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McCain Spokesperson: We All Know Who Obama's Anti-Semitic Pal Is

Some must-watch video: McCain spokesperson Michael Goldfarb, pressed on CNN to name Obama's anti-semitic associates, pulls a bit of a homina homina homina.

He seems to want to blurt out "Jeremiah Wright" but is of course aware that John McCain is on record saying that Wright isn't an issue for his campaign. Check out Goldfarb's creative solution to the dilemma:

Pressed to name a single anti-semitic associate of Obama's, Goldfarb says: "I think we all know who we're talking about here," but declines to say who.

That sums up the entire McCain campaign in a nutshell, doesn't it?

Also: A good point from Atrios on this.


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Eremiah-jay Ight-wray Aybe-may?

Good grief.

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Ah, if only he'd paid more attention in that pig-latin class!

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And I think we all know that John McCain hangs around with liars, morons and shitheads. I don't have to say who because we all know who they are.

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You got it in one bvd ... Hook, line, rod, sinker and copy of Angling Times.

It seems McCain and his campaign only ever take the foot out of their mouth to change feet. This guy is only marginally above the genetic cesspool than that bottom-feeder Tucker Bounds. What a slimeball.

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Are we at that point in the campaign yet where the GOP flacks are just going to start incoherently screaming at the camera? Not really forming any sentences, but rather just a long, steady stream of "AHHHHHHHHHH!!!".

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Check back Wednesday.

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Love the still that makes them both look like escapees from Slow Class.

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Simply awesome.

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I loved the part where he named William Ayers as the example of someone who's anti-semitic as though it were a no-brainer. Duh. What a fat moron.

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Gee Greg, here we go again.

No offense, darlin, but Josh already explained that bit that you link to Atrios on and Josh said it better.

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I can't take much more of this shit.

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You know who we're talkin' 'bout, Rick.

Do I have to say it?

Ok.

HITLER. Obama pals around with Adolf Hitler.

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Is it just me, or does this sound like something Eric Cartman would say?

Not but what I'm utterly certain that Cartman's a big McCain/Palin fan.

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I have been waiting for McCain to get flustered and blurt out, "Respect my authoritay, ya little jerks!"

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Nielsen just polled me on TV viewing -that's a first.

I got to tank O'Lielly - I told the guy I watch Olbermann and Rachel every single night.

Hahahahahaha!!!!!

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Thank you. Tena.

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I mean thank you for sharing a lighter anectode. LOL

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Honey, I feel ya.

It's a tough last few days and discouraging news is particularly hard to take right now.

I really do get it.

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C'mon Tena, like you'd have to lie to the poll. Bill O'Reilly is a giant blubbering vagina.

Look, I have proof!... like you need it.

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What a wimp! Man up and say the name already! Pathetic.


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Name who?

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He wanted to name Jesse Jackson Sr.

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That reminded me of the final cross-examination in "A Few Good Men," but in this case the asshole won't admit what he wants to admit.

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Jonathan Martin at Politico makes a bad point. Maybe he should read Atrios.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/The_association_that_dare_not_speak_its_name.html?showall

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This we-know-the-truth-about-Obama-but-oh-we-can-never-be-specific crap is really, really tiring.

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It reminds me of McCain saying in one of the debates that he knows how to get Bin Laden. He knows, but he's not going to tell us, nyah nyah nyah.

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Ironic isn't it. If he knows how to do it, why hasn't it been done? Or at the very least started? If he knew how to capture the most wanted man in teh world you'd think he'd have higher priorities than running for President... like putting his Country First perhaps..

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Me neither.

But listen, the world outside our windows may not be as bad as TPM paints.

All the news all day on TPM has been depressing.

I'm not blaming them for reporting hard news, but if there was nothing else happening other than what's been reported on this site, Obama is burning down in a hurry.

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Meant as a reply for HyperRevue.

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Damn. and i thought Rick Davis had a punch-me face.

People like Goldfarb used to get their asses kicked on principle where I come from.

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Who is this Goldfarb guy anyway?

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Apparently one of the n00bs who almost didn't graduate from spokesperson school.

Like I said elsewhere - Bounds and Pfotenhauer have been taken out of the game, and McCain's brought in the scrubs.

As Marv Albert would put it, it's 'gar-bahge time.'

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That's great news about Bounds... He and Rick Davis are putrid dank tufts of rectal pubic hair.

Pfotenhauer on the other hand... if I turn down the volume I can appreciate her cheek bones.

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He's McCain's official blogger.

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So shouldn't he have have gotten a screen test first?

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So McCain gives this guy $500,000 but that doesn't matter since Obama attended a gathering with him? Makes a helluva lot of sense to me.

Also I have a CT on this - McCain is blocking the release of this tape because the rumors are better than what's really there. So the source who gave it to the LAT is a GOP operative - the LAT would write about it to get the story out, and then the McCain Camp could make issue with the Times not releasing it until after the election to make it seem that there is something really damning on it.

I do wish Obama would hit back, maybe an ad highlighting McCain's desperate tactics would be nice. I don't know why McCain won't "go there" with Wright, as it's glaringly obvious Obama won't hit back with Hagee/Parsley or Palin's witch hunter or Jews for Jesus links.

Is it so McCain can pretend (in his own mind) that he campaigned with honor because he held fire with Wright?

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Is it so McCain can pretend (in his own mind) that he campaigned with honor because he held fire with Wright?

I think that is exactly the case. He thinks he has kept his promise. Obama, on the other hand... that's what he believes, I'm pretty sure sure.

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Is it so McCain can pretend (in his own mind) that he campaigned with honor because he held fire with Wright?

I think you nailed it.

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More McCarthyism from the GOP:

"I have in my hand a list of 100 anti-semitic terrorist pals of Barry Hussein Obama Soetoro..."

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And a SWING and a MISS, he struck him out!

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My translation:

"Well Rick, I think we all know what Obama is, right?"

"No Michael, what are you talking about?"

"Well, you know!"

"No, what are you saying?"

"He's... well, come on, you know! ... (whisper) he's a BLACK GUY!"

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LOL!

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I think that it's safe to say that McCain has taken his starters out of the game and emptied the bench.

This guy makes Tucker Bounds look thoughtful.

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McCain's campaign is so short on cash they couldn't even get him a tie! I guess they spent their clothes allowance on lipstick!

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wright? did he say anything anti-semitic?

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These asswipes automatically assume that if someone is sympathetic to palestinians, they are automatically anti-semitic.

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oh, i thought they assumed if someone were black, they're anti-semitic. don't tell axelrod!

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When are they going to make T.V.'s that you can punch the people on the other end?

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Now, now. Punching people would be violent and wrong.

Being able to send a jolt of electricty through the TV, that would be a nice and humane solution.

Yes, all talking heads should be wired up, and the viewers should be able to zap them when they spout out nonsense like this.

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Uh, lemme see, uh, Joe Lieberman?

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Can Tuesday get here already? So sick of this shit.

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Co-sign!

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If I were Anti-Semitic, I have been surprised that someone with the name of Goldfarb would not know how to pronounce the word.

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Oh, no, I meant the other Joe. Joe the Plumber.

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I lifted this off the front page - it's too good not to:

blockquote>IT'S A SICKNESS
There should be a support group for all those beleaguered progressives who over the years anxiously awaited elections in the futile hope that the polls showing their candidate behind would turn out to be wrong -- but who this year are fretting just as much that the polls showing their candidate ahead are wrong.

Kurtz posted it.

And I have to laugh at it a lot.

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Wait, was Wright anti-Semitic? March feels like such a long time ago. I can't remember his deal.

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Try Jesse and his Haime statement!

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Eric has a new poll post up and he will get lots of love for this one.

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What rubbish. Surveys have shown that the Jewish vote is over 80 percent for Obama! And he lives across the street from a synagogue!

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Whew. I thought he was gonna name me. Very tense moment.

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I'm sure you people know what I'm going to say.

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Certainly. Just don't reapeat it, okay?

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Certainly. Just don't repeat it, okay?

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I would like to punch this POS out.

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Is anybody going to call McCain out for his ongoing exhumation of Joe McCarthy in this campaign?

Seriously. I mean, I should know, eh?

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I wonder if Goldflab's resume is floating out there for a GOP job after Nov. 4th. I hope his prospective GOP employers see this, and send him back to Pizza Shack.

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DISGRACEFUL. Senator McCain you are no hero, you are a terrorist.
Your campaign advisor was a Saddam Hussein lobbyist for 5 years.
You pal around with Gordon Liddy, domestic terrorist.
You are a member of "The Project for a New American Century" - a radical extremist terrorist orginization.
Your VP candidate's husband Todd Palin is a domestic terrorist in the Alaskan Independence Party.
You have given $500,000 to PLO, a group that McCain himself says are terrorists.
You have met with Chilean Dictator Pinochet, a terrorist.
Your using FOX NEWS, the Bush Administration, The Justice Department to commit voter intimidation & suppression is a act of terrorism.

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...And you have that "old man" smell too!

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Is Khalidi anti-semitic?

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Palin says the name is K-A-H-L-A-H-D-I

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In Wingnutville, of course he is. He's Palestinian! Everyone knows that all Palestinians are terrists committed to the destruction of Israel. And therefore they must be stopped, 'cause that would really screw up our plans for the End Times.

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Kudos to independentvoter19. That's great ad material; all written out in one fell swoop.

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Khalidi is a respected academic and historian at Columbia University who speaks out on behalf of the oppressed and abused Palestinian people, a people who've been made to pay for the crimes of the Germans. Even the loathsome Douchewitz only calls him "anti-Israel", but Douchewitz calls anyone who's not a rabid supporter of Israel, right or wrong, "anti-Israel".

If, like me, you happen to be a Jewish critic of Israel's policies towards the Palestinians, Douchwitz calls you a "self-hating Jew". Faugh. Obama should tell Douchewitz to take his mealy-mouthed support and shove it up his anti-free speech ass...

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Why would an anti-Semite launch his political career in the living room of Rabbi?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/14/151831/19/149/630393

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This Goldfarb -- which football team declined to sign the thick-neck neanderthal?

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Sounds like a load of "number two" if you ask me.

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Khalidi was also invited - several times - to speak at the reform synagogue in the University of Chicago neighborhood. It would be fatuous to claim that everyone agreed with his political views but it is a repulsive slander to say that he is anti-Semitic.
It is rare that one has the opportunity on one of these blogs to say that something is so from personal knowledge (rather than opinion or conviction), but I knew Khalidi when he lived in Chicago, I knew some of his many Jewish friends, and I know with certainty that there is not one atom of truth in this charge against him. It makes me sick to hear CNN echo this garbage.

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"SATAN?!!"

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Best news of the day: CBS poll - Sentaor Obama 52 - McWar 41

And look at the report about the people who have already voted...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/30/opinion/polls/main4559179.shtml?tag=topStory;topStoryHeadline

5 more days...

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How old are these people? 12? Next they're just going to be reducing to neener neener neener into the camera for 10 minutes straight.

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How in God's name can someone like Michael Goldfarb, with the personality of an animated snot, get a job as a "spokesman" for a presidential candidate (even in a campaign as morally bankrupt as McCain's)? I wouldn't give this guy a job as a repo man. Frankly, I hope he turns up a few more times over the weekend with his s*iteating grin; it might turn a few red states to Obama, in addition to turning a whole lot of stomachs.

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They should have pulled his mic and ended the interview. If a senior McCain person wants to insinuate anti-Semitic views held by Obama (Now I know where Plumber Joe gets it!) and doesn't have the stones to say the name he doesn't deserve coverage by a news organization. Goldfarb might get away with this on Fox but they are barely a news sorce.

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Michael Goldfarb, your insults, your baseless attacks towards Sen. Obama will NEVER prevail ! Sen. Obama has always been a friend and strong advocate of Israel and that will certainly continue when he is president.

Goldfarb, I rebuke all of your insults and attacks towards Sen. Obama in the name and blood of Jesus and send all of them back to the pit of hell where they belong ! I plead the blood of Jesus for Barack, Joe, their family, his presidency, and his campaign this day and forever !

No weapon forged against you [ Barack Obama] will prevail, and you [ Barack Obama] will refute every tongue that accuses you [ Barack Obama] . This is the heritage of the servants [ Barack Obama] of the LORD, and this is their [ Barack Obama] vindication from me," declares the LORD. - Isaiah 54:17

" I [ God ] will send my terror ahead of you [ Barack Obama] and throw into confusion every nation you [ Barack Obama] encounter. I [ God ] will make all your [ Barack Obama] enemies turn their backs and run." - Exodus 23:27

They will fight against you [ Barack Obama] but will not overcome you, for I [God ] am with you [ Barack Obama] and will rescue you," declares the LORD. - Jeremiah 1:19

The Lord will rescue me [ Barack Obama] from every evil attack and will bring me [ Barack Obama] safely to his heavenly kingdom. - 2 Timothy 4:18

11 For he will command his angels concerning you [ Barack Obama] to guard you [ Barack Obama ] in all your ways; 12 they will lift you [ Barack Obama ] up in their hands, so that you [ Barack Obama ] will not strike your [his] foot against a stone. 13 You [ Barack Obama ] will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you [ Barack Obama ] will trample the great lion and the serpent. - Psalm 91:11-13

I have given you [ Barack Obama ] authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you [ Barack Obama ]. - Luke 10:19

It's time for the American people to get it right and NOT vote for McCain-Palin, instead vote for change. It's time for this country to turn the page and seek a new and better future for ourselves and our children.It's time for REAL change in Washington, it's time to elect Barack Obama for president !

Obama-Biden are the wiser and stronger team to solve the crucial challenges we have in this nation and abroad !

Amen.

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So tired of the haters. No one is talking about the crazy amount of race baiting and anti-arab, anti-black, anti-liberal dirt coming out of the Republicans. And the media shouldn't even be entertaining these losers with air time. Shame on them. How about some real journalism?

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So tired of the haters. No one is talking about the crazy amount of race baiting and anti-arab, anti-black, anti-liberal dirt coming out of the Republicans. And the media shouldn't even be entertaining these losers with air time. Shame on them. How about some real journalism?

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Oh yea, and he gives Jews a bad name.

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He needs to get in line for that distinction. That raging psycho Pamela Geller is claiming in her disgusting blog that Malcolm X is actually Obama's father.

No, really.

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Hey check out this video. "McCain Voter Fraud" on youtube.com. Heres the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGF-HEd6XnA Check it out, its pretty important.

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McCain/Palin spokesperson Michael Goldfarbโ€™s cheatโ€™ in heart really just got a little ahead of the script with the anti-semitic associates slime line. We all know Goldfarbโ€™s trash talk is pure BS.

Obama does not have a mean bone in his body. He thinks, and wonders, and considers reality. How lucky is that? How lucky our country will be to have him as a decent role model for the people? We have followed this fellow, and read and listened to so many things he has said. Obama is the real deal. It is up to us not to let him down. Obama is putting his life on the line for us. Can you actually believe we may soon have a leader that we the people will not want to disappoint? We have never known such a leader. Maybe not since Washington. I think they have a lot in common. I think if Obama had lived then we may not have had much to write about between 1860-1865. We are about to do great things, finally in this country. The sad fact is that these McCain/Palin stooges know it too. They had better take care pushing all that hate or else they soon may find themselves in deep therapy sessions for a long time to come. They are on the wrong side of reality.

This is a historic moment and we are first person witnesses to the death spiral of the Republican Party. These fools are so beyond the paved surface of civilization that nearly every sentence sounds like it came from the generation who believed the world was flat. The crazy thing is their howling followers living today hate science, fear diversity, think being dumb is cool and probably wish they could own slaves. Their approach to solving the grand issues of the day is seen through a lens of power and greed fostered by a delusion of right because God must be on their side.

The Republican Party cry out it believes in freedom. Not freedom to explore new avenues in embryonic stem cell research to cure cancer. Not freedom for mature human beings because they happen to be women. In the Republican Partyโ€™s world men folk tell women folk what to do. Why Republican men know full well that women are unable to make ethical decisions concerning their own bodies. Amazing all the things Republicans have in common with Bin Laden. The curtain is pulled back now and the puppet masterโ€™s fingers donโ€™t have the strength they once did to deceive the people on that special day. The Republican Party is the problem. Its motto is kick them to the curb, I need to get by and you are in my way. McCain/Palin made the mistake of not choosing wisely, but that is there problem.

McCain/Palin never had a chance to walk the High Road. The Republican Party simply can not find that road on any map they own. Todayโ€™s Republican Partyโ€™s best described as a wolf in sheep clothing. Not one year has gone by since the passage of the Voting Rights Act that has found the Republican Party walking the High Road. Their bait and switch sign post up ahead has taken America instead to the Twilight Zone. Too many good intentions followed a route off the track via an exit called Conservative. In reality we now know the code talk translates into national division among our people and the Republican Partyโ€™s High Road really means Supremacist.

The Republican Party was once an honorable, decent thoroughfare where intellect and egalitarian thinking reigned. Men like Lincoln, and T. Roosevelt and Eisenhower were the key models of leadership our country proudly followed for the past nearly 150 years. All that changed with the Civil Right era of the early 1960s. Since then the Republican Partyโ€™s leadership has been test marketing their sales pitch of division among the demographic nationally. They have been grooming the fringe element in our society to be afraid of one another and distrust our common dependence on one another instead of educating our people, reaching out to the poor by working together to expand our collective thinking and rise to a better common purpose throughout our nation. The motive at the top is of course greed and the love of greed. Perhaps we are witnessing the clock running out on the Republican Party as the light of day soaks them to the skin.

