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To: i-node who wrote (428501)	10/20/2008 1:40:33 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1570483

This sounds to you like someone who is moderate.......she is a representative of your party: This is from February: This month, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) famously told her local St. Cloud Times that she knows of a secret plan by Iran to partition Iraq and turn half of the country into a “terrorist safe haven zone” called the “Iraq State of Islam.” Today, the St. Cloud Times said she “needs to fully explain either how she knows of a plan to split Iraq in half, or if she was talking over her head — way over her head — in making that statement.” Once the national media picked up on the piece, Bachmann late last week tried to explain her comments by issuing a written statement that began with “I am sorry if my words have been misconstrued …” and became even more vague from there. The problem here is Bachmann’s statements are recorded. There really is nothing to misconstrue, nor even misunderstand. She simply needs to explain what she said. If it’s true, where did she get her information? (Remember, she did say she had received “classified information on the war effort” during a Pentagon briefing in late January.) If it’s not true, what was she trying to accomplish with her podcast comments? … The questions are really very simple. Just answer them. thinkprogress.org

To: i-node who wrote (428501)	10/20/2008 1:43:43 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570483

McCain's Calls Draw Bipartisan Criticism AP LAS VEGAS (Oct. 18) - Two senators in opposing political parties asked Republican presidential candidate John McCain to stop the automated phone calls that link Democratic candidate Barack Obama to a 1960s radical. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, and Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, made separate appeals to McCain on Friday. Collins faces a tough race for re-election and serves as a co-chairwoman of his Maine campaign. "These kind of tactics have no place in Maine politics," Collins spokesman Kevin Kelley said. "Sen. Collins urges the McCain campaign to stop these calls immediately." In Nevada, a four-page campaign flier mailed this week by the state Republican Party also focused on Obama's past relationship with former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers, calling the college professor a "terrorist, radical, friend of Obama" and featuring several images of Obama and Ayers. Reid told reporters at a news conference in Las Vegas that he's surprised at the "scummy" tactics employed by McCain's presidential campaign and "can't believe John McCain knows what's going on." The McCain campaign says the calls are warranted because Obama's connection to Ayers — the two met many years after Ayers' anti-Vietnam War activities had ended — raises questions about the Democrat's judgment and record. "This is an association that is highly questionable and not out of bounds," McCain spokesman Rick Gorka said. The automated calls in Maine, Nevada and other states — they are commonly known as "robo calls" — say Obama "has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home and killed Americans." The charge is misleading: The bombings, which took place more than 35 years ago, didn't result in fatalities and the group didn't claim responsibility for the attack on the judge's home. Obama has condemned Ayers' radical activities, which took place in the late 1960s and the 1970s, when Obama was a child. In the debate Wednesday with McCain, Obama said Ayers played no role in his presidential campaign. Ayers, an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, lives in Obama's neighborhood in Chicago. In 1995, he hosted a meet-the-candidate session at his home as the young Harvard Law School graduate prepared to run for the Illinois Senate. The two also worked with two nonprofit charitable organizations in Chicago.

To: i-node who wrote (428501)	10/20/2008 3:29:53 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570483

What characteristics of the GOP have you seen McCain kissing up to that you would call "radical"? Please be specific if you want to discuss this. hannity, rush, ingrham, coulter among many other radical elements in the party who opposed him when he won the nomination......they actually said they would campaign for clinton or obama even...he's had to kiss up to social conservatives, particularly disliked (by mccain) evangelicals who today hold a big stick over the GOP...he's had to back off the issue of immigration reform...he's had to change his position on bush's tax cuts, and don't tell me that it's a consequence of the current crisis...his tax position was in place long before the crisis Even sarah palin betrays her true colors by talking about "true america" on the stump...the GOP today is a radical Tom Delay style far right wing party paying the price for years of venom and division. Al