<b>Obama win preferred in world poll</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In total 22,531 citizens were polled in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE and the UK. A parallel survey was conducted with 1,000 US adults.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Troopergate update; Palin Warned by the Court
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Court records obtained by NEWSWEEK show that during the course of divorce hearings three years ago, Judge John Suddock heard testimony from an official of the Alaska State Troopers' union about how Sarah Palinâthen a private citizenâand members of her family, including her father and daughter, lodged up to a dozen complaints against Wooten with the state police.</b> The union official told the judge that he had never before been asked to appear as a divorce-case witness, that the union believed family complaints against Wooten were "not job-related," and that Wooten was being "harassed" by Palin and other family members.
<b>Court documents show that Judge Suddock was disturbed by the alleged attacks by Palin and her family members on Wooten's behavior and character.</b> "Disparaging will not be toleratedâit is a form of child abuse," the judge told a settlement hearing in October 2005, according to typed notes of the proceedings. The judge added: "Relatives cannot disparage either. If occurs [sic] the parent needs to set boundaries for their relatives."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Russell Brand: Bush is a 'retarded cowboy'</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> The comedian, who is virtually unknown across the Atlantic, left both his studio audience, and millions of TV viewers stunned, by calling George Bush a "retard" and urging America to elect Barack Obama "on behalf of the world".
"As a representative of the global community, a visitor from abroad, I don't want to come across a little bit biased, but could I please ask of you, people of America, please elect Barack Obama, please, on behalf of the world.
"Some people, I think they're called racists, say America is not ready for a black president," he declared.
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Viren check Mike Gravel link on troopergate, he is democrat.
<b>The world's verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for</b>
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Look at yesterday's opinion polls, which have John McCain either in a dead heat with Obama or narrowly ahead. Given the well-documented tendency of African-American candidates to perform better in polls than in elections - thanks to people who say they will vote for a black man but don't - this suggests Obama is now trailing badly.</b> More troubling was the ABC News-Washington Post survey which found McCain ahead among white women by 53% to 41%. Two weeks ago, Obama had a 15% lead among women. There is only one explanation for that turnaround, and it was not McCain's tranquilliser of a convention speech: Obama's lead has been crushed by the Palin bounce.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Of course I know that even to mention Obama's support around the world is to hurt him. Incredibly, that large Berlin crowd damaged Obama at home, branding him the "candidate of Europe" and making him seem less of a patriotic American. But what does that say about today's America, that the world's esteem is now unwanted? If Americans reject Obama, they will be sending the clearest possible message to the rest of us - and, make no mistake, we shall hear it.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Alaska
09/10-09/10 - McCain +31
McCain - 64%
Obama - 33%
(last poll in Alaska)
07/30-07/30 - McCain +6
McCain - 48%
Obama - 42%
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New Mexico
09/10-09/10 - McCain +2
McCain - 49%
Obama - 47%
08/20-08/20 - Obama +4
McCain - 44%
Obama - 48%
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North Dakota
09/10-09/10 - McCain +14
McCain - 55%
Obama - 41%
(last poll in North Dakota)
07/08/-07/08 - Obama +3
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Reason to vote for McCain
Sarah Palin is an EJ, but she is a stupid EJ, and unlikely to win in 2012
Whereas if McCain loses, there is a risk for Bobby Jindal a competent EJ to win in 2012
I'm not so sure whether Indians should be concerned about Bobby Jindal. Yes, he sleeps with hardcore EJs, but it seems his parents and brother are still Hindus. This may mean that he is just playing convenient game with EJs so that he can rise in a conservative land. In a way he has broken the ceilings for Indians in US.
We should be concerned if he has sponsored any EJ activity in India or among Indians in US. If true, he can convert EJs to a very a dangerous monster in India.
NPR covered this morning: The Living Room candidate which has all the ads from Presidential campaigns going back 50 some years.
The famous Daisy ad by Johnson was just run once on TV - didn't know that.
09-13-2008, 12:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-13-2008, 12:24 AM by Pandyan.)
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Bobby "Traitor" Jindal is just another opportunist drohi. I don't understand how anyone else could see him in a different light. His parents are also losers who cultivated the drohi in him. The loser even changed his name. He's just like Vijay Kumar, another jesusism convert, who married a gori. Sooner or later, all these drohis and their progeny will just merge into the gora xtian mainstream, losing whatever Hinduness they had. It would take a tremendous leap of faith to believe that he converted to covertly assist the cause of Indians or Hindus.
Republican John McCain has taken a modest lead over Barack Obama entering the final seven weeks of their presidential contest, buoyed by decisive advantages among suburban and working-class whites and a huge edge in how people rate each candidate's experience, a poll showed today.
McCain has had some success parrying his Democratic opponent's efforts to tie him to the deeply unpopular President George W Bush, according to the AP-GfK Poll of likely voters. Half say they believe the Arizona senator would chart a different path from Bush, including a slight majority of independents, a pivotal group of voters.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/P...how/3477710.cms
This gets updated every day
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Presidential polls - Electoral College
Now down Congress Dem tickets are in trouble.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â <b>Sarah Palin, Small-Town America, and the Democrats' Ongoing Arrogance Problem</b>
There was a map of the United States produced after the 2000 and 2004 elections, showing the presidential campaign victories on a county-by-county basis in blue and red. America was a sea of red, with clusters of blue for the most part relegated to major urban areas in the East, West, and scattered in between. <b>The Democratic Party is an urban one, focused largely on urban problems and constituencies.</b>
<b>But in order to win in 2008, Democratic leaders knew that they needed to woo small-town America</b>. The time was ripe, the theory went, with an unpopular president, an unpopular Congress, and a Republican Party that had somehow lost its way.<b> So the Democratic machine went to work, bringing Barack Obama to places like Montana, hoping that he could build on that dissatisfaction and show that the Democratic Party cares about Main Streets across the U.S.A., no matter how rural or sparsely populated</b>.
<b>Which is why the attack on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and her prior experience of being the mayor of a town of 9,000, is both strange and troubling.The 2000 and 2004 electoral maps show, and political experience confirms, that America is a place of small towns. So casting aspersions on those who live and govern in Small-Town America seems to be, well, a stupid way of courting those voters. </b>
<b>But it also evinces a complete misunderstanding of the complexities involved with governing a small state or town, a hubris that underscores the dishonest slogans of "change" that have come from the Democratic camp. If you don't understand how public policy actually gets implemented in the real world, how can you possibly work to improve the system? If the belief is that only policy made at the federal level is complex and grants experience to the policymaker, then how can one be trusted to ensure that policies that have to be implemented at the state and local level (i.e., unfunded mandates and the like) are reasonable and limited?</b>
The answer is, they can't. Local government comes with its own set of experience-accruing difficulties. It can be just as complex, the stakes just as high, but without the glamour that comes from being a member of the House, or a senator for two or 36 years. In fact, it has the potential to be much harder, for two reasons.
<b>First, you're governing not just in the public spotlight but in and around and with your constituents. There is no buffer between you and the public if you're a small-town or small-county executive</b>. When you make a decision that people don't like, you hear about it. You get phone calls, you get approached in the supermarket, people walk up to your front porch or back fence. This is just one of the reasons many local political parties have trouble at times finding people to run for officeâit is tremendously stressful to be so easily accessible.
Joe Biden sees real people on the train to and from Delaware, and he sees people in carefully scheduled events in the state itself. <b>But when was the last time that Biden made a tough vote to curtail the funding for some project affecting his constituents and then had to go do his family shopping at the local grocery store? When was the last time Obama made a decision to enact some new regulatory scheme affecting small business and got approached while he was weeding in his front yard to hear complaints about it?</b>
These things happen in small towns. And frankly, it makes a politician a lot more sensitive to the impact of what they are doing. <b>It lends an additional air of accountability that people like Barack Obama and Joe Biden simply don't have</b>.
And from a practical standpoint, <b>Obama and Biden have never had to contend with making the hard fiscal choices that small-town mayors and small-state governors have to. </b>They've never had to balance a budget. Local officials do. Every year. They cannot go into debt. And frankly, America would be better off in the long term with more public officials in higher office who have had to grapple with keeping public books balanced.
<b>This talking point about the population of Wasilla, Alaska, is insultingâto the millions of Americans who live in small towns, to those who have done the hard work of serving the public in governance of those small towns, and to the intelligence of all of us by trying to confuse the real issues of experience and judgment with phantom ones.</b>
Those 2000 and 2004 maps told a story, a story with an important lesson. <b>It had appeared as though the Democrats had learned it, but this new bit of arrogance shows that they have not.</b>
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Obama/Biden is elite ticket. Kerry was elite but Edward was so-called blue collar link, even then they lost. Only Bill Clinton was able to do it twice because he was on top of ticket from small town and was refered as Hick by Washington elite. Gore was Elite on that ticket.
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Here's why small town record and shennanigans deserves scrutiny, specially after McCain's telling us that US Senators are 'divorced' from day to day stuff of small towns.
New Evidence: Palin Had Direct Role In Charging Rape Victims For Exams
Yes, it's HuffPo, but the have scanned town records with Palin's own signature. I'd like to see Houdini lipstick this one.
The DNC is responsible for this messed up candidature. This should be fun to watch.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->WHY BAM'S FLAILING
URBAN MACHINE RUNS AGROUND
By MARK CUNNINGHAM
Obama: Learning the limits of his advisers' class-warfare strategy.
Last updated: 4:51 pm
September 10, 2008
Posted: 3:39 am
September 10, 2008
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IF it suddenly seems like the Obama campaign doesn't have any idea what it's doing, maybe that's because it doesn't.
Barack Obama has never run a campaign against a real Republican. And his main strategist, David Axelrod, is way out of his areas of expertise.</b>
Axelrod specializes in urban politics. He's run a bunch of mayoral races (usually in cities with lots of blacks), plus contests in true-blue states like Massachusetts and New York.
And his favorite guns may well misfire now.
New Yorkers may recall that he was on the Freddy Ferrer team - and how the class-warfare theme of "the Two New Yorks" managed to lose the 2005 mayoral race in a city that's overwhelmingly Democratic. (Yes, Bloomberg had his billions - but he was beatable.)
Nor did the same shtick do much for Axelrod client John Edwards, who didn't exactly score big with "the Two Americas" in the Democrats' 2004 presidential primaries.
The left-populism did work for Deval Patrick in the People's Republic of Massachusetts - but, again, an early caucus victory was vital to getting the nomination, as was the fact that the primary featured two white candidates. (And the general was a four-way race, with a Republican nominee unimpressive even by the low standards of the Bay State GOP.)
By the way, it's not much of a governing philosophy: After less than a year on the job, Patrick has job-approval ratings to rival President Bush's.
The approach appeals to Democrats - consultant Bob Shrum spent his career selling it to one candidate after another. But it just doesn't sell with the great American middle: Shrum's presidential candidates invariably lost.
Axelrod is also known for playing the race card, but that can backfire, big-time - especially when neither he nor Obama really has much feel for the political and cultural landscape of most of the nation.
Obama has lived a lot of places, but his adult life has been overwhelming "anti-Palin country" - urban and/or elite: here in New York as a Columbia undergrad, and later with NYPIRG; Cambridge, Mass., for Harvard; Chicago.
You start to see why he couldn't name a single right-wing friend when Bill O'Reilly asked. And how he unleashed that idiotic comment about how small-town people "cling to guns or religion."
A race against a serious Republican might have awakened him to this weakness - but he's never been in one before. In Illinois, he was the surprise winner of the 2004 primary for the Senate, in part because two white candidates split the vote.
In the general, he basically had it won once a Chicago paper took down the GOP nominee by getting a court to unseal unseemly divorce papers, and the local Republicans then tapped Alan Keyes - a carpet-bagging right-wing performance artist - as their standard-bearer.
So it's not such a mystery that the mean machine of the Democratic primaries, which stole the nomination away from Sen. Hillary Clinton, is sputtering so badly now.
Nor does Joe Biden bring much wider experience to the Obama campaign. He left Scranton at age 10, and his real home since 1973 has been the US Senate.
Of course, the polls are still tight, with McCain-Palin swimming against a strong Democratic tide. The Republicans may yet implode or somehow get taken out by Obama's acolytes in the press.
But Barack Obama would be a fool to bet on any of that. Instead, he should make an executive decision - and bring on board some Democratic talent that actually has a clue of how to fight to win this race.
Mark Cunningham is The Post's op-ed editor.
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Here's why small town record and shennanigans deserves scrutiny, specially after McCain's telling us that US Senators are 'divorced' from day to day stuff of small towns.
New Evidence: Palin Had Direct Role In Charging Rape Victims For Exams
Yes, it's HuffPo, but the have scanned town records with Palin's own signature. I'd like to see Houdini lipstick this one.
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I guess congratulations are in order for the frothing mouths at HuffPo. The 3 weeks efforts at Alaska has been completely justified. But this still does not change anything about Bambi's experience and his associates.
Biggest problem I am seeing, he is on panic mode and lot of pressure because he is using lot of money which was supposed to go for down tickets.
More he will attack Palin, more he will lose.
As of today, even NJ and Washington states are toss up.
Now people will not believe anything comes out of his mouth or campaign.
Day before yesterday Obama mocked McCain defected arm. It is not going well with lot of people.
In all religious circle, his infanticide video is making round along with Nurse interview.
I think mocking people and feeding fake stories will hurt him more. Today his campaign circulated video with some guy claiming Palin daughter's child father.
Obama should take vacation and come back with fresh atitude otherwise whole US will be red. Even his own state Gov (D) came out in favor of Gov. Palin.
Down ticket Dem candidates don't want Obama for any campagn
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Bobby "Traitor" Jindal is just another opportunist drohi. I don't understand how anyone else could see him in a different light. His parents are also losers who cultivated the drohi in him. The loser even changed his name. He's just like Vijay Kumar, another jesusism convert, who married a gori. Sooner or later, all these drohis and their progeny will just merge into the gora xtian mainstream, losing whatever Hinduness they had. It would take a tremendous leap of faith to believe that he converted to covertly assist the cause of Indians or Hindus.
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NRIs contributed 40% of Bobby Jindals election fund
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