UPDATE:
And apparently, I’m not the only one who has trouble seeing John McCain as an agent of change. According to the latest NY Times/CBS poll:
Despite an intense effort to distance himself from the way his party has done business in Washington, Senator John McCain is seen by voters as far less likely to bring change to Washington than Senator Barack Obama. He is widely viewed as a “typical Republican” who would continue or expand President Bush’s policies, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
And that Palin bounce?
[T]he Times/CBS News poll suggested that Ms. Palin’s selection has, to date, helped Mr. McCain only among Republican base voters; there was no evidence of significantly increased support for him among women in general.
[…] This poll found evidence of concern about Ms. Palin’s qualifications to be president, particularly compared with Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, Mr. Obama’s running mate. More than 6 in 10 said they would be concerned if Mr. McCain could not finish his term and Ms. Palin had to take over. In contrast, two-thirds of voters surveyed said Mr. Biden would be qualified to take over for Mr. Obama, a figure that cut across party lines.
The Times/CBS poll shows Obama leading McCain 48 to 43, which is right in line with the latest Daily Kos/Research 2000 tracking poll, that shows a 48 to 44 margin.
Wow, where is the right wing media accusing him of being a flip flopper?
A conversion of convenience, some will say.
I say this guy will call his wife a cunt and lick his dogs balls on national TV to be conveniently elected.
John McCain isn’t even a sincere faker of sincerity.
I think this and the clip from 60 minutes where he admits his ambition, if widely publicized will be pretty damaging to McCain.
Besides the obvious flip flopper insanity that plagued Kerry that seems to be silent here, what many people liked about John McCain was that he said what he thought and even if you didn’t agree with him, you respected it because he had a solid point of view that wasn’t party line. If he disagreed he said so and you could have a debate about it. It wasn’t stubborn, it was reasoned. I really didn’t agree with a lot of what he said in 2000 but he was clearly a wiser, more reasoned, and respectable candidate that the winner.
Now he’s just saying whatever needs to be said, and it’s just so bloody obvious. When I saw he lashing out at reporters calling them “clear Obama supporters” it almost looked like he was in pain. I wonder how he’d fair on The Daily Show today… Poor guy would probably implode under his own self loathing….
I’d like to see the dog schtick on national tv though… :)
I just did something interesting that I thought I would tell everyone about. I just looked back through the last ten posts on HA where the topic is either bashing John McCain, or praising Barack Obama. One would think that there would be some sort of balance between the two, right? Some posts pointing out why McCain/Palin is wrong for the country, and other posts that point out why Obama/Biden is a better choice.
Wrong!
Of the last ten posts that talked about the presidential candidates, NOT ONE SINGLE POST WAS POSITIVE PIECE ON OBAMA. Every post was some variation of bitching about McCain.
That’s sort of like being up at the alter on your wedding day, and your vows consist of trashing your exes.
If Obama is so great, why aren’t the praising him? Hmmm.
The New Sarah Palin Drinking Game Begins TONIGHT!
GOP VP-nom Gov. Sarah Palin sits down with Sean Hannity over at Fox News tonight for the first of a two-parter. Since we’re not expecting Sean to ask her anything tougher than “Hasn’t the media been hard on you?” let’s make this fun.
Let’s play the Sarah Palin Drinking Game.
Throw back a shot of your favorite beverage every time she says “Sean” during the interview. Keep in mind that she said “Charlie” 18 times during her interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson last week. (A tip of the cap and a promised novena to Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune for counting the “Charlies” from the ABC transcript of the Charliefest.)
Here’s a side bet for the more adventurous: Eat a large pepperoni pizza every time Hannity asks her something that takes her Palin off her talking points. Try not go to bed hungry.
Game time: Tonight at 6 p.m. and again at 9 p.m. on FNC.
This just in: For the first time, Palin answered a question on the fly from journalists this morning at a diner in Ohio. Her response to the AIG bailout:
“Dissapointed that taxpayers are called upon to bail out another one,” she said. “Certainly AIG though with the construction bonds that they’re holding and with the insurance that they are holding very, very impactful to Americans so you know the shot that has been called by the Feds its understandable but very, very disappointing that taxpayers are called upon for another one.”
