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Nasty is all McCain has left other than his winkin' and smirkin' co-star who is dying to upstage him. They are a fine mix of hate and stupidity with a healthy dose of senility mixed in for good measure. I think the next few weeks will be miserable and every Republican willing to open his mouth for McCain is out there telling us how unsavory the 'black dude' might be. They want us to fear Obama more than Osama it would appear.

I don't understand the thought process that leads one to vote for a Republican.......

On Countdown tonight, Keith Olbermann offered a "Special Comment" about Sarah Palin's remarks that Obama was "pallin' around with terrorists."

Click below to see --- a must see!]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/olbermann-special-comment_n_132456.html

"...I don't understand the thought process that leads one to vote for a Republican......"--CiCi.

DBI explained it best, CiCi, at least to me: 'They are wired differently.' It sounds simple...but it clicked for me. They are devoid of intellectual curiosity/awareness...are incapable of growth (they learned everything they need to know years ago and by golly they're not learning another damn thing).

Obviously...there's more to this home-schooling than a simple quest for a better education.

Stay at home Election day and make the RightWingNuts dream come true!

[Indiana Republicans Making Voting Harder for Blacks]

"But it's worth pointing out that this may not be the only tactic in the Indiana Republicans' bag of vote-suppression tricks. The party chair in Marion County -- which contains Indianapolis, the state's other Democratic stronghold -- last week refused to rule out using foreclosure records as a basis for challenging voters. A GOP official in Michigan last month was quoted by an online news site saying that similar plans were in the works for one key county in that state, though he later back-tracked amid the ensuing furor, and is now suing the site for libel."

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"The Philadelphia Daily News reported today that flyers have been making the rounds in some of the city's African-American neighborhoods, falsely claiming that voters who face outstanding arrest warrants and even unpaid parking tickets may be arrested at the polls." -- [CLICK]

Yeah, I just bet you wish the election were today in Ohio. From an article yesterday:

CLEVELAND - Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked.

Democrat voter fraud began a little early this year.

Oh please, Pines...this is America where drunken morons get to vote, too...whether from a country club or from a shelter. Why do you hate poor people; why do you want to deny them a chance to vote?!

But Max, don't they use Diebold voting machines in Ohio?

"Early today, Stadlin's van picked up William Woods, 59, at the soup kitchen of the Bishop Cosgrove Center.

"I never voted before," Woods said, because of a felony conviction that previously barred him from the polls. "Without this service, I would have had no way to get here." -- [CLICK]

YEAH! and thanks to the Republicans we have a plethora of homeless and soup-line voters to pick from!

"CLEVELAND - Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked."

Why would you assume homeless, hungry, and drug addicts would vote for Obama?

"...I don't understand the thought process that leads one to vote for a Republican...." --CiCi

I don't know how to do the "clicky" thing, but Roger Cohen ends his column in the NYT today with this ending from Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Gods of the Copybook Headings":

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man --
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Heading with terror and slaughter return!

From the Pines, your comment is disgusting.

1) Why can't people who are homeless, addicts, and who can't afford food be allowed to vote? Your comment is the worst kind of elitism.

2) Why are we not all outraged that there even exist in one state "HUNDREDS of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers?" Caring for the poor is mentioned over 2000 times in the Bible. Your note is an indictment on Christians (including me), our society, and on our entire government for not caring for its citizens.

3) And, as BJ said, thanks to our government we have all these poor and homeless.

I work a little bit with homeless people and one of the many amazing things I've learned is how many of these folks are veterans. It's an abomination. Another reality is that probably a majority of homeless people are the mentally ill who've been dumped out of mental health facilities because we didn't want to give them the help and assistance they need. And then you have people who want to take away the right of homeless, struggling people to vote... You light my fuse! Get a clue. America is not just for the most privileged and we are a poorer culture for our attitudes toward the poor.

In the old days, we didn't have much in the way of government programs for the poor, but people would look out for each other. Some on the blog have written about how their grandparents and parents did just that. The Great Depression came along and overwhelmed that informal system. We realized as a culture that the problem was simply too big to be addressed by individuals, that we could accomplish so much more collectively than we could as individuals. Then we all decided that we didn't need government anymore, that we really didn't have any responsibilities to each other, that government was bad and we put people in charge of government that didn't believe in government. Now our government (as in we) uses up people in the military in immoral wars, brings them home (if they don't kill them overseas) and leaves them to their own devices - because we don't want to pay taxes. Now we refuse to acknowledge that all economic systems have cracks in them and refuse to use our great resources to help anyone but ourselves. It's not the fall in the stock market that bothers me the most, but the fall in our values.

Heaven help us.

I fixed this for you, Pines.

CLEVELAND - Volunteers supporting John McCain picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a local park yesterday on the first day that Ohioans could vote. They were shot, no questions asked, and the bodies were left as a lesson to other potential Obama voters.

How does it feel to pal around with people primed to murder, with terrorists dedicated to maintaining Republican rule through assassination?

If there were a DVD of Obama being lynched would you buy it for your kids and let them watch it on Christmas morning?

............................SCIENTISTS EXPLAIN WHY PEOPLE VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS...............

(and DBI was correct. There is a different wiring as evidenced by this article)

"Every election season, commentators trot out the old statistics about how more education makes people more likely to support Democrats, more studies are published on how liberal Daily Show viewers are so well-informed, and various smart people try to explain why anyone would ever vote for a Republican, against their "self-interest." This month has seen three alarming and remarkable scientific investigations into Americans' inexplicable habit of voting for George Bush and John McCain. Which means: trend! Hooray! Let's take a look at what America's top scienticians say about fucking idiot flyover losers and their stupid voting:

blue clicky

I went with some other folks to a an inner city black district of St. Louis, and I'd say 90%+ were already registered to vote. I'd say Obama's going to do a lot better in MO than most people think. The number of people registered was shocking.

Of course, there's always the possibility that they will somehow be purged from the voter rolls come election day. Some have already complained that they haven't gotten any confirmations for registering months ago....

Dang, it's a real drag having a job--it keeps me from haunting this site 24/7. I didn't realize my comment about Obama volunteers taking these individuals to the polls was "elitist." Certainly, these volunteers are only civic-minded individuals who would never stoop to offering bribes for votes by these people in unfortunate circumstances, as did similar "volunteers" in 2004 who traded cigarettes for Kerry votes in Milwaukee. And I have no earthly idea what "Another Democrat for Obama" is talking about above.