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McCain Eats His Loafers


It's been pretty darn easy of late to get sick of and tired of US presidential politics. Seems like we've been in a four year campaign ever since Bush/Cheney/Rove stole a second election in 2004. And let's face a grim fact here; one didn't have to be much of a genius to predict that four more years of Bush would be a disaster in every way imaginable. This crew is so incompetent they could turn honey into shit just by standing too close to it. And that's just about the gist of what's happened. Clinton left them eight unprecedented years of peace and prosperity, not to mention a huge surplus, and what we have now can only be described as a huge pile of poo poo. Talk about the gang that couldn't shoot straight, well, except for Cheney who on a controlled quail hunt managed to miss the quail and instead shot his friend, in the face. Sorta like trying to shoot fish in a barrel, and missing. How typical of this administration.

Personally, I am so sick and tired of American politics in general, and the current presidential election in particular, that I don't know why I even bother to write anymore. For over eight years our like minded crew have been tapping out stories about republican hypocrisy, scandals, screw ups, lawbreaking and just about everything else we once considered anti-American to the point that our fingers are bleeding. Yet after a perfect eight days by Obama overseas under the scrutiny of the MSM and rest of the entire world press, and with McCain suffering foot in mouth gaffe after gaffe with his $520 Ferragamo's, the so-called national polls are calling the race by only a few points in Obama's favor.

In a normal world Obama would be ahead by double digits, triple digits even, but this world has been anything but normal the past seven and a half years. Obama: smart, articulate, good looking, nice family, with a message Americans have been waiting to hear. McCain: he's a worse speaker than Bush if that's possible. You can put lipstick on him, dress him up in fancy loafers, herd him out in front of loyal repub crowds and he still comes off as a complete dufus. Even the rare sane repubs are questioning his performance which only makes me wonder why this race is so close.

If Barack Obama was white and his name was John Smith, is it possible he'd be ahead by 35 points? Of course it's a race issue. Barak Obama's skin color and name shouldn't be under scrutiny, the intelligence of the American voting populace is the real issue.

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Jon Stewart, Britney, Paris and Obama - McCain Down Low




Oh no the race card!  Gosh...

Britney, Paris and ObamaPolitics is  becoming more and more like religion. [Or I am just recently becoming aware of that]  It is so much about believing only what we want to believe while we will openly accept lies knowing they are lies and not caring.

Not long ago the Obama Campaign managed to get black people (and many others) to believe that Bill and Hillary Clinton were racists when they are perhaps the least racist white couple in America. So now Republicans who are indeed the most racist white people in America get a free ride. Obama saying he doesn't look like the fellows on our paper money was enough for the McCain campaign to scream and holler "race card!" And though wrong it doesn't matter, Obama's polls sink. Lies on the front end override the backlash on the tail end, putting the lies in the win column.  

Not only does this Carl Rove negative ad campaigning John McCain has bought into work, but lying about it works even better. The Swift Boat ads from last election were well funded lies and they were known to be lies at the time but that did not matter, they worked. 

So what can we learn from all this?

McCain was brainwashed by Marxist Chinamen for 5 years in a prison camp in Hanoi. He is now one of their agents which they will use to destroy capitalism and democracy throughout the world.  Yeah, that's it...  McCain is a brainwashed communist agent! As soon as the Queen of Diamonds appears its all over friends!

Lets go with it... Come on... hurry up... Please don't give me any of that ELECTION LOSER crap about honesty, integrity, and being above such things!

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Jon Stewart interivews Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi




Jon should have pressed the DRILL issue. 80% of Americans want us to drill for oil everywhere possible! And they are mad! And they vote!  Pass legislation to drill everywhere or lose this election to John McCain... I'm telling ya Nanc... Do it NOW! You can always tell them to stop drilling later... The GOP just recently realized this is their only winning issue and they are going to turn the propaganda machine up to 11 on this. And they are good at what they do.  

Obama! Press Conference NOW TODAY!  To drill for oil everywhere.  NOW!  Gosh... this is just a no brainer... Everything is now related to those numbers rolling up on that pump. EVERYTHING! What is this? You think voting is relegated to only rocket scientists... And ever rocket scientist want to drill in the park!   I am just amazed by this.. On America's MOST HATED LIST, "environmentalist whacko" is second only to "al Queda".

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McCain Feel the Excitement


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Barack Obama John McCain Poll numbers Disconnect is DRILLING


The pundits are having trouble explaining why Barack Obama is only 5 points ahead in favorable ratings in the national polls when issues are broken down individually show Obama not only ahead by 10 to 20 points, but also with numbers favoring Democrats over Republicans even higher. So the question is why McCain is as close as he is.
One silly thing about these polls is Fox News. 

