I can't remain neutral. What a weak political strategy. And an insult to the American public. McCain hopes that voters are stupid enough to believe someone who has been involved with terrorists could then lead a country at war with them. 

Though, I guess small seeds of doubt and manipulation are the corner stones of electoral politics. 

Katharine Q. Seelye of the New York Times, writes:

“He’s (McCain) just hoping that if you throw enough doubts out there, one of them will find its way to the craw of an undecided voter,” said Mr. Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University.

This has been evident at McCain rallies.

“Who is Barack Obama?” Mr. McCain asked at a recent rally in New Mexico. The answer came back: “Terrorist!” At another rally in Pennsylvania, someone shouted, “He is a bomb!” At yet another rally, a supporter called out, “Off with his head!”

Frank Rich, an op-ed columnist from the Times writes:

Until now. At McCain-Palin rallies, the raucous and insistent cries of “Treason!” and “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!” and “Off with his head!” as well as the uninhibited slinging of racial epithets, are actually something new in a campaign that has seen almost every conceivable twist. They are alarms. Doing nothing is not an option.Obama can hardly be held accountable for Ayers’s behavior 40 years ago, but at least McCain and Palin can try to take some responsibility for the behavior of their own supporters in 2008. What’s troubling here is not only the candidates’ loose inflammatory talk but also their refusal to step in promptly and strongly when someone responds to it with bloodthirsty threats in a crowded arena. Joe Biden had it exactly right when heexpressed concern last week that “a leading American politician who might be vice president of the United States would not just stop midsentence and turn and condemn that.” To stay silent is to pour gas on the fires.

I wish I could ask the McCain/Palin campiagn how they'd feel if Obama was elected and then assassinated. It's dishonorable to play off the fear of the American public for their own benefit. And some naive nut case might take it too far. 

The country is unstable, people are frightened and the future is unpredictable.  Stop spinning and throwing things and just tell us straight what you're going to do about it. There's too much at stake here.

But we can identify with the tradition behind it. He’s Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., named after his father. How many of us have christened a child after a family member? It’s a way we link one generation to another.

But his middle name is “Hussein,” you counter. Hussein!

Imagine all of those children proudly named Adolf in honor of a beloved family member … before World War II. Obama was born in 1961, when none of us knew Saddam Hussein even existed.

Let’s look at this from another perspective.  I have friends with Italian names, does that mean they’re mob members? Am I a Nazi sympathizer because I have a German last name? Does McCain’s Irish name imply he associated with the IRA?

If Hussein is on the table, how about the name John? Hmm … wasn’t John Wayne Gacy a serial killer? Does that force us to consider that John McCain could be a murderer?

Wait a minute … John Wayne Gacy … JOHN WAYNE Gacy … like in John Wayne, the hero of the Conservative Party? Does that mean that conservatives support a killer?

Do I sound like I’m making ridiculous accusations? Kind of like Palin’s cronies?

Sadly, my logic may be closer to the truth. At the rate that the McCain-Palin ticket is inciting the fringe, they may end up with blood on their hands and the Republican party would be supporting murder.

What a tragic commentary on our times.

Posted by: La80136

America has the best and most helpful medical system in the world. Now we have a Marxist- Socialist named B. Hussein Obama who wants to NATIONALIZE the heathlcare system. Wake up Americans!

This is the typical harebrained attitude that rouses countless Republicans into an anti-Obama frenzy as it opiates them in their mindless support of McCain. Unsurprisingly, the real fear about Obama is based on rumours and lies. He is black, thus he will give blacks extra privilege (which I will touch on more later), he hates whites, he is a MUSLIM (zOMG! we cant have a NONCHRISTIAN president!!! ahhh!), he is an Arab, he is ‘palling around with terrorists’, he is anti-American, he is a Marxist, he will raise taxes, his birth certificate is false, his name rhymes with Osama, his middle name is Hussein, etc etc.

The list is literally endless, and why? It is because a campaign of hatred, ignorance, and racism is being waged against him. Not outright by McCain’s campaign, but his supporters. Obama is a half white Harvard-graduate, related to Winston Churchill and Dick Cheney, so what does it matter that he is half black? Does that really make him invalid? Should his colour really strike up so much fear and mistrust? All the mistrust against Obama is baseless, in my opinion.

He is not a Muslim, he is a Christian, and he isn't an extremist like Palin to boot. He isn't an Arab, and if he was, why on earth would that disqualify him? How much more blatantly racist can this become?

He is going to cut taxes for 95% of Americans, and only raise them on the very rich. Trying to constantly link him to raising taxes on the middle class is absurd. I can't even get into how patent the arrant lies about his policies are. His tax plan is on his website, everything is right there. Seriously. Normally I would go into a huge tirade proving all this stuff wrong, but I can't be bothered: If one is intelligent, he or she knows it is all republican tomfoolery; if one is a base ignoramus, he or she will never understand and thus there is no point in trying to educate.

Obama doesn't champion nationalising healthcare. He wants to provide every American with it (as if that is really so bad), but it is not nationalisation. Nationalisation would be establishing a system similar to the NHS in Britain. The US has neither the best nor the most helpful healthcare system, especially not for the 40 million Americans who cannot afford insurance, unlike the claim made here…Typical oblivious favouring of the homeland to make yourself feel better.

People like Mr La80136 are so ignorant in their assertions, tossing around words they don’t even understand, that it is almost comical - in a bittersweet way.

It would seem from reading virtually all comments posted by Republicans on AOL news articles that the only thing they have against Obama (besides lies), is that his middle name is Hussein. It is a very common name globally, and it isn't a valid reason against him. The attacks against skin colour, name, and faith are all xenophobic abuse which combine to form the base of the Republican contention against Obama. Every time I hear someone honestly say why they don’t support Obama, this mistrust fostered from the fact that he is ‘different’ is the underlying reason. It doesn’t matter that, unlike McCain, he has been a faithful upstanding husband. It doesn’t matter how much superior he is at oration. It doesn’t matter he is a Harvard graduate, while McCain graduated near the bottom of his class. Nothing matters except that ‘mistrust’ of him because of these rumours and his skin colour.

I originally did not support during the beginning of the primaries as I have been wary of preferential treatment by mindlessly politically correct leftists. I have been wary of nobody being able to criticise minorities or women without being silenced by the labels of “racism” and “sexism,” when neither were ever a factor. I have been wary of the deep divide in our society that has prevented us from truly becoming colour-blind. I didn’t want to see someone who didn’t know what they were doing catapulted into the white house simply in the name of political correctness.

However, Barack Obama has proven that wrong. As the primaries wore on and he never once brought race into the election, I gained great respect for him. He has proven time and time again that he isn’t going to bring race into this. I applaud him for that. Further, his vision for America is the best we’ve had in the past eight years.

I never supported McCain, but as the race has gone on, his blatant lies about Obama, ad hominem attacks ad infinitum, his policies, his poor oration, his constant use of the POW card, his insinuations, his VP pick, his temperament, and everything else about him have done nothing but feed into my support for Obama.

I am not a fervent Obama supporter by any means, I disagree with a number of his beliefs, but I feel he can have a positive impact on this country and help turn around years of denigration. He can restore our respect on the world stage and improve our relations in the world, and I think Obama is the way to go.

From: "Chuck & Delores Wade"

Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:10 PM

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Political reality Jack Wheeler was the author of Reagan's strategy to break the back of the Soviet Union with the star wars race and expose their inner weakness. For years he wrote a weekly intelligence update that was extremely interesting and well structured and informed. He consults(ed) with several mega corporations on global trends and the future, etc. I think he is in semi-retirement now. He is a true patriot with a no-nonsense approach to everything. He is also a somewhat well known mountain climber and adventurer. Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler

The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no balls, nothing but abstract empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.

He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he rejects. The rest of him is mostly Arab, which he hides but is disclosed by his non-African Arabic surname and his Arabic first and middle names as a way to triply proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in Kenya .

Only a small part of him is African Black from his Luo grandmother, which he pretends he is exclusively. What he isn't, not a genetic drop of, is 'African-American,' the descendant of enslaved Africans brought to America chained in slave s hips. He hasn't a single ancestor who was a slave. Instead, his Arab ancestors were slave owners.

Slave-trading was the main Arab business in East Africa for centuries until the British ended it. Let that sink in: Obama is not the descendant of slaves, he is the descendant of slave owners. Thus he makes the perfect Liberal Messiah.

It's something Hillary doesn't understand - how some complete neophyte came out of the blue and stole the Dem nomination from her. Obamamania is beyond politics and reason. It is a true religious cult, whose adherents reject Christianity yet still believe in Original Sin, transferring it from the evil of being human to the evil of being white.

Thus Obama has become the white liberals' Christ, offering absolution from the Sin of Being White. There is no reason or logic behind it, no faults or flaws of his can diminish it, no arguments Hillary could make of any kind can be effective against it.

The absurdity of Hypocrisy Clothed In Human Flesh being their Savior is all the more cause for liberals to worship him: Credo quia absurdum, I believe it because it is absurd.

Thank heavens that the voting majority of Americans remain Christian and are in no desperate need of a phony savior.

His candidacy is ridiculous and should not be taken seriously by any thinking American.

Pass this on to every thinking American you know!

PLAIN AND SIMPLE!

Obama IS an American Citizen. So I guess it's McCain and Palin who are the ones "Palling Around" with people who think this country is so imperfect that using violence against it is their solution.

He taxes too much. If you vote for him you’ll be homeless. If you vote for the other one, your children will starve. But if you vote for the first guy, they’ll lose all their education and become stupid rejects, begging for day-old scraps behind the ghetto bakery. But the other guy will take your job. And the other one will tax your new raise so you actually come home with $5 less every week. One of them will date your mom. The other will shut down her nursing home. One will have dinner with terrorists at Arby’s while the other just sends him a check at Christmas, even though they don’t celebrate Christmas.

Here’s what I’m saying: There are bigger issues than whose face is on the front page. Every day 6000 kids are killed by mid-term or later abortion. They refuse to allow Bibles in schools, so Christian parents teach home school, allowing their children to learn math and moral values at the same time. While the schools are taking a massive dump when it comes to value and ethics and crime and teaching self-worth, the state of California just outlawed Christians from their God-given right to teach their own kids. Now they have to send them to the cesspool of a school that will teach anti-creation science, thereby infringing on the rights of students to practice their own religion freely (but don’t worry, they won’t attack Muslims, Buddhists, atheists, agnostics, pagans, wiccans, Scientologists, etc. Just the Christians.)

Let’s see, what else? Lets talk about gay marriage. I’m all for gays to have the right to choose their lifestyle- its their choice. (Just like my kids schooling used to be.) But I’m not for the whole gay-marriage thing. Sure, they can practice it, but that doesn’t really make it a marriage. I know, I know, they’ve redefined what “marriage” is, but it used to be a union before God between a man and a woman. Since most homosexuals don’t believe in or care for God, they can’t really have a union before Him that He will honor. But, what they hey, they ignored my right to practice my faith (only if it’s from the Christian Bible) by ignoring the 1^st amendment, why not ignore the other principals too.

So who is going to do what to help me out? Am I personally going to benefit from either party being elected? Maybe, but probably not. There aren’t a whole lot of things that are going to actually make a difference in the way I daily live my life. I could be wrong, but here’s how I look at it:

If one side is accused of overtaxing and the other of allowing abortions, I will sacrifice a couple bucks, even a couple hundred, per year to vote for the sanctity of life.

If one side is accused of sending jobs overseas and the other of limiting free speech, I’m probably going to have to go for free speech. There will always be a need for jobs on the US. They may not be the best, but we have too many people not to need a ton of jobs. We also have a lot of politicians going after free speech, even though the ones attacked are the churches and the right. Hmm.

If one side wants to build a thousand mile fence at the borders and the other wants to let gays marry, I will go for the fence. Those guys are great climbers and if they can get in through, over or under a military fence, then they deserve to stay. For those that can’t, they can still come here, but have to go through the legal process. Meanwhile, I stand up for what I believe regarding gay marriage. I’m not anti-gay, but I’m not pro-gay. I’m just ok-gay; they can do their thing, but I don’t want tax dollars going toward something I find immoral.

Bottom line, I can’t do anything about the politicians. But, then again, I will probably never have to answer to them. I will, however, have to answer to God. I will stand before Him and be able to say that I voted for the things and the principles that are on His side, His Law, and His eternal purpose. I will say that I stood up for hundreds of thousands of innocent children and supported their right to life. I will say that I voted against the activity that led to His destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, the activities that He calls an abomination. I will be able to say that I stood up for His Word, His teaching, for the right to exhibit by faith, to speak freely the gospel. I will say, “Jesus, I stood up for you.”

What do you stand for?

It isn’t so much what Lee County Sheriff Michael Joseph Scott said while firing up the True Believers prior to GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Louise Palin’s appearance in Fort Myers on Tuesday. It’s why he said it.

Michael Joseph Scott raptured the 9,000 or so party faithful in the crowd when he sneeringly referred to the junior senator from Illinois as “Barack Hussein Obama.” Amid the resulting huzzahs, our sheriff puffed out his uniformed chest, thrust forward his jaw and began shotgunning animated Il Duce-style salutes.[polldaddy poll="988473"]

He then spent the next 24 hours insisting he had done nothing wrong.
Michael Joseph Scott, you did something wrong.

Problem is, Michael Joseph Scott doesn’t get it.

Sarah Louise Palin’s campaign, however, gets it. And when it comes to Michael Joseph Scott, Sarah Louise Palin’s people are less than amused.

“We do not condone this inappropriate rhetoric,” a campaign spokesman said in response to reporters questions. The spokesman did not provide her middle name.

There was also reaction from the Barack Hussein Obama camp:

“The use of a name that has a Middle Eastern sound was used to insinuate the Muslim faith,” said Adrianne Marsh, spokeswoman for Obama’s Florida campaign. “The fact of the matter is Sen. Obama is Christian, and always has been.”

After Tuesday’s antics, Michael Joseph Scott has come off looking like all those annoying little grade school punks who, when not being regularly beaten up at recess, thought boogers were really cool and that making fun of someone’s middle name was actually funny.

“Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein,” “Hussein.”

Michael Joseph Scott, you did something wrong. Very wrong. And it’s time for you to get it.

On Wednesday, Michael Joseph Scott issued what he called his “final communication” on the matter.

“Why did I use the Candidate’s full, legal name of record? Despite varying inferences, interpretations, opinions and extrapolations,” he wrote in his final communication. “The answer is because I wanted to, much like I wanted to voice my support for the Barron Collier Marching Band.”

I’m not making this up. Maybe Michael Joseph Scott thinks “Collier Marching” is Barron Band’s middle name.

In defense of wearing his Lee County Sheriff’s Office uniform to the rally, complete with badge and McCain-Palin campaign button, Scott insists he violated no laws.

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel could potentially disagree. A senior attorney for the agency confirmed that an investigation had been opened to determine whether Scott’s appearance at the rally while (as he admits) on duty and in uniform constitutes a violation of the federal Hatch Act.

The act substantially prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities while working. Because the Lee County Sheriff’s Office receives federal funds, the law treats Scott as a federal employee.

Then there’s state law. Specifically, FS 104.31 (2) which says: An employee of the state or any political subdivision may not participate in any political campaign for an elective office while on duty. Further, “any person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.” We know Michael Joseph Scott can say “Hussein.” I wonder if Michael Joseph Scott can say $1,000 fine, one year in jail, or both.

And if found in violation of the Hatch Act, the feds could fine Lee County, and its taxpayers, a sum equal to two years of Michael Joseph Scott’s pay. Less likely, Michael Joseph Scott could be removed from office.

Now, as the county’s chief law enforcement officer, Scott likely has some passing familiarity with both federal and state law. Scott, however, is apparently relying on “guidelines” published by the Florida Sheriff’s Association which leave it to the individual sheriff’s discretion when or how to wear uniforms. The Florida Sheriff’s Association’s opinion, of course, carries about as much legal weight as a cookbook published by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Michael Joseph Scott says his use of Obama’s middle name was “one word that was legal, accurate and void of supporting malice beyond dispute.” Yeah, right.

Michael Joseph Scott, however, forgot something when he pinned on that campaign button, engaged in a cheap political stunt and pimped away the dignity of his uniform and his office. He forgot about those who work for him. Those who don’t have the luxury of referring questions or comments to some public information officer in Fort Myers. Those who can’t lock themselves in their offices and refuse to talk.

He forgot about the deputies who are out there on the front line, men and women who are interacting daily with the residents of Lee County and the residents of Boca Grande. Men and women who are both honorable and fair. Men and women who look to uphold the law and keep us safe.

Men and women who now find themselves in a no-win position of either defending a sheriff who can’t in good conscience be defended, or remaining silent.

Michael Joseph Scott owes these men and women an apology. He owes the people of Lee County an apology. He owes his political contributors an apology. He owes the McCain-Palin ticket an apology. And he owes Barack Hussein Obama an apology.

Michael Joseph Scott was wrong. Very wrong. And Michael Joseph Scott needs to man up and do the right thing. Now.

Gary Frank Dutery is editor of the Boca Beacon

They are continually bringing up this "Ayers" thing, which even Bill O'Rielly says is BS, simply because its "Guilt by Association" Now i could go on about how right or wrong it is, but I'm probably not gonna change your mind and its irrelovent to the topic.

They continuously bring up his middle name. Which, if you don't know, is Hussein. Nothing is wrong with that name, but they continuously use it as a negative. It's Bigotry. It's the same exact thing as saying "He's Black!" He didn't choose the name, he was born with it. It's something about him that he had absolutely no control over, just like his skin color, and in the end, it has nothing to do with who he is.

Why are they doing this? They are laying out the dots. "he's friendly with terrorists" and he "has a muslim name"

They want you to connect him with Al Queda, they want you to think of him as a terrorist. They are using your fear to win a campaign.

And thats just it. Using FEAR to win a campaign.

FEAR.

When we are experiencing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and they resort to fear.

The textbook definition of terrorism according to dictionary.com:

Instead of talking about the issues, the things that actually matter to you and me, and yes, them. They resort to fear. They want you to be afraid of who he is.

That my friends, is terrorism. There's no getting around it. They could continue to lie about his stance on taxes and say he will raise them for small businesses and kill jobs, or they could continue to lie and say he will force you into a government run health care plan, or they could continue to lie and say he doesn't support our troops. but instead they center they campaign around the issues of Fear.

At their rally's people cry out that "he's a terrorist" they say things like "Kill Him". Do they refute these cries? No, they pause, smile, and then continue with their stump speeches full of rehashed lines that everyone has already heard. They continue to stoke the fires of hate that burn in their base. They could rise above it, and say NO. STOP IT. He is an American, and although we disagree on almost everything, he shares our love for this country.

Instead they want you to think of him as some sort of Muslim Jihadist who dosen't share your values.

On the one hand you have a candidate who was raised by a single mother. who had to get up hours before school everyday to study. Who had to work his way through college, overcoming giant hurtles to attend the most "prestigous" schools in America. Who after graduating turned down six figure incomes to help struggling familes. A candidate who had to watch his mother die, as she argued with heatlh insurance companies about whether or not "cancer" was a pre-existing condition.

On the other hand, you have John McCain, who after being destroyed by unfair campaign tactics in 2000, has resorted to employing those same tactics now.

I don't care who you support. I don't care where you stand on the issues. But you cannot honestly say that these tactics are not the tactics of fear.

And the tactics of fear, "my friends" are the tactics of terrorism.

We engaged in this "war on terror" to stop this nonsense. How can we win when we resort to this nonsense in our own home.

First, if 90-odd percent of Americans say they believe in God, it's unhelpful to dismiss them as silly. Second, when they check that "believe in God" box, a great many people are not talking about the God the atheists rail against—a supernatural being who intervenes in human affairs, who lays down inexplicable laws about sex and diet, punishes violators with the stinking fires of hell and raises the fleshly bodies of the dead.

When over fifty percent of Americans believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis, what are we atheists supposed to think? If we include all Christians worldwide, particularly the ones in poorer Catholic and Eastern Orthodox nations, the percentage is probably much higher. This doesn't take into account the non-democratic Islamic nations, where Western ideas are spat upon, and where basic education is limited to males, and where people are threatened into believing in the all-powerful Allah. So, the actual number of believers in an angry, vengeful, and intervening god is probably much much higher than even Lisa Miller cares to imagine.

Apologetics is a form of faith; it's faith in faith. Miller finishes her paper-thin argument by hauling in the invisible sacred cow.

Submitting faith to proof is absurd. Reason defines one kind of reality (what we know); faith defines another (what we don't know). Reasonable believers can live with both at once.

Reasonable believers? Can reason and faith coexist? And how can faith define the unknown? Isn't the unknown, by its very definition, indefinable? Here, Miller's mental gymnastics are Olympic quality. And most believers would likely take great offense to her reducing their unshakable faith to an algebraic X. Personally, I prefer to think of all faith simply as a Y.

Joe Biden used to have a good friend called John McCain. He doesn’t anymore. After the latest attacks from the McCain/Palin camp, Biden has had enough and is hitting back, saying he is immensely disappointed in his former pal. McCain was civil during Tuesday’s debate, but when speaking at a rally in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the tone was totally different.

As his campaign is trailing in the polls the Republicans have come up with a new strategy; to create uncertainty and worry as to what Obama will do if elected. ‘Who is senator Obama’ asked McCain. ‘What he says today and what he has done in the past are two completely different things’, he continued, before following up with ‘broken promises’ and that Obama cannot be trusted. The whole speech was peppered with words like ‘socialist’, ‘terrorist’ and ‘liar’.

Before John McCain entered the podium he was introduced to the audience by a fellow Republican, who made sure to use Barack Obama’s middle name; Hussein. He probably hoped that was all that was needed to get some stupid voters to think the opponent is Muslim.

It was this arrangement that got Biden all worked up. He is now hitting back, saying that McCain is inciting dangerous anger among his followers. He also labeled McCain and ‘angry, old man who lurches from one position to another.’

It is sad when politics gets in the way of friendship, but it is probably better for Biden to be friends with Barack Obama anyway. He’ll be around for much, much longer.

I got really annoyed at CNN's Campbell Brown's commentary on the use of Senator Obama's full name.  She claims that the use of the Senator's middle name, Hussein, is race-baiting.

In part, she says,

Race-baiting doesn't have to be and yet it is happening in this campaign. Twice this week, surrogates for Republican candidate Sen. John McCain have made a point of calling Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama, Barack "Hussein" Obama.

The implication here is clear. It's foreign sounding. It's Muslim sounding. It's un-American sounding. It's dangerous-sounding. What it is, is race-baiting. And that is what is dangerous.

Are you kidding me?  You CAN'T be serious.  "Foreign sounding"?  "Muslim sounding"? "un-American sounding"?  "dangerous-sounding"?  Are you honestly trying to tell us that using this man's legitimate middle name, Hussein, is race-baiting and all these other terms aren't even a smidge racist?

It's his NAME.  He ought to be PROUD of it.  Embrace his difference from us, if you will.  Isn't this the kind of "Change" he's been trying to sell us?  Now all of a sudden his NAME is off-limits to everyone?

Perhaps it's YOUR fault, CNN, for the way you plastered Saddam HUSSEIN's name, image and visage on everything you could for years.  Perhaps, then, the Corporately Controlled Media in our country might just have something to do with the way we all react when we hear that name.

Then, she goes on to say,

Inciting crowds, encouraging their angry outbursts, McCain supporters shouting "treason" and "terrorist" about Obama at these rallies -- that's dangerous. Earlier in the campaign, McCain denounced this stuff. He strongly denounced it. And today it requires a stronger response, a much stronger denunciation than a campaign-generated paper statement.

Perhaps they're shouting those things about the Bailout bill.  Or about the fact that he's Bilderberg-cozy.  CFR-affiliated.  Hell, they might've been shouting those same things at McCain for the same reasons.  Why do YOU automatically make the connection between this man's name, Campbell, and terrorism?  Why is is Racist? If we invoke the name of John SIDNEY McCain, does that mean we're labeling him a dork?

While you think about that, and I look up Dr. Freud's phone number for you, let's see what else you had to say:

But let's also be careful here and use our heads. Some Obama supporters on the left are up in arms over something McCain said at the debate Tuesday night -- when he referred to Obama as, "that one."

McCain: It was an energy bill on the floor of the senate, loaded down with goodies. Billions for the oil companies. And it was sponsored by Bush and Cheney. You know who voted for it? Might never know. That one.

Some people have interpreted that comment as having racial undertones. Give me a break.

I can hear my grandfather talking about one of his kids or grandkids as "that one." He used it a lot. Maybe it's a generational thing. Maybe it wasn't a term of endearment the way it was when my grandfather used it. Maybe McCain did mean to be disrespectful. But racist? I don't think so.

My turn now, Campbell.  Give ME a break.  How old are you, twelve?  Anybody our age has folks in their family from McCain's generation, and many of them still hang on to references and phrases from their 'heyday'.  Was it a dismissive comment?  Absolutely.  Disrespectful?  You betcha.  Appropriate?  Given the subject, you're damn right it was appropriate.  McCain simply showed his disdain for the idea of a Reality TV Celebrity becoming the next President, and he let it show.  I might not have been quite so kind.

Was it a racist comment?  It likely has its roots in racism, sure.  But the term is simply dismissive, and nothing more.  Only to the Massive Hoardes of Mindless Obama Cult Members, whose new tact is to play the race card for whatever it's worth, is it racist.  Glenn Beck, one of your colleagues at CNN (and from whom you could learn an awful lot), wrote an excellent commentary on the topic.

Apparently, if you're not voting for Obama, according to the MOCM's, it's because he's "black"....and that means you're a racist.

That, of course, negates any OTHER reasons that people might not vote for Obama:

• He's going to spend TONS of money on good stuff for all of us, AND is going to lower taxes.  Is that the new Harvard Math? FAIL
• His single biggest political achievement, to date, is being nominated to the Presidency. FAIL
• If he filled out his tax forms properly, under "Employment" he would've put "being elected to public office". FAIL
• He's associated with the Council on Foreign Relations AND has strong ties to The Bilderberg Group....like every good Globalist should have.  For now, we'll pass on his ties to racist 'pastors' or 'openly unrepentant violent domestic terrorists'.  Seems like overkill when there are so many other good reasons for avoiding this man on election day. FAIL FAIL FAIL
• He's a brand-new Senator - one who has spent the majority of his term trying to - oops - be elected to yet another Public Office. FAIL FAIL

Yes, there are going to be MILLIONS of Americans who vote against Obama because he's "black".  But there will be millions more who vote against him because we simply dislike his lack of experience for the Presidency, his arrogance, his obvious anti-American ties to (insert your favorite here), and his questionable allegiance to the average citizens of our country.

His vote on the Bailout, along with McCain's, is conclusive proof of that last little bit, and is at the very top of a long list of reasons why 'that one', Barack HUSSEIN Obama won't get my vote this year.

In truth, I am,

Mobiüs

16 Gennaio 1991 pres. George Bush annuncia al mondo che è iniziata Desert Storm, conosciuta ovvero come la Guerra del Golfo.

Della guerra, tutti ne sanno l'esito. Quello che nessuno, ma proprio nessuno sa, è che fu sganciata, uno degli ultimi giorni di conflitto, una bomba atomica, potenza 5 kilotoni. Piccola, rispetto a quella di Hiroshima - 18 - e Nagasaki - 22. Ma effettiva, con uno strascico di radiazioni.

L'inchiesta è partita da un giornalista canadese, famoso per i suoi contatti con i veterani dell'esercito USA. E uno di questi, Jim Brown, ha rilasciato una notizia sconvolgente. Che è rimbalzata sulla stampa mondiale, e di cui RaiNews ne ha fatta una piccola inchiesta, grazie al giornalista Torralta.

Ora è ovvio pensare che una nazione, specialmente gli USA famosi per l'arroganza planetaria, che usi una bomba atomica di nascosto sia una nazione di cui non ci si possa fidare in nessun modo. Come si dice dall'inchiesta, ora è un momento in cui non c'è ancora la prova schiacciante. C'è solo un numero di "coincidenze" che verificano, forse parzialmente, ciò che è stato detto dal veterano. Il quale afferma che un'altra bomba di eguale potenza è stata sganciata in Afghanistan, qualche anno addietro.

E se gli USA si mettono a sganciare nucleari, chi le nucleari (loro) le ha, come noi in Italia, come saremo visti dal mondo intero?

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"Rather than answer his critics, Senator Obama will try to distract you from noticing that he never answers the serious and legitimate questions he has been asked," said McCain. “He has even questioned my truthfulness. And let me reply in the plainest terms I know. I don't need lessons about telling the truth to American people. And were I ever to need any improvement in that regard, I probably wouldn't seek advice from a Chicago politician. "

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Though both Palin and McCain took some jabs at Obama, the sharpest attacks came from those who preceded the pair.

“The day that Senator Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son while he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you,’’ Cindy McCain said in reference to Obama voting against a war-funding bill in 2007. “I would suggest that Senator Obama change shoes with me for just one day.’’

William Platt, chairman of the Lehigh County Republican Party, even went so far as the take a shot at Obama’s middle name. He referred to the Senator as Barack Hussein Obama on more than one occasion to pump up the crowd.

Other than discussing the short comings of Obama, McCain promised jobs, tax relief to the middle class, lower food and gas prices, help with college tuition, more accessible and affordable health care, a spending freeze on most functions of government and a balanced federal budget by the end of his first term in office, but gave no specifics as to how he will accomplish these things.

Biden said this about the appalling tenor of Palin's rallies, a la the Huffington Post:

Joe Biden lashed out at Sarah Palin on Wednesday, calling her recent rhetoric "ugly" and "mildly dangerous," and expressing shock that the Alaska Governor did not interrupt recent rallies when supporters shouted hateful attacks about Barack Obama, including "treason!" and "kill him!"

"I watched the news and I heard a couple people hollering from the audience semi-vile things about 'terrorists,' things like that," Biden said on NBC's Today show. "The idea that a leading American politician who might be vice president of the United States would not just stop mid-sentence and turn and condemn that -- it's just a slippery slope, it's a place that we shouldn't be going."

Biden repeated the sentiment on ABC's Good Morning America:

"I think it goes way too far. Look, this really is a case where, when you don't have anything to talk about, attack -- and it gets really over the edge," he said. "I mean, some of the stuff she's saying about Barack Obama and the stuff that people are yelling from the crowd, if she hears it, she should be at least be saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's overboard. But this is volatile stuff."

A Secret Service spokesperson said on Tuesday that agents were trying to track down more information about the individual who yelled "kill him" during the Palin event in Clearwater, Fl., on Monday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/biden-palin-must-condemn_n_132939.html

WARNING: ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS IS ALL TRUE.

9. B. Hussein Obama was a member of the Weather Underground.

B. Hussein Obama, at age eleven, placed placed a bomb inside The Pentagon. We all know he attended a radical non-Christian school at a young age, but who knew it would pay such dividends so rapidly. And also, he built the bomb himself with handwritten directions from William "I piss in America's mouth" Ayers. (Note: Ayers is under investigation for teaching at aforementioned radical non-Christian school)

8. B. Hussein Obama was supposed to actually shot Ronald Reagan.

B. Hussein Obama, at age twenty, after reading The Catcher in the Rye for the thirteenth time, attempted to murder then-president Reagan. He disguised himself as a white man named John Hinckley Jr. Look at the evidence. It's all there.

7. B. Hussein Obama shot JFK.

B. Hussein Obama, at age two, fired the magic bullet from the grassy knoll which ended then-president Kennedy's life.  Two days after what was his first murder, B. Hussein Obama, drunk on the taste of blood, disguised himself as a fat white man named Jack Ruby and murdered an innocent man named Lee Harvey Oswald for no reason whatsoever.

6. B. Hussein Obama was a kamikaze pilot during the Pearl Harbor attacks.

B. Hussein Obama, at age negative twenty, flew a Japanese fighter plane into the U.S.S. Arizona, igniting it's magazine and leading to its ultimate demise. Contrary to popular belief, the magazine was not hit by a motified 40cm shell, it was hit by B. Hussein Obama. (Also, it should be noted that, at the time of the impact, B. Hussein Obama was writing the introduction to Mein Kampf )

5. B. Hussein Obama and his wife are drug dealers.

B. Hussein Obama sold the dope that killed John Belushi, Chris Farley, River Phoenix, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain (B. Hussein Obama also sold him the shotgun), Ken Caminiti, Truman Capote, Steve Clark of Def Leopard, Judy Garland, Mitch Hedberg, Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Marylin Monroe, Brad Nowll, Anna Nicole Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Sid Vicious, and Elvis.

4. B. Hussein Obama killed Goose in Top Gun.

B. Hussein Obama co-wrote the hit film Top Gun at age twenty five. However, in the final cut of the film he inserted his alternate ending so that Goose, Maverick's co-pilot doesn't kill Osama bin Laden with a hunting knife after pulling out Saddam Hussein's Adam's apple (like in the movie Roadhouse). Instead, trying to humiliate Tom Cruise's character (who was obviously modeled after John McCain), B. Hussein demanded that Goose be killed in the midst of a homosexual orgy. Ultimately a third ending was chosen for theaters.

3. B. Hussein Obama tortures animals.

B. Hussein Obama put that gerbil up Richard Gere's ass. It's true. Look it up.

2. B. Hussein Obama attended dog fights at Michael Vick's house.

As if putting innocent animals inside of famous people wasn't bad enough, B. Hussein Obama (and Jeremiah Wright) wagered millions of dollars on brutal dog fights at Michael Vick's house over the last thirty years. B. Hussein was introduced to the sport of dog fighting by Jeremiah Wright. Also B. Hussein told Michael Vick to give Sonya Elliot genital herpes. (*On a related note, B. Hussein came up with the alias Ron Mexico)

1. B. Hussein Obama betrayed Jesus H. Christ and got him killed.

This is a little known fact about B. Hussein Obama's long and horrible horrible life, but it is an important one. B. Hussein attended the last supper of Christ under the name "Judas Iscariot". He stole Mr. Iscariot's identity on the Internet. B. Hussein chewed with is mouth open, got absurdly drunk, passed gas multiple times and then, after embarrassing himself thoroughly, betrayed Christ, ultimately resulting in the demise of our Lord and Savior. The real Judas Iscariot was informed of this travesty and issued a formal apology. It's in the Book of Revelations. Look it up. He's in this picture. Look.

Last night, though the "we're smarter than you" pundits near and far scored the debate for Obama, saying since McCain didn't deliver a knockout, Obie wins on points, in the light of day, it looks like McCain may have knocked them all silly at the opening bell.  In answer to the first question presented to him, McCain said this:

You know that home values of retirees continues to decline and people are no longer able to afford their mortgage payments. As president of the United States, Alan, I would order the secretary of the treasury to immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America and renegotiate at the new value of those homes -- at the diminished value of those homes and let people be able to make those -- be able to make those payments and stay in their homes.

Now, the first I heard of this plan was from Hillary Clinton, but nobody paid attention to her.  Last night, immediately after the debate, Obi-WanNaBePresident seemed to take credit, at least according to a press release published by Politico:

The statement, “John McCain Lies Tonight,” began: “McCain today said he had a new plan to allow the Treasury to purchase and restructure mortgages. The truth is that this is not a new proposal and is already part of the rescue plan that was signed into law. It was Obama, not McCain who called for this move two weeks ago.”

But today, Camp O is singing a different Dixie; from AP:

The plan would cause the government "to massively overpay for mortgages in a plan that would guarantee taxpayers lose money, and put them at risk of losing even more if home values don't recover," Obama economic adviser Jason Furman said in a statement. "The biggest beneficiaries of this plan will be the same financial institutions that got us into this mess, some of whom even committed fraud."

Michelle Malkin calls McCain's "plan" ACORN-like:

I can’t underscore enough what a rotten idea John McCain’s ACORN-like government mortgage buy-up is. I said it during my liveblog. And I’ll say it again: “HE WANTS TO EXPAND THE BAILOUT. He wants to do what ACORN wants to do. We’re Screwed ‘08.”

And, even though Obama slammed McCain just last night for saying the fundamentals of the economy are strong, today the O-man said:

"America still has the most talented, most productive workers of any country on Earth," Obama said. "We're still the home to innovation and technology, colleges and universities that are the envy of the world. Some of the biggest ideas in history have come from our small businesses and our research facilities."

Having trouble keeping "who's who" straight?  Well, let me tell you, whatever you do, don't call the black one "Hussein." I know it's his name, but it seems to really piss his friends off.

Throwing your running mate under the bus is okay, though.

That's how in banking it works. Everybody goes to Delaware, because they've got very -- pretty loose laws when it comes to things like credit cards.

Sit down, take a deep breath and get a better idea of why the people introducing Palin and McCain keep referring to Barack Hussein Obama:

Gross.

At a Republican rally today in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the GOP chairman of Lehigh County, Bill Platt, spoke to the crowd prior to appearances by Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin. Twice during his rhetoric, he referred to McCain's challenger by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, in a disparaging manner, igniting hostility from the crowd. This is not the first time this week the tactic was used; on Monday, a Florida sheriff speaking at a rally prior to an appearance by Gov. Palin declared, "on November 4th, let's leave Barack Hussein Obama wondering what happened."

The incidents are reflective of the turn the McCain campaign has taken in the past few days. Rallies have seen more and more open hostility and, in some cases, threatening epithets from the gathered crowds. Aside from speakers using Sen. Obama's middle name in an insulting manner, audible shouts from recent crowds have included "terrorist!" and "treason!" and even "kill him!" when the Senator's name has come up in discussion. While the McCain campaign has derided the remarks, one can only wonder the veracity of this because the campaign has made no attempts to quell the outright verbal abuse being levied at the Democratic candidate.

Frankly, this turn of events should frighten not just Democratic supporters, but both parties as well. Where is the line drawn when hard-nosed campaigning becomes potentially dangerous? Is this really good for the country? In my two-and-a-half decades, I can't recall threats so outright as "kill him!" ever being levied towards a presidential candidate. This was heard after Gov. Palin mentioned Sen. Obama's past with former radical, and leader of the Weather Underground, Bill Ayers, declaring that the Senator "pals around with terrorists." (Ayers, now a distinguished professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was involved in early 1970s Vietnam protest bombings of the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, to name a few. Sen. Obama's so-called "history" with Ayers? They've both worked in Chicago on education reform, and have spoken a dozen or so times, and not once in years.) When "kill him!" was heard, Palin did nothing to quell it. Talk about distressing.

Meanwhile, the name "Hussein" is Arabic and means "handsome one." Other names meaning "handsome": Raymond and Edmond. Pretty much any name that ends in "-mond." While the Raymonds of the world need not worry that an ill-advised crowd will ferociously boo at the mention of their name, Sen. Obama must deal with repercussions beyond his control. That, however, leaves no excuse for Republican campaign speakers to incite a metaphorical riot with gratuitous negativity.

The presidential race took an ugly turn this week. I think most can agree with Sen. Biden on the issue as well: it's a turn we should not be taking.

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Clint Eastwood's new opus, Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich, opens October 24th and, from the looks of the trailer (playable below), looks incredibly enticing. The tone of the film, a mysterious and provocative hunt for the truth, reminds me of Eastwood's 2003 masterpiece, Mystic River. I must say, while technically fascinating films, the last three from Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima) did not slug me in the solar plexus quite as forcefully as the gripping and dark human nature of Mystic River managed to accomplish, so consider me officially excited for this film.

At nearly 10 a.m. Corsi was entering his hotel, the Grand Regency Hotel in Nairobi, Kenyan, where the press conference was to take place, when he was ambushed by immigration officers.

"He was walking in and then some immigration officers who were following him snatched him. It happened so fast, they just vanished with him," said one hotel employee.

In late December 2007 Kenya held a presidential election, of which the winner was announced as Mwai Kibaki. Immediately following the announcement, Odinga called foul. He accused election fraud and there was soon fighting in the streets and slums of Kenya. Over 1,000 were killed and 500,000 displaced from their homes. Hundreds and hundreds of churches were burned to the ground, destroyed or had to be abandoned. One Assemblies of God pastor reported that over 400 of their churches were affected similarly. Most of those killed were part of Kibaki’s party, Christians, or both. Coincidentally, no reports of any mosque damage were reported from that wave of violence.

Corsi was about to disclose evidence that Barack Hussein Obama had not only remained in close contact with his cousin Odinga, but that the contact was in reference to Obama coaching Odinga on campaign strategy and in raising U.S. funds for Odinga’s race to the presidency.

Even worse, Corsi was to reveal evidence that Odinga’s campaign strategy called for the exploitation of Kikuyu tribal settlements, claiming victory and charging voter fraud even if the campaign knew the election had been legitimately lost, and that Obama was aware of it. That is exactly what he ended up doing. Odinga was also willing to encourage the ethnic tribal violence against the Kikuyu, which is Kibaki’s tribe. The plan was to then provoke the Electoral Commission of Kenya to declare him the winner. Currently, there is a power-sharing arrangement between Odinga and Kibaki.

Of concern to many is the series of promises that Odinga made to the Kenyan Muslim community. He has yet to fulfill his promises, or to declare a position on Shariah law. Corsi said that Obama remained in active phone contact with his cousin through the New Hampshire Democratic Party primary in January. Obama has continually turned a blind eye to an agreement that Odinga signed with Muslims as well as the post-election violence that was initiated by Odinga’s political party.

Some reports that came out of the fighting stated that the price for a home or church to be burned was as little as $8 (USD) and a life could be taken for $16 (USD).

It is unclear who is behind the detaining of Corsi, or why. What is known is that many powerful political leaders would not want this information to be made public. Who had immigration capture Corsi and stop the press conference? Who has the most to lose? Obama? Odinga? One can conclude that perhaps it’s all in the family.

For more on this, please visit: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77268

- NoHussein.org

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"This is a man who in less than two years has arisen as a political messiah. He has mesmerized an emergent block of college-age voters (whose chief sources of information, by the way, are comedians). He has inspired "Obama youth" corps and Maoist-style choirs of praise. He has been dubbed "the One" by his Matrix-saturated worshippers. He has captured the hearts and minds of half of America, nearly all of the media, and most of the world itself.

This is also a man whose voting record (meager as it is) puts him in the "far left" category. He brazenly proposes heavy taxation in the face of a tax-hating citizenry. He is unapologetic about his support of entitlements and has consistently voted for bills laden with pork and earmarks. He believes redistribution of wealth is moral, not immoral, despite his supposed biblical roots. He supports every form of abortion, including infanticide. He has alarming ties to extremists, criminals, radicals, and foreign thugs. He started out as a lawyer who learned, and eventually taught, shakedown tactics. He is not afraid to use the race card even as he touts his biracialism as proof that he is "beyond" race. And his idea of defending our country from enemies is to first understand them...

Who needs revolution when one can use evolution? If Congress turns decidedly left, Obama will have a good chance to help the Supreme Court do the same. At that point, the Left's idea of a "living" Constitution, which allows interpretation to supplant the process of amendment, will be used to make us all believers."

- American Thinker, "What If Obama Doesn't Have America's Best Interests At Heart?"

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"Democrat Barack [Hussein] Obama and Republican John McCain stretched facts, sometimes past the breaking point, as they addressed the financial crisis and misrepresented each other's position on health care during their second presidential debate...

OBAMA: "Actually I'm cutting more than I'm spending so that it will be a net spending cut."

THE FACTS: Obama has many ambitious plans to spend more taxpayer dollars on a variety of federal programs, including clean energy technologies and job training. He's said he'll cut pork-barrel programs and the costs of the war in Iraq to pay for it _ as well as raise taxes on the wealthy _ but the specifics of his new spending plans greatly outweigh the few spending cuts he's identified.
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McCAIN: Said Obama had voted for tax increases "94 times."

THE FACTS: This inflated count, heard before, includes repetitive votes as well as votes to cut taxes for the middle class while raising them on the rich. An analysis by factcheck.org found that 23 of the votes were for measures that would have produced no tax increase at all, seven were in favor of measures that would have lowered taxes for many, 11 would have increased taxes on only those making more than $1 million a year."

- Newsmax, "Obama, McCain Stretch Facts In Debate"

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"A great facilitator is one who influences a group from the outside, not the inside. Facilitators shepherd and guide the process of completing a task, but are never accountable for the work itself; something like a consultant, if you like. They are never personally accountable for work and deliverables produced by those actually accountable, where executives stake their lives every day. This is where Candidate Obama's "It's not about me!" nonsense comes from. Candidate Obama has never held an executive position over anything much grander than a Senate staff (and that only recently), until this campaign. But he is never at a loss for words about process and direction and potential and hope and change and facilitator-speak."

- American Thinker, "Obama The Facilitator"

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"Obama has lied repeatedly about his relationship with the unrepentant domestic terrorist. He spent years working for Ayers, promoting Ayers’ causes. Even CNN won’t buy the Obama line any longer."

- Hot Air, "CNN: Obama's Lying About William Ayers"

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"As NewsBusters reported Sunday, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in its most recent installment did an extraordinary skit which amongst other things accurately blamed Democrats for the current financial crisis.

Early Sunday morning, as is customary for NBC, the video of this sketch was posted at its website. Some time Monday, it was taken down without any explanation."

- Newsbusters, "NBC Scrubs 'SNL' Anti-Democrat Bailout Skit From Website"

I was at the rally because of my internship and was in Germain Arena when he made his comment. Everyone cheered when he said it.  And I'm not talking golf clap cheer, folks.  The crowd was in complete accordance with his choice of words.

Do I think it's a big deal to use someone's full name?  No.  But I think it's pretty clear WHY he was using this particular full name.

Scott is getting a lot of attention for saying what he said. To the base he was appealing to, the comment was a rally cry, but to moderate and independents all over the country, Sheriff Scott has made our area look REALLY bad.

I know I'm going to get comments about how it's no big deal, but Sarah Palin's people released a statement before the event was even over distancing themselves from his words.  It's clear that there's a line most people are sick of conservatives crossing and the McCain Campaign knows that.

This area has a reputation for having a good ol' boys' club. Scott just reaffirmed that stereotype.

I live in a pretty racist area.  I feel uncomfortable sometimes when I go places here because I feel like I'm not welcome. There are certain areas in this county I won't visit alone.

While I was with the media, I heard conservative supporters jeering at us to "tell the truth about Obama-Osama" and one lady even called us the "Obama press corps".  I have a real problem with people who are more paranoid about the press than they are about their leaders, but I will say most people I spoke to at the rally were not hostile or rude simply because I choose to write for a living.

They did boo the New York Times and one protester got thrown out. He was a middle-aged grizzly haired man with a portly body.

"Bless your heart, my son is over in Iraq fighting for your right to protest right now," Palin said before the man was carted off. The audience loved that one.

Overall, the rally had incredible attendance. There were about 9,000 people inside and another 1,500 had to be turned away because the fire marshal wouldn't allow for anymore bodies in the building.

Palin hit her usual talking points, attacking Obama on the economy and claiming that he would raise taxes on the middle class. She also mentioned the New York Times article about Ayers again and started raising doubt about Obama's patriotism.

"Some people spend their time building their careers on change and others spend their careers making change," Palin said.  I thought it was particularly clever word usage.

The base was energized by her appearance. Plenty of the people I spoke to said they liked her down home approach and praised her as the best thing to happen to the Republicans.

One man, who got her signature on his baseball cap, even said he wanted to vote for her for president in 2012.

It's clear she's become a conservative icon, well overshadowing John McCain with the scope of her celebrity.  Palin is not done with Washington, even if the republicans lose which is likely to happen.

While we were at the rally, Wall Street fell a historic 800 points today.  The changes in this country are far from over and with every new hurdle, it seems like people are less inclined to vote for George Bush's party, even if Lincoln owned it first.

Click HERE to read a post from a member of McCain's traveling press corps who I saw at the rally and thought was really cute! For a full tanscript of Palin's speech, click HERE.

]]> http://napave.wordpress.com/?p=37 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:30:12 +0000 natevelasquez http://napave.da.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/i-hate-my-middle-name/ Well, not me and not my middle name. Evidentally Obama got upset because someone referred to him using his entire name (link), Barack Hussein Obama. Seriously, are we suppose to be sensitive to him because of his name? It's his middle name for crying out loud. Yes, it was said at a Palin rally, but so what, deal with it. Your running for president, learn to deal with the cheap knocks.