John Kerry Must Speak Out on 2004 Election Theft
Now

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There are no doubt honest people who have looked at the evidence and disagree that the election was stolen in 2004. There might even be -- although I can't imagine how -- people who have looked at Ohio 2004 and concluded that what went down was a[...]

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American Storm Watch

post from Connecting.the.Dots on 28 October 2012 08:00:07 PM. © Connecting.the.Dots

In Atlantic states, residents are transfixed by Hurricane Sandy as TV screens fill up with faces of governors and local officials issuing directives, warnings and reports on their preparations for the worst.

Families hunker down with the knowledge that many thousands are out there to help in case of disaster.
Elsewhere in the nation, attention centers on pre-election minutiae. Fox News is mesmerized by the question of who did what in Benghazi weeks ago.
Regardless of ideology, can Americans admit to themselves they don?t live in the bubble of selfishness that dominates election ads and campaign rhetoric?
Can we stop talking about who didn?t build what and realize that forms of community, elected or not, are vital to keeping what we have?
Can we remember that the ground under our feet is not as solid as it seems and that in so many ways we are one another?s keepers?
Hopefully, the storm?s property damage will be less than predicted. Can we do anything to minimize the human damage of our presumption?

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McCain Compares Drummed Up Benghazi-Gate to
Watergate

post from Crooks and Liars on 28 October 2012 08:00:06 PM. © Crooks and Liars

McCain Compares Drummed Up Benghazi-Gate to Watergate

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Who needs Fox when you've got CBS doing double duty for them with interviews like this one with Sen. John McCain on Face the Nation? The Republicans have been foaming at the mouth since the embassy attack over a month and a half ago in Libya and now we can add McCain's name to the long list of Republicans who have compared "Benghazi-Gate" to Watergate or called for impeaching President Obama for how the matter has been handled.

I'm sure there are others I missed, but here's at least a partial list of those who have been making the same hyperbolic attacks:

Rush Limbaugh: RUSH: Benghazi cover-up "This dwarfs Watergate'

Ron Christie: Worse than Watergate??!! WTF

Sean Hannity and Donald Rumsfeld: Hannity Trots Out Donald Rumsfeld To Help Turn Benghazi Into Watergate

Newt Gingrich: Gingrich: Libya Cover-up Worse Than Watergate

Mike Huckabee: Huckabee Suggests Impeaching Obama Over Libya Embassy Attack

Col. David Hunt: Col. David Hunt Tells Jerry Doyle: Benghazi Coverup Worse Than Watergate

And Rep. Marsha Blackburn: Marsha Blackburn Calls 'Benghazi-Gate' 'Worse Than Watergate'

They've all got their talking points aligned perfectly, don't they? And last but not least, here's Grampy McCain from this Sunday: McCain: Libya either a "cover up" or "incompetence":

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., argued this morning that Libya has made foreign policy a major part of the presidential campaign and that President Obama has shown "the worst kind of incompetence" on the issue.
"I don't know if it's either a cover-up or the worst kind of incompetence, which doesn't qualify the president as commander in chief," McCain said on "Face the Nation" today. He called the administration's handling of the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Libya that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, a "debacle" that has "exposed the failures of the Obama foreign policy."
McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been one of the most vocal critics of the Obama administration on the Libya issue.
McCain said the "worst" aspects of the Libya aftermath are the "gross, gross, outrageous statements" made by administration officials, including the president, in the days after the attack. He specifically referred to statements by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice made shortly after the attacks in which she blamed the violence on a "spontaneous" demonstration over an anti-Muslim American made film.
"We now know there was no demonstration. There was no mob," McCain said, referring to surveillance records he received from inside the consulate. "So for literally days and days, they told the American people something that had no basis in fact whatsoever," McCain added.
McCain also compared Libya to Watergate saying, "Nobody died in Watergate. But this is either a massive cover-up or incompetence that is not acceptable service to the American people," he said. "The American people may take that into consideration a week from Tuesday."
"What did the president know? When did he know it? And what did he do about it?" McCain asked rhetorically.

