Predictable

Looking forward to today's show!

We need you and Marc more than ever. Just to keep us sane!

chris matthews to Joe Scarborough
Submitted by jbenet on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 8:50am.
Q: what are you going to be talking about tomorrow?
A: Whatever the McCain campaign campaign wants us too.
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out of context - sort of.
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Who are the people concerned about the next supreme court running against?
Karl Rove.
Who is talking out of John McCain's and Sarah Palin's asses?
Karl Rove.
Who are Obama and Biden running against?
Karl Rove.

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Jamesbennett

This is manufactured garbage by McCain's new "truth squad".

The Democrats sent a team of about 30 people to Alaska to investigate Palin's background, which is proving a relatively easy task since the woman has left a trail of slime around the state, basically since she decided to put her basketball down. McCain's camp panicked and assembled a team of all-female flunkies and congresswomen to misdirect the media everytime details of Palin's misdeeds come out into the open.

Yesterday the Washington Post drove a semi through her "fiscal responsibility" lie, by reporting she paid herself to live at home and had a ridiculous travel budget for her family, including $11,000 for youngest daughter, Piper. So, the countermeasure for this is by leaping on Obama for his lipstick/pig reference...and notice who is the one who starts pissing all over herself in outrage...Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift.

The Republicans are absolutely desperate and YES they thinks people is stoopids. BUT, more importantly, they continue to firmly believe that WOMEN are stupid. If you know any woman that hears the lipstick meme and doesn't know this side of the story, forward her this info, and feel free to turn them on to Pandagon!

a rewrite... "Thank God for Karl Rove!
re ... fernando - a little local black hole humor from cincy
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3736#comment-253847
Submitted by dan on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 7:08am.
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Whoa! What Just Happened?
I guess that new European Super-Collider
formed a Black Hole after all and Sucked the Universe in.
Can nothing save us?
Only a counter force that sucks even more.
Aohw! We're Back!
Thank God for Karl Rove!

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Jamesbennett

60th,

My Wardar blinked "Dog! Dog!" two or three days ago.

And lest anyone accuse me of seeing War Dog in every new argumentative poster, my Wardar hasn't gone off in a long time.

I am not ready to claim that my Wardar did not issue a false alarm. However, the writing style and key arguments of McCainvoter will be under close scrutiny for the foreseeable future.

I am kinda new here and was wondering what your history on the blog is. When I came here you were not here for many months. then you came back. I really appreciate your comments and support for what is important. Just being nosey as usual.

Happe Talk

sederville. So you think Palin will also get the free pass? Why are they being so protective of her? After all she's a "hockey Mom," ya know - she has to be under wraps? Not a sign of a "maverick," is it, hiding behind the big bad campaign spokesperson?

I thought your post was very good.. :)

Hope ya don't mind but,I sent your "what are the new Campaign issues",to cnn.com,harball,com,countdown.com..etc..
And,some other M$M..

With Full accreditation,of course..So it's your butt,not mine.. ;-)

And,putting er up on my blog.. :)

www.marcmaronrules.blogspot.com

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Nando,

thanks for the video on women's reproductive rights. It's comforting when a man get it's, you wonderful humanitarian you.

Submitted by nightbird on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 10:11am.
...So you think Palin will also get the free pass? Why are they being so protective of her?...
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Surely someone somewhere has interviewed an empty chair on camera?

(Maybe a chair empty but for a pair of glasses sitting on it?)

Good Lord! As a teacher at an online school, after about 6 years of grading essays and papers, I have become pretty attuned to writing styles and can spot plagiarism a hundred miles away. I have to say, the flags are up and, once up, they're rarely wrong.

hey, does your WarDar sound like that whirring wind-up toy robot dog bark??? I'm not askin'...I'm just askin'...

Submitted by edna ellen "dyslexic" poe on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 10:14am.
...It's comforting when a man get it's...

Nando,

I meant, it's comforting when a man gets it, you wonderful humanitarian you.

How's that?

has doonesbury come up with a character yet?

I'll take my medication now.

Submitted by edna ellen poe on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 10:20am.
...I meant, it's comforting when a man gets it, you wonderful humanitarian you.

How's that?
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Less dyslexic.

(It occurs to me that Les Dyslexic would be a good screen name. It has a nice singsong to it.)

inventor of the electric autoharp?

his sister with dyslexia

Happe Talk

havne't you heard? "it's not about issues..."
aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!

mhappenow,

If Les Dyslexia married Liz Dexia and they hyphenated their surnames, I couldn't pronounce it accurately on the first try.

(Had to edit because I wasn't able to write it accurately on the first try.)

The only person running on a presidential ticket to make a joke about lipstick on an animal about Palin is Palin:
Palin referred to lipstick as she accepted the Republican nomination for vice president, saying that it's the only thing that separates a hockey mom like her from a pit bull.
Link to Nedra Pickler story

Re: If It Barks Like A Dog...
A Rove-r by any other name...

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow explains why, even if we fall into a black hole or something similar, it's good for McCain.

Mhappenow, thanks much for this link.

good one!!

please

been searching for a new "Job" and my voice has always gotten me in trouble at work.

my horoscope in the local paper
Taurus - Reach out for someone at a distance. A new perspective helps you understand recent events. Keep communication flowing. Tonight: Follow the music.

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Jamesbennett

yawn!

thank gawd for coffee!

Iraq F-16 Purchase Roils Relations with Kurds
Bush's Minimal Withdrawal Points to Minimal Gains;
Al-Maliki's Head of Security Injured

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that a big dispute has broken out between the three largest blocs in parliament. The government has so far been characterized by an alliance of the Shiite Iraqi Accord Front with the Kurdistan Alliance. But now the Shiites want to equip the Iraqi military with F-16s.

The day before yesterday, the Kurdish speaker of parliament demanded that any such purchase be attendant on a pledge by the Iraqi government never to use the planes against the Kurdish people.

Jalaluddin Saghir, popular Shiite preacher and a member of parliament, said that it is impossible to compare situation in the late zeroes to that of the of the former regime, and that the current, representative government would never persecute the Kurdish people. He said that the arms purchases were necessary to defend the country after the foreign troops withdrew. He insisted that this move was a clear prerogative of the central government. He observed that the current government in Iraq poses no threat to its neighbors.

MP Abdul Karim al-Samarra'i, who serves on the Security and Defense Committee, represents the Sunni Iraqi Accord Front; he called the Kurdish demands "unacceptable" and impossible to implement. He said there had to be a broad agreement on the need to equip the Iraqi military.

Among the more dangerous political developments in Iraq could be a collapse of the Shiite-Kurdish alliance, followed by a joint Sunni-Shiite Arab alliance against the Kurds.

[...]

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/10/18534783.php

If I were the Kurds,I would be worried too....

oh yea - coffee!!

Submitted by 60th Street on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 10:03am.
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McCain is the one who used that analogy frst. Start emailing!

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October 11, 2007

DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) — Drawing comparisons between New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's current healthcare plan and the one she championed in 1993, Arizona Sen. John McCain joked Thursday, "I think they put some lipstick on the pig, but it's still a pig."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/10/11/mccain-clintons-healthca...

Unfit for High Office
One of the interesting aspects of this campaign is watching the scales fall from the eyes of many of John McCain's closest admirers among the veteran DC press corps. I'm not talking about the freaks on Fox News or any of the sycophants at the AP. I'm talking about, let's say, the better sort of reporters and commentators in the 45 to 65 age bracket. To the extent that the press was McCain's base (and in many though now sillier respects it still is) this was the base of the base. And talking to a number of them I can understand why that was, at least in the sense of the person he was then presenting himself as.

But over the last ... maybe six weeks, in various conversations with these folks, the change is palpable. Whether it will make any difference in the tone of coverage in the dominant media I do not know. But it is sinking in.

All politicians stretch the truth, massage it into the best fit with their message. But, let's face it, John McCain is running a campaign almost entirely based on straight up lies. Not just exaggerations or half truths but the sort of straight up, up-is-down mind-blowers we've become so accustomed to from the current occupants of the White House. And today McCain comes out with this rancid, race-baiting ad based on another lie. Willie Horton looks mild by comparison. (And remember, President George H.W. Bush never ran the Willie Horton ad himself. It was an outside group. He wasn't willing to degrade himself that far.) As TPM Reader JM said below, at least Horton actually was released on a furlough. This is ugly stuff. And this is an ugly person. There's clearly no level of sleaze this guy won't stoop to to win this election.

And let's be frank. He might win it. This is clearly a testing time for Obama supporters. But I want to return to a point I made a few years ago during the Social Security battle with President Bush. Winning and losing is never fully in one's control -- not in politics or in life. What is always within our control is how we fight and bear up under pressure. It's easy to get twisted up in your head about strategy and message and optics. But what is already apparent is that John McCain is running the sleaziest, most dishonest and race-baiting campaign of our lifetimes. So let's stopped being shocked and awed by every new example of it. It is undignified. What can we do? We've got a dangerously reckless contender for the presidency and a vice presidential candidate who distinguished her self by abuse of office even on the comparatively small political stage of Alaska. They've both embraced a level of dishonesty that disqualifies them for high office. Democrats owe it to the country to make clear who these people are. No apologies or excuses. If Democrats can say at the end of this campaign that they made clear exactly how and why these two are unfit for high office they can be satisfied they served their country.

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/215224.php

McCain Health Care Plan Puts Focus on Spending
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By MARC SANTORA
Published: October 12, 2007

But when asked about Mrs. Clinton his speech, he said her proposal was “eerily” similar to the plan she came up with in 1993, when she headed a health care reorganization effort during her husband’s administration. “I think they put some lipstick on a pig,” he said, “but it’s still a pig.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/us/politics/12health.html?_r=1&fta=y&o...

I started here probably about a year and a half before Janeane quit the Majority Report, I honestly don't know when exactly, but that's my best guess. I can trace my memory back to before she started disappearing to focus on her acting and her war with Sammy about the 9/11 carcinogen victims and Scientology cures. I listened to Air America from its inception, and esp. MRR and Morning Sedition, but didn't blog here until about then. I've always been a pretty sporadic blogger, though. It took me a while to warm up to the whole process. I love it here, though. :)

Operators' SMS Price Hikes Come Under Senate Scrutiny

Dianne See Morrison
mocoNews.net
Wednesday, September 10, 2008; 9:00 AM

Operator price hikes in text messages have come under scrutiny by a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has asked the country's top four carriers "to justify the "sharply rising rates" they charge customers to send and receive messages, reports AP.

Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, said in a letter sent Tuesday to the big four that he is "concerned" that the price hikes "reflect a decrease in competition." Since 2005, when the cost of a text message was 10 cents, the price has increased 100 percent, to 20 cents. Sprint ( NYSE: S) was the first to up its rate to 20 cents last fall, with the remaining three carriers quickly following suit.
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"Particularly alarming," noted the senator, was that the industry-wide increase, did not appear to be justified by rising costs in delivering the messages, as texts files are very small and cost carriers very little to transmit. He was also "concerned" that the top four carriers appear to have increased prices around the same time, all at identical price increases. Kohl said, "This conduct is hardly consistent with the vigorous price competition we hope to see in a competitive marketplace."

Kohl, who noted that the big four provide service to 90 percent of all US cell phone customers, has requested that the carriers provide an explanation by October 6, 2008.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR200809...

Nice to see Congress back in the game. Let's see if they've grown any teeth......

Last October, asked about Sen. Hillary Clinton's health care plan, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was blunt.

McCain said Clinton's proposal was “eerily” similar to the ill-fated plan she devised in 1993.

“I think they put some lipstick on a pig,” he said, “but it’s still a pig.”

A common expression, right?

McCain surely wasn't calling Clinton a pig.

After all, McCain's former press secretary, Torie Clarke, wrote a book called "Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in the No-Spin Era."

Elizabeth Edwards told some health journalists that McCain's health care plan was like “painting lipstick on a pig.”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/

The Bigs Agree
Following up on the post below, it seems Joe Klein agrees, calls McCain's latest "one of the sleaziest ads I've ever seen in presidential politics." There's just no getting around it at this point, the man is not morally fit to serve as president.

--Josh Marshall

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/apology_not_accepted.html

maggiesboy,you might have a comment about this.. ;)

By Dave Lindorff

Okay, I have to vent here. We all get a little crazy sitting alone
at our keyboards in this business, and it's finally gotten to me.

I know there are serious signs of a complete mental breakdown in the
US, with polls reporting that millions of people are actually excited
at having a low-rent religious fanatic who consistently mispronounces
pundit as "pundint" (shades of Dubya!), pilfers state funds for her
family's personal use, lies about her alleged opposition to Washington
pork, claims the bloody war in Iraq is "God's will," forces her
17-year-old daughter to make a momentary mistake into a lifetime one by
marrying the kid who got her pregnant, and refers to blacks as "sambo"
and to Alaska's indigenous people as "arctic arabs," running for vice
president on the ticket with a man who is a walking medical disaster
waiting to happen.

These are probably the same people who still give the worst
president in the history of the Union a 30 percent approval rating, who
keep watching reality TV shows (perhaps thinking they're real), and who
still think having 180,000 US troops indiscriminately slaughtering
Iraqis, Afghanis and Pakistanis is making the US "safe."

But right now I want to talk about Homeland Security and the US Postal Service, two small examples of domestic insanity.

Con't-Democrats.com

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Out of bounds! McCain misstates Obama sex-ed record

By Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Throw the flag against: The McCain-Palin campaign.

Call: Unsportsmanlike conduct.

What happened: A new 30-second TV ad attacks Barack Obama's record on education, saying that Obama backed legislation to teach "'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners." The announcer then says, "Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."

Why that's wrong: This is a deliberately misleading accusation. It came hours after the Obama campaign released a TV ad critical of McCain's votes on public education. As a state senator in Illinois, Obama did vote for but was not a sponsor of legislation dealing with sex ed for grades K-12.

But the legislation allowed local school boards to teach "age-appropriate" sex education, not comprehensive lessons to kindergartners, and it gave schools the ability to warn young children about inappropriate touching and sexual predators.

Republican Alan Keyes tried to use Obama's vote against him in the 2004 U.S. Senate race. At the time, Obama spoke about wanting to protect young children from abuse. He made clear then that he was not supporting teaching kindergartners about explicit details of sex.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said Tuesday of McCain's ad: "It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls."

Penalty: 15 yards for the McCain campaign's deliberate low blow.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/staff/margaret_talev/story/52169.html

What would a continuation of the last eight years look like? In a speech yesterday at the National Defense University George Bush called his administration a success. Can we survive four more years of success? What would a McCain presidency look like and what’s at stake?

Here to take on the question of US foreign policy after Bush/Cheney are Jeremy Scahill, Roberto Lovato, Arun Gupta, and Malia Lazu.

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i listened from the first day too. It was like nirvana for me...or a nice shot of heroin. I especially liked morning sedition and Rachel, Liz and oops forgot his name...pub enemy. They used to render him speechless which was so funny. He was quite deferential because those are two really smart funny women.

I would listen to the replay of Al to calm my mind as I went to sleep. I had so many racey dreams about him because his voice was still there while I slept. (I was single then). "
I was very shy when I first found the blog. I lurked for the longest time and I remember the first time I posted something my heart was pounding. You were all so smart and informed. Now I feel so at home, except when I get slammed by "can o worms".

Like our granpa says...love you all

Happe Talk

Carilion critics draw hundreds to meeting
The citizens group says Carilion Clinic is driving up costs.

By Sarah Bruyn Jones

Angry over the rising cost of health care, and concerned about the market share Carilion Clinic controls in medical delivery throughout Southwest Virginia, about 400 people gathered in Roanoke on Tuesday evening.

In what has been a grass-roots effort to speak out against Carilion's business practices, the gathering was the inaugural meeting of the Citizens Coalition for Responsible Healthcare. The meeting, held at the Ramada Inn on Franklin Road, was used to introduce the newly formed organization's all-volunteer board of directors and reveal the group's plan for shedding light on the impact Carilion has on health care costs and consumer choice.

"The only way we can fight these abuses is to organize, and starting tonight we can," said Dr. Frank Cotter, an ophthalmologist with Vistar Eye Center in Roanoke who was instrumental in organizing the coalition.

The coalition was formed to focus attention on what members say is the negative impact of Carilion Clinic's transformation into a physician-led clinic. Organizers say Carilion is driving up health care costs.

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http://www.roanoke.com/business/wb/176298

This may not seem like much to some, but Roanoke is a fairly small and conservative Southern town. If they are willing to organize over this, getting most other places fired up should be a piece of cake.

Obama, are you paying attention? Opportunity is knocking here in Virgil Goode country......

It is now thoroughly documented that Sarah Palin supported the $398 million "Bridge to Nowhere" when she ran for Governor in 2006, even though Congress cancelled the earmark in 2005.

She only opposed it in September 2007 after her final efforts to get $329 million more from Congress failed. Yet she kept the partial funding from Congress!

So when Palin repeatedly says "I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks' on that bridge to nowhere," she is repeatedly lying.

It is long past time for reporters to call Sarah Palin exactly what she is - a serial liar.

To: ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Newsweek, NPR, NYT, PBS, Time, WP, WSJ

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It's Petition time Again,Gang - Please Read & Sign - Thank You !

http://www.democrats.com/call-sarah-palin-a-serial-liar

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

That guy totally misses the point.

Every collection box in the country now has a warning sign on it telling mailers that if their stamped mail is over 13oz they need to take to a window where it can be properly marked so that it will go through the mail. This is as much to protect postal workers as it is mail recipients.

Yes, it's a hassle but it's more like having to put on a safety belt than having the secret police storm your house in the middle of the night.

If he'd just read the warning on the box. (Check it out for yourself next time you mail something. You'll see a triangular sign about the 13oz rule).

I'm not saying the USPS doesn't do stupid things, I'm still reeling about the 2nd Class attack on small publishers. I wrote a major rant to HQ and they have yet to reply...because I was right.

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bluerootsradio

subject line: The shoe fits, this frame will stick. Karl Rove Karl Rove Karl Rove
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My Dear Friends : )

What are we running against? Who is the master framer? Not GWB, not Sarah Palin, Not John McCain.
The Liar and Election Thief Is Karl Rove.
Put the opposition on its heels and put them in the Karl Rove frame.
Karl Rove, the commentator that is not really working for McCain, Is framing the issues or lack thereof.
Make him the star, don't let him hide in the shadows, please.
Just listening to Senator Obama's latest campaign stop.
The opening remarks should address enlarging the frame on your terms.
Open with "Lies, misdirection, Karl Rove, Karl Rove, Karl Rove."
Then get to the substance like he is doing right now.
Whether it is actually true or not Karl Rove is the opponent.

The shoe fits, this frame will stick.
Karl Rove Karl Rove Karl Rove

Thank you,
James Bennett
Phoenix, AZ
surfbenet@gmail.com

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Jamesbennett

she said "I put it on ebay."

left out the "sold" part

still telling the bridge lie.

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Jamesbennett

(This is almost entirely stolen from Horse Feathers.)

mire: Who are you?

maggiesboy: I’m fine, thanks, who are you?

mire: I’m fine too, but you can’t interview me unless you give the password.

maggiesboy: Well, what is the password?

mire: Aw, no. You gotta tell me. Hey, I tell what I do. I give you three guesses. It’s the name of a fish.

maggiesboy: Is it Mary?

mire: Ha-ha. That’s-a no fish.

maggiesboy: She isn’t, well, she drinks like one. Let me see. Is it sturgeon?

mire: Hey you crazy. Sturgeon, he’s a doctor cuts you open when-a you sick. Now I give you one more chance.

maggiesboy: I got it. Haddock.

mire: That’s-a funny. I gotta haddock, too.

maggiesboy: What do you take for a haddock?

mire: Well-a, sometimes I take-a aspirin, sometimes I take-a Calamel.

maggiesboy: Say, I’d walk a mile for a Calamel.

mire: You mean chocolate calamel. I like that too, but you no guess it. Hey, what’s-a matter, you no understand English? You can’t interview me unless you say "swordfish." Now I’ll give you one more guess...Hah. That’s-a it. You guess it.

maggiesboy: Pretty good, eh?

and now you know why republicans are skeered of community organizers. its going to get a lot worse before this country turns around and whats going to pull the grassroots together and fight back against the fascist corporations are the community organizers...

Well, we all knew it would happen and the Republicans have yet again proven their abysmal disregard for civility and will plumb the depths of depravity to give their sorry ticket whatever edge they can.

The solution: Keep hammering!! Not only the regular progressive blogs, but the the MSM blogs with comments, as well, and keep the dialogue open on every level, whether it's McCain's flauting of campaign finance laws, pigs and lipstick or Palin's putrid skeletons. Don't think it's ineffective.

Take note of what Sammy said: we are seeing UNPRECEDENTED blog traffic since the Palin pick and this will translate into ad revenue for bloggers which will increase the effectiveness of progressive sites to control and battle back against the Rovian narratives. Also, if you can, donate to them. Blogs are the new 527s. Sign up to some new ones and throw comments out here and there to help increase that traffic. Citizen power!

The advantage: We've seen that blogs can control and set the media narrative and on multiple fronts versus just one story at a time. We have been doing it since Palin became the pick. All of this will translate to neuter the Republican attack dogs. Remember they have ZERO Internet presence...ZERO! Not only that, but they still think that Kos is the only one out there!

All they have is the MSM...that's it and they're even hiding from them! We may get sick at the inane stories the MSM runs, but take note that they are continuing to run the truth about the Palin/McCain ticket, as well. It's WAR and we have key advantages.

Remember the Democrats have 11,000,000 more registered voters than the Republicans. There is a new battleground map with even Southern states being competitive for Obama. The Republikons are desperate and it's showing! Keep the pressure on!

As palin says "there is only one man that has ever really fought for you"

Cindy is standing between and behind.

As she says "ever really fought" cindy dips her head down looks at the ground and brushes her hair across her forhead with her left hand. (wasn't that the one with the cast.?)
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McCain "we understand who we work for"

Karl Rove.

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Jamesbennett

really? his point is that its an arbitrary rule which creates the illusion of safety without actually doing anything to make things safe. its just like airport security where you need to take off your shoes.

The collapse of the manufacturing base, specifically furniture manufacturing, has pushed many of the rural people in this part of the country into poverty. They are starting to get mad. Angry folk organize easily.

If we can make it stick to the Republicans, they will lose many votes. Obama has the opportunity to blow McCain out here if he plays it right.

And if you contact the media...don't forget to mention Rachel Maddow in telling them the standard you want set for their reports...all eyes are on Rachel right now...don't think they aren't...she got record numbers on her first night and topped Larry King!

All this claptrap about infighting at MSNBC, scaling down, etc., has NOT stopped Keith (Special Comment tonight) and now there's our Rachel. The more other networks see her name, the more they understand there's a HUGE demand for people like her to be seen in prime time and evidence-based commentary!

I just gave you a push.. :)

comments@cnn.com

letters@msnnbc.com

countdown@msnbc.com

hardball@msnbc.com

metro@washpost.com

news-tips@nytimes.com

Here's a few to get ya started.. :)

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I'm watching the VOD from yesterday..

What are those Bubble popping noises ? ?

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

there's that odor...
and - i have to wonder why (i'm sure you know this)...
why are the Dems not standing up? kWhy are theyletting the Rethugs threaten to shut down the government over drilling? Huh? Huh??? C'mon, it's a no-brainer

Sarah Palin OWNS the lipstick mantra.

YOU... are NOT allowed to reference lipstick in ANY fashion anymore, especially when using a phrase that's been around since God was a boy! It's NOW sexist because Palin wears lipstick!

Only Republican women can use it for a title of a book... or only John McCain can use it in reference to Hillary Clinton.

But Sarah Palin, referring to women everywhere as hideous vicious attack dogs in lipstick is by all means just a joke!

LipstickGate! Who fucking knew?

Can I use a common idiom to express my view on LipstickGate:

You can put lipstick on a pig, it's still JUST A PIG.

Republicans really are just a bunch of Whiny-Ass-Titty-Babies.

bbl~

I think he is getting really sick of the political world and wants to go back to sports.

He has paid his dues, so I don't blame him, but if he leaves, Rachel will be alone. I hope she is strong enough to keep the Corporate wolves at bay. Not an easy job.

i would be really surprised if he left before the end of the election cycle. it would tag him as a quitter no matter what explanation he provided.

incoming im's on a mac...marc has one.

Happe Talk

Continue to set The Narrative
Submitted by 60th Street on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 11:34am.

I was doing some research and happened upon some misinformation on the "New Republic" blog. I decided to sign up just to throw some facts with links into the discourse. Since I realize discourse is not really what conservatives do, I don't engage I just present and move on.

Since we can't rely on the corporate media, this is one way of takin' it to the streets. No "free speech" zones...yet :)

August 27, 2008

The political conventions bring to an end the silly season of this (interminable) election cycle, and now a nation will focus on the serious business of electing a President…No. Stop. Why kid ourselves? The really silly stuff is only beginning. Brace yourself for attack ads by the boatload. Shadowy advocacy groups will crawl out of the woodwork solely to fund vicious takedowns. The starting guns have just sounded for marathons of spin and counterspin on crucial issues, like how much the candidates' houses are worth. Soon, most pundits will express outrage. Soon, most citizens will express exhaustion. Just about the only happy folk, besides seriously degenerate political junkies, will be the owners of local TV stations. They stand poised to grab 70%, or more, of the $2 billion that could be spent between Labor Day and Election Day. (Researcher TNS Media Intelligence says $800 million has been spent thus far.)

More here

http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/

Why are Sam and Marc doing the show in the same location now and what happened to Sam's studio?

that's the chat IM message received noise.

Did you mail those addresses yet MMR?

[thanks for the links ]

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Jamesbennett

Link-WashPost Vid

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Obama On Lipstick Flap: "Enough Is Enough"
The lipstick-pig controversy "would be funny," Obama said at a Virginia event, "except ... the news media all decided that that was the lead story yesterday." The GOP is using "lies and phony outrage and swift-boat politics," he said.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/obama_spare_me_t...

For all the Chicken Littles losing their minds, Obama just made complete fools out of the McPalin ticket in his Education town hall. ...

Obama came out and called the McPalin's latest outcry for what it is a "made up controversy" and "foolish diversions". He points out they are not talking about the future but following the same script they follow every four years. He mentions all the problems we ARE facing as a nation such as the energy crisis, broken educational system, two wars, shoddy care for Veterans, etc. and closes the statement with "and they want to talk about this"...He goes on to say "It's not the Democrats or Republicans that will lose because of this, its YOU, the people that lose."
He asks if we need another year or another four or eight years without talking about the issues.

He ratchets it up a notch with

"I love this Country too much to let them take over with lies, misdirection, and swift boating. These are serious times and they call for serious debate".

He then proceeds to hammer home that McCain supports all of Bush's most egregious policies like infrastructure problems and the Iraq war. He says

"McCain supports these policies, he believes them. There's not a dimes difference between them"

He closes that segment with this gem:

"Spare me the phony outrage, phony talk about change, we have real problems, we need real answers;
not distractions, diversions and manipulations."

So you see, they get no apology, no backing down and no capitulation. They get smacked down and made to look completely foolish and petty, just as predicted. This man will not be swiftboated, this should be painfully apparent to EVERYONE by now. He reels them in and wallops them with their own foolishness.

I don't see him "quitting" per se, but rather giving MSNBC management plausible reason to terminate him, and even make "an example" of him to get the rest of the MSM bobbleheads to fall in line.

I don't see him backing off, kind of a reverse letter of resignation.

they're in the AArgh NY broom closet.

Marons back in the city.

the popping noises are Marons brain cells firing.

the claustrophobia factor is good for their angst development.

it's a New York Zen thing.

Two senators, one Republican and one Democrat, have come together to accuse the Department of Labor for failing to uphold the "spirit and goals" of laws protecting whistleblowers. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) wrote the letter in reaction to a recent Wall Street Journal article that showed the government has ruled in favor of whistleblowers in only 17 out of 1,273 complaints. (Wall Street Journal)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122101918024118495.html?mod=rss_whats_ne...

Beautifully written man....thanks for the belly laughs!

dan - It's not an arbitrary rule. It's been in effect for years but was changed (last year I think) from 16oz down to 13 because technology has made it possible to create smaller/lighter bombs. If that guy is too busy to take his package to a window clerk, who will simply add a $0.00 meter strip, then let him deal with the competition. He sounds like a fucking republican to me whining about "Oh, the rules are too cumbersome for me". He must really be important to be so unfairly burdened. We lost employees to anthrax, I know that's a different deal but we all live in a shroud of fear everytime we see suspect packages.

That's my rant. Like it or lump it, that's how I feel. And it's all Karl Roves fault somehow. (that's for jb)
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Unless you know something I don't and we're just speculating, I'll throw it out there that I don't peg Olbermann for a quitter. PLUS, I just saw this the other day over the "demotion" flap. No way MSNBC can afford to lose Olbermann AND, this smells like a test to me, My guess is that Gregory will not garner very good ratings and Olbermann will be right back in there by election time...It was a stupid decision by MSNBC and not one that will boost their ratings, that's for sure. It was a slap on the wrist, IMHO.

"Just last year, Mr. Olbermann signed a four-year, $4-million-a-year contract with MSNBC. NBC is close to supplementing that contract with Mr. Olbermann, extending his deal through 2013 — and ensuring that he will be on MSNBC through the next election."

Beautifully written man....thanks for the belly laughs!

dan - It's not an arbitrary rule. It's been in effect for years but was changed (last year I think) from 16oz down to 13 because technology has made it possible to create smaller/lighter bombs. If that guy is too busy to take his package to a window clerk, who will simply add a $0.00 meter strip, then let him deal with the competition. He sounds like a fucking republican to me whining about "Oh, the rules are too cumbersome for me". He must really be important to be so unfairly burdened. We lost employees to anthrax, I know that's a different deal but we all live in a shroud of fear everytime we see suspect packages.

That's my rant. Like it or lump it, that's how I feel. And it's all Karl Roves fault somehow. (that's for jb)
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A new report from the Government Accountability Office states that the government's bridge repair program is unfocused and lacking in standards. The report comes a little after the one year anniversary of the collapse of the I-35W Minneapolis bridge, that killed 13 people and injured hundreds more. (AP)

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/09/09/bridge_...

I hear ye CeeCee! *cue Doobie Bros!* :)

click for food for them.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces;jsessionid=20A...

Elections in Georgia have been plagued by ethics violations, according to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Their final report describes "widespread and serious irregularities" as well as ballot box stuffing and beating of opposition activists. The report describes over 1,400 complaints and cites failure by the government to properly respond. (Reuters)

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL941106920080909?feedType=R...

got errands to run now and my lunch time is coming up. isnt it great to be me?

i hate taking drugs though period...i do!!! thanks but no thanks for your kind words anyway icewater

Thanks, GBC! It slipped past me that Palin was talking about all women, or at least all "hockey moms."

Considering the proud references to barracudas and pit bulls, and the idea that fellas find Caribou Barbie hot, I'm surprised I haven't seen a vagina dentata mention yet.

Palin Quoted Writer Who Once Lamented Failure To Assassinate FDR
By Greg Sargent - September 10, 2008, 12:10PM
Thomas Frank has an interesting little scooplet: It appears that during her convention speech, Sarah Palin quoted an anonymous writer who, it turns out, once lamented that Franklin D. Roosevelt's would-be assassin hit the wrong man.

Here's what Palin said in her her speech:

A writer observed: "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity." I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman. I grew up with those people. They are the ones who do some of the hardest work in America...
The anonymous writer who penned these words, it turns out, is the right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler.

Pegler also wrote that it was "regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara hit the wrong man when he shot at Roosevelt in Miami."

As Tom Frank says, there's no evidence that Palin "shares the trademark Pegler bloodlust." But perhaps it's more evidence of her political influences and leanings?

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/palin_quoted_wri...

Obama twists the knife (as predicted)
Submitted by GBC on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 12:16pm.
*******
Is your link suppose to go to Sammy's home page ? Thanks..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

no not for me just want to know how to go about it

A new intelligence report being “prepared for the next president on future global risks envisions a steady decline in U.S. dominance in the coming decades, as the world is reshaped by globalization, battered by climate change, and destabilized by regional upheavals over shortages of food, water and energy.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR200809...

props GBC

Obama blogger sues publishers because Bible offends him.

mdoneil

On the trail today: John McCain and Sarah Palin will appear at a campaign rally at Van Dyck Park on Old Lee Highway in Fairfax City, VA. Barack Obama discusses education in Norfolk, VA, and appears on CBS’ “Late Show with David Letterman.”

from Think Progress

“The rate of suicides among-active duty soldiers is on pace to surpass both last year’s numbers and the rate of suicide in the general U.S. population for the first time since the Vietnam war, according to U.S. Army officials.” Officials attribute the rise to “the increased pace of combat operations, the number of deployments and financial and family troubles connected with deployments.”

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/09/09/army.suicides/index.html?eref=rss_t...

Submitted by ellwort on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 1:44am.

--Alice: Astarte (a/k/a Ishtar) is so much of the earth that's she's been a threat to the the sky-gods, who have branded her as violent and subversive and, for the time being, obliterated her.--

...I don't sense that my poetic fog has lifted yet this morning...lemme go shelve a few books...NOT in the 800's.. it'll pass...

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) said yesterday that he “won’t actively support a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, casting doubt on whether the issue will pack a political punch this fall.” “I’ll support it, I’ll vote for it, move on,” he explained. “It’s not top-tier for me, put it that way.”

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-flfcrist0910sbsep10,0...

by 2020

Two words keep going through my head during all this...Dan Rather.

I see cable news stations as simply advertising vehicles for the mega-corps. Crowd control through propaganda dispensation is their primary function, ratings and a self sustaining profit margin is a bonus and distant second. Once they begin to get the idea that they can not control the message, I have absolutely no doubt they would fire Olbermann in a heartbeat and take the loss to protect their long range interests.

That said, I hope my tin foil hat is just a little tight on this one, and I am completely wrong.

Lol! I just saw "Teeth", a few weeks ago...a fun little indie flick with a VERY high squirm factor!

$100 billion could yield two million “green” jobs

A $100 billion U.S. government investment over two years could create two million “green” jobs in such industrial sectors as steel and construction, environmental and labor groups said on Tuesday.

“From the point of view of the steelworkers union, the view is quite simple, that a energy efficient green economy creates jobs and it can create jobs in America,” said Leo Gerard, international president of the United Steelworkers.
He said the U.S. move toward wind power has already prompted the reopening of two struggling steel mills, now making steel plate for use in new windmills.

Beyond that, the retrofitting of old, energy-inefficient buildings would create jobs for steelworkers, glassmakers and those who manufacture heating and cooling systems, Gerard said in a telephone briefing. Gerard and others cited a report commissioned by the Center for American Progress think tank, assessing the benefits of the $100 billion investment plan.

John Podesta, president of the think tank and a former Clinton administration official, said $50 billion of the investment would be tax credits to help private businesses and homeowners pay to make their buildings more energy efficient; $46 billion would be in the form of direct government spending on retrofitting buildings, expanding mass transit and freight rail, making “smart” electrical grids and new investment in renewable energy; and $4 billion in federal loan guarantees.

To put the amount in perspective, Podesta said the April 2008 stimulus program cost $168 billion. Many of the new jobs would be in construction, where some 800,000 jobs have been lost in the last two years, according to Robert Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

A report prepared by the institute and the think tank said this kind of rapid public and private investment would jump-start a U.S. economy with less emissions of carbon dioxide, a climate-warming greenhouse gas.

Pollin said the plan would create four times more jobs per dollar spent than spending the equivalent amount of money within the oil industry, and 20 percent more jobs than increasing spending on household consumption — the main target of the April 2008 stimulus package.

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN0930092120080910?pag...

A three and a half minute video at the IEEE Spectrum has a story on the worlds oldest known phone book. There are no phone numbers and only 40 pages-but guess how much it's worth!

Business Week, not exactly a left-leaning publication, reports on a rundown of the actual tax plans put forward by the candidates. And while John McCain may say his plan isn't for the rich, here's what the analysts have found.

So where does the reality lie? According to a new analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, a joint venture between the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, two Washington think tanks, this round goes to Obama. The TPC took a look at the various tax proposals put forth by the two candidates and estimated that Obama's plan would lead to a boost in aftertax income for all but the highest earners, while taking a smaller bite out of government tax revenues than would McCain's plans.

Obama's plan gives more breaks to more people without destroying the already straining budget. McCain's plan?

Under McCain's proposals, by contrast—including an extension of the Bush tax cuts for all taxpayers, a corporate tax cut, and a larger reduction in estate taxes than Obama would support—far more of the benefits would go to the top.

McCain's tax proposal is the same trickle-on idiocy that the Republicans have been pushing since Reagan, the same policy that's nearly destroyed the middle class while concentrating wealth in the top fraction of the top one percent. End result?

"It's just flat wrong" to say people would do worse under Obama, says Burman. "Most lower- and middle-class people would pay less taxes under Obama than they would under the proposals being put forth by McCain."

Nearly a quarter of all McCain's cuts would go to households making over $2.8 million, not exactly those hurting the worst in a tough economy.

LINK

I see we had a new troll in town last night.

sorry I missed him.

I could have clued him in on a couple tips, not that I'm some sort of expert on comedic theory, but I do know a thing or two about a thing or two.

About observational humor: Never start with a premise that is demonstrably false -- don't go to a dairy country and remark, "every notice how all cows are either purple or green. What are they, martians?" or go to Alaska and quip, "What's with all the kiwi up here? This morning there was one stuck in my didgeridoo!"

(when you easily could have said, What's up with all the moose around here, this morning there was a moose in my mukluks!)

It is the same thing when you start your `jokes' with, stuff like `ever notice how liberals all supported the insurrection in Iraq

I'm just sayin'...

Thanks for all the Bucky info...I fell asleep last night reading the bloggie...not the first time that's happened!
Laptops are funny and NOT as comfortable to crash with as books! Waking up @ 2am with the CPU fan burning a hole in my stomach...yeowch! :)

One thing Barack Obama and McCain disagree on is an oil windfall–profits tax. McCain is against it, on the theory that it is a tax and therefore bad, and also that it would discourage domestic production. Obama is for it, on the theory that if oil companies can make a nice profit when oil sells for $50 per bbl., they can still make a nice profit when it sells for more than $100, even if the government takes a bit and spreads the money around to those who are hurting from higher oil prices.

Although Palin's words side with McCain in this dispute, her actions side with Obama. Her major legislative accomplishment has been to revamp Alaska's windfall-profits tax in order to increase the state's take. Alaska calls it a "clear and equitable share" tax. The state assumes that extracting oil from the tundra costs about $25 per bbl. and takes as much as 75% of the difference between that and the sale price.

Why is a windfall-profits tax good for Alaska but not for the U.S.? Well, it's obvious, isn't it? People in Alaska are better than people in the rest of the U.S. They're more American. Although there are small towns and farms and high school hockey teams in the lower 48, there are fewer down here, per capita, than in Alaska. And there are many more journalists and pollsters and city dwellers and other undesirables who might benefit if every American had the same right to leech off the government as do the good citizens of Sarah Palin's Alaska.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1839724-2,00.html

Who is holding the LipStick?

Karl Rove

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Jamesbennett

stuff I was reading before that I wanted to show you...

& Thanks for reminding me about Teeth..
I'd heard of it and forgot about it...

MATTHEWS: What are we talking about two days from now?

SCARBOROUGH: Whatever the McCain campaign wants us to talk about.

http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2008/09/the_truth_comes.html#comme...

Debate audience laughs at Sen. Pat Roberts’ statements about pre-war intelligence.
In a campaign debate between Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) and challenger Jim Slattery yesterday, a “contentious topic” concerned the intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Audience members laughed when Roberts, former chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, tried to justify U.S. public officials’ mistakes on the war by saying that the entire world got the intelligence on Iraq wrong:

Slattery criticized Roberts for getting the intelligence wrong while serving as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He said voters should hold politicians accountable when they make such mistakes.

Roberts countered that the world, not just the U.S., got the intelligence wrong — and once that was realized it was his committee that made the information public. Several audience members laughed at Roberts’ statement. Unfazed, Roberts continued: “Jim, you wouldn’t even know about this information except for the fact I released it.”

More on the intelligence agencies who got it right here.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/29/mccain-mcclellan/

puppy love compassion
new
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 12:34pm.

It takes most politicians years to rack up the kinds of scandals, hypocrisies, and inconsistencies that have plagued Sarah Palin's candidacy in the week and a half since she catapulted to national attention. But the disturbing revelations about Palin's record as mayor and governor, and her positions on the issues, inexplicably just keep coming.

AlterNet has compiled a list of the 8 most recent revelations about McCain's VP pick that the public needs to know.

Rachael and KO will be gone in less than six months if McLiar wins. His hiring, as well as Rachael's, represents an experiment in the now niche market of "liberal" media host. On the political front MSNBC didn't quite know what they were getting with KO. They kept him because the debacle of Iraq War. War will be the rage, if McLiar wins, and KO will be canned freeing him to team up with Donohue to rail away in obscurity.
MSNBC doesn't give dam about his contract.

Reason I was AWOL last night...

You may recall I strained my arm at work a couple weeks ago. the doctor tried to float the idea of wearing a sling to immobilize it. When Crank Bait suggested the same therning, it pretty much cemented the issue. My main concern was it would impede my getting around on the internet which it does, try left handed mousing, or using a mouse w/ your right in a sling...take it from me, there is a lot of `leaning in' involved.

I figured if I just didn't lift anything heavier than a cigarette, I'd be alright. and this kinda, sort worked, while I was awake. over the weekend, I noticed the arms would be more sore than it was the night before, mainly because of the bizarre flailing and contortions I do in my sleep.

So yesterday I finally broke down and got an old towel to use as a sling. It makes it much easier to ice the elbow, too. and it really cut down on the postings I made. especially anything mouse-intensive like googling stuff...this simple keyboarding isn't so bad...

I was fine until I went to bed, I wore the sling to bed and woke up an hour later and found I'd escaped the sling and the cold compress I'd wrapped my my elbow faster than if I'd wrapped them on the cat!

So, I thought if I wore a tight tee-shirt, with my right arm not through the sleeve, it should keep it immombile. wrong again.

If anyone else out there has watched, wincing the whole way, at the death crawl that has been Andrew Sullivan's awakening to the horrors of the Republican party, I think that we can safely say he's arrived at the conclusion that the conservatism he's always sought is right here in Progressive America.

via Josh

U.S. to sell $7 bln missile-defense system to UAE
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has proposed the sale of air defense systems and helicopters to the United Arab Emirates, with a total potential value of more than $9 billion, the U.S. Defense Department said in statements released on Wednesday.

The main item, worth up to $7 billion, is the so-called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, which is built by Lockheed Martin Corp with a system radar from Raytheon Co, and could be used for possible defense against Iran.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1048220120080910

"...and could be used for possible defense against Iran."
(Well something like that.)

I 100% DON'T agree....I'm up for a friendly wager if you are! :)

just wear a solid color Tshirt and mouse on yer shirt.

(i know this is a rule two violation)

and serves up McRibs with a deep side of BBQMedia sauce!

Thanks, 60th!

BWOOOOOOOOOOOONK!

mamboRouge:

(i could'nt find any lipstick)

up yours, Sarah.

Paul says he turned down appeal to endorse McCain

By SUZANNE GAMBOA – 45 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning Texas lawmaker who attracted a devoted following in the GOP primaries, said Wednesday he rejected an appeal to endorse John McCain's presidential bid.

Paul said the request came from Phil Gramm, the former McCain adviser and ex-senator whom the campaign jettisoned after he said the country was a "nation of whiners" about the economy. Gramm defeated Paul in the Republican primary for the Senate in 1984.

Speaking to reporters at a news conference, Paul said Gramm called him this week and told him, "You need to endorse McCain." The Texas congressman refused.

"The idea was that he would do less harm than the other candidate," Paul said.

Paul won no primaries in the Republican nomination contest but developed a strong following on the Internet.

He appeared at a news conference with three third-party candidates: independent Ralph Nader; former Georgia Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party candidate; and Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party candidate. Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate, was to participate but instead scheduled his own news conference.

Calling the presidential elections a charade, Paul said voters are faced with the "lesser of two evils."

The majority of Americans, about 60 percent, are unhappy with their choices in the race, Paul said. He urged the three third-party candidates to bring all their supporters together to vote against the "establishment candidates."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gj4x1Ijw4MDlWEadWey5y9c0GlhgD933VH800

reminds me of the patriotism card.
People in Alaska are better than people in the rest of the U.S. They're more American.
Except when they're not:
The Alaskan Independence Party burst into the national spotlight when Clark released a statement reporting that Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, were both members. After the ensuing uproar, Clark issued an apology and correction, declaring that only Todd was an actual member of the AIP. (He belonged from 1995 to 2002.) The McCain campaign put out a statement denying the vice presidential nominee had ever been a member, but it said nothing about Todd Palin. Since then, other AIP members have offered conflicting information about Sarah Palin's affiliation with the party. And earlier this year, as governor, Palin addressed the AIP convention, stating that she shared the party's "vision."

"Keep up the good work," Palin told party members. "And God bless you."

More here:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/10/alaska_secession/

North America's other election
The US election obviously matters to Europeans - the last eight years have shown us how much of a stake the rest of us have in who America chooses as its next leader on November 4. What we might forget, in the next two months of North American election campaigning, is how much the Canadian election matters too.
how odious Harper could be when no longer reined in by his enfeebled parliamentary position.

If you care about the American election because you're scared of Sarah Palin's scepticism toward global warming, you should worry about Harper's unwillingness to continue his predecessor's work against climate change. If you hated George Bush because of his government's corrosion of civil liberties at home and abroad, the fact that Harper has been a thorough Bush apologist is a worrying indicator of how a full-fledged Conservative government would encroach on the rights of Canadians.

Although Harper's agenda in the event of a majority government is still unclear, his record is a worrying indicator of the way things will go: to the list of anti-gay rights, anti-women and anti-environmental positions, we can add legislative changes giving Canada's immigration department unprecedented powers to reject immigration applications, as well as setting back truly universal childcare plans in favour of childcare "allowances". His foreign policy record is more of a question mark, but during the minority government Harper extended the pledge of Canada's troops in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2011. If John McCain is elected after Harper wins a majority, and decides another Middle Eastern country is looking at him the wrong way, is there enough in Harper's record to reassure us that he wouldn't bring Canada into an American-led invasion?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/canada.usforeignpoli...

There is a bunch there if you visit the website to the video. The McCain campaign is clearly making this about abortion. Not just abortion but Roe W Wade and the Supreme Court. It's a threat and a distraction to make people vote against their own best interests. They don't want to talk about the economy. They don't want to talk about the fact that every war tactic they are doing now is exactly what Obama called for a year ago. They don't want to talk about burning the Constitution or putting Fascists in positions of authority in the Justice Dept.

They want to focus on abortion. Americans need to know they are talking about outlawing an abortion even if it's a deformed fetus caused by incestuous rape even if it gravely endangers the life of the mother because of complications. Yep, that's what they think they will win on because they have the Sarah Palin token female. I know many Americans are stupid but looking at the polls, it doesn't speak well for those women who "swung" over to the McCain camp. Those women are either as retarded as Trig or as racist as George Macaca Allen.

last night?? He was very negative.. I see his point - I really do
Obama has to start fighting or we will lose this election.
My BIG fear is they will steal it like they have the last 2.
Bush will declare martial law & then we are fucked.
Anyone else have that same fear????

..talk amongst yourselves.

Oh boy, how funny. How original. How so indicative of your lack of creativity and incapability to grasp complex phrases like "lipstick on a pig". So why didn't "Sambo beat the bitch" fly over your head?

Didn't think I'd have to dust off this one so soon:

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John Roberts pulls a Wolf Blitzer, and surrenders his scrotum before the most weakestest Republican shilling I've seen yet...what fools!

I agree with your statement up above... wow that is so true!

np bibs! Top o' the morning to ya! How's Vegas!?!?

McRibs! Oohhhhhhhhhh!

Back in 2000, after John McCain lost his mostly honorable campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he went about apologizing to journalists--including me--for his most obvious mis-step: his support for keeping the confederate flag on the state house.

Now he is responsible for one of the sleaziest ads I've ever seen in presidential politics, so sleazy that I won't abet its spread by linking to it, but here's the McClatchy fact check.

I just can't wait for the moment when John McCain--contrite and suddenly honorable again in victory or defeat--talks about how things got a little out of control in the passion of the moment. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig.

Update: More, from Hilzoy. The Cub Scouts teach perversion too!

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/apology_not_accepted.html

smcgee43 ya gotta stop with the fear talk...or at least let me talk you down :)

how is life over to the east???

Newsweek Bombshell: Palin & Family Warned of "Emotional Child Abuse" by Judge Hotlist

The judge called Sarah Palin and her family's behavior a form of child abuse and almost awarded custody to Wooten.

* Steven R's diary :: ::
*

Hat Tip Americablog... Digg it

Via Newsweek.

Aravois makes a damn good point; it's no wonder that they dropped the "Education" ad so hard tonight, the campaign had to know that this was coming.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/9/234553/6424/948/592982

I know I have to stop with the fear shit.
I have to say - it is very scary - all this shit
thats going on. I don't trust the Re-pub-li-thugs.
I JUST DON'T.

Has anyone heard/seen anything on C-Span about this bill????

shit-comma-yes-exclamation point

Obama better drill-drill-drill or he's gonna come up dry.

60th;
it rained here to drown turkeys a couple days ago. poor drainage, and that lightning LOVES dry palm trees!

can they keep them from being trucked to Mexico and tortured to death?

i bet they can't.

AND not fear them, AND beat up on them, simultaneously. :)

They're desperate and afraid, like cornered animals and, of course, they're more dangerous, but that doesn't change the fact that they're cornered and you have the advantage

60th Street - It's always good to get other perspectives.

bibimimi - that is another fear of mine. I have NO control
over that & it makes me crazy.

we got a shit load of it on Monday here in the Chicago area.
Were supposed to get more by Friday.

there are members of this administration and their pet think tanks that advocate killing off 80 plus per cent of the worlds population.

they are convinced that americas goverment needs to be destroyed so that the nations resources can be controlled by the 'new world order' "W"s dad is so fond of.

we've posted stories by the thousands proving that we are ruled by insane criminals over the last 4 years of the bloggie.

NOT being scared shitless would be insane.

i die a little every time i think about that.

Reading a description of it was enuf, but that a-hole Bernie Goldberg ran the HSUS footage on HBO's Real Sports about aging race horses. how can any human treat another living thing with such cruelty?

but today at the Judiciary I see:
Full Committee
Sept 16th 10:00 A.M. in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building

Oversight Hearing on: the Federal Bureau of Investigation
By Direction of the Chairman

This should be good. And the Attorney Firing hearing for the 11th is still on.

an example of Bush's policies befitting the few at the ex pence of the many.

A few weeks back, I posted about the `park and ride' transportation situation to Seahawks games.

Metro transportation has been doing he job for a decade or more. they have the drivers, they have enough buses...and the Seahawks foot the bill and pass of a very good service to the fans.

Well, last year Bush passed a bill that said public transportation could only make a bid if private transportation did not.

So this year an outfit called Starlight transportation bid on the project even though they knew full well they couldn't provide the service...not enough buses, not enough drivers.

then I got this email yesterday:

** IMPORTANT INFORMATION **

Seahawks Reach Agreement to Provide Bus Shuttles For Fans

The Seattle Seahawks have reached a one-year agreement with Starline Luxury Coaches and King Country Metro Transit to provide game day bus service from park-and-ride lots, the team announced today. Fares will increase by $1 each way, making it an $8 round trip.

"We are thrilled with this resolution," said Seahawks CEO Tod Leiweke. "The Metro transit has been extremely popular amongst our fans and will once again be an excellent option this season."

Under this new agreement, Starline will sub-contract with Metro to continue to provide bus service to transport fans from five park-and-ride lots including: Northgate, South Kirkland, Eastgate, Kent, and Federal Way.

The park-and-ride service will begin two hours prior to the scheduled kickoff of each home game, with buses departing each location every 20 minutes. The final in-bound buses will depart approximately 50 minutes prior to kickoff. Buses will return to park-and-ride lots following the conclusion of each contest with the final departure taking place 45 minutes after the game ends.

Other transportation options for fans include the following: regular Metro service, Sound Transit ST Express buses and the Sounder Train. ST Express buses offer transportation from areas throughout Pierce, King and Snohomish counties with service every 30 minutes and stops within three blocks of Qwest Field.

I'm sure how that would work?
I love your optimism though.
Simply, I don't by into this "horse-race" narrative. The MSM wants a GOP victory. Period. They will do anything to achieve that. The MSM is the GOP now. You seem to be taken in by a couple of token "liberals" actually being on TV-- Cable TV, with minimal viewership. As for the rest, Amy Goodman and half her staff were arrested last week. Where's the outrage. That just proves we have fallen so far she could be crushed like a bug at any point; if that actually became necessary.
LinkTV they have been reduced to spending half their airtime to begging for money. AAR and Nova M what is the total listenership 2 mill tops?
I'm not a quitter, and one of the few people around here that actually clings to guns. However, I'm also realistic. We have to fight continually or die cowards. Nevertheless, I'm pessimistic about the possibility of positive change without complete economic collapse. We haven't had real change on the economic front since Roosevelt. Since then we have had little, but a slow continual assault on the New Deal. That assault has been so successful, and relentless that we have now returned to the crossroads confronting us and the world in the 30s: Fascism or Socialism.
Given the state of political consciousness of this country, I'm not hopefull about the road we will choose. But I'll bet our future, well know in less than a decade.
Fist bump dude.

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 1:29pm.
...You may recall I strained my arm at work a couple weeks ago. the doctor tried to float the idea of wearing a sling to immobilize it. When Crank Bait suggested the same therning, it pretty much cemented the issue. My main concern was it would impede my getting around on the internet which it does, try left handed mousing...
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As a result of my shoulder injury last spring and the necessity to manipulate the mouse with my left hand due to pain or the sling or both, I am still "mousing" with my left hand.

I never think about it anymore. The mouse lives on the left side of the keyboard. You reminded me that I went left and never went back.

My middle finger frequently "left-clicks" without prior instructions. I don't know what that is all about? I try to keep my middle finger off of the button but it usually sneaks back into position on its own.

(It's a little too close to "Dr. Strangelove" for comfort.)

So. some private company ends up siphoning off one dollar out of eight for the elitist privilege of subcontracting to the only outfit in town capable of doing the job.

this is a grand example of Bush's economic stimulation.

Wooooo!

Just found out Sara's got us booked for her business trip to Europe next month.

First Finland, then Switzerland, maybe a little Germany thrown in!

I'm going via free bonus miles!

Two weeks coinciding with our 10 year wedding anniversary.

if i'm reading between the lines correctly, it sounds like a private company is shaking the metro system down for a buck a rider. ain't fascism great?

everything malloy said last night made sense and it was very depressing

>>(It's a little too close to "Dr. Strangelove" for comfort.)

There must not be a left-hand mouse-clicking gap!!!

I miss those insane desert lightning storms! Oh, and the incredible sunsets. I'll bet they're beautiful in Vegas, too!

smc! that's the spirit! :)

oh and here's another observation (with visuals)...for all the tough talk on the part of the Republicans, it's all flaccid, empty rhetoric...you know they're scared when they are cowering and keeping Palin from the mean angry reporters, flapping their arms aroud crying "foul", and running ads like this:

The negative press is piling up all around Palin/McCain: Internet, MSM and in print. Obama and the truth clearly has them running and I don't see this ad as helping the GOP look tough at all. I think it makes them look as weak as shit, and that's BIG a plus for us. I mean, Palin is the tough bear/moose/wolf Alaskan killing machine we're talking about here, right? Why make her look like the scurrying hunted? Why would you paint Obama as the hunter??

I think they're idiots.

made by NBC sports commentators during the Summer Olympics that they would like to take back:

1. Weightlifting commentator: 'This is Gregorieva from Bulgaria . I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.'

2. Dressage commentator: 'This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother.'

3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: 'I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.'

4. Boxing Analyst: 'Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious.'

5. Softball announcer: 'If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.'

6. Basketball analyst: 'He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.'

7. At the rowing medal ceremony: 'Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.'

8. Soccer commentator: 'Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field.'

9. Tennis commentator: 'One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them... Oh my God, what have I just said?'

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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

>>Oh my God, what have I just said?'

it just goes to prove the old adage, `truth is stranger (and funnier) than fiction.'

Just Like Bush White House, Palin Uses Personal E-mail Accounts And Claims Executive Privilege
The Washington Post reports that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) is “being asked by a local Republican activist to release more than 1,100 e-mails she withheld from a public records request, including 40 that were copied to her husband, Todd.” Invoking a favored practice of the Bush administration, Palin has claimed executive privilege to keep the e-mails secret — despite the fact many of them were sent to Todd, who is not an elected official.

What’s more, Palin and her staff intentionally use her personal Yahoo e-mail account, perhaps to avoid document release requests:

Palin also routinely does government business from a Yahoo address, gov.sarah@yahoo.com, rather than from her secure official state e-mail address, according to documents already made public.

“Whoops!” Palin aide Frank Bailey wrote, after addressing an e-mail to the governor’s official state address.

“Frank, This is not the Governor’s personal account,” a secretary reminded him.

The lawyer filing the request pointed out that the point of government e-mail is to ensure “security and encryption.” “She’s running state business out of Yahoo?” he asked. Mother Jones reports that Palin’s refusal to hand over e-mails stands in violation of the Alaska Public Records Act.

Palin’s move is eerily reminiscent of Bush administration ploys to dramatically increase secrecy in government, such as when White House aides switched to personal e-mail accounts to avoid subpoenas during the investigation into U.S. Attorney scandal last year:

But just a week after E-mails in the U.S. attorneys case became a main focus of congressional Democrats probing the firings, several aides said that they stopped using the White House system except for purely professional correspondence. […]

At least two aides said that they have subsequently bought their own private E-mail system through a cellular phone or Blackberry server. When asked how he communicated, one aide pulled out a new personal cellphone and said, “texting.”

