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- TheBlueOne0
- saddbloc
- He will have to be under heavy security if he get's in office.robotron3k
- ********0
- kind, true people.Mirpour
- ha cool!sofakingbanned
- great video.dbloc
- SigDesign0
Palin found guilty of abuse of power
- robotron3k0
World Bank may have uncovered a scheme where by the bank servers have been hacked and cracked by "outsiders" via the internet for at least 1 year recording keystrokes.
They are considering closing down the World Bank access until this problem is solved...
Of course there has and will be continued breaches in all banks before and after the crash, but could THIS incident be the blame/catalyst for the US Government to "lock down" the internet and monitor and govern it's use for good....????!!!
This is scary shite.
- more on infoweek
http://www.informati…robotron3k - leave it to Fox news to break that...SigDesign
- well, nobody knows if it's true, this was discovered after end of business, so it could be dead by tuesday...robotron3k
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- ukit0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.
Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report by a bipartisan panel that investigated the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain.
The inquiry looked into her dismissal of Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, who said he lost his job because he resisted pressure to fire a state trooper involved in a bitter divorce with the governor's sister. Palin says Monegan was fired as part of a legitimate budget dispute.
The panel found that Palin let the family grudge influence her decision-making even if it was not the sole reason Monegan was dismissed. "I feel vindicated," Monegan said. "It sounds like they've validated my belief and opinions. And that tells me I'm not totally out in left field."
Branchflower said Palin violated a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.
Palin and McCain's supporters had hoped the inquiry's finding would be delayed until after the presidential election to spare her any embarrassment and to put aside an enduring distraction as she campaigns as McCain's running mate in an uphill contest against Democrat Barack Obama.
But the panel of lawmakers voted to release the report, although not without dissension.
"I think there are some problems in this report," said Republican state Sen. Gary Stevens, a member of the panel. "I would encourage people to be very cautious, to look at this with a jaundiced eye."
The nearly 300-page report does not recommend sanctions or a criminal investigation.
- so tomorrow Palin will probably accuse Obama of abuse of power for ambition.monkeyshine
- Hahahah!! Always call the kettle black, as the saying goes.TheBlueOne
- BonSeff0
the backlash that McCain is getting from his racist GOP followers only proves he has no control over his own campaign. sorry, old fuck.. you can't unring your racist bell that you sent your vp candidate and your own wife to sound. a fucking complete american embarrassment. but watching the ignorant racists get exposed has been somewhat entertaining.. but sad at the same time.
- ukit0
Crowd turns after McCain says Obama not an 'Arab terrorist'
http://www.politico.com/news/sto…
Fearing the raw and at times angry emotions of his supporters may damage his campaign, John McCain on Friday urged them to tone down their increasingly personal denunciations of Barack Obama, including one woman who said she had heard that the Democrat was "an Arab terrorist."
Each time he tried to cool the crowd, he was rewarded with a round of boos.
"I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States," McCain told a supporter at a town hall meeting in Minnesota who said he was “scared” of the prospect of an Obama presidency and of who the Democrat would appoint to the Supreme Court.
“Come on, John!” one audience member yelled out as the Republicans crowd expressed their dismay at their nominee. Others yelled "liar," and "terrorist."
One woman, in the course of a question to McCain saud, “I’ve heard that Sen. Obama is an Arab terrorist.”
McCain, who had shared his wireless microphone with her, yanked it out of her hand.
"No, ma'am," the Arizona senator assured. "He's a decent family man and citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign's all about. He's not [an Arab terrorist]."
The public display of fear and unease over Obama comes at the end of a week in which other Republicans at McCain and Sarah Palin events expressed similar frustrations, a product of exasperation at the prospect of the Illinois senator becoming president and their own nominee not doing enough to prevent it.
McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, sought to tamp down concerns about the audience outbursts on a conference call earlier Friday, saying they were not a “big deal.”
But that was before the highly-charged meeting in a high school gymnasium in Lakeville, Minnesota Friday night.
In addition to the man who said he feared Obama as president, another predicted the Democrat would “lead the country to socialism.”
“The time has come and the Bible tells us you speak the truth and that the truth sets you free,” the man added.
Yet another voter implored McCain in plain terms: "The people here in Minnesota want to see a real fight."
McCain promised the audience he wouldn’t back down—but again sought to tamp down emotions.
"We want to fight, and I will fight," McCain said. "But I will be respectful. I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments and I will respect him."
At which point he was booed again.
"I don't mean that has to reduce your ferocity," he added over the jeers. "I just mean to say you have to be respectful."
The anger is plainly worrying McCain and his campaign. Already viewed with skepticism by the conservative base, they don’t want to throw a proverbial wet blanket over the enthusiasm of the worker bees of the party. But they also fear a backlash from less partisan—and still undecided—voters seeing clips of the angry activists on TV and online.
- Can you say "pandora's box" can you say "be careful what you wish for?"monkeyshine
- FUCK the NECONs********
- It's sa dto see the integrity that McCain still has peek out around the corners of the rovian power politics he's been forced to embrace.TheBlueOne
- forced to embrace.TheBlueOne
- They have put themselves into a very bad spot!DCDesigns
- ukit0
- it is so over, I love this.********
- I have gained some respect for McCain, even though Obama is my man!********
- Holy crap! i think he near had a heart attack with that last womanlocustsloth
- i bet David Duke looks at this and wishes he threw his hat into the ring this yearlocustsloth
- an idea where we can now watch this video?********
- it is so over, I love this.
