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These days, answering your phone often means listening to a recorded political message. But do robo-calls work?

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  • Posted By: Morgan2008 @ 11/04/2008 11:20:52 PM

    If Barack Obama wins and you don't like the next four years, you can blame it on the BIG CORPORATE MEDIA FOR reporting and emphasizing all negatives about Obama's competition and praising an empty suit, ruthless radical like Barack Obama while shielding any negative complaints about him. You can also blame it on yourself if you were gullible enough to vote for Barack Obama knowing full well he started campaigning for the highest office in the land with no experience. I have absolutely no confidence left in our media. They are all spinners trying to get their favorite candidate elected. Hardly anything they say is factual and non-biased. I will be totally disappointed in the intelligence and good judgment of my fellow citizens if they listen to the empty promises of someone who has done nothing for this country and vote for him in favor of a real life American hero like John McCain. I have already voted and I did not vote for Barack Obama even though I am a democrat, but I am not a stupid partisan who will vote for someone who I think is totally unqualified for the job. I am still hoping John McCain can win tonight even though the media cannot wait to actually count the real votes before they start predicting the presumed winner before the West Coast voting polls have closed. This should be illegal!!!! If it ever comes up for a vote and I will be complaining about it and voicing my opinion to make it become law that these media magpies have to keep their *#*$*%** mouths shut until all the polls close on election day instead of yakking about who is winning before all polls have closed and thus still trying to manipulate the votes. I have already suffered for the past eight years because of my fellow citizens having the poor judgment to vote for George W. Bush. I was hoping people would be smart enough not to listen to empty promises this election. NOBAMA!!!!! NOBAMA!!!!! Even if he wins the election he will not be my president. Barack Obama has already divided the country. I did not like what I saw at my polls today...evidence of a Barack Obama campaign. If Barack Obama does win you people that voted for him are in for a big disappointment. I am already disappointed at the mere possibility that he might win. LOL in the next four years!!! We definitely need campaign finance reform in a big way so that the presidency of the USA is not up for sale to the highest bidder. NOBAMA!!!!! NOBAMA!!!!! now and in the future NOBAMA!!!!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/03/2008 5:02:50 PM

    Obama said he denounced and left the radical Trinity United Church but it???s not true!!

    Obama has Trinity United pastor Rev Ottis Moss accompanying him on his campaign!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/03/2008 4:16:08 PM

    More and more disturbing stuff on Obama's past and his real intentions are just starting to surface.

    As I predicted over a year ago .... Obama is a big fraud and America is being duped !!

  • Posted By: pezled @ 11/03/2008 7:09:53 AM

    Robocalls and cut-and-past bloggers - both are pointless and ineffective. People don't listen to the robocall crap, and people don't bother to read the cut-and-paste addicts. I suppose that's not all bad - it keeps the crazies busy and lets us normal people go on with everyday life.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/02/2008 11:03:09 PM

    The Wall Street crisis was planned the night of Obama's meeting at Bill Ayres home to put Obama in The White House. Together they put a beautiful plan into place.

    This Strategy was first elucidated in the 1966 issue of 'The Nation' Magazine by a pair of radical Socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

    David Horowitz summarizes it as:

    "The strategy of forcing political change through an orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of Capitalism by overloading the Government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
    unquote

    Obama begin with ACORN by funneling millions into their organization. He then trained ACORN to stage protests in banks to force them to issue risky loans or they would be threatened to face racial charges. ACORN was trained to intimidate financial institutions into giving ???Ninja??? loans to people with NO assets, NO job and NO income, who couldn???t afford these loans.

    That caused the housing bubble two years ago it was by ACORN's actions they were able to destroy our credit system.

    As this played out, D-Barney Frank and D-Chris Dodd were able to cover up the millions of improvident loans to these bad risky house buyers. And Barney Frank and his chums successfully were able to block all of President Bush's attempts to put a rein on this problem.

    So Fannie & Freddie was forced to purchase all these failed subprime mortgages.

    Then both Frank and Dodd denied that there were any problems, and refused the Bush Admin. requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and they were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the 'minute they failed'.

    Democrats then blamed Bush saying it happened on his watch knowing it would hurt the Republican Party in the election setting it up that Barack Obama could use this to his advantage.

    Karl Marx once compared a Revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface.

    Barack Obama is that Marxist mole !

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 10:45:22 PM

    BREAKING NEWS ALERT....

    Obama taped conversation with San Francisco Chronicle states his policies ???will bankrupt coal mining operations that produce gas emissions in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina
    which it will cause energy prices to skyrocket....." .....more info nobody knew until now about what Obama wants to do!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:46:14 PM

    Obama's Links To Radicals Starting To Surface!! www.newsmax.com/timmer

    Obama-Farrakhan Ties Are Close, Ex-Farrakhan Aide Says

    A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama???s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had ???an open line between them??? to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.

    ???Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn???t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,??? said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.
    White broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor of African-American history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
    White said Obama was ???part of the Chicago scene??? where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other???s events and support each other???s causes.
    ???Even though Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, within the black community, the political and militant nationalist community is very small. So it wouldn???t be uncommon for [Obama and Farrakhan] to show up at events together, or at least be there and communicate with each other,??? White told Newsmax.
    The Anti-Defamation League has denounced Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam as a ???hate group.???
    Farrakhan has called Jews ???bloodsuckers,??? ???satanic??? and accused them of running the slave trade. He has labeled gays as ???degenerates.??? In a 2006 speech, the ADL again condemned Farrakhan when he said: ???These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. ??? It's the wicked Jews the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's wicked Jews, false Jews that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!"

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:11:45 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:11:32 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: ObamaYesWeCan @ 11/01/2008 5:09:45 PM

    This moronic scumbag Samuel J. Wurzelbacher "Joe the Plumber" had his AZ driver license suspended

    http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/128323

    Wurzelbacher, who lived in Mesa in 2000 and had an Arizona driver's license, had his driver's license suspended by the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division on May 4, 2000, following a nonpayment of a court-imposed fine for civil traffic violations, according to court records.

    ...owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes, according to public records, still owes more than $700 to the Mesa court system.

    Records show he was cited for failure to stop at a red light and for failure to provide proof of insurance on Feb. 9, 2000, in a black Dodge truck at the intersection of Dobson and Baseline roads in Mesa.

    After failing to pay his original fine of $627.50 issued in March 2000, his license was suspended and the fine was handed over to a collection agency along with a 16 percent surcharge. The now-resident of Holland, Ohio, still owes $727.90 to the Mesa Municipal Court, according to court records.


    Hopefully the collection agency will break both of his legs so he'll never be able to walk nor work ever again. This typical Republican scumbag deserves it.

  • Posted By: blueyesand @ 11/01/2008 5:05:16 PM

    VOTE FOR OBAMA, not OLD BALLS Grandpa McCain and loud mouth, Palin. I am a white, educated, professional female who is a Republican. Both McCain and Palin are a disgrace. They belong on SNL, they actually think now we are going to vote for them because they think they are funny? OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA is our new

  • Posted By: blueyesand @ 11/01/2008 5:02:25 PM

    VOTE FOR OBAMA not OLD BALLS Grandpa McCain and loud mouth Palin.
    And of yes, I am a white, educated, professional female, who can't stand McCain. He and Palin are a joke. I see why they are now part of SNL. Do they think we are going to like them as comedians? YUK! OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 4:56:38 PM

    WELL SAID BILL COSBY !!

    'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
    I can't even talk the way these people talk:
    Why you ain't,
    Where you is,
    What he drive,
    Where he stay,
    Where he work,
    Who you be...

    And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.

    And then I heard the father talk.

    Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads.
    You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

    In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

    People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now
    We've got these knuckleheads walking around.

    The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.

    These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.

    $500 sneakers for what?

    And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

    I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.

    Where were you when he was 2?

    Where were you when he was 12?

    Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?

    And where is the father? Or who is his father?

    People putting their clothes on backward:
    Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?

    People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?

    Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

    What part of Africa did this come from??

    We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa ...

    I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.

    I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !

    With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap .....And all of them are in jail.

    Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

    We have got to take the neighborhood back.

    People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.

    We have millionaire football players who cannot read.

    We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.

    Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.

    We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

    " We cannot blame the white people any longer.'
    Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.

  • Posted By: panda69 @ 11/01/2008 4:46:48 PM

    I love John McCain! I believe he is an honorable man. So I must speak up to express my frustration about the RNC robocalls dragging his hard-earned reputation through the mud. Where I live in northern Virginia, I have received four or five robocalls from the RNC in the past one or two weeks. All of the robocalls have stated lies, and attributed the lies to the RNC, John McCain, and Sarah Palin.

    Let me make a distinction here. I can see the potential legitimacy of negative campaigning, to argue in the negative against the other side. But the robocalls are LYING, and that is different. The robocalls have poisoned the reputation of the RNC in my mind, not because the robocalls are negative, but because the robocalls are LYING.

    - I might not mind robocalls,
    - I might not mind negative campaigning,
    - But I DO mind the RNC robocalls attributing LIES to McCain.

  • Posted By: ol' shortie @ 11/01/2008 4:08:23 PM

    I received a "robo-call" night before last, and it was one of the ugliest, most disgusting things that have ever happened to me. I listened because I couldn't believe the calls were as terrible as I've heard. They are worse! This was a supposed "pro-life" call, and it was horribly graphic and gruesome. If I'd thought of voting for any Republican up to that call, it ended any chance of that happening since none of the Republicans in our state are raising any objections to these calls! It would be a horrible thing if any child had answered the phone and listened to that. However, these people don't seem to care about our children and how they could be affected.

  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 11/01/2008 3:15:12 PM

    THE GREAT BUSH DEPRESSION
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
    The government took them over because they are bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
    the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything seen in generations
    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand how its been broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He was the last to know somthing was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a budget surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?
    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
    which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that
    Stand up and hold them accountable
    Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
    Elect Obama Biden 2008






    Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: MChieco @ 11/01/2008 2:31:11 PM

    Robo calls only work if you smoke a fat joint before receiving one.

  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 11/01/2008 2:25:52 PM

    Sarah palin when asked about becoming vp responded

    "As for that VP talk all the time, I tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me, 'what is it exactly that the VP does every day......"

    After she had been the nominee for around 2 months she was asked again and this time said

    [T]hey???re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.

    If she doenst know what the vice pres or presidant does why would we give her the job

    mccain has around a 40 percent chance because of his age in not being able to

    complete his term

    picking palin was about as smart as picking any other mrs alaska contestant

    let send her back to the north

    elect obama biden now

  • Posted By: LudwigVanBeet @ 11/01/2008 2:23:11 PM

    Concerned Canadien _______ Is a Paid Republican Shill, and is an American citizen from Texas. He has been posting for Six Months now and everyone should beware of his paid talking points.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 1:47:50 PM

    Two central issues in the election Barack Obama is wrong and misleading:

    1) No tax increases to those earning $250,000 or less promised by Obama, then he
    lowered this figure to $200,000, then the "Gift that keeps on Giving" Joe Biden says
    the number is $150,000 and just yesterday Gov. Bill Richardson says the figure is
    $120,000 ...and now a videotape is disclosed where it shows Obama recently stated
    that in the interest of fairness with taxes is around $80,000.00!!
    Sounds like good old fashion Democratic ???reverse auction ???tax policy they implement
    after they break their campaign promise to the American people.

    2) On national security ...Obama???s own VP running mate Joe Biden ... ???mark my words,
    this guy Obama is going to be tested by a generated international crisis within 6
    months of his Presidency..I guarantee it??? Obama will meet with USA's enemies with
    no pre-conditions!
    John McCain???s surge strategy in Iraq is working and its saving the lives of young
    American men and women in uniform serving there...Obama won't admit to this day
    the surge is working and he voted to cut funding for these military forces !!

    John McCain is Commander-In-Chief material ....Obama is just a cardboard "cut-out"
    candidate of the DNC.

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