBC.com also, you might be referring to the Rick Sanchez interview of Goldfarb on CNN.com. Mr. Sanchez exemplified what journalists should be doing with politicos of all persuasions: asking for names, pressuring for corroboration of accusations, and challenging persons who have agendas other than the exposition of truth.

Thanks, Mr. Sanchez.

And he lied when he said that the Bush waitress was "a mythical single waitress who was supporting two children"

If she's mythical maybe she has nine children and a gay mother and declares her tips and is really a closet evangelist. And since we determined she is mythical she pays no taxes since she doesn't have to register with the IRS.

Now Joe the Plumber, that's one real dude. His name is Sam and he works for a plumber, but isn't licensed. He has never made $250,000, gross or net, and will enjoy his tax cut after Obama is elected. Unless he gets that book deal, and then he will be glad to pay whatever taxes he has due.

“Two of the least convincing Halloween costumes this year have to be Sarah Palin and John McCain dressing up like champions of the working class.”

HA! and too true!

So Stupid It Hurts

HOST: Is the news media doing a good job—are you getting a fair shake, are the Republicans getting a fair shake this year?

PALIN: I don't think they're doing their job when they suggest that calling a candidate out on their record, their plans for this country, and their associations is mean-spirited or negative campaigning. If they convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.

http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/002664.html

capt --- or even the middle class.

CNN Sanchez schools another Republican - Reveals #2

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

Sanchez doing the smack down.

"Today, John McCain campaigned in the Ohio town of Defiance. Next comes Anger, then, finally, Acceptance." --Jay Leno

"If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself. If Palin were a man, we'd all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she's a woman — and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say what is painfully true."

―conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, writing in National Review

http://tinyurl.com/4t6zgw

Olbermann Special Comment: John MCCain Has Closer Relationship With Rashid Khalidi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q51Key77944

Stand back! McCain is more experienced than we give him credit for. Rich trophy wife. Good looking trophy running mate.

And Joe the Plumber at every rally as the straight talk express goes down the crapper.

Arizona up 12 pts for Obama with early voters.

Sanchez doing the smack down.

When CNN lets an anchor spend 9 minutes on a set-up and smack down; that's change!

Simulation Shows Obama Will Win

Brian Adams, a mathematics and computer science professor at Franklin & Marshall College, reports that there's a 99.98% chance that Sen. Barack Obama will win the presidential election on Tuesday.

Adams has developed a simulation model that involves running 50 million simulated state-by-state races, using the late-October poll results for each state. He ran his simulation 50 million times to allow him to calculate all the different combinations of electoral votes that might result, even long shots. While the number of possible outcomes is very large, the result is always the same. Obama receives 270 or more electoral votes 99.98% of the time. Using intervals of electoral vote results, there is a 95 percent chance that the outcome will have Obama winning between 303 and 381 electoral votes.

http://tinyurl.com/5hfynw

*****

Of course McCain/Palin do not believe in the science of mathematics so they are sure they will win!

I believe that John McCain cannot believe he is losing to a black man. He showed such disgust for Obama during the debates. His actions show that he has no respect for others, especially blacks. The smears that have been used during the campaign such as: "He doesn't see America like we see it," "That one" etc. The McCain camp is playing the race card without coming right out and saying it. Yes they are firing up their crouds, but the fires that they set are the fires of racism. I pray that when the election is over, our next president can heal the divisions that have been opened up by the McCain campaign.

I am a white 65 year old man and I am voting for Obama because I believe he is America's best hope to get us out of the hole that we are in.

McCain Mudslide = Obama Landslide

I don't know... maybe Joe the Plumber would be a better Republican candidate than John the Jet Crasher...

wow murad has a lot of gall talking about lies!
i remind everyone that on corn's old blog murad claimed to be a "pentagon insider whose job it was to keep us all safe from evil-doers".
way to go murad!

KEEPING US SAFE FROM EVIL-DOERS!

MISSING IRAQ WMD HAS BEEN FOUND

http://tinyurl.com/64w7ft

DEATH MADE IN AMERICA

http://tinyurl.com/pbkyh

Autumn in SW Virginia is GLORIOUS!

Campaign in full swing…initial reports are that there are many good people trying to do what they think is best.

Gov. Warner is wildly popular in these parts and the people are enthusiastic to get the votin’ done.

I promised to not blog about numbers and stuff, but I will say that the people in this area seems to be thougtful and inquisitive.

No shouting, no name-calling, no shots fired.

…of course, it is only Saturday.

-T

According to reports out of top Chinese mainstream news outlets, the RAND Corporation recently presented a shocking proposal to the Pentagon in which it lobbied for a war to be started with a major foreign power in an attempt to stimulate the American economy and prevent a recession.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=5654

The reported RAND proposal dovetails with recent comments made by Joe Biden, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and others, concerning the “guarantee” that Barack Obama will face a major “international crisis” soon after taking office.

ConvictBushCheney.org

"My Friends: The Musical"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdBsv0uCT0c

WASHINGTON — It’s the week before Election Day. Do you know where your president is?
Probably not, and that is by design. With Senator John McCain lagging behind in the polls and many other Republicans fighting for their political lives, the nation’s top Republican — President Bush — is intentionally lying low this week, and is likely to do so until after Americans cast their ballots to pick his successor.

Mr. Bush, an ardent student of politics, knows what it feels like to be down in the polls, and he is keeping a careful eye on the campaign. Earlier this week, he made a surprise visit to the headquarters of the Republican National Committee to offer thanks to those who have served him for the past eight years, and deliver a little pep talk to lift the spirits of beleaguered McCain supporters.

“He talked about how he was never supposed to win a campaign,” said one person who attended, speaking anonymously because the session was off-the-record. “He talked about how in ’94, 2000, 2004, they always said he had no chance, and he just encouraged us, to say it’s just important to keep doing what we’re doing and keep working hard.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/us/politics/31web-stolberg.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1225554357-oyrrSpY2q2bjC6JyRV1Qgw

And then he added..."Oh, and make sure to send the votes through an outside computer system so the tallies can be diddled with before they are "officially" counted - wink, wink..."

I still admire Ross Perot for his comment during a 1992 Presidential debate: "If you hate people, I don't want your vote." No Republican would say that today because the party relies on hatred to motivate its base.

That being said, the way McCain and Palin have stoked hatred and poured gasoline on it is appalling. If anything happens to Obama in the next few days, they will have blood on their hands (as they take their oaths of office).

The scientific community reacts to Palin’s knock on fruit fly research

All that vitriol? Over fruit flies?

Absolutely. By now, the entire science blogosphere has rushed to defend fruit flies (or Drosophila melanogaster) as workhorses of biological research–fundamental to the study of autism, among other things. (Autism, incidentally, is one of the disabilities covered by IDEA.) In order to get the research community’s perspective on Palin’s gaffe, I spoke to Hugo Bellen, a geneticist at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Bellen uses fruit flies in his work on the peripheral nervous system—which wires the limbs and organs to the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord).

http://www.good.is/?p=13034

I love it!

Oh crap, I left out the best quote!

When deriding the defenseless flies, Palin punctuated her statement with one of her trademark chuckles and an “I kid you not.” (See a video of Palin’s full speech below.)

She probably didn’t anticipate the wrath it would incur from the scientific community.

Quoth the outspoken biologist P.Z. Meyers, on his blog Pharyngula: “This idiot woman, this blind, shortsighted ignoramus, this pretentious clod, mocks basic research and the international research community.”

I really hope Palin IS the new face of the GOP - it will bring an end to the party or split it in two.

Rick Sanchez goes viral:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj3g3P2dcaI

http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/2008/11/saturday-cartoons.html

Ronald Reagan's Chief of Staff Endorses Obama (Yes, You Read That Correctly)

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/105657/

Just another lefty?

lol

There is no politics of hate. Little is known about how Obama would attend the presidency and so it is proper to point out his relationships with Ayers and Wright. People on the right do not think Obama has the same views as those two, but question his judgement; why did he befriend such radical people?

I have found color blindness prevalent among young people since at least the late 1990s, when my daughters were in high school. They, and their friends, had no hint of racial intolerance.

as_id: I never claimed to be a Pentagon insider, but did/do have knowledge about matters within the Pentagon. Also, my "Save the world" comment was a joke - its a joke I make a lot with my 6 year old granddaughter, and she gets it.

Late-Night Jokes Of The Week: Election Countdown (VIDEO)

This week late-night hosts had a final week of pre-election jokes. From Conan to Leno to Colbert and Stewart, jokes were about election countdown, voter fraud, and John McCain's appearance on Larry King, with a swipe at Obama's tech prowess thrown in.

http://tinyurl.com/63wt7g

7 Days: Pre-Mortem on McCain... and Howard Dean on '08, w/ Huffington, Conason & Green

What went wrong with McCain? Nearly everything. But mostly, he ran an OK GOP campaign for 1952, 1968, 1980... but not 2008. A Cold-War candidacy in the age of Google?

