Rex Kickass

Because crocodile tears don't play every time. McCain will whine and wail about it, but this time nobody will notice because there are bigger things worth reporting about. Not every affront to a candidacy gets airtime.

Weird how that works, isn't it? You also might be in a red island in a Democratic state. Here's what they told me on my first campaign. "Lawn Signs don't win elections. Votes do."

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 10:38 AM) Sen. Barack Obama has launched a new Spanish-language TV ad that seeks to paint Sen. John McCain as anti-immigrant, even tying the Republican to his longtime conservative talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh. As first reported by the Washington Post, Obama's ad features a narrator saying: "They want us to forget the insults we've put up with...the intolerance...they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so much." The screen then shows these two quotes from Limbaugh: "...stupid and unskilled Mexicans." --Rush Limbaugh "You shut your mouth or you get out!" --Rush Limbaugh The narrator then says, "John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that says lies just to get our vote...and another, even worse, that continues the policies of George Bush that Will the media go apes*** over Barry's new immigration ad like they did last week over McCain's sex ed ad? Probably not. But more because the ad is in Spanish. And with the Dow dropping through the floor, and the fed nationalizing giant corporations every week, it seems like the news hole for this kind of story doesn't exist. I think we'd see the same thing if it was a McCain ad as well. Given that the Lipstickonapiggate got two days of nonstop coverage everywhere, I don't see this thing really lies on party lines. That being said, it is a pretty s***ty and dishonest ad.

If the hack came from 4chan on Obama's email, I'd say it was just stupid.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 09:11 AM) Yeah this is my position as well. To say he "won" the Cold War, which is said quite often, is pretty inaccurate. The Russians would also say that it's like thanking the crow for the sunrise but that's not true either. In reality what happened is somewhere in the middle. They were in a downward spiral, and Reagan's policies had a positive effect (from the American perspective) that may or may not have happened with another president, and this ultimately contributed to them reaching a point they couldn't recover from. You could make the argument that the detente that Nixon/Ford/Carter attempted to make with the Soviet administration - pre-Afghanistan - might have bought the Soviet Union their last ten years, but I think the real reason for the Soviet Union's fall from grace was partially economic and partially the end of the Old-Guard's effectiveness in its own party. There was a succession of fairly ineffective, old men running the country who were weak on ideas and in physical health as well. It allowed the reform wing that Gorbachev led in the 1980s to grab the reins of the party and Gorbachev's openness policy exposed too much weakness to allow the state to survive, IMO.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Sep 18, 2008 -> 10:01 AM) Actually, by law she is required to save and record every e-mail that is for government purposes. And based on what I have read, many of these were. The problem is that if he were to delete her yahoo account, those e-mails would be gone and likely not to be seen again. She could keep "dirty" politics on her yahoo account and we the public would be none the wiser since her "official" Gov account didnt have the juicy stuff. I can tell you that almost every elected official does at least some limited official business on their private emails. Most are just better at hiding it, and they won't use stupid yahoo accounts to do that. Email is a tough thing for electeds to use responsibly, because their life is 24/7 their job, its hard not to have private and public life mesh. Case in point: NJ Governor Jon Corzine dated the NJ CWA president while he served in the Senate. He loaned her money for a house, and then before he ran for governor - so there would be no conflict of interest, forgave the loan. This all came back up again when the state union's bargained for a new contract. There was such a clamor for releasing of private emails between those two (which may have had some business, but were probably just cute or dirty emails sent to each other, but most definitely embarrassing IMO) that the Governor of New Jersey swore off email completely.

I started losing my hair at 16. I don't have much up top anymore. Keep your hair shorter, it makes the loss of hair less noticeable. When its really noticeable? Shave your head. Then nobody knows youre bald on accident.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 17, 2008 -> 08:22 PM) these emails obtained illegally would undoubtedly not be allowed against her. If they reach the media, though, it will be up to them to decide to take the risk. Because they would be publishing info they know was obtained illegally. If the hacker anonymous puts up the info on his own site, then the paper can report that, however. Those emails obtained illegally would be inadmissible, but they could take that information to obtain the emails of the other users legally, no?

This is pretty horrible stuff to see happen to any public figure, IMO. They deserve a private life. However, if the evidence from the hack also produces that the now deleted account was used to conduct state business, then we've got two more illegal acts perpetuated on top of the hack.

In short-term reality, this could be very problematic for Europe.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 17, 2008 -> 04:05 PM) 3 month treasury yielding .04, and thats up from .02 this morning. All time low was .01 in Jan 1940. Is that 4% or .04%?

Gallup shows a 3 point shift in the tracker, now giving Obama a 2 point lead, 47-45.

The era of Russian regional dominance appears to be drawing to a quick close. That lasted what, two or three months?

The Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122158807066443975.html Except, that wasn't the vote to pass the measure. Oops! That was a procedural vote! The actual vote? 54-44. McCain voted to pass the bill. Reid, Biden voted no. Here's the vote record. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll...&vote=00105

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 06:07 PM) NBC had an interview with the former CEO of HP Mitchell: "Do you think Sarah Palin could run a corporation?" Fiorina: No, I don't she could, or John McCain, or Barack Obama, or Joe Biden" What did NBC air? Mitchell: "Do you think Sarah Palin could run a corporation?" Fiorina: "No, I don't think she could, or John McCain." That ended what they showed of the interview. lol. To be fair, its not news to badmouth the other guy. It is news to badmouth your own.

Pearl Jam

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 02:55 PM) Racist Looks like both sides play with words. If you wanna play with words, that last phrase is most damning. "We will never put you in this position again," sounds like a confession that he put them in this position. Doesn't it?

McCain supporter and former CEO of Hewlett Packard on the radio in St. Louis this morning. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/090..._to_run_HP.html So, second most powerful job in the world? No problem! HP? Maybe not so much....

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 01:10 PM) http://www.ldnews.com/letterseditor/ci_10436829 So you're saying its impossible for someone to switch their party and get involved within 8 years?

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 16, 2008 -> 10:27 AM) The good news? There seems to be quite a bit for Obama in the Daily Tracker. Research 2000/DailyKos tracking poll shows Obama gaining four points this week. (O-48, M-44) Rasmussen Tracking Poll shows Obama gaining two points this week. (M-48, O-47) Gallup's five point tracking lead has cut to two points has well, showing Obama gaining three points (M-47, O-45) Diageo/Hotline's tracking poll shows Obama also winning 44-43, regaining the lead over the weekend. It's not the actual numbers that give the most value in a tracking poll, but the trend lines. And in every poll, the trend is towards Obama getting his groove back. Gallup is now showing M-47, O-46.

The good news? There seems to be quite a bit for Obama in the Daily Tracker. Research 2000/DailyKos tracking poll shows Obama gaining four points this week. (O-48, M-44) Rasmussen Tracking Poll shows Obama gaining two points this week. (M-48, O-47) Gallup's five point tracking lead has cut to two points has well, showing Obama gaining three points (M-47, O-45) Diageo/Hotline's tracking poll shows Obama also winning 44-43, regaining the lead over the weekend. It's not the actual numbers that give the most value in a tracking poll, but the trend lines. And in every poll, the trend is towards Obama getting his groove back.

Lame

So Siena has a poll showing McCain within 5 points in New York today. Sort of surprising, but maybe not so much given the survey was a week after the Republican Convention, and probably reflects part of that bounce. More surprising? Survey USA's poll has Obama up by four in Virginia.

I was in a Fraternity.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 15, 2008 -> 11:39 AM) You CAN negotiate without reaching a deal. And it certainly seems like he WAS trying to reach a deal. Again, just going by what was written. He seemed like he was trying to convince him to do something that he favored, and was told no. IS that now just called 'asking'? And there IS something wrong with it, if that person has a different message than the one of his government. And like it or not, Bush's message is the 'official' one for now. I don't get the impression he was trying to reach any sort of deal. Again, you're inferring that from the basis of one op-ed article in the New York Post of all places citing two month old information. Speaking with leaders of a country over different foreign policy initiatives, and suggesting one thing or another does not amount to anything close to brokering a deal. Just because I give you advice on how you should propose to your girlfriend doesn't mean I brokered a marriage.