why is it i feel i have to jump into

the shower? i feel dirty and sick and cold

why is caring about OUR earth not a 'republican principle'? holy shite i really DO feel sick inside. i'm not even kidding. putting caring about everything ELSE aside (just for the hell of it). why NOT believe in taking care of OUR earth? why ignore all the warning signs of global warming? why pretend THEY DON'T EXIST? i'm at a loss here. i'm in the state of shock and disbelief - there are people running around who are allegedly 'intelligent' AND 'human beings' who say shite like this

GOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principles

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (CNN) – South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral defeat, blaming the Arizona senator for betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House.

The conservative senator, speaking to a group of GOP officials gathered in Myrtle Beach at a conference on the future of the Republican Party, described how the party had strayed from its own "brand," which, according to DeMint, should represent freedom, religious-based values and limited government............

.................."McCain, who is proponent of campaign finance reform that weakened party organizations and basically put George Soros in the driver's seat," DeMint said. "His proposal for amnesty for illegals. His support of global warming, cap-and-trade programs that will put another burden on our economy. And of course, his embrace of the bailout right before the election was probably the nail in our coffin this last election. And he has been an opponent of drilling in ANWR, at a time when energy is so important. It really didn't fit the label, but he was our package."................

oh and here's the steamin' pile's voting record. don't look at it on an empty OR full stomach

someone is scary

and a giant oozing asshole, but it ISN'T barack obama

once again i am so very sorry i don't believe in hell because i DO believe several people should be burning in it (figuratively NOT literally. i'm not shirely nagel)

can everyone say ebenezer or mr grinch? they're KIDS for goddess' sake you giant pile o' steamin' shite

McCain supporter turns away children of Obama supporters during trick-or-treat
Diane Sweet
A Metro-Detroit Michigan woman refused to give candy on Halloween to children of Barack Obama supporters.

Shirley Nagel of Grosse Pointe Farms gave out treats Friday evening, but only to those who share her support of John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin.

Fox 2 News reports a sign posted outside Nagel's house, about 12 miles west of Detroit, served notice to all trick-or-treaters. It read: "No handouts for Obama supporters, liars, tricksters or kids of supporters."...........

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

verrrrrrrrrrrrry interesting! what d'ya have to say sarevil and johnny? not JUST hanging with "radicals" (i didn't use the word, THEY did) but GIVING THEM MOOLAH



Fact check: Does group McCain chairs have link to Columbia professor Khalidi?

The Statement
The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, on Wednesday, October 29, responded to Republican opponent Sen. John McCain criticism of Obama's relationship with Rashid Khalidi, an Arab studies professor at Columbia University, by suggesting that McCain also had a link to Khalidi. It said, "John McCain should answer why, under his own chairmanship, the International Republican Institute repeatedly funded an organization Khalidi founded, the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, over the course of many years."

Get the facts!

The Facts
McCain and vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin have raised the issue of Barack Obama's relationship with Khalidi, a scholar who has been critical of Israel and U.S. foreign policy. Palin, on October 29 in Ohio, described him as a "radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama going back several years." She also called him a "political ally" of Obama.

Obama knows Khalidi from their days in Chicago, but his campaign says he "has been clear and consistent on his support for Israel, and has been clear that Rashid Khalidi is not an adviser to him or his campaign and that he does not share Khalidi's views."

Since 1993, McCain has been chairman of the International Republican Institute — a nonprofit and nonpartisan group that helps promote democratic practices and institutions across the globe.....................

where have you gone

joe dimaggio the plumber.............

4,000 SCHOOL KIDS????????????? hmmmmmmm. what if they didn't WANT to go? does that mean they had to get 4,000 permission slips signed? not sure i'm actually buying this story. that's a LOT of kids and a LOT of slips to sign. if it is indeed true, it's one hell of a sad tale for juan mccain

McCain Busses in 4,000 School Kids to Fill Crowd
Posted by Sam Stein, Huffington Post

The most cringe-worthy political moment of the day, so far, came when Sen. John McCain called out for his new buddy Joe the Plumber to stand up at a rally in Ohio, only to be greeted with confused silence. Joe the Plumber wasn't there.

But that rally featured another embarrassing moment, one that illustrates a far more troubling dynamic for the Republican ticket. The McCain campaign actually had to bus in school kids from the surrounding area in order to fill the event. As reported by MSNBC:

A local school district official confirmed after the event that of the 6,000 people estimated by the fire marshal to be in attendance this morning, more than 4,000 were bused in from schools in the area. The entire 2,500-student Defiance School District was in attendance, the official said, in addition to at least three other schools from neighboring districts, one of which sent 14 buses...............

a good editorial

in today's wapo

desperate people (mccain and sarevil) do and say desperate things.

An 'Idiot Wind'

John McCain's latest attempt to link Barack Obama to extremism

WITH THE presidential campaign clock ticking down, Sen. John McCain has suddenly discovered a new boogeyman to link to Sen. Barack Obama: a sometimes controversial but widely respected Middle East scholar named Rashid Khalidi. In the past couple of days, Mr. McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, have likened Mr. Khalidi, the director of a Middle East institute at Columbia University, to neo-Nazis; called him "a PLO spokesman"; and suggested that the Los Angeles Times is hiding something sinister by refusing to release a videotape of a 2003 dinner in honor of Mr. Khalidi at which Mr. Obama spoke. Mr. McCain even threw former Weatherman Bill Ayers into the mix, suggesting that the tape might reveal that Mr. Ayers -- a terrorist-turned-professor who also has been an Obama acquaintance -- was at the dinner.

For the record, Mr. Khalidi is an American born in New York who graduated from Yale a couple of years after George W. Bush. For much of his long academic career, he taught at the University of Chicago, where he and his wife became friends with Barack and Michelle Obama. In the early 1990s, he worked as an adviser to the Palestinian delegation at peace talks in Madrid and Washington sponsored by the first Bush administration............

an interesting take on

why someone is NOT voting for mccain (who normally in a new york minute WOULD vote for him)

Why McCain Lost Me

By Anne Applebaum
Yesterday, while reading the latest polling data on John McCain, Sarah Palin and their appeal -- or growing lack of it -- to " independent women voters" it suddenly dawned on me: I am one of these elusive independent female voters, and I have the credentials to prove it. For the past couple of decades, I've sometimes voted Democratic, sometimes Republican. I'm even a registered independent, though I did think of switching to vote for John McCain in 2000. But because the last political party I truly felt comfortable with was Thatcher's Conservative Party (I lived in England in the 1980s and 1990s), I didn't actually do it. The larger point, though, is that if I'm not voting for McCain -- and, after a long struggle, I've realized that I can't -- maybe it's worth explaining why, for I suspect there are other independent voters who feel the same.............

duhhhhhhhhh

why now? why not a day or two after mccain announced her as his running mate. when we vetted her ourselves and found out she was close to being a lamebrain. yes, i mean that. anyone who thinks their jesus thinks it's ok that we're in iraq is a dolt. anyone who shoots wolves from helicopters is as close to the devil in the flesh as they come.

Perceptions of Palin Grow Increasingly Negative, Poll Says

By Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta

Washington Post Staff Writers
While top-of-the-ticket rivals John McCain and Barack Obama both remain broadly popular heading into Election Day, public perceptions of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin have fallen dramatically since she emerged on the national political scene at the GOP convention. A majority of likely voters in a new Washington Post-ABC News national poll now have unfavorable views of the Alaska governor, most still doubt her presidential qualifications and there is an even split on whether she "gets it," a perception that had been a key component of her initial appeal. ..........

yeah but c'mon now, they DID teach her

two names of foreign 'bad dudes' and she actually sort of pronounces them

Sarah Palin Unprepared To Explain What A Precondition Is

by Jed L

Update (5:40PM): Here's a link to the full interview broadcast on tonight's NBC Nightly News broadcast. Note how McCain doesn't even seem to believe himself when he says that he's got Obama and Biden right here he wants them.

oh my goddess

i think he's going FAST now

as i mentioned a few postings ago

many many many that reported on mccain's appearance on letterman omitted a very major exchange between dave and mccain.

sure, the msm included everything about ayers BUT MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY did NOT include a word about dave's asking mccain about liddy. and of course it would follow they didn't report on mccains answer (which he gave after MUCH hemming and hawing and if you didn't think for one second he was dying to deny a relationship betwixt and between himself and what i consider a domestic terrorist, g gordon liddy then you're an id-jit)

dave i love you!

great analysis here

Media Matters: Loose ends

by Jamison Foser
..........................

