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Monday, October 27, 2008

Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents.

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I don't care what their politics are, this was a pretty courageous thing to do, especially when a days pay really matters. what do they make, like $8-10/hr?

Some rightwad will be along shortly to rant about freedom of expression being hijacked by wage slaves.

Who doya supose it will be?

The GOP with their deliberately disingenous slanders, smears, and outight lies have piled it on too thick this election cycle and ended up shooting themselves in the foot.

Oddly enuff Spud can't feel too sorry fer 'em.

As they have sown, so let them reap.

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind

Suck wind, GOPhers.

Be Well.

The wrathful God will punish those who denied McCain's freedom of speech.

Yours in purgatory,

Takitez

Interesting, I may not have left the job but clearly would have done a terrible job of reading the slanting bash.

What an odd coincidence! Just a few days ago, two other people in different states also quit like this. Then, one of those turned up at a Biden event:

24ahead.com

Why, it's almost like there's some kind of coordinated, Chicago-style thing going on or something.

Why, it's almost like there's some kind of coordinated, Chicago-style thing going on or something.

Maybe they all are buying a plumbing business? Or some balck guy carved a "b" on thier cheek?

wuh? is everybody afraid of the new obamunist regime?

joe the nanc

Does Chicago scare ya wackoff?

Ya think the mob set it all up?

Why doncha scrape a backward B on yer cheek and tell us Al Capone did it?

OUCH! LOL
Score two for Oldwhiskeysour!

Ya, that must be it, you betcha.

What does it say when payed employees won't even spew his crap anymore?

HELLOOOO NEW DAY!

Wow, you guys post fast. That last one was for lone wacko up there.

It stuns me that all they can do is claim it must be rigged, because how could this many people possibly be supportive of that uppity commie marxist terrorist fella.

So sad. Has anybody figured out yet how to explain to these asstards the whole Acorn thing yet, so that they understand there was no actual voter fraud, and that Acorn themselves reported the fraudulent signatures? No? Yeah, I suppose it's hard to explain stuff to someone with their fingers in their ears going "NANANANA CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

Good for Indiana, a traditionally Republican state, for not allowing robocalls. See what happens when you have to get real people, as opposed to Sarah Palin's "real" people, to participate in smear tactics. They sacrifice money rather than sacrifice their ethics. Good for them and shame on McCain, a victim of robocall smearing himself in 2000.

Willful ignorance Rev.

Ya cant get that stupid accidentally.

That's ok Nanc. Jeebus will return on Dec.12, 2011, sparing you the torture of seeing a black man RE-elected president.

They were Obama plants. Its so obvious to anyone with a smidgen of brain cells left that these people were paid to get a job at the call center to quit in the last week of the election for an October surprise... I'll bet that ACORN set this up with Rezco, Soros, and Wright working different parts of the country. You'll see! These obamanites will start crawling out of McCain's woodwork! Google it you libtard pinko commie bastards!

Oh, and ayers is in there, too. Somewhere...

The band is playing somewhere,
and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing,
and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in McCainville-
Little Appartchik has struckout...

Yo, snarky, nice poem, but you just got trolled. YHBT HAND

Look out everybody, Obama's a COMMUNIST!!! Remember those guys? Chocolate-shitting Reagan fucked them up, but they're back now, infiltrating our country!

And now this (Muslim? most likely) Arab guy (named after the devil Hussein) who was born in Kenya, went to an America-hating Madrassah in Indonesia amongst terrorist wannabe Asian Muslim kids,
(probably golden) showered in the everyday hate-speech of a black panther pastor for 20 years, palled around with a terrorist when he was 8, bought houses from gangsters, with knobby ears and HUGE black lips (because we all know all black people have big lips, even if they don't), who's probably a closet homosexual, is bringing the communism to Jeezuz' almighty US of A!

- Paid for by the McCain-Palin Campaign

Isn't it sad that the right is so pathetic that you can't tell their talking points apart from an absolutely batshit crazy, off the wall, sarcastic troll?

Fuck, I forgot to add the backwards B and ACORN in there.

Posted by Scrumplet at 2008-10-28 12:30 AM

Remember those guys? Chocolate-shitting Reagan ...

Good grief, what arcane knowledge? Did you obtain it empirically through the taste test, or is it lore passed on to you through some esoteric chain of initiates?

That's ok Nanc. Jeebus will return on Dec.12, 2011, sparing you the torture of seeing a black man RE-elected president.

#16 | Posted by Snark_Needleton at 2008-10-27 11:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

is there one on the ticket? you're assuming one will be elected.

nanc you honestly think it's in the Bag for McCain?

I hope you realize not everybody is as racist as you and your associates

Well done anyhows, Scrumplet. That really is their argument too. Sigh....

Well, it's all well, because we know BO is gonna use his first executive order to round the f-tards up and put them in a gas camp, Nazi-Commie-Marxist-Terrorist-
Alien-Conspiracy that he is.

Ahhhh, and all us 'bots will breathe deeply.

"explain to these asstards the whole Acorn thing yet, so that they understand there was no actual voter fraud, and "

they actually believe that Mickey Mouse will show up to vote (possiblt Walt Disney will vouch as they won't have ID's)

Low info dumb shits!

Nanc, we ALL know that a black man is about to be elected. The question we all wonder is, what is "How is the MCBush/Palin camp going to try to steal said election?"

I happen to be in a state already serving up voting machine problems of the "Switch that straight-Dem-ticket vote to a straight-Republicon-ticket vote" variety.

I'd love to see them try that bs this time around....

Funny.

The last time Nanc saw a black man he was driving Miss Daisy.

Call Center is just about the worse job out there these days - it is the modern equivalent of working in a salt mine.

Tip of the hat to these brave workers for taking a stand. This story shows which candidate holds the hearts of the working class.

Any one up for a demonstration in Naperville this weekend? What is the address for Americall?

Our demands on Americall are simple - Triple Overtime pay as compensation for this insult on the workers Americall let go for the day.

Anyone who lives near Chicago: Lets take a trip down the RONALD REAGAN highway to Naperville on Saturday Morning and let the Americall creeps know what the REAL AMERICA CALLS them!

AmeriCall Group, INC.
1230 Diehl Road
Suite 300
Naperville, IL 60563
Tel 630.955.9100
Fax 630.955.9955

Anyone who works in a call center - use the fax machine to send them a message about your support for the working class and Obama!

John McCain is a loser...has been his whole life and is a power mongering backstabbing piece of shit. And in (7) days this asshole will finally be reduced to a nobody.

Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being "dangerously weak on crime," "coddling criminals," and for voting against "protecting children from danger."

She left out the parts, carefully crafted by the best writing minds the GOPiggies can muster for the impending implosion---people known, for good reason it turns out, as the Masters of Disaster---where Obama is a baby-raping, kitty-killing, dog-whipping, terrorist-loving, car-jacking, Christmas-hating, born-on-another-planet, fois-gras scarfing, Chablis-sucking mean and nasty person.

That sound you hear is the GOPiggies hammering against the bottom of the barrel, yelling, "Whusshappening? It worked before!?!?"

McCain's is the worst run campaign in history. Why bother to send the work to a 3rd-world call center, when you can just use robo-dialers like the Obamites? Don't they know anything?

TEXTS YOU CAN BELIEVE IN
Forget Robo-Calls -- Obama's Text Messages Are This Campaign's Secret Weapon

By Farhad Mamjoo
...
Robo-calls are the pyrotechnics of politics: They create a big disturbance, but they don't have a prolonged effect. Numerous studies of robo-call campaigns show that they're ineffective both as tools of mobilization and persuasionthey don't convince voters to go to the polls (or to stay away), and they don't change people's minds about which way to vote. So why do campaigns run robo-calls? Because they're cheap and easy. Telemarketing firms charge politicians between 2 and 5 cents per completed robo-call; that's as low as $20,000 to reach 1 million voters right in their homes.
...
www.slate.com

The author makes a good case for how and why Obama's Sealth Bomber attack is besting McCain's jerry-rigged Sopwith Camel.

Basically, McCain is a 20th century candidate who doesn't seem to realize it's the 21st century.

Message for McCain: Soon every day will be like your lackadaisical weekends.

takes guts to stand up to bosses at work ~ good for them!

They were Obama plants. Its so obvious to anyone with a smidgen of brain cells left that these people were paid to get a job at the call center to quit in the last week of the election for an October surprise...

