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Milkman

Here is another reason, why I think some people will look down on the McCain campaign. It's not McCain, but some of the people attending his rallies, shouting statements like "off with his head," and "traitor," and "he's and Arab." McCain actually had to try to reign them in. And then the crowd booed him. Nothing seem to be looking good for McCain:

This article is worth the browse:

This, above, makes McCain and Palin look bad, IMO.


Source: news.yahoo.com

Norton

As I have said before, McCain is an honorable guy and his push back against the attacks on Obama are an example. Problem though, with the ads I have seen coming out of the McCain campaign camp and the statements of Palin what does McCain expect he will be hearing at his rallies.

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Milkman

This was posted elsewhere on another thread. But it's worth putting here, IMO.

Ignorance is too kind of word. Rural white people who "work with their hands" and earn less than the median income.

ChiangMai noon

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yeah...sorry milky.

i opened a new thread when i maybe should have added it here.

Milkman

I am not a fan of "formal education." But the people below are likely uneducated formally. More importantly, they haven't educated themselves - meaning, self-taught themselves.

If wants to learn about facts and check out stories and rumors for falsehood or exagerrations, they can do so.

These people, obviously haven't. White trash. From rural areas and small towns.

lom

^was that Booners appearing there in the background?

Milkman

I said BO was the man back on October 4th, 2008. Now that Zogby is commenting, I think this is a very good sign.

Link & Entire: Obama opens 6-point lead over McCain | Reuters

Milkman

And back to the concept of....momentum.

Entire & Link: CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - A Buckley endorses Obama « - Blogs from CNN.com

bkkandrew

^While we are talking about momentum, I noted on my 'Martial Law' thread that Paddy Power have now slashed their odds on a postponed election from 40-1 to 20-1. Who put money on at the higher price?

Milkman

Mo momentum. More mo'. I am starting to get giddy, but I know that I must keep my fingers crossed.

Link & entire: Poll: Obama up by 10 points - Washington Post - MSNBC.com

attaboy

"You" in general terms or me specifically? I'll give history time to age Bush's decisions. At the moment it doesn't look very good. Bush the Destroyer comes to mind as to what he's done to the Republican party.

John McCain is too old and too stiff because he can't be himself, a liberal Republican. The media chose our candidate for us and people are expressing their frustration with the guy at GOP rallies. Calling for Obama's "head" is their way of expressing their disappointment in McCain being their candidate. McCain is ineffective. People don't want him to politely fall on his sword which is what he appears to be doing. There is still time for him to turn this around if he has the gumption to do it. ( I use the word 'gumption' because it fits snuggly to McCain's dentures. )

I'm amazed. Obama said the republicans would play the race card. It was Obama who used it on Clinton and McCain. Democrats and the media said McCain has a temper. While Joe Biden angrily shouts what patriotism should be defined as:

“You know, I was criticized by Sarah Palin for talking about patriotism,” said Biden to booing from the crowd.

“It's okay, for talking about patriotism and taxes. Well let me tell you what the people I grew up [with] in Green Ridge and Claymont and Wilmington think is unpatriotic: they think it's unpatriotic when you earn your money in the United States of America and you hide it offshore to avoid taxes making sure you have to make up the difference! It is unpatriotic to take a hundred billion dollars offshore and not pay your taxes!” - angry shouting Joe Biden at Democrat rally.

McCain has nothing to lose he can go back to his cushy Senate job after the election. It's better for him if he doesn't insult the Democrats too much. That makes him a Democrat lackey.

This bullshit of Lewis equating McCain to George Wallace the Democrat governor of Alabama is way out of line. Those old Democrats, like Lewis, can't help playing the race card. It's all they know. It's time for them to pass on what they learned in life and retire. The young politicians coming up can filter out the old tactics of those old democrats, retain the knowledge of legislative procedure and move on away from the old hate inspiring, racial conflict peddlers of the Democrat Party.


? Now that is inflammatory coming from the 'victim industry' left; the sick symbiotic relationship the do-gooder left has with their victims. The left mother smothers their 'victims of society' to fulfill their own neurotic urges to be needed by someone. It's a sick symbiosis perpetuated by the do-gooder so they can feel needed, gain approval from their peers and collect a paycheck too. The masochist seeks out he sadist. The smothering mother seeks out the societal victim. When they can't find a victim their therapist branch of the victim industry creates victims with some new pop psychology definition. These leftist are incapable of having a mature relationship with someone so they manufacture a needy dependent relationship.

My above accusations are no worse than yours. Cows are not only found on the right side of the fence. The left has their share of idiots.

? I care and I'm not a Redneck. I care that Obama and his campaign encourage a cult leader image. I care that the media which is supposed to be the barking dog encourages it too. I care that Obama has very little track record and what I do know is that he has formed alliances with radicals in order to get where he has gotten. He owes radicals. They expect a return on their investment in Obama's career. I care that Obama leads people to believe he was only on the periphery of the radical culture yet his family members were commies, he hung out with Marxists in college, he worked for ACORN, he formed alliances with radicals during his Annenberg years and he launched his Illinois state political career in the home of a communist and unrepentant mad bomber. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and swims with ducks, a person shouldn't discount the idea it's a duck.




"Guilty as sin, free as a bird, what a country,America!" - says Bill Ayers as he is photographed stomping on an American flag.

Now as far as I'm concerned a person can stomp on an American flag to express themselves. Bill Ayers has thumbed his nose at America's institutions since escaping a prison sentence and Obama did business with him over a nine year period. This isn't about Obama being eight years old when Ayers and his wife bombed the US Capitol. This is about Obama funding Bill Ayers' educational experiments on the minds of young American children - Bill Ayers being a unrepentant mad bomber communist. I don't want Bill Ayers experimenting on America's youth. Obama through his position at the Woods Foundation and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge funded the experiments on children's minds.

And before you laugh. How about sending your kid to bible camp? Does that idea get a big green light from you?

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Boon Mee

Kill all rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at. - Bill Ayers

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Boon Mee

At some point, shouldn't Obama be called a serial liar?

attaboy

^Speaking of Obama's neighborhood, did you know Ayers is for 'prison abolition'? That means all prisons should be torn down. All convicted criminals would wear an ankle bracelet and remain in society because it's healthier mentally and physically for them. Nevermind the rest of us. We must learn to cope with it in our faces. We must do our share to rehabilitate a criminal mind by having them live right in physical proximity. I don't like that idea. It's too naive. Bill Ayers doesn't live with criminals like he wants the rest of us to do. He lives two blocks from Barak Obama.

Jet Gorgon

^ Isn't one of them a person who should have been convicted and be a criminal?

attaboy

I see your point Ayers who should be in prison says it's bad.... people shouldn't have to go to prison. Therefore it's okay that he didn't go.... coz it's bad.

pai nai ma

Non-issue. going no where. fast.

AntRobertson

Nonsense, your candidate was chosen for you by the party faithful during the primaries. Nobody seemed to have a problem then. And isn't callling for Obama's head to express your frustration with McCain a bit the same as cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Obama did not say that the Republicans would play the race card. He has specifically steered away from it because he's the minority and racism, almost by definition, does not benefit the minority. Where do you get this stuff from??

Is there anything that you can't twist into an attack on Obama and the Democrats in general!? The Republicans have had segregationists and outright racists in their ranks, 'hate inspiring, and racial conflict peddling' is not the sole pserve of the Democrats nor is it actually something they are particularly noted for.

Oh for petesake, amatuer psychology hour now is it. Political leanings as character study. What a load of unmitigated drivel!

Obama and his campaign do not encourage a "cult leader image"; that's merely your opinion of it, which you're entitled to, but it doesn't make it true. Or perhaps you'd like to substantiate the claims?

And as for all this guff about 'owing radicals' and "Commies", nonsense. What are these "alliances with radicals" that he's formed? What, exactly, does he "owe" them? All this boils down to is little more than attempted character assassination; it's only a small step away from the repeated Obama=Muslim guff. I mean come on, "commies"!? This is 2008 not the 1950's!

Bollocks. That's just the same guilt-by-association lie repeated in a slightly different way.

Before I laugh hows about providing a link for the above?

So what!? Bill Ayers is not Barack Obama, who cares what his ideas on prison reform are? Bill Ayers isn't running for President of the US, Bill Ayers is entitled to his own opinions and ideas but - whatever those might be - they have exactly zero bearing on Obama and the election.

Oh hang on, he lives two blocks from Obama?? Well I guess that means Obama must be for the exact same thing then!

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AntRobertson

Yes he probably should've been. A pity then that the FBI broke several laws in their investigation. Laws and procedures that are there for a reason.

Goes to show that the system works though doesn't it.