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- TheBlueOne0
The Republicans find their minority supporters at iStock photo apparently...
- <--- That is freaking hilarious! ..and they all look so happy!nicnichols
- token from southpark thinks that is below averageBonSeff
- dog_opus0
Just a reminder! – don't forget to watch the rest of O'Reilly's interview with Senator Obama tonight. (Probably not till after 8:30 EST.)
- robotron3k0
wow I have never heard of the Alaskan Permanent Fund. like reverse taxes, this year they are "paying" a full time resident of Alasaka 3700 buck in returns... no wonder Palin is popular, she's paying off 700,000 people in the state... http://uk.reuters.com/article/oi…
- Alaska has done that for a long time. Palin really has nothing to do with it.amongthemasses
- digival0
I feel like punching an ignorant republican. I wish I could move to Canada.
- dog_opus0
A for effort I guess, but, yeah, F for doing it in the first place. http://gizmodo.com/5045882/when-…
- Just so we're clear here, I'm not trying to insult Obama – just the schtoopid design.dog_opus
- locustsloth0
This whole troopergate thing may be a red herring. The ex-brother-in-law, Wooten, allegedly threatened his ex-wife's dad (also Palin's dad) if he helped with the divorce. Even before that Wooten had a "domestic violence protective order" obtained against him.
Not to say that these things can't be made up, but this smacks of leading to a dead-end. All she has to say is that she didn't want a person who was known to be violent and threatening to be on the police force. Then she's not using her power to avenge her family, she's using her power to protect her constituency.
In the meantime, while we're distracted with that, how many other things are able to go under the radar between now and Nov?- Actually, if she accessed his personal files, thats a crime, no matter what he did...NONEIS
- Right, i forgot about thatlocustsloth
- locustsloth0
And the lies just keep coming (but what else is new, this is politics)
- TheBlueOne0
Meanwhile in the real world...
"Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Friday, September 5, 2008 -- 9:03 PM ET
-----Government Preparing Plan to Seize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Officials Say. Senior officials from the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve informed top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance giants, that the government is preparing a plan to seize the two companies and place them in a conservatorship, officials and company executives briefed on the discussions said."
Bush always sends out the bad news late fridays when no one pays attention.
- TheBlueOne0
"In 2000, Sarah Palin, as mayor of the Alaskan town of Wasilla, hired a Washington lobbyist to secure federal earmarks for her community. This is not totally atypical in her state. Alaska’s government receives more money per capita in federal earmark money than any other state, despite being the only state in the union with no income tax and no sales tax. They fund their government primarily with petroleum money, and recently distributed oil profits to its citizens in the form of rebate checks.
But even in her heavily earmarked state, Sarah Palin was the earmark queen. From 2000 to 2003, she secured over $27 million in earmarks, averaging $6.7 million in federal money every year for her town of about 6,700 people. ...(read on)
As mayor, Sarah Palin managed to secure a thousand dollars a year per person in her city in earmarks, yet...When Palin left office in 2002, Wasilla had “racked up nearly $20 million in long-term debt,” or roughly $3,000 of debt per resident. ...
Asked in 1996, her first year in office, about her ability to “effectively run” the city, Palin claimed: “It’s not rocket science,” Palin said, “It’s $6 million and 53 employees.”
Only “$6 million and 53 employees” and yet she managed to bury it $20 mil. in the red in just two-terms. How very Bush-like. And she wants us to trust her to be a heartbeat away from the national budget?"
- ********0
pretty wicked talk here!
- nicnichols0
Some more of Biden's crooked deals from this mornings paper..
- this is far from crooked.amongthemasses
- If you knew the location, you'd know that those deals were 'gifts'nicnichols
- I have bought and sold real estate for 15 years.amongthemasses
- deals come across my table all the time.amongthemasses
- I doubt their are of the exclusivity of this zip code, or else you would know what I am talking about...nicnichols
- nic unfortunately I do know. I'm not going to brag but I own properties in exclusive zips.amongthemasses
- Real estate is not how much your property is worth. It is how much someone will pay for it.amongthemasses
- we agree to disagree.amongthemasses
- its not about how much its worth, its about what price they sold it to him for, which was half of actual valuenicnichols
- 4+ acres in Greenville for 350,000? The driveway would have cost more then that..nicnichols
- 1.2 mil for his old house by an MBNA supporter, who had already given him plenty.. the house was worth maybe 600knicnichols
- Each time he moves, he is 'gifted' quite a bit.. I live right near him.. thats all I was saying...nicnichols
- i love how all the excuses are made for liberal missteps, but if gops do the same thing they're eviiiiiil!sputnik2
- I'm not really either party, but being in DE, pretty much 90% of our news is now Biden-ness....nicnichols
- I have bought 2 properties for half their worth. Again we agree to disagree.amongthemasses
- is that you Hedge? If you had bought properties in 19710, I would know who you are.. but its cool.nicnichols
- I would never buy property there. I hate snow. 33924. And Hedge is gone...dobs killed him.amongthemasses
- dobs sacrificed himself!nicnichols
- 33294.. pshhh #70 on the list..
http://en.wikipedia.…
nicnichols - yeah median home prices in that zip were only 1.2 million last year, The market is bad...haven't you heard:)amongthemasses
- we could go on forever nic, but honestly you are boring me now.amongthemasses
- TheBlueOne0
- the goal was not tp lure moderates to vote for him (which they would not) but to get the fundmentalist would would not have voted to vote********
- ( who ) would not vote to vote at all. Energiuzing the base simply means to get them to vote. They must calculate that might be enough to offset the youth and minority votes going to Obama********
- the goal was not tp lure moderates to vote for him (which they would not) but to get the fundmentalist would would not have voted to vote
- TheBlueOne0
Well, Palin doesn't get the Heavy Metal vote...
"Legendary heavy metal bassist Geezer Butler (BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN AND HELL) has issued the following update:
"Thank you all who came to see the Metal Masters tour. It was a pleasure touring with such great bands and friends — JUDAS PRIEST, MOTÖRHEAD and TESTAMENT, and their respective crews. It was great meeting everyone who came to the meet and greets after the shows.
"Now back to reality. As you may know from my web site [ http://www.geezerbutler.com/ ] and lyrics, I am pro all life, not just unborn fetuses. I don't understand people who say they are pro-life, but then support unnecessary wars and the disgusting slaughter of animals for sport. I respect people's freedom of religion, but I absolutely abhor hypocrites. Which brings me to this horrific video [see below] of cowardly bastards in airplanes, shooting wolves for so-called 'sport,' and the hypocritical politician [referring to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin] [she's supposed to be pro-life, remember], who allows this cowardly act to take place in her state.
"I know lots of people who hunt, and I enjoy shooting at my local gun range, but I don't know, nor would I want to know, anyone who gets pleasure from this disgraceful behaviour. God/nature has created a beautiful earth, and populated it with beautiful creatures, and I believe that all life is miraculous. Why do politicians [royals included] enjoy killing so much, and treating those miracles with such contempt?"
- she also pissed off the Wilson sisters by using the song Barracuda. Sony sent a cease & desist to McCain campaign.monkeyshine
- It's true because I read it on the Internets!SarahPalin
- dbloc0
- this is one time a pic didn't need a caption.Jnr_Madison
- Yea He's either dead or sleeping.dbloc
- ********0
"Everywhere I go we've been talking about change, that's been the theme of the campaign. And we must be on to something, because I notice now everyone's talking about change now.
John McCain has said that change is coming!
Now think about this coming from the party that's been in charge for 8 years, they've been running the show! Been up in the White House, John McCain brags, '90% of the time I have voted with George Bush. He and I we we're right there' and suddenly he's the change agent!
He says I'm going to tell those lobbyists that their days in Washington are over. Who's he gonna tell? Is he gonna tell his campaign chairman who's one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Is he going to tell all the folks who are running his campaign who are the biggest corporate lobbyist in Washington? Who is it that he's going to tell that change is coming?
I mean come on! They must think you're stupid!
I mean, maybe what they're saying is 'watch out George Bush' you know except for economic policies, and tax policies, and energy policies, and health care policies, and education policies, and Karl Rove style of politics – except for all that, we're really going to bring change to Washington! We're gonna shake things up! What are these guys talking about? Do you think we haven’t been paying attention over the past 8 years?
(Obama then went point by point through education, tax policy, energy policy and health care telling voters why McCain’s version of change is not change like the kind he will bring.)
I know the governor of Alaska has been, you know, saying she is change. And that is great. She is a skillful politician. But when you been taking all these earmarks when it is convenient and then suddenly you are the champion anti-earmark person. That is not change, come on. I mean, words mean something. You can't just make stuff up. You can’t just make stuff up. We have a choice to make and the choice is clear.
Don't be fooled. These are the folks who have been in charge. John McCain's party, with the help of John McCain, has been in charge."
- Yeah, but McCain is a POW!!! And Palin is sassy and loves Jesus and shoots Moose! Obama has nothing...TheBlueOne
- It's true because I read it on the Internets!SarahPalin
- janne760
I was told that Obama smokes?
In that case my support goes to McCain.
- janne760
I just hate the fact it is gonna be a close race again.
how the hell is it possible, when obviously the republicans are just dicks, standing behind Bush 90% of the time and yet announcing change and what not.
i am afraid i will never understand american politics.
*sigh- neither do the americans, that's why we keep getting these ultra-shit governmentsGreedo
- people are unthinking sheep, that's how.flashbender
- believe me, I don't get it either. I am dumbfounded again and again********
- I'm a New Yorker. I only realizedin the last few years I am in fact not an American.TheBlueOne
