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I think I love these guys (sorry that I’m late on this one)

McCain has already done this to a degree, and he will probably up the ante on it as well.
I believe GW honestly feels his own stances on homosexuality are right. While I think that position is insane, it is at least sincere. McCain, however, is willing to treat an entire section of humanity as trash to get votes.
Think Progress » Fred Barnes’s Advice To McCain: Revive Your Struggling Campaign By Using Gay-Bashing As A Wedge

BARNES: In particular, gays in the military for one. We know Barack Obama is for allowing gays in the military, and Bill Clinton tried to do, but backed off. This is not a popular issue. Gay marriage is another one. These are both issues that I think McCain’s going to have to use. You can’t ignore the right. If he does, he’ll lose.

Yes, don’t forget, it looks like McCain may be breaking federal law

Of course, that doesn’t matter.  What matters is Obama changed his mind, completely legally, to do his own fundraising, completely legally.  Again, there’s these cries of ‘flip-flop’.  I don’t understand that.  I suppose mindlessly sticking to whatever decision you made in the past, no matter what changes, is admirable if, say, you are…wait…no, it really isn’t admirable at all, is it?  It borders on suicidal.  And, in the case of Still-President-Bush, homicidal.

But I digress.

Obama takes part in legal activites and people smack him around.  McCain may have broken federal law, no one cares.

Our media, ladies and gentlemen.

I would like you to consider the following quotation from Bill Clinton before you go to the voting booths.  Then look at how Ms. Clinton has been campaiging.

“Now one of Clinton’s Laws of Politics is this,” Mr. Clinton says. “If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to think; if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope. That’s the best.”

I guess I’m confused

Moveon.org endorsed [Sen. Barack Obama] — which is like a gusher of money that never seems to slow down,” Clinton said to a meeting of donors. “We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party.

Isn’t this how it is supposed to work.  I mean, I would have thought that, if you want to ‘bring out the vote’, you would appeal to the activists.  Now, it is possible that the ‘activist base’ (what does that even mean?) doesn’t represent the general views of the rest of the party.  But if it doesn’t, then why are they successful? 

If you are so alienated by the activist base, then who are you representing? 

Clinton, of course, claims they are bullying her supporters.  Apparently, the people who support Clinton are so strong in that support that they can be talked out of it on the fly.  I wonder, Ms. Clinton, could it be that you simply don’t measure up to Obama?  I know that seems unlikely, but you really should consider it as a possibility.

Some days, after hearing about McCain not supporting the GI Bill expansion, after watching the MSM rip into Obama because of some poorly chosen (though ultimately accurate) words, after seeing Clinton use that same cheap attack, after watching some of the worst political reporting in history, I almost want to move into the mountains and set up an armed compound.

And on the topic of Clinton…please…drop out.  You will not become president this round.  I’m sorry, but its true.  There are only two ways this can go for you.

1. You don’t win the nomination.  And so you don’t become president.
2. You win the nomination by getting enough super-delegates to overcome Obama’s lead, basically over-riding the will of the people.  That splits the party.  McCain wins.  You don’t become president.

Personally, a big-ass disaster for the Democratic party might be just what we need.  My concern is the timing.  The fact of the matter is that McCain is a promise of 4 more years of a failed administration.  McCain is completely unqualified in knowledge, experience, and temperment for the office of president.  We have real people with real problems.  Its time we started acting like they matter, like the 57% increase in foreclosures matters, like the fact that there’s no end in sight to the bloodshed in Iraq, like the fact that the rich get richer and the poor are just shuffled off.

McCain doesn’t care.  Maybe he used to care, but he’s decided he gets more votes from the filthy rich who don’t have any problems.

Hm.  I think I always get a little pissed at the rich around tax time.  Not because they make more than i do.  But its the complaining.  Look, I make a decent living.  I’m not rich, but I’m doing pretty good, probably better than my parents ever did.  I consider myself to be part of the ‘group that always gets screwed’ when it comes to taxes.  Not enough wealth that anyone cares about me, not poor enough to be a cause.  And I’m OK with that.  I pay my taxes.  I do so, basically, without complaint (I don’t necessarily think we spend our money wisely…).  I can’t stand people making twice what I do who then bitch because maybe this year they can’t buy the third house so they can vacation on the east coast AND west coast.  That sickens me.

I like being part of this country.  I like having roads, and hospitals, and firemen.  I like having services and defense and all that.  I know that my taxes going to help the poor also helps me, and that someday I may need that same help.   I am an American, and I am a patriot.  And I believe we should stand together or not at all.

What about you?

McCain Asks For Donors To Pick Up Rudy’s Tab

“The Giuliani campaign is trying to retire the debt they incurred during the primary campaign. As the leadership of this campaign, the Senator and I are asking you to help in this effort,” wrote Davis, who praised the former New York City mayor as “a national hero” and thanked him for his “dedicated support” of McCain.

According to the most recent March 20 filing with the Federal Election Commission, the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee reported more than $4 million in cash, but more than $3.1 million in debt.

So, if you are a homeowner who has gotten screwed (regardless of how), you have to take personal responsibility for how you and your family are losing your home.  Obviously, you gambled and lost.

But, if you run for the Republican Nomination (which, I think we can say, is a bigger gamble), you realy shouldn’t be held accountable for your wasting of money.

3.1 million dollars.

Over 150 families could each receive 20K towards keeping their homes.

Rudy, millionaire, obviously needs the money more:

Giuliani reported assets of between $18.1 million and $70.4 million. Because the FEC allows candidates to report assets within ranges, the actual value of his assets lies somewhere between those figures.

(By the way, I’m not saying that I understand the complexities of campaign finance.  Its entirely possible that this HAS to get paid off through donations.  However, I think it does illustrate a point)

CNN decides that, by asking the questions CNN should be asking, a high school girl is heckling McCain

This is simply sad.  The question (basically, ‘why are you here if not for political reasons’) is exactly the kind of question the MSM and professional reporters should be asking.

But, apparently, only THEY can ask the questions.  Anyone else is a heckler.

Until a couple weeks ago, I honestly didn’t think the woman had a chance.  Why blog about someone who is half a breath away from becoming irrelevant.

How wrong I was. 

In that time, a couple things have come to light.

1. Hillary lied about being ‘under fire’ in Bosnia (or where ever) and got her daughter to lie as well
2. She apparently belongs to some nutjob elitest cult
3. She appears to have a number of large donors pressuring Pelosi to support the idea of super-delegates switching ’sides’

And these are just a few of my favorite things.  To me, these are signs of a self-centered, not-very-bright, condescending bizarro woman.  Look, the cult is nuts, the super-delegates switching would screw the party just for her benefit (and ultimately, the benefit of the Republicans) and the lie about Bosnia simply shows how much contempt she has for the people she claims to represent (did she really think there wasn’t footage???)

If this is how being First Lady has prepared her, I’ll pass, thanks.

McCain has ’senior moment’ for past year. Completely forgotten where he works

McCain trailed only Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) in absenteeism since the beginning of last year, and Johnson spent most of 2007 recovering from a brain hemmorrhage.