Party Watchwords: Fairness and Fear
Palin has been put to the job of trawling for undecided voters who are racially anxious enough to be tipped into voting for McCain by one additional rumor or tremor or fear.
Palin has been put to the job of trawling for undecided voters who are racially anxious enough to be tipped into voting for McCain by one additional rumor or tremor or fear.
Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a supposed 501 c(3) non-profit that this week featured an article supporting John McCain on its website.
This photo does not appear anywhere in the linked story. It is only on the Drudge Report front page.
The Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina's longtime editor, John Robinson, explained his reasoning in a column yesterday.
McCain's hit squad are nattering nabobs of negativism -- they injure the long standing bi-partisan consensus on Israel for pure political gain.
Things are always less scary when the lights are on, so throughout the campaign HuffPost will be conducting a FearWatch, keeping our eyes peeled for attempts to scare the public into voting their fears. And we need your help... Read More McCain's Campaign Funding Hypocrisy: Why Are the Media Looking the Other Way? Amidst all the attacks on Obama's public funding "flip-flop," how much have you read in the old media about the fact that McCain has completely reversed himself on public financing -- and is currently breaking campaign finance law on a daily basis? Read More Watch Arianna on: BBC News' Hardtalk, CNN's Election Center, and Anderson Cooper 360
Some Americans and politicians believe my brother was to blame for his own murder because he voted Democratic.
In the wake of McCain-Palin visits to North Carolina, a string of election season crimes have occurred around the state involving violence, vandalism, and harassment.
Amir Taheri attempts to make Obama seem something "other" than American, something I hope and trust most Americans will know better than to fall for.
According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.
It's like a rock in the pit of your stomach, a cold clammy feeling that spreads up your gut and momentarily stops your breath. It's the awful moment...
The more we learn to overcome the fears that limit us and to live in fearlessness, the more we'll be able to counter the dark forces -- both political and cultural -- looking to keep us shrouded in a fog of fear.
This is not just a metaphor: quite literally, these primitive regions control our actions and prevent abstract thoughts from occurring to us when we are terrified.
If they really see political gold in another 9-11, what would stop them from being delighted if Bush attacked Iran if the timing were right, say in mid-October?
The idea that the Republican Party can run around telling people with a straight face that it is serious about national security is just too hard to swallow anymore.
Clinton's new campaign ad airing in Texas, which uses tactics to scare voters into voting for her, should be enough to make everyone vote against her. Haven't we had enough fearmongering?
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It's a shame George W. beat his genuine Ostrich skin golf shoe on the podium at the Knesset while calling Democrats Nazi "appeasers". But since he quit playing golf, at least he found a use for them.
So, the great protector of the American people has spoken. His trip to the Middle East disguised as a mission to increase oil production, is actually a taxpayer-funded political statement for the Republican cause.
Now, George, please tell us:
Where's Osama Bin Laden?
Where are the results of the post-9/11 anthrax investigation?
Where are the many confiscated videos of the 757 hitting the Pentagon?
It's been 7 years. We're still waiting.
If this is the best you can do for "homeland security", then I shudder to think how you would react to an actual invasion of our country.
Hopefully a special place is being prepared for you and your minions in the Hague. You can trust that I will do my part - whatever that is - to help make that happen.
My dream tonight as I go to sleep will be to see this nasty president behind bars, his wealth confiscated and returned to taxpayers he's been bilking to reward his companies in Iraq and the lobbyists for oil and insurance..... confiscate his wealth.... strip him of his freedom.... and still we won't have made things even stevens.... but it will leave pause before another has the audacity to abuse a nation as badly as this leadership has..... Obama and the democrats... we are behind you and proud to be Americans once more.... like the twin towers collapse.... Americans are brave and strong when united for all.
AlphaOverdawg
Brilliance like yours should be highlighted. Hopefully my two posts will box top and bottom and draw some attention to your unique insights.
Bush and McCain are bone heads for using the appeasement argument. Bush was talking to Obama and McCain did say he was willing to talk to Hamas before he changed his mind.
Deal with the reality that they both made serious unforced errors. It's their fault. Don't blame Obama because they look foolish for making such ridiculous comments.
Why respond to a baseless charge lacking specificity? If the shoe doesn't fit, why wear it? If Bush didn't accuse Obama of "appeasement", why INFER such an accusation? Why indeed? Because it's great political fodder if interpreted so, lending itself to blustering fulminations and whimpering expressions of self-righteous indignation from an undistinguished bunch of self-serving losers fawning for political favor. And because it's an easy semantical strawman to set up and knock down, even if it is as phony as a wooden nickel. Unfortunately, as the current state of this nomination process so amply demonstrates, phoniness is flying under the radar of "leaders" and voters in the Democratic Party.