ME

but they foolishly passed me up

I went to the Grocery today

Obama on the cover of TIME

Obama on the cover of Rolling Stone

Obama obn the Cover of Men's Health

I thought you bought Men's Health to avoid looking like Obama

mccain on the cover of high times

he does have quite the creepy smile

he meant she should shut up, accusing him of being a weirdo "arab" is the opposite of what McCain wants people to think

he put it that way because he was thinking on his feet

unemployed!

Pretty funny stuff coming from the McCain campaign, where somebody obviously starts to think that mailing + internet can make wonders.

First, a mail from the team with the title "I'm Joe the plumber", an open invitation to the public to make their own YouTube clip to explain why they also are "Joe the plumbers", an attempt to ignite some web passion which could obviously go bad quite easily (and with some "help" from democrats acting like "extremists rightwing nuts").

Secondly, a mail from Sarah Palin with the title "My appearance on SNL" with not a single line about SNL but the fact that, during the show, people probably saw 10 Obama ads and that it had to stop, asking for donations.

Colin Powell should have ran for the Republicans. Then I wouldnt be sitting here thinking to myself, "which candidate sucks less then the other?"

Basically the choices are this:

If you want Socialism, vote Obama
If you want semi-Bush, vote McCain
If you want to throw your vote away, vote third party.

but sooner or later some Republican would get on camera asking Powell, "You don't want lower taxes, you don't want conservative judges, you don't want color-blind services, you don't want abortion banned, you don't want McCain elected, you don't want the GOP to be right-wing.  why are you a "Republican"?  Can I go around saying 'I got white skin, my momma was white, my daddy was white, I listen to country music and I love NASCAR, but I'm a black man against Obama'?"

First off, -I- reject McCain and that part of it sorta made sense since Powell is a liberal.

But his ENDORSEMENT of Obama was bizarre and I think clearly racial

"On the Obama side, I watched Mr. Obama and I watched him during this seven-week period.  And he displayed a steadiness, an intellectual curiosity, a depth of knowledge and an approach to looking at problems like this and picking a vice president that, I think, is ready to be president on day one. And also, in not just jumping in and changing every day, but showing intellectual vigor.  I think that he has a, a definitive way of doing business that would serve us well.  I also believe that on the Republican side over the last seven weeks, the approach of the Republican Party and Mr. McCain has become narrower and narrower.  Mr. Obama, at the same time, has given us a more inclusive, broader reach into the needs and aspirations of our people. He's crossing lines--ethnic lines, racial lines, generational lines.  He's thinking about all villages have values, all towns have values, not just small towns have values."

huh?  McCain wants everybody's vote, he went to the NAACP, he went to LaRaza...what's less inclusive about McOfay?

"And I come to the conclusion that because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities--and we have to take that into account--as well as his substance--he has both style and substance--he has met the standard of being a successful president, being an exceptional president.  I think he is a transformational figure.  He is a new generation coming into the world--onto the world stage, onto the American stage, and for that reason I'll be voting for Senator Barack Obama."

BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS....dotdotdot 

"MR. BROKAW:  I can already anticipate some of the reaction to this.  Let's begin with the charge that John McCain has continued to make against Barack Obama.  You sit there, as a man who served in Vietnam, you commanded a battalion of 101st, you were chairman of the Joint Chiefs, you were a national security adviser and secretary of state.  There is nothing in Barack Obama's history that nearly paralyze any--parallels any of the experiences that you've had.  And while he has performed impressively in the context of the campaign, there's a vast difference between sitting in the Oval Office and making tough decisions and doing well in a campaign.

GEN. POWELL:  And he knows that.  And I have watched him over the last two years as he has educated himself, as he has become very familiar with these issues.  He speaks authoritatively.  He speaks with great insight into the challenges we're facing of a military and political and economic nature.  And he is surrounding himself, I'm confident, with people who'll be able to give him the expertise that he, at the moment, does not have.  And so I have watched an individual who has intellectual vigor and who dives deeply into issues and approaches issues with a very, very steady hand.  And so I'm confident that he will be ready to take on these challenges on January 21st.

MR. BROKAW:  And you are fully aware that there will be some--how many, no one can say for sure--but there will be some who will say this is an African-American, distinguished American, supporting another African-American because of race.

GEN. POWELL:  If I had only had that in mind, I could have done this six, eight, 10 months ago.  I really have been going back and forth between somebody I have the highest respect and regard for, John McCain, and somebody I was getting to know, Barack Obama.  And it was only in the last couple of months that I settled on this.  And I can't deny that it will be a historic event for an African-American to become president.  And should that happen, all Americans should be proud--not just African-Americans, but all Americans--that we have reached this point in our national history where such a thing could happen.  It will also not only electrify our country, I think it'll electrify the world."

Uh huh. 
What are you arguing about again, Gladiator?

"But I strongly believe that at this point in America's history, we need a president that will not just continue, even with a new face and with some changes and with some maverick aspects, who will not just continue, basically, the policies that we have been following in recent years.  I think we need a transformational figure.  I need--think we need a president who is a generational change.  And that's why I'm supporting Barack Obama.  Not out of any lack of respect or admiration for Senator John McCain."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27266223/

Barack Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life...

"At The Corner, Mark Steyn has the latest on the Obama campaign's fundraising fraud and the media's studied determination not to notice it:

As readers may recall, a couple of days ago it became clear that the Obama website had intentionally disabled all the basic credit-card-processing security checks and thereby enabled multiple contributions from donors with fake names. The excuse offered in the New York Times story was that, ah, yes, the Obama gang may appear to accept contributions from "Mr Fake Donor" of "23 Fraudulent Lane", but all those phony baloney contributions are picked up by their rigorous offline checking procedures. As many Obama supporters wrote to point out, simply because you get a message saying "Thank you for contributing to the Obama landslide, Mr S Hussein of 47 Spider-Hole Gardens (basement flat), Tikrit!" is no reason to believe any real money is actually leaving real accounts.

The gentleman who started the ball rolling made four donations under the names "John Galt", "Saddam Hussein", "Osama bin Laden", and "William Ayers", all using the same credit card number. He wrote this morning to say that all four donations have been charged to his card and the money has now left his account. Again, it's worth pointing out: in order to enable the most basic card fraud of all - multiple names using a single credit card number - the Obama campaign had to manually disable all the default security checks provided by their merchant processor.

The reader adds:

Last night on Sheppard Smith's 3pm-ET show this issue was brought up briefly and they cited the Obama campaign falsely claiming that this sort of thing happens at the McCain site and that they catch these errors later in the processing. Well, it took three days to process my donations and they all skated through their rigorous screening.

And it doesn't happen at the McCain site. This reader tried donating under "John Galt" and "Saddam Hussein" to the McCain campaign and they rejected it.

This should be Journalism 101. I'm not the guy who made Obama's fundraising a story. The media did that when they ran hundreds of puff pieces marveling at his record-breaking cash haul, and in particular the gazillions of small donors. Isn't the fact that his website has chosen to disable basic fraud protection procedures at the very least a legitimate addendum to those stories?

Oh, sorry, I was waiting for the chirping crickets. But evidently Mr C Cricket is over at Obama Central charging 20 bucks to his MasterChirp.

Maybe after the campaign is safely over someone will be interested enough to find out how much of Obama's record campaign fundraising was criminal. Ten percent? Twenty? Fifty? On some other planet, with different reporters and editors, one might expect this to be a significant news story. Of course, in the world we live in, our reporters are too busy covering Sarah Palin's shoes and hair stylist to have time to notice that Barack Obama's entire campaign may be based on a foundation of criminal fraud."
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/10/021881.php

The Story they refer to
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZGQ0MGJiNDE1MGJiYmZjYWVlMTllYjY0MTQzODZiYWM=

lol

...mccain and republicans are so pissed obama can afford a 30 minute advertisement on prime time television

anyways, took your advice(?) and went to fox news, read one of the articles

"On Tuesday, several thousand people came out in a cold and steady rain to hear Obama address an outdoor rally at Widener University, outside
Philadelphia.
"I just want all of you to know that if we see this kind of dedication on Election Day, there is no way that we're not going to bring change to America," he told the shivering crowd."

LMFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo it was the funniest thing i had heard thsi week..