“The French are literally poking fun at President Nicolas Sarkozy, but he is not amused. On Wednesday, a court threw out a lawsuit that the president filed last week seeking to prevent a voodoo doll made in his image from remaining on sale. Mr. Sarkozy decided to appeal the decision, drawing ridicule from his critics on Thursday. It is his sixth lawsuit this year. The doll, which went on sale on Oct. 9, became a best-selling cult item as soon as the president tried to have it banned; it comes with 12 pins and a manual explaining how to put a curse on him.”
Campbell, you’re a little bit behind the times. This gop talking point (Obama’s refusal to take public financing) was introduced a long, long time ago.
I’m “pleased” to see the public financing issue awkwardly made the front page of CNN today – a few days before the election and perfect timing for a bunch of crazy a$$ republicans to send out mass emails to their base of crazy a$$ friends.
“One year ago, he (Obama) made a promise. He pledged to accept public financing and to work with the Republican nominee to ensure that they both operated within those limits.
Then it became clear to Sen. Obama and his campaign that he was going to be able to raise on his own far more cash than he would get with public financing. So Obama went back on his word.”
My blood pressure rose as I feared that a PAID political pundit on CNN didn’t understand the most basic of gop talking points. Campbell slightly redeemed herself by going on to say…
“He broke his promise and he explained it by arguing that the system is broken and that Republicans know how to work the system to their advantage. He argued he would need all that cash to fight the ruthless attacks of 527s, those independent groups like the Swift Boat Veterans. It’s funny though, those attacks never really materialized.
The Washington Post pointed out recently that the bad economy has meant a cash shortage among the 527s and that this election year they have been far less influential.”
Campbell returned to her idiot status and closes out her spiel by saying…
“For this last week, Sen. Obama will be rolling in dough. His commercials, his get-out-the-vote effort will, as the pundits have said, dwarf the McCain campaign’s final push. But in fairness, you have to admit, he is getting there in part on a broken promise.”
So, why did Obama break his promise and not accept public money? Campbell’s commentary regarding 527s is correct but she fails to mention that Obama would have agreed to public financing if rules and boundaries were established regarding the money 527s could introduce into the general election campaign.
Of course, Campbell doesn’t mention that mccain wouldn’t agree to such financial regulations for 527s. Without being said, the moment Obama accepts to take $88 million in the public’s money, 527s pump in ungodly amount of money, and Barack looks like a puppet, weakling, John Kerry, etc. Those 527s can raise and spend millions of dollars but they aren’t going to waste their money on the presidential general election when Obama has $600 million pouring in.
In closing, our country can’t afford the gop buying the White House again. If mccain wouldn’t agree to reject 527s, Obama made ANOTHER intelligent decision by opting out of public financing. Donate today!
As originally seen on BccList.com here, Lisa Madigan being in the house (Illinois volunteer headquarters) was cool. But, no offense Lisa, I’d rather have Barack Obama stop by and make some calls while I’m pounding the phones. Awesome…
As you know, there is LESS THAN A WEEK TO GO in this election. Get out there and fcking make some calls – it’s easy/uncomplicated and you’re not trying to “sell” anything. Spend an hour (or 5) out of your day and make a difference.
The Illinois Headquarters is located in Chicago at 566 W Lake St. If you live outside of Chicago, find your state’s nearest volunteer headquarters here:
The following videos highlight what it’s like to have a competent Vice Presidential nominee on a ticket.
Barbara West hopefully does not have a future in journalism.
“Are you joking? Is this a joke? Is that a real question?”
Damon Weaver hopefully does have a future in journalism. Keep in mind, this interview is from September 2, 2008 – way before palin sh!t the bed when trying to explain to a 3rd grader what the VP does as seen on BccList.com here.
As Damon states, “Senator Biden is now my homeboy.”
Though I’ve despised Meet the Press since Tim Russert’s passing as originally seen on BccList.com here, I have to congratulate Tom Brokaw for conducting his first worthwhile interview since taking over for the legend.
Today’s aired interview with mccain was a few segments long. One of the segments was a sad look at mccain saying ALL the recent national and more importantly battleground state polls don’t matter. As originally seen on BccList.com here, I don’t think he realizes that his campaign only has 6 days to live.
Regardless, below is the most damning segment for the mccain campaign during this week’s episode. One of the many highlights at the 6:44 mark.
A few post interview questions for the ever so feisty/grumpy john mccain…
1) You do realize that your party is responsible for our current 10 trillion dollar debt, correct? Are you now running as an independent rather than a republican? Ah, you’re probably running as a maverick.
2) As you stated, a financial crisis of monumental proportions requires a government bailout (aka socialism) of the financial industry. Fair enough. But, didn’t you just nullify palin and your recent bullsh!t “Obama is a socialist” claims by supporting the bailout and (more ridiculously) proposing that the government buys out way overvalued mortgage loans at grossly inflated prices?
3) Do you think the struggling workers in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, etc. making less than $250,000 a year would mind a middle class tax cut? I don’t think it’s a smart idea to continuously deem such a tax cut for the middle class as “spreading the wealth.”
4) On that note, do you think those losing their jobs wouldn’t mind the government “spreading the wealth” as they struggle to fine a new job and – in many cases – a new career? You’re not winning over any unemployed middle class voters concerned with how they’re going to put food on the table.
5) So, you can’t truly believe that people making under $250,000 would mind a tax break. When you say Obama wants to spread the wealth, are you trying to drive fear in to WHITE voters minds’ that their hard earned money will go directly into the pocket of poor lazy black people?
Spot the black person in this mccain campaign ad…
6) You essentially have promoted the same tax plan as george bush’s and look where that has gotten us as a county. Do you think the middle class appreciate the top .1% and 1% receiving a greater percentage of tax decrease than 98.9% percent of the rest of the country?
7) Can you please admit that the republican theory of trickle down economics going back to reagan – the most overrated president of our time – fails horribly?
8 ) You seem to erratically compare Obama’s tax plan to that of herbert hoover. Was hoover a republican or a democrat? I’ll help you out you senile old fck – hoover was a republican. A Democrat named FDR bailed hoover’s sorry a$$ out similar to what Obama will do after bush’s disastrous 8 years.
9) How do you not understand the struggles of Michigan’s economy? The only reason the state of Michigan raised taxes is because it was and is literally going bankrupt with the failure of the automotive and manufacturing industries. You can only increase revenue by cutting costs – which the government in Michigan is currently running on bare bones – and trying to earn more revenue through taxes.
10) Those companies you mentioned like Fedex, eBay, and Cisco systems aren’t going to Irelandbecause of decease in business taxes. They companies are going to India because labor is cheaper. So, why do you support giving tax breaks to greedy publicly traded companies that ship jobs overseas solely to seek cheaper labor?
11) How are those fundamentals of our economy, you piece of shiat?
After watching some boring a$$ Obama (Nevada) and mccain (New Mexico) rallies this morning where the candidates simply recite their stump speech for the 300th time – I’m definitely one of few watching this crap – it dawned on me that only 6 days remain in this race. Confused?
Outside of sports upsets, incredible plays, and/or gruesome injuries, nothing newsworthy happens during any given the weekend. The coverage on election day will be all about the turn out and nothing about political issues. So…
11 calendar days until November 4th
– 4 weekend days
– election day
+ being down between 7 and 12 points in every national poll and getting worked in battleground states
= major mccain camp panic and only 6 days to DRASTICALLY turn the tide.
Ouch.
P.S. Though it doesn’t matter, mccain did look like he had more energy than normal when he delivered his bullsh!t “Democrats will tax you” stump speech.
“Senator mccain is going to be someone that tells you how we’re going to do things. Not only us, but foreign powers. We can’t do that at all anymore. We cannot tell the world what drum to march to. Simple reason – our drum is broken.”
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