GOP Trying to Hire Oxford Proffessor To Prove Ayers Ghost Wrote For Obama

Desperation - a state in which all hope is lost or absent; "in the depths of despair"

The grasp of power is seemingly slipping away from republicans, and their desperation has shown. It is even more visibly evident within the last days of the presidential race. Robo-calls, anti-Obama fliers and digging up as much dirt as possible on anyone associated with Barack Obama.

This is a story from the UK based Times Online Sunday edition:

Sarah Baxter in Washington

The Republicans have made a last-minute attempt to prevent Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House by trying to recruit an Oxford academic to “prove” that his autobiography was ghostwritten by a former terrorist.

With two days to go before the election, Obama is poised to become America’s first black president, according to polls showing he has an average six-point lead over John McCain, his Republican opponent.

Dr Peter Millican, a philosophy don at Hertford College, Oxford, has devised a computer software program that can detect when works are by the same author by comparing favourite words and phrases.

He was contacted last weekend and offered $10,000 (£6,200) to assess alleged similarities between Obama’s best-seller, Dreams from My Father, and Fugitive Days, a memoir by William Ayers.

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Sarah Palin Gets Fooled By Canadian Radio Station

From Politico Ben Smith's Blog:

Sarah Palin's campaign issued an "mildly amused" response to having joined Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy in having been the victim of a prank by a pair of French-Canadian comedians who impersonated Sarkozy on a call with the Alaska governor.

The prankster talked hunting ("I just love killing those animals."), and Palin said she was a "careful" shot in contrast to Dick Cheney. He also made a reference she appeared to miss to a porn movie in the conversation, which can be heard here and here. He said he could see Belgium from his house, described "my special American adviser Johny Halliday," a French singer, and referred to Canadian singer Stef Carse as Canada's prime minister, as Palin continued the conversation until he explained it was a prank.

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Mccain & the Mob

John Mccain was always at his best when it came to open town hall type forums. He was great at working the crowd whether he was on stage with his opponent or just at a rally. He was very good at driving people's emotions when he spoke about issues that were important to them.

Going into this election year a lot of pundits in the media were touting this would be a huge strong point that he would have over Barack Obama. There has been one major problem with that whole aspect of the open forum for John Mccain, he has created a base that is full of hateful elements that makes it volatile for him speak to.

With their potential for amplifying unscripted outbursts and attention-diverting disasters, the microphones at high school gymnasiums and basketball arenas across the swing states have gone silent during the final stretch of the presidential campaign. McCain, a man who has prided himself on discussions with the common man, has not entertained a single question from audience members since Oct. 10, when he faced a belligerent crowd in Lakeville, Minn., that at times turned against him.

“The town hall format proved to be a little embarrassing for the campaign, and it built a negative picture about what this campaign is all about,” told Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University to Politico, adding that the encounters were “too costly.”

Lately all you have seen Mccain do is the typical rallies in a small town type of environment. He has relied more on the help of the likes Hank Williams and recently Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Down in the polls with just a few days remaining before Election Day and apparently willing to risk the uncontrolled format, McCain is scheduled to hold a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, where independent-minded voters gave him victories in both the 2000 and 2008 primaries. The most recent polling shows Obama with a sizable lead in the Granite State.

McCain himself on occasion sought to soothe his crowds’ emotions after media reports started focusing on their out-of-control comments.

“We want to fight, and I will fight,” McCain told supporters earlier this month in Minnesota. “But I will be respectful. I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments. I don’t mean to reduce your ferocity. ... I just mean to say, you have to be respectful.”

The crowd largely ignored his plea.

If You Are One Of Those Who Still Have Not Voted

There are a few states that do not have early voting, those people get a pass. The rest of you however have no excuse. We have the official poll closing times for the entire nation. Let's make sure we don't fall for any more GOP tricks. Last day for voting is on NOVEMBER 4th, not the 5th for democrats or any of that other crap.

Whether or not you think your vote is important, a lot of other people who have died for your rights thought it was. A eight or even ten hour wait is nothing for the price of freedom.

Bill Cunningham: Obama Wants to Gas The Jews

Media Matters Post:

He jokingly (or maybe not) makes fun of the holocaust by saying Obama wants to gas the Jews. This is a guy who many Jewish people listen to for their news. It's a shame people like this have a fan base to perpretrate hate, but hey it's a free country.

A STORY SMOOTH STONE DID NOT POST FOR IT'S PRO ISRAEL READERS

"Among Jewish voters, some feel the basic question is which candidate will act in the best interest of Israel. The answer is Barack Obama. As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most--a respected, credible, morally strong America. To have the United States and Israel both regarded by the rest of the world as unreliable and in isolation is no way to solve the problems that plague both countries. This has been the effect of the Bush policies, and these are the policies that John McCain has promised to continue. Barack Obama is the candidate who can restore America's moral authority in the world and position our government to help negotiate peace....

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental. Especially disturbing to the Jewish voter should be her willing acceptance of the campaign assignment of demagogy, which has stirred up racism and hate. The prospect of our having a 72-year-old president in poor health raises the real possibility that Palin could be our president, a thoroughly frightening thought. (I am well aware, in my eightieth year, of the flagging energy of any 72-year-old.) McCain's choice of Palin was a bid to the extremists in the Republican party, not the considered choice of a man who puts his country first....

Under his leadership a renewed America can help to foster a renewed Israel. Barack Obama is an inspiring American, willing and able to lead this nation and the world to new heights in very perilous times. I will vote for him with enthusiasm".


NOW IT WOULD SEEM WHEN A PROMINENT JEWISH PHILANTHROPIST LIKE EDGAR M. BRONFMAN WOULD GIVE HIS ENDORSEMENT TO A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE YOU WOULD THINK THAT SMOOTH STONE, A BLOG THAT IS SO PRO ISRAEL WOULD MAKE KNOWN THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD JEWISH COUNCIL ENDORSED BARACK OBAMA.......I GUESS THEY MISSED THAT STORY.

Satan Himself Speaks After His legion Continues To Fail

The dark lord of the under realm came up from the depths of hell to speak his distaste of Barack Obama and his dreadful lead in the polls.

Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has warned that a win by Democratic hopeful Barack Obama in next week's US election could worsen the world financial crisis, a report said Saturday.

