Bombers need not be terrorists: Palin

footnotes: 

1. McCain's famously shiteating grin is somewhat dim.

2. "By his own admittance" - to the hospital? 

You Decide: Does McCain Support Bush or Not?

Let's hear what you decide:

Little Havana is Changing

"The Republican party that I knew and loved has left me behind, so this year I'm voting for change, I'm voting for Barack Obama," said 60-year-old Carlos Saladrigas. BBC

"I, I, I see Russia from my house"

courtesy Andrew Sullivan

Flaming asshole poses as "Journalist" in Florida

Reality TV like it oughta be:

Joe Biden was asked questions by Orlando WFTV "Journalist" Barbara West on Thursday that read like a set of Karl Rove-wannabe talking points. At one point the Senator actually stopped to ask, "Are you joking? Is this a joke? Or is that a real question?" 

You will be shocked...shocked to learn that West's Husband is a GOP Media Consultant.

3.  update

A bit of sense in Sarasota

Oct. 19th, 2008

Incompetent AND Malicious

Florida's GOP lawmakers blamed for early-voting lines

Saying early voting cost too much money with rules that weren't uniform, Republican legislators led a charge three years ago to set new statewide standards limiting the number of polling sites and their hours of operation.

Those revamped rules trimmed early voting from 12 hours per workday to eight.

During the first presidential election since Gov. Jeb Bush signed the bill in 2005, the new law's impact can be seen throughout South Florida: exhausting lines at polling sites in Miami-Dade and Broward that led voters to miss work, senior citizens to beg for chairs and voting advocates to question whether some are being disenfranchised. more via Digby

Penile state: small and limp

St. Louis, Oct. 19, 2008: Crowd estimated at 100,000




Tampa, Oct. 20, 2008: Crowd estimated at 8,000





Must be some kind of southward devolution...

debate antics

The Herald Tribune of Sarasota seeks to be a lessor

From Sarasota Voices:

I was amused to read of the Herald-Tribune's request to renege on the agreement they made in order to gain a special deal with the City - you remember they threatened to "Go Out East" if the City didn't cut them a deal.

Illuminating, too, is the rationale given for the request - belt-tightening, cutting staff, soon the whole building may be vacant. What then?

"Article 13 of the above-referenced Agreement (copy attached) provides that until December 31, 2016, occupancy of the redevelopment project which was the subject of the Agreement is restricted to "an office building to be used by the Sarasota Herald Tribune or any affiliated business thereof." Because of a drop in the number of employees from 357 persons to 262 persons, the Herald Tribune desires to lease out 15,000 square feet in its building to another office user. 

It's never a good thing to see a newspaper fall on hard times. But in fairness, the Times-owned Herald-Trib has failed to develop a loyal readership because it refuses to put truth before treacle.

...Rumor has it they've been talking to a donut shop to take over one area of the great elephantine whiteness on Main St., Sarasota...

Have I Got the Candidate for You!

How the real-estate market could turn Florida for Obama.

"The mood in Florida is very different from 2000 and 2004," he says. "Then we were a confident, wealthy state. Now we're broke. I've been here 30 years, and I haven't seen Floridians this anxious in a long time." He says older people are worried about their pensions and 401(k)s, and his students are wondering if there will be jobs for them when they graduate.

Join John and Sarah

A Sarah of taste and judgment

Palin finds a state worthy of her racist horseshit

Sappy Paleface - perhaps we can reverse the "dark" coloration of her baseless insinuations - hey, the whole world's going to hell in a handbasket, let's talk slime:

It was time to revive the allegation, made over the weekend, that Obama "pals around" with terrorists, in this case Bill Ayers, late of the Weather Underground. Many independent observers say Palin's allegations are a stretch; Obama served on a Chicago charitable board with Ayers, now an education professor, and has condemned his past activities.

"Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said.

"Boooo!" said the crowd.

"And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued.

"Boooo!" the crowd repeated.

"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.   Wash Post

Florida (special kudos to Clearwater), you deserve the moron...



and she, you.

Count em: Five aircraft lost by this bozo

McCain lost five U.S. Navy aircraft.

Navy pilot John Sidney McCain III should have never been allowed to graduate from the U.S. Navy flight school.  He was a below average stNavy pilot John Sidney McCain III should have never been allowed to graduate from the U.S. Navy flight school.  He was a below average student and a lousy pilot. Had his father and grandfather not been famous four star U.S. Navy admirals, McCain III would have never been allowed in the cockpit of a military aircraft. and

a lousy pilot. Had his father and grandfather not been famous four star U.S. Navy admirals, McCain III would have never beenNavy pilot John Sidney McCain III should have never been allowed to graduate from the U.S. Navy flight school.  He was a below average student and a lousy pilot. Had his father and grandfather not been famous four star U.S. Navy admirals, McCain III would have never been allowed in the cockpit of a military aircraft.  allowed in the cockpit of a military aircraft. 

McCain No Friend to Florida

Remember the Keating 5?

McCain Is No Friend to Florida Voters and Senior Citizens

More on the Keating 5

More on McCain:

McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five

"For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk", New York Times, February 21, 2008, pA1

Remember the Keating Five?
McCain’s own standards would have hung him.

"McCain Says He's Been Baptist For Years", by Bruce Smith, The Associated Press, September 12, 2007

Candidates' Vices: Craps and Poker, by Michael Sherer and Michael Weisskopf, Time Magazine, July 2, 2008

"Profiles: McCain's Party", by Connie Bruck, New Yorker Magazine, May 30, 2005

"Candidates invite questions about their faith", by Stephen Dinan, Washington Times, September 18, 2007

"The Pampered Politician", by Amy Silverman, The Phoenix New Times, May 15, 1997

"See John Run Off at the Mouth", Phoenix New Times, October 1, 1998

"Flashes: What's Up, Murdoch?", Phoenix New Times, September 17, 1998

the US Veteran's Dispatch web site.

Election 98: Arizona Governor, Fox News web site, 1998 coverage (no longer on web)

"Keating Gets New Trial", CNNfn Web Site, December 2, 1996

"No More Wagging,", (editorial) by Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, January 3, 1999

"John McCain, rock-and-roll dad", by Andrew Essex, The New Yorker Magazine, December 6, 1999 p52

"Unmasking Darth McCain", by William Cleeland, The Daily Illini, March 9, 2001

"Famed McCain Temper is Tamed", By Michael Kranish Boston Globe, January 27, 2008

Palin admires Buchanan, who admires Hitler

Did you know...

Sarah Palin supported Buchanan (Pat) in the 2000 Presidential Election.

Many Floridians consider Buchanan to be an anti-Semite. Why? 

In a 1977 column, Buchanan said that despite Hitler’s anti-Semitic and genocidal tendencies, he was “an individual of great courage…Hitler’s success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.” (The Guardian, 1/14/92)

Writing of “group fantasies of martyrdom,” Buchanan challenged the historical record that thousands of Jews were gassed to death by diesel exhaust at Treblinka: “Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.” (New Republic, 10/22/90) Buchanan’s columns have run in the Liberty Lobby’s Spotlight, the German-American National PAC newsletter and other publications that claim Nazi death camps are a Zionist concoction.

Buchanan was vehement in pushing President Reagan — despite protests — to visit Germany’s Bitburg cemetery, where Nazi SS troops were buried. At a White House meeting, Buchanan reportedly reminded Jewish leaders that they were “Americans first” — and repeatedly scrawled the phrase “Succumbing to the pressure of the Jews” in his notebook. Buchanan was credited with crafting Ronald Reagan’s line that the SS troops buried at Bitburg were “victims just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps.” (New York Times, 5/16/85; New Republic, 1/22/96) 

More here.

And Buchanan loved Palin's debate performance - it's a mutual fascist love thing, we imagine.

Is McCain determined to lose Florida?

TPM

• McCain called for allowing offshore oil drilling.
• McCain is opposed to the creation of a national hurricane insurance fund.
• There is also his well-publicized vote against an appropriations bill that would have funded Everglades restoration.
• McCain is stuck in a rabid anti-Castro time warp that is popular with a dying generation of original Cuban exiles, but is increasing questioned by younger Cuban-Americans, recent exiles, and people who still have family on the island.
• Let's not forget his support for Bush attempt to privatize Social Security, and his own contradictory confused statements on the subject. 
• Of course, in addition to these issues with particular resonance in Florida, voters there will also be voting on the Iraq debacle, the tanking economy, the growing income disparity in America, global warming, and other issues that work in Obama's favor.
  

Love you Cokie!

Ever notice that Cokie Roberts is such a complete cunt?  NPR ought to be ashamed to have her on their airwaves. 

The image is ancient, by the way. 

While you're at it, don't miss:

Make-Believe Maverick

A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty