Fool Me Once, Shame On YOU.
Fool Me Twice Shame on ME.
It's an old saying. But it holds much wisdom.
Unfortunately many people are allowing just this very thing to happen. They are allowing themselves to be FOOLED--AGAIN--by Republican lies, Republican politics-of-fear, and Republican false claims.
So SHAME on these people who are allowing themselves to be so easily fooled by the Republicans. I hope they eventually wisen up before the election. I mean really people...ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW THAN 8 YEARS AGO? IS AMERICA BETTER OFF NOW THAN 8 YEARS AGO?
I don't think so. Things have definitely gotten worse. The economy is a JOKE. Gas prices as SKY HIGH. Thousands of people are gonna lose their homes because of the Mortgage Crisis. Countless people have lost their jobs. The Healthcare system is a big freaking MESS. YET...YET...many people ACTUALLY THINK...McCain--a Republican who AGREES with BUSH 90% of the TIME--will make things better.
HUH? Listen you McCain leaners or fence-sitters...This is like trying to fix a broken machine with the WRONG TOOL. DEEP DOWN...YOU KNOW it's the WRONG TOOL. It hasn't worked for 8 years. But part of you THINKS that if you change the name of the tool from BUSH to MCCAIN that it "might" work. I don't think so dude.
It's time to TRY SOMETHING NEW. It's time to TRY a new TOOL to fix the broken machine that is America. It's time to TRY OBAMA! Yeah, some of you maybe scared of CHANGE. But we cannot continue going on the same DISASTROUS COURSE that the country is currently headed. Something needs to CHANGE. McCain/Palin WILL NOT BRING ABOUT CHANGE. They will bring MORE OF THE SAME.
OBAMA has the vision, the temperament, the right judgement to lead this country FORWARD. FORWARD to the FUTURE. FORWARD to PROGRESS. FORWARD to a BETTER LIFE for YOU and YOUR FAMILY.
McCain is the PAST. McCain/Palin will DRAG America down a DEEPER HOLE that it's already in. It's time to GET OUT of the HOLE that DUBYA dragged us into during the past 8 years. It's time to MAKE America the "Shining City on a Hill" once more. It's time to GET AMERICA OUT OF THE DARK...and make her A BEACON OF LIGHT once more to the world.
McCain/Palin will keep the country in the DARK AGES. It's time for AN AMERICAN RENNAISSANCE. It is TIME FOR OBAMA!
OBAMA / BIDEN 2008!
VOTE OBAMA 2008!
9/11/2008
IGNORE THE NATIONAL POLLS
National polls mean diddly squat in a race that will be decided state by state.
You'ld be better off paying attention to Electoral Vote estimates which are based on state-by-state polling instead of a nationwide poll.
Several websites that provide estimates for Electoral Votes all give Obama the edge:
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
This is one of the best sites since they update their count with new state polls daily. They also track states gained by either party compared to the 2004 presidential election.
Obama 273
McCain 238
Ties 27
http://www.cnn.com/
Obama 243
McCain 289
Toss Ups 106
http://electoralmap.net/
This site's data is based on Intrade.Com's State-by-State prediction markets...which gives a completely different picture compared to Intrade's national Obama or McCain prediction market.
Obama 260
McCain 247
Ties 31
http://www.270towin.com/
Obama 239
McCain 177
Toss Ups 122
But there's a wildcard here even. Both campaigns are investing heavily in voter registration drives. The Obama campaign has been doing this since the primaries. Obama's voter registration drive dwarf's that of the republicans. Most new voters being registered are those of under 35--a key Obama demographic. That's something hard to track in polls. Most pollsters call existing registered voters or people who have voted in the last election. Newly registered voters probably aren't in their databases yet, and so are not polled.
Obama understand he needs to change the electorate to win this. And his massive army of volunteers and paid staff are doing precisely this. Will it work? We will find out in November. Personally I believe it will make a difference. If he can get the younger people to vote during the general election has he was able to do during the primaries, I think that gives him a good chance. Also if he can get a massive black vote out during the general election, just as he did during the primaries, that's another factor that will help as well in several states.
Make no mistake...this election is going to be fought between those who want to keep the status quo and those who want change. In some ways this will also be a generational battle...with older generations going for McCain, and the younger generations going for Obama. And sadly this is also a fight between the educated vs the uneducated, the informed vs the poorly informed, the smart people vs the sheeple who are easily swayed by talk show hosts and empty soundbites.
This is the PAST vs the FUTURE. For all our sakes, I believe, and sincerely hope the FUTURE wins!
OBAMA IS THE FUTURE.
MCCAIN IS MCBUSH AND MCBUSH IS THE PAST.
Barack Obama/Joe Biden!
Vote Obama 2008!
You'ld be better off paying attention to Electoral Vote estimates which are based on state-by-state polling instead of a nationwide poll.
Several websites that provide estimates for Electoral Votes all give Obama the edge:
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
This is one of the best sites since they update their count with new state polls daily. They also track states gained by either party compared to the 2004 presidential election.
Obama 273
McCain 238
Ties 27
http://www.cnn.com/
Obama 243
McCain 289
Toss Ups 106
http://electoralmap.net/
This site's data is based on Intrade.Com's State-by-State prediction markets...which gives a completely different picture compared to Intrade's national Obama or McCain prediction market.
Obama 260
McCain 247
Ties 31
http://www.270towin.com/
Obama 239
McCain 177
Toss Ups 122
But there's a wildcard here even. Both campaigns are investing heavily in voter registration drives. The Obama campaign has been doing this since the primaries. Obama's voter registration drive dwarf's that of the republicans. Most new voters being registered are those of under 35--a key Obama demographic. That's something hard to track in polls. Most pollsters call existing registered voters or people who have voted in the last election. Newly registered voters probably aren't in their databases yet, and so are not polled.
Obama understand he needs to change the electorate to win this. And his massive army of volunteers and paid staff are doing precisely this. Will it work? We will find out in November. Personally I believe it will make a difference. If he can get the younger people to vote during the general election has he was able to do during the primaries, I think that gives him a good chance. Also if he can get a massive black vote out during the general election, just as he did during the primaries, that's another factor that will help as well in several states.
Make no mistake...this election is going to be fought between those who want to keep the status quo and those who want change. In some ways this will also be a generational battle...with older generations going for McCain, and the younger generations going for Obama. And sadly this is also a fight between the educated vs the uneducated, the informed vs the poorly informed, the smart people vs the sheeple who are easily swayed by talk show hosts and empty soundbites.
This is the PAST vs the FUTURE. For all our sakes, I believe, and sincerely hope the FUTURE wins!
OBAMA IS THE FUTURE.
MCCAIN IS MCBUSH AND MCBUSH IS THE PAST.
Barack Obama/Joe Biden!
Vote Obama 2008!
9/03/2008
Republican Convention HOT AIR
If there was ever any doubt that McCain would be McSame...well today's speakers at the Republican National Convention pretty much cleared all doubt.
These expert liars and abusers of the Constitution were at it again. Desperately trying to fool America again that Iraq War = Fighting Al Qaida, or Iraq War = fighting radical Islam, or worse beyond worse Iraq War = Fighting Evil.
I will leave it Barack Obama to once again point out that BEFORE the invasion of Iraq...there were NO Al Qaida there period. Saddam would not tolerate such competition for power. And as Barack Obama said in his convention speech...you DO NOT defeat an organization that operates in many countries by occupying and wasting most of your forces and resources in ONE COUNTRY (Iraq)! Like DUH!
And listen to PALIN...she thinks this thing is a CRUSADE. She labels the Iraq War as a "Task from God". I think she got that all twisted. Or she thinks Bush is God. Iraq was a task from BUSH. BUSH is NOT GOD. And a very misguided and poorly planned task it was...and 5 years later...still there, quagmired...except now the Iraqi government wants the US out! And 7 years after invading Afghanistan...Bin Laden is still at large, and the Taliban are resurgent.
Nice Strategy. Leave it to the Republicans to completely mess things up and then lie about how GREAT things are going!
OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!
These expert liars and abusers of the Constitution were at it again. Desperately trying to fool America again that Iraq War = Fighting Al Qaida, or Iraq War = fighting radical Islam, or worse beyond worse Iraq War = Fighting Evil.
I will leave it Barack Obama to once again point out that BEFORE the invasion of Iraq...there were NO Al Qaida there period. Saddam would not tolerate such competition for power. And as Barack Obama said in his convention speech...you DO NOT defeat an organization that operates in many countries by occupying and wasting most of your forces and resources in ONE COUNTRY (Iraq)! Like DUH!
And listen to PALIN...she thinks this thing is a CRUSADE. She labels the Iraq War as a "Task from God". I think she got that all twisted. Or she thinks Bush is God. Iraq was a task from BUSH. BUSH is NOT GOD. And a very misguided and poorly planned task it was...and 5 years later...still there, quagmired...except now the Iraqi government wants the US out! And 7 years after invading Afghanistan...Bin Laden is still at large, and the Taliban are resurgent.
Nice Strategy. Leave it to the Republicans to completely mess things up and then lie about how GREAT things are going!
OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!
8/06/2008
Paris Hilton's Revenge
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By Jose Antonio Vargas
Wednesday, August 6, 2008; 9:48 AM
Paris for President?
Well, check out her energy policy.
Yep, you read that right. In a two-minute online video posted last night on the comedy site FunnyorDie.com, Paris Hilton announced her candidacy -- thanks to Sen. John McCain's "Celeb" ad comparing Sen. Barack Obama to Paris and Britney Spears -- and boasts an energy policy that should make every screenwriter proud. Though her parents have contributed to the Republican senator, Paris is no McCainiac. (The ad begins with a voice-over referring to McCain as the "oldest celebrity in the world," before cutting to a photo of the senior citizens of "The Golden Girls.") But she's not for Obama, either. True to form, she's all about Paris. She wants pop star Rihanna as her vice president and might paint the White House pink.
"Hey America I'm Paris Hilton, and I'm a celebrity, too. Only I'm not from the olden days and I'm not promising change like that other guy. I'm just hot," she says, sitting on a lounge chair and wearing a skimpy one-piece leopard swimsuit -- with a copy of Conde Nast Traveler in hand. "But then that wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means I'm running for president. So thanks for the endorsement white- haired dude. And I want America to know that, I'm like, totally ready to lead."
Paris then summarizes the difference between McCain and Obama's energy policies -- "Barack wants to focus on new technologies to cut foreign oil dependency and McCain wants offshore drilling" -- before offering her own sober take on the issue.
"Well, why don't we do a hybrid of both candidates' ideas?" she says. "We can do limited offshore drilling -- with strict environmental oversight -- while creating tax incentives to get Detriot making hybrid and electric cars. That way, the offshore drilling carries us until the new technologies kick in which will then create new jobs and energy independence. Energy crisis solved!"
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She then continues: "I'll see you at the debates, bitches."
With a few film credits in her resume, this might just be her best acting role yet. The McCain camp seems to think so. "In reality, Paris Hilton may have a more substantive energy policy than Barack Obama," they said in a statement.
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7/16/2008
New Yorker Cover Disses Obama
Below are some reactions to the controversial New Yorker cover depicting Barack Obama as a closet Muslim and his wife Michelle as an AK-47 toting terrorist inside the Oval Office.
What boggles the mind is that apparently the New Yorker had a CAPTION/TITLE for this controversial cover that would have clearly explained what they were trying to do. HOWEVER some morons at the New Yorker decided to place this caption INSIDE the magazine INSTEAD OF ON THE COVER. The caption is "THE POLITICS OF FEAR". Had that been placed on the cover itself, it would have made much more sense, and people won't be so mad at them right now. As it is, the cover just looks like a total tasteless piece of crap that looks like it was commissioned by the Republicans.
Obama himself has tried to be nonchalant about it, saying it is their right to publish the thing, but that it probably fanned misconceptions about him. A good move for him I think...he looks like it doesn't bother him much, but leaves it to his subordinates and supporters to roast the New York Times editors for their crude tastelessness.
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Cartoonists Not Fond of Obama Art on 'New Yorker' Cover
By Dave Astor
Published: July 14, 2008 5:13 PM ET
NEW YORK Barry Blitt's satirical July 21 New Yorker magazine cover showing a Muslim Barack Obama and a gun-toting Michelle Obama is not getting rave reviews from other artists contacted by E&P.
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists President (AAEC) Nick Anderson said he understood what Blitt was trying to do (show how the Obamas are perceived by some people, not as they really are). But he noted that the cartoon was done "clumsily."
The Houston Chronicle/Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) creator added that it would have helped if the cover art had a title such as “The Politics of Fear,” or showed enemies of Obama painting or imagining the picture.
AAEC President-Elect Ted Rall said "everyone with two brain cells to rub together gets" Blitt's cartoon, but the drawing is "shallow and non-contextual."
"If The New Yorker wants to get into the political cartoon business, it ought to hire some political cartoonists," added Rall. "Until they hire some smart editors, The New Yorker ought to stick to what they do well: gag panels about Upper East Siders at cocktail parties."
The Universal Press Syndicate cartoonist also criticized the "dull, Taliban-like humorlessness" of the Obama and McCain campaigns, which both decried Blitt's cover. "Will the two candidates ban sarcasm if they win?," quipped Rall, who's also acquisition and development editor at United Media.
Philadelphia Daily News/WPWG editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson's first reaction to E&P's query was: "If you're spending time on this, it must be summer!" Then Wilkinson, who also does the "Family Tree" comic for United, added: "After the obligatory 'tasteless and offensive' huffing and puffing, Obama strategist David Axelrod said they weren't going to be spending a lot of time on it. I would recommend that the rest of the media do as David Axelrod does. It's satire."
Ann Telnaes, whose work includes animated political cartoons for WashingtonPost.com, said: "I think people need to get a grip. The cover was meant to be a satirical comment on the rumors about Obama's religion and so-called lack of patriotism."
She added that there are more important things to get outraged about. "Just this morning I read a Wall Street Journal article about the Dutch cartoonist who was jailed and his computer and sketchbooks confiscated because his work was considered offensive by the government," Telnaes noted by way of example.
Scott Stantis -- who does editorial cartoons for The Birmingham (Ala.) News and Creators News Service, and the "Prickly City" comic for Universal -- said The New Yorker is "usually pitch-perfect in its use of satire for its often-provocative covers." Among those "perfect" covers, he recalled, was the famous one showing an Hasidic man and African-American woman kissing in a way that imagined the healing of the rift between the New York communities those two people represented.
But Stantis added that the current cover "struck me as remarkably tin-eared. While I understand they're trying to portray the Obamas as their more strident opponents would have them seen, I take the opposite view away. Maybe it's not over-the-top enough? Or perhaps the anti-Obama forces have been too good and this is, indeed, how they are portrayed in the popular mind. Either way, this piece of art did not work for me on any level."
Detroit News/United editorial cartoonist Henry Payne said "Obama's campaign overreacted. The New Yorker has every right to run the cover."
But, Payne added, "I think a point that's being missed is that Blitt's satire has little basis in truth -- the foundation for satire after all.... No respectable figure in the GOP, or McCain's campaign, or any editorial publication I know of has suggested Obama is Muslim.... The Obama/Muslim confusion is one of ignorance; a view held by a minority of the electorate, Dems and Republicans alike."
Payne e-mailed E&P a few minutes later: "On further reflection, I think the cover is just plain fun. Sometimes we in the satire biz take ourselves too seriously."
Mike Smith, whose Las Vegas Sun editorial cartoons and "Stockcar Toons" comic are distributed by King Features Syndicate, asked: "What's the point of being provocative if you're not communicating clearly? The intended message in this art is lost because the execution of the message allows for different interpretations."
Ron Rogers of the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune said he understands that The New Yorker art is "caricature -- an exaggeration of the rumors surrounding Barack and Michelle Obama. But knowing the inflammatory atmosphere in this campaign, I think they went over the line. I think more thought should have been put into the presentation of the artwork and its impact.”
In an E&P story posted earlier today, "Tom the Dancing Bug" cartoonist Ruben Bolling of Universal said "more indicators should have been utilized in the cartoon in order to make the target of its satire clearer."
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What boggles the mind is that apparently the New Yorker had a CAPTION/TITLE for this controversial cover that would have clearly explained what they were trying to do. HOWEVER some morons at the New Yorker decided to place this caption INSIDE the magazine INSTEAD OF ON THE COVER. The caption is "THE POLITICS OF FEAR". Had that been placed on the cover itself, it would have made much more sense, and people won't be so mad at them right now. As it is, the cover just looks like a total tasteless piece of crap that looks like it was commissioned by the Republicans.
Obama himself has tried to be nonchalant about it, saying it is their right to publish the thing, but that it probably fanned misconceptions about him. A good move for him I think...he looks like it doesn't bother him much, but leaves it to his subordinates and supporters to roast the New York Times editors for their crude tastelessness.
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Cartoonists Not Fond of Obama Art on 'New Yorker' Cover
By Dave Astor
Published: July 14, 2008 5:13 PM ET
NEW YORK Barry Blitt's satirical July 21 New Yorker magazine cover showing a Muslim Barack Obama and a gun-toting Michelle Obama is not getting rave reviews from other artists contacted by E&P.
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists President (AAEC) Nick Anderson said he understood what Blitt was trying to do (show how the Obamas are perceived by some people, not as they really are). But he noted that the cartoon was done "clumsily."
The Houston Chronicle/Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) creator added that it would have helped if the cover art had a title such as “The Politics of Fear,” or showed enemies of Obama painting or imagining the picture.
AAEC President-Elect Ted Rall said "everyone with two brain cells to rub together gets" Blitt's cartoon, but the drawing is "shallow and non-contextual."
"If The New Yorker wants to get into the political cartoon business, it ought to hire some political cartoonists," added Rall. "Until they hire some smart editors, The New Yorker ought to stick to what they do well: gag panels about Upper East Siders at cocktail parties."
The Universal Press Syndicate cartoonist also criticized the "dull, Taliban-like humorlessness" of the Obama and McCain campaigns, which both decried Blitt's cover. "Will the two candidates ban sarcasm if they win?," quipped Rall, who's also acquisition and development editor at United Media.
Philadelphia Daily News/WPWG editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson's first reaction to E&P's query was: "If you're spending time on this, it must be summer!" Then Wilkinson, who also does the "Family Tree" comic for United, added: "After the obligatory 'tasteless and offensive' huffing and puffing, Obama strategist David Axelrod said they weren't going to be spending a lot of time on it. I would recommend that the rest of the media do as David Axelrod does. It's satire."
Ann Telnaes, whose work includes animated political cartoons for WashingtonPost.com, said: "I think people need to get a grip. The cover was meant to be a satirical comment on the rumors about Obama's religion and so-called lack of patriotism."
She added that there are more important things to get outraged about. "Just this morning I read a Wall Street Journal article about the Dutch cartoonist who was jailed and his computer and sketchbooks confiscated because his work was considered offensive by the government," Telnaes noted by way of example.
Scott Stantis -- who does editorial cartoons for The Birmingham (Ala.) News and Creators News Service, and the "Prickly City" comic for Universal -- said The New Yorker is "usually pitch-perfect in its use of satire for its often-provocative covers." Among those "perfect" covers, he recalled, was the famous one showing an Hasidic man and African-American woman kissing in a way that imagined the healing of the rift between the New York communities those two people represented.
But Stantis added that the current cover "struck me as remarkably tin-eared. While I understand they're trying to portray the Obamas as their more strident opponents would have them seen, I take the opposite view away. Maybe it's not over-the-top enough? Or perhaps the anti-Obama forces have been too good and this is, indeed, how they are portrayed in the popular mind. Either way, this piece of art did not work for me on any level."
Detroit News/United editorial cartoonist Henry Payne said "Obama's campaign overreacted. The New Yorker has every right to run the cover."
But, Payne added, "I think a point that's being missed is that Blitt's satire has little basis in truth -- the foundation for satire after all.... No respectable figure in the GOP, or McCain's campaign, or any editorial publication I know of has suggested Obama is Muslim.... The Obama/Muslim confusion is one of ignorance; a view held by a minority of the electorate, Dems and Republicans alike."
Payne e-mailed E&P a few minutes later: "On further reflection, I think the cover is just plain fun. Sometimes we in the satire biz take ourselves too seriously."
Mike Smith, whose Las Vegas Sun editorial cartoons and "Stockcar Toons" comic are distributed by King Features Syndicate, asked: "What's the point of being provocative if you're not communicating clearly? The intended message in this art is lost because the execution of the message allows for different interpretations."
Ron Rogers of the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune said he understands that The New Yorker art is "caricature -- an exaggeration of the rumors surrounding Barack and Michelle Obama. But knowing the inflammatory atmosphere in this campaign, I think they went over the line. I think more thought should have been put into the presentation of the artwork and its impact.”
In an E&P story posted earlier today, "Tom the Dancing Bug" cartoonist Ruben Bolling of Universal said "more indicators should have been utilized in the cartoon in order to make the target of its satire clearer."
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