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Candidates Mull ‘Evil Empire’

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:25:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hmmm, people who in live in glass houses... should not throw stones

Candidates Mull ‘Evil Empire’

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The U.S. presidential candidates assailed Russia in their latest debate, with Democrat Barack Obama saying Moscow had engaged in “evil” behavior and Republican John McCain saying it was “maybe” an evil empire.

In Tuesday’s debate, the two candidates were asked the barbed question, “Do you think that Russia under Vladimir Putin is an evil empire?” and were asked to reply “yes” or “no.”

Both stopped short of saying “yes” or “no” but made plain that they have problems with Russia.

“I think they’ve engaged in an evil behavior, and I think that it is important that we understand they’re not the old Soviet Union, but they still have nationalist impulses that I think are very dangerous,” Obama said.

“Maybe,” McCain answered, adding, “If I say yes, then that means that we’re reigniting the old Cold War. If I say no, it ignores their behavior.”

The "Great Wall Street Heist" of 2008

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:21:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Reagan added: “I hope John McCain will not shrink from pointing the finger of blame where it belongs – at Barack Obama, who fed greedily at the trough of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while their top people, including two of his own campaign associates, were flim-flamming the American people. It’s a Democratic scandal from beginning to end, and the American people deserve to know it.”

Clip Source: www.newsmax.com

The runaway government bailout of Wall Street at taxpayer expense is nothing less than "robbery,” according to Michael Reagan.

Newsmax columnist told the 5 million listeners of "The Michael Reagan Show" on Friday that their pockets and those of their fellow Americans were being picked clean by the panic-driven bailout.

"Democrats Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, Penny Pritzker, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are robbing the American taxpayer, and Republicans in the House and Senate had been tapped to drive the getaway car," said Reagan.

“In a political system where well-paid Democrat operatives can enrich themselves at the expense of the American people with zero downside, there is no incentive to behave properly, when the taxpayer will bail you out. Enough is enough, bad decisions have consequences and those consequences ought to include indictments and jail time for those who cashed in."

Tags: democrats franklin raines, jim johnson, jamie gorelick, penny pritzker, chris dodd and barney frank, barack obama

McCain urged supporters to stop 'hate speech' against Obama

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:52:13 GMT

clipped by: Nathan_7870

Clip Source: blogs.news.sky.com

Today John McCain was forced to stop the "hate speech" that Sarah Palin has be gleefully stirring up on his behalf.

There was glimmer of the old John McCain who many used to admire and respect.

This latest Campaign 2008 version is of someone who wants to win at all costs.

Or maybe not. What price Victory, John McCain?

McCain who bills himself as a "Man of Honour" must on some level be sickened and disgusted by the behaviour of some of his most vitriolic supporters.

This glimpse of the old John McCain was a man who could win an election with a true bi-partisan message and some good ideas to get the economy moving that would appeal to middle.

In light of the Bush 2000 vicious attack, it is hard to understand how McCain could condone a strategy where his campaign tried to label Barack Obama a dangerous unpatriotic "outsider" and a "terrorist" by association.

at a campaign rally he stopped one of his most vocal supporters from calling Obama an "Arab"-- maybe even he has had enough of the hate.

Palin abused power as Alaska Gov.

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:45:44 GMT

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Clip Source: www.reuters.com

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (Reuters) - An Alaska ethics inquiry found on Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin, the U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate, abused her authority by pressuring subordinates to fire a state trooper involved in a feud with her family.

The finding cast a cloud over John McCain's controversial choice of running mate for the November 4 election. On the day it was published he reined in an aggressive strategy against Barack Obama that had failed to cut into his Democratic rival's lead.

After a week in which he and Palin fiercely attacked Obama and inflamed supporters by urging them to question his fitness to be president, McCain switched to a milder tone, calling on frustrated loyalists to respect the Illinois senator.

Supporters appeared surprised by his conciliatory approach, booing at a Minneapolis rally when he told a skeptical backer that Obama was a "decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared (of) as president of the United States."

The Dems try to tar Palin on Troopergate

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:15:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pay special attention to French's and Elton's comments they point to the bias of this "investigation"

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

The state senator managing the probe, Sen. Hollis French, fueled those complaints with a September 2 interview in which he warned the inquiry could yield an "October Surprise" for the GOP. But Palin's lawyers already had begun pushing for the state Personnel Board to launch its own investigation, calling it the proper legal venue for the matter.

But once she became Sen. John McCain's running mate, her advisers began painting the investigation as a weapon of Democratic partisans.

About 1,000 more pages of documents compiled during the inquiry will remain confidential because they involve private personnel matters, according to the council's chairman, state Sen. Kim Elton.

"I believe that these findings may help people come to a conclusion on how they should vote" in the presidential election, Elton said.

The ANGER-MAN John McCain is a Liability to USA

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:42:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The 'Moody' McCain would have been barred from contesting if there was an Ethical Committee to 'screen' Presidential candidates.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

McCain boasts of his checkered record at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, where he graduated perilously close to the bottom of his class.

By his own admission, he was a hotheaded and privileged young man who narrowly avoided expulsion

Casting the unschooled Governor Sarah Palin

was McCain's most spectacularly

unpredictable decision

Impetuous?

You betcha

In Oxford

his dark side showed up

he insisted

over and over

Obama

does not understand Iraq, Army General

David Petraeus

McCain suspended his campaign during the

financial crisis

his move shocked observers on both sides of the party aisle

Senator John McCain's personal charms are in danger of turning into a liability

the impetuous, nearly manic nature

it's beginning to look like volatility, a cause for alarm among friends and foes alike

an unfortunate reference to his opponent as "that one",

McCain Tells Supporters to Dial Back the Hate, Gets Booed for It

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:12:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How disappointed they must be to find out they don't finally have an openly racist candidate. Good luck getting that geni back in the bottle, John. You may not have created this monster, but you gave it a place to live.

It's a little late to try to kick it out now.

Clip Source: www.mcclatchydc.com

John McCain on Friday moved to calm rising anger among his supporters at rival Barack Obama, calling him a decent man and at one point taking the microphone away from a woman who'd called Obama an Arab.

Their anger apparently still at flash point, McCain's supporters then booed him for his conciliatory words about Obama.

Increasingly angry, supporters of McCain and running mate Sarah Palin have responded at rallies with loud cries of "terrorist" and "traitor."

But when one man said he was scared to raise his unborn child in a country that might be led by a President Obama, McCain disagreed.

Later, another supporter told McCain, "I don't trust Obama...He's an Arab."

McCain stood shaking his head as she spoke, then quickly took the microphone from her.

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Palin abuses power

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:33:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Legislative committee releases investigation into firing of public official

The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason Gov. Sarah Palin fired the public safety commissioner but says it likely was a contributing factor.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.

Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report by a bipartisan panel that investigated the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain.

Tags: abuse of power, palin, mccain, ethics, lack of

Another "Pants on Fire" for McCain

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:32:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For claiming Obama wants to increase size of government by 23%

Clip Source: www.politifact.com

Obama wants to increase the size of government by 23 percent.

John McCain on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 in a radio ad called "Millions" >>Details

Tags: mccain, lies, obama

Politifact: McCain's "pants on fire" about Ayers

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:21:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire" award won by McCain

Clip Source: www.politifact.com

John McCain

"(Bill) Ayers and Obama ran a radical education foundation together."

Not a radical group, and Ayers didn't run it

Barack Obama

Tags: mccain, ayers, obama, lies

Poor people

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:56:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I guess this is what it's come to.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

At a normal campaign rally, it's the candidate who tries to whip the crowd into a frenzy. At John McCain's town hall in Waukesha, Wis., Thursday, it was the other way around. "I'm mad, and I'm really mad," said one man who'd been called on to ask a question. "It's not the economy. It's the socialist taking over our country." McCain started to respond, and the man shot back sternly. "Let me finish please. When you have an Obama, Pelosi, and the rest of the hooligans up there gonna run this country, we've got to have our head examined. It's time that you two who are representing us, and we are mad."

We Are Sick of "reach across the aisle" to Socialist Democrats

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:42:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."
-- Barack Obama

Clip Source: www.gopusa.com

At a townhall meeting in Wisconsin on Thursday, Sen. John McCain came face to face with everything that is troubling grassroots conservatives. We are tired and frustrated with big-spending, big-government programs. We are tired of the corruption in Washington by both parties. We are sick of efforts to "reach across the aisle" to work with socialist Democrats.

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This man summed up our concerns perfectly... the socialists are taking over, and we need Sen. McCain to fight! Just look at what we are facing:

After the man in Wisconsin spoke, Sen. McCain said, "Well, I think I got the message." Did he? McCain went on to say how we need to all work together, blah, blah, blah. Working together with Democrats -- acting like Democrats -- is how we got into this mess! Wake up! Fight for conservative values! It's what the country wants and needs.

If I sound like I'm begging, I'm not the only one:

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It's time to fight! American values are at stake!

Tags: mccain, townhall meeting, socialist democrats, obama, pelosi, acorn, corruption

McCain Calls For Respect For Obama, Gets Booed

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:35:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.411mania.com

McCain Calls On Supporters To Be Respectful Of Obama, Gets Booed

"I want everyone to be respectful. And let's make sure we are, because that's the way politics is done in America."

"I have to tell you, he is a decent person, a person that you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States."

The crowd booed, and some yelled "Come On, John" after McCain said this.

A woman at the town hall asks softly: "I've heard that Sen. Obama is an Arab."

"No, maam. He's a decent family man and citizen," McCain says. "He's not. Thank you."

Even FOX News spent a lot of time this afternoon talking about how McCain is now at odds with his own campaign

It's hard to make the case that people should be scared of an Obama Presidency, which is the goal of McCain's TV ads, when McCain himself says people have no reason to fear an Obama Presidency.

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Tags: mccain, palin, politics, hate, fear, obama, rallies, fox, news

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

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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.