Let's put aside for a moment the phenomenon of Obama, his eloquence, equanimity, organizing skills. McCain was old-time religion in the era of super-churches, a cold warrior when non-state actors are the biggest variables, a deregulator when even Randian Alan Greenspan questioned market fundamentalism. He always seemed to be Mel Gibson in Forever Young, a 1940s flyboy transported to and stumbling around in the 1990s.

http://tinyurl.com/6g7a5h

McCAIN'S FAMILY VALUES

http://tinyurl.com/6ycdsy

The tone in which the McCain/Palin - especially Palin - message is delivered, and the fact they make no attempt - except when McCain corrected the woman who called Obama a Muslim - to bring down the crowd from their cries of "Kill Him!", "Terrorist!" - can be used to make a case for using politics of hate a fear.

Also, no one is questioning McCain's known involvement with G. Gordon Liddy - an unrepentant felon and fellow demostic terrorist to Ayers. And McCain has a much closer tie to Liddy than Obama does with Ayers. Gee, that's real liberal bias for you.

What do we really know about McCain? He has changed his position on the issues so many times; how do we really know what he will do if he gets into office?

The fact that he seems to have sold his political soul to get elected, made a disasterous - and some would say dangerous to our National Security - pick for VP and has shown irractic behavior is enough to say he is too risky to become the president.

This country needs a sure head to provide consistant leadership. McCain cannot do that. Obama can.

In a desperate attempt to turn the election his way, an election he's clearly losing, McCain has been asking, "Who is Barack Obama?" But the more important question is, "Who is the real John McCain?"

In the 2000 presidential primaries, in the face of a vile campaign against him in South Carolina by Bush's political operatives, McCain admirably said he would not take the "low road to high office." He evidenced then an independence of spirit many found attractive, Democrats and independents among them. But that was then and this is now and this John McCain is not the man we thought he was.

There was a time, before St. Paul and the Republican National Convention, when McCain was the political figure most adored by the national media -- yes, that media, the "liberal media elite." But the McCain who emerged after St. Paul is not the same person the media once knew, respected, and yes, even loved -- the John McCain of the "straight talk express."

He began to lose the media with his choice of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate, a person singularly unprepared to be president of the United States, which is really the only job requirement of a vice president, as Colin Powell pointed out when he endorsed Obama on "Meet the Press." But it wasn't just Palin's selection that raised doubts in the media's mind about McCain, but his innuendos about race and terrorists and Muslims -- all intended to question, with barely disguised subtly, Barack Obama's patriotism -- and thereby his unfitness for the highest office in the land.

But while those innuendos and Palin's appalling attacks on the character of Obama, "He pals around with terrorists", may have satisfied the hard core, right wing, fundamentalist base of what's left of the Republican Party, it did not impress the rest of America. And those two factors, Palin's selection and McCain's unmasking by John McCain, will results in an Obama/Biden victory.

President Obama

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-mitrovich/president-obama_b_139921.html

Here! Here! Just get out the Vote to make this a reality!

McBlinky has already said (sung) what he will do if elected:

"Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran"

Here are my reasons for voting for Obama:

1) Obama was against the Iraq war from the beginning and has promised to withdraw troops by 2010.

2) Obama's policies will favor working class people over the elites (whereas McCain's policies will favor the elites, like Bush's policies have)

3) Obama has a calm, even temperament, and he has shown good, reasoned intelligence; he has a willingness to look at different sides of an argument

4) Obama's diverse background is an asset to the country and gives a new face for America to the world

5) Obama's election will represent a triumph for the civil rights movement that has always fought "the powers that be", and will be a defeat over forces of intolerance

6) Obama is not going to take away American's guns and he is not going to do anything militarily/terror/false-flag-attack/martial-law-related that wouldn't happen under a McCain administration (if you think otherwise, you are fooling yourself)

7) John McCain is an unstable, mean-spirited warmonger who has an overly simple, Manichaean world-view; he is admittedly clueless about economics

8) Sarah Palin is a joke-- she is simply unsuitable for vice-president, much less President; this is particularly important given McCain's age

9) McCain's has run a simply disgusting campaign based on fear and smear tactics; he does not deserve to win based on the campaign he's run

10) Republicans do not deserve another 4 years of being in charge of the executive branch!!!! They need prosecution for war-crimes, not a reward

11) McCain is very likely to be just as disastrous as Bush for the country, and has a good chance of being worse

12) Obama is our only means right now of stopping the Republican madness and keeping McCain out of office.