As Josh Marshall pointed out at the time, if the White House was using personal e-mails, “they can’t have even the vaguest claim” to executive privilege. Similarly, the fact that Palin copies her husband on her e-mails and often uses a personal account raises the question of whether her e-mails are actually official executive business.

Palin’s commitment to secrecy and her stonewalling of an ethics investigation into her role in “Troopergate” are more evidence that a McCain-Palin administration would be little more than a third Bush term.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/10/palin-email-privilege/

I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.'

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

one thing I've noticed, my typo rate is through the roof wearing this sling...

>>I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.'

that `Britney Speares getting out of the car' pic?

aren't those the same fucking wolves that were going to eat our babies back in 2004? now they're all lawyers? wtf?

Lose your house, lose your vote
By Eartha Jane Melzer 9/10/08 6:42 AM

Michigan Republicans plan to foreclose African American voters

The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.
http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote

i just heard the same thing. that is simply shameful. but you gotta admit, what person who has just lost their house is going to vote for these clowns?

Thats what Re-pub-li-thugs are is DESPERATE!

"... Why make her look like the scurrying hunted? Why would you paint Obama as the hunter??"

I assume you were being rhetorical.

This ad is RACIST!! Period.

McCain campaign is out to frame this election as the scary black man against the pretty white woman. They are counting on this country being racist at it's core. This election isn't between Obama and Palin it is between Obama and McCain. But, they want to reframe it, in the ole tried and true message that white women should be afraid of black men. We saw this in the recent ad running against Obama regarding teaching sex to children.

I only hope the american people can see through this.

sandy
Submitted by bibimimi on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 2:03pm.
i die a little every time i think about that.

Reading a description of it was enuf, but that a-hole Bernie Goldberg ran the HSUS footage on HBO's Real Sports about aging race horses. how can any human treat another living thing with such cruelty?

Lost cat returned home after nine years Wed Sep 10, 9:17 AM ET

A British couple have been reunited with their missing cat after nine years, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) said on Wednesday.

Dixie, a 15-year-old ginger cat, disappeared in 1999 and her owners thought she had been killed by a car.

She was found less than half a mile from her home in Birmingham after a concerned resident rang the animal charity to report a thin and disheveled cat who had been in the area for a couple of months.

RSPCA Animal Collection Officer Alan Pittaway checked her microchip and confirmed it was Dixie. She was returned to her owners, Alan and Gilly Delaney, within half an hour.

"In 29 years of working for the RSPCA I have never seen anyone so excited and happy as Mrs Delaney," Pittaway said. "It made my day to return Dixie to her owners."

The couple were "overjoyed" to be reunited with their missing cat after so many years.

"Dixie's personality, behavior and little mannerisms have not changed at all," said Gilly Delaney. "We don't think she has stopped purring since she came back through the door."

The RSPCA hope the story will encourage owners to have their pets microchipped.

(Reporting by Anna Legge; Editing by Steve Addison and Paul Casciato)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080910/lf_nm_life/britain_cat_dc&printer=1;...

9 years! Amazing!

Have to be on my way to work now -
Have a great noon everyone.:)
Hopefully will have time to blog ya all later.

xoxo

WOW - Thats all I can say.
Plus that is so cool. Thanks

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3745#comment-254066

McCain Ad Relies On Discredited WSJ Report
A new McCain ad, which depicts Obama oppo-researchers as ravenous wolves on the hunt for Sarah Palin, relies on a WSJ piece by John Fund (pictured) about researches headed to Alaska. The only problem? Fund's report appears to be false.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/mccain_ad_cites_discre...

Obama sends his two daughters to private school at $20K/year.

Palin's kids: Alaska public schools.

Good Question
From TPM Reader WS:

Here in Wisconsin, one of the heads of the "Palin Truth Squad", former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow is giving interviews, outraged over the lipstick comment. The state GOP has called a 1:30 press conference where a group of GOP women will rip into Obama for all of the assembled TV cameras.
My question... where the hell are the Democrats on this? Not just here, but nationally, they are letting Obama get bloodied over this. Where is Biden? Is he turning into this cycle's Edwards? Where are Pelosi and Boxer and Sebelius today?

The campaign needs to stop forcing Obama to take on the entire right-wing... His organization in every state should have high-profile surrogates out there today ripping into McCain and Palin, not just on the lipstick, but on the the sex ed ad and the judge's order for Palin to stay out of the divorce.

Where are these people?

--David Kurtz
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/215473.php

Dixie: when's lunch?

I kept a ginger cat for a g'friend who was in Europe and California and couldn't keep him. After 2 and a half years she comes to retrieve him. she walks in and his ears and tail shoot straight up!

Obama launches anti-Palin group
Email|Link|Comments (55) Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor September 10, 2008 09:59 AM
John McCain's campaign has its "Palin Truth Squad" to defend his running mate Sarah Palin.

Now, Democratic rival Barack Obama's campaign has its "Alaska Mythbusters" to go after Palin's record as mayor of Wasilla and governor of the state.

According to the Obama campaign's announcement today, the group of Alaskans "will set the record straight about whether Palin has what it takes to bring the change that’s needed in Washington, D.C."

Their first foray will be a conference call with reporters today, and the group is led by former Alaska Governor Tony Knowles and Mayor Bob Weinstein of Ketchikan, home to the infamous Bridge to Nowhere.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/09/obama_...

Sasha and Malia: will use their HEADS!

Obama: McCain pig ad 'a made-up controversy'
David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Huckabee: 'It's an old expression, and I'm going to have to cut Obama some slack'

The McCain campaign is attacking Barack Obama with an internet ad which accuses him of insulting Sarah Palin by using the phrase "put lipstick on a pig" in reference to the McCain campaign.

Obama has responded by calling this a "made-up controversy" and describing the ad as "lies and phony outrage and Swift-boat politics."

However, in the view of MSNBC's Chuck Todd, the McCain ad is an effective ploy. "I think the McCain campaign is laughing their butts off this morning that any of us have taken the bait on this lipstick thing," he told Joe Scarborough. "I mean, this is a joke. ... It's such a faux controversy. It's made up out of whole cloth."

"They're good at winning the news cycles," Todd acknowledged. "And they have beaten the Obama campaign on this little -- what I call sort of shiny metal objects days."

Obama made the "lipstick" remark at a rally in Virginia late on Tuesday, where he stated, "The other side, suddenly, they're saying 'we're for change too.' Now think about it, these are the same folks that have been in charge for the last eight years. ... You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. You can wrap up an old fish in a piece of paper and call it change. It's still going to stink after eight years."

The lipstick-on-a-pig metaphor drew a roar of laughter from the crowd, which clearly took it as an indirect reference to Palin's own remarks about lipstick and pitbulls -- and perhaps also her alleged fondness for pork barrel legislation. However, the metaphor is a common one that has been widely used during the campaign, with McCain himself applying it at least twice to Hillary Clinton's health care proposals.

Even Governor Mike Huckabee took Obama's side on the issue, saying, "It's an old expression, and I'm going to have to cut Obama some slack on that one. I do not think he was referring to Sarah Palin; he didn't reference her."

However, the McCain campaign responded with outrage, with former Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift insisting, "Sen. Obama owes Gov. Palin an apology. ... Calling a very prominent female governor of one of our states a pig is not exactly what we want to see."

The McCain campaign immediately released an internet ad which explicitly accuses Obama of running a sexist campaign. It presents Obama's lipstick-on-a-pig remark out of context, to make it seem that he was insulting Palin personally. That is followed by another out of context clip, misleadingly captioned "Katie Couric on: This Election," in which Couric said last June of Hillary Clinton's primary campaign, "One of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough discussed the ad on Wednesday with his guests, who generally felt that even if the issue was fake, the Republicans were using it effectively to keep the Obama campaign off balance.

"They cannot get dragged into this conversation about a phrase that Barack Obama used ... a phrase he uses all the time," Andrea Mitchell suggested. "Any time they can be talking about a slur agaisnt women, making her look like a victim, they develop a sympathy vote."

This video is from MSNBC's Morning Joe, broadcast September 10, 2008.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Chuck_Todd_Obama_lipstick_gaffe_faux_0910....

NEW THREAD

no one gets to say that anymore around here