Pat Boone: Hating the Gay

post from Crooks and Liars on 06 November 2007 03:35:20 PM. © Crooks and Liars

But he’s a good Christian man….Bill O’Reilly just can’t get enough of Pat… Download (571) | Play (414)PageOneQ:The Republican Party of Kentucky has created a robo-call advertising campaign featuring singer Pat Boone warning that the election of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Steven Beshear will put a governor in office who supports “every homosexual cause.”..read on

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John McCain Got The Message

post from Daily Kos on 06 November 2007 03:31:54 PM. © Daily Kos

In the race for the Republican presidential nomination, John McCain was once the undisputed front-runner. Then his support for amnesty for illegal immigrants earned him the wrath of the rightwingnuttery, otherwise known as the Republican base, and his lead in the polls disappeared, along with his fundraising. But in a party where candidate none-of-the-above has at times run stronger than the rest of the field, McCain retooled his message and is fighting back. In other words, Mr. Straight Talk Express has once again flip-flopped.

Granted, this is a man who has elevated pandering to an art form, but this time he has a noble purpose: he's doing it for "the people." Once a champion for a path to citizenship:

These days, when asked about the issue, he stresses border security first and says governors of border states should certify that their borders were secure before other immigration changes — which are still needed — are enacted.

Why the change of heart?

I understand why you would call it a, quote, shift. I say it is a lesson learned about what the American people's priorities are. And their priority is to secure the borders.

You've got to respond to the people.

Yes, John McCain is all about power to the people, right on. But that wasn't what he was preaching in July when he spoke out on the floor of the U.S. Senate against the Levin-Reed amendment, which would have set a timetable to bring our troops home from Iraq:

I have also listened to my colleagues on the other side repeatedly remind us that the American people have spoken in the last election. They have demanded we withdraw from Iraq, and it is our responsibility to do, as quickly as possible, what they have bid us to do. But is that our primary responsibility? Really, Mr. President, is that how we construe our role: to follow without question popular opinion even if we believe it to be in error...I am privileged, as we all are, to be subject to the judgment of the American people and history. But, my friends, they are not always the same judgment.

So, why is John McCain listening to "the people" about border security and ignoring them when it comes to Iraq? When he was learning his lesson about the American people's priorities, how did he happen to miss the fact that Iraq is a top priority, while border security is far down that list? It's simple. John McCain will say anything to secure the nomination, and if doing so means turning his back on an issue that he was once, "proud to support," well, hey, it's not like he's changing his religion, right? But because "unsecured borders," the new code for scary brown people, is the GOP red meat this campaign season, naturally McCain is willing to listen to "the people." As long as they're the extremists who will be voting in Republican primaries. The 65% of Americans who oppose the war in Iraq can go to hell.

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I think it’s a good day to donate to Dennis

post from The American Street on 06 November 2007 03:31:00 PM. © The American Street

Cernig covers the elements under consideration pretty thoroughly. I’ll add another note for[...]

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Better Villagers

post from Eschaton on 06 November 2007 03:29:00 PM. © Eschaton

Getting close to the 100K goal Donna Edwards....

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Is Richardson Backing Away from Nevada

post from MyDD on 06 November 2007 03:27:24 PM. © MyDD

Marc Ambinder reports today that there's a bit of a staff reshuffling going on within the Bill Richardson campaign, with staff being sent from Nevada to Iowa, but new staff also being added to Nevada. About 10 Bill Richardson campaign staffers in Nevada[...]

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Deep Thought of the Day

post from Eschaton on 06 November 2007 03:27:00 PM. © Eschaton

It is unlikely that the media would regularly refer to a President Hillary Clinton as "the commander in chief."

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Limbaugh: Teenager's testimony about global
warming "reminded" him of 1970s ad of "Crying Indian"

post from Media Matters for America on 06 November 2007 03:26:34 PM. © Media Matters for America

During the November 5 edition of his nationally syndicated radioshow, after airing an audio clip of part of the testimonyof Cheryl Charlee Lockwood, who said that she is a recent high school graduate and works in the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action program, before the HouseSelect Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, Rush Limbaughstated: "So, onceagain, it's theDemocrats exploiting a young child, ladies and gentleman, for the advancementof a political issue that will[...]

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Donna, and Us, Closing In...

As Jane Hamsher notes over at FDL, our joint online fundraising effort for Donna Edwards is only[...]

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U.N.: Blackwater contractors are
‘mercenaries.’

“Private security companies operate without supervision or accountability in war zones, including Iraq and Afghanistan, and represent a new form of mercenary activity,” according to a new U.N. report. As Spencer Ackerman points out, Blackwater CEO Erik Prince recently said that he didn’t like his employees being called “mercenaries,” which he coined “a slanderous term, kind of an inflammatory word [used] to malign us.”

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Dumb question of the day

Glenn (I should have been a singing lawyer) Reynolds asks:WHY IS THE WORLD MORE CONCERNED with[...]

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