In an interview with The Weekend Australian, owned by Murdoch's News Corporation, the newsman said if the Democrats implemented protectionist policies it would be "a real setback for globalisation".

His asked that he legion of evil at Fox News step up their rhectoric about William Ayers, Rashid Khalidi, socialism and terrorist palling.

But he warned that an increase in protectionism in the US as suggested by some Democrats in Congress, would risk retaliation from China and could threaten world trade.

"For the past three or four years, some Democrats have been threatening to do things like put on extra tariffs (against Chinese imports) if they don't change their currency," Murdoch said.

He then reached into his bag and snacked on the brains of some young children and continued his interview.

"If it happened, it could set off retaliatory action which would certainly damage the world economy seriously."

The Australian-born mogul, who controls media interests around the world, also criticised Obama's proposed tax policies which include granting rebates to most US workers.

"Forty percent (of the US population) don't pay taxes, so how can he give them a tax cut?" he said.

"But you can give them a welfare cheque which he has promised -- a grant of 500 dollars -- which will disappear very fast. It's not going to turn the economy around at all."

Murdoch, who is in Australia to deliver a series of lectures, rejected the suggestion that the ousting of a Republican administration in the US would be a circuit breaker which automatically boosted financial markets.

"To some extent it is beyond the power of politicians," he said of the current crisis.

"You are going to find that the politicians are very limited in what they can do: they can make it worse but they can't stop it."

Murdoch said Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had been "sure-footed" in handling the crisis, deflecting criticism that the centre-left Labor leader had been too quick to offer a blanket guarantee on bank deposits.

But Murdoch said all politicians should be careful not to worsen the situation by "alarming people more than they should be alarmed".

I'm sorry I must admit I made some of this stuff up. All that bank and economy crapped was fake.

Not Even Mccain Could Spoiled This Day

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It Won't Help This Time

It won't help the GOP this time. The scare tactic of another video from Osama Bin Laden scaring all the Americans to vote for Mccain will fail this time.

People are more mad than scared this time around. We will no longer vote from fear in hearts but with sound judgment.

If that is the case the vote has to be for Barack Obama. He has used sound judgment during this whole campaign, and John Mccain has used only desperate acts to try to win at any cost. He has shown that desperation causes him to make mistakes vs. solid decisions.

If a tape does surface from Osama Bin Laden it will be the last act in what has been the sorriest presidential campaign in history.

This Is The John Mccain I Knew Before The Race

This is the person America knew. The video below show how he should have ran his campaign from the beginning. He lost so much by going negative and picking a person who he knew was not qualified for the job. I know I have criticized John Mccain a lot during this presidential race, but that was because this was what I was expecting from him all along:

Former World Jewish Congress Chief Bronfman Endorses 'tough idealist' Obama

By Haaretz Service

Barack Obama gained the support of one of the Jewish world's most prominent leaders Friday, when Canadian philanthropist Edgar M. Bronfman gave the Democratic presidential candidate his endorsement.

In a column on the Huffingtonpost, Bronfman asserted that Obama is the candidate who will act in the best interest of Israel. Of Obama's Republican rival, the philanthropist said: "As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain."

Bronfman, a former head of the World Jewish Congress, wrote in the piece titled "Israel's Best Interest is a Morally Strong America" that an honest broker was needed to push Israelis and Palestinians toward a two-state solution.

He said the Illinois senator could fill this role, being "a tough idealist who has the courage to imagine an America that may inspire hope, not fear, in the Middle East and around the world."


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Of Course Conservatives Will Believe That Eagleburger Made A Mistake

Someone from the McCain camp must have hard a pretty stern talk with former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. He just went on Fox with a bracingly abject apology for saying that Sarah Palin wasn't qualified to be vice president. If you did not here it before the previous story report by Huffington Post:

Lawrence Eagleburger, who served as Secretary of State under George H.W. Bush and whose endorsement is often trumpeted by McCain, said on Thursday that the Alaska governor is not only unprepared to take over the job on a moment's notice but, even after some time in office, would only amount to an "adequate" commander in chief.

"And I devoutly hope that [she] would never be tested," he added for good measure -- referring both to Palin's policy dexterity and the idea of McCain not making it through his time in office.

The remarks took place during an interview on National Public Radio that was, ironically, billed as "making the case" for a McCain presidency. Asked by the host whether Palin could step in during a time of crisis, Eagleburger reverted to sarcasm before leveling the harsh blow.

"It is a very good question," he said, pausing a few seconds, then adding with a chuckle: "I'm being facetious here. Look, of course not."

Eagleburger explained: "I don't think at the moment she is prepared to take over the reins of the presidency. I can name for you any number of other vice presidents who were not particularly up to it either. So the question, I think, is can she learn and would she be tough enough under the circumstances if she were asked to become president, heaven forbid that that ever takes place?

"Give her some time in the office and I think the answer would be, she will be [pause] adequate. I can't say that she would be a genius in the job. But I think she would be enough to get us through a four year... well I hope not... get us through whatever period of time was necessary. And I devoutly hope that it would never be tested."

The indictment of Palin was all the more biting because both she and McCain have held Eagleburger up repeatedly during the past several weeks as evidence that the Republican ticket has firm standing and support within foreign policy circles. (In fact, McCain conferred with Eagleburger by phone just this week, on matters pertaining to national security.)

WATCH: The Daily Show Exposes ACORN

Would Someone Give Palin A Constitution For Dummies Book

Glenn Greenwald-- Salon.com
Friday Oct. 31, 2008 13:38 EDT


Somehow, in Sarah Palin's brain, it's a threat to the First Amendment when newspapers criticize her negative attacks on Barack Obama. This is actually so dumb that it hurts:

In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.

Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate's free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.

"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "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."

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People are poor in America ... because they lack values, morals, and ethics"

Media Matters reported:

Bill Cunningham asserted on his radio show that "people are poor in America ... not because they lack money," but "because they lack values, morals, and ethics." He also said that "unlike many countries in the world ... we have fat poor people. We don't have skinny poor people. Ours are fat and flatulent."

