I got 2 beefs with the convention. Having to listen to Pelosi is one. Fuck her.

Second listening to Bill Clinton act like he raised workers wages and moved us toward energy independence during his term.

He did not. He was a tool of Wall Street and Rupert Murdoch's buddy.

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I mean... The Kerry thread from today has comments... And this one sort of does...
But scrolling through the last 24 hours of threads, I see A LOT OF "NO COMMENTS".

Is there a hacker in the house?

Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 3:

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OK
Just noticing.

Disregard comment #5... you're on it!!!

”I think the convention has gone pretty well so far. What do you think? I think Michelle Obama kicked it off pretty well, don’t you think? If I’m not mistaken, Hillary Clinton rocked the house last night. And just in case you were wondering, I think President Bill Clinton reminded us of what it’s like when you’ve got a President who puts people first. Thank you, President Clinton.”

oh, come on...Clinton didn't put 'people' first.
Remember "Ending Welfare as we know it?" NAFTA? The Comm Act of '94?
He was a loyal stooge of the same corporate interests as own Obama and MShame...

Sheeple worshiping fake defenders off the constitution who sue 3rd party candidates from getting on the ballet, voting our civil liberties away.. good times! Great show! Go Obama!

Oh, can we do the cute Hollywood thing and combine the names of Biden and Obama?

Are you voting for Joe Bama too?? or Barrack O'Biden?

Has this blog been hacked ?

Nicole: Yes, and it still is being hacked. Your patience is appreciated.

SITEMONITOR:

The screwup happened right after noon EST.

The email to your addresses (JA and Sitemonitors) is also BLOCKED.

The system informs: "the "To" column contains unrecognizable address" - even within gmail domain, from my gmail accounts, from ALL domains I tried to let you know.

Thank you - it means the Convention and your coverage of what was hidden is successful.

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Maybe the other friendly blogs should be warned about this hack. They might be next.

It is amazing how transparently disingenuous TV coverage of the DNC is. It will be interesting to see how much they drool over McCain next week ...

Corporations can't vote, but they pretty much control the election process through media control, candidate financing and vote fraud (Diebold voting machines). Their "elected" henchmen have manipulated the election process in ways to numerous to count including registration requirements, purges of voter rolls, practical impediments (i.e. shortages of voting machines), absence of provisional ballots, etc., etc.

You must be doing something right if you incur the wrath of the basement dweling flying keyboard kosmonauts.

Obama must have them terrified too.......

Pepsi Convention

As in the New Generation?

What does that make mcgramps

Coca-Cola

Moxie

Sassafras tea?

roooth @ 21:

You must be doing something right if you incur the wrath of the basement dweling flying keyboard kosmonauts.

Obama must have them terrified too.......

Yeah! Keep fighting the good fight!!

Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 3:

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So in the meantime you want us to play doctor?

ysbaddaden @ 23:

Pepsi Convention

As in the New Generation?

What does that make mcgramps

Coca-Cola

Moxie

Sassafras tea?

Sasparilla!

ysbaddaden @ 27:

Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 3:

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So in the meantime you want us to play doctor?

No... patient.

I'm hoping this will show up - 3rd attempt today.

I know this is off-topic (sorry!) but I'm in need of some quick information and I've pretty much searched the web out this morning. We're having a military funeral in our small town on Saturday and Westboro Baptist is planning on showing up. I know they've had plenty of money problems since they lost a lawsuit and in this past year they'll post a 'protest' on their little hate-filled schedule and turn out to be a no-show.

Has anyone had any recent experiences with their protests? How many of them show up and what tactics have they used in your area? I'm thinking they're a 50/50 shot for actually appearing here since they also have two other things listed on their schedule for the same day, but my brother-in-law is one of the funeral directors and he's trying to find out everything he can so he will best be able to help this family.

Thanks for anything you can tell me - if you think it will clog up this thread, post your answer in the open thread below this one and I'll keep checking there.

Alan Stanwyck @ 32:

Democrats the Party of Whiners
By Robert Robb

The Democrats have titled their party platform, "Renewing America's Promise."

A more honest and accurate title would be, "We'll Give You More."

