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Closing in on 2 million views and hands down the most impact an Ohio blogger has had on a campaign, Tim Russo’s “McCain/Palin Mob” video makes Politico’s “10 most viral videos of the campaign”. Congrats Tim and good work! Tim came in at #7:
Perhaps the best entry in a disturbing sub-genre of documentary videos descended from the 1986 “Heavy Metal Parking Lot†cult classic, this 4½-minute hatefest is like watching a full week’s worth of Hannity’s America. The best participant of all is the annoying blonde with dirty hair who keeps popping up in the frame, first to rail against ACORN, then to ask when the cameraman first heard of “O-bam-AH.†It might have benefited a bit from a crunchy guitar soundtrack, but otherwise this cinema verité glimpse around the perimeter of a McCain-Palin rally is a hit.
This one was fun to watch blow up…especially considering Tim thought he had nothing. A suggestion from a friend to Kos it and minutes later the blowup had begun. One to remember!
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Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, has long been one of the most important conservative thinkers in the United States. Under President Reagan, he served, with great distinction, as Solicitor General of the United States. Since then, he has been prominently associated with several Republican leaders and candidates, most recently John McCain, for whom he expressed his enthusiastic support in January.
This week, Fried announced that he has voted for Obama-Biden by absentee ballot. In his letter to Trevor Potter, the General Counsel to the McCain-Palin campaign, he asked that his name be removed from the several campaign-related committees on which he serves. In that letter, he said that chief among the reasons for his decision “is the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis.”
Fried is exceptionally thoughtful and principled; his vote for Obama is especially noteworthy.
All aboard!!
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Look closely. I damn near clicked this thinking it was FOR Obama. Until I saw “Paid for by McCain-Palin 2008″:
I figured what the hell and clicked it to see what they wanted people to speak out on. The link goes to a page that begs you not to connect McCain with Bush. LOL. That narrative ship has sailed, clearly. 12 days out it’s a little late to try to convince the electorate of something that has been pretty well established over 2 years now.
Here’s the page you’re taken to
I figured I’d let them know how I felt since they asked:
I saw the ad on FiveThirtyEight.com, btw.
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[Update] Tim transcribes:
I case…I think ya may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been sayin’ some pretty nasty things about Wester Pennsylvania lately [cheers]. And ya know, I couldn’t agree with them more….I couldn’t disagree…with you…I couldn’t agree…with you more….than the fact…that….Western Pennsylvania is the most patriotic….most fff….uh… god loving…most…most patriotic part of America…this is a great part of the country!
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The McCain campaign is un-American. They drag the American flag on the ground after a rally. Not just any American flag, but a ginormous American flag. Their treatment of this flag is despicable and violates rules of handling for our beloved red, white, and blue. Simply horrifying is the following video:
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Looks like the RNC had to dress ‘em all up to parade them out at their convention:
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.
The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.
The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.
Wheeeee! I sure hope nobody got a $400 haircut. You know how “conservatives” hate that!
Can we get some commentary from Joe the non-Plumber?
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LOL. Exactly:
“You really have to work hard to violate Governor Palin’s standards on negative campaigning.”
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Once reviled by McCain himself as “hate calls”, now embraced as his last remaining strategy. The irony and hypocrisy are absolutely breathtaking. I hope the Obama campaign is able to expose this for the sleezy tactic it is. This is a good start:
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Barack decides to fight back on ACORN. Hard
Add the Obama campaign to the growing list of players who think that DOJ’s election-eve investigation into ACORN is a repeat of the politicization of the department that we saw in the US attorney firings scandal.
“With this voter fraud [investigation], we’re seeing an unholy alliance of law enforcement and the ugliest form of partisan politics,” Bob Bauer, an elections lawyer with the Obama camp, said on a conference call with reporters just now. Bauer compared the decision to launch the investigation with the US attorneys scandal, in which several US attorneys were fired for their unwillingness to pursue politically charged cases, including voter fraud, with sufficient aggression to satisfy the Bush administration.
Bauer released a letter sent to Attorney General Michael Mukasey calling on him to have the issue taken on by Nora Dannehy, the prosecutor he appointed to investigate the US attorney firings.
Bauer went on to accuse John McCain of “trying to create a much greater doubt about the electoral process altogether,” by alleging that ACORN voter fraud could threaten the fabric of our democracy, as McCain claimed in the debate Wednesday night.
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The reason it’s a campaign narrative is because it’s true. First there was the gutter level attacks and the unwillingness of McCain and Palin to tamp down the rhetoric about Obama. It ultimately led to rallies turning into lynch mobs complete with death threats, angry rhetoric, hate speech, and even violence. You will remember that the first time someone shouted “TERRORIST” John McCain moved happily along in his attack speech. He did not stop right then and there and repudiate anything. He only did so when the chorus of blogger and journalist go so loud as to demand a response.
The campaign’s desire to whip up the right wing crowds backfired.
It’s happened again. This time with ACORN – a community organization whose goal is to help poor people. Because this group has been registering those most likely to vote for Barack Obama, they’ve become a target of the same hate filled and dangerous rhetoric Republicans used against Barack himself. Also like the claims against Barack, the ACORN stuff is sometimes lies and sometimes incredible exaggeration.
The ratcheting up of the anti-ACORN sentiment has led us to where every other McCain/Palin hatefest has led us. Violence:
Kettenring said that a senior ACORN staffer in Cleveland, after appearing on television this week, got an e-mail that said she “is going to have her life ended.” A female staffer in Providence, R.I., got a threatening call from someone who said words to the effect of “We know you get off work at 9,” then uttered racial epithets, he said.
McClatchy is withholding the women’s names because of the threats.
Separately, vandals broke into the group’s Boston and Seattle offices and stole computers, Kettenring said.
The incidents came the day after McCain charged in the final presidential debate that ACORN’s voter-registration drive “may be perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history” and may be “destroying the fabric of democracy.”
McCain seems very happy to have unleashed such fury upon the American political landscape. The irony is breathtaking when you consider he once was smeared so badly in South Carolina by his own party that he called the robocalls claiming he fathered an illegitimate black child “hate calls”. This time around? John hires the very same people that did it to him to do it to Obama. I guess he could personally vouch for the effectiveness of the outfit.
John McCain is a bastardized version of his former self and now risks a complete meltdown of his legacy going forward. I’d warn the good Senator on what thin ice he is currently skating.
I think it’s shit like this that has been pushing the likes of conservative pundits and newspapers that don’t normally endorse toward Obama. I only hope this toxic atmosphere the McCain campaign has created causes Colin Powell to do the right thing on Sunday. I’ll be tuned in along with ever other politico.
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Sen. McCain is down in the polls right now, but he can win if the following events are to occur between now and Election Day:
* McCain rides a wave of positive media coverage after his announcement that Joe the Plumber will be his treasury secretary and that Larry the Cable Guy will be U.S. attorney general.
* Gov. Palin wows critics by filling in on the season premiere of “30 Rock” with a dead-on impression of Tina Fey, who’s busy doing “Saturday Night Live.”
* The U.S. Supreme Court rules that electoral votes in California, Connecticut and Massachusetts will not be counted because of legalized gay marriage.
* All of Florida’s ballots are hand-counted by former Secretary of State Katherine Harris.
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This sounds all too familiar:
WASHINGTON – A female telecommunications lobbyist who became part of an explosive story early this year about John McCain has broken months of silence to deny the main subtext of the account — that she was suspected of being romantically involved with the Republican presidential candidate. “I did not have a sexual relationship with Senator McCain,” Vicky Iseman told the National Journal magazine.
The last time we heard someone say that, we know what happened!
…but it does depend on what the meaning of the word is is.
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