The Audacity of Hypocrisy

The Justice Dept is pulling out federal precinct observers.
PUMA’s WE NEED TO STOP THIS! CALL THE WHITE HOUSE SWITCHBOARD
Phone: (202) 456-1414 Fax: (202) 456-2461
president@whitehouse.gov Please send LETTER below to President Bush and Atty. General & To Secretaries of States. (Thanks to Anna7000 for the letter).

Dear
I urge you to make sure the Department of Justice provides oversight to ensure a fair and honest Presidential election.

With the Justice Department’s announcement that they will have no presence at polling stations as election observers, Americans stand to have our upcoming Presidential election manipulated by fraudulent activities. Since the Department of Justice is the only federal authority to police polling stations and prosecute violations of election law, they must be present at polling stations on Election Day.

Given ACORN’s history of involvement in voter registration fraud and given the dirty tricks by both sides during this election process, no one can take our election for granted.

We cannot afford to run the risk of having this election going unobserved and un-policed. The issue of fair and honest elections is one that all Americans should hold near and dear.

The Department of Justice must monitor the polls on Election Day. And we must be able to have faith in those who they will send out to do this job.

As it is, many states have already been holding elections via early voting laws. There is not a moment to lose, nor a single vote to be lost or cast illegally. We cannot afford to have any issue of voter fraud investigated only after-the-fact. That may be too late. None of us should need to wonder if the man elected to the highest office in the land is the true winner of the election.

Again, I urge you to make sure the Department of Justice provides oversight to ensure a fair and honest Presidential election.

GoPumaGo 10.29.08 at 9:45 am

http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/

http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/breaking-transcript-of-obama-khalidi-tape/

BREAKING: Transcript of Obama-Khalidi Tape (please send to everyone you know, and people you have not met yet. Meet people today just to send this to them)

While Sam Zell is selling out the future of his own people by refusing to release the tape of Barack Obama toasting known anti-Semite and
PLO functionary, Rashid Khalidi, I have been fortunate enough to receive a probable transcript of the toast…
HERE IT IS:
****BEGINNING OF TRANSCRIPT***********
Um, ah….Salaam
Um….My distinguished guests….ughh….it is an honor to be here…
uhh….It is truly refreshing to be surrounded by such a large group of people in which…uh.. I can truly see eye-to-eye with…uh…and completely agree…
Reverend Farrakhan..ughh…great to see you tonight…you always look great in a yellow bow-tie…and..uhh…tonight is no exception….
Bill..Bernadine….I see you everyday…so I don’t need to say much…but…ughh…you know I love you….keep doing the work you do….it’s time to start a revolution
Reverend Wright…..ughh…you are the father that I never had….I’ve never missed a sermon…and…uhh….I never will…
Michelle, while I find your frown so beautiful….I hope to one day make you proud of this country..and uhh…happy…and finally see you smile….
uhhhhh…with that being said…If everyone could please hold off from hitting the hookah…I would like to say a toast..to my, and Yasser Arafat’s, best friend….Mr. Rashid Khalidi….
Rashid…..you are my best friend….spiritual compass…..and baby sitter (crowd laughs..and cries)
I want to thank you for your constant indoctrination….I want to thank you for your imput..and..uhhh…reminders…that Israel is a constant sore….and..uhh…needs to be eliminated off the map….
I also want to thank you for introducing me to your many contacts in the middle east…I am sure…uh…that their imput……and uh…money…..will be of great use to me as I run for President of these great 57 states…..
While David Axelrod may be forcing you to move away from me during the campaign….I am confident…that..uhh…our friendship will not only remain..but actually prosper..during our time of absence….
Rashid…you ARE my middle east adviser….and you ALWAYS will be…
Here’s to Rashid……(A chant of Messiah can be heard in the background….also audible…is a voice (thought to be Ayer’s) screaming REVOLUTION…REVOLUTION..over and over…)
Salaam….
**************END OF TRANSCRIPT*************
IN LIGHT OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES NOT RELEASING THEIR COPY OF THE TAPE….CONSIDER THIS PROBABLE TRANSCRIPT TO BE ACCURATE, AND FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE IT TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE AN HONEST ASSESSMENT OF SENATOR OBAMA, PRIOR TO CASTING THEIR VOTE
If any Obamabots object to my writing, please call the Los Angeles Times, and convince them to release the original copy to prove me wrong.
L.A Times Contact Information:
Los Angeles Times
202 W. 1st St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 237-5000
Fax: (213) 237-7679

sent notes to WH and DOJ about poll watchers

Good morning Pumas!!

A very pertinent thought for the day by a man whose sheer brilliance has always humbled me:

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” … – Thomas Jefferson

I will get on the prowl as soon as I finish my workout.

How about “Mr. Zell, you can be the hero of the free world if you force that tape to be released. The American people will praise you for your courage and for exposing the truth. That is the mark of a true journalist.”

Okay…here’s the scoop….called this;

Especially call Sam Zell, owner of the LA Times and Chicago Tribune:
EQUITY GROUP INVESTMENTS, 2 N Riverside Plaza St, Chicago, ILL..
Phone: (312) 466-4001

Got transferred three times, last to security. The guy was very nice but said he didn’t think Sam Zell knew anything about the tapes. I told him that I got the phone number to him off line. He said he thought maybe I should call the LA TIMES. I told him that although I am @####$@#@ supporter I’d really like to see the tape. Once again, nice guy, receptionists were not as friendly!

Off to work to do more “work”.

Wow, I don’t dare turn my back on you today, Murphy; you keep wandering into other rooms. I need another cup of green tea.

murphy 10.29.08 at 9:36 am

fucking golf and greek fucking columns.

jesus christ!
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Sorry Murphy, I know you do a lot of good but you just lost this Christian for good. I am appalled to see you post these words along side each other. There are limits any person can tolerate and this just crossed a line. I as a Christian can not turn my head to this. Good luck with your plight. As a democrat my entire voting years, I will vote McCain/Palin, but I won’t associate myself with anyone who can use this type of language. I love Jesus Christ too much to overlook this, my heart is hurting greatly after reading your post. Good-bye PUMAs the attitudes and language is too strong today even for this lurker.

I am on my way out to do some campaigning, visiting homes and delivering yard signs. Just thought I would share this I received this morning:

McCain’s Crowds smaller than Obama’s?

On television today a Democratic operative pointed out that when Obama holds a rally 25-30,000 people show up, whereas when McCain holds one he only draws 10-15,000.

The Republican spokesman replied, “That’s because McCain’s supporters are at work.”

When I signed up to be a poll worker, was told that since I’d never done it before, it would be best if I worked as a clerk. So I agreed. However, at the training session, they introduced the sheriffs–a group of teenagers sitting together who were working their first election. Certainly made me go hummm… Also at the training session, they stressed that no camcorders, cameras, or active cell phones will be allowed in the polling place and made mention that a website was encouraging videos and pictures and that they were not going to let it happen.

**** Murphy ****

Can you re-post the “Virus Alert” message again, I noticed that #390 buttercream29 and #379 RoBoTech both posted the API link this morning. I did a good computer scan yesterday and found 2 nasty bugs. So I just want everyone to get the message before their computer crashes.

Thanks.

Off Topic:
http://elect2009.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/joe-the-plumber-on-blogtalkradio-tonight/
JOE THE PLUMBER ON BLOG TALK RADIO TONIGHT!
This should be a very good show. My husband listens to these people all the time.

Good Morning Puma’sToday is my 20th anniversary. When I married my husband, he was all jazzed up about a new couple on the political scene. It was 1988, my family were known as “Reagan democrats”, so naturally I was going to vote for GHW Bush. I had heard about that pushy Mrs. Clinton and could not even dream of voting for that pair. He sat me down and in a gentle voice said,”please don’t vote for Bush until you listen to Bill Clinton speak” I never looked back. In honor of our anniversary, this puma couple will be faxing and making calls-e-mailing friends in swing states to please consider opening your minds to John McCain!

Bella-Me

aaawwww, Bella-Me, please don’t go. I didn’t see Murphy’s post until you brought attention to it. I’m very sensitive about this as well but before you leave just send an email to Murphy and share how you feel, give her a chance to address your concerns. I’m sure she didn’t mean to offend Jesus. When my friends say that I just say, “hey, don’t blame Jesus, it isn’t his fault.” Then they usually say yeah, you are right.
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murphy 10.29.08 at 9:36 am

fucking golf and greek fucking columns.

jesus christ!
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Sorry Murphy, I know you do a lot of good but you just lost this Christian for good. I am appalled to see you post these words along side each other. There are limits any person can tolerate and this just crossed a line. I as a Christian can not turn my head to this. Good luck with your plight. As a democrat my entire voting years, I will vote McCain/Palin, but I won’t associate myself with anyone who can use this type of language. I love Jesus Christ too much to overlook this, my heart is hurting greatly after reading your post. Good-bye PUMAs the attitudes and language is too strong today even for this lurker.

Jeremiah Wright pay taxes on this mansion? Probably not. The real owner of record is probably the church, in which case you can’t tax it.

I am getting so old, You know what I mean…..My husband has always loved the Clintons and intoduced me to a new way of thinking. That is our job now, to introduce our liberal friends to a new way of thinking! The democrat is not always the good guy. I better go get another bottle of ginko.(husband laughing!) BTW, we are taking two days off to make sure BO never makes it over the finish line!

Bella-Me

I would encourage you to consider turning the other cheek and staying in the PUMA pride.

Will miss you if you go.

slyt2

Congratulations to you too!!!!!!!

Bella-Me:

While I understand your feelings on this, I don’t believe losing people over language is necessary.

Whatever happened to expressing one’s views, and then praying for the one who concerns you, and forgive. That’s Christian to me.

Either way, sorry if you leave. Don’t be too hurt about it.

Honestly, we have less than a week until election day. This blog was rolling fast.

We cannot be distracted.

Murphy,

I no longer believe or follow any organized religion. Barry is a Christian, okay.

Jerry is a Christian.

One of my favorite stories from the bible was when Jesus stormed the temple. I loved Jesus Christ Superstar and used to sing the whole thing in my room as a kid. I loved that scene where Jesus throws everyone out! I believe if the “f” word were around 2008 years ago JC would be using it at that moment.

ATTENTION MURPHY,

see my post #23. I could repost the message, but it shows up better when you post it. Thanks.

hillary2008

umm, no, … they claim this but no. Just words, not living it, there’s a difference.
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“Barry is a Christian, okay. Jerry is a Christian.”

Oh, I can’t find it now. Someone just posted about Palin’s energy speech. I have to agree–it was extremely impressive. Palin clearly explained all the reasons why we need to be energy independent.

I feel like America is falling behind other countries…we really need to get smart and rise to our full potential as a country, on a lot of issues.

SCARLET
Why are you posting invitations to Nobama’s election night happening? Why are you posting his donate url here? THIS IS A NOBAMA SITE! It will be his boo hoo party anyway.

Whose side are you on?

mick

..exactly.

hillary2008 oh don’t congratulated me yet, we may not make it his been p*ssing me off lately…lol..Thanks
Murphy I have a question being that you are the movie star here, when you are on the TV are the lights like shinning right in your eyes. I ask this because it seems like everyone who is on these shows blinks a lot.

Faxed the LA times, Department of Justice,
and SIGNED the petition.

I’ve got a great idea yesterday driving home from work.

I have a bunch of flyers and have been trying to figure out how to hand them out legally. I noticed that 5 miles of my neighborhood are SMALL BUSINESSES.

I will get up early on Saturday and Sunday and put them in their door, so when they open up the flyer will be there for them to see.

I never realized how many SMALL BUSINESSES there are in my area.
McCain is right, they are a major source of our economy and they should be protected.

slyt2

I use to work for PBS as a production assistant … yes, the studio lights can be pretty bright. But some people blink a lot due to nervousness.

This is info from May 2008:

Grateful parishioners of Rev Jeremiah Wright, 66, are building him a $1 million, 10,400 sq ft mansion, next to a country club and golf course in the prosperous Chicago suburb of Tinley Park. In the 2000 census, just two per cent of Tinley Park’s 48,400 residents were black and 93 per cent were white.

The Trinity United Church of Christ is located in the heart of the city’s rundown and predominantly African-American South Side, and worshippers are instructed to live by its self-proclaimed Black Value System. Among the tenets is “Disavowal of the Pursuit of ‘Middleclassness’.”

But Rev Wright will not be living among his flock following his recent retirement. Instead, he is leaving them in pursuit of distinctly middle class – indeed upper-middle class – environs.

