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  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 11/01/2008 9:08:32 AM

    This comment was worth reposting its not mine but you should read it

    "Nowforthetruth" recently made this posting: "Nins, all you prove is that you have perpetual PMS and cannot read. If you are as careless in your practice, you are a danger to your profession."

    You reveal too much of yourself "Nowforthetruth".

    "Nowforthetruth" also continues to keep repasting postings that suggest that the root cause of our problem is a law decades old that encourages loans to qualified low income people. "Nowforthetruth" is part of the spin/propaganda machine, and continues to repeat well known deceit.

    Alan Greenspan stated recently that the problem was not anything like that. Rather, he stated that an entire financial system was built outside of regulation, and 'we trusted' these self-interested looters to regulate themselves. Credit Default Swaps were the result.

    Credit Default Swaps increased from $106 trillion in '02 to $531 trillion under the R stewardship. No regulation.

    While there are several variations of a viral email that tries to blame a few thousands of political donations to some Democrats, the actual, legitimate news has reported that Fannie and Freddie paid many millions to Republican lobbyists to lobby Republicans to PREVENT REGULATION.

    McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, received up to $35K/mo. from Fannie and Freddie from 2000 to present, to lobby Rs,only, against regulation. Freddie has paid Rick Davis while he has been McC's campaing manager. Freddie donated $250k to the R convention.

    These facts are everywhere in the legitimate news. You can start at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html and http://www.newsweek.com/id/164732/page/1 There's much more legitimate news on this.

    Trillions were looted from our economy because the Rs allowed it. It is inescapable that the Rs, most prominently McC's campaign manager, were in the pockets of big money while they drove the buss off the cliff with us in it.

    You can try to distract people with fears about 'those guys'. Lies, distortion, deception. 'Socialist' is only the last in a long, now desperate, list of labels you have tried to pin on 'that one'. That's all you have left.

    Is your most recent reposting here directed to fears about "Socialism", or is it just innuendo, or are we trying to fold in a little racism too?

    I've got an idea, since we have no more ideas, let's keep running our campaign on fear, smears and hypocrisy.

    Keep talking "Nowforthetruth", you're really helping. You keep demonstrating that we all have to vote against lies and propaganda and attempts to hijack our political process with deceit. Your actions are the kinds of reasons that I'm voting for Obama after 40 years of never having voted for a Dem.

    A 40 year republican

  • Posted By: StevenNavy @ 11/01/2008 7:49:26 AM

    The Party of the "Religious Right" hasn't fared to well in recent past. Foley with picture of little boys, Stevens's with his taking of wealth from everyone who will give him something, Sarah Palin's ethics problem and her daughter being pregnant from a high school drop out. McCain and his past Keating Five problems, leaving his dis-figured wife for one who has money (lots of money). Abramhoff and the Bush/Chaney lies and the leader of that party being soley responsible for THE DEATHs OF MORE THAN 4300 young men and women who they sent to war under total lies and corruption. That does sound like anyone I want to vote for and I am a republican.

  • Posted By: rexymeteorite @ 11/01/2008 4:10:33 AM

    Thank GOD oregon is not a swing state!!!!

  • Posted By: sensiblejoe @ 11/01/2008 3:37:55 AM

    Robocalls (and telemarketing of any sort, for that matter) don't work with this independent voter who's registered non-partisan. They're obnoxious, thin on facts and can't delve into issues. The same goes for postcards that follow the same lead. From the Democrats, I got postcards that explained planks of their platform; from the Republicans, ones that said nary a thing about their plans and vision (but plenty negative about "that other guy") and assumed, rather stereotypically on basis of last name, that I was Jewish. Marketing means selling me on your product, guys; not simply knocking the competition. Tell me what YOU have to offer me! You haven't made it clear yet...

  • Posted By: panayoti1948 @ 11/01/2008 12:29:05 AM

    In general I do not believe they do. It quickly gets to the point that as soon as I realize that it is another political pretaped announcement I quickly hangup the phone up. Which party is of no importance.

    Peter Theophilopoulos
    http://dream-weaverchildrenstory.blogspot.com/

  • Posted By: panayoti1948 @ 11/01/2008 12:27:42 AM

    In general I do not believe they do. It quickly gets to the point that as soon as I realize that it is another political pretaped announcement I quickly hangup the phone up. Which party is of no importance.

    Peter Theophilopoulos
    http://dream-weaverchildrenstory.blogspot.com/

  • Posted By: LudwigVanBeet @ 10/31/2008 11:39:20 PM

    I are a Repub from S. Carolina by way of Texas,. I luv Robot Culls, they are the ony culls I git and I enjoy em. I talk back to em but aise niver any anser back at me. I luv Sara Pailin!!! I wisht Sara wuld cull me dag nab it Yu Betcha. EEEE haw.

  • Posted By: LudwigVanBeet @ 10/31/2008 11:32:46 PM

    ATTENTION,--- Could, or would any Repiglican Please stand and tell us ONE GOOD THING that the Republican Party did for America in EIGHT Years!!!!!!!!!! !!! Nothing Right,,-- also Repig's , raise your Far Right Hand if you VOTED for Bush and Cheney in 04. WHO ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE FOR NOW????

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/31/2008 11:01:47 PM

    How to bring down a democracy: the steps toward totalitarian rule, in the order followed by Hitler and the Nazi Party SEE IF THEY SOUND FAMILIAR.

