Drawing Even

Thanks Mccain & Palin, Thanks... Alot !!!

NC-Pres: Despite Palin-fueled GOP surge, Dems still winning voter registration battle
by kos
Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 01:50:10 PM PDT

Voter registration numbers in the past couple of months.

Let's start on August 2, 2008, with the following numbers:

Democrats: 2,669,616
Republican: 1,937,735

And then the week by week additions:

Week Democratic Republican
08/09 3,833 709
08/16 4,354 531
08/23 2,188 275
08/30 3,410 688
09/06 4,851 1,309
09/13 7,307 2,942

Palin will have more of an effect on already-registered evangelical voters, no doubt. But when it comes to this measure of voter intensity -- it's obvious that Democratic energy still outweighs whatever new excitement Palin brought to the table.

Going back to the first week of 2008, the two main parties have added the following number of voters:

Democrats +184,113
Republicans +24,614

Kerry lost North Carolina by 435,000 votes in 2004. Assuming everyone who registered this year votes (for both parties), those new voters can close nearly 37 percent of that deficit. And even with their Palin-fueled surge, Democrats are still far outpacing GOP voter registration efforts.

(Voter registration numbers courtesy of my brother, who brought them to my attention.)

Sarah Palin's Road to Nowhere

Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 01:10:27 PM PDT

Independent group National Wildlife Refuge Association is reporting that Sarah Palin didn't stop with bridges when it comes to supporting taxpayer earmarks bound for nowhere. There's also a "Road to Nowhere."

Late last week, The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee approved a proposal that will lead to the construction of a $30 million, nine-mile gravel road through the biological heart of a premier American wilderness area. The proposed legislation was added to the Senate Lands Package, and is expected to be voted on within two weeks.

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In order to help secure this deal, the residents of King Cove employed Abramoff-connected lobbyist Steve Silver -- the same lobbyist Governor Sarah Palin used to help secure millions while mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

Senate Bill 1680, supported by Alaska's Congressional delegation and Governor Sarah Palin, would allow for the construction of the road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), located at the southern end of the Alaskan peninsula.

$37.5 million was already spent providing not only a road to the community, but an all weather hovercraft that can reach the town in 20 minutes. Still, I'm sure that -- just as she did with the infamous bridge -- Sarah Palin will uphold the absolute necessity of this road right up until it becomes an embarrassment. Then she'll just drop the project and keep the cash.

"This boondoggle is a solution in search of a problem while endangering the biological heart of a national wildlife refuge," said Evan Hirsche, president of the National Wildlife Refuge Association. "The American taxpayer should not be asked to shoulder the $30 million cost of an often-impassable road for a community of 800 people, particularly after giving them $37.5 million which has already addressed their needs."

OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL

New York Post
9/15/2008

September 15, 2008
Posted: 4:02 am
September 15, 2008

WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

"He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington," Zebari said in an interview.

Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its "state of weakness and political confusion."

"However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open." Zebari says.

Though Obama claims the US presence is "illegal,""he suddenly remembered that Americans troops were in Iraq within the legal framework of a UN mandate. His advice was that, rather than reach an accord with the "weakened Bush administration," Iraq should seek an extension of the UN mandate.

While in Iraq, Obama also tried to persuade the US commanders, including Gen. David Petraeus, to suggest a "realistic withdrawal date." They declined.

For entire story.....http://www.nypost.com/seven/09152008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/obama_tried_to_stall_gis_iraq_withdrawal_129150.htm

More EVIDENCE...Hussein Obama is a Crook and a Fraud. This will greatly damage his candidacy. There is a firestorm brewing.

NOBAMA!!!

Re: Omaar post -

POPULAR VOTES: DON'T MATTER AN NEVER WILL

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE: DETERMINES WHO OUR NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE...PERIOD

BILL CLINTON WAS ONE OF A FEW PRESIDENTS TO WIN BOTH THE POPULAR & ELECTORAL COLLEGE, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN ....

AN HE WAS CHOSEN BY [DAVID ROCKEFELLER'S CFR]

AN DAVID ROCKEFELLER IS AN UNASHAMED & UNAPOLOGETIC, CAPITALIST AND SOCIALIST, HE AND HIS FAMILIY CHOOSES ULTIMATELY WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT.