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Zomney 2012

post from Firedoglake on 28 October 2012 07:48:13 PM. © Firedoglake

Zombie apocalypse.[...]

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Joss Whedon on why we must vote for Romney

post from AMERICAblog on 28 October 2012 07:27:49 PM. © AMERICAblog

TV director, filmmaker, Joss Whedon created Buffy, Firefly, co-wrote Toy Story, and wrote The Avengers movie.

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Today on The Stars Hollow Gazette

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 28 October 2012 07:04:10 PM. © Docudharma - Front Page

Our regular featured content-On This Day In History October 28 by TheMomCatThese weekly features-Six In The Morning: On Sunday by mishimaPunting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition by TheMomCatWhat We Now Know by TheMomCatRant of the Week: Jon Stewart by[...]

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The Banks Devise a New Deal for Homeowners: Token
Relief for Liability Waivers

post from Firedoglake on 28 October 2012 07:00:57 PM. © Firedoglake

The failings of the 49-state foreclosure fraud settlement have by now become so obvious that even traditional media cannot ignore it. When half of the $2.5 billion earmarked as a hard-dollar penalty to states for aid and relief for struggling homeowners[...]

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Shocker Endorsement

Joss Whedon tapes shocker Romney endorsement. Video after jump ...[...]

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PollTracker Average, Ohio: Obama +3.3

With two new polls out today (and possibly more coming) President Obama's margin in Ohio ticks up to 3.3 percentage points. [...]

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Want to Win with Women Don't Put Paul Ryan on the
Ticket

Man, the traditional media really wants their consumers to believe that this horse race is neck and neck and the just overwhelming misogyny in the words and actions of the Republican Party isn't hurting them with women.

Because, it's all about jobs and the economy to the Republican Party, completely eliding the fact to these 'small government' fetishists who actively want the government getting into women's uteri, that this is absolutely an economic and jobs-related issue for women. Being unable to control when a woman has a child will play a major role in her economic future: what education she can complete, what jobs she can apply for, how much she will get paid, whether she and her child can break through multi-generational poverty cycles.

But that doesn't help the narrative that the tradmed wants to perpetuate that this is a close race and that the gender gap has closed for Mitt Romney, at best, an arguable position, though you wouldn't know that from the confident assertions made by David Gregory and Chuck Todd.

Carly Fiorina, speaking officially as a Romney spokesperson, had the unenviable job of trying to distinguish Romney from the crazies in his party. Now Gregory is game to let her, but it's a hard row to hoe when you consider that Romney hasn't pulled his ad for Mourdock. Fiorina bemoans the "bad timing" of Mourdock's statement, which begs the question left unasked by Gregory, when exactly would have been a good time to say that a pregnancy as a result of rape is God's will? But more importantly, as Rachel Maddow points out, it's hard to disavow the crazy extremism when Romney put crazy extremist Paul Ryan on his ticket:

MS. MADDOW: Right. But then, he picked Paul Ryan. They have the fight over forced ultrasounds, the government telling you that you need to have a medically unnecessary procedure at the order of the state regardless of what you want and regardless of what your doctor says. And then he picked a guy, who picked a forced ultrasound bill for the country, Paul Ryan was onboard with that. Paul Ryan was a cosponsor with Todd Akin with bill to redefine rape. Paul Ryan was a cosponsor with bill to have personhood federally, which would not only ban all abortion it would ban in vitro fertilization. It would ban most hormonal forms of birth control. If you wanted to avoid this fight, don?t put Paul Ryan on the ticket. There?s a reason that Paul Ryan has been in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina?
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GREGORY: And the Republican platform talked about you should be able to do in vitro fertilization. That was in the Republican platform?

Oops...Rachel Maddow has hit on an uncomfortable spot for Romney's campaign. For all his alleged moderation, he chose one of the most extreme pro-life members in Congress for his running mate. Time for David Gregory to throw this conversation to Chuck Todd to direct back to the economy, a much safer discussion.

All I can say is that at this point, if women are voting for Romney, they ought to be willing to let their GOP flag fly free. I'm thinking this one is appropriate:
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