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While the liberal blogosphere and media critics alike are fuming over the deplorable gotcha-fest that was the ABC Democratic debate yesterday in Philadelphia, conservative talking heads are positively ecstatic. In the New York Times, David Brooks called the questions on lapel pins and the Weather Underground “excellent.” The excreable Michelle Malkin snarked, “How dare they explore questions of character, truthfulness, and judgment?” And over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey offered “kudos to ABC News” while noting “John McCain has to feel grateful not to be included.”

Which is exactly right. The so-called “maverick” John McCain has never been subjected to the inquisitorial equivalent of the rectal probes Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton received last night. And given the media’s on-going love affair with Mr. Straight Talk, he no doubt never will be.

But since the right-wing amen corner asked for an exploration of John McCain’s “character, truthfulness, and judgment,” the following represents a subset what an American media actually doing its job might ask of the Republican presidential nominee.

Here, then, are 10 debate questions John McCain will never be asked:

1. Do you agree with Pastor John Hagee that war with Iran is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy?
In February, you shared a stage with Pastor John Hagee and said you were “very proud” to have his endorsement. You also called the Reverend Rod Parsley, a man who said of Islam “America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed”, your “spiritual guide.” Do you believe America’s mission is to destroy Islam? Do you join Pastor Hagee in believing the United States must attack Iran to fulfill the biblical prophecy of Armageddon in Israel in which 144,000 Jews will be converted to Christianity and the rest killed? Is that why you joked about “bomb bomb Iran?” If not, why will you not renounce the support of Hagee and Parsley?

2. Doesn’t your legendary temper make you too dangerous to be trusted with the presidency of the United States?
Your anger, even toward friends and allies, is legendary. You purportedly dropped the F-Bomb on your own GOP colleagues John Cornyn and Chuck Grassley. In the book, The Real McCain, author Cliff Schechter claims you got into a fist-fight with your fellow Arizona Republican Rick Renzi. Allegedly, you even publicly used a crude term, one which decorum and the FCC prohibit us from even saying on the air (CUNT), to describe your own wife. Which if any of these episodes is untrue? Don’t your anger management problems make you too dangerously unstable to be president of the United States?

3. Doesn’t your confusion regarding basic facts about the war in Iraq, including repeatedly citing a nonexistent Al Qaeda-Iran alliance, make you unfit for command?
On four occasions in one month, you confused friend and foe in Iraq by describing Sunni Al Qaeda as being backed by Shiite Iran. Then you showed a misunderstanding of the U.S. chain of command when you claimed you would not back shifting forces from Iraq to Afghanistan “unless Gen. [David] Petraeus said that he felt that the situation called for that,” a decision which Petraeus himself told you and your Senate colleagues only the week before rests not with him but with his superiors. Doesn’t your lack of understanding and judgment when it comes to basic facts of America’s national security disqualify you as commander-in-chief?

4. Given your past adultery, should Americans consider you a moral exemplar of family values?
You are the nominee of a Republican Party which claims to support so-called “family values.” Yet you commenced an adulterous relationship with your current wife Cindy months before the dissolution of your previous marriage to your first wife Carol. Should Americans consider you to be a moral exemplar of family values?

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According to Yahoo News, BET founder Bob Johnson who now owns The NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats, and who is a longtime friend of the Clinton’s said Barack Obama would not be a leading presidential candidate if he were white. He also in January said “The Clintons have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues — when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood; I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in his book — when they have been involved.” He was referring to Obama speaking about smoking weed in his youth. This nigga is crazy. Where is Spike Lee’s Drop Squad when you need them?

I would say boycott BET, but he sold it. Plus, didn’t nobody watch that bullshit anyway? Boycott the Charlotte Bobcats and Uncle Tom Ass Bob Johnson.

For more on this Anti-union, Shucking and jiving corporate sleazebag check out The Insanity Report, Racialicious, Tyrone Takes America, or Open Left.

Misspoke my ass. Misspeaking is done once. When you say something over and over, even in prepared speeches, it’s a lie. She just didn’t think she’d get caught. Matter of fact, even after people called her on the Bosnia lie, she continued to lie about it, repeating her story. Only when the video surfaced did she halfway apologize by saying she “misspoke”. Next time you get pulled over with weed in the car and tell the police there isn’t any, if they find it , just tell them you misspoke and I’m sure they’ll understand.

THE SPIN:

“A lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me,” Bill Clinton said in Boonville, Ind. “But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995.

“Did y’all see all that? Oh, they blew it up,” the former president continued. “Let me just tell you. The president of Bosnia and Gen. Wesley Clark — who was there making peace where we’d lost three peacekeepers who had to ride on a dangerous mountain road because it was too dangerous to go the regular, safe way — both defended her because they pointed out that when her plane landed in Bosnia, she had to go up to the bulletproof part of the plane, in the front. Everybody else had to put their flak jackets underneath the seat in case they got shot at. And everywhere they went they were covered by Apache helicopters. So they just abbreviated the arrival ceremony.

“Now I say that because what really has mattered is that even then she was interested in our troops,” he said. “And I think she was the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone. And you would of thought, you know, that she’d robbed a bank the way they all carried on about this. And some of them when they’re 60 they’ll forget something when they’re tired at 11 o’clock at night, too.”

THE FACTS:

Bill Clinton has many of the facts wrong.

His wife didn’t make the sniper fire claim “one time late at night when she was exhausted.” She actually told the story several times, including during prepared remarks on foreign policy delivered the morning of March 17.

It’s also not true that she “immediately apologized for it.” Clinton has never apologized for the comments and only acknowledged that she “misspoke” a week after the March 17 speech when video of her peaceful tarmac reception emerged.

It’s also not true that she was the “first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone” — a claim that Hillary Clinton has also made when talking about the trip. Pat Nixon traveled to Saigon during the Vietnam war and Barbara Bush went to Saudi Arabia two months before the launching of Desert Storm.

The trip also was not in 1995, but 1996.

Yahoo News

Watch how quickly the McCain campaign says this wasn’t a racist or racial comment. They’ll also say they had no idea this guy was going to call him Tiger Woods. Funny thing is, earlier this year when someone was introducing Sen. McCain, he called Sen. Obama “Barack Hussein Obama”. Of course the McCain campaign wasn’t aware then either. Let’s be real here. Do you think that these candidates advisers don’t approve all speech’s given by anyone who is introducing them? If you think that they don’t pre-approve these speeches, please don’t vote….EVER.

Now let’s not be confused here. McCain, Clinton, or Obama can’t be held accountable for idiot remarks made by staff members or former staff members. That isn’t the case here, or earlier this year with the Hussein remark.

Let’s also not forgot that while campaigning in 2000, McCain told reporters “I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.” He also voted against making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday. Additionally, McCain has employed white supremacist, Richard Quinn, founder and editor in chief of the magazine “Southern Partisan”, paying over $180,000 to political consulting firm “Richard Quinn & Associates.”

Here are a few of Quinn’s beliefs:

• “King Day should have been rejected because its purpose is vitriolic and profane.”
• “The black leaders who lobbied so furiously for King Day confirmed another unpleasant reality. By celebrating King as the incarnation of all they admire, they have chosen to glorify the histrionic rather than the heroic and by inference they spurned the brightest and the best among their own race.”
• “Ignoring the real heroes in our nation’s life, the blacks have chosen a man who represents not their emancipation, not their sacrifices and bravery in service to their country; rather, they have chosen a man whose role in history was to lead his people into a perpetual dependence on the welfare state, a terrible bondage of body and soul.”
• “After all, Mr. Mandela was put in jail 27 years ago – not because of his humanitarian philosophy – but because he was a terrorist who openly advocated (and personally committed) violence against the government.”
• “How many people out there across the face of America are well aware that Mandela is a bad egg, maybe even say so in the comfort and security of their homes, but are afraid to express their real opinions publicly?”
• “What better way to reject politics as usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke? What better way to tweak the nose of the establishment?”

So I guess McCain is a maverick like David Duke?

For the full story on Richard Quinn, go to Pfaw.org

Jerry Zeifman, retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.

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I love the scene with Hillary blasting. I think the Bosnia lie might have been the nail in her coffin.

With it being election season and all, sometimes it’s necessary to take frequent breaks from all the debate for a little comic relief. Here is some political satire to enjoy. Introducing the Swift Kids….

More Hillary lies. On a trip to Bosnia, she says they had to duck sniper fire, and were told to run to their cars, and there was no “greeting ceremony”. I guess she forgot about this new fangled invention called cameras.
Read Hillary Lies pt. 1 for more lying.

Dick Morris, the political columnist who formerly advised President Bill Clinton, expects John McCain to fade from the presidential race due to his “liberal” stances, and thinks Hillary Clinton is a Nixon-like character who “lies about everything.”

Here are a few of Hillary’s lies….and I stress a few:

• She said that Chelsea, her daughter, was jogging around the towers of the World Trade Center on 9/11 and [Hillary] went on the “Today” show … and she said [Chelsea] was only saved because she ducked into a coffee shop at the last minute and she actually heard the airplane hit the building. Chelsea wrote an article four months later that said she was home in bed asleep [on 9/11] and a friend called her and said, “Wake up and turn on the TV,” and she turned it on and saw the plane hit. She was five miles from Ground Zero, nowhere near there.

• “She took $1,000 and with the help of her friends, who Bill was helping to safeguard against inspections for the poultry industry, parlayed it in a matter of weeks on the futures market and then wouldn’t release her tax returns, so nobody knew about it until after the statute of limitations was lifted.

• She told a federal grand jury that she didn’t work on a certain project in the Whitewater scandal, when she did, and she claimed she didn’t know it by that name but another name. …

• Her brother was paid $300,000 by a drug and crack cocaine dealer, who was serving a 20 year sentence in prison and her husband pardoned him, and she claimed she had no idea her brother was representing the guy.

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This story makes me very happy.

Camp Hill Mayor Lou Thieblemont switched his lifelong Republican registration this week so he can vote for Democratic

Sen. Barack Obama in Pennsylvania’s April 22 primary.

“I’m sick and tired of the politics of fear in this country. He’s the only one who doesn’t do that,” Thieblemont said of Obama. “He’s the only candidate who’s said he’d talk to our enemies and try to get some common ground.”

A retired airline pilot, Thieblemont, 62, said he doesn’t believe the Bush administration’s claims that the United States is safer now. “We’re all alone in the world. We have basically lost all our friends in the world with comments like ‘bring it on.’”

There calling it one of the greatest American speech’s ever!

My homie Khari a Hip Hop Leaders Alumni just started a blog and the young cat is fresh! Dig this Obama art he did. Gives you some hope for the youth!

http://door10.com/?p=31

I’ve been engaged in alot of interesting discussion about this election. Most of it positive, alot of it bullshit. Apparently, people are up in arms over the “Bro’s Before Hoe’s” t-shirts, some demanding Obama denounce the shirts. My response was did he make them? Is he selling them? If he were, it would be an issue he should address.

Since he isn’t, what the fuck do they have to do with his campaign? If you’re really interested in turning this country around after Bush fucked it up, wouldn’t you rather hear him speak on the pertinent issues? Last I checked, a stupid ass slogan (which I find funny ONLY as applied to this race) is not what the troops in Iraq or Afghanistan, people with no health care, the homeless or jobless, or people losing their homes are concerned about.

First of all, in the term “Bro’s before Hoe’s”, Bro’s isn’t a reference to black men. It’s a reference to men period. When is a last time you heard a brotha call another brother “bro”? “Brah” maybe, but not “bro”. In fact, when the term “bro” is applied to black men, it’s a derogatory term used mostly by whites and sometimes mexicans. Second, Obama did not make the t-shirts (although I wish I did…Xmas money!), so it’s not his responsibility to denounce them.

Here are a couple quotes from people I discussed this with:

One woman points to this picture then says “Check out the link and scroll down to see who is wearing the “bro’s before hoe’s” sweat shirt!! Do you think Obama is her brutha from anutha mutha???”

What does who’s wearing the shirt matter? Why do they have to be related? Why is she all of a sudden using Ebonics?

“I wonder if Obies father put his “bro’s before his hoe” and that is why he was raised by his mother and grand parents in Hawaii!!”

My response is I don’t know why his parents aren’t together, nor do I care. It has no bearing on the future of this country. Again, Obama didn’t make the shirts so that is irrelevant.

After responding that it’s just a t-shirt, and that he didn’t make nor is he selling the shirts, and that we have more important things to talk about than played out slogans, she goes on too say that it is relevant and he should denounce it, adding that:

“As an African American man I’m sure you know some of your friends who has kids and are not married to their mother, not only that, they aren’t playing an active role as a positive role model in that childs life either.”

My response: Ok, so because I’m black your SURE I have friends who have kids out of wedlock and are deadbeat dads?? I guess being black I should have a “posse of homies” that impregnate and leave women ala Tom Brady.

I leave with what I left her ignorant ass with. I challenge everyone here to put their pre-dispositions about each candidate aside, go here http://www.dehp.net/candidate/ and vote on YOUR issues, then see which candidate you are most closely aligned with, then vote for them.

Larry David, comedian, writer, Seinfeld creator on Hillary Clinton’s “3AM phone call” commercial :

Here’s an idea for an Obama ad: a montage of Clinton’s Sybillish personalities that have surfaced during the campaign with a solemn voiceover at the end saying, “Does anyone want this nut answering the phone?”

How is it that she became the one who’s perceived as more equipped to answer that 3 a.m. call than the unflappable Obama? He, with the ice in his veins, who doesn’t panic when he’s losing or get too giddy when he’s winning, who’s as comfortable in his own skin as she’s uncomfortable in hers. There have been times in this campaign when she seemed so unhinged that I worried she’d actually kill herself if she lost……

The full article found at my favorite Internet Newspaper, The Hufington Post.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain trails Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in hypothetical matchups, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Wednesday. Illinois Sen. Obama leads McCain by 12 percentage points — 52 percent to 40 percent; New York Sen. Clinton leads McCain by 6 points — 50 percent to 44 percent, the poll found.

McCain, an Arizona senator, has turned his attention to the November 4 general election after clinching his party’s nomination on Tuesday night. Clinton and Obama are still locked in a close battle for the Democratic nomination.

McCain, endorsed by U.S. President George W. Bush, fares poorly against Clinton and Obama among Americans who disapprove of the president and Americans opposing the war, The Washington Post said.

About two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling his job and think the war was not worth fighting, the newspaper said.

Age might be another obstacle for 71-year-old McCain, who if elected would be the oldest first-term president.

The percentage of Americans discouraged by McCain’s age (27 percent) is more than double the number who would be less enthusiastic about supporting Obama, who would be the first African American president or Clinton, who would be the first female president, the Post reported.

Thanx to www.blog.gueriallaone.com
In an ongoing effort to secure Democratic hopeful Barack Obama’s presidential bid, The 008, Shepard Fairey and Upper Playground are working together to create t-shirts of Fairey’s popular Obama campaign posters to be distributed throughout Texas prior to the primary on March 4, 2008. In the past month, Fairey announced his endorsement of Obama by creating a limited run of posters adorned with a portrait of the Senator along with the words “Hope” and “Progress” that have become defining slogans of his campaign.

Shepard Fairey and Upper Playground will be offering the t-shirts for purchase at Upper Playground stores and online through www.UpperPlayground.com. The t-shirts are available in both a “Hope” and “Progress” edition and they each retail for $25. All proceeds from the sales of the Shepard Fairey/Upper Playground collaborative Obama t-shirt will go directly to creating more campaign t-shirts, posters, and stickers by other artists in support of Obama’s bid for President. Upper Playground recently endorsed Obama’s campaign by creating campaign posters featuring artwork from the Date Farmers.

For more information on the Shepard Fairey/Upper Playground t-shirt and their endorsement for Obama, please visit www.ObeyGiant.com or www.UpperPlayground.com.

It’s a damn shame.

Montgomery County authorities say a man stabbed his brother-in-law during an argument over who should get the Democratic nomination for president.

What’s more, Jose Ortiz, 28, who’s charged with felony assault, is a registered Republican.

District Attorney Risa Ferman said Ortiz supports Hillary Clinton and Sean Shurelds supports Barack Obama. She told reporters Monday that the two got into an argument in a Collegeville home Thursday night and Shurelds tried to choke Ortiz. She says Ortiz then stabbed Shurelds in the abdomen.

Shurelds was taken to a hospital in critical condition, but is expected to recover