THE ROCKEFELLER'S CONTROL THIS REGION OF THE WORLD AND THIS GOVERNEMNT AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE IT'S CURRENCY, VIA THE [FED]...FACE FACTS.
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It???s very difficult for me to admit that I AGREE with a paid Obama supporter here. I sure wish I could dispute this claim, but I can???t! AND THAT???S WHAT SCARES ME MOST!

IMHO, this year???s election outcome has already been written in our history books! Just ask the Electoral College. WE BETTER KEEP PRAYIN??? HOLYROLLER! Or Obama / Hillary it's gonna be!

Thanks Again, John Mccain & Sarah Palin

The McCain Crowds (or lack thereof)

by Scout Finch

Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 02:10:10 PM PDT

John McCain hit the campaign trail this morning without the top rest of the ticket and found out the hard way that he's just not that much of a draw. Of 16,000 available seats at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, MSNBC is reporting McCain was only able to pull around 3,000 people.

Sam Stein has the devastating pictures at The Huffington Post.



No wonder John McCain has been bullying begging Barack Obama to do "town hall meetings". It makes sense that he's had his new sidekick at every stop on the trail, aside from teaching her about the Bush Doctrine and the rest of her new policy positions. Turns out the American people just aren't that excited by McCain and he needs somebody else to draw the crowds for him. Perhaps he should stick to appearances at smaller venues (like nursing homes) and leave the arenas and stadiums to the real draw -- Barack Obama.

Of course, in the Republican style of accounting and management, the attendance numbers for this event will later be reported as a 16,000 sell-out and the campaign staffers who arranged it will no doubt be promoted.

Thanks Mccain & Palin, Thanks... Alot !!!

NC-Pres: Despite Palin-fueled GOP surge, Dems still winning voter registration battle
by kos
Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 01:50:10 PM PDT

Voter registration numbers in the past couple of months.

Let's start on August 2, 2008, with the following numbers:

Democrats: 2,669,616
Republican: 1,937,735

And then the week by week additions:

Week Democratic Republican
08/09 3,833 709
08/16 4,354 531
08/23 2,188 275
08/30 3,410 688
09/06 4,851 1,309
09/13 7,307 2,942

Palin will have more of an effect on already-registered evangelical voters, no doubt. But when it comes to this measure of voter intensity -- it's obvious that Democratic energy still outweighs whatever new excitement Palin brought to the table.

Going back to the first week of 2008, the two main parties have added the following number of voters:

Democrats +184,113
Republicans +24,614

Kerry lost North Carolina by 435,000 votes in 2004. Assuming everyone who registered this year votes (for both parties), those new voters can close nearly 37 percent of that deficit. And even with their Palin-fueled surge, Democrats are still far outpacing GOP voter registration efforts.

(Voter registration numbers courtesy of my brother, who brought them to my attention.)

This B!tch was not Vetted At All....Mccain's EarMark Queen of the Frozen Tundra !!!


Sarah Palin took it on every one of the 312 nights she spent at home and billed the Alaskan taxpayers for it.

So why say it's a million dollars a day? Well, first, let me show you what Slick Sarah Palin is telling people:

On the campaign trail, Gov. Palin has repeatedly attacked Sen. Obama on earmarks. "Our opponent has requested nearly one billion dollars in earmarks in three years. That's about a million for every working day," she said at a rally in Albuquerque, N.M.

Ohhhh, this feels like it's going to get embarrassing in a second....

And, behold! Look what "The Math" says!

It is difficult to compare Sen. Obama's earmark record with Gov. Palin's -- their states differ in size, for instance, and the two candidates play different roles in the process. But using the same calculation that the McCain campaign uses, the total amount of earmarked dollars divided by the number of working days while each held office (assuming a five-day workweek, every week, for both), Gov. Palin sought $980,000 per workday, compared with roughly $893,000 for Sen. Obama.

Not only is Palin taking much more, but oh my word if the million dollar figure doesn't actually fit her sooooo much better than the person she's trying to use it against! What a surprise!

So that's almost a million dollars a day, whether she showed up at the office or not. A million bucks, plus $60 in her pocket for defrosting one of her own mooseburgers for lunch.

And really, Palin must be asking herself, why not chisel the Alaska state government a little bit? After all:

The state's earmark requests stand out in part because its state government is among the wealthiest in the U.S. Flush with oil and gas royalties, it doesn't impose income or sales taxes. In fact, money flows the other way: Every man, woman and child this year got a check for $3,200.

Gosh, but they're such rugged individualists up there! They're gonna launch themselves into orbit with those bootstraps, don'tcha know?

A million dollars a day. From you and me. Plus $3,200 in the bank for each one of 'em. And $60 in Sarah's pocket for every lunch at home. (Like every working mom, of course!)

It's the new fiscal responsibility, in John McCain's seven house-owning, $5 million middle class living world!

McCain's Earmark Lie: Palin actually grubs $1 mil/day as Gov.

Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 03:00:11 PM PDT

The Wall Street Journal:

Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hadn't sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress, presenting her as a fiscal conservative. But state records show Gov. Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to fund $453 million in specific Alaska projects over the past two years.

It's been 652 days since Earmark Queen Sarah Palin took office as Governor of Alaska.

In that time, she's hustled for $453,000,000 in federal lipstick pork.

That's $694,785.28 a day. Six hundred ninetey-four thousand, seven hundred and eight five dollars and twenty-eight cents. Every day. Even Sundays!

Palin was grubbing six hundred ninetey-four thousand, seven hundred and eight five dollars and twenty-eight cents out of the federal trough on the very day when John McCain looked America in the eye and said she was taking zero.

And she took it again today, too.

And she took it on every one of the 312 nights she spent at home and billed the Alaskan taxpayers for it.

So why say it's a million dollars a day? Well, first, let me show you what Slick Sarah Palin is telling people:

On the campaign trail, Gov. Palin has repeatedly attacked Sen. Obama on earmarks. "Our opponent has requested nearly one billion dollars in earmarks in three years. That's about a million for every working day," she said at a rally in Albuquerque, N.M.

Ohhhh, this feels like it's going to get embarrassing in a second....

And, behold! Look what "The Math" says!

It is difficult to compare Sen. Obama's earmark record with Gov. Palin's -- their states differ in size, for instance, and the two candidates play different roles in the process. But using the same calculation that the McCain campaign uses, the total amount of earmarked dollars divided by the number of working days while each held office (assuming a five-day workweek, every week, for both), Gov. Palin sought $980,000 per workday, compared with roughly $893,000 for Sen. Obama.

POLLS: DON'T MATTER....

POPULAR VOTES: DON'T MATTER AN NEVER WILL

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE: DETERMINES WHO OUR NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE...PERIOD

BILL CLINTON WAS ONE OF A FEW PRESIDENTS TO WIN BOTH THE POPULAR & ELECTORAL COLLEGE, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN ....

AN HE WAS CHOSEN BY [DAVID ROCKEFELLER'S CFR]

AN DAVID ROCKEFELLER IS AN UNASHAMED & UNAPOLOGETIC, CAPITALIST AND SOCIALIST, HE AND HIS FAMILIY CHOOSES ULTIMATELY WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT.

THE ROCKEFELLER'S CONTROL THIS REGION OF THE WORLD AND THIS GOVERNEMNT AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE IT'S CURRENCY, VIA THE [FED]...FACE FACTS.

TIME: IT SURE DID TAKE MCCAIN A LONG TIME TO [BREAK EVEN]

FACT: MCCAIN IS THE WEAKER OF THE TWO, IT TOOK AN ATTRACTIVE, NO EXPERIENCED NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL POLICIES [SARAH PALIN] AN THEIR DEAD EVEN IN THE POLLS, OPPOSE TO LEADING BY A WIDE MARGIN, AFTER ALL THIS [PALIN HOOPLA] THE HATE FEST AT THE [RNC] AN ESPECIALLY AFTER THAT PALIN HAD THOSE CHARLES GIBSON INTERVIEWS...

AN NOW WITH THE MEDIA FINALLY LETTING LOSE THE TRUTH ABOUT PALIN...

BIG NOTE; 34 OF ALL PRESIDENTS ARE BLOOD RELATED AND ARE MEMBERS OF THE [CFR] THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS....

[D] B. OBAMA AND [R] J. MCCAIN ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE EITHER.

OBAMA IS BLOOD RELATED TO GEORGE W. BUSH AND DICK CHENEY, AS WELL AS FORMER PRESIDENTS, H. TRUMAN, G. FORD, L. B. JOHNSON, G. H.W. BUSH SR. ALSO BRITISH PRIME MIN. W. CHURCHILL AND CONFEDERATE GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE AND CELEBRITY, BRAD PITT, HIS 8TH COUSIN AS WELL AS DICK CHENEY'S 8TH COUSIN...

