ATF Blocks Plot to Assassinate Obama and Murder 102 Black People

From the end of the last thread - a little repost here.

woz said:
Response to Sparrow's article posted - October 27, 2008 5:00 PM

American politics depresses me. How come convicted felons are not allowed to vote while convicted felons are allowed to stand for reelection in Federal government? Surely, I have this wrong. Senator Stevens is guilty times 7. Each charge is worthy of several years jail time. He will probably serve no time (according to the article) AND he is still eligible to stand for reelection.

Please tell me this is not right.

And still they are allowed to whip up *Nigger-Hate* and *Muslim-Fear* in their presidential campaign. McCain and especially Palin, are giving voice and encouragement to skinhead groups like this. It is beyond sickening. It is criminal.

This lot was caught. I'm sure there are others. These are the ones who'd have worn the white masks of the KKK. KKK philosophy is alive and well it seems.

There will always be hate, bigotry and violence. It comes through ignorance. John McCain is showing his ignorance in allowing his running mate to fan the flames of this agenda. While he stands by and smiles at the sickness he is spreading throughout society.

I call upon all the universe to keep Barack Obama and his beautiful family safe for many, many years.

Since Frank Rich is a NYT columnist you have no doubt read this article.

Beyond black and white
Frank Rich
October 28, 2008

Dog-whistle politics will not play a part in the US presidential election - there are simply not enough bigots for it to matter.

IT SEEMS like a century ago now, but it was only in 2005 that a National Journal poll of Washington insiders predicted that George Allen, then a popular Virginia senator, would be the next Republican nominee for president. George who?

Allen is now remembered, if at all, as a punchline. But any post-mortem of the Great Republican Collapse of 2008 must circle back to the not-so-funny thing that happened on his way to the White House.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/beyond-black-and-white-20081027-59tx.html

woz

Yes, hate is alive and well.

And you know what really sucks? These white supremacists take orders from a FOREIGN YELLOW MAN - Reverend Moon.

The latest puke...
Check out the video to get the solid "facts" behind McCain latest rant...

In 2001, Obama participated in a radio discussion: The Court and Civil Rights Jan 18, 2001. The pukes video (below) presents selected excerpts. In case we don't hear him correctly, they generously flash up interpretations every few seconds. Strangely, if you actually listen, Obama doesn't quite say what they wrote on the screen. Well, maybe, if you take all of his words & jumble them around & maybe throw some out...

I started to so some kind of transcript, but it was too absurd. Here's a better discussion than I could have done: Ridiculousness About Redistribution: Drudge and Others

Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered

At least there is a DailyKos diary about people who refused to make shady calls from a McCain call center
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/27/181351/56/762/644026
and

there was an article in the Guardian about how stupid it is that so many people still believe Obama is a Muslim and/or the antiChrist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/oct/27/barack-obama-antichrist-conspiracy-theories

how embarrassing when foreign reporters see this stuff.

http://www.silencedmajority.blogs.com - I have an Al Jazeera tape with "low information voters" (or something)
http://silencedmajority.blogs.com/silenced_majority_portal/2008/10/win-georgia.html

I'll find the other 2 references from Kayakbiker and then I have got to run to the gym (NO MORE EXCUSES)

Obama must win or we are even more screwed.

BAD eggs

And Obama's people going after Fox still. And boy is Fox mad and putting out their lies on the other networks.

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The fight to expose Fox News continues.

A couple weeks ago, I listed three examples of Obama or his surrogates explicitly calling out Fox News for their blatant conservative bias. Obama himself told the New York Times that Fox's disinformation is likely costing him a couple points in the polls.

Today, Obama's campaign stepped up their pushback to Fox News: in response to McCain's latest lie about "spreading the wealth," spokesman Bill Burton called out the biased messenger right along with the dishonest message:

"This is a fake news controversy drummed up by the all too common alliance of Fox News, the Drudge Report and John McCain, who apparently decided to close out his campaign with the same false, desperate attacks that have failed for months. In this seven year old interview, Senator Obama did not say that the courts should get into the business of redistributing wealth at all. Americans know that the real choice in this election is between four more years of Bush-McCain policies that redistribute billions to billionaires and big corporations and Barack Obama's plan to help the middle class by giving tax relief to 95% of workers and companies that create new jobs here in America. That's the change we need, and no amount of eleventh-hour distractions from the McCain campaign will change that," said Obama-Biden campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

We've come a long way. Back in 2007, when Obama dropped out of the Fox News debate, the only reason given was that CNN seemed a more "appropriate venue."