In Obama's prepared remarks for Pueblo, CO, he congratulated McCain on getting on Dick the VP's endorsement:

"President Bush is sitting out the last few days before the election. But earlier today, Dick Cheney came out of his undisclosed location and hit the campaign trail. He said that he is, and I quote, "delighted to support John McCain."

I’d like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it. That endorsement didn’t come easy. Senator McCain had to vote 90 percent of the time with George Bush and Dick Cheney to get it. He served as Washington’s biggest cheerleader for going to war in Iraq, and supports economic policies that are no different from the last eight years. So Senator McCain worked hard to get Dick Cheney’s support.

But here’s my question for you, Colorado: do you think Dick Cheney is delighted to support John McCain because he thinks John McCain’s going to bring change? Do you think John McCain and Dick Cheney have been talking about how to shake things up, and get rid of the lobbyists and the old boys club in Washington? "

Quebec comedy duo talks porn and politics with oblivious Sarah Palin

MONTREAL — In an over-the-top accent, one half of a notorious Quebec comedy duo claims to be the president of France as he describes sex with his famous wife, the joy of killing animals and Hustler magazine's latest Sarah Palin porno spoof.

At the other end of the line? An oblivious Sarah Palin.

http://tinyurl.com/6afy7m

******

She knew it was really the French guy 'cause she heard his voice on the TV . . .

lol

Sarah, the Manchurian Candidate

The McCain campaign, during the 2008 election, has repeatedly attacked Barack Obama for advocating that the U.S. federal government seek more wealth equality in America, by "spreading the wealth." But McCain's running mate Sarah Palin is closely associated, as noted in a recent New York Times story, with "spiritual warfare", an aggressive approach to evangelizing developed by the leaders of a worldwide religious movement which promotes a religiously based wealth transfer scheme as a means to implement theocracy.

As the top leader of the New Apostolic Reformation, which extensive evidence suggests is Sarah Palin's chosen religious and political movement, C. Peter Wagner proclaimed, on June 21, 2006, that "God has declared through His prophets that the wealth of the wicked will be released to the Kingdom of God," and Wagner declared, threateningly, "the enemies' camp will be plundered."

Sarah Palin endorser Bishop Thomas Muthee, in a speech he gave before blessing and anointing Sarah Palin as a political leader, on October 16, 2005 at the Wasilla Assembly of God, llaid out the same New Apostolic Reformation agenda, on how "God's kingdom" needed to "infiltrate" seven sectors of society. Muthee listed most of them: business and finance, schools and education, media and entertainment, politics and government.

Muthee also stated "The Bible says the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. Sarah Palin was in the audience. Minutes later, she was anointed, and blessed, with the laying on of hands.

Thomas Muthee is a top leader in C. Peter Wagner's movement, an internationally known celebrity in the New Apostolic Reformation and a personal friend of Wagner.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/11/1/14522/8804

"In today's Washington Post-ABC News daily tracking poll, Obama holds a 53 to 44 percent lead over McCain, unchanged from yesterday, and little in the survey suggests that trimming the margin would be an easy feat."

However, please note the interesting results when you look at religion.... Non-Christians favor Obama almost 3 to 1, Catholics favor Obama slightly but Protestants and Evangelicals favor McCain - not nearly as much as non-christians favor Obama though. But this definitely says something about our political system - it really is controlled by religion!

Obama McCain

Protestants 46 52
White Protestants 36 62
Wh. evang. Prots. 21 77
Wh. non-ev. Prot. 49 49

Catholics 53 44
White Catholics 50 49

Jewish 70 29

Oth. non-Christian 74 25

No religion 73 20

McCain's name nowhere to be seen at Palin rally

http://tinyurl.com/57cu7x

This is from Sarah Palin's interview yesterday with Fox New's Greta van Susteren:

"We realize that more and more Americans are starting to see the light there and understand the contrast. And we talk a lot about, OK, we're confident that we're going to win on Tuesday, so from there, the first 100 days, how are we going to kick in the plan that will get this economy back on the right track and really shore up the strategies that we need over in Iraq and Iran to win these wars? "

Iran??? Really??? And what''s with the rambling, run on-sentences?

Human Obama Logo in Anchorage - Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lffB7B8jKE

A good reminder of Bush's legacy...

