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Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

Robert James — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:08:01 -0000

interesting enough, super touch has posted a response to all this obey plagarism:
http://www.supertouchart.co...

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

toe — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:18:30 -0000

Shock: Drudge loses his grip on US media!
By John Gapper
Published: October 29 2008 19:39 | Last updated: October 29 2008 19:39

The Ashley Todd affair was the latest in a series of failures by Mr Drudge to recapture the magic of the past, when the Drudge Report had an unrivalled grip on the media agenda. He has spent the past month blatantly cherry-picking poll results that favour John McCain, to the loud derision of Obama-supporting blogs.
Although there has been some narrowing in the national polls this week, Mr Drudge has cried wolf so often in recent weeks that he can hardly claim credit when the wolf finally shows up.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6e6628f2-a5ef-11dd-9d26-000077b07658.html

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

David W. Walters — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:11:34 -0000

Depending on oil was Reagan's "sound" policy........trashing Carter's plea for dealing with what was then known as "The Energy Crisis"......Clinton?
-Republican lite®

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

JarrodM — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:31:18 -0000

David,

it is obviouse that you don't since the finacial problems we are in right now are a direct cause to the forced home loans for those not qualified.

If you are blamming this on Ragan, then it must have been his work that prompted such good results before and during the Clinton years.

Make up your mind David you can't blame Ragan for this now, and then give credit to Clinton.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

JarrodM — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:28:42 -0000

LOL at Toe, now your trying guilt trips, huh. Your a joke Toe face fact, you just can't accept that the world works in ways that you can never understand.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:24:32 -0000

while it true that a lot of teachers are liberal, I have had some that are not. I feel that I was able to look at issues from both sides then and now in college, where I feel I am getting a mostly non-biased education. Most history teachers are liberal because they know the facts. They know that at this point in time a liberal approach is needed to at least calm the problems we have in this country. Continued republican policies are only going to worsen the problems that were started during the Bush administration.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

toe — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:24:42 -0000

Yesterday, I listened to a Sean Hannity rant - fear mongering at it's "finest"- Rush Limbaugh has gone out of his way to intentionally misstate quotes, positions, and print.
Savage, a man who lives on the fringes and relies upon the bigotry and hate gets paid big bucks to encourage this behavior.
These people that I have mentioned have a monopoly on the airwaves and abuse this constantly.
FOX presents themselves as "Fair and Balanced" yet cut off microphones of those who would disagree and talk over any opposition.
The candidate these people prefer has championed their fear mongering, race baiting, guilt by association, misquotes and flat out lies. The rallies held by McCain/Palin have allowed the re-emergence of the kind of hate and violence not seen in this country since the peak of the KKK.
The use of this website to further this cause is not in doubt.
For those of you who wrap themselves in MY flag and champion the activities of the people above are not Americans. You are a disgrace.
For any of you participating in this should hang your heads in shame and pray to your God for forgiveness.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

David W. Walters — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:20:12 -0000

"Look if they want BO, and they want to see what is going to happen to this country and BO, Polosie, and Reed have all the power, I say fine let them."
Wow!......kinda what i said in 1980 when Reagan was 1st elected!
(-Been waiting for that trickle down....)
You speak of Failure, as if we are presently fine. The fine road Ron Reagan started us on 28 years ago has come to fruition.....
But then i "have no concept of what this country was founded on...."
Huh?

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

JarrodM — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:04:14 -0000

Well let's not forget that the youth of today is basicly indocternated by the Liberal party while they go to school. Of course they are going to have liberal views while they are in school, all they are taught are these views.

Of course you David would want to add more restrictions on people. Look I hate the idea that the yoouth of today is taught nothing but Liberal views in schools. But you don't just go around restriciting their rights.

Look if they want BO, and they want to see what is going to happen to this country and BO, Polosie, and Reed have all the power, I say fine let them. Because I know that they are going to fail so bad that this country is going to realize they have gone the wrong way.

It is goiing to suck but maybe it is what this country needs. Maybe people like you David that have no concept on what this country was founded on, need to have your day so that you can be slapped in the face with failure.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

David W. Walters — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:53:25 -0000

Titus.....sounds like we should have minimum standards for voters before they should be allowed to vote, huh?

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

Titus Hunt — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:40:31 -0000

the reason a lot of young voters are turning against the republican party is because they don't understand or don't care about the impact of Obama's agenda. My college-age son and i both have heard so many of them say they don't understand how the economy works. they see a smooth talker and hear the word change and want to vote for him. it is sad that the most important issue in America today is being ignored. To have had the experience McCain has had, he is very humble about it. I can't figure out why Obama is so arrogant because he certainly doesn't have the record to back him up.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

JarrodM — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:36:52 -0000

Please David, this coming from a guy who supported a president that was busy getting blow jobs in the oval office rather then arresting terrorist that are handed to him on a silver plater.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

anonymous — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:32:14 -0000

what's that supposed to mean? I know all politicians are hypocrites at some point in their career, I'm just voting for Obama because he's less obnoxious of one.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

David W. Walters — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:17:47 -0000

is it the total hypocrisy that has turned younger voters against the republican party ?

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

anonymous — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:44:41 -0000

You guys should remove this post, its now been proven to be a lie.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

Joe the Bummer — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:27:47 -0000

McCain Was Speaker at 2006 ACORN-Sponsored Immigration Rally

http://www.truthdig.com/avb...

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

toe — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:32:35 -0000

exactly, harrysmom.
exactly.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

harrysmom — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:13:46 -0000

As mentioned in an earlier post, I think it's disconcerting that both McCain and Palin called this woman personally. They acted without getting the facts- even the obvious facts that she had a BACKWARDS B in her cheek. I mean, the police were tipped off by that from the get-go. But a call from her two idols was exactly what this woman wanted- she did this for attention, in the final analysis. Yes, she may have been attempting to gin up fear and racism, but ultimately, she wanted attention. And McCain, or Mr. Act Before Thinking, fed right into it.

McCain is impetuous. He acts with little information. He is given to hyperbole. He likes dramatic sweeping action. Frankly, I don't want someone like McCain (or Palin) to have access to the red button. It scares the hell out of me.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

amber2 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:08:38 -0000

think all you conservative shit bags that promoted this story owe an apology to "big black men".

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

amber2 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:04:43 -0000

i dont give a shit about Ayers one way or another, I don't condone his actions, but I dont think he has any bearing on obama campaign. As for this stupid girl i dont think she has any real bearing on McCains campaign, however it was the McCain camp that released the story to the press, and its a typical republican tactic to use something like this as a political tool. He is a terrorist , muslim, a large black man, what do we know about this man, does he like hip hop, a socialist un american, if your not like us your not a real american. Its you republican that do all the nasty name calling, and you cheat. Thank god you were found out on this one, because it probobly would have led to violence but hey, thats republican way

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

simonesdad2008 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:13:24 -0000

The Ayers argument or line of attack just does not resonate, republicans. You keep serving it up as if one day it will click. It's not going to click but I suggest you keep serving it up. You know the old saying about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. It's not that Ayers hasn't done terrible things. It's not that he has had a past association with Barack (however minimal it was in my opinion). It's that the source of the attack, in the context of this campaign, smacks of desperation. You can't go from Paris Hilton to Bill Ayers and expect people to take you seriously. McCain keeps saying we don't know the full extent of the relationship or that Barack has not told the truth. Well, Mr. McCain, tell us all what you know that no one else knows? While you are at it, tell how to catch Bin Laden since you claim to know how. Why are you holding back all of this important information that only you know? The American people have had a full dose of each candidate. They have seen the debates and rallies and attacks and plans. There seems to be a consensus forming. Joe the unlicensed plumber, who is unregistered to vote in Ohio, BTW, is just the latest attempt by McCain to change the subject. Meanwhile, this whack job McCain supporter is punching herself in the eye and playing to the fears and stereotypes of McCain supporters. But enough about Sarah Palin......

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

JarrodM — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:20:13 -0000

Two perfect examples of the tolerant and understanding Democratic party.

It is liberal woman like you that give the rest of the liberals a bad name. This young lady is now going to pay the consequences for her actions, she is going to be held personally accountable for her actions, which is a lot more then can be said of Bill Ayers. But that is right in your opinion some on bombing federal buildings and police stations is no big deal.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

amber2 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:50:00 -0000

Did Republicans just assumed this woman was telling the truth? Maybe its because they wanted it to be true, that, or are they so lacking in commen sense that they couldnt smell a rat. No I think the truth of it is more likely to be, because they are ignorant, racist, stupid fucking republicans.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

toe — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:30:58 -0000

Fox News V.P. John Moody said of the "attack":
"...if the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain's quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting."

We'll be watching for a Fox "Breaking News " alert declaring the McCain campaign officially "over," now that the hoax has been revealed.

Re: SHOCK: McCain supporter attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

toe — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:04:04 -0000

this should be read by every supporter of McCain:
The Ugly America by Mike Farrell (yes, of M.A.S.H. fame)
You really do hate America!" This was the parting shot from a man I had just debated on a television show shortly before the invasion of Iraq. Because he's a notorious right-wing blowhard, I laughed it off as the ravings of a crackpot in extremis.

Little did I know...
Soon, those of us who opposed the Iraq war, torture, "extraordinary rendition," Guantanamo, spying on innocent Americans and other illegal tools in the Cheney/Bush black bag began to hear variations on that theme from people one would have expected to know better. And it's gotten worse as they've become more desperate... or do the depths to which we've fallen suggest a fault-line in America's culture?
Only a short time ago we dissenters were called "Saddam-lovers," "America-haters" or, when they really wanted to cut deep, "French!" But that usually came from the relatively unhinged, like my debate-partner. Today, similar imprecations fall readily from the lips of media bloviators while the hoi polloi moves toward lynch-mob tenor with screams of "traitor," "terrorist," "kill him," and "off with his head" - these not aimed at lowly actors but rather the next President of the United States. Worse, it is winked at and ignored, then defended and embraced by some of those from whom we expect better.

As one in the crucible of this volcanic yet potentially transformative moment, John McCain, who claims to put "Country First," should re-read "The Ugly American." Sarah Palin can watch the movie.
Fifty years ago, Eugene Burdick and William Lederer's book exposed the boorish behavior of some of our citizens when abroad, warning that a "mysterious change seems to come over Americans..." when amid people and cultures seen as 'different.' While the ensuing half-century proved those in developing countries to be neither less intelligent, less capable, nor less interested in improving their lives than human beings anywhere, this breed of Americans, inclined to "isolate themselves socially," per Burdick and Lederer, seems to have turned inward, chanting "USA, USA!"
As the world prospered behind their backs, this insular strain of American metastasized into swaggering jingoes full of Cold War machismo, content to wave the flag and "Go for the gold." For them, the collapse of the Evil Empire proved the world's sole Superpower could do as it damned well pleased: "We're Number One," baby! Anybody who doesn't like it should get the hell out of the way.
"[L]oud and ostentatious," per the book, this parochial group bequeathed its "mysterious change" to generations of Know-Nothings who stuck to their own, seeing 'difference' as a threat. Dumbed-down by television and wary of anyone lacking sufficient fervor for their triumphant "Christian nation," they made those of different color, heritage, or belief into "the other," a practice encouraged by coded appeals to racism from would-be leaders. With Nixon's "Southern Strategy" and "silent majority" setting the stage, Reagan's "Welfare Queens" and Bush the First's "Willie Horton" spread the contagion while conferring it legitimacy.
Embraced as true conservatives and stoked by hate-radio millionaires, these changelings seduced the Republican Party, laid claim to the flag and launched a "culture war." Adopted by anti-government hucksters, empire-seekers and profligate free-marketeers, they divided the nation with a 'God and Country' ethos that declared the Bible inerrant, reviled homosexuality, "permissiveness," liberalism and critical thinking, denied women equal rights, children any at all, and cowed the media into submission.
For them, the horror of 9/11 lay at the feet of the enemy within - the ACLU, abortionists, pagans, gays and lesbians, secularists. And a stunned public, reeling from the assault and sinking into Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, was led into a flag-waving frenzy of revenge-seeking and other-hating that targeted "Rag-heads" and "sand-niggers."
Drunk with power, this mob took heart from W's "you're either with us or with the terrorists," their malignant hostility dividing us more sharply at each iteration, until the enemy became the world of Islam and anyone who disagreed. Forsaking constitutional freedoms in favor of "security," they turned our very nation inside out, with Americans pitted against one another in states red and blue.
And today, while some dream of change, a perfect storm of cultural division, failed leadership, lost principles, military disaster and economic collapse have ripped the mask away, exposing a virus that has undermined and rendered quaint American values of tolerance, generosity, equality and fairness, replacing them with chauvinism, avarice, confusion, fear and despair.
But struggles that have trampled the principles urging America toward greatness are not new. That they have not destroyed us but rather helped us grope toward maturity is due to some who have called on our better angels and re-inspired the triumph of decency that ennobles our promise. Even with chaos at the doorstep people look for hope, for change, for reason to believe that the America of song and story persists.
Yet today, unable to rise to the challenge of hope, would-be-president McCain chooses expediency over country, placing the priestess of parochialism, a barb-tongued, inanity-prone neophyte, a heartbeat away from his Oval Office. Schooled in "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire" and "American Idol," she energizes the pitchfork mob, dividing "real America" from the rest, reviving faint echoes of white superiority and "manifest destiny" as her sponsor deafens himself to it all.
This failure of leadership affirms the ugly America, the misanthrope nation. Yet the heartbeat of promise persists. There is hope. There is truth. If the people demand them.
Mike Farrell, co-chair emeritus of the Southern California Committee of Human Rights Watch and President of Death Penalty Focus, is the author of "Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist."