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Dumbing Down

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:31:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: substance versus the tribal chant

I don’t know how much steel is in Obama’s belly, but I do know that the issues he is focusing on in this campaign — improving education and health care, dealing with the deficit and forging a real energy policy based on building a whole new energy infrastructure — are the only way we can put steel back into America’s spine. McCain, alas, has abandoned those issues for the culture-war strategy.

Who cares how much steel John McCain has in his gut when the steel that today holds up our bridges, railroads, nuclear reactors and other infrastructure is rusting? McCain talks about how he would build dozens of nuclear power plants. Oh, really? They go for $10 billion a pop. Where is the money going to come from? From lowering taxes? From banning abortions? From borrowing more from China? From having Sarah Palin “reform” Washington — as if she has any more clue how to do that than the first 100 names in the D.C. phonebook?

AP: Palin's Ayers Attack "Racially Tinged"

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:44:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America," she said.

Translation..."wake up white people"
disgusting

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

WASHINGTON — By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around with terrorists" and doesn't see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign.

And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.

First, Palin's attack shows that her energetic debate with rival Joe Biden may be just the beginning, not the end, of a sharpened role in the battle to win the presidency.

"Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," Palin told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo. A deliberate attempt to smear Obama, McCain's ticket-mate echoed the line at three separate events Saturday.

Palin~Casting Stones from Her Glass House

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:05:07 GMT

clipped by: sahara
clipper's remarks: The founder of the Alaska Independence Party -- a group that has been courted over the years by Sarah Palin, and one her husband was a member of for roughly seven years -- once professed his "hatred for the American government" and cursed the American flag as a "damn flag."

The AIP founder, Joe Vogler, made the comments in 1991, in an interview that's now housed at the Oral History Program in the Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
There is a link to listen to it here:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/aip_founder_professed_hatred_f.php

Sarah Stalin has succeeded in one thing, and that is making McCain look like the intelligent member of their team! Not easy, but she did it!

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

VP candidate invokes Obama's former pastor, but tempers Ayers attack line

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin expanded her attack on Democrat Barack Obama's character Monday to include his relationship with an incendiary former pastor as well as his ties to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers

In the process, Palin toned down her description of the Obama-Ayers relationship after her weekend remarks were criticized as exaggerated, but at the same time she embarked on a discussion of Obama's relationship with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., which Republican presidential candidate John McCain had signaled he did not want to be a part of his campaign

In an interview with conservative The New York Times columnist William Kristol published Monday, the Alaska governor said there should be more discussion about Wright, Obama's pastor of 20 years at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago

McCain himself condemned

there's no place for that kind of campaigning

Clip Source: www.care2.com

Tags: politics

Liberate Sarah (lol)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:17:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Step Two involves Jeremiah Wright.

[T]he fact is the only Democrats to win the presidency in the past 40 years -- Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton -- distanced themselves from liberal orthodoxy. Obama is, by contrast, a garden-variety liberal. He also has radical associates in his past.

The most famous of these is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright....

Brilliant. In the midst of a Wall Street crisis, and with McCain getting hammered for ignoring the middle class, Kristol wants McCain to talk about the former pastorat Obama's former church. Yeah, that will win voters over.

If Democrats are very lucky, McCain will take Kristol's advice.

Clip Source: www.washingtonmonthly.com

September 29, 2008

KRISTOL HAS A PLAN....

Bill Kristol believes his long-time friend, John McCain, is having some trouble, but he devotes his New York Times column today to explaining that McCain still "has a chance" to "surge to victory."

In fact, Kristol has a two-pronged approach to helping the Republican ticket get on track.

Step One involves Sarah Palin.

McCain needs to liberate his running mate from the former Bush aides brought in to handle her --

I'm told McCain recently expressed unhappiness with his staff's handling of Palin

They're supposed to liberate Palin to go on the offensive as a combative conservative in the vice-presidential debate on Thursday

the notion of "liberating" Palin to begin a series of relentless attacks seems misguided. As Joe Klein noted, "I'd wonder about the shelf-life of Palin's efficacy as an attack dog, especially now that the American people have come to see her as the incredible -- as in not credible -- vice presidential choice that she is."

Tags: lol

Guilt by Association is a Double Edged Sword

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:23:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Guilt by association is simply wrong. The democrats should no more engage in it than the Republicans and they shouldn't do it even if the McCain campaign does. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it.

Clip Source: www.politico.com

Since the mid-1980s, there’s been almost no attention paid to John McCain’s long-ago association with a controversial group implicated in a secretive plot to supply arms to Nicaraguan militia groups during the Iran-Contra affair.

But now, with the Republican presidential candidate stepping up his negative blitz against Democratic opponent Barack Obama, some Democrats are hoping that the group — the U.S. Council for World Freedom, and its founder, John Singlaub — will become for McCain what Bill Ayers has become for Obama: a fleeting past association used as ammunition for political broadsides.

“This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign,” Democratic strategist Paul Begala

John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing organization; it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom.

a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact, for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.”

Tags: politics, obama, mccain, campaign

Obama Brushes Off Terrorist Ties, But CNN Digs Deeper...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:00:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Whoa! If CNN is now searching...and finding...things are coming out that have been deeply buried.

Obama is so new to the political scene that most of his ties are recent and knowable. The man's character, his core values, and his concept of our United States are very, very important. Where an Obama Presidency and Administration would lead us could effect our very foundation and security.

Clip Source: www.clevelandleader.com

Obama Brushes Off Terrorist Ties, But CNN Digs Deeper & Finds There's More to the Story

Vice presidential candidate Barack Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, said yesterday that Obama "didn't know the history" of domestic terrorist bomber William Ayers' activities in the violent Weather Undergroud movement when he attended a political event at Ayers' home in 1995

CNN found the two having repeatedly crossed paths was Chicago's Annenberg Challenge project.

CNN also found that Ayers and Obama served "on the board" of a second organization, the Woods fund. "Among its receipients: Jeremiah Wright's Trinity Church where Obama attended and a children and family justice center where Ayers' wife worked."

"The chairmanship of the $100 million Annenberg board helped volt him from southside Chicago lawyer to political player and that too has another connection to Bill Ayers.

“Where was that introduction made?”

“in the home of the 60s radicals Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.”

Low Information Voters

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:35:53 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: I run into these people a lot here in Georgia. People that make up their minds based on bumper stickers and 30 second TV ads.

In a country with such promise, there is a huge swath of people that are, IMO, wasting the potential of this free society to learn, grow, and advance the human condition. Dare I use the word shallow?

Clip Source: www.ucdailynews.com

Why You Shouldn't Vote for Barack Obama

I decided go out, among the flock, to talk to some of my neighbors, co-workers and people in the local Wal-mart and grocery stores, to get some reasons why I shouldn’t vote for this new shiny coin they call Barack Obama.

I found a co-worker of mine who carries the opinion that he is a Muslim pretending to be a Christian. That he hates white people and was sent here by Al Qaeda to infiltrate the terrorist’s agenda into USA soil. They know this because he received an email from a friend from church, or a co-worker who received this information from a reliable source.

I also spoke to an older friend of mine

She said, “He is a Chicago “slickster” who has a big “MTV Cribs” style house.

I did find a lady at the grocery store who told me that “McCain was a prisoner of war and therefore could be trusted with the country”.

Bush snubs Iran breakthrough opportunity

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:17:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Might have undermined McCain; Iranians read it as no interest from America in anything but regime change or attack

Clip Source: www.atimes.com

Bush's final Iran blunder?

By announcing that the United States is no longer interested in opening a consular office in Iran, the George W Bush administration has forfeited a golden opportunity for a timely diplomatic breakthrough with Iran

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki

also stated clearly and unambiguously Iran's willingness to consider a "freeze-for-freeze" option on its nuclear program

Iran's new signs of compromise have fallen on deaf ears in the US

Had Bush given a green light to a diplomatic presence in Iran, it would have undermined McCain's foreign policy objectives, benefiting Obama.

But, more than the election concerns, the role and influence of pro-Israel lobbyists deserves consideration

Bush's decision is yet another blunder that ranks with the negative reaction of the White House to an Iranian peace initiative in 2003.

The message that is being read

is that no matter how much interest Iran shows

Washington

still prioritizes

regime change or

outright attack on Iran

Tags: iran, bush

Palin Blasts Obama's Ties to Weather Channel

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:59:37 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Uh-oh.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Palin Blasts Obama's Ties to Weather Channel

Alaska governor Sarah Palin went on the attack today, claiming that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama had longstanding ties to The Weather Channel.

"There's a fine line between hating America's weather and hating America herself."

"They said that Sen. Obama was hanging out with weathermen," she said. "Do we really want to elect someone who has been palling around with meteorologists?"

Tags: palin, obama, humor, satire

Barbara Ehrenreich: Hillary's "gift" to women

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:08:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Clinton didn’t just break through the “glass floor,” she set a new low for floors in general

Clip Source: ehrenreich.blogs.com

Susan Faludi rejoiced over Hillary Clinton’s destruction of the myth of female prissiness and innate moral superiority, hailing Clinton’s “no-holds-barred pugnacity” and her media reputation as “nasty” and “ruthless.”