Biggest Hypocrite Sean Hannity Still Unrepentant

From Fox News Hounds:

During yet another Sean Hannity rant against Barack Obama for "not distancing himself" from "radical associations," Juan Williams finally gave Hannity the talking-to he deserved. Williams pointed to Hannity's own radical association with an anti-Semite, presumably Andy Martin, a recent guest on Hannity's America. But rather than denounce Martin, which FOX News has done, Hannity identified Rev. Jeremiah Wright as the anti-Semite on his show. With video.

As Media Matters has reported, FOX News has expressed regret for having booked Andy Martin, who has a history of anti-Semitic and bigoted statements, as a guest on a recent Hannity's America. On that show, Martin made what Sean Hannity called "the explosive claim that Obama's role as a community organizer was a political staging ground perpetuated by the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers."

But Hannity has not expressed similar regret about Martin, at least not on FOX News. Hannity was given a golden opportunity to do so on last night's (10/30/08) Hannity & Colmes and yet he still refused to do what he was demanding of Barack Obama.

After Hannity railed about Obama's "radical associates" and "terrible judgment" about his associations, Williams responded, “I gotta tell you something. I defend you, Sean, all the time... People say to me, 'Hey, what's your pal Sean doing having an anti-Semite on his show?'”

Hannity interrupted. “You mean Jeremiah Wright?”

I'm sure Hannity knew darned well whom Williams meant. And, for those of you who are not regular readers of this blog, Martin is not the only anti-Semitic bigot Hannity has refused to own up to. He still has not acknowledged, much less publicly apologized for, his long-term association with a Neo-Nazi/white supremacist.

What's Wrong With These People?

These people are the reasons why some people look at Christians as Jesus wackos. Do they even read the bible? The last thing you ever do is to pray over any statue. But these are the people who consider themselves devote Christians who love God. Here they are praying over a false bronze idol, the Wall Street Bull asking God to nationalize the economy under the state of heaven.

These are all people who are supporting and voting for John Mccain by the way. The same wackos who believe the world will end when Obama takes over. Check out the rest of the photos especially the one with the woman blowing into a goat horn........don't ask.

Former Reagan Adviser Endorses Obama

(CNN) — Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN's Fareed Zakaria this week he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday.

Duberstein said he was influenced by another prominent Reagan official - Colin Powell - in his decision.

"Well let's put it this way - I think Colin Powell's decision is in fact the good housekeeping seal of approval on Barack Obama."

Powell served as national security advisor to Reagan during Duberstein's tenure as chief of staff.

Duberstein spoke with Zakaria about his final days in the Reagan White House. The Reagan official, along with Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, also discussed the transition process to a new administration.

Watch the full discussion on the next administration this Sunday at 1 p.m. on Fareed Zakaria GPS.

Iraq Agrees With Obama...They Want A Withdrawl Time Table

BAGHDAD — Iraq wants to remove any possibility that U.S. troops could remain after 2011 from a proposed security agreement now under negotiation, a Shiite lawmaker close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday.

The current draft would have U.S. soldiers leave Iraq by Dec. 31, 2011, unless the government asks them to stay to help with training or other missions.

But Ali al-Adeeb, a member of the prime minister's inner circle, said the government wants that possibility removed.

"The Iraqi side wants to remove any mention of a possible extension of U.S. troops, fearing that the existing clause might be subjected to misinterpretation or could bear different interpretation because Multinational Forces might demand for extension depending on their evaluation of the security forces or the incomplete readiness of the Iraqi forces," al-Adeeb told The Associated Press.

He also said the Iraqis want a joint U.S.-Iraqi committee to decide whether U.S. soldiers accused of crimes off base were really on authorized missions.

The current draft also gives Iraqi courts limited jurisdiction over U.S. troops accused of major crimes committed off post and off duty.

Those are among proposed changes which the Iraqis say must be made in the draft agreement before it can be approved by parliament in time for a Dec. 31 deadline when the U.N. mandate under which coalition forces here operates.

Without an agreement or a new U.N. mandate, the U.S. military would have to suspend all operations in Iraq. The Cabinet decided this week to ask the U.S. for changes in the draft before referring it to parliament.

"We are waiting for a response from the U.S. negotiators on how much they can accommodate," Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday on CNN. "I think both sides here have reached the moment of truth. The time window is closing, and a decision has to be made as soon as possible."

U.S. officials have urged the Iraqis to consider what could happen here if the U.S. suspends military operations.

Violence is down here sharply after the Sunni revolt against al-Qaida and the routing of Shiite militias in Baghdad and southern Iraq last spring. But the U.S. military also provides considerable help to Iraqi ministries in infrastructure and quality of life projects which would have to stop.

Despite the drop in violence, attacks are continuing, although at a lower level.

On Thursday, a car bomb exploded near a market in north Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five, police said.

The explosion took place about a half hour after a roadside bomb went off near a police patrol at an intersection in the Fudhailiya area in eastern Baghdad, wounding six people, including three policemen, officials said.

They all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not supposed to release the information to media.

Meanwhile, police raised the death toll from a bombing Wednesday evening in eastern Baghdad to six, with another 17 people wounded. The blast occurred when a roadside bomb planted near a stall selling ice cream exploded near a police patrol on Palestine Street.

First reports said two people were killed but police said Thursday there were six dead, all of them civilians.

Neil Cavuto Rips Mccain Flip Flopping

On FBC's Cavuto show, Neil Cavuto lambasted John McCain over his economic policies, or lack thereof. It's a searing commentary on McCain's nonsensical approach and the shifting positions he has taken during his campaign.

Cavuto: Frankly, neither of your numbers adds up. But I’ve come to see a consistent pattern in Obama's. For the life of me, Senator Straight Talk, I see no such straight thing with yours.

{snip}

You rail against big government, yet continue to push cockamamie spending plans that make a mockery of it. That's why you're losing right now, Senator McCain.

Not because you don't have the courage of your convictions. But because on economic matters, you have no convictions, period

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Obviously Cavuto disagrees with Obama's economic policies, but explains that he's been consistent throughout his entire candidacy. McCain on the other hand shouts "Socialism" at Obama while embracing the same philosophy as Obama for the most part where convenient. Or, he just doesn't know that much about the economy.
From Crooks and Liars:


"I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated." (November 2005)

Cavuto just rips McCain apart in his "The Deal" segment.