The Dems, in a burst of creativity, have trotted out their McCain Press Watch, which ticks away the moments since McCain said he would do weekly press conferences (oh, about 34 days ago). (Online clocks are this season’s must-have political accessory.) A separate clock marks how long it has been between Palin’s announcement and her FIRST press conference (18 days and counting).
Once more, because it feels so good to say it: “CHARLIE!”
Drink!
#5
The best thing about Obama is he is not McCain.
@5
HA tends to be a rowdy place to lambaste the other guy.
To follow your church based line of thought, posts on HA praising Obama would be “preaching to the choir.”
Scroll back though the posts and you’ll see HA’s posters giving all sorts of props to all sorts of lefty stuff. That’s the true measure.
Did you guys catch what the telestrator said today. Man that thing and the sock puppet that comes with it were pissed.
#7
“The best thing about my girlfriend is she is not my ex!”
Sounds odd, doesn’t it? Sounds like I have some issues, doesn’t it? Sounds like I’m a person filled with hate, doesn’t it?
That’s how this blog sounds to me. It’s very, very odd I don’t hear anyone explaining what they like about Obama.
By the way, netrooters, this all this McCain/Palin bashing isn’t working, or didn’t you get the memo on that? You candidate just got his message stole out from under him, and he needs to respond, and respond hard. And I said HE needs to respond, not some followers with blogs. But where is he? Why isn’t he fighting back? It’s almost like he doesn’t know what to do now that someone stole his change message. Is that why you’re fighting so hard for him, because he doesn’t know how to do it himself?
I’ve just read over my last few comments, and I hope this doesn’t sound vain, but I am impressed with myself.
@12- Well, that’s one of you impressed.
Silly fool, this is a liberal blog. Goldy and company make no bones about that fact.
Aren’t these financial institutions that are going broke the same ones that Bush and McCain wanted us to invest our retirement accounts in, rather than social security?
Well, that would work out well, wouldn’t it, if you wanted to spend your retirement years working as Walmart’s greeter.
@14
Yes. This is a liberal blog. I get that. I’m a liberal! But it’s curious to me that I don’t see more posts extolling the benefits of an Obama presidency. I would guess that more than 90% of the posts regarding the two candidates are anti-McCain in nature. Doesn’t that strike you as odd? Where are all the pro-Obama posts?
Obama, was a poor kid all his life.
His white Grandma took care of him. How did he get the money to attend IVY league collage? Obama was a nobody within 2 years because the democrat poster child.
Who backed him then and who is backing him today?
Now think about him real hard then think about the state of our country starting with the high price of crude oil and ending with Financial institutions in ruins.
Raising the ire of the WSJ LEAD EDITORIAL????!!!???
That has been the mark of death for many politicians.
Ole Johnny McSame better change his tune.
“Obama was a poor kid all his life.”
Obama was raised in Hawaii. His family were international travelers. Obama’s father attended Harvard. Barack himself attended Columbia and Harvard. His mother was from Mercer Island, which has some of the highest home prices in a five state area. Obama used to do cocaine, one of the most expensive drugs there are.
Tell me again how poor he was.
A McCain victory wouldn’t be altogether bad. This is an election year so Bernanke is cranking the pump handle to prop up the economy for a few more weeks, then it will implode. When it does, things are gonna get ugly, and it might not be a bad idea for a Republican to be in the White House when the shit really hits the fan. That way, the GOP Party will be blamed and it’ll be a generation before they ever win anything again.
Of course, don’t expect Republicans to ever admit they were at fault. Never mind they’ve been running things! A Republican, by definition, is someone who never accepts responsibility.
When I was a young bunny the Great Big Rabbits (aka “parents”) taught me to clean up my own messes. Believe me, they didn’t raise me like Republicans are!
A Republican is someone who, after he completely misses the toilet bowl, will claim the splatter all over the bathroom is the Democrats’ fault — even though no one else has been in the bathroom.
Besides change and hope what else can you say about an empty suit.
Bush, the war and the economy. Only an empty suit couldn’t turn that into a double digit lead.
@19
His mother was a hippy, Hawaii, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.
He did Crack cocaine.
