Another memory lapse

So this is one of two things, further proof that McCain is losing his marbles...or proof that Joe the Plumber isn't exactly the poster child the GOP was hoping for. I personally think its more of the 1st because there's been enough evidence to prove that Joe wasn't the poster child the GOP hoped for. Not a registered plumber, won't be making 250k a year, hasn't paid his taxes...

So I just had a thought...

Supposedly we are to see record turnouts for voting this year. How could it be, if we see record turnouts, that McCain could even stand a chance? McCain has constantly struggled through the Primaries as well as through the General Election to even rally his base, let alone record numbers of new voters. It just doesn't make any logical sense to me, that if record numbers turn out, that these new voters would be voting for an old grumpy white guy with 20+ years in Washington...but a new young, inspriting candidate? Now that's a different story.

Lest we forget about Joe Sixpack...

With Joe Plumber taking the spotlight, poor Joe Six pack is feelin' kinda left out.

Change is coming

Just not from Sarah Palin. This article delves deeper into Palin's record as a reformer, and its not looking too good for her. The truth hurts:

The Associated Press reported this month that Palin charged the state more than $21,000 for her three daughters' commercial flights since she became governor in December 2006. She later ordered changes to travel forms to specify official business on the trips.

The complaint released Wednesday says Palin charged the travel costs for events her children were not invited to and where they served no legitimate state business.

Not a huge surprise after the troopergate scandal, but if she's willing to do it with Alaskan's money, which is chump change compared to the Federal Tax revenue, imagine how much damage she can do if she were to make it to the White House.

The truth about Obama's tax plan

from the horses mouth. Although I do feel to some extent we're beating a dead horse on this subject, I suppose it never hurts to share, especially if it helps even just 1 person see the truth behind all this.

The end of the Republican party?

This article is a great read which poses many important questions about the party's future. I think this article is relevant no matter who you are and where you stand on issues. It raises a few tough questions about where the Republican party, as a whole, goes from here. Check it out

Great video

Young or old, black or white, male or female...this movement transcends age, race and gender and we should all be so proud to be a part of this movement. We are making history with this election and with our movement. We will be able to tell our children, and our grandchildren about this election and how we all believed that with Barack Obama as the catalyst, we were able to change this country for their benefit. Just as Charles is working for ours.

SNL does it again...

Once again thanks to Daily Kos for this link, its a great video of SNL spoofing CNN's big touchscreen TV.

View here

Open Thread

How to deal with stolen lawn signs

thx to Daily Kos for the link.

Too bad these guys can't vote...

considering they potentially have the most to win or lose from the outcome of this election

Wassssup!

Kinda like the Super Bowl commercial.  Only better.

Patriotism at its finest...

these are truly amazing human beings. We should all be so lucky to know someone like this

The Orwellian language continues...

At this point, I've almost grown accustomed to the constant use of Orwellian language from the Republican party. McCain's accusal that Obama will say, "anything to get elected" is just another fine example of this. It shouldn't really be anything new or surprising to us by this point. Bush has made Orwellian language a staple of his presidency, some great examples are: No Child Left Behind, the Clean Air Act, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. McCain has, like almost every other facet of Bush's policies, adopted this language. His campaign slogan is one of the most obvious, Country First. Meanwhile, as they put Country First, Sarah Palin gets a $150,000 new wardrobe from the likes of Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. So to hear McCain claim Obama will say anything to get elected, while his campaign continues to peddle the lie that Obama is somehow a terrorist in sheep's clothing is something so illogical it will only make sense to the wingnuts stuck on the far right.

A recognizable organization finally endorses McCain!

Too bad its Al Qaeda. You can read the full article here but I'm quoting the best part for you down below.

What was absent from the call, oddly enough, was any discussion about why Al Qaeda might want McCain to win. And there the case is simple enough. Al Qaeda prefers an indefinite U.S. occupation of Iraq and a bellicose U.S. all across the Muslim world to radicalize Muslims to its terrorist cause and drain the U.S. of its financial wealth — what Osama bin Laden calls his “bleed to bankruptcy” strategy. Hence, the reason why, as the CIA eventually concluded, Bin Laden tried to help George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004 by releasing a late-October tape. McCain pledges basic continuity with Bush on the Iraq war. As Scheunemann put it, “John McCain will spend what it takes to win.”

Wow, this can't be good for the McCainiacs out there! First, $150k of donor dollars going to Palin's wardrobe and now an endorsement from Al Qaeda. I've heard of rough news days, but wow!

Way to put Country First

What does the RNC do to help Palin win an edge? Why they go on a $150,000 shopping spree for the "average hockey mom" and her "joe six-pack" family. To think that the average Americans in this country are seeing the greatest recession of our time, and looking for leadership and these people have the audacity to piss 6 figures away on campaign clothes, or essentially campaign props, is insane. And to think that somehow we are supposed to believe that the McCain campaign will be fiscally responsible with the tax payer money in the future is almost just as crazy. Keep in mind the money that paid for this luxurious shopping spree most likely came from donors to the McCain campaign. Granted they have many HIGH dollar donors, I feel bad for the people who still can't see beyond the facade and got suckered into donating their hard earned money just to see it spent on clothes rather than something of real value for, you know, Country First.

You can read the LA Times article here.

A lot of people say that Barack Obama has adopted the "Change" idea in order to better position himself to win this election.  I challenge these people to re-think those statements.  This is a great, short video that shows that Obama has been talking about bringing about Change since the early 90's.  It was us who needed to believe in the change we can bring about.

Not my favorite guy in the world...

but still a respectible man who got out before things got really crazy. I must say he has quite an accurate assessment of our political climate though and what's really going on in both campaigns. It will be interesting to see what his endorsement does for Obama, but its still good to hear kind words from someone who's considered a prominent republican.

From the people who know him best...

Check out this really cool endorsement that the Chicago Tribune wrote:

Many Americans say they're uneasy about Obama. He's pretty new to them.

We can provide some assurance. We have known Obama since he entered politics a dozen years ago. We have watched him, worked with him, argued with him as he rose from an effective state senator to an inspiring U.S. senator to the Democratic Party's nominee for president.

We have tremendous confidence in his intellectual rigor, his moral compass and his ability to make sound, thoughtful, careful decisions. He is ready.

The change that Obama talks about so much is not simply a change in this policy or that one. It is not fundamentally about lobbyists or Washington insiders. Obama envisions a change in the way we deal with one another in politics and government. His opponents may say this is empty, abstract rhetoric. In fact, it is hard to imagine how we are going to deal with the grave domestic and foreign crises we face without an end to the savagery and a return to civility in politics.

***

The Republican Party, the party of limited government, has lost its way. The government ran a $237 billion surplus in 2000, the year before Bush took office -- and recorded a $455 billion deficit in 2008. The Republicans lost control of the U.S. House and Senate in 2006 because, as we said at the time, they gave the nation rampant spending and Capitol Hill corruption. They abandoned their principles. They paid the price.

We might have counted on John McCain to correct his party's course. We like McCain. We endorsed him in the Republican primary in Illinois. In part because of his persuasion and resolve, the U.S. stands to win an unconditional victory in Iraq....

McCain failed in his most important executive decision. Give him credit for choosing a female running mate--but he passed up any number of supremely qualified Republican women who could have served. Having called Obama not ready to lead, McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. His campaign has tried to stage-manage Palin's exposure to the public. But it's clear she is not prepared to step in at a moment's notice and serve as president. McCain put his campaign before his country.

***

Obama is deeply grounded in the best aspirations of this country, and we need to return to those aspirations. He has had the character and the will to achieve great things despite the obstacles that he faced as an unprivileged black man in the U.S.

He has risen with his honor, grace and civility intact. He has the intelligence to understand the grave economic and national security risks that face us, to listen to good advice and make careful decisions.

When Obama said at the 2004 Democratic Convention that we weren't a nation of red states and blue states, he spoke of union the way Abraham Lincoln did.

It may have seemed audacious for Obama to start his campaign in Springfield, invoking Lincoln. We think, given the opportunity to hold this nation's most powerful office, he will prove it wasn't so audacious after all. We are proud to add Barack Obama's name to Lincoln's in the list of people the Tribune has endorsed for president of the United States.

No matter how nasty these campaigns really get, I still can't help but be moved by the testimonies of those that know Barack Obama and his true character.  Just imagine the difference this one president could make and how he potentially could change our mindsets about the President once again being a noble job that our children may aspire to be one day.  His candidacy has been amazing and I think we will pride ourselves on telling our grand children one day that we were proud to be a part of this incredible movement that forever changed our history.

btw, this was originally posted here and the full endorsement can be read here.

Also notice what DemFromCT notes: 

Just a reminder that when the Chicago Tribune says "This endorsement makes some history for the Chicago Tribune. This is the first time the newspaper has endorsed the Democratic Party's nominee for president." they're talking about the first time in 161 years.

Campbell Brown FTW!

Sorry, but Campbell brings up a very important point in this article. There are far better ways we could, and should be spending 30 million dollars over the next few weeks than on negative ads from both campaigns.

This article is really a great read, and pretty short.

Forget about foreign policy...

How about someone who knows where the states are on a map??

I love how everyone is getting involved in this...

Its pretty cool to see such a diverse group of supporters get involved in this election, this is another great example

Who IS John McCain??

Good read, you can read the full transcript here:

ROBERT PARRY: Well, the piece also cites a very good article in Rolling Stone that looked at McCain’s history. And in a way, you can look at McCain in a fairly consistent way, that he’s always been, a bit like George W. Bush, someone who was a scion of a very powerful family. In the case of McCain, it was obviously in the military. His father was a four-star admiral, his grandfather was a four-star admiral. In the case of George W. Bush, his father was president, and his grandfather was a powerful senator.
So you have this—you have this person who wants to essentially compete with his father and grandfather and achieve something, but who is essentially not very effective. McCain did very poorly in school, much like Bush did, and was much of a screw-up when it came to his military career. He was involved in crashing planes. He was able to get out of trouble, much like Bush did, by having his father pull strings. So you have this very similar kind of personality.
And if you look at McCain as someone who is burning with ambition, and has been for quite awhile, trying to achieve this kind of success that even his father didn’t—in the case of Bush, it was two terms in the White House; in the case of McCain, it would be to be commander-in-chief, when his father was a four-star admiral—you have this idea that McCain, if you look at it that way, has always been a person driven by this ambition who puts his own political interests ahead of his country, not the image that he wants to project of some selfless person who came out of his experience in Vietnam and always put country first. He clearly has not done that, in many cases.

One of the funniest things I've seen in a long time

Courtesy of Daily Kos :

Man this is a great article!

Read it here. It talks about Obama's "link" with Ayers and really does a good job of putting this whole thing into perspective.

Desperation is setting in...

According to the AP Mr. McCain is now openly calling Obama a liar for bringing up the Keating 5 incident, which McCain by the way, was disciplined by the U.S. Congress for being involved it. As you'll see in the article McCain has in fact admitted it was the worst mistake of his life and has owned up to his poor judgement in the past, but this week he's poor inicent little guy who got picked on by the big bad congress. All I can saw about the whole article is that McCain is down in the polls, Palin is nothing short of completely underwhelming, and the voters aren't buying the bullshit that McCain's selling. Now is where he gets nasty and personal and now is where he begins to seal his own fate by making errors that will amount to political suicide. Palin earlier was defending a statement she made about Obama being buddies with terrorists...is this really the level that they've sunk to?

Grow up! Apparently the McCain camp is still stuck on the playground and their main strategy is to call names, because their policies either don't exist or they don't want people to know what they really are. To date, I've heard McCain and Palin only speak in generalities about each issue that's important to us voters rather than what their real plans are for "reform". Does anyone else find it insulting that McCain expects us to believe he's a reformer when he's continued to support de-regulation...the primary cause of our Economic Crisis! Let alone, the fact that he's been in the Washington Culture for over 20 years. How dumb do you think we are John?? At least I feel confident that the American people are seeing through the smoke and mirrors and can really see that McCain is doing everything he can to lie, cheat, and steal his way into the White House, rather than earn it by doing what's right.

They stole it once, don't let them steal it again!

This is possibly the most important post I've done to date, on this blog. Why this story isn't getting more national coverage is completely beyond me but we cannot let a repeat of the 2000 election happen again, despite the fact that it appears the GOP is back at it again.