McCain sans “accessory” – via AP
Ah, the irony of slanderous attack.
John McCain and Sarah Palin were backstage, and Lehigh County GOP Chairman Bill Platt was warming up the crowd of 6,000…
"Barack Obama refused to wear an American flag on his lapel," he said of the man who, at the presidential debate the night before, was wearing a flag pin on his lapel. The audience booed. "Barack Obama, a man who wants to be president of the United States of America, removed the American flag from his chest because it was a symbol of patriotism. Perhaps Barack Obama doesn’t put country first, but he puts fashion first."
Something seems to be missing from John Sidney McCain’s lapel.
And something seemed to be missing from his lapel at the debate, but not Obama’s lapel.
And since we’re speaking of fashion, why does Sarah Palin wear white after labor day when she’s alone in "Dixie", yet dresses in black funereal attire when she’s with McCain. But hey, at least Rich Lowry was able to make it to see Palin at the rally.
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Wear a flag pin or be classified as a terrorist. Pure McCarthyism. Wow. These are desperate times for McInsane and Palin. Cooler heads will prevail. NcInsane is a gambler and he is a risky player.
So all terrorist can wear a lapel pin as cover?
1,789 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Attaturk and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:
The desperation is palpable and the tactics are right outta 1932 Wiemar Germany…if they could get away with it, they would march on Obama rallies and start beatin up on folks. This ticket of Palin and McCrazy is a creation of the real fascist ruling cabal…the Southern military krypto-Nazi and the seccessionist street-walker. There is nuthin’ happening from the McCain campaign that is not calculated to create at least the image of violent discontent that will provide the cover of an explanation for violent voter intimidation and court challenges to hundreds of thousands of votes.
There is gunna be violence before this thing is over and it’s not gunna be isolated.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNTION, FASCISM WILL NOT GO AWAY QUIETLY, JEST ASK THE GERMANS!!!
Good Morning all, Seems loke allergy season is here,
Earlier in the campaign Obama talked about silly season – it appears to have digressed to sleazy season. It is amazing how low the mcShame campaign is willing slink. Anyone know where they are taking their sleazefest today.
It appears you are right – it is starting
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._1008.html
Citizen foothillsmike:
This stuff is NOT accidental or incidental…it is calculated and managed from the bowels of D.C. The cagin’ of ACORN registrations in Nevada by DEMOCRATIC state officials is jest the beginnin…we’re gunna see challenges and voting machine irregularities in Colorado and Ohio also. And Virginia is also a target.
Bushco have been looking for an excuse to invoke Marshall Law and Palin/McSame have been doing their level best to incite their rabid followers to violence. Silly me I always thought that inciting violence was a crime. I guess it is only a crime for some.
and according to HUFFPO,the brainless,uneducated SEAN HANNITY inked a deal for 20,000,000.00dollare PER YEAR for his propaganda radio alone,Fox pays him ???
MERKA PAYS ITS FASCIST imbeciles very highly….sick,sick…country
but working folks finding pink slips the norm
and the Barracudda and her creepy husband ,have the stomach for it…THEY ARE white secessionists
Beautiful. It serves to remind that we as a people are still several generations worth of education away from an enlightened society. At the rate we are going we will not get there.
The troopergate report is scheduled to be released tomorrow AM
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/53632.html
CNN just showed a bit about swing voters and some woman from Florida saying, “We don’t know if Obama will be that much better.”
One of those screaming at the idjit box moments: How much *worse* could he do, you forkin’ ninnie?
Our educational system is going in the wrong direction. The corporatist goal is to have trained people not educated people there is a big difference.
some at this site say the same thing
YOM WANKER
The first 45 seconds of this You Tube with Lieberman are the usual awefulness. But go to the last 20 seconds and it is unintentional comedy at its finest.
Good morning Dawgs!
We have all been working hard to get Oama elected, and it looks like it might really happen. The signs are all very encouraging. But we cannot get complacent. We need to work even harder.
