Oct

31

Fox News Allies with Rashid Khalidi

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Fox News has been one of the biggest proponents of forcing the LA Times to release a tape that supposedly has Barack Obama at a celebration for Rashid Khalidi, an apparent Palestinian supporter. But at one point Fox News actually argees with Khalidi:

The first part of the video is the usual attack an person and when they run away bash them, but the second part is a speech Khalidi gave in 1998, one year after Obama gained office in Illnois. Khalidi claims that corruption in the politics and the shady back door deals in places like Chicago, are the things that mess up US foreign policy.  So in one segment Fox News has gone from attacking Khalidi and using him to scare the viewers, to embracing his views because it implies Obama was elected not by the people but by corrupt leaders and businesses.

All Sean Hannity has done with this segment is to prove that Fox News doesn’t care what Khalidi thinks or does, instead he is simply another pawn in their chess match to elect McCain and Palin, whatever view helps in that goal is what they use. Rashid Khalidi, Bill Ayers, Socialism, are all just vain attempts to remind people that Obama isn’t the same old white male.

Oct

30

Faux News Questions Obama’s Clearance

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Fox News continues to attempt to stir up fear and unneccessary in the conservatives who continue to watch their so called news network. The most recent incident is their questioning whether Barack Obama would be given a security clearance if he wasn’t running for president:

I can’t dispute the regulations of getting security clearances at any of these places but the simple fact of the matter seems to be that a majority of Americans wouldn’t be able to get a clearance. I’m also left wondering… would any of these people get a clearance?

Oct

29

You’re doing it wrong John!

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Seems to be getting pretty bad in the McCain campaign. So bad that campaign staffers are profiling attendees at their rallies to determine who “might be a protester”. The only issue? They kicked out some supporters who had already voted for McCain:

“I saw a couple that had been escorted out and they were confused as well, and the girl was crying, so I said ‘Why are you crying? and she said ‘I already voted for McCain, I’m a Republican, and they said we had to leave because we didn’t look right,’” Elborno said. “They were handpicking these people and they had nothing to go off of, besides the way the people looked.”

And here is a video of some of those students talking about how they simply attended the rally to see what McCain had to say and because it suited their major, only to be kicked out before it started:

Oct

28

Assumptions

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We’ve all seen the videos of McCain supporters yelling racist or threatening things at McCain/Palin rallies. We’ve seen lead in speakers refer to Obama’s middle name of Hussein, in what seems to be an attempt to stoke fear and align him with the likes of Osama Bin Laden. I’m the first person to admit that the McCain/Palin ticket needs to stop this kind of behavior, and they need to stop using Race as an issue in this election.

But for all the bad of the republican party, there are millions more good, honest, hard working people who don’t care that Obama is African American or that his middle name is Hussein. The people we see and hear at these rallies are an incredibly small faction of the overall Republican party, and like any political party out there you’re going to get the nut jobs and the weirdos, but do their views stand as the views of the party?

Hardly, take for instance the fact that many registered republicans are voting Democratic in this election. Do they stand for the views of their party? No. The Democrats aren’t innocent either. There is a small group of Democratic supporters in the Philadelphia area who have showed up at McCain rallies with T-Shirts reading “Sarah Palin is a cunt”. They have even volunteered for the Obama campaign. Does Barack Obama and the rest of the Democratic Party believe in or condone actions like this? No.

The act of supporting John McCain or being a member of the Republican party is not racist, though many people have made it to be so. I voted for Obama not because of his race, race just like religion or sexuality should have no bearing on politics. I voted for Obama because republicans have had control for the last eight years and have milked our country dry. Barack Obama may not be the best candidate out there but we might as well give him a chance to run the country and possibly turn it around.

I’m a registered Democrat, but I don’t vote the party line. I vote for which ever candidate I feel is better suited to lead this country based on the ideals I feel are important, and if thats a republican so be it. Theres an old saying “Don’t assume cause you’ll make an ass out of you and me.” Don’t assume the views of a few are the views of all.

Oct

27

Hypocrisy in the Race

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This election is going to be a historic election no matter who wins. If Obama wins it we will see the first African American elected President of the United States, and if McCain wins we will see the first woman elected Vice President. Given Obama’s race and Palin’s gender, the election has been riddled with allegations of Sexism and Racism. We have seen effigies of Obama hung in a front yard in Ohio and on the campus of George Fox University in Oregon, we have seen people attack the 150,000 dollars used to clothe Mrs. Palin. Yet the one issue not covered is the issue of hypocrisy.

