See, a video like this… this is exactly the kind of race-baiting dirty trick you’d expect from the Republicans… and we’d never want to stoop to their level, even if it meant the difference between winning or losing an election… so whatever you do, do NOT, under any circumstances, pass it along. Do not email this link to friends or coworkers, and do not embed this video in your own websites. Because if you do, this video might go viral, especially in southern toss-up states like Virginia and North Carolina where it might do the most damage, and we just wouldn’t want that to happen. Because it would be wrong. Very, very wrong.
And while you’re at it, that email that’s been going around containing the list of books Sarah Palin tried to get banned from the Wasilla library? It’s not true. Sure, Palin did repeatedly ask the city librarian how one would go about banning books, and when she replied to the mayor that she would not be all right with such a request, Palin demanded her resignation. But as far as we know, Palin never issued any written list of the books she wanted banned.
So please, please, if you’ve received this damaging, slightly misleading email, delete it, and absolutely positively do not pass it on. (And if you haven’t received the email, under no circumstances should you conveniently copy it from here.) Indeed, the very worst thing you could do would be to forward this email to your entire address book—repeatedly—because to do so would be dishonest, irresponsible and politically effective… you know, just like that bogus “Obama is a Muslim” email that’s likely cost him untold numbers of the “I believe anything I read in my email” vote. And we’re better than that.
So the black dude fathering Bristol’s baby and the banned book things…? Shhhh.
I’m just sayin’….
The books banned e-mail is just ridiculous. I doubt Sarah Palin has heard of any of these books. Does she even read? My guess is that it is a copy/paste from an ALA fund-raising letter.
Goldy, you know pudge will be here soon about this “lie”.
But then all you have to say is that it’s a “joke”.
“So the black dude fathering Bristol’s baby”
Which baby?
Sorry….
The banned books is covered in snopes.
That’s difference between conservatives and progressives.
Progressives post the real facts, even when it hurts the cause. Conservatives never do.
So why am I doing it? Cause we have to be better than that. Same argument I used about torture. We have to be better than that.
@2 According to FactCheck.org, “the list is a simple cut-and-paste job, snatched (complete with typos and the occasional incorrect title) from the Florida Institute of Technology library Web page, which presents the list as ‘Books banned at one time or another in the United States.’”
@6 “We have to be better than that.”
Fortunately, I was raised as a Republican, so I’m not inhibited by your scruples. Even though I’ve been a Democrat for almost 50 years, I’m still connected to my Republican roots, consequently I’ll fight dirty. I can torture Republicans without moral qualms! I can kick them in the nuts without giving it a thought! I can administer electric shocks, blows to the breadbasket, and shin kicks without feeling a pang of remorse! So, if your liberal conscience prevents you from, er, properly interrogating your Republican prisoners — no problem, just fork them over to me and I’ll get information and confessions from them.
Ass wrong as usual… Why don’t you attack her with facts? Argue substance?
“One false rumor accuses then-Mayor Palin of threatening to fire Wasilla’s librarian for refusing to ban books from the town library.”
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157986/page/2
You are a key player in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!
@7 A wingnut mole impersonating a wingnut idiot — ya gotta love it! Of course, we shouldn’t be surprised by this revelation, because wingnuts have been licking each other’s asses forever.
Holy Crap
Goldy you are pathetic…..
I know that it’s hard to take, watching your beloved party select the wrong candidate, Obama, to run against McCain. It’s hard to take that HRC was right to state that she was the candidate with the best chance to defeat McCain.
It’s hard to take that the polls have swung from Obama to McCain, that “Ole Mo” is on the side of the McCain ticket….That the RNC was the most watched convention ever….
But this low-class, gutter politic, sewer system waste of a smear is below you…..
Stuff @9,
What are saying? Here I am, specifically instructing people not to pass along these smears, and you’re criticizing me for it? I don’t get it.
Goldy you putz!
Wasn’t it you that was falsely accused of some hideous act and rightfully went ballistic?? You were sooooo offended. Apparently you learned nothing from that event.
