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- TheBlueOne0
McCain's daughte on TV today:
"No one knows what war is like other than my family. Period."Oh really?
- W...T....F ?morilla
- she needs to learn what words to use.flashbender
- Tell that to the families of the 4000 dead soldiers you stupid cow. These are not slips of the tongue pople.BusterBoy
- "Ignorance Breeds Ignorance"utopian2
- NONEIS0
Man, I keep hearing people talk about how this is 50/50, do ANY of you realize how these things are decided? Look here:http://electoral-vote.com if you want to see where things really stand. See how many states are "barely GOP" compared to "barely DEM".
If the popular vote had anything to do with it, Gore would be wrapping up his second term, not Bush.
- NONEIS0
Whoops http://electoral-vote.com
- Ohio and Florida better make up for the last 8 years... it's their fault you know...robotron3k
- I don't blame the states, I blame the Supreme Court.NONEIS
- and FOX news calling the election.NONEIS
- ismith0
"But the McCain camp said last week that it had paid for and obtained all necessary licenses before using the song."
On the Heart song.
- No foul play here.ismith
- and you believe them?morilla
- It's in the public record, it was totally legit and Heart could've asked the label to turn it down and give back the money.ismith
- did the label ask them?morilla
- i don't think they have tolocustsloth
- ukit0
The bottom line is that if Obama wins all the Kerry states, plus Iowa, New Mexico and Colorado, he wins.
Iowa and NM are solidly for Obam and McCain hasn't led in them all year. Colorado is incredibly close but Obama currently has a lead in the average of all the polls.
Ohio, Florida, Virginia, are also close but he could lose them all if he wins the states above.
- + After reading about these new polls, you will find they ALL used a higher sampling of Repubs than the previous ones.NONEIS
- a_iver0
I know a lot of people have a lot of faith in Obama's message, but please look at his history. As a senator you can see him vote side by side with McCain. If you're really hoping Barrack will bring about an era of peace, you might be surprised.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/2007…
There is a good alternative though..
- ron paul?flashbender
- Oh f that dude, were you around in 2000? Nader threw the election to Bush.ukit
- blah... blah...blah... blah...blah... blah...blah... blah...blah... blah...blah... blah...blah... blah...blah... blah...blah... blah...blah... blah...blah... blah...blah... blah...blah... blah...blah... blah...utopian2
- ukit0
- colin_s0
lipstick on a pig will hurt obama, but mccain also compared romney to a pig (i am pretty sure on this) during the republican debates. but you know, ooooo sexism in america. opportunistic times for the rnc.
regardless, all this hoopla over the evangelical base being for palin makes me nauseous. it's okay that we sacrifice freedom and liberty so long as they get to choose which ones we sacrifice, right? slippery slopes.
- ukit0
Whether he gets shit for it or not - this whole quote makes me LOL.
"You can put lipstick on a pig - it's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, it's still gonna stink after eight years."
- So he called McCain an old fish? And Palin is the newspaper? I'm all confused...TheBlueOne
- morilla0
It just astounds me that after all we have been through with the current administration that level headed and educated people are still willing to put their trust into someone like McCain. I mean, honestly c'mon.... Learn from history.
It is this exact kind of thinking that makes me more jaded towards this country everyday.
- Georges0
sorry for the awfully long copy/paste
The feeling is familiar. I had it four years ago and four years before that: a sinking feeling in the stomach. It's a kind of physical pessimism which says: "It's happening again. The Democrats are about to lose an election they should win - and it could not matter more."
In my head, I'm not as anxious for Barack Obama's chances as I was for John Kerry's in 2004 or Al Gore's in 2000. He is a better candidate than both put together, and all the empirical evidence says this year favours Democrats more than any since 1976. But still, I can't shake off the gloom.
Look at yesterday's opinion polls, which have John McCain either in a dead heat with Obama or narrowly ahead. Given the well-documented tendency of African-American candidates to perform better in polls than in elections - thanks to people who say they will vote for a black man but don't - this suggests Obama is now trailing badly. More troubling was the ABC News-Washington Post survey which found McCain ahead among white women by 53% to 41%. Two weeks ago, Obama had a 15% lead among women. There is only one explanation for that turnaround, and it was not McCain's tranquilliser of a convention speech: Obama's lead has been crushed by the Palin bounce.
So you can understand my pessimism. But it's now combined with a rising frustration. I watch as the Democrats stumble, uncertain how to take on Sarah Palin. Fight too hard, and the Republican machine, echoed by the ditto-heads in the conservative commentariat on talk radio and cable TV, will brand Democrats sexist, elitist snobs, patronising a small-town woman. Do nothing, and Palin's rise will continue unchecked, her novelty making even Obama look stale, her star power energising and motivating the Republican base.
So somehow Palin slips out of reach, no revelation - no matter how jaw-dropping or career-ending were it applied to a normal candidate - doing sufficient damage to slow her apparent march to power, dragging the charisma-deprived McCain behind her.
We know one of Palin's first acts as mayor of tiny Wasilla, Alaska was to ask the librarian the procedure for banning books. Oh, but that was a "rhetorical" question, says the McCain-Palin campaign. We know Palin is not telling the truth when she says she was against the notorious $400m "Bridge to Nowhere" project in Alaska - in fact, she campaigned for it - but she keeps repeating the claim anyway. She denounces the dipping of snouts in the Washington trough - but hired costly lobbyists to make sure Alaska got a bigger helping of federal dollars than any other state.
She claims to be a fiscal conservative, but left Wasilla saddled with debts it had never had before. She even seems to have claimed "per diem" allowances - taxpayers' money meant for out-of-town travel - when she was staying in her own house.
Yet somehow none of this is yet leaving a dent. The result is that a politician who conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan calls a "Christianist" - seeking to politicise Christianity the way Islamists politicise Islam - could soon be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Remember, this is a woman who once addressed a church congregation, saying of her work as governor - transport, policing and education - "really all of that stuff doesn't do any good if the people of Alaska's heart isn't right with God".
If Sarah Palin defies the conventional wisdom that says elections are determined by the top of the ticket, and somehow wins this for McCain, what will be the reaction? Yes, blue-state America will go into mourning once again, feeling estranged in its own country. A generation of young Americans - who back Obama in big numbers - will turn cynical, concluding that politics doesn't work after all. And, most depressing, many African-Americans will decide that if even Barack Obama - with all his conspicuous gifts - could not win, then no black man can ever be elected president.
But what of the rest of the world? This is the reaction I fear most. For Obama has stirred an excitement around the globe unmatched by any American politician in living memory. Polling in Germany, France, Britain and Russia shows that Obama would win by whopping majorities, with the pattern repeated in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. If November 4 were a global ballot, Obama would win it handsomely. If the free world could choose its leader, it would be Barack Obama.
The crowd of 200,000 that rallied to hear him in Berlin in July did so not only because of his charisma, but also because they know he, like the majority of the world's population, opposed the Iraq war. McCain supported it, peddling the lie that Saddam was linked to 9/11. Non-Americans sense that Obama will not ride roughshod over the international system but will treat alliances and global institutions seriously: McCain wants to bypass the United Nations in favour of a US-friendly League of Democracies. McCain might talk a good game on climate change, but a repeated floor chant at the Republican convention was "Drill, baby, drill!", as if the solution to global warming were not a radical rethink of the US's entire energy system but more offshore oil rigs.
If Americans choose McCain, they will be turning their back on the rest of the world, choosing to show us four more years of the Bush-Cheney finger. And I predict a deeply unpleasant shift.
Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been anti-Bushism, opposition to this specific administration. But if McCain wins in November, that might well change. Suddenly Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is with not only one ruling clique, but Americans themselves. For it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start - a fresh start the world is yearning for.
And the manner of that decision will matter, too. If it is deemed to have been about race - that Obama was rejected because of his colour - the world's verdict will be harsh. In that circumstance, Slate's Jacob Weisberg wrote recently, international opinion would conclude that "the United States had its day, but in the end couldn't put its own self-interest ahead of its crazy irrationality over race".
Even if it's not ethnic prejudice, but some other aspect of the culture wars, that proves decisive, the point still holds. For America to make a decision as grave as this one - while the planet boils and with the US fighting two wars - on the trivial basis that a hockey mom is likable and seems down to earth, would be to convey a lack of seriousness, a fleeing from reality, that does indeed suggest a nation in, to quote Weisberg, "historical decline". Let's not forget, McCain's campaign manager boasts that this election is "not about the issues."
Of course I know that even to mention Obama's support around the world is to hurt him. Incredibly, that large Berlin crowd damaged Obama at home, branding him the "candidate of Europe" and making him seem less of a patriotic American. But what does that say about today's America, that the world's esteem is now unwanted? If Americans reject Obama, they will be sending the clearest possible message to the rest of us - and, make no mistake, we shall hear it.
- monkeyshine0
Here is a list of books that Sarah Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla Public Library, according to the official minutes of the Library Board. When she was unsuccessful at having these books banned, she tried to have the librarian fired.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster
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Symbols by Edna Barth- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller - LOLJnr_Madison
- Ok. I just did some research and apparently this list is fake. http://www.salon.com…monkeyshine
- fakeGeorges
- http://www.snopes.co…Georges
- colin_s0
in reaction to the "lipstick" quote
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politic…
pretty good summary of how everyone's said it.
- TheBlueOne0
Morilla: "It just astounds me that after all we have been through with the current administration that level headed and educated people are still willing to put their trust into someone like McCain. I mean, honestly c'mon...."
I too am amazed how our Pundit Overlords can seriously state, with a straight face on the teevee and in the papers of record, that McCain and the Republicans are about "change". He is a Republican. A party that has held the executive branch for eight years. He is advising no different policy. He is using exactly the same rhetoric and utilizing the same bases of political support (oil companies, right wing cultural groups..). Yet, suddenly and magically, surrounded by rainbows and unicorns, he is somehow captured the "change" lexicon. Our Pundit Overlords are now telling me that McCain = Change.
Amazing. I don't know how they do it, but I want that power.
- TheBlueOne0
Harvard economist runs the math, says of a possible McCain administration "we are likely to see a significant hike in the top income tax rate even if McCain is elected President."
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2…
At least Obama is honest about it.
- magnificent_ruin0
Palin is a cheap sugar high that is soon to crash
- digdre0
newspapers are telling that the whole world wants Obama.
so americans... don't fool around with the world by choosin McCain
