Probably.

It's not just the media obsession that will make that happen.

I mean really, the mastery of taking a white guy and making other white people hate a black guy because the black guy knows a white guy?

And so much mental masturbation and repetition on the part of the press lacking three simple words...

"But so what?"

It's cowardice to end an article on the relationship with a dangling, dramatic mystery. If it's a news medium we're talking about. Very cheap of CNN to do this, for example.

CNN.

But the relationship between Obama and Ayers went deeper, ran longer and was more political than Obama -- and his surrogates -- have revealed, documents and interviews show.

Knowing they could ask themselves "But so what?" and come up dry. Or with nothing to say.

Ben Smith at Politico finds a very relevant link, but it's not sexy enough for him to put on the front page.

Also, it re-reports, Ayers was't involved in choosing Obama to chair the fund.

It's not sexy enough to headline as anything other than 'Yawning about Annenberg.' Yet the link reveals two rather significant stories...

"One fact of civic life in Chicago, say city residents, is the prominence of the Ayers family.

Thomas G. Ayers, the father of William and John Ayers, was the chief executive officer of the Commonwealth Edison Co., the region’s major electric utility. He died in 2007.

Mr. Obama had significant contact with Thomas Ayers toward the end of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, when they worked to establish the Chicago Public Education Fund. The fund received more than $2 million in startup money from the CAC."

So not only is there a bond between Obama and the Ayers family, but that family's prominence is part of why Obama would suggest William Ayers had matured. It doesn't sound like a family of significantly aggressive people.

“You can’t work in school reform in this community without coming across Bill Ayers. He’s been involved in every area of Chicago reform going back 20 years now,” said Michael Klonsky, who has known Mr. Ayers since their days in the leftist group Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s. Mr. Klonsky later founded the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago with him.

“Senator Obama would have to be a magician to not have ran into, or met, or sat in a meeting with Bill Ayers,” Mr. Klonsky said.

As for the program? Republican money all over it..

“The Annenberg Challenge provides an unprecedented opportunity to concentrate the energy of this reform into an educational renaissance in the classroom.”

The proposal was backed by letters of support to the Annenberg Foundation from Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a Republican, local education school deans, the superintendent of the Chicago public schools, and the heads of local foundations."

"Mr. Obama, then 33, was an associate at the law firm Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Galland and a member of the board of the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation. He also served, as Mr. Ayers later did with him, on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which had financed the Developing Communities Project, a South Side community-organizing project that Mr. Obama ran from 1985 to 1988 before leaving to attend Harvard Law School.

He brought that organizing perspective with him to the new education project, telling the Chicago Tribune in a June 1995 article about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge: “If we’re really going to change things in this city, it’s going to start at the grassroots level and with our children.”"

So, not evil.

But so what?

Careful forming that conga line kids. The moment you've been waiting for is almost here...

Troopergate Friday !!!

The day the Alaskan Legislature releases what appears to be its report on Sarah Palin's abuse of power scandal known as Troopergate.

But don't get too happy just yet.

Todd Palin responded to his subpoena. Sarah Palin blew it off. There may not be anything there worth getting excited over. And of course, if there isn't, expect her to gloat for quite some time about it.

A legislative panel has scheduled a meeting for 9 a.m. Friday to receive Branchflower's report on Monegan's firing and whether Palin or members of her administration abused their powers in pushing for the dismissal of a state trooper involved in a child-custody fight with the governor's sister.

She will still have her witch doctor, her race baiting and dog whistling, and many other things. So don't get too hyped up. Let's wait and see what we've got here first.

Fact Check too fast, and the Fact Checker gets Facts wrong.

Obama said...

the computer was originally invented by a bunch of government scientists who were trying to figure out, for defense purposes, how to communicate, we've got to understand that this is a national security issue, as well.

And the Washington Post Fact Checker said...

"Obama claimed that the government had invented the computer in order to encourage scientists to communicate. He probably meant the Internet."

But as you will see, there is already debate on this over there (scroll down) pointing out just how wrong WaPo got this one. For starters?

Well, there's the Analytical Engine.

The Iowa State University birthed Atanasoff-Berry Computer.

The ENIAC

And who knows...a Harvard guy may have heard about this. (insert before Eniac if you prefer timelines.)

"Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper designed the MARK series of computers at Harvard University. The MARK series of computers began with the Mark I in 1944. Imagine a giant roomful of noisy, clicking metal parts, 55 feet long and 8 feet high. The 5-ton device contained almost 760,000 separate pieces. Used by the US Navy for gunnery and ballistic calculations, the Mark I was in operation until 1959."

Again, if we're gonna get picky, dear media, get more correct than has happened in this election. Let's be more careful out there folks.

John McCain has a Hanoi Jane in his past. Who's a guy, FYI.

There is even a connection to Bill Clinton in this odd story.

The basic point is here's a radical in McCain's past who like William Ayers, changed with time. So much so that both agreed the past is the past. Let it go.

Let it go, John.

"The cover of Life magazine of April 23, 1971, shows David Ifshin, aged 22, at a war rally, wearing a collegiate goatee. He's standing directly behind Jane Fonda, who has her fist raised." from The New Republic.

Did I just say... The New Republic?

David Ifshin, who was played over Radio Hanoi to McCain's cell was once an owner of TNR.

And John McCain spoke at Mr. Ifshin's funeral.

Ifshin is also a link to the favorable press McCain used to enjoy.

Do you suppose McCain understands people change? The very same radical whose voice McCain heard every day as a POW is the very same radical who would become a friend of John McCain the freed man.

McCain met with Ifshin and they found common ground. "I said to him, Look, I accept your apology. We'll be friends. But more importantly I want you to forget it. Go on with your life. You cannot look back.'

Loved these little tidbits. Hope you will too!

"Palin's debate style is simple: She's a master, not of facts, figures or insightful policy recommendations, but at the fine art of the non-answer, the glittering generality. Against such charms there is little Sen. Biden or anyone can do."

"Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first."

"Andrew, I watch you at these debates with no notes, no papers and yet when asked questions you spout off facts, figures and policies and I'm amazed. But then I look out into the audience and I ask myself, 'Does any of this really matter?' " Palin said.

While public policy wonks might cringe, the fact was that Sarah Palin was simply vocalizing her biggest campaign strength without realizing it. During the campaign, from January to November, Palin's message on important public policy issues never evolved -- because it didn't have to. Her ability to fill the debate halls with her presence and her gift of the glittering generality made it possible for her to rely on populism instead of policy."

   "In one debate, a moderator asked the candidates to name a bill the Legislature had recently passed that we didn't like. I named one. Democratic candidate Tony Knowles named one. But Palin used her allotted time to criticize the unpopular incumbent governor, Frank Murkowski. Asked to name a bill we did like, the same pattern emerged: Palin didn't name a bill.

    And when she does answer the actual question asked, she has the canny ability to connect with the audience on a personal level."

The question is on the table.

John McCain truly needs to explain to America about just why he is running for president, based on quotes from his book. Additionally, there also seems to be a valid question about whether John McCain was ever in Waziristan. Simply because he says it, without proof, some people will believe it, and reporters print it. Where is the documented proof of his trip to a terrorist stronghold?

It hasn't been safe to navigate by air. It hasn't been safe to travel on ground. Our troops have had issues there since 2001. But there have been congressional visits to the southern part of the region. It is the northern region, at the Afghanistan border, where the true problems reside.

The Pakistan Times lists others who have visited South Waziristan. McCain is not on the list.

He discussed it before last week. In the republican primary.

Dan Balz, December 27, 2007

    "It may serve to enhance those credentials or make people understand that I've been to Waziristan, I know Musharraf, I can pick up the phone and call him. I knew Benazir Bhutto. I know the area. But I hate for anything like this to be the cause of any political gain for anybody," he said.

The First Presidential Debate at Ole Miss, Friday, September 26, 2008

    I've been to Waziristan. I can see how tough that terrain is. It's ruled by a handful of tribes.

Waziristan is a deadly region within Pakistan at the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. Some controlling faction is not big on visitors, outsiders or journalists. Their issues have been going on literally for years.

Osama Bin Laden, or a high-ranking member of the Taliban or Al Quaeda is thought to have roots there. Pakistan is just letting them have the place to themselves. A peace agreement was signed in 2006, but so much for that.

BBC, March 4, 2004

    ...so far no senior al-Qaeda or Taleban figure has been caught in this semi-autonomous area where the Pakistani army beefed up its presence after the US intervention in neighbouring Afghanistan in October, 2001.

We've been sending drones to check the place out. Could he have flown over? That is not the same as walking the soil in the least. Again several searches turn up nothing to support his claims from the two quoted debates.

If McCain had been there, it would seem we would have seen something describing such a treacherous trip.

Yet we haven't.

It may have never taken place.

Our own very agile troops, note again, have been run out of Dodge, so to say. How exactly could McCain have been there? He may have been to Afghanistan, and gotten the location wrong. It appears highly unlikely he was physically in the northern area considered so especially unsafe for our own troops. Think Tuzla one more time.

Pierre Tristam, September 28, 2008

    There is no record of John McCain having been to Waziristan. No newspaper reports about it since 1982, when McCain got to Congress. I'm not talking about just the national papers, but through Newsbank, the world and national newspaper archive of a few thousand newspapers, newswires, magazines and other sources. Checked it all. No record of McCain in Waziristan before 2001, certainly no record of him there since. How could there be? North and South Waziristan are controlled by al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The last time Americans wandered in there, which was last week in a couple of helicopters that dropped special forces in South Waziristan, they were repulsed after a firefight. The last time an unmanned American Predator drone went in there--last Tuesday, near Angoor Adda in South Waziristan, the same day that Bush was flattering Zardari face to face about "Pakistan's sovereign right and sovereign duty to protect your country," the Pakistani military shot it down. The next day, Pakistani troops fired at two U.S. helicopters violating Pakistani air space.

Michael Rovito, who questioned Sarah Palin in the sandwich shop, is correct. The place is a mess.

CNN, Sept. 27, 2008

    Rovito wasn't finished. "Waziristan is blowing up!," he said.

    "Yeah it is," Palin said, "and the economy there is blowing up too."

Christina Lamb, The Sunday Times, September 21, 2008

    Waziristan is America’s new front line in the war against the Taliban. The last British officer to have served there, now 81, tells it cannot be tamed by force alone

    Overlooking the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, from the Paktika province of eastern Afghanistan. The outpost, only 800 meters from the border, is frequently attacked by Taliban forces, many of whom cross over from the South Waziristan tribal area of Pakistan

April 03, 2007

    PESHAWAR: Ten more people were reported dead and scores of others were injured in renewed fighting between the warring sides, as the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe on Monday gave a call to all the tribesmen to go after the foreign militants and their local supporters to purge the area from outsiders.

    The foreign militants, locals informed, also publicly executed Juma Khan alias Haji Jimak in Azam Warsak area of South Waziristan Agency to punish the family of a tribal journalist, Din Muhammad, accused of leaking information about the fighting to media from the troubled tribal region.

So it won't be confused with any tarmacs in Bosnia.

Besides the mentions above, Bill O'Reilly asked about the region May 12, 2008. Oddly enough, McCain does not say he was ever there. To a friendly audience who would have appreciated such a statement. He didn't make it. Who did he go with? What was the flight or journey like? No mentions. And you know how he likes to tell war stories. Has he made one up for this yet?

    O'REILLY: One of the questions that Hillary Clinton had difficulty with last week with me was Afghanistan and Pakistan.
    MCCAIN: Yes.
    O'REILLY: I asked her and I'm going to ask you: Do you know where command and control is for the Taliban right now?
    MCCAIN: Oh yes. In a place called Waziristan.
    O'REILLY: OK. But it's a little further south in Quetta. Quetta is not up in the northwest provinces.
    MCCAIN: Could I just say that there are areas of Waziristan that you know that the Pakistani government, Musharraf, made a "bargain" with.
    O'REILLY: But Quetta, you can get them, and the Pakistani government won't. How are you going to make them?
    MCCAIN: I think that our relations with Pakistan are in a very dicey situation today with a new government. I know that our relations with Pakistan are vital.
    O'REILLY: As long as the Taliban can hide and have those safe harbors, Afghanistan will never be stable.
    MCCAIN: And I agree with you about Quetta, but I also will tell you that Waziristan is hard to govern.
    O'REILLY: The Pakistani government has got to help us. That's the key to that.
    MCCAIN: They have to help us.

John McCain said he is running for president not because he is putting his country first. He is running for president because he is ambitious.

    McCain and Salter wrote "Worth the Fighting For" (the title is taken from a line of Robert Jordan's in the Hemingway novel ), which gave McCain an opportunity to confess his shortcomings:

    "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. . . . In truth, I'd had the ambition for a long time."

He talks a big game about truth and honor. He could not define 'honor' recently to Time. And he did indeed fight to keep the truth from other POW families whose loved ones were left behind in Vietnam. Have his desires overtaken his sense of reality? It appears so. Will this be his last of three successive runs for the presidency? It may not.

"When I am no longer busy with politics, and with my own ambitions, I hope to have more time to examine what I have done and failed to do with my career, and why."

He may never give up, because he will never accept that he ever failed.

Maya Angelou said 'when someone shows you who they are, believe them.' So we know this part of the headline.

Mr. McCain, all we are asking for now, is the proof you actually touched ground in Northern Waziristan.

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For the quoted links, visit the original Daily Kos posting. This page adds the Pakistan Times link not over there. Yet.

September 11, 2001 Did Not Stop The New York City Mayoral Election.

Why Should McCain Suspend His Campaign Or Ditch Any Debates?

Unless he too, like Sarah Palin, is simply not ready for a demanding job that requires alert and calm multitasking in a heated environment. He can't hide behind the lobbyists forever.

I was thinking about how the worst terrorist attack our country endured affected New York City's election.

And except for a primary vote, not really.

And except for campaign coverage being eclipsed by 9/11 related coverage, not really.

So if there's a reason for a suspension of a campaign, it's not an emergency like this. (And the $700 billion isn't even related to anything!!!)

New York City proceeded with its mayoral election after September 11, 2001. Only a democratic primary vote that same day was canceled. There was a Mayoral primary debate set for Sunday, September 9th. The next debate would have been a primary runoff 'if neded' scheduled for Wednesday, October 3.

Rudy Giuliani wanted to extend his term, New Yorkers will remember. He pushed hard for it, citing the attack, a claimed need for a smoother transition...and perhaps there was also an ego boosting popularity going on too.

"That time was absolutely the best and worst of Rudy,” said Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., the city’s former corporation counsel under Mayor Edward I. Koch. “Rudy stood up strong and rallied us. But that confidence created the very dangerous idea that we couldn’t survive without him.”

Mark Green, the democratic challenger, was at one point, ahead. Until he made some major errors, like supporting Rudy's power grab. He lost by two points, 49 to 47%.

Still, the difficulty in trying to assess this election was evident in the voice of David Axelrod, Mr. Ferrer's media consultant...

Don't know what it did in other parts of the country, Washington D.C. in particular.

Most important fact? The system kept moving.

The Mayoral election did happen on time, and Michael Bloomberg became mayor of NYC.

September 11, 2001 Did Not Stop The New York City Mayoral Election.

Why Should McCain Suspend His Campaign Or Ditch Any Debates?

Unless he, like Sarah Palin, is simply not ready for a demanding job that requires alert and calm multitasking in a heated environment. He can't hide behind the lobbyists forever.

I was thinking about how the worst terrorist attack our country endured affected New York City's election.

And except for a primary vote, not really.

And except for campaign coverage being eclipsed by 9/11 related coverage, not really.

So if there's a reason for a suspension of a campaign, it's not an emergency  like this. (And the $700 billion isn't even related to anything!!!)

New York City proceeded with its mayoral election after September 11, 2001. Only a democratic primary vote that same day was canceled. There was a Mayoral primary debate set for Sunday, September 9th. The next debate would have been a primary runoff 'if neded' scheduled for Wednesday, October 3.

Rudy Giuliani wanted to extend his term, New Yorkers will remember. He pushed hard for it, citing the attack, a claimed need for a smoother transition...and perhaps there was also an ego boosting popularity going on too.

That time was absolutely the best and worst of Rudy,” said Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., the city’s former corporation counsel under Mayor Edward I. Koch. “Rudy stood up strong and rallied us. But that confidence created the very dangerous idea that we couldn’t survive without him.”

Mark Green, the democratic challenger, was at one point, ahead. Until he made some major errors, like supporting Rudy's power grab. He lost by two points, 49 to 47%.

 Still, the difficulty in trying to assess this election was evident in the voice of David Axelrod, Mr. Ferrer's media consultant...

Don't know what it did in other parts of the country, Washington D.C. in particular. Most important fact? The system kept moving. The Mayoral election did happen on time, and Michael Bloomberg became mayor of NYC.

"You know who's in New York? Remember that guy...J-John somebody..."

Remember this guy? With Randy Schuenemann in tow (he was just out of the picture in Tuesday's photo ops,) Sarah Palin will meet with two more of his former clients when he was a lobbyist. They would be the President of Georgia, and the President of Ukraine. No word yet on when Sarah Palin will receive the Cotillion Introduction with other former clients, which include Romania, Latvia, Macedonia and Taiwan.

We're already in Iraq. And she was at least in the next country over. Close enough for comfort.

Oh yeah...that name...that guy...

"Randy Scheunemann ran a very small firm in Washington called Orion Strategies, which had only a handful of clients, most of which were fairly prominent Eastern European governments: Latvia, Georgia, and several others who were seeking membership in NATO. And that was Scheunemann’s job, to help stir up interest and get them support for joining NATO." SourceWatch. Besides some smaller countries, he's even lobbied on behalf of the National Rifle Association, which counts Sarah Palin as a member.

Randy Schuenemann, notes McClatchy, lobbied for the nation of Georgia a full year after joining McCain's campaign in 2007. Scheunemann took a leave from lobbying for Orion in March 2008, two months before McCain barred active lobbyists from serving on his staff. He was listed as Orion's president and owner until around May 15.

USA Today has reported that Randy Schuenemann is the foreign policy advisor to senator John McCain. He is the founder and partner of the lobbying firm Orion Strategies from 2001. Orion Strategies received between $900,000 and $730,000 from Georgia since 2001, including $200,000 for an eight-month contract that began on May 1, two weeks after McCain issued a strong statement criticizing Russia and supporting Georgia. He only stopped lobbying this past March. His connections to another questionable occupation involves his post at the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, from 2002 to 2003. In May of 2008, USA Today reported he contacted McCain's Senate office on Georgia's behalf last year while he was working for the campaign. According to the Washington Post, he's given $2000 to the McCain campaign.

"The fact that John McCain is proud of the lobbyists running his campaign and doesn't understand the conflict of interest his lobbyist-advisers represent shows that he simply cannot be trusted to bring change to Washington," Damien LaVera, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee

Republican candidate John McCain has previously said he is okay with Randy Schuenemann's past. What will he be saying about Rick Davis if McCain ever talks to the press again after Tuesday's missteps?

So it seems John McCain and Sarah Palin are still supporting a form of a 'bridge to nowhere.'

As has been said...

At this point, McCain has taken the obvious way out—launching a series of distracting attacks on Barack Obama, with slim regard for truth. http://www.usnews.com/blogs/john-farrell/2008/9/15/john-mccains-journey-from-maverick-to-liar.html  http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/apology_not_accepted.html    http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/08/20/watchdogs-make-it-harder-for-politicians-to-stretch-the-truth/   http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/07/the-new-york-ti.html  http://www.themansfieldherald.com/2008/09/mccains-dirty-campagn-starting-to-anger-the-press/

"There are good reasons Republicans are focusing on identity rather than issues this year: In poll after poll, there's not a single major issue on which the public agrees with them or their presumptive nominee. Not Iraq, certainly. Not the economy. Should the election turn on the question of "What are you going to do for America?" rather than "Are you a real American?" Republicans are doomed. They offer no solutions for the stagnation (or decline) of American living standards, or for the weakening of America's economic power. They offer no resolution to America's war of choice in Iraq. Their party leader, the incumbent president, let a great American city drown. They are the American party, and McCain the American nominee, that hasn't a clue about how to help America in its (prolonged, I fear) moment of need." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302303_pf.html  http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/little-left-of  http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/the-saddest-sight-on-straight.html?printable=true&currentPage=all  http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/09/factchecking-th.html  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aQIOOr9klOnE&refer=politics

"The Obama campaign had anticipated the Chicago Machine card would be played in the campaign and the candidate, himself, noted earlier this year that he felt he had done well in rising politically "without being entangled in some of the traditional problems of Chicago politics.

Robert Gibbs, a senior aide to Obama, discounted the McCain ad. Gibbs said he believed it was "highly ineffective" to try to link Obama to dishonored political machine politics when his elections to public office were due to "grassroots" voters and not "ward organizations or the political bosses."

"If you talk to any person in Illinois and ask them if Barack Obama came to power as part of some Chicago machine, I think they'd probably spend that 30 seconds laughing at you," Gibbs said." Chicago Tribune.

"He really wants to play the association game?" http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/19/attack-by-association-viewed-as-fair-game-by-mccain-camp/#comments  http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/the-ad-campaign-obamas-chicago-in-mccains-eyes/   http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-090923-campaign-chicago-web,0,5284558.story  http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-05-20-McCainadviser_N.htm  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121072447597990171.html?mod=googlenews_wsj  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121842762192729075.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_topbox  http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/05/14/mccain-vows-to-do-better-vetting-of-campaign-offiicials/?mod=WSJBlog#comments  http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/04/08/new-mccain-adviser-keeps-lobbying-job/?mod=WSJBlog  http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/washington/2008/06/02/Possible-McCain-Fiorina-Ticket  When Mike Signorile is outing http://signorile2003.blogspot.com/2008/09/hypocrisy-bombshell-antigay-john-mccain.html a member of his staff as gay? http://themoderatevoice.com/society/homosexuality/21802/mccain-the-party-could-%E2%80%9Cexclude-people%E2%80%9D-for-being-%E2%80%9Cpro-gay-rights%E2%80%9C/  When there's no record of the Manhunt donation being returned. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Crutchley_contribution_not_returned.html#comments When there's so much out there that hasn't been used by Obama http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=863253665&play=1  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/us/politics/21text-mccain.html?ref=politics  or reported by the press? http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-08-17-mccain-adviser_N.htm

"He ain’t never been the same since Vietnam..." ('Out Come The Freaks' Was Not Was) http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/03/john_mccain_an/#more  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080603589_pf.html  http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-08-28-carter-denver_N.htm?csp=34

So let's go there. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/06/mccain_forgets_his_own_votes.html  http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/factcheckorg-its-true-that-mccain-voted.html  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/09/weekend_edition.html  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090402842_pf.html  Let's go there now. http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_WARTS%20AND%20ALL.htm

All republican candidate John McCain http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/533087.html  has left to say  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101471_pf.html  http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/08/20/wsjnbc-news-poll-mccain-running-a-negative-campaign/trackback/  is that he has to deceive the country to become president. http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/304740  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702009_pf.html  http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/04/10/petraeus-gently-refutes-mccain-assertion/?mod=WSJBlog  And just who wants a guy who does that? http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/22/mccain-campaign-lobbies-bailout/  http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/mccain_lies_about_commerce_committee_jurisdiction.php  Seriously, Phil Gramm as his secretary of the treasury? http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/jul/09/mccain-adviser-addresses-mental-recession/  http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/15/mccain-deficit/  http://www.politickerma.com/jeremyjacobs/1251/dukakis-mccain-using-same-race-tactics-willie-horton-ad

What McCain is really afraid of http://www.democrats.com/john-mccain-married-to-the-mob  http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-02-17/news/haunted-by-spirits/full  http://www.mattwelch.com/archives/2007/12/23-week/ http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/will-the-media-ever-talk-about.php http://www.kffl.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4038327  is that a paper like the NYTimes or Washington Post will finish the stories about Jim Hensley - McCain's deceased father in law - and the Arizona organized crime circles http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=173&a=7884  http://www.democrats.com/john-mccain-married-to-the-mob http://tiodt.blogspot.com/2006/12/married-to-mob.html  http://montereycountydemocrats.org/node/415  that gave McCain his power and wealth.

Or more to the point, that all that barbecue got them to forget Keating Five.

Oh wait...Jonathan Alter just brought it up on cable. That genie is coming out of the bottle...

Keating Five, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/keating_video Keating Five, http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five/1 Keating Five. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/05/30/050530fa_fact_bruck?printable=true

But it's the Arizona crime circles that connect to the murder of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914845-3,00.html  Who was covering a story related to abortion. And McCain's running mate http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122065537792905483.html  made women pay for their rape kits, http://www.jedreport.com/2008/09/mccain-voted-against-biden-law.html  reported today on CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/21/palin.rape.exams/index.html And that same running mate http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/troopergate-a-cat-slipped-out.php  http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/newsweek-blogitics/22667/what-mccain-once-said-about-mayors-and-governors-experience/  is so anti-abortion that she would allow incest over abortion. And let's not forget a certain...well, John McCain called it a joke. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/337178

And there's more... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121745962594698731.html there's that great piece in The Nation about how John McCain worked to keep information from families of POWs.  http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/schanberg09182008pt1 And lest we forget how he voted against  http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1808161,00.html  medical care http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080602/beutler  for returning veterans http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008808240318 from the occupation of Iraq and attack on Afghanistan. And used wounded vets as a political football http://www.jedreport.com/2008/07/why-didnt-mccai.html  http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_6951&pageNum=2  like the Twin Towers. An occasional error?  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/21/23137/5303  Or a forgiving press? http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/best-debate-sunday-john-mccain/story.aspx?guid=%7BED3697D6-C692-4E34-AD92-7037F41F2970%7D&dist=hppr  http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1836909,00.html

As if anyone would pay attention http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/16/9641/62473/762/599278  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/20/12253/3155/448/571100  to any of all that...

Facts! Get Your Red Hot Facts!

Since this came up again during Barack Obama's September 15, 2008 Good Morning America Interview on ABC, this simple statement needs revisiting. Chris Cuomo didn't read the post I made on Jake Tapper's page. Or they deleted it again. They remove the links after a couple hours over there.

John McCain, interviewed this summer by Politico's Mike Allen, explained that he actually has the ability to email. And use a computer. And a BlackBerry. The last line in this excerpt is key.

Pointed it out to Jake Tapper. Pointed it out to Ben Smith, who was not aware the answer was first given to Politico in July 2008. Smith updated his "McCain's Hands" posting. Notice the addendum. You might want to take a look at Mike Allen's article.

Does it end the question of can John McCain email? He most certainly can if he wants to. He freely admitted it.

Does John McCain actually want to e-mail? He's just not into it.

So Obama's 'out of touch' ad is correct.

And Karl Rove is yet again, full of hot air.

But I get the feeling this is not the last time I'll have to point this out.

Again, pay attention to the last line of the excerpt.

"Q: But do you go on line for yourself?

Mr. McCain: They go on for me. I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need — including going to my daughter’s blog first, before anything else.

Q: Do you use a Blackberry or e-mail?

Mr. McCain: No.

Mark Salter: He uses a BlackBerry, just ours.

Mr. McCain: I use the Blackberry, but I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail. I read e-mails all the time, but the communications that I have with my friends and staff are oral and done with my cell phone. I have the luxury of being in contact with them literally all the time. We now have a phone on the plane that is usable on the plane, so I just never really felt a need to do it."

As in...

I

Just

Never

Really

Felt

A

Need

To

Do

It.

Please pass this along to as many people as you can. Let's get back to the saving this country from the reckless hands of Bush 44 and his lobbyist puppetmasters.

Sarah Palin is so against abortion, she would rather a raped woman have her attacker's baby. And charges an Alaskan woman up to $1200 to even find out if she's pregnant.

Sarah Palin is so against abortion, a relative who rapes their niece, cousin, aunt, mother or daughter would be forced to have their attacker's baby.

Sarah Palin is so against abortion, a brother and sister could have a child together.

Now, as for a polulation of only 660,000 people having the most crystal meth users per person in the country... what does Sarah Palin have to say about that?

Revealing the true nature of John McCain and Sarah Palin's supporters didn't take too long. How can anyone support McCain and deny they too are racist? Where are the people denouncing this?

Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney spoke at a meeting of these klansmen mocking the name of god by congregating in his name.

Let's not forget the problems Mitt Romney already has with the Mormon church and black. As if he needs more problems. Oh well, I guess we were right the first time when we said he associated with an anti black church. He hasn't said a thing about this yet.

And Snopes still says a certain quote is 'undetermined.' Sarah Palin has not denied that she uttered the 'Sambo' quote.

This is the Obama Pancake Mix photo you will be hearing more about.

This AP article has a photo of a this blatantly racist and degrading stereotype sold at the Racist Values Voters Forum as a party favor/souvenir. Think Progress adds a little more here.

Still 'undetermined.'

You may have seen the email sent from Anne Kilkenny about Sarah Palin.

You may have heard how it fact checks Sarah Palin from the perspective of someone who claims to know the vp candidate rather well

Politifact fact checked the email

And finds it MOSTLY TRUE.