October 2008 Archives

As the McCain campaign sinks lower and lower in the polls, the level of their desperation grows greater and greater. Case in point, a mailer they are sending out in Virginia and Missouri which evokes memories of 9/11 and makes shameless accusations against Barack Obama. This is the front of the mailer: Inside is this. Notice the statement at the bottom:"Islamic extremists want our laws changed, our culture destroyed and our families converted. We don't....

UPDATED: In the latest episode in McCain's gaffe-machine-in-high-heels, cutsie smart mouthed Veep candidate, Sarah Palin, screwed up a question posed by a third grader this week.  When asked about what the Vice President does, she babbles about being the President's "team mate", blah, blah, and then makes the shockingly unconstitutional claim that the VP is also "in charge of the Senate".  In charge of the Senate?  You would think that in the 6 weeks since...

Two new polls released yesterday, one by Pew and one by NBC News/Wall Street Journal, show that John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate has turned into an unmitigated disaster. Her negatives are rising at an alarming rate and, if you can believe this, the list of voter’s biggest concerns about McCain’s candidacy now has Sarah Palin at No. 1, and continuing George Bush’s policies at No. 2. She is also losing...

UPDATE 2: It's well known that Republicans employ strategies to suppress the vote from minorities and the working class.  They do that because those groups of people normally vote for Democrats.  This year, the party has a major effort working to suppress votes.  Why?  Because the are losing.  And they are losing in key states.  The plan, here, is 2 prong:Keep as many people who may vote for Obama and Democratic downticket candidates from voting. ...

UPDATED: Interesting day yesterday.  It began with one of my posts chronicling another set of Republican lies about Obama, this time racist images from county GOP organizations in California.  The discussion progressed as usual during the day with some McCain supporters making racist, hateful statements all the while denying racism and hatred.  Later in the evening, however, the discussion took a nasty turn.One of my readers decided that he had had enough of free speech;...

I am so angry this morning I can barely steady my finger long enough to write this post. The blatant racism that has been unleashed by the Republican Party in the closing weeks of this presidential campaign, and particularly since Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama yesterday on Meet The Press, makes me sick to my stomach. First of all, it is as if the usual Republican suspects–Buchanan, Will, Limbaugh, Gingrich, et al, had their...

And it gets worse.  Here are graphics that were put up on the Sacramento, California County Republican Party website this week: No, this is not some fringe group putting out this kind of garbage.  It's the official website of the Sacramento County GOP.  Its chairman, Craig MacGlashan, defended the inflammatory content saying, "I'm aware of the content.  Some people find it offensive, others do not. I cannot comment on how people interpret things."Interpret things?  What? ...

As the McCain campaign continues it’s efforts to divide America, campaign spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer appeared on MSNBC yesterday and made the distinction between Northern Virginia, that would be the part of the state that Sen. McCain’s brother referred to as "communist country", and the "real Virginia", the part of the state that, according to Ms. Pfotenhauer, is "more Southern in nature." Here’s the video:    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GSX1bonB8U&eurl=http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/real-virginia/]   "More Southern in nature." A curious phrase. Whatever...

As McCain turns up the smear machine, now with robocalls made by the same firm that smeared him in 2000, his loyalists (the Lower IQ Wing) are getting angrier at his rallies.  Here's a video of a line of supporters going into a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania a couple of days ago to hear Cutsie Smart Mouth dish out some more slander.  It looks like a bunch of rednecks waiting to get into the local...

As I watched Chris Matthews interview Congressman Michelle Bachmann from Minnesota on Hardball last night I could not believe my ears. Surely no one this stupid could ever be elected to Congress. I immediately checked the calendar Nope, it’s not April 1st. Then I thought, this must be a parody, maybe a clip from SNL. Nope, it’s Friday night. The more she rambled reality finally hit me, this is for real. This is an actual...