The rest of your spew is garbage.
@ 23
There wasn’t one lie in my @19 comment. All facts.
@23
Prove it.
@24
prove it.
@19
Troll,
Oh, he’s a rich kid that’s why last night’s fund raiser was $28,000 per plate.
Foolish me I thought he was one of us poor saps.
Prove what? He admitted he did cocaine. His father went to Harvard. His mother lived on Mercer Island. They traveled the world. He went to Harvard and Columbia.
Look it up!
All the dems and all repubs together are not worth a pocket full of piss
Hey Troll,
The Palin bounce is over. Now turning into the McSame plunge in the polls. Try reading up.
No one here is impressed with your posts. Not even your side.
@19, 24, 28- you do have facts, troll, you simply deliberately distort them. The mere fact his mother lived on Mercer Island for a time is not evidence she had a waelthy upbringing. Note in the excerpt and link below that at the time her father was an itinerent furniture salesman. Not typcally an occupation one links with wealth. He earned his college degrees with merit scholarships. But then your side does not particularly value intellegence.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....3808.story
“Obama’s mother spent 8th grade through high school here. Four of those five years were spent on Mercer Island, a 5-mile-long, South America-shaped stretch of Douglas firs and cedars, just across from Seattle in Lake Washington.
Her parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham — he was a boisterous, itinerant furniture salesman in downtown Seattle, she worked for a bank and was the quiet yet firm influence at home — moved to Mercer Island in 1956, after one year in a Seattle apartment.”
Spin on, babe.
@28
His mother was a hippy, both attended collage in Hawaii, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.
He did Crack cocaine.
His family was not a world travelers.
Prove me wrong….
As it happens, though, not that long ago we had a rare political moment in this country, a moment where the public sat up and took notice of economic policy — and spoke out and made its voice heard too. When George W. Bush made it to term #2, he decided to try to privatize social security to reward his supporters on Wall Street with a new source of capital, customers, and fees. (Those would be the same people whose firms are now cratering under the weight of the bad debt they recklessly took on while Republican regulators looked the other way). But as it turned out, we Americans were not about to let our elected representatives turn over our social security taxes to Wall Street financiers to gamble with if it meant losing the guaranteed income that has allowed millions upon millions of American seniors to live out their sunset years with at least a basic measure of dignity.
But while ordinary Americans spoke out, John McCain stood with Bush (hugged him awkwardly in public, even), against the American people. In fact, just six months ago, McCain again let slip his fondness for privatization.
By all means, keep drinking.
33:
Idiot.
Thanks for making the Obama argument for me.
Change is coming. Not McSame.
What a moe-ron.
obama 50% honkey 50% donkey
pu 100% jackass
gee where is the fag barnie franfort and chris dood.seems all the ceo of fannie and freddy were why yes dems.gee and chuck shummer blocked reform so every piss ant who wanted a house could have one the dems are the ones who put us here,also the iraq gov just signed a contract with china to help in the oil business the reason the us did not get the contract because 3 democrats blocked the usa from doing business with them until they passed some kind of bill on polution again headed by shummer.you dems are so fucked
donavan and pu, one and the same.
@33
Skip any facts, bottom line who paid for his Harvard experience to smoke Cocaine?
Who is rolling him today?
For starters his backers (advisers) are two creeps one ran Fannie Mae the other Freddie Mac
Both took millions in bonuses. These two plus the Democrat party caused the collapse of the Real Estate and wall street. They should be in jail instead their working for Obama.I worry more about who we don’t see backing this guy.
Here is a good read if you’re interested in some truth.
HEATHER NAUERT: Barack Obama attacking John McCain once again on the economy and the market turmoil today. Our John Gibson has new information on the Democratic presidential nominee and the mortgage mess for us now. What have you got John?
JOHN GIBSON: Alright Heather. Lehman Brothers’ collapse is traced back to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two big mortgage banks that got a federal bailout a few weeks ago. Freddie and Fannie used huge lobbying budgets and political contributions to keep regulators off their backs. A group called the center for responsive politics keeps track of which politicians get Fannie and Freddie political contributions. The top three U.S. Senators getting big Fannie and Freddie political bucks were democrats and number two is Senator Barack Obama.
