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- TheBlueOne0
"Re “Politics of Attack” (editorial, Oct. 8) and “Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths” (front page, Oct. 4):
As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972), I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.
Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago.
I do take issue with the statement in your news article that the Weathermen indictment was dismissed because of “prosecutorial misconduct.” It was dismissed because of illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by John N. Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director.
William C. Ibershof
Mill Valley, Calif., Oct. 8, 2008"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/1…
No, really, Republicans, go on. Don't let the facts get in the way of your little narrative there. I mean, that's what you've done for the last eight years driving this country into the goddamn ditch.
- W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director =
DEEP THROAT******** - a snitch who unhappy with being passed over for director fed Post confirmation of Republican misrule********
- but who was too cowardly to press charges himself********
- W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director =
- killthefish0
"Fuck you ABC. Fuck you Disney and Fuck you Stossel you rightwing tool."
That article about whether or not people should vote - how vapid does somebody have to be to boil that subject down to a yes/no.
Q: Should people who don't know shit about anything vote?
A: Yes, but they should also LEARN SOME SHIT ABOUT SOMETHING.- Maybe you should see how ABC edited the piece:
http://www.headcount…
TheBlueOne - If it wasn't clear I agree with you. The news always presents shit this stupid way.killthefish
- Maybe you should see how ABC edited the piece:
- ukit0
Radical Measures May Be In The Wings
http://www.cnbc.com//id/27114651…
As the financial crisis threatens to spiral out of control, it’s more likely Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will take extraordinary steps through the extensive authority granted to him under emergency rescue legislation, say analysts.
With the legislation’s main mechanism—an auction system to purchase bad mortgage-based securities—still weeks away from implementation, Paulson may have to inject capital into any number of financial institutions—even non-depository ones like investment banks, insurers and hedge funds.
“I don't wish to spread alarm on the line people but the big issue confronting the market is I'm afraid the health and sustainability of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs," Hugh Hendry, Partner and CIO at Eclectica, told CNBC. "It is unimaginable that they can be allowed to go, I suspect that they will be nationalized at some point today or over the weekend," he add.
Some say the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008’s vague language gives Paulson almost unlimited power to intervene.
- IRNlun60
Obama's Senate Record
- TheBlueOne0
- Most of these stupid f*cks probably couldn't even define socialism.monkeyshine
- Angry Anglos...robotron3k
- so angry yet so willing to walk in line********
- They say "get a job", yet none of them seem to be clocking in that daylocustsloth
- so disturbing.colin_s
- "get a job" IS a strange thing to say...i'm sure they all have jobs...SigDesign
- 4:34 - EPIC FAIL poster - hahahahalobstarr
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I love all the pix they post of traders and their expressions. Every single shot is the exact same, like they are watching 2 girls 1 cup.
- THey'd probably rather watch 2girls 1cup. Hell, they'd probably rather be IN 2 girls 1 cup than what they're going thrulocustsloth
- hahahahha, good point********
- Be the cup danny!Mimio
- ukit0
Anyone who plans on voting...I'd encourage you to check your registration to see that you are actually getting a ballot. I voted in the last election AND signed up to update by address from one of those street volunteer people, but then on a whim I checked the WA Voter Registration site today and lo and behold, there was no record of me. Turns out they have such a huge backlog of address changes that a lot of those people will not recieve ballots in time to vote in this election, even if they signed up months ago. But if you talk to them in person you can get a ballot mailed to you.
- plus 1********
- and here I am like a sucker standing in a 3 hour lineBattleAxe
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- lackofcolor0
YES everyone if you are going to vote make sure you are registered cause states suck at this shit:
- Thanks..I was just trying to track down this link...TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
Hey cool! My polling place is the basement of my apartment building!!! I'll be rolling out of bed, getting a cup of coffee and walking downstairs to vote in my pajamas for sure!! Woot!!!
- ha. they put polling places in strange placeslackofcolor
- Watch for the shifty-eyed Republican sticking in extra votes.ETM
- Mine is in the elementary school next to our house!SigDesign
- ukit0
Fox Poll: Nearly Two-Thirds Say Ayers Makes No Difference To Their Vote
There has been some discussion of Barack Obama's relationship with the former radical activist William Ayers. Because Ayers is linked to plots to bomb the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol in the 1970s, and because Ayres recently said he wished he had done more, some people say Obama's association with Ayers calls into question his judgment. Does Obama's connection with Ayers make you less likely to vote for him for president or does it not really make a difference to your vote?
Less Likely 32%
No Difference 61%
Strikingly, the numbers are worse for McCain among independents: Only 29% say the Ayers association makes them less likely to vote for Obama, and more than twice as many -- 64% -- say it makes no difference. The data suggests that the vast majority of the respondents saying it makes them less likely to vote for Obama are Republicans, who probably wouldn't have supported him anyway.
