“I asked him some pretty direct questions,” he continued. “Some of the answers you guys are gonna receive — they appalled me, absolutely. I was angry. In fact, I wanted to get off the bus after I talked to him.”
Wurzelbacher said, “honestly, because the thought of Barack Obama as president scares me even more.”
While Wurzelbacher was critical of McCain during the interview, he had nothing but praise for his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. “Sarah Palin is absolutely the real deal,” he said.
Schulz stated that “as supreme law of the land, the Constitution is all that stands between freedom and tyranny.” He noted that “the Constitution is not a menu” and that we “do not get to pick and choose” which provisions and guidelines to follow, maintaining that the Natural Born Citizen clause was designed by our founders to “safeguard our nation from outside influence.”
“This has been a historical election, and January 20th will be a historical day,” Manning said. “However, the road to the office of president of the United States still runs exclusively through the womb of a white woman. There has never been a black womb which has produced a black president. As of today, unless you have a white womb, you cannot produce a son who will be president of the United States.”
“We don’t know who this man is,” he said, cautioning his fellow African-Americans not to accept this fruit of a white woman as their redeemer. “He’s no Booker T. Washington, I’ll tell you that. He’s no Martin Luther King. But he does possess the potential to be the most prolific con-man in the history of this country. It is my prayer that January 20th will not happen, that Barack Hussein Obama will not be inaugurated. This man has come from the womb of a white woman.”
virginialee Says:
December 7, 2008 at 7:21 pmMr. Korir,
I personally believe that it would not only be dangerous for you to accept the invitation, but it would be very unwise. It appears to me that they are trying to buy silence from you. PLEASE DO NOT LET THEM DO IT!
The tape and Imam document are extremely important! Please do not let anything keep you from keeping your promise to air the tape and present the Imam document! I BELIEVE THE FUTURE OF OUR OUR NATION, OUR FREEDOM IS AT STAKE, AND ESPECIALLY THE FUTURE OF THE TRUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. If Obama becomes our president, I truly believe the he will soon become dictator, will declare that our nation is Muslim and that Islam is the ONLY religion to be tolerated. There will be much persecution of true Christians.
PLEASE, MR. KORIR, RELEASE THE TAPE AND THE IMAM DOCUMENT AT ONCE AND HELP DELIVER US FROM THIS EVIL MAN!
The intent to air the Michelle Obama tape before the Electoral College meets on the 15th December to take a decision on Mr Obama’s eligibility to the Presidency may be hindered by CIA Operatives’ intervention in Oslo.
On the 15th of October, API broke the news on the now heavily discussed Michelle Obama tape. The discussion has become controversial in that it has divided the people who have paid great attention to the whole situation. It has reached a point where there are believers and non-believers of the existence of the tape and the Imam-Obama document.
We have not had reason to believe that the tape is going to change the political-sphere in America totally, and yet we are of no doubt that its release and contents will cause a political storm due to different groupings having strong vested interests.
Many readers have tried the best they could to direct API to release the tape because they believe it will impact on something. We have those who do not wish for the tape to be released because they want the political situation to settle down and make history with Mr Barack Obama as the first black man to rule America.
API’s stand in all this is to do the right thing for America and the American people. These divisions dictated by self-interests makes it less easy for API to have a clear road map. However, API has a duty to fulfill what the people have been promised for the last 48 days.
Facts are facts and sometimes it is painful to deal with situations so factually dictated as this one of the Michelle Obama tape. The situation cannot be buried underground especially after the Imam’s document on Obama was brought to light.
Obama was elected the US president on the 4th of November this year and is yet to be sworn in if the Electoral College chooses to ignore the facts so strong, that if not dealt with properly, may cause the nation to land into a constitutional crisis or accept to be led by a Naturalized US Citizen, if Obama continues to refuse to see the need to come out in the open and admit that things are not as it seems to be in favour of him taking over a constitutionally protected seat in the country, unless he produces the much needed document, and in that case his move in that direction would render the Imam document on him to be null and void.
Ours has been to bring the facts to the American people, but we have discovered that some readers are of the opinion that it is API’s duty to be in the forefront in producing facts that may bring to light who their president-elect is as concerns citizenship and where he was born.
Many have tried to bulldoze API to move quickly in contacting the Electoral College and even proposing that API should make a submission to the Supreme Court in the matter. API has no interest in US internal affairs but we can only lend an hand by releasing the information in our possession.
The US government has shown keen interest in all this but has chosen to operate behind the scenes in consultation with API in an effort to reach an agreement on how best to get the information out without causing discomfort to many people, and creating a situation that will explode and may lead to uncontrolled civil disobedience.
Many have not understood the pressure API has had to go through in over 45 days since the story broke out. The warnings by CIA operatives has not made things easier and so has their refusal to accept the copy of the tape and the Imam’s document-copy, only demanding to have the originals putting API into a re-thinking position in the whole thing. The CIA operatives have been given the final offer to listen to the original tape, but with the presence of API’s Chief editor and API’s Canadian Lawyer, but that has not been welcomed, instead the demand to have the original and to listen to it alone has been given the highest priority, a choice that API has refused.
API has been warned several times that going ahead to pursue the release of the tape and the handing over of Imam’s Obama document may cause the authorities to react in a way unpleasant to all involved. API sympathisers have impressed upon API to drop the whole thing and down the tools if API wants have its peace intact.
A solution has to be reached and action taken before the Electoral College takes their final decision.
To be able to do this, API has been invited to Canada for an urgent meeting with the Canadian Lawyer and two MBO representatives (US and Canadian).
According to agreements, Mr Phil Berg will represent the Chief Editor’s personal interest should legal matters arise, while the Canadian Lawyer, assisted - will handle all matters that may arise from the tape and Imam’s Obama document.
During the meeting in Canada a press release will be issued on plans ready to be effected by bringing a case to the Court against Fox News whereby API is demanding damages from the Network for the breach of agreement to Air the tape before and by the 4th of November.
Chief Editor Korir
From Hope to Action to Victory
Below the Belt: A Column by NOW PAC Chair Kim Gandy
November 19, 2008
It's only been two weeks since I stood in the drizzling rain and waited on line to cast my vote for hope and change. And the inauguration is still two months away, but already I can feel the shift. On Nov. 4, we the people elected Barack Obama the next president of the United States, and although he's not yet in office, the act of making history and setting our nation on a new course has already been uplifting.
Women played a key role in this victory, voting in greater numbers than men, and casting their votes for Obama in higher percentages than men in nearly every state. Young people, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic voters and LGBT voters added to the margin of victory with disproportionate support for Obama.
Now that we have an Obama-Biden administration to look forward to (honestly, Jan. 20 can't come fast enough), the terrible funk we've been in for the last eight years has become even more apparent. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were the opposite of hope. They were cynicism and fear and greed and destruction. Bush and Cheney wore the people down, sapped their spirit. They (and their "decider effect") are the reason people lack faith in government and the political process.
Overcoming the Decider Effect
The "decider effect" (named after Bush's infamous pronouncement that "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.") is circular in nature and hard to escape. That's because once an unscrupulous administration has convinced a majority of people that they can't make a difference - that their voices and votes don't count -- it becomes harder and harder for the people to find the will to challenge these deciders. And thus it gets easier and easier for the deciders to trample on people's rights, wage unnecessary wars, and make their rich friends and associates even richer -- with less and less danger of being challenged.
When that happens, people who aren't politically inclined in the first place completely check out, and those of us who live and breathe this stuff, well . . . we start to suffocate in such thin air.
Inspiration in the Numbers, Credit for Victory
Being a women's rights activist, or a social justice advocate of any stripe, can be pretty frustrating, even without a Bush or Cheney in office. For several decades, most of our work has been an uphill battle with precious few victories spurring us along. Instead of passing pro-active legislation and policies, we've found ourselves constantly fighting against legislation (and judges) that would restrict our rights rather than expand them.
After years of being constantly on the defense, who could blame us for feeling discouraged, defeated, and just plain tired?
But the possibility of electing a president who would work for the people built voter excitement this year. The ground-breaking candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama generated new interest and engagement, stoking the registration of more than 10 million new voters. That's one inspiring number -- 6.5 million more new voters than were registered in 2004. Importantly, 69 percent of first time voters chose Barack Obama in the general election.
There was a significant gender gap in this election, so women's votes were an important factor in Obama's victory. For example, Obama won 56 percent of women voters, while only 43 percent of women voted for McCain -- a spread of 13 points -- compared to a 51-48 percent women's vote for John Kerry over George Bush in 2004.
Women voters provided the Obama-Biden team with their margin of victory in four key states -- Colorado, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Indiana. It's not a surprise that all four states had strong women running down-ticket, including two winning female U.S. Senate candidates: Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Kay Hagan (D-N.C.).
Some other numbers that inspire, courtesy of The New York Times: young people (age 18-29) voted 66 percent for Obama; African Americans voted 95 percent for Obama, Hispanics 67 percent and Asian Americans 62 percent; gay, lesbian and bisexual people voted 70 percent for Obama. Unmarried women were 12 percentage points more likely than unmarried men to vote for Obama, while mothers of young children were nine points more likely than fathers to vote for Obama.
Furthermore, according to an analysis of exit polls by American University political scientist Curtis Gans, African Americans made up 13 percent of all voters, a two point gain over 2004, and the increase may be even greater, once final numbers are available.
The Washington Post reports that Latina/os helped flip several battleground states to Obama. Some 28 percent of Hispanics polled by the Associated Press said they were voting for the first time, compared to 12 percent for all first-time voters. And the new Hispanic voters backed Obama by 76 percent.
Hope Transformed Into Action
But enough with the numbers. Where am I going with all this? Well, that's a lot of people who made a real, concrete difference. And many of them were first time voters. Together we elected the first African American president. Together we elected a president and a vice president who have promised to stand up for women's rights and the rights of so many others who were ignored, exploited or demonized during the Bush years.
With this win under their belts, a whole new generation of voters is even more likely to remain engaged in the political process, helping to steer our country in a positive direction. And those of us who badly needed a refueling are ready to keep fighting the good fight for a while longer.
A day like Nov. 4 sure can make you feel good again, but it's only the beginning. The struggle for human rights, equal opportunity and justice for all is an ongoing, never-ending process. But it just got the infusion it needed in the form of hope transformed into action converted into victory. There will be other challenges ahead, but we can always look back to this powerful moment and remember that we can do it. We can take charge of our lives, and we can decide what our future holds. Finally, we are the deciders.
We'll see...I should be on their list so I'll post whatever super-secret info they email to their fans. I'm halfway expecting to need to send in UPC symbols for a decoder ring at this point...Most of our readers registered with us when we were having the Tripod site. The purpose of the registration was to be send a password to the link so as to log in when the tape is being released.
API will enable those who have not registered to do so tomorrow Saturday.
The MBOs that will release the tape will do so simultaniously. API plans to activate a link 30 minutes before the airing of the tape once the release day and time is scheduled by the MBOs in agreement with API.
Meanwhile, refresh your memories with the tape below:
Chuck Norris hates gays so much, when he saw the Boogeyman in his closet, he called him a fag!
Chuck Norris thinks anyone you love who is gay is going to hell and he's cool with that!
Chuck Norris posters have been masturbated to by many gay men, and he hates all of them!
Chuck Norris is so tough, he will kick the ass of any gay person so gay as to try to assert any gay legal rights when their gay lover is in medical trouble!
Chuck Norris is good at kicking people, and he thinks that any child with gay parents is fucked because of how gay the kid's parents are!
Chuck Norris's religion is so butch, he thinks it gives him the right to impose his own cramped and inhumane morality on people he doesn't know!
Chuck Norris is so strong, he thinks the will of the majority should absolutely prevail over the rights of the minority, even when the minority loses by like a 4 percent margin!
Chuck Norris reads his own press, and apparently also the nonsense on the internet about how cool he is, and this has led him to believe that he is something else besides a halfway intelligent bigoted fucknobble!
Spears told KATU-TV about the scammers' ability to identify her relative by name was persuasive.
"That's what got me to believe it," She said. "So, why wouldn't you send over $100?"
$100 is one thing, but "she mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car, and ran through her husband's retirement account." Because they said her millions were "guaranteed."
Folks, if you learn one thing from this site, it is that people who expect to earn your trust through veiled internet communications and "official" foreign documents are probably full of shit.
It appears Barack Obama was not properly vetted after all.The link there goes to a story in a UK publication in which a reporter covering the political implications of ethanol discovers a backwards ass hick in ButtFuck, Missouri who repeated a claim he heard through the Rapture grapevine about Obama being the Anti-Christ. Being from Missouri and having traveled through quite a bit of the state, this comes as no surprise to me, but for the British news source I guess this manager of an ethanol plant and his crazytalk holds a great amount of creedence...
http://africanpress.tripod.com/id27.html
API is not sitting down saddened of any event that led to WordPress taking API down. The owners of WordPress have the right to do what is best for their company.
We sincerely thank them for having let us use their site for over 2 years without question.
We do not blame them for what has happened because we have to respect that they have rules that we may have violated time and again.
We in API will go on with the march until we accomplish our aims on the Obama tape, and the birth certificate issue.
The challenge we have gone through the last weeks has been useful for us in many ways and that usefulness will lead us straight to victory.
Those who wish to know the date and time the tapes will be aired may sign their emails on the site mail register provided on the front page near the guestbook. We will require the correct email and telephone number so as to verify by phone that we are releasing information to the right people.
API will have WWW address ready in a few days from now. A very professional designed site that API will enjoy using and from the launching day which is in a few days, we will be independent and will have no worries of anybody trying to bully us.
Readers with businesses will be able to advertise on our site and onward we will march with you and get the truth about the issues we have so much devoted ourselves to.
We will not be releasing any information to anybody between now and the date of the tape release unless we are very sure the person is not ill motivated. It is therefore no need to ask for any information from us before that day has come and gone.
However, those who give us both email and phone numbers will be exceptionally treated.
For the Chief Editor.
Think of the exceptional treatment you'll get by giving them your bank account and social security numbers! Signed autographs from Chief Editor Korir himself! A birthday card with your name on it every year, ON YOUR BIRTHDAY! And $5,000,000 USD from a Kenyan Prince who tragically died in a car crash and has no next of kin!
Yeah, and I can't wait to see their "professional" website...they've gone from Wordpress to Tripod, what's next, Geocities? AOL? MySpace?!?! I'm giddy with excitement for API 2.0!
The Michelle Obama tapes has caused many people to have sleepless nights. Most of them used there time to get adverts in API site which was then hosted by Wordpress.com. The enemies managed to fool wordpress and got their way by wordpress' reaction closing us down. Now that we have passed that stage, we want to assure the readers that the tapes will see the light. It has been a rough road but one that we will not fail to work to the end.
All readers know what happened those days. Due to the developing events caused by those who have managed to infiltrate API and the high tech interference by parties who are working hard to stop the airing of the tape, I had an urgent telephone conference meeting with counsel on the 13th of November who has approved the following text for publishing so that the readers were made aware of the situation in order to understand and appreciate what we were going through.
—————– Here below is the text approved by Counsel .—————
“I spoke with our counsel, who drafted and signed the MBO contract on our behalf, and he advised me that, in his opinion, both parties to the contract are respecting both the intent and the letter of the contract. He reminded me that the terms and conditions of the contract are and will remain confidential and that the name of the MBO will be known only when it announces the airing or airs the cassettes. API will not publish any information on the airing times and details until authorized to do so by the other party to the contract. MBO will be the first to announce the airing of the tapes. The only thing API can say, have said and will say is that it has entered a contract with a MBO.
Counsel is of the opinion that the decision as to the actual date and time of the airing should be left to the MBO, since API’s legal rights are fully protected. This contract was entered in good faith by both parties. Basically, the MBO is the one who will decide, in good faith, the actual broadcasting dates and postpone them, if required, in keeping with the spirit and letter of the contract.”(approved by counsel, name withheld at counsel’s request)
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Due to the circumstances of the day it became necessary to have an additional paragraph to the main contract, whereby API’s Counsel opend for MBO to be able to come with a surprise announcement as concerns the actual date and time of airing of the tape in order to avoid the infiltrators from succeeding in their pressure on the MBO aimed at cancellation of the tape broadcast. The additional paragraph to the contract by API counsel states:
“Basically, the MBO is the one who will decide, in good faith, the actual broadcasting dates and postpone them, if required, in keeping with the spirit and letter of the contract.” (approved by counsel, name withheld at counsel’s request.”
The above change is meant to enable the MBO to decide the date within the framework of the main contract, specifically in accordance with already agreed time schedules. If MBO decides to postpone the airing dates other than follow any specified dates, API must be consulted by Counsel immediately and given the opportunity to agree or reject any proposed postponement by MBO.
We can confirm that the infiltrators have succeeded in getting inside information on the tape and the Imam document, but have not yet succeeded in stopping the airing of the tape as yet.
We hope that the readers will get the point - if supportive of API’s intentions to have the tape out, will understand why this kind of action had to be taken immediately in order to avoid a repeat of what happened between Fox News Network and API’s agreement on the airing of the tape before the Presidential elections on the 4th of November.
Now that the release seems to be around the corner, Counsel will come with an update if required.
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Chief Editor Korir/ African Press International
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By Andrew Levy
Last updated at 2:02 AM on 13th November 2008
They probably expected a goody bag of some sorts as a going home gift after the primary school trip to Sainsbury's.
But what the 42 children - not to mention their parents and teachers - did not expect was to be given a book with explicit illustrations of sexual positions.
And the advice under the dozen drawings, which feature in a section about saving water by 'bathing with a friend', reads: 'Save water. Have fun. Just get out before everything becomes wrinkled.'
Other inappropriate suggestions in the £5 book from Sainsbury's - whose advertising slogan is Try Something New Today - include encouraging readers to shave in intimate places, streaking, talking to strangers and handing out your phone number to five people on the street.
Inappropriate: Two of 12 ways that children were shown how to 'have fun in the bath' in the Sainsbury's leaflet
The book, entitled How To Change The World For A Fiver, was mistakenly given to the Year 4 pupils, aged between eight and nine, from Burton End primary, Suffolk, during a visit to the supermarket in Haverhill.
The blunder came to light only when a father heard his daughter giggling with friends as they flicked through the pages.
Engineer Andrew Dodd, 37, whose daughter Laura is eight, said: 'I was furious. It was extremely inappropriate and irresponsible to give to children.
'On the "Having Fun in the Bath" pages there were little drawings of about 12 sexual positions.
Explicit: Readers were encouraged to save water by ‘bathing with a friend’
'But the worst bit was where it encouraged you to go and talk to strangers. It's the opposite message to what you should be giving to kids. I don't think the school realised what was in the book.
'The teachers were as horrified as we were when they saw it.
'Laura thought it was funny but thankfully she didn't really understand it.'
A Sainsbury's spokesman said: 'This was a well-intentioned mistake. It is a very nice book about how to make the world a better place but it is not targeted at children.
'The books were given to store staff by head office because they mentioned the company's positive environmental activities.
Blunder: Sainsbury's said they made a mistake giving children the book, which also encouraged readers to shave intimate places, streak and chat up strangers
'A few spare copies were left over in the store which were given as presents to the visiting children.
'The cover looks like a kid's book. This was a mix-up and we would like to apologise for any distress caused. It certainly won't happen again.'
But Nick Seaton, of the Campaign for Real Education, criticised Sainsbury's for not making basic checks before handing out the books.
'This would be offensive to some adults, let alone children,' he said. 'This wasn't a mistake. It was an unacceptable failure on Sainsbury's part.
'Young minds are the most malleable and this incident has robbed a large number of children of their innocence. They should be ashamed.'
The book was produced by a company called We Are What We Do, which says its mission is to inspire people to change the world one small action at a time.
It also produces children's version of How To Change The World For £5 which is called Teach Your Granny to Text and has been sent to primary schools across the country.
Sainsbury's is sending Mr Dodd's daughter a £30 voucher to spend in the store.
Adults only: Sainsbury's said of Change the World for a Fiver: 'It is a very nice book about how to make the world a better place, but it is not targeted at children'
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A few key comments:
Are my children safe in this country? Can I ever hope to protect them either from irresponsible adults, or unsuitable literature and education? What about the people who are not shielded and protected from these crass edu-leaflets we keep seeing or hearing about? They pose a real threat to decent people by lowering societiy's morals and expectations. No wonder teenage pregnancies and STDs are on the rise when it's accepted that this behaviour is almost the norm.
Whatever happened to common decency??
- ******, UK, 12/11/2008 18:03
very inapprropriate! why not severly punish those responsible to set a precedent and example to deter others from fragrantly violating the inocence of vunerable and impressionable young children. why can't we protect our children from deviants, molestors and violence?
- ***********, warrenton,virginia usa, 12/11/2008 18:25
and then...
What are the other six positions? Purely for research purposes, you understand...
- *********, UK, 12/11/2008 11:02
ahh...that normalizes things a bit now doesn't it? back to saving the world, thanks :)
There are two reasons: 1) She’s attractive. For better or for worse, people listen when pretty girls talk, no matter what nonsense may come out of their mouths. 2) Incompetence, by itself, is not entertaining. However, when the incompetent are supremely self-confident, full of certitude, and absent of insight, it’s absolutely compelling.
A large gang of militant perverts has attacked a church congregation in Lansing, Michigan...
over 30 of them showed up in force [Sunday]. Wearing secret-service style ear pieces and microphones they received the "go" from their ringleader and off they went.
Prayer had just finished when men and women stood up in pockets across the congregation, on the main floor and in the balcony. "Jesus was gay," they shouted among other profanities and blasphemies as they rushed the stage. Some forced their way through rows of women and kids to try to hang a profane banner from the balcony while others began tossing fliers into the air. Two women made their way to the pulpit and began to kiss.
Their other props? I'll let them tell you in their own words… from another of their liberal blogs:
"(A) video camera, a megaphone, noise makers, condoms, glitter by the bucket load, confetti, pink fabric…yeh."The horror...
I think I may have found the jackpot.Posted By: Andre
Date: 2008-10-31 18:14:01Barack Obama is a fucking Illuminati build to destroy the governmnet and implement the New World Order. Barack Obama is a puppet of the devil.
Dont vote at all. Live out your life without the needs of the slavery out of the Illuminati.
Amy Grant
Above: Believe it or not! Here's Amy Grant, on the Michael W. Smith, In Concert (Reunion Records, 1985) video tape flashing the "Satanic salute." Amy deliberately flashes the "Satanic salute" at least two separate times on the video, displaying it for several seconds. Amy is promoting Satan. There is a definite spirit invoked in rock music, secular or Christian - and it's NOT the Holy Spirit! And many times, people involved in rock music get "caught up in this unholy spirit"!
We have time but not much time to still force Obama to present the original vault copy and have a team of forensic scientists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensics make scientific tests that are accepted by courts, to insure that the BC was produced on or around 1961 when Obama was born. This would prove to all that Obama was or wasn't a native born American. IMO, all debate, but not all legal action (lawyers want the big bucks involved), should stop by all fair-minded people whether pro or con ObamaSo from there it's a lot of paranoid ramblings about sending every elector a letter and copying 3 other people, sounded kindof like a chain letter really.
With your help, we can stop the government and banks from taking peoples' homes away. We can stop our elected officials from selling our children into debt with our enemies. We can help each other far better and faster than the government has ever been able to.
Please join me in taking back our country from the elites in Washington by selecting a registration option to the right
We should all be proud today, that in one very heated election, Bacon won out over Fries.Unfortunately, he was so bitter he sent this back:
http://data.denverpost.com/election/results/state-senate/2008/district-14/
This was my reply:It's a sad day for this country. I hate it, but there is abosolutly nothing I can do about it.With a democratice strong hold on Senate, Congress and the Presidency we are in big trouble. We will be a socialist country before you know it!!!!!!I just hope we get our act together before 2012. 8 years of Obama stuff will send us farther in the celler than we can afford!I guess I better get ready to support the lazy more than I already do.
well, i just tried to make a little joke to lighten the air around what i'm sure is a disappointing day for you, but i see you'd rather be a sore loser.
i'm disappointed in you. instead of being proud to be an american, proud to live in a country where racism can be defeated and a black man can be elected president, proud to be part of a democratic process that by all accounts went extraordinarily well, and proud to be a country that the entire world is watching and offers it's support for and admires for our ability to make broad political changes without mass rioting and violence, you have instead decided to be sad for our country, and continue to hold onto pathetic, empty name-calling and baseless attacks. clearly you've missed the point, and you've ignored the hypocrisy from your own party.
i don't think you understand what socialism is, and you clearly have chosen to ignore the social policies that john mccain and sarah palin have themselves supported which also "redistribute" money. it's part of the economy, and if you're so lame you can't possibly bear to have any of your money go to help anyone else, you live in the wrong country. and to say that social programs only benefit the lazy? well, i hope you never get laid off, never get too sick to work, never struggle with paying for healthcare and housing, and can always afford to take care of your children. you better have real good luck if you don't want to fund social programs, [name removed], and you better never need help yourself.
maybe it's easy for me to realize that because my guy won, but think about how we got here. one guy ran a race where he encouraged booing and name calling the entire time, and even when he conceded his supporters could not muster up enough grace to put aside their negative attitudes to congratulate their new president. the other guy ran a race based on hope, courage, and the ability to make a difference, and had 100's of thousands of people showing up to rallies and spread positive messages instead of attacks and fear.
time for a wake up call, we're not talking about handouts and obscure political ideals....this is about doing what's good and right for all the american people, and moving the country to a place where we can all prosper. you might not agree with every plan obama has, but you better agree that he's the president and if you want something done it's going to have to get done through him. he's made a promise to be your president too, will you take him up on that?
Dansac has already introduced you to today's version of the story, but I feel compelled to revisit an earlier call on this in order to restate a now obvious theme: Sarah Palin is The Chiseler Supreme.
What a really, truly unpleasant experience has been our exposure to the two insta-celebrities created by the McCain campaign. These two grubbers, Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin, became the perfect symbol for everything that was wrong with and ingenuine about modern Republicanism.
Joe griped endlessly about taxes even as it turned out he was ducking them, and groused that Obama's "socialism" would mean there was no incentive to work hard and succeed in earning more than $250,000 a year, even as he shopped around for an agent and a Nashville recording contract. (And excuse me -- what?! A recording contract? Based on what, Mr. Hard Work?) Meanwhile, there was Sarah griping about pork and wasteful spending even as she tried to rip off the Feds for the Bridge to Nowhere, rip off the state for her per diem, and rip off the campaign for her clothes (and her husband's, and her family's).
Yes, in the few short weeks we knew her, Sarah Palin turned out to have more hands in more pockets than we could keep track of. She and Joe were the perfect pair. Instantly famous but for no good reason, pushy, greedy, and all the while cheating behind the scenes, and cheating on the very issues about which each of them complained that regular Americans were getting a raw deal from the elite.
Good riddance. I get enough of that crap from Reality TV as it is.
It's like a whole election nearly went down the wrong pipe. Thank God the country coughed them back up.
Right-wing blogs- To say they ate their seed corn is to wildly underestimate the damage they have done to their online presence, because if you just ate your seed corn, there would at least be a short-term benefit. More accurately, they chewed up their seed corn, spit it out, stomped on it, defecated on it, then grabbed it and smeared it on their chests to form the words “WHITEY TAPE.” These idiots spent the last six months chasing the whitey tape, questioning his patriotism, calling Obama a Muslim, panty-sniffing for an Obama affair, calling Obama a terrorist and socialist and you name it, and the country shrugged. Any future Republican campaign will need to rely on the “intellectual” arguments of thoroughly discredited propaganda organs like the Weekly Standard and the NRO, and we now have six months worth of their stupidity on file to throw in their faces and discredit them in the future. I am dying for the next time Andy McCarthy or one of these losers is brought on a cable show to advance a Republican position. Just dying. Good luck with the “next right,” folks.
Ayers, now an education professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, said he thought the accusation by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin that Obama had been "palling around with terrorists" was absurd.
"Pal around together? What does that mean? Share a milkshake with two straws?" Ayers said. "I think my relationship with Obama was probably like thousands of others in Chicago. And, like millions and millions of others, I wish I knew him better."
Even robots love Obama
You know you've tapped into a cross section of America when even the robots come out in your support. The $250 ObamaBot stands 6-feet tall and regurgitates stump speeches by the president-elect while presumably cleansing the Earth of any naysayers. ObamaBot's University of Florida creators see the world as so imperfect, that they'd prefer to pal around with robots who would target their own planet. Run little girl, run... change is coming.
[Via The Wired Campus, thanks Egloskerry]
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (CNN)– At first, many people thought it was a trick question.
“You want me to say something good about who?” said Christine Graham, 43, of Arapahoe County, Colorado.
But it wasn't a trick. It was just a small attempt, in the final days of a presidential campaign that has at times been vicious and brutal-spirited, to, as they say, bring the country together.
“But I’m for John McCain," Christine Graham said.
That’s fine. McCain has your vote.
But, knowing that you’re not going to change your mind, Mrs. Graham, say something good about Barack Obama– something that you truly believe.
She hesitated.
“Well. . . .” she said.
She paused for a few more seconds, and then said:
“He’s a dreamer. I think he probably wants to make life easier for people.”
There. Easy as that.
Joel Michel is an Obama supporter.And you, Joel Michel, 53, of Kansas City.
You say you’re going to vote for Obama?
“Yes.”
Good enough.
Now say something good about John McCain.
“Seriously?”
Yes– something genuine that you like about him.
“He seems like a nice guy,” Michel said. “And his war record, of course. The heroic aspect of him.”
Anything else?
“He seems like his own man, not so much a part of the Beltway,” Michel said. “And I think he really wants to get rid of those nefarious lobbyists.”
We were noticing something as we did this: The people, whether they supported McCain or Obama, seemed to be in a little better mood– in an observably more pleasant frame of mind– after they were urged to say something nice about the other guy. During a campaign year that has consisted of so many raised voices and ugly charges, they seemed to like this.
Jim Keeney is a McCain supporter.Jim Keeney, 57, of Chillicothe, Missouri, strong supporter of John McCain: Say something good about Barack Obama.
“He‘s one of the best speakers I‘ve ever heard,” Keeney said. “He’s got youth going for him. And I think Joe Biden is a good man– I kind of wish Biden was running with McCain. So I can say something good about his vice presidential pick.”
How’d that feel, saying that?
“Good– but you know I’m still voting for McCain, right?”
Of course.
Now, Dave Fiala, 47, of Howells, Nebraska– you say that you’re an Obama voter?
“I am.”
Tell us something you really like about John McCain.
“What that man has been through– his war record in the military– how could anyone not respect that?” Fiala said. “And I think he’s genuine about his feelings. He genuinely believes that what he wants to do for the country is the right thing. But mostly I come back to how he handled terrible adversity– what he has been through, and where he has gotten to. I certainly have never been through anything like that. I’m not going to vote for him, but he’s a man I would enjoy meeting and talking to."
Mikki Huxtable, 46, McCain voter from Liberty, Missouri– say something good about Obama.
“He‘s a really good family man,” she said. “He’s a momma’s boy, and I say that in a good way– he cares about the moms in this country, because he was raised by his mother and his grandmother. He stopped his campaign to go visit his grandmother because she’s sick. I have a son who I wish was as much as a momma’s boy as Obama is. I wish he would depend on me more."
Trisha Brewer is a Canadian citizen…but still has something nice to say.And you, Trisha Brewer, 33– you say you like Obama.
“Yes, but I’m not from the United States– I live in Victoria, British Columbia."
That’s all right. Since you like Obama, and would vote for him if you could, try to think of something nice to say about McCain.
“He’s very American," she said. “It's very obvious to me that McCain really does have America’s best interests at heart."
Mike Cohany, 45, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, John McCain voter– sorry to interrupt your evening, but can you say anything good about Barack Obama?
“He's energetic, he's charismatic, he‘s fresh, and it's clear that he believes things can improve,” Cohany said. “He's very poised in how he carries himself, and there’s no question he’s very intelligent. I’m into sports, and I read about how he likes to hang out with the guys to play basketball. He’s not going to get my vote, but, now that you ask, I think he’s a guy I would enjoy having a conversation with."
Junior Word, 33, of Knoxville, Tennessee– you say that Obama definitely has your vote?
“Yes. No question about it.”
Please say something good about John McCain.
Pause.
“He’s a believer. When he sets out to do something, he does it because he really is convinced it’s the right thing. I don’t agree with his policies, but I know that he is a true American.”
This just might catch on. In these last days of the campaign, this might start something– in city after city, in state after state, people might make themselves feel better by looking for the better side of the man they oppose.
Right.
But admit it– it beats what we’ve been hearing all year, doesn’t it?
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