Now, remember, he has only been in the Senate four years but still managed to grab the number two spot ahead of John Kerry, decades in the senate, and Chris Dodd who is chairman of the senate banking committee. Fannie and Freddie have been creations of the congressional democrats and the Clinton white house, designed to make mortgages available to more people, and as it turned out, some people who couldn’t afford them. Fannie and Freddie have also been places for big Washington democrats to go to work in the semi-private sector and pocket millions. The Clinton administration’s white house budget director Franklin Raines ran Fannie and collected 50 million dollars. Jamie Gurilli, Clinton Justice Apartment Official, worked for Fannie and took home 26 million dollars. Big Democrat Jim Johnson, recently on Obama’s VP search committee has hauled in millions from his Fannie Mae C.E.O. job.
Now remember, Obama’s ads and stump speeches attack McCain and republican policies for the current financial turmoil. It is demonstrably not Republican policy and worse, it appears the man attacking McCain, Senator Obama, was at the head of the line when the piggy’s lined up at the Fannie and Freddie trough for campaign bucks. Senator Barack Obama, number two on the Fannie/Freddie list of favored politicians after just four short years in the senate. Next time you see that ad, you might notice he fails to mention that part of the Fannie and Freddie problem. Heather.
NAUERT: Wow, that’s quite a report, begs the question — where is John McCain on this?
GIBSON: John McCain is a measly $20,000 after over 20 years so he really doesn’t even come close in the political contribution department.
Open Secrets has the list of Congressmen who have benefited from Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac largesse since 1989 (inclusive). Remarkably, after only serving less than four of those 20 years, Barack Obama has vaulted to the #2 position on Capitol Hill. Only Dodd outstripped him. He took more than six times the amount that McCain received in a 20-year period.
The record shows that McCain saw the problem coming and tried to get Congress to act. In 2005, both McCain and Obama served together in the Senate. Did Obama attempt to pass this reform, sign on as a co-sponsor, or even speak out in its favor? The record is tellingly blank.
@38
Socialist Democrat party loves high fuel prices,High food prices,Loss of(American)life in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Collapse of Wall Street and Real Estate markets, Foreclosures are their real joy.
We have a few people in America that want to see these Socialist democrats take over. They say if Barry doesn’t win there will be a war here.
Lock and Load
From the WAPO: “What we are witnessing may be the greatest destruction of financial wealth that the world has ever seen — paper losses measured in the trillions of dollars. Corporate wealth. Oil wealth. Real estate wealth. Bank wealth. Private-equity wealth. Hedge fund wealth. Pension wealth. It’s a painful reminder that, when you strip away all the complexity and trappings from the magnificent new global infrastructure, finance is still a confidence game — and once the confidence goes, there’s no telling when the selling will stop.”
Republican style conservatism is dead. Come November the Republicans are out of power for at least a decade. The wingnuts will continue on with their wingnuttyness, but it will be a long time before the American people forget the damage done in the past eight years by you incompetent corrupt simpletons.
If conservatism returns to power it will be a real conservatism, not the hypocrisy practiced by Republicans, and it will be through a different party.
Politicians Lie, Numbers Don’tAnd the numbers show that Democrats are better for the economy than Republicans.
By Michael Kinsley
Posted Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, at 1:49 PM ET
If you’re wondering why a formerly honorable man like John McCain would build his presidential campaign around issues that are simultaneously beside-the-point, trivial, and dishonest (sex education for kindergartners, lipstick on pigs), the numbers presented here may help to solve that mystery. Since the conventions ended, McCain has mired the presidential race in dishonest trivia because he doesn’t want it to focus on what voters say is the most important issue this year: the economy.
There is no secret about any of this. The figures below are all from the annual Economic Report of the President, and the analysis is primitive. Nevertheless, what these numbers show almost beyond doubt is that Democrats are better at virtually every economic task that is important to Republicans.
There is no secret about any of this. The figures below are all from the annual Economic Report of the President, and the analysis is primitive. Nevertheless, what these numbers show almost beyond doubt is that Democrats are better at virtually every economic task that is important to Republicans.
In other words, there are no figures here about income inequality, or percentage of the population with health insurance, or anything like that. This exercise implicitly assumes that lower taxes are always good and higher government spending is always bad. There is nothing here about how clean the air is or how many children are growing up in poverty. The only point is that if you find the Republican mantra of lower taxes and smaller government appealing, and if you care only about how fast the economy is growing, not how that growth is shared, you should vote Democratic. Of course, if you do care about things like economic inequality and children’s health, you should vote Democratic as well.
Read more at:
http://www.slate.com/id/2199810/
@40.. silly.
If you go to Open Secrets you’ll see that in the 2008 election cycle that employees of Freddie Mac gave roughly $18000 to Obama, and about $28,000 to Dodd. People in Woodinville gave more money to Obama than Freddie Mac.. Google employees gave him $300+k.
None of that data means that Freddie Mac gave the money. If you dig, you’ll see that a computer programmer from Freddie Mac gave $300. Leave it to John Gibson to turn that into a harrowing tale of conspiracy pointing fingers at democrats.
Now if you look closely you’ll see Freddie Mac the company gave $2M+ to lobbyists to lobby particular positions on quite a number of individual bills.
Ah, already preparing for a Nov. 4th loss. Whatever helps you sleep at night, Mr. Rabbit.
Well of course liberals want Obama to win. They’re all on the public dole one way or another, they stand to make out like bandits under an Obama administration. Private sector people hate socialism and despise Obama.
I have ask this many times but I don’t recall any conservative giving an answer.
Where is the world right now, is the culture that most lives the conservative fiscal and social values you want to create here in America?
It doesn’t have to be an exact fit. I’m not going to say go move there. I want to see what a conservative utopia might look like.
John McCain will retake the lead soon.
As soon as he figures out where Spain is.
McCain’s campaign is lurching wildly from one strategy to another, and McCain is changing his positions on the issues almost daily as he sees the opportunity to pander. Two days ago he opposed an AIG bailout. Yesterday he favored it. Most people think he will continue Bush’s policies.
So folks, just as anyone with a brain, including me, said, each candidate got a convention bounce and now the bounces are over.
The fundamentals of the election now are these:
1. The election is now about the economy, an issue on which Democrats hold a large lead.
2. That economic focus makes it impossible for McCain to campaign on his dusty war record or national security issues.
3. Obama made a solid VP pick of a proven, seasoned stateman, while McCain’s VP pick of Palin was (in the view of anyone but a crazed rweligious wingnut) weak and ill-considered and his choice is a secretive bully enmeshed in scandal and ehtics investigations that PREDATE the pick.
McCain=toast
Gallup yesterday:
Obama 47%, McCain 45%
Diageo/Hotline yesterday:
Obama/Biden leading McCain/Palin 45-42%
Rasmussen yesterday:
Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows Barack Obama gaining ground on John McCain for the third time in four days. The race for the White House is now tied with both candidates attracting 48% of the vote.
Ipsos/McClatchy Tuesday:
there’s been some softening of the support for McCain and his running mate, a new Ipsos/McClatchy poll has found. The national survey found registered voters split evenly, with 45 percent supporting McCain, the Republican, and 45 percent supporting Obama, the Democrat.
CBS/NY Times yesterday:
Obama 48%, McCain 43%
@5 Why is Obama great, because he tells the truth and the republicans (McCain and Palin) are serial liars. McCain has lied about Obama’s record on “sex edcution”, on taxes, on legislation etc. Obama has authored over 194 bills – more than McCain in 30 years in politics. McCains big bill was the campaign finance bill – and he broke his own rules. McCain blamed the religious right for torpedoing his campaign in 2000 – now he bows down to them. In 2001, McCain called Bush’s tax cuts for the rich bad for the US. Now he supports them. I would have voted for the McCain of 2000 – I won’t vote for the lying, senile McCain of 2008 who doesn’t know where Spain is, doesn’t know that Iran is not training sunni insurgents and picks and unqualified, lying VP to assuage the religious right. The polls are now starting to reflect the American people becoming fed up with the lies of McCain.
