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Cheney | Mister "Shadow Government" Endorses McCain!

Wow, this should thrill the 13% that still like Cheney! Can't you just see the McCain people waving their arms and going, NO, No! Don't say it! Don't say it! Stay out of sight like dubya!

Dick Cheney Endorses John McCain

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Sunday Headlines & Opus

America to McCain: We’re Okay with Higher Taxes and Spreading the Wealth . . . and Obama

McCain Totally Losing It: Palin Is Qualified To Be President Because She’s Married To An Oil Facilities Worker

Sarah Palin's Alaska gas pipeline:
A Total Fraud

Even Bush/co gets something right sometimes:
Bush administration campaign reduces chronic homelessness

Sarah Palin's hometown paper endorses Barack Obama

Two rallies in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Saturday:
John McCain: Less than one thousand
Barack Obama: 45,000

My Ol' Kentucky home:
Obama's faith is widely mistaken in Kentucky

and finally Opus is leaving me behind again and I still miss Bloom County:

Berkeley Breathed


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McCain Campaign Official | "An Epidemic of Incontinence"

Hi travelers...I'm finally back.
It's been a decidedly bad day for the McCain campaign and for the Republican brand in general. I did something tonight that I haven't done in a long time. I sat and watched the "news" and a long night of the "talking heads" tv. It was NBC News, MSNBC and the comedy Channel and not FOX OR CNN. I'm drowsy and recuperating not a Democratic masochist.
Nope, NOT a good day for the Bush/McCain/Palin brand Republicans.
Where to begin the list?
Sarah and "First dude" testify under oath about Troopergate

McCain's brother call's 9-11 over a traffic jam and say's "F*ck you" to the operator

The McCain campaign worker admits to making up the whole story about being robbed, attacked, fondled and face-carved by a large, black obama supporter

The FOX News head who said if that story proved to be a "hoax" it would be the end of the McCain campaign

We find out that Palin's make-up artist made $22,500.00 in 2 weeks

Sarah Palin ridiculed scientific(fruit fry) research, such research has proven to be critical in the study of autism

More major National Republicans give their support to Obama

And more..

Now THAT'S change we can believe in my friends...!!

The sweet thing about all this is the arrogance of these guys back when they had a lock on the Federal government. Like Enron and now the Banking Industry there was no thought that it would end. Just a few short years ago they were certain that they and DUH-bya were creating a Republican empire to last for generations.

A lot can happen in a short week(attack on Iran?), but tonight I'm celebrating the gloom and despair of the neo-con machine right now. They're like the Keystone Cops(OLD reference) right now and hopefully they'll stay that way.
Heres a few sweet words from one of those neo-con just a few short years ago:

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
(see my little declaration in "About Me" at the top of this page.)

Oh, and the pic of Sarah campaigning with a "Vote Democratic donkey" scarf on. Was that just ignorance, or employee subterfuge? who knows, and who cares. It's been a hugely entertaining campaign. They have 1 week to turn it around.

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Video Repeat | McCain Calls Obama Good Person, Gets Booed

I know you've seen this but I want to throw it up anyway for the few who haven't. John McCain apparently hasn't gone completely over to the darkside. He tells a crowd at a rally that they don't have to fear an Obama Presidency and gets booed for it.


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Obama Saw The Fear Frenzy Coming Months Ago

A fitting follow up to the video below is this one of Obama in July predicting exactly what the McCain campaign is doing right now, fear and gutter politics. From The Jed Report here's Nostrobamus:



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The First Debate! What's It Going To Be?

I'd Love to be able to follow the debate on the web and in comments like normal Bloggers. Unfortunately I have a wife stressing out over online classes, a teenage daughter who just broke up with boyfriend, four wild and crazy dogs, pain killing druggies for my shingles(sob!), etc, etc.

I hope Obama is in top form and doesn't make ANY(!) mistakes that can(and will) be amplified by the GOP and "News" Media. McCain already has that, "I Won!" poster so he'll already be fighting an uphill battle at the start.

I haven't watched any of the pundit and news shows and I never do. That's what Mediamatters and TPM and others are good for. They have the stomach for it and get paid for it. Me, I'll just wait and watch. Game on Barack! Do us Proud! I'm starting the popcorn in about 15m.
Here we go....


Update(11:00pm): Here's my quick reaction after watching most of the debate(I was also helping my wife with some school work). Unfortunately I have to give the overall debate to McCain.
Obama seemed to spend most of his time dealing with minutiae, defending himself from McCain, and being the classic "let's not talk to badly about the other guy" Democrat. He must have praised McCain 2-3 times that I saw. McCain? He spent his time with platitudes, distortions and attacks on Obama. Every time it was McCain's turn he'd spout off three or four attacks on Obama. Whereupon Obama would spend his time defending himself(ever so politely of course). McCain's turn again, three or four more attacks on Obama. All evening. It got to the point that I started saying out loud(to the annoyance of my wife) things like, "stop rambling Barack and finish so Johnie can attack you again!".
If Barack Obama let's this guy do this EVERY debate he's screwed, and we're screwed. This country has gone through some of the worse times in it's history in many, many ways, and who was in charge for nearly all that time? George W. Bush, John McSame and the rest of the Republicans. While Barack Obama(IMO) just let old Grandpa Simpson Republican kick his ass in this debate. I'd like for Barack Obama to get angry and emotional(in a rational way) at LEAST once in these debates and tell this old Republican fart how depicable it is what he and bloody dubya have done to our country over the last eight years.
I'm ah-feared the rest will be as bad as this one - McCain on the attack, Obama on rambling defense.
It turned out about as I had feared it might.
No one'll tell me here so I'm going to look around to see what reactions others had to this one.
I dread looking.
All for now.

Up-Update(11:40pm) From the sites I've been scanning to this point, I'm EXTREMELY happy to report that I was(again) wrong and a consensus seems to be building that Obama did fairly well, and even crushed McCain in Independent voter polling! Wow!

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McCain's Campaign | More Lobbyist Shenanigans

Well, well, isn't this getting interesting. If I felt better I'd get the popcorn.

"WASHINGTON — One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement. The disclosure undercuts a statement by Mr. McCain on Sunday night that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had had no involvement with the company for the last several years."

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Hey How Much Worse Can It Get?

The new poster...?



















Well I'm just not sure...

Allhatnocattle.

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New McCain/Palin Poster

Kos.

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Problems With Palin Doesn't affect Me

Anyone who's given this Blog more than a few moments of attention knows that I am not a McCain/Rightwing voter. Obviously it didn't matter to me who the McSame's brain trust picked for their VP candidate they weren't getting my vote. As the news trickles out about Governor Palin's(shall we say) extreme Rightwing views I hope that more and more of the independent voters reach that decision also.
The news of her 17 y.o. daughter's pregnancy affects me not at all, the news of Palin's support of creationism in public schools, her rabid anti-choice for women, her cheerleading of aerial killing of Alaskan wolves and bears. All those bits of information that continue to leak out about Ms. Palin only reinforces what I already knew about dubya's man John McCain, and their Republican Rightwing.
I won't even go into the assorted stories on; "troopergate", Palin's support of Ted Stevens and his "Bridge to nowhere", her membership in the Alaskan Secessionist Party and everything else coming out now. All those can be read on other Blogs and/or news sites with lots more info than I have time for here in workland.
I think that she, or some "unknown" like her was the best pick Bushco/McCain could hope for. It actually appeared to be a brilliant move, and was to begin with. They stopped all talk of the Dem convention and Barack Obama's wonderfully historic speech immediately. They could snap up the evangelical crowd and the low info voters(undecideds?) and disatisfied women all in one fell swoop. Unfortunately(maybe) they apparently thought that vetting was something for Democrats or the Leftwing Hippie Bloggers.
They always knew they were NEVER going to get my vote and they were right. I and(I hope) most Americans have seen these people in action enough in the last(nearly) eight years to know it didn't matter at all who the Johnie gang picked. After seeing his selection, well let's just say that the Jerry Springer Show might have some likely guests in this family. But it doesn't affect my vote, and never did.

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Hillary Clinton's Brother Meets With McCains?

Throwing up a few posts while I have a free evening.

Is this true and why?
Hillary's brother meets with McCain people

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Bush Surges To.....26%!

John McCain's huggy-buddy surges to 26% in new Quinnipiac poll!
















Thanks Atrios.


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McCain=Bush | Woman Librarian Booted From McCain Event, Threatened With Arrest

61 year old librarian was removed from outside a John McSame event, ticketed, and threatened with arrest if she returned. Her crime; Holding a handmade sign that said "McCain=Bush".



She should be glad they didn't stomp her with their jack-boots.

McCain=Bush

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McCain/Bush | Drawing 'em In Like Pulling Teeth

Funny: "More protesters than fundraisers expected".

McCain/Bush Fundraiser Moved To Smaller Quarters Due To Poor Ticket Sales/Fears Of Protest

"Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling enough tickets to fill the Convention Center space, and that there were concerns about more anti-war protesters showing up outside the venue than attending the fundraiser inside."

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Frank Rich Says: McCain Runs But Can't Hide From Bush

A pleasant read. Frank Rich at the NYT.

McCain Can Run, but Bush Won’t Hide

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