So much for Change. Within the past few days – the Obama administration did nothing to stop the firing of a decorated war hero simply because he is gay.
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Reports On: Decorated Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach Discharged For Being Gay
The following is a bad Obama joke my oldest sister sent me in a text message this week:
Years ago, it used to be said that America would elect a black man president “when pigs fly.”
Sure enough: it’s 2009 and SWINE FLU!
[Insert bad-pun groans here]
Out of the thousands and thousands of good preachers available Jan. 20, Obama picked one of the leaders of the anti-gay marriage movement. As the Boston Globe says in today’s editorial by Derrick Z. Jackson:
To this day, in all the phobic frenzy to ban gay marriage in state after state, not a single straight person has yet to demonstrate how a gay or lesbian couple’s marriage has any impact whatsoever on a straight marriage, let alone how it might bring the institution to its knees. Gay folks are merely a scapegoat for the fact that straight couples get it right only about half the time.
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Obama [is] exercising terrible judgment on someone who just got done injecting anti-gay ideology into politics in the biggest state in the nation. It is nice that Warren and many evangelicals are increasingly involved in the environment and global poverty. But it seems that Obama is having a little PJSD here, as in Post Jeremiah Stress Disorder. Having nearly had his campaign destroyed by the tapes of his former pastor Jeremiah Wright blasting America as a hopelessly racist nation, Obama seems compelled to close his eyes to one of the most powerful forms of conservative-driven bigotry left in this country.
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Obama earned an outpouring of support from gay and lesbian voters, even though his personal stand on gay marriage was standard political fare, stopping at civil unions. Gay advocacy groups praised how he included them rhetorically in speech after speech. Now, a month before that great day that could bring all Americans together unlike any in the nation’s history, Obama has gone out of his way to pick someone for the invocation who is not even close to being a pastor for all Americans.
When Obama saw how flammable Wright was, he took him off the stage for the announcement of his candidacy in Springfield, Ill. Warren’s calling a ban on gay marriage a “humanitarian” issue should result in the same. If Warren is allowed to give the invocation, the bright American rainbow that got Obama into office will dim in a way that spells danger for what else Obama will not stand up for.
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It is just sickening the outright lies the McCain/Palin ticket is telling in a desperate attempt to foment enough fear in the electorate to win based upon ignorance and bigotry.
Sarah Palin’s rant of lies in Clearwater, Florida this week is a low point in American politics, as reported by the Washington Post here is an excerpt:
“So I was reading the New York Times and I was really interested to read about Barack’s friends from Chicago.”
It was time to revive the allegation, made over the weekend, that Obama “pals around” with terrorists, in this case Bill Ayers, late of the Weather Underground. Many independent observers say Palin’s allegations are a stretch; Obama served on a Chicago charitable board with Ayers, now an education professor, and has condemned his past activities.
“Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers,” Palin said.
“Boooo!” said the crowd.
“And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,’” she continued.
“Boooo!” the crowd repeated.
“Kill him!” proposed one man in the audience.
nod: Steph
Frowarded email from my mother-in-law, original author unknown.
How Racism Works
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What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
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What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said “I do” to?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer
measured up to his standards?
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What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain
killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
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What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5?
What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
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If these questions reflected reality, do you think the polls would be as
close as they are?
What is it that rationalizes and minimizes a black candidate’s positive
qualities and qualifications?
You’re The Boss … which team would you hire with America facing historic
debt, two wars (to date), stumbling health care, a weak dollar, all-time
high prison population, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc?
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Educational Backgrounds
Obama:
Columbia University – B.A. Political Science; specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:
United States Naval Academy – Class rank: 894 of 899
Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester
University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism
My boss brought this back from a trip to Kentucky. An NRA convention was handing these out at his hotel.
State Polling Roundup
Polls Split In Ohio A SurveyUSA automated poll of 693 likely Ohio voters taken September 28-29 shows McCain leading Obama 49%-48%. An Insider Advantage /Poll Position survey of 512 likely Ohio voters taken September 29 shows Obama leading McCain 49%-47%. A Quinnipiac University poll of 1,203 likely Ohio voters taken September 22-26, before the debate, shows Obama leading McCain 49%-42%. A second survey of 825 likely voters taken September 27-29, after the debate, shows Obama leading 50%-42%.
Obama Up In Florida A Quinnipiac University poll of 1,161 likely Florida voters taken September 22-26, before the debate, shows Obama leading McCain 49%-43%. A second survey of 836 likely voters taken September 27-29, after the debate, shows Obama leading 51%-43%.
Obama Up In Pennsylvania The Muhlenberg College /Allentown Morning Call tracking poll of 601 likely Pennsylvania voters taken September 25-29 shows Obama leading McCain 49%-41%. A Quinnipiac University poll of 1,138 likely Pennsylvania voters taken September 22-26, before the debate, shows Obama leading McCain 49%-43%. A second survey of 832 likely voters taken September 27-29, after the debate, shows Obama leading 54%-39%.
Virginia Polls Differ An American Research Group poll of 600 likely Virginia voters taken September 27-29 shows McCain leading Obama 49%-46%. An Insider Advantage /Poll Position survey of 436 likely Virginia voters taken September 29 shows Obama leading McCain 51%-45%.
McCain Up 3 In Nevada An American Research Group poll of 600 likely Nevada voters taken September 27-29 shows McCain leading Obama 49%-47%.
McCain Up 3 In Indiana A SurveyUSA automated poll of 687 likely Indiana voters taken September 28-29 for WHAS-TV Louisville and WCPO-TV Cincinnati shows McCain leading Obama 48%-45%.
McCain Up 3 In North Carolina An American Research Group poll of 600 likely North Carolina voters taken September 27-29 shows McCain leading Obama 49%-46%.
McCain Up 8 In Georgia A SurveyUSA automated poll of 677 likely Georgia voters taken September 28-29 shows McCain leading Obama 52%-44%.
Obama Up In Two New Jersey Polls A SurveyUSA automated poll of 611 likely New Jersey voters taken September 27-28 for WABC-TV New York and WCAU-TV Philadelphia shows Obama leading McCain 52%-42%. A Strategic Vision poll of 800 likely New Jersey voters taken September 26-28 shows Obama leading McCain 48%-39%.
McCain Up Big In Oklahoma A SurveyUSA automated poll of 656 likely Oklahoma voters taken September 28-29 for KFOR-TV Oklahoma City shows McCain leading Obama 64%-34%.
McCain Up 21 In Arizona A Rasmussen Reports automated poll of 500 likely Arizona voters taken September 29 shows McCain leading Obama 59%-38%.
The conservative, ultra-capitalist magazine, Economist, launched the “Global Electoral College” – polling its registered readers, which include some of the biggest names in pro-business anti-regulation and small government world of high finance.
The goal was to allow global readers of the magazine to “vote” (one vote and only one vote per subscriber) for who they wish to be the next president – supposedly picking the candidate who in their opinion will be best for global business and economic stability over the next four years.
The results?
So far … Democrat Barack Obama is winning in a landslide. (See graphic below, click to enlarge) This is a further sign that pro-business fiscal conservatives are leaving the Republican party in droves this year.
Or go to the web site yourself:
Pick out which family is made up of out-of-touch elitists:
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