Hey hey hey! We nailed this one, eh Brother RJ?

Liddy Dole's "godless ad" is blowing up in her face.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/11/liddy-doles-godless-americans-ad-is.html

This article was a pleasure to read. Also good was Gore Vidal with Jon Snow on Channel 4. http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/gore+vidal+ready+to+kill/2238447

He was particularly good at Cal Poly on Russians @19.00. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=638103060646285609&ei=OtoNSamyJZn-qAOn24XQBA&q=gore+vidal+interview&hl=en

This battle between Democracy and the elitism of the Aristocracy isn't new. We've been waging this battle since the Revolutionary war. Anyone familiar with American history knows the story of Hamilton and his croneys who distrusted throwing the fate of the country into the hands of the uneducated landless mobs. History does not repeat itself exactly, but common themes and struggles continue for hundreds of years without abatement.

The only difference is that Hamilton's crowd was open about its distrust of democracy. Today's like-minded souls hide their intentions behind propagandistic rhetoric, powerful symbols and shouts of "USA! USA!".

Ok. We know that:
1) a younger demographic favors Obama so that gives him an edge among first time voters.
2) more Hispanics than ever are voting Democratic.
3) Obama's organization is broader and more eficient than previous Democratic get out the vote drives, including in some Red States where polling shows the closest election in decades.
4) Palin has a high disapproval rating that has significantly increased every week.
5) McCain himself is lame, seems stumbling and creepy and capable of waging only a specious ad hominem campaign.
6) Obama was widely thought to have won all three debates by a large margin, as did Biden.

So why wouldn't the margin be much greater than the polls indicate?

My theory: McCain and Palin get far more MSM coverage overall than Obama and Biden, despite the latter's great advantage in ads. They have discovered that if you come up with new smears and revive old ones every few days, the MSM will dutifully give you free airtime and endlessly discuss the merits of the flimsiest allegations.
Who needs campaign funding if this tactic unfailingly dominates the newscycle?

This has been their formula, and it has successfully kept them alive, if not ahead. And unlike the Obama camp, they have "doubled down" with Palin, while Biden has hardly been heard from.






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One more piece of advice. Especially if you are a first time voter, take any kind of ID you can find. I'm going with my driver's license, my SS card, my birth certificate, AND a utility bill. Don't let anyone steal your vote!

Indeed Brother RJ, Agape.

(Pardon me if this repeats.)

There aren't exuberant enough characters to express my delight, my outright joy, with what you've said here, o brother my Brother RJ. You struck speechless this Zen poet (fair warning: it may not last!).

I bow deeply in your virtual direction (hold still a sec, I'm north of Seattle, and the Hallowe'en Ethereal-net traffic is heavy right now).

Fellow Eskow fans: consider that a post that is blatantly provocative and wildly off topic just MIGHT not be sincere. C'mon! We're supposed to be thinking liberals, not knee-jerk conservatives, isn't that what Brother RJ just said?

Think! Don't let your buttons get pushed.

Michael and TheSarge, I'm looking at you!

BRAVO FORTE! You just struck speechless this Zen poet. Nothing left for me to say. Fair warning: it may not last :-> .

I bow deeply in your virtual direction.

(Thanks for the link to A Night Light, too.)

I think the situation is more complicated than Republicans hate democracy. Rumsfeld was speaking of emerging democracy in Iraq - the looting that occurred after the Iraqi military was disbanded. I think the Republican party can be divided into two groups - some rich folks that pay for it, and everyone that they can get to join.
The important end of the Republican party are the rich folk paying for it. The Republican party is a profit driven operation. Imagine an outfit or an individual that makes two hundred million dollars in a year. In a forty percent tax bracket they will pay eighty million dollars of tax. That is eighty million reasons to influence the political process towards lower taxes. It's eighty million reasons to have a Republican party. Most tax money comes from a small percentage of people, because most of the wealth is concentrated - that's what capitalism means. That group of people at this point in history are not patriots - they don't care about America as such. They are short sighted in the extreme, because they are oriented towards a financial market that rewards short sightedness. It's the way many great nations fall, people who don't care about the institutions take control of them to make a fast buck.
My point is that the current Republicans aren't against democracy because it's messy. They simply don't want to pay taxes.

This might well be the single most important article that has been on huffington post for quite a while!

And it contains the most important advices:

1) Go vote
2) Brace yourself for fraud
3) Prepare to document fraud

The depressing thing: I can't do it. I'm not a citizien of the USA.

It's up to you guys ! Do it!

I think this is good news:

Agreement in Colo. lawsuit helps purged voters

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_el_ge/voter_purges

I am not a minority. I am an upper middle class suburbanite Caucasian. I am not voting for Obama. I am not voting for him and I am not a racist. In fact, because I am not a racist, I am not voting for Obama. Read on:
From www.theurbanprophet.com:
"The question was asked of Obama, should the heinous act of partial birth abortion be outlawed in America? Twice Senator Obama answered no! When he was asked if a child, who might miraculously survive the sentence of death by abortion, be protected from an abortion doctor after surviving? Senator Obama said no! (See Born Alive Victims Protection Law.) Has he no conscience? Is he misinformed on the facts of these barbaric practices? His response to these questions is not indicative of the Black community"s beliefs, and certainly shows a low degree of conscience and moral fiber."
"Each day, 1452 African Americans are murdered by abortion. 4,000 children over all."
"There have been over 15 million African American children dismembered in the womb by the abortion holocaust and as many women victimized."
"Marriage, since the 1970s, is down 17% in America and in the African Community it"s down 34%, which is twice the national average."
Blacks make up 13% of the population and 34% of abortions. Who are you really for?

I am not racist and not voting for Obama.

Thank you for this post... one of the best I've read all season. I applaud your naming the underlying issue of the sources of fear-mongering; it's as if you are speaking the thoughts of many, thought to be too taboo to voice. I remember my first thought when the twin towers came down, that these suicide missionaries truly believed there was a place in heaven for their 'brave acts', and that the basic ideologies of fanatics were the real culprits... the lizard-brain, as you so succinctly put it. Our inability to overcome self-esteem issues from our childhoods and truly become adults, is our downfall, and opens the door to submitting to ideologies that tell us that there is a God who has a 'plan', and that this God actually chooses sides. What ever happened to free will? We need to do more than vote, you are right ~ we need to use the tools we have (cell phones, cameras, the internet), to document every action trespassing on our freedom to vote, and then we need to foillow up and publicize these discrepencies. And we need to keep back-up copies of everything we post, in case they mysteriously disappear...

"Democracy isn't a subversive activity."

We need to scream this from the roof-top now and forever more.