Now that McCain's resorted exclusively to attacks on Obama, the go-to mouthpiece for Republican smears is working overtime. The more they're called out for their bias, the less credibility they'll have to push lies.

Fox isn't news. And as we (potentially) head into a new Democratic administration, it's crucial we make clear that what they broadcast can't be trusted. Great to see Obama continuing this fight.

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Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton, who authored the release this morning criticizing Fox News, appeared on the network today to defend his statements about Fox to anchor Megyn Kelly.

Dozens Of Call Center Workers Quit Over McCain Attacks

Here's the call linked in the story

Hello, I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC, because Democrats are dangerously weak on crime. Barack Obama has voted against tougher penalties for street gangs, drug-related crimes, and protecting children from danger. Barack Obama and his liberal allies have a disturbing history of coddling criminals. so we can't trust their judgment to keep our families safe. This call was paid for by the Republican National Committee and McCain-Palin 2008 at 866 558-5591. Thank you, bye

FOX is propaganda of the worst sort.

On my way home from UK conference. People here are just appalled at the Syria attack. I called Richard who described the coverage in the US as "four inches on p. 22".

There will be hell to pay after the election but I bet it will be the current leaders who will be asked to pay--by the world.

Karen

There WILL be hell to pay for sure.

But it will be the PEOPLE who will demand it, not the national governments. 8 years of W has resulted in so many right-wing puppet governments all over the world, including Gordon Brown in the UK, Nicolas Sarkozy in France, Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, and Taro Aso in Japan.

Tomorrow, I am flying back to Seoul, where the worst puppet of them all, Lee Myung-bak, is in power, and busy funding the McCain campaign and the California gay marriage ban AGAINST the wishes and the needs of his subjects.

Obama must make sure that these right-wing puppet regimes of W will PAY, PAY, and PAY alongside W himself.

On Wednesday:
In addition to Obams's half-hour program, he will be on tomorrow's Daily Show

o_O
Pollster.com shows Georgia as a tossup state

Neuroscience, undecided voters, polls & such: The undecided brain

also available at: Your Brain’s Secret Ballot

Along the same lines: The undecided v. persuadables

Covert decisionmaking and the Bradley effect
The undecided v. persuadables. Seemingly paradoxically, the undecided voters are not necessarily the ones that need to be won over at this point. Charles Franklin has data showing that considerable swings in the race can occur rapidly, while the number of undecided voters declines only slowly. Focus groups of undecided voters do not, on average, jump on or off bandwagons quickly. These observations are consistent with the idea that a large share of movement in a race comes from voters switching allegiances, i.e. from McCain to Obama, or Obama to McCain.

Wolf Blitzer doing a segment on voter supression in Florida... the lead-in blurp brings up targeting of minorities

spelling
suppression... blurb...

*blurp* is a good word. I like it.

Racists for Obama?

“The economy is trumping racism”

Mental image: the people roll all over 2000 GOP coup at Dade County vote recount

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Florida declares emergency, extends early voting hours

Gov. Charlie Crist on Tuesday extended early voting hours across Florida to 12 hours a day.

The executive order comes after record early voting turnout has contributed to long lines at polling sites.

Current Florida law allows for early voting to be conducted eight hours a day each weekday and for a total of eight hours during the weekends.

'It's not a political decision,'' Crist said moments after signing the order, which declares a state of emergency in Florida. "It's a people decision.''

The pukes puke:

Crist extends voting hours
Florida Governor Charlie Crist, to the shock and dismay of Florida Republicans, just moved to extend early voting hours...

snip

"He just blew Florida for John McCain," one plugged in Florida Republican just told me.

(got this link from Kos diary BREAKING: Florida Governor Crist Orders Longer Early Voting Hours)
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So...
Is there such a thing as an ethical, patriotic Republican governor, or is it just that a dam can't hold back a tidal wave?

uh oh... McCampaign poops on self (again)

McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama
The latest guilt-by-association target that the McCain campaign is using to hit Barack Obama could carry some collateral damage for its own candidate.

Rachel Maddow interviews Sen. Obama
MSNBC host to sit down with Democratic candidate, Thursday, Oct. 30

PRESS RELEASE
updated 1:40 a.m. ET Oct. 29, 2008
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow will interview Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama Thursday, Oct. 30 on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," 9-10 p.m. ET.

kangaroo

Sh*t... I'm leaving for Seoul again right now and I don't get MSNBC at my place in Seoul, so I can't watch the d*mn thing.

Thanks for letting me know anyway.

Obama will win. Not even Moon and the South Korean government will be able to stop Obama.

real or halloween?

Wow! Where is everyone?

I know Halloween is coming but this is like a ghost town!

:-)

I'm not here because I'm absolutely swamped at work.

Jeb has a hissy-fit

CNN showed Jeb's reaction to Gov. Charlie Crist's extension of early voting hours in Florida:

"Vote early and what the heck, this is Florida - vote often"

not that he's bitter...

Hope to find video... words cannot convey the the sneer

I've been wondering that too, sparrow. It's incredibly quiet in here. I'd get up in the morning and have pages of reading here. Now I get up in the morning and there are 4 additional comments. Keep up the momentum - you want the majority in both houses as well as a Democratic president. Especially if legal action is to be taken against criminals of the past.

HI all,

I'm here, just lurking all the time these days. I'm so flippin' busy at work I don't have time to THINK.

Is anyone watching the Obama-mercial tonight? I won't be home (damn), but I will make it back for Rachel Maddow's interview with him,

I once had acertain respect for Dole.
GOP = Faust, Rove = ... well, you know...

Dole's "Promise" ad on Hagan

Hey Carol... you can always catch him on tonight's Daily Show
or Friday on Larry King

What time is infomercial? (Doubt I'll watch. I'd have to steal the tv from the family. They may not cooperate with that strategy.)

I'm really appreciating Obama's tone in this info-mercial.

I guess I have to watch it on K.O. and "tweety is on it" now.

Uck.

Ok. Well, I do appreciate how he's calling out the racists to realize Obama IS the typical white or black person who follows the rules and chases the AMerican dream. And takes care of the family.

Ok. I've died and gone to heaven. Is this MATTHEWS?

Get ready for Bill & 'Bama--CSPAN, CNN

WTH?!!!

Joe the Plumber now may get a country record deal?

And he might run for Congress?

Guys and gals. If I'd have known pushing my way into the microphone and acting like a bully and a plant would make me a 250,000 type deal, well...

But other than that, I've seen NO SIGNS that the guy has talent or brains!

What is WITH PEOPLE?

He's a character. But a character doesn't make him a singer, Congressman, or anything other than the guy who pushed others out of the way so he could get his time.

Sparrow
get ready to puke & there's more that's worse:

'Joe the Plumber' Backs Claim That Obama Would Bring 'Death to Israel'

At a stop in Columbus, he fielded the question on Israel from a self-identified Jewish senior citizen.

The questioner said he was "concerned" with Barack Obama's associations and "It's my belief that a vote for Obama is a vote for the death to Israel."

Wurzelbacher responded: "I do know that."

The questioner then complained about Obama's tax policies and reiterated his Israel comment.

"Well, you know what, I'll actually go ahead and agree with you on that one," Wurzelbacher said. "You know ... no, I agree with ya.'"

oop... blockquote should go all the way to bottom

Sigh...
I'm still crazy about Clinton-- would vote for him again if not for Obama

Obama's Daily Show Interview (VIDEO)

Thanks to local hero Ari Melber, who now writes for WA Independent, The Nation, Huffington Post and takes on badasses on tv. See story at WA Independent (thanks Ari for emailing it to me) and here is the video:

Pike Market is actually one place I had VERY GOOD SUCCESS registering voters. I registered 14 in about 90 minutes - all employees, some of whom work 7 days/week and had trouble getting away to register and/or vote.

Looking at McCain rallies & Pailn rallies--
do you see any non-white folk in the crowds?

aimzzz - no

sparrow

Wow! Where is everyone?

I was over Alaska and Russia - flying back to Seoul after a really crappy week in Los Angeles.

I was utterly fed up with Los Angeles's urban planning, which forces people to drive - even the people who should never be anywhere near a motor vehicle. A month with Seoul's excellent mass transit had spoiled me.

All my time in Los Angeles was spent in the reactionary suburbs to the east, shuttling between home and work, including Saturday and Sunday. Strong support for McCain-Palin and the gay marriage ban.

After the South Korean people had elected the W puppet Lee Myung-bak as their new President, I had thought Seoul would be living hell. But the South Koreans now acknowledge their errors, and it's much saner here than back in the US - even with Lee's continuing funding of the Moonies. I'm very relieved to have returned to Seoul.

aimzzz

Looking at McCain rallies & Pailn rallies-- do you see any non-white folk in the crowds?

PLENTY. In California, reactionary Asian immigrants, who think they are white equivalents, make up the backbone of the McCain-Palin base. Go to Little Saigon and Koreatown.

A week back home in Los Angeles taught me so much, especially at work. The Korean-Americans I employ are so deficient in English that even to write a one-line thank-you note by email, I must babysit them. There are plenty of people, right here in Seoul, who have never traveled to an English-speaking area - and still have a better command of English than most Korean-Americans.

At least, if the Koreans had the number of the Latinos in California, they could force the government and the corporations to provide all services in Korean, as they already do in Spanish. But they don't. And I must babysit them, in order for them to make even a simple bank transaction or check in for a flight on an automated airport ticket machine.

I realized one thing during my past week in Los Angeles: the language barrier isolates the Korean-Americans, and forces them into extremist Christian churches, where they learn all sorts of reactionary crap that don't fly in the rest of America (and certainly don't fly here in South Korea either, except in Lee Myung-bak's Cabinet). The Korean-Americans in California are asked by community organizers to vote next week - not because of Obama or McCain, but because gay marriage MUST BE BANNED in California. And lots of columnists in Koreatown are describing Obama as an Antichrist who will immediately launch a Communist revolution, based on the undesirables he has associated with; they all urge the readers to do their Christian/patriotic duty by stopping Obama at any cost.

I will repeat this again and again. I never thought I'd prefer Seoul to Los Angeles. But I do - right now.

One more good thing about returning to Seoul:

The validity of my 90-day noncommercial visa has started anew, as of my arrival today. I am allowed to stay until very late January of next year.

This means that I may never have to face W's America again in person. By the time the visa runs out and I return to Los Angeles, there will be a new President. I am very confident that it will be Obama.

The more likely scenario, however, will be that I will return a few weeks prior to Obama's inauguration, as a few things will be going on with my family early in January. I hope I don't return to the US to see W pardoning Abramoff, Cunningham, Stevens, and all those other crooks!

Finally a rational look at financial issues of this campaign. I thought the basis for campaign reform was to try to control the power attained by big donors... the influence & access they gain. Well, the donors Obama's campaign will get that power & access, but in this case it's spread among thousands & thousands... who are... er, um... We The People

George Will tears McCain a new one-esp re. campaign finance
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Call Him John the Careless by Geroge F. Will

McCain revived a familiar villain -- "huge amounts" of political money -- when Barack Obama announced that he had received contributions of $150 million in September. "The dam is broken," said McCain, whose constitutional carelessness involves wanting to multiply impediments to people who want to participate in politics by contributing to candidates -- people such as the 632,000 first-time givers to Obama in September.

Why is it virtuous to erect a dam of laws to impede the flow of contributions by which citizens exercise their First Amendment right to political expression? "

accck- blockquote should run to the end of above post

"I was utterly fed up with Los Angeles's urban planning, which forces people to drive - even the people who should never be anywhere near a motor vehicle. A month with Seoul's excellent mass transit had spoiled me."

Asia is light years ahead of USA with Urban PLanning and mass transit. Seoul has excellent city planning, you can take a bus to the subway to nearly anywhere you wish...it only takes a few minutes to understand the bus schedules and subway systems...it is a thoughful and well designed system.

Hong Kong has excellent subway / bus system, especially since the octopus card is used so widely. It is like a debit card that can buy food and drink and cross town subway rides.

Beijing and Shanghai and the rest of China are building maglev high speed trains, these will run ar 300-400 MPH and replace airplanes for mid haul distances. The cities themselves and modernizing the bus and subway systems to reflect something more along the lines of what Korea and Hong Kong have.

The US could learn a lot by spending a few weeks in Asia understanding what city planning really entails

Hi gang,

Please go enjoy and rec this diary by me!

Grab the kleenex on the way.

OOOPs - this one:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/30/154540/93/754/647069

Another puke voter suppression ploy shot down. I hope all the purged voters get the message...

Voter Purge Rejected in Colorado

Tens of thousands of Coloradans who had been removed from the state’s voter rolls will be allowed to vote in next week’s election and given extra protections so their ballots are counted, under an agreement reached late Wednesday in federal court here.

The voters names had been removed by Mike Coffman, the Colorado secretary of state, who said he did so because they moved out of state or were listed more than once on the rolls. But he was sued by several voting rights groups who said such purges were generally prohibited by federal law within 90 days of an election.

Under the agreement, the ballots of voters removed from the rolls will be counted unless election officials can prove the voters were not eligible. To strike such ballots, state officials must conduct an extensive records review on each one, a decision which must then be reviewed by Mr. Coffman’s office.

Kay Hagan's righteous response to Elizabeth Dole's Rovian bottom-feeder

Kay Hagan: Belief

ummmm... trying Dole again...

Elizabeth Dole's Rovian bottom-feeder

Obama- Rearview Mirror

CNN - GOP now running robocalls in Arizona

toolmaker

You are absolutely right.

Seoul's mass transit is NOT perfect - the Asian financial crisis of 1997 resulted in fewer subway lines being built than originally planned, and subway Line 2 (the longest circle line subway in the world) was originally a line to nowhere - but it certainly works.

I know all about Octopus Card in Hong Kong. I will try to head over to Hong Kong in December (it'll be my first time there, and the farthest I ever get from Los Angeles), so I've been reading up on it. In the meantime, Seoul uses T-Money, which does the same thing: pay transit fares, pay for phone calls, and even work as a general-purpose debit card.

I certainly agree that US cities/states can learn a lesson or two from Asia/Europe on mass transit. South Korea also has the KTX bullet train, which are off-the-shelf French TGV equipment; I am very impressed. The KTX inspired Taiwan and China to start running their own bullet trains as well. I look forward to the day when the North Korean mess gets settled, so that I can take a through bullet train from Seoul to Beijing (and maybe through Russia to Europe too).

Speaking of bullet trains, California does have a ballot measure, Prop 1A, which seeks funding to start the feasibility study for a line between San Francisco/Sacramento and Los Angeles/San Diego. I was originally for it, but I will vote against it now, because the timing is not right due to the economy, too many ballot initiatives have taken away California's flexibility in government budgeting, and there will still be no guarantee that a bullet train line will ever be built in California.

More on the subject of mass transit:

Los Angeles once did have excellent mass transit. The current freeway system mostly runs along the routes of the old Red Car trolley system.

However, the Red Cars were retired around 1960 because the planners decided that automobiles were the wave of the future. At that time, Los Angeles still had lots of cheap land, so better to build out rather than up.

And that's biting Los Angeles back hard. The sprawl is so extreme that mass transit will not work as well as it does in a denser city.

Nevertheless, Los Angeles proper does have a good bus service. Los Angeles County's MTA has the second-largest bus fleet in the US, after New York City's MTA. It's slow, but it works, and it's comparatively cheap as opposed to driving. It's the outlying cities that are utterly car-dependent.

Over here in Seoul, after the first four subway lines were completed in 1985, the original plans called for adding extensions to those existing four lines. That didn't work out, however, as (1) the four lines were already overcrowded and hardly able to take more passengers, (2) many neighborhoods were still beyond their reach, and (3) the city-owned company that operates the four lines, Seoul Metro, had racked up a huge debt in building the lines.

The wise thing was done in the end; Seoul created another subway company, SMRT, which built and now maintains four more subway lines, which are currently doing their job of filling in the gaps and relieving congestion on the older four lines. Those lines started construction in 1990, the first sections opened in 1996, and the whole deal was pretty much done by 2002. And the best thing for me or any other rider: ticketing and signage are seamless, so I don't even have to bother knowing whether I'm traveling on Seoul Metro, SMRT, national rail, or a combination of the three.

Ally
Just curious-- how did you come to choose Seoul (as opposed to other countries)? Are you of Korean heritage or did you have other reasons?

aimzzz

I am a Seoul native, though I've lived in Los Angeles area for the vast majority of my life (and I *am* a naturalized American).

I'm a rare breed, as while most Koreans are ethnically pure, I also have some Chinese ancestry as well.

I also happen to have been hooked up to a qi/meditation master here in Seoul, through my Los Angeles contacts. And that's why I am spending so much time in Seoul.

Seoul was once my home, and now it's my second home all over again. If I wanted to, I can even qualify for a renewable two-year visa which is only available to former South Koreans and their immediate children. That visa allows me to get a National ID number, work, and get health insurance in South Korea; voting in South Korean elections is just about the only thing I can't do. But I won't go that far; a 3-month tourist visa is plenty enough for me, at least for now.

I am also more convinced than ever that most South Koreans know and understand American politics better than the Korean-Americans and the South Korean government. The latter two are occupied by religious extremism and language isolation, which keep them forever in a McCarthyist mentality.

I'll tell you this. Most South Koreans are strongly for Obama. The South Korean government and the Korean-Americans are all for McCain. Unfortunately, the former don't get to vote in/influence US elections, while the latter certainly do.

Here's a great commentary on the whole McCain-Palin "maverick" thing, from none other than my writing mentor Gayle Brandeis:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Sarah-Put-Down-Your-Gun-by-Gayle-Brandeis-081028-249.html

I'm so proud to have a mentor like this.

Korea is Awesome......i just returned from Seoul, Myeong Dong district for 3 days. Korea is very clean comparatively. The food is awesome, people are very friendly, just about everyone speaks a little english, and Korean is easier to learn than most Asian languages.
And everyone dresses up, fashion in Korea is a lifestyle.

The politics are complex and fascinating to watch, as Ally has been pointing out. It would truly benifit anyone thinking of exploring Asia to start in Korea and view the split nature of Asian cultures ( Yin and Yang) and how this philosophy interacts with culture.

The new one sold out in a few hours. The poster below is the one I bought earlier, which is now a collector's item since it it out of print.

toolmaker

Too bad you were in Seoul while I was away!

Myeong-dong is great, for fashion AND for politics. Lots of fashionistas - Korean AND foreign - on the streets. I could dress the part of my nickname, and blend right in.

Lots of political demonstrations there too, due to the presence of South Korea's main Catholic church. Of course, I've always described the Korean Christians to be a conservative force, which is very true in the US, and also true of the Protestants in South Korea. But the Catholics have been outspoken on liberal issues, such as the right to organized labor, the right of conscience, and the opposition to the death penalty.

On the subject of the death penalty, it is on the books, but hasn't been used since 1997; Nobelaureate President Kim Dae-jung (1998-2003), a left-wing Catholic and a former death row inmate himself, refused to use it. A few recent violent crimes have revived support for capital punishment, however, and the current President, conservative Presbyterian Lee Myung-bak, vows to use it actively, initially for violent crimes but presumably for "seditious" activities (basically anything left-of-center depending on your interpretation of the law, and definitely punishable by death according to law) down the road.

The liberal streak of the Korean Catholics partly has to do with the fact that social issues, like abortion and homosexuality, are less of hot-ticket items in South Korean politics; they tend to take a back seat to more pressing issues since the 1960s, like economic development and oppression of opposition activists.

The Chinese Falun Gong sect also likes to demonstrate in Myeong-dong, partly to p*ss off the Chinese embassy, which is also in the area (though it's temporarily located elsewhere for rebuilding).

2008 Early Voting Statistics

Obama - Wolf Blitzer - Tonight (Friday)

'puke desperation:

Arnold tries to generate enthusiasm in OH--
Starts with comments about Obama having "skinny little legs" & "scrawny little arms"

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pundits saying Arnold might have tipped the scales if they rolled him out sooner...
hope emotions don't overcome reason here...
McCain's still McCain

re.
Arnold: Obama has skinny little legs" & "scrawny little arms

MY DADDY CAN BEAT UP YOUR DADDY!!!

Nov. 4, 2008 Poll Closing Times & Key Races

slugbug, the artist for these posters - and I assume the designer of the biggest, brightest star (sun) coming up over the stripes on the American flag - is the best I have seen - EVER! He/She has captured the essence of not only the man, but of the campaign and the people of America with so few colors and lines.

These posters show the exceptional energy and momentum of the Obama campaign in this election. A new dawn is coming in America. And we've waited a long, long time. Just a few more days.

aimzzz said

Arnold tries to generate enthusiasm in OH--
Starts with comments about Obama having "skinny little legs" & "scrawny little arms"

A bit stupid raising that issue isn't it? Does he really want people compare the arms and legs of McCain and Obama? He must surely be joking. Oh, right. Of course. Arnold has jumped ahead a few years - perhaps he fancies himself as the next pres and wants to draw voters' attention to his own magnificent limbs.

These people are so moronic that when they lose they still won't get it.

Al & Tipper in Broward County -- Good stuff...
Video available on CSPAN

RealPlayer link: rtsp://video1.c-span.org/archive/c08/c08_103108_gore.rm

It's around 19 minutes long...

There were times back in 2000 when you actually heard people make the argument that it doesn't really matter who wins the election... I don't hear that much any more...

Update from me...

I've forwarded another $200 to Obama, so that he can go on the attack on McCain's home turf. Obama will send me a T-shirt as a sign of thanks, though it won't arrive until after the election (and in any case, I won't even see it until I return to California).

And I had considered the gay marriage ban (Proposition 8) fight in California finished, in the homophobes' favor, but apparently it's not. The No on 8 campaign now has very hard-hitting ads running, and they need all the help they can get in order to keep running them and fighting off the homophobes' smears. The No on 8 campaign has also decided to do the right thing, by reaching out to the immigrant communities; their campaign materials can now be had in California's four official languages of homophobia - Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese. For a final push, I've given another $100 to the No on 8 campaign. Current polls say that Prop 8 is losing 42%-47% (which is good), though I won't take anything for granted.

My campaign contribution tally is $550 for Obama and approximately $600 for No on 8. I may give even more as needed in the last few remaining days. And I must, as long as I know that the South Korean government is busy funding the other side.

More from Seoul...

I've been moved by the willingness of the South Korean people to speak up for what's right, and to admit their past mistakes (namely, putting a W puppet in charge of their government).

As I said before, it's much saner in Seoul than in Koreatown Los Angeles, where McCarthyism still rules.

I had stated this on my personal blog recently, but I will say it here now. I am DROPPING my boycott of most of South Korea's mega-corporations. The following companies (and a few more) are good for me from now on:

• Kumho Asiana. I am currently flying Asiana Airlines between Seoul and Los Angeles, and maybe between Seoul and Hong Kong as well. My upcoming road trip within South Korea is booked on Kumho Rent-a-Car, which is a Hertz concessionaire. Kumho Asiana also runs bus lines and delivery services, makes automotive products, provides financial products, and much more.
• LG. Great electronics products. My rental cell phone here in South Korea is an LG Electronics product on the LG Telecom network.
• Hyundai. I've asked for a current model Hyundai Sonata for my road trip. If I like it enough, I'll consider buying one for myself back in the US, especially since the 2010 Sonata will be available as a hybrid. Even if I don't, I know that on my next Vancouver visit, I'll be riding on Hyundai-built SkyTrains on the new Canada Line.

The following two companies will remain on my boycott list.

• Samsung. Neoliberal bastards with clearly treasonous behavior. The only reason Samsung can get away with this is because it and its suppliers employ 20% of South Korea's workforce. Samsung is to South Korea what Toyota is to Japan, and what Halliburton and Wal-Mart are to the US. Samsung does build cars too (even though Samsung Motors is now 80% owned by France's Renault); I made sure to indicate in my rental car booking that I do not want a Samsung product no matter what.
• Hanjin, the owner of Korean Air. Any airline that puts its passengers on the line for political gain, as it did in 1983 on Flight 007, ought to be put out of business.

I'm feeling cranky again.

Every time I check my Hotmail (or even read news in general), I am bombarded with online ads asking me to support California's gay marriage ban. The message is that if I oppose it, California children will be indoctrinated into the homosexual lifestyle at public schools, with no way for parents to opt out.

This is not only utterly false, but fearmongering of the worst sort. California's superintendent of public education said it clearly, and now the ads are smearing him as a front for the homosexual movement.

Word has it that Prop 8 got most of its funding from the Mormon organization, though the Catholics have also generously pitched in, and so did a number of conservative groups running on Moonie/South Korean money.

I *will* riot in Seoul if Prop 8 passes, and/or if McCain has an unusually strong showing. The South Korean interference in US politics must NEVER go unpunished - and that must be on Obama's agenda.

Ally

Thanks for contributing! I don't actually know how much I have contributed to Obama, the Senatorial and Congressional committees and the WA Dems and a few other organizations but I estimate about $1000 total as well.

I don't mind the sacrifice. It was necessary.