This would be like some one saying “Goldy was absolutely fine with his ex-wife aborting his daughter”…just because you are 100% Women’s right to choose. Which is easily twisted into “Goldy wanted his daughter aborted”. I’m sure your daughter would be upset it she read that headline.
This is once again the childish antics of the fringe lunatic LEFT And the reason why McCain is even in the polls (today’s Rasmussen):
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows the race for the White House is tied once again. John McCain and Barack Obama now each attract 46% of the vote. When “leaners” are included, it’s McCain 48% and Obama 48%.
One week ago today, Obama’s bounce peaked with the Democrat enjoying a six-percentage point advantage.”
I thought you KLOWNS wanted to discuss issues?? Instead, you peddle smut.
I don’t blame goldy at all. This is a partisan board, why shouldn’t he do whatever it takes to win.
After all, it’s party before the country for all partisan hacks.
Sshh, no one tell goldy and his fellow partisan hacks that for every lie and baseless smear they put out is another vote for mccain. The fact that their hate for their future veep is pushing mcsame further ahead in the polls is lost on them.
Sad when you consider this is the year democrats should already be leading by 30 points.
@3: I don’t think he’s referring to Trig. Maybe to Troll, or whatever funny name Bristol is going to pick for her baby with the hockey-jock babydaddy.
@9: So you categorically affirm that you haven’t been forwarding, twittering, or posting the lies that people are telling about Obama? Since I’m sure I can find plenty of examples here on this very site, I won’t even bother with your meaningless, lying reply.
Smut?
What’s wrong with a young black father wanting to be part of his child’s life?
Isn’t that a traditional American value?
Cynical @11,
Again, I don’t understand the anger. This is a post that specifically advocates against spreading these smears. What’s the problem?
@10/15: LOL. It’s moments like these that make wasting time in the cesspool so worth it!
Any of you that doesn’t believe Palin was trying to censor books in Wasilla is a naive tool. She repeatedly broached the subject of censoring books with the librarian, implicitly threatened to have people picket the library if she didn’t comply, then fired her. When you have power you don’t have to come out and say “Take the books out or you’ll get canned” you just have to ask the question, “What if I asked you to take some books out of the library?” The very question is an implicit threat because it challenges the subordinate to comply or face consequences.
Reading, and especially the reading of books, is for elitist liberals and people who donate to the ALA. Down with librarians!
John McCain owes this country the results of an Alzheimers’test.
I hear you can get them done cheaply in Czechoslovakia or the Sunni sections of Iran.
@13 go ahead and try to find any….
What you will find are comments from me about Obama with quotes from insignificant folks like, say…..Joe Biden
“I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is, the presidency doesn’t lend itself to on the job training”
Or Hillary?
” I know John McCain brings a life time of experience to the white house, Senator Obama has a speech from 2002″….
If that’s what you are talking about, then guilty….
Otherwise….No.
Also, don’t forget that it’s apparently impolite or something to point out that Republicans who do not support stem cell research — like GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin — are severely lacking in their support of children with disabilities.
Who cares more about special needs children? We all know, and it’s sure as fuck NOT Republicans.
19 WKS
Funny.
20. Right Stuff spews:
@13 go ahead and try to find any….
What you will find are comments from me about Obama with quotes from insignificant folks like, say…..Joe Biden
“I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is, the presidency doesn’t lend itself to on the job training”
Or Hillary?
” I know John McCain brings a life time of experience to the white house, Senator Obama has a speech from 2002″….
If that’s what you are talking about, then guilty….
Otherwise….No.
He asked for it, didn’t he!!!
One of many problems with the fringe lunatic LEFT is that they believe the more vitrolic and ridiculous they are, that it actually makes moderates want to follow them!
They really get all lathered up with each other and KLOWNS like Olberman….yet they simply cannot pause for a second to understand they are “preaching to the choir”.
Keep up the bad work!!!
What worries me about John McCain is the very real and better-than-50% chance that he has personality disorders and cognitive deficits stemming from his years of captivity and torture (by the way, the same torture he now sanctions). I mean, no wonder he can’t remember how many houses he has, poor fella. ANd no wonder he couldn’t keep his married dick in his pants once he returned. I don’t blame him–he was sick.
That and the fact that said torture has significantly lowered his chances of living eight more years from the one-chance-in-three that an average 72-year-old faces. Then it’s president Fire-Your-Ass-If-You-Don’t-Agree-With-Me Palin.
And no, I do not get paid by the hyphen.
Politics is a nasty job, but someone’s got to do it!
Thanks, Goldy.
(But in the future, I suggest you refrain from using “Goldy” and “high” in the same sentence.)
Sarah Palin support special needs children? Apparently not unless they’re her own.
ANd McCain? Well…do ya really need to ask?
Goldy–
I’m going to take the high road and not gloat over the latest Rasmussen Poll numbers in various battleground State like Ohio:
Monday, September 08, 2008
The latest Fox News/Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Ohio, finds John McCain out in front of Barack Obama 51% to 44%.
So this black guy knocked up drunk slut Bristol? How do we know he’s not telling the truth? I’m going to email this to everyone I know. Voters deserve to know about this.
Poor Cynical – as soon as the McCain campaign stops repeating lies such as thanks but no thanks to the bridge to nowhere and Obama will raise taxes…etc. the American people will realize that lies are all MCain and Palin have – they have no record of reform, they are no different from Bush and the narrative for this campaign will be the incessant use of lies and disinformation by McCain and the republicans. The post-convention bounce will rapidly dissipate since fundamentalist voters, religious people, average Americans and workers do not tolerate repeated lies form their public officials – only the 25% of die hard republicans that still support Bush tolerate lying to achieve political goals.
“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows the race for the White House is tied once again. John McCain and Barack Obama now each attract 46% of the vote. When “leaners” are included, it’s McCain 48% and Obama 48%.
And this is what has occasionally been labeled a right wing poll on HA. The Gallups and everyone else presumably to the left of RAM have McCain ahead by anywhere between 1 and 10 points. Moreover, McCain’s Favorable Ratings are as “favorable” as Obama’s:
http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....rable.html
Hard to imagine with all the issues Obama would seem to have going for him.
Goldy,
I know what Mr. Cyniclown’s trouble is. See as soon as you said “Goldy takes the high road” he got lost. Completely foreign to him. His head imploding and his stomach churning, he reached for the Mylanta and aspirin.
29. Reformed republican spews:
Poor Cynical – as soon as the McCain campaign stops repeating lies such as thanks but no thanks to the bridge to nowhere and Obama will raise taxes
Sheesh…have you been deaf. This KLOWN O-blah-blah is going to double the Capital Gains Tax and raise taxes on so-called “rich people” to pay for all his Santa Klaus giveaways.
It’s no lie.
How is O-blah-blah going to pay for all this stuff??
Gut the military like Clinton did??
Just because they hit home with moderates doesn’t mean they are lies RR.
best spoof video in ages.
O-blah-blah’s lack of basic understanding of economics is frightful.
Doubling Capital Gains Taxes and gouging “rich people” even more will kill the economy worse than Jimmy “duncecap 21% interest rate” Carter.
What was the Dow Jones Average when Bush took office–10,300 or something? We’ll get there yet by the time he leaves.
This KLOWN O-blah-blah is going to double the Capital Gains Tax and raise taxes on so-called “rich people” to pay for all his Santa Klaus giveaways.
He may actually be hedging on his tax hikes. From this piece:
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....d_outlooks
he had this exchange with the WSJ:
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For the record, here is what he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
Mr. Stephanopoulos: “So even if we’re in a recession next January, you come into office, you’ll still go through with your tax increases?”
Senator Obama: “No, no, no, no, no. What I’ve said, George, is that even if we’re still in a recession, I’m going to go through with my tax cuts. That’s my priority.”
Mr. Stephanopoulos: “But not the increases?”
Senator Obama: “I think we’ve got to take a look and see where the economy is. The economy is weak right now. The news with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, I think, along with the unemployment numbers indicates that we’re fragile. I want to accelerate those tax cuts through a second stimulus package, get more money into the pockets of ordinary Americans, see if we can stabilize the housing market, and then we’re going to have to reevaluate at the beginning of the year to see what kind of hole we’re in.”
—————
I found his response more ambiguous than the WSJ, but there’s clearly some hedging going on. Of course, if the spending takes place without some sort of adjustment elsewhere . .
32 Cyn
No, Obama does not propose to raise taxes on ‘so-called “rich people”. ‘ He proposes raising taxes on ACTUAL rich people, meaning the 5% of people on this country who make over $250K/year. And to give a tax break to the 95% who do not.
Just because John McCain thinks that people who make $5 million a year are “middle class” doesn’t make it so.
34 Cyn
First, restoring taxes to the rates we had when Clinton grew both the economy and employment to record levels is what we’re talking about. It’s not 1979 any more, in case you have never left.
Second, Jimmy Carter is absolutely one of the most popular ex-presidents, coming in third all-time in CURRENT approval rating at 61% favorable. You, um, “clowns” are making a big mistake by using his name against Democrats. It will backfire on you big time.
30 DavidS
Don’t be purposely obtuse. Obama got his “convention bounce,” and now McCain is getting his (traditionally the Monday after the convention, if you didn’t notice what yesterday was).
The polls will reflect non-convention reality within about a week or so. Possible less.
Check out this graph of the dow jones. It goes up, and it goes down.
Something strange, not too long after the democrats take power in congress the dow jones goes down.
Strange that coincidence.
http://www.advfn.com/djia/DowJ.....index=INDU
Once again, check out this graph. For some strange reason unemployment started going up after the democrats took power in congress.
Strange that coincidence.
http://www.doleta.gov/Performa.....-mar08.cfm
Polls on daily kos do not reflect the views of the country.
Are you aware that carter only won 6 states against reagan?
Maybe his alleged high approval ratings are solely because he’s no longer the president.
@40 Stupid goatfucking troll. Hmm, it looks like Bill Clinton is the greatest president in American history.
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archi.....retur.html
Of the top ten administrations, five are R’s and five are D’s. Clinton, of course, leads all of them. W? He’s down there with Hoover.
@41 Stupid goatfucking liar. Bush inherited an unemployment rate of 4.2% from Clinton. Under failed Bush/Republican economic policies the unemployment rate has risen to 6.1%.
Marvin’s just following his old tactic. Anything wrong that happens on Bush’s watch, he blames Clinton. Recently he’s trying to blame the Democratic Congress, even though the Republicans in the Senate effectively fillibustered (or promised a fillibuster) every significant act. So accoarding to him, the first six years of the Bush administration are all Clinton’s fault (even though there was a Republican Congress for six of Clinton’s eight years), and anything happening in the last two years of the Bush administration are the fault of the Democratic Congress.
Stuff it, Marvin. Bush & Co., along with the willing (joyous) cooperation of a Republican Congress, made this mess. It will take more than one Presidential term to clean up the mess (the last Republican fiscal mess from the first Reagan term took twenty years to clean up).
That’s what’s so disgusting about the current crop of Republicans. They won’t even engage in an intellectually honest argument. They lie, they smear, they distort, and then go crying to Mommie when someone points out their character defect, saying “they are biased against me!”.
As for the DJIA, it’s making regular bounces of 280 points up and down on any given day of the week. It used to be that a 100 point gain or loss was rather remarkable, but investors seem pretty nervous. It’s like watching somebody tip-toeing through a mine field – they hope they’ve gotten past the last surprise, but they never know for sure. The swings seem to be taking place in the 11,200 to 11,500 range, as everybody is trying to guess if the market has hit the floor yet. I was kind of expecting it to actually hit negative territory, but it hasn’t quite been so bad as that.
But none of this affects the fact that even if the DJIA rises to 12,000 by the next inaugeration, the average investor in a DJIA index fund would have been better off putting their money in an FDIA insured savings account over the life of the Bush presidency. Which is rather remarkable, given that a few firms and individuals have become fabuously wealthy as a result of his policies.
In the meantime, the administration is “cooking the books” to make it appear that the economy is doing better than it is. I posted the details on another thread, but the Commerce Dept. has “adjusted” the 2nd Quarter GDP upwards from 1.9% to 3.3%, a move which baffles economists. Apparantly they discounted the affects of all foreign inflation (oil and food), and then went back in again to apply a “domestic inflation adjustment” of 1.1% – assuming inflation during that quarter was the lowest in ten years, and half of that experienced in the preceeding quarter. They also didn’t account for one-time write-downs, resulting in financial services sector profits of an incredible 24% for the quarter – which Merrill Lynch economists described as “just crazy”.
We are also well aware of the switch to a “core inflation” method of measurement, which presumes that the current inflation rate is less than 3.5% annually, although we all know better.
It seems the Bush administration is borrowing from the playbook of the Regan administration, when his budget director David Stockman admitted that his office applied “rosey scenarios” of economic growth in excess of 12% per annum in order to argue that the Reagan tax cuts would result in a balanced budget within a few years. In truth, it took over twenty years to balance the budget, and then only after tax increases under both the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations. Of course, the current President has squandared that, creating record deficits and federal debt in a phenominal looting of the federal treasury which would make a pirate blush.
The Bush years remind me of a bad marriage. She scrimps and saves for years, cutting coupons and balancing the checkbook, finally paying off the credit card debt and leaving a modest researve for the children’s college and retirement.
But just when they’ve turned the corner, the husband decides it’s time to take charge, because he figures he can manage the finances better than she can. Within a couple of years, he’s spent kid’s college funds and the retirement account, and borrowed lots more money to boot, leaving them with barely enough money to make the minimum payments on all the debt. All they have to show for it is empty beer cans, reciepts for luxury gifts given to friends and co-workers, and an expensive home security system which is real inconvient but doesn’t really work.
She takes back the finances, but he argues: “Things were just fine until you took charge! We were having a great time! Now all we get to do is work and pay bills! Besides, it’s all your fault!”
A little gift to the wingnuts:
The Obama tax cut calculator.
http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/
He’s cutting taxes for the middle class more than McSame.
But if you make more than 250 grand a year? Sorry, someone’s gotta pay for Bush’s folly. Bush. Remember him? The chimpanzee you voted for twice? The guy you could hardly find a trace of at the Republicon convention?
The middle class hasn’t had a raise for 30 years.
It looks like Alaska’s media has more balls than does the corporate media in the Lower 48.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3DZZNZFxeI
One day I predict Goldy will want to run for some office somewhere. Maybe city council of Seattle. Maybe he’ll move to a smaller town and run for something there.
All he’s doing by posting things like this is ensuring he’ll never be elected. There are people here who are saving some of the stuff he posts.
Oh, and I don’t mean me. I don’t save anything from here, but I’m sure some do, and are just waiting for the day they can give Goldy’s Republican oppenent some juicy info from Goldy’s distant past.
Steve is trying to peddle Steve’s Stupid Solution to all of us with post#42.
Paul Kedrosky – Liberal Alert Liberal Alert. How do I know? He is linked to by other liberals!
And… Steve used him!
Doesn’t look like libtard MSMer Richard Cohen took the high road on Obama.
“Pathetic.”
“”It’s a real puzzling thing,” Obama said matter of factly. And then he went on to recount his experience as a community organizer, ending with the observation that “I would think that that’s an area where Democrats and Republicans would agree.””
The polls will reflect non-convention reality within about a week or so. Possible less.
Which might get us back to parity, more or less. The question IS why isn’t Obama blowing McCain away? We have rhp6033 above reminding us the current administration – an administration McCain shares a party with – is one of the worst on record. Under this administration we have a highly unpopular – and costly – war; a credit and housing crisis that has expanded into one of the worse financial debacles in decades; and a bad economy that is well on its way to getting only worse with rising unemployment and stagnant wages.
This should be a political gold mine for Obama – yet he’s only running even with McCain.
Something must be holding voters, or at least some voters, back from endorsing Obama.
What is truly pathetic is McCain claiming to be an agent of change when he is identical to Bush on health care, the Iraq war, tax cuts for the rich, abortion and torture (of course, McCain was against tax cuts for the rich and torture before he was for them).
How can Palin be reformer when she supported the bridge to nowhere, brought in more earmarks to alaska per capita than any other state, wrote a cheering memo for earmarks and hired a lobbyist for earmarks when she was mayor, attended and gave a keynote speech to the Alaska Indepence party (successionist traitors)and is currently under investigation for ethics violations for firing the boss of her ex brother in law and hiring a sex offender in the boss’s place…
@53: something called racism
Looks like those polls that seemed to show a bounce for McCain – instead over-represented republicans
LinK:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....25158.html
@55
Congradulations Goldy. You’re number one in something. You have the dumbest people on earth reading your blog. Look at this comment. LOOK AT IT!
This person – this idiot – is saying that anyone who does not vote for a black candidate is automatically a racist.
Speaking of lies – the Obama tax cut calculator shows how much Obama will cut taxes if you put in your approximate income, one or two wage earners and number of dependents.
According to the calculator – I would get a tax cut of about $2,954 undre Obama (not even counting the college tax credits – McCain would cost me at least $70 more – and probably more than that as he will probably increase the payroll (SS) tax.
Here is the link:
http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/
So the McCain statement that Obama will increase taxes is a lie for most Americans only those making over 250,000 single or 500,000 mariied wil have an increase.
How many lies does McCain get to put out there before his credibility is nill?
According to the calculator – I would get a tax cut of about $2,954 undre Obama (not even counting the college tax credits – McCain would cost me at least $70 more – and probably more than that as he will probably increase the payroll (SS) tax.
Here is the link:
http://alchemytoday.com/obamat axcut/
All well and good. However, the Alchemy site gets its data from the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, which provides regular analysis of the Obama/McCain tax proposals. According to their most recent study:
“without substantial cuts in government spending, both plans would sharply increase the national debt. Including interest costs, Obama’s tax plan would boost the debt by $3.5 trillion by 2018. McCain’s plan would increase the debt by $5 trillion.”
See http://www.taxpolicycenter.org.....ummary.pdf
So, Obama’s plan will benefit lower and middle income tax payers much more, but it will still cost our children plenty without offsetting cuts to spending somewhere.
Both candidates leave plenty of room for improvement.
He’s lacking experience and is under qualified.
57. Troll spews:
@55
Congradulations Goldy. You’re number one in something. You have the dumbest people on earth reading your blog. Look at this comment. LOOK AT IT!
Sorry, I skipped a few comments. Was the “Look at this comment” statement referring to your own comment?
(spell checker, btw. May want to update yours)
Is that why hillary got 18 million votes, because half the democrat party is racist.
Of course conservatives won’t vote for obama because they don’t share his political beliefs. The same reason michael steele wasn’t elected in maryland when he was running against a white man. Or do you think all those democrats voted for cardin because they were racists?
Given the stained Republican brand and plain inability of Republicans to govern, and given McCain’s idiotic pick of a paleolithic VP, and given the clear talent of Obama and Biden, the only possible reason that Obama would lose this election is racism. Yeah, I could be more specific and detailed about what I just said, but the long and the short of it is that if Obama loses this election, this nation needs to take a long, hard look at itself. His loss, to a mean-assed bastard and some megalomanical control freak, would mean that we are one helluva long way away from having a color-free society. Any doubters concerning that proposition should read any post by Troll that mentions race. He wears his sheets to bed, just after burning a cross.