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Or do these assholes know what al Qaeda really wants, deep down? Kinda like the boobs on CNN know who my Waffle House waitress really wants to vote for?
I think in its heart of hearts al Qaeda really wants every kid in the world to have a furry, cuddly puppy!
That's why we must kill all puppies.
Why doesn't McCain trust Osama when he says he wants republicans to stay in power?
It's simply awful that this man used to run the C.I.A. I knew he believed in some strange, discredited theories surrounding the first World Trade Center bombing--but talk about a wishful way of interpreting inconvenient evidence! Yech.
Of course that was completely different because we were on Bin Laden's side then....
Maybe they should start a biz: Clairvoyants R US
The press & mainstream media is so biased for Obama, the chosen one, it is embarrassing. Anything that sounds negative about Obama quickly disappears and anything about McCain or Palin is headlined in the most negative manner possible. It is like high school bullies all over again. I cannot imagine how frustrating this is for McCain. No matter what he does, he is portrayed in a negative manner by the press & media.
Honestly, the blatant lack of (apparent) introspection on the part of conservatives is both appalling and unsurprising.
I'm surprised they didn't back O this time...McCain will certainly be better fodder for the anti-Americanism in the Middle East and the rest of the world.
Then there's "primitive" and like terms.
You might click on the highlighted phrase "as the CIA eventually concluded" in the third paragraph of the story above and go to a detailed analysis, for just one of MANY possible examples, of how that "librul" media ignored blatant proof of the many lies of the Bush Administration and, consequentially, failed us miserably. In case you're wondering, yes, it's the SAME "librul" media that you're so upset about.
As for McNasty and the Barracuda, I could give you a DOZEN storiesof Palin's corruption to McNasty's past associations that the MSM has failed to pursue.
Where are the headline stories about McNasty's links (he sat on their board) with the terrorist-supporting group, the U.S. Council for World Freedom, that did an end run around Congress to support the Contras in Central America. You remember them; death squads, nuns and priests killed for doing nothing more than try and help the poor (Archbishop Romero of El Salavdor killed as he said mass), links to a network of former Nazis, etc? How about his long-running friendship with G. Gordon Liddy? You remember him, right? Famously gave instructions over right-wing rant radio on how to kill federal firearms agents.
Speaking of associations, how about Palin and her husband's support for the Alaska Independence Party whose founder, Joe Vogler, once famously said, "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America and her damned institutions." They wanted Alaska to succeed from the U.S. Vogler refused to be buried in the U.S.
How about Palin't religious fundamentalism which would infer that she believes in the "end times"? A legitimate question given the possible influence that might have on her approach to the Middle East.
I could go on, but you get the point. Or, do you?
Bush administration has cultivated a new generation of terrorists with every one that gets killed.
An Obama administration will drain the swamp of polarization and hate on which Al-Qaida thrives.
That's it, and I'll say it over and over. This is the only kind of political discussion the right understands; a single, short sentence repeated ad infinitum. No more reasoned debate, no more pleas for civility, no more being careful with the facts. Just hit them over the head with the Al-Qaeda endorsement over and over and over until they shut up and go away.
Jimi G
"We're ready for your close up now, Sheikh bin Ladin."
Maybe the media isn't running negative reporting on Obama because there's not much negative to report. After all, when media make stuff up and we find out, we blame the media for not doing their job: think Judith Mitchell at the New York Times and all the water she carried for the Bush administration to convince us that war in Iraq was justified.
Don't blame Obama and his supporters for McCain's and Palin's follies in making their negatives so blatant. Who, after all, would claim to represent the middle class when all he has known is a life of wealth and privilege? Who would claim to be running an ethical campaign after putting into place the exact same personnel and tactics that smeared his far more honorable, year 2000 candidacy?
Who would call herself the new hope for American feminism after enforcing a policy, as mayor, of charging rape victims (mostly, if not all, women) the costs of the forensic kits (up to $1200 each) used to gather evidence in their cases? Who would claim to be vindicated of abuse of power allegations by an ethics investigation that concluded she had, as governor, abused her power by actively seeking--and allowing her unelected husband to pressure state officials--to fire her ex-brother-in-law? Is it that she is corrupt, or can she not read? After reading about Palin's income tax shenanigans--claiming over $21K of travel reimbursement for minor children who were not traveling on state business, as Alaskan law requires for travel reimbursement; claiming per diem from taxpayers for nights spent in her own home; not claiming travel reimbursement as income on her federal forms--most reasonable people would conclude the woman is corrupt, a tax cheat. Now we learn she has received $150K in clothing gifts from the RNC: how much do you want to bet she will neglect to declare the value of these gifts on her tax forms next year? Why, oh why, would anyone look at this woman and conclude, "There's the role model I want my daughter to follow"? What happened to living with integrity--making one's deeds match one's words--and following the law, yes, even the tax code to pay one's fair share?
Obama is certainly no messiah, but he has the virtue of integrity. His entire career has been dedicated to elevating the living conditions and social power of those less fortunate. If doing so has brought him into contact with people who espouse radical ideas, he has nonetheless remained unimpressed by those ideas: please notice that Obama is not the candidate out there singing "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran" or anybody else, no matter what he might have heard from Reverend Wright or "washed up terrorist" (McCain quote) Bill Ayers. In fact, Obama has condemned the violent ideas espoused by both men, and the fact that you don't trust his word on this says far more about you than it does him.
Yes, you're right about one thing: it's exactly like high-school bullies all over again, but it's the bullies of the right wing that are smearing Obama with lies and innuendos about his supposed "unAmerican" and "anti-American" character and policies. There is no credible evidence to support claims that Obama is a Muslim or an Arab or a terrorist while there is plenty of documentation to show that McCain has changed his positions on taxation and other issues and that his political stances, as revealed by his votes in Senate, more often support the George W. Bush agenda than they oppose it. McCain's campaign practices the politics of character assassination by raising unfounding concerns about Obama's character, but you are more charitably concerned about how McCain feels about Democratic challenges to his policy proposals that benefit the economy's supply side to the detriment of workers and consumers whose demand for products and services is the real engine of economic progress. Yes, you're showing that you understand bullying (NOT).
Fine, you don't want to vote for Obama: please be my guest and vote for anyone you wish. But at least use facts, not right-wing myth or wishful thinking or misinformation or rumor or gossip or smears or lies, to support your choice. We have rights in this country to informed opinions, not half-assed ones. It's your responsibility to improve yourself.
AIP = Al Qaeda of America
Do good for America -- vote Obama/Biden.
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endorsed by Al Qaeda, the real deal
note the lack of quotes on that second option.
The argument over who Al Qaeda supports in the US election is completely absurd and beneath the dignity of ANY candidate. You will learn a good deal about the candidates if in fact they even address this absurd notion.
The ONLY related issue for American voters should be -- What have the candidates said and actually done toward addressing Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and latter in Pakistan???
I do not think McCain's record is one that evidences effectiveness in that regard.
Note I did not mention Iraq -- which had ZERO Al Qaeda before the US action there. If we wanted to draw Bin Laden into Iraq, I would say that would have been a fantasy.
Anyway this is a crazy phase of the McCain campaign -- amazingly inept campaign, and it is interesting that without substantial issues and ideas in his OWN campaign his campaign really only revolves AROUND Obama's. Parsing your opponents words, lying about their words, these are the tactics of an idea-bankrupt candidate. McCain was a hero, but he is certainly not a hero in how he is conducting his empty suited campaign.
He apparently did not, since he spent most of his time flinging mud and misquoting and misunderstanding and misrepresenting Obama.
I used to be a Republican, I am an Independent who supports Obama.
I remain puzzled by the extreme and nasty views of anyone. In that regard, Palin killed any notion I may have had that McCain would make a reasonable President. I no longer believe that is possible given the evidence of he past several months.
On he other hand, Obama is reasoned and has largely run a campaign based on substantial ideas and integrity (although he pushed the envelope as candidate seem to). Te contrast between McCain and Obama could not have become starker in the past month alone. Obama is the statesman, McCain the loose cannon Senator who is best off when there are 99 other Senators balancing his weird uncle act.
That would be Colin Powell, right?
lol - I KNEW as soon as he endorsed BHO the rightwingers would finally hold him accountable for the BS of the pre-war propaganda. You wingnuts are so laughably predictable in your total lack of integrity and intellectual honesty. While obviously you never will be - you really ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
I do think Al Qaeda thrives on the image of an injust, toturing, corrupt, overzealous, ignorant US government. Bush gave us that.
A smarter more consiliatory... less impressionable.. more unifying government that would increase its allies instead of scaring them away would cause Al Qaeda a lot of harm. In fact, some speculate that the whole attack on the Twin Towers was to illicit a US response to get Al Qaeda on the map (as it clearly did).
Now McCain is surrounding himself w/Bush clones (Palin for example). It would make sense that Al Qaeda would love more of Bush. Bush has done waaaay more terrorism promotion and weakening of the US position world wide (Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, all US traditional allies are now hanging out w/Iran and Cuba) than any president possibly could.
Of course, one may also argue that it is just reverse psychology.