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this whole acorn thing is nuts (no pun, lol).....seriously, this man scares me.  i shudder to think what may happen if he is elected into office.  i truly feel as if the american people are being suckered.  so many americans are so passionate about him.  i can't understand this.

Did anybody see that town hall gathering when that guy yelled at McCain saying 'IM MAD, I WANT YOU TO GO GET HIM...........I DONT WANT THIS COUNTRY TURN INTO A SOCIALIST STATE'.  Now that's not a direct quote, just the jist of what he was saying.  These last 2 debates of his reminds me of ME in divorce court......for both divorces.  I was meek and afraid to speak of the truly horrible things the spouses did such as the beatings, cheatings, cashing my child support checks and taking the slut out who went to swinger parties, buying a horse with the child support money and all that sort of wrong doings.    McCain is like me in that he went into his shell and was scared to tell the judge <in that case, the judge was the public>  of all the shiftless crooks Obama has surrounded him with.  Obama's secretary of defense might be Ayers, his Sec of State might be Rev Wright, and the Treasury post might go to Raines.   We all need to go to church every Sunday and Wednesday nite to pray for our country.  If Obama wins, and the polls have him in the lead at this point, I think, we also need to pray for Obama to use good judgement and give him the courage to stand up for the right things to do for all of us as a nation.  This is totally my opinion and mine alone!  For those of you who dont know me except for my posts, maybe now you can see why I'm such a bitch.

I'M WHITE, and I'm not voting for Barack Obama.

To some people, that makes me a racist. Doesn't matter that I would never have voted for Hillary Clinton or John Edwards. The only thing that counts with the people who apparently count these things is that I'm a Caucasian turning my back on the junior senator from Illinois.

Ever since the campaign entered its most frenetic stage, race has become the not-so-secret weapon of the Obama camp, allowing it to both promote the candidate as a historic step forward while at the same time attack his opponents with the bigot label. And the polls say that it seems to be working.

I'm not saying that Obama will win or lose because of the color of his skin. He probably won't. But what Obama supporters have successfully done is skew the national discussion away from the issues and more toward a referendum on race.

The Obama campaign has made it harder to talk about the economy, national security, health care, etc., without dragging in the murky and volatile factor that corrupts every debate.

When John McCain supporters say, "Obama lacks experience," Obama's handlers say that's code for "Do you really want an unprepared black man running the government?" When we criticize his intent to sit down with dictators "without preconditions," they say it means "this black man doesn't really have our country's best interests at heart if he's willing to talk toour enemies." When Sarah Palin criticizes Obama for his ties to William Ayers by saying, "I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist," she's slammed as a racist.

If Colin Powell were on the Democratic ticket, McCain might lose half his base. I, for one, would vote for Colin Powell over McCain in a skinny minute.  It's the candidate, not his color, that turns a lot of us off. Yes, there are bigots - of every color and ethnicity. But they're not the majority by a long shot.

I doubt Obama condones these tactics. As he's said on many occasions, he wanted to transcend race in this campaign. And as a man raised in large part by his white grandparents, I believe him.

But this race thing is bigger than whatever Obama intended. It's taken on a life of its own.

There have been many times during a conversation with an Obama supporter when I've seen a noticeable change in demeanor after they've realized they can't change my vote. Incapable of believing that someone would vote for any Republican post-Bush, even one hated by many in his own party, they whip out that trusty race card.

Interestingly, we're not allowed to acknowledge that the card has two faces. Every time some intrepid pundit mentions the fact that nine out of 10 blacks are voting for Obama, the reaction is swift and furious: Blacks are voting issues, not pigmentation.

I'm willing to believe that's true, especially when you consider that blacks are overwhelmingly Democratic. They've been voting for that way ever since the Republicans forgot it was the true architect of emancipation.Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.

Democrats have long claimed (and often abused) the loyalty of African-Americans, so we would expect that a black Democratic candidate would garner the support of most black voters because they identify with his politics, not just his color. Race is an issue in this campaign. But to accuse supporters of McCain of racism is a slap in everyone's face.

The McCain campaign just released a new ad outlining Obama’s association with ACORN. I wonder why they left out the fact that Obama, the lawyer, represented ACORN in a “motor voter” case in 1995.

So…Obama worked for ACORN, represented ACORN, and hired ACORN.

So much for THIS “Fight the Smears” lie:

angienwgeorgia says ...

When is McCain going to get tough?   My dream team if McCain wins this election would be Rudy Juiliani for Attorney General,  Fred Townsend for Sec of State, and Romney for Sec of Treasury or budget director.  I'd also like to see Gov. Huckabee do something to help the passing of  the 'fair tax' law, not sure how that would fit into that cabiniet!  My first wish of this dream team would be for Juiliani prosecute everybody who took a cut from Fannie Mae and Freddi Mac, then follow up with the alledged association of Obama with Acorn and voter fraud.  He <McCain> has got to get tough at the last debate.  His supporters aren't going to vote for Obama, I dont think, but what if they just choose NOT to vote? To choose not to vote is a vote for the 'other guy'.   

You are my Hero, Love Juliani.  He cleaned up NYC and got rid of the crap.  I hope people do vote and that they do not write in, that is also a waste.  Either way, I think we are screwed.  More so if Obama  comes in.  Did you see that video.  It will happen....

"SOMEONE yelled" off with his (Obama's) head. I didn't realize that one person quoting the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland meant that the GOP was committing a crime against humanity. And one idiot holding a sign that connected our messiah with a terrorist? Yes, there are some GOP nincompoops out there. Does anyone wonder what kind of ignoramuses are on the fringes of  Obama rallies?



And would someone please arrest that "someone" in the crowd who dared depict Obama in a devil mask? A capital crime, it is.



Funny that when the President of the United States is burned in effigy. Or when his advisors are depicted as evil in any number of ways. Or conservatives in general are mocked, demonized, routinely referred to as fascists or authoritarian lovers, or mindless robots - or it is even suggested that Bush, Cheney, and conservatives be rounded up and shot - none of this seems to make quite the same impression on our Guardians of Civility in Politics in the press.



This is absolutely shameless. ALL Americans are mad at the moment. But to characterize crowds that attend McCain/Palin rallies as "mobs" by taking something that one or two fools shout out totally out of context is a deliberate attempt to scare undecided and swing voters into rejecting the GOP candidate. It is a despicable tactic and they should be called out on it.



Where have these people been for the last 8 years? Any kind of hatefilled rant against conservatives or the president appears to be perfectly acceptable to the press. All one need do is listen to Nancy Pelosi's floor speech immediately prior to the first bailout vote. She was accusing the president and Republicans of deliberately starting the economic crisis to satisfy their greed. I don't recall the press getting upset about that little performance.



Nor do I recall reading what one person might have shouted out at a Kerry or Obama rally about Bush or McCain. All sorts of shouts go up at political rallies. And yet all of a sudden - just in time to counter McCain's attack on Obama for his Ayers association - we get this grossly exaggerated, unfair, wildly selective attack on McCain hiding behind crocodile tears being shed because some people are mean to The One!

Yeah, Remember that "movie" that was released right after George Bush took office showing him being assassinated?  It was depicted as George Bush was going to give a news conferance and was shot.  The producer made it look a real news cast.

I am NOT advocating this.  This kind of thing is wrong no matter which cooks do it, BUT...............

Wander what would happen if someone made a movie if Obama is elected and is shown to be assasinated?  A cruel, dispicable thing for the bleeding heart liberals to do against Bush but I guess he was fair game because Bush is a conservative.

Lisa42 says ...

  I am getting angry"

 

perhaps that is the issue....  

P.S     "W."    (the Bush movie) is not Michael Moore...

kayakrn7 says ...

Lisa42 says ...

  I am getting angry"

 

perhaps that is the issue....  

P.S     "W."    (the Bush movie) is not Michael Moore...

Before "W" there was the "'movie" made by Michael Moore depicting George Bush being shot to death during a speech.  It was not a comedy.  It was basically calling for Bush to be assassinated.  It was sick!  Any American should be outraged for some movie to be made depicting the assassination of ANY American President regardless of his/her politics.  Made me ill watching it.

As Chicago (and Illinois, for that matter) reels from a fiscal crisis resulting in a cutback of services and layoffs of thousands, Mayor Daley spends many millions on public relations and image building.



One of the beneficiaries is Marilyn Katz. Where have I heard that name before?  She is a bundler for Barack Obama, a person with a radical past (head of security for the Students for a Democratic Society-SDS-fromm which Bill Ayers' militant Weathermen group splintered).



She was also the principle organizer of the now famous 2002 antiwar rally in which Barack Obama spoke against the Iraq War. And she serves on his finance committee as well as  hosting fundraisers for him and donating thousands of dollars to the cause.



She traveled to the Democratic convention, serving as a member of the credentials committee. She has links to Bill Ayers . She makes herself readily available to provide spin to downplay the Ayers-Obama relationship (see today's superb Chicago Tribune article by the intrepid columnist John Kass):

One friend of Obama and Ayers is former '60s radical Marilyn Katz, now an Obama fundraiser, strategist and public relations maven. She's often a go-to quote for reporters to knock down the Ayers-Obama story.



"What Bill Ayers and [former Black Panther, now U.S. Rep.] Bobby Rush . . . did 40 years ago has nothing to do with [the presidential campaign]," Katz was quoted as saying in the Chicago Sun-Times in April. "[Ayers] has a national reputation. He lectures at Harvard [University] and Vassar [College]."



What that story and many other pro-Obama articles gloss over is that during the violent protests of the 1968 Democratic National Convention here, Katz was the security chief for the radical Students for a Democratic Society. She once advocated throwing studded nails in front of police cars, back in the SDS days when the group was alleged to have thrown cellophane bags full of human excrement at cops and cans of urine and golf balls impaled with nails.



How things change.



Under this Daley, her firm, MK Communications, has many city deals, and one involves public relations for the Chicago Police Department's community policing program. From nails to contracts, the Chicago Way. Apparently, irony was not a '60s thing.



Now, as Daley prepares to lay off more than 1,000 city workers, he's given Katz and other public relations firms five-year contracts that could pay them as much as $5 million each for consulting, advertising and promotion.



Getting in good with Daley hasn't been bad for business. She also lists as her clients Daley's Chicago Housing Authority, Daley's City Colleges, Daley's city Law Department, and Daley's Departments of Aviation, Environment, Housing, Human Services, Planning and Development, Public Health, Public Works, Streets and Sanitation, Intergovernmental Affairs, Special Events—the list goes on.

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT

“DEATH OF A PRESIDENT” is conceived as a fictional TV documentary broadcast in 2008, reflecting on another monstrously despicable and cataclysmic event: the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19th, 2007. The “documentary” combines archival footage and carefully composed interviews, presented in a respectful and dignified manner. Exciting and questioning, it refashions the event into a riveting story.

The film opens with the ferocious energy of a Tarantino or Oliver Stone movie, as frenetically edited archival footage thrusts us into a raging crowd of protesters, waiting for President Bush’s procession. The President is portrayed as a sympathetic and likable man–beloved by those close to him and charming to his followers. As the President gives a patriotic speech inside a hotel, the demonstrators’ fury increases to the breaking point. The tension mounts until the horrible instant where the President is assassinated.

After the assassination, the film shifts into the style of a mystery, and follows the FBI’s hunt for the assassin. All the suspects are interviewed except one ½the Syrian man who is convicted and put on death row. There is much circumstantial evidence against him. But is he guilty of the crime? Or does his being Middle Eastern provide a convenient excuse to label the death of the President as an Act of Terror?

The film's most startling and resonant trick, assembling the heart of its staged reality out of actual news footage.

Early on, there are clips of demonstrators who line the streets chanting ''Chicago hates Bush!'' as the narrator describes a mood of despair that has fermented into chaos and collective fury. Death of a President hits the zeitgeist jackpot; it roots itself in an all too timely mood of souring national rage. The movie, which begins in 2007, shows us President Bush arriving at the airport and addressing the partisan Economic Club of Chicago in a jokey speech that touches on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, then joining a crowd of participants for an informal rope-line meet and greet. The director, Gabriel Range, who has made a number of dramas in documentary form for British television, forges a grainy, newsreel, believe-your-eyes verisimilitude, a technique that works stunningly well right up through the assassination, in which a flash of blood and a subliminal glimpse of the president's crumpling body evoke both the dawn-of-the-media-age horror of the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald and the attempted assassination of President Reagan. A jolting close-up of Dick Cheney as he delivers Bush's eulogy in eerily precise detail will make you wonder how the filmmakers brought it off. (They used a clip of Cheney from Reagan's funeral, digitally fudging a few words.)

Here is the link to this dispicable "documentary" if you can bear to watch it.  Tell me if this doesn't look real.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-383900990793045743

A truly independent site www.judicialwatch.com has some great stuff on many of our elected officials.  It will make you sick and sad.  Please vote wisely.  It is sad that often times we must pick the lesser of the poor choices.

http://www.judicialwatch.org

BethLPN47 says ...

As far as people following Obama like he's God, I look at him as the Pied Piper leading America into the river.  Too many questions about his character, the company he has kept in the past, sitting in Rev. Wright's church for 20 years while he spewed garbage and said "God damn America", etc, etc, etc.  If John McCain was doing this, the blatant liberal press would be all OVER him.  Obama gets a free pass due to the damn media. 

People can bitch about FoxNews all they want but at least I get to hear something besides liberal soundbites from Brokaw and the like! 

Beth, I couldn't agree more....I wish more Americans couls take their blinders off.  I, for one, don't watch any media reports on the election anymore.  I had no idea how one sided everyting was until this election year.  It makes me sick.  ANY TIME a negative is brought out about Obama, it is conveniently overlooked, while McCain and Palin are slaughtered for even the smallest of offenses.