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CNN news is reporting that Obama's aunt (an illegal alien) is living in Boston. She was ordered deported 4 years ago when she overstayed a visit. She was discovered living in Boston. When asked about her breaking the law, Obama stated: "I was unaware of her status". Is there anyone left that doesn't see the trend here? Racist and terrorist friends, a convicted felon as a friend and now a law breaking illegal alien aunt. Obama's "I was unaware" answer is no longer believable.
If Obama were aware and if he were as ruthless and underhanded as some make him out to be, he would have taken care of this non-issue before the media got hold of it. He could have sent her to Kenya awhile ago.
I call this a non-issue because everyone has family members or acquaintances who are not perfect. Obama can't be expected to keep track of every member of his extended family.
For the right to make such an issue over this when we have real problems in need of solution, just demonstrates their intellectual and moral bankruptcy.
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Get your head out of the sand. The Times is a shell of what it used to be. It's stock prices are way down, circulation is down, they've laid off over 200 people this past year. Unless they can somehow turn it around they'll be bankrupt in 2 years. The reason for this is their far left agenda, the same reason MSNBC and CNN are losing viewership. In the prime 8pm time slot Fox News has more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined.
Youre statement is ridiculous.
Stock prices are down all over, newspaper circulation has gone down all over and many blue chip companies are laying off.
The NY Times has done much better than the right wing rags such as the NY Post (Murdoch has to subsidize it) or the now defunct NY Sun.
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Interestingly even though Stevens is a convicted felon, he will be able to vote in this election. The Alaska state government ruled that Stevens will not lose his right to vote until sentencing.
I don't know if that is normal or it is a "last minute interpretation" of the rules to benefit a politician. I was under the impression once convicted you lose your voting rights (in states that remove it for felons).
That should save Stevens and the Republican party the embarrassment of one of their criminal Senators being unable to vote.
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I wonder what Mickey Mouse would think about all this??
So, what do you think?
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Doesn't it worry you that the last, best hope for the Republican Party is that Americans are racist?
Not really. Their antics over the past several years show us its time the Republican party disappears.
The majority no longer supporting them is a good sign. They are reduced - only racists, the scared and other mentally challenged still take that party seriously.
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More math for you.
How many houses do you own?
McCain: " ah, um, ah I'll get back to you.
He's still working at it. It seems the counting requires fingers from more than one hand.
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And it gets better
It was Amy Strozzi, Gov. Sarah Palin’s traveling makeup artist, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday night.Ms. Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy award for her makeup work on the television show “So You Think You Can Dance?”, was paid $22,800 for the first two weeks of October alone, according to the records. The campaign categorized Ms. Strozzi’s payment as “Personnel Svc/Equipment.”
In addition, Angela Lew, who is Ms. Palin’s traveling hair stylist, got $10,000 for “Communications Consulting” in the first half of October. Ms. Lew’s address listed in F.E.C. records traces to an Angela M. Lew in Thousands Oaks, Calif., which matches with a license issued by the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology. The board said Ms. Lew works at a salon called Hair Grove in Westlake Village, Calif.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10...week-period/?hp
22,800 for two weeks of makeup work on Sarah. 10,000 for 1/2 a month of hairstyling service for Sarah.
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Nice.
A 2,500 dollar Valentino jacket. A Louis Vuitton bag for their seven year old kid.
I wonder how those Republican suckers feel, those who gave 5, 10, 15, 25, to find that over 150,000 of their donations have been spent on haute couture fashion accessories at the boudoirs of the elite.
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You're really scraping the bottom of the barrel on this one. Some insignificant editor of a backwater bird cage liner in Texas likes Obama, and that's important to you?
The point is that this is a Republican newspaper in small town very Republican America. Aggieland, the heart of Texas, the Republican party core where they voted Bush/Kerry 70 to 30%.
Don't assume this is the decision of one editor.
The editors are part of the community and small town newspapers are dependent upon the good will of their community for their revenue. Picking a Democrat in that enviroment tells me a lot about the loss of Republican party influence.
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That's not true. Development of renewable energy sources, national health care, green technologies, a major push for better education in math and science have all been ignored because the Reagan anti-government philosophy has held sway for nearly thirty years. That philosophy is of, by and for the Republican party. As the American people are figuring out, it is not in our country's best interests.
Very true. We had a push in Science and Engineering during the 60's and 70's. After the Reagan revolution, science was no longer popular.
Now the big educational debate is should we or should we not teach intelligent design.
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Wow, Bern, I agree with everything you just said.
On energy:
Both candidates promote development of multiple energy resources, which is great. Both would be moves in a good direction. But I think that Obama's stronger and faster push away from oil is very important. McCain/Palin's "drill, baby, drill" philosophy would give more short term relief while alternatives are develolped, but it would also prolong the dependency and deplete reserves faster, and I believe it would reduce the resolve to develop those alternatives in a timely manner.
By pushing towards alternatives and away from oil harder and earlier, we can switch the majority of energy consumption away from oil before all of the cost-effective oil reserves run out, allowing the remaining oil consumption (legacy uses, or uses for which it is simply the est choice) to be supported for a longer time at lower cost and with less dependence on foreign suppliers.
If we prolong the oil dependence by keeping prices down in the short term by raped exploitation, we could very well find ourselves with depleted reserves and corresponding extreme costs and excessive import dependence before the move to alternatives is complete. And then we'd have no cost effective reserves to support those legacy uses that are likely to remain significant long after the point where we've moved the majority of consumption to other sources.
I do wish Obama was more pro-nuclear, though. Obama's energy plan does include nuclear, but it seems more of a grudging acceptance of a necessary evil rather than advocacy. I still prefer Obama's plan, but if you could add McCain's pro-nuclear position to it, it would be better.
McCain does seem to be ahead with his support for nuclear. Petroleum is a complex mix of chemicals which can be broken down and converted to complex lubricants and base chemicals for many of our manufacturing processes. I always thought it "wasteful"' to simply burn it when other options are available.
The difference between the latest generation nuclear plants and the "old" plants we have in the USA is like day and night because of many technological advances. Its like personal computers - the most expensive ones from 20 years ago don't have 1% of the power or features of the cheapest ones made today.
France is sitting in the catbird seat. They invested heavily in nuclear power. Over 80% of their electricity is nuclear and they often export (sell) their electricity to Italy.
If we converted to nuclear and invested in a decent distribution system, we could supply all our houses with electric lighting and heat. We would no longer need gas and oil burning furnaces.
Also, McCain's ethanol subsidy policy is better than Obama's. McCain does not believe in subsidy, Obama does. If we're going to be burning fuel for heat or energy, then use petroleum (until we convert to nuclear). The product already exists. Its been converted by nature from plants. You already got nature to do the work. Why should we redo the whole conversion just to get ethanol? It doesn't make any sense.
Farming is a very resource intensive activity. To get good production you need lots of water, you need pesticides and fertilizers. All this to grow corn (or whatever) and then you have to chemically convert the corn to ethanol. Its very wasteful and environmentally unfriendly.
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Because of the freedom of speech in the country, anyone can right and post up on the internet just about anything they like, correct or incorrect. As example by the tripe you posted the past year about your son. I believe that the American people are smart enough and intelligent enough to know right from wrong. And for the record I am not your fellow American. I have no dealings with you so therefore do not associate me in that category. While you were at it why not put all 69,700 of the hits on it. After all this is a website called Kearny on the Web; not" Paul LaClair’s attack on the Republican party".
What ever happened about posting something about this town? You try to make this your own sounding board since you obviously have nothing better to do with you life now.
Its not his sounding board. Most of us are interested in these issues. What happens nationally affects everyone locally.
And who said that Kearny on the Web postings should be restricted to local town issues? That would make for a rather boring forum.
If you're so worried about the lack of local town postings, then why don't you post something? I'm sure you can find something local to whine about.
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Here's a paper which has not endorsed a Democrat in 70 years endorsing Obama.
The Eagle, Texas -
In the past 50 years, The Eagle has never recommended a Democrat for president. We made no recommendations in 1960 and 1964 -- when Texas' own Lyndon B. Johnson was on the Democratic ticket -- nor did we in 1968 -- although we did praise Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's position on the Vietnam War. We did not in 1976 and 1980. In 1972, The Eagle recommend Richard Nixon, in 1984, Ronald Reagan. We recommended George H.W. Bush in 1988 and 1992 and his son in 2000. We recommended Bob Dole in 1996.Four years ago, the Editorial Board couldn't recommend George W. Bush for a second term, but we also couldn't recommend Sen. John Kerry either, so we made no choice.
This year is different, in large part because of the very difficult challenges facing this nation after eight years of a failed Bush administration. We are faced with a choice between Sen. John McCain, who claims to be an agent of change but promotes the policies of the past, and Sen. Barack Obama, who also wears the change mantle, but offers a vision for the future, even if he has yet to fully explain how he would carry out that vision if elected president in little more than two weeks.
Every 20 or 30 years or so, a leader comes along who understands that change is necessary if the country is to survive and thrive. Teddy Roosevelt at the turn of the 20th century and his cousin Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan -- these leaders have inspired us to rise to our better nature, to reach out to be the country we can be and, more important, must be.
Barack Obama is such a leader. He doesn't have all the answers, to be sure, but at least he is asking the right questions. While we would like more specificity on his plans as president, we are confident that he can lead us ever forward, casting aside the doubts and fears of recent years.
http://www.theeagle.com/editorial/Barack-O...e-for-president
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Earth to "Guest"; Huffington Post and "facts" is an oxymoron.
Wow! What a surprise, leftist newspapers are supporting Obama.
It seems you have a literacy problem. As stated in the first post, many papers supporting Obama are NOT left wing.
I'll help you. Here is a list of some Obama supporters:
The New York Daily News
The LA Times (the last time they supported a president was in 1972 - Richard Nixon)
The Chicago Tribune (they never supported a Democrat before)
Reality is not your strong point, is it?
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1. Restoring the markets and preventing a depression
The markets have become a big gambling casino. Maybe I’m too conservative but I believe stocks should be bought and sold on the basis of a companies profitability, where the dividends really determine the price of the stock. Instead we had ridiculous stock prices for companies that do not pay dividends and that rarely buy back their stock. Then there is the gambling aspect, such selling stocks short or some of these weird indexes they have come up with. All that tends to destabilize the market.
We know how we got out of the great depression. Word War II was the driving force where everyone was employed, either in the military or at home (including many housewives). This was made possible by deficit spending during WW II. The difference between WWII deficit spending (on employees and industrial production) and current deficit spending is that the money stayed in the country. It recycled over and over boosting our WW II economy. We need to do the same.
However, we don’t need a war. We can create a lot of employment rebuilding our infrastructure, rail, highways, bridges, airports, schools. Just about everything needs to be fixed up. But keep the money in the country. Use American manufacturing to supply the needed material.
2. Developing alternative, sustainable energy sources so we can become energy independent
This ties into the above. Besides rebuilding our infrastructure we can build new things. Too many projects are held up because some don’t like things in their back yard or lack of focus. We need to get rid of the NIMBY nonsense. We can focus. We’ve done it before and we can do it again.
3. Ending the Iraq war
Obviously. The Iraqi’s will never step up if we keep on giving them a blank check. Its like being addicted to welfare. It is also disgraceful that we’re funding the rebuilding (inefficiently) of their infrastructure while ours is neglected.
4. Gathering the international community to root out and destroy the threat of radical Islamic terrorism
Which takes intelligent political leadership without the “we know best” hubris.
5. Secure and responsible health care for all
Besides social issues it is also a competitive economic issue. If I can build a car for 1,500 less in Canada because my employee costs are lower due to lowered health care costs, I will build my car factory in Canada, not in the US.
6. A major national push on education, especially in mathematics and the sciences
We had that in the 1960’s after Russia did their Sputnik. We heavily funded science education through the Federal NDEA program. The rewards were that we excelled in science and engineering. Now we have fallen behind where the most advanced physics is done in Europe, math and computer science is done in India and a lot of computer engineering is done in China.
We need to reeducate the young and make them understand (maybe their parents too) that science and engineering is the future. Instead, the current thing it is to become a sports hero, an artist, a business major, an administrator. . .
11. Reversing the trend toward right-leaning, ideologically-driven radicalism of the federal courts
You can only do that by replacing judges. A new congress and president can do a lot, if given time. I don’t know how many vacancies there are currently. I suggest that the senate block Bush’s nominations considering that Bush is a lame duck who has lost the support of the American populace. His choices do not reflect the will of the electorate.
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Voter suppression has always been around. However, the Republicans are the experts. Previous campaigns have shown that large numbers of voters have been disenfranchised due to erroneous felon lists or clerical mistakes.
We are now more aware of this because of the wide dissemination of this information through the internet.
Obama has a lot of campaign money. He should reserve a substantial amount for attorneys and travel expenses that may be needed after the election. One reason Republicans won Florida in 2000 was that the election they saturated the state with their attorneys and party hacks flown in from all over the country. They overwhelmed the local Gore campaign and all the local election boards.
It also helped them that the top Florida election official, Kathleen Harris, was Bush's Florida campaign co-chair.
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Now McCain is pretending to defend Joe the plumber against Obama. His argument is that Obama is attacking the man, storming his house.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27237476#27245409
McCain is lying. Obama hasn’t attacked the gentleman, hasn’t gone to his house. McCain was the one who set the media on the gentleman by making him the centerpiece of his presidential campaign.
Oh, and watch David Letterman school McCain on the Ayres farce. McCain finally got called down for palling around with terrorist and convicted criminal G. Gordon Liddy.
I never thought I'd say this about John McCain. What an ass.
Notice that McCain's response over Joe the "plumber" is completely different on Letterman's show which has a national audience vs the rally of his supporters.
Snake is a more apt description of McCain.
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After seeing the antics of the Republicans over this economic crisis, the slimy swift boating of Obama over his association with Ayers and other assorted so-called terrorists, the Palin hate rallies, I'm now convinced that the Republicans will never change. They will always appeal to the basest instincts, go to the lowest common denominator.
I'm now hoping that Obama will win the presidency by a large margin (so we don't have to listen to the Obama did not get a real mandate crap from neocon Republicans) and that the Democrats will get at least 60 seats in the Senate. Cut out the obstruction by letting the Democrats have absolute control of the executive and legislative branches and see if they produce.
The Republicans had their run. And we know what that got us.
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After seeing the antics of the Republicans over this economic crisis, the slimy swift boating of Obama over his association with Ayers and other assorted so-called terrorists, the Palin hate rallies, I'm now convinced that the Republicans will never change. They will always appeal to the basest instincts, go to the lowest common denominator.
I'm now hoping that Obama will win the presidency by a large margin (so we don't have to listen to the Obama did not get a real mandate crap from neocon Republicans) and that the Democrats will get at least 60 seats in the Senate. Cut out the obstruction by letting the Democrats have absolute control of the executive and legislative branches and see if they produce.
The Republicans had their run. And we know what that got us.
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I'm not surprised.
Its now very obvious that McCain does not have the competency to run the country. After all, if you can't run a campaign, how can you run the country. His organization and leadership skills are completely over-matched by Obama
I quote the arch conservative William Kristol
It’s time for John McCain to fire his campaign.He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obama’s. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/opinion/...agewanted=print
This should give us a hint of the type of administration we will get if McCain becomes president.
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Many Republicans are living in a state of denial. They can't admit to themselves that they can lose the election because their party and candidate have lost the support of most Americans.
Instead, they create this myth or belief that Republicans really have the majority support to win and if Obama wins it is because of fraud. Then they can go to their beer halls or wherever they hang out and console each other with "but you know we are really the majority."
Pitiful.
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Indiana has 105% of their state population registered to vote. Problem? You tell me.
Really!!
Even the Republicans are saying there is no fraud.
"I believe it's an issue of sloppiness rather than anything intentional in terms of deceit," said Rokita, a Republican who is the state's top elections official.http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...S0502/810100535
It took me all of one minute to find that.
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McCain promised the American people that his campaign would be about the issues. He promised to stay away from personal attacks.
He can't change his strategy now that he's behind unless there is new information he didn't have when he made the promise. If Obama was the dangerous candidate McCain now wants to claim him to be, then McCain had a duty to tell us that months ago. His latest smear campaign only proves that he's desperate because he knows he's losing.
I agree. This is just a desperation tactic.
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How is your 401K doing today? Down 40% for the year yet? Still support Republican eocnomics? By the way, the economy is THE issue that 90% of Americans care about right now.
At least we still have social security. If we listened to Bush when he wanted to move the trust fund into the stock market by privatizing it we would also have lost that.
We wouldn't be in such a mess if the congress approved the 700 billion dollar bail out the day it was requested and the bail out money was used immediately. The two week credit lock really screwed up all the markets. Thank you congressional Republicans for again screwing the country.
We would have been in much better fiscal shape if Bush continued the fiscal conservatism of the Clinton presidency. Instead, he ran a 500 billion a year deficit (funded by the Chinese). This 700 billion bail out on top of all his previous budget deficits is the killer. The Republican mantra of spend and don't tax. I don't know why so many think we can get a free ride.
However, don't count too much on the Democrats. Both parties enabled these wall street slick boys in their games. And the democrats haven't tried to balance the budget since they took over congress in 2006.
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Ho hum. I've only heard this over twenty times the last two weeks.
I'm more worried about McCain and his close association with and professed admiration of the convicted felon and wannabee terrorist G Gordon Liddy:
Liddy served four and a half years in prison in connection with his conviction for his role in the Watergate break-in and the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in “if necessary”; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a “gangland figure” to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap “leftist guerillas” at the 1972 Republican National Convention — a plan he outlined to the Nixon administration using terminology borrowed from the Nazis.
On Liddy's radio show:
On his admiration for the Fuhrer:
This is the guy that John McCain describes as an old friend, gushing on his radio show that "I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family. It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great."
So what principles and philosophies did McCain like about Libby? His love of Hitler? His support of killing Federal agents? His Ellsberg break-in? His willingness to kill break in witnesses and many others in the 70's?
The admiration is mutual. Libby has given money many times to McCain which McCain has happily accepted.
If McCain were not a politician and not from a prominent family, knowing the above, McCain would not even get the security clearance to be a toilet cleaner in a Federal building.