    1. Improvise an attack (or take advantage of an attack) on the country
    2. Declare the country under attack by an enemy; real or improvised
    3. Force legislation that limits civil liberties and gathers broad powers unto government
    4. Brand dissenters and peacemakers as unpatriotic and browbeat them into submission
    5. Keep the fear factor high to make the public easier to manage
    6. Institute massive propaganda campaigns using state-controlled no-longer-free media and fear of government retribution
    7. Law enforcement and government personnel are used to spy on, control and break dissent 7. Institute the equivalent of a national homeland security department, overseen by one person with unlimited powers
    8. Confiscate all firearms from the citizenry
    9. Institute the mass murder and imprisonment of any who resist the new ideology.
    10. Launch pre-emptive strikes into other countries in an attempt to spread the new ideology

    Sound familiar? It should, its not only the direct path of Hitlers rise to power, but also parallels the events starting with and following 9/11. President Bush was very familiar with the game plan, as his Grandfather and his Grandfathers father-in-law were supporters of Hitler and Nazism, both before and after the war.

    Of course, theyve skipped a couple of the items on the list, but theyll get to them if theyre allowed to remain in power, because it will be the only way for them to retain power.

    The Reichstag Fire: the funeral pyre of German democracy parallels 9/11 and the loss of American civil liberties

    http://www.essortment.com/all/nazireichstag_rghx.htm

    THE BEST REASON TO VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA THIS ELECTION YEAR

  • Posted By: vstillwell @ 10/31/2008 10:50:39 PM

    How about the Republican party stops campaigning like sewer rats. That would end the robo calls.

  • Posted By: dumbed down by the media @ 10/31/2008 4:42:15 PM

    Is it even worth a comment? I got 11 ROBO calls for Obama in 3 days. Guess who I didn't vote for....based on Robo calls. By the way....we don't have to listen to these.

    • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 10/31/2008 10:27:28 PM

      Well, gee, dumbed. . . that's a clever way to select the leader of the free world. You certainly live down to your name.

  • Posted By: lglbgl @ 10/31/2008 6:28:51 PM

    What happened to the "Do Not Call" list. I'm on it and yet I have been getting so many calls I have quit answering my house phone. Politics or not, the calls are a solicitation call and I registered to avoid these calls. Where are my rights?

    • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 10/31/2008 10:26:20 PM

      The DO NOT CALL list does not apply to calls from political organizations, tax-exempt charities, survey organizations or businesses with whom you already have a relationship. Sorry.

  • Posted By: southsidemike @ 10/31/2008 6:09:10 PM

    I hang up on on ALL computer call, no matter WHO they are from!

  • Posted By: southsidemike @ 10/31/2008 6:07:46 PM

    I hang up on ALL compuret calls no matter WHO they are from!

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/31/2008 1:18:16 PM

    Honestly, looking at McCain and Obama objectively (without any party affiliation or any racism) I really can't see why anybody would vote for McCain. Obama has offered a much more coherent plan to get America out of the economic disaster we are in.

    Right now, most people are anxious about the economy, fearing the worst but hoping for the best.

    Reality check: within 18 months YOU could be standing in a bread line. That's how bad it really is. And Obama will work actively to prevent this short term, as well as make us strong again long term. As much as I like McCain and admire his patriotism, he really is not up for the job, not now with the global markets falling apart.


    Obama's economic plan can be found at:

    http://www.barackobama.com/issues/economy/index.php

    • Posted By: max in fl @ 10/31/2008 5:27:39 PM

      Nins

      As you know it is only going to get uglier now that McCain has hired the voter suppression team managed by Nathan Sproul. I can't find any news lately about him but I think he is working on getting another $8,000,000 from the RNC after this election. His group has to be exposed BEFORE Nov 4th, any news of what he is up to?

      I would NOT put a van traveling down neighborhoods blaring go out to vote in different languages past him..

  • Posted By: broman @ 10/31/2008 4:24:21 PM

    NO,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,THEY DON"T WORK!!! Humm, or do they? I know one thing for sure, McCain's robo's don't call me anymore lol. Must have been my out going personality they experienced the first and ONLY time i got a call. So i guess my answer would be yes, the call just made me speak up AGAINST McCain/Palin al the more......OBAMA/Biden 08-16

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/31/2008 4:14:26 PM

    Hmmm, not so different from the Campaign Volunteers who sit day and night reposting the same old crap over and over again on this site! Let's call them "Robo-Bloggers"

  • Posted By: junkmail6 @ 10/31/2008 4:09:50 PM

    Robo calls protected by the First Amendment? I thought that guaranteed freedom to speak, not freedom to force people to listen. How about an opt-out program, for those of us who would prefer to avoid others exercising their freedoms?

  • Posted By: names2long @ 10/31/2008 3:59:01 PM

    This robo-call #@$! is ridiculous. I've grown so tired of wasting my cell minutes by answering the seemingly never-ending stream of junk calls that I won't answer my phone anymore unless I recognize the number. Shouldn't my telemarketer block work in this situation? I never signed on for 3 calls a day from my political party trying to "sell" me on a candidate (at least I think that's what they're doing, as I've really never listened past "hi this is your....party reminding you....")

  • Posted By: ThePrairiePrankster @ 10/31/2008 3:22:15 PM

    Please publish the names, addresses and phones numbers of those who own and manage robo-call companies. I would like to visit with them and express my feelings to them on a very personal level.

    • Posted By: minsall @ 10/31/2008 3:54:57 PM

      Love it, Prairie Prankster! My sentiments exactly!

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