Yes, this is a Reuters photo. No, it is not photoshopped.
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Speechless.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Joe the Plant?
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So, was Joe the Plumber a set-up to give McCain a gimmick at last night's debate? Interesting to watch McCain bring up the erstwhile questioner of Barack Obama's tax policy. But as the hours continue, more questions than answers are emerging.
Like just how close Joe the Plumber's ties may be to the McCain campaign... Andrew Sullivan starts makin' some dots at his blog, The Daily Dish. Joe the registered Republican.... Joe the relative of Charles Keating's son-in-law....
Funny how those same ol' names keep poppin' up in the same ol' same ol' campaign.
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So, was Joe the Plumber a set-up to give McCain a gimmick at last night's debate? Interesting to watch McCain bring up the erstwhile questioner of Barack Obama's tax policy. But as the hours continue, more questions than answers are emerging.
Like just how close Joe the Plumber's ties may be to the McCain campaign... Andrew Sullivan starts makin' some dots at his blog, The Daily Dish. Joe the registered Republican.... Joe the relative of Charles Keating's son-in-law....
Funny how those same ol' names keep poppin' up in the same ol' same ol' campaign.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Yes, Virginia....
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Polling showing that traditionally Red State Virginia is now leaning to Obama, per a breaking news story on CNN.
Yes, there is....
Polling showing that traditionally Red State Virginia is now leaning to Obama, per a breaking news story on CNN.
Yes, there is....
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Prairie Thought for Today
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Inspired by the Republicans' current conflation-station scheme to ratchet up the base by screaming "voter fraud" when it's actually voter registration fraud...
No, I don't believe Santa Claus, Minnie Mouse, Conan the Barbarian, or Freckles the cat are going to turn up at a polling place near you. Now do you? Really?
Don't hand me a mud pie and tell me it's my Gramma's lemon meringue....
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Inspired by the Republicans' current conflation-station scheme to ratchet up the base by screaming "voter fraud" when it's actually voter registration fraud...
No, I don't believe Santa Claus, Minnie Mouse, Conan the Barbarian, or Freckles the cat are going to turn up at a polling place near you. Now do you? Really?
Don't hand me a mud pie and tell me it's my Gramma's lemon meringue....
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Battleground North Dakota
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Right after the Republican convention, the poll numbers leaped for John McCain and Barack Obama shuttered his North Dakota offices to disperse his paid staff into Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Reality has returned.
This morning, the leading newspaper instate, The Forum [Fargo] blasted a nearly full-page feature headlined: Obama Leads in ND.
The polling margin is tight -- Obama-45%, McCain-43%, with 12% Undecided. But within those numbers are some startling--for North Dakota--statistics. Like, 17% of those who self-identify as strong Republicans plan to vote for Obama. 40% of those who self-identify as independents plan to vote for Obama.
Right here in my own neighborhood, traditionally a Republican neighborhood, we've been trending Democratic for a couple of decades. This year, there's more "Sarah!" signs [2] than McCain signs [1].
And Obama signs are popping up on almost every block. A testimony to the candidate and a motivated grassroots operation in-state and elsewhere.
We are all battleground states now.... except for the ones Obama has already locked up.
Vote absentee early if you can...and on Election Day pitch in: GOTV, GOTV, GOTV.
Right after the Republican convention, the poll numbers leaped for John McCain and Barack Obama shuttered his North Dakota offices to disperse his paid staff into Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Reality has returned.
This morning, the leading newspaper instate, The Forum [Fargo] blasted a nearly full-page feature headlined: Obama Leads in ND.
The polling margin is tight -- Obama-45%, McCain-43%, with 12% Undecided. But within those numbers are some startling--for North Dakota--statistics. Like, 17% of those who self-identify as strong Republicans plan to vote for Obama. 40% of those who self-identify as independents plan to vote for Obama.
Right here in my own neighborhood, traditionally a Republican neighborhood, we've been trending Democratic for a couple of decades. This year, there's more "Sarah!" signs [2] than McCain signs [1].
And Obama signs are popping up on almost every block. A testimony to the candidate and a motivated grassroots operation in-state and elsewhere.
We are all battleground states now.... except for the ones Obama has already locked up.
Vote absentee early if you can...and on Election Day pitch in: GOTV, GOTV, GOTV.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Prisoner of....
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More and more, John McCain is looking like a prisoner of slimeball rightwing political "consultants" and cronies and "conservative" voices of the Atwater-Rovian School of sleazeball politics. Delivering hostage tapes of lies to appease those who control him.
At least that's the only possible alternative explanation to John McCain being so desperate and covetous of winning the Presidency that he will stoop to any vile tactic of race-baiting and inciting hatred and anger in the crowds who attend rallies to hear his and, even more, Sarah Palin's scathing and disingenuous attacks on Barack Obama.
Attacks that are joined by the likes of Cindy McCain and Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Some company to keep.
Even as he calls McCain to account, though, Frank Rich like too many of his fellow reporters and opiners gives him a pass--and a benefit of the doubt that McCain no longer deserves.
Now, maybe McCain had an epiphany and realized he needed to pull back from the rants and rousing of the rabble. Or maybe not.
Because just moments from that comment, McCain was attacking Obama as someone who never worked across the aisle. A flat-out bald-faced thou-shalt-bear-no-false-witness lie that would come as a surprise to Senator Dick Lugar [R-IN] and Senator Tom Coburn [R-OK]...for starters.
But then, when McCain signed on with the merchants of hate and gambled on Palin the Barbarian, he signed away his Honor Conduct.
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UPDATE: Garrison Keillor has thoughtful words for real honor conduct. And Matt Tiabbi dons his hazmat suit to delve into the world of Rove.
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[crossposted at Firedoglake's Oxdown Gazette]
More and more, John McCain is looking like a prisoner of slimeball rightwing political "consultants" and cronies and "conservative" voices of the Atwater-Rovian School of sleazeball politics. Delivering hostage tapes of lies to appease those who control him.
At least that's the only possible alternative explanation to John McCain being so desperate and covetous of winning the Presidency that he will stoop to any vile tactic of race-baiting and inciting hatred and anger in the crowds who attend rallies to hear his and, even more, Sarah Palin's scathing and disingenuous attacks on Barack Obama.
Attacks that are joined by the likes of Cindy McCain and Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Some company to keep.
Even as he calls McCain to account, though, Frank Rich like too many of his fellow reporters and opiners gives him a pass--and a benefit of the doubt that McCain no longer deserves.
The McCain campaign has crossed the line between tough negative campaigning and inciting vigilantism, and each day the mob howls louder.Friday in Lakeville, Minnesota, McCain grudgingly responded to one of Minnesota's lesser nice [shorter: Lice] citizen's attack on Obama as an "Arab" by saying that Obama was a decent family man, a citizen, that they had disagreements.....
Now, maybe McCain had an epiphany and realized he needed to pull back from the rants and rousing of the rabble. Or maybe not.
Because just moments from that comment, McCain was attacking Obama as someone who never worked across the aisle. A flat-out bald-faced thou-shalt-bear-no-false-witness lie that would come as a surprise to Senator Dick Lugar [R-IN] and Senator Tom Coburn [R-OK]...for starters.
But then, when McCain signed on with the merchants of hate and gambled on Palin the Barbarian, he signed away his Honor Conduct.
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UPDATE: Garrison Keillor has thoughtful words for real honor conduct. And Matt Tiabbi dons his hazmat suit to delve into the world of Rove.
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[crossposted at Firedoglake's Oxdown Gazette]
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