- zaq0
- WTFmonNom
- Those people must have diabetes, they drink so much Conservative Kool-Aidlocustsloth
- appalling ... yes this is America, how horrible it is to say that.akoni
- omgitsacamera0
^ To be honest, I am fucking ashamed to share a nationality in common with those people. Liberal or Conservative, Democrat or Republican or Independent, I don't care, have an gram of fucking respect for EVERYONE, not just Obama.
- Mirpour0
here you go...
mccain is surrounded by fools!- It's about fucken time he said something. He knows he's going to get hammered...doesn't want to go down as the worst most negative candidate in history.BusterBoy
- ...down as the worst most negative candidate in history.BusterBoy
- old lady is like "no? we're not doing the racist thing? Like... I thought it was cool... everyone seemed to be going that way... my bad"sofakingbanned
- There is the McCain I actually had respect for eight years ago. Too little too late. But bravo.TheBlueOne
- to be fair, he didn't have much of a choice. If he didn't say anything about Obama being an "arab," his campaign would be overukit
- ...his campaign would be overomgitsacamera
- you got shit like this... and here is jazx going on about ACORN. Why????quamb
- tank020
In other political news
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORL…- as much as i despised his politics I won't disrespect his death.....lowimpakt
- TheBlueOne0
Not related to anything currently going on, but it made me chuckle:
"To the Editor of Playboy
December 21, 1962
Dear Sir,
I wish you hadn’t billed the debate between William Buckley and myself as a meeting between a conservative and a liberal. I don’t care if people call me a radical, a rebel, a red, a revolutionary, an outsider, an outlaw, a Bolshevik, an anarchist, a nihilist, or even a left conservative, but please don’t ever call me a liberal.
Yours,
Norman Mailer"
- hallelujah0
Bob Herbert:
For the nitwits who vote for the man or woman they’d most like to have over for dinner, or hang out at a barbecue with, I suggest you take a look at how well your 401(k) is doing, or how easy it will be to meet the mortgage this month, or whether the college fund you’ve been trying to build for your kids is as robust as you’d like it to be.
David Brooks: No way to deny it. The current Republican party hates intelligence and competence. It's become a Know Nothing spectacle led by Sarah Palin. I will ignore my own years of neglect of this topic, and instead concentrate on where the GOP is heading. Neither subject, btw, is pretty.
Gail Collins:
Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It’s only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign’s golden era. Now, he’s beginning to act like one of those movie characters who steals the wrong ring and turns into a troll.
Dana Milbank:
The country desperately needs strong leadership now, but there's none to be found at the White House. The president is voicing the right sentiments, even if his words (Thursday's "we'll get through this deal") are characteristically clumsy. He's even affecting the right demeanor, between concern and confidence. But nobody seems to care.
Marc Ambinder:
He mentions Ayers in a speech or interview, or gives the tough talk to Sarah Palin. He neglects to speak about Ayers in a debate. He says that Ayers isn't relevant. Anger mounts. McCain is trapped. Some in campaign blame the media, again, for putting McCain into a box -- when something doesn't work, the media gets the blame. But that hoary old axiom in politics -- timing is everything -- applies. Suddenly dumping on Obama's character and associations in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the great depression smells cheap and desperate. And it creates a spectacle that is becoming easy for the media to dismiss McCain is aware of this -- he's flinched at times and reminded his audiences that he has to be optimistic, but his campaign advisers don't agree on the wisdom of angry crowds becoming the story; some hate the effect this is having on independents and others are trying to pump liquidity into the Republican base.
Hugh Bailey:
Palin was in a position to be, in the event of a McCain loss, the leading contender for the 2012 Republican nomination. But she's turned off so many voters in the last month that her party may decide she's too toxic to take a chance on. They don't nominate rabid partisans; George W. Bush ran from the Republican brand as a "compassionate consevative" -- he wasn't one, but he pretended to be -- and McCain has based his entire candidacy on a willingness to go his own way.
What seems likely is that Palin, her relative youth aside, knows that this, too, is her best and only shot at bigger things. The more people find out about her, the less popular she gets. Her favorability rating dropped from plus-20 a month ago to around minus-10 today.
- hallelujah0
the roadmap for the divisive ugliness of the current McCain campaign was provided by none other than Obama's fellow democrat, Hillary Clinton. When both found themselves unable to compete on issues or political talent they stooped to desperate strategies of lies and racially tinged innuendo
- not that he wouldn't have discovered it on his ownhallelujah
- ukit0
http://crookedtimber.org/2008/10…
So I hear (via a prominent member of the sane Republican faction) that the word on the right side of the street is that the Republican National Committee is about to pull the plug on its joint ads with the McCain campaign, and devote its resources instead to trying to save a couple of the senators who are at serious risk of losing their seats. Now this is gossip, albeit of the high class variety; take it with the requisite pinch of salt. But it points to some real vulnerabilities in the McCain campaign’s finances. McCain’s decision to opt for public funding has meant that he’s had enormous difficulty competing with the Obama money raising machine. He’s been able to partly compensate by co-financing ads with the RNC (this skirts the limits of the legislation that he himself co-wrote but is just about legal). This has kept him competitive in TV advertising, albeit still significantly outgunned. But if the Republicans are as worried as they should be about the impending elections, there will be a lot of calls on that money, and the RNC is going to have to make some tough choices. Should it keep spending money on the presidential campaign in the hope that McCain will win despite the polls, or should it instead try to minimize the damage of a McCain defeat by doing its best to stop the Democrats from making big gains in the Senate? Decisions, decisions ...
- ukit0
The latest numbers, 3 weeks out:
