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Tuesday, October 07 2008, 10:22 AM Oregon school says 4 confessed to hanging Obama effigy A Christian university in Oregon says four students have been punished for hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus. 233 News Stories, 78 Liberal Blogs, 99 Conservative Blogs Post A Comment

legitgov Ex-idf, Mossad Officials Praise Obama A Jewish group in the United States has recruited a number of retired IDF and high-ranking Mossad officials to appear in a video supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, saying he would be a better partner for Israel in the White House.

legitgov Obama Camp Cites Sc School Invites To Ayers Barack Obama's campaign is citing the University of South Carolina's speaking invitations to William Ayers and Republican Gov. Mark Sanford's role as school trustee to counter GOP efforts to link the presidential candidate to the 1960s radical. In an e-ma

Informed Comment Reprint Edn.: Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin And Other Semitically Named American Heroes The below is reprinted from From February 27, 2008, because the [non-] issue is coming back up.At Cincinnati, Bill Cunningham, according to the LAT, who 'introduced presidential candidate John McCain at a rally here today accused Barack Obama of sympathi

MyDD Cognitive Dissonance Yesterday I mentioned how ineffective McCain's attacks on Obama were as they didn't reflect any real or perceived notion about who Barack Obama actually was (i.e. he's 'touchy', 'angry', 'dangerous', really? Have you seen the guy?) It seems to be runnin

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Research 2000: Dead Heat In Indiana A new Research 2000 poll in Indiana shows the presidential race is a dead heat with Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain each getting 46% support. Interesting: 'The poll also found that Sarah Palin is helping the Republicans more than Joe Biden is help

legitgov Americans' Satisfaction At All-time Low Of 9% 07 Oct 2008 Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain [met] for the second presidential debate in Nashville Tuesday night at a time when only 9% of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the United States -- the lowest such reading in Gal

Easter Lemming Liberal News This Is Our Time Harris County Democrats! Harris County Democrats ready for victory. More than 1,100 excited, enthusiastic, fired-up-and-ready-to-go Democrats attended the Johnson-Rayburn-Richards dinner Saturday night. Keynote speaker General Wesley Clark gave a rousing address describing the mu

Gawker How Kenyan Immigration Officials Can Help John Mccain [race] Jerome Corsi's brush with the Kenyan authorities is a gift to the Republican campaign and those who disseminate its talking points. It's not that Corsi?the intellectual father of the Swift Boat ads against John Kerry's war record in 2004 and author of O

Democratic National Committee: Blog ''taketh'' Watch the latest ad after Senator Barack Obama handily won last night's second presidential debate.

Think Progress After Her Campaign Proposes Entitlement Cuts, Palin Declares Mccain Will Protect ?entitlement Programs? On Sunday, top McCain economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin admitted that in order to pay for his health care plan, McCain would slash $1.3 trillion from Medicare and Medicaid over 10 years. But McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, appears

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Forecasting The Electoral Vote Research by Tom Holbrook and Jay DeSart shows that presidential candidates 'generally win states in which they hold a lead in September polls and always win when they lead outside the margin of error.' Based on this work, they project Sen. Barack Obama w

Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip World Still Exploding America’s $700 bailout plan has already failed because now every bank on earth is poor and Europe can’t get its act together so now we have a Global Meltdown. [New York Times] A financial guy killed himself and his family, for Honor, after he

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Debate Recap If you missed last night's presidential debate -- which most viewers felt Sen. Barack Obama won -- CQ Politics has the 'bests and mosts.'A transcript is also available.

legitgov Democrats Say Obama Key In Bailout Vote Switch Several Democratic members of the House of Representatives Friday said calls from Barack Obama helped convince them to switch their votes and back a 700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout.

Gawker Feisty Brokaw Scolds Future President [journalismism] newVideoPlayer('/feisty_brokaw_gawker.flv', 506, 423,''); Tom Brokaw was determined last night that he wasn't going to put up with any crap from presidential candidates or their running mates, who had their way with previous debate moderators Jim Lehrer

legitgov Cbs Poll: Uncommitted Voters Say Obama Won Forty Percent Give Edge to Obama, 26 to McCain and 34 Percent Say It Was a Tie 08 Oct 2008 Uncommitted voters named Barack Obama as the winner of the second presidential debate as well, according to a CBS News/Knowledge Networks poll. In a similar poll co

MyDD Wa Gov: Republican Dino Rossi's "buildergate" Legal Problems The razor-close Washington governor's race is crucial . It's the governorship, but it's also showing uncanny parallels to the presidential race. Both McCain and Dino Rossi have made simultaneous upward moves in the polls recently by co-opting the Democrat

MyDD Pwned! I wrote earlier: My one positive pre-debate thought: McCain has such a deluded sense of his own ability at these things that he gets a false sense of confidence and starts saying stupid shit -- I just have this feeling he's going to have a YouTube moment

Daily Kos Today's Candidate Schedule Where will the candidates be today? Barack Obama Presidential Debate Nashville, Tennessee Belmont University 8:00 pm (CDT) Joe Biden No public events scheduled Michelle Obama Jacksonville, North Carolina Jacksonville Commons Recreation Center 1:30 p

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Obama Dramatically Outspending Mccain Sen. Barack Obama is outspending Sen. John McCain 'at nearly a three-to-one clip on television time in the final weeks of the presidential election, according to ad buy information obtained by The Fix, a financial edge that is almost certainly contributin

Oliver Willis Hammering Obama is outspending McCain on TV by 3-1 based on one analysis. Barack Obama is outspending John McCain at nearly a three-to-one clip on television time in the final weeks of the presidential election, according to ad buy information obtained by The Fix,

Finding God in a Dog Today's Polls Gallup (yesterday's):Obama: 52% (51%)McCain: 41% (42%)Rasmussen:The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows Barack Obama attracting 51% of the vote while John McCain earns 45%. For the past thirteen days, Obama?s support h

the mindful mission Debate #2 - After Thoughts - Obama Wins Hmm... I predicted that there would be no clear winner in this debate. I was wrong. Barack Obama won. And I think he won pretty clearly. Sen. Obama was good, clear, concise, composed, and collected. And the live-dial showed that he connected quite w

Gawker Did Mccain Snub Obama's Handshake? [polls] newVideoPlayer('/noshake.flv', 506, 423,''); John McCain at least made eye contact with Barack Obama during tonight's presidential debate. But that seemed to be about all the pleasantry he could manage. First he called Obama 'that one.' Now blogs are bur

AfterDowningStreet.org - Convict Bush and Cheney! John Nichols: Does U.s. Want Change, Or More Cheney? By John Nichols, Capital Times ST. LOUIS -- Last week's vice presidential debate was really a junior presidential debate, in which Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin worked the issues with all the rhetorical passion and ideological positioning

Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip Charming Loser Dukakis Says Obama Will Win, Probably America never really had an occasion to think about Michael Dukakis for about oh TWENTY YEARS until he showed up in a nice NYT graphic yesterday proving, conclusively, that he could never have defeated George H.W. Bush in an election because he was half a

MyDD Jonathan's Debate Thread Here we go... Going back a second, Ambinder catches one of the key contrasts of this election: 'McCain: Health care is a privilege. Obama: health care is a right.' I have to think that McCain is the first ever presidential candidate to talk about hi

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Mpr Poll: Obama Surges Ahead In Minnesota A new Minnesota Public Radio poll of likely Minnesota voters finds 'the extraordinary financial crisis and the resulting congressional response along with the Vice Presidential debate' propelled Sen. Barack Obama from a narrow 4 point lead (47% to 43%) to

Pensito Review Palin Appeals To Mob Instincts During Her Rallies Palin’s next rally? Sarah Palin continues to voice her life-threatening talking points on the trail in Florida, apparently unconcerned that she could be inciting an attack on Barack Obama. “I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees

Finding God in a Dog Early Second Debate Reactions CBS:Forty percent of the 516 uncommitted voters surveyed identified Barack Obama as tonight's winner; 26 percent said John McCain won, while 34 percent saw the debate as a draw.Seventy-two percent of uncommitted voters remained uncommitted after the debat

Think Progress Flashback: In 2000, Mccain Said U.s. Troops Were ?killing Innocent Civilians? And ?dropping Bombs? In August 2007, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) was asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq and deploy them elsewhere. Obama replied that more troops were needed in Afghanistan: We’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire The Second Presidential Debate Tonight's debate wasn't even close. Sen. Barack Obama ran away with it -- particularly when speaking about the economy and health care. Talking about his mother's death from cancer was very powerful. On nearly every issue, Obama was more substantive, show

Gawker Rabid Bigots Rally Around Embarrassed Mccain [videuhoh] It appears the McCain ticket's extra-vicious new attacks on Barack Obama, openly trumpeted by the campaign itself, have worked a little too well. The idea was probably to get people just riled enough to cheer wildly and vote Republican on election day &md

Daily Kos Responses From Wingnut Central Andy McCarthy: We have a disaster here — which is what you should expect when you delegate a non-conservative to make the conservative (nay, the American) case [...] Great. Memo to McCain Campaign: Someone is either a terrorist sympat

AfterDowningStreet.org - Convict Bush and Cheney! Dennis Kucinich On The Democrats? Bailout Betrayal Dennis Kucinich on the Democrats? Bailout Betrayal By Chris Hedges | Truthdig.com The passing of the $850-billion bailout pulled the plug on the New Deal. The Great Society is now gasping for air, mortally wounded, coughing up blood. It will not recover.

legitgov Dennis Kucinich On The Democrats' Bailout Betrayal 'This was the largest single act of class warfare in the modern history of this country.' -- Dennis Kucinich By Chris Hedges. The passing of the $850-billion bailout pulled the plug on the New Deal. The Great Society is now gasping for air, mortally wound

Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip Barack Obama?s $3 Million Overhead Projector Made Of Pork So last night in the debate John McCain mentioned this despicable project Barack Obama supported, Chicago-style, by throwing 3 million of taxpayers’ dollars at some overhead projector in a planetarium. It was made of pork! Which is just weird, since

Informed Comment Unreal Debate In the real world of political ads, McCain and his surrogates are shouting ugly insults at Barack Obama. He is accused is saying that US airstrikes have killed innocents. This is true and McCain said it, too. They say he was on a committee with a profe

Gawker 'times' Enabled Palin's Crypto-fascism Tour [media] So. The McCain campaign oddly decided to run against the media this year. It's not that odd, because Republicans have been doing it quite successfully since 1968, but this is the first year they've had a candidate who started off beloved by the media. And

Daily Kos Reaction Begins Los Angeles Times: In answer after answer, the two men can’t resist arguing over their prospective records and how they voted on this bill or that bill, despite the general perception that both the questioners in the hall and the audience in gener

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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Quote Of The Day 'This is a much better campaign than I ran in 1988, and I'm impressed.'-- Mike Dukakis, quoted by the New York Observer, on Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Pensito Review Quote Du Jour This is a much better campaign than I ran in 1988, and I’m impressed. ? Michael Dukakis, quoted by the New York Observer, on Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign

Oliver Willis State Of The Race Barack Obama is having a rally in Indiana today. ‘Nuff said. Oh and this video that reader R.T. sent me.

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Obama Sends Big Guns To Florida 'The Obama campaign's top two field generals have decamped to Florida, a sign of its confidence that the state, with 27 electoral votes, is tilting toward the Democratic candidate,' according to Marc Ambinder. 'Steve Hildebrand, the deputy campaign manage

legitgov Gallup Daily: Obama Leads 50% To 42% Obama remains statistically ahead for 10th straight day 06 Oct 2008 Barack Obama leads John McCain among registered voters across the country by a 50% to 42% margin in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 3-5, the 10th straight day in which Obama has held

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Tracking Polls Diverge The Gallup tracking poll shows Sen. Barack Obama taking an 11 point lead -- his biggest lead to date -- over Sen. John McCain, 52% to 41%.However, the Diageo/Hotline poll shows Obama's lead shrinking to just one point, 45% to 44%.For what it's worth, Rasm

Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip Post-debate Video: Mccain Flees, Obama Stays Forever Here is that remarkable video from last night, just after the debate. The news channels quickly cut to their commentators and spin rooms and such, but the C-SPAN cameras stayed as long as there was a candidate in the room. Here’s what to watch for:

The Republic of T. Digest For October 6th Through October 8th Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for October 6th through October 8th: The Associated Press: Analysis: Palin’s words may backfire on McCain - Palin’s words avoid repulsing voters wit

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Surveyusa: Obama Soars Ahead In Pennsylvania A new SurveyUSA poll in Pennsylvania finds Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. John McCain by 15 points, 55% to 40%.In less than two weeks, Obama is up 5 points; McCain is down 4.Key findings: 'Among white voters, who make-up 87% of PA's electorate, Obama had

Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip Bill Ayers? Best Friend Continues To Win, With Bombs Here are more of your fancy “math numbers” showing that Obama is not only still ahead in mostly every state in the world, but his leads are still growing. Wait… Obama? Who is the REAL Barack Obama? A space cockroach? A used crack pipe? W

MyDD Todd's Debate Thread What a shocker. John McCain is freakin Guy Smiley tonight, looking right into Barack's eyes as he greets him, patting him on the arm. Right after sitting down, McCain started scribbling away. Take those notes! First question about bailing out Main St, no

AntiWar.com Have No Illusions Excerpt: I have to admit once being not enamored of, but hopeful about the candidacy of Barack Obama. In 'The Year of the Insurgents,' I underlined why I thought the conventional wisdom about this election year was dead wrong, and I was right about that.

Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com Scary Black Man Is Scary A lot of bloggers were wavering this week over whether or not the official McCain strategy for the remaining three weeks of the campaign was going to be suggesting that Barack Obama is a terrorist. I think we've pretty much answered the question at this

Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip (No Title) MCAIN-PALIN KKK CAMPAIGN UPDATE: Sarah Palin and John McCain have been holding KKK rallies all week, asking the klansmen “Who is the REAL Barack Obama” and getting all sorts of “colorful” responses. At today’s joint KKK rally

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Mason-dixon: Obama Ahead In Florida Sen. Barack Obama leads Sen. John McCain by two-points in Florida, 48% to 46%, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll. Said pollster Brad Coker: 'The key to Florida remains the Tampa Bay region, where Obama currently holds a 48%-44% advantage. The othe

Oliver Willis Mccain Calls Mccain ?dishonorable? The Washington Times (!) finds that John McCain described the military in the exact same way Barack Obama described the military. But according to McCain, Obama’s remarks were “dishonorable”. When even the Washington Times realizes you&#

Daily Kos Cnn Instapoll CNN, MoE 4%: Who did the best job in the debate? McCain (R) 30 Obama (D) 54 Opinion of Barack Obama (before debate) Favorable: 64 (60) Unfavorable: 34 (38) Opinion of John McCain (before debate) Favorable: 51 (51) Unfavorable: 46 (46)

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Ppp Poll: Obama Regains Lead In Ohio Sen. Barack Obama has taken back the lead in Ohio over Sen. John McCain, 49% to 43%, after trailing by four points in a Public Policy Polling survey conducted three weeks ago.Key finding: 'Much of the movement in Obama's direction since the last poll has

Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip Liveblogging The Boring Economic Town Hall Depression Debate, Part Iv Oh boy howdy this has been a bunch of yammering interspersed with Tom Brokaw complaining about how long the yammering has been going on. Did you miss some of this important blah de blah? Well here they are in serial fashion: Part I, Part II, Part III, and

Larvatus Prodeo Obama Mccain Debate Open Thread Here they go again! Televised, streamed, etc. in all the usual places. Comment and link as you will. Recycling of partisan talking points strongly discouraged. A couple of discussion starters - Nate Silver: Are John McCain’s negative attacks succeed

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Surveyusa: Obama Up By Double Digits In Wisconsin A new SurveyUSA poll in Wisconsin shows Sen. Barack Obama with a ten point lead over Sen John McCain, 52% to 42%.Key findings: 'McCain leads in greater Milwaukee and among Pro-Life voters. Obama leads, or ties McCain, in all other regions and demographic

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Rgj Poll: Obama Takes Lead In Nevada A new Reno-Gazette Journal poll in Nevada shows Sen. Barack Obama has pulled ahead of Sen. John McCain for the first time, 50% to 43%.Key findings: ' According to the numbers, he's held on to his lead with women voters in Nevada and, for the first time si

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire The Dirtiest Campaign In History? According to the Tennessean, Cindy McCain claimed that Sen. Barack Obama has 'waged the dirtiest campaign in American history,' and her husband Sen. John McCain will use tonight's town hall debate 'to correct the distortions.'Mrs. McCain might want to rea

MyDD 338-200 Today with the release of a new Rasmussen poll showing Obama up 4 points in Nevada (a shift of 7 points in 3 weeks) we officially turn Nevada blue, giving Barack Obama 5 more electoral votes for a total of 338-200. RCP: O 49.3 M 47.5 538: O 47.1 M 46.6

Daily Kos Mccain & Palin: The Politics Of Hate At what point do we call the tactics of John McCain and Sarah Palin for what they are? Hate mongering. As both McCain and Palin continue their Swift Boat campaign, using innuendo, half truths and outright lies against Barack Obama, their crowds are looki

Gawker Secret Service To Arrest Sarah Palin [crime] Ha ha, just kidding. The plucky Alaska Maverick is just inspiring death threats, not inciting them! At a rally held earlier this week in 1938, Palin accused Barack Obama of 'palling around with terorrists.' At that, a man in the crowd shouted 'kill him!'

Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip Liveblogging Various Poor Bums Yelling At Candidates, Part Iii The New Great Depression hobo pictured here is Joe Biden, getting on the hobo train from Washington to Delaware to tend to his adult children. Joe Biden therefore cannot debate tonight, so lil’ old Hopey will have to debate against the old fart in h

Think Progress Morris: Obama?s Tenuous Link To Ayers Is ?the Equivalent Of Having A Close Relationship With Osama Bin Laden.? In an effort to stop “talking about the economic crisis,” the right wing is in a frenzy over Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) tenuous link to former Weatherman Bill Ayers. On Fox News’ Hannity and Colmes last night, Dick Morris argued th

Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip Boring Debate Considered Inconsequential By Many! That debate was more boring than, uh… more boring than a Nordic opera singer being interviewed on Charlie Rose! More boring than the short-lived Pat Sajak Sunday night talk show on Fox News! MORE BORING THAN DAVID BROOKS SPARRING WITH ELEANOR CLIFT

Democratic National Committee: Blog ''the Subject'' We know what kind of game John McCain is going to play tonight at the town hall debate in Tennessee. A top aide recently admitted to the New York Daily News that 'If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we?re going to lose.' But Americans are alrea

Daily Kos The Dishonorable John Mccain From FactCheck.org: McCain-Palin ad distorts Obama's remark on Afghanistan and support for troop-funding bills. Summary A McCain-Palin ad calls Obama 'dishonorable,' while distorting his words and votes on troop funding. The McCain-Palin campaign rel

Daily Kos Oh-01: Driehaus (d) Leads Tight Race OH-01 Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 9/30-10/01. Likely voters. MoE 5% Driehaus (D) 46 Chabot (R) 44 Wow. Those are terrific numbers for Democrat Steve Driehaus in this Cincinnati swing district. Incumbent Republican Steve Chabot is as slick as

Pensito Review Plenty Of Rules, But Where?s The Debate? debate, vi, to discuss opposing reasons; argue. (from Webster’s New World College Dictionary ? you know, the one the Associated Press uses) If you’re expecting a debate tonight from the presidential candidates’ town hall?style meeting,

Think Progress Presidential Debate Live-blogging 10:59: McCain made zero mentions of “middle class” tonight — the same number he offered in the first debate. 10:42: On Fox, Nina Easton notes that we observed the “sinking ship of free-market Republicans” go to the “bo

Informed Comment Mccain Funded Righwing Contra Death Squads Many of the 'contras' or members of right wing guerrilla groups fighting the Sandinista government in the 1980s were drug smugglers and terrorists. High government officials of the Reagan and Bush, Sr. administrations knew very well about the drug ru

Oliver Willis Invisible Conspiracy Dooms ?an American Carol? It’s always a conspiracy with them. Always a damn conspiracy. No, I’m not talking about the secret plot by George Soros and Warren Buffet to destroy the U.S. economy with the aid of communists, nonprofit groups, the mainstream media and voodoo

Daily Kos 2010 Senate Republicans lament 2008, but they profess hope for 2010: One indication of the Republicans’ mood: They’re already looking past this grim election season. “2010 looks pretty good for us to pick up three or four or five seats pretty eas

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