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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (48473)	9/24/2008 12:19:58 AM
From: LLCF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224744

Yea, he's having a bit of trouble keeping up with the fast pace of the election. NOT the guy we want in charge of anything. He might try to keep his campaign promise and "win" the war on terror! War on drugs, war on terror, war on this, war on that... these guys luv wars. When will they learn? DAK

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (48473)	9/24/2008 12:31:30 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

Well I seldom believe any fact Kenneth E. Phillipps posts as I have found Kenneth E. Phillipps in so many lies in the past. But McCain in error defending someone is far far different than your 20 year protege of hate spreading his own libel about Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh and the racist hate bating ad in spanish. I can see why is a soul mate of Kenneth E. Phillipps

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (48473)	9/24/2008 7:19:51 AM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

The democrats may have to send super sandy burglar on a mission. The inquiries will focus on the financial institutions and the individuals that ran them, the senior law enforcement official said. seattlepi.nwsource.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (48473)	9/24/2008 8:15:36 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

ABC/Post Poll Suggests Gains For Obama 24 Sep 2008 12:42 am A majority of Americans now say that the economy is the country's most pressing problem, and Barack Obama has opened up a double-digit advantage over John McCain on the issue, according to a new Washington Post / ABC News poll. Voters, by 14 points more than McCain, trust Obama to handle the economy; his messaging that McCain is "out of touch" is bearing results, as 57% of Americans think that Obama better understands the complexities of the system. And when asked an open ended question about who'd best handle a crisis of any sort, half pick Obama, up significantly. The poll's universe of likely voters pushes Obama beyond 50%; he leads by nine points(52 to 43) over McCain with a smaller number of undecided voters. More good news for Obama: he's gaining back white women who defected to the McCain ticket; the Democrats have a 25 point enthusiasm advantage over Republicans, and concerns about McCain's age are rising. And here's an interesting nugget: Sarah Palin's biggest favorability rating drop has taken place among white Catholics.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (48473)	9/24/2008 8:17:16 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224744

The size of Obama's lead in the new poll -- 52 percent to 43 percent among likely voters -- will draw plenty of attention. It's the first time Obama has been over the 50-percent mark in a Post-ABC News poll, and easily outside the margin of error. The nine-point margin is also larger than a number of other recent national polls. Given that the race has been very close for a long time, that Obama advantage could sag over the next couple of weeks, unless the economy has permanently altered the political environment. With negotiations over a rescue package underway and the markets edgy awaiting a possible agreement, it's too soon to know that. Top officials from both campaigns e-mailed me late last night to express skepticism at the size of Obama's lead. Schmidt called The Post poll an outlier and said it does not conform to what his campaign is seeing in its own polls. He said the battleground states still appear very tight. Bill McInturff, McCain's pollster, sent along the campaign's polling in battlegrounds Wednesday morning. They showed a close race, which he said suggested that nationally the race is close. "Somewhere, in some poll, there'd be significant/negative movement," he wrote. "That's not happened." Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said the nine-point spread seemed too rosy, although he added that the Obama campaign does not try to analyze the race through a national lens. He did not contest the idea that Obama is gaining ground, and he also raised the issue of whether the campaign's intensive vote-mobilization efforts could be having an impact on the polls. In the states, he said he believed things are solidifying in Obama's direction. Other aspects of the poll may be more problematic for McCain than the overall margin, however. The survey suggests that McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, got a real bounce from their convention, but that, as with bounces of the past, it has dissipated. Whether that's because of the new focus on the economy, a natural settling or other factors is less important than the fact that what went up has begun to come down. Take Palin. There's no question that she has energized the Republican base. The crowd she drew in Florida on Sunday -- estimated at up to 60,000 people -- says she's captured the fancy of the party faithful. But the Post-ABC poll shows that independents are notably less impressed with her today than they were in the week after she made her national debut. Similarly, McCain got a boost from his convention in the sheer enthusiasm for his candidacy -- an area where he has long lagged behind Obama. The new poll shows that strong enthusiasm for McCain fell back in the past two weeks and is now about half as great as for Obama. Can McCain rev up the enthusiasm down the stretch? The Obama campaign long has argued that this enthusiasm gap is a real advantage in the battle to get voters to the polls on Election Day. Another concern for McCain is that Obama has reopened his once-wide lead on who is the real change agent in the race. This has been at the heart of Obama's candidacy, but McCain made genuine inroads on the strength of his convention. Now, he has slipped back. The biggest worry for McCain is that, because of rising concerns about the economy, the playing field is now tilted so heavily in the direction of Obama and the Democrats. When the general election began in June, 34 percent of Americans cited jobs and the economy as the issues that would be the most important in their vote. Twenty percent cited Iraq. Today, half of registered voters say the economy and jobs are the most important issues in the campaign. Just nine percent cite the war in Iraq, even as McCain has come to believe that the issue of the war plays to his advantage because of the reduction in violence that the surge has helped produce. McCain now needs events to help reduce the importance of the economy as an issue. Or, he must find a way in the debates to challenge Obama's standing on the issue. So many of the states remain close, according to recent polls, that both sides are right to assume that that this race could be a battle to the end. But it seemed clear the day the government let Lehman Brothers go bankrupt and the Dow dropped 500 points that McCain could suffer politically. The economic crisis has further soured the public mood. President Bush's approval rating in a series of state polls released this week has taken another dip. Those facts are dead weights on McCain's shoulders, and the Post-ABC poll suggests they are taking a toll. That makes the debates more important than ever. For McCain, the first one can't arrive soon enough.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (48473)	9/24/2008 1:34:51 PM
From: DizzyG	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224744