The property will boast four bedrooms, a whirlpool, butler’s pantry, elevator, exercise room, circular driveway and four-car garage.

Real estate records show that Rev Wright bought the empty land in 2004 and sold it two years later to Trinity, the current owner, which later took out a $1.6 million mortgage on the property.

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It seems that Trinity Church owns Wright’s house. Does that mean no real estate taxes?

Wish I had written this – well done!

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/this_jew_for_mccain.html

hillary2008, I’m not holding my breath for anything from API or the LA Times for that matter.

I continue to learn from all of you & am working hard to help the cause!

If BO is elected, we won’t recognize the U.S.A. in 4 years. Hillary will not have a chance, there will be only one name on the ballot, just like in Iraq, when Saddam Hussein ran, only it will be BO!

All our rights & freedoms will be stripped, count on it, BO has Pelosi & her cohorts behind him and they will have free reign to do what they want to this country!

McCain’s Health Care Plan Gets Better Reviews Than Obama’s
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/10/29/mccain%e2%80%99s-health-care-plan-gets-better-reviews-than-obama%e2%80%99s/

OH, also, I remember hearing about Wright’s mansion a few months back. I was pretty outraged as well, but for like, DAYS. lol. It’s such disgusting hypocrisy. That video up there is perfect, especially with the edits.

In my search for “the videotape” I came across this letter from one of my heroines Evelyn Pringle. She wrote Curtain Time for Obama on OpedNews. Evidently, Auchi threatened her and anyone who published her articles with lawsuits and this was her reply to Auchi:

Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:11:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Evelyn Pringle
Subject: I want you to stop threatening to sue over my articles
To: Alasdair.Pepper @ carter-ruck.com

Dear Mr Pepper:

Although you have never informed me of your client’s objections to my articles, it has been brought to my attention that you are attempting to intimidate sites that publish my work by threatening to sue them for defamation.

I ask that you cease this tactic immediately. Your actions are not only violating my right to free speech but they are also adversely affecting my business relationships and livelihood.

I will gladly defend any action filed against me in the US by your client. However, in order to sue me he would have to appear here before a jury and you and I know he is not allowed in this country. Therefore, your actions represent harassment and unlawful intimidation of a professional journalist.

If I get any more reports that you are trying to sabatoge my relationships with publications, I will contact the US attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald and the US Department of Justice to seek legal advice on how to put a stop to your illegal conduct.

I will be forwarding a copy of this email to all of the sites that publish my work.

If Mr Auchi was allowed in this country, I would be the one filing a law suit against him.

Truly,

Evelyn Pringle

Touche!!!

Howdy, PUMAS!

Re: Bella-me, I would rather be in the foxhole with agnostics, pagans, atheists, cussing-Catholics, Protestants, Jews(Orthodox & Reform) who to a person, love Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness than be stuck in a comfy room with prim&proper “christians” like you, any effing day of the week.
Grow a pair, already.

HELP!!!!!!!… I go to bed, get up and get the laundry started and do some business calls, and find that I’m 3 floors below everyone else! Wait for me… I’ll get caught up someday!
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Oh, and here’s a little something you might like. forgive me if it’s a repost- I missed a couple floors and lots of posts by flying up 3 flights of stairs:
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Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations
Contributions Reviewed After Deposits

By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 29, 2008; A02

Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity, campaign officials confirmed.

Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged. Instead, the campaign is scrutinizing its books for improper donations after the money has been deposited.

The Obama organization said its extensive review has ensured that the campaign has refunded any improper contributions, and noted that Federal Election Commission rules do not require front-end screening of donations.

In recent weeks, questionable contributions have created headaches for Obama’s accounting team as it has tried to explain why campaign finance filings have included itemized donations from individuals using fake names, such as Es Esh or Doodad Pro. Those revelations prompted conservative bloggers to further test Obama’s finance vetting by giving money using the kind of prepaid cards that can be bought at a drugstore and cannot be traced to a donor.

The problem with such cards, campaign finance lawyers said, is that they make it impossible to tell whether foreign nationals, donors who have exceeded the limits, government contractors or others who are barred from giving to a federal campaign are making contributions.

“They have opened the floodgates to all this money coming in,” said Sean Cairncross, chief counsel to the Republican National Committee. “I think they’ve made the determination that whatever money they have to refund on the back end doesn’t outweigh the benefit of taking all this money upfront.”

The Obama campaign has shattered presidential fundraising records, in part by capitalizing on the ease of online giving. Of the $150 million the senator from Illinois raised in September, nearly $100 million came in over the Internet.

Lawyers for the Obama operation said yesterday that their “extensive back-end review” has carefully scrubbed contributions to prevent illegal money from entering the operation’s war chest. “I’m pretty sure if I took my error rate and matched it against any other campaign or comparable nonprofit, you’d find we’re doing very well,” said Robert Bauer, a lawyer for the campaign. “I have not seen the McCain compliance staff ascending to heaven on a cloud.”

The Obama team’s disclosures came in response to questions from The Washington Post about the case of Mary T. Biskup, a retired insurance manager from Manchester, Mo., who turned up on Obama’s FEC reports as having donated $174,800 to the campaign. Contributors are limited to giving $2,300 for the general election.

Biskup, who had scores of Obama contributions attributed to her, said in an interview that she never donated to the candidate. “That’s an error,” she said. Moreover, she added, her credit card was never billed for the donations, meaning someone appropriated her name and made the contributions with another card.

When asked whether the campaign takes steps to verify whether a donor’s name matches the name on the credit card used to make a payment, Obama’s campaign replied in an e-mail: “Name-matching is not a standard check conducted or made available in the credit card processing industry. We believe Visa and MasterCard do not even have the ability to do this.

“Instead, the campaign does a rigorous comprehensive analysis of online contributions on the back end of the transaction to determine whether a contribution is legitimate.”

Juan Proaño, whose technology firm handled online contributions for John Edwards’s presidential primary campaign, and for John F. Kerry’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee in 2004, said it is possible to require donors’ names and addresses to match those on their credit card accounts. But, he said, some campaigns are reluctant to impose that extra layer of security.

“Honestly, you want to have the least amount of hurdles in processing contributions quickly,” Proaño said.

Sen. John McCain’s campaign has also had questionable donations slip through.

Dan Pfeiffer, Obama’s communication’s director, said that “no organization can fully insulate itself from these problems. The McCain campaign has accepted contributions from fraudulent contributors like ‘A for You,’ ‘Adorable Manabat,’ ‘The Gun Shop,’ and ‘Jesus II’ and hundreds of anonymous donors.”

But R. Rebecca Donatelli, who handles online contributions for the McCain operation and the RNC, said security measures have been standard in the GOP nominee’s fundraising efforts throughout the campaign. She said she was “flabbergasted” to learn that the Obama campaign accepts prepaid cards.

“Yes, a gift card would go through the same process as a regular credit card and be subject to our same back-end review,” the Obama campaign said in its response to questions about the use of such cards.

Campaign finance lawyers said there is a long history of debate within the FEC about how to ensure that donors use their own credit cards.

Election lawyer Brett Kappel said the FEC has never grappled with the question of cash cards. “The whole system is set up for them to accept the payment, then determine whether it is legal or not. And if it’s not, send it back. That’s what the statute requires,” he said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/28/AR2008102803413_pf.html

LeeinUSA

I know, that was not meant in anyway to diminish you:) I was all over that site and my computer crashed. I so want that tape to be real, but I am starting to believe it is an obot distraction. I am so pissed about my computer, I lost everything. I am so afraid for anyone to get near anything related to that site.

LeeinUSA is a proud and beautiful puma friend!

slyt2 10.29.08 at 10:28 am

Thanks for the tip to write to Megyn Kelly at americasnewsroom@foxnews.com to express support for release of the Khalidi tape.

As evidence of how strongly I favored release of the tape, I sent her the copy of my fax to Sam Zell and the editor of the LA Times:

Whatever happened to journalistic integerity, Mr. Zell?

You have an ethical obligation to have the LA Times release the Khalidi tape.

The American people have a right to know the “content of the character” of their elected officials, the Fourth Estate is supposed to provide us factual information so that we might know the people who yearn to govern us.

By and large, the media has abdicated their responsibility to vet Barack Obama and his many questionable associates. It is not too late to do the right thing.

Be a mensch.

Release the tape.

Seemed like such a good idea that I sent it to all our friends in the Fair and Balanced Media!

slyt2

Thanks.

mick

thanks. Always great to see Murphy take down Schuster.

Dances – Murphy

On the notice regarding the march in LA.
On the last line it says the march will be Thurs. 29th – Should be 30th.

Was the tape a home movie? Why is the LA Times the only source?

Speaking of tapes…is the whitey tape even still in play?

I am not the most computer literate of individuals. But to those of you who have been hijacked by visiting a certain sight. If you can access your files do so and save to disc then use the the “start from scratch” disc that came with your computer and start all over. Stuff maybe lost but if you continue to run applications under the present condition it’ll just get worse. I recently lost a ton of photos as my computer became unusable and could no longer access. Thankfully I had emailed the majority of my pics to others so they are retrievable. Anywho basiclly my computer was shot and thought I needed to purchase a new one but was suprised tolearn that you get a chance to clear it out and start a new. Again I know almost nothing about programming or internet security but a friend helped me out and my computer is as good as new but everything on it was lost. Cheaper thasn buying a new one or letting the spyware collect all of your info.

Thank you Anna7000 and PM I sent this version of your letter!
As a prayer…………

Dear GOD,
I urge you to make sure the Department of Justice provides oversight to ensure a fair and honest Presidential election.

With the Justice Department’s announcement that they will have no presence at polling stations as election observers, Americans stand to have our upcoming Presidential election manipulated by fraudulent activities. Since the Department of Justice is the only federal authority to police polling stations and prosecute violations of election law, they must be present at polling stations on Election Day.

Given ACORN’s history of involvement in voter registration fraud and given the dirty tricks by both sides during this election process, no one can take our election for granted.

We cannot afford to run the risk of having this election going unobserved and un-policed. The issue of fair and honest elections is one that all Americans should hold near and dear.

The Department of Justice must monitor the polls on Election Day. And we must be able to have faith in those who they will send out to do this job.

As it is, many states have already been holding elections via early voting laws. There is not a moment to lose, nor a single vote to be lost or cast illegally. We cannot afford to have any issue of voter fraud investigated only after-the-fact. That may be too late. None of us should need to wonder if the man elected to the highest office in the land is the true winner of the election.

Again, I urge you to make sure the Department of Justice provides oversight to ensure a fair and honest Presidential election.

It seems we have only our prayers to you, how is America to survive if the Government does not insure JUSTICE!!

With Tears I beseech YOU,

I called and left a message with the L. A. Times asking why they refuse to release the tape.

Barry’s campaign sent me this e-mail:
“Gov. Charlie Crist has just declared “a state of emergency” in Florida, due to the overwhelming number of Floridians eager to cast their votes early.

That’s why yesterday he issued an executive order to dramatically expand early voting.

Effective immediately, every early voting site in the state will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. through Friday, October 31st, and for a total of 12 hours between 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 1st, and 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 2nd.”

The Governor’s office told me that Crist wanted to accomodate the massive amount of earlier voters, but they admit this has never been done before.
I asked, If he cares so much, why did Crist sign House Bill 537 changing the primary date which took away my vote in the primary???????

Crist certainly didn’t care what happened to dems at that time, why care now ?

I am tired of the silly games being played in Florida.

bythelake 10.29.08 at 10:03 am

GoPumaGo 10.29.08 at 9:45 am

http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/

http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/breaking-transcript-of-obama-khalidi-tape/

BREAKING: Transcript of Obama-Khalidi Tape (please send to everyone you know, and people you have not met yet. Meet people today just to send this to them)

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OMG, just read this!!! I am busy getting it out on forums & in emails!

and some Sikh fighters and some Hindi and the Buddhists

and mick, why don’t you have a cup of STFU? Since you’re offering one to me…yeah, you drink first

ever meet a Sikh? They are excellent fighters.

LeeinUSA
Would you happen to know what th eoriginal source of that transcript is, aside from Hillbuzz?

ohiopubbie #95

“cussing-Catholics”

I guess it went right over your head.

kat in your hat,
Thanks for the info.
It undermines us when we run headlong without checking out things first. We’re human, we make innocent mistakes, we can forgive ourselves, and having learned from our mistakes, we’re apt be more cautious. That’s one way of making amends for past mistakes.

Usually, when something is “HOT!”, if we put it aside for a while, it tends to cool off.

DancesWithPumas 10.29.08 at 11:29 am

LeeinUSA
Would you happen to know what th eoriginal source of that transcript is, aside from Hillbuzz?