Now, we all know that the Republicans are going to try to steal this election. So here is the question:
If we wake up on November 5th to find out that this election has been stolen from us, what are we going to do?
When I asked this question yesterday at dKos I was chastised for “hanging out the crepe”. I guess that means that that particular commenter thought I waas being negativer with my question, but I haven’t seen any plan of action for this eventuality. I think that this is something we should all be thinking about. We need a plan B.
What will we do? Let’s figure that out too. And if Barack is indeed elected we can then turn it into a great big block party.
Dial-up………thumb nail description, pretty please?
Cannot believe it: the man is an imbecile. (He certainly doesn’t care what I may think.) Your news makes me want to take to the streets or go back to bed. He is doing major inciting himself.
Good morning, pups. It’s Collins, Cohen and Kristof this morning. Gail Collins is “Clearing the Ayers.” She says John McCain may feel compelled to go back to his guilt-by-association theme. And this has her feeling very guilty about her associates. Mr. Cohen, in “Hasta la Vista, Baby,” says that George W. Bush’s treatment of Spain illustrates how not to approach foreign policy. It’s important to talk to friends, even when there is disagreement. Mr. Kristof asks “Can This Be Pro-Life?” He says it is paradoxical for the “pro-life” Bush administration to adopt a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got waffles with Vermont maple syrup. We’ve been getting rain! Heavy rain last night, with slow, steady rain now and more forecast for tomorrow. I hope it makes it to the other parts of the state that are parched — I heard that Athens got some rain… Have a great day.
Andrea Mitchell wishes Lieberman a good Yom Kippur.
Lieberman, without irony, replies “Thank you Andrea, I have much to repent for”
Anybody who *isn’t* asking that question and coming up with plans B/C/D/E…./Z HAS. NOT. been. paying attention. :-( Better to “hang the crepe” now rather than afterwards.
Thankee! Out of the mouths of fools…………… *g*
Likud Joe is a nasty evil little person with very little purpose for being. He is a perfect friend for McPalin.
I read that Chief Thief Paulson is now saying that the US may take a stake in some of the banks it is bailing out.. something like the Swedish socialist model. When the hell will they ever know just what they are doing, you think they would have figured it out before giving him the keys to the treasury.
McCain;s handlers did remembeto put the black fallen troops bracelet on him for the debate
A telling photo. With Obama wearing the flag. Note their expressions, too
McCain is loosing it.
Citizen sangemon:
The election can’t be “stolen” unless the fascists ken buy enough pollin data to show a few of the large “swing” states as “tossups”…I think that absent close pollin data, street violence and violence against “community organizers” and GOTV folks will be the next effort to intimidate folks in large minority and urban areas. When this doesn’t work we will see direct action against folks on election day at selected polling targets again in the same swing states and targeting urban populations…this will be presented to the courts as evidence enough to halt the count and close the polls…We are lookin at a Mugabe election here folks and the only thing that ken overcome these well coordinated and targeted efforts is massive turnout.
The fascists don’t really want Crazy John McCain to win they jest want to cast enough doubt on the outcome of an Obama victory that they ken delegitimize him before he’s sworn in…and watch the Clintons jump on the fascist bandwagon. So let’s get the vote out and beat these bastards.
For Bush, after committing mass murder, to claim that he is pro-life is insulting. Obviously he did not get enough jolies murdering the inmates of Texas.
Thank goodness that there are a number of large and efficient NGOs distributing condoms and teaching people their use in Africa, and many other places, but the gummint monies are needed desperately…. like bushie would give a shit.
I think that we need a plan to take to the streets, they way the people did in Ukraine during the Orange Revolution. And it needs to happen quickly. it has to happen THAT DAY. And it needs to be massive.
This will take planning. Just sayin…
Sounds about right. Rigging the vote count this year might be problematic as even the MSM is aware of the Rovian tactics now.
The polls are rigged already as can be seen by some polls that profess to be “neutral” but are wildly different from others. If polls were truly neutral they would not vary from each other by more than the +/- variant. Ignore the damn polls…. except the exit polls and believe them more than the vote count.
If they somehow rig the vote count to force a McPalin “victory” then it will truly be time to take to the streets with pitchforks a plenty.
103 days…
Wrt the flag pin issue, you’d think the thugs heads would explode from the quantity of stoopid therein. Maybe they think palin’s flag pin is big enough to make up for mcsame not being able to remember to put his on……where the spit are his dressers?
That is a looooong, looong time, enough time to do a boat load of damage….also enough time to impeach the bastards.
Citizen nomolos:
Right as rain, Citizen, we turn out the vote, overwhelm the thugs and intimidate the courts…as I said their purpose is NOT to get McCrazy into the White House but to delegitimize Obama like they did Clinton before he’s even inaugurated.
but who’s counting?
Can anything else go wrong?
Citizen sangemon:
A massive turnout with massive numbers of pollwatchers are all that’s necessary, Citizen…remember that they don’t want to “win” the election jest dirty it up so they ken delegitimize Obama from the get-go.
That’s Senator Joe Likuderman, Citizen nomolos…
Saturday, I’ll be making phone calls to get out the vote for Barack. The odds of Barack winning in GA are slim but there are other races and getting out the vote is the first step.
Gotta love the last ‘graph in a recent doghouse post:
[my bold]
http://doghouseriley.blogspot……hreat.html
I want to add, I pointed out during the first debate, mccain did not have on the pin in that debate either
Please remind folks to get rid of Saxby. Georgia thanks you in advance. Off to work now…
Washington Journal Lineup:
7:30 am – Colin Barr, Fortune Magazine, Senior Writer | Article
8:00 am – Meg Burns, Federal Housing Administration, Single Family Program Development | Hope for Homeowners
8:30 am – Rudolf Penner, Urban Institute, Senior Fellow
9:15 am – Zogby poll, Newspaper Articles & Phones
9:20 am – Richard Benedetto, American University, Politics Professor
But, did Joe ask every single one of us to forgive him before Rosh Hashana? Because that is what practicing Jews DO – they ask everyone who they know or have had dealings with(and as a US Senator, he has dealings with all of us)for free and full forgiveness. I don’t recall seeing that…and Joe…I don’t forgive you..for anything.
Good morning everyone. I’m watching FoxNews and I’m horrified. So far, viewers have learned that the Obama plane for the media smells bad, Acorn is now being investigated in several swing states (because they’ve been known to register the family cat to vote) and now they have on the man who’s house was once bombed by the Weather Underground.
Thank you for watching the Faux Propoganda network for us. I find that place detestable and have not been able to watch it for years.
Life is to short to watch FOX TV in the morning. FOX TV is desparate because once Barack is sworn in, they are going to lose viewship.
whoops viewership
It is my hope that with a dem majority new standards will be put in place and that places like Faux will not be able use the word “news” to describe their crap
I have such faith this will all work out for us tho, now that Kash Karry is on the case:
link
Am I the last to learn Palin’s wikipedia site claims she is a distant cousin to both Princess Diana and FDR?
(info sourced to an AOL page claiming genealogists at Ancestry.com made those findings.) Allegedly 9the and 10th cousin type dealies. Perhaps she could emulate W, take a helicopter over to Buckingham Palace and trash up the gardens. I’m sure Harry and Wills are mad to meet her. Perhaps they could assist in finding a more suitable spouse for cousin Bristol.
Explanation of why you think their viewership will decrease?
Not that I don’t *hope* that’s true but logic tells me it’s more likely to *increase* viewership…where else will they have to turn for their daily dose of lies and hate?
BT’s upstairs with some Olbermann
From the Dana Milbank article Attaturk links:
I wonder if that same prayer has been offered in this preacher’s church. If so, the IRS needs to take a look at the tax-exempt status…
If Obama can create confidence that he is a man of change, then FOX will have trouble trashing him. As Obama’s polls go up, viewers of FOX will tune out the negative trash. IMO
Early Morning Swim is upstairs.