John McCain, I figured out today why you're losing. Your positions are always changing.

You voted for the $700 billion rescue package. Yet today lumped your opponent with the Bush Administration for essentially pushing the same package.

What's the deal with the Straight Talk Express?

He voted for this rescue, but now says Barack Obama and the White House, who voted for the same rescue, apparently voted for something different.

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WATCH: Rick Sanchez Call Out Mike Goldfarb

Mike Goldfarb is Deputy Communications Director for the McCain Campaign was on CNN today trying to attack Obama on the Rashid Khalidi thing. Rick Sanchez calls him out after Goldfarb says that Obama has a long history of hanging around people who are anti-Semitic. Rick Sanchez ask him to name one:

For Those Whites Who Fear Black People Will Take Over

After seeing a lot hate that has been spread about Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and John Mccain, I knew this would be a hotly contested race. I have not and will never condone hate in any aspects of my life.

The one thing I did find funny was the fact that some older white Americans were scared that having a black president would mean somehow that the balance of power will somehow be shifted from white to black.

I thought about how their thinking came about. I guess after slavery and years of oppression all the way up to the civil rights act, that somehow blacks wanted revenge for all those years. It would seem to them that blacks had all gotten together to make a plan to spring on all the whites at just the right time.

I am here however to ensure to all white America that black people have no intention of somehow "taking over." I have however created a list of demands if and when Barack Obama is elected.

1. A least two commercials during a 1 hour television program will feature a black family.
2. All sentences will now in with "you know what I'm saying."
3. All white people now must sit on the back of the bus.
4. Hot Sauce will now be used on all televised cooking programs.
5. There will now be certain places of business that will have "black only" signs in the front.
6. Samuel L. Jackson will be named Secretary of Defense.
7. Black History Month now will be Black History Season.
8. ABC News will know have Jay-Z instead of Charlie Gibson.
9. Neighborhoods that are all white will now be called the "ghetto".
10. All pictures with a white Jesus will now have a black one.

Only a few small changes. America the above sounds ridiculous right? The same can be said for the small group of people that have that fear that blacks take over is somehow bad or even that it is our intention to do so. We come to far as a country to let fear or hate rule over love and togetherness. Wake up, realize we are all Americans, White, Black, Indian, Asian, Arab and Hispanic.

Let's forget about the past and focus on the future and grow America.

Best Right-Wing Conservative Conspriacy Theory Yet

This one is just priceless. I thought I had everything, but I was dead wrong. When it comes to conspiracy theories I thought liberals were the best at it with JFK, UFO's, the Aids stuff and so on, but the conservatives take the cake.

If you have about thirty minutes of your life you want to waste you have to read this article Atlas Shrugs posted on October 24th about Barack Obama possibly being the son of Malcolm X. Yes you heard it right Malcolm X.

When I mean detail, I mean detail. I see a movie possibly being made maybe the "Barack Chronicles" or the "Obama Files". Make sure you read the comments from readers about how they look so much alike, yeah those blacks all look the same you know. Well here it is:

HOW COULD STANLEY ANN DUNHAM HAVE DELIVERED BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JR. IN AUGUST OF 1961 IN HONOLULU, WHEN OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON RECORDS SHOW HER 2680 MILES AWAY IN SEATTLE ATTENDING CLASSES THAT SAME MONTH?

UPDATE: NEW EMAIL FORM UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII (SEE BELOW!)

A new lawsuit may have traction....as it claims dual status obviates natural-born citizenship.... go here.

Apparently the Governor of Hawaii has sealed Obama's birth certificate records. Why? Why seal the records? What is Obama afraid of?

Atlas reader Rudy emailed both the University of Washington and the University of Hawaii, and they sent him back dates of enrollment. It didn't match the dates Wikipedia had for Stanley Ann Dunham. Bob tried to update Wikipedia and his updates got deleted within minutes. The big question is how was Ann having Barack in Honolulu in Aug 1961 AND enrolled at the U of Washington the same month?

When public record information from the University of Washington was added to Wikipedia’s biography of Stanley Ann Dunham (Barack Hussein Obama Jr’s mother), it was removed in 35 minutes the first time and 34 minutes the second time. Read what Obama’s team of internet thugs doesn’t want you to know.

See official emails from U of Hawaii and U (see below)

I'm concerned with the unlikely dates:

Sept 26 1960 First day at U of Hawaii for Ann (Why did she start 6 weeks late?)

One month later - conception

Two months later - drops out of University of Hawaii

Three months later - married

10 months later - back in Washington attending classes at University of Washington

These are implausible dates, and may imply that Ann got pregnant in Seattle and THAT is why her family moved to Hawaii. University of Washington records place Stanley Ann Dunham in Washington State in Aug 1961 so how could she be in Honolulu 2680 miles away birthing Barack the same month.

When public record information from the University of Washington was added to Wikipedia’s biography of Stanley Ann Dunham (Barack Hussein Obama Jr’s mother), it was removed in 35 minutes the first time and 34 minutes the second time. Read what Obama’s team of internet thugs doesn’t want you to know.

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Jews For Obama Stand Up Against the Rashid Khalidi Story

You may have had a chance to see a video in which Sean Hannity of Fox News tries to paint Senator Barack Obama as anti-Israel on the grounds that he knows Prof. Rashid Khalidi, currently the Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.

Here are a few things that Hannity hides from us in this video:

Hannity does not tell us that the “Arab organization” that Khalidi founded is the Arab American Action Network, which was established to provide economic and social support to Arab immigrants in Chicago. He does not want us to know that the organization works with the Illinois Department of Human Services and its case managers to provide interpretation services specifically intended for Arab-Americans in Chicago who receive public benefits.

Hannity does not tell us that the Woods Fund for which Obama was a director provided funding to the Arab American Action Network in order for it to help the struggling Arab immigrant community in Chicago, and that the Arab American Action Network is one of hundreds of organizations which the Woods Fund supports. The organizations supported are as diverse as the Chicago community, and they include the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, an organization that is “dedicated to combating poverty, racism, and anti-Semitism.” Read more about organizations supported by the Woods Fund.

