Tightening Race? My ass:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows Barack Obama attracting 52% of the vote while John McCain earns 45%. That seven-point lead is Obama’s largest in nearly two weeks. This is also the first time since October 11 that the Democratic candidate has reached the 52% level of support, his highest total of the year.
Come on 12 days!
When you preach the politics of divisiveness, you end up with stories like this:
LONGWOOD, Fla. -- The home of a Central Florida Republican headquarters manager was shot up and damaged over his support of Sen. John McCain, the man told police.
Rog Coverely said several pellets pierced his Longwood home. Coverely showed several spiderwebbed-holes in the front windows of his home.
The Republican manager said he is convinced he was targeted because of new McCain signs he added around his home.
The first thing that jumps out at me is that the victim is claiming it was done because of his support for McCain. There is no evidence of this, just his claims, and yet Drudge is pushing the story like this:
The key word missing there is "allegedly". There is no proof of this yet, just the victims claims. But lets assume this is the case, and I wouldn't be shocked if it was.
John McCain has had his campaign and surrogates out there pushing a message of hate. They have been called out on it countless times and even suffered the loss of some Republican supporters over it. These kind of actions are sure to follow McCain's message of divisiveness. Sure people might get pissed at Obama and turn that rage into action, but the people who support Barack Obama, a majority of this country, can also feel the pain and end up taking action against John McCain.
This is the exact reason McCain campaign rallies are such a dangerous breeding ground. The are inciting rage and that is the catalyst to violence. You would think a 72 year old veteran like McCain would know this, but apparently he doesn't.
Not anymore. A new McClatchy/IPSOS poll finds Obama is the strong on the family values issue:
On family values, a subject Republicans have used to court Christian conservatives and suburban moderates since the 1980s, likely voters now prefer Obama over McCain by 8 points. That's up from 3 points in mid-September.
Let's ignore the fact the John McCain's family values is having an affair with his current wife while married to his disabled wife. That was almost 30 years ago. Instead let's focus on this week.
Barack Obama leaves the campaign trail for two days starting tomorrow to see his ailing grandmother. Sounds like pretty strong family values - doesn't it? Well to us (and the normal people out there) it does, but the right has been rabid over this issue, donning their tin foil hats to come up with excuses Obama is going there. Family values don't have any meaning to these people, it's just a catch phrase. The American electorate has caught onto this game and now the Republicans are paying for it. That's going to help with our victory in 13 days.
If you ask the racist right they say its Barack Obama, but someone disagrees with that - al Qaeda. They are endorsing John McCain.
Or an abuse of campaign funds?
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.
The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.
The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.
Can we now stop saying she looks like Tina Fey? Tina Fey looks damn good and I'm sure she doesn't need to spend $150,000 a month to do so.
UPDATE:
And whatever happened to the days that getting a $300 haircut was such a crime?
If Sarah Palin was such a good leader then they would have no reason to play dress up with her. Instead they have to spend all this money to give the right wing idiots a boner. At least it was RNC money and not taxpayers money. Of course that would change if she become VP.
An absolutely devastating video by The Daily Show's Jason Jones shows what Wasilla is really like:
This is what Sarah Palin considers "pro-America" while giving all the larger cities, and their people, a big "fuck you". I wonder if all small towns want to leave America like Palin and her people? If that's the case then we have a real national security threat against us and John McCain is trying to aide it.
Why does John McCain think so little about old glory? Following a McCain rally, they decided to just drag the U.S. flag across the ground:
Joe the Plumber, John McCain's latest life saver has tanked in the polls.
Did we read that headline or hear that argument back when Lieberman endorsed McCain? No. But now we got all these right wingers out there claiming that Powell endorsed Obama simply because of race.
I find it really insulting to Powell to claim he would put the color of his skin ahead of the country, but that's exactly what racists like Pat Buchanan and George Will are saying. Of course pointing out the racist tone of their comments will lead to a massive outcry from the right, but if the headline read like mine a few months ago wouldn't they be making the same claims?
The hatred and violence promoted by John McCain and Sarah Palin continues:
Police in Caledonia are investigating the assault of a campaign volunteer as she was canvassing for Senator Barack Obama Saturday afternoon.
In an exclusive interview with 12 News, 58 year-old Nancy Takehara of Chicago says she was going door-to-door when she came across a disgruntled homeowner.
“The next thing I know he’s telling us we’re not his people, we’re probably with ACORN, and he started screaming and raving,” Takehara said. “He grabbed me by the back of the neck. I thought he was going to rip my hair out of my head. He was pounding on my head and screaming. The man terrified me.”
The man eventually stopped and the Caledonia police were called. Takehara was asked if she needed medical assistance, but she was not seriously injured. Instead, she says she was shaken up by the homeowner’s reaction.
These are the very people McCain has said publicly he is "proud" of. I believe it's time for our nation's leaders to step up and publicly denounce these actions. McCain's supporters are turning us into a third world nation and should be ashamed. They are acting as terrorists and maybe we just found a new use for Gitmo.
Let the spin begin!
Bob points out that on FOX, John McCain countered by touting his endorsement of Alexander Haig. Yeah - the same Haig that was Nixon's chief of staff during his final days before resigning.
Allegations of voter fraud by ACORN are being exaggerated according to election law officials:
Charges of potential vote fraud volleyed by Republicans, including Sen. John McCain himself, are out of proportion to reality, according to election experts.
The concerns raised by the Republican National Committee in daily conference calls with reporters, as well as by McCain himself in Wednesday's debate focus on the nonprofit group Acorn, whose nationwide voter registration efforts have garnered apparently fraudulent registration cards, some for fictional characters like "Mickey Mouse."
The news that the Obama campaign is going after McCain, the RNC and the White House for pushing these investigations is great news. Every cycle the Republicans cry voter fraud and it gets investigated then those claims are unfounded. Last time it resulted in U.S. Attorneys like David Iglesias getting fired. This meant our Justice Department became a political machine.
The Republicans really need to think about this. We are just over 2 weeks from a most likely Democratic super majority running our government. Do they want President Barack Obama politicizing the Justice Department like Bush has done - especially when oversight will be by his own party? You can bet if Obama pushes forward with an investigation after taking the oath of office, he will be ridiculed by the Right. He shouldn't let that go though, and our democracy depends upon a thorough investigation based upon fact and not politics. The fact that he is wanting investigations back to 2004 shows that he is serious about putting an end to Republican attempts at voter disenfranchisement once and for all.
Yet another mob mentality at one of those McCain/Palin rallies. Remember - these are the people John McCain is "proud" of.
Even when John McCain "set the record straight" with that old lady last week, think about what happened. When she said Obama was an Arab, McCain said 'no - he's a good guy". That statement by McCain alone was racist as hell. McCain was basically saying that Arabs are all bad. This is the kind of leadership that will totally destroy America. John McCain should have to clarify and apologize for what he said last week.
And this time we aren't talking about John McCain, but rather his running mate:
No wonder GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin harbors such hostility toward the mainstream media: her staff imposes limits on her access to it.
During a fundraiser here that raised $800,000 last night, Palin admitted that her aides often dissuade her from tuning into televised coverage of the presidential campaign.
Remember when Katrina hit and Bush didn't respond? A large part of the blame for that was due to Bush not watching the news. If Palin can't handle the news from the campaign trail, then how could she be expected to handle the news as vice-President, or even President? This is just another example of how unqualified this woman is to be President.
These McCain/Palin Republicans are getting out of hand. I think its time for a national police effort and sense John McCain is "proud" of these people, he should be the first one questioned.
