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Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 2 months ago in Political NewsThough she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret. Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as "not like us" is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American.
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Will13131 year, 2 months ago
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Well no he's not like me.. but then again.. I'm probably not qualified to be president.. so that's a good thing...
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and he's not like Palin.. because he hasn't gotten in the the cesspool and swam with HER..
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UnusualSuspect1 year, 2 months ago
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The Republicans are losing the American people with their lousy understanding of the economic situation that now grips our nation, they're probably not getting in the donations they need to do a fair and balanced fight against Obama (hence the reason they're leaving Michigan; I see more states they'll be leaving soon), and they're falling even further behind in the polls: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/
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Is it any wonder that the McCain campaign, thru Ms Palin, is starting this smear?
What's their slogan? "Country First" Ha..."Winning first" is more like it...-
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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The one swimming in the cesspool is Obama.
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Friends with Rezco when he was in Chicago before going to Harvard.
After Harvard he hired into the firm that Rezco used.
Mysteriously all opposition running against Obama in his first election were declared ineligible by not having enough signatures. Something anyone running makes sure they have an excess of.
Kickoff fund raiser at Bill Ayres house.
Served with Ayres on several boards one of which went missing $110 million.
Went to Ayres house on multiple occasions after his feelings that he only wished he had set off more bombs was shown on TV and in the newspapers there.
Fought against the bipartisan effort to stop Chicago corruption.
Voted against born alive babies from botched abortions being kept alive. Just toss them in the garbage alive.
Went to a church and had the pastor as a friend and mentor that is very anti America and racist.
Got a sweetheart deal on his house brokered by Rezco.
Wrote letters to government officials for Rezco.
Voted present almost 130 times.
Stood silent in the senate when the Republicans tried to get better oversight on Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.
You are known by the company you keep and your actions. Looks like a cesspool to me. When I was young the farm I lived on had one so I know first hand what a cesspool is. He has that odor.-
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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Anyone can make false statement without proof but it's called slander. If you have proof of this then present it. If it's from some neo-con site like Limbaugh or Coulter then don't bother because it's a lie.
You chose to believe some rumors from an undetermined source but you refuse to believe that Bush lied to the American people.
Obama voted present? At least he was there. McCain doesn't even bother to show up unless he can get in front of a camera. ROFLMAO-
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Candida1 year, 2 months ago
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Voting present may be the most honorable thing to do when a bill contains a lot of different provisions, some good, some bad, for example when a bill providing funding for the troops contains a lot of "pork," or when a bill regulating banks contains insufficient enforcement mechanisms. It's a balancing act to decide whether the good outweighs the bad, and sometimes they are equal.
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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Rumours????
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These are all well documented things. Which ones are you challenging?
Rezco tried to hire him before he went to Harvard.
When it was posted about his opposition being disqualified a while back the only thing liberals could say was it was his oppositions fault for not getting more signatures.
Some are trying to say that it was not a fund raiser at Ayres house. Is that it. It was just a party? Big difference.
On and on.
Then you accuse Bush of lying. Prove it. First there was the accusations that it was about WMDs. Lately it has changed to a few words about nuclear material possibly being bought. You liberals found the one was a lie so you keep the same charge and go to a different accusation of a lie. That one is just as false. Have to keep saying he lied. I bet you don't even know who made the first accusation to begin with that you liberals picked up that mantra from. The first person lies and everybody swears to it. Pathetic.
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FSU92grad1 year, 2 months ago
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Endo,
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Don't forget his top economic advisor, Franklin Raines who managed to rake in 90 million from the Fannie and Freddie deal...
It seems no liberal will address these accusations...They're more concerned about getting someone with a pulse into power with absolutely no experience, no resume to speak of, only because he's ANYBODY but Bush....
The clowns who are voting for him don't even know what "Change" he speaks of....They can't see past their seething hate for Bush to recognize an imbecile like Obama when they see one....
So instead, the want to put this country in chaos by voting for someone like Osama...
I don't get it...Hek, even Biden believed that Osama wasn't ready for prime-time and insisted that he would run as McCain's VP if asked....
What does that tell the libs when even their own VP thinks Osama is worthless and McCain makes more sense?
And when has Obama or Biden ever stood up to ANYBODY within their own party regarding corruption ? We've got Dodd, Johnson, Raines, Franks, Paulson that need to go because of their greed and corruption....Who do you think is going to do that ? Osama ? LMAO !!!
Pluh-Eaze !! He's part of the problem....
McCain and Palin both have records of standing up to the theivery that goes on in DC and in their own states...And they're not afraid to take on their own....
Obama and Biden are going to be 4 more years of Bush........more than you think and certainly moreso than McCain and Palin are....
Bush spent like crazy and Osama's spending proposal is close to a trillion....But...wait a minute..I thought you libs were tired of all the governmental spending? A trillion dollars ? On what ? And do you REALLY think he's going to be able to get all the money he needs from ONLY taxing the rich ? Do ya ?
You guys are really as dumb as you look......
Look beyond the fluff and rock star status and you will find an empty shell.....Someone who so deadset on obtaining power that he'll lie to achieve it...
And so many of you libs have had the wool pulled over your eyes with this clown, but again, don't care because you want "anybody but Bush"
Careful for what you wish for.....Cuba wanted "Change" too and they ended up with Castro....
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NoWayMan1 year, 2 months ago
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more bullsh*t from FSU.
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Franklin Raines is not and has never been an adviser in any way, shape or form for the Obama campaign.
That ridiculous accusation has already been debunked.
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FSU92grad1 year, 2 months ago
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"And since you don't even know that simple fact, why would anyone read the rest of your nonsense?"
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I guess you should read the rest of my nonsense....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...-
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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The Washington Post made a comment that was taken out of context. Fact-checker has disputed the Post's article and McCain's attempt to to tie him with Obama.
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"The McCain campaign is clearly exaggerating wildly in attempting to depict Franklin Raines as a close adviser to Obama on "housing and mortgage policy." If we are to believe Raines, he did have a couple of telephone conversations with someone in the Obama campaign. But that hardly makes him an adviser to the candidate himself -- and certainly not in the way depicted in the McCain video release."
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FSU92grad1 year, 2 months ago
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Like I said, lfergie....
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It's funny how they stories are being recanted and with the Freddie and Fannie crap happening right now, I'm sure they are scrambling to cover up their tracks....
There has already been subpoena's and an investigation pending, so we'll see how squeaky clean your candidate is and his TRUE relationship he had with Raines....
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MORTGAGE_GI...
These things take time to come out and I'm sure they will
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FSU92grad1 year, 2 months ago
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Yes, I do actually believe Raines is a liar....
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You're absolutely right on that one, lfergie....
And I don't listen to Rush....I'm more of a laura Ingraham and Glenn Beck fan...
What do you listen to ?
Karl Marx's greatest hits ?
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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Ah Glenn Beck. That explains a lot. He's a bigger fruit cake than Rush Limabugh.
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Karl Mark's? No he's not my bag but I'm sure he is a favorite of Karl Rove, George Bush, Cheney, and yes, even McCain.
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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Typical of the left. Always call anything that someone on the right says is a lie. According to you people anything said by the left on the radio is hate speech and lies. Rush is rated by an independent organization that gives him a rating of 97% in getting the facts correct. But he and all of them lie. The people on the right have ethics that are to be truth tellers but you call them liars
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HannibalBarca1 year, 2 months ago
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Well you obviously missed the boat, any poll that gives any politician a 97% approval rating is out to lunch.
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What is so hard for you to understand that comment.
And when it comes to shrub, it will never happen.
Now it seems to me that English must be your third language.
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NoWayMan1 year, 2 months ago
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yeah numbnuts. thats the story that was debunked by the Washington Post's fact checker. and factcheck.org backed it up.
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Michael Dobbs, the WP fact checker, wrote:
"I asked Huslin to provide the exact circumstances of that passage. She said she was chatting with Raines during the photo shoot, and asked 'if he was engaged at all with the Democrats' quest for the White House. He said that he had gotten a couple of calls from the Obama campaign. I asked him about what, and he said, Oh, general housing, economy issues.'"
But that conversation is "pretty flimsy" evidence, Mr. Dobbs said.
>>>>>> "The McCain campaign is clearly exaggerating wildly in attempting to depict Franklin Raines as a close adviser to Obama."
Howard Kurtz, the Post's media writer, said: "(Raines) has never been a close adviser to Obama."
for their lies, the McCain campaign was awarded two pinnochios by the Wash Post.
like I said.
Nonsense.
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sinophil491 year, 2 months ago
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FSU - Bill Clinton already proved that the government income and the country's economy improves when you tax the rich more. In his Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Clinton increased the tax on the top 1.2% of income earners. He lowered the tax on the middle class. He increased the earned incme credit on the poor. He gave 90% of small businesses tax credits.
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What happened is historic.
The tax revenues increased. The budget deficit disappeared. The last 4 budgets passed by Clinton from 1997-2000 brought ever increasing surpluses and the national debt actually decreased.
The reason is that giving money to the rich and the corporations DOES NOT GENERATE JOBS. The rich simply put the money away in investments. The corporatons simply increase their profit and distribute larger dividends to the stockholders.
The middle class and the poor tend to spend more of their discretionary income. So when they have more money, they buy more goods. IT IS INCREASED PURCHASING AND INCREASED ORDERS THAT STIMULATE FACTORIES TO PRODUCE MORE AND THEN INCREASES JOBS.
Supply side economics, Trickle-down economics, voodoo economics, robbing the poor to pay the rich - whatever you want to call it - does NOT work. A Republican lie to shower favors on rich friends and donors.
As far as Franklin Raines is concerned, he talked to Obama or one of the advisors a couple of times. Raines was never the "top economic advisor" to Obama.
You are trying to create the fantasy of a collaboration between the 2, just like Bush and Cheney tried to create conspiracy meetings between Hussein's and al Qaida's officials in Prague. Never happened. Just another Republican lie or fantasy.
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Candida1 year, 2 months ago
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Endoscopy: "You are known by the company you keep"
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Do you also condemn all the Republican Senators and Congressmen because they hung around with the few politicians and administration officials who had to resign or have even been convicted?-
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FSU92grad1 year, 2 months ago
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um, candid camera ?
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resigning officials and congressment are a far cry from known terrorist like Bill Ayers who blew up the Pentagon and later said that "he didn't do enough"....Rev Wright's radical, white-hating, America hating talk is also a major difference compared to what you mentioned above....And yes, you're associations do matter especially when you lie about sitting in a pew for 20 years and saying he never said nasty things like that....Or having someone from your very own camp admitting that Osama and Bill Ayers were still "friends"....
Yes, I would say that is a BIG problem.....Don't you ?
I don't understand why you libs cannot see the disconnect...If McCain had attended a KKK meeting back in his youth 1 time, you libs would crap your pants, biting at the bit, to make sure that bigot never came to power.....
I don't understand why these questions have not been answered and why the media purposely buries their head in the sand on this....
No, they're more concerned about trashing Palin and her family, playing snippets of her messing up, or making her appear that she's this bible-thumpin' holy roller that is somehow going to force EVERYONE to worship God if she gets the VP spot...
Tell me something, candid camera, if Palin is soooooo bad, then why does she have a 80% approval rating ? Are all Alaskans dumb possibly ?
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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"resigning officials and congressment are a far cry from known terrorist like Bill Ayers who blew up the Pentagon"
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Don't you mean the present administration that allowed terrorist to bring down the World Trade Center and Pentagon?? Yep! Bush and Cheney. They are friends of McCain.
"Tell me something, candid camera, if Palin is soooooo bad, then why does she have a 80% approval rating ? Are all Alaskans dumb possibly ?"
Better check the latest news before blowing that horn. Her ratings in Alaska are dropping like a rock.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/artic...-
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FSU92grad1 year, 2 months ago
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Did you read your won article? It said with all the media "hatred" and the smear campaigns aimed at Palin, of course, her numbers are going to drop....
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People like you believe all the crap you read and hear on CNN and the NY Times, so why would alaskans be any different?
Everything from Troopergate (or Taser-gate) to her yougest daughter supposedly being her GRAND-daughter has of course affected her approval numbers.....Before this election and before her VP nomination nobody cared about her and now that she is in this race, of course, the Osama lovin', butt kissin', Democrap wantin' ,liberal media is going to do everything in their power to make sure she doesn't come close to the VP slot in DC and that includes the lies and myths they seem to conjure up out of nowhere...
Funny, that kid, who I thought was a Democrap senator's son, who allegedly hacked into her emails, tried and tried to find some dirt on Palin, but guess what ? There wasn't any.....
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FSU92grad1 year, 2 months ago
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lfergie,
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Just thought of an excellent analogy that would explain why Palin's numbers were droppin as you say they are....
It would be like me standing outside of a restaurant yelling to customers as they walk in that there were rats found in this place and I found a bug in a bowl of soup....I wouldn't eat in there if I were you.....
Now tell me....Would you go into that restaurant after I said that ? Would the popularity of that restaurant dwindle over time with me outside bad-mouthing the place ?
I didn't think so....
The media has destroyed her and her family and people like you believe the horsechit they shovel your direction....
plain and simple....
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sinophil491 year, 2 months ago
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What the heck are you loony neocons doing talking about William Ayers all the time?
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In Ayer's crazy days as a radical, Obama was a kid of 7 or 8. In Chicago, Ayers and Obama worked on educational projects. There were no bombings resulting from the couple of joint educational projects they worked on.
You know. There is a distinct feel of desperation and mean-spiritedness in the attacks you neocons are spewing forth in these lies about Ayers, Wright, accusations about incresed taxes on the middle class.
You guys are feeling the tide in America turn against the Republican hegemony of the past 12 years and the ascendancy of the Democratic banners.
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BillieMaxer1 year, 2 months ago
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Palin like her Repug partners, don't give enough credit to the average American. The people of America have been duped too many times in the last 8 years and I truly believe the majority will not let America down for another 4 years of the same.Sarah Palin is just an act and the American public is having fun with it, but they aren't being fooled by it.
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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Tell me why when anything is said against Obama it is racial.
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I do not like what Obama has done and what he stands for.
Go for it calling me racist. I dare you.
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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I wear that as a badge of honor.
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I was liberal when Johnson issued the war on poverty. It sounded good. then there was all of that legislation. In the 80s I was a foster father in the Detroit metro ares and ran into the problems that well meaning laws had created. ADC destroyed the poor black family life. Food stamps were sold for money to buy booze and drugs. etc. A single act caused major changes for the worse in the way some people lived. That hit me between the eyes. That caused me to rethink about the ability of the government to solve these kinds of problems. They NEVER think about how giving or taking money will make behavior changes in the people affected. Unless that is reasoned out ahead of the time and allowances made to modify the program if things were guessed wrong then I am totally against any welfare program.
Why have the liberals gone from discussing the differences under Eisenhower and Kennedy to today's method of full bore attacking the person instead of exchanging ideas and maybe coming to a better solution by honest discourse. All the hate rhetoric that comes from the left is astounding. It seemed to start under Reagan. The left hate speech was limited then but has grown until most of it is ad hominem attacks.
Why????
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Will13131 year, 2 months ago
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I've checked your profile.. It appears that making the statement about your adoption of bi-racial children some how absolves you of some inner feelings of racism..... or your overt and outright lies to SMEAR someone of color... if you truely understood racial problems.. you would have had the insite to understand the context of Rev Wright's comments.....
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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You are a disgusting foolish person. All you can do is ad hominem attacks. That makes you foolish and the one doing the smear job.
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Notice I gave an opinion.
I do not like what Obama has done and what he stands for.
There is nothing in there about his skin color. It is all in your own mind. I looked at Obamas history and track record in the legislature and Senate and do not like what I saw. That makes me a racist. I have listened to him and gone to his web site and looked at what he proposes and did not like what I saw. This makes me a racist.
I care very much about my children and try to protect them from any racist things. The worst racists they have been exposed to are blacks at a mostly black Boys and Girls Club. My daughter came home in tears because of how those black children treated her. She was an oreo.
By the way you can't read. It says multiracial. They are part white, part black, and part American Indian. They have a target painted on them by all sorts of bigots like you. Black racists hate them and they have already felt that. White racists ate them. Last but not least Indian haters hate them. Three different groups of racists. And you think I don't understand the situation. You are very much a foolish person who only knows how to be a racist by applying that term to others.
You are the racist.
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jordan111 year, 2 months ago
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I'll tell you whose not like me; palin! I wouldn't identify with her on any level, other than we were both born with the same parts. I knew she was a ruthless witch, & her filthy propaganda against Obama doesn't surprise me at all.
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AntiNeoCon1 year, 2 months ago
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Well I don't think the Eskimo Barbie has much clout anymore since people got a real look at her. Maybe a few right wingers worship the ground she walks on but hey, they love Rush Limball too...get my point? Let her rave on, not many are going to pay any attention now. She does make good fodder for SNL I must say.
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miklkit1 year, 2 months ago
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Like that crowd in Florida where most of the people were just coming to look at her? And then the Democrats suddenly had hundreds of people per day coming in to register as Democrats? Tell me. Which way is Florida going according to the polls after that huge rally?
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david_nwpa1 year, 2 months ago
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Governor Palin, whether knowingly or not, appealed to the base fears of the far white-wing, I mean far right-wing of the Republican party. She is exacerbating race as an issue, when it should not, in theory, be an issue at all. John McCain and Sarah Palin represent precisely what is wrong with America today; namely, too many people fall prey to their fears and pandering by political candidates.
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NoWayMan1 year, 2 months ago
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"She is exacerbating race as an issue, when it should not, in theory, be an issue at all. John McCain and Sarah Palin represent precisely what is wrong with America today;"
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exactly.
I think she knew what she was implying. or really, her coaches knew it, since she is obviously just a pull-string doll doing the bidding of her handlers.
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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What a couple of kooks. What she represents is what liberals HATE.
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Devout Christian.
Family values.
Working and raising a family.
Fights corruption.
Cuts spending and fires people who do not get with the program.
Lowers taxes.
Built infrastructure at lower cost. As Mayor built a building the people voted for by raising taxes from 2% to 2.5% while drastically cutting property taxes.
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miklkit1 year, 2 months ago
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This Wasilla resident puts the lie to your opinions. By the way, I talked to a guy who has a condo in Wasilla. He calls her an airhead.
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http://www.crosscut.com/politics-government/17341-
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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That is why she has ratings of well over 80% approval in Alaska. I'm sure there are those who despise her including a former chairman of the Republican party in Alaska. He was fined $12,000 because of her. Hard core liberal Democrats as well probably.
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Beau78901 year, 2 months ago
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Since you only made one claim that was specific and based on facts that can be proven or disproven, it's the only one I'll mention here.
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Speaking of Palin, you said:
"As Mayor built a building the people voted for by raising taxes from 2% to 2.5% while drastically cutting property taxes."
According to the Anchorage Daily News, by the time Palin's term as mayor ended, her town's spending increased by 50% from when she took office.
She also left Wasilla with almost $20 million in long-term debt. For a town of 6,000 people, that's over $3000 each.-
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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If you check your facts you will find that the building was put up for a vote of the public and it was to be paid for by an additional .5% on the sales tax. You will also find that the result of her cutbacks was to reduce the property tax on the people there.
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Beau78901 year, 2 months ago
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If you read my comment, you'll see that I did not dispute your statement about that one particular building, or the sales tax.
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What I did dispute was your implication that Palin is fiscally responsible.
She INCREASED SPENDING BY 50%.
And she left her town of 6000 inhabitants with a $20 MILLION DEBT.
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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But you ignore the basic fact that the citizens of the town decided that they wanted that building. I guess that you think that buildings should be paid for in cash. Is that how you paid for your house? Cash?
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Almost every government uses loans to pay for high cost buildings. You are tilting at windmills. Trying to create something out of NOTHING.-
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Beau78901 year, 2 months ago
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The point is that she is NOT spending within her means, regardless of what the townspeople wanted.
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If you were to put it to a referendum, most Americans would probably vote for the U.S. Treasury to hand a million dollars to each citizen.
That does NOT make it a fiscally responsible action.
It actually makes it a lot more like Bush's pre-election promise to give "rebates" to every taxpayer. In other words, a promise to pay citizens for votes.
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ind061 year, 2 months ago
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Now that's just silly.
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Could you possibly know a single liberal and make such a completely wrong set of statements?
I want a link to liberals hating fighting corruption
I want a link to liberals hating firing people who do not "get with the program"
I want a link to liberals hating building a building the people voted for by raising taxes from 2% to 2.5%
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david_nwpa1 year, 2 months ago
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Why, then Endo, does Wasilla have a 1.5 Million dollar deficit? Why is it a small town is going to be stuck in court for decades trying to resolve land disputes over whether they should have even legally built the ice rink? She fought corruption and stood to build a large natural gas pipeline from Alaska to the lower 48. However, she has not bothered to settle the land disputes for that project either. Hence, it may never become operational. She may be a devout Christian, but what makes you think liberals are incapable or unworthy of also being Christian? That is a sweeping generalization.
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She fought corruption so much, she became a part of it. If she is untainted, then why is she so stubborn about testifying in Troopergate? As GW has claimed, if you are so innocent, then you should have no trouble testifying.
She fired people who did not get with the program all right. Either you are her lackey or you are swiftly unemployed. The Nazi rulers in Germany in the 1930s had a similar policy. Remain loyal, or run a dog sled team in Alaska. Enough with your absurd fallacies and blaming liberals. The people who have raised taxes and spent feverishly have been the Republicans. Most Americans were hit with a huge tax increase to help offset the borrowing we have done from China to make the oil barons rich.
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not2needy1 year, 2 months ago
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Thank God for the fact that i'm not like Palin or McCain. I actually care about people instead of material possessions, and will feed stray animals rather than kill them.
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Sarah Palin is a bigot, i firmly believe that she made the comment "Sambo beat the bitch" when Obama beat Hillary in the primaries, and she's not very good at hiding her bigotry either. McCain isn't a lot better!-
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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What a laugh.
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"I actually care about people instead of material possessions, and will feed stray animals rather than kill them."
She hated people so bad she cut spending and taxes.
She hated people so bad that she fought corruption including taking on people in her own party.
Too many wolves are not stray animals. They will if let run unchecked over kill the Moose and Caribou and then die by starvation. Do you want a few packs of wolves delivered to your door? You could take them in.-
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miklkit1 year, 2 months ago
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Pain raised taxes for Joe Sixpack, and cut taxes for corporate america.
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Endoscopy, you're either lying or you're misinformed.
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Palin didn't cut spending in Wasilla. She increased it by 50%.
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Endo said: "She hated people so bad she cut spending and taxes."
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You mean like the massive pork that was ten times the rate of people from Illinois and the highest in the country? Who would have guessed? And here I thought a fiscal conservative would have cut taxes and spending, but no, that was not what Palin did.
Indeed, in her 20 months in office, Palin's toughest financial decisions involved dickering with the Legislature on creative ways to spend and salt away the billions of dollars in oil revenues pouring into the state treasury.
At times, Palin has been more economic populist than small-government conservative, partly because of Alaska's unique government financing system.
With no statewide income or sales tax, Alaska funds about 90 percent of the state budget from royalties and taxes on oil producers. Soaring oil prices and a higher windfall oil profits tax - an increase pushed through by Palin, now the Republican vice presidential nominee - have state coffers overflowing with petrodollars. The Alaska oil industry calculates that its annual payments to the state doubled in a single year to $10.2 billion.
Windfall oil profit taxes, just like Obama suggested and the McCain and the GOP rejected. What a phony baloney fiscal conservative, but typical. She cut spending about as much as the GOP Congress during the Bush years.
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Surprise: Obama’s taken more money from major oil company employees than McCain
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Through June, Exxon employees have given Obama $42,100 to McCain’s $35,166. Chevron favors Obama $35,157 to $28,500, and Obama edges out McCain with BP $16,046 vs. $11,500. McCain leads the money race with nearly every other top giver in the oil and gas industry, though — Koch Industries, Valero, Marathon Oil, Occidental Petroleum, ConocoPhillips, the list goes on. (You can see detail on all these companies in the spreadsheet linked below.) McCain also has a big edge with Hess Corp. — $91,000 to Obama’s $8,000 — which has gotten some attention. And, overall, McCain’s campaign has gotten three times more money from the industry than Obama’s has — $1.3 million compared to about $394,000.
Comparing Obama’s and McCain’s financial ties to the oil industry, there’s no question that McCain has benefited more from the industry’s contributions, just as his Republican Party has for years and years.
But Obama’s edge with the oil producers Americans know best — and might be cursing most these days — makes it harder for him to continue to tar McCain as the industry’s darling.
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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They had an anti-Palin rally in Alaska with a bigger crowd turnout than Palin got.
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http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/alaska-wo...
And this was verified by Snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/rally.asp
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Mutainia1 year, 2 months ago
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It's easier and easier to called a racist now IF you are white. There was a time where using the N-word would have gotten you labeled a racist. Now it's questioning the motives of a man who is half black OR, being critical of a faith called Islam.
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I'm not convinced that her comments were racist, but it was filthy propaganda. Guilt by association stinks. I've been on a board of directors with all kinds of people. I worked with them, did fund raising with them. I didn't select them, and I have no idea of their backgrounds, nor do I know what they have done since I quit the board. They could be murderers for all I know. Should I be held responsible for their actions? That's ridiculous.
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This whole thing should not be an issue for two reasons:
1. Ayres was a university professor, a respected member of the community, when they were on the board together.
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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Possibly relying on connections that Ayers' wealthy father had in Chicago, Ayers and Dohrn were able to land sinecures in academia.
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Ayers teaches another course, "Social Conflicts of the 1960s" that promotes the agitprop from his and Dohrn's Weather Underground Days. Paulo Freire was also a leading theoretician of Liberation Theology, which advocated that schools be used to promote revolutionary fervor and actions among the "oppressed" -- which in Freire's view included most of the world. Liberation theology is also advocated by Pastor Jeremiah Wright, which he has promoted through his pulpit for decades. While the liberation theology pushed by the Pastor has its roots in the work of James Cone, which fuses liberation theology with the cause of African-American liberation and activism, the work of Freire and Cone draw upon the same conceptual foundations.
Instead of educating teachers to prepare their students for the real world, and to acculturate immigrant children into the civic culture of America, Ayers is helping to create a cadre of teachers who will promote a view that is radically at odds with the mores of most Americans and that is divorced from the traditions of education in America.
A little over 10 years ago, Ayers and Greene were able to get a series of books on education published. Ayers was editor and Green served on the editorial board (with Rashid Khalidi -- a supporter of the Palestinian cause, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University.
Khalidi also has ties with Barack Obama that have been widely reported when journalists cover Obama's extensive support for the Palestinians, most recently in the Los Angeles Times "Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama").
How should teachers teach science, for example? According to one of the books, Ayers and Greene approved for publishing,
"The marriages between capitalism and education and capitalism and science have created a foundation for science education that emphasizes corporate values at the expense of social justice and human dignity." The alternative?
"Science pedagogy framed around social justice concerns can become a medium to transform individuals, schools, communities, the environment, and science itself, in ways that promote equity and social justice.
Creating a science education that is transformative implies not only how science is a political activity but also the ways in which students might see and use science and science education in ways transformative of the institutional and interpersonal power structures that play a role in their lives."-
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Candida1 year, 2 months ago
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Klarissa,
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Aside from the fact that all of what you've written is relevant to Ayers but irrelevant to Obama, I have a few questions. I hope the others will forgive us our digression. You state "Ayers is helping to create a cadre of teachers who will promote a view that is radically at odds with the mores of most Americans and that is divorced from the traditions of education in America."
Later on, you quote from one of his books, in which he explains how science should be taught:
"Science pedagogy framed around social justice concerns can become a medium to transform individuals, schools, communities, the environment, and science itself, in ways that promote equity and social justice.
Creating a science education that is transformative implies not only how science is a political activity but also the ways in which students might see and use science and science education in ways transformative of the institutional and interpersonal power structures that play a role in their lives."
Are you saying that equity and social justice are "radically at odds with the mores of most Americans" and are "divorced from the traditions of education in America"? If that's the case, I'm glad that I don't live there.
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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He thinks science is a political activity.
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no proofs, just yell louder
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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because it is creationist - if you don't believe in the scientific method, but believe that science is a political activity, what do you think started the whole earth thing.
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I believe in the scientific method, but I think that it is POSSIBLE that there is something greater than us human beings out there.
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HannibalBarca1 year, 2 months ago
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Laudem Gloriae
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Zelo zelatus sum pro Domino Deo exercituum
13 March 2008
McCain and PNAC
McCain has surrounded himself with the best and brightest from the now-defunct Project for the New American Century: Randy Scheunemann, one of its directors, is serving as McCain’s top foreign policy advisor. He is joined by PNAC’s founder, Bill Kristol, along with Gary Schmitt (President), Robert Kagan (director), and James Woolsey (signatory).
More than any other group, PNAC has exerted the greatest influence over the Bush administration with regard to foreign policy. In 1998, PNAC sent a letter to President Clinton (signed by the likes of Cheney, Rumsefeld, Wolfowitz, and others) urging him to effect regime change in Iraq because of Saddam Hussein’s so-called development of WMDs. Clinton responded by initiating Operation Desert Fox, bombing military targets over a period of several days to “degrade” Iraq’s ability to produce nuclear weapons.
A mere nine days after 9/11, PNAC sent a letter (signed again by many of the same luminaries) asking that President Bush attack Iraq even if no links to 9/11 were found. The Bush administration promptly proceeded to do just that: according to the testimony of ex-CIA and FBI, every intelligence agent in Iraq was tasked to discover links between Hussein and al-Qaeda. When they came up with nothing, they were ordered to look again. Despite the lack of credible links, the Bush administration proceeded to act as PNAC had requested.
Though PNAC has since disintegrated due to internal conflict (there have been disagreements over the way the Iraq war is being waged and the government’s position towards Iran), its inner circle continues to do its work now advising the Republican nominee for president. McCain, with his talk of an occupying presence in Iraq for upwards of “10,000 years”, his recklessly aggressive attitude towards Russia, his glibness toward Iran, and his rock-solid belief that America must continue to be the world's policeman (a phrase, normally used pejoratively, employed in a complimentary fashion by him), McCain is PNAC’s dream candidate.
Well it seems both candidates like to flirt with unsavoury characters and crooks.
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Candida1 year, 2 months ago
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What you've quoted doesn't show that Ayers doesn't. Besides, I haven't heard Obama endorse unconditionally Ayers's methods.
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From the little you've quoted, it seems to me that he wants to raise social consciousness about science. Developing a vaccine or some other cheap preventive method against malaria is transformative, and so is developing a new class of nuclear weapons, only they transform societies in different ways. Science is not neutral to society, and that has nothing to do with the scientific method.-
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david_nwpa1 year, 2 months ago
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From what I have read, it seems he sees science USING the scientific method to reach a variety of conclusions cannot be VOID of ethical and moral underpinnings. In other words, we can carry on all the scientific experiments we want, but when they cause more harm to people or the planet than good, we need to cease the experimentation. If science can develop a new strain of corn which would help end world hunger, then scientists and agricultural experts should lead the way. However, if said species would lead to an increase in a pest which would kill the wheat crop, then science would need to re-think its strategies.
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Sure, science can and should be part political activity. After all, aren't most scientific discoveries developed only after and because a certain amount of political funds are poured into the coffers of the science institutions conducting the research?
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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Does the phrase "You are known by the company you keep." ring a bell?
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There were TV and news reporting of Ayres proclaiming he was not sorry for what he had done and just wished he could have set off more bombs. Thei was all over the news in Chicago. Ayres was known for this by most people there. Somehow Obama did not leant these things????
Such a tenuous relationship.
Kickoff political fund raising for Obama in his house.
Mayor Daley said they are friends.
Went to his house multiple times.
Worked with him on several boards including one where $110 million went missing and another where Obama chaired the financial half of an Ayres fund raising for college foundation. That one funneled money to Ayres which was a no no.
Very tenuous. Hardly saw each other. I know of a cheap house in sunny Sarasota on Siesta Key. Want to buy it?-
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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Does the phrase "You are known by the company you keep." ring a bell?
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You mean the Keating Five that McCain associated with?
Or maybe you mean Rick Davis that got money from Freddie Mac for work that he didn't do?
Or maybe you mean Phil Gramm who pushed the 1999 financial deregulation bill while he was Chairman of the Senate Financial Committee.
Or Charlie Black who said another attack on the US would help McCain's campaign?
Karl Rove-----enough said
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larrykqc1 year, 2 months ago
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It must be very PC to accuse a truth-teller of being a racist.
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Barack (Barry) was educated as a Musim. Then, he disavowed his religion when Michelle told him he would be more successful as a Christian. He started at his South Side church, but disavowed it when it became public that his pastor was a racist. He took the Arabic name Barack when he disavowed his white up-bringing. His father was an Arab - only 10% african. But, Barack disavowed his race to become more popular as an African-American (he is not).
When a person ignores his race, his religion, his name. and his violent friends - Ayers and Resko, he is racist - one who uses race to overcome another.
Palin, a much stronger person than Obama, was simply telling the truth. obama has no defense. Obama is the racist. He has no abilty but to live in deception. .Someone said that he would be another Carter. His lies are so much more. He will cost his party 50 years of success. Then he will disavow his party.-
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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By Any Measure, Sarah Palin is a Radical Political and Religious Extremist
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It’s hard to believe that the corporate media is headlining Sarah Palin’s warmed-over-from-the-primaries Sean Hannity smears against Obama. But then again, according to the site Think Progress, the Mainstream Media Stand To Receive $1.44 Billion From McCain’s Tax Cuts.
While Palin, as the aerial presidential campaign wolf hunter, retreads disproven slander that Obama was somehow in league with an act committed by Bill Ayers when Palin was in the second grade -- so to speak -- and Obama was also in elementary school, the mainstream press ignores Palin’s extremely radical ties to extremist political and religious movements.
..."Palin Who Pals Around with the Alaska Independence (Secessionist) Party, Gets Blessed by a Nutcase Minister Who Protects Her from Witch Doctors, Listens to Speakers Who Believe Jews are Damned, Calls the Iraq War Divinely Inspired (and More of Unacceptable Anti-American and Extremist Beliefs and Behavior) is Now Following the McCain Effort to Reawaken Old Discredited Smears on Obama. Palin is Just a Rabid Pit Bull. Forget the Lipstick." And that’s not even the half of her UnAmerican beliefs, not even a fifth of them....
...Meanwhile, Palin – who is a believer in a renegade theology called "The Third Wave" that believes God has chosen certain people (her) to lead America into preparation for Armageddon, indeed that her ascension to the presidency is a prerequisite for End Times – is getting the kids gloves treatment from the national press...
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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Do you know which side of the political spectrum radical is?
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Most liberals keep calling conservatives radical. Such ignorance.
Political Spectrum
Radical, liberal, moderate, conservative, and reactionary.
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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You're wrong. It's liberal, moderate, conservative, reactionary, and radical. LMAO
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Try a dictionary!
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radical –adjective
1. of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
2. thoroughgoing or extreme, esp. as regards change from accepted or traditional forms: a radical change in the policy of a company.
3. favoring drastic political, economic, or social reforms: radical ideas; radical and anarchistic ideologues.
4. forming a basis or foundation.
5. existing inherently in a thing or person: radical defects of character.
6. Mathematics.
a. pertaining to or forming a root.
b. denoting or pertaining to the radical sign.
c. irrational (def. 5b).
7. Grammar. of or pertaining to a root.
8. Botany. of or arising from the root or the base of the stem.
–noun
9. a person who holds or follows strong convictions or extreme principles; extremist.
10. a person who advocates fundamental political, economic, and social reforms by direct and often uncompromising methods.
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and the creation of an egalitarian society.
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Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth into a small section of society who control capital, and creates an unequal society.
All socialists advocate the creation of an egalitarian society, in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly, although there is considerable disagreement among socialists over how, and to what extent this could be achieved
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Ratskii1 year, 2 months ago
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Firstly, the school that Obama attended was a regular public school. Claiming that he attended a Madras is factually incorrect. A majority of the students were Muslim, but the Muslim religion wasn't taught there any more than the Christian religion is taught in American public schools.
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sinophil491 year, 2 months ago
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larry - What the heck are you talking about? There are several websites where you can get information on Barack Obama's background. Both Time and Newsweek magazines have printed biographical information on Obama. You are just a ranting, raving idiot.
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Please read something reliable before you post this nonsensical drivel and expose your stupidity to the world.
Barack is the name of his Kenyan father. His mother was a white Christian. Barck did not give up any race or religion. He was searching for a religion and chose the church of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, because Wright was a social activist who used religion to try to improve the welfare of the poor blacks in the Southside of Chicago. That message resonated w/ Obama who deliberately turned down lucrative offers from law firms to work with the poor at a salary of $20,000 per year.
His background of being exposed to white culture when he was raised by his white mother and his white grandparents and being exposed to black culture by - well, being black - puts him a a unique position in American politics to bridge the great divide that still exists between the races.
You do not need to be afraid of a black person being the president of our country, or for that matter, a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Jew, a Catholic, a Mormon, or whatever. Don't be afraid to embrace diversity. -
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djn3nunez31 year, 2 months ago
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Do yourself a favor
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/obama.asp
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slate1 year, 2 months ago
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No one called him a terrorist. Or atleast I never have. It was stated that he has hung out with a known terrorist in the past. In fact, he thouthgt enough of the man to throw his political kick off party in the man's house. I'd say that would denote hanging out.
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WHAT ARE YOU ON slate:
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It was shrub and his economic adviser who got the ball rolling; but yes a former Dem POTUS endorsed it as did a Rep or Dem hopeful.
And there were quite a few Reps that went along with it also, bu you just keep blaming one side;;;but if you looked at it without bias you would see there is very little difference between Dems and Reps, they have been bought and paid for for years. -
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"Dems that just sent 850billion dollars to corporations"
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Read this, it will make you smarter!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/05/60minute...
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Ratskii1 year, 2 months ago
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Wait a second slate,
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If Ayers is a terrorist, how come there isn't a warrant out for his arrest? Why isn't he in custody? He certainly isn't underground -- the authorities could find him easily. I'm not saying I agree with much of what William Ayers has said and done, but isn't calling him a terrorist a bit over the top?
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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Yep, and the more desperate they get, the uglier they get.
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Neocon Desperation Is Showing
The neoconservatives and their Republican allies did all they could after Thursday’ s vice presidential debate to turn Sarah Palin’ s peppy, personable but ultimately goofy performance into a turning point for another four-year lease on the White House.
But there was desperation in the air. Reading the neocons’ glowing reviews of Palin’s upbeat recitation of her talking points was a bit like watching a few diehard fans try to start a “wave” when the home team is hopelessly behind.
Palin may have reminded viewers of a badly programmed Stepford Wife, who lacked fluency on complex issues both foreign and domestic – and kept circling back to scripted talking points that had been drilled into her brain by McCain’s neoconservative advisers, like Randy Scheunemann....
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slate1 year, 2 months ago
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Maybe you guys can help me out how this works.
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• Talking about how Obama kicked off his political career from the living room of an unabashed member of a home grown terrorist group is now considered bigoted and racist?
• Pointing out that Obama told a group in California that Middle America is just a bunch of Bible thumping, gun totting rednecks is now considered bigoted and racist?
• Pointing out his association with a man that helped him secure a sweetheart deal on his house is now considered bigoted and racist?
• Pointing out that Obama was wrong on the surge is now considered bigoted and racist?
• Pointing out that Obama is lying when he now says that he didn’t mean sitting down with the president of Iran without and preconditions is now considered bigoted and racist?
• That pointing out that Obama’s energy policies are flawed is now considered bigoted and racist?
• That Obama is less than truthful when he claims he will cut taxes for 95% of Americans and yet increase spending by a trillion dollars a year is now considered bigoted and racist?
• In fact, ANY and EVERY stance that’s not pro-Obama is now and will be in the foreseeable future considered bigoted and racist?
I appreciate your time to explain these things to me in a non -accusing way, if that’s possible in today’s political climate.-
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ConsAreNonGrata1 year, 2 months ago
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Cons need to stop the propaganda.
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The statement was qualified. I've still been waiting for Cons to explain when "Rust Belt" became a term of endearment.
I'd also like to Cons to explain why we're suppose to accept Palin's qualification of the "fundamentals of the economy are strong" comment, if they refuse to accept the other side's clarification.
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RedstateLib1 year, 2 months ago
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Here is the facts :
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1. If you say anything against Obama you are a racist.
2. If you call Palin a Bi#ch, a CU, a WHO%E or a Prostitute you are just pointing out facts in the best interest of all Americans. But you are in no way a sexist.
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RedstateLib1 year, 2 months ago
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Really
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You should ask Mesodude, Hyperbola and Jordan11 what they call her. The nicest I have heard from them is "witch". If you want to attack her policies that is one thing but a line has been crossed. So if I who does not support McCain choose to refer to Obama a "Prick" who is married to a "total Bitch" that makes me a sexist which is perfectly acceptable with the Obama supporters. After all it is okay to call names based on gender as long as we leave race out of it. Right. So all you republicans feel free to call Obama a "Prick" and Michelle a "ho", a "bitch", a "witch" or a "prostitute". Just make sure you keep the insults gender based and not racial. Oh and please don't forget about Bidens "Trophy Wife" or "Bimbo" she deserves her share of the fun as well. Hey don't Biden's wife and Michelle have young children they are neglecting while the are out campaigning for those Di@kheads they have pimped themselves out to.-
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miklkit1 year, 2 months ago
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Is this a lie?
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http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesme...
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miklkit1 year, 2 months ago
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Here is just one link. There are others. What John McSame has done to the Navajo is criminal.
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slate1 year, 2 months ago
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Let’s talk about racism in the Democratic political machine now.
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Two weeks ago the Dems stated that anyone in their party that doesn’t vote for Obama must be racists.
A few months ago, Bill Clinton was accused of being a racist for not supporting Obama, Jesse Jackson called Obama the N word with impunity.
Over the years Condi Rice and other African Americans that have dared to be Republicans have been attacked with racist rhetoric from the Democratic Party supporters.
A few years ago, the former KKK member Byrd used the N word several times on national TV with impunity.
Obama has used the word cracker to describe white people and threw his family member under the bus and used the racist term ‘typical white woman’.
It seems to me that your own party is just as guilty if not more so of what you are accusing others of.-
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slate1 year, 2 months ago
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Let’s talk about racism in the Democratic political machine now.
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Two weeks ago the Dems stated that anyone in their party that doesn’t vote for Obama must be racists.
A few months ago, Bill Clinton was accused of being a racist for not supporting Obama, Jesse Jackson called Obama the N word with impunity.
Over the years Condi Rice and other African Americans that have dared to be Republicans have been attacked with racist rhetoric from the Democratic Party supporters.
A few years ago, the former KKK member Byrd used the N word several times on national TV with impunity.
Obama has used the word cracker to describe white people and threw his family member under the bus and used the racist term ‘typical white woman’.
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"Two weeks ago the Dems stated that anyone in their party that doesn’t vote for Obama must be racists."
They said this where? And who is the Dems? I'm register as a democrat and I've certainly said nothing like that. I haven't heard anyone else in the party say anything like that either. Are you making this up?
Jesse Jackson is frequently over the top, much as the radical right wingers are.
Um, if Byrd used the N word several times on national TV he certainly should be condemned and stripped of his leadership positions. You don't by chance have a link to that do you?
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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Well Slate, perhaps we need some affirmative action, especially in education, for the small groups Palin claims to represent. Perhaps we could start with Palin herself. Anybody who believes in young-earth creationism at age 46 has shown they missed out on being educated and haven't had enough intellectual power to know surreality from reality.
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Revenge of the Mutt People
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/02/revenge-...
Many years ago I worked at an industrial hog farm owned by the Coeur d'Alene Indian tribe in northern Idaho. The place stank of the dead and rotting brood sows we chopped out of farrowing crates -- bred to death in the drive for pork production. And it stank of the massive ponds that held millions of gallons of hog feces and rotting baby pigs, and every square inch was poisoned by the pesticides used to kill insects that hogs attract and the antibiotics fed to hogs from hundred pound sacks. The Coeur d'Alene Indians refused to suffer those kinds of conditions; they wouldn't even manage the place. They contracted it out. As my friend Walter Wildshoe said: ?Only a white man would work there.? ....
.... My point here is that we rural and small town mutt people by an early age seem to have a special capacity for cruelty, compared say, to damned near every other imaginable group of Americans. For instance, as a child did you ever put a firecracker up a toad's ass and light it? George Bush and I have that in common. Anyway, as all non-whites the world round understand, white people can be mean. Especially if they feel threatened -- and they feel threatened about everything these days...
... About half of the Americans killed in Iraq come from communities like Winchester, Virginia or Romney, West Virginia or Fisher, Illinois or Kilgore, Texas or . . . . About 45 percent of the American dead in Iraq come from communities of less than 40,000, even though these towns make up only 25 percent of our population. These so-called volunteers are part of this nation's de facto draft -- economic conscription -- the carrot being politically preferable to the whip. The carrot does not have to be very big out here where delivering frozen food wholesale to restaurants out of your own car entirely on commission is considered a good self-employment opportunity...-
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You are just plain sick. I have been to many hog farms in Iowa. They have a great odor but none to that garbage you are touting. The hogs have sheds where they can get out of the weather and run around outside during good weather. I have also been to cattle feeder lots. Same thing. I don't know what idiot place you went to but that is way outside the norm.-
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"Maybe you guys can help me out how this works."
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It is not; it is not really what you ask but how you ask it.
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I have had very little contact with Negro's as they are few and far between where I live.
When I do meet one I have never had a problem asking them questions, even stupid ones like "Is it true you can get sunburn ?"or seeing a person with one leg or arm ask him/her what happened.
Most people are OK with questions; if they are asked because someone wants to know.
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"Hey buddy..... can you tell me what the hell just happened?"
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And, then along comes Obama, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Franlin Raines, CRA and ACORN to say, "here's what happened, Buddy. We've been sticking the American economy up your keister for a while... even as you protested... and, now we're going to blame you for it. And, guess what, we've got the mainstream media on our side and we're gonna do it... and, if you try to call us on it, we're going to call you racist... and, we're gonna get away with it! Just look at the poll numbers."
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slate1 year, 2 months ago
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Maybe because that like you, the Obama camp has made it personal for a long time and he's now giving back in kind.
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You have been around and seen the very personal attacks leveled towards Palin yes?
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miklkit1 year, 2 months ago
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Personal? What is personal about Mcsame's public record? Graduating 894th out of 899 is not personal. That is a measure of capability. The adultery is a matter of record. It is a fact that Ross Perot had to take care of McSame's first wife because he wouldn't.
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This is personal.
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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You liberals don't even see the absolute horrid insults and lies told about them. Especially Palin ever since she was chosen. The lying stories on this site where you and other libs had literary orgasms over the lies. Did you ever take anything back after the truth was known it was a lie? Or are you like hyperbola that still believes she banned books in Wasilla.
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miklkit1 year, 2 months ago
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This is part 2. Part one is upstairs a bit.
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She did try to ban books and fire the librarian. that was what the recall was all about.
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As soon as you criticize Obama for consorting with a terrorist Ayers, who beat the rap on a technicality and never paid his debt to society, they play the race card. They even played it against Bill Clinton. It's meant to throw you off the scent of exposing the flaws in the character of a man who would be president and is not qualified. On the other hand they can throw out any smear at Sarah Palin, starting from the claim she didn't carry her last baby and any threat such as gang rape if she enters New York, and that's considered fair ball from their side. Right now the fat is in the fire, we're in the home stretch, and they can take phoney "race" garbage and stuff it. No one's going to be influenced by that in the least.
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As far as Ayers goes he stomped on a flag as late as 200l and Obama knew about it and said not a word. Ayers wife Dohrn praised Charles Manson back in the day and has never apologized. That's the kind of people he associates with, and good for Sarah for not shutting up about it. -
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Why don't you just use REAL INFORMATION if you don't like Obama, and if you think his association with Ayers is unseemly? Why exaggerate? It only hurts your cause.
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I live in Chicago. Ayers does NOT live two houses down from Obama. In fact, they don't live in the same neighborhood.
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lloydm651 year, 2 months ago
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Man I don't believe what I'm reading,Do you believe for a minute a white republican could say,and do what Obama is saying and doing hell I know your not all black,but it sure as hell sounds like it. If a white candidate told a nine year old America wasn't much he would have been booed off the stage if a white man made comments about being careful with the flag,and national anthem,so as not to offend some friends ,William Ayres,and ugly wife comes to mind.Of there's Farrakhan,and Kadafi wouldn't want pi$$ them off,after all they will probably be some of his top advisers.Calling white people raciest from a black stand point is moronic,( that's dumb ass in black speak)at least thirty five percent of whites will vote for Obama.while maybe five percent of blacks will vote fore McCain.
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Hey you have to understand the black mind.I live just out side Dallas Tx. the Dallas ISD overwhelmingly Black ,and Hispanic.But wait they still get all the benifits of the minority.I guess they just can't handle being in the majority,putting with all those white minority folks with one hand doubled up in afist,and the other hand streached out palm up.
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icdou0071 year, 2 months ago
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In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
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While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.
Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from a man in the Hyde Park left to one closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president. OBAMA IS NO SAINT. -
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“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”
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Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.
Obama’s connections to Ayers and Dorhn have been noted in some fleeting news coverage in the past. But the visit by Obama to their home — part of a campaign courtship — reflects more extensive interaction than has been previously reported.
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Well i agree with you 100%.I guess the mccain thinks by putting in those photo shoots and spending 3 days on mccains ranch for 3 days debate camp will make her a Vice president?you remember when hillary was in the race and obama had the numbers they still thought she had a chance.well obama has the numbers and mccain dont
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kitkat591 year, 2 months ago
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McCain is loosing so he is using Palin to do the dirty work, but it will back fire on McCain, the comment that Palin used "he's not like us" sounds to me she is talking about race here. Palin when this is all over and you are heading back to Alaska to face the music up there remember all the toes you stepped on to try and win a race you had no right to be in. McCain people have nothing to offer the people of America so now they are doing a smear campaign not good at all.
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bubba21 year, 2 months ago
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While it is known that Barack Obama and Bill Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood, served on a charity board together and had a fleeting political connection, it's a stretch of any reading of the public record to say the pair ever palled around. And it's wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts.
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mark-stevens1 year, 2 months ago
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What kind of mind would a black person have if not "a black mind"? Blacks have seen way too much for being black.
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Many have family that at least know of lynching stories, denied simple civil rights, or personaly experinced a racist driven incident.
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Georgia501 year, 2 months ago
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Hitler also, like Obama, had goosestepping youth swearing allegiance and gave mesmerizing speeches. And Hitler had no problem with terrorism...just like Obama.
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djn3nunez31 year, 2 months ago
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Goosesteeping Obama youth? Hogwash.
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They did sing a song. Hardly Hitleresque or goosestepping. Obama was 8 or nine when Ayers was playing his anti-Veitnam-war gig. I don't think Bill was palling around with Obama then and I don't think they are palling around now, nor do I ever think they palled around at all.
Ayers is now a repected member of the community. His turn arround is hardly unique in our countries history either. Our founding fathers were called terrorist in many circles too.
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PeterC1 year, 2 months ago
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This is typical. Whenever they can not deflect the truth, they play the Race Card. Nothing Palin said had anything to do with Race. It was also all true. http://opntalk.blogspot.com/2008/10/mass-media-dro...
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djn3nunez31 year, 2 months ago
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There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now "palling around," or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are.
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/05/fa...
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Georgia501 year, 2 months ago
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"WASHINGTON - By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is ‘palling around with terrorists’ and doesn't see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign. And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret."
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Unsubstantiated? Sure. I mean, that's all the koolaid drinkers need to hear, and off they go--their attention span fully sated. Either Douglass K. Daniel is an utter fool when it comes to fact checking, or he knows what responsible fact checking will reveal: Obama's campaign was kicked off by an unrepentant, delusional terrorist by the name of William Ayers.
Ayers is delusional in that he imagines he is entitled to define terrorism for the rest of us. He then defines himself outside his own parameters: I can't be a terrorist; after all, I did not attack civilians. What a novel defense. Bank robbers take note: “Your honor, I plead innocent. By my own definition, I am not a bank robber.”
Let's first obliterate this delusion with an infinitesimal dose of common sense: in a civilized society, society defines criminals, not the other way around. I could stop there, but let's nail this coffin shut for the mindless once and for all: a terrorist is a combatant whose violence is not under color of law or in the uniform and under the flag of a sovereign state and is not intended to expel a foreign invader. Ayers did not operate under color of law. He did not fight in uniform or under a flag. Ayers has never identified a foreign invader of US soil that he was resisting. Ayers is a terrorist. Period. And he kicked off Obama's campaign.
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Georgia501 year, 2 months ago
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Obama, for his part, chose to insult the intelligence of the American people: "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense, George."
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By virtue of this logic, it's ok if--prior to his death--I had a political campaign kicked off by Yassir Arafat, because I was 8 years old when Arafat’s PLO made its first attack on Israel. (Memo to koolaid drinks: that was 1964, 3 years before the 1967 borders that the PLO claimed it was all about.) The only problem is, I don't have an audience, much less one as stupid as Obama can clearly count on to peel the lies off his lips. To further illustrate the inherent contradiction that Obama asks us to mindlessly accept, let's roll the tape back to when Obama was just a young, 8-year-old black kid. Here's what Ayers was up to then:
(Congressional testimony offered by a former Weatherman and Nam vet)..."I objected to leaving the bomb on the side of the building. 'We'll blow out the Red Barn Restaurant. Maybe even kill a few innocent customers — and most of them are black.' Ayers didn't appreciate my remark: 'We can't protect all the innocent people in the world. Some will get killed. Some of us will get killed. We have to accept that fact. That bomb is going to be placed on the side of the building.' He glared at me for questioning his authority."
Obama wants us to think it's ok if he pals around with the very kind of moral filth that would have thought nothing of killing him as an 8-year-old kid out to dinner at the Red Barn with his family.
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Georgia501 year, 2 months ago
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In addition to my points above, note how Obama—being morally bankrupt—paints himself into a catch-22. He refers to Ayers’ past terrorism as “detestable.” Mind you, this term was tossed out for the benefit of the brain-dead lemmings who 1) need only hear Obama use that term to reckon him as one of their own (“See? He agrees that Ayers’ actions as a Weatherman terrorist were detestable. Obama’s one of us. We’re done here.”); and who 2) lack the moral depth to see the catch-22: If Ayer’s actions are truly detestable, why have an association with him? But since Ayers himself does not acknowledge his wrongdoing, to the point of asserting that he’s not even a terrorist to begin with, by what moral tableau does Obama declare the past actions of a current associate “detestable”?
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No liberals. I am not defending the GOP or McCain. Lately I’ve been given little use for either. In fact, the only use I have for the GOP or McCain is to spare the nation the likes of Barack Obama.
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ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago
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McCain/Palin -- just what America needs today, even bigger liars than the Bush administration. Look back at George Bush's campaign promises and what he actually did. Given his newfound love of lying, McCain should be able to do a far worse job than Bush has managed. It's sad to see a once honorable man turned so rotten through lust for power.
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bubba21 year, 2 months ago
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While it is known that Barack Obama and Bill Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood, served on a charity board together and had a fleeting political connection, it's a stretch of any reading of the public record to say the pair ever palled around. And it's wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts.
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Georgia501 year, 2 months ago
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Yes Obama calls Ayers' acts "detestable." How does Obama know that? Did he research Ayers' past? If he researched Ayers' past, he undoubtedly learned that 1. Ayers is a terrorist, 2. Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist, 3. Ayers does not define himself as a terrorist, 4. Ayers' only regret is that he did not set off more bombs and kill more people, and 5. Ayers has never once stated the first regret for the victims of Weathermen bombs.
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Since you are too clueless to add this up, allow me. Ayers' detestable acts, as far as Ayers is concerned, are very much present tense and limited only by his imagination, opportunity, and physical ability. In Ayers' mind and in his own words, he is every bit the terrorist now that he ever was. That necessarily, logically, and emphatically brings Bill Ayers, terrorist, wholesale into October 6, 2008.
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"If Ayers considers himself today to be the same detestable human being he was back then" ...
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You really work HARD to insert words into the mouths of both Obama and Ayers.
If Ayers is so horrible, why is he not in jail and why is he allowed to be involved with organizations that do community work? Who says that Obama has "absolved" Ayers of anything, besides YOU??
You go out of your way to generate hate and lies that are based only on innuendo and not on fact.
So, I have just one more question for you.
If McCain had the same "connections" to Ayers (that you purport) that Obama does, would you be just AS CONDEMNING of McCain?
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Leemck021 year, 2 months ago
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Palin isn't being racial, she is just going by the script the GOP gave her. She is still a communications major doing an assignment. Here command of the facts and issues don't allow her to be real, but by training she is being persuasive. You can take her as serious as any good talker with an educated or natural gift for gab. It's serious that she stumbled in to being a VP of the most powerful military and economy on the planet on a gag. Meet her in a bar and have a very entertaining conversation, surely you will not be short of talk. Truth and facts, well just go to Alaska, cross over the bridge to nowhere so you can step into Russia and have high level talks with their leader. You have got to love the stories, meanwhile coming to your senses to know the nation's future requires something much better than a gimmick. Condi is more of Bush but she is heads and shoulders that this communicator; at least she would have been someone we could believe unlike this one.
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It's now clear what Palin's role will be in the weeks ahead: attack dog.
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Her fear-and-smear demagogic skills, which have been on display from the git, are now officially endorsed by McCain's election cabal.
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For a minute, think about the World, America's customers and investors; their opinion of our market. When think on Palin; whether she is a good attack dog or beautiful pig with lipstick . . . if she becomes VP or possible President in a global economic crisis, do you really, really think those stakeholders will have the same confidence as the lock-step conservative holding the party-line here? This is about doing business. Think of the fallout following the loss of confidence. The minute is up . . . now do you still think the world, that chooses to depend on our financial and military decision making, is ready to trust our system with Palin anywhere near the helm? If you are wrong, this will be a third world country. A poor decision on this one will have greater negative consequences than Obama's race or if he is (LOL) an elitist. What is change? Leadership and global confidence, vote for change.
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Georgia: "If Ayers considers himself today to be the same detestable human being he was back then, who in the hell is Obama to absolve him of being a murderer?"
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So, if Ayers hates himself, Obama can't absolve him of being a murderer?
Wha'? Is this logic? At all intelligible?
Why should O., or any other nonjudicial human have the power to absolve another, unless granted in some fashion by that person, in the first place?
Specifically, O. has never condoned, accepted, or attempted to make-lesser-of Ayer's acts. In fact, he's done the very opposite.
But this is really a false issue--one that salutes the old Repub tactic of fear and smear.
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Georgia501 year, 2 months ago
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Ah. So Obama, believing Ayers' past actions to be detestable, despite the plain fact that Ayers himself does not consider them detestable in the slightest, is in a position to assert that despite those past acts being--in Obama's words--detestable, it's ok for Obama to sit on a board with him, share rules committee responsibilities with him, have his political career launched at Ayers' house, PROVIDED Obama merely places a label on those past actions that Ayers himself hasn't?
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You are quite wrong. For Obama to willingly interact with an unrepentant criminal MEANS EXACTLY that the criminal without remorse has Obama's endorsement without qualification. That you are baffled by the teentsy weentsy moral disconnect the rest of us normal Americans take for granted is your problem.
Hey...don't take my word for it. As the article demonstrates in spades, you Obambies are left with no better defense of Obama's Ayers connection than to label Palin a racist for bringing it up!
Let's just beat the rush and fill in the blanks b/t here and election day, shall we?
"Palin is a racist because she [said or did] _________________________."
Sums up the mental acuity and moral depth of the left rather nicely.
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lloydm651 year, 2 months ago
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Tcaros: the last last we need is low life democrat trying to take a seat from a republican.We have a couple of hundred stupid voters here,( mostly meskins)and their too drunk on election day to vote.We have a few yankees here who will try to vote democrat,then after their man loses they complain about how hard it was to vote in Texas,you know having to stand in line,needing I D and trying to think up an address on the spot.So now they they'll want some carpet bagger lawyer to come here and try to screw us over
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How sad that the Palin / Mac campaign have made the decision to throw this BS dart at the American people with the hopes that it sticks and gets their minds off the crucial issues facing us today. We have lost more than $50k this year alone in the market and they want me to believe an outright lie??? I just hope they keep up this tactic so on Nov. 4th they insure a landslide Obama victory.
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jjcarbon1 year, 2 months ago
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This is not racist at all - it's fact. Bomber Bill Ayers is a terrorist; Obama considers him a friend. Really, what more do you need to know? Ayers and Obama share a common ideology regarding America (an anti-American ideology, mind you), which is why they remain friends. Obama's political career was practically launched in Bomber Bill's living room. No matter how much anyone tries to twist this, the facts are the facts. Don't be fooled by Obama's doublespeak or some misplaced thoughts because you have been lured into thinking he's a good candidate -- he's absolutely not. Obama is a terrible, terrible choice.
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I have just heard on the news about the rush that is NOW going to buy guns in Louisiana and Texas before it is too late to do so. I had not thought about how many rights we will be loseing soon if Obama does walk into the White House. The right to buy guns will be another way this is going to effect all of us. The Demacrats could be in complete control of the Congress and Senate. This will be the perfect dream for the Denecratic party
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jimz4751 year, 2 months ago
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losing more rights with Obama Just heard about the rush going on in Tecas and Louisiana to buy guns before the election. Everybody should think about all the rights we are about to lose if Ocama gets into the White House. He could have the complete backing of the Congress and Senate. There will be no stopping him if this happens. This country can not be beat from the outside but we CAN be beat by the wrong person walking into out Whote house. DONT LET THIS HAPPEN
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gisborne001 year, 2 months ago
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The Republicans are going for another 'threepeat' like they did with Reagan-Reagan-Bush Sr. because of clowns like Al "lockbox" Gore (not to mention 'recount'), John "flip-flop" Kerry, and now Barrack "spread the wealth" Obama... the Libs need to produce better nominees to matchup with outstanding Conservatives...
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Irie821 year, 2 months ago
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All the Republican Party has to do is take a look at itself to understand why they are going to lose in a landslide. Remember their almost "lilly white" convention. Or, how about the tinge of racism Palin fueled crowds with ... or, how about the fact that the Republican Party is 93 percent White ... or, the fact that the extreme neocon "christians" that blindly support them are mostly white .. blah, blah ... yeah, this election is more about the true essence and diversity of America -- one that is nothing like the image many reich wing hyprocrites have of the USA -- the same people who voted in an idiot like George W Bush -- without question the worst President in American history.
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calboilermaker1 year, 2 months ago
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There still remains a question on whether he was even born in the US - so the "un-American" may literally be true ! A "Certificate of Live Birth" that the Obama campaign uses as 'proof' cannot even be used in signing up a kid to play Little League Baseball - let alone an American passport.
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Easy to put this 'conspiracy' to bed - SHOW US YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE BARRY! -
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tgarre58661 year, 2 months ago
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Obamas new cabinet---Rev Wright for Secretary of Defense--Rev Sharpton for Secretary of Treasure---Bill Ayers for Secretary of Education---Farrahkan for Attorney General-----Remove "In God We Trust" from our currency & replace it with either "Wright For Might" or " In The Pope We Hope" ---And away we go, Heaven Help Us--Since Rev. Jesse Jackson refused to support him he will not be able to use the title of "Reverend" any longer since he does not have a church.
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celtwarhorse1 year, 2 months ago
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So what if Palin offended some people. people are offended now by anything you say these days. anyway theres a lawsuit right now against osama for him to produce his birth certificate and he will not comply. his grandmother said she was at the hospital when he was born. IN KENYA. but no matter, our desperate masses will elect him regardless of all the negative facts. the blacks are voting for him just because hes black, but when i say that fact it automatically makes me racist doesnt it? oh well then at least some of us havent become so politically correct that we have emasculated ourselves by being afraid of speaking the truth.
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chalupasrtasty1 year, 2 months ago
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Democrats calling Republicans racist is rediculous. There is much more of a history of racism in the democratic party. I haven't seen fire hoses and dogs being set on anyone in Alabama since Republicans have been in charge. Remember Bull Conner and George Wallace were Democrats.
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One positive thing that can come from Obama being elected would be that the next time Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton or someone of their ilk cries racism we can just tell them to Shaddup and go away!
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aamcobob1 year, 1 month ago
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In 1999 clinton signed a bill permitting sub-prime mortgages. In 2003 bush called for revision of this program. In 2005 mccain reiterated bushes call for reform. It was the liberal part of the democratic party in concert with the ACORN ( Anarchy Crusing Our Republic Now)lobby that by various means
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probably extortion that prevented reform. Remember Barney Frank and Chris Dodd stated that Fannie and Freddie were in great shape.
If you want to blame someone for the current economic problem, look at Frank, Dodd, Pelosi, and Reid. Also, Clinton and his cronnies who ran Freddie and Fannie. -
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jeriestes1 year, 1 month ago
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This is not a fear game this it is fact! Only a nut would discount Ayers and rev.wright. Ayers killed three people and he is not sorry for his actions! He stood on our your countrys flag a few years back and had pictures taken of himself on it. Our children are being killed defending our country at war and you like this nut Ayers. The day of 9-11 he said "he regreated not haveing more bombs". I am a gay democrat and I have never heard such B.s. Ayers is white!!!!Wake up this is not about race. What President in his right mind hangs out at any time for any reason with a murderer that hate's our counrty. Rev. Wright is a joke. Please try and sober up and really look at obama.
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shettdog1 year, 1 month ago
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Carefull what you ask for Obama is going to change Washington right he was a senater for Chicago highest crime rate in the Nation. Poorest education in the Nation how come he didn't fix Chicago more people were killed there then in Iraq.Look it up do your research. You voted for him how come everyone I ask voted for Mcain yet he won how fix and corrupted just like Chicago. You can't blame republicans there has not been a republican in any office in chicgo since 1953 democrat only.
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deafpoppa20011 year, 1 month ago
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Racist is one that is against a specific person, thing, idea, group, product, or system of values.
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I think McCain and Palin made some mistakes.
Biggest mistake was to underestimate the Obama's camp and waste too much time slinging mud and dirt when they didn't even stated what they were going to do for America.
Some of you need to grow up and change for your own sakes.
Having a 20th Century or heck even a 19th Century thinking is so lame. It is a new era in the civilization of USA history.
If you are not the problem, then be the answer!
I was amazed how energy the Republicans exerted on trying to slam Mr. President Elect prior to Tuedsay.
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greyhound71041 year, 1 month ago
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I'm not sure where Mr Aidenag hails from but calling Sarah Palin a racist sounds like the pot calling the kettle....etc. She married an Eskimo (Todd Palin) so, I would think that excludes her from any claims to being a racist. Are you saying she entered some sort of conspiracy to hide she's a racist? You are really stretching it (BS) Mr Aidenag.
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