http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NcCa_KjXk
Its 43 minutes long. I'm guessing everyone is watching it now to comment.
update-
Just 12 minutes left and I'm still listening. Breitbart, Vilsack and those who jumped the gun are criminals. Breitbart just totally misrepresents a life story speech that detailed her father's murder, crosses being burned on her lawn, her desire to flee the racist terrorism in the south, deciding to stay in the south, joining the civil rights movement, helping black farmers, the first white farmer she helped and going on to speak about class warfare. She spends the last 14 minutes speaking about recruiting African Americans for agriculture and addressing African American issues.
I'm just shaking my head at this. This woman and thousands like her are the reason why Obama is our president. One scumbag with a selective video clip and media access tarnished her career.
16:00-22:00 is the broader tale of the first white farmer Sherrod helped. 
If the Administration doesn't have the balls to apologize to her I won't be surprised. 

Last night Rachel Maddow pointed to two separate occasions where Lindsey Graham lists South Carolina's Black population along with unemployment figures and says "We've got it tough."

"Throughout the nation there are going to be thousands more people enrolled in Medicaid and every state except one is going to have to come up with matching money," Graham remarks. "I have 12 percent unemployment in South Carolina. My state's on its knees. I have 31 percent African-American population in South Carolina."

He went on to say

"We've got it tough," he adds. "We're on our knees. 12 percent of our people are unemployed and 31 percent of our people are black."

And in a separate appearance off the Senate floor

"My state, with 30 percent African-American citizens, a lot of low income people in South Carolina is going to cost my state a billion dollars, that's the same old stuff that I object to. That's not change we can believe in. That's sleazy."

Watch the video here
Senator cites blacks as disadvantage for his state | Raw Story


Please recommend this so we can get TPM to do a story on this.

So Stephen Harper is running his scummy little mouth to the WSJ's Editorial Board. The crappy article goes on about NATO and how Canada is our bestest pal in the world.

Then at the end we get a nice loogie hurled

But then there is Mr. Obama's opposition to the Colombia free-trade deal. Has Mr. Harper spoken to the president about that matter? Yes. "I'm not going to tell you that the president said anything different than what he said publicly," says Mr. Harper, smiling. We'll take that as a sign of hope.

You might recall that Harper's aide lied to the media during last year's presidential campaign. The aide falsely said that one of Obama's economic advisors called up Harper's folks to tell them that the discussion of renegotiating NAFTA by Obama was just campaign trail BS. Turned out Harper's folks called Obama's guy and he said no such thing.

Josh's post on the front page brings up a guy named Markoplos who has been telling the SEC Madoff was running a Ponzi Scheme for years. Here's the report Josh linked to that Markopolos sent to the SEC in 2005 http://www.slideshare.net/hblodget/markopolos-madoff-complaint-presentation?type=document .

Was the SEC compliant in the scheme? Will anyone investigate? I hear Madoff was very well connected politically and I see Chucky Schumer has given back contributions from him. Will anyone investigate to see if anyone pulled strings for him?

This is pretty damning stuff. Markopolos tried but no one would listen. Read that document. He lays out how it was totally obvious to many in the industry that Bernie Madoff couldn't possibly be getting the returns he had been getting legally.
Shouldn't someone in the SEC be in prison over this too?

WTF? This is not instilling confidence in what's to come from the new administration. Google is now backtracking on it. This site could be dead or 1/2 a kb per hour if Josh didn't appease or have a relationship with whatever ISPs with the new model these assholes want.
Im getting my visa ready, this country is going to hell and no one is gonna save it.

The wife and I are in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. We live in a suburban area and there are 1837 registered voters in our district. In the primaries there were only about 3 electronic voting booths. If turnout is high, today is gonna suck for the nice old ladies running the polls at Bethel Wesleyan Church. My district is pretty republican so Im not sure how turnout will be. I think republicans are going to be discouraged and turnout won't be so good here. I am prepared for the semi worst though with this early bird crap.

The local dem dipshits didn't even put anyone up against the republican candidates for state house, state senate or local judge. The only republican I get to vote against besides McCain/Palin(not to mention a write in for these undisputed locals, which I'll do) is Lindsey Shamm. How the hell do you not contest seats when there is a good shot you can win or make a good showing with people just selecting Dem down the line???????


Wanna hear a funny?
I know you do.
Here it is.
There are two state ammendments up for vote that are asking permission to invest state and local goverment pension funds in the stock market. No friggin lie.

I am pissed at the Dem Party here in South Carolina. If the national org poured some cash into SC this state could go blue. This state is generally poor as hell and people vote against their interests out of ignorance. The Dem Party has allowed thieves and liars to supposedly hold the morality/christian/conservative position. There isn't shit morally correct, christian like or fiscally conservative about these jackals. I guarantee you plenty of Repub fatcats would have had coronaries at the site of Dems campaigning here like in NC.

Anyway, rant over. Time to go. This is the first time it feels like I have to vote or else.  If somehow McCain wins I feel the end of the world(the end of this American part at least) is here. I hope today is peaceful and everyone can vote without the fuckery we have witnessed in the past 2 elections.

I am constantly hearing about how turnout might be low on the Dem side since Obama has a lead but I never hear that applied to the GOP. It is the GOP that is demoralized and set to lose a major number of positions besides POTUS. You actually have some repubs pretending to be Dems in Oregon. Why has no one discussed the possibility of an even larger blowout than polls project based on the GOP's defeated state? Is it totally unlikely that Joe The Plumber will see McCain 15-20 points down on Nov4 and after a week of hearing how there is no chance in hell McCain will win from the media decide to drain another septic tank or smoke a few more Marlboros and listen to Rush Limbaugh appease his inner racist instead of lining up to vote?

I'm interested in your views.

Daily Kos has a post citing the NYTIMES which says

Mr. Obama is preparing to announce his September fund-raising figures in the next three days, with several top contributors saying the tally is estimated at more than $100 million. The campaign is already so heavily invested in television advertising that it is having serious problems finding open spots to place more commercials. The fund-raising has so exceeded its projections, aides said, that the campaign decided to take the rare step of buying time on network television, including a half-hour informercial in prime time across several networks later this month.

Hooray? :)

Turns out that good ol' Joe is related to Charles Keating. This blog site broke the news that Joe's close relative is Keating's soninlaw. Keating's soninlaw Robert Wurzelbacher was a senior vp at American Continental as this NY Times Article shows

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CREDIT MARKETS; Keating Aide in Guilty Plea

Additionally, here's a nice picture of Joe's Plumbing

Will the media catch hold of this?

Lehman Bros is bankrupt. AIG is in a hole. WAMU may go bankrupt. The market is going to crash in the morning. Who does this help election wise? Will people be more willing to believe McCain lies or looking for real help from Obama?

The Obama campaign has put out this website Mclobbyist.com. Here comes the artillery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The top of page reads

The McCain Seven

John McCain has had at least 177
lobbyists running his campaign and raising money for him. The McCain
Seven—all lobbyists—control the campaign filling roles from senior
foreign policy advisor and finance co-chair all the way up to head of
command, campaign manager. The McCain Seven make sure special interests
come first.

The Obama campaign has put out this website Mclobbyist.com. Here comes the artillery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The top of page reads

The McCain Seven

John McCain has had at least 177
lobbyists running his campaign and raising money for him. The McCain
Seven—all lobbyists—control the campaign filling roles from senior
foreign policy advisor and finance co-chair all the way up to head of
command, campaign manager. The McCain Seven make sure special interests
come first.

The Obama campaign has put out this website Mclobbyist.com. Here comes the artillery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The top of page reads

The McCain Seven

John McCain has had at least 177 lobbyists running his campaign and raising money for him. The McCain Seven—all lobbyists—control the campaign filling roles from senior foreign policy advisor and finance co-chair all the way up to head of command, campaign manager. The McCain Seven make sure special interests come first.

Is this the start of what we've been waiting for?????????

  Ben Stein refers to Obama as an "Angry Black Man" while claiming he hates racism. The clip is here.

  Ben Stein refers to Obama as an "Angry Black Man" while claiming he hates racism. The clip is here.