Thousands of lawyers will be on hand to ensure that voter fraud and other shenanigans are not used to influence the outcome next Tuesday. The Obama team is sending 5000 lawyers to Florida alone. In the first e-mail, he sent out, nearly 6000 lawyers volunteered. He has sent 2 more e-mails.
The DNC has signed up 10.000 so far. They will be used in a variety of ways.... to get more early voting sites open, to run voter education programs, to protect voters' voting rights, run voter protection hot lines etc. In Montana, where the Republicans tried to purge 6,000 voters, from the rolls, they were able challenge it successfully in Federal court. In Detroit, they were able to work out a compromise when the Republicans tried to use home foreclosures lists to challenge voters
The Republicans have their army of lawyers too, but will not disclose how many, saying only that they will have enough to respond to ant " contingency ".
McCain is using Obama/Reid/Pelosi as the " dangerous threesome ", and painting them as the three most " liberal ", who would go on a spending spree bigger than the $ 700 billion Wall Street bailout. It is becoming apparent that the Democrats can win as much as 20 more seats in the House and 6-8 more in the Senate. Obama's coattail is long and broad.
Two neo-nazis have been arrested for plotting to go on a killing spree, including Obama and 102 other black people. This is the second such plot to be revealed. All the talk about Obama being a Muslim, about him cosying with home grown terrorists, about who he really is, all the fear and insecurity that is being generated by McCain/Palin is bringing the kooks and the haters out of the woodworks.
God help America!!!!!
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Palin is being accused by McCain" aides of " going rogue " and being a " diva ". I guess it's the fault of all those designer clothes they bought for her. Even the largest newspaper in Alaska, the Anchorage Daily News, has endorsed Obama, saying that it is too " risky " to put her " one 72 year old heartbeat away from the leadership of the w. The attacks on Obama by Sarah Palin continue with a new twist. Now she is invoking God, saying that the outcome is in " God's hand ". This ties in nicely with her calling Obama a socialist. " I am going to know at the end of the day, putting this in God's hands, that the right thing for America will be done ",she told Christian evangelical leader James Dobson" Two weeks to go and desperation is giving way to wackiness. First Palin tried to parody herself on SNL and now McCain is calling Obama a socialist. The lies , the distortions, the character assaults and the attempts to tie him to questionable personalities have failed, so the new bogeyman is socialism, This is at a time when the Bush administration is cozying to Libya and Syria making overtures to Iran and removing North Korea from the terror list and adoptimg policies of government intervention in the marketplace. 10 million Voters did not cast their ballot. It was the lowest turnout ....59.1%, worse than 2006, when 60.9%, turned out. More and more voters are tuning out, and this is troublesome. Uninspired leaders and candidates, broken promises, failure to strike a chord or to raise and deal with issues that resonate with the people, dirty campaigns and too many polls. This latter is drowning out the debate that should take place. It is insiduous and anti-democratic, and has drained the drama from elections. Today's election is crucial. Hard decisions have to be made on the economy, on the environment, on our presence in Afghanistan, on openness in government, on protection of consumers etc. The Reform/ Conservatives have shown that they are incapable and /or unwilling to do what is necessary. Race is the huge unspoken elephant in the election. This is the rotten underbelly in America, and" the idea that is America”, will never be fully be realized until this is, dealt with and gotten rid of . It is not just the sheriff in Florida and his Hussain quip. It is Palin and McCain. In desperation, they are using code words and questions e.g. who is the real Obama? Can you trust Obama? Is he really Muslim? Etc. Barack Obama won the debate last night hands down. He was cool under constant attack, diastortions , outright lies and even questioning of his patriotism by McCain. McCaim was clearly desperate and his too frequent references to " my friends " , and beating the drum of his service and his failure to offer any concrete ( except the plan to buy up mortgages ) plans to deal with the economic meltdown, was evident. He was a soorry figure and could not match the vibrancy and intellectual vigour of Obama. Someone once said that " it is not true that all conservatives are stupid, What is true is most of those who are conservatives are stupid ". The campaign in both Canada and U.S.A by the Ref/Cons and the Republicans have revealed the depth of that styupidity. The fallout from Wall Street's collapse was a consequence of many factors and has resulted in the U.S.A. losing its central role and the rise of new powers.......Americas creditors. Here are some repercussions:- |
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