N.O.W. to Endorse Obama/Biden TODAY

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 3:55 AM PDT

2008/09/16 · 03:55

Women's rights groups make important announcement on the presidential electionTuesday, September 16, 2008, 12:30pm, at the National Press Club; 529 14th Street NW; Washington, DC; Holeman Lounge.

On Tuesday, September 16, the National Organization for Women PAC, Feminist Majority PAC, Business and Professional Women/PAC, National Association of Social Workers PACE, National Congress of Black Women, and the Women's Information Network will make a decisive announcement regarding the 2008 presidential election.

Kim Gandy, National Organization for Women PAC Chair, was just interviewed on NPR, stating that they are going to officially endorse the Obama/Biden ticket.

She went on to say that NOW rarely endorses, but the importance of this year's election, and the stark differences with the Sarah Palin actions and statements, make this announcement imperative.

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Sunday September 07, 2008 · 3:19 AM PDT

2008/09/07 · 03:19

One thing the night shift specializes in is "radical thought".

I say we scare the craps out of the landed gentry, now that we are about the "own" billions in mortgages, thanks to the Freddie Mac/Fanny Mae situation.

Exotic loans require "radical" payback.

What we have is "billions" of nothing, except temporary title to little hunks of subdivisions scattered throughout the world. (Just doing a title search is going to run up billions of attorney fees.)

Why do we have to bail out banks and investors? Why not solve part of our homeless/foreclosure problems by simple non-usury, 5% interest, early payoff options.

Common sense to common problems.

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Wednesday September 03, 2008 · 3:39 AM PDT

2008/09/03 · 03:39

When I first read that Barack Obama was going to appear on Bill O'Reilly's cable show, my first impression was "how clever" it was, to cut deeply into McCain's big Thursday moment.

Being a dedicated rabbit eared ruralite, I won't be able to enjoy the verbal ju-jitsu, but will follow along with the conversation here, for I'm sure somebody will liveblog it.

What we all know is, after twenty months of campaigning our candidate is a seasoned pro, how a moderately stern "thats NOT TRUE" is usually enough to stop the meme in it's tracks.

But there is another way this might inform this year's voters in this most important election.....an insta-candidate education.

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Sunday August 31, 2008 · 4:23 AM PDT

2008/08/31 · 04:23

This morning I took a special schadenfreude glee when I came across an An 8 page New York Times Magazine report "The Final Days" by Peter Baker.

Paragraph 2 concerning the McCain/Bush feud:

A relationship fraught with bitter resentment, grudging respect and mutual dependence takes center stage this week as the Republican Party gathers in St. Paul to pass the mantle of leadership. As at that May photo opportunity in Phoenix, which followed a fund-raiser, Bush will be ushered out of the spotlight as quickly as possible — if not in 14 seconds, then not all that much longer. After an opening-night speech tomorrow, he will leave town with none of the celebratory rock-star attention Bill Clinton commanded at Al Gore’s convention and retreat to Camp David before McCain even arrives at the Xcel Energy Center for his coronation.

Much of the article is insider info about the out and out fraudulence of GOPolitics, and since many of you know the history of this attempt for a third Bush term, you might want to skim along until you get to pages 5-8, where "the future of Dubya" is pretty much outlined.

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Tuesday August 26, 2008 · 4:57 PM PDT

2008/08/26 · 16:57

But we can still slam David Brooks all night....

Jim Lehrer knows he's about as old-fashioned as a TV journalist can be these days.

In a TV news universe where some figures spout commentary one minute and news reports the next, Lehrer insists staffers on his NewsHour broadcast avoid opinionating. As one of the three anchors picked to moderate a presidential debate this year — his 11th — Lehrer vows to avoid the attention-getting questions from previous debates, saying "if people are talking about me or some question I have asked, then I have failed."

"It's the beginning of finalizing the sale, is what it really boils down to," said Lehrer, who will lead PBS's convention coverage throughout prime time, starting at 8 p.m. and running until events end each evening. "My guess is that the networks will regret the fact that they're not giving more coverage to it. Because people are going to be paying attention."

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Monday August 25, 2008 · 4:06 AM PDT

2008/08/25 · 04:06

UPDATE LAST:(8:25 cst) Right after the commercials, SUPPOSEDLY

UPDATE II- Dammit, he just said "Next Hour" again !!

UPDATE: It's 6:40 cst here, and Tom just said Michelle will be on NEXT HOUR. Presuming around 7:20, the usual guest timing.....

Just a Heads-Up, will be a soon to be deleted diary.

Michelle Obama is about to have an interview on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, America's #1 (by market share) syndicated format.

Tom and Cybil very much approve of the Biden selection, btw.

Dial up your local FM, Michelle's interviews with Tom are usually more informative and fun than other shows.

(thats 300 characters, I'll delete this when it's out of date)

Hey McCain, here's another fine mess you've gotten us into

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Thursday August 21, 2008 · 2:36 AM PDT

2008/08/21 · 02:36

I would like some intrepid reporter to ask Sen. John McCain about a Wednesday McClatchy report by Leila Fadel, Key U.S. Iraq strategy in danger of collapse. McCain wants everyone to acknowledge what a genius he is regarding the "surge", but he will not mention carving up Baghdad into walled off enclaves, new neighborhoods behind 12 foot high blast walls.

We introduced the concept of "gated communities". However, when we look at the future in Iraq, another American corporate concept, the "non-compete clause" is about to bite us in the ass. The Fadel report begins with the past and present:

American officials have credited the militias, known as the Sons of Iraq or Awakening councils, with undercutting support for the group al Qaida in Iraq and bringing peace to large swaths of the country, including Anbar province and parts of Baghdad. Under the program, the United States pays each militia member a stipend of about $300 a month and promised that they'd get jobs with the Iraqi government.

What does the future portend?

"All the Americans are doing is paying them just to be quiet," said Haider al Abadi.

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Wednesday August 13, 2008 · 2:59 AM PDT

2008/08/13 · 02:59

Do you remember the very FIRST inauguration day story of January 2001?

No, it was not the eggs being thrown at Shrub's motorcade, preventing his strutting up the street. ShrubCo was able to manipulate protest images, most of America first saw that outraged footage later in "Farenheit 9-11".

The very first White House report was how the outgoing Clinton staff had prankishly removed ALL the "W" keys off the keyboards. By the time rightwing radio squeezed the story, file cabinets were ransacked and feces smeared on the office walls.

The meme was so effective, I heard it from a Fox radio caller last week. It does not take much imagination to predict the January 2009 janitorial situation, as the thieves cover their tracks.

(AP) Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants.

So, before we let the vandals take the handles, I propose we start making a list, checking it thrice...

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Will McCain bash Bush during the Olympics?

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Tuesday August 05, 2008 · 6:10 PM PDT

2008/08/05 · 18:10

The new McCain ad "Broken" decries how we are worse off than four years ago. But will he tarnish Olympic gold performances with this downer of a message? What will Shrub say when he sees how poor he's done?

From Ad Age; Going for Gold? McCain Makes $6 Million Olympic Buy

Tops Obama Buy by $1 Million

WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is buying into NBC Universal's Olympics coverage.

The McCain campaign made a last-minute $6 million ad buy, which tops the $5 million Sen. Barack Obama's campaign announced last month it was buying during the Olympic Games, which begin Aug. 8.

I liked how, while Obama was in Europe, McCain's poll numbers fell in 10 out of 11 states where his POW ad ran. We continue to find he is a follower, not a leader, in advertising trends.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," said Evan Tracey, chief operating officer of the Campaign Media Analysis Group at TNS Media Intelligence. "For the same reason the idea was good for Barack, it is good for McCain: It's high traffic for eyeballs in a normally low-traffic time of year."

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Monday August 04, 2008 · 3:50 AM PDT

2008/08/04 · 03:50

I kind of LIKE the tone of this weeks ad thrust:

CHICAGO (AP) -- U.S. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama's campaign will begin running a television ad Monday in the U.S., that attacks Republican John McCain's energy policies.

"After one president in the pocket of big oil we can't afford another," says the ad, referring to President Bush's previous work in the oil industry.

Update:THANKS VERILY FOR THE LINK:

It is titled POCKETS

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Saturday August 02, 2008 · 6:28 AM PDT

2008/08/02 · 06:28

When the celebrity ad came out this week, one of McCain's advisors pronounced "that their research showed Brittany and Paris to be the #2 and #3 celebrities in the world."

"What we decided to do is find the top three international celebrities in the world, and I would say from our indications, Britney and Paris came in second and third," said campaign manager Rick Davis.

What happened to Muhammed Ali?

And when was he knocked off the "most recognizable" mountaintop? He was historically always #1 !!!

A paragraph from Bob Herbert's Running on Black op ed this morning provided the clue....

Now, from the hapless but increasingly venomous McCain campaign, comes the slimy Britney Spears and Paris Hilton ad. The two highly sexualized women (both notorious for displaying themselves to the paparazzi while not wearing underwear) are shown briefly and incongruously at the beginning of a commercial critical of Mr. Obama.

McCain's advisor's were searching free porn !!

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Wednesday July 30, 2008 · 3:45 AM PDT

2008/07/30 · 03:45

Michael Falcone in today's NYTimes blog notes that

Republicans were forced to strip the comment wall and discussion board from the page attached to its new Facebook parody, BarackBook.com, which just went online early this morning, because of comment posts that were racist and anti-Muslim ... and some that were anti-Republican too.

And who is the named culprit?

Our very own

clubfed34's diary did the noble deed

In addition to some vulgarities, the site also became the target of liberal bloggers at DailyKos.com, who urged their readers to "befriend barackbook and add the application and basically turn it into a pro-Obama site." DailyKos diarist, clubfed34, added: "It’s already been started in barackbooks discussion boards. Bonus points to anyone who makes a facebook page mocking Mcsame and to anyone who can get barackbook.com to crash!!"

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