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QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Nov 1, 2008 -> 01:37 PM) So Obama's aunt. They made a big deal this week that she was living in public housing. Turns out she requested asylum when she moved to the US. It was denied in 2004, but she was never deported. Makes her technically illegal. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081101/ap_on_el_pr/obama_aunt this paragraph tells you everything you need to know: "Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one a federal law enforcement official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release."

wiki. The reality is since october I think it has been more pro Obama than McCain, but I don't know how any reasonable person could possibly cover the McCain campaign in any positive way this month. It's been a disaster.

Criticism The organization has been criticized for advancing a notion of objectivity thought to be ideologically consistent with the values of liberal democracy. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky argue that the CMPA is organized around the creation of "flak," which they define as "negative responses to a media statement or program" and which they maintain is part of a project of "disciplining the media." [17] The media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) has challenged CMPA's non-partisan claim, based on the argument that much of its funding has come from conservative sources, and that its founder, Dr. S. Robert Lichter, once held a chair in mass communications at the American Enterprise Institute and was a Fox News contributor.[18][19] After a Washington Post article referred to CMPA as "conservative," the Post published a "Clarification," which concluded, "The Center describes itself as nonpartisan, and its studies have been cited by both conservative and liberal commentators."[20]

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 31, 2008 -> 11:38 PM) This is one of those things that is just, well, odd. Hotline has a listing of election-related programming this weekend. CNN has this item included: That's basically just CNN handing over their network to conservatives to talk about the election for an hour. The problem of course is, there's no Election Countdown, View from the Left. CNN refused to air Obama's 30 min. ad

Thank ya kindly.

How do you print screen?

You can get a pretty good idea of how a state feels about a candidate. I know missouri is tight from living here, so I trust heads when he says Iowa loves Obama.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 31, 2008 -> 07:54 PM) Also, I'll throw out a dark horse not mentioned... Lisa Madigan, IL AG and former state senate cohort of Obama's, for US AG. I'm looking forward to see her next move. I'd welcome her in the senate, but I'd like for her to become governor. I respect the job she's done. As for the republicans, considering their candidates have been either inadequate or scum, why not run Joe Birkett. A little green but the guy seems at least to be legitimately clean.

I'm fairly certain the libertarian line is rather isolationist.

I think where the liberarians lose a lot of people are their views of the education system.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 31, 2008 -> 04:58 PM) The latest "Obama staffer" email making the rounds on the conservative blogs. Either this is made up BS, or the Obama campaign's internal numbers run counter to what every other pollster is seeing. The comments on skewing the polls don't make much sense to me, because as far as I know the pollsters that do weight for party are basing this on actual registration numbers, not Obama press releases. haha, This is clearly BS

QUOTE (shipps @ Oct 31, 2008 -> 06:25 PM) Iam going to the House of Blues tonight to see Jajuares a spanish rock band.I have no idea what they are saying but I like their sound so will see. any links?

Couldn't believe how long the line was. I was behind the hill on carnahan more towards jesse and behind "Missouri for Change" I only got to see Obama's head between the upper and middle prongs of the E. I have no idea what it looked like on the other side or where the stage even was. Crowd was really great though. The halloween costumes were funny.

I saw Obama tonite. Pretty interesting.

I don't know how you can disagree that McCain has had a terribly undisciplined campaign what with the constant campaign bickering getting leaked out as well as new theme every week.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 05:56 AM) Well it's also based loosely off Wahlberg's and Leo DiCaprio's careers. The real Drama is actually Wahlberg's cousin. And no matter what, doesn't matter if you turn 34 years old, don't you ever find people still giving you advice on life? It's not uncommon or out of this world to see Drama giving Vinny advice still. As far as E not becoming his manager, it's because they need to tie Ari and Vince together. Everyone's biggest complaints about the show beside Dom's first appearance was when Ari wasn't Vince's agent. Now with Ari sticking it out with Vinny, you people are getting mad? I mean think about it, Ari becomes studio head. Okay, what complications does he have as a studio head that would tie to Vince? Basically Ari really wouldn't have any major problems and nowhere the interaction with Vinny his agent would have. Ari not with Vince and the guys ruins the whole show's dynamic. I'm just saying why introduce that story line where Ari would have to choose? They could've just given it to dana gordon, but they had to have us believe that Ari would give up a 10 million dollar offer to be with his friends, and that's fine, whatever, but the way all the people around him were treating him like s*** for wanting to move up. You don't hold back your friends. It was just not believable, everyone was acting out of character.

But McCain doesn't set back WS games. I liked it. I thought it was going to be like Ross Perot's, too, where he just talked. He's got some good doc filmmakers that's for sure. kind of like Hitler.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 11:42 PM) Limit the window where they can run political ads and form 'exploratory committees' to raise money. I don't want to see another 2+ year campaign. Ever. I'm torn on this. I think that long primaries give you a very good idea about who a candidate was. I think that's why McCain has had such a hard time on Obama. People had mostly made up their mind about he he was after he beat hillary, and he couldn't rehash, he couldn't re-frame. Now why I say this is good is not because I'm an Obama fan. But if both candidates had an extended, hard-battled primary where the candidates had to define who they were to their party, then when they face off for the GE, it wouldn't be an election on personalities. It becomes about two distinct sets of ideologies. My father before this primary said he was dismayed that now with primaries it all comes down to IA and NH, and people don't really get to understand the candidates, and then it goes to a battle of vague ideologies b/w parties and the discourse goes down. In that sense, I think the Clinton/Obama fight was incredibly interesting from a historical perspective, and I hope next election cycle gets two strong candidates for the Republicans, b/c that whole crap about it fracturing the party was just that, crap.

If we go all time I s'pose it'd be different. My favorite senator is Feingold by far.

My favorite one on craigslist was an offer to watch the rally from their balcony. How scary is that? Hey, welcome to my nice home by grant park, don't murder me or steal anything plz!

I'm not a big fan of devito's character but I love the show.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news...e.statesman.com unfortunately there are some disgusting comments below it.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 03:10 PM) Now some conservatives are attacking Obama for using the phrase "negative liberties." I think they think Obama means "bad liberties" but they just don't really know what negative means. It's a concept they must have missed in grade school civics. http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/neg...nd_obama_n.html maybe the dumbest article I've ever seen.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 03:24 AM) So I was at the Illinois State building (69 W. Washington) where they have early voting in the basement, there were long lines. It was pretty interesting to see just how many people seem to be voting early, I think voter turnout may be really high this year. I feel like early voting was to avoid long lines.