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No, I don’t, wish they had posted that at Hillbuzz, would make it more credible & could get Drudge & others to jump on it!

If it is a true transcript, then it is OH SO damaging to the great ONE!

How can we find out the source??? We need it ASAP!!

Does anyone know when the contracts for Campbell Brown, Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews are due to be renewed/negotiated???

I do not want to be a distraction. I accept Murphy’s apology and explanation of her not sharing my religious beliefs. I accept her saying she did not use it flippantly. I only posted it twice because the first time it was at the end of the post and she took the new one upstairs, so my concern was she would not see it. I hesitated even reposting the words she used. I understand this election is causing good people to do bad things and is clouding normal good judgement. Our emotions are running high, our time is running out. I am a Christian who never uses vulgar language and am offended by those who choose to express their selves using such words. We all can admit when we hear Jeremiah Wright say, “G D America” it makes us sick to our stomach. We can’t allow someone like him cause us to express ourself in the same manner he does that is so offensive. We must not loose sight of who we are and what we hold dear to our hearts in our quest to acheive our goal. In the end we don’t want to look back and see we allowed this election steal the good from us and change who we are. We don’t want to wake up and ask where and when along this journey did we loose our morals, values, and good judgement in this fight. Does the end justify the means?

I attend my Bible study each week and last week a fellow Christian got very hot headed when I spoke out against Obama and how he stands for issues our faith is morally against and his policies can only hurt this country more. I then at the end of the study stood and held hands with this person and prayed the “Our Father” and told this person I am praying for him because he intended to go out and find a group of young guys who had taken down his Obama signs from his yard. I feared for his well being, I could tell his judgement was off even after our study of scripture. This is so difficult. I am witnessing vulgar words and acts of violence in the name of justice and political stands.

Thank you Murphy for the explanation and apology. I admire you and respect the hard work you do. Until I found PUMA PAC I lived with my silence of frustration with the DNC and what they did to Hillary. This site gave me a voice and it gave me a place to be informed and the courage to speak to family and friends about how important it is we don’t elect Obama. As all Christians know, Jesus Christ came to forgive. I can and will do just that in this instance. I do tend to forget there are those who don’t hold the same standards and beliefs as myself. Thanks to all of you who responded and helped me with this situation.

Forge on PUMAs we are only days away from doing the best work of all for this country. McCain/Palin will win!! This quote came to mind, although I do believe the people will prevail.

“May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.” ~ Millard Fillmore ~

((((((((((((( Murphy ))))))))))))

LeeinUSA 10.29.08 at 11:26 am

That must be a joke not a real transcript.

Dances,

Nah, it’s clever HillBuzz’s fault. lol. They do hat tip ChicagoAgainstObama right below the pic.

It’s a parody of the transcript, but it is also a dare to the LA Times–all in one. So it’s sort of diabolically humorous.

A lot of claws out today PUMAs. We are all different and all allowed our own take on things. We are a united group with ONE CAUSE-NOBAMA, right? People lurking might figure out how to undermine our cause.

While I do not agree with everyone and do not like hearing the Lord’s name in vain (my husband screams “Jesus” all the time in frustration), I know the people using it are good people and try not to judge.

That being said, let’s all try to keep our eyes on the ball. good things are going to happen in this week. Something is building and will come to light, God willing, in the next 5 days or so.
Love you all PUMAs!

Beca4Hillary

Because some people don’t verify, read carefully or check their sources first.
_______________________________

mick

Why do we even have that here and advertising to spread the word with that?

Scarlet- this was reviewed in Americanthinker.com and found to be a fake out too.

why are they making a big deal about Obama spending 1 million per network tonight? That is not that much in the scheme of things. It costs a company more than a million dollars to put on a 30 second ad during the superbowl. It costs 30,000 dollars to put on a 30 second ad during the daily soaps and about 50,000 to do a night time commercial. why the hell does Obama get 30 minutes for 1 million. Why does a campaign that has raised 600 million get to throw out a measly 5 million to get essentially 2.5 hours of network time?

LeeinUSA 10.29.08 at 11:38 am
I just read the replies on HILLBUZZ, it’s a SATIRE and a FAKE!
———————
kat also mentioned here that it is satirical.

((((( Bella-Me ))))) Glad you are back.

122..clintondemocrat…I hope the American people see through this scam and it backfires!

An inspiring article for not giving up and discovering there are some who can be persuaded:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/the_greatest_compliment.html

Florida voting rolls contain dead people, duplicates, ineligible felons (65,000+)

South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | October 29, 2008 | Peter Franceschina, Sally Kestin, John Maines, Megan O’Matz and Dana Williams

Mattie Lee Blitch has been dead 23 years but she’s still registered to vote in Palm Beach County.

Recent college graduate Brett Ackerman is registered three times in two counties.

And convicted felon Joseph Muro just signed up to vote — from a state mental institution for the criminally insane.

With balloting well under way in the general election, the Sun Sentinel found more than 65,000 ineligible and duplicate voters on Florida’s registration rolls.

That includes at least 600 dead people, 32,000 voters registered more than once and a growing number of convicted felons — now more than 33,000 — who by law should not be allowed to cast ballots.

Political analysts say the potential for widespread fraud in the names of dead or duplicate voters is low, although dead voters did play a role in the 1997 Miami mayor’s race. Ineligible felons, however, could influence a close election in a state that decided the 2000 presidential race by 537 votes.

[...]

An untold number of Florida’s 1.8 million non-citizens are on the voting rolls. Non-citizens are not permitted to vote, but Florida has no way of checking citizenship.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com …

$25,000 Reward for Obama/Ayers/Dohrn/Khalidi Tape
http://minx.cc/?post=276820

The economy is in recession but in the state of Florida there’s a rise in gun buying. As I’ve said before, the Amerian people will not allow the likes of NObama to take away their right guaranteed under the constitution (second ammendment).

OOPS!

RE: Red star

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2115308/posts

Ruffo – Thanks for the info about this being a fake thing. Just wondering if someone doctored the pictures of the DNC building that is pictured on the link above. I suppose anything can be changed with a computer. I am computer stupid so I don’t know how things work..

Mick – I hope it is not true.

Obama speechwriter switches to support McCain — because of the way the Democratic party has trashed TWO WOMEN: Hillary and Sarah.

See the story here:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-28/so-long-obama/1/

I haven’t read the whole thing but here is the article that LA times came out with in April 08
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obamamideast10apr10,0,5826085.story

I mentioned earlier this week that I managed to find a copy of a book authored by “Billy” Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn titled “Prairie Fire”. I am just about done reading it.

I also just picked up a copy of a book published in 2006 titled “Sing a Battle Song”. The book reprints copies of Prairie Fire and two other Weather Underground “classics” with comments by Ayers and Dohrn.

While I have not gotten through much of “Sing a Battle Song”, I was in interested to see whether the forwards written by Ayers and Dohrn expressed any regret or remorse for their activities in the sixties. They did not. As a matter of fact, aside from expressing remorse only on the “bombast” contained in the earlier books, they reiterate their communist beliefs and add a new hero of the revolution to their repertoire – Rashid Khalidi.

In Prairie Fire, the dedications page lists many “victims” of imperialism. One of those freedom fighters is Sirhan Sirhan. Sirhan, as you probably recall, assassinated Bobby Kennedy. What you may not recall is that Sirhan was a Palestinian who was upset with Bobby Kennedy’s support of Israel. The new reprint, Sing a Battle Song, acknowledges those dedications, and surprisingly adds that “political prisoners and prisoners of conscience”, like Sirhan Sirhan, who they also glowingly refer to as “committed activists” , remain “unconscionably” jailed today.

Regarding the dedications, I did not recognize many of the names, but a Google search on a couple of them confirms that they are all murderers, kidnappers. etc, who are lionized by Ayers and Dohrn. Capital crimes are apparently excused if committed for the right cause – the epitome of the end justifying the means. Obama also appears to be a proponent of the end justifying the means – he seems more than willing to abandon the Constitution, contrary to his oath of office, to promite the end of his view of social justice and wealth redistribution.

The truly frightening thing is that Ayers and Dohrn are perhaps the major exposure Obama has had to those outside his own race. These people, who decry the “institutional racism” ingrained in the US, rail against “white supremacy” and bash Jews every chance they get, represent Obama’s view of White and Jewish America. Think about it. With whom has Obama associated during his life? Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Communist Party. His white grandfather, who was friends with Davis and was, at least, sympathetic to communism. William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Jeremiah Wright. Father Phleger. Rashid Khalidi. The New Party.

Ayers influence on Obama is obvious – Obama believes the Palestinians have legitimate grievances. Obama and his advisors believe, as Ayers does, that Israel is an oppressive aggressor. Which is why Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Bobby Kennedy, is lionized as a “committed activist” whose imprisonment for the murder of a Presidential candidate is viewed as “unconscionable”. Where is the Kennedy clan on this? Are they willing to turn a blind eye on this association?

I have retyped the entire dedications page from Prairie Fire into a word document. If Dances or Murphy think it would be useful, I can send it to them. Like I said, I did not recognize the vast majority of names there, but the ones I googled were people that should be rotting in jail, not people who should be elevated to hero status.

Just saw this on Greta Wire:
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/news-flash-obamas-campaign-manager-offers-3-million-dollars-to-api-in-connection-with-michelle-obama-tape-planned-to-be-aired-by-fox-news-network/

BEWARE OF THE AFI WEB SITE. IT HAS MESSED UP THE COMPUTERS OF A FEW PUMAS. PERMANENTLY MESSED THEM UP! VISIT THAT SITE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!!!!!!!!

haha why did CNN past

We declined the request, we did not want to pre-empt our programming lineup with a 30 minute paid commercial and we’d rather use our airtime…

I just had a scary thought reading above about Ayers’ book: what if a President Obama (God forbid) decided to commute the sentences of the prisoners in Guantanamo and allowed them visas into the US because of their “grievances and unsubstantiated imprisonment” to “make up to them for this country’s (and Bush’s) “treating them like prisoners”? In an Ayers world they would be political heros. Can you imagine this happening? I can! or the US deporting them with parting checks. He obviously sympathizes with religious freedom fighters like the Palestinians. Could this be done? Could anyone stop him? He could ‘pardon them’.

McCain is sounding better and better every day I have a bad thought about the future of this country.

RE: D OF J ISSUE RULING RE: ELECTION DAY

E-mailed the White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact (web form)

Called the White House
(202) 456-1111

Called the Dept of Justice; they forward the call to the Attorney General:
DoJ: (202) 514-2000
Attorney General Comment Line: (202) 353-1555

I thought all of you might be interested in this:

Doug Ross has received a tip from a reader he says has been reliable in the past, with some inside information on the videotape that the Los Angeles Times continues to hide:

Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can’t release it is because statements Obama said to rile audience up during toast. He congratulates Khalidi for his work saying “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine” plus there’s been “genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis.”

It would be really controversial if it got out. Tha’s why they will not even let a transcript get out.
For more information you can go to LGF.

Just got home from the store (last minute shopping before surgery) and turned Rush on. He’s wondering if BO is using hypnosis. By the way, on the way home I had the radio on and heard some REALLY discouraging news on the hourly news update before Rush started. They said that BO has a solid lead in all the swing states including Florida and Ohio; and that McCain is just barely holding onto his own state. They said that in AZ the polls show McCain only ahead by… it was either 2 or 4… not much. That’s pretty bad…..
GOSH I wish these polls would be disclosed as FRAUDS!

Anna7000
screamed about AFI myself earlier
to anyone experiencing problems I suggest restarting your computer from scratch. cheaper than buying a new one but everything you have saved maybe lost. I suggest holding onto any machione which has been disabled as a conspiracy charge may be filed when Senator McCain wins

Murphy: Since I missed the lovely list of things I would rather do than look at FRAUD Obingo on TV infosmurchal, here is mine: Eat a rotting Dead Rat raw found at the bottom of a long gone sewarge cesspool tank in Lakeview, at the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans!

Nope it timed out on me again Anna7000 the link you just posted too. I guess i wasn’t meant to read it.

Ruffo-
The men being held at Gitmo can not be pardoned as they have not been charged in US courts.

Top ten reasons I will not be watching the Obama 30 ad tonight.
10. Im having enough trouble ignoring him seems he’s got ads everywhere i go these days.
9. I’ve seen his face and heard his empty words for what, 2 years now.
8. All of his ties that bind him.
7. The way he allowed HIllary Clinton to be made fun of and participated along with his wife, Michelle (the belle from hell)
6. He’s probably using money Oprah put in a bank while visiting Saudi Arabia not long ago, why else go?
5. Basically, I think of Hitler when I watch him talk.
4. Why would I watch a narcisstic person when i have already had to deal with way too many in my past.
3. He’s a liar and a cheat.
2. Because I dont want to see some pics from his tour in
Europe.
1. Because it’s the only way he cant beat Sarah Palin’s already
broken reckords between the vp debate and her appearance on SNL.