Since the Republican Partyโ€™s post 1965 Conservative movement began, their central theme has been based on one element called fear. It has been through the Republican Partyโ€™s spreading of fear that raised them to such dizzying heights of domination and national control. Now not unlike the poker playing gambler down on his luck with the only way of bouncing back, he must double down his bet do we see the McCain/Palin duo applying their brand in double dose. The same card of fear they so effectively played to divide the nation for so many years in the past did not work as planned this time around. In the final days of this election even with mapquest the Republican Party can not get to the High Road.

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I was just about to type the same thing, but you beat me.

Well said.

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What a coward.

A smug little man who's never done anything worth mentioning.

Quick little fellow, get back to the warm embrace of Rupert Murdoch and Bill Kristol. You'll be welcomed to their bosom with open arms and it's where you've fed for years.


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I'm rethinking my stance on Guantanamo--there are few people who could use a good water-boarding.

These McCain flunkies, I don't want them anywhere near the White House. Can you imagine an admimistration filled these McCain campaign spokespersons?

We're a better country than this. Vote Obama!

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I meant to say: there are a few people who could use a good waterboarding.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGF-HEd6XnA

oh man. check this out!... mccain voter fraud :p

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Not that it matters, but I think the unspeakable here is not Wright but Louis Farrakhan.


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We all know WHAT Number 2 is and it smells like Goldfarb.

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Can we also at least mention that Khalidi is Palestinian and therefore a Semite, maybe it's some sort of self hating thing. Oh well, we all know truth isn't their strong point.

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The republicans have nothing. Their whole campaign has been slurs and divide and conquer, This sums up what we think of them -


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So true. The only thing they have are wedge issues and wingnuts. Financial crisis seems to have formed a wedge prove majority.

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So true. The only thing they have are wedge issues and wingnuts. Financial crisis seems to have formed a wedge prove majority.

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Not to be anti-semitic or anything, but this guy Goldfarb is a perfect excuse to hate morons -- whether they are Jewish or not. When it comes to political stupidity, I'm an equal opportunity hater. Christian, Jew, Muslim, atheist, if you vote for John McCain, you are a total f-cking idiot. No doubt about it.

You are voting for a man who supported a totally unnecessary, preemptive, bloody and expensive war on Iraq that is costing patriotic Americans over ten billion dollars a month, while at the same time voting to keep Bush's tax cuts on millionaires in time of war.

What part of fairness and democracy and the "American Way" don't you get, John McCain?

You want to give your wife (who's worth over $100 million dollars), almost another million dollars in tax cuts while you continue the War on Iraq for possibly another 100 years?

You really think Americans are idiots, don't you, Mr. Bottom of his Class at the Naval Academy?

You happen to be right about most Americans being idiots -- see the election (or Supreme Court "selection") of George W. Bush. But I think enough Americans have seen the error of their ways. We've suffered too much with W. and his sycophants like you and Joe Lieberman.

2008 is going to be different. The American people have wised up to war-mongers and protectors of the rich like you and George W. Bush.

You are going to go down, big-time.

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Not to be anti-semitic or anything, but this guy Goldfarb is a perfect excuse to hate morons -- whether they are Jewish or not. When it comes to political stupidity, I'm an equal opportunity hater. Christian, Jew, Muslim, atheist, if you vote for John McCain, you are a total f-cking idiot. No doubt about it.

You are voting for a man who supported a totally unnecessary, preemptive, bloody and expensive war on Iraq that is costing patriotic Americans over ten billion dollars a month, while at the same time voting to keep Bush's tax cuts on millionaires in time of war.

What part of fairness and democracy and the "American Way" don't you get, John McCain?

You want to give your wife (who's worth over $100 million dollars), almost another million dollars in tax cuts while you continue the War on Iraq for possibly another 100 years?

You really think Americans are idiots, don't you, Mr. Bottom of his Class at the Naval Academy?

You happen to be right about most Americans being idiots -- see the election (or Supreme Court "selection") of George W. Bush. But I think enough Americans have seen the error of their ways. We've suffered too much with W. and his sycophants like you and Joe Lieberman.

2008 is going to be different. The American people have wised up to war-mongers and protectors of the rich like you and George W. Bush.

You are going to go down, big-time.

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My take on this is that he was referring to Farrakhan. Earlier in the campaign there seemed to be a concerted effort to try to make a direct line from Wright to Farrakhan. That failed. BUt this dingus on CNN wants to go there but can't say the name, since it is so clearly false.

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My take on this is that he was referring to Farrakhan. Earlier in the campaign there seemed to be a concerted effort to try to make a direct line from Wright to Farrakhan. That failed. BUt this dingus on CNN wants to go there but can't say the name, since it is so clearly false.

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