The end is near!

[HungryHippo]

lol, look at the people in the back just kinda looking off into space not knowing if it was a joke or not.

[mountain bed]

Jesus. Has he forgot RULE #1: never alter your meds during a presidential campaign? Does he not remember Ed Muskie?

[kidsmoke]

Jesus. Has he forgot RULE #1: never alter your meds during a presidential campaign? Does he not remember Ed Muskie?

 

I could not agree with you more!

[Good Old Neon]

Bear Shot, Draped with Obama Signs, Asheville Paper Reports

 

By E&P Staff

 

Published: October 20, 2008 10:10 PM ET

 

NEW YORK The Asheville (N.C.) Citizen Times reports, "A dead bear was found dumped this morning on the Western Carolina University campus, draped with a pair of Obama campaign signs, university police said."

 

Maintenance workers at 7:45 a.m. found a 75-pound bear cub dumped at the roundabout at the entrance to campus, said Tom Johnson, chief of university police.

[Good Old Neon]

Palin Claims The Vice President Is

[Central Scrutinizer]

Lemme guess. This included lipstick?

 

RNC Paid for Palin Clothes

 

The RNC "appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August," reports Politico.

 

The McCain campaign "declined to answer specific questions about the expenditures, including whether it was necessary to spend that much and whether it amounted to one early investment in Palin or if shopping for the vice presidential nominee was ongoing."

 

Said a spokeswoman: "The campaign does not comment on strategic decisions regarding how financial resources available to the campaign are spent."

[MrRain422]

Palin Claims The Vice President Is

[LouieB]

In July she said she didn't know what the Vice-President even does. Apparently she still doesn't. Hopefully, if McCain wins, she'll take the time between November 4th and January 20th to actually read the Constitution.

Since the VP doesn't do much (unless he or she takes control of other executive branch duties or non-duties like Cheney did...) she shouldn't have too much to learn. As long as she has a nice budget to shop with (I know this is sexist...) she should be okay.

 

I have never read Kathleen Parker much, but now her column's at least seem to give some real conservative perspective on the McCain Palin mess....she even seems to be channeling John Lewis' opinions (in a much more reserved way) about the unleashing of racism by the McCain campaign. Get out the hoods and burning crosses.....

 

LouieB

 

 

Hard to stomach all the ugliness

Kathleen Parker

October 22, 2008

 

At this juncture, I wouldn't want to bet even a subprime mortgage on this presidential election. As perhaps never before, multiple hidden factors could alter the outcome.

 

Judging by polls, it would seem that Barack Obama will be our next president. Monday's Washington Post-ABC tracking poll, for example, showed Obama even winning 22 percent of conservatives and getting 12 percent support among Republicans.

 

But polls reflect only what people say they think, not what they really think.

 

Which is to say, we have an election and a shadow election in progress. The latter, in which unconscious motivations come into play and buried prejudices surface in the privacy of one's voting space, is the one that counts

[LouieB]

It is like McCain is actually ON the Moon....

 

LouieB

[MattZ]

In his defense, if we are naming threads "The End is Near!" imagine how he feels.

[embiggen]

Bear Shot, Draped with Obama Signs, Asheville Paper Reports

 

By E&P Staff

 

Published: October 20, 2008 10:10 PM ET

 

NEW YORK The Asheville (N.C.) Citizen Times reports, "A dead bear was found dumped this morning on the Western Carolina University campus, draped with a pair of Obama campaign signs, university police said."

 

source - http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/ne...t_id=1003875872

 

 

sickening

[embiggen]

"dip shit"

[MattZ]

So, at the risk of being hyperbolic, it looks like Al-Qaeda has endorsed McCain. I guess Powell wasn't the last big endorsement out there.

 

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008..._site_backs.php

 

Al-Qaida-linked Web site encourages pre-election attack as way to usher in McCain presidency

 

PAMELA HESS

AP News

 

Oct 21, 2008 22:41 EST

 

Al-Qaida supporters suggested in a Web site message this week they would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the U.S. as a way to usher in a McCain presidency.

 

The message, posted Monday on the password-protected al-Hesbah Web site, said if al-Qaida wants to exhaust the United States militarily and economically, "impetuous" Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is the better choice because he is more likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

"This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American soldier," the message said. "Then, al-Qaida will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush."

 

SITE Intelligence Group, based in Bethesda, Md., monitors the Web site and translated the message.

 

"If al-Qaida carries out a big operation against American interests," the message said, "this act will be support of McCain because it will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaida. Al-Qaida then will succeed in exhausting America till its last year in it."

 

Mark Salter, a senior McCain adviser, said he had heard about the Web site chatter but had no immediate comment.

 

The message is credited to a frequent and apparently respected contributor named Muhammad Haafid. However, Haafid is not believed to have a direct affiliation with al-Qaida plans or knowledge of its operations, according to SITE.

 

SITE senior analyst Adam Raisman said this message caught SITE's attention because there has been little other chatter on the forums about the U.S. election.

 

SITE was struck by the message's detailed analysis

[Analogman]

Old-Time Celebs Launch Ads For Obama

 

A Child's Garden Of Anti-Gay Hipster YouTubes

Meet The Hip Young People Who Hate Gay Marriage

[mfwahl]

So, at the risk of being hyperbolic, it looks like Al-Qaeda has endorsed McCain. I guess Powell wasn't the last big endorsement out there.

 

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008..._site_backs.php

 

Al-Qaida-linked Web site encourages pre-election attack as way to usher in McCain presidency

Shit you beat me to it. Just read that. That can't be good.

[Gobias Industries]

So, at the risk of being hyperbolic, it looks like Al-Qaeda has endorsed McCain. I guess Powell wasn't the last big endorsement out there.

 

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008..._site_backs.php

 

Al-Qaida-linked Web site encourages pre-election attack as way to usher in McCain presidency

 

I'm pretty sure McCain will take any endorsement at this point...

[myboyblue]

So, at the risk of being hyperbolic, it looks like Al-Qaeda has endorsed McCain. I guess Powell wasn't the last big endorsement out there.

 

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008..._site_backs.php

 

Al-Qaida-linked Web site encourages pre-election attack as way to usher in McCain presidency

I'm sure that they'll spin this...."the terrorists are using reverse psychology on us"

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

I'm rolling this (McCain gaffe) into the election thread, too. Order must be restored! ::joins Obama youth group::

[embiggen]

"dip shit"

 

 

now this is a crappy merge. no one knows what the hell I'm talking about now.

 

I'm rolling this (McCain gaffe) into the election thread, too. Order must be restored! ::joins Obama youth group::

 

 

you did it wrong!

[mfwahl]

no one knows what the hell I'm talking about now.

now?

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

now this is a crappy merge. no one knows what the hell I'm talking about now.

 

 

 

 

you did it wrong!

You can edit your post to quote the original if you really care.

[JUDE]

You can edit your post to quote the original if you really care.

 

That's not the kind of change Flick needs.

[Sir Stewart]

I'm rolling this (McCain gaffe) into the election thread, too. Order must be restored! ::joins Obama youth group::

 

It's worth reposting then:

[jakobnicholas]

October 21, 2008

Tribal Politics

By Patrick J. Buchanan

 

 

Was race a factor in the decision of Colin Powell to repudiate his party’s nominee and friend of 25 years, Sen. John McCain, two weeks before Election Day, and to endorse Barack Obama?

 

Gen. Powell does not deny it, contending only that race was not the only or decisive factor. “If I had only that fact in mind,” he told Tom Brokaw, “I could have done this six, eight, ten months ago.”

 

Yet, in hailing Barack as a “transformational figure” whose election would “electrify our country … (and) the world,” Powell seems to testify to the centrality of Barack’s ethnicity to his decision.

 

For what else is there about this freshman senator, who has no significant legislative accomplishment, to transform our politics and to electrify the world, other than the fact that he would be the nation’s first African-American president?

 

Powell’s endorsement follows that of another African-American icon, Congressman John Lewis of Selma Bridge fame, who switched allegiance from Hillary to Barack, while Clinton still had a fighting chance to win.

 

When Lewis deserted her in February, he, too, claimed a Road-to-Damascus experience, to have seen a transformational figure:

 

“Something’s happening in America, something some of us did not see coming … Barack Obama has tapped into something that is extraordinary. … It’s a movement. It’s a spiritual event.”

 

Lewis’ desertion, however, was not unrelated to a primary challenge in his Atlanta district and angry constituent demands to know why he was not backing the first black with a real chance at winning the White House.

 

Powell was under no such pressure. Hence, what he did, and why, are subjects of media and political speculation.

 

Understandably, Powell is being hailed by the Obama media as a profile in courage. Equally understandably, his endorsement of Obama is said by Republicans to smack of ingratitude, opportunism, and even vindictiveness toward a party to which he owes his fame and career.

 

Here was a man who was rendered extraordinary honors by three Republican presidents. Reagan raised him from Army colonel to national security adviser, the first African-American in the post. George H. W. Bush named him chairman of the Joint Chiefs, over hundreds of more senior officers. George W. Bush made him the first African-American secretary of state.

 

While he may have gotten well with the capital elite with this decision, Powell has wounded his party’s nominee at a point of maximum vulnerability, a friend who supported him on the war, and agreed with Powell on the need for a larger invasion force. And Powell has embraced a liberal Democrat who owes his nomination to his fierce opposition to the war Powell sold the nation, a war Obama calls the worst blunder in U.S. history and a manifestation of a lack of judgment by those, like Colin Powell, who launched it.

 

Joe Biden, who voted to authorize the war, now calls his vote a mistake. Yet, Powell endorses him, too, while repudiating a McCain-Palin ticket that continues to defend his war.

 

And the scatter-gun attack Powell launched on the GOP ticket — hitting McCain for fumbling the financial crisis, choosing Sarah Palin, pressing Barack’s association with William Ayers, and not defending Obama’s Christianity — suggests a man with scores to settle with the party of George W. Bush.

 

Yet, what kind of Republican can Powell be when he professes deep concern that McCain might choose Supreme Court justices like John Roberts and Sam Alito? Every Republican in the Senate voted for Roberts. All but one voted for Alito.

 

Does Colin Powell have a problem with Antonin Scalia? Is the general a Ruth Bader Ginsberg Republican?

 

There is speculation Powell feels badly used by the neocons who cherry-picked and hyped the intelligence about weapons of mass destruction he presented at the U.N., and that he harbors a distrust of the neocons now reassembling around McCain.

 

If so, he surely has a case, and should have made it.

 

But in the last analysis, one comes back to the forbidden issue of ethnicity. For example, would Powell have endorsed Hillary, had she won the nomination? After all, her views on Iraq — having supported the war and never apologized — are even closer to Powell’s than Obama’s.

 

The issue cannot be avoided.

 

After all, we are in a year where Obama defeated the wife of “our first black president,” Bill Clinton, 90-10 in the black wards of Philly, and African-Americans, in one poll, are going 94-1 for Barack. And a Republican ticket that is hammering Barack on his ties to William Ayers fears to bring up his far closer ties to the Afro-racist anti-American Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

 

Organizing a fundraiser last year for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, an Hispanic Democrat, Lionel Sosa of San Antonio, a political strategist for Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II, said, “Blood runs thicker than politics.”

 

Mr. Sosa is perhaps more candid about his motives than folks in D.C.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

So, at the risk of being hyperbolic, it looks like Al-Qaeda has endorsed McCain. I guess Powell wasn't the last big endorsement out there.

 

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008..._site_backs.php

 

Al-Qaida-linked Web site encourages pre-election attack as way to usher in McCain presidency

 

PAMELA HESS

AP News

 

Oct 21, 2008 22:41 EST

 

Al-Qaida supporters suggested in a Web site message this week they would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the U.S. as a way to usher in a McCain presidency.

 

The message, posted Monday on the password-protected al-Hesbah Web site, said if al-Qaida wants to exhaust the United States militarily and economically, "impetuous" Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is the better choice because he is more likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

"This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American soldier," the message said. "Then, al-Qaida will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush."

 

SITE Intelligence Group, based in Bethesda, Md., monitors the Web site and translated the message.

 

"If al-Qaida carries out a big operation against American interests," the message said, "this act will be support of McCain because it will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaida. Al-Qaida then will succeed in exhausting America till its last year in it."

 

Mark Salter, a senior McCain adviser, said he had heard about the Web site chatter but had no immediate comment.

 

The message is credited to a frequent and apparently respected contributor named Muhammad Haafid. However, Haafid is not believed to have a direct affiliation with al-Qaida plans or knowledge of its operations, according to SITE.

 

SITE senior analyst Adam Raisman said this message caught SITE's attention because there has been little other chatter on the forums about the U.S. election.

 

SITE was struck by the message's detailed analysis