Okay, I'll keep this short and sweet, because I really just need to confirm I am not alone out here. But, does anybody else feel that progressives have a weakness when it comes to challenging talking points, whether they come from the left or the right. Is it an innate sense of fairness that demands we give serious consideration to every cockamamie thought that pierces our eardrum? Case in point, Roland Burriss is a respectable public servant and highly qualified to be the Jr. Senator from Illinois. But, because he was appointed by Blogo, his service will be tainted.  This is the same body that stood and applauded Ted Stevens after he had been indicted.  This is the same body that has not uttered a word about all the scandals that have dogged Norm Coleman. You insert the name of your favorite Senator ___________________and I will provide you with a potential scandal that is worse that Roland Buriss being appointed by Blogo.  TAINTED?  P L E A S E ! ! ! !

According to Political Wire, Jessie Jackson Jr. is pushing hard for Obama's Senate seat, should he win the presidency. Just curious about opinions on that ~

Jackson Eyes Obama's Senate Seat

Illinois political insiders say Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL), "who defended Barack Obama after his father famously threatened to castrate him, is the favorite to replace the Democratic nominee in the Senate," according to The Hill.

Said Jackson: "If Sen. Obama wins -- and I'm optimistic that he will, I indeed would be honored and humbled to succeed him in the U.S. Senate. But, in the end, the decision rests with Gov. Blagojevich and I'm confident that he'll make an appointment in the best interest of the state as well as the nation."

 

I have spent time in North Carolina and know that there are some good people there. But, I still have always been somewhat suspect of a place that would elect Jessie Helms and their representative. Recent events in the state have done little to dissuade my concerns that NC can be a very mean place.

 

On Sun., Oct. 19th as Obama stopped by Cape Fear BBQ in Fayetteville, North Carolina some patrons yelled, "Socialist, Socialist, Socialist -- get out of here." Obama was across the room at the time and did not appear to hear Diane Fanning, 54, who was among several patrons who had just come by after services at the local Presbyterian church. She said she was annoyed that the Illinois senator had stopped in at the restaurant that she regularly visits.

 

Later that evening, authorities say someone slashed tires on at least 30 parked vehicles while their owners were attending a Barack Obama rally in a North Carolina coliseum.
The Fayetteville Observer reported the tires were cut outside Fayetteville's Crown Coliseum. One driver said it cost $120 to get her van towed and repaired.

 

Also on Sunday, a day of worship in God's Country, as so many right-wing Christians like to refer to NC,  a BEAR cub was shot in the head and dumped, draped in Barack Obama campaign posters, on the grounds of a US university.

Police at Western Carolina University said maintenance workers found the carcass of the 34kg bakc bear cub yesterday morning, the Asheville Citizen-Times website reported.

"It looked like it had been shot in the head as best we can tell. A couple of Obama campaign signs had been stapled together and stuck over its head," said university police chief Tom Johnson.

"Someone evidently was wanting to draw attention to the election."

 

I would love to see Barack Obama win this state and prove to me that there are good people there who will not tolerate their home being represented by the likes of racist that have been so prominent in the past. 

 

Charley James of LA Progressive writes, "Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean. This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination. So Sambo beat the bitch!” This could'nt be true. I saw the 36 black delegates at the Republican convention. They love people of color. Right?  http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%e2%80%9cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%e2%80%9d/#more-954

On Monday, 9/1 Reuters reported "The 17-year-old unmarried daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child". You now have Republican's tripping all over themselves saying how this is a story that involves a candidate's child and should not be the fodder of Presidential politics.  This raises several questions in my mind. 

(1)   Couldn’t Sarah Palin have rebutted the rumors of her being the actual mother of her disabled child, without outing her and divulging that her daughter was currently pregnant?

(2)   What kind of mother throws her own daughter under the bus like this, knowing how the national press was going to go after this story?

(3)   If she was not aware that the national press would chase this story to the degree they have, doesn’t that say she is not ready for prime time politics?

(4)   Could this have just been a convenient way of Republican’s getting the issue out and trying to switch the story to those mean liberal bloggers, instead of the obvious hypocritical contradictions in the “family values” party position?

(5)   Why should this story be off limits now, when it wasn’t off limits to Sarah Palin, who used it to further her own political career?

 

A Capital Hill policeman walks out of a store and sees John McCain sitting on a bench crying. This Capital Hill policeman walks over to the Senator to check to see if he is O.k.!

A Capital Hill policeman walks out of a store and sees John McCain sitting on a bench crying. This Capital Hill policeman walks over to the Senator to check to see if he is O.k.!

Did you read what Roseanne Barr has to say to Angelina Jolie, because her father supports McCain and she and Brad do not know who they will support in the presidential election? http://www.roseanneworld.com/blog/2008/08/jon_voight.php   jon voight is a frightened little girl in a pink ballet tutu, who acts like Obama just wandered in from the rain forest with a bone thru his nose and a communist pamphlet in his loincloth. The neocons who own jon voight and make him dance on the chabad telethons are the worst most elitist people on earth. glen beck and jon voight are their bitches... both of them are used tampons who must be flushed down the toilet immediately! jon voight your evil spawn angelina jolie and her vacuous hubby brad pitt make about forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more. (just sayin').
Also miss jolie says she likes mccain too and hasn't decided who to endorse....huh? Aren't you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the african daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the republican party's worldwide economic assault on africa over the last few decades since reagan? whaaaa...??????!!!! (for that matter, the thai and cambodian sons you are photo'd with weekly too who's pictures you sell to raise money to help the poor? Their families are victims of America's right wing military incursions too. Mccain wants to continue with the idea of war for profit...the americans are over that thinking now! They have drugged our troops and lower classes into supporting their oil business atrocities for long enough. We want to save not lose our souls thank you. Now go back to making your movies about women who love to handle big guns that shoot hundreds of people to death. Ps....it might be good for your asian and african children's self esteem to know you support a brown man for the leader of the free world.)

AP is reporting Joe Lieberman will be speaking at the Republican Convention. I sure hope Al Gore takes the stage at the Democratic convention and opens his speech with, "I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel".                      Associated Press

NPR reports, despite her assertions that she is an only child, Cindy McCain actually has a sibling. The older half-sister that she refused to share her multimillion dollar inheritance with. A must read! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93708729

Taegen Goddard raises an interesting question from John McCain's immaculate deception at the Pastor Rick pious palace. "During his weekend interview with Rev. Rick Warren, Sen. John McCain said that if he were president he would have never nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter or John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court.

McCain wasn't a senator when Stevens was nominated, but why did he nevertheless vote to confirm Ginsburg, Breyer, and Souter?

It seems he was for them before he was against them".

You would think the MSM would be raising these kinds of questions? Not so much!

According to the Atlantic.com's Marc Ambinder, Hillary Clinton's name is likely to be placed in nomination at the Democratic National Convention. Ambinder writes "Although Clinton had resisted pressure from donors, allies and supporters to accept demands to allow her name placed in nomination, she and aides to Obama seemed to realize independently that doing so would be the best way to incorporate and welcome