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Bye Bye Obama! Bye Bye Obama! Bye Bye Obama! Bye Bye Obama! No you can't! No you can't! No you can't!

Peace Be Upon Her

Both of the "Straight Talk Express" buses were stuck on I-40 between Morgan and Mayflower in some serious traffic.

Come on David Pryor (New head of Arkansas Dem Party) go around the state with Obama and campaign. You will be the laughing stock of Arkansas. I challenge Beebe and Dusty to hold hands with Obama in the Victory pose on the state Capital steps. Hardy Har Har!

Good morning asshole Mavericks! Welcome to another day of defending crapola! Now that we're all Mavericks, I'm excited! First thing I did this morning was go in to pee and I thought...hell boy...you're a maverick! So instead of aiming for the stool I painted the walls. It's fun being a maverick!

And when my bowels say it time to sit for a while, I'll say thanks, but no thanks...but like Sweet Sweet Sarah...I'll shit anyway. That's what us mavericks do!

Oh I can tell this is gonna be a big Maverick day! Look out world!

If Sister Sarah and Audie McCain are gonna continue to simply repeat the speeches they gave at the convention, why the hell don't they save a shitload of money and just phone it in?
Or, better yet, I have both speeches memorized. I can stand beside cardboard cut-outs of those two and do it for...say...$1000.
Just wanna do my part for America.

It must be tough hanging all your hopes on an MILF who thinks questioning Bush will send you to Hell, that states can secede from the union, and teenage pregnancy is OK.

Seriously? This is the Great Hope of the Republican Party? A hot mom who got married because she was pregnant, who had an affair with her husband's business partner, who quite possibly pretended to give birth to her daughter's child, and whose daughter is now pregnant at 18?

Would you let your teenagers hang around at the Palin house? Seriously. Would you?

What we see could be called the "celebrity bounce." Palin is the political equivalent of Paris Hilton. She looks good and speaks provocatively, but she's not someone you'd hire to run your donut shop. We'll see if she lasts as long as Paris has. I suspect she'll do a Britney.

Hey Repub. for Obama,

WOULD YOU LET YOUR TEENAGE DAUGHTER HANG AROUND BILL CLINTON?

It's been ten days and twenty two hours, why can't Sarah Palin talk with the press?

for the past few years, somewhere between three-fifths and four-fifths of the people of the US have said that the nation is "off-track", should remove it's troops from Iraq, and focus it's government's energies on domestic issues more.

and yet nearly half of those surveyed who say they are registered and likely to vote, support an elderly man with a history of health issues and temperament issues, who endured over five years of physical and psychological confinement and torture, who has repudiated nearly every policy position he had just a few years ago. and alongside him a George W. Bush clone with lipstick, and up-do, and an even bigger bible to thump.

and this combination is supposed to bring the kind of "change" needed to correct the policies of the last seven years?

it would seem the american electorate is either very confused or inveterate liars.

Billary,
I don't know if anybody told you or not, but Bill Clinton's not running in this election.
And that's a damn shame.

But Rickbaber baby,

Would you let your teenage daughter hang out with that scumbag?

>>it would seem the american electorate is either very confused or inveterate liars. <<

I read something recently but can't find it this morning, so I will paraphrase.... It takes a lot more than being right on the issues to win an election. People who are interested in politics and pay attention to what politicians promise are easy - you can predict how they will vote based on the current situation and based on who you have as a candidate. The problem is, those interested and informed voters aren't a large enough group to cause either candidate to win any election.

As much as committed conservatives and committed liberals HATE it, elections are won by securing the votes of the mushy middle - people who bought houses they couldn't afford and don't like that they are losing them, people who believed there were WMD in Iraq and had to be dragged to the point of realizing the war was a mistake, people who believe that people of 'faith' are better people than those who don't have 'faith', people who believed that Gore lost the election, people who believed that Bush is a Christian, people who believed it was the fault of blacks in New Orleans that they lost everything and so many died in Katrina, people who believe they got a big tax break under Bush and may get another one under McCain, people who hate that Walmart cheats but never shop at locally owned stores, people who believe that women should be at home raising their children, but you better not complain that Palin had her 4 month old baby at the Republican convention tossing it around from kid to kid at 10-11 PM at night, people who believe that Bristol's pregnancy is not a disgrace by Jamie Spears' is, etc., etc. ad nauseum..........