KarenWi: Hi, there, Karen. Stop looking at the polls…Do something lovely for yourself today as you ready yourself for surgery tomorrow. I send you prayer and good solid peaceful thoughts! You can afford to chill….the day before the surgery…so Chill, my friend…Chill away…LOL

Thanks N.O.P. You’re right… I have a lot to do to get ready for tomorrow, so I’d better get at it!

GeorgiaPuma 10.29.08 at 12:11 pm

Umm, hello. Why the link to that purportedly virus infected site yet again? We need to stop posting that link here if indeed it is causing havoc with people’s computers. If something comes of this, which I highly doubt it’s at all legitimate at this point, we’ll know about it – we’ll see the tape for crying out loud. I know I’m not holding my breath though.

They can’t be pardoned but can they be released by the pres and allowed to enter the US? Or be released and given parting checks?

both candidates said they would close Gitmo. Just wondering where those “enemy combatants” will go? I am sure BO has teams of lawyers to get them all off in court if that ever came to be.

Obama just said “they’ll be calling me a secret communist because I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich when I was in kindergarten”

I don’t think that they have Peanut Butter in Indonesia. Peanutbutter is an American thing.

what a jackass he’s running around on fear mongering over privitizing Social Security and taxing healthcare. hells bells, the Dems (when they were in the minority) stopped privatizing Social Security and McCain’s healthcare will NEVER make it through congress.

Mornin’ PUMAs, I have my free press letter to Zell and the media ready to send out, haven’t read the blog as yet. I don’t think obie wrote on any of the poll choices, then again, I am only going on a video on youtube…who really knows?

Hillary 2008–thanks for making me cry

Belle and Murphy….the world needs us all…the sinners and the saints and even people like me (lil’devils)…we just need the SAINTS to lead and the sinners to follow

I woke up scared this morning….I pray something happens to quell my fears.

The more I listen to John and Sarah the more I love them both….and the more I see of THAT ONE the more I throw up a lil’ in my mouth…

Hillary, where are you? If you could, and Bill too, come and help us in our time of need we would really appreciate it. I dream of you holding a press conference and denouncing them all….okay you all, I’ve got to go because the tears are too much (but I still dream)

**** 6 DAYS OUT & NEW OBAMA AD PUTS DOWN GOV. PALIN ****

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185304443/bctid1885474357

Game on Oblahma.

Oh, and plz don’t assume that I support Biden for POTUS.

jenniforhillary ~~~ Every time I read another of your posts…I love you a little bit more.

mountainsong 10.29.08 at 12:43 pm

Never could, never would!

I wonder if he asked Bill’s permission to use the phrase “army of new teachers”

National service came from Bill, too…

Bella-Me

I hope you are still lurking. I want to share some truth with you. When people are in pain they talk to god. Even athiests do it without fully realizing it. Jesus is happy to have everyone talk to him no matter what we say. Perfect Love NEVER Judges. Therefore God and Jesus can never judge against us. All that Jesus & God feel for Murphy and you is estatic Love in every moment.

It is impossible for God and Jesus to leave the Estatic Love to enter into a place of pain to feel anger or judgement. Have no fear Bella-Me because no matter what you say or do or feel. God and Jesus are ALWAYS feeling Perfect Love for you and Murphy.

I have a few things to add to the list of things we can do during the BO egoCommercial…

File my puma claws to a sharp point for Nov 5th
Look for a sturdy old lady cane at the GoodWill to bop Obots with
Light a candle for Hillary
Eat all the kids preHalloween candy
Cross Obots off my Christmas list
Practice saying “I told you so!” in three languages
Get a box ready to send obies oval office curtains to Chicago
Writing a thank you note, you’re almost a PUMA to Hannity and Greata

oops, meant “sandwich” lol. I am a speedy gal.

(Oh, and there’s some kind of police car chase on tv. White car, thought it was OJ flashback at first.)

clintondemocrat

and right on cue. this crap is so staged, pathetic.
________________________

someone just fainted at the Obama rally and he gave out water. I HATE HIM.

Hmmmmm….wonder what McCain’s follow-up will be tomorrow after Barky’s infomercial tonight? They already have an ad out “TV Special” that will air today (you can view it at Hot Air). However, I’m fantasizing about a few other things that could happen tomorrow:
1. Since the LA Times won’t release the tape, someone else who has a copy WILL release it.
2. Some other tape surfaces, like the Whitey tape.
3. Osama bin Laden releases HIS next tape with the next terror warning. (alternatively, the Bush administration already HAS a bin Laden tape and are waiting until the best day to release this to the news media in order to rescue the Republicans; I’m thinkin’ tomorrow would be about right).

Any bets as to which one? I believe McCain knows something we don’t. He looked awfully happy during the Hannity interview last night (which warmed my heart immensely).

Kat–there is a difference between sharing your sandwich, toys and hard earned dollars—he is so full of it that’s its sad and the really frightening part is that people believe him. So many people think that we all will be equal under his platform when the govt take moneys from rich people with more and give to them… Lord help us. When I stood in line yesterday to vote I saw some people bringing in people with Down Syndrome and I thought will they vote for their own choice although I knew the answer. This election fiasco is openly shameful; they are not hiding their abuse of voting laws and no one is trying to make it legitmate.

McCain is on Larry King tonight so i guess they will discuss the obama ad on theere along with some other goodies LOLOLOLOLOL

jesus fucking christ…
can we dispense with the faux christian bullshit? Most of us aren’t here to read bibull sermons, especially from a bunch of members of a hypocritical organization.
Faux-christians slaughtered 6 generations of women. Try praying about that (privately) for a lifetime, and leave the rest of us the fuck alone to carry out the missions of this PAC.

Murphy: Left a message here for you last night re deadgirlsrise. She changed her name to deadgirl but could not get out of moderation and/or dungeon and asked me to ask you to please get her out. (Sent me email re it>)

If this has already been done and I have missed it, thank you.
If not, would you please let deadgirl out who used to be deadgirlsrise? Thanks.

1. Since the LA Times won’t release the tape, someone else who has a copy WILL release it.
—–
I am going to send my letter to more than Zell, I will send it to all the news media in the action center and let them see each other in the TO: block. Someone will put pressure on them.
I used Murphy’s post on top for the contents of my letter:
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To the News Media and concerned voters,

Where’s the tape?

Why won’t the L.A. Times release the tape of Obama at the Khalidi Gala in Chicago?

Journalists and editors are supposed to protect their SOURCES.

They are not supposed to protect the POWERFUL.

This is an outrage!!!!!!!!!!!

And seriously Folks, this is just weird.

Barack Obama

1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — ‘not available’
4. Harvard College records — Not released
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — ‘not available’
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate – - Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published — None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
13. Your Record of baptism– Not released or ‘not available’
14. Your Illinois State Senate records–’not available’

XXXX
Concerned Democrat
PUMApac.org

PROTEST OBAMA’S INFOMERCIAL!!!!!

INSTEAD OF TUNING INTO BARACK OBAMA’S INFOMERCIAL BEFORE THE WORLD SERIES GAME TONIGHT , WE ARE GOING TO GIVE THE ONLY STATTION THAT IS NOT PLAYING THE ‘OBAMA SHOW’ THEIR HIGHEST RATINGS EVER !

AT 7PM CENTRAL TIME , TUNE INTO CBS , PUSHING DAISIES !!!!!!!!!!

SPREAD THIS INFO FAR AND WIDE – SEND A MESSAGE TO OBAMA – ” NO RATINGS = NOBAMA !!!!! “

I don’t know what it would take to convince me that BO is not a Mulsim. All the economists, accepted as knowing their trade, say BO’s economic ideas will destroy our economy. That has been the Arab strategy ever since they first raised the price on a barrel of oil in the 70′s. That’s why the World TRADE Center was targeted TWICE. This damn ‘Jihad’ is just ONE’Jihad’ and it goes all the way back to Abraham, Hagar, and Ishmael. Everyone says we shouldn’t say he is Muslim. I say ‘why not’? That must be some strong damn koolaid to make people be willing to sit back in complacency and watch them destroy our country, our world and that of Israel.
I’ve a feeling the sheeple will get what they ask for. And then we will hear the wailing and knashing of teeth.

Could Pumas get back to Murphy’s request and action for this post?

Where’s the tape?

We have to keep the pressure on today Puma PAC. Why won’t the L.A. Times release the tape of obama at the Khalidi Gala in Chicago?

Journalists and editors are supposed to protect their SOURCES.

They are not supposed to protect the POWERFUL.

This is an outrage.

Call and fax all day

Especially call Sam Zell, owner of the LA Times and Chicago Tribune:
EQUITY GROUP INVESTMENTS, 2 N Riverside Plaza St, Chicago, ILL..
Phone: (312) 466-4001 and FAX: 312-454-0157.
LA Times: Phone: (213) 237-5000
Fax: (213) 237-7679

Just got this from an Obamot who apparently has me mistaken someone who is for BO.
Please go to the poll and do the opposite of what he says! Thanks!

> > Hi All- This is totally easy to do, It takes a second………

> > PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is qualified. Apparently the Republicans knew about this in advance and are flooding the voting with YES votes. It will be reported on PBS, picked up by mainstream media and can influence undecided voters in swing states.
> >
Please do two things — takes 20 seconds!s
1) Click on link and vote yourself. Here’s the link:
http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html
> >
2) Then send this to every single Obama-Biden voter you know,
and urge them to vote and pass it on.
> >
The last thing we need is PBS having to say our viewers
think Sarah Palin is qualified.

215TexasTigress: Where ya at, Texas? I love Daisies…I will
watch Pushing Daisies with you and all…Yeah,…ya “rite”.
Where is Caracal Carrie? Have not seen her here for a while…
is she moving here or not? Hope so.

THE TAPES- I have called, fax’d and e-mailed both the LA Times and Sam Zell as well as copied and pasted the above info into my own little e-mail chain (which grows everyday I might add) so I have many locals here doing our work but they don’t come over to lurk.

Went hiking w/ a friend this morning, she is a life-long democrat- she and her husband (Indy) both sent their ballots in for McCain- said neither of them can believe in him and have far too many concerns. My mom- same- would have voted HRC but sent in for Mc-Palin

BTW- I spent two hours phone banking @ Mc HQ in Phoenix yesterday- welcomed w/ open arms although I did feel somewhat like a circus attraction as a “Hillary supporter” going back today w/ my HRC t-shirt on. Left a bunch of Freddie’s awesome flyers- they were a little shocked by them- I told them “look what the democrats are doing for you- step it up a bit”

#224katinhat: I do not understand any Jewish person voting for Obama. I will never undestand it, but the IBD/TIPP poll has Jewish people strongly in his court.

KarenWI – try to get lots of rest today, it will help with your surgery tomorrow, doing 2 shows today so busy busy, won’t be home til after midnight but I always take my lap top so I can check in on what we PUMA’S are up to. I think, with your help, I managed to get some of the group to see what’s what and vote McCain yesterday. Haven’t run into them all yet, but just going by comments, I’m pretty sure I did. I’m late so I better run, total whiteouts here right now so run may be slow crawl.

#225Gosuef: We are the leaders regarding putting out information about the truth of Obama and have been so, which is why we must continue doing it non stop…We are the only group who has consistently, and some members, way back in Dem primary who has done this…This is why, even with regular Republicans, they may be still surprised by the information.
Such great work you are doing…

French Twist

Senator Obama is the overwhelming favorite of the French to win the White House, but President Nicolas Sarkozy has some reservations.

The Haaretz newspaper reports that a senior Israeli government source says Sarkozy has privately criticized Obama’s position on Iran as “utterly immature” and “empty of all content.”

Obama met with Sarkozy in July. The report says Obama was told that changes in policy toward Iran could be “very problematic.”

The source says Sarkozy repeatedly expressed disappointment and fear that Obama might “arrogantly” ignore the U.N. Security Council and open direct talks with Iran.

Ya see, Mona Khalidi and Ali Abunimah are still on the AAAN board (Mona was president but not anymore).
http://www.aaan.org/people.html

Ali Abunimah and Obama connection:
http://www.barackbook.com/Profiles/AliAbunimah.htm

PROTEST OBAMA’S INFOMERCIAL!!!!!

