And when can we expect to hear from GOP Senators Chuck Hagel (NE) and Richard Lugar (IN), rumored to be Barack Obama and Joe Biden fans? Are they prepared to make the break from their party’s flawed nominees? Are any members of the Senate GOP caucus ready to speak out about John McCain’s unfitness for the Presidency?

Never. Their unity is amazing.

Yes! Attack! Attack! Attack! Action this day! A Kerry-esque 30 days of silence will doom this campaign and extinguish hope. Attacks on Palin are necessary and useful to highlight McCain’s reckless, impulsive judgment, in Frank Rich’s words – McCain’s incomplete vetting of Palin and the Iraq War. Attack!

And I saw him fight against the new GI Bill of Rights until it became politically untenable for him to do so.

She forgot the punch line: “And then he took credit for backing the bill.”

You’re right, Teddy, the Dems have to hit McSame hard. Well said.

Short Ride said that the D Party no longer held to the same principles he did. It was about principles, not party loyalty. To the Rethugs the only principle is loyalty to the Party. Sorta like the Nazis and Stalinists.

((( Teddy )))

Loved Boxer’s speech, Biden is going to be dripping with sarcasm on MTP … the Dems seem to have gotten Jon & Stephen’s writers for their speeches …

Mornin’ Teddy :D

just want to lay a marker down:
in the event the media weasels actually push back enough on keeping Palin under wraps – the interviewer will be Mike Allen

More of this please, from all of you in the Senate Democratic caucus.

Amen. But how many Senators will be willing to break with the tradition of *not* attacking fellow Senators, their “good friends”?

Morning Teddy.

Go box him, Boxer

On another note … Canada Election set for Oct. 14th

Harper and the Neocons want to have this over with before ObamaMania spreads north of the 49th.

The Dems have to help the spineless Liberals win this one if we’re going to turn back the NeoCon tide …

McShame, claims now to have been for something greater than himself. I guess he was thinking about something greater than himself when he was running around with Cindy Lou, accepting a house from Cindy’s ex=con father-inlaw so he could run for congress; something greater than himself while taking all expense paid vacations from Chas Keating; something greater than himself when he got in bed w/fundies; something greater than himself when he decided that he couldn’t tell the truth and he acheive his lifes ambition of outranking his dad.

Objectively, He seems just a western version of Specter. Bluster about moderation and independence while being a passive, willing conduit for a horde of lobbyists. He, at the core is a dim intellect, incurious, and over his head at the level is legacy afforded him. Sound familiar?

I hope Joe Biden goes on the attack mode against Sarah Palin’s views:

*Pregnancies resulting from rape/incest are okay in Sarah’s book

*She wants Creationism taught in schools

*She believes in abstinence and thinks sex-education is for morons, but yet, has a 17 year old pregnant (and could be on her 2nd pregnancy….I am one that is not believing the photos of Sarah looking “huge” in April, because just last night I saw the end of the video of her wearing the black outfit with the multi-colored scarf and she was NOT HUGE…just the photoshopped photos of her online show her huge)

*She says she for going after corruption/earmarks etc., but is a huge supporter of Sen. Ted Stevens (from 2003 -2005 she was one of 3 leaders of Steven’s 527 Group, “Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc”)

*She says she’s against wearing fur but wears it all the time

*She says she has executive experience, but so far, that experience has been in abusing her power and lying & deceiving her ass off!

Just a few things ole Joe can talk about on the campaign trail. ;-)

something greater than himself when he decided that he couldn’t tell the truth and he acheive his lifes ambition of outranking his dad.

sounds familiar,
haven’t we suffered it enough?

And when can we expect to hear from GOP Senators Chuck Hagel (NE) and Richard Lugar (IN), rumored to be Barack Obama and Joe Biden fans?

My guess (and hope), at least with regard to Lugar, is that he’ll come out in favor of Obama/Biden when Obama announces that Lugar will be his SecState.

I’ve been out here all by my lonesome on this one, but I believe that now is the time, after the conventions but before the debates and election, to follow up with the promise of putting one or two R’s in his Cabinet.

Do it now – name Lugar, then watch the McLame campaign squirm as it attempts to continue its charge of Obama having flawed judgment.

The Republicans have declared this country as a ‘Republic’..democracy has been downsized. ‘The People’ need to FIGHT for themselves since elected officials do not really represent us. We are one and mostly uneducated and poor however the one thing we could use to defend this country and ourselves is ‘economic boycott’. Fight the McFighter or we die!

((((( Kay )))))

So I guess Joe Lieberman holds to the principle that it’s not only OK to be disloyal to someone he mentored when he first got to the Senate, but also to attack him and tell outright lies about him? If nothing else, Joe, as a supposed religious person, I’d like to remind you about that pesky part of The Ten Commandments about ‘telling falsehoods’.

What?!?!?

Boxer didn’t preface her remarks with a story of McCain’s bravery? Decency? POW victim status?

Is that allowed?

Is Powell going to take a side and whatever happened to Ron Reagun?

Biden says on MTP that he voted *against* the first three versions of the (awful) Bankruptcy Bill.

fair (as in mediocre) argument….

It still needs work.

If Joe has trouble with those Ten Commandments, I’m sure Rep Westmoreland (GA)could help him out.

(I know it’s a dated video – but I stumbled across it last night, and it doesn’t get stale with age!)

Good Morning All
Here’s a couple of random thoughts from my crazy brain today.
* McCain & Palin = Beauty and the Beast
* Regarding the where is Sarah question – maybe they are all preparing for a wedding. You know, making mooseburgers and tang for the guests.
* I’d rather have a lover than a fighter in the WH
(and, a special hello to Petrocelli. Dude!)

Uh-oh. He’s not getting into “I voted against it before I voted for it” territory, is he?

Biden defending freedom of choice, alludes to fascism.

Thank you, Teddy.

Y’all all digg now ya hear?

please?

Short Ride’s religion is Joeism. Much in the same way Stalin was a Joeist.

Is Powell going to take a side and whatever happened to Ron Reagun?

I *believe* that Powell has said that he will not be coming out, publicly, in support of either ticket.

Young(er) Ronnie – I dunno. Saw him give a very snarky “New Rule” on Bill Maher’s show Friday night – filmed at the R convention.

OT – Brokaw asks Biden about JoeLie – Biden laughs.

Uh-oh. He’s not getting into “I voted against it before I voted for it” territory, is he?

hmm, now that you mention it…..

I wish someone would ask the GOP pundits/bloviators this question. If McCain’s POW experience is a compelling reason to vote for him, why did you support George Bush over him in 2000?

This the oh so Christian dood who couldn’t recite the 10 Biggies to Colbert?

Powell said that he would come out after the conventions. Time will tell whether or not he will. IMO, I don’t think he’ll support McCain because he would have already done so.

MTP
Brokaw notes he did invite Palin

as my neighbor said “ouch”

that is a very good question.

Mornin, demi

mooseburgers and tang for the guests.

As Suzanne so aptly suggested last night, Moose Turd Pie.

Hagan v. dole in NC -

http://www.charlotteobserver.c…..77392.html

What a great question. Glad you thought of it and it needs an answer.

dugg

Boy-o-boy, is there gonna be hurt when Johnny boy looks in the mirror for the first time and sees nothing there. The only thing John ever did on his own in his entire life, was done in a cage in Hanoi. Since then, his accomplishments reflect the desert where he chooses to live, a vast empty space where living things do not thrive. Yes, John McCain claims to be for something greater than himself, most zeros do.

Had the misfortune of actually watching Face the Scheiffer last week and was floored that the Dem convention, and Obama’s big speech in particular, were not mentioned for a single second. Just three days after Obama’s historic speech, didn’t even happen according to ‘ol Bob. Treated to McInsane lackeys and David Brooks for the whole show.

Now Bob has McInsane on by himself? Dude contradicts himself in the same sentence. Complete ignoring of Dem convention last week, and entire show highlighting Repub convention the next week. I expect Bob, the king of the cocktail weenie circuit, to ask set-up questions that McInsane will know in advance so he can spew talking points. It’s all coordinated.

We’re up against a massive cabal that is holding on by a thread, and they’re gonna pull out all the stops, with the Conglomerate Media providing cover, over the next couple of months to hold onto power. Fired up!

I am scared shitless these two will be elected ,our country is in deep shit after the last 8 years of Bush.
we sure won’t survive 4 more years of the same

How do we make voters see these two for what they are!

Dear Lordy, that is funny. Did you hear me laughing all the way across this great land of ours? I missed it last night, so thanks for sharing. That guy Is Humorous.

Here’s something encouraging:

Barack Obama made his first direct criticism of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Saturday, saying she pretends to oppose spending earmarks when she actually has embraced them. …

“She’s a skillful politician. But, you know, when you’ve been taking all these earmarks when it’s convenient, and then suddenly you’re the champion anti-earmark person, that’s not change. Come on! I mean, words mean something, you can’t just make stuff up.”

Me, too. We need the help of the MSM and I’m not sure we are going to get the help, we need. The repubs will tell a lie and it is repeated over and over again on the tv. Sad but true.

Utah is, to us, one of the elders he learned from. Savvy ol’ dude, he was.

So the MSM is flogging the old “The American people prefer divided Government” line now, I see. The roundtable on snuffleupagus used it about five times.

We need the help of the MSM and I’m not sure we are going to get the help, we need.

Yeah, they were all over the jackbooted thuggery occurring just minutes from them at the R convention, huh?

The repubs will tell a lie and it is repeated over and over again on the tv.

You seem to be suggesting that the networks should maybe do some independent research? BWAHAHAHAHA !!

Obama is not the answer. He is not addressing any of the truly serious issues: destruction of the Constitution, illegal spying (which he voted to expand), impeachment, or an end to the GWOT.

O’bummer has apparently already been anointed by the Powers That Be as the next POTUS, but that won’t help us. They spotted his potential as a state legislator in Illinois (1997-2004), scooped him up and virtually deposited him in the US Senate in 2005.

How was this accomplished? His Republican opponent was destroyed by an unprecedented action engineered by the Chicago media and the Obama campaign.

Obama’s opponent, Jack Ryan, was forced to withdraw from the Senate race three months after winning the Republican primary, after The Chicago Tribune sued to have sealed custody documents released. Against the wishes of both Ryan and his ex-wife Jeri, the legal files pertaining to Jack and Jeri’s custody battle over their young child were made public on June 22, 2004.

In the documents, Jeri alleged that Jack took her to sex clubs in numerous cities so they could have sex in public, and that the marriage ended when she refused to cooperate. These allegations ended his Senate campaign and his political ambitions.

The New York Times stated:

The decision to release these files generated much controversy because it went against both parents’ direct request, and because it reversed the earlier decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the child.

Jim Oberweis, Ryan’s defeated GOP opponent, commented that “these are allegations made in a divorce hearing, and we all know people tend to say things that aren’t necessarily true in divorce proceedings when there is money involved and custody of children involved.”

Jack Ryan’s campaign ended a week after the custody documents were released, and he formally withdrew from the Senate campaign on July 29, 2004.

With just 86 days to go before the election, Alan Keyes, who had never lived in Illinois, was drafted to replace Ryan in the contest against Obama. Keyes stated that he felt a moral obligation to run after being asked to by the state GOP, saying:

You are doing what you believe to be required by your respect for God’s will, and I think that that’s what I’m doing in Illinois.

Obama easily defeated Keyes, winning 70% of the vote vs. Keyes 27%.

Keyes has since left the Republican party, tried and failed to win a presidential nomination through the Constitution Party, and has formed a new third party, America’s Independent Party.

After just two years in the U.S. Senate, Obama announced his candidacy for president in early 2007. Given highly favorable treatment by the CIA controlled mainstream media, indeed, hailed as “the Messiah,” he triumphed over longtime political insider, NY Senator and former first wife Hillary Clinton and, all obstacles cleared from his path, is on the road to the White House.

Obama promises to continue the programs and policies of the Bush administration. He voted for the FISA bill, with increased wiretapping and immunity for the telecommunications companies that illegally violated the privacy of Americans. He has pledged his undying allegiance to Israel, saying in a speech in June 2008:

I will bring to the White House an unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security. That starts with ensuring Israel’s qualitative military advantage.

Obama fully supports the concept of a “Global War on Terror” and has not questioned the numerous contradictions in the official 9/11 story. He says “that military force should not be ruled out” against Iran. He has not called for a restoration of the Constitution, or an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. He has not criticized the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act or NSPD 51. He speaks of change and hope, yet has no substantive plans for confronting the dire crises we face. He stands ready to profit from the vast expansion of Executive power achieved under President GW Bush.

http://www.sheilacasey.com

Gee, Somebody received their talking points from the repubs this morning. I’m shocked!!!

Pasture Pastry. (Gosh, I love words.)
And, thanks for the french toast inspiration below. Mine’s on now.
Suzanne sure is a wiz at finding stuff. How does she do that?

McShame claims to be for something greater than himself yet all he can talk about is his time in the Hanoi Hilton. Is that story something greater than himself?

why is it that voters want to vote for the everyman sort of candidate?
I’d rather see the smartest person in the room be the Prez,I’d like to believe the person running the country is alot smarter than I am

and it’s early, too. they should get better through the day. :)

So Sheila, are you voting for McCain?

We do have two real fighters for change in this election—their names are Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

Joe Biden has been fighting for change in the US Senate for more than 20 years … he was fighting for regime change in Iraq since 1998, at least.

With a little help from Bush/Cheney, you know, the guys he’s supposed to be fighting against, he finally got what he wanted

Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), the ranking Democrat on the foreign relations panel, also expressed support for the use of force, saying failure to do so “will only embolden Saddam to take an increasingly more aggressive posture on production of weapons . . . and threaten his neighbors again.” Biden also urged a sustained effort to “dethrone him over the long haul.“

But as Obama himself says, the Surge has worked “beyond our wildest dreams”, so I guess thinks are working out just great, just as Biden knew they would.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/…..refer=home

The millions of dead, wounded and displaced Iraqis won’t get a chance to vote for Obama, thats why we have to have to have to, so there.

Here’s Utah on Democracy Now!

Is that story something greater than himself?

No, that’s the sum total of “Himself”.

CIA controlled mainstream media

Always a tell, the wingnut view of the media.

McCain has been running a campaign telling the American public that he will protect them. He’s running a campaign on fear. What he forgets to mention is that we will have four more years of war. IMO, that is why the diplomatic side of the repubs haven’t jumped on the McCain campaign.
I am fearful also. My fear has to do with a broken health care system, a economy on the edge and destroying the country that I love.

and then some

I still think Obamas the best choice we’ve got
If he were to speak out as you suggested it would only be used against him ,and result in the end of his candidacy
In this political climate one has to pick and choose their battles very carefully

I wouldnt write Omama off yet if I were you!

Do not feed.

This whole Sarah Failin thing is especially funny, since Repubs are willing to put her in the Exec Branch after hearing one speech. Literally knowing nothing about her except her 17 year old daughter is pregnant. They still try to claim Obama is all about “one speech,” despite his truly impressive life accomplishments, amazing record of getting things done in just two years in the Senate, and leading perhaps one of the best national campaigns in history.

So strange how easily the Repub mindset can project their own weaknesses on others. Disturbing, really.

Saving that link so I can have a laugh after MTP…Joe Biden looks tired. He’s being very calm and restrained. He’s coming across is reasonable. Could be a smart move. Let Palin be the Pit Bull for a while. Joe’s got different forums to play the attack. I don’t think MTP would be the place to do that.

i sent Barbara this the day she was the ONLY senator to stand up in the Senate for the American people against Booosh/Darth

http://farm4.static.flickr.com…..60.jpg?v=0

As has been pointed out her many times and linked to, Obama was up 20% before any of that Jack Ryan sex club stuff was known. He was going to win that race either way.

hammer hits nail …precisely on the head…badda bing!

After 1 1/2 yrs as governor Palin is said to have executive experience. GWB was governor of Texas for 6 yrs – how did that turn out

Oooooh. Joe B. is telling Tom how it really is. Tell it Joe!

I watched Biden and Obama on the Sunday talk shows. Both did fine jobs. However, Obama inadvertantly provided a clip which will be You-Tubed and the shitheads will spread as evidence that he’s a Muslim.

He was trying to explain that he didn’t think McCain had been forthright and prompt enough in condemning the claims that he is a Muslim. In doing so, he said, “my Muslim faith” (when he would have more correctly said, “the false claims that I am a Muslim”). Stephanopoulis interrupted, saying “your Christian faith,” and Obama stopped his train of thought and said, “my Christian faith.” He then went back and explained that he had been referring to the false claims that he is a Muslim. The You Tube clips will show him saying, “…my Muslim faith…”, with Stepanoupolis eterrupting to say, “…your Christian faith…”, and Obama “correcting” to say, “…my Christian faith.”

So, brace yourselves.

Biden’s hitting it outta the park on Iraq. Brokaw gives up and wants to move to another topic. Excellent.

CALLING THEM THE LIARS THEY ARE

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

rinse
lather
repeat
on
infinitum
period.

Yessie. And then, Joe hits him again. With facts. And, Tom seems to be backing down, doesn’t he?

DITTO!!!!!!!!!

OT WTF George Stephonolopuos (s) is a freaking McCain plant… just watching Obama’s interview and I have never seen anything like the questions .. he is using ugly RNC talking points.

on CNN right now, Tim Kaine is demolishing Jon Kyl. It’s unexpected and fun.

JHC – could George Stephy be more of a blatant attack-dog for the R’s?

earlier, George asked Obama about his tax increases. Obama -> “No, tax CUTS for 95% of Americans.”

George – “So even if this country turns out to be in a recession, you’re going to stick with your tax *increases*?”

oh, fer chrissakes…

jayt – “Earth to George, Earth calling George…”

George – “Sorry, I don’t accept long distance collect calls….”

JOHN MCSAME

fighting his wars from 20 thousand feet high

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U39zae4IxUA

that 5,000,000.00 $$$ paycheck would be hard to come by if he didnt LIE HIS ASS OFF

biggest LIARS = BIGGEST PAYCHECKS

RUSHBO gets 40,000,000.00 PER YEAR folks…per year

I agree. I think Stepan… should now just be considered completely in the Fox News category. Although we are, of course, non violent, I really wanted Obama to just slap him across the mouth.

I suppose you’ll be frustrated for the next 8 years then, Sheila. Better get on the anti-depressants now.

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After hearing my boyfriends George Will sighting at an airport gate ….. changed my opinion of the guy……. Elmore was waiting for a flight….. and he sees a guy on his hands and knees on the floor with a newspaper and scissors cutting out articles while he scooted across the floor, his shoe soles were worn, pant cuffs thread bare, dandruff sprinkles flying around and when the guy stood up…… Elmore recognized him….

Oh man, I’ve never seen Biden so prepared. Totally in control. His talks in the last few days have been incredible and he really seems to be hitting stride right now.

As long as his doesn’t have some sort of gaffe in the debate, he’s going to dominate and end the Sarah Failin “fairy tale.” Wow.

Thanks for the link very funny,I’ve saved it for future reference

The press needs to get of the Palin thing and start focusing on the real issues

Obama needs to PRACTICE ,with these kind of scum sukkers before he goes on air….find a WELL INFORMED actor…or such Maher?

Although we are, of course, non violent, I really wanted Obama to just slap him across the mouth.

well, George *was* trying to pick a fight…. *g*

George: So you’re going to stick with your tax increases?

Obama: For you and all the people who make as much money a year as you do, yes. For the people who do the cleaning up here and the secretarys, the workers, no, George, they’re the ones getting the tax cuts. It’s high time you paid your fair share for the mess you’ve cheerled for for the last 8 years.

I’d like to see the Democrats go after the individuals handling McCain, one at a time–lots of dirt there, and lots of linkage to Rove. This may not win votes, but it won’t cost any either, and, if artfully done, may provoke some interesting outcries.

Artfully done–as in the drawing and quartering of Charles Black at high noon in Times Square, under the very windows of Fox News.

Or are the Democrats too compromised to do this?

good!

Fox = ABC

Murdoch = Disney

Limbo =pill freak with a microphone
Now we know his opinions are the product of a drug addled brain

we need to ignore her soon,except to say…1) SHE IS UNQUALIFIED,2) she proves this by HIDING from the press and ANY scrutiny

why is the PIT BULL hiding?

Well, like most of us, he sincerely tries to think through and explain complicated topics. In doing so, we are likely to include three or four words in sequence which can be clipped out of context and used to ruin us. The only answer, I guess, is to become as deceitful and contemptuous of the voting public as the other side is. Sarah Palin seems a natural for it.

Did I see Limpballs stroking himself when talking about Miss Alaska runner-up? I swear I did!

those pills allow him to lie with impunity…it wil be his future excuse…watch

I’m looking forward to the VP debates. Miss Congeniality v. Knowledgeable Statesman.

you so smart, ya know

The best tying of George and John together has been by The Daily Show and Jon Stewart:
C&L

America doesn’t need a pitbull …. it needs a Shepard…… A Shepard watches over their flock, keeps them safe, helps them and protects them.

We have been living with pitbulls for the last 8 years….. no more putbulls…

Damn, now Biden handling the abortion issue as well as I’ve ever seen someone handle it, even though I don’t agree with some of it.

Brokaw seems shell shocked. The talking points are being destroyed.

His Lieberman defense is a drag (although might play well with “independents” since he doesn’t seem hyper-partisan…blah…), but Biden turns the question right into an attack on McInsane/Failin. Very nice.

Yes, Biden came off very well. Like the way he immediately challenged falsehoods, not giving them a chance to take root.

the Real McCrazies

http://www.bartcop.com/palin-hanger.jpg

As long as she appears in the photoshopped miniskirt outfit.

Oh agree. Can’t wait for that debate. Pretty is as pretty does. Joe Biden knows what he’s talking about. Here’s hoping people get over the shallowness of the Beauty Queen’s headlines. They have to. She’s Du Jour and nothing more. (I pray.)

Out here on the best coast, John McCain’t is just now sitting down with Bob Schieffer and George S+ too many letters is still in the future.

Jeez, that ex-POW talks a good game with Bob, too bad everything he says his a lie. If he was telling the truth I’d vote for him. Oops, I almost forgot, I’ve been dis-enfranchised by the Rovian machinations of the Bush Administration. How did they know I wouldn’t be voting Repulsican, after all, I am originally from San Diego where it was virtually illegal to be a Democrat when I was growing up?

i was just saying that the characterization of her as apit bull with lipstick is just another BIG LIE… and i love all breeds of dogs…DOGS surpass the human species in many ways IMO

why is the PIT BULL hiding?

Oh, I think we all know the answer to that one. My question is why the networks will give her air-time after, and as she continues, to flip ‘em the bird, telling them “fuck off, and by the way, you can’t talk to me”.

She slithers out from behind McLame’s skirts, fires some sucker-punches and lies, then jumps right back into protective custody.

And they *still* give air-time to her.

Ball-less motherfuckers.

As long as the MSM is giving her wet, sloppy kisses, we have to continue our attack, Attack, ATTACK! When has holding back ever helped us? That’s right, never.

Jeezus…the ghost of Rob Serling has taken over the world. Tom “Suck This” Friedman coming on to talk about greening the economy, and commercials with T. Booger Pickit acting like Aldo Leopold. Sheesh!

What miniskirt outfit?

Oh agree. Can’t wait for that debate.

You’re assuming that she will be *asked* substantive questions. I’m not.

And to think that she won’t walk in the door pre-loaded with talking points and canned attacks would be a mistake too, imo.

No, both major parties are corrupt. The elections are essentially meaningless, since they are 100% rigged. But I am voting for Cynthia McKinney, just in case my vote does get counted.

ia agree…..attack her with these

http://www.partydomain.co.uk/d…..-BA477.jpg

long velvet gloves
we need to be vey clever

…………………………………………………..we are

Both of you may want to go back to yesterday’s Book Salon on Shock Jocks. There was a great discussion about the Limbaughmouths…mind sets, communication and what and why Americans listen to that crap.

if Sarah doesn’t sit down with the press by then, even the likes of Gwen Ifill will be miffed enough that it will show in the questioning, imo.

practice with your wife JOE
over and over and over
VELVET GLOVES!!!!

Did you catch John McSnooze start to say “Obama’s time in the Senate” and then he stopped himself to go back and say “SHORT time in the Senate?”

Cheney’s trip to Georgia and Europe ties Cheney & McShame together at the hip. Europe is not buying the BS. Why is it in our national interest to stand for Georgia and go toe to toe w/ Russia over the issues of small country on the border between europe and russia when neither europe nor russia see it our way?

Actually Palin said she doesn’t wear fur (because wearing it in Vogue would make look so elite. Of course she wears it all the time around supporters.

We all know that Sarah Barracuda is a nepotistic despot who fires and exiles anyone that might give her contrary advice or opinions. She insisted that City workers sign “resignation letters” that she could pull out of her desk at any time she was displeased with the worker. Thus the worker would not only have no ability to challenge the firing, but also not receive any termination benefits.

And her Cheneyesque approach to delisting the polar bear from being an endangered species…so that she could turn around and say “Hey! Drilling in ANWR won’t hurt any endangered species” is a tale that is legendary in the Environmentalist community.

Global Warming Denialist Palin Silences Internal Critics on Endangered Species

It’s all a portent of how she’ll simply be a Cheney 2.0…

and McCain will be sitting pretty, as he can be as corrupt as he wants…making “no tax forms” Cindy a very much richer gal…by simply waving Sarah out there and saying “Go Ahead, Impeach ME! Neener, Neener, Neener!”

Holy shit, “Suck This” Friedman cannot be anymore of a liar and panderer. Giving me the chills that someone can be this deceptive. Scary.

Being reminded why I don’t normally watch the Sunday shows. What a waste of time.

Queen Pit Bull will not conduct interviews with the press until proper deference is shown by those lowlifes.

Fall in line, people.

What the MSM does is to badmouth the debating ability of the Republicans and inflate that of the Democrat and then declare over and over that the Republican was the winner because they didn’t visibly drool (although I think Bush actually drooled in his “it’s hard work” debate with Kerry.”

Biden himself plays down expectations and Obama doesn’t argue with the judgment during the primaries that he’s a great speaker but not-so-good a debator. The rest of us probably ought to just whisper among ourselves about the hopes for the debates.

poor dear tries to remember his talking points,but i dont know if they allow him index cards like he takes on the road…….ARICEPTs your friend Johnny boy

oh honey……..DID YOU REALLY THINK BIGGUS DICKUS was gonna leave after consolidating all that power

John McCain: I’ve crashed planes in more places than most people have ever even been and that’s why I should be Preznit!”

John McCain the Reform candidate – he wants to go back and redo everything he been doing to America for the last thirty years. Where’s Sarah John?

BTW, were you ever by chance a POW?

she’s not wearing any clothes!!!

John McCain says come and work in my administration, I’ll pay you ONE DOLLAR a year. Don’t worry though my lobbyist buddies will provide you with MONEY!

f Sarah doesn’t sit down with the press by then, even the likes of Gwen Ifill will be miffed enough that it will show in the questioning, imo.

You mean you think that there’s a chance that after Mrs. Palin spews forth some canned crap, there might be a (*gasp*) follow-up question?

Follow-up questions are quite obviously a highly partisan, vicious and evil Democratic ploy to attack Mrs. Palin’s poor baby Trig.

Brokaw brings up NIMBYs to Tommy boy. Friedman got excited for a brief second since he thought Brokaw said NAMBLA instead.

Chances are anyone interested has already seen this but just in case. The Mommy and Me Home Pregnancy Test Kit from Real Time With Bill Maher.

Sarah Palin and Glen Beck: Alaska was made a state so we could rape it. The extreme environmentalists won’t let us TAP it. Tap Tap Tap, If I get Tapped, I will tap.

drill baby drill

Of course we wouldn’t want to spread any rumors, but there sure is a lot of stuff being churned out of the Alaska rumor mills. Kinda like this one:
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2…../#comments
Palin on Obama clinching the nom: “Sambo beat the bitch.”

It would be irresponsible to pass this around.

Okay, we’re all very impressed. Of course your voting for Cynthia McKinney, Thomas E. Dewey, or Aaron Burr will only have the most minute effect on anything if you broadcast the act by all possible means. All of us on FDL are now aware of it and will give it a lot of thought. Thank you.

We all know that Sarah Barracuda is a nepotistic despot

She kinda reminds me of Cruella DeVille.

I went to a talk by Rod Serling when I was in high school. Very short fellow but very sharp. I bet he would do a Twilight Zone episode of the last 7 years.

Also Leopold, the Rethugs would call him anti-American.

Global Warming Denialist Palin…

Umm, she’s in Alaska and hasn’t noticed anything, say, a little *different* lately?

Says something about her foreign policy expertise too. If she doesn’t notice the ice melting in her own state, has she ever even noticed that Russia exists?

No. I’m not making that “assumption”.
We’ll have to see what the debate rules are.
I don’t see Joe Biden letting her get away with pretty talking points. He knows how to debate affectively.
And, stop being so nice to me. :)

You mean you think that there’s a chance that after Mrs. Palin spews forth some canned crap

heh, canned salmon

You mean you think that there’s a chance that after Mrs. Palin spews forth some canned crap

heh, canned salmon

oops, reply to you jayt

Yeah, and a month is plenty of time for her minders to get her to that point. :-(

Hee hee hee.

This one would work better:
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/09/06/sambo/

And here’s where all that innuendo came from:
http://www.laprogressive.com/2…..%E2%80%9D/

But again, we wouldn’t want to spread any of these vicious rumors around. Sorta like those John Edwards rumors from last year.

Ever heard of the piece that Carl Bernstein wrote for Rolling Stone back in the 70s?

After leaving The Washington Post in 1977, Carl Bernstein spent six months looking at the relationship of the CIA and the press during the Cold War years. His 25,000-word cover story, published in Rolling Stone on October 20, 1977, is reprinted below.

THE CIA AND THE MEDIA

How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up

BY CARL BERNSTEIN

In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America’s leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA.

Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty‑five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters.

Or this quote from CIA director William Colby:

The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

Try reading about Operation Mockingbird.

Surely by now you know the MSM is not on your side? Did they tell you the truth about the Iraq war as the US contemplated its attack?

These would be profitable lines of research for anyone still worshipping at the altar of the Democratic Party.

Things greater than John McCain? That’s damn near everything and anything, isn’t it?

The MSM will pretend Palin never left. They will spoon feed her. She will regurgitate on demand.

Need pictures of Sarah Ted Nugent Palin wearing fur disseminated on the internets.

Oh wow. He’s one of my all-time favorites. That musta been a treat.

REMEMBER THIS ..Aug 21 2005

Washington – Two of the leading contenders to contest the next United States presidential election have delivered an urgent wake-up call to the US over global warming.

They said the evidence of climate change had become too stark to ignore and that human activity was a major cause of the problem.

On a high-profile and bipartisan fact-finding tour in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory, senators John McCain, a Republican, and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic senator for New York, were confronted by melting permafrost and shrinking glaciers. They heard first-hand from Inuit people how rising sea levels were irrevocably altering their lives.

“The question is how much damage will be done before we start taking concrete action,” McCain said at a press conference in Anchorage. “Go up to places like we just came from. It’s a little scary.”

Clinton added: “I don’t think there’s any doubt left for anybody who actually looks at the science. There are still some hold-outs, but they’re fighting a losing battle. The science is overwhelming.”

The comments from the two senators directly challenge President George Bush’s reluctance to legislate to reduce the level of America’s carbon emissions. While both senators have previously talked of the need to tackle global warming, this week’s clarion call was perhaps the clearest and most urgent to date.

It also raises the prospect that climate change and other environmental issues could be a factor in the presidential contest in 2008 if Clinton and McCain contest the race.

At the moment both are widely expected to do so. Clinton and McCain, who represents Arizona, are among the leading – and certainly the most popular – likely contenders.

Today is my 45th wedding anniversary. I have many things to be happy about, not the least of which is that my bride has never been called “barracuda” or thought of herself as a pit bull.

One of the candidates for state office in Eastern Washington (all were Rupubs) used that line on me concerning the Gregoire/Rossi race. I suspect it is on their talking points fax. This candidate is running on having real business experience as opposed to working for a legislator. I countered with Dino Rossi doesn’t have any experience either. It ended the conversation. Regardless, I’ll be voting for her and think she will actually do a good job, much better than her opponent.

From upthread but I don’t know anything about the site. Scroll down at bit. You can’t miss it.

http://www.sheilacasey.com/

McDoodle

They said the evidence of climate change had become too stark to ignore and that human activity was a major cause of the problem.

On a high-profile and bipartisan fact-finding tour in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory, senators John McCain, a Republican, and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic senator for New York, were confronted by melting permafrost and shrinking glaciers. They heard first-hand from Inuit people how rising sea levels were irrevocably altering their lives.

“The question is how much damage will be done before we start taking concrete action,” McCain said at a press conference in Anchorage. “Go up to places like we just came from. It’s a little scary.”

Also Leopold, the Rethugs would call him anti-American.

Modern day Repubs would call George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson anti-American also.

{{{{{{{much continued happiness}}}}}}}}

Congratulations. The best is yet to come, no doubt.

OT but it shows the sentiment of the country via democraticunderground

http://www.americablog.com/200…..was…

I have never posted on a liberal blog before – if this is too long or inappropriate – please tell me – I am not sure what is customary. – I hope I do not insult anyone – I just have to get this off my chest.

I have been a long time conservative – a true conservative – and have been horrified by the recent theocratic fascist turn of my beloved Republican Party. I was the Vice-President of the College Republicans in the late 80s at my college.

The Palin pick has absolutely horrified me. For the first time in my life – I donated 1000.00 to a political campaign – that of Senator Obama. Indeed, the donate button on the Obama website was so overwhelmed on his servers last night – it took me till 1:29 AM to get through to donate.

My entire indepedent and/or conservative family – as of my conversations with them this AM – sat through the Palin speech last night slack-jawed. I just felt nauseated. It is a sad day in America when someone can sit and read
prepared talking points – smile as she torpedoes American virtues (Community organizers, etc — BTW – Whatever
happened to the 1000 Points of Light? – I guess that got snuffed out too in the darkness of Abu Ghraib) and have the
press and media fawn over her all day – and an entire half of the country feel that she is the second coming of
Ronald Reagan – a true conservative – and an awesome leader. Ms Palin – YOU ARE NO RONALD REAGAN – and certainly no Harry Truman as you stated last night.

WOW

I have come to peace with the demise of the country. We are literally days away from a financial meltdown –
patients of mine are suffering financially and spiritually like I have never seen before – we are in 2 wars that are
going nowhere (Can McCain, Palin, ANYONE – explain to me how you “WIN” an occupation – can anyone point to ONE
SINGLE time in history that has ever happened the way we are going about this????? ) We are getting ready to start
another – the chimp has been checkmated in the Caucusus by the grandmaster Putin – the Chinese and Japanese and Koreans have us by the balls financially – and yet NOT A SINGLE WORD is spoken about any of these grave dangers.

Rather we sit through speech after speech bashing liberals, reveling in the past, and talking about our POW status
in a 40 year old war. I am a doctor – I have worked at the VA for years. I have not met a single POW EVER that is
emotionally fit to be in the position that McCain will be if he wins – and yet no one even talks about it.

I often wondered in all my years of history courses how the citizens of the Roman Republic or of Nazi Germany let it
happen. I do not have to wonder anymore – I am now living through it – it is hard and painful to see a once great nation going down the crapper. I had a patient about 6 years ago – who was a lieutenant in the Nazi Army. He was older than 90 – and had become a double agent for the Allies in the 1940s. He was rewarded for his bravery with American citizenship. In the middle of the 2004 election, he began the process of dying. It is amazing what people
want to tell their doctors when they are dying. He said something that has haunted me to this day – “I never
thought I would see this happen again – and I never dreamed it would happen to my beloved America”. He handed me a book called “They Thought They Were Free” – and I would encourage everyone to read that during this short election season. It changed my life.

I am deeply concerned about a comment on numerous conservative blogs about choosing McCain Palin because Mr Palin is cute. I agree. So was Goebbels. So was Attila the Hun. So was Caligula. And Eva Braun was a real dish. WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF YOUR COUNTRY DURING THIS TIME IN HER HISTORY – GIVE ME A BREAK. Is it all about American Idol???? Mr. Palin is a man who belonged to a political party who at its core believes that Alaska should be a separate republic – that the USA is a socialist communist state that should be destroyed – that all Jews, Blacks, Latinos and gays should be expelled from Alaska – Don’t believe me? – please – be my guest and look it up – it is on their web site for the world to see. If Obama had picked a running mate with a spouse like that – he would be on a one way trip to Kenya as we speak. How did the great Republican President Abraham Lincoln feel about secession? – What do you think he would say about this – to paraphrase John 11:35 – ABE wept. That party membership is but one of many absolutely devastating revalations that is coming out about this woman – and yet the truth is met with derision. The “liberal” media is hatefully reported to be out of control – and the truth becomes what is spewed forth over and over again on the news cycles. George Orwell could not have been more prescient. Truly. (Just imagine a bunch of people sitting in a room – chanting WE HATE WAR – WE LOVE PEACE- right out of 1984 )- that is what our political discourse has become. I am reminded of the closing act of the Taming of the Shrew – when the Shrew is finally tamed – her tamer just tells her it is broad daylight when it is night and she says it – unfortunately – many of my fellow citizens have become just the same lemmings. Another example, — I have been a medical doctor for 20 years. The picture of Mrs. Palin taken in March 2008 during Super Tuesday circulated all over the web this weekend – one month before delivery of Trig – is supposedly at 7.5 months gestation. I have seen literally hundreds of women at 7 or 8 months – that woman is SIMPLY NOT PREGNANT. Who am I going to believe — my own trained eyes that the State of Oklahoma paid over $100,000 to train to heal people – or the crap that the fawning campaign and the news media spewed that was a lie and out of bounds. “My friends”, I have no idea what the story is, however, it is germane to her character – and I can tell you in the dozen or so pictures of her in March and April of this year that I have seen- she is not pregant. But the campaign and the media have decided she was – so the lemmings naturally shut up about it – and now she is Joan of Arc. If there is one thing that I know from life – Jesus was right – “ye shall know the truth – and the truth shall set you free” – The truth – whatever it may be – will come forth – and often does so at very very inconvenient times. Ask Mark Foley or Larry Craig or John Edwards.

As a Republican – I am heartsick about this whole thing. I have not been a supporter of this party since it went to the dark side with Gingrich, Delay et al. The choice for America is starkly clear. I have made my peace with whatever happens. If Obama wins, he will be the liberal Reagan – and there will be years of liberal reign. I am voting for him. That is far better than what happens if the theocrats take over. I am OK with whoever wins – I have come to peace with it – Obama will MAYBE and I mean MAYBE forestall the collapse. With McCain – you can be guaranteed that America will hit rock bottom – the question is how much of the world will go with us – and what will be the catastrophic consequences? – Look what happened as the European empires hit rock bottom in the 1940s.

This election is far too important to me and my country -

Just some words from a true conservative from Texas.

Sincerely
Dagan68

Happy anniversary. And many more.

Congratulations. May you both keep your health and have many more.

Happy Anniversary!!
many many more happy years together.

Thanks folks. I really mentioned it only as a way to get in the snark, but it has been great. I told her that we’re twice the people we used to be, but we are on a diet. She didn’t laugh.

So apparently you trust Republican Jim Oberweiss that Jeri Ryan committed a felony by testifying falsely and perjured herself in legal records brought before the Illinois courts? Sorry, I don’t buy it. Especially since neither of the parties actually denied that it occurred…

Ryan ran a campaign appealing to the right-wing evangelicals that he was moral crusader….and was going to bring these values forth in his AntiChoice, anti-porn, etc. legislation. If he had been an economic conservative who believed that family and religious issues were private matters it would be a different situation.

Yes because there was a problem with fishing permits

Now I’m the one slack jawed. Wow.

Great catch, nahant. Thanks.

It’s really immaterial whether the accusations were true or not. They brought down his campaign and guaranteed an Obama win.

Just ask youself: Since when has someone with exactly one year in the US Senate begun discussing a run for the presidency?

And after three years (2005-2008) he is on his way to the White House.

Never before O’bummer.

you’ll have to go for the direct tickle then.

I want to reach into the TeeVee and strangle George many letters, Why does he have to keep implying that it is somehow WRONG for Obama to have voted with his party? It’s not like his party has been running the country into ruin the last eight years. For McShame it makes sense to PRETEND to oppose his disgraced party, indeed it is his only shot, shut up George!

I fear the Barrack is too much of a gentleman to be elected Prez of the dumbed down purposely Rove polarized United States of America.

I agree SD thats why I had to share it with the pups!!

Do not feed…

We lost two great ones this summer…George Carlin and Bruce U. Utah” Phillips. Very different approaches to comedy and life…and Bruce was the secret diamond in the rough. He was never as famous as Carlin, mainly ’cause he wasn’t willing to sell his soul to the music/recording industry.

He found a true fellow spirit when he ran into DYI-artist Ani DiFranco and they started working together. They almost got a Grammy…despite having no major label support and distribution.

U.Utah said he only wanted to make a modest living with his music, and so he did…but those tens of thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands) who heard him perform before folk festivals, little concert halls, cafes and in living rooms couldn’t help but be touched by his “Howard Zinn brought to music and comedy” approach to life.

I wonder if the extreme reich has managed to alienate those old time conservatives who were the bulwark of the GOP until Shrub’s Gang? If so, there aren’t enough Christian reichwingnuts and neocons to get anybody elected.

I just checked in on the next thread. I don’t disagree, but it’s still early on a Sunday Morning, and I just can’t go there right now.
I’ve got Pachelbel’s Canon on and heading out to the garden to plant some flowers.
See you sweets later. Take good care of each other.

Tax Increases for Snuffle-lagapus, Charley, Phlegmbaugh, and their ilk…yes!

But for most of us “peons”…nope…a better deal than McCain would offer. ‘Course McCain defines Middle Class as somewhere about $5 million dollars.

ObamaTaxCut

It would be irresponsible NOT to pass this around.

Fixed for ya – no charge

I’m confused, I thought the Founding Fathers considered Freedom of Religion one of the bedrocks of the new republic. After all many of the original immigrants came to the colonies to escape from a lack of that freedom. Did somebody add an amendment to the Constitution that made being a Muslim and exception to the freedom of religion clause?

Personally I was taught in school, even in Repulsican San Diego that the President could be a Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Jew, Jehovah’s Witness, Seventh Day Adventist, Buddhist, Atheist etc. Are there any other religions other than Islam that are apparently prohibited?

Then I remember what an issue it was at the time that JFK was going to be an agent of the Vatican and it all begins to make sense. Maybe the principle is really – You can be practice any religion you choose, as long as it is pretty much the same as mine!

Cool demi… check out George Winston’s version on the youtubes!! My baby daughter’s most favorite piece which the youngest boy learned during his piano lessons days… he is now a senior at film school Chapman in Orange:>)

Utah, and many others, had the right approach to community cooperation. We have to find a way to break people out of their caves and into their community. Americans are continually looking for ways to amuse themselves in a solitary fashion, spending vast sums on their electronic toys, intentionally avoiding contact with others. If we could only convince them that spending time with others and sharing their lives and experiences is so much more fun than listening to an iPod or watching American Idol on a teebee screen as big as the wall it’s mounted on.

Yeah, Suzanne and I had a little fun with that yesterday.

There are times when I’m just as irresponsible as I can be.

Thanks, I’ll check it out when I come back inside, when it gets too hot outside. I saw you saying yesterday how warm it is up in your neck of the woods. Ah, Indian Summer. But, autumn is just around the corner.

Absolutely great post. I’ve saved it, to share with my ‘conservative’ friends (be they few in number).

MY take so long as you KEEP it to yourself and don’t try and make IT the official religion… They also wanted separation of church AND State just so no religion could become the “Official Religion”

Dam smart fellas I think!!

Already time to get the firewood ready for the October cold… I just hope this winter is not as cold as last winter/spring…. I was still having to have fires into May… And I left New England to get away from the cold brrrrrr

I just emailed it to all on my lists… Sure seems change is a coming!! People are starting to notice and We need to make sure they get the information that can show them that the Republican party has turned it’s back on the people of this country…. They only care about their rich buddies..

So you are saying that you are supporting the person with the MOST experience? McCain? That’s what you seem to be arguing here? Maybe we should have put Strom Thurmond into the Presidency!

BTW Lincoln was a one-term Congressman…who was not re-elected, and even lost a Senate campaign…before he ran for President. John Edwards, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Jesse Jackson…all were talking about running for President without anywhere near the elective experience that Obama has. Ralph Nader has zilch experience as an elected official.

Look up the Constitution…it has no requirement saying that someone has to be a Senator or Governor for “X” years to run for President. So you need to read up on your Constitution.

And another part of that Constitution says that if the President dies or is unable to serve…the Vice-President takes over. For McCain that would be dominionist Sarah Palin. And so much for any vestige of the Constitution after that!

I have to think that your “911lies” website is something of a front to draw of the left from supporting Obama. A lot of the stuff there seems to have the aspect of “concern trolling” (put up obviously photoshopped stuff…then apologize for it…thus painting the left as being “nasty to Palin”).

But if you are sincere I can tell you that although Obama may not support all your particular issues, he and Biden are an infinitely better pair of candidates for America’s workers, women, kids, minorities, and will have a more rational (though imperfect) foreign and domestic social policy than anything the Republicans offer. And

Sorry, it’s two months to the election…it’s too late to do anything other than torpedo the Obama campaign. Draw off a couple of percent from Obama in key states (like happened in Florida in 2000) and you’ll have McCain-Palin in the WH, and an even more extreme Supreme Court. No thanks!

It ain’t the years as governor, it’s the size of the state, in acres. You see Dubya didn’t work out very well because he wasn’t gov of a large enough state , so they went lookin’ for a larger state, and we know there’s only one. The fact that the gov wears a skirt when she ain’t shootin’ stuff is bonus!

“Why is the PIT BULL hiding?”

“Sarah Armadillah” is putting on lipstick!

The RePubs aren’t hiding Sarah to shield her from and prepare her for the press. They are training her to be Vice President in the urinary, oops, I mean unitary Dick Cheney method. In other words spending time in an undisclosed location running the universe.

Firewood! Yes, we’re getting ready to buy a big load. Have a camping trip planned for October, and I adore a little fire in the fireplace as much as I love classical music. Well, almost. Put on a pot of splitpea soup, and life’s great.
:o
Off to the nursery to pick up a few more pony packs of posies.
(btw, whenever I hear an oboist now, I think of you and your sweetie.)
Oh…and one of the types of flowers I just put in are…Yellow Snapdragons. How much do I love my FDL friends. Ha.

just in case my vote does get counted.

Thanks for finally getting around to sayin’ something intelligent or humourous.

Geez, and I’ve been talking about we’ll still be wearing short and t-shirts in January this time around. Our illustrious visitors from the north won’t like it a bit.

Some pics of Palin in fur.
Palin in fur Stoals

Palin Speaking before group with wolf pelt regalia

Hey kids! Ever think that Palin ever thinks about orphanned wolf-cubs?

Something tells me that “Jungle Book”, “Born Free”, and “The Lion King” aren’t high on the DVD’s shown in the Palin household!

Thanks demi but her true instrument is her voice… just ask a few on the late late night whom I have sent her soprano piece of the “Lord Nelson Mass in D Minor” Joseph Hayden… she sang it with her choir in May 06… drew tears from many

I’ve given up on “lesser evil” voting. I want to vote my conscience, even though my vote means nothing.

Of course I don’t think x years of experience qualifies one for POTUS. I never implied that.

But there is a larger pattern to be seen for those who care to connect the dots.

Gore won in 2000 but never asked for a full recount. Why?

Kerry won Ohio in 2004 but the rigged election threw it to Bush and he never contested it. Why?

What has the Dem majority in the Senate and Congress done for us? I fought tooth and nail to make that happen…it got us nowhere. See my second blog post, from November 2006:

November 08, 2006
Democratic Juggernaut

What is this joy that fills our hearts? Don’t confuse it with the exuberance of sportsfans, painted in gaudy colors, bellowing because their side won. When he moves to another city, that fan will yell just as loudly for a new team.

This is no shallow bolstering of ego derived from aligning with a winner. It’s much deeper, much purer. It’s about right and wrong. Many of us have been suffering the awful pain of seeing the country we love morph into a monster before our eyes: a lying, treacherous, invading, torturing, incompetent, greedy and arrogant beast that had gobbled up so much power it was tossing every challenger aside with a shrug. We feared it might have so gamed the system, that it couldn’t be beaten.

But it was! There is a God.

Dems are not saints. They won’t be perfect. But they’ll stop the monster — that’s all that matters right now.

We were sliding ever closer to facism. We were a danger to ourselves and others.

I was once where most of you now are. But I studied, and I learned. You can too.

Don’t just accept what you are told. There is alot at stake. Don’t put your implicit trust in anyone, not even me. Do your own research. Good luck!

Sheila,
FWIW, it’s generally considered bad form to “blog whore” more than once a day.

If your blog can stand on it’s own without that, you’ll get traffic.

If it can’t you won’t get traffic.

I didn’t go back and count but I think this is at least the third link/comment about your blog on this thread alone.

If he had been an economic conservative who believed that family and religious issues were private matters it would be a different situation.
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BINGO!

I was once where most of you now are. But I studied, and I learned. You can too.

Don’t just accept what you are told. There is alot at stake. Don’t put your implicit trust in anyone, not even me. Do your own research. Good luck!
I’m sure you’ve learned a lot, but there’s always more to be learned.
For one, coming on this site and telling everyone not to trust the MSM, shows that there is still a learning curve for you.
Here’s a hint. Coming into someone else’s kitchen and dissing their cooking is not going to want them to sample yours. It just is not going to happen.
I’m happy that you feel so enlightened. Best of luck on your site, but you may want to rethink your marketing strategies.

Hey, Dakine. “Bad Form” is a restrained term.
You and know that there are some commenters of this site who are not here this am. Oh, man, can you imagine what kind of responses we would have jeered/cheered/grimaced and applauded? You’re a good man.

Cinnamanope already laid down the trump card: Obama might appoint centrist Supreme Court Judges, so there!

Biden is a notorious fighter for working people by keeping their neighborhoods free of the scourge of unauthorized chemicals – lets recall before they thought of the open-ended war against the tactic of Terrorism, there was the war against the absorption of mind altering substances, the Global War on (Some) Drugs.

As Kevin Zeese says:

As for the war on Drugs, Zeese says, “Pick a drug law you don’t like from the last 25 years and thank Sen. Joe Biden. He deserves a lot of the credit for the U.S., with 5% of the world’s population, having 25% of the world’s prisoners —-and the racially disproportionate impact of the drug laws.”

As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden was responsible for the mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines passed in 1986. “The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 had forced judges to harshly sentence within a narrow range,” Zeese recounts. “So Biden knew in ‘86 that mandatory sentences were not needed… But he pushed for and passed mandatory sentencing anyway, because that’s what the narcs and prosecutors wanted. He held hearings at which they got opportunity to testify while opponents of mandatory minimums were kept out.”

Mandatory minimum sentences have safely locked away countless moms and dads, teaching their kids about plucky self-sufficiency … thanks Joe!

And the proper thanks is, of course, unquestioning support for the Obama-Biden ticket – thats the only way they will respect us!

Wow… getting exciting. Thanks. Hope all is well.