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'Thou Shalt Not Steal' Apparently Not in AP Stylebook

September 19, 2008 2:58 PM

Interesting story in the AP today.

Was even better when ABC News wrote it yesterday.

- jpt

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When will elitist community organizing stop getting in the way of Republican Socialism? The Liberal Fascists are responsible for the manipulation of truth in this country that I think it's time to admit that conservative-progressivism is our only hope for the past. And by the past I mean the future.

Posted by: Leonard Peltier | Sep 20, 2008 3:08:36 PM

"One voter said the polls are misleading the only people who answer them tend to be Obama supporters."
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Given the mobster vibe of the ostensibly-"Democratic" candidate, that's the only safe answer. Just don't actually VOTE for him.

Posted by: Belle Starr | Sep 20, 2008 11:00:57 AM

Report from the campaign field. I am in Wisconsin today which is now a toss up state. The McCain group I belong to left Chicago early this morning at 6am and now we are in Lacrosse area. We have registered 472 republicans so far and that is just the ones i am counting. I have been talking to people and no one is for Obama, most feel that he is full of bull. This is very encouraging. One voter said the polls are misleading the only people who answer them tend to be Obama supporters. She said that when Obama went down in the polls his camp sent more BOTS out. She feel that he may nit carry Wisconsin.

Posted by: Samantha | Sep 20, 2008 10:53:25 AM

this is a 'good' sign:

"McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!"

- McCain says he'll make the health care industry work like Wall Street.....
........ time for his medication .........

Posted by: Jazzman | Sep 20, 2008 10:29:55 AM

Belle;

well then, the only remedy for the kid who hacks emails and is the son of a Democrat is to give him the sentence approved by 'pro-life' advocates:
............... the death penalty ............


BTW; isn't Tenn also where all those 'subtle'
Republican 'race ads' were made?

Posted by: Jazzman | Sep 20, 2008 10:20:12 AM

"Democratic Rep. Mike Kernell of Tennessee unveiled the hacker who broke into Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's e-mail—his 20-year-old son, David Kernell.
After a flurry of Internet discussions naming his son as the culprit, Rep. Kernell confirmed that his son was behind the infiltration, according to The Tennessean. The paper said Kernell talked to his son Thursday."
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Oh, right: Gore's state. And they use a MINOR to do the dirty work.

Posted by: Belle Starr | Sep 20, 2008 10:09:11 AM

"And what about the LA times article today about schleping to Florida to convince grandmother to vote for Obama

Seems like Jake covered that one 2 or 3 days ago"
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I did mention this earlier, but miserable Abominoid Keith Olbermann, and his MSNBC co-shillers, seems to have been taking a lot of "his" stories from here.

Posted by: Belle Starr | Sep 20, 2008 10:00:42 AM

Senator McCain's Book
"Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir" (2002)

"I didn't decide to run for President to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be President because it had become my ambition to be President. I was sixty-two years old when I made the decision and I thought it was my one shot at the prize."

Explains alot John McCain ready to lie because he doesnt care about anything else he only wants to be President.

Posted by: Aussie | Sep 20, 2008 8:27:55 AM

Jazzman,

Approving that trip is proof of that he had gone 'rogue' by actually going.

Posted by: Leonard Peltier | Sep 20, 2008 2:17:23 AM

news: a big WHOOPS for Palin

"An internal government document obtained by ABC News appears to contradict Sarah Palin's most recent explanation for why she fired her public safety chief, the move which prompted the now-contested state probe into "Troopergate."

"The last straw," her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The project, expected to cost from $10 million to $20 million a year for five years, would have been the first of its kind in Alaska, which leads the nation in reported forcible rape.

The McCain-Palin campaign echoed the charge in a press release it distributed Monday, concurrent with Palin's legal filing. "Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.," the release stated.

But the governor's staff authorized the trip, according to an internal travel document from the Department of Public Safety, released Friday in response to an open records request.

The document, a state travel authorization form, shows that Palin's chief of staff, Mike Nizich, approved Monegan's trip to Washington D.C. "to attend meeting with Senator Murkowski." The date next to Nizich's signature reads June 18."

Posted by: Jazzman | Sep 20, 2008 2:10:39 AM

Leonard:

lets not forget 'corporate stalinism'

Posted by: Jazzman | Sep 20, 2008 2:09:49 AM

When will elitist community organizing stop getting in the way of Republican Socialism? The Liberal Fascists are responsible for so much of the manipulation of truth in this country that I think it's time to admit that conservative-progressivism is our only hope for the past. And by the past I mean the future.

Posted by: Leonard Peltier | Sep 19, 2008 11:01:48 PM

And what about the LA times article today about schleping to Florida to convince grandmother to vote for Obama

Seems like Jake covered that one 2 or 3 days ago

Posted by: smith | Sep 19, 2008 10:27:08 PM

johnTX,

"After this final bail out, no one is going to get a tax cut.

I'm sure both McCain and Obama will continue to push it and while technically Obama pays for his with a tax hike for the rich, it is extremely unlikely that either one will be able to push such legislation through Congress. I mean, maybe, maybe with a democratic Congress Obama could, but it is unlikely. McCain's though is dead in the water."

The Bush strategy for going down in history: At least do something for the rich and leave enormous debt for the dems to handle (since Dems will surely win '08).

McCain is still confused about what "agencies" and "businesses" are and who he can fire if he were president (Palin was sure she could "ask for the resignation" of her underlings).

Palin and her new running mate are a joke. SNL couldn't do the McCain campaign any better than McCain has.

The Fed's "new" idea was proposed by Lehman just before the Feds refused to help that sacrificial lamb. The downward cycle began just in time for a republican "rescue" of the rich at Lehman's shareholders/taxpayers pensions.

"Good job Brownie" said Bush (did you hear the McCain echo?), and don't try to stick in any help for the middle-class because my republican followers in the house will fight it tooth and nail. We don't have a minute to waste! Let's seal this debt/burden on the poor/middle class while we've got all this momentum going.

Posted by: Common Sense | Sep 19, 2008 8:25:36 PM

Joe,

"And republicans didn't want Bill Clinton wandering around the Whitehouse with nothing to do. If Palin had her way, and if her practice in Alaska is anything to go by, Todd Palin would have a hand in running the country.

Todd Palin? Are you kidding me, his oilskins hung up on the door of the Oval office - still not willing to answer subpoenas? I supposed McCain really doesn't care about the country as long he gets elected (of course if does he should make sure and not let VP Palin stand behind him - he won't see the knife until it's too late)."

McCain's got a new "lady"-friend, so I'm sure he doesn't mind! LOL

McCain/Palin are above the law in their own puny little worlds. The rest of us know better.

AP is all republican all the time, so Jake won't be getting any "credits" from them since he's turned unbiased.

Kudos to Jake!
Obama/Biden 08!

Posted by: Common Sense | Sep 19, 2008 8:10:24 PM

Rabbi Menachem Frohman, one of the major founders of the Zionist settler movement in Israel and the Chief Rabbi of the settlement of Tekoa has gone on record saying that he believes Barack Obama is the only hope for peace in the Middle East.

Wow.

So much for Jews thinking Barack is anti-Israel.

Posted by: johnTX | Sep 19, 2008 7:00:38 PM

After this final bail out, no one is going to get a tax cut.

I'm sure both McCain and Obama will continue to push it and while technically Obama pays for his with a tax hike for the rich, it is extremely unlikely that either one will be able to push such legislation through Congress. I mean, maybe, maybe with a democratic Congress Obama could, but it is unlikely. McCain's though is dead in the water.

Posted by: johnTX | Sep 19, 2008 5:21:32 PM

Yea, Crazy Joe for Prez (how many times?)

Posted by: Captain America | Sep 19, 2008 5:20:17 PM

Hey Why Not?....Every band starts as the warm up act until they get top billing...It's obvious that McCain can't draw flies without her...Shoot. She should ask for a cut of the concession sales!

Posted by: TruthHurts | Sep 19, 2008 5:19:54 PM

Now you are starting to sound whiney like Obama......or is it Michelle?

Posted by: Zank | Sep 19, 2008 5:10:36 PM

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