It's Evil to Remain Ignorant

post from Everyday Citizen on 10 September 2008 04:34:31 PM. © Everyday Citizen

An excerpt from Restoring Hope by Cornell West:Cornell West - We've got a lot of male supremacy and[...]

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Sarah Palin And The AIP: Not So Fast With The
Exonerations, Please

post from Firedoglake on 10 September 2008 04:32:39 PM. © Firedoglake

It?s now become conventional wisdom that Sarah Palin had nothing to do with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party and is therefore clear of any associations with them. As usual the CW is crap.[...]

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Midday Open Thread

post from Daily Kos on 10 September 2008 04:30:57 PM. © Daily Kos

Today Atrios' coveted "wanker of the day" award goes to Jonathan Weisman for his extraordinary effort to be fair and balanced when reporting on John McCain.

It seems that we've been fighting the wrong war for the past seven years:

Calling them "more clever than al Qaeda in many respects," a Department of Homeland Security official said Tuesday that bureaucrats are the "No. 1 killer in the United States."

"Most of the time, every day, I spend most of the bullets in my single 30-round magazine that I bring to work every day shooting into the backs of our own bureaucracy trying to clear a field of fire," said Robert Stephan, DHS assistant secretary for infrastructure protection.

John Aravosis has the latest news on Proposition 8, California's anti-gay ballot initiative that will be voted on in November.

Perhaps the Obama campaign can use this idea for a response ad...pedophiles have a friend in John McCain:

Regulation. It's what Democrats do. Now, their candidate, Barack Obama, wants to initiate a policy that will drive our nation's hard-working pedophiles out of business. Yes, it's true. He wants to teach children the difference between "bad touching" and "good touching." Such a policy would no doubt wreak havoc throughout the pedophile community.

Thank God, John McCain is there when America's pedophiles need him most.

Ron Paul says that he turned down Phil "nation of whiners" Gramm's request that he endorse John McCain...not that he's endorsing Obama.

Media Matters looks at how much "deference" we can expect from Charlie Gibson when he interviews Sarah Palin.

John Cole's take on liars:

As has been discussed before, there is no downside for lying for the GOP. They lie about anything, and never pay a price, so why not accuse Obama of wanting to teach sex ed to kids so young that they can not yet read ? Some moron somewhere will see it, most likely on one of the Cable tv shows as they play it repeatedly for free, and not from seeing it during an actual ad buy, and then will miss the repeated debunkings. Then, for the next 30 years, it will be another one of those zombie lies that never dies.

After slamming Cuba, Hurricane Ike is gaining strength and heading towards either Texas or Northern Mexico. Stay tuned.

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Bauer Exposes McCains Active Crafting Of GOP
Platform

post from Crooks and Liars on 10 September 2008 04:30:20 PM. © Crooks and Liars

PfAW’s Right Wing Watch:On Tuesday, Focus on the Family released audio of a special James Dobson radio program, recorded last Friday after John McCain’s announcement that Sarah Palin would be his running mate. Containing analysis of the decision from Tony Perkins, Gary Bauer, Tom Minnery, and Kelly Shackelford, the group of right-wing heavyweights discussed [...]

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Andrew Sullivan: McCain Repeatedly Chooses "Evil"
Over "Good"

post from TPMCafe on 10 September 2008 04:24:00 PM. © TPMCafe

This Andrew Sullivan piece is a picker upper.

How about this?

"On core moral issues, where this man knew what the right thing was, and had to pick between good and evil, he chose evil. When he knew that George W. Bush's war in Iraq was a fiasco and catastrophe, and before Donald Rumsfeld quit, McCain endorsed George W. Bush against his fellow Vietnam vet, John Kerry in 2004. By that decision, McCain lost any credibility that he can ever put country first. He put party first and his own career first ahead of what he knew was best for the country.

"And when the Senate and House voted overwhelmingly to condemn and end the torture regime of Bush and Cheney in 2006, McCain again had a clear choice between good and evil, and chose evil."

Read the rest. And he doesn't even mention the number one reason he should not be President. He is emotionally volatile, can't control his temper, and personalizes all arguments. My guess is that half the Republicans in the Senate (who know him better than the Democrats do) will vote against him because they think he's a loose cannon. The rest will vote for him so they can get him out of the Senate.

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Support of Unwed Mothers

post from Everyday Citizen on 10 September 2008 04:23:41 PM. © Everyday Citizen

Last Tuesday evening, it was encouraging to see lots of signs being waved about by delegates to[...]

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Gordon Smith Scandal Breaks

post from Open Left - Front Page on 10 September 2008 04:22:25 PM. © Open Left - Front Page

A major scandal is brewing in Oregon, where Republican Senator Gordon Smith, who has aggressively[...]

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Sex and Drugs and Oil, Another Bush Scandal

Just when John McCain is hyped up on drilling for oil everywhere he can, no matter the environmental concerns he used to espouse, we’ve got an Bush scandal that puts to doubt Republican management of government yet again. These folks are incompetents, after all. John McCain is espousing the drilling policies Bush has been pushing all along, but the Bush Administration can’t even manage its own people, who are trading the rights for drilling and exploration for sex, drugs, favors, etc. From CBSNews:

Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday.
The alleged transgressions involve 13 Interior Department employees in Denver and Washington. Their alleged improprieties include rigging contracts, working part-time as private oil consultants, and having sexual relationships with - and accepting golf and ski trips and dinners from - oil company employees, according to three reports released Wednesday by the Interior Department’s inspector general.
The investigations reveal a “culture of substance abuse and promiscuity” by a small group of individuals “wholly lacking in acceptance of or adherence to government ethical standards,” wrote Inspector General Earl E. Devaney.
The reports describe a fraternity house atmosphere inside the Denver Minerals Management Service office responsible for marketing the oil and gas that energy companies barter to the government instead of making cash royalty payments for drilling on federal lands. The government received $4.3 billion in such Royalty-in-Kind payments last year. The oil is then resold to energy companies or put in the nation’s emergency stockpile.
Between 2002 and 2006, nearly a third of the 55-person staff in the Denver office received gifts and gratuities from oil and gas companies, the investigators found.

No doubt McCain will now crow how he and only he can clean this sort of scandal up, because he’s MarverickMan! But only if he’s got his sidekick Sarah “Bridge to Earmarks” right beside him. As such, we need to hit McCain hard on his close ties to the oil industry and its lobbyists. We need to also hit McCain on his close ties to the incompetence that is the Bush Administration. How many of his campaign team worked for Bush, for instance. How many bucks have been given to McCain by those companies involved in this scandal? This shouldn’t be too hard for folks to research.

Now Sarah Palin is one who knows about oil royalties, as the Governor of a state that depends on them for its very survival. Surely there’s a way to tie her into this mess as well.

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Run Your Own Paid Media Campaign (Seriously)

The progressive blogosphere spends a lot of time discussing campaign strategy. Every day, thousands[...]

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Gramm pressures Paul to endorse McCain.

After former senator Phil Gramm said that America was a “nation of whiners,” the McCain campaign claimed that its top economic adviser would no longer be working with them. However, at a press conference today, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) revealed that Gramm had recently called and pressured him to endorse McCain — an offer that he refused:

According to Paul, Gramm asked him back to McCain, arguing that the Republican was closer to his positions than Obama.
”The idea was that he would do less harm than the other candidate,” Paul said.
But Paul said he made it known that he would not endorse McCain, whom he has disagreed with on a whole host of issues, including the war in Iraq.
Furthermore, Paul said ” I don’t enjoy getting two to three million people angry at me.”
Paul said Gramm ended the conversation with, ”well if you change your mind, call me back.”