The big polling places give Obama a +6 but Fox News gives him a +1. Which drops the average down to about +4. RCP Polling

There is something to the Fox News poll that the professional polling places are leaving out. The Bradley Effect which concerns how those questioned in polls lie about their racial tolerance. I would guess that difference would be at about 5%. The same number Fox News has come to terms with. After all, Fox marketing understands full well the racist nature and attitudes of their audience, which is the largest news audience in America. 

So now we have further increased the disconnect!  Oh no! Both party and issues put John McCain 20 points behind but now factoring in the Bradley Effect it's a toss up. 

So what is it?

Well, it is partly that flag waving lapel pin wearing jingoism, along with respect for tenure and age over the young whippersnapper and a bit of that Americana of liking hot headed cowboys as long as they are funny when they are shooting. But that's not the problem in the here and now.

Remember we are dealing with the American voter. The only people who  say they are intelligent are those looking for votes, those who are supported by advertising, or are the parachoial God fearing nitwits themselves. The rest of us understand full well this drawer for the dull knives and loaded guns are so easily manipulated by those with the most money that they will accept anything they WISH to believe. Remember, the majoirity of American voters believe in Creationism over Evolution. Democracy has been redefined as money driven media concensus. 

In this case it is DRILLING! Just like when the peanuts stop arriving on monkey island, or the dinner bell rings in  Pavlov's lab, the numbers rolling up on that gas pump causes reason to wane and saliva to build.

Drill at South Beach!
Drill in the Hamptons!
Drill in Malibu! 
Drill the Great Lakes! 
Drill on top of Old Faithful!


Come on Barack! Come on Nancy! Come on Harry!  Democrats! You are going to lose this election over this!

It has been embedded into us for a generation, it's the key to the conservative propaganda machine since Rush Limbaugh appeared in 1988. This is the RNC and the GOP and the conservative movements' WINNING ISSUE! Environmental Whackos who are green on the outside and red on the inside! East Coast Elitists and Hollywood Socialists! Liberals who are smarter, more educated and better looking than they are!

And what the Hell with smart people soon taking over, before the stupid people actually begin drilling in ten years, the problem will be solved and oil used use only in "Plastics"  - as Ben was wisely advised.

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Video of John McCain's Applesauce Grocery moment



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Muslim Terrorists Barack and Michelle Obama on Cover of New Yorker


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The Obama campaign has said the cover of the New Yorker is in bad taste. Gosh... So the excuse is the staff was lampooning how conservatives view The First Couple Nominee by getting the picture all over the world by internet and television and in a top notch manner! Hear here!  If they hadn't done it, some one would pasted some similar crap on a seldom seen sub page of FreeRepublic.com.  Gee... What were they thinking... I hope it's just a case of subscriptions being down. Obama campaign calls New Yorker cover offensive

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McCain Economic Advisor Phil Gramm says We are a nation of whiners and the recession is imaginary


"You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession, we have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline." Senator Phil Gramm, Joh McCain's current Economic advisor. McCain faces backlash over Gramm comments

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Within an hour John McCain was distancing himself from what Barack Obama called the "other Dr. Phil". McCain also said he may now give Senator Gramm the job as Ambassador to Belarus! Which is partly radio active....

Well so much for the Jesse Jackson news cycle!

Gosh, here is McCain's top economic advisor telling Americans that their economic pain is all in their heads... WOW! And you know what Phil Gramm is other than a good well armed Texan?  A DAMN GOOD REPUBLICAN!

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Jesse Jackson Wants to Cut Obama's Nuts Off


When Barack Obama sided with the conservative Supreme Court to extend executions to non capital crimes I wanted to cut one of his ears off, but I didn't say so!

When Barack Obama sided with Crazy Antonin Scalia about getting EVERYONE a gun, I wanted to cut his other ear off, but I didn't say so!

When Barack Obama, unlike Hillary Clinton, voted for more Bush spying on us, I wanted to cut his nose off, but I didn't say so.

When Barack Obama said the other day he was going to help rightwing Christian fundamentalists tear down the separation of church and state to expand Bush's nutty faith based crap, I wanted to cut his balls off, and I said so, but lucky for me no one was around to hear me....

Just noticed Jesse Ventura on MSNBC defending Jackson. What is Ventura's most famous quote? The one that caused him to not seek re election for Governor of Minnesota. I must add here that it speaks well for the people of Minnesota that Venturs was not started on fire the following day. I doubt I could express such bragging rights here in Texas.

"Religion is for the weak and stupid." 

Jesse Ventura says he is thinking about running for the Senate.

The above quote - no matter its truthiness - will follow him and keep him from elective office in America for as long as he lives. Keep surfin' the Baja Jesse!

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Iran Tests Missiles, McCain wants World War III


Why can't Iran test missiles without Neocons, Republicans, and John McCain intoning the Holocaust and yapping about World War III?  I suppose it goes back to the Monroe Doctrine, that WE can do what WE want wherever WE want come Hell or High Water and YOU can't! So there!!

I guess the logic is that America is the Adult and everyone else are the children. Simple reasoning that has held a simple nation together for most of 300 years. But there seems to be some prophetic leveling off of things which began in 1989 and has yet to play itself out.  

The question today over these missile videos is whether the voters are going to swing toward Obama's calm reasoned call for more diplomacy, direct and otherwise. Or will the electorate move further into John McCain's pocket full of bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran. And of course the new one, send Iranians cigarettes to kill them all! Funny Republican stuff to be sure. But will it fly in Peoria? 

Bombing is what McCain was trained for you know. Dropping bombs on people from far up in the sky, don't like seeing their faces before you kill them. You too artillery people. (me) I wonder if he is a better bomber now than he was in Vietnam where he was pretty much a flop at it. Bombing made John a Hero. So why can't Iran have bomb dropping hero's too? It's only fair... 

As to the question at play here, being from Dumbutt, Texas I am sure you know what I think. Here or Peoria its bombs before diplomacy, buckshot before talking and guns not gardens!

Shooting, bombing, and threats of shooting and bombing is a win, win, win, and win here in Texas. I really shouldn't be speaking for Peoria though have been there a few times. 

I suppose the real question is how well Texas represents the rest of America?  Sadly, it is more representative than you may think. The thirst wearing a flag and intoning scripture to justify and even promote our lust for vengeance, gunplay, executions, bombings and wars transcends race, religion, national origin and yes, even sexual orientation!  If we were to take all that out of its present context and looked from a neutral pair of shoes perhaps T E X A S would be spelled I R A N .

What nations have actually used nuclear bombs on civilian populations centers?

Hmmm....

What nation has killed the most civilians in foreign wars over the last 60 years?

Hmmm....     

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John McCain Dumped Sick First Wife For Wealthy Hottie, Shades of Newt Gringrich


Other side of the McCain coin

The senator from Arizona may have refused to leave his buddies behind, but he had no qualms about dumping his first wife, Carol McCain, who remained a loving wife and raised their three children faithfully while he was a POW. The first Mrs. McCain was crippled in a tragic accident while he was away, so to demonstrate his commitment to family values, he dumped her for a rich "trophy wife" who could afford his expensive tastes and political ambition.

John McCain may be a military hero, which I do not argue, but on the other side of the coin, he is a bounder and a cad who shows little if any moral fiber or commitment.

JOHN E. CARSTARPHEN SFC,
U.S. Army, retired, Galveston

From today's Houston Chronicle showing that NOT everyone in Texas or the Military for that matter is a Dittohead Republican Robot. The Newt Gingrich wife Dump reminder Georgia Peach of Shit Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home



The Vote Republican Video




This one is worth sitting through all 3 minutes!

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Swift Boat Veterans decry the 2004 John O'Neil Swift Boat Sleaze


With the term "swiftboated" now a deragotory term defining the worst of political dirty tricks, the real swiftboat veterans of the Vietnam War are fighting back. Across the political spectrum they are distancing themselves from political activist and creepy crawler John O'Neil who was the central voice and the organizational man who was behind the sleasy and dishonest 2004 political ads. Veterans Long to Reclaim the Name ‘Swift Boat’

Conservative Texas billionare T. Boone Pickens was the money behind the slease campaign and Regnecy Press the publisher who got O'Neils book out fast enough to help give the election to another 4 years of President Nitwit. it was just not politics that drove O'Neil but the life long embarassment he suffered by coming off as afool and a loser in a debate on the Dick Cavett Show with  John Kerry in 1971. Dick Cavett Show Video.

Shithead of 2004 - Winner: John O'Neil

swift boat veteran john o'neil In 1971 Richard Nixon wanted to crush the peace movement in America. His aid Charles Colson brought to his attention a young anti-war upstart by the name of John Kerry. Colson told Nixon he guy was the most credible voice in the movement and had to be compromised. The two hand picked a recent Vietnam Veteran named John O'Neil to confront the young war hero on the Dick Cavett show. Nixon picked someone even more unfavorable to television cameras than he was. Mr. O'Neil came off as an obtuse skinny little Nixon Wonk who spent most of the hour fumbling through his notes, stammering, whining and being made a complete fool of.

He never forgot. Leading up to the 2004 election he organized and helped fund the Swiftboat Vets in the most ubiquitous and dishonest character assassination in American election history. This pussbag went so far over the line that as election day closed in he ran ads of grey haired old widows looking into the camera telling point blank lies and blaming Senator Kerry for their husbands deaths. Like Arkansas lawyer Cliff Jackson who spent his life trying to destroy Bill Clinton resulting in an impeachment, O'Neil's life long vendetta may have been the straw that broke Kerry's back. He also made big money on a book rushed out by Right-wing publisher Regnery Publishing.

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Will Obamacons Colin Powell and Chuck Hagel Endorse Barack Obama


Colin powell and ObamaThe Obamacons have been talked about for many months now, the word refers to Republicans and conservatives who have become enamored with Barack Obama and may cross party lines either privately or publicly to vote for or endorse the Democratic Nominee. Today's column by Washington's Prince of Darkness, Robert Novak, brought the biggest issue in this to the forefront, what will Colin Powell do? The Obamacons Who Worry McCain

Though Senator Chuck Hagel, outspoken Republican against George W. Bush's war and foreign policy, is not expected to endorse Obama but not endorse McCain either. On the other hand from what insider Novak says, Colin Powell will soon be endorsing the Democrat. Not only because of race and content of character, but because Powell is angry about being used to spread Bush Administration lies but then treated like Republicans always treat African Americans, like shit. 

When the endorsement comes, it will be the most important Obama will have received since the Kennedy clan knocked Hillary out of the primaries. It will be big news which will also begin the news cycle of what Powell will be offered. Is it possible in America to have a black President and a black Vice President?

This Obamacons are not what attracted me to Novak's column today but rather his spin on the coming demise of the Republican Party. Using words like "disgust and ""revulsion" to describe Bush policies, and claiming an "therapeutic electoral bloodbath" in store for the GOP come November. Novak even goes on to quote Larry Hunter, a conservative republican who joined Jack Kemp's (and Bill Bennett) Right-wing organization Empower America to become Kemp's political ghost writer. 

"The Republcian Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in the horror version of Weekend With Berinie, handcuffed to a corpse."     

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John McCain, World War III, the Draft and Chickenhawks



rush limbaugh Piggy hawkRepublican Presidential nominee John W. McBush, opps, John McCain said today that he would not call a military draft unless we were fighting World War III.

McCain now backs two wars in perpetuity in Iraq and Afghanistan while threatening another war with Iran which would surely bring Syria and Pakistan into what would then be World War III. A world war which - since the price at the pumps - is looking better and better to more and more Americans. BTW, the fault of those prices is also now effectively being blamed upon liberals and environmentalists rather than oil companies and cartels.  We need to drill in South Beach and Malibu immediately!

What I found interesting in his speech was when he declared that the draft unfairly weighed most heavily on lower-income Americans. Really?  Is he saying that the present volunteer military is not unfairly weighing most heavily on lower-income Americans?  That's nuts.  What is he saying?  That the very long list of Republican Chickenhawks and Piggie Hawks who refused to serve in Vietnam would have volunteered today to go to Iraq? That's nuts. Patriotic Republican Chickenhawks

Reinstate the draf in an absolutely fair manner and we would be out of Iraq and Afghanistan in a few months and this talk of invading Iran relegated only to fading Neocons crying in their chicken soup down at the Deli. McCain says only World War III would justify draft

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John W. McFlippy




How do these republicans keep a straight face? We know of course that they can't campaign on real issues that concern most of us, and have to try and change the debate to lapel pins and pledges of allegiance, but how can they believe that pandering to 25% of the voting population, the so-called GOP base, is a winning strategy come November?

Sure, McCain has been the darling of the press ever since his failed run against the Bush-Rove naughty not nice politics way back in 2000, but since then he's pretty much taken heart to Bush's talking points, political positions nearly two thirds of Americans reject. Apart from a Florida or Ohio election fiasco, how can he possibly expect to win the presidency in November? Are we missing something?

Pondering this possibility I've come to the conclusion we're not missing one damn thing. For too many years the American voting public has relied on the MSM to help form their opinions. Ever since Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine back in the 80's, the media has been consolidated to a mere seven corporations who have tried to control our thinking for the benefit of the already rich. But as we've seen of late, that can catch up with you as the middle class struggles and the internet takes over as the main news provider for more and more voters.

In a normal and fair world McCain shouldn't stand a chance against anyone the democrats run for president, but this is not a normal or fair world as we've witnessed the past few election cycles. That said, I'm here to tell you we have a secret weapon and that's McCain himself. If anyone suggested that the GOP could come up with a worse public speaker than Bush, I would have taken three steps backwards and run away a hundred miles an hour. As embarrassing as Bush is in a public forum, McCain is worse. His gaffes, flip-flops and monotone "my friends," is beyond tolerable to human ears. He's everything none of us can stand listening to for even a few minutes.

We know the GOP is going to attempt every dirty trick and slimy ploy against Obama from here to November, that's a given and we should expect no less. Only this time internet bloggers are going to keep the MSM's feet to the fire whenever they parrot these garbage talking points. Jump on, it's bound to be a fun ride. Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home



Fruitcake James Dobson says Obama has Fruitcake Beliefs




Dr James Dobson America's leading intolerant Fundamentalist Evangelical Right-wing Christian and all around fruitcake says Barack Obama is not only interpreting the Bible wrong but he is also pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution. This from a conservative Republican who loudly says he will not vote for John McCain because a rabid pro lifer who wants more tax relief for the wealthy during a war he gleefully promotes is not CONSERVATIVE ENOUGH. What a Fruitcake! Dobson to Attack Obama Tuesday for Distorting the Bible, Having a "Fruitcake" Interpretation of the Constitution

America has its fair share of Ayatollahs and Taliban for which Dr. Dobson is now the most well known example. The clownish Jerry Falwell has gone to his maker and Pat Robertson when blaming Liberals for all death and diaster has pretty much gone senile, leavings Dobson at the top fruitcake in America.

As the new PEW research poll released yesterday tells us, though we are the most religious nation in the industrialized world, believing the craziest damn stuff imaginable is being actually REAL, we are not intolerant Fruitcakes like Dobson and his Taliban group Focus on the Family. Pew Research shows only about one third of Americans are Religious Fruitcakes

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Senator Lindsay Graham on Meet the Press says Obama is Jello



On Meet the Press this morning Senator Lindsay Graham (R - South Carolina) leaked out the coming weeks' RNC Talking Points. "It's like trying to nail Jello to the wall!" Graham said of Barack Obama.  You have to give House BJ Impeachment Manager, best friend and primary spokesman for John McCain and all around right-wing loon credit for so quickly substituting the word "Jello" instead of "slime" which will sure to be the term on GOP talk radio. The fun and dirty BJ Impeachement Page

This is the political play for the near future, Barack Obama does not care about America or Change, he is just another low down dirty Chicago politician who only cares about Barack Obama.  WHILE, on the other hand, John McCain is neither a politician nor is he out to win. Which, when you see him stumbling around on TV, may just be the case. 

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New Barack Obama Website fightthesmears Responds to GOP lies Fast




A new website funded by the Obama campaign is taking on the rumors, slander and lies that the GOP is pushing out on Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama. www.fightthesmears.com


Of interest is that within hours of it going up, the GOP smear machine had registered a parody site to reclaim it's false rumors, slander and lies at www.fightthesmears.org. Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home



Michelle Obama Readies for the Republican Uppity Black Bitch Onslaught



The presumptive First Lady nominee Michelle Obama had best get ready for the coming GOP attack machine. One way would be for her husband to bring Hillary in as Vice President nominee. Hillary who has experienced what Republicans do to well educated uppity liberal bitches who have crashed through their glass ceiling. Or to put it lightly, Republicans inherently are going to attack women who are smarter than they are.

For the time being I would guess the GOP is going to leave the racially charged dirt, filth, lies and slander to Limbuagh, Hanninty, Savage and the thousands of local such hosts until after the Democratic Convention. Perhaps a new word will be coined, that Blitch! Or maybe I will blamed for pre thinking conservative thought on this - I may be guilty of giving them ideas as they haven't had a new idea since the began buying women for sex in lieu of clubbing them over the head.

The Swift Boat gang will save their money - they have already collected about $50 million here in just Texas alone - for their sleazy ads that I am sure will be used to saturate October. Until then the really disgusting stuff will mostly come from the lower orifices of talk radio hosts.

I am also worried about Barack Obama's threat not long ago to leave his wife alone. That ainagonna happen, so he had best come to terms with it and settle down and not lose his cool. Another reason to bring Hillary and Bill into the White House. That experience of understanding just how horrible Republicans are is something both Obama's seem to lack. It could trip them up, which could turn the media against them as it turned against the Clinton's whenever they yelped unfair to any and all unfairness. Mincing Up Michelle by Maureen Dowd

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