INSTEAD OF TUNING INTO BARACK OBAMA’S INFOMERCIAL BEFORE THE WORLD SERIES GAME TONIGHT , WE ARE GOING TO GIVE THE ONLY STATTION THAT IS NOT PLAYING THE ‘OBAMA SHOW’ THEIR HIGHEST RATINGS EVER !

AT 7PM CENTRAL TIME , TUNE INTO ABC , PUSHING DAISIES !!!!!!!!!!

SPREAD THIS INFO FAR AND WIDE – SEND A MESSAGE TO OBAMA – ” NO RATINGS = NOBAMA !!!!! ”

Thanks all who set me straight on the ‘ABC”

#234hillary2008: Stunning to me. I wonder if Anna here thinks we should do some more Prowl work with the Jewish Organizations she had listed for us earlier on..several days ago…

ANNA: Do you think we should prowl more the Jewish organizations you listed on the blog earlier? If so, please post and tell us what issues you think are useful with them?

(((((((((((((PUMA’S))))))))))))))))))

PLEASE AVOID APT SITE. I LOST EVERYTHING. COMPUTER CRASHED.

IT IS BAD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Know someone with “Hussein” issues? Have them read:

http://www.tinyurl.com/5v3ocz

Enough is enough!!

ANNA: Do you think we should do more prowls to the Jewish sites you listed for us couple of days ago?
IBD/TIPP poll has Jewish vote going heavily for OBAMA..
What issues should we stress if you think Prowls to the groups should be done? Thanks.

that was from MammE.. sorry

NOP

even called her after Jesse Jackson made his statements.

prowlland

What show will Berg be on, and what time about?

#248hillary2008: Well then, do you think we should do more Prowls to the sites that Anna listed previously or not?
Obama and his plans and connections are, in my view, an absolute threat to the existence of Israel and to every Jewish person in this country…even more so than the rest of us…in my view. This is very serious.

JOSEPH GOEBBELS,BORN IN RHEYDT, GERMANY,CONSIDERED A LEFT WINGER
WAS CHIEF PROPAGANIST FOR THE NAZIS. SUCCESSFUL IN WHAT HE DID?
……YES, ‘BECAUSE HE HAD COMPLETE CONTROL OVER THE GERMAN RADIO
(NO TELEVISION IN 1933–AND A MONOPOLY OF THE MEDIA ENABLED
GOBBELS TO BRAINWASH A NATION’
IN ADDITION TO MANIPULATING THE MEDIA, JOSEPH GOBBELS “WAS SHREWD AT
ANALYZING SPECIAL SITUATIONS.”
HE STAGED ” HUGE RALLIES AS RITUAL SPECTACLES”
IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF IN AMERICA IN 2008 ??

GOOD FORTUNE, SHANE, IRELAND

Another interesting observation about Ayers’ books…

Ayers makes reference in “Sing a Battle Song” to the symbol of the Weather Underground being a rainbow with a lightning bolt. He apparently has a tattoo of that on his back ( http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/10/03/DD235154.DTL&hw=Ayers+Daley&sn=001&sc=1000 ). I did a little digging, and while could not find a picture of that symbol, it is described as a brightly colored three colored rainbow bisected by a lightning bolt. There is a fade out of the symbol on the jacket of Ayers’ book, Fugitive Days.

Strange that Obama would also choose a brightly colored rainbow as his campaign symbol. But Obama has replaced the lightning bolt with a rising sun.

That is just a little too much of a coincidence for me.

Puget Sound Island Girl Hiyas, PSI Girl~~Bellingham, here.

I need to share – My neighbor and I handed out hundreds of flyers in Minneapolis last night. Compliments on Freddie’s flyers but people came back for more copies of those I printed from the A/C. Most of the people we were able to reach were already McCain supporters because of the crowd we didn’t have good access to those who weren’t there for the Talk the Vote. Lots of thumbs up to PUMAs and hugs for voting McCain. University student asked for Freddie’s flyers to bring back and pass out at school. But then I attended the event where Pawlenty, Coleman, Bachman etc spoke. When three thousand people gave Bush-Cheney a standing ovation I realized I can vote for McCain in protest but I will never be a Republican. Murphy – sign me up as a PUMAcrat!

NewOrleansPuma I agree. I was starting to feel like the Lone Ranger on this. We, and Israel, are all under attack.

Hey Dances With Pumas – are you still out there?

SHORT LETTER TO THE EDITOR
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Obama is urging his supporters to take Election Day off from their normal work or school responsibilities in order to get out the vote for his campaign. Economic crisis, or not, what he is suggesting, if carried out to the fullest extent, will create economic chaos.

One can only hope that the millions of Americans who are being asked to abandon their jobs on Tuesday on behalf of Obama will refuse to follow this absurd plan. I see no reason why America should suffer the consequences of the work force being significantly impacted in such a negative way.

The last time I checked, Election Day was not a national holiday.

Welcome to the New World, where people follow like zombies, their leader toward the precipice.

Can Anna repost some of the links to Jewish organizations?

I will see if there are some others that we can look at.

As a member of the Jewish community in Tucson, I have to agree w/Hillary2008. This is an uphill battle. Most Jewish people that I know of have totally tanked up on the Kool-Aid. It’s frustrating. If you tend to point out that stuff.

Unless the tape has Barack specifically condemning Israel and it is played, most of the Jews don’t get it. They’ll dismiss Wright, Farrakhan, etc. They’ll dismiss ZBIG as one of O’s advisors. It’s sickening to me.

Enough ranting. If I can see the list of Jewish organizations, I might be able to add more.

!!!
Some people have posted alerts warning us to NOT visit the API site, but have misspelled API (someone put APT and someone AFI)

So, to clarify,
the site you should NOT visit is
the
A P I
website
(the one with those bogus Michelle tape stories)

Reason: your computer may get zapped with viruses or other unwanted things.
!!!

Down to a 3% spread in Rasmussen. State polls still look bad, but they lag behind national polls.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Freepers donating to help get the LA tapes released!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2118680/posts?page=18

Also, here is Zell’s website.
http://www.tellzell.com

A_MALE_PUMA

#269

I remember years back when I lived in Los Angeles, Vanessa Redgrave gave some pro-palestian remarks and what an uproar! They were protesting her at CBS, The Emmy’s, everywhere. She came close to losing her career. I just don’t get it. He can do no wrong.

@ 276 (The colors for the Weather Underground are black and red–basic socialist colors. It’s like Ayers’ black shirt and red star, his blog, their upcoming book, etc)

http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/obama-logo-weather-underground-logo/

and:

http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/exhibits/voices/revolutiongallery/images/WeatherEyeCommuniques_jpg.jpg

In response to todays email OF COURSE I’M STAYING!
I hope we all are.

#272 Kat -

I’ve read the article. His association with Wright has been dismissed by a lot of Jewish dems. The line I get repeatedly goes something like this:

“Just because he sat in his church doesn’t mean that he agrees with his views. How many of us have had rabbis that we have disagreed with?”

Yeah..20 YEARS..I’m sure it has had no affect on Ohblowme. /sarc

Personally, if I had a rabbi that started talking extremist stuff, I’d high-tail it out of there never to return. But that’s just me.

***** WIKIPEDIA LOCKS UP “RASHID KHALIDI” PAGE *****

Wikipedia Locks Up “Rashid Khalidi” Page Until After Election

Former PLO operative Rashid Khalidi is all over the news today for a party Barack Obama attended in his honor back in 2003.
…The same party where they were bashing Israel and Obama gave a toast to his dear friend Rashid.

So what’s a responsible internet encyclopedia of information site to do?
Well, Wikipedia just locked Rashid Khalidi’s page until after the election!

Read more here – http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/

SARAH PALIN ARTICLE – FROM IMPRIMUS ARCHIVES AT
http://WWW.HILLSDALE.EDU

284 Mick

The suppression of information about “O” and his associates is overwhelming. People should be asking what is everyone hiding. Why can’t we see this information?

Just amazing…

LETTER TO JEWISH ORGS. I will try to gather more contact info. Meanwhile, go to the AC and find what we have in the Misc section if you want to act on this issue.
—————————————————–
I am writing to you as a Jew to urge you to publically place your support behind John McCain. I have been a Democrat my entire life. However, this year I cannot cast my vote for Barack Obama for President and do not understand how any self-respecting Jew can. There are numerous reasons why all Jews in America and those living in Israel should be concerned about an Obama presidency.

Mr. Obama sat in Wright’s church for 20 years and listened to hateful, anti-Semitic rants. This same church honored Farrakhan with a Lifetime Achievement award. Surely I need not remind you that Farrakhan has been vocal anti-Semite, going so far as to proclaim his admiration for Hitler, referring to Hitler as a “great man.”

Mr. Obama has surrounded himself with top campaign advisors from Carter’s campaign. Their anti-Semitic attitudes may be lost on some, but for those of us who are Jewish, their perspective toward Israel has been made quite clear: they are no friend to Israel.

Mr. Obama has ties to Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO terrorist. As of this writing, the Los Angeles Times is sitting on a video tape of Obama and Khalidi, but even without the tape, we know enough to confirm that Barack Obama’s connection to Rashid Khalidi are far more than he has stated.

I could go on.

In sum, Mr. Obama has proven himself to have a track record of aligning himself with those who have established themselves as anti-Semites, including Reverend Wright, several top campaign advisors, and Rashid Khalidi. In addition, it should be a sobering fact to any Jew that many Arab nations who are hostile to Israel support Barack Obama. This is no coincidence. This is based on common sympathies.

No Jew in America has anything to prove.

This is not the time to cling onto our long history as Democrats in America. And we have nothing to prove. Jews have a long and proud history of marching side-by-side with blacks in America, putting their own lives on the line, during the civil rights movement. The case against Mr. Obama has nothing to do with the color of his skin. It has to do with the sorts of people he affiliates himself with and his dangerously naïve views regarding foreign policy, including sitting down with enemy nations, nations that are hostile to Israel.

We must not be proud to be ashamed to be proud of being Jewish.

We barely survived our own innocence and naïveté not so long ago. Let’s not make the same mistake again. Barak Obama does not have our interest at hearts, nor the interest of Israel no matter what he says. It is his actions speak for themselves.

Take heed and speak out. I strongly urge you to support John McCain for President, just as Israel has done.

Here’s one Jewish talking point.

Poll: Israelis like McCain over Obama
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110893.html

Gotta go.

#284 mick I just googled wikpedia and got this about Rashid Khalidi – doesn’t seem locked up to me

Rashid Khalidi
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Rashid Khalidi
Born 1950
New York, New York
Residence New York, New York
Citizenship
Ethnicity Palestinian
Fields History
Institutions University of Chicago
Columbia University
Georgetown University
Alma mater Yale University
Oxford University
Known for Histories of nationalism and colonialism
in Palestine and the Middle East
Rashid Khalidi (born 1950), an American historian of the Middle East, is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, and director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Contents [hide]
1 Family, education and career
2 Academic work
3 Public life
3.1 Views on Israel and Zionism
3.2 Allegations of PLO connections
3.3 Obama relationship
3.4 NYC teacher training program
3.5 Criticism of Campus Watch
4 Works
4.1 Books
4.2 Papers, Articles, and Chapters in Edited Volumes
4.3 Unpublished Conference Papers and Public Lectures
5 References
6 External links

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Khalidi was born in New York. He received a B.A. from Yale University, where he was a member of Wolf’s Head Society,[1] in 1970,[2] and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974[3] and spent many years as a professor and director of both the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago before joining the Columbia faculty. He has also taught at Georgetown University, Lebanese University, and the American University of Beirut.

Khalidi is married to Mona Khalidi, Assistant Dean, Student Affairs; Assistant Director of Graduate Studies, School of International and Public Affairs[4] He is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East, which describes itself as “a national organization of Jews, Christians and Muslims dedicated to dialogue, education and advocacy for peace based on the deepest teachings of the three religious traditions.”[5]

He is member of the Board of Sponsors of The Palestine-Israel Journal, a publication founded by Ziad AbuZayyad and Victor Cygielman, prominent Palestinian and Israeli journalists.

He is founding trustee of The Center for Palestine Research and Studies.

Princeton University let it be known that it was considering hiring Khalidi in 2005.[6] However, a controversy developed over Khalidi’s political involvements and no job offer was made.[7]

Academic work
Khalidi’s research covers primarily the history of the modern Middle East. He focuses on the countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, with an eye to the emergence of various national identities and the role played by external powers in their development. He also researches the impact of the press on forming new senses of community, the role of education in the construction of political identity, and in the way narratives have developed over the past centuries in the region.[3] Michael C. Hudson, director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown, describes Khalidi as “preeminent in his field.”[8] He served as President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America in 1994. Khalidi is currently editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.

Much of Khalidi’s scholarly work in the 1990s focused on the historical construction of nationalism in the Arab world. Drawing on the work of theorists Benedict Anderson who described nations as “imagined communities”, he does not posit primordial national identities, but clearly argues that these nations have legitimacy and rights. In Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997), he places the emergence of Palestinian national identity in the context of Ottoman and British colonialism as well as the early Zionist effort in the Levant. This book won the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Prize as best book of 1997.[9] His dating of Palestinian national emergence to the early 20th century and his tracing of its contours provide a rejoinder to Israeli nationalist claims that Palestinians either do not exist, or had no collective claims prior to the 1948 creation of Israel. Nevertheless, Khalidi is also careful to focus on the late development, failings and internal divisions within the various elements of the Palestinian nationalist movement as well.

In Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004), Khalidi takes readers on a historical tour of Western intervention in the Middle East, and argues that these interventions continue to have a colonialist nature that is both morally unacceptable and likely to backfire.

Public life
Khalidi has written dozens of scholarly articles on Middle East history and politics, as well as op-ed pieces in many U.S. newspapers. He has also been a guest on numerous radio and TV shows including All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, and Nightline, and has appeared on the BBC, the CBC, France Inter and the Voice of America. Khalidi had an advising role at the Madrid Conference of 1991 between the U.S., Israel, Palestinians and Arab states. He served as president of the American Committee on Jerusalem, now known as the American Task Force on Palestine.

Khalidi’s statements on the status of Palestinians in Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories have been the most controversial. In an interview on PBS, Khalidi used the term “occupied” in reference to Mandatory Palestine in 1948, saying “about half of it was occupied by Israel (which under UNGA 181 was supposed to obtain roughly 55% of Mandate Palestine, and which by the time of the armistice had taken control of about 78%, including half of what was to have been the Arab state)… the remainder was, as you say, under Egyptian and Jordanian control from 1948-1967.”[10]

A New York Sun editorial criticized Khalidi for stating that there is a legal right under international law for Palestinians to resist Israeli occupation.[11] For example, in a speech given to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Khalidi said that “[k]illing civilians is a war crime. It’s a violation of international law. They are not soldiers. They’re civilians, they’re unarmed. The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that’s different. That’s resistance.”[11][12] The Sun editorial argued that by failing to distinguish between Palestinian combatants and noncombatants, Khalidi implies that all Palestinians have this right to resist, which it argued was incorrect under international law.[11] In an interview discussing this editorial, Khalidi objected to this characterization as incorrect and taken out of the context of his statements on international law.[11]

Khalidi has described discussions of Arab restitution for property confiscated from Jewish refugees forced to flee Middle Eastern and North African countries after the creation of Israel as “insidious”, “because the advocates of Jewish refugees are not working to get those legitimate assets back but are in fact trying to cancel out the debt of Israel toward Palestinian refugees.”[13]

Khalidi opposes the Iraq War and has said that “we owe reparations to the Iraqi people.”[14]

Views on Israel and Zionism
Khalidi has written that the establishment of the state of Israel resulting in “the uprooting of the world’s oldest and most secure Jewish communities, which had found in the Arab lands a tolerance that, albeit imperfect, was nonexistent in the often genocidal, Jew-hating Christian West.” Regarding the proposed two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Khalidi has written that “the now universally applauded two-state solution faces the juggernaut of Israel’s actions in the occupied territories over more than forty years, actions that have been expressly designed to make its realization in any meaningful form impossible.” However, Khalidi also noted that “there are also flaws in the alternatives, grouped under the rubric of the one-state solution.[15]

Regarding American support for Israel, Khalidi stated in an interview that “every other single place on the face of the earth is in support of the Palestinians, yet all of them together aren’t a hill of beans compared to the United States and Israel, because the United States and Israel can basically do anything they please. They are the world superpower, they are the regional superpower.”[16]

Allegations of PLO connections
Khalidi has been accused of having ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, based on his work for Wafa in the late 1980s, and later serving as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation during the Madrid Conference of 1991.[17][18] Khalidi denied the allegation that he served as a PLO spokesman.[19] Khalidi explained that he often spoke to journalists in Beirut, and was usually cited, without attribution, as a well-informed Palestinian source. He also said that he was unaware of any misidentification as a PLO spokesman.[17]

The claim received renewed attention in 2008 when it was raised due to a reported friendship between Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Khalidi’s family when Khalidi taught at the University of Chicago. Articles by Aaron Klein and John Bachelor, writers respectively for World Net Daily and Human Events, were referenced by rival political campaigns and reprinted in wider-circulation media.[18][20][21][19]

Obama relationship
Khalidi’s relationship to Barack Obama has come under increasing interest due to the U.S. Presidential race of 2008. Obama made one of the presentations in praise of Khalidi at a 2003 farewell dinner on the occasion of Khalidi leaving the Chicago Area. The dinner was a celebration of the Chicago area Palestinian community. Obama’s remarks alluded to the numerous dinners that he had in the home of Rashid Khalidi. During the 2008 election race, opponents of Barack Obama suggested his relationship with Khalidi was evidence that Obama would not maintain a pro-Israel foreign policy if elected.[22] The Obama campaign’s Fight the Smears website has posted an entry on Khalidi in order to rebut what was said elsewhere about their relationship, for instance, it denies that Khalidi is or has been one of Obama’s foreign policy advisors.[23]

In May of 2008, Barack Obama spoke at a synagogue at an event in Boca Raton, Florida and the question of his relationship with Khalidi was brought up. In response, Obama stated that “[Khalidi] is Palestinian. And I do know him and I have had conversations. He is not one of my advisors; he’s not one of my foreign policy people. His kids went to the Lab school where my kids go as well. He is a respected scholar, although he vehemently disagrees with a lot of Israel’s policy… To pluck out one person who I know and who I’ve had a conversation with who has very different views than 900 of my friends and then to suggest that somehow that shows that maybe I’m not sufficiently pro-Israel, I think, is a very problematic stand to take…So we gotta be careful about guilt by association.”[24]

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Khalidi stated that he strongly disagrees with Obama’s views on Israel. However, because of Obama’s “unusual background, with family ties to Kenya and Indonesia,” Khalidi stated that he believes that Obama is “more understanding of the Palestinian experience than typical American politicians.”[22]

The New York Daily News reported on 3/6/07, “Obama got help from an unlikely source yesterday when pro-Palestinian Prof. Rashid Khalidi denied a report that Obama used to be sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and had recently shifted his stance to pro-Israel. Khalidi spoke to the Daily News to rebut a report on a pro-Palestinian blog that was circulated by Clinton supporters. The blog, the Electronic Intifada, offered no evidence that Obama used to be supportive of the Palestinian cause, but cited private conversations, including one at a 2000 Obama fund-raiser hosted by Khalidi. Khalidi, now head of Columbia University’s Middle East Institute, said he hosted the fundraiser because he was friends with Obama while the two lived in Chicago. ‘He never came to us and said he would do anything in terms of Palestinians,’ Khalidi said.”[23]

NYC teacher training program
In 2005 Khalidi’s participation in a New York City teacher training program was ended by the city’s Schools Chancellor.[25] The Chancellor, Joel I. Klein, issued a statement that “Considering his past statements, Rashid Khalidi should not have been included in a program that provided professional development for [Department of Education] teachers and he won’t be participating in the future.”[26] Following the decision, Columbia University president Lee Bollinger spoke out on Khalidi’s behalf, writing: “The department’s decision to dismiss Professor Khalidi from the program was wrong and violates First Amendment principles… The decision was based solely on his purported political views and was made without any consultation and apparently without any review of the facts.”[25]

Criticism of Campus Watch
In 2002, Khalidi sharply criticized Campus Watch, describing it as “a McCarthyite attempt to silence the very few voices that speak out about the Middle East, and to impose by fear a uniformity of view on the campus debate. This monitoring of the classroom is reminiscent of the tactics used by police-state dictatorships.” Khalidi also stated that Campus Watch’s activities “will be seen for the reprehensible infringement on academic freedom that it is, if it is sufficiently exposed… This noxious campaign is intended to silence such perfectly legitimate criticism, by tarring it with the brush of anti-Semitism and anti- Americanism, truly loathsome charges. They reveal the lengths that these people apparently feel impelled to go to in order to silence a true debate on campus.”[27]

Regarding what Khalidi refers to as pressure from pro-Israel groups, such as Campus Watch, Khalidi stated that “this effort has now been folded into a large, well-funded, national effort managed by academic outcasts from the Middle East field, who seem to be driven both by their extreme pro-Israeli views, and their resentment at the fact that they have never managed to obtain the respect of their peers.”[27]

Works
Books
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, Beacon Press, 2006.
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East, Beacon Press, 2004.
Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, Columbia University Press, 1997.
The Origins of Arab Nationalism (Co-editor), Columbia University Press, 1991.
Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War. Columbia University Press, 1986.
Palestine and the Gulf (Co-editor), Institute for Palestine Studies, 1982.
British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914. Ithaca Press for St. Antony’s College, 1980.
Papers, Articles, and Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Arab Nationalism in Syria: The Formative Years.” In Nationalism in a Non-National State: The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, pp. 207-237. Edited by William Haddad and William Ochsenwald. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1977.
“The Soviet Union’s Arab Policy in 1975.” In The Yearbook of the Palestine Question: 1975, pp. 314-353 [Arabic]. Edited by Camille Mansour. Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies [IPS], 1977.
“Soviet Policy in the Arab World in l976: A Year of Setbacks.” In The Yearbook of the Palestine Question: 1976, pp. 397-420 [Arabic]. Edited by Camille Mansour. Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1979.
Soviet Middle East Policy in the Wake of Camp David. I.P.S. Papers No. 3. Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1979, 36 pp.
The Soviet Union and the Middle East in the 1980s. I.P.S. Papers No. 7. Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1980, 34 pp.
“‘Abd al-Ghani al-’Uraisi and al-Mufid: The Press and Arab Nationalism before 1914.” In Intellectual Life in the Arab East, 1890-1939, pp. 38-61. Edited by Marwan Buheiri. Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 1981. Reprinted in Arab Studies Quarterly 3, 1 (Winter 1981): 22-42 [Arabic: pp. 55-78, Beirut: Arab Unity Studies Center, 1983].
“L’URSS au Moyen Orient: Mythes et Réalités.” Revue d’Etudes Palestiniennes 3 (Spring 1982): 91-103.
“The Role of the Press in the Early Arab Reaction to Zionism.” Peuples Méditerranéens/ Mediterranean Peoples 20 (July-September 1982): 105-24.
“The Gulf and Palestine in Soviet Policy.” In Palestine and the Persian Gulf, pp. 149-185. Edited by Rashid Khalidi and Camille Mansour. Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1982.
“Problems of Foreign Intervention in Lebanon.” American-Arab Affairs 7 (Winter 1983-84): 24-30.
“The Palestinians in Lebanon: The Social Repercussions of the Israeli Invasion.” Middle East Journal 38, 2 (Spring 1984): 255-266.
“Social Factors in the Rise of the Arab Movement in Syria.” In From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam, pp. 53-70. Edited by Said Arjomand. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984.
“L’impact du mouvement national palestinien sur le Liban.” Revue d’Etudes Palestiniennes 12 (Summer 1984): 3-14.
“The 1982 War and the Palestinian National Movement.” Fikr 2 (June-July 1984): 26-36 [Arabic].
“The Asad Regime and the Palestinian Resistance.” Arab Studies Quarterly 6, 4 (Fall 1984): 259-267.
“The 1912 Election Campaign in the Cities of Bilad al-Sham.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 16, 4 (November 1984): 461-474.
“Lebanon in the Context of Regional Politics: Palestinian and Syrian Involvement in the Lebanese Crisis.” Third World Quarterly 7, 3 (July 1985): 495-514.
“Foreign Intervention and Domestic Conflict in Lebanon.” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Working Paper, July, 1985, 32 pp.
“Reagan Administration Policy towards the Palestinians.” American-Arab Affairs 13 (Summer 1985): 10-16.
“Arab Views of the Soviet Role in the Middle East. The Middle East Journal 39, 4 (Fall 1985): 716-732.
“The Palestinian Dilemma: PLO Policy after Lebanon.” Journal of Palestine Studies, 15, 1 (Autumn 1985): 88-103.
“Palestinian Politics after the Exodus from Beirut.” In The Middle East After the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, pp. 233-253. Edited by Robert O. Freedman. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
“An Arab View of Containment.” In Containment: Concepts and Policies, pp. 415-423. Edited by John Gaddis and Terry Deibel. Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1986.
“Le Liban et les Palestiniens.” In Le Liban: Espoirs et Réalités, pp. 135-152. Edited by Bassma Kodmani-Darwish. Paris: Institut Francais de Relations Internationales, 1987.
“Social Transformation and Political Power in the ‘Radical’ Arab States.” In Nation, State and Integration in the Arab World, Vol. III, Beyond Coercion: The Durability of the Arab State, pp. 203-219. Edited by Adeed Dawisha and I. William Zartman. New York: Croom Helm, 1988 [Arabic: pp. 681-696, Beirut: Arab Unity Studies Center].
“Palestinian Peasant Resistance to Zionism before World War I.” In Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, pp. 207-233. Edited by Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens. New York: Verso, 1988.
“The Palestinians and Lebanon.” In Toward a Viable Lebanon. pp. 133-144. Edited by Halim Barakat. Washington DC: Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1988.
“The Shape of Inter-Arab Politics in 1995.” In The Next Arab Decade: Alternative Futures, pp. 55-63. Edited by Hisham Sharabi. Boulder: Westview, 1988 [Arabic: pp. 73-84, Beirut: Arab Unity Studies Center, 1986].
“The Economic Partition of the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire before the First World War.” Review 11, 2 (Spring 1988): 251-264.
“The Uprising and the Palestine Question.” World Policy Journal 5, 3 (Summer 1988): 497-517.
“The Palestine Liberation Organization and Camp David, 1978-1988.” In The Middle East: Ten Years After Camp David, pp. 261-278. Edited by William B. Quandt. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1988.
“Revisionist Views of the Modern History of Palestine: 1948.” Arab Studies Quarterly 10, 4 (Autumn 1988): 425-34.
“Leadership and Negotiation during the 1982 War: Yasser Arafat and the P.L.O.” In Leadership and Negotiation: A New Look at the Middle East, pp. 49-69. Edited by Barbara Kellerman and Jeffrey Rubin. New York: Praeger, 1988.
“The Palestinian People 22 Years after 1967.” In Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation, pp. 113-126. Edited by Zachary Lockman and Joel Beinin. Boston: South End Press, 1989.
“The Way Forward: A Palestinian Perspective.” Journal of Refugee Studies, 2, 1 (1989): 191-199.
“Consequences of the Suez Crisis in the Arab World.” In Suez 1956: The Crisis and its Consequences, pp. 377-92. Edited by Roger Louis and Roger Owen. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989.
“The P.L.O. as Representative of the Palestinian People.” In The International Relations of the Palestine Liberation Organization, pp. 59-73. Edited by Augustus R. Norton and Martin H. Greenberg. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.
“The Resolutions of the 19th Palestine National Council: A Textual Analysis.” Journal of Palestine Studies, 19, 2 (Winter 1990): 29-42.
“Observations on the Palestinian Right of Return.” Emerging Issues: Occasional Paper No. 6, Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, October 1990 [with Itamar Rabinovich]. Modified version in Journal of Palestine Studies, 21, 2 (Winter 1992): 29-40.
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References
^ 2006 Phelps Association Directory
^ “Rashid Khalidi”. University of Chicago. Retrieved on 2006-09-20.
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^ “Mona Khalidi”. SIPA Staff. Columbia University (2006). Retrieved on 2008-03-12.
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^ http://www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/121505/njcontroversial.html
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^ Note: The ADC transcript of Khalidi’s speech has been edited, and has sections missing. Thus, it cannot be used for verification.
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External links
Profile on Rashid Khalidi at the Institute for Middle East Understanding
Video: Rashid Khalidi – Palestine: 40 Years of Occupation, 60 Years of Dispossession (June 23, 2007)
Review of Rhashid Khalidi Resurrecting Empire, Western Footprints, and America’s Path in the Middle East

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murphy 10.28.08 at 10:26 pm

More Silliness, but hey this IS an overnight thread. I like this one. From email from my pal in Chicago.
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Murphy, cool!

Your pal in Chicago,

Mary Jo

NOBOJOEMO!!

LANDIPUMA

That was me, it was a typo. I lost everything because of API.

keep up the warnings.

RE: POST 290

EDIT: Remove the stand alone paragraph: “No Jew in America has anything to prove.” I was editing too quickly and missed that. It’s redundant – repeated in the next paragraph.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin spoke to an enthusiastic crowd gathered in Las Vegas for a rally. Best speech she give about woman Issues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHxT5UjKWe0

…………….

Shane 10.29.08 at 1:36 pm WROTE:

JOSEPH GOEBBELS, BORN IN RHEYDT, GERMANY, CONSIDERED A LEFT WINGER
WAS CHIEF PROPAGANIST FOR THE NAZIS.

-SUCCESSFUL IN WHAT HE DID?
……YES, ‘BECAUSE HE HAD COMPLETE CONTROL OVER THE GERMAN RADIO (NO TELEVISION IN 1933)

– AND A MONOPOLY OF THE MEDIA ENABLED
GOBBELS TO BRAINWASH A NATION

IN ADDITION TO MANIPULATING THE MEDIA, JOSEPH GOBBELS “WAS SHREWD AT
ANALYZING SPECIAL SITUATIONS.”
HE STAGED ” HUGE RALLIES AS RITUAL SPECTACLES”

- IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF IN AMERICA IN 2008 ??

…………….

Yes… Good warning.

BO & his tactics also remind me of the way Fidel Castro took over Cuba by first deceiving the people about his real ideology and intentions.

And the Cuban media propaganda and spin on everything is, though more extreme, not too far off from the American media’s biased reporting during this election.

(I know… I lived in Cuba in my youth. ..And more recently I did a study of Cuban radio political reporting, by listening to Cuban radio stations through the internet).
….

This is bull crap all three channels cut off McCains speech but yet Oblow is gonna get to talk for 30 minutes tonight but they can’t show McCains speech it was really good too.

repost

Does anyone know when the contracts for Campbell Brown, Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews are due to be renewed/negotiated???

If you want people to know more about Khalidi, pass this on to them:
http://www.barackbook.com/Profiles/RashidKhalidi.htm

I’m not sure, I just googled did a quick cut and paste, I’ve never really been to wikpedia before. Do you think it’s everything?

Hate that I don’t get time to keep with all of the posts any more. (For those who want to know, our family is starting to recover. Still a lot ahead of us. Thanks again for your prayers and kind thoughts.)

Anyway, I just got this email and thought it worthy of spreading around. VERY interesting. I’ve never heard of it and would bet most Americans haven’t either.
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This is the kind of thing that makes you want to throw all the Senate and Congress out of office.

You better think about this before you vote . . ……4 years from now might be too too late for more than a few.
Ever heard of the Bakken Formation?
GOOGLE it or follow this link. It will blow your mind. http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911
The U.S. Geological Service issued a report in April (’08) that only scientists and oilmen knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn’t been updated since ’95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota; western South Dakota; and extreme eastern Montana … check THIS out:
The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay, and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable… at $107 a barrel, we’re looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.
‘When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea.’ says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature’s financial analyst.
‘This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years,’ reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It’s a formation known as the Williston Basin , but is more commonly referred to as the ‘Bakken.’ And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada . For years, U.S.oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the ‘Big Oil’ companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago. However, a recent technological breakthrough ha s opened up the Bakken’s massive reserves… and we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!
That’s enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 41 years straight.
2. [And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should - because it's from TWO YEARS AGO, people!]

U.S.Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World!
Stansberry Report Online – 4/20/2006 Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction.
They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:
-8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
-18-times as much oil a s Iraq
-21-times as much oil as Kuwait
-22-times as much oil as Iran
-500-times as much oil as Yemen- and it’s all right here in the
Western United States .
HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this!? Because the democrats, environmentalists and left wing republicans have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil.
James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we’ve got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION barrels. Untapped. That’s more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.
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Don’t think ‘OPEC’ will drop its price – even with this find? Think again! It’s all about the competitive marketplace, – it has to.
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Got your attention/ire up yet? Hope so! Now, while you’re thinking about it … and hopefully ticked off, do this:
3. Take 10 minutes and compose an e-mail; fax or good old-fashioned letter to all your friends and associates. Alert them to the fact that democrats and “liberal” republicans have been and will continue to obstruct all plans to make America independent of foreign oil. The only solution is to vote all democrats and Marxist oriented republicans out of office.

If you don’t take a little time to do this, then you should stifle yourself the next time you want to complain about gas prices .. because by doing NOTHING, you’ve forfeited your right to complain.
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Now I just wonder what would happen in this country if every one of you sent this to every one in your address book.

This PUMA’s already diminished respect for Bill Clinton will drop to zero if the former President appears in Ojuststoptheendlessbullshitwillya’s infomercial tonight:

http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/10/obama-ad-may-ha.html

WEB SITES OF NATIONAL JEWISH ORGS
(Click on “contact”. Some have web forms, others have contact info)
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http://www.youngisrael.org/

http://www.youngisrael.org/content/Contactus.cfm

http://www.jewishpublicaffairs.org/

http://www.jewish.com/

http://www.ajc.org/

KarenWI 10.29.08 at 12:27 pm

Thanks N.O.P. You’re right… I have a lot to do to get ready for tomorrow, so I’d better get at it!

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Hey Karenski! Good luck and a speedy recovery. When you come home be back here pronto cause I do not have Fox on cable and I need your great play by plays reporting.

Read a great line recently. The McCain should be using it:

National security is the best health care plan.

nhforhillary

I wasn’t clear on this point … the page that is locked is a page that links Obama and Rashid Khalidi.

ps- it might be interesting to have a little contest for our authors to make a new “Twas the night before election” like the one I just posted… or amend this one… to fit the PUMA’s and/or the election. I’ll bet we’d have some good ones!

New Orleans – You’re welcome. I hope PUMAs who are not Jewish will adapt the letter as well. It wouldn’t take many changes for it to be written from someone who is not Jewish. But, I realize this is probably a lot to ask. Bottom line is, we’re all caring about the future of all Americans and the democratic principals this country was founded upon. It’s just that there are somem particular things about Obama that I think are particularly threatening to Jews.

nhforhillary yes it was a new speech and it was really good it talked about National Security and how BO isn’t ready to be in charge he had very good talking points , he pointed out (like Hillary)about how all he did was give a speech in 2002. I can’t remember all the talking points but it was good. As far as Sarah’s yes that was new also and it was very good McCain and Palin;s plans were very interesting and she also ripped on BO and Biden pretty good.

OK – I’ve just finished hauling a gazillion boxes in the sun and am looking quite suitably homeless. I will wash off my nasty feet at least and keep my nasty black fingers for good measure.

I have got two “Spread the Wealth” signs and go stand in the hot midday sun. I need to make a point because it is relevant to me.

Please PUMAs , continue to do what you can to help McCain.
For more than 6 months, the focus has always been about keeping Obama from the Presidency of America. Don’t let the next 6 days make all our efforts and anguish go to waste.
Don’t discuss anything irrelevant that will take the focus off what is very very important. On Nov 5, we can discuss all the religion, recipes, issues that are dear to us.

We cannot regret in leisure. 8 years of Obama is torture for us and our country. 6 days to give our Country our FINAL BEST. Whatever the outcome, we can look at the mirror on Nov 5 and say that “I did my absolute best and God Bless America”.

RE: FREEDOM MARCH IN LA TOMORROW AND ANY OTHER URGEN ACTIONS

Reminding everyone that a quick and easy way to expand who we reach is to visit conservative online publications and post on their blogs:

American Thinker
Pajamas Media
Hot Air
Common Sense Explained

I don’t know if we have these in the AC or not. If we don’t, I think we should. They are a natural place for us to expand our audience for many of the issues we care about.

slyt2 10.29.08 at 2:22 pm

See my post #310. McCain’s camp knew the feds were about to cut interest rates and it would be big news. The McCain camp should NOT have scheduled McCain’s speech on National Security at the SAME time!

I don’t blame the news channels for covering news about the economy that may affect the market over McCain. Instead I blame McCain’s handlers for not thinking about the best time to present his speech.

Ario – It’s been scrubbed!

this is too hard for me to believe. did anyone else hear this on TV or Radio. Maybe a person calling in said this. too much speculation.

Anonymous said…
I just heard on Bill O’Reilley’s Radio Station that not to worry that they have the real Hawaii original Birth certificate. What is the truth?????

October 29, 2008 1:23 PM

Terrydo yea I know he purchased his time my point was just the speech lasted like 5 minutes more (I’ve seen them let Oblow ramble on for 20 minutes before). CNN went a little longer with the speech and just put next to it they posted about the Federal Reserve , i guess I was just bi*ching more then anything else.lol
NoHillaryNoVote I don’t think they planned or didn’t plan it around anything he is on a time schedule this is when he was giving his speech. I don’t think they had a clue about the federal reserve happening as he was giving his speech .So I don’t think it was bad handling (IMO).

Pookie- Which Indiana newspaper?

nhforhillary 10.29.08 at 2:45 pm

nhforhill – see
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/

Palin’s energy speech is already posted there – McCain’s national security speech not yet posted.

McCain campaign is pretty good about posting transcript of speeches by McCain or Palin fairly quickly and sometimes even in advance.

I still love the AOL polls. All Red!!

Now that it is getting closer, I’m nervous to look at any of the news and internet articles….cause they are usually all Obama and how he is going to win. Ughhhh

If you have any good news, please share…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081029/pl_politico/15056

smart or overkill?

I’m definitely hoping overkill………

GO MCCAIN!! I wonder what Mccain is planning on doing to smooth this one over to his advantage.

Boy, BO knows all the dirty tricks…

Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations
Contributions Reviewed After Deposits

Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity, campaign officials confirmed.

Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged. Instead, the campaign is scrutinizing its books for improper donations after the money has been deposited.

The Obama organization said its extensive review has ensured that the campaign has refunded any improper contributions, and noted that Federal Election Commission rules do not require front-end screening of donations.

more
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/28/AR2008102803413_pf.html
Drudge

BillieJo 10.29.08 at 2:51 pm

I know you were trying to help by offering advice. But let’s try not to discourage people from posting. People leave our blog when they feel unwelcome.

Each day we gain new people visiting this site. Perhaps some people are simply new to posting on blogs. It’s possible that they may be newer to the techniques one can use to share links to articles on other sites or how to bold or unaware of some of the posting etiquette commonly used on blogs.

I recall in the past there were “tips” shared by others on this blog for how to post.

Anyone have a copy to share? I scanned the action center but did not see there when I looked quickly.

I just received this Bill and Hillary along with a youtube video:

With Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the White House and bigger Democratic majorities in Congress, we’re going to achieve things that didn’t seem possible just a few years ago. But it’s up to us to make it happen.

With only a few days left, it is crucial that we all do everything we can. Every single conversation, every single phone call, and every single volunteer could make a difference

sean hannity is tearing up acorn right now: http://gateway.andohs.net/player/?sid=826&nid=2920#

I have a sick feeling today. I keep reading state after state with voter fraud.

I know there has always been some of it in every election, but this time with ACORN behind it, I am just so worried that O may win thru fraud!

No matter how many honest, good people turn out, is it enough to combat all the fraud????

I got a call from an Volunteer LAST NIGHT. WANTED ME TO MAKE CALLS IN NH for That One!
I said no way I was calling there for McCain and I hung up.

Are we against redistribution now? I thought Hillary was for universal health care (which is, of course, redistribution). I thought she was also for the minimum wage (which is redistribution) and for welfare (which is the definition of redistribution).

lurker yes I can see your post.. Opps general hospital back on bye

Poor Joe is on a short leash…funny.

Anyone who has watched Joe Biden over 35 years in the Senate might have a little bit of trouble recognizing the guy who is running to be Barack Obama’s Vice President. Oh, yes, he looks like the same fellow. But traveling with Biden during this campaign has sometimes been like reporting on a politician packaged in shrink-wrap. While his windy, off-point pontification was the stuff of legend among his Senate colleagues, Biden is now leashed to a teleprompter even when he is talking in a high school gym that is three-quarters empty.

more
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1854640,00.html

Welcome Cosmos….

On December 26, 1839, responding to the confident prediction of one of his political opponents “that every State in the Union will vote for Mr. Van Buren at the next Presidential election” and that Lincoln’s opposition to Van Buren was bound to be in vain, Lincoln responded:

Address that argument to cowards and to knaves; with the free and the brave it will effect nothing. It may be true; if it must, let it. .  .  . The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. .  .  . Let none falter, who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if after all, we shall fail, be it so.

As it happens, the Whig ticket Lincoln supported won that 1840 election. So might, against the odds, the party of Lincoln win this year.

376 Flowerchild2

Thanks for the update. I’ll go look. Goofsdad is organizing the march…

Does anyone have the video of the older black man who claims Rashidi asked him to write a letter of introduction for Obama for Harvard law school.

Please send to the press.

376 Flowerchild2

Which thread was freedom march posted on?

reading materials:
Two chilling articles about the type of courts and laws that Barack Obama wants for us. As Thomas Sowell writes “Do we really want judges who decide cases based on who you are, rather than on the facts and the law?”

http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/10/28/obama_and_the_law

http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2008/10/28/obama_fundamental_change_count_on_it

PS Or we could be very, very happy. (Guess I don’t have my anxiety under control!)

Anna7000

I will go with yours. I definitely want to be VERY VERY HAPPY election night with a landslide win….

Wake up everyone please!

@ #386:

Ok, the older black guy was Percy Sutton, and he was speaking of Khalid al Mansour (one of the leaders of black panther) getting Obama into Harvard.

Obama Had Close Ties to Top Saudi Adviser [and black panther leader] at Early Age
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_sutton_saudi/2008/09/03/127490.html

Is this the same guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EcC0QAd0Ug
Obama and Khalid Mansour

Khalid el Mansour

Rashid Khalid

May as well be toooo many sordid associations.
So many you cant keep up with them.

kat in your hat 10.29.08 at 3:34 pm

Sry just another one of his associations.

Obama and Khalid al Mansour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8npeYfKI_ns

#371 BillieJo

A bit off topic but need to ask. I saw you, me and others received a few really…ahem… interesting emails from a ILikebeing…….about 4 or 5 days ago. Do you happen to know who sent those? Was concerned.

freddiebrown – what time will you be there – I will call the stations.

Obama speech writer quits – switches to McCain Campaign

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/10/29/obama-speechwriter-switches-mccain-ignored-msm

tennaseepuma

thank you

@395 Pookie:

Thanks for the post of that video.

RedStateGuy,
What happened? I can’t read all the posts today, I have enjoyed talking to you late at night, please don’t go…

hillstheone: What a good reply

Is somebody with Freddiebrown to get a picture? (LOL I guess I finally found out Freddiebrown is “she”… )

#272 kat in your hat – really great article. I saved it and am going to send it out to a lot of friends, especially in NYC. Will be busy e-mailing when I get home. There is still time to change minds.

LEEinUSA

It is my understanding that the API tape and web page was setup by crooks. There is no such business and the tape is a lie. The whole thing is a lie. And as we all know it has a virus which is deadly to your computer and will crash…..

check out michelle’s thesis was released a day or two ago…
for those of you who may have missed it….

http://www.michelleobamathesis.com/

I think we all need to take heart from the polls tightening. The polls are HEAVILY weighted for Obama. With that in mind, am I so wrong in wondering if maybe – just maybe- the Rasmussen poll showing Obama +3 is probably, in reality, a +4 or +5 or more for McCain? ….and the +2 point Gallup maybe really (without the dem weighting) be a +5 or +6 for McCain? Think about it. If they were weighted heavily when Oblahblah had double digit leads, are they any less weighted that way when the lead is only 2 or 3?

NO WAY NO HOW NO OBAMA NOVEMBER>>>HEHEHE

Woodie, thanks. I think her thesis has been out for a few months. I remember reading it.

BillieJo

If you are still on, would you please read my post #399.

Sarah Palins dad is gonna be on Neil C show (on fox) talking about her and the Palin hanging by a noose it’s coming on..

Response to BillieJo 10.29.08 at 3:20 pm
———–What are you talking about????????????????
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My post #355 was remarking on your post #346 . Your post appeared after long posts were submitted by nhforhillary #295 at 2:12 pm and Lorelai’s long post #335 at 2:45 pm.

BillieJo – I’m not coming after you – you were polite in #346 – asking with a please. I wasn’t disagreeing with you – I was only saying if this blog has post length expectations then we need to let posters know up front. Or we need to promote / teach the technique for including a link rather than posting an entire article.

No issue here for me with you BillieJo. Your post only led me to pose a question to our group in order to clarify expectations. I often read your comments and support everything you say. This one just caught my attention.

My post #355 was cautioning that we don’t want to unintentionally discourage others who support our agenda from sharing their thoughts & opinions here (well, with the exception of Obots who can go post on their own blogs).

Sometimes when we are too brief it comes across as abrupt and then people feel badly for sharing something that they thought was really important. Plus lurkers – who haven’t posted before – read a reaction and then might be hesitant to share their thoughts for fear of not posting correctly. It doesn’t take much to discourage people who haven’t shared before.

Actually I always assumed that here people can post whatever length anyone chooses, & I assume others do like I do – simply skip over the posts where the content doesn’t interest me or I don’t have time to read. (however some blogs do have a word count limit)

SIMONSON:

AFFORDABLE, AVAILABLE, QUALITY HEALTH CARE for ALL FAMILES ETC>>>>in the USA, NOT FREE!!!!!

RedStateGuy

…………….good bye.

NoHillaryNoVote
Many people post here with long articles, but should post a little to let people know what it is about, then post the link. I think everyone realizes when they post something that fills pages and pages that one…many do not read very long posts, and two – that everyone has to spend a lot of time going past it to get to the other posts.

Heads up to anyone still on this thread. You need to go forward (or upstairs) 2 threads to catch up with the rest of the gang. go to the thread titled something like “There’s not enough money for this guy”.

I like long posts. Sometimes I prefer to read the long post rather then go to the site and read it there. Nothing wrong with long posts. They also document the story in case the web site of the original later goes down. this frequently happens. this gives us a documented copy of the posting.

If people do not like long posts then skip over them. I look for the longer posts because I like to read more substance. short posts tend to be superficial on the topic.

Anyway just my 2 cents. if there is going to be a ban on long posts then please let me know.

sorry for the typos. Now that i am back with my pc, things should be better. it has a larger keyboard for my large hands…:))

There is a very important article up by Edwin Vieira, Ph. D., J.D., which makes many crucial points about the citizenship case. Two of note:
1) The issue of “standing” is a judicial invention, never mentioned in the Constitution.
2) PUMAs and other HRC supporters have suffered direct injury, and would have excellent “standing”:

Second, the notion upon which the judge in Berg v. Obama fastened—namely, that Berg’s “grievance remains too generalized to establish the existence of an injury in fact,” i.e., if everyone is injured or potentially injured then no one has “standing”—is absurd on its face.

To be sure, no one has yet voted for Obama in the general election. But does that mean that no one in any group smaller than the general pool of America’s voters in its entirety has suffered specific harm from Obama’s participation in the electoral process to date? Or will suffer such harm from his continuing participation? What about the Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton as their party’s nominee, but were saddled with Obama because other Democrats voted for him even though they could not legally have done so if his lack of eligibility for “the Office of President” had been judicially determined before the Democratic primaries or convention?

I mean “goober” in a nice way, ok…slowpokes.

lol.

xo

Anna7000

where didyou get the info that the justice dept. is pulling out of the polling stations? I have them on the line now….

Thanks for all the kind words you guys…
It was something I had to do to get out of my own comfort zone for something I believed in.

I am so not comfortable with pictures but Dances appeared and I didn’t know who she was…I really am a reserved person. I could sit next to you on a plane and happily not talk for the entire trip and feel perfectly OK. So this is so out of the ordinary for me. Dances could probably tell

After like 15 minutes, I was asking people to roll down the window and asking them to vote McCain. Most were very nice.
The only one nasty was an AA woman who did a U turn and said “if you vote McCain, that’s what you would be doing”. Dances was there so she flipped her off… just kidding.
One guy asked how much did they paid me to do this? I just try to be pleasant and explained what I could

Mostly people looked at the sign or they didn’t look because they don’t want to stare or maybe they thought I wanted money.
Traffic was very heavy when I got there at lunch time so inside I was a bit freaking out momentarily but hey got a job to do..

I will dress better tomorrow so people won’t press money into my hand… it was very wierd and I was laughing to myself behind my sign. I should give the $2 and change away to some real needy person tomorrow. Fred says it’s not even enough for his doggie steak.

Oh, I saw two TV vans pull into the shopping center close to where I was but dunno what that was about. But I heard on the news that they had an antrax scare at the local newspaper so they could be engaged.. maybe I’ll try again tomorrow.

Good to meet you Dances – I hope I didn’t ignore you… so many cars, so little time – I was in my work the traffic mode.