Get ready for FUD

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Sunday October 26, 2008 · 3:21 PM PDT

2008/10/26 · 15:21

As the McCain campaign enters its final throes, we Democrats and supporters of Barack Obama should be ready for the final strategy which will most likely be one of Fear Uncertainty and Doubt.

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What is the McCain-Palin campaign based on?

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What is the McCain-Palin campaign based on?

Fear

15 votes

Fostering Uncertainty

2 votes

Pushing Doubt

0 votes

Misunderstanding of the electoral map

2 votes

Fashion

0 votes

Mockery

2 votes

Joe the Plumber

3 votes

Drill baby Drill!

0 votes

Not understanding Americans

6 votes

All of the above

73 votes

Ballad for the Bailout

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 1:33 PM PDT

2008/09/23 · 13:33

Regarding Ben Stein's theory on the real reason for the banks' troubles being the "Credit Default Swaps" or BETS that were allowed to be placed, and that the banks engaged in, that the mortgages may not be repaid, implying that the bad loans were made KNOWINGLY to get an even bigger windfall on the Credit Default Swaps,...I am reminded by my husband of the following verse from an old college drinking song that applies here:

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Should Congress exercise due diligence and not act in a week?

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Should Congress exercise due diligence and not act in a week?

Yes

19 votes

2 votes

Fundamental Issues

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Saturday September 13, 2008 · 10:04 AM PDT

2008/09/13 · 10:04

As we approach a decison on who will lead us not just for the next four years, but who will also provide the direction for our country, we should consider largely unaddressed issues simmering under the surface of negative attacks, simplistic reporting, campaign slogans and wilful deception of marketeers who merely want to "sell a product to the American people". Whether to "sell" it they have to resort to sex, lies and negative ads, is irrelevant to them. Their candidate must win regardess of the future of the country, the health of its citizens or issues of war and peace. I put his out(with the help of my husband to whom credit is due; and who has been a Republican most of his life) for your reflection when voting, as a reminder that this election is not about the gender, skin color, religion or age of the candidates. It is about whether Obama or McCain has the judgement as well as the intellectual and spiritual preparedness to leads us. We decide.

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Which candidate has the strengths to best handle these issues?

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Which candidate has the strengths to best handle these issues?

Barack Obama

9 votes

John McCain

0 votes

An unqualified candidate

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Wednesday September 03, 2008 · 9:54 PM PDT

2008/09/03 · 21:54

Let me begin by saying that I am a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister and someone who loves my country.

There is absolutely no reason to attack or criticize Sarah Palin for the fact that her daughter is pregnant or that she would potentially be neglecting her children, or any other aspect of her family life. We should not give a damn about what she does or does not do with ther family. Her personal life and her family life should be respected, even given our inordinate interest in our leaders and that it sells magazines. (Witness how we have wanted to know everything about Obama's family).

However, as a candidate, she must present to us, the American people, her reasons for wanting to be in a leadership position.

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What is Sarah Palin's greatest policy flaw?

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What is Sarah Palin's greatest policy flaw?

Doesn't understand the Constitution

1 vote

Thinks coal is "clean"

0 votes

Thinks the U.S. has enough oil to not need to import any

0 votes

Believes in creationism

0 votes

Believes in outlawing abortion

0 votes

Thinks war is the only solution to Iran, Russia and Chavez is military

2 votes

Believes she can ban books she doesn't like

2 votes

Believes in firing employees who offend her relatives

3 votes

Believes our Senate is a "do nothing" senate

1 vote

Doesn't give a shit about the environment

0 votes

All of the above

55 votes

The Green Light

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Tuesday July 22, 2008 · 7:55 PM PDT

2008/07/22 · 19:55

The fascists and sadists in our country have been given the green light. In her book "The House of the Spirits", after the assasination of the duly elected president in Chile, Salvador Allende, and at the time of the fictionalized takeover by Pinochet, the police and military which previously were there to protect the Chilean citizens, turn on their own people to aprehend them torture them, and make them dissapear, all in the name of a defense of "freedom". Similarly, our own government authorities are turning our nation into a country where people disappear, are tortured, arrested (if they look foreign) all in the name of "protecting the homeland". Isabel Allende rethorically asks in the novel, "Where have these people been hiding, where did they come from?" and the answer is: "They are our neighbors. The have been living amongst us...but now they are emboldened." Emboldened indeed! They were given the green light by Pinochet. Similarly, the sadists and torturers in our midst have been given the green light.

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Who is the most responsible for the breakdown in legality?

27 votes Vote Now!

Who is the most responsible for the breakdown in legality?

George Bush

3 votes

Hate Radio

0 votes

Right Wing Media

1 vote

Dick Cheney

3 votes

Homeland security

0 votes

The Neocons

2 votes

The Republican Right Wing

0 votes

Lou Dobbs

0 votes

Fox News

1 vote

All of the Above

17 votes

Will John McCain win?

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Thursday July 10, 2008 · 5:01 PM PDT

2008/07/10 · 17:01

Sometimes when I think about 1 in 501 households being in some kind of foreclosure state, and that we have cut loose 5 ice shelves, and that our President thinks it's cute to say "Good bye from the world's greatest polluter" to the G8 leaders, and I see children in the grocery store asking for goodies that their patents cannot afford, and I read about the abuse that the elderly suffer in old people's homes, and the increase of e.coli, salmonella and pollutants in food because our federal government is not interested in food safety, and read about young girls aprehended in immigrant raids and thown in jails so that their parents don't know where they are, and I think of people living in fear for their lives just because they are foreigners in our midst, and I think of how our government officials will drag the reputation of someone like Angela Merkel through their kind of mud just to get to Obama, and I hear (with my own ears) how McCain lies in a town hall meeting about his support for veterans, and I see the homeless on the streets, I despair that John McCain may win and that this plutocracy will continue.

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What is McCain's most damaging trait?

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What is McCain's most damaging trait?

Fear

2 votes

Paranoia

0 votes

Cheating

4 votes

Hot temper

27 votes

Coziness with Bush

39 votes

Coziness w Lieberman

0 votes

Coziness with Phil Gramm

2 votes

Lack of Understanding of the 21st. century

92 votes

His insouciance

11 votes

The real "A" list

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Thursday June 12, 2008 · 7:15 PM PDT

2008/06/12 · 19:15

Here is where our world's influential figures are. For those still alive, consider carefully whose company you wish to keep. These categories like Time and Space, are a state of mind. For those of you in Purgatory, think carefully about whose company you wish to keep.

Some of you have already arrived at your destination. Some of you, because of your acts, you have earned your reward in Heaven.

I encourage my readers to add to the list in your comments.

By popular demand I am confining Mr. O'Reilly to HELL.
You too can help me play GOD.

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Wednesday June 04, 2008 · 6:06 PM PDT

2008/06/04 · 18:06

Day ONE of America with a new , real Presidential Candidate.

McCain must think we're stupid.

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Should Barack have joint town hall meeetings with mcCain?

96 votes Vote Now!

Should Barack have joint town hall meeetings with mcCain?

YES

28 votes

26 votes

Only if McCain commits to no 527 Swift Boat ads

22 votes

Depends

20 votes

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