Meanwhile, the poll suggests that McCain's attacks could be blowing back on him: A majority -- 51% -- say he's running a negative campaign, as compared to only 21% who say that about Obama.
- I don't like to be touched by strangers either so I might get mad but nobody knows me so no one would care.monkeyshine
- um..eer....wrong posting. sorry :(monkeyshine
- HAHAHA!ukit
- [blushes]. now I know how it feels to be taken out of context. :)monkeyshine
- hallelujah0
"For this entire presidential campaign, the media have been waiting for John McCain’s famous temper to explode. A few small examples have been reported without anyone trying to make a big deal about it. The rule seems to be that if he can keep it bottled until November 5, he’s home free. But if he explodes in the interim, it becomes an official issue. This isn’t completely nuts. If he can’t hold it in for just the few months he is under maximum scrutiny, then he has a real problem. Otherwise, hey—Bill Clinton also had a temper, it was said, along with other uncontrollable passions.
Until recently this anger business didn’t bother me much. There is a lot to be angry about. Furthermore, I was not confident that McCain’s anger passed the whose-ox-is-gored test: As an Obama supporter, would I be equally alarmed if my preferred candidate had anger issues? (Which some folks say he does, by the way.) Then I heard the following story.
“DON’T TOUCH ME,” he repeated viciously. “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU’RE TALKING TO?”
It comes in an email from my friend Jeff Dearth, a media investment banker and former publisher of The New Republic. We also went to junior high and high school together in Michigan. He would not make this up. In 2005, Jeff attended a magazine industry conference at a casino hotel in Puerto Rico. (I was there, too, though not a witness to what follows.) The guest speaker was McCain. He put on a terrific performance, breaking up the friendly crowd by referring to journalists as “my base.” (To anyone who remembers this period in McCain’s history, his attempt this year to paint Barack Obama as Britney Spears or Paris Hilton because Obama is now the media darling seems especially cheap.)
McCain’s game is craps. So is Jeff Dearth’s. Jeff was at the table when McCain showed up and happily made room for him. Apparently there is some kind of rule or tradition in craps that everyone’s hands are supposed to be above the table when the dice are about to be thrown. McCain—“very likely distracted by one of the many people who approached him that evening,” Jeff says charitably—apparently was violating this rule. A small middle-aged woman at the table, apparently a “regular,” reached out and pulled McCain’s arm away. I’ll let Jeff take over the story:
“McCain immediately turned to the woman and said between clenched teeth: ‘DON’T TOUCH ME.’ The woman started to explain...McCain interrupted her: ‘DON’T TOUCH ME,’ he repeated viciously. The woman again tried to explain. ‘DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU’RE TALKING TO?’ McCain continued, his voice rising and his hands now raised in the ‘bring it on’ position. He was red-faced. By this time all the action at the table had stopped. I was completely shocked. McCain had totally lost it, and in the space of about ten seconds. ‘Sir, you must be courteous to the other players at the table,’ the pit boss said to McCain. “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? ASK ANYBODY AROUND HERE WHO I AM.”
This being Puerto Rico, the pit boss might not have known McCain. But the senator continued in full fury—“DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU’RE TALKING TO? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?”—and crisis was avoided only when Jeff offered to change places and stand between McCain and the woman who had touched his arm.
What is bothersome about this story, if it’s true, is only partly the explosive anger. More, it’s the arrogance. At the craps table, who cares who he is? And there’s the recklessness of such a performance in a casino full of journalists (unless McCain absolutely couldn’t control himself, which is even scarier). But this gamble paid off. Although there were published reports that McCain had gambled late into the night, which properly treated that matter as charming, this particular episode has gone unreported until now. Maybe no journalist saw it. Or maybe this illustrates the unwritten rule of political journalism that all human-interest anecdotes must reaffirm a previously established belief. Arrogance is something McCain is not known for. Quite the opposite. Logic might dictate that an anecdote showing that, say, Obama has webbed feet would be more interesting than one showing that he is a skinny guy with big ears. But that’s not how it works.
Jeff Dearth is not an extreme partisan or an activist for either candidate. He supports Obama, in part because he is truly alarmed at the thought of the arrogant hothead he saw becoming president. (“I’d happily gamble with Senator McCain again,” he says, “but I definitely wouldn’t gamble on him.”) It alarms me, too. John McCain is the best Republican presidential candidate of my lifetime. But a performance like this would give me pause about supporting a candidate of either party."- John McCain is the best Republican presidential candidate of my lifetime. But
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- John McCain is the best Republican presidential candidate of my lifetime. But
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- robotron3k0
- why not...i'd hit itBattleAxe
- holy moly, betty!monkeyshine
- Funny... but soooo rehersed.ETM
- GeorgesII0
This is the ride of a lifetime, it actually makes me dizzy
- GeorgesII0
lets take a closer look
- GeorgesII0
today is friday,
anybody else fears monday!