Wrong again, Kenneth... A Partisan Paper of Record Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization. Let us be clear about what this story alleges: The New York Times charges that McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis was paid by Freddie Mac until last month, contrary to previous reporting, as well as statements by this campaign and by Mr. Davis himself. In fact, the allegation is demonstrably false. As has been previously reported, Mr. Davis separated from his consulting firm, Davis Manafort, in 2006. As has been previously reported, Mr. Davis has seen no income from Davis Manafort since 2006. Zero. Mr. Davis has received no salary or compensation since 2006. Mr. Davis has received no profit or partner distributions from that firm on any basis -- weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual -- since 2006. Again, zero. Neither has Mr. Davis received any equity in the firm based on profits derived since his financial separation from Davis Manafort in 2006. Further, and missing from the Times' reporting, Mr. Davis has never -- never -- been a lobbyist for either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. Mr. Davis has not served as a registered lobbyist since 2005. Though these facts are a matter of public record, the New York Times, in what can only be explained as a willful disregard of the truth, failed to research this story or present any semblance of a fairminded treatment of the facts closely at hand. The paper did manage to report one interesting but irrelevant fact: Mr. Davis did participate in a roundtable discussion on the political scene with...Paul Begala. Again, let us be clear: The New York Times -- in the absence of any supporting evidence -- has insinuated some kind of impropriety on the part of Senator McCain and Rick Davis. But entirely missing from the story is any significant mention of Senator McCain's long advocacy for, and co-sponsorship of legislation to enact, stricter oversight and regulation of both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- dating back to 2006. Please see the attached floor statement on this issue by Senator McCain from 2006. johnmccain.com This is straight from the horses mouth. I guess the folks at the Liberal Death star really need to revisit the facts. Even more important though is this snippet from the same report: To the central point our campaign has made in the last 48 hours: The New York Times has never published a single investigative piece, factually correct or otherwise, examining the relationship between Obama campaign chief strategist David Axelrod, his consulting and lobbying clients, and Senator Obama. Likewise, the New York Times never published an investigative report, factually correct or otherwise, examining the relationship between Former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson and Senator Obama, who appointed Johnson head of his VP search committee, until the writing was on the wall and Johnson was under fire following reports from actual news organizations that he had received preferential loans from predatory mortgage lender Countrywide. Therefore this "report" from the New York Times must be evaluated in the context of its intent and purpose. It is a partisan attack falsely labeled as objective news. And its most serious allegations are based entirely on the claims of anonymous sources, a familiar yet regretful tactic for the paper. johnmccain.com You are such a DNC parrot. LOL! Diz-