Can you spell 'desperation'?

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And McCain keeps asking; 'Who is Barack Obama?' All he has to do is read this and he'll know, and never again ask.

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BTW, Mr. Jacoby was NOT arrested in Canada as claimed in the opening paragraph of this thread:

Mark Jacoby, the owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year, was arrested in Ontario, Canada, over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 01:32 PM

If you read the actual article, you will notice that 'reinheitsgebot' has inserted the word "Canada" into the story (I guess it made it look worse than it already was, which was already pretty bad and needed no 'padding'). Or, perhaps he/she was thinking that they were making the story clearer, being obviously unaware that there actually is a city in Southern California named 'Ontario'.

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I'm not sure I'm following your logic. Seems to me like this guy probably genuinely believes what he said.

#2 | POSTED BY SOHEIFOX AT 2008-10-10 08:09 PM

First, it wasn't MY 'logic' since I just cut & pasted the above item. But from what I read there and on another site, as well as his 'IllumiNation' website, it's obvious that he 'sells' his service as a 'professional advocate' whether you need to add a 'point of view' to a panel discussion or as it's described, to 'augment' a speaker who needs a 'particular' message reenforced with his audience. Now granted, I'm sure that he may have already been of the mindset he expressed, but it's also obvious that he 'offers' his services as a 'professional advocate', which means that he expects to be paid for the unique contribution that he can make to events like this.

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Like any other drug addict, he just revealed what he wanted you to know.

#4 | POSTED BY BABUENTHAL AT 2008-10-09 11:03 PM

As opposed to who, Dubya who just claimed that anything that happened before his 45th birthday was part of his 'youth' and therefore off-limits as a topic of discussion?

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Cindy said her "blood ran cold" when Obama voted against funds for the troops (because there was NO timeline attached).

She didn't say what her blood did when her HUSBAND voted against funding for the troops (when there WAS a timeline attached).

#8 | POSTED BY SITDOWN AT 2008-10-09 12:00 PM

McCain justified HIS 'no vote' as it was only 'symbolic', since he KNEW Bush was going to veto the bill anyway.

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Bush is addressing the nation tomorrow morning at 10:00am, Washington time. Perhaps he's declaring martial law.

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Besides, Obama disclosed the details of his teenage experience with drugs in his books for all the world to see years ago.

There is NO there, there!

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Perhaps it's more 'patriotic' when you pay penalties and interest as well as your taxes.

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The Nekkei in Japan is down nearly a 1,000 points on Wednesday and the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong is not far behind:

Sorry, but your hang up is the word 'OATH'. The dictionary defines an 'Oath' as:

A solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says.

Therefore the Constitution of the United States can NOT require the President to take an OATH of Office since that would imply a 'religious test' which is explicitly prohibited, which of course kills the notion that somehow a BIBLE is a necessary prop in all this.

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The oath requires her to swear on a BIBLE, no less,...

Actually it doesn't, require you to "swear on a BIBLE" that is. And something else, the Constitution does NOT even require the President (or Vice-President) to swear an OATH since in order to 'swear an OATH' you would have to, by definition, acknowledge the existence of God, and since the Constitution explicitly states that there will be NO religious test in order to hold any public office in the United States of America, the Constitution can NOT force anyone to swear an OATH nor use a BIBLE as part of the 'swearing-in' ceremony.

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Unsolicited comments about the debate...

I took my wife's car to fill-up at Costco yesterday afternoon and while I was in line a couple of people noticed my Obama/Biden bumper-sticker and they asked if I had watched the debate the night before and when I said that I had, two gals, probably about Palin's age, both started to comment how offended and outraged they were with Sarah Palin's candidacy. One gal told me how she felt McCain had insulted the intelligence of every women in America by putting Palin on the ticket thinking that they would automatically vote for her. The other gal said something about how after watching the debate the previous night that it's now obvious that the Republicans have nominated an idiot for Vice-President.

Note that these were unsolicited comments, and of the 6 or 7 other people standing there fueling their cars and listening to this rather loud exchange (note that other than admitting that I had watched the debates I hardly got another word into the conversation as they were going at it so hot and heavy on their own), not a single persons raised any objections or counter comments to these two gals, who were still going off on Palin and McCain as I pulled-away from the pump.

