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- Well, yes, we are smart. And not ashamed to admit it.
Education is an American value, in case you forgot. It is a cornerstone of this country. Ignorance is not. So whether you agree on the same candidate or not, don''t keep spouting the same absurd lies unless you can give a valid source. It just makes you look stupid and shallow and stubborn, and makes your opinion therefore look moronic.
If you wnat to rant in support of a beauty queen (fact) that you had never even heard of a month ago, go ahead. But don''t be mad when people laugh or ignore you All of the campaign rhetoric cannot make her into something she is not....smart.
Peace, peeps. - Reply to this comment
- McCAIN WANTS TO SHUT DOWN ANY MEDIA THAT DOES NOT SIMPLY PRINT THEIR LIES and PROPAGANDA.
The United States under McCain will continue to head toward GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF MEDIA. Why? Because the media is not easily fooled. the Republicans love their authoritarian leaders. People who believe they are above the law and who believe they can shut down oversight or transparency.
McCain Campaign Principles have been borrowed from their historical brethern.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
-- Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler''s propaganda minister
Palin and McCain has raised the art of the BIG LIE to a new level. They lie, cheat and steal from the American people to fund their massive corporate welfare and to preserve their power. Then they simply ignore the law an thumb their nose at lawful subpoenas. They truly believe, like the Nazis, that they can do as they please so long as they can keep the truth from the People.
Shame. - Reply to this comment
- Here ARE some researched FACTS
McCain CAMPAIGN MANAGER RICK DAVIS took MILLIONS from Failed Financial Companies to FIGHT REGULATION OF THE FINANCE INDUSTRY.
Senator John McCain%u2019s campaign manager, Rick Davis, was paid more than $30,000 a MONTH for five years (almost $2 MILLION) as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say.
"The value that Rick Davis brought to the (lobbying firm) was his close access to John McCain", said a number of former associates.
McCain has recently begun campaigning as a critic of the two companies and the lobbying army that helped them evade greater regulation. Incensed by the advertisements, several current and former executives of the companies came forward to discuss the role that Rick Davis, Mr. McCain%u2019s campaign manager and longtime adviser, played in helping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac beat back regulatory challenges when he served as president of their advocacy group, the Homeownership Alliance, formed in the summer of 2000. Some who came forward were Democrats, but Republicans, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed their descriptions. - Reply to this comment
- Bg. Your lies are useless. You know what you say is untrue, but you spread your garbage anyway.
Obama challenged Chicago politics. You say the opposite because it sounds good.
You claim Palin is capable. She can''t even tie her shoes without the McCain campaign doing it for her.
Palin fails at an interview. Says war with Russia is not too bad of an idea. You say she can see Russia from her front door.
Bush doctrine? You say it''s a media trick.
Your people say the media is against them, but they just want to shut the media down because they are showing McCain and Palin for what they are- empty vessels for the elitist right and the ignorant Far Right talk types like you.
LIES LIES LIES
bg is nothing but a parrot for the far right talking points he/she/it has no other knowledge of.
You type well for a monkey. too bad everything you type is just what Rush shoves up your azz. You like it too much to question why . - Reply to this comment
- ok, this is only for the smart people, so feel free to sit this one out if you don''t qualify. From an insightful article in Newsweek -----
"The problem, as far as our political process is concerned, is that half the electorate revels in Palin''s lack of intellectual qualifications. When it comes to politics, there is a mad love of mediocrity in this country. "They think they''re better than you!" is the refrain that (highly competent and cynical) Republican strategists have set loose among the crowd, and the crowd has grown drunk on it once again. "Sarah Palin is an ordinary person!" Yes, all too ordinary.
We have all now witnessed apparently sentient human beings, once provoked by a reporter''s microphone, saying things like, "I''m voting for Sarah because she''s a mom. She knows what it''s like to be a mom." Such sentiments suggest an uncanny (and, one fears, especially American) detachment from the real problems of today. The next administration must immediately confront issues like nuclear proliferation, ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and covert wars elsewhere), global climate change, a convulsing economy, Russian belligerence, the rise of China, emerging epidemics, Islamism on a hundred fronts, a defunct United Nations, the deterioration of American schools, failures of energy, infrastructure and Internet security %u2026 the list is long, and Sarah Palin does not seem competent even to rank these items in order of importance, much less address any one of them." - Reply to this comment
- And no, not all white people are racists. I''''ve seen many black people who display this trait and often. To say that all white people are racist is a racist statement.
Posted by concerned222 at 08:12 PM : Sep 22, 2008
I was being sarcastic. - Reply to this comment
- palins "rallies"----divide by 4 to get the actual attendance.
Posted by sallievoter at 08:07 PM : Sep 22, 2008
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Problem: 70% of Palin voters can''t divide. They just think she''s "nice" and that''s good enough for them. - Reply to this comment
- Sure. Let''s talk about race and lipstick.
This is why America is in trouble. Americans can''t grasp that running this country is more than who can play the game better, or who they want to have a beer with. Americans are afraid to elect someone smarter than they are. Many just want someone they can "relate to". No wonder the Republicans want to see education less accessible. A stupid population is easier to manipulate.
This country is in trouble if Americans don''t wake up and stop thinking of politics as little more than "American Idol". - Reply to this comment
- And no, not all white people are racists. I''ve seen many black people who display this trait and often. To say that all white people are racist is a racist statement.
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- proof, repugs, you need proof for your space alien UFO lies.
and if you can prove any of this absurd stuff you spewabout OBAMA , call the National Enquirer and they''ll pay you $1 million---no kidding. So why on earth can''t you prove your trash talk? because you tell lies, of coursse. Republican 101---lie lie lie, and then lie some more.
Go PROVE IT YOU MORONS. BUT NOW YOU''LL SCREAM ABOUT THE MEDIA AND HOW THEY SHOULD PROVE IT. UM, THEY WOULD LOVE TO GET AN EXCLUSIVE HUGE STORY that smashes Obama, BUT IT JUST ISN''T TRUE, SO NO GO.
SCREAM, YOU SIMPLETONS, ALL YOU WANT.....
but you have zero proof. Liars. - Reply to this comment
palins "rallies"----divide by 4 to get the actual attendance.- Reply to this comment
- Yes, I think Obama has split the country. And I think that neither Obama or McCain can speak without a teleprompter. I''m not sure either one has a personal though without the party officials telling them what to say.
With the last 8 years to reflect upon, the buck stops at the top. Vetos are used lots. No one works with another except to divide the country more. It has to be either democrat or republican and frankly both parties are out of date and out of touch.
I do think that the majority of the American people don''t want what we''ve had for the past 8 years, but I don''t think that Obama is the answer either.
The US is in real trouble, no matter who is elected. - Reply to this comment
" What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
Posted by sallievoter at 07:56 PM : Sep 22, 2008. "
And what if Obama''s Teleprompter failed at 3 AM due to his energy policies.
And what if McCain''s only Executive experience, was working with the Weather Underground and SDS members of ACORN to recruit for the Communist Party, from disadvantaged out of work citizens ?
What if McCain had studied the Sol Alinski "Rules for Radicals" before he became a prisoner in VietNam ?- Reply to this comment
- Palin was in PA. today.Looked like 100,000 people were there.
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Posted by mr22581 at 07:57 PM : Sep 22, 2008
They didn''t take any wide shots...it was actually 300 people. - Reply to this comment
- Why doesn''''t the media focus on the 97% phenomenon instead of looking to criticize white people.
Posted by slayrre007 at 07:53 PM : Sep 22, 2008
Because,........everyone knows that the only racists in the USA are white. - Reply to this comment
- How racism works
What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do" to?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama were a member of the "Keating 5"?
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference. - Reply to this comment
- Lets be honest about this issue. If we are going talk about REAL RACISM in this election....we have start with the 97% of the black vote going to Obama. Right... the color of a person''''s skin shouldn''''t determine how we vote...? Why doesn''''t the media focus on the 97% phenomenon instead of looking to criticize white people. The hypocrisy of the media is never ending!
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Posted by slayrre007 at 07:53 PM : Sep 22, 2008
Beacuse 92% of blacks voted for bill clinton. And he''s white. So your point is irrelevant now. Goodbye. - Reply to this comment
- Speaking of Obama...the man is simply an empty suit elitist who has no history of change to support the BS coming out of his mouth. Amazing how this country can screw up for the 3rd straight election by voting for a fraud like Obama. I may not like everything about McCain but while John was receiving a hard earned education as a prisoner of war, Barack was getting his 20 year education from Rev. Wright. So...who do you trust to put American first...? A man who refused to sell out his country while being beaten every day or a man who adopted an anti-American racist as his personal mentor...?
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- Palin is taking ALL of the week off to study for the debate. Biden is ready to debate now.
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Posted by mr22581 at 07:38 PM : Sep 22, 2008
Fixed. - Reply to this comment
- Lets be honest about this issue. If we are going talk about REAL RACISM in this election....we have start with the 97% of the black vote going to Obama. Right... the color of a person''s skin shouldn''t determine how we vote...? Why doesn''t the media focus on the 97% phenomenon instead of looking to criticize white people. The hypocrisy of the media is never ending!
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