The Republican disaster begins at home. Even before taking into account whatever fantastically expensive plan eventually emerges to help rescue the financial system from Wall Street’s long-running pyramid schemes, the economic and fiscal picture is bleak. During the Bush Administration, the national debt, now approaching ten trillion dollars, has nearly doubled. Next year’s federal budget is projected to run a half-trillion-dollar deficit, a precipitous fall from the seven-hundred-billion-dollar surplus that was projected when Bill Clinton left office. Private-sector job creation has been a sixth of what it was under President Clinton. Five million people have fallen into poverty. The number of Americans without health insurance has grown by seven million, while average premiums have nearly doubled. Meanwhile, the principal domestic achievement of the Bush Administration has been to shift the relative burden of taxation from the rich to the rest. For the top one per cent of us, the Bush tax cuts are worth, on average, about a thousand dollars a week; for the bottom fifth, about a dollar and a half. The unfairness will only increase if the painful, yet necessary, effort to rescue the credit markets ends up preventing the rescue of our health-care system, our environment, and our physical, educational, and industrial infrastructure.

At the same time, a hundred and fifty thousand American troops are in Iraq and thirty-three thousand are in Afghanistan. There is still disagreement about the wisdom of overthrowing Saddam Hussein and his horrific regime, but there is no longer the slightest doubt that the Bush Administration manipulated, bullied, and lied the American public into this war and then mismanaged its prosecution in nearly every aspect. The direct costs, besides an expenditure of more than six hundred billion dollars, have included the loss of more than four thousand Americans, the wounding of thirty thousand, the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis, and the displacement of four and a half million men, women, and children. Only now, after American forces have been fighting for a year longer than they did in the Second World War, is there a glimmer of hope that the conflict in Iraq has entered a stage of fragile stability. [Flan's note: And that is being generous]

The indirect costs, both of the war in particular and of the Administration’s unilateralist approach to foreign policy in general, have also been immense. The torture of prisoners, authorized at the highest level, has been an ethical and a public-diplomacy catastrophe. At a moment when the global environment, the global economy, and global stability all demand a transition to new sources of energy, the United States has been a global retrograde, wasteful in its consumption and heedless in its policy. Strategically and morally, the Bush Administration has squandered the American capacity to counter the example and the swagger of its rivals. China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other illiberal states have concluded, each in its own way, that democratic principles and human rights need not be components of a stable, prosperous future. At recent meetings of the United Nations, emboldened despots like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran came to town sneering at our predicament and hailing the “end of the American era.”

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/10/13/081013taco_talk_editors

David,

Politics of hate, indeed.

Check out this video on my blog:

http://mikesblogmarketingtips.com

Compassionate conservatives don't exist.

Just saying.

I wonder if Rush thinks Cheney endorsed McCain only because McCain is white?

Hmmmm

Sarah Palin and Nicholas Sarkosy...

Best moment of the whole f**cking campaign.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=QbEwKcs-7Hc

Sarkosy callin'

lololololololo

http://ourgreatestfear.org/

Vote Flipping & Vote Fraud In 9 States Stealing Votes From Obama

Vote flipping and vote fraud has been documented by voters in 9 DIFFERENT STATES with early voting. The overwhelming number of reports of vote flipping have come from voters trying to vote for Barack Obama.

http://tinyurl.com/5u4q8k

Lies, Half Truths and Contradictions: Chronicle ''Hidden'' Audio on Obama

It's not true.

But the Drudge Report, the Republican National Committee and apparently even GOP VP candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fell for completely fabricated news from a shady website called Newsbusters today suggesting the San Francisco Chronicle has ''hidden'' audio with Sen. Barack Obama regarding his statements on coal.

''Barack Obama explained his plan to the San Francisco Chronicle this year,'' she told a rally in Ohio Sunday. ''He said that sure, if the industry wants to build coal-fired power plants, then they can go ahead and try, he says, but they can do it only in a way that will bankrupt the coal industry.''

She added, ''And you've got to listen to the tape.''

''Why is the audiotape just now surfacing?'' Palin asked the crowd, according to a report from CBS News. Someone in the crowd shouted, ''Liberal media!'

Let's be very clear: the Chronicle did not, and has never, hidden any interview, audio or video, of Obama from its readers.

read the rest here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/b/a/2008/11/02/nov05election-lies_half_truth_2.DTL

Over 80,000 Have Complained About Voting Problems

Today, Barbara Anwine of the Election Protection Coalition (1-866-OUR-VOTE), a nonpartisan group, told MSNBC about voter suppression tactics they have witnessed around the country.

The group says it has received over 80,000 voter calls at the Election Protection Command Center.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQYw_c8DjB4