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sad thing is, she talks in there how she's a HILLARY supporter and voted for her in the primary

 

 

 

 

things are getting ugly. can't we just go ahead and hold the election tomorrow? it is a Tuesday and all...

[quarter23cd]

3 drunken KY rednecks (and a dog) on a four wheeler sharing their insightful political opinion.

Oh, hell, I don't need YouTube to see that!

[Guest Jules]

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

She didn't want to answer that dumb ass. She doesn't need to answer her stupid questions. She has way more experience then the lying Muslim running for President. It amazes me that Black people want him in so bad just because he is Black (Half Black) and know nothing about this person that won't salute the Flag, Seems to be an intelligence issue. Liberals are really brain dead.

[fatheadfred]

Not in these parts. I see lots of Obama signs and stickers around here. (I live about an hour southwest of the KC metro area.) Generally, though, people are more interested in state and local level politics, from the Boyda/Jenkins race all the way down to the county commission. Honestly, I think McCain will take Kansas, but it won't be a blow-out. We've had a lot of local boys killed in Bush's war, the gas prices are hard on the farmers and commuters, and small businesses are suffering. The median income in my county is only about $40K, and times are tight. People are not as conservative here as one might think. I know that my redneck/Catholic dad and my yuppie/Catholic sister and brother-in-law intend to vote Obama. Now, if my evangelical mom and stepdad swing to Obama, I may just pass out.

 

Yeah, I am seeing Obama signs popping up on the backroads around here. A pleasant surprise.

[NightOfJoy]

Yeah, I am seeing Obama signs popping up on the backroads around here. A pleasant surprise.

 

I was in the northwestern corner of IL this weekend on a camping trip......nothing but farms and little towns........plenty of Obama yardsigns out. I dont recall seeing any McSame signs.

[austrya]

There are a lot more Obama signs than McCain signs in the town I live in. We went to another town about 7 miles away over the weekend and there were about 10x more McCain signs there.

[fatheadfred]

This is the kind of man Barack Obama is...

Good stuff there.

[Analogman]

Palin criticizes Obama's ties to Wright, Ayers

 

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer 35 minutes ago

 

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

 

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

 

In an interview with conservative The New York Times columnist William Kristol published Monday, the Alaska governor said there should be more discussion about Wright, Obama's pastor of 20 years at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. The Democratic candidate denounced Wright and severed ties with the church last spring after videotapes surfaced showing Wright making anti-American and anti-Semitic comments from the pulpit.

 

Wright had appeared to be off limits for the McCain campaign ever since McCain himself condemned the North Carolina Republican Party in April for an ad that called Obama "too extreme" because Wright was his pastor. He asked the party to take down the ad and said, "I'm making it very clear, as I have a couple of times in the past, that there's no place for that kind of campaigning, and the American people don't want it."

 

When Kristol pressed Palin about Wright, she replied, "I don't know why that association isn't discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country."

 

She continued, "To me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up."

 

At a morning rally in Florida, Palin kept up her criticism of Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the violent Weather Underground group blamed for several bombings during the Vietnam War era, when Obama was a child.

 

The Illinois senator has denounced Ayers' radical views and activities.

 

"This is someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who targeted his own country," Palin said of Obama. That was a tamer description than Palin used at rallies in California and Colorado over the weekend.

 

In her earlier attacks, Palin had said that Obama "pals around with terrorists." News reports pointed out that Obama was eight years old at the time of Weather Underground bombings and that the two men do not know each other well although they live in the same Chicago neighborhood, have served on a charity board together and Ayers hosted a meet-the-candidate event when Obama first ran for state office in the mid-1990s.

 

Reporters weren't permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park in Clearwater to talk to Palin's audience, the St. Petersburg Times reported.

 

When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head to where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out, confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?" and turn the person around, Times staff writer Eileen Schulte wrote on the paper's Web site. When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written, Schulte reported.

 

Palin was spending two days in Florida, which President Bush won easily in 2004 but has become competitive this time.

[the carlos]

hey is that one guy in that youtube video a Pikey?

[Good Old Neon]

After driving around this weekend, enjoying the fine New Hampshire foliage, I can say, with a fair degree of certainty, that Portsmouth will vote heavily in favor of Obama (no surprise there as Portsmouth is probably the liberal ground zero of NH) while her more tony neighbor to the south, Exeter, (birthplace of the writer, John Irving no less) appears to be leaning more heavily in favor of McCain

[fatheadfred]

a darwin award waiting to happen

I had to turn that off after 1 minute. It felt like they were gonna ask me to take my panties off.

 

The guy driving the four wheeler looks like John Stirrat. Sorry John.

[fatheadfred]

 

diddy is so stupid he is funny

[John Smith]

3 drunken KY rednecks (and a dog) on a four wheeler sharing their insightful political opinion.

 

Horsehoe Moms & Joe Six pack while we drive the back roads?

[Good Old Neon]

Who amongst our current crop of politicians is finally going to muster the courage to not only court, but also defend Joe Crack Pipe in an effort to secure his vote?

 

Because the first politician to do so has my vote

[quarter23cd]

if the number of yard signs can be relied upon to accurately reflect the voting habits of an entire town, or as a barometer of something or other.

If that is the case, Obama is getting approximately 0 votes in my area. Which I know not to be true, of course, but I can count the number of yard signs I've seen within a 10 mile radius on one hand.

[Good Old Neon]

If that is the case, Obama is getting approximately 0 votes in my area. Which I know not to be true, of course, but I can count the number of yard signs I've seen within a 10 mile radius on one hand.

 

Sort of related but not really, back when I first acquired my license, in an effort to stave off boredom, some friends and I spent a few weeks driving around at night collecting (stealing would be another way to put it) yard sign

[John Smith]

With her latest round of attacks I think the true Palin is coming out. She's no politician, at least not in the sense that we think of them, or have histoically thought of them. Nope she sounds more and more like she has been raised politically on a steady diet of Rush, Hannity, Fox news, Washington Times etc... the right wind spin machine and she has lapped it up and taken it to heart. I don't think, even if she wanted to, that she could see the world in terms of what it truely is. i.e. separate fact from fiction, spin from reality. I think she is a very ambittious person, and can smell the prize. Unfortunately the prize looks more and more like it is not going to be the white house. Nope I see her future as being one of the same types who served to educate her. Her future is possibly going to be in talk radio.

 

Even though her cranium obvioulsy has a vacancy or for rent sign on it. She has garnered enough polularity to, I think, parlay into millions, mega millions as both a speaker and as a radio host, or perhaps evena FOx news person who can wink at the camera two or three times every segment. Her personal intellectual weakness and incurious nature will nto be an issue as she will have a well paid staff of hacks to hand her out each days talking points to recite. I can see it. The $$ are irresistable to someone like her.

[Party @ the Moontower]

Sort of related but not really, back when I first acquired my license, in an effort to stave off boredom, some friends and I spent a few weeks driving around at night collecting (stealing would be another way to put it) yard sign's related to the candidacy of several state and town politicians

[Good Old Neon]

It's in really poor taste to steal a gnome man. That one will come back to get you.

 

Is that some sort of threat - what are you, a lawn ornament? I

[Party @ the Moontower]

I would enjoy a debate with all 6 presidental canidates.I think it would make for a very interesting evening.

 

Constitution Party Candidate-Chuck Baldwin

Democratic Party Candidate-Barrack Obama

Green Party Candidate-Cynthia McKinney

Independent Party Candidate-Ralph Nader

Libertarian Party Candidate-Bob Barr

Republican Party Candidate-John Palin

 

 

[mountain bed]

I dunno about gnomes, but those damn racist lawn jockey things are fair game - we once went around town and painted the black faces over with white paint. Good times.

[Sir Stewart]

Republican Party Candidate-John Palin

 

 

[Good Old Neon]

I dunno about gnomes, but those damn racist lawn jockey things are fair game - we once went around town and painted the black faces over with white paint. Good times.

 

Yeah, thanks for that, I still have spray paint on my eyelids from when you and your friends pulled that little stunt.

[quarter23cd]

I think she is a very ambittious person, and can smell the prize.

But can she smell the Obama?

 

The consensus I'm starting to hear about her from people I know who are pretty non-partisan and have been giving her the benefit of the doubt so far, is that her ambitiousness is quickly becoming a turnoff as it becomes more obvious that she is in way over her head when talking policy. I think she is increasingly playing to the people who were already going to vote Republican, anyway, but her appeal to moderates seems to be shrinking.

 

...which, come to think of it, does translate nicely into a career in talk radio. Fine. I'd rather have her there than in Washington.