Archive for October, 2008

Indiana Sec of State on Blacks and Dems: “Who’s the Master and Who’s the Slave?”

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

This is almost unbelievable. Almost…

During a speech Thursday at a Republican event, Todd Rokita said 90 percent of blacks vote for Democrats.
“How can that be?” Rokita said. “Ninety to ten. Who’s the master and who’s the slave in that relationship? How can that be healthy?”

More Here

Pelosi Strikes Back

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Pelosi’s Remarks on McCain’s Latest Tactics:
“In the final weeks of the campaign Senator McCain has intensified his fear tactics by calling one-party control ‘dangerous.’ He certainly did not object when Republicans were in charge of the White House and the Congress for six of the past eight years.

“Senator McCain has also changed his tune on my Speakership. In July, Senator McCain said that I am an ‘inspiration to millions…I respect Speaker Pelosi’ in a role that is ‘in many ways…more powerful than the president’ and that I am ‘one of the great American success stories.’

“The American people are looking for solutions to serious challenges our nation faces. Democrats will work in a bipartisan way to restore the American Dream by growing our economy, establishing our energy independence, increasing access to health care and higher education, and work toward responsibly ending the war in Iraq, all while restoring fiscally responsible pay-as-you-go budget discipline.

“That is why the American people are ready to elect Barack Obama as the next President of the United States and greater Democratic majorities in the Congress.”

Ridiculousness About Redistribution: Drudge and Others

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

In McCain’s last gasp at “victory”, he lunges for the “socialist” tag used so successfully against democrats since the Regan years. I think McCain is going to find that he wont have much success though. McCain still doesn’t realize that the economic crisis has finally made Americans aware of the economic imbalance that Republican policies have helped to create.

Discussing those failed Republican policies is a worthy conversation to have. However, McCain, Fox News and the Drudge Report are trying to tie a comment Obama made in 2001 to redistribution of wealth and ultimately paint Obama as a socialist. McCain like the republican party has simply run out of ideas.

Cass R. Sunstein Article:

In the last few days, the McCain campaign has portrayed Barack Obama as a “socialist,” and apparently the campaign and others are combing through Obama’s past statements to see if he has ever favored “redistribution.”

The latest ridiculousness, featured in a screaming headline on the Drudge Report and described under the title “Shame” on the National Review website, involves some remarks made by Obama on public radio in 2001.

In that interview, Obama was discussing efforts, in the 1960s and 1970s, to redistribute resources through the federal courts. Obama said that the Warren Court was not so terribly radical, because it “never entered into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.” He complained, not that the Court refused to enter into those issues, but that “the civil-rights movement became so court-focussed,”

Full Article Here

Update:
ABC News debunks the McCain campaign lies about Obama’s 2001 remarks on the constitution.

PI’s Actions May Have Violated Federal Voting Laws, Say Experts

Friday, October 24th, 2008
Four separate experts on voting rights have confirmed to TPMmuckraker that the behavior of a private investigator apparently hired by a New Mexico Republican party lawyer, that we reported this morning, potentially violates federal voting laws.

Read More @ TPM

Another GOPer Supports Obama

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Reagan Appointee and (Recent) McCain Adviser Charles Fried Supports Obama:

Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, has long been one of the most important conservative thinkers in the United States. Under President Reagan, he served, with great distinction, as Solicitor General of the United States. Since then, he has been prominently associated with several Republican leaders and candidates, most recently John McCain, for whom he expressed his enthusiastic support in January.

This week, Fried announced that he has voted for Obama-Biden by absentee ballot. In his letter to Trevor Potter, the General Counsel to the McCain-Palin campaign, he asked that his name be removed from the several campaign-related committees on which he serves. In that letter, he said that chief among the reasons for his decision “is the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis.”

Voices Behind Political Attack Ads

Friday, October 24th, 2008

It’s a guilty pleasure I know, but I love the voices behind the negative attack ads. The way these guys say “congressional Liberals” is awesome.

Voices Of Political Ads Share Insight – NPR

Ron Howard, Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler Want Americans to Barack the Vote

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Ron Howard, Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler revive Happy Days to explain why they support Barack Obama.

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

Not Only Are Liberals Un-American, But…

Friday, October 24th, 2008

For her own good, someone in the GOP needs to stop this woman from speaking. Or the GOP needs to re-think the candidates they attract. In the latest clip, Michele Bachmann says “not all cultures are equal.”