Note that this took place in GOP stronghold, Orange Co, Ca.

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And what about those per-diem Palin got while living in her own home? I thought they were taxable, but it appears that they were never claimed.

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Considering that Sarah Palin's degree was in SPORTS Journalism perhaps she was talking about the ethical controversies surrounding the Designated Hitter rule in baseball or the use of Instant Replay by referees in the NFL.

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Does Wasilla have a bowling alley big enough for the wedding?

#76 | Posted by johnjkavanagh at 2008-09-30 04:33 PM

Perhaps the Wasilla Wal-Mart will be more appropriate since Sarah Palin is already familiar with the 'Bridal Services' offered there.

From the Anchorage Daily News, 8/28/99:

Palin Presided Over a Wedding at a Walmart. He worked in the pets department. She was a cashier. A romance blossomed. And when it came time to say I do,'' they chose where else? an aisle next to menswear. Sandwiched between racks of cotton pants and surrounded by Back-to-School Specials'' signs, Jake McCowan and Rosalyn Ryan exchanged vows last week at the place where they met, work and fell in love: the Wasilla Wal-Mart. A crowd of 200, including passengers from a tour bus and several dozen curious shoppers, watched the two employees tie the knot in an afternoon ceremony officiated by Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin. It was so sweet,'' said Palin, who fought back tears during the nuptials. "It was so Wasilla."

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The rumor is that the wedding could be as early as this Thursday, October 2nd.

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One senior McCain adviser said the entire flap could have been avoided if the campaign had resisted attacking Barack Obama for his ties to two former Fannie Mae executives, which prompted the media to take a second look at Davis. "It was stupid," the adviser said. "A serious miscalculation and an amateurish move."

'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' - Galatians VI

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Halliburton probably got the contract to supply the 'ducks', at $500 a head.

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Trust me, there will not be a single new offshore oil rig established let alone producing oil for at least 10 or 12 years. The lead-time for traditional land based drill rigs is already a several years, so why would anyone think that 'drill, baby drill' will have any effect for years, and after that amount of time, exactly what are we going to be getting in terms of oil production and how much will it be compared to our consumption at that time?

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Yea, and Social Security will be next, eh?

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I wonder if they also reset your 'spam filters' to only let in winger crap?

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When a friend has been drinking heavily and if he were allowed to drive, he might bring harm to himself or others, therefore society demands that under those circumstances those in a position to do so should take appropriate action.

Same principle applies here.

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And Obama's answer is to take more of my money!

#65 | POSTED BY STONEFLY AT 2008-09-12 01:44 PM

Unless you make more than about $260,000 per year, how exactly do you think that Obama is going to be taking more of your money?

And if you DO make more than $260,000 per year, why do you think McCain should give you a big tax cut?

Now if it's simple greed, fine, I can understand that. But if it's something else, like "why should I pay taxes to support social programs that I don't approve of", then what should the rest of us do with respect to paying for an illegal war that WE don't approve of?

For a chart that breaks down the impact of the proposed McCain versus Obama tax proposals based on family income, please go to:

Obama's base in the young vote, many in college. Rove launched another voter purging program which sends letters to college addresses during the summer, when they aren't in school. The letters say "Do Not Forward" and when they are returned the name is purged from voter registration.

#41 | POSTED BY NUTCASE AT 2008-09-12 11:07 AM

This is a practice known as 'caging' and it's not limited to college kids. During the 2004 and 2006 elections, Republicans in several states also used this against servicemen deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly national guardsmen and reservists from cities where there were large percentages of minorities.

The irony is the the Republican National Committee is under a Federal 'consent decree' which is supposed to prevent them from being involved in schemes like this based in part on past cases where there has been legal proof presented where their tactics violated the voting rights act. Of course, since the Cheney/Bush team moved to Washington the Justice Department has decided that this was no longer a priority. The consent decree is still in place, just that no one is doing anything to see that it's still having the desired effect.

For more information on the practice of 'caging' and how this has become one of the primary tools used by the Republican Party in their attempt to suppress voting in America, please go to: