Journalist of the Year

Wonder if will be called voter suppression by the Dims if we do not allow Mickey Mouse's vote to be counted for Obama?

To me this says more about what a guy and his party will do to "win". They are a party that works now and during the past 8 years in dividing groups by class and race. They use code words and when caught deny their actions and as stated the "impact of their own words".

Letterman did the job of what a true reporter should be doing, calling him out on his statements and there truth. I used to like McCain, but not the McCain I am seeing during the past few months. My vote goes to Obama who has had the class to try to stay above this mud and evil and dangerous false allegations.

Yet when caught he says I disavow it, then continues to do the same, recent case the Robo calls stating the same lies as he and Palin have stated in their speeches.

We as a country deserve better. What is it about my Republican party that has turned it into an angry group of white people who never really have anything positive to say about this state of this country? Well they have been running the country for most of the past 27 years.

My son said to me dad compare the last 8 years to the previous eight years in any category you want, we are not better off today and that is why he is also changed to vote for Obama,and asked me to do so also, or I would be condoning these tactics.

McCain deserves to loss on basic decency and principles. He has said nothing for two months but bash Obama personally. Where are his ideas to move this country forward?
Any real details, ???Country First??? is a slogan says nothing of what he plans to do.

He only plan is to play to white people fears, and what do they really have to fear? It all in there heads, look around this current group in 8 years as almost destroyed this country, the middle class and they fear Obama?

Hopefully enough ???normal??? people will vote and the 23% of the hardcore right (Bush???s current rating) can have their say, but this group should not and does not represent this country or ???Normal??? Republicans for that matter.

Dave did a great job and moved me to make a tough change and go for Obama.

To me this says more about what a guy and his party will do to "win". They are a party that works now and during the past 8 years in dividing groups by class and race. They use code words and when caught deny their actions and as stated the "impact of their own words".

Letterman did the job of what a true reporter should be doing, calling him out on his statements and there truth. I used to like McCain, but not the McCain I am seeing during the past few months. My vote goes to Obama who has had the class to try to stay above this mud and evil and dangerous false allegations.

Yet when caught he says I disavow it, then continues to do the same, recent case the Robo calls stating the same lies as he and Palin have stated in their speeches.

We as a country deserve better. What is it about my Republican party that has turned it into an angry group of white people who never really have anything positive to say about this state of this country? Well they have been running the country for most of the past 27 years.

My son said to me dad compare the last 8 years to the previous eight years in any category you want, we are not better off today and that is why he is also changed to vote for Obama,and asked me to do so also, or I would be condoning these tactics.

McCain deserves to loss on basic decency and principles. He has said nothing for two months but bash Obama personally. Where are his ideas to move this country forward?
Any real details, ???Country First??? is a slogan says nothing of what he plans to do.

He only plan is to play to white people fears, and what do they really have to fear? It all in there heads, look around this current group in 8 years as almost destroyed this country, the middle class and they fear Obama?

Hopefully enough ???normal??? people will vote and the 23% of the hardcore right (Bush???s current rating) can have their say, but this group should not and does not represent this country or ???Normal??? Republicans for that matter.

Dave did a great job and moved me to make a tough change and go for Obama.

G. Gordon Liddy...A!! Hole !!

McCain's Presidential Transition Head was a [Lobbyist for Saddam Hussein and Iraq]

Mccain's Campaign Mgr, is a Lobbyist for Freddie & Fannie Mac.

McCain and his Surrogates passed Laws Sponsored and Supported by [Acorn]

McCain was at a [Acorn Rally In 2006] Google A!! Hole !!! Research

General Patraeus: Says that he does not think, He'll ever use the Term [Victory] when Describing Iraq.

McCain said that Obama was Un-Patriotic for not using the Term [Victory]

Question: Is Gen. Patraeus a Un-Patriotic General, as McCain has Described Obama ?

General Patraeus has also stated, "The Iraq War is not a [Victory Slogan] and that its not like taking a Hill, planting a Flag and coming Home to a Victory Parade"

i Guess Patraeus & Barack Obama know something that John McCain, does not, about the ongoing War in Iraq..Huh

Anyway, The Iraq War is coming to an END and it will be signed by President Bush and Maliki, for our Troops Exit in [2011]

The Time Horizon of Withdrawal is in Line with Barack Obama's Timeline of Withdrawal.

McCain is Too Damn Old...Period an out of Touch.

Conservative Talk Radio Host [Endorses Obama]

Note: The National Polls, The Electoral Map and Sunday, Colin Powell will [Endorse Obama] and Several Repuican Conservatives have also Jumped Ship and Endorsed Obama.

On Friday, [2 Dependable Conservative] organs backed Democrat Barack Obama for president.

First, Philadelphia talk radio host Michael Smerconish:

On his talk show on WPHT today, conservative Philadelphian Michael Smerconish endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

Smerconish did so by reading a couple paragraphs from his pending op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

"I've decided," he said. "My conclusion comes after reading the candidates' memoirs and campaign platforms, attending both party conventions, interviewing both men multiple times, and watching all primary and general election debates.

"John McCain is an honorable man who has served his country well. But he will not get my vote. For the first time since registering as a Republican 28 years ago, I'm voting for a Democrat for president.

"I may have been an appointee in the George H.W. Bush administration, and master of ceremonies for George W. Bush in 2004, but last Saturday I stood amidst the crowd at an Obama event in North Philadelphia," says the Republican.


Then, the Chicago Tribune, a newspaper that has not endorsed a Democrat for president since it was founded in 1847, followed suit. From their editorial:

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.

...

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.


According to Editor & Publisher, Obama now has a 3 to 1 lead over McCain in newspaper endorsements -- 51 newspapers with a total 6,299,363 daily circulation. At least seven of those papers endorsed President Bush in 2004.

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

http://therealmccain.com/butler/

"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. And get it to every blog, newspaper, and TV station that has ever overplayed McCain's POW story. It is time to fight back with truth!

The mainstream press has already begun to call out McCain for overusing his POW story. And it's cut across all political persuasions.

"Whether he's deflecting criticism over his health-care plan or mocking a tribute to the Woodstock music festival, Senator John McCain has a trump card: the Hanoi Hilton. - Edwin Chen, Bloomberg

"Noun, Verb, POW" - Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic Monthly

"The McCain campaign's constant invocation of the candidate's POW past is weird bordering on irrational..." - Ana Marie Cox, TIME

"I think they are going to it way too many times." - Howard Fineman, Newsweek

Remember how Joe Biden got the press to refer to Rudy Giuliani as "A noun, a verb, and 9/11"

Well, let's actually take Andrew Sullivan's lead here and get the media to boil McCain down to a similar phrase: "A noun, a verb, and POW." Considering how often the McCain campaign invokes his POW story, isn't that what they're already doing?
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With all of the horse hockey about Mc Cain still being a hero, he stands by and lets his vice candidate, the prettiest dumb woman in politics, slather his opponent in dirt for associating with a respected college professor. To believe anything at all about what is implied in this slander, you require people to interrogate all respected college professors that you might meet into explaining their past lives before you agree to sit down with them. Tell me now, how many of your friends that you know whose past that you have investigated to see if they might have done anything questionable in the past? Try Nelson Mandela, for instance. He was in the pen for thirty years. An ex con. Would you refuse to sit in the same parlor with Nelson Mandela?
Mc Cain knows that all of this is stupid, and that his vice candidate is stupid or she wouldn't stoop so low as to do things this way. He simply counts on her never having to try to lead the whole country because he is guaranteed to live and be alert enough to finish his office. This woman constitutes a peril to this nation with there being even a scintilla of a possibility that she would ever assume the presidency. She is so bad that the campaign is terrified of her being interviewed about any details of what a president needs to know and do. This is not heroic, John Mc Cain, and you knew better. Your political future is not valuable enough to expose us to this danger. Shame on you. Now, go sit with Larry King and let him challenge you, too. You deserve the disgrace.

beanhead54: Your Lame Ass already live in a [Socialist Government]

A [MIlitary Run , Capitalist, Socialist Society]

A Glorified Police State....

I have no Problems with it, I cannot change it, so I Accept it.

Socialist Government..

1. Social Security System: A Self Sufficient Government, would not have such an Organization...Period.

2. Unemployment Insurance: In a Independent, Self Sufficient Government [Country] You have only what you've Earned.

3. Medicaid-Medicare: Again, In a Self Sufficient and independent Government-Nation, it would not EXIST.

4. Welfare & Food Stamps: again, it would'nt... Exist

5. Federal, State, County & City Government Taxes would be one, not Seperate, though it should be [One]

6. Governement & CEO Bailouts resulting in CEO's keeping their Millions and Leaving the Tax Payer and his children to pay for the Debts incurred by Corporate execuives and then for the Governemnt to have Ownership in the Banking Institutions is [Socialism]

7. Social Programs, Not for Profit Organizations, Various Government Handouts and Scholarships, grants that don't Require Repayment, all of this is [Socialism]

But this country would be a Big 3rd world Without implementing various Forms of [Socialism] or Derivatives of [Socialism]

I have no problem with it, because the governemnt can do as it pleases and those that control Finance have the Power to do so.


YOU CAN STOP THE [SOCIALISM] SCARE TACTICS NOW...IT WILL NOT WORK..OK

Ellis, McCain gets his "proper grilling" from the MSM on a daily basis. You fail to mention the only proper grilling Obama has ever seen is from Fox.

I guess that just slipped your mind.

...................................It is hard for me to ignore that journalists and all forms of the media are employed by Corporations and what they present or choose not to present are going to reflect information that the Corporations approve of. The Corporations have people who give us news and information and interviews that present guys like Bush during his early years very favorably so the media should be implicated in the building up of the war and the limited feedback on what the Big Corporations were doing that led up to our present Financial Crisis and many other important happenings that we should be informed about but are left in the dark and vote ignorantly in many cases. McCain now has Fox News going to bat for him 24/7 to build up his Campaign and attack the Obama Campaign. Many other news sources have Republican Insiders imbed in their news and information services who "come out of the woodwork" now during an election year to boost guys like McCain and help Conservative Politics and Politicians............America is controlled by the Corporations and is not a True Democracy because the Media is under the control of Corporations!!!!

PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TO BE HELD SUNDAY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

The Free and Equal Elections Coalition (FREE) and the Columbia Political Union are pleased to announce that a Presidential debate will be held this coming Sunday, October 19th, 2008, on the campus of Columbia University.

ALL SIX of the Presidential candidates who appear on enough state ballots to acquire the 270 Electoral Votes needed to become President are invited. They are as follows (listed in alphabetical order by affiliation):

Constitution Party Candidate: Chuck Baldwin
Democratic Party Candidate: Barack Obama
Green Party Candidate: Cynthia McKinney
Independent Candidate: Ralph Nader
Libertarian Party Candidate: Bob Barr
Republican Party Can John McCain

The Columbia Political Union will present the debate from 8:00pm to 10:00pm in the Altschul Auditorium, located at 417 International Affairs Building. The debate will be moderated by Pacifica Radio's Amy Goodman, the host of "Democracy Now!". CSPAN will cover the debate, and live radio broadcasts are expected.

"The Columbia Political Union is committed to energizing political discourse on Columbia's campus," said Allon Brann, Columbia Political Union Publisher. "As a non-partisan organization, we work to provide students with opportunities to encounter and engage with political ideas across a wide ideological spectrum, and on a wide range of issues."

"It is with these goals in mind that we have organized this Presidential Debate: to give all candidates-- either within or outside of the political "mainstream"-- the opportunity to speak directly to students about their goals on the issues they deem critical for this country."

"We have invited all eligible candidates, and it is our sincere hope that all will participate, to ensure the substance and rigor of the dialogue which we believe is crucial at this time."

Certified letters officially inviting each candidate have been sent to the respective campaigns.

The Free and Equal Elections Coalition and the Columbia Political Union await the response from the candidates. All candidates' supporters are encouraged to contact the Presidential campaigns and urge them to attend.

The Columbia Political Union seeks to enhance involvement in the political process, domestic and international, and draw every member of the campus community into an ongoing discussion of political ideas.

FREE is a coalition of political parties, independent citizens and civic organizations formed to promote free and equal elections in the United States.

http://www.freeandequal.org/events.php?id=7

FREEDOM ISN'T FREE

Look. GOP busted for voter suppression plot today in Montana.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/372992/gop_busted_for_voter_suppression