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The recently repackaged Sarah Palin, an invention of the McCain campaign, and a woman who is about as believable as a $3 bill, recently said at a campaign stop in Englewood, Colorado, that her running mate's opponent has been "palling around with terrorists...!" The terrorist in question, Bill Ayers, committed acts against the unpopular Viet Nam war when Mr. Obama was about 6 years old. Mr. Ayers is now a well respected professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago and a productive member of society. It should be obvious, even to Mrs. Palin, that when Mr. Obama met Bill Ayers at an education conference (Mr. Obama was a professor of constitutional law at the time), that it was not for terrorist reasons. But this does not stop the desperate Republican party and the McCain campaign from trying to make something, anything, out of nothing.
What voters want to hear is the truth. For example, that Senator John McCain was censured by his fellow senators for "poor judgement" for his involvement in the Keating Five scandal, a scandal that in the 1980s resulted in the failure of Lincoln Savings, and which cost 21,000 elderly persons their entire life savings. Charles Keating contributed $112,000 to Mr. McCain's campaign in return for Mr. McCain using his influence in the Senate to stonewall an investigation of Mr. Keating and Lincoln Savings.
Fortunately, Senators Obama and Biden have the truth to run on and don't have to fabricate scandals to deflect the public's attention from the real issues facing this nation.
Just saw this on CNN's ticker
(CNN) – The fund-raising prowess of the Obama campaign may be put under a microscope, if the Republican National Committee has its way.
The RNC announced that it plans to file a complaint with the Federal Election Committee Monday that seeks an audit of the more than $450 million donated so far to Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
The complaint will address two issues highlighted in a recent Newsweek report about the Obama campaign’s fund-raising. First, the RNC will ask the federal agency responsible for enforcing campaign finance laws to audit and inquire into whether the Obama campaign accepted any money from foreign nationals, a contribution source prohibited under federal law.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/05...
MCCAIN LIVING IT UP WITH KEATING.
SOMEONE PLS USE THIS IN AN AD.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/19/th...
".....on judgment, ethics and truthfulness he(McCain) failed this test as bad as you can fail"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAzDEbVFcg8&eurl...
McCain is in the fight of his life and he doesn't have his father or grandfather of Cindy's money to save him so he is swinging wildly and he is hoping that one of those wild swings land.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122221440058969...
Why aren't people hounding McCain about this? (e.g., why'd he need to go to Washington to respond to the crisis... he could just sort out the whys and wherefores on his bus!)
To say nothing of Hagee, the other scary minister he likes, etc...
Media Matters wonders why nobody has yet discussed McCain's relationship with his old pal, convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy.
On October 4, The New York Times published a 2,140-word front-page article about Sen. Barack Obama's association with former Weather Underground member William Ayers -- at least the 18th Times article this year mentioning that association. But the Times has yet to mention, let alone devote an entire article to, Sen. John McCain's relationship with radio host and convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/still-wa...
Seems McCain has quite a few scandals in his background
I'd provide you a link, but since you are playing that game of "look it up" when you threw out that bullshit about Obama and Michelle saying they had affairs then you can just "look it up."
I'm not going to waste a link here on you. You are the type that wouldn't understand the definition any way.
Oh hell, here:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/non%20se...
I knew it. You don't understand, do you?
and that is exactly what McCain is.....another player in the Culture of Corruption.
I still think when they have a majority, someone needs to push Impeachment per The Constitution. If Kerry had been rightfully elected or Impeachment rightfully imposed on Bush some time ago, we wouldn't be in this infernal shithole situation now. The bad guys are trying to put us back to where we would have been if we had lost to the Nazis!
Kerry is right that we need a knee-breaking strategy to keep a Dem power base to protect the nation from The Bush Legacy.
"What's happening in our economy right now is the result of too many years of deregulation, tax cuts to the rich, and anything-goes capitalism. Folks, we've gone too far down this path to be able to get us back on track with any half-measures.
We need the strongest Democratic majority possible to get the change we need in Washington. We need to make sure a handful of Republican Senators can't block President Obama as he tries to get our country back on track.
It's time to push even harder to completely change Washington. We need to aim to get 60 votes in the Senate to push real change in our country.
So I have an announcement: I just gave a million dollars from my campaign to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to try to make this happen. I'm making this announcement to you here in the johnkerry.com community first because I want you to join me in my commitment to get this change.
Please give $25, $50, or $100 to some great Democratic Senate candidates to help:
http://www.actblue.com/page/pushforchange
These Democrats are facing a barrage of misleading and dishonest attacks from their opponents and from well-funded outside groups. The Republicans are desperate to hold on to some power, and they are throwing the kitchen sink at these folks.
Al Franken, Kay Hagan, Mark Udall, and Tom Allen need your support. They are all in winnable races, and they are all under intense attack. We need to win each and every race we can to get to the 60 votes we need and shunt the Bush-McCain Republicans aside and get to work.
So please give what you can:
http://www.actblue.com/page/pushforchange
Thank you so much. We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track.
Thanks,
John Kerry"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/153842/308
Should be fun to see what comes from this.
The Obama camp gave the okay this morning and we will see.
Also, off topic, andrew sullivan posted this Betty boop cartoon and compares it to Palin!
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...
"But no one could survive 5 years or more in an enemy prison camp in isolation, being tortured and starved, and not be gravely affected. How would symptoms of PTSD -- nightmares, depression, paranoia, isolation, mood swings, angry outbursts -- effect Senator McCain's ability to lead? Is the American public seeing signs of PTSD cloaked in terms like "maverick"? Traumatic events in our lives affect us for a lifetime, and terrible trauma affects us terribly."
I can tell you which of the two scares me the most, and it isn't some Rev. Loon talking smack about America. It's the one wanting to turn the clock back to the Salem Witch Trials.
Damn, I'll be the first one torched, I'm sure.
http://mccainkeatingfive.com/?page_id=22
McCain is getting off too easy on this.
RNC to File FEC Complaint on Obama Fundraising Practices
"We believe that the American people should know first and foremost if foreign money is pouring into a presidential election," said RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross."
Nice. Like 'the spouse' is some acquaintance he barely knows, as opposed to his wife whose fortune and connections financed all his political campaigns.
MCAIN connected with KEATING who cost taxpayers BILLIONS of $$$ and is now in jail.
Connection between Bush and McCain = You decide.