OBAMA'S GENES ARE THE [GENE'S OF CHARLAMAIN]

MCCAIN: HE'S BLOOD RELATED TO LAURA BUSH...OH WELL !!!

CHANGE We Can Believe In???... Hussein "I don't take lobbyist $$$" Obama...SURE...

Top Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008

Name Office Party/State Total

1. Dodd, Christopher J S D-CT $133,900

2. Kerry, John S D-MA $111,000

3. Obama, Barack S D-IL $105,849......SINCE 2005.....LIAR and HYPOCRITE....

4. Clinton, Hillary S D-NY $75,550

5. Kanjorski, Paul E H D-PA $65,500"

Sen John McCain...$19,000 in 20 YEARS TOTAL

Such a hypocrite...not to mention...A Crook and a Fraud.....

NOBAMA!!!

Public Safety Commissioner dismissal

Main article: Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal
On July 11, 2008, Sarah Palin dismissed Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, citing performance-related issues, such as not being a team player on budgeting issues. Monegan alleged that his dismissal was retaliation for his failure to fire Palin???s former brother-in-law, Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who was involved in a child custody battle with Palin???s sister. Governor Palin stated on July 17 that no pressure had been applied upon Monegan to fire Wooten.

In July, Palin's ethics advisor urged her to apologize for "overreaching or perceived overreaching" to get Wooten fired. Palin publicly acknowledged in August that "pressure could have been perceived to exist, although I have only now become aware of it." She also apologized to Alaskans for the distraction.

On August 1, the Alaska Legislature hired an independent investigator to review the situation.

The investigation is scheduled to be completed in October 2008. On August 13, after an internal investigation, Palin acknowledged that her staff had contacted Monegan or his staff about two dozen times regarding Wooten. Palin placed the Alaska Director of Boards and Commissions on paid leave as a result of one tape-recorded call. She stated that she had only known about some of the contacts, that many of those contacts were appropriate, and restated she had not fired Monegan because of Wooten, who is still employed as a state trooper.

On September 1, Palin's lawyer asked the state Legislature to drop its investigation, saying that by state law, the governor-appointed state Personnel Board had jurisdiction over ethics issues. Palin also asked that the Board review the matter as an ethics complaint.

Palin's choice to replace Monegan, Charles M. Kopp, chief of the Kenai police department, was named to the position on July 11, 2008. He resigned on July 25 after it was revealed that he had received a letter of reprimand for sexual harassment in his previous position.

On September 12th, Associated Press reported that the bipartisan Alaska's State Senate committee investigating abuse of power investigation against Sarah Palin decided to subpoena Todd Palin, her husband.

"Bridge(s) to Nowhere"

In Colorado the B!tch ws Booo'd Reciting that "Bridge To Nowhere".... Bull-Spit !!!

See also: Gravina Island Bridge and Knik Arm Bridge (Don Young's Way)
Two Alaskan bridge construction proposals supported by Palin in her 2006 gubernatorial race have been derided as a symbol of pork barrel spending: a proposed bridge connecting Ketchikan to Gravina Island (population 50) where its airport lies, and a proposed bridge ("Don Young's Way", named after Alaska's Congressman) crossing Knik Arm to provide an alternate route from Anchorage to Wasilla. The nickname "Bridge(s) to Nowhere" has been used for the Gravina Island Bridge alone or, more rarely, both bridges.


In 2005, Congress earmarked $442 million to build the two bridges but later reversed itself under strong criticism and gave the transportation money to Alaska with no strings attached.[94] In 2006, Palin ran for governor on a "build-the-bridge" platform,

attacking "spinmeisters" for insulting local residents by calling them "nowhere" and urging speed "while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist."[97] About two years after the introduction of the bridge proposals, a month after the bridge received sharp criticism from John McCain,[98] and nine months into Palin's term as governor, Palin canceled the Gravina Bridge, blaming Congress for not providing enough funding. Alaska will not return any of the $442 million to the federal government and is spending a portion of the funding, $25 million, on a Gravina Island road to the place where the bridge would have gone, expressly so that none of the money will have to be returned. Palin continues to support funding Don Young's Way, estimated as more than twice as expensive as the Gravina Bridge would have been.