There is currently a simulacrum of Sarah Palin hanging from a house in West Hollywood under the guise that its all in the spirit of Halloween and its suppose to be spooky and it should be taken as art. The couple that did the display also say that they understand that if it had depicted Obama it would be a totally different story, because of the history of African Americans in this country.

Lets set something straight, no matter what the race, gender or sexuality of the person being depicted is, the image is pure hatred. If they wanted this display to be spooky or scary or in the spirit of Halloween it should have goblins, ghosts and demons. This isn’t a Halloween decoration its a politically motivated message masquerading as decoration.

People attacked the people who hung Obama effigies and the people who laughed or joked about them. Many conservative talk radio hosts where attacked when they joked about Obama images on their shows, yet now when one of Palin shows up, the same people who attacked the Obama representations see nothing wrong with the Palin represenation. If you endorse or find this image of Mrs. Palin funny you are endorsing hatred toward another American, and you lampooned the Obama representations and laugh at this one you are nothing more than a hypocrite.

The line of common decency and respect isn’t a one way street. It isn’t a line simply defined by race, or party alliance. This line applies to everyone and every situation, and effigies of any candidate no matter what party they are in, or what the current month is, has no place in politics. Continuing to do actions like this on both sides of the fence will only provoke anger and hatred. Follow the actions of Barack Obama who when sponsors booed Senator McCain told them “We don’t need any of that”.

**Update Keith Olbermann on Countdown sums it up nicely with his worst persons in the world:

Oct

25

Fun With McCain (NSFW)

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Seems people have turned some of McCain’s not so great pictures into so humorous gifs. Small sampling of what you can find on the site http://funwithmccain.com:

Oct

25

Note to Hockey Teams: Palin is Bad Luck

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First you had the Philadelphia Flyers invite the hockey mom to drop the opening puck at their first home game, after which point they failed to win at game until last night (they’re currently 1-3-3). Palin also didn’t receive the warmest welcome from the Flyers fans as loud booing could be heard from the stands:

Now ESPN is reporting in an article that The St. Louis Blues goalie was forced to leave the game last night against the Los Angeles Kings after tripping on the carpet laid out for Palin to drop the ceremonial first puck:

Blues goalie Manny Legace left after one period Friday night with a hip injury that occurred when he slipped on the carpet placed on the ice for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin

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Legace described the injury as a strained left hip flexor. He doesn’t believe it is serious but said it is painful. He said he won’t play Saturday when the Blues host Florida, but wasn’t sure if he’d miss any additional games.

The video of the fall:

Oct

25

Fake Obama Letter

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Via Boing Boing:

These letters are apparently showing up in Wisconsin, and are not official campaign messages from the Obama Campaign. Make sure to report any instances to the local authorities and the state attorney general

Oct

22

Crazy Religious Lady

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Apparently since I voted for Obama I need salvation. I wonder if anyone ever told her that Islam and Christianity came from the same trunk as did Judaism

Oct

21

Palin Billed Alaska For Kids Travel

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An AP investigation out now shows that Sarah Palin billed the state of Alaska for expenses to allow her children to travel to such things as a snowmobile race and even trips to New York and Philadelphia. From the report:

In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters’ 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls.

Palin justified these expenses as official state business, travels to places in which the children were invited to attend. Only issue with that statement is that many of the organizations and event planners were shocked when the children showed up unexpectedly and uninvited. She also edited the filing weeks before she was tapped to run as Vice President:

On Aug. 6, three weeks before Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain chose Palin his running mate, and after Alaska reporters asked for the records, Palin ordered changes to previously filed expense reports for her daughters’ travel.

In the amended reports, Palin added phrases such as “First Family attending” and “First Family invited” to explain the girls’ attendance.

Some of the expenses Palin Billed the state for:

  1. $1,385.11 for two plane tickets for her and Bristol to fly to New York City for a women’s leadership convention. They stayed at the Essex House Hotel overlooking central park for $707.29-per-night.
  2. $2,741.26 to take Bristol and Piper to Philadelphia for a meeting of the National Governors Association. They girls had their own room for the five nights they were there at a rate of $215.46 per night.
  3. 129 dollars per night for a separate room for the three children at the Princess Lodge in Fairbanks.
  4. $519.30 for round-trip plane ticket for each of the girls, on Alaskan Airlines from Juneau to Anchorage.

Reasons listed by Palin for her kids to accompany her:

  1. First Family official starter for the start of the Iron Dog race
  2. NGA Governor’s Youth Programs and family activities
  3. to draw two separate raffle tickets.

If Palin’s time as a maverick and opponent of pork barrel weren’t over when her claims to have shot down the Bridge to Nowhere were debunked, I think we can officially claim them over now. I wonder how John would feel about her flying all around the state and country with one or more of her kids…

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