The soul of the Democratic philosophy is summed up in this passage from the platform: "For decades, Americans have been told to act for ourselves, by ourselves, on our own. Democrats reject this recipe for division and failure."
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LMAO!
How many McBain point you get for that gem?

ysbaddaden @ 23:

Pepsi Convention

As in the New Generation?

What does that make mcgramps

Coca-Cola

Moxie

Sassafras tea?

I like Moxie! Don't dis' Moxie!

Ruthless People @ 30:

Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 3:

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I would say it's baby jesus but he's a Democrat.

But what about "trickle down" jesus? The jesus (the nordic looking one) that wants you to have an SUV large enough to protect YOUR family and lots of gas to go with it. Oh and a boat to take to the river, and electronics, yeah, LOTS of electronics.

bateman @ 38:

I've noticed a bunch of glitches on this site lately.

But is your zip lock bag of cheetos still safe? ;)

if you want to know more about john mccain then his POW story read about these guys:

phil gramm: ubs warburg...loopholes enron,loose regulations for mortagage lending that has an affect on all of us...."whiners"

rick davis: lobbyist for very lucrative firm,behind mccain's tax proposal(s)

randy scheunemann:lobbyist,PNAC fame,close ties to georgia up to very recently

all three are NEOCON/corporate guys. i didn't foget to mention charlie black you remember him a conflict could help mccain.

I could not resist.

Biden's "Freudian slip" was cute.
"George" McCain indeed.

Read this at the NYT - seems it can be accessed w/out registration. Too long for these c&l servers under attack from the McPain kosmonauts (great name by another poster above)

http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/stranger-in-a-stadium/

August 27, 2008, 7:35 pm
Stranger in a Stadium

The nominee did not look or sound like most Americans. He spoke with flair in a flat-voweled land. He was optimism in a time of gray, a tomorrow man in a country where many felt their best days were behind them.

On top of that, he was thought to be a man without heft, a bit of a dandy.

But with one speech, Franklin Roosevelt put himself on the side of a huge majority of Americans eager to throw out a president. His voice would be that of “the forgotten man,” Roosevelt vowed on April 7, 1932, a day when he found his theme, and the Democratic Party found its agenda for the next half-century.

When Barack Obama goes before 70,000 people at Invesco Field on Thursday night, he will try to be the voice for those who also feel forgotten in the age of the global economy, among the nearly 80 percent of voters who say the nation is on the wrong track. But he’s fighting the headwinds of history. Obama is now clearly the underdog, as the weight of just how unusual his candidacy is becomes clear to voters, who truly only focus as summer ends. .."
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some very good comments - bolding is mine

"" # 39. August 28th, 2008 4:55 am

If Obama doesn’t look like most americans than that’s too bad for most americans. I have been watching Obama, without quite the audacity he has, but with as much hope, ever since I read his brilliant autobiography a few years ago. When he was 35 years old he explained himself so fully and frankly that I adopted him as my and every american’s brother. So why don’t american’s understand who he is - he told us very clearly? I, by the way, am a practically unemployable woman because I am exactly his age and have moved around and changed jobs while I followed my husband’s career and raised my children. If I am too old to get work why is he too young? Now I live in Europe and I don’t understand how the Anerican presidential race could be close at all. If Obama doesn’t win (and by a landslide), I will seriously consider renouncing my citizenship. This decision is a no brainer here.

— Posted by Lili """

Gretchen the aspiring elitist @ 46:

pissed off patricia @ 40:

Gretchen the aspiring elitist @ 33:

I'm hoping this will show up - 3rd attempt today.

I know this is off-topic (sorry!) but I'm in need of some quick information and I've pretty much searched the web out this morning. We're having a military funeral in our small town on Saturday and Westboro Baptist is planning on showing up. I know they've had plenty of money problems since they lost a lawsuit and in this past year they'll post a 'protest' on their little hate-filled schedule and turn out to be a no-show.

Has anyone had any recent experiences with their protests? How many of them show up and what tactics have they used in your area? I'm thinking they're a 50/50 shot for actually appearing here since they also have two other things listed on their schedule for the same day, but my brother-in-law is one of the funeral directors and he's trying to find out everything he can so he will best be able to help this family.

Thanks for anything you can tell me - if you think it will clog up this thread, post your answer in the open thread below this one and I'll keep checking there.

Do you have a Harley Davidson group near you. I know at other funerals they have shown up and buzzed their motors so that the shouts and all from the protesters can't be heard by the family or those at the funeral. Better to hear motorcycles than hate language.

Just for the record, my father was a funeral director and mortician when he was alive.

We're supposed to have about 100 motorcycles there, organized by the Freedom Riders. The veterans are planning on making a human barricade around the entrances to the church. I'll be standing in there for my father; his back is acting up again and he was upset that he couldn't be there.

My brother-in-law has a pretty tough job this weekend, as you will well know!

I sincerely hope everything goes well and as peaceful as possible. Too bad the funeral home couldn't put a false date and time in the newspaper so the idiots from westboro would be fooled into showing up on the wrong day and at the wrong time.

EYE OPENING FACTS

Senators Obama and Biden are both lawyers. Among voters, lawyers rank among the least respected and liked professions. Typically, lawyers are slightly more popular than politicians. Senators Obama and Biden have a total of seven years of private sector experience. Of the seven years, six years involve practicing law. In contrast, between them, they have spent 49 years as elected politicians. According to the National Journal, Senators Obama and Biden possess the first and third most liberal voting records in the U.S. Senate.

37 Verdillac

I've had it once when I was vacationing in Boston. I made a stop over to the Lexington/Concord area, and in a small diner ordered it when I saw it on the menu. Nastiest thing I ever tasted. I still have the empty can though as a souvenir.

Alan Stanwyck @ 54:

bateman @ 52:

RE: Alan Stanwyck

That was the name of the jerk-ass character (played by Tim Matheson) in the movie "Fletch."

fyi

YOU ARE THE FIRST TO EVEN REALIZE THAT. GIVE YOUR SELF A GOLD STAR!

I figured it out the other day, I knew that name sounded familiar.
Now where am I supposed to wear my gold star?

Nicole Belle @ 58:

Alan Stanwyck @ 53:

EYE OPENING FACTS

Senators Obama and Biden are both lawyers. Among voters, lawyers rank among the least respected and liked professions. Typically, lawyers are slightly more popular than politicians. Senators Obama and Biden have a total of seven years of private sector experience. Of the seven years, six years involve practicing law. In contrast, between them, they have spent 49 years as elected politicians. According to the National Journal, Senators Obama and Biden possess the first and third most liberal voting records in the U.S. Senate.

Stanwyk, come on. Obama and Biden are more liberal than Kennedy? Kucinich? Socialist Bernie Sanders?

It is to laugh to quote the National Journal around these parts. We shred their fact-free truthiness daily.

By the way, when you need them, I want you to tell the lawyer you need to hire to defend you from whatever mischief you've gotten into that they are unworthy and not respectable. Go ahead. Everyone hates lawyers until they need them.

Even Rush Limbaugh knew where to go when he was facing charges--the ACLU he lambasted.

You guys are such hypocrites in addition to being low information voters.

And I recognized the name yesterday. If you want to be a slime bucket bigamist with a sugar momma who lies about a terminal condition to frame an innocent man and hightails it to South America, that's your choice.

Alan Stanwyck @ 53:

EYE OPENING FACTS

Senators Obama and Biden are both lawyers. Among voters, lawyers rank among the least respected and liked professions. Typically, lawyers are slightly more popular than politicians. Senators Obama and Biden have a total of seven years of private sector experience. Of the seven years, six years involve practicing law. In contrast, between them, they have spent 49 years as elected politicians. According to the National Journal, Senators Obama and Biden possess the first and third most liberal voting records in the U.S. Senate.

Oh yeah, I get my statistics from the Nation Journal. Lawyers also represent people in getting justice (well financial at least) from large corporations. I have a good lawyer and he has helped me a few times. He is paid well, but is not wealthy by any means. McCain is an old bitter man who who's life has similarity to do with mine. I do not have a wealthy wife, I do not have seven homes, er condominiums (like they don't count). He has no new answers, he will continue (at least 95% of the time) what he knows, Bush's ideas. he supported the war and supports continuing it but cannot define what victory is, no one can. He will not protect womens rights, that is the right to decide how their life will be. O.K. he was a POW. I was glad when he and other came home. BUT that doesn't give him carte blanc ability to avoid reasonable questions by playing that card. he seem a bit too desperate to me. I think Cindy wants it too much too. he's not an intellectual elite, hell I think he need to read the directions on a book of matches each time (or check with Joe Lieberman) But he is a elite in terms of wealth. He can go anywhere, do anything, buy any amount of gas, hell he can buy anything he wants ( I assume if its O.K,. with Cindy). CAN YOU? Give me a smart educated man any day.

Aren't both Obama and Biden constitutional lawyers? If we ever needed one or two constitutional lawyers more than we do now, I sure don't remember when that would have been.

What exactly is McCain? I know he went to the Naval Academy but what did he learn? Okay, besides the wrong way to land a plane.

Alan Stanwyck @ 62:

I could care less that some magazine opined that Obama and Biden are the most liberal senators. Thats all merley opinion.

Yet you saw fit to include it into your post until I pointed out to you that intuitively you're full of it. But that's merely my opinion.

But I think those facts are astounding.

What facts?

...that our country could be operated by a bunch of lawyers with little or no experience in the private sector.

Being a lawyer, as I said, is not inherently bad. In fact, in light of the current administration, it might be nice to have someone in office that understands the rule of law. Furthermore, Cheney had only seven years (as CEO of Halliburton) in the private sector. Why would experience in the private sector being something to look for in picking someone for the highest PUBLIC office in the country? That's some flawed logic.

Barack was a US Senator for 149 days before he decided to run for president.

So? You want random and pointless facts? George W. Bush has spent more than a year of his eight year run as President on vacation.

I just thought Barack's message was "CHANGE".

Change from the trainwreck we're on.

How do you change government or a nation by people who's sole experience is being in government?

Hey genius, you just said Obama has only been in office for 149 days. He's in his 40s. He's worked in the private sector (he was a law professor and a community organizer for years). See how your criticisms sort of pretzel themselves into nothingness?

I thought Obama and Biden were suppose to be people who resemble the American family? Most families I know do not spend their entire career in government.

Oh well, there's an impressive standard: your anecdotal experience. Well you know what? They resemble mine. I come from a mixed race/mixed religion family. My mother had middle class roots and worked by her own merit to gain admission to an Ivy League school. My father worked in public service and I lived all over the world because of my father's work. I have an adoptive sibling, because my family believed that we had an obligation to help those less fortunate.

My brother is a community organizer. We have been taught to contribute and to be activists. We've been taught to believe that you can achieve whatever you want through hard work and determination.

I'm only sorry that hasn't been your experience.

That's it. I want the family guy from "The Family Guy" to be president. Stewie (sp?) is already vice president.

I am usuallypretty certain that people who, like the soi disant "Alan Stanwyck", detest lawyers have either never needed one, or when they did, were so patently guilty that representation was (deservedly) fruitless.

What the people of the USofA need in a president, more than anything else, is the steely-eyed, no-quarter, blood-thirsty, vicious devotion of a good trial lawyer to prosecute their cases for them in Congress and elsewhere.

There's nothing like the court-room to put an edge on your advocacy. The People need a good lawyer.

boozemop @ 68:

And don't forget we had a brain dead actor as president (hint...it's not Ariel Sharon).

Oh I know...I know...I know...

Is it

Fred Thompson?

At least they stopped calling him racist. A new low in dem politics.

Watching his wife's speech, he comforted the survivors of two fellow Dems that recently passed. One on each arm, hugging them when Hillary honored them.

Then he was beaming with pride and love watching his wife give the best speech of her career.

The next night he had them eating out of his hand, the best in the business.

Not only are the Clintons great Americans, they are great people with big hearts. They should be honored and not attacked and called racists.

VOTE for Al BUNDY!

Not gop.

Independent.

Who wants to be part of two corrupt parties?

Not me.