You think it's a conspiracy involving three dozen people? There's no way that would work. One (or more) of them would break down and spill the beans faster than Ashley Todd.

I think it's more likely this happened because McCain's campaign is slipshod. They didn't spend enough money or time hiring and training these folks, so they got some who didn't know what the job was until they were handed the attack script to read.


They were Obama plants. Its so obvious to anyone with a smidgen of brain cells left that these people were paid to get a job at the call center to quit in the last week of the election for an October surprise... I'll bet that ACORN set this up with Rezco, Soros, and Wright working different parts of the country. You'll see! These obamanites will start crawling out of McCain's woodwork! Google it you libtard pinko commie bastards!

#17 | Posted by apparatchik

I think you are giving Vern a run for his money in the crazy department.

Its so obvious to anyone with a smidgen of brain cells left...
#17 | Posted by apparatchik

But those of us with more than a smidgen of brain cells left are, of course, utterly clueless on this score. Which is why we have to rely on Apparatchik's smidgen of brain cells to set us straight. You have earned the thanks of a grateful nation. Muchisimas gracias.

Now back to the important subject. "Telemarketers refuse Mccain attack script". Why wouldn't they? There FLOP EARS supporters. They should be fired.

Posted by ozzieoswald at 2008-10-28 08:49 AM | Reply

www.youtube.com

If that Youtube tape is the nastiest they can get, forget about it. Kind of pathetic, and ending with Huckabee - very nice touch.

Give it up, you Right-wingnuts.

Vote for Obama and see what he does, not what somebody he knows did 40 years ago in the middle of a terrible war we should not have been in!

Sorry you did not enjoy the YouTube video...

Even gaff master smokin joe biden agrees !!!



"While the New York Times and other media outlets were silent in the face of Barack Obama's shameless and dishonorable attack on John Mccain, even Obama's own running mate has now condemned the ad as terrible," said spokesman Brian Rogers in a statement. "Barack Obama has brought the sleazy gutter politics of Chicago to our national stage, exposing his call for a new politics' as a lie and embarrassing even his own running mate with the low road campaign he's running."

actually biden after watching the ad
changed his mind

so there you go ataxpayer

wrong again

Biden is constantly changing his mind, after all it is part of Obama's campaign theme CHANGE
Nice try !!!

www.youtube.com

"McCain's is the worst run campaign in history. Why bother to send the work to a 3rd-world call center, when you can just use robo-dialers like the Obamites? Don't they know anything?"

Dear RIR:

Illinois doesn't have Third World status, at least not yet. One of the reasons we're working on electing McThusaleh's opponent is so Illinois - and the rest of this nation - doesn't come to resemble the Third World any more than it already does, thanks to eight years of a criminal Rethug administration.

so the left says that pharmacists should be fired or worse for standing up for THEIR beliefs and incidents like that but these people are some kind of heroes to you

and if it WERE IN REVERSE, you would call them stupid or some other little name you lefties have to depend on...............so whats the big deal

and I am sure that they have no idea of the lies and bullshit that comes out of the obama campaign, the main one being the lie that he was going to take public finaincing............a lying piece of shit...........

Can you show us where he ever agreed to anything more than discussing or negotiating that possibility with the Republican nominee, BL2?


so the left says that pharmacists should be fired or worse for standing up for THEIR beliefs and incidents like that but these people are some kind of heroes to you


and if it WERE IN REVERSE, you would call them stupid or some other little name you lefties have to depend on...............so whats the big deal

Posted by bushlovertwo at 2008-10-28 11:24 AM | Reply

Ummmmmm there is a difference between what these people did and what pharmacists are doing. One these people are not jeopardizing anyones health by disobeying the call centers rules. 2 As far as I know Pharmacists must be licensed by the Federal Government therefore they must separate the religious convictions or find something else to do with their time. The Health and that includes Psychological health of the customers MUST come first. Of course You wouldn't understand that BLT.

Larry

"I may not have left the job but clearly would have done a terrible job of reading the slanting bash."

That's actually a pretty funny idea. I know actors win major awards for doing the tard impression (which anyone can do) but somehow I don't think it would fly in a call center. They'd at least have to pay you for as long as it took them to figure out what you were doing, which could be months or even never depending on how they manage quality.

"so the left says that pharmacists should be fired or worse for standing up for THEIR beliefs and incidents like that but these people are some kind of heroes to you"

And the right says that pharmacists should be canonized or something for "standing up for their beliefs" instead of following the orders of a physician who is working to restore a patient to health.

If you don't want to dispense any medication a doctor might prescribe under F.D.A. regulations, then you need to find another career. I understand thirty telemarketing positions are open in Illinois.

"`If you all leave, you're not gonna get paid for the rest of the day."

Oh my heavens, how mean.

Good. If the average person stops gobbling the juvenile crap spewed by politicians during the election cycle, there's hope yet...and that doesn't bode well for the republicans who are in a rut in terms of effective communication strategies.

Why wouldn't they? There FLOP EARS supporters. They should be fired.

#43 | Posted by ozzieoswald

But then you would have to pick up the extra work until they are replaced. That would seriously cut back on your moonlighting time at BK.

Posted by ozzieoswald at 2008-10-28 08:49 AM | Reply


#44 | Posted by LarryMohr

Dang Larry, you are all over it.

But I doubt he even knows what you are doing.

LARRY

glad you are here

you mentioned the other day about john adams and the treat with tripoli or something

mcculluch didnt say anything about that so I can only conclude that it wasnt a big deal since he is such a great and through writer.........so will have to read more about that somewhere else I guess

but he DID write all about adams's work on the treaty of paris and how he singlehandedly got loans from the dutch when we needed it the most.....( well up to now anyway)........and he also shined as the first envoy to the court of george the 3rd........

so I am not sure why you were dissing him but maybe you can tell me where to go to find out more about this fasinating founder

seeker.......he was asked in a democrat primary and he said he would take the public money.

and he has NEVER refutted the charge when it came from mccain, now HAS HE??????

according to mccain he was going to come to an agreement with the mccain but never did.
and AGAIN.......something NEVER REFUTTED BY obama

Huh BLT You stumped Me. Why was I bashing John Adams for what??
Larry

seeker.......he was asked in a democrat primary and he said he would take the public money.

and he has NEVER refutted the charge when it came from mccain, now HAS HE??????

#63 | Posted by bushlovertwo


No BL2, he never said that. He said he would seek an agreement with the Republican nominee. There were several issues that would have to be resolved, including limitation of 527 activity.

And he HAS refuted the charge with the truth.

So again, SHOW me where he ever flat out stated he would take public financing.

So again, SHOW me where he ever flat out stated he would take public financing.
Posted by SeekerofTruth

Here ya go:
blog.washingtonpost.com

From the article linked:

""Many newspapers, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, interpreted this Burton statement as a commitment to accept public financing in the event of an Obama-McCain race. As far as I can tell, the Obama campaign made no effort to dispel this impression. His enthusiasm for public financing was a way of distinguishing himself from his rival Hillary Clinton, who was raising much more private money at the time.

The campaign went even further in answers to a questionnaire sent to the various political campaigns in September 2007 by the Midwest Democracy Network. The questionnaire posed a very simple question to the candidates: "If you are nominated for President in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in the presidential public financing system?"

You can read Obama's response here. The candidate highlighted the simple answer "Yes" and elaborated as follows...""

And it goes on from there... So Obama did reverse his original position on public financing. Just like on troop withdrawals.

I personally have little problem with politicians reversing their positions based on new information or changes in situation, as long as it is not simply a change in order to pander. That is why I have never called out the "flip-flop" card on anyone. But for you (and his campaign) to deny that Obama changed his position is revisionist and dead wrong. And on the part of Obama's people, rather Nixonian.

VERY nice try, Nappy.

Of course your own post contradicts the argument.

"Many newspapers... INTERPRETED this..."

and

"The candidate highlighted the simple answer 'Yes' and elaborated as follows..."

Exactly what I said before. what "followed" was a rather comprehensive set of circumstances under which public financing could be acceptable.

Bottom line - he said he would consider it and pursue an agreement. Agreeing to pursue it is NOT agreeing to do it.

My god... I can't believe how many of you took my troll seriously. Are you guys for real? Rcade even? For the love of jesus, at least check my post history!

My, what the right has done to discourse in this country!