But by running a racially-tinged campaign, lying about her foreign policy experience, and repeatedly seeming to favor McCain over her Democratic opponent, Clinton didn’t just break through the “glass floor,” she set a new low for floors in general, and would, if she could have got within arm’s reach, have rubbed the broken glass into Obama’s face.

But did we really need another lesson in the female capacity for ruthless aggression? Any illusions I had about the innate moral superiority of women ended four years ago with Abu Ghraib

Hillary Clinton smashed the myth of innate female moral superiority in the worst possible way – by demonstrating female moral inferiority. We didn’t really need her racial innuendos and free-floating bellicosity to establish that women aren’t wimp

Tags: clinton, women

Obama Hatred at McCain-Palin Rallies: "Terrorist!" "Kill Him!"

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:01:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

McCain was speaking today in New Mexico, doing his usual personal attack on Barack Obama, as the stock market plummeted (you can see the ticker next to McCain on the screen, an apt reminder of what McCain and his fellow Republicans represent), and McCain asked the crowd "who is Barack Obama?" Immediately you hear someone yell "terrorist." McCain pauses, the audience laughs, and McCain continues on, not acknowledging, not chastising, not correcting

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Judging by McCain's slightly startled reaction, he clearly didn't anticipate that reaction, and McCain's in no way responsible for the utterances of anybody in his audience. But he must have some idea of how deeply this fear/outsider/other meme has spread

UPDATE: The Washington Post reports on a similar moment at a Palin rally today:

Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said

"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.

Bigots Demand Context. Whine that We Just Don't Understand

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:04:14 GMT

clipped by: zizzy
clipper's remarks: Ha!

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Rush is upset that the Obama camp is portraying him as being a bigot.

By quoting a bigoted statement he's made.

The Obama campaign is running new Spanish language ads in Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico which quote Limbaugh as using the phrase "stupid and unskilled Mexicans" and telling Mexicans to "shut your mouth, or get out" of America

In his WSJ piece Limbaugh doesn't deny making the statements. His issue is that the statements are taken out of context.

Context?

What is it with bigots that makes them think there is a context for bigotry? When much was made of that paragon of virtue Bill Bennett's assertion "if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose -- you could abort every black baby in this country,"

Bill and his supporters claimed that statement was taken out of context.

what's missed by the chattering classes is that these are actually -- according to Rush -- "humorous monologue(s)" or "parody

You know, the way Amos and Andy was penetrating social satire

Sarah Silverman on Obama vs. McCain

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:08:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hilarious as well as informative! The great Schlep--hahahahaha

Clip Source: lj-toys.com

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Clip Source: jblaque.livejournal.com

Not a Silverman fan? Wash your troubles down with this.

McCain works to drive voters from Obama

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:22:19 GMT

clipped by: keeth
clipper's remarks: McCain's comments from 2000 are very telling.

Clip Source: afp.google.com

McCain works to drive voters from Obama

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Republican John McCain has bet his White House fortunes on a blitz aimed at scaring voters from Democratic rival Barack Obama -- a time-honored tactic with long odds of success this year, experts warned Monday.

"McCain's campaign needs to change the subject from the economy. McCain's poll numbers have been falling faster than the stock market," said Eric Davis, a political scientist at Middlebury College in Vermont.

And the Democratic National Committee drew attention McCain's remarks during his failed presidential run in 2000, when he was the target of a blizzard of attack ads and nasty rumors blamed on supporters of then-Texas governor George W. Bush.

"Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don't have much of a vision for the future or you're not ready to articulate it," McCain told PBS public television in February 2000.

Tags: mccain, palin, obama, ayers, economy

Palin gets slammed

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:42:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Loud-Mouth-and-Loose-Lipped Palin Owes Obama an Apology for This One

Clip Source: www.wowowow.com

the headline was: "Palin says Obama ‘palling around’ with terrorists." As if this weren’t bad enough, she went on to tell whatever group she was addressing: "This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America." Well, I’ll tell you what I see: a loud-mouth, loose-lipped nobody who is drunk on media attention and a quart low in the judgment department. I think both she and her aged "maverick" buddy owe Mr. Obama an apology for this one.

I think this hockey mom/moose skinner fits perfectly into the class war she is helping perpetuate, even though she has none

It would have far more factual validity for Obama, or a surrogate, to publicize the fact that Track, the kid who joined the Army, did so because a judge told him it was that or jail due to his dealing drugs.

the lady has annoyed me because of her ignorance and arrogance

I think the McCain people better lock the lady up again and tell her to zip it, because she is not fit to even ad-lib.

Tags: palin, obama, ayers, weathermen