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WATCH: Joe The Plumber Stand up John Mccain Today

Looks like Joe Wurzelbacher had better things to do this morning than to be on stage with John Mccain. Maybe Joe had a photo shoot, or he could have had a meeting with his publicist. Watch as John Mccain calls for Joe, only to realize there is no Joe:

Why Can't Mccain/Palin Stick to One Message

I would have thought they would have got it by now. I guess I was wrong. John Mccain has yet to tell his supporters why his economic plan is better than Barack Obama's. I watched him yesterday go on and on about Obama wanting to be distributionist in chief, and saying he wants to raise taxes.

What Mccain does not do is say what his tax plan will do for middle class Americans versus Obama's. That's because in reality he can't. He can't say my plan will lower your taxes more than Obama, simply because his plan won't. Instead he talks about Barack being a socialist, when any person can look up John's record and see he has attempted to raise taxes on higher income to help the middle class also.

When Palin has her chance to continue to talk about energy and independence from oil, she goes on about a videotape from 2001 were Barack Obama attended a farewell dinner for Rashid Khalidi who has voiced his support for the Palestinian cause. The problem with Palin and Mccain accusing Obama of having a friendship with the then University of Chicago professor is that Mccain was chairman of an organization that gave Khalidi's group well over a half million dollars.

The biggest mistake that the Mccain camp has made is who they targeted for support. They went after rural white class Americans and Corporation support. All those apple pie, gun toting military loving ones. America is no longer like the 1950's anymore. It is a huge melting pot of people who's traditions are not like Aunt Bee's. Instead of attacking their opponent, why not try to bring the country together instead of dividing it.

I would have hoped both Mccain and Palin would have learned by now that focusing on tearing down Obama is not working and that maybe if they stayed on their message and what they will do for the country that maybe, just maybe they might get elected. I guess not.

Jessica Simpson To Reveal Names of 30 Palin Ex-Lovers?

Don't ask me. I don't know why this a story. I just report it.....really. I don't even understand the story.


WEBWIRE – Wednesday, October 29, 2008

NEW YORK, NY (October 29, 2008) Jessica Simpson, one of America’s most popular singers and actresses, says she will reveal the names of 30 men who are former lovers of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin – and according to sources, one of them is a married television station executive and one is a former police chief.

Simpson has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold and two multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums. Simpson rose to fame when she starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show “Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica.” She has also begun working as an actress, and is the older sister of Ashlee Simpson, an internationally successful pop rock singer and actress.

According to sources, six of the Palin’s lovers are from the state of Hawaii, five are from Idaho, one is from England and the rest are Alaskan. The list of names will be revealed “by the end of the week.”

“There should be no surprises on the list,” says a source.

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Top Republican Concedes McCain Defeat

Zeke Miller
Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Yale Daily News

NEW CANAAN, Conn. — The first ballot has yet to be tallied, but some Republicans are already hammering nails into the McCain-Palin campaign’s coffin.

Locked in a tight congressional race, Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut’s 4th district is the latest in a slew of Republican incumbents, including Sen. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, to concede a near-certain victory to the Obama camp.

“I just don’t see how [McCain] can win,” Shays said in an interview here on Sunday.

Shays, the Connecticut co-chair of McCain’s campaign, said he was disappointed by the standards of McCain’s race, which has increasingly relied on mudslinging.

“He has lost his brand as a maverick; he did not live up to his pledge to fight a clean campaign,” Shays said.

But Shays — who is famous for never running a negative campaign ad, even when behind — said the negativity in the presidential race has nevertheless been flowing both ways. He said that though they have been diluted by positive ads, Sen. Obama’s campaign has empirically run a greater number of negative ones.

“Obama has four times the amount of money McCain has, so for every negative ad he runs he can balance it with an upbeat one,” Shays said. “McCain, on the other hand, has been nearly 100 percent negative.”

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Obama and the Neo-Nazis

by Max Blumenthal--Daily Beast

On October 27, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms announced the arrest of two young neo-Nazis, Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman, who allegedly plotted to assassinate Barack Obama. The strange event suggests that a criminal element within the white supremacist movement is hell-bent on racial violence if Obama becomes president.

On the other hand, key leaders of the movement’s organized front see a potential Obama administration as a rising tide that will lift their sagging boats. They hope to leverage white resentment against Obama’s presidency to generate unprecedented funding, bolster membership rolls, and influence the political mainstream.

According to the ATF, Cowart and Schlesselman planned to suit up in white tuxedoes and top hats and then massacre 88 black people, 14 by decapitation, including Obama among their targets. The numbers 88 and 14 are signifiant in neo-Nazi culture: “H” is the 8th letter of the alphabet; “HH” stands for “Heil Hitler.” Fourteen symbolizes the 14-word pledge of the neo-Nazi group, The Order.

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Tucker Bounds: It's Not Socialism When Palin Said Share The Wealth

By Satyam Khanna Think Progress

The McCain campaign has spent the last weeks of the campaign repeatedly accusing Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) of being an advocate of “socialism.” But the New Yorker’s Philip Gourevitch revealed this week that Palin said earlier this year that her state’s oil tax was a mechanism “so we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”

Today, MSNBC’s David Schuster asked McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds whether Palin’s “share the wealth” plan had socialist undertones. Bounds denied the allegation, claiming Alaska’s sharing of natural resources is “unique” and not at all socialist:

BOUNDS: No, in Alaska its a unique state because all the residents there have a unique share of the natural resources, that the oil companies come in and use, so therefore they share the revenues of the resources. … Its absurd to equate sharing the oil resources that all of these Alaskans have an ownership stake in, and trying to negotiate a deal with the oil companies that use those resources that —

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Bounds is correct in that Alaska is “unique” in having such a vigorous wealth redistribution system. The state offers collective ownership of natural resources, which in turn generates revenue for the state. Using the Permanent Fund, the government distributes the natural resource rents to the general public.

Furthermore, Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share (ACES) programs helps redistribute windfall oil profits, bringing in so much money that the state needs no income or sales tax. This year ACES will provide every Alaskan with a check for an estimated $1,200. Palin boasts about giving oil money “back to the people.”

It’s unclear, however, how a state with such a strong tradition of progressive taxation that benefits “all” Alaskans — as Bounds himself stated — isn’t in any way “socialist.”

