Time to start boycotting some newspapers.

I seriously can't wait until this election is done. This divisive shit is going waaaaay too far. There was a wingnut in work today saying he was going to go home and clean his guns because "When the hero McCain wins, the monkeys will riot." Yes he said both hero and monkey. Yes, the lady that sits in the cube opposite him had him sent to HR.

Is winning that important to the right that they are willing to stoke this kind of fire? They really want people gleefully cleaning their guns waiting for a riot?

OT, but why does the senate election map in the upper right have Wyoming and Alabama split in two? I've seen it in several places, but it's not like both Senators from those two states are up for re-election this year.

On the other hand, the stock market is up 900 points today.

If Obama were indeed a socialist, wouldn't the investor class be selling right now, rather than buying?

A godless Commie cum devout Muslim cum friend of shady capitalists?

This Obama guy sure has united some pretty disparate groups.

No Whining. We've got the numbers to win. This is just desperation on their part.

GET OUT THE VOTE!!

Call to remind people. Drive folks to polls. If you're a lawyer, get your ass down to the polls, find people being illegally denied their rights and start 'lawyering'. Talk to family and friends presenting facts to counter this drivel. Do anything but sit around and whine about republican dirty tricks!

NOT THIS TIME!

G.O.T.V.!!!

Using DVD's like this is smart.

I wouldn't stick the thing in my PC to watch it.

Oh noes, this will certainly change the votes of a significant bloc of voters - Obama is doomed!

What a pathetic bunch of poopers these wingbutts are!

Another day, another mass of good money thrown after bad by the GOP and their fellow-travelling 527s.

Someone is showing this at the Kansas State University Student Union on Thursday.

I loved Samantha Bee last night, playing a financial reporter, with a G on her face carved by Greenspan.

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!

OMG! This changes everything! This is sure to work for the Republicans -- because *everybody* wants to see MORE political ads on television.

So who wouldn't drop their newspaper, and rush to the home entertainment station to pop that DVD right in as soon as they get it.

We're screwed!

Just dumb.
If I saw something like that I would just throw it away.

They just don't get it. The more they try and make some kind of connection between Ayerezkowright and Obama, the more it seems implausible that one ever existed in the capacity that they are shooting for.

It really is turning off more people that it is swaying, but do they not realize this?

Or maybe since it's down to the wire they figure there is nothing to lose so they might as well heave that kitchen sink as far as they can.

The fear mongering and scare tactics have not worked in their favor, and I think the American people have had enough of the vile tactics of the fringe right. They aren't that gullible.

I just wasted three minutes of my life watching the trailer and saw they used a clip of Stephen Colbert in there (the line about Obama passing around his "Hope bong"). Do they understand that Colbert is satire? I often wonder.

It's interesting how many of you here are just dismissing just by saying "Oh no one is gonna watch it."

I'm not saying this will make a impact but I'm also saying we don't know. We don't know if it will affect the final outcome in states where a shift in couple of points can make a sufficient difference.

Anyway, I made a few calls for Barack today and I kinda feel a little better. But lets run a extra mile, one more call this week.

This is the act of a campaign that can read the writing on the wall but won't go down without a fight.

What is so excellent about this election is Obama will still win even without OH, FL, NV. I bet that really pisses them off.

"and warns viewers that there's more to know about Obama's shadowy ideology and associations than he has let on."

Ohhhh. . . what's behind DOOR NUMBER ONE!?

It's just like the ploy on the old "Let's Make a Deal" with Monty Hall-- some poor slob has just won a Buick and a La-Z-Boy and a trip to Bermuda, and he's willing to trade it all for whatever's behind door number one. "Door Number One" represents everything he hopes it could possibly be, in the case of Obama they are hoping "what we don't know" will be some secret evil: antiChrist, terrorist, communist, maybe even child molester.

For the GOP it's "devil you DON'T know over devil you KNOW."

Newspapers are generally hurting for revenue. I think they're less picky about the kind of advertising they accept. I wonder what editorial would say about dissections of what the DVD says about Obama Biden, and whether they agree that they're ok with providing the medium for that kind of speech.

Newspapers still think people read their classified ads instead of go to Craigslist, still think we clip their coupons instead of printing them on the Internet. Now they think we'll keep buying their fish wraps after they fill it with this nonsense?

Debra:
So true. It also demonstrates how we communicate. Democrats = Internet, Cell Phones. Republicans = Newspapers, String and Paper Cups.

It is so amazing that all that the repugs know how to do is trash the other candidate with their lies, distortions and smears, yet can never seem to articulate what their candidate stands for on the issues, or why they might be a better choice. What is even more amazing is the number of stupid people out there that listen to their crap and believe it.

Counter this scurrilous DVD with something true.
Check out the case for McCain's medical cover-up at.
http://www.ignorancedestroysdemocracy.com

If you agree copy and paste the following into an email and share with anyone you can.

subject: McCain's medical cover-up

Repetitive head injuries, as McCain has a history of, may result in neurological and functional deficits that could explain his behavior including: problems with anger management, risk taking, impulsiveness, emotional lability, his decision making style (instinct over reasoned consideration of facts and consequences), impaired judgment and his unfocused, disorganized campaign. PTSD may be a contributing factor as well.

McCain appears to have cognitively declined compared with his presidential run in 2000. It provokes more concern because his risk factors for Alzheimer's disease are high.

There is further cause for unease about McCain's health. Questions abound regarding his selective disclosure of health records: conspicuous absence of brain MRIs or any brain imaging report; conflicting data on the stage of his melanoma; no neurological or cognitive assessments; no psychiatric evaluation in the past eight years and inadequate information prior to that.

More info at:
www.IgnoranceDestroysDemocracy.com

If you don’t want a cognitively impaired, impulsive, emotionally labile president pass this along.

And why doesn't Obama & his supporting groups put these out, too? And don't give me any of this "high road" BS. We all just lived through 8 years of hell. Time to play to win or not play at all. Besides, no matter how you play the game, you will still be painted with the same brush as the GOP. Even The Daily Show last night made a point of saying that BOTH sides have crazies and are negative. It is inevidible.

This year, I've decided to dress up as either Sarah Palin, Michele Bachman, Joe the Plumber or The Wolfman.

OOoh, it's getting scary! Like some political Poe!

Happy Halloween!

Quoth the Maverick...

http://thetruthburns.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/quoth-the-maverick/

Well, I was hoping that not all households had a DVD player. I am wrong. Apparently over 80% of American households now have DVD players.

Many people have already voted and most have already made up their mind.

This late in the game I don't think this DVD will be a game changer. If anything, it may actually work in Obama's favor. Negativity isn't working this time like last and Obama knows this.

But it will be a big hit in Appalachia.

Here's the letter that I sent to the Columbus Dispatch.

To the Editor:

One week to go until the election and the mud is flying. But this time it's coming via a DVD included with my daily paper. And the Dispatch has gotten itself caught in the crossfire.

"Hype: The Obama Effect" should have come with a published disclaimer or fact-check from the Dispatch, especially since the paper endorsed Sen. Obama's opponent. Failing to do so makes it look like you're condoning the movie's attack.

Frankly, you don't want to associate with this "documentary" and the folks behind it. After watching it and doing a little research, I can tell you it's nothing but a hatchet job.

The producers, Citizens United, have a long history of smears, going back to the infamous "Willie Horton" ads against Dukakis in 1988. The director, David Bossie, has been described as a "partisan hack," a "professional Clinton-era agitator," and "renowned Republican dirty trickster." (See Eric Boehlert's profile "You can't teach an old attack dog new tricks" at Salon.com.)

The movie itself has been thoroughly debunked months ago. The Huffington Post noted it “is full of basic factual errors, idiotic lies, and baseless smears.”

We Dispatch readers deserve better.

I wonder if the DVD has been checked out for spyware and malware? I wouldn't put it past the creators of the DVD to have put malware on it for people that use a PC. I imagine one could setup in a pretty short time a relatively large set of Republican SpamBots and PC zombies.

I'd like to put this in a DVD for the voters:

NY Times Op-Ed, 10/25/08:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/opinion/26kristof.html?em

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: October 25, 2008

Op-Ed Columnist

The Endorsement From Hell

John McCain isn’t boasting about a new endorsement, one of the very, very few he has received from overseas. It came a few days ago:

“Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” read a commentary on a password-protected Islamist Web site that is closely linked to Al Qaeda and often disseminates the group’s propaganda.

The endorsement left the McCain campaign sputtering,........(the article continues from here)..