Right-Wing Florida News Anchor Asks If Obama Is A
Marxist; Defends Questions As ‘Probing’

Yesterday, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) sat for an interview with Barbara West of WFTV Orlando. West loaded her interview questions with right-wing smears, likening progressive tax policies to Marxism. Biden responded to West’s ridiculous line of questioning with disbelief:

WEST: You may recognize this famous quote, “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” That’s from Karl Marx. How is Sen. Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?

BIDEN: Are you joking? Is this a joke? … Or is that a real question? (LAUGHTER).

“I don’t know who’s writing your questions,” Biden told West later in the interview. When West asked if Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) wanted to “turn America into a Socialist country like Sweden,” Biden said, “I don’t know anybody who thinks that except the far right-wing of the Republican Party.” Watch it (beginning at 2:15):

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Members of the media criticized West’s “unprofessional” interview, calling it “embarrassing,” “hostile,” and “ham-handed.”

West, however, defended her interview questions to the Orlando Sentinel saying, “These are questions that are rolling about right now and questions that need to be asked.” “I think I was probing and maybe tough,” she said.

West’s “probing and maybe tough” interviews are apparently reserved only for progressives. When West interviewed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), she didn’t ask him a single question about his proposed policies. Instead, she asked McCain why he had not “gone after” Obama’s previous ties to ACORN. She asked if McCain felt that Democrats were “trying to make it impossible” for him to criticize Obama and allowed McCain to repeatedly mischaracterize Obama’s relationship with William Ayers.

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New Poll Shows Obama Within Four Points in
Arizona

Wow. Just wow.Kos has the scoop on this one:Myers Research (D) & Grove Insight (D). 10/23-24. Likely voters. MoE 4% (No trend lines)Likely votersMcCain (R) 44Obama (D) 40Early voters (34% of the sample)McCain (R) 46Obama (D) 47The sample was 40[...]

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Is McCain Campaigning for the White House or Just
the House

There's been much discussion over the McCain campaign's apparent retreat from Colorado in[...]

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McCain latches onto false NYT story about Obama
inaugural address.

During a campaign rally in New Mexico today, Sen. John McCain attacked Barack Obama for taking a “victory lap” by claiming Obama has “already written” an inaugural address:

MCCAIN: You know what? We just learned from a newspaper today that Senator Obama?s inaugural address is already written.

You know? I?m not making it up, I?m not making it up. An awful lot of voters are still undecided but he?s decided for them that, well, why wait? It?s time to move forward with his first inaugural address. My friends, when I pull this thing off, I have a request for my opponent. I want him to save that manuscript of his inaugural address and donate it to the Smithsonian so they can put it right next to the Chicago paper that said, ?Dewey defeats Truman.?

There?s ten days left in this election. Maybe Barack Obama will even have his first State of the Union address before you head to the polls.

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As ThinkProgress noted earlier today, that false claim first originated from a New York Times story that claimed Center for American Progress President and CEO John Podesta has written an inaugural address “for Mr. Obama.” It’s not true. “Asked if there is any truth to the report, an Obama aide said: ‘No,’” according to Politico’s Mike Allen.

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Mormons Shut Their Utah Prop 8 Call Centers

Under relentless pressure from the Courage Campaign and NO activists, the Mormon Church has closed its Utah call centers they were using to lie to Californians about Prop 8.[...]

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AZ-Pres: Hold on to your hats!

Myers Research (D) & Grove Insight (D). 10/23-24. Likely voters. MoE 4% (No trend lines)

Likely voters

McCain (R) 44
Obama (D) 40

Early voters (34% of the sample)

McCain (R) 46
Obama (D) 47

The sample was 40 percent Republican, 33 Democratic, and 26 percent independent. ASU has its own survey coming Monday, and they've hinted at similar results. Makes me wish I would've polled Arizona instead of Tennessee.

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Señor McCain Aids And Advisers: Sarah Palin Is A
Rogue, A Diva, Self-Serving And Willing To Throw People (Including Her Sidekick, Juan Sidney) Under The Bus For Her Own Personal Gain

Señor McCain Pa?a Él Presidenté Camp Members Say The “Maverick Republican” From Alaska Too Much Of A Maverick For The “Maverick Republican” From Arizona Panama To Handle…Paraphrased:“Palin ?going rogue?” screams the CNN Political Ticker headline. She...

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McCain's plan to win PA includes nasty GOP smear
with warning about another Holocaust

McCain is desperate, desperate to convince everyone that Pennsylvania is in play. We saw from the Ashley Todd hoax that the McCain crew in Pennsylvania will try anything. You'd think they'd have learned something from Ms. Todd. But, it's getting even worse.

The Pennsylvania Republicans sent out a viciously nasty e-mail to Jewish voters. Knowing the McCain campaign modus operandi, the disavowal rings hollow. Really hollow:

Pennsylvania Republicans are disavowing an e-mail sent to Jewish voters that likens a vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to events that led up to the Holocaust.

''Jewish Americans cannot afford to make the wrong decision on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008,'' the e-mail reads. ''Many of our ancestors ignored the warning signs in the 1930s and 1940s and made a tragic mistake. Let's not make a similar one this year!''

A copy of the e-mail, provided by Democratic officials, says it was ''Paid for by the Republican Federal Committee of PA - Victory 2008.''

It warns ''Fellow Jewish Voters'' of the danger of a second Holocaust due to the threats to Israel from its neighbors and touts Republican presidential candidate John McCain's qualifications over those of Obama.

How low can they go? That's the question for the next 10 days. It's going to get even worse. These people are despicable. The fall guy claims the e-mail was, in fact, authorized:

Political consultant Bryan Rudnick was identified as the person responsible for it. Rudnick, reached Saturday night, confirmed that he no longer works for the party, which employed him a few weeks ago as a consultant to do outreach to Jewish voters.

''I had authorization from party officials'' to send the e-mail, Rudnick said, but he declined to say who had signed off on it. ''I'm not looking to drag anyone else through the mud, so I'm not naming names right now,'' he said.

Yeah, it's okay to lie and smear Obama, but protect your fellow Republicans. What a slimy bunch.

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FROM TRAGEDY TO FARCE.

So the latest McCain attack is that Barack Obama is uppity presumptuous and has already written a draft of his inaugural address. The evidence? John Podesta, head of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to Bill Clinton, released a[...]

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McCain Tries To Build a Bigger Joe The Plumber
Narrative--By Using Multi-Million Dollar Earning CEOs

Boston.com:

Ever since John McCain discovered "Joe the Plumber," he has exalted "small business" owners -- inviting them to announce their professions on signs at rallies -- as the country's only virtuous economic movers.

But now McCain has begun to define the term upward, leaving no mogul or tycoon behind.

On Thursday in Sarasota, Governor Charlie Crist introduced J. Robert Long, the CEO of Marine Concepts as a "small businessman." The man McCain dubbed "Bob the Boat Builder" spent, as Crist noted, most of his career at Wellcraft Marine, which reported revenues of $67 million last year, according to Yahoo! Finance.

At another campaign stop, McCain proxy Lindsay Graham described Cindy McCain as a "small businesswoman," even though Hensley & Co. -- the third largest beer distributorship in the country, is worth some $200 million.

What's next? Bill Gates, the tech guy? Donald Trump, the real estate agent? Jack Welch, the electrician? Rupert Murdoch, the newsboy?

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