@46: And the economy does so well under republicans? Gee, the free market laissez faire republican philosophy has worked soooo well. Most Americans want democrats elected because:
democrats are not serial liars like McCain/Palin
democrats have not caused the largest budget deficit in history – the last democrat left with a budget surplus of 180 billion dollars.
democrats are not for free handouts to unregulated greedy corporations and would work to regulate and control things before bankrupting the treasury. It was the republicans who wrote and voted for the finance rules that led to this debacle – and Phil Gramm was the author of the bill – and he is the leading economic advisor to McCain.
@40 Care to actually cite where you got this fantasy? the 2005 data show that McCain sponsored NO bills – so that is an out and out lie. In fact, as McCain himself has said – he is against regulation. so where are the facts that McCain foresaw the problems? And what did he do about it? In fact, McCain voted for the DEREGULATION that led to the problem in 1999. I have previously given the link to this – it was a party line vote and Phil Gramm wrote the deregulation bill.
You quote is pure BS and sophistry. You have no datga and no link. Look up the Gramm reform act of 1999 – that was the critical vote and McCain voted for deregulation.
As far as the contributions – Obama is from Chicago – where are most of the Freddie and Fannie employees? You got nothin’ – the question is where did the lobbying money of Freddie and fannie go….and you don’t say.
This is where Obama/Biden pulls away and takes the lead they won’t give up.
We win by 15-20%…
To quote a great man, “bye bye gop”!
How sweet it is!!
http://www.politico.com/news/s...../9246.html
Oops, the troll @40 missed the real lobbying story and the reason why MCain can’t fix the problem is because he and his lobbyist pals ARE the problem.
NoBama was raised by his Grandmother, who was a VP of the Bank of Hawaii for many years. He attended Punahou, the most exclusive prep school in Hawaii, from 1971 to 1979,long before the Ivy League years. So, hippy mom or not, he still has NO CLUE how the rest of us live.
I fail to see how his complete lack of executive experience and the possibility of him being elected President, relates in any way, to the Sarah Palin’s proven executive experience, although short in years, while she is running for Vice President, is even an issue.
McCain’s chief economic advisors:
AND
Yup McCain is really a “reformer” and is against corporate greed – it is just that all his major advisors are against regulation and lobby for the greedy corporations…ooops again.
I still really think McSame is deliberately tanking this election to get back at the fundies.
NOBODY in their right mind could run such a ham-handed trainwreck of a campaign.
Could they?
@55: and Bush had “executive” experience and an MBA – he turned out to be the worst manager ever. Obama has run one of the best campaigns in recent history (beating the insider and favorite Clinton), has authored over 190 bills in congress – more than McCain – and has stayed consistent without lying – unlike McCain and Palin who have lied through their teeth.
Palin’s “proven” executive experience (elected with 500 some votes in Wasilla) and her pathetic job as governor show, once again, that experience alone is not enough. She raised taxes, begged for earmarks, has an ethics investigation on-going, fired someone for not doing her bidding and hired a sex-offender in his place and claims continually to be against the bridge to nowhere whern she was for it. I guess serial lying is a qualification for a republican.
Maaaaaaan…that stock market doesn’t want to go below 10,000.
Bet it does.
Today.
Baaaaaad news for McSame.
Democrats display of rudeness and contempt against the majority of the American people illustrates his weakness and Chicago politics Barry represents. THIS IS NOT CHANGE!
Barry came to the center stage as a new type of politician who said would reach across and get things done for the American people.
His past history in this campaign shows Barry is not a new type of politician never was he voted 45 times for higher taxes against the American people.
He has NEVER stood up against his party. He voted in lock step with Schumer, Pepsi, Maxine Waters, and that Socialist from Vermont.
What you see in Barry today is what we would get if he stole this election.
Here is his latest rant.
“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face,” he said.
“And if they tell you that, ‘Well, we’re not sure where he stands on guns.’ I want you to say, ‘He believes in the Second Amendment.’ If they tell you, ‘Well, he’s going to raise your taxes,’ you say, ‘No, he’s not, he’s going lower them.’ You are my ambassadors. You guys are the ones who can make the case.”
NO CHANGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....e=politics
Nice “Klown Screed” Alex.
Post at “little green barfballs” too?
Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd are most responsible for blocking legislation to regulate Fannie and Freddie.
Oh and coincidentally Jim Johnson (Freddie and Lehman) was the HEAD of O-blah-blah’s V-P search team. Johnson made tens of millions of dollars during the heydays and helped create this disaster. And Raines?? Head of Fannie and O-blah-blah’s trusted financial adviser. What a joke. Raines made $90 MILLLION dragging Fannie down the tubes with his incompetence. Raines finally had to say Fannie’s financials could not be trusted to be accurate!!
Me @ 59…
Ohhh-Kaaay…
Maybe not today.
(boy, if it DID, we’d be in deeeeep shit)
From Rasmussen today:
Obama 48%, McCain 46% as Race Tightens in Wisconsin
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The presidential race continues to tighten in Wisconsin, where Barack Obama now leads John McCain by just two percentage points, 48% to 46%, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state.
Last month, it was a four-point race. A month earlier, in the first poll in the state since Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama had an 11-point lead over McCain 50% to 39%.
Better get the ACORN cheatin’ machine revved up again.
Obama in Nevada yesterday…
Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd are most responsible for blocking legislation to regulate Fannie and Freddie.
Oh and coincidentally Jim Johnson (Freddie and Lehman) was the HEAD of O-blah-blah’s V-P search team. Johnson made tens of millions of dollars during the heydays and helped create this disaster. And Raines?? Head of Fannie and O-blah-blah’s trusted financial adviser. What a joke. Raines made $90 MILLLION dragging Fannie down the tubes with his incompetence. Raines finally had to say Fannie’s financials could not be trusted to be accurate!!
Troll, learn to spell. Collage for college and alter for altar, please.
Have you people never heard of scholarships? If you bother to read Obama’s books, you’d know that he got a scholarship to the prep school in Hawaii (and hanging around rich kids when you are not one of them is no one’s idea of a good time). Also, Grandma had to work like a dog to get VP at the bank- in the book he says how she was passed over time and again for promotions. He, like a lot of us, had to WORK his way through college. No legacy to get into Harvard (his own father went on a scholarship) like McCain had to get into the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis) in 1958 where he graduated 894th in his class of 899.
What do I look forward to in an Obama/Biden administration?
1) the minute he gets elected, that wind you feel blowing? That the sigh of relief you heard from around the world from so many people who hated the direction the U.S. was going in. Obama’s election will signal that yes, Americans do have common sense, do want change, do have the good sense to change direction. Obama is willing to try diplomacy (remember that old-fashioned word?), knowing that cooperation doesn’t come at the end of a gun. (But don’t ever doubt that he and Biden will be naive idiots – they know who our enemies are and that’s why they will work WITH Pakistan to get Bin Laden.) Why should this matter? Because we are in a freakin’ global economy. Because we NEED other countries to trust our word and WANT to work with us. Because we are going to need NATO more than ever.
2)your civil liberties will now actually be respected. We will not be torturing people at GB.
3) Can you say health care? The number one thing we can do to help ourselves is have preventative health care for all citizens. That is how we are going to curb health care costs. You stop problems before they start or get to them earlier. It’s just common sense.
The poll said that 75% of people thought McCain picked Palin to help him win and not for her qualifications.
Obama/Biden in November.
P.S. Thanks Republicans for the craptastic state you have left for them to clean up. And last question, with the craptastic economy we now have, an endless war (and more to come if you listen to McCain and Palin), no real movement in health care or education, just how much worse do you really think Obama and Biden could make it? Oooh, they’ll approve stem cell research and the U.S. will go to hell in a handbasket.
Wow. More bad news for Alaska Republicans.
Alaska State Sen. Lesil McGuire (Republican) was detained after a disturbance on an Alaska Airlines flight on Sept. 4th. Witnesses said that she threw water at flight attendents when they refused to serve her alchohol, and caused the pilot to stop taxing when she kept using her Blackberry to text messages despite being told not to by the flight crew. “Witnesses told police McGuire was rude, used profanity, bad-mouthed the pilots and caused further delay by getting out of her seat.”
Sen. McGuire denies the charges (she claims she merely spilled the water and ceased texting once asked to do so). The authorities in Alaska didn’t file any charges, and the Alaska Airlines crew declined to take any further action after she was removed from the plane.
