An appearance in a documentary-style program on the Fox News Channel watched by three million people last week thrust the man, Andy Martin, and his past into the foreground. The program allowed Mr. Martin to assert falsely and without challenge that Mr. Obama had once trained to overthrow the government.
Andy Martin is the man behind the "Muslim" and other false claims about Obama. Read on
Coming up is the third and final Presidential debate Wednesday and with nothing to loose and everything to gain I suspect John McCain to come out swinging with full force. Trouble is can he keep his facts straight and temperment cool and stay on message.
read moreWithout any hope of winning on the issues, Republicans are now attacking Barack Obama for his relationship with a former member of the Weather Underground.
There's a sad aspect to the way the candidate's association with Bill Ayers has been distorted. Indeed, the way what Ayers himself did has been distorted.
A tornado of economic discontent is buffeting the nation, sending satisfaction with the country's direction to a 35-year low, George W. Bush's approval rating below Richard Nixon's worst and Barack Obama, boosted by economic empathy, to his best-yet advantage in the presidential race.
I feel it's about time I explain why I make the posts I do here. I am a liberal, I always have been and I always will be. I cannot personally vote for Obama because I find him to be a traitor to my ideals. I won't hold myself personally responsible if the Republican wins, but in order to have a clear conscience, I _cannot_ vote for Obama, either. Now:
read moreYou think our politics are brutal, look up north.
The McCain campaign crossed the line today from negative character attacks to the kind of character assassination that plays to the basest impulses and incites the most dangerous reaction. We've seen the prelude this week in the McCain crowds and in Sarah Palin's well-rehearsed, carefully telepromptered and increasingly ugly diatribes.
read moreTreasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. announced today that the government would offer free hookers and sports cars to Wall Street traders.
"The $700 billion federal bailout didn't stabilize the stock market," Paulson explained. "We're hoping that high-priced escorts will satisfy Wall Street. Nothing else has worked."
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday accused the McCain campaign of trying to distract Americans from their economic woes by launching "unbecoming personal attacks" at Barack Obama.
read moreMcCain Letter Demanded 2006 Action on Fannie and Freddie
Sen. John McCain's 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis ... No Democrat signed the letter.
read moreBy Charlotte Iserbyt
January 13, 2007
NewsWithViews.com
Our family has seen many changes in the past year which necessitated my pulling a "Houdini act" and withdrawing from the political activist scene.
read moreA short clip on rigged voting machines,the false left right paradigm, and a very interesting point of view on the voting process.
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Turning the protester stereotype on its head, well-scrubbed, button-down conservative activists turned out at the Capitol on Friday to protest big government and the $700 billion package it produced to rescue the nation's financial sector.
McCain's top foreign policy adviser has tried to sell America on all of them.
How a community-organizing group became a GOPiggie cause celebre.
read moreJohn McCain's surrogates love to call Bill Ayers an "unrepentant terrorist" and point out his link to Obama. Not it appears that John McCain has his own link to Bill Ayers. The McCain campaign is being funded by the same person responsible for funding the Weather Underground member.
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