Until last night, when McCain was finally asked, point-blank, about his relationship to Liddy and the similarities between that relationship and the Obama-Ayers relationship he has attacked so harshly.

Who finally asked the question? The New York Times? The Washington Post? CNN's "best political team on television"?

Nope.

David Letterman asked McCain about Liddy, putting the nation's journalists to shame in the process.

For years, political professionals, academics, and media watchdogs have lamented the fact that some Americans get their news from late-night comedians and other entertainment. As it turns out, that might be a good thing.

Unfortunately, after Letterman broke the media's embargo on questioning McCain's relationship with Liddy, reporters quickly pretended it never happened -- or, if they did mention it, downplayed the significance of the relationship. Time's Mark Halperin described Letterman "hound[ing]" McCain over his Ayers attacks, adding, "The late-night host doesn't let up on where the former Weather Underground leader fits into the campaign." But, inexplicably, Halperin didn't so much as mention that Letterman confronted McCain about his relationship with Liddy. Several news reports that did mention the Liddy exchange described him as a Watergate felon -- omitting Liddy's much more recent statements about shooting law enforcement personnel...............

mary kay green: asskicker

i want this woman on MY side of a fight

ms green is right. you MUST stop this shite. i can understand you may not hear the calls for lynching and the like at your rallies. however, you MUST denounce them. come out and say barack obama is NOT a terrorist and you MUST stop this talk of killing. why haven't mccain and sarevil done this? what are they afraid of?

Grandmother sues McCain for hate speech
David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster
A Kansas City grandmother is suing John McCain and Sarah Palin for promoting hate speech. Mary Kay Green told KSHB that some statements at McCain campaign rallies terrify her as much as the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

"I know the secret service is on this case, but John McCain and Sarah Palin can stop some of this by a statement that they abhor these death threats and will not tolerate them," said Green.

The 66-year-old civil attorney, a lifelong Democrat, claims in the suit that the McCain campaign has intentionally and recklessly portrayed Barack Obama as a terrorist.

Green said, "You have to take these things seriously.".......

Sagacious Rambling: David Letterman grills John McCain (video)

UPDATE: on the huffington post's coverage of mccain on letterman (which you should ALL read by the way, it's GREAT) the article (or one of the comments, i can't recall which) mentions the fact the cnn article about mccain's appearance mentions william ayers BUT IT DOESN'T MENTION DAVE QUESTIONING MCCAIN ABOUT LIDDY (and dave effing NAILED him on it. mccain danced for a bit-said their paths SORT OF crossed - THEN HE HUFFED AND PUFFED AND WHEN HE COULDN'T BLOW THE HOUSE DOWN - HE ACTUALLY SAID THEY HAD A RELATIONSHIP!!!!)

Sagacious Rambling: David Letterman grills John McCain (video)

what with everything else happening INCLUDING MY BELOVED RED SOX WINNING LAST NIGHT, i forgot mccain was going to be on letterman! roschelle didn't forget though

wow this is almost EXACTLY

how i feel. kinda scary

1) the republican choice for vice president is as mr spock would say illogical (i would say bordering on insane

2) barack obama is one smart dude (if you can find it, listen to zappa's rap on not being afraid to be smart. i heard it on the radio on my way home from work yesterday and was floored all over again)

3) barack obama may not have all of the experience of mccain BUT BARACK OBAMA GETS 'IT' WAY MORE THAN MCCAIN DOES

4) why would either of 'em want the job? (yes, i think of this ALL of the time)

5) barack obama cares about education and health care

6) barack obama is not a bitter, angry, dangerously overemotional geezebomb

7) i like barack obama BETTER

an editorial from the wapo

Barack Obama for President

THE NOMINATING process this year produced two unusually talented and qualified presidential candidates. There are few public figures we have respected more over the years than Sen. John McCain. Yet it is without ambivalence that we endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president.

The choice is made easy in part by Mr. McCain's disappointing campaign, above all his irresponsible selection of a running mate who is not ready to be president. It is made easy in larger part, though, because of our admiration for Mr. Obama and the impressive qualities he has shown during this long race. Yes, we have reservations and concerns, almost inevitably, given Mr. Obama's relatively brief experience in national politics. But we also have enormous hopes.

Mr. Obama is a man of supple intelligence, with a nuanced grasp of complex issues and evident skill at conciliation and consensus-building. At home, we believe, he would respond to the economic crisis with a healthy respect for markets tempered by justified dismay over rising inequality and an understanding of the need for focused regulation. ..........

hey mcevil

barack obama is right

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PRO ABORTION MOVEMENT. there is indeed a pro CHOICE movement - which i am proud to say i am a part of

hey mcevil, you're a dick

"health of the mother" (note the quotes. they're mcevil's NOT mine) found via america blog

hold the horses

or in this case THE CELL PHONE TOWERS

uh oh, this doesn't sound quite kosher to me
(wonder if anyone else who's running for prez got one OR TWO porto-cell-towers???????

whatcha think?

Exclusive: Verizon and AT&T Provided Cell Towers for McCain Ranch

BY JAMES V. GRIMALDI
Washington Post Staff Writer

Early in 2007, just as her husband launched his presidential bid, Cindy McCain decided to resolve an old problem -- the lack of cellular telephone coverage on her remote 15-acre ranch near Sedona, nestled deep in a tree-lined canyon called Hidden Valley.

By the time Sen. John McCain's presidential bid was in full swing this summer, the ranch had wireless coverage from the two cellular companies most often used by campaign staff -- Verizon Wireless and AT&T.

Verizon delivered a portable tower know as a "cell site on wheels" -- free of charge -- to Cindy McCain's property in June in response to an online request from Cindy McCain's staff early last year. Such devices are usually reserved for restoring service when cell coverage is knocked out during emergencies, such as hurricanes...........In July, AT&T followed suit, wheeling in a portable tower for free to match Verizon's offer. "This is an unusual situation," said AT&T spokeswoman Claudia B. Jones. "You can't have a presidential nominee in an area where there is not cell coverage."..............

let's just say i used the same logic 'they' used

wouldn't that make mccain a terrorist? wouldn't he be classified as hanging out with terrorists? he hangs with someone who hangs with someone who hung with someone who hung with saddam. so, when barack obama was 8 years old, ayers was being his weather underground self. when barack obama got older, he sat on some committees with ayers and even attended an event ayers sponsored on his (barack's) behalf (a fund raiser i believe).

but mccain's head of his 'presidential transition team' hung with saddam. the man's name is william timmons. mccain hangs with timmons.

william ayers is alive and well and a professor at a university. saddam hussein has been executed with the help of the united states government. soooooooooooooooooooo, who hangs with terrorists and friends of terrorists really?

i'm confused here

Exposed: McCain's Presidential Transition Chief Aided Saddam Hussein

Posted by Murray Waas, Huffington Post

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.

During the same period beginning in 1992, Timmons worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park, on a previously unreported prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil. Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through.

Timmons' activities occurred in the years following the first Gulf War, when Washington considered Iraq to be a rogue enemy state and a sponsor of terrorism. His dealings on behalf of the deceased Iraqi leader stand in stark contrast to the views his current employer held at the time.

John McCain strongly supported the 1991 military action against Iraq, and as recently as Sunday described Saddam Hussein as a one-time menace to the region who had "stated categorically that he would acquire weapons of mass destruction, and he would use them wherever he could."

Timmons declined to comment for this story. An office manager who works for him said that he has made it his practice during his public career to never speak to the press. Timmons previously told investigators that he did not know that either Vincent or Park were acting as unregistered agents of Iraq. He also insisted that he did not fully understand just how closely the two men were tied to Saddam's regime while they collaborated...............

THIS is outrageous

mccain is outraged that someone has the nerve to speak THE TRUTH? that people (not ALL people, not even LOADS of people, but ENOUGH people to make me sick inside) have the 'n' word on the tips of their tongues and dream not of sugarplums but of nooses (oh yes i mean what i'm saying. all that's missing on some of these ....i don't even have words to describe them..... heaping piles o' shite are the white sheets

so mccain i'd worry more about frederick's remarks than lewis' remarks (WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY more about frederick's. i can see the burning cross as i type this)

GOP Head Compares Obama to Bin Laden

Va. Party Leader Criticized, Including By McCain Team

By Tim Craig

Washington Post Staff Writer

RICHMOND -- The chairman of the Virginia Republican Party has compared Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden because of the Illinois senator's past association with Bill Ayers, who has confessed to domestic bombings as a member of the Vietnam War-era Weather Underground.

Virginia Democrats, and some Republicans, are outraged, saying these are the latest in a series of inflammatory statements that the GOP has made against Obama in Virginia, a state that has emerged as a crucial battleground in the election.

According to a report in this week's Time magazine, the Virginia party chairman, Del. Jeffrey M. Frederick (R-Prince William), told Virginia volunteers working for GOP nominee John McCain that Obama and bin Laden "both have friends that bombed the Pentagon.".......

McCain calls Lewis remarks 'outrageous'

(CNN) -- Sen. John McCain said Monday that Rep. John Lewis' controversial remarks were "so disturbing" that they "stopped me in my tracks."

Lewis, a Georgia representative and veteran of the civil rights movement, on Saturday compared the feeling at recent Republican rallies to those of segregationist George Wallace.

"That's not from some, quote, party official, that's from one of the most respected people in America. It's unfair. It's unfair and it's outrageous," he said in an exclusive interview with CNN's Dana Bash.

"I never believed that John Lewis, who is an American hero whom I admire, would ever make a comment of that nature. He even referred to the bombing of a church in Birmingham. That's unacceptable," he said.

Lewis on Saturday said in a statement that McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin "are sowing the seeds of hatred and division.".........

he IS supposed to be making an appearance

this coming thursday night. we'll see, we'll see

i've heard of doing a little favor for a friend

but a multi-million dollar one? an 18 million dollar one? hmmmmmmmmmmm, what up with this? (somehow the bette midler song, 'you gotta have friends' keeps looping through my brain)

McCain helped businessman buy Fort Ord land for a fraction of its market value

JULIA REYNOLDS - MediaNews

MONTEREY -- An Arizona businessman, with help from Sen. John McCain's office, paid the federal government a mere fraction of the market value when he bought a Fort Ord land parcel in 1999, an Army appraisal obtained by The Monterey Herald shows.

Donald R. Diamond, an 80-year-old real estate developer, lobbyist and top fundraiser for McCain's presidential campaign, bought the land for $250,000, though it was valued at $7.2 million, according to Pentagon appraisals made three years before the sale.

He held on to the parcel for a little more than two years before selling it and the buildings on it for an estimated profit of more than $18 million.

When negotiating with the Army over the no-bid sale, Diamond had more than one advantage on other potential buyers. He held a lease on the land that would have made it difficult for the Army to find another buyer. When Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel, later criticized the Army for "giving away" Fort Ord land during the 1990s, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Paul "PJ" Johnson said, "That was a very complicated realignment and closure at Ford Ord." Johnson retired later that month.

But it was McCain's office, as reported earlier this year by The New York Times and The Monterey Herald, that Diamond credited with helping smooth out problems he encountered. At the time, McCain served on the Senate Armed Services Committee.......

.......

Diamond, however, is no ordinary constituent. Besides being a leading developer in McCain's home state, he is a pro-Israel lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and is among the elite "innovators" group whose members have individually raised $500,000 or more for McCain's presidential bid, according to the candidate's campaign Web site.

Diamond also served as national finance co-chairman for McCain's presidential exploratory committee, and in court documents he describes himself as a longtime friend of the Republican senator..................

i get mad too

and sometimes i must admit, i DO overreact. however, I DON'T HAVE MY FINGER ON 'THE' BUTTON. nor will i EVER have my finger on the button.



(found via undercover black man, who i might add, has a wonderful phoebe snow LIVE performance vid on the upper right hand side of his site)