In her nomination acceptance speech and on the campaign trail, Palin has often said: "I told the Congress 'thanks, but no thanks,' for that Bridge to Nowhere." Although Palin was originally a main proponent of the bridge, McCain-Palin television advertisements claim Palin "stopped the Bridge to Nowhere". These claims have been widely questioned or described as misleading in several newspapers across the political spectrum. Newsweek, commenting on Palin's "astonishing pivot," remarked: "Now she talks as if she always opposed the funding."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

Srah Palin: Budget and spending

The B!tch is a Fraud !!!

Palin at the Alaska Airmen's Trade Show in Anchorage, Alaska in May 2008In June 2007, Palin signed into law a $6.6 billion operating budget. At the same time, she used her veto power to make the second-largest cuts of the construction budget in state history. The $237 million in cuts represented over 300 local projects, and reduced the construction budget to $1.6 billion.

Palin followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet, a purchase made by the Murkowski administration for $2.7 million in 2005, on a state government credit account, against the wishes of the legislature. In August 2007, the jet was listed on eBay, but the sale fell through, and the plane was later sold for $2.1 million through a private brokerage firm.[84] Palin lives in Juneau during the legislative session and lives in Wasilla and works out of offices in Anchorage the rest of the year; to cover her travel expenses, and compensate for her choice not to use the governor's private chef, she charged the state ($16,951 in total allowances) and for her family's travel expenses ($43,490, an additional $93,000 for Palin herself), mostly between Juneau and Wasilla. In response to criticism of the practice, the governor's staffers told The New York Times that the practice was in line with state policy, and that Palin's gubernatorial expenses are 80% below those of her predecessor, Frank Murkowski.

While initially supporting $223 million in federal funding for the "Bridge to Nowhere", Palin backed off when Alaska's share of the cost increased. In February 2008, Palin's office sent a 70-page memo to Ted Stevens' office, outlining $200 million in funding requests for Alaska.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KjsEs46C70&feature=related
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1. A Fellow VIET NAM POW Prisoner-Pilot 2 years Captured 2 years before John McCain, 70 Yrs Old, Dr.Philip Butler, Sounding Off on John McCain as a Fraud and Pandering on his Viet Nam Prisoner of War History, when [600 Viet Nam Vets are hardly mentioned or acknowledged who suffered more] and Mccain also not really being an "Evangelical" ...because McCain was Apathetic to [Religion] Overall !!!

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2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7eODe-WtWk&feature=email
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This Sarah Palin and her pregnancy timeline is ....Scary as He!!!

3.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C21HdCJKM60&feature=related
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She was not [8 months Pregnant] or Pregnant at all !!
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Her Medical Records should be Mandatory and the Public should Demand them !!!!

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Former POW says McCain is "not cut out to be President"

Source: http://therealmccain.com/butler/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFM1xqqTX_g&feature=related



About Dr. Phillip Butler

Doctor Phillip Butler is a 1961 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former light-attack carrier pilot. In 1965 he was shot down over North Vietnam where he spent eight years as a prisoner of war.

After his repatriation in 1973 he earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at San Diego and became a Navy Organizational Effectiveness consultant.

He completed his Navy career in 1981 as a professor of management at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Former POW says McCain is "Not cut out to be President"

"To see McCain resort to playing the POW card when answering legitimate questions, in my mind, cheapens that experience. And by cheapening his own experience in war, he degrades all of our experiences in war.

He turns the horrific incidents we've all seen, touched, smelled, and felt into a lame excuse to earn political points. And it dishonors us all."


-- Brandon Friedman, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan

John McCain has been exploiting his prisoner of war experience every chance he gets. He has used this story to justify everything from not knowing how many homes he has to his healthcare plan to his marital infidelities to his taste in music.

The McCain campaign is even using his POW story in paid ads. But now a veteran who was a prisoner with McCain in Vietnam is explaining loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country.

We are sure this video will draw an onslaught of right-wing attacks, but we bring it to you because it is our job to continue to convey the truth together and give these issues national attention.

As Dr. Butler has said, McCain does not have the temperament to have his finger near the red button. Get this video to everyone you know-friends, family members, coworkers, and especially those who don't share your political views. The video is designed to reach them. Get it on your social networking sites like Digg.