I agree with Nappy, Obama did change his postion on campaign funding and I am glad he did. This election is too important to risk because of a decision which was made in error. Americans seem to agree in that he has raised record amounts in small donations from average Americans like me. The CHANGE that he will bring will more than justify his decision to refuse FEderal funds.

DANNI: I have a friend who is a commodes trader. He said if FLOP EARS becomes president he is selling his holdings in corn, wheat and cocoa. HE SAID HE IS TAKING ALL HIS MONEY BUYING BANANA FUTURES.

Your a know it all liberal. Why is he doing this?

DANNI: I have a friend who is a commodes trader.

He sells toilets??

Why is he doing this?

#68 | Posted by ozzieoswald at 2008-10-28 03:05 PM | Reply


Because your friend is "The Man in the Yellow Hat"?

Because your friend is "The Man in the Yellow Hat"?

Posted by 101Chairborne

ROFL!
FF!

"I have a friend who is a commodes trader."

His name is Thomas Crapper.

ZATOICHI: :His name is Thomas Crapper" Is he related to you?

Wow

Went right over it's pointy little head.

Oh come on Ozzie. That was all pretty funny.

DANNI: I'm sorry. I made a mistake, I know conservatives are not suppose to make mistakes. It wasn't Banana futures it was Watermellon futures, I think, or maybe both.

Let me guess - low income minortiy Democrats who work low paying telemarketer jobs don't want to support a Republican? What a shocker! I bet you if they were trying to badger elderly citizen on fixed incomes into buying $2000 vacuum cleaners or $4000 computers with crazy payment plans they would be all over it no problem.

This is what happens when you try to outsource your work. You can't count on your subcontractor's employees to share your philosophy.

Must mean that the McCain camp is dangerously low on volunteers.

SeekerofTruth in #65: You are hopeless. Obama agreed in writing that he would be pursuing public funding. Then he did not. Like I said already, I don't have a problem with him changing his mind on that. But you look like a fucking idiot standing your ground and saying he did no such thing. You are one of the wild-eyed Kool Aid drinkers who have kept many of us from considering support of Obama, for fear of ending up dead on a cot, shaven-headed in our jumpsuits and tennis sneakers. Your messiah is human. Embrace it.

Of course these low paid telemarketers want Obama. The sooner he is elected the sooner they can quit and live on the Obama spread-the-wealth plan and kick back on unemployment and welfare.

Next time they should hire lawyers to read the scripts. That should take care of the walk outs.

Of course these low paid telemarketers want Obama. The sooner he is elected the sooner they can quit and live on the Obama spread-the-wealth plan and kick back on unemployment and welfare.

#80 | Posted by utastaff at 2008-10-28 04:07 PM | Reply |

Tard.

Thanks Panchovilla. Glad to hear that you support the socialist movement and the Obama campaign. It is also telling that your screen name is Pancho Villa, a revolutionay thief and train robber. Obama is also leading a revolution to take money from hard working Americans to "spread-the-wealth." No wonder you like Obama.

Tard!


This is what happens when you try to outsource your work. You can't count on your subcontractor's employees to share your philosophy.


Must mean that the McCain camp is dangerously low on volunteers.

#78 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine


FF:>)

"Of course these low paid telemarketers want Obama. The sooner he is elected the sooner they can quit and live on the Obama spread-the-wealth plan and kick back on unemployment and welfare."

what about McCain's spread the wealth plan? Not being wealthy I won't get a share in McCain's plan. Why is spreading the wealth to the rich not called "spreading the wealth", they got you fooled huh?


John McCain is a loser...has been his whole life and is a power mongering backstabbing piece of shit. And in (7) days this asshole will finally be reduced to a nobody.

#34 | Posted by USATrueandBlue7


this shit is really undebatable isnt it?
you cant reason with someone who has the liberal mental problem like you do and talk rationally so lets not

this is pathetic.........

so you prefer a LYING SACK OF SHIT chicago political machine graduate who lies almost everyday he is out talking.....

and by the way.........last lie

now the RICH was classified by biden as making
150,000..........see how that mark keeps getting lower and lower

YOU ARE BEING DUPED>.........

so you prefer a LYING SACK OF SHIT chicago political machine graduate who lies almost everyday he is out talking.....

#86 | Posted by bushlovertwo at 2008-10-29 11:21 AM


Someone from Texas can talk about political corruption with a straight face? LOL

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