Mccain Now Doing Robo-Calls In His Home State

Wow, when things are going bad, they are really going bad. John Mccain is now in a virtual tie with Barack Obama in the state of Arizona. Mccain now has to defend his own state. A poll last night found Obama within two points of the Arizona Senator. The call means Republicans are sinking resources into a state that obviously should have been a complete lock for McCain, with time fast running out. Obama is currently up 25 points over Mccain in Illinois.

Here's the script:

I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because Barack Obama is so dangerously inexperienced, his running mate Joe Biden just said, he invites a major international crisis that he will be unprepared to handle alone.

If Democrats win full control of government, they will want to give civil rights to terrorists and talk unconditionally to dictators and state sponsors of terror. Barack Obama and his Democratic allies lack the experience and judgment to lead America. This call was paid for by the Republican National Committee and authorized by McCain-Palin 2008.

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Quick Jab: At John Mccain

Desperation:

The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope; A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them." -
-- Henry David Thoreau

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Samuel Wurzelbacher Knew What He Was Doing All Along

Anyone still feel sorry for poor Joe the Plumber? That poor guy who just asked a question and just wanted to be left alone. Who could not even get out his front door to go to work.

Now it seems he can't shut up. Every opportunity he has had to get in front of the camera, there he his in front of a mic. Do still think Joe did not know what he was doing? He wanted the attention from the get go.

Politico: is now reporting poor Wurzelbacher is working on a record deal to put out a country album. Poor guy, we just can't leave him alone. A longtime country music fan, Wurzelbacher can sing and “knocks around on guitar” but is not an accomplished musician or songwriter, according to The Press Office’s Jim Della Croce.

“He’s a complicated guy with a very dynamic personality,” Della Croce told Politico. “He can sing and obviously has a strong political point of view.”

The Press Office, a PR firm based in Nashville, Tenn., represents an eclectic array of other clients including country stars John Anderson and the Gatlin Brothers, quirky folk singer Leon Redbone, NASCAR driver Chase Mattioli and animal repellent firm Liquid Fence. The Bobby Roberts Company reps several of the same acts, in addition to Juice Newton, Merle Haggard and Jon Secada.

He has since made an appearance on Fox’s weekend variety show starring former presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee, and this week was showcased by McCain in a series of “Joe the Plumber” events.

The new partnership originated on the set of the “Huckabee” show, where Tippin appeared with his band during the same program.

Hey guys, let's respect this guy's privacy and just leave him alone.

WATCH: From Beginning to Almost End

A look at the presidential campaign run from the very beginning to almost the very end.

Fox Now Regrets Having Andy Martin on Sean Hannity's Show Smearing Obama

In an October 27 article Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz reported that Fox News Channel "now expresses regret for booking [Andy] Martin". Martin has noted among other things, referring to a judge as a "crooked, slimy Jew" and accused African-Americans of being "willing to corrupt and abuse their public offices". On the October 5 edition of Fox News' Hannity's America, Sean Hannity hosted Martin -- identified by Hannity as an "Internet journalist" -- to make what Hannity called "the explosive claim that Sen. Barack Obama's role as a community organizer was a political staging ground perpetuated by the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers.


By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer

On Fox News last week, Sean Hannity said he was tempted to ask Barack Obama: "Where did you buy your cocaine, how much cocaine? How much cocaine did you use? How often did you use it? When did you stop?"

On the same Monday night, Keith Olbermann said on MSNBC that John McCain had a responsibility "to say 'enough' to Republican smears without end" and not be "party to a campaign that devolves into hatred and prejudice and divisiveness."

Are these guys watching the same presidential race, or even living in the same country?

Obama recently questioned whether voters are "seeing two different realities, a Sean Hannity reality and a Keith Olbermann reality." He went on to tell the New York Times Magazine that he is "portrayed 24-7" on Fox News "as a freak." McCain recently joked that Olbermann belongs in a "padded room," and his campaign has denounced MSNBC as a Democratic Party organ.

Hyperbole aside, the Democratic nominee has a point. Prime-time viewers of Fox News and MSNBC get vastly different perspectives on the campaign that sometimes approach mirror images. This goes well beyond the hosts' political views to the booking of guests and the way stories are framed, pumped up and sometimes ignored. In that sense, the programs reflect the increasing polarization of the media world, where columnists, strategists, bloggers and radio talkers have built thriving careers catering to those who already agree with them.

As high-profile hosts adored by fans and derided by critics, Hannity and Olbermann provide a case study in the power of ideological punditry.

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Quick Jab: Do you People Even Know What Socialism Is?

All conservatives jumped on the Mccain's camp claim that Barack Obama has socialist views, but only after he told you so. Before Joe the Plumber, the Obama tax plan explanation was exactly the same, raise taxes on families making 250,000 or more by 3% and lower middle class taxes considerably more than John Mccain's. The one comment "Spread the Wealth" sent republican into attack mode, the problem is we have been spreading the wealth for years.

Every government distributes money from one group of people or organization to another. If you do not want a socialist government then why are you allowing your money to go into social security, welfare, unemployment, medicaid, or even our now famous bailout?

These all are forms of socialism, how come you can't put your own savings away instead of it going into social security? Because the government says so.

So because Barack Obama says he wants to help out folks like you and me who don't earn upper six figures a break for a change, why is that different than the reverse which we have been doing and what Mccain wants to do?

Taken from an Webraydian

Initially capitalism was based on the idea that an individual can own what one desires if one chooses to work for it. Under capitalism, a hard worker can hope to prosper and control one's life in any way one chooses.

But instead of the capitalist ideal, it seems the United States of today is more socialist than ever before. Consider the following elements of current American life.

Hospital care is so high that most individual Americans cannot afford to pay for it. So they must depend on their employer ( Corporate America ).

The price of colleges and other schools are out of range for most individual Americans. To send their kids to college average people depend on things like college insurance, loans, scholarships, and grants. Another words, the education of most Americans depends on the benevolence of some Corporate or Government Entity.

Most Americans can't afford property, they have to take out mortgages with Corporate Banks. If they pay off their mortgage, they still don't own their property. Taxes have become so high, that, in some cases, it costs more in taxes than if the equivalent property was rented. Whenever the government or some other corporation decides, they can condemn a person's property and have that person forcibly evicted. A new Supreme Court decision was handed down this year (2005) to make it easier for local Government Entities to legally confiscate your property for the common good (Kelo vs New London ).

Family Homes are being replaced by condominiums. This scheme allows you to "own" a unit, but you must pay for the upkeep of the common area where your unit is located.( The individual gives up control of the land his unit is on to some corporate entity. The unit cannot exist without the controlling entity. )

Most Americans can't afford to buy cars with cash, so they must take out a loan with a bank or the auto company's finance service. Years ago a person could save up and make a cash purchase of a new car, but today one can't even buy a decent used car without some form of credit.

Furniture is being rented by some people, because they can't afford to buy it. Practically all new furniture stores offer credit, because they realize most people can't afford cash purchases.

There are so many Federal, State, and Municipal laws (and the number grows every day), that just by being alive a person must be violating some law. If a government or corporate agency felt like it, an individual can be arrested at any time.

High tech tracking has made it hard to maintain your privacy. Soon everyone will be connected to the internet through DSL lines, Cable Modems, or other high speed connections. This type of media maintains connections continuously. Currently an individual can turn his computer off and disconnect from the internet even if he has DSL. The day is coming where it will be against the law to turn off a computer, TV, or any other monitoring device. Americans will be forced to listen to the ravings of Corporate Aliens during breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Independent small businesses will soon not exist. Large corporations are either wiping out, merging, or partnering with small business. Even such a basic business as farming is becoming corporate rather than family owned. Soon every business will be either a branch or a partner of a large corporation.

So how socialized is the United States of America? If it continues at this rate it will soon be called the United Socialist States of America (USSA). While dictators like Stalin were trying to force the population of the USSR into submission, the Corporate Aliens launched a quiet invasion, and little by little gained more and more control over the majority of the American people. Unlike the Soviet Union, US socialism is not totally government controlled, but it's a joint effort of both government and corporate entities. What's even worse, is that the entire world is being groomed based on similar principles.

Socialism will always be apart of the world in one way or the other, the thing you have to realize there is a difference between socialism and Marxism.

"My Friends" Mccain's Group Funded Rashid Khalidi

Instead of focusing on issues the Mccain camp keeps trying to smear Obama and tie him to terrorist groups. The most recent is the story bloggers and now Fox News and other media outlets have picked up about Obama attending a farewell dinner for Rashid Khalidi.

Khalidi is a controversial figure, reviled by pro-Israel activists, though not a marginal one. A former professor at the University of Chicago, he's now a Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia, and respected by many in academia. He's been criticized most for saying that Palestinians have a right to resist Israeli occupation and has been described as a former P.L.O. spokesman, a label he has denied.

John McCain's campaign is demanding that the Los Angeles Times release a video of a party for the prominent Palestinian activist that Barack Obama attended in 2003 along with Bill Ayers.

The campaign hadn't previously demanded the video, though conservative bloggers have, and neither other reporters nor McCain's researchers have been able to dig up a copy.

"A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi," said McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb, citing Obama's friendship with Khalidi, who is now a professor at Columbia University.

Mccain however must have forgot about his ties to Khalidi: The Huffington Post Reports--

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14 of this PDF.)

The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."

Of course, there's seemingly nothing objectionable with McCain's organization helping a Palestinian group conduct research in the West Bank or Gaza. But it does suggest that McCain could have some of his own explaining to do as he tries to make hay out of Khalidi's ties to Obama.

Who is Shi Sheng Hao & Why Did He Give Mccain Over 70k In One Day?

By Andrew Zajac, Ray Gibson and Bob Secter | Tribune reporters
October 29, 2008


Big campaign donors typically come with deep pockets and influence. But in Illinois this election cycle, no one not running for office himself has given more to the nation's federal campaigns than Shi Sheng Hao of Roselle, a virtual unknown in business and political circles.

Before September 2007, Hao's name had never appeared in the 15-year-old federal database of campaign contributors. Since then, however, his donations have topped $120,000 — including $70,100 on a single June day to Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Over the same time frame, a network of Hao relatives has kicked in more. The take from this group over the last 13 months exceeds $269,000, a small amount to Democrats but most of it to McCain and the Republican National Committee, records show.

Hao didn't register to vote at the northwest suburban address attached to his donations until October 2007, a month after he wrote his first political check, $25,000 to the RNC.

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Not the First Time For Ashley Todd

Maybe she has a thing for working on campaigns or something, because this is not the first time Todd has gotten in trouble when working on a campaign. This is a post from boingboing.net:

(Ashley Todd Center with sign)

When you're too whacked-out for the Ron Paul campaign, you really do have a problem. Snip from an article about previous victim-hallucination hijinks by Ashley "A Giant Black Man Carved A B Into My Face for Barack" Todd:

In March, Ms. Todd was asked to leave a grass-roots group of Ron Paul supporters in Brazos County, Texas, group leader Dustan Costine said. He said Ms. Todd posed as a supporter of former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and called the local Republican committee seeking information about its campaign strategies.

"She would call the opposing campaign and pretend she was on their campaign to get information," Mr. Costine said last night. "We had to remove her because of the tactics she displayed. After that we had nothing to do with her."

About a month earlier, he said, Ms. Todd sent an e-mail to the Ron Paul group saying her tires were slashed and that campaign paraphernalia had been stolen from her car because she supported Mr. Paul. "She's the type of person who wants to be recognized," Mr. Costine said.

United States to Deal With Terrorists?

By Spencer Ackerman 10/28/08 10:50 AM Washington Independent

We might be on the verge of a major breakthrough with the Taliban. As I’ve been noting, the Karzai government in Afghanistan has been putting out feelers to the Taliban for negotiating an end to its insurgency in exchange for some sort of power-sharing deal.According to David Ignatius of The Washington Post, Taliban leader Mullah Omar has even shown openness to the idea of repudiating Al Qaeda, which, in my opinion, would be a severe blow to the terrorist entity.

So far, though, the U.S. has been on the sidelines, as the Saudis are brokering the Karzai-Taliban talks. At his press conference earlier this month, Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, grudgingly said he’d support the Afghan government if it chose to go down the path of negotiations. But The Wall Street Journal now reports that the U.S. might get involved in those negotiations directly:

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Mccain Adviser: Healthcare Plan Not Good For The Healthy

A startling admission from McCain's top economic adviser to CNN Money

Younger, healthier workers likely wouldn't abandon their company-sponsored plans, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior economic policy adviser.

"Why would they leave?" said Holtz-Eakin. "What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit."

Obama's Team:

“This morning, the McCain campaign’s top economic policy advisor unleashed an October Surprise of straight talk when he finally admitted that the health insurance people currently get from their employer is ‘way better’ than the health care they would get if John McCain becomes President. Independent studies have shown that under John McCain’s health care plan, at least 20 million Americans will lose the insurance they rely on and be forced to buy health care coverage on the individual market that costs more than $12,000 with a tax credit of just $5,000. Senator McCain has been trying to cover this up for months, but his advisor’s brutal honesty today is certainly better late than never, and it should give every American pause about electing a candidate who has proposed such radical and dangerous changes to our health care system,” said Obama-Biden Spokesman Bill Burton.

WATCH: Mccain & Palin First Live Interview Today

Between McCain's points and questions from CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, Palin only got a couple lines in -- easy answers on nuclear energy and oil prices. Bartiromo cut off the interview at the one question that could actually create some of those "rogue" answers: "I'd like to ask you how your partnership is going, and how unified you are, actually!" After that line, Bartiromo tossed to anchors, Mark Haines and Erin Burnett, who were forced to explain that the awkward cut-off was because the McCain camp would only allow five live minutes. Watch:

Anybody Still Think Joe Wurzelbacher Wasn't For Mccain All Along?

PHILIP ELLIOTT
Originally published 01:52 p.m., October 28, 2008

COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) - "Joe the Plumber," the small business aspirant and overnight media sensation, endorsed John McCain's presidential campaign Tuesday and said Barack Obama would make America a socialist nation.

The Ohio plumber, whose real name is Samuel Wurzelbacher, also agreed with a McCain supporter who asked him if he believed "a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel."

"I'll go ahead and agree with you on that," Wurzelbacher told the man, retired Florida lawyer Stan Chapman who was visiting Ohio.

Wurzelbacher was joined at the rally by Rob Portman, a former Ohio congressman and budget director under President Bush, who said he disagreed with Chapman's assessment of Obama's foreign policy.

Wurzelbacher became famous after he was referred to constantly in the final presidential debate. McCain has been portraying the plumber as emblematic of people with concerns about Obama's tax plans.

Wurzelbacher himself has undercut the Republican message about him by revealing he makes far less than $250,000 a year. He actually stands to fare better under Obama's tax plan, but says Obama's plan would hurt him if he were able to buy the plumbing business from his current employer.

Portman said an Obama administration would mean increased taxes on Social Security, dividends and small businesses.

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In Defense of Elitism

by Tucker Carlson

Wouldn't it be nice if we stopped
pretending that anyone can run the government?


Joe the Plumber announced last week that he is considering a run for congress. Joe has never worked in government, but he imagines he'd make a pretty good legislator. “I'd be up for it,” he told radio host Laura Ingraham.

That assumption does not go both ways. There aren't many members of Congress who imagine they could be plumbers, and for good reason. Plumbing is complicated. Screw it up and there are consequences: sewage backups, ruined carpets, flooding.

You've got to know things to be a plumber, by law. We don't trust anything that important to amateurs.

No one’s suggesting vocational schools for political candidates, or at least I'm not. But it would be nice if we stopped pretending that anyone can run the government. Anyone can't, as successive administrations have learned the hard way.

Bill Clinton arrived in Washington the way they all do, the way Bush did, the way Obama likely will: flush with the righteousness of victory, contemptuous of the old players and the old ways. “We've come to change Washington, not have it change us….” Blah, blah, blah. The line never changes.

Neither does the result. Within weeks, Clinton and his brilliant young reformers had stepped in it. Just four months into his first term, Clinton acknowledged defeat and hired—of all people—David Gergen, who was not simply a longtime advisor to the other party, but the living embodiment of inside-the-Beltway thinking, a man whose every word is 200-proof distilled Georgetown cocktail party conversation.

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Campaign Run One More Reason Why Mccain Can't Lead

I was shaking in my boots the whole way up until august 29th, that was the day John Mccain picked Sarah Palin. The media was stunned along with most conservatives, and left democrats with a bit of caution.

Who was this woman? Why did Mccain pick her? I along with other democrats began to think this will take all those Hilary supporters away from the Dem ticket. Immediately the media went into dig mode, searching for everything Sarah Palin.

Once the background on Palin came back, it became even more confusing on why he picked her. She helped Mccain rise in the polls early on, but could it continue? After her first interview the criticism piled on and became impossible for her to overcome.

The reality is that she is a very talented woman with a great future in politics, but it is apparent she jumped too many steps without learning to walk first.

No matter what John Mccain says, Sarah Palin was not his first pick. It was either Joe Lieberman for the democratic votes or Mitt Romney for experience on the economy.
Imagine a Mccain/Romney ticket. Foreign policy experience and experience on the economy together. It in my opinion would have been an unbeatable duo. It also for him would have been the best choice for the country on the GOP side.

Instead Mccain allowed advisers who's only goal was to win, and in their minds putting a young attractive republican woman on the ticket was the key. Mccain did not make the decision to pick her, his advisers did. The old Mccain would have not allowed this, but the older Mccain knows this is his last shot at the White House and let his desperation take over his better judgment in selecting Palin.

Then there is his staff. How could Mccain allow so many blunders over and over. The point of attack was wrong from the beginning. From the suspension of the campaign to the constant changing of the issues, Mccain looked more like a advertising exec trying to win over a client with different pitches than a man running for president. He has floundered back and forth with one attack to the next. It is now apparent that Mccain is more of a puppet than a leader, following the advice of his staff without making his own decisions.

The maverick can no longer blame the media for his poor judgment of attack. He can't point fingers at Obama for making him seem disgruntled or angry. He can't blame George Bush for failed policies when he himself supported the man. At this stage in his career John Mccain has proven he can be a maverick, but is far from a leader.