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"I'm glad that woman in the audience [who shouted that Obama is a "nigger"] isn't running for President or Vice President"

I know right? I'm just glad the woman who WAS running for Vice President took a moment to address the comment as being completely unacceptable. Since she is oft known to address hecklers (real or perceived) when they interrupt her canned speeches.

Wait, what's that? She didn't?

Oh... well, never mind then. Carry on.





[Edited on October 27, 2008 at 4:51 PM. Reason : ]

10/27/2008 4:46:38 PM

haha this is who submitted the video to dailykos

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"Thanks everyone for putting this up on the rec list this is my first time ever posting a diary or being on there!(which is the main reason i forgot the tip jar..which my mom quickly reminded me to do just now).My Name is Jillian i am 17 a teen parent and im a volunteer for barack obama campaign sense December 2007.Im a avid phonebanker & canvasser here in california.Usually im to busy phone calling people to get them to volunteer to post anything... Thanks again!!"

10/27/2008 4:55:08 PM

Just came up in my Google Reader.

How many freaking skinheads is this to plot out killing 100 people?

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"AP reports: The [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree. In court records unsealed Monday, agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target an unnamed but predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads. An Obama spokesman declined to comment on the report."

10/27/2008 4:59:45 PM

Two. 18 and 20 years old.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27405681/

I posted it in Chit Chat.

10/27/2008 5:00:30 PM

fuck that skinhead bullshit

on http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

it reads

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"Even in states that Barack Obama seems unlikely to win next Tuesday, such as Mississippi and Georgia, African-American voters inspired by Obama may help elect Democratic senators, giving Obama a big Senate majority."

on its front page

c'mon now - he hasn't won yet

[Edited on October 27, 2008 at 5:07 PM. Reason : ]

10/27/2008 5:07:17 PM

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_NC_1027484.pdf

In North Carolina, Obama now only leads McCain by 1 point (49-48)

10/27/2008 5:17:38 PM

Battleground States Obama McCain Spread
Colorado 51.3 44.8 Obama +6.5
Ohio 49.9 43.9 Obama +6.0
Florida 47.7 45.8 Obama +1.9
Nevada 49.0 45.5 Obama +3.5
Missouri 47.0 46.0 Obama +1.0
North Carolina 48.8 47.3 Obama +1.5
Virginia 51.3 43.5 Obama +7.8

10/27/2008 5:26:09 PM

^^ and your point is.......

just think about this - you're losing so badly that when your Republican is only behind by 1 point in North Carolina that counts as a positive?

I don't think anyone on TWW, or any democrats in NC or the country have ever considered NC a "must win", and a win here would simply be icing on the cake. nothing more.


^^^^^, once again, i strongly fear for Obama's life. He will be lucky to make it through next summer without a serious attempt on his life.....

10/27/2008 5:27:27 PM

well...I'll be sure to cast my early vote for Obama tomorrow.

10/27/2008 5:27:44 PM

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"Name one instance where an Obama supporter did something like this."

Sarah Palin effigy hung in Halloween display

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"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An effigy of U.S. Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin hanging by a noose as part of a Halloween display drew complaints on Monday, but local officials said the homeowner was covered by free speech rights. A mannequin dressed to resemble the Alaska governor, with her trademark beehive hairdo and glasses, was hung by the neck from the eaves of the home in famously liberal West Hollywood. On the roof, a mannequin of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, protruded from the chimney surrounded in flames, holding his head as he was apparently burned alive."

http://www.reuters.com/article/sarahPalin/idUSTRE49Q79N20081027

The article also mentions some anti-Obama Halloween decorations. Idiots don't come in only one flavor.

Kainen - Do you have a link to that speech?

10/27/2008 5:29:56 PM

nm

[Edited on October 27, 2008 at 6:06 PM. Reason : not worth it]

10/27/2008 5:49:00 PM

^^You have a distasteful halloween display. There were two men arrested today for plotting to assassinate Obama.

10/27/2008 5:55:29 PM

But trying to argue that the followers of one side are somehow worse than the followers of the other is just idiotic. There are plenty of completely moronic low-life Democrats AND Republicans.

10/27/2008 5:57:45 PM

^^Are you suggesting those two 'men' are representative of Republicans/McCain supporters?

[Edited on October 27, 2008 at 5:59 PM. Reason : ]

10/27/2008 5:59:23 PM

no one is trying to make a comparison statement about McCain supporters or Obama supporters ok?

CAN WE PLEASE SPEAK OFF OF PARTISAN VIEWPOINTS for a second guys, it's just in general very fucked up and pretty scary. I honestly do fear for Obama's life if he wins.

and your link (@ 6:32)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF8ZGo_DBeQ

10/27/2008 6:02:02 PM

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"Court documents show that Cowart and Schlesselman said they "planned to drive their vehicle as fast as they could toward Obama shooting at him from the windows." " Both individuals stated they would dress in all white tuxedos and wear top hats during the assassination attempt," the court complaint states."

Is this serious?

10/27/2008 6:17:58 PM

LOL

Those guys are real scholars.

The equivalent from the "other side" is Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, whose goal was to kill 6 white people a day for 30 days, and then move on up to pregnant women, police officers, etc. They were nuts, just like these guys.

It's not a Republican - Democrat issue. It's a racism issue.

10/27/2008 6:53:12 PM

That seems about as credible as this seemed: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/03/AR2007060301380.html

But I wonder if there are others lurking in the wings.



[Edited on October 27, 2008 at 6:58 PM. Reason : ]

10/27/2008 6:57:46 PM

^LOL what the hell is that?

10/27/2008 7:02:39 PM

^ just a random GIF I felt was tangentially related to the current spirit of this thread.

10/27/2008 7:03:08 PM

i'm disturbed by the mannequins of Palin and McCain. i think the hanging one, especially, should be considered hate speech.

it invokes images of vigilante executions -- lynchings -- and that shit just aint right no matter who is doing it to whom. it should be stopped where ever it occurs.

10/27/2008 7:04:58 PM

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"Sarah Palin effigy hung in Halloween display"

why hasnt cnn/msnbc..ect reported on this


everything anti obama from mccain voters is put in the spotlight and condems the mccain campaign


vice/versa?

10/27/2008 7:11:22 PM

Money talks. And Obama has a hell of a lot more of it than McCain.

Is it really surprising that all these damaging "investigative reports" are coming out about Palin just a week before the election?

10/27/2008 7:14:34 PM

^^ I can't find it on Fox News now either.

OMFG LIBERAL MEDIA!!11!

[Edited on October 27, 2008 at 7:17 PM. Reason : ]

10/27/2008 7:17:33 PM

for anyone to suggest that the base of either party is anything like their respective fringe-radical counterparts shows how utterly and completely STUPID some people are.

10/27/2008 7:17:40 PM

^ http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/10/10/mccain_hammers_away_at_obamas_ayers_connection/

10/27/2008 7:18:59 PM

I said fringe. Not friends.

10/27/2008 7:21:58 PM

^ This then? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nTX-oJUCaU

10/27/2008 7:23:43 PM

All these negative "Unfit to lead" ads by McCain are ruining my light hearted sitcom viewing

10/27/2008 7:37:11 PM

do you really want to play the game where we go back and forth about various corrupt politicans from both sides of the aisle?

10/27/2008 7:40:44 PM

yes

10/27/2008 7:47:11 PM

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"All these negative "Unfit to lead" ads by McCain are ruining my light hearted sitcom viewing"

It's a sign you should be watching the Rangers game.

10/27/2008 8:14:04 PM

I was trying to, but my satellite was acting up

Luckily it's on now and politicians don't advertise on MSG!

[Edited on October 27, 2008 at 9:08 PM. Reason : And I don't care about your politics, but the Rangers should totally win this game.]

10/27/2008 9:07:34 PM

Aside from blowing a perfectly good 5 on 3 PP they have looked very solid all game.

10/27/2008 9:19:52 PM

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"That reporter is a GOP cuntbag."

Very eloquent. I'm sure Obama would agree. I would also agree that she asked him some tough, challenging questions.

My question is: Is this showing us how he will respond to anyone who asks him tough and/or "loaded" question--to ban them from access? Is he going to only allow friendly reporters to throw him softballs for his term? He has a pretty thin skin. I fear he would use the power of the gov't to squelch any vocal opposition.

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"...the idea that Obama's tax policies and ideas of 'wealth redistribution' are really not that radical, they just taper similar to Clinton's tax plans in the 90s where the wealthy get hit harder and the middle class get a tax cut."

Who got a tax cut under the Clinton tax plan that passed in '93?

Obama's wealth redistribution goal is not just harmless tampering around the edges. He wants more-- he wants a revolution in the way taxes are used.

He talks about "economic justice." He bemoans the fact that the Warren court couldn't get around the Constitution and carry out wealth redistribution.

Obama wants "Redistributive Change" That's the Change you're voting for. He doesn't want to spread the wealth to build roads. He wants to spread the wealth for economic justice. Is that what our Constitution and country is all about?

He will appoint radical judges & justices who will help him carry out this redistributive economic justice. A bullet-proof congress will help him on the legislative side. You can call it economic justice or socialism, or marxism. Whatever it is...it stinks.

[Edited on October 27, 2008 at 10:00 PM. Reason : .]

10/27/2008 9:59:21 PM

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"I would also agree that she asked him some tough, challenging questions. "

Who are you agreeing with? Yourself? Those weren't tough, challenging questions. That is giving the reporter entirely too much credit. Those were presuppositions in the form of questions designed to make Obama/Biden look bad. Did you know that reporter is married to a republican strategist? He probably fed her that stuff.

Is there anyone on the right here who has any fucking sense left?

[Edited on October 27, 2008 at 10:20 PM. Reason : .]

10/27/2008 10:16:18 PM

http://www.zooass.com/postcards/cards/dunk/

10/27/2008 10:25:44 PM

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"Those were presuppositions in the form of questions designed to make Obama/Biden look bad."

so what? Since when is it the media's job to make a candidate look good? Yeah, they were biased, challenging questions, who gives a shit? Do you really think the acceptable answer to "questions designed to make Obama/Biden look bad" is to ban access and cancel all interviews with that media outlet?

Let's get rid of all opinions that differ from our potential leaders in this country, good idea.

10/27/2008 10:28:50 PM

10/27/2008 10:43:28 PM

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"Let's get rid of all opinions that differ from our potential leaders in this country, good idea."

You got it! The Founders gave the Press their own special right in the Bill of Rights. The Press is supposed to ask pointed, biased, tough questions of everyone. They should approach everyone with aggressive, informed cynicism.

When asked tough questions, leaders should answer them. Not laugh them off and then send their hit squads out to attack and try to destroy the questioner.

Charlie Gibson should ask Obama tougher questions than "Are you taking Joy" from your campaign.

10/27/2008 10:56:00 PM

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"challenging questions"

lol

10/27/2008 11:04:20 PM

A two-fer.

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"Obama is so far ahead now, it seems the only way he can lose is if supporters screw it up. But, aha, Obama's supporters have a secret weakness. They're Democrats."

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"They're so far ahead in the polls, the Democrats, they are not thinking about the election. They're too busy shopping at Whole Foods for a big Obama victory party. 'Let's see, I've got brie, and free-range mushrooms and tofu. I forgot to vote!!!'"

--Craig Ferguson

10/28/2008 12:28:26 AM

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"--Craig Ferguson"

oh look, a liberal making fun of himself and Democrats. And guess what - we can all laugh at it.

you don't see many conservatives making jokes about themselves like that, now do you?

10/28/2008 12:32:48 AM

^ You'd better run along to Whole Foods--that tofu's not gonna buy itself.

10/28/2008 12:53:52 AM

^^ Not intentionally. O'Reilly did recently threaten a newspaper that captioned him as a "right wing pundit" into printing a retraction stating he was an independent. I thought that was a good laugh.

10/28/2008 1:09:30 AM

^That sounds like something that hooksaw would do.

10/28/2008 1:11:26 AM

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"You'd better run along to Whole Foods--that tofu's not gonna buy itself."

Be careful with that stereotype. My vegetarianism baffles most of my ACORN coworkers.

10/28/2008 1:15:41 AM

^ I was simply continuing the Ferguson riff. FTR, I have actually eaten arugula recently.

10/28/2008 1:19:00 AM

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"The Press is supposed to ask pointed, biased, tough questions of everyone. "

The problem is, West DID NOT ask tough questions of everyone and you fucking know it.

10/28/2008 8:04:19 AM

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"^ You'd better run along to Whole Foods--that tofu's not gonna buy itself."

Michael Pollan, who recently wrote an "open letter" to the next president concerning food policy in this country - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html - has brought up an interesting point w/r/t the whole elitist attitude at/towards Whole Foods, organic farming, and actually in general towards healthy eating. He notes that it's funny that it's considered snobby and elitist when people make an effort to "buy local" or shop at farmer's markets or from stores that buy from local farmers, which often end up being more expensive. The extra cost, though, is often going back to the local farmers who work on small farms and don't have the benefits of economies of scale, cheap labor, and government subsidies.

Then at the same time, it's considered populist to eat daily at McDonalds and buy as much processed food as possible from Winn Dixie, companies that get their food from gigantic industrial farms and feed lots, who steamroll over and buy independent farmers by the hundred, take as many gov't subsidies as they can get their hands on and still lobby for more, and hire illegal immigrants by the thousand to tend to their fields.

10/28/2008 8:24:56 AM