McCAIN PALIN AND THE LUNATIC FRINGE
McCain said: “I’m proud of the people who come to our rallies” (even the ones
who scream racial epithets?). And then he segued into another yawner on all his
“veteran” buddies who love him so who show up. He said that ACORN is “destroying the fabric of democracy” (by registering poor people to vote?). He repeated the talk radio lie that Obama “launched his campaign” in Bill Ayers’ living room. McCain was petulant (as when he cried again about how Obama forced him to go 100 percent negative because he dissed his phony “town hall” ploy). McCain said that Sarah Palin is a “role model for women” (some role model). He dismissed the equal pay for women case, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., as if it were totally irrelevant, exposing once again his deep-seated misogyny.
We have just experienced the worst financial crisis in 70 years. The stock
market lost $3 trillion in the last three weeks. Millions of baby boomers close
to retirement have been forced to recalibrate their plans for their “golden
years.” Eight hundred thousand people have lost their jobs in recent months. And
all McCain wants to talk about is Bill Ayers and ACORN?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/the-joe-the-plumber-ebat_b_135068.html
ALSO READ: Calling Bill Ayers a “Terrorist” Doesn’t Make Him So
THIS JUST IN
Press kept under a watchful eye
CLEARWATER — Constantly under the watchful eyes of security, the media
wasn’t permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park to talk to Sarah Palin
supporters. When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head
toward the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of
nowhere and confront him or her and say, “Can I help you?” and turn the person
around.
When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press
wasn’t allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been
written. The campaign wanted to avoid that possibility Monday.
http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2008/10/under-the-watch.html
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What is the McCain Camp trying to hide?
Perhaps all the negativity has awakened the large Lunatic Fringe inside the republican base and The McCain Campaign does not want the rest of us to see their ignorance.
A youtube member got around the restrictions and was able to capture some of these pathetic souls in all their ignorance. Watch it in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E
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Click Below For thethinkingblue youtube video
WHY McCain/Palin Will Not Allow Supporters To Be Interviewed.
McCain’s Better Half, Number One and Two
McCain’s Better Half, Number One and Two
The Long Run
Behind McCain, Outsider in Capital Wanting Back In
Cindy McCain, played a role in the Keating Five S&L scandal, and just as her husband was rehabilitating his reputation, she was caught stealing drugs from her nonprofit organization to feed her addiction to painkillers. She has a fortune that sets the McCain’s apart from most other Americans, a problem in a presidential race that hinges on economic anxieties. She can be imprecise: she has repeatedly called herself an only child, for instance, even though she has two half-siblings. Those close to her say she aspires to be like another blonde, glamorous figure married to an older man: “Diana, the Princess of Wales” .
Carol McCain, (1st Mrs) worked in the Reagan White House as an event planner. She had stood by her husband during his captivity in N. Vietnam, never passing word of her debilitating car accident, (more about her… http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/carol.asp ) a few years after their reunion, McCain told her, he was leaving her for a younger, richer woman.
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THERE HAS GOT TO BE SOME CHANGES MADE!
HOPE ITS NOT TOO LATE!
STAND BY THE USA, BARACK OBAMA
POLITICKING ON LINE
What happens when you Trick or Treat in a Low Information neighborhood,
“Oh, and who are you tall guys suppose to be?”
Submit you own Caption to the above cartoon at:
http://www.pbs.org/now/php/cartoons.php
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PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is qualified.
Apparently the right wing knew about this in advance and are flooding the voting with YES votes.The poll will be reported on PBS and picked up by mainstream media. It can influence undecided voters in swing states.Please do two things — takes 20 seconds.
1) Click on link and vote yourself.
Here’s the link:
http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html
2) Then send this to every single Obama-Biden voter you know, and urge them to vote and pass it on.
The last thing we need is PBS saying their viewers think Sarah Palin is qualified.
Update: PBS has fixed the webpage and now no one can vote more than once… So the voting stands at:
49% YES and 49% NO!
Obama Babies
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will cut taxes for 95% of working families, and provide at least three times as much tax relief for middle class families as John McCain and Sarah Palin. The Obama/Biden plan provides $1,000 of tax relief for workers and new tax benefits to help families pay for college, childcare and save for retirement.
Palin’s Taking Us Back to “McCarthyism”.
A good read:
The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama
By FRANK RICH
Published: October 11, 2008
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Palin’s Taking Us Back to “McCarthyism”.
The acrimonious language in Palin’s speeches, take us back to “McCarthyism”. We’ve all known that Rightdiculous columnists and their nastier Right-Wing talk radio hacks have been doing this rhetoric for years. And that their ditto heads have been soaking it up, in the comfort of their living rooms, where they shout obscenities and hateful oratory, alone or among their kind. Now McCain’s, VP choice allows them a place IN PUBLIC to caterwaul their Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter induced RAGE. It must be a catharses for the pathetic souls who have been listening and reading the unadulterated animosity coming over air waves or in print, directed at some unknown enemy. They now can UNLEASH the bottled up hatred, in the open and have a recognizable foe, thanks to the self-proclaimed pit-bull. The wingnut goons behind desks or microphones must be MIGHTY PROUD! “HURRAY FOR SARAH PALIN!” they shout. She’s harvesting the grotesque seeds of hatred and distortion we’ve so fervently sewn!
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But what goes around comes around, so they say.
Watch Video Below:
Sarah Palin drops first puck, gets booed at Flyers game
E&P reports that Sarah Palin was greeted with a chorus of boos at the Philadelphia Flyers game where she dropped the puck at the Flyers’opener:
You never know where you are gonna find a political scoop, but Lynn Zinser at her NYT hockey “Slapshot” blog just posted that Sarah Palin, in her much-ballyhooed appearance dropping the puck at the Philly Flyers’ opener, was greeted by “resounding (almost deafening) boos from the Flyers crowd.”
The biggest problem: when Palin came out to onto the Wachovia Center ice Saturday night — greeted by resounding (almost deafening) boos from the Flyers crowd — the the two hockey players who had no choice but to appear with her in that photo op were turned into props in a political campaign.
MORE HERE
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.” – Andre Gide quote.
There’s Got To Be Some Changes Made
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HOPE ITS NOT TOO LATE!
Is there a skeleton in John McCain’s POW closet?
23/6 commented on this article, and also referenced John McCain’s sensitivity to his shortness. (Huh?)
The shortness part, isn’t why I am blogging this. Because I could care less if McCain is touchy about his lack of tallness. What I did find interesting was in the comment section, at the bottom of the webpage. A comment made by an ex-Air Force officer, who remarked about John McCain’s POW HERO status and lack there of. Now I don’t know if this ex-Air Force officer knew John McCain or not. But never-the-less, it raises a lot of suspicion about Maverick McCain’s Hero Rank. I can’t help but wonder, why the Obama Camp doesn’t seem interested in using it, the same way the NASTY ONES, on the other side of the political arena would… (THE RED SIDE)
An interesting comment from demogorgon
As an ex-air force officer (1962-1967) I’m glad it’s finally coming out that this man is NO hero! He destroyed 5 airplanes, admitted that he was a “gambler” when he flew; went in alone on a Hanoi target when the bombing run was being called off; and then tried to “outrun” a SAM missile. Things got SO bad that none of his fellow officers wanted to fly with him and he was being re-evaluated for removal from flying status when he was shot down. Words like “reckless”, “intemperate” and “lacks common sense” were part of the lexicon of John McCain, naval pilot. I don’t mind the “confessions” while he was a POW, that was pretty much SOP, but what I DO mind is that his so-called “selflessness” when he “refused” to accept early release was anything but…he WAS offered early release because of his family connections, but was ORDERED not to accept it! And now, his never-ending use of his “heroism” as if he’d actually been one. He’s been a manipulator and a user all his life…EXACTLY the same as George Bush, each being dismally inept or an abject failure at everything they have “attempted”…other than to use family connections to get ahead.
(The end of demogorgon’s comment)
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Holy, “SOP”, Batman! If only one third of this is true… it’s explosive.
I also know, why the Obama Camp will not use it… We on the Left are above the shitty shenanigans the right-winged ones use… I sincerely hope Obama can win without the dirty, low-down, character assassination tactics the republicans, in all their hatefulness, rely on!!! Come on America elect decency over unscrupulousness for a change. The peace-of-mind you save may be your own! thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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Excerpted From The Rolling Stone Magazine:
In its broad strokes, McCain’s life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers’ powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives’ evangelical churches.
October 07, 2008
Election 2008
23/6 Presents: Things That Are Taller Than John McCain
A new Rolling Stone article demolishes John McCain’s self-anointed maverick status. He was a bad pilot who benefited greatly from his family’s Navy lineage. As a POW, he confessed to his torturers. He cheated on both wives and has an uncontrollable temper. Also, John McCain is touchy about his small stature. Sayeth the Stone:“McCain is sensitive about his physical appearance, especially his height. The candidate is only five-feet-nine, making him the shortest party nominee since Michael Dukakis.” Some people speculate that McCain is actually five-feet-seven, without the lifts.
Either way, Rumplestiltskin is a shorty. Taking a cue from Things That Are Younger Than John McCain, 23/6 presents: Things That Are Taller Than John McCain:
THERE HAS GOT TO BE SOME CHANGES MADE!
HOPE ITS NOT TOO LATE!
The Other Human
For a change of pace from the political arena…
This month’s National Geographic has a very interesting article about the other humans who lived upon our planet, The Neanderthals. We know so little about the development of our species. Searching for information on it, will bring you many theories. Most agree though, that the human species, in one form or another have been around for a couple million years… Yet we have so little information on their evolutionary process to modern day man. Reading this very interesting article will make you acknowledge how vulnerable life is. So many species have come and gone and we have barely scratched the surface of realizing their existence. Perhaps we will never learn completely how life formed upon our planet and how we got to where we are today, but there’s one fact for sure; Science will endure and will never give up its quest to bring us answers. National Geographic is a good way to keep up with new scientific discovery. http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com
National Geographic’s
Last of the Neanderthals
Eurasia was theirs alone for 200,000 years. Then the newcomers arrived.
By Stephen S. Hall
Reconstruction by Kennis & Kennis/Photograph by Joe McNally
In March of 1994 some spelunkers exploring an extensive cave system in northern Spain poked their lights into a small side gallery and noticed two human mandibles jutting out of the sandy soil. The cave, called El Sidrón, lay in the midst of a remote upland forest of chestnut and oak trees in the province of Asturias, just south of the Bay of Biscay. Suspecting that the jawbones might date back as far as the Spanish Civil War, when Republican partisans used El Sidrón to hide from Franco’s soldiers, the cavers immediately notified the local Guardia Civil.
But when police investigators inspected the gallery, they discovered the remains of a much larger—and, it would turn out, much older—tragedy.
Within days, law enforcement officials had shoveled out some 140 bones, and a local judge ordered the remains sent to the national forensic pathology institute in Madrid. By the time scientists finished their analysis (it took the better part of six years), Spain had its earliest cold case. The bones from El Sidrón were not Republican soldiers, but the fossilized remains of a group of Neanderthals who lived, and perhaps died violently, approximately 43,000 years ago. The locale places them at one of the most important geographical intersections of prehistory, and the date puts them squarely at the center of one of the most enduring mysteries in all of human evolution.
The Neanderthals, our closest prehistoric relatives, dominated Eurasia for the better part of 200,000 years. During that time, they poked their famously large and protruding noses into every corner of Europe, and beyond—south along the Mediterranean from the Strait of Gibraltar to Greece and Iraq, north to Russia, as far west as Britain, and almost to Mongolia in the east. Scientists estimate that even at the height of the Neanderthal occupation of western Europe, their total number probably never exceeded 15,000. Yet they managed to endure, even when a Cooling climate turned much of their territory into something like northern Scandinavia today—a frigid, barren tundra, its bleak horizon broken by a few scraggly trees and just enough lichen to keep the reindeer happy.
By the time of the tragedy at El Sidrón, however, the Neanderthals were on the run, seemingly pinned down in Iberia, pockets of central Europe, and along the southern Mediterranean by a deteriorating climate, and further squeezed by the westward spread of anatomically modern humans as they emerged from Africa into the Middle East and beyond. Within another 15,000 years or so, the Neanderthals were gone forever, leaving behind a few bones and a lot of questions. Were they a clever and perseverant breed of survivors, much like us, or a cognitively challenged dead end? What happened during that period, roughly 45,000 to 30,000 years ago, when the Neanderthals shared some parts of the Eurasian landscape with those modern human migrants from Africa? Why did one kind of human being survive, and the other disappear? READ MORE CLICK HERE
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The discovery of the Neanderthal Man, originally believed to be a possible ancestor of Homo Sapiens. DNA testing showed that they were in fact a seperate species from us, one who shared a common ancestor with a Hominid who lived in Africa some 500,000 years ago.
THE HISTORY CHANNEL
