It started with the most cynical, ridiculous move I've seen in a Presidential election - the appointment of Sarah Palin. That was clearly something that came out of the marketing strategy arm of the party, because it makes no sense in any other context... "Hey, look guys, they DIDN'T go with Hilary! That opens the door for us! Let's get a woman in there and capture the female vote!"
McCain is old and has a lot of miles on the clock, so it's not inconceivable that he could drop dead during the next four years. Serious question to the Republicans around here - do you want to risk Palin controlling your country? Do you really think she's ready to run the most powerful country in the world? NOT EVEN CLOSE.
Then said the Virginian: "I simply cannot vote for that black boy..." Sums up a lot, doesn't it?
The image that finally topped it all for me was the ignorant morons slagging Obama to McCain's face while McCain told them that they needn't fear him, that Obama was merely an honourable American and family man with whom McCain disagreed on some major issues, and then the crowd BOOED MCCAIN!Check out the racism on those old white people...
I've followed US politics on and off for some time, and I've never seen anything as bizarre as this Presidential race. More corrupt? Sure, 2000 took the cake on that, and of course Tricky y. More inept? Junior will go down as the worst American President of all time, little doubt on that. But more BIZARRE? Not on your life.
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Not only am I a proud Virginian, but I am also a liberal democrat, and I think the above quote is stupid and illustrates a lack of knowledge about my state (which currently has Obama up by 6 points and elected the first black governor in the country, Doug Wilder).
Most of the country views Texas as the backward, red neck, racist center of the Republican party; and one need only look at recent polls from Va and NC to see that most of the country has moved on.
You do realize TX is perhaps the last major metropolitan state in our nation to be so overwhelmingly Republican right OP?
Nothing like some foreigner bagging on the United States.
Texas should just secede and all you s can go talk about the other "redneck" states.
palin is a worldwide joke.
The rest of the world can go themselves.palin is a worldwide joke.
But the new Amerika wants to be like all the rest so whatever.
I'm struggling to reply to this post because Ruff is uber sensitive but so much of that post is pretty crappy. Nothing will piss off Americans more than a foreigner telling us how bizarre and racist we are while putting stupid little laughing emoticons in the post.
I'm guessing I could find a few bigots of some sort in Australia. I'm sure they're just as representative of Oz as that Virginian is of America.
I can one up that. Nothing like some foreigner bagging on the US and making generalizations while admitting he's uninformed and laughing at you at the same time.
they're too busy laughing to themselves. so is bin ladin.
They can't themselves. Amerika will always come in and save them.
What makes Obama popular to the foreigners?
Because he is a self-hating Amerikan?
Because he can give good preacher like speeches thanks to Axlerod & co.?
Because he has done 20 months worth of extensive homework on.....the world?
Because, like all you European s...is a socialist?
Because he will be a citizen of the world and unite all countries?
Because he is Black and America is such a racist redneck country thanks to that hole cowboy Texas?
Let's let Amerika slip and be like all the rest over the pond. Yayy
Virginia has "moved on"
GOP Head Compares Obama to Bin Laden
Va. Party Leader Criticized, Including By McCain Team
By Tim Craig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 13, 2008; B01
RICHMOND -- The chairman of the Virginia Republican Party has compared Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden because of the Illinois senator's past association with Bill Ayers, who has confessed to domestic bombings as a member of the Vietnam War-era Weather Underground.
Virginia Democrats, and some Republicans, are outraged, saying these are the latest in a series of inflammatory statements that the GOP has made against Obama in Virginia, a state that has emerged as a crucial battleground in the election.
According to a report in this week's Time magazine, the Virginia party chairman, Del. Jeffrey M. Frederick (R-Prince William), told Virginia volunteers working for GOP nominee John McCain that Obama and bin Laden "both have friends that bombed the Pentagon."
"That is scary," Frederick said while providing talking points to GOP volunteers in western Prince William County as they prepared for a door-to-door canvass.
Several McCain surrogates have blasted Obama for his association with Ayers, but few, if any, have invoked bin Laden.
Yesterday, Frederick said he stood by the comparison, even though bin Laden planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon that killed 184 people and Obama was a child and hadn't met Ayers when the Weather Underground planted a bomb at the Pentagon in 1972. No one was hurt in that blast, in which a bomb exploded in a restroom and caused flooding and damage to computer tapes containing classified information.
Ayers did not participate in the bombing at the Pentagon but admitted to involvement in other blasts. He is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a community activist who lives in Obama's Chicago neighborhood. Obama has said they have had cursory interactions over the years, including serving on the same board.
Clark Stevens, an Obama spokesman, said Frederick's attack on Obama's relationship with Ayers "has been discredited and debunked time and again."
"The Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, like so many McCain supporters," Stevens said, "would rather lie about Barack Obama than make the case to the American people why Senator McCain's plans of continuing Bush's policies for another four years would be good for American families."
Gail Gitcho, a McCain spokeswoman, also denounced Frederick's remarks, calling them "not appropriate."
"While Barack Obama is associated with domestic terrorist William Ayers, the McCain campaign disagrees with the comparison that Jeff Frederick made," Gitcho said.
It was the third time in a little more than a week that Gitcho repudiated something said or written by someone affiliated with McCain's Virginia leadership team.
Last week, the head of the McCain campaign in Buchanan County in southwest Virginia was forced to resign after a column surfaced in which he made disparaging remarks about Obama, African Americans and gay people.
Last weekend, the McCain campaign distanced itself from McCain's brother, Joe McCain, after he referred to Alexandria and Arlington County as "communist country."
Joe McCain apologized, saying he was trying to make a joke. But Frederick is not sorry.
"It is just the hard facts. It's terrible that it can be said, but it can," Frederick said. "It's shocking. Here is a guy who is one step away from the presidency, who is one step away from being commander in chief, who has a friend who bombed the Pentagon. It's just shocking to me." He added, "And there is no denying that Osama bin Laden had a role in bombing the Pentagon."
Ayers once hosted a gathering for Obama when the candidate first ran for the Illinois state Senate in 1995. The two also served together on a nonprofit board that distributed educational grants in the city.
Obama has denounced Ayers's actions in the 1960s and 1970s and describes him as "a guy who lives in my neighborhood."
The independent group PolitiFact.com has called the GOP attacks on Obama for serving on the same board as Ayers "malicious."
"It unfairly tars not just Obama, but all the other prominent, well-respected Chicagoans who also volunteered their time to the foundation," PolitiFact wrote.
James E. Hyland, chairman of the Fairfax County Republican Committee, said he thinks that the GOP efforts to link Obama to Ayers could backfire.
"I don't think the associations with Ayers is going to work in Fairfax," Hyland said. "What we are looking for up here is answers on the economy, experience and impact of [McCain's and Obama's] policies on the federal workforce."
But Frederick said he will continue to speak about Obama's ties to Ayers. "This man simply is not ready to lead," Frederick said of Obama.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...201956_pf.html
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Frederick has nothing else to talk about, so the lying character assassination continues.
The Repugs are going nutz as their BottomGun Navyman's boat sinks and NO BAIL OUT in sight!
To be honest with you, the problem is more Bush than Obama/McCain. Clinton had a top notch foreign policy. I remember well, as I used to live outside of the US at the time. Bush, on the other hand, pretty much gave the middle finger to everybody, and proceeded to invade Iraq in what is mostly viewed internationally as just another land/oil grab from an imperialistic country. Even more so when WMD were not found.What makes Obama popular to the foreigners?
Because he is a self-hating Amerikan?
Because he can give good preacher like speeches thanks to Axlerod & co.?
Because he has done 20 months worth of extensive homework on.....the world?
Because, like all you European s...is a socialist?
Because he will be a citizen of the world and unite all countries?
Because he is Black and America is such a racist redneck country thanks to that hole cowboy Texas?
Let's let Amerika slip and be like all the rest over the pond. Yayy
Nowadays, Obama's play to try tie McCain as the continuation of Bush has played so far fairly well. It doesn't help when McCain says stuff like 'We have won in Iraq' or 'We'll stay there another 100 years'.
Anyways, just my 2c.
I would love for Ron Paul to become Pres. and just completely turn a blind eye to all things save the U.S.
"Let's let Amerika slip"
Already well in progress, aided and abetted by the Repugs and their johns the capitalists, financiers, corps.
Yes Boutons. The capitalists are out to get you. Let's get rid of them all.
Why do spell America with a k? Is there some significance?
"The capitalists are out to get you."
I'm thrilled you're coming around to reality. Now, Go Yourself.
It's getting close boutons. Just hold out a little longer. You're wet dream will soon be reality.
So, out of the THREE elections Ruff has followed, this is the most bizarre. Wow, that's INTERESTING. I'm so glad we have these foreigners with their deep sense of history going back eight entire years. What insight.
My dream is sufficient regulation on corps to stop them from ing us over, like the financial industry has done.
RBS was nationalized because it failed as a business, ing over its clients and investors.
Paulsen is going to (semi)nationlize lots of US banks for the very same reason.
But first and fastest, he saved AIG so his Goldman Sachs would be saved.
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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Yeah. Sad she has to look down and see her country getting weaker and weaker by the day compared to those who built it.
How does this apply to the nattering nabobs who loft their volleys of pretense from abroad?
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
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