This is a funny but enlightened article of how Republicans are trying to rewrite the history of the current demise of our economic and financial systems. It is imperative that their narrative is challenged at every turn before it metastasizes into virtual reality. The so called main stream media seem to have begun selling the Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae storyline as causal just as the Republicans are hoping for. Click here for some insight.
Daily Kos: Down the Republican Rabbit Hole
McCain has gone so inconsistent in his stump that even Neil Cavuto at FOX Business is perplexed and he actually stated it on air. Unfortunately FOX Business' ratings are so low that many of FOX's FoxNews large viewership unlikely saw it. This is one of very few criticisms on McCain by any Fox network or station. <<CLICK HERE>> for the full story.
Cavuto: McCain's Got the Courage, Not the Conviction - FOXBusiness.com
It would be naive to believe that racist do not exist in every political party. That said, no mainstream party has so used race as a systemic method for dividing people with the expectation of achieving a particular goal.
This is not an accident, it is by design. The Southern Strategy was popularized by Richard Nixon's strategist Kevin Phillips. It was continued with Ronald Reagan kicking off his campaign in Philadelphia Mississippi, the place where three civil rights leaders were murdered, under the pretext of states rights.
Below is a snippet of what the McCain campaign has devolved to. No self-respecting human being should be a part of this party. This is the reason the ranks of Independents and Democrats continue to grow. I am sure the party will be relegated to the racists, haters, and self-haters in the not too distant future.
| McCain/Palin supporters let their racist roots show It was kind of strange, dintcha think, that John McCain came to the defense of his supporters last night after Barack Obama pointed out that people at McCain/Palin rallies were shouting out "terrorist" and "kill him!" in reference to Obama. Now an Al Jazeera camera crew caught the honest sentiments of McCain/Palin supporters at an Ohio rally:
Yep, McCain must be so proud. The rest of us, well ... let's just say those polls should tell the story. |
Inland GOP mailing depicts Obama's face on food stamp
The October newsletter by the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated says if Obama is elected his image will appear on food stamps -- instead of dollar bills like other presidents. The statement is followed by an illustration of "Obama Bucks" -- a phony $10 bill featuring Obama's face on a donkey's body, labeled "United States Food Stamps." |
| Top Tampa GOP Figure Circulates Joke About Killing Obama When asked about the e-mail, Austin said it was a mistake and apologized and that he wouldn’t knowingly have circulated it. He said he planned to send an apology and retraction to the same e-mail list. The joke concerns a group of schoolchildren discussing the definition of “tragedy” as opposed to “great loss” or “accident.” The punch line comes when one child says that if an airplane carrying Obama and his wife, Michelle, “was struck by a ‘friendly fire’ missile and blown to smithereens,” the event might be a tragedy “because it certainly wouldn’t be a great loss, and it probably wouldn’t be an accident either.” Austin acknowledged sending the e-mail to his list of political contacts but said he forwarded it without fully reading it and didn’t know what it said. That list included at least two reporters. According to the forwarding history on the e-mail, it had gone through at least two other individuals before being sent to Austin on Tuesday. Austin, a prominent real estate developer long known as one of the state’s leading Republican campaign fundraisers, has served in recent years as finance chairman for both the national and state Republican parties. |
| McCain To Appear With Virginia GOP Chairman Who Compared Obama To Osama Bin Laden Earlier this week, Time magazine’s Karen Tumulty reported on how Jeffrey Frederick, the chairman of the Virginia Republican party, gave GOP volunteers talking points on “the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden.” “Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon,” Frederick told 30 volunteers. “That is scary.” Though McCain campaign spokesperson Gail Gitchoo told the Washington Post that “the McCain campaign disagrees with the comparison that Jeff Frederick made,” McCain himself refused to denounce Frederick’s comments. Asked by Virginia television station WSLS if Frederick’s comparison was “appropriate,” McCain said, “I have to look at the context of his remarks.” |
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Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.
So, I wish him all the best. We are all in this together. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship. And so, for the first time in my life, I’ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November. As the saying goes, God save the United States of America.
Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama - The Daily Beast
One of the most conservative Republican columnist all but endorse Senator Obama and identify what all us liberals know, Sarah Palin is void of any intellect.
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David Brooks spoke frankly about the presidential and vice presidential candidates Monday afternoon, calling Sarah Palin a "fatal cancer to the Republican party" but describing John McCain and Barack Obama as "the two best candidates we've had in a long time."
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Obama has the great intellect. I was interviewing Obama a couple years ago, and I'm getting nowhere with the interview, it's late in the night, he's on the phone, walking off the Senate floor, he's cranky. Out of the blue I say, 'Ever read a guy named Reinhold Niebuhr?' And he says, 'Yeah.' So i say, 'What did Niebuhr mean to you?' For the next 20 minutes, he gave me a perfect description of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought, which is a very subtle thought process based on the idea that you have to use power while it corrupts you. And I was dazzled, I felt the tingle up my knee as Chris Matthews would say.
And the other thing that does separate Obama from just a pure intellectual: he has tremendous powers of social perception. And this is why he's a politician, not an academic. A couple of years ago, I was writing columns attacking the Republican congress for spending too much money. And I throw in a few sentences attacking the Democrats to make myself feel better. And one morning I get an email from Obama saying, 'David, if you wanna attack us, fine, but you're only throwing in those sentences to make yourself feel better.' And it was a perfect description of what was going through my mind. And everybody who knows Obama all have these stories to tell about his capacity for social perception.
David Brooks: Sarah Palin "Represents A Fatal Cancer To The Republican Party"
(WASHINGTON) Barack Obama has his William Ayers connection. Now John McCain may have an Iran-Contra connection. In the 1980s, McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America.
McCain linked to group in Iran-Contra affair | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com