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"Anybody who believes that the Republicans can fix the mess they created
probably believes that the iceberg could have saved the Titanic."
-- Hillary

Bartcop bits:

"When a movie or TV show really blows donkey, the producers refuse
to let critics see an advance copy so they can't warn people not to see it.

That's what McCain is doing now in hiding the Lipsticked pig.
He knows she's clueless on world affairs so he's keeping her away
from reporter's questions as long as possible to mitigate the damage." --Bart

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"An ABC News poll showed white women swinging hard against the Democratic ticket.
Obama left Denver with an 8-point lead among white women; by the time he pulled out
of St. Paul, Minn.with Palin at his side, McCain had taken a 12-point lead."

Bart says:
"He lost twenty points with one of the the biggest voting blocks in America - women.
But that's not Obama's biggest problem - he's losing with THE biggest voting block - stupid people.

Obama is appealing to the voters who can think - but that's maybe 20 million voters, max.
He's got to connect with dumbass America to have a chance to win this."

McCain's response when asked about Cariboo Barbie's expertise "in the field of national experience:"

Q: "You say you’re sure she has experience, but again I’m just asking for an example. What experience does she have in the field of national experience."

McCain: "Energy. She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America..."

Link

DAR
Is it even possible to shovel a bigger scoop of shit than that?

And his next comment was wrong on multiple counts too:

"She represe--is a governor of the state that 20% of America's energy supply comes from there. And you all know that energy is a critical and vital national security issue."

The truth:

"For the period January-August 2005, Alaska averaged production of about 872,000 bbl/d of oil, or about 16 percent of total U.S. crude oil production." Link

Note the qualifier, "of US crude oil production." He didn't say "domestic energy supply" he said America's energy supply. But the US doesn't even produce half of the oil it uses. The US consumes about 21 million barrels per day. What percentage does Alaska's production really represent of this total?

About 4.2%.

Alaska does have about 20% of US oil reserves but then again, US oil reserves are tiny in relation to the world (2-3%). Our usage is not tiny (about 25%).

And numbnuts didn't even say oil. He said "20% of America's energy supply comes from there." If I were to bother to roast that he would come out looking even more wrong.

D.

Letter to Editor by Marc Perkel:

If Palin can’t take the heat she should stay out of the kitchen

"I’m getting tired of the unknown Alaska governor whining about the news media. We don’t know who she is and she’s running for the nation’s second highest office. And since she is running on family related issues, asking family related questions are fair game.

For example, if Obama had 5 kids including a special needs newborn and a pregnant teen daughter that would be an issue for him too. Palin also opposes contraception, opposes abortion without exception for rape or incest, and advocate abstinence only sex education, so it’s fair to see how those positions are playing out in her life. And why is she running for VP when her children need her now?

Palin also claims she sold the state jet on eBay at a profit when in fact she sold the state jet to a contributor at a loss. She claims she saved the US taxpayers money by opposing the “Bridge to Nowhere” but the reality is that she took the money and didn’t build the bridge. So the taxpayers paid for the bridge to nowhere, but didn’t even get that.

The voters have a right to know who she is and the media has the right to ask that hard questions. If she really is a pit bull then why is she hiding behind John McCain’s skirt? I don’t care if she can kill a moose. What I care about is if she tough enough to handle a press conference. If she is so tough then why is she afraid to come out into the light of day and take the tough questions that every candidate has to answer?"

Obama RIPS into Fraudulent Economic Imbecile McCain

The details are here. Excerpt:

"Can you afford to take a chance on someone who's voted against the minimum wage 19 times," Obama asked a crowd of thousands under a blazing sun at a rally in western Colorado at the start of a swing through contested Western states. "When it was $4, he was against it, when it was $5 he was against it, when it was $6 he was against it."

The nation's economic anxieties were sharpened by a historic upheaval on Wall Street with the announcements that financial giant Lehman Brothers was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy while titan Merrill Lynch was being bought by Bank of America for about $50 billion.

Charging that McCain was out of touch, Obama said, "He doesn't get what's happening between the mountains in Sedona where he lives and the corridors of power where he works. Why else would he say that we've made great progress economically under George Bush. Why else would he say that the economy isn't something he understands as well as he should.

"Why else would he say, today of all days, just a few hours ago — think about this, we just woke up to news of financial disaster — and this morning he said that the fundamentals of the economy are still strong. Sen. McCain, what economy are you talking about?"

“Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he’s president that he’ll take on, and I quote, ‘the old boys network in Washington.’ Now I’m not making this up. This is somebody who’s been in Congress for twenty-six years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he’s the one who’s gonna’ to take on the old boys network. The old boys network? In the McCain campaign that’s called a staff meeting. Come, on!”
--Obama

Yahoo Headline:

"Bush says he's working hard on economic turmoil"

Link

Disowned by the Ownership Society

"Remember the "ownership society," fixture of major George W. Bush addresses for the first four years of his presidency? "We're creating...an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property," Bush said in October 2004. Washington think-tanker Grover Norquist predicted that the ownership society would be Bush's greatest legacy, remembered "long after people can no longer pronounce or spell Fallujah." Yet in Bush's final State of the Union address, the once-ubiquitous phrase was conspicuously absent. And little wonder: rather than its proud father, Bush has turned out to be the ownership society's undertaker." --Klein

“I don’t torture myself over decisions. I make them as quickly as I can, quicker than the other fellow, if I can. Often, my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.” --John McCain Link

Sam Harris on elitism:

"Ask yourself: how has "elitism" become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, elite athletes to represent us in competition and elite scientists to devote the most productive years of their lives to curing our diseases. And yet, when it comes time to vest people with even greater responsibilities, we consider it a virtue to shun any and all standards of excellence. When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down-to-earth—in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she doesn't seem too intelligent or well educated."

Newsweek article roasting Palin

DAR
John Kerry, on Fox News, kicking the stuffing out of McCain:

"Barack Obama was in constant touch with Secretary Paulson almost every single day, sometimes several times a day for the last two weeks. Barack Obama was the first person to speak and lay out at that meeting at the White House for about seven or eight minutes the entire parameters of what we had resolved. John McCain, when offered the opportunity to speak, passed, didn’t speak until the very end, and when he spoke, did not offer a solution and did not say what he would support. The fact is that on a Monday of about a week ago, John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. Within a few days, John McCain was suspending his campaign because of the greatest crisis since World War II. He suspended his campaign and it took him 22 hours to get from New York to Washington, a one-hour flight, had time to go do Katie Couric in an interview, had time to give a speech to the Clinton millennium, and when he got here, he wound up — I mean, he said he was going to interrupt his campaign to come down and save the negotiations. Most people believe what he did was interrupt the negotiations to come down and save his campaign."
Link

Fort Hill, South Carolina, Mayor Danny Funderburk said he forwarded a chain email suggesting Barack Obama is the antichrist because he was “just curious” if it was true:

“I was just curious if there was any validity to it,” Funderburk said in a telephone interview. “I was trying to get documentation if there was any scripture to back it up.”

The e-mail, which has circulated in the last six months, claims the biblical book of Revelation says the antichrist will be in his 40s and of Muslim ancestry. The Charlotte Observer reports, “There is no such scripture. And Obama is not a Muslim. But that hasn’t stopped the e-mail.” In March, CNN’s Glenn Beck wondered aloud “Is Obama the antichrist?“

See:
This.

Palin made the choice not to be gay:

"I have, one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years who happens to be gay. And I love her dearly. And she is not my “gay friend.” She is one of my best friends who happens to have made a choice that isn’t a choice that I have made. But I am not gonna judge people. And I love America where we are more tolerant than other countries are. And are more accepting of some of these choices that sometimes people want to believe reflects solely on an individual’s values or not. Homosexuality, I am not gonna judge people."

Link

Letter to the editor:

"What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "Till Death Do We Part" to?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Michelle not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally
through her charitable organization? What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama were a member of the "Keating 5"? What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate
and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference."

— Kelvin LaFond, Fort Worth

Bill Maher, New Rules:

"And finally, new rule: You can’t be President if you practice a violent, Middle Eastern religion and worship a genocidal desert god. Which is why Sarah Palin can’t be President. Now all the churches that Sarah Palin has attended, and she’s been to almost as many churches as she has colleges, have one thing in common: a belief that the Bible is literally true. She’s not “Country First”, she’s “Bible First”. And not just the New Testament. That’s the happy half of the book: the baby in the manger, Jesus doing magic tricks, long romantic walks on the water that turn into fishing trips with the guys and a generally positive message. Jesus, after all, preached love and forgiveness, not shooting wolves from an airplane.

The problem is Gov. Avon Lady, she takes the Old Testament literally too, and in that one, God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby Knight and Suge Knight. He’s been alive forever and He has anger issues. He’s like John McCain if John McCain could fart hail. He’s pro-slavery, pro-polygamy and homophobic and he’ll kill you for masturbating. More people get stoned in the Old Testament than in my Jacuzzi. That’s what I have to tell you guys… If there was a video of Barack Obama standing in front of his congregation being healed by a black witch doctor, this election would be over."

Link

"If Palin were a man, we'd all be guffawing. And if B.S. were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself."--Kathleen Parker, conservative columnist

"You can't call yourself 'a maverick' if all you've ever been is a sidekick."
-- Joe Biden, just now on CNN, taunting The She-Bush

"In 2004 journalist Ron Suskind had a conversation about reality
with a senior Bush aid who said that the "Reality-based community consists of people who
believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That’s not
the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create
our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality - judiciously, as you will -we’ll act again,
creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out.
We’re history’s actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to study what we do."

Today a far less arrogant President Bush held a news conference explaining the bailout saying
that he didn't want to have to do it but had to because we had to "recognize reality".

As the founder of the Church of Reality I want to say that this shows
what happens when a nation turns its back on reality.

"Thou shall have no other realities before thee." I want to encourage everyone
to take reality into consideration when you go to vote.

Marc Perkel
San Bruno, CA

The villagers are at the gate. A McCain rally, Washington Post:

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Even the opening prayer was politically charged. "O God, we are in a battle that is raging for the soul of this nation," the preacher said. "You, O God, have raised up Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin for such a time as this." The preacher went on: "Help them, O God, to strengthen our economy, to keep our taxes and spending low . . . and grant them the privilege of being elected the next president and vice president."

Audience members participated in the Obama critique by shouting words such as "liar!" and "socialist!"
"Who is the real Senator Obama?" McCain asked.
"Unclear.
But we do know his middle name is Hussein."

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