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To: i-node who wrote (419731)	9/24/2008 11:50:47 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573824

I check intrade every morning. Obama was at 54+ this AM before McCain's hail mary pass. Just out of curiousity I checked it again tonite. Tonite, Obama is up almost two points to 56+. I have been checking intrade every day. I have never seen that big a jump in one day. I have to assume that the big jump from AM to PM was due to McCain's silly suspension of his campaign. Everyone is seeing through his attempt to politicize the bailout. McCain is singular in his ability to bring the Republicans on board. Obama has no role and has been invited as an accommodation. In addition, by threatening to bail on the debate, McCain forces the Republicans' hands to come to terms, and that's probably what's going to happen. McCain, and nobody else, is positioned to make this deal happen. Let me see.....for the past 60 days the McCain campaign has gone on and on about McCain's maverick role in the Senate. People who are mavericks tend not to have many friends. And I have heard that's true about McCain. So then, how is a maverick expected to rally the troops as you suggest up above? Just curious.

To: i-node who wrote (419731)	9/25/2008 12:16:53 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573824

This photo is the basis for the latest hatemail from Republicans re. Obama. Obama's head has been photoshopped onto the shoe shine's head and Palin's head has been photoshopped onto the woman's head: This is what the Aussie photographer of the original photo has to say about it......of course, he's upset: "Shoeshine - homeless and a woman client MG_6348-27 It is not often that I would post the same image twice in my stories. However , this photo of the homeless man and a women has become part of dirty tricks in American presidential campaign. Someone has doctored this image to portrait Barack Obama as the shoeshine man and Sara Palin as his customer. This altered image is being circulated via email in USA. The perpetrator of this plagiarism left my copyright notice, which contains the address of this website, thus implying it was my original work. This is quite a low act as it involuntarily involves me and my photographic work in American presidential campaign, which I honestly do not know much about nor do I follow it. I certainly do not have favourite views either for American Democrats or Republicans. I would like to assure both senator Barack Obama and Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin that the altered image has not been created, authorised, endorsed or distributed by me. It is quite shameful someone had to escape to plagiarism and imply my involvement. Yes, I do have a copy of the doctored image but I will not publish it.