Sen. McGuire is head of the Alaska Senate’s Administrative Regulation Review and State Affairs committees. She is married to Alaska State Representative Tom Anderson (since 2005), who was recently sentenced to sixty months in prison as part of the VELCO corruption investigation. Before attending law school, she was a intern for U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, who himself is facing charges related to the VELCO investigations.
Oops, forgot to post the link.
Alaska senator accused of causing flight ruckus
@61
Can you have you’re mommy rewrite that for you?
@68
Typical democrat you left out something in your copy and paste.
The Anchorage Republican was not charged with a crime and the law enforcement investigation into the incident is over.
Democrats are all in this for themselves they’re leaving out us Independents.
The rants by them on this blog reflect the horrible mistake they made believing barry would lead them to victory.
It’s too late for them to correct the mistake however, Acorn is alive a well in America if you see them report them to the authorities as nothing they do or stand for is legal as barry sure knows.
English Major @ 70:
Compare and Contrast:
you’re/your
25 words or less. Begin now.
“61. Rujax! spews:
Nice “Klown Screed” Alex.
Post at “little green barfballs” too?
73. Rujax! spews:
English Major @ 70:
Compare and Contrast:
you’re/your
25 words or less. Begin now.”
The two remarks show barry’s supporters lack of integrity and substance. all three of you are losers.
“60. ALEX spews:
Democrats display of rudeness and contempt against the majority of the American people illustrates his weakness and Chicago politics Barry represents. THIS IS NOT CHANGE!
Barry came to the center stage as a new type of politician who said would reach across and get things done for the American people.
His past history in this campaign shows Barry is not a new type of politician never was he voted 45 times for higher taxes against the American people.
He has NEVER stood up against his party. He voted in lock step with Schumer, Pepsi, Maxine Waters, and that Socialist from Vermont.
What you see in Barry today is what we would get if he stole this election.
Here is his latest rant.
“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face,” he said.
“And if they tell you that, ‘Well, we’re not sure where he stands on guns.’ I want you to say, ‘He believes in the Second Amendment.’ If they tell you, ‘Well, he’s going to raise your taxes,’ you say, ‘No, he’s not, he’s going lower them.’ You are my ambassadors. You guys are the ones who can make the case.”
NO CHANGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/17/ politics/p185733D40.DTL&type=p olitics
@74
Alex,their response is correct for the fools who support Democrats they can’t defend barrys lack experience,lack of of vision and their parties failures over the past 3 years of running the government.
I see Fag Jimd is here
Alex @ 72: Are you referring to my post @ 69? If so, you mistakenly referred to it as # 68. You also failed to read the whole post, where you would have seen my statement that:
Considering that’s about 25% of the text in the quote, ignoring that section and then charging that I left out that information intentionally makes you look pretty bad.
So, considering that airlines, police, and federal agents have a pretty low level of tolerance these days for anything that can be construed as “interefering with a flight crew” or “assualting a member of a flight crew”, why was was the matter dropped so quickly? Could it be that Alaska Airlines doesn’t want to incur the wrath of the Alaska Republicans?
Before you reply too quickly, remember that the police report is said to be available to the Alaska papers, and may well be published soon.
@78
Correct I read the headline the did a search.
The post was useless and the headline was bogus.
The bottom line is No CHARGES.
You can speculate all you want just like the seattle times. Go for it!
Dearest Alex-
You are a fucking moron.
Sincerely,
Rujax
Cynical still is posting the same uncited material while correctnotright has cited the lobbyist ties of McCain and the Gramm amanedment vote – gee I wonder who to believe….the cynical troll who never gets anything right or the person who actually cites the sources….tough call, hahahahaha
Cynical still has not explained why the republican mantra of less regulation suddenly does not apply to the financial crisis. Ooops, are we supposed to believe the free market could get us out of this mess? what is amazing to me is how inventive the trolls are – trying to blame deregulation on the democrats and ignoring all of the lobbyists who worked for Freddie Mac and the deregulators like Gramm who are the chief economic advisors to McCain. Guess they can’t spell HYPOCRISY.