As much as I despise him, Davis was right - at least for this election. It isn't the issues - we have all those in spades - it's the personalities, the gimmicks, the attention getters that will win. A poll I read today said 63% of the public is concerned that McCain will be too much like Bush on 'issues' - yet McCain has erased a 19 point lead Obama had on who would better handle the economy.

Part of the responsibility of the nominee and his campaign is to read the public, to frame the campaign and issues in a way that gets thru to people who have the votes to make you win - not just preach to the choir. Right now - the old fool McCain is doing a better job than the cool and hip Obama - simple as that.........

Ms. Palin is not a fiscal conservative. When she was elected Mayor of Wasilla, the city had zero debt. When she left the Mayor's office 6 years later due to term limits, the City owed 22 million dollars. If this is the type of change we can expect if McCain/Palin are elected, we simply can't afford it!

Hey, people. This ain't a Razorhog football game. This "my team is red hot, you're team ain't doodley-squat" is destroying this county. Anyone who votes for McCain-Palin because Bill Clinton can't keep is zipper up is an idiot. Anyone who won't consider Obama because he's black and his wife gets on their nerves is also an idiot. So are people who dismiss Sarah Palin as trailer trash.

This is not a game show. The only question everyone should ask themselves honestly before casting their vote is the one Ronald Reagan asked: Are you better off today than four years ago? Eight years ago?

Me, I haven't had a raise in two years, my brother is in the process of losing his house, my daughter can't find a job, and my 401K is in the toilet.

Republicans have been at the helm for eight years. I'm voting for change

John McCain voted with Bush 90 percent of the time.. our economy is in the tank unless you are in the top 5 maybe 10 percent income bracket (with ten trillion in debt and 3.50 gas) and about to get a whole lot worse. McCain himself said he doesn't know much about economics.

What part of McCain is dangerous for the economy do you not understand, Ci Ci? How much more simple can it get than that?

good point. in it's most simple formula, "I'm not George W. Bush" should be all that needs to be said.

Obama can credibly say it. McCain, now, cannot.

that should be simple enough for the majority of american voters to understand (emphasis on "should")

I would most assuredly be thrilled for my daughter to hang around with any Clinton. Bill and Hillary managed to raise a beautiful, bright, well-spoken, daughter who, to my knowledge, has not been pregnant, although that is none of my business, and is a college graduate. I would love for my daughter to see Clinton-style public service rather than Bush/Palin style self service.
I would most assuredly NOT be thrilled for my daughter to hang around with any Palin. At 3 years old, I'm afraid she might be too liberal for them to handle.

"...McCain said again and again last week that he just couldn't wait to turn Palin loose on the free-spending Congress. What would she do? Shoot them?"--Ernie Dumas

Sure she's gonna shoot them...right after she runs all the DC Insiders out of Dodge. Never mind that she was talking about the very people she was preaching to. Schizophrenic Republicans.

The red-meat crap McSame/Palin put out there to feed the right wing Republicans is LOL ridiculous...it'd be even funnier if President Shit for Brains hadn't ridden such nonsense all the way to the White House. Sadly...if 2000/2004 are any indicators, truth/facts/details have little impact against Religious zealots. 'They' don't care what Sarah did or what Sarah says...as long as she knows the Right God words to let them know they all belong to the same cult. Idiots.

I've come to believe these so-called Independents are mostly a myth created by Republicans as a cover for the outright stealing of presidential elections. I only wish they would put that much ingenuity/competence into governing the country.

Eureka, I understand completely. I'm nauseous thinking about McCain winning this thing - not because I don't like him or he isn't "on my team", but because he's dangerous and he will very likely destroy the lives of my family even more than they've already been ripped up by Bush. I get it - but Obama has to "get it" that he hasn't convinced middle America to support him so he can do some of the things it will take to turn things around and rectify as much as he can of what's been done in the past 8 yrs.

Me understanding what is at stake (which I do as much as you or anyone else on this blog) doesn't change the situation we find ourselves in today where our campaign looks lackluster and the dangerous and stupid McCain/Saracuda look like the new kids in town.

Amirillo,

Just remember old Billy boys cigar trick. Not a good thought, where my daughter is concerned.

Get their finery ready to show off? Max! Don't say that even tongue in cheek. Cheney hunts birds. Palin hunts moose or caribou or some such. Big stuff. Big gun. Big ammo. You could be sending some poor Republican to meet his maker.
Oh hell. Just read Billary. Have at it, Max. With any luck . . .
BTW Billary, if you have a teenage daughter, watch out for your POW buddy. No, he ain't gonna leave Miss Spend It All Spend It All, but that won't stop him from sampling any handy wares. You do remember he had a seriously injured first wife when he started shacking up with Miss SIA SIA, don't you?

Amirillo...Logic doesn't work with Billary and his clones...he's spent too much time pretending to be a woman on a porch with Obama's supporters. Heat combined with sexual repression/deviation equals a Republican still wasting time obsessing about a non-candidate. But it's good for our side anytime the goobers wast time campaigning against Bill.

eleanor roosevelt actually once said something worth remembering, "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission"

something similar applies to democrats and liberals this year. they have been conditioned by experience to expect disappointment. and that conditioning is now the greatest (if not only) weapon the GOP has in the next 9 weeks.

the combination of issues, polls, primary votes, voter registration, fund-raising, etc. the only thing the Democrats have to fear is... fear itself.

You said a mouthful, Uncle Earl. Eureka, I took CiCi's comment to refer to McCain's campaign which is in the ascendency right now. And I hope only right now.

Most young people I know (under 30) don't have land lines. They have every electronic gadget under the sun, lots of money...but no land lines. So how are they included in the presidential polls?

"And, back in Alaska, this reporter will be off the list for writing in detail about Palin's sacking of a city librarian who objected to Palin's repeated questions about removing books from library shelves."

NOT TRUE - from FACT CHECK.ORG

Not a Book Burner

One false rumor accuses then-Mayor Palin of threatening to fire Wasilla's librarian for refusing to ban books from the town library. Some versions of the rumor come complete with a list of the books that Palin allegedly attempted to ban. The story is false on several fronts: Palin never asked that books be banned; the librarian continued to serve in that position; no books were actually banned; and many of the books on the list that Palin supposedly wanted to censor weren't even in print at the time, proving that the list is a fabrication.

It's true that Palin did raise the issue with Mary Ellen Emmons, Wasilla's librarian, on at least two occasions. Emmons flatly stated her opposition both times. But, as the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman (Wasilla's local paper) reported at the time, Palin asked general questions about what Emmons would say if Palin requested that a book be banned. According to Emmons, Palin "was asking me how I would deal with her saying a book can't be in the library." Emmons reported that Palin pressed the issue, asking whether Emmons' position would change if residents were picketing the library. Wasilla resident Anne Kilkenny, who was at the meeting, corroborates Emmons' story, telling the Chicago Tribune that "Sarah said to Mary Ellen, 'What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?' "

Palin characterized the exchange differently, initially volunteering the episode as an example of discussions with city employees about following her administration's agenda. Palin described her questions to Emmons as "rhetorical," noting that her questions "were asked in the context of professionalism regarding the library policy that is in place in our city." Actually, true rhetorical questions have implied answers (e.g., "Who do you think you are?"), so Palin probably meant to describe her questions as hypothetical or theoretical. We can't read minds, so it is impossible for us to know whether or not Palin may actually have wanted to ban books from the library or whether she simply wanted to know how her new employees would respond to an instruction from their boss. It is worth noting that, in an update, the Frontiersman points out that no book was ever banned from the library's shelves.

Moreover, although Palin fired Emmons as part of a "loyalty" purge, she rehired Emmons the next day, and Emmons remained at her job for two-and-a-half more years. Actually, Palin initially requested Emmons' resignation in October 1996, four days before the public discussion of censorship. That was at the same time she requested that all four of Wasilla's department heads resign. Palin described the requests as a loyalty test and allowed all four department heads to retain their positions. But on Jan. 30, 1997, three months after the censorship discussion, Palin informed Emmons and Wasilla's police chief, Irv Stambaugh, that they would be fired. According to the Chicago Tribune, Palin did not list censorship as a reason for Emmons' firing. Palin rehired Emmons the following day. Emmons continued to serve as librarian until August 1999, when the Chicago Tribune reports that she resigned.

So what about that list of books targeted for banning, which according to one widely e-mailed version was taken "from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board"? If it was, the library board should take up fortune telling. The list includes the first four Harry Potter books, none of which had been published at the time of the Palin-Emmons conversations. The first wasn't published until 1998. In fact, the list is a simple cut-and-paste job, snatched (complete with typos and the occasional incorrect title) from the Florida Institute of Technology library Web page, which presents the list as "Books banned at one time or another in the United States."

ARK. BLOG: You're lying again by disputing something I didn't say. It's indisputable that Palin 1) talked repeatedly to the librarian about how she felt about removing books from the library and 2) fired the librarian. Why, pray tell, did the subject come up? The librarian enjoyed broad community support, which has a way of influencing politicians, sometimes.

From the Anchorage article:

Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so.

According to news coverage at the time, the librarian said she would definitely not be all right with it. A few months later, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, got a letter from Palin telling her she was going to be fired. The censorship issue was not mentioned as a reason for the firing. The letter just said the new mayor felt Emmons didn't fully support her and had to go.

Emmons had been city librarian for seven years and was well liked. After a wave of public support for her, Palin relented and let Emmons keep her job.

"not this time", "yes, we can", and "if it's not close, they can't steal it"

... only you can make it so. but always remember, from experience, "cakewalks" are fairy tales.

Zelda,

Did Billy stick a cigar in your poon too?

It's over! Obama is going down the tubes. Bye Bye Obama! You libs can't stand it. You got one up-ed by the Repubs one more time. Hilly and Billy were to dumb and let Obama trounce them. Now look what we got! Hilly would have taken the contest, but she is now regulated to sitting on the back row. You dumbass libs did it to yourself. Get use to it. McCain will be our next President.

Obama one up-ed the Clintons. I love seeing Billy with his big fat lip stuck out. He doesn't know what to do with his big dumbass self now.

Bye bye Obama. Maybe him and Bill Ayers can do some more community organizing in Chicago.

You Dems let him up on the porch to drink the lemonade, then made the misteak of letting him in the house for the full meal, and he stole the whole house and kicked your asses out.

ARK. BLOG: Bye-bye Billary.

Barack Hussein Obama's god damn America's Rev. Wright has his on wing ding.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09092008/news/nationalnews/o_pastor_in_sex_scandal_128142.htm

Sorry, I should have phrased my question in a different manner.. I just think Obama is keeping it very simple... and he is on the attack as fellow AR Blog commenter Republican for Obama linked last night.. Obama's latest ad: (below or click my name)

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/nomaverick_ad/

DO I think team Obama should attack more pointedly over all? Yes! but that ad does an excellent simple job.

I don't put a lot of weight on polls right now.. we need to allow another week or so for post conventions... into the real final stretch of the campaign to settle in. Lots and lots of folks are just beginning to pay attention.

However, it's the dismal television/radio media which once again are failing Americans, no matter what their political leanings might be. (unless they are not interested in facts... including calling out direct lies no matter where they originate)

I mean ABC Disney's multi millionaire Charlie Gibson is the only person set up to "pretend to interview" Palin... the media fix is in at the moment. If media had an ounce of integrity, they would tell McPalin to go fly a kite right about now.. GE NBC tossed Tweety and KO aside because Republicans whined for pete sakes. One doesn't have to like Tweety or KO to be able to see what's going on with that kind of maneuvering. The fact David Gregory will lead the pack proves it. And the fact the only NBC media capitulation is to the attacks from the fascist GOP right who fear those who might inject fact checking into the mix most... well it's quite telling and all to familiar if you think back to the run up to war and the last few election cycles.... from Donahue to KO.. the biggest money makers with the best ratings in their respective times... still, the companies who earn far more from things like giant tax breaks and military contracts... they know how to play the game in order to help the bottom lines which rack up the biggest bucks.

God I'm sick of Sarah Lipstick Palin...and she hasn't given a single media interview!
Hey! Republican's is this your answer for 8 years of complete disater...Sarah is your great white hope?

should the government (and therefore 'the people' et al) be equal partners in control of your own body? let alone 'the deciders' ?

it is my understanding that for women over the age of 50 who grew up in the United States, the central issue of women's struggle for equal rights, was the fight to enshrine into law, the right to control what happens to their own bodies.

are we now to believe, from a few pipes of the media's wurlitzer, that many of these women are ready to vote for a man publicly committed to revoking that right, because he selected a woman as his running-mate? not just any woman, but one who publicly asserts that the right of a woman to control her own body should not apply even if she were a victim of rape or incest?

i find that very hard to believe.

Oops hit post by mistake!

God I'm sick of Sarah Lipstick Palin...and she hasn't given a single media interview!
Hey! Republicans this is your answer for 8 years of complete 'disaster'...Sarah as your great white hope?

Maverick here! Look out...a Maverick is in the house! First of all....Billary...what kind of morals do your daughter have if she can't keep herself from giving a 60 year old guy a blowjob should she be left alone with him? I'd happily leave both my daughters alone with Bill Clinton.....good god...he's not Charles Manson! But I'm sure worried about the effect your loose-ass daughter might have on him....tsk tsk.

I cain't help it.....I'm fixing to have lunch and I'm gonna be a maverick luncher too.....I'm going to eat my cookies first and then eat my sandwich....because I'm a damn maverick and we do things the maverick way! Look out.....I'm running out of the computer room right now and you can't stop me...........CAUSE I'M A MAVERICK!

Hey MAVERICK, you'll need to be watching the horizon for smoke signals from our pal Billary. That's about the only way he'll be able to respond. Too bad. So sad.

"I'm not George W. Bush" should be all that needs to be said."

Excellent point, muley. Then why the HELL isn't he saying it? Why are he and Biden and all the rest of the Obamacans wasting their time on Sarah Plain & Tall?

Don't you realize what you've done by concentrating on her? You've raised her to the same level as your presidential nominee. You're inviting direct comparisons between their VP and your Pres.

It's insanity and can only result in Bush III.

Oh hugh....you're forgetting that Billary's a maverick! Plus Billary is LargeAss and strangelove and Prouster and Busdriver and all the rest. It will take Max a while to run off all the old Anonymous Desk. I bet we get a new maverick poster in the next couple of days and he or she will love them a bunch of that Bush crap too. Did I mention that I'm a maverick?

I would absolutely let my daughter hang around with Bill Clinton. No question about it. He and Hillary did a fine job of raising Chelsea.

It is Republicans I worry about. About half of them seem to have some hidden perversion, with adultery being at the mild end of the scale. God only knows what kind of values Palin has.

timing, discipline, the "opportune moment" etc. for the "I'm Not George W. Bush" message.

after the flag-waving and tri-partisan spectacle on thursday the 11th, the electorate will only just be beginning to focus on the P race.

the first debate is not until the 26th, and simple messages can wear out more quickly now than in pre-net/blog/youtube years. (when's the last time you heard "John McCain has so many houses..."?)

Sarah Palin's idea for cutting taxes...this one really has my blood pressure up...

I think I saw a link to this somewhere on this blog, but it bears putting up again:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.

Yessir, here's your fiscal conservative!!

"...You Dems let him up on the porch to drink the lemonade, then made the misteak of letting him in the house for the full meal, and he stole the whole house and kicked your asses out."--billary

Good for Obama...he needed to kick our asses out if we acted like the house belonged to only us...if we acted like you white Republicans. And, just wait till he kicks McSame's ass back to Arizona. It will be sweet justice.

Since the beginning--a lot longer than five-thousand years ago-- all humans have shared an equal right to exist and be sustained by our planet. Then came greed...followed by religion. Black/white/purple/gay/Republican/Catholic...all belong in the House.

White Republicans are a dying breed.

I know you folks must feel like you've been in a Hanoi prison camp for 5 years having to listen to McCain's story over and over and over again for the last week or two, but, I feel the need to remind you of what really is the cause of how the country got off track.

First we elected George Bush, a republican president with a republican senate and house majority. That alone is playing with fire.

Then...here comes to part I know you're sick of...along came 9/11.

We were poleaxed, scared sh!tless, pissed off and looking for a leader. That's when Bush with Cheney and his oil buddies in his ear, along with a senate and house full of fellow republicans and wimpy-assed democrats were able to run a lot of crap past the American public that couldn't possibly have been done under other circumstances.

So, in addition to the years and years of recovery from legitimate 9/11 effects, we'll be paying for the abuses of our leaders who kicked us while we were down for years to come.

The moral of my story: Don't let one party, republican or democrat have the white house, senate and house! I don't care who lied to who and who voted for what, they're all liars and thieves and we are best served when they are holding a gun on each other.

If you want Obama, vote out your democrat senators and congressmen and put republicans in their place. Then, Obama, with a few more gray hairs looking a little more like Morgan Freeman, will make a fine choice for President.

I like them maverick words there bugeyed, but the other moral to your story is 4 to 8 years of McCain-Palin while we kick out our Republican-voting Senators....and with that I cannot abide! At the moment good manners will not allow me to say where I'd love to put Republicans right now.

Will Democrats let us down? Of course, but nothing could ever compare to the sheer cynical hypocrisy of the Bush administration coupled with Delay, McConnell, etc. I don't want another Republican to hold any office if I can help it. I don't for a nanosecond believe that citizens deliberately vote for divided government with one party holding the executive and the other Congress. That is a media myth that too many people believe. How on earth could any rational person believe that voters spread all over the country somehow gang up to put one part in here and another in there. It doesn't happen! Voters vote for a name they recognize or someone they really like - they always think Congress is awful (except usually their own congressman).

I would never vote against a congressperson of my party assuming my party might win the WH and hoping for divided government - I laugh when I hear the talking heads mention it and I laugh when it is mentioned here.

It's a myth!

belf- If only it were that simple. The Dem party is far from a bunch of folks who are prepared to walk in lock step on many issues. Republicans do so at their own peril and ours.

It shouldn't be necessary to realize you don't need to like Dems (left of Pryor Ross) yet vote for them in order to just make damn sure the McNeo Palinbangelical fascists are tossed into the trash heap of history this year.. at least for a good long while.

The perceived center today has moderate to right Democrats like Obama running as far right today (in many ways, such as proposed tax policy) as right wing Reagan did 25 years ago.

Good polling will tell you Americans are far more progressive than either major party today. Americans have lost the clas war without a fight over the last thirty to forty years.. When the time comes, we the bottom 90% income people take up that battle again.. things will change.

Even if Obama wins and has some success, this is just the beginning of a return to sanity, rule of law and so much more. Ninety nine percent of todays Republican party has disdain for government, facts, honesty, integrity, the constitution, and good old fundamentals like thou shall not kill or torture. When the time comes a majority of the R party returns to basic sanity (and the Dems rid themselves of the Pryor Lieber-Ross's) we might be able to go by the guidelines you suggested.

perhaps in these times John should be POTUS, i understand he has a lot of experience with 'bail-outs'

Yuck it up. The republicans are not giving up the white house.

Has it not occurred to you that maybe you aren't as much a constituent of the democratic party as a target market for their goofy ideas like global warming, turning food into fuel, etc?

It was in the 60s that the all democrat party government that gave us the Gulf of Tonkin lie that put us ass deep in Vietnam. Histoy repeats itself over and over and over.

"But Rickbaber baby,
Would you let your teenage daughter hang out with that scumbag?"

(Billary, referring to Bill Clinton)

Who told you I have a teenage daughter?
Really.
I need to know.
Hopefully, she's approaching 18. I just can't do that child-support thing right now.

(Let it back in, Max! Sparring with those REpugs is the cheapest entertainment in town.)

"wouldn't Gov. Palin be more qualified to be a VP's hunting buddy?
i imagine she's been shot in the face lots of times"

BAD! muleboy303 BAD!
Wait...the answer is Lipstick!

All I know is if America's voters exercise their prerogative to put the McCain/Palin ticket in office, I will pray earnestly, fervently for the health and safety of John McCain. "President Palin" in power on Pennsylvania Avenue is the scariest thought since Freddy Krueger's rampage in "Nightmare on Elm Street."

I told the Rev. Right he needed to keep it in his pants!