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Dowd, etc.
The first part is in the 12 am watercooler if anyone is interested.
This is ridiculous.
Night folks.
I swear they really seem to like each other, and they enjoy people. That precious baby he is holding. I hear he ate a frog leg.
CHICAGO — Before Senator John McCain delivers his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Senator Barack Obama will make a marquee appearance of his own.
Call it counter-intuitive. He will appear on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel.
For Mr. Obama, it will be the first time in his presidential candidacy that he’s on Bill O’Reilly’s prime-time program. The appearance is intended to put Mr. Obama before a conservative audience, one week after drawing 40 million TV viewers at his own acceptance speech.
..... will Bill be amazed at the audience this guest draws? will he be able to get through the interview w/o cutting Barack's mic?!
Thanks for the sneak preview of McCain's much anticipated acceptance speech on Thursday, Jo. This scintillating presentation is literally going to light up the XCel Center.
.. sic em. I'm not in favor of abortions but the hell will I allow anybody in the free and democratic USA to take away someone's right to choose.:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080903/pl_politico/13103_1
Obama ad slams McCain on abortion rights
Ben Smith
Tue Sep 2, 9:39 PM ET
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Barack Obama has launched a broadside against John McCain’s opposition to abortion rights and moved one of the most divisive issues in modern American politics to the airwaves on a large scale for the first time in this presidential campaign.
Obama’s new radio ad, airing widely in at least seven swing states, tells voters McCain “will make abortion illegal.” It’s airing as McCain courts female voters with the addition of the staunchly anti-abortion governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, to his ticket.
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Democrats had, until now, sought to appeal to women primarily on economic issues such as health care and workplace discrimination; abortion rights were hardly mentioned at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last week. But women’s rights groups have been urging Obama to attack McCain on the issue, pointing to polling showing that some women who support McCain think he is supportive of abortion rights. In fact, the Arizona senator has long supported a ban on abortions
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“Let me tell you: If Roe vs. Wade is overturned, the lives and health of women will be put at risk. That's why this election is so important,” says the nurse-practitioner who narrates Obama’s ad. “John McCain's out of touch with women today. McCain wants to take away our right to choose. That's what women need to understand. That's how high the stakes are.”
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The Daily Strategist
September 02, 2008
Palin, Trent Lott, and the Perils of Regional Politics
by Ed Kilgore, September 2, 2008 06:00 PM EST
September 01, 2008
A TDS Strategy Memo: Six Highly-Targeted Democratic Messages responding to the V.P. Selection of Sarah Palin
by James Vega, September 1, 2008 11:08 AM EST
[...]
The four facts below provide the foundation for a series of 6 targeted messages.
1. That McCain rejected Mitt Romney in order to pick Palin
2. That Rush Limbaugh energetically promoted Palin’s candidacy and Ralph Reed, James Dobson and Richard Viguerie all consider her one of their own. A number of articles suggest that the desire to satisfy this group played a very significant role in McCain’s decision to choose her.
3. That Palin has extremely limited experience.
4. That Palin has a history of pressuring and firing political opponents. This is not just in relation to a single case regarding a particular State Trooper, but in other cases as well when she was mayor of her small town.
... well, maybe he should worry about shoring up his support from white men:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/09/03/Poll_Obama_gains_among_white_men/UPI-92561220440551/
Poll: Obama gains among white men
The Gallup poll released Wednesday showed McCain leading Obama by 13 percentage points among non-Hispanic white men -- a drop of 8 percentage points from a poll taken during the month of August.
Among white women, Obama's lead over McCain in both polls remained the same at 4 percentage points, Gallup reported, noting Obama in polls shows a huge lead among both black men and black women, and leads among Hispanics, regardless of gender.
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... I was doing something more important, like putting food on the table for my family, at my second job ...
... but I did hear that they rolled out a new, futuristic car to demonstrate how forward-thinking John McCain's candidacy is and how the RNC and the extreme of that party are, in their quest to power us into the next decade. The rest of the world, look out for Country First USA !:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77021211@N00/3039269/
...this may sound anti-Semitic may even BE anti-Semitic but Joementum gives Jews a bad rep, imo.
...the Left IS capable of bringing down someone we don't like -- the Texas guy we (started I do believe by DFA) brought down-senior moment-name won't come; we ALMOST brought down Leiberman; and Nancy Pelosi had just better watch her Ps and Qs with Cindy waiting in the wings...
...about the only callers CSPAN cuts off anymore are those railing against AIPAC/Israel - they are dispatched as quickly as possible - as soon as a caller says Israel or AIPAC the hosts puts his hand on the phone button...
As for Joememtum, he stated before the RNC convention, that he wasn't going to attack Obama at the convention.
Well, I guess Joe knows how to Lieberman. He attacked Obama last night.
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By Pat in Colorado on Sep 3, 2008 1:00 AM EDTDowd, cont.
Do these people really believe what Newt the Newt Gingrich is saying, what Fred Thompson is saying, what Joe Lieberman is saying? Laura Bush didn't mention the aggression against Iraq, the mortgage crisis, the hedge fund operators who manipulated oil prices, the debt that the generations coming after us will inherit, the loss of our reputation for probity and fairness throughout the world, etc.
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