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More Bogus Obama Donors Surface

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:11:27 GMT

clipped by: jatfla
clipper's remarks: One woman admitted when contacted "I'm an insane supporter." This would be hilarious if this election were not so serious.

Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

More Bogus Obama Donors Surface

CBS News has learned that two donors to the Obama campaign that gave a total of $7,722 appear to have made their contributions under fake names that look like they were written by a mouse running across a keyboard: Dahsudhu Hdusahfd of Df, Hawaii with the following employer CZXVC/ZXVZXV and Uadhshgu Hduadh listed as living in Dhff, Florida listed their employer as DASADA/SAFASF.

CBS News did not find any records of these last names, towns or employers anywhere else. Newsweek reported two questionable Obama donors over the weekend named “Doodad Pro” and “Good Will”.

Hdusahfd still has a record of giving a total of $7500 to Obama which is well over the legal limit for the primary and general election of $4600.

This guy is Governor of NY?

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:22:00 GMT

clipped by: sillysam
clipper's remarks: I guess that anything is code for "black"

Clip Source: wcbstv.com

N.Y. Governor Says Palin's Repeated Use Of 'Community Organizer' Is Another Way Of Saying 'Black'

ALBANY (CBS) ― On Monday, Gov. David Paterson angered some state lawmakers by comparing them to vampires, calling them a bunch of "blood suckers." On Tuesday, he raised eyebrows again, and tempers, by accusing the John McCain campaign of veiled racism.

"I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama 'black' in a sense that it would be a negative. But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did at the Republican Convention – a 'community organizer.' They kept saying it, they kept laughing," he said.

Paterson sees the repeated use of the words "community organizer" as Republican code for "black".

Obama Hired ACORN For GOTV

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:09:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More stuff we learn...and we're running out of days. This campaign is very good at hiding controversial connections.

Clip Source: townhall.com

Obama Hired ACORN For GOTV

Barack Obama is the first national candidate ever to hire ACORN, a controversial non-profit accused of voter fraud across the country, for get out the vote activities.

Obama’s campaign paid $800,000 to a subsidiary of the liberally-leaning non-profit Association of Community Organizers for Reform called Citizens Services Incorporated

This information, however, was not properly disclosed to the Federal Election Commission.

The FEC said the Obama campaign needed to disclose ACORN was engaging in get out the vote activities last August. At the time the Obama campaign called the mistake a “clerical error.”

ACORN has been accused of voter fraud in 15 states this election cycle.

A Buckley endorses Obama

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:23:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Ouch.

Clip Source: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

A Buckley endorses Obama

(CNN) — No, hell has not frozen over, but a Buckley is backing a Democrat for president.

Buckley, who praised McCain in a New York Times Op-Ed earlier this year and defended the Arizona senator's conservative credentials against wary talk-radio hosts, said McCain is no longer the “real” and “unconventional” man he once admired.

"This campaign has changed John McCain," Buckley wrote. "It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget 'by the end of my first term.' Who, really, believes that?

"Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis," Buckley added. "His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?"

Tags: mccain, palin, obama, politics, buckley, democratic, republican, conservative

Senator Hothead

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:08:14 GMT

clipped by: boniface

Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

senior Obama foreign policy adviser Susan Rice argued on a campaign conference call that there is "a pattern here of recklessness" when it comes to John McCain's approach to national security.

At that, Danzig played ball. "I think John McCain is well-known for 'losing it' in a variety of circumstances," he said -- something which has potential policy implications.

Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Barbara Boxer (Calif.), in separate interviews, talked about McCain's propensity to "explode," regardless of the circumstances.

"The thought of him being president sends a cold chill down my spine," Cochran said. "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."

He's a flip-flopper. And he's out of touch. And he's frequently confused and befuddled. And he's an angry candidate running a desperately negative campaign. And he's self-righteous. And he's a hypocrite. And he's surprisingly immature and dishonest.

Too eractic with poor judgement but finds some lost character

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:40:07 GMT

clipped by: lifecyce1898
clipper's remarks: Click on link.
McCain whips up fear and hate and now has to back track. In his defense he shows some of the character that he used to possess.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

McCain's smear campaign too effective?

NYT: McCain airs "paint-peeling" anti-Obama ad

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:13:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "calls Mr. Obama a liar, blames liberal Democrats for the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and, in giving them a traditionally Republican label, blames them for pushing 'deregulation.'"
Now check out the "evidence" - partially included in the clip - cited in the ad's print. Knock yourself out, Big John - America is smarter than this.

Clip Source: thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

In his increasingly slashing campaign against Senator Barack Obama, Senator John McCain this morning released a paint-peeling advertisement

calls Mr. Obama a liar, blames liberal Democrats for the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and, in giving them a traditionally Republican label, blames them for pushing “deregulation

as evidence that “he lied,’

Obama’s

“This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood

who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.”

In making its case that the liberals caused the housing crisis

the advertising back-up cites a quote

“Subprime lending started off as a good idea - helping Americans buy homes who couldn’t previously afford to.”

What the campaign left out was the rest of the speech, in which Mr. Obama in fact called for greater regulation of the mortgage industry

Tags: mccain, lies, smears, obama

Factcheck: "He Lied" About Bill Ayers?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:01:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "McCain cranks out some false and misleading attacks" "Never very close," Foundation included prominent Republicans who support McCain, group's work "mainstream."
Detailed documentation at link.

Clip Source: www.factcheck.org

"He Lied" About Bill Ayers?

McCain cranks out some false and misleading attacks on Obama's connection to a 1960s radical.

In a TV ad, McCain says Obama "lied" about his association with William Ayers, a former bomb-setting, anti-war radical from the 1960s and '70s. We find McCain's claim to be groundless. New details have recently come to light, but nothing Obama said previously has been shown to be false.

so far as is known, their relationship was never very close

McCain says

the two "ran a radical 'education' foundation" in Chicago. But the supposedly "radical" group was supported by a Republican governor and included on its board

one former Nixon administration official who has given $1,500 to McCain's campaign

Education Week says the group's work "reflected mainstream thinking" among school reformers

The group was the Chicago Annenberg Challenge

established by the publisher Walter Annenberg, a prominent Republican whose widow, Leonore, is a contributor to the McCain campaign

Tags: ayers, obama

Former governor Milliken backs away from McCain

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:00:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mlive.com

former Republican Gov. William Milliken is expressing doubts about his party's nominee.

"He is not the McCain I endorsed,"

"He keeps saying, 'Who is Barack Obama?' I would ask the question, 'Who is John McCain?' because his campaign has become rather disappointing to me.

"I'm disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues."

Lincoln Chafee, a former Republican U.S. senator from Rhode Island, said he's voting for Obama and urging others to do likewise.

"That's not my kind of Republicanism," said Chafee, who now calls himself an independent. "I saw what Bush and Cheney did. They came in with a (budget) surplus and a stable world, and look what's happened now. In eight short years they've taken one peaceful and prosperous world, and they've torn it into tatters."

As for McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for his running mate, "there's no question she's totally unqualified," Chafee said.

Obama's Staff Slips Up With Muslim Outreach

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:33:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mr. LaBolt said campaign workers' efforts are aimed at acquaint Muslim voters with Sen. Obama's positions and to work on voter turnout. "We have a whole faith outreach effort that includes interacting with mosque leaders," he said.

Nihad Awad, executive director of CAIR, also attended the session, as did the group's legislative director. The government named CAIR an unindicted coconspirator in the Justice Department's racketeering prosecution last year of alleged Hamas fund-raisers. CAIR said the designation was unjustified; the case ended in a mistrial, but is being brought again by the government.

Mr. Awad declined to comment. Mr. Bray didn't respond to a request for comment. The Obama campaign said it couldn't comment on Mr. Asbahi's attendance at the session.

Clip Source: wsj.com

The Obama campaign said it was a mistake for an outreach coordinator to join a meeting last month attended by leaders of two controversial Muslim groups as it seeks votes from large Muslim populations in swing states.

Minha Husaini, newly named as head of the campaign's outreach coordinator to Muslims, attended a discussion session Sept. 15 with about 30 Muslim leaders and community members in suburban Washington, the Obama campaign confirmed. Participants included leaders of the Council of American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society, which have been cited by the government in the past for ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.

Mr. Asbahi, who also attended the meeting now entangling Ms. Husaini, resigned after questions arose about his brief tenure on the board of an Islamic investment fund along with a controversial Illinois imam. At the time, campaign officials said he was stepping down because he didn't want to become a distraction for the campaign.

Tags: obama campaign, outreach coordinator, muslim groups, council of american-islamic relations, muslim american society, ties muslim brotherhood/hamas

Ohio McCain Supporters

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:31:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: disturbing

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Ohio McCain Supporters - 10/8/08

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Tags: politics, mccain, palin, campaign

More Ohio McCain supporters

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:43:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Ohio McCain Supporters - Part 2

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Tags: politics, mccain, palin, campaign

Reminding us that he's as trustworthy as Bush

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:25:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

John McCain's Respectful Campaign

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Tags: mccain, lies, smears, obama, lying pond scum

McCain talking points boost support for radicals

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:16:20 GMT

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Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Homeland Security Report Sharply Rebukes McCain’s ‘Islamic Extremism’ Rhetoric»

Earlier this week, The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) launched a campaign to persuade Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to drop the adjective “Islamic” when describing terrorists and extremists. Indeed, one of McCain’s favorite talking points is railing against “Islamic” extremists and terrorists. But the McCain campaign has refused to budge, saying that he will continue to refer to Islam when talking about terrorism

Such words may actually boost support for radicals among Arab and Muslim audiences by giving them a veneer of religious credibility or by causing offense to moderates. […]

“We should not concede the terrorists’ claim that they are legitimate adherents of Islam,”

Muslim leaders in the U.S. have long argued that such language “offends the vast majority of moderate Muslims,” but the McCain campaign thinks it knows better.

Tags: right wing, facists, hate monger, xenophobe, war monger, elitists, fat cats

US CAPITALISM - ANTI DEMOCRATIC

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:18:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Privatization of Profits and the socializing of loss

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed

Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals - the very people who created the banking crisis writes Noam Chomsky

THE SIMULTANEOUS unfolding of the US presidential campaign and unraveling of the financial markets presents one of those occasions where the political and economic systems starkly reveal their nature.

Passion about the campaign may not be universally shared but almost everybody can feel the anxiety from the foreclosure of a million homes, and concerns about jobs, savings and healthcare at risk.

These steps predictably increased the frequency and depth of severe reversals, which now threaten to bring about the worst crisis since the Great Depression.