An Evangelical tells why she’s voting for Obama (Video)

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North Carolina Parking Lot Has Banned Obama Supporters (VIDEO)

NC Parking lot bans Obama supporters

Raw Story- David Edwards and Andrew McLemore
Published: Friday October 10, 2008

If your fender says Change, don’t park here.

A parking lot owner in Gibsonville, NC, decided supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama are no longer welcome to use his property, WFMY’s Julia Bagg reported.

Lot owner Tim Henderson posted two identical signs that warned: ‘no parking’ for Obama supporters or people with Obama bumper stickers.”

“I don’t expect to go after anybody with a baseball bat,” Henderson said. “I would grin at them and laugh and ask them if they could read English.”

State workers who have used the parking lot for years complained that the new rule infringed on their rights. Some had Obama/Biden stickers in their windows.

“It’s telling me because I have a sticker or I believe in something, I’m not allowed to park here and this is where I park for work, I have to park here,” said Dave Dicke, an Obama supporter.

Henderson initially said the signs would stay up through the November election.

After a local news station reported the story, Mayor Lenny Williams made an agreement with Henderson for the removal of the signs.

“If he said Obama folks could park here, but McCain [supporters] couldn’t, I wouldn’t like that either,” Mayor Williams said.

But an anti-Obama parking lot is not the only example of strong prejudice against the Democratic candidate.

Several stories in recent weeks have provoked public outrage about racism in the election.

Vendors at a Family Values Summit in September sold boxes of “Obama Waffles” with packaging that included a caricature of the senator in a turban and grinning with fat lips and bulging eyes.

The vendors were eventually asked to leave by the event organizers once media reported on the incident.

Last week, a Florida teacher faced disciplinary action after calling Obama a “nigger” to his 7th grade class.

This video is from WFMY News 2, broadcast October 10, 2008.

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we all look the same underneath

the fabulous buddy guy

when i listened to the lyrics of this song, and i put it into context with the palin rallies of the last week or two- you know the ones with the monkey dolls and hassling journalists of color and calling them ‘boy’- here in america- it makes me ashamed to call myself an american. these bigots and racists among us- overt or not- deserve to be shunned and shot down and we have to take up the mantle of leadership and do it. we don’t have the luxury of ‘live and let live’- the coming years on this country and on this planet are going to be tough and we are all going to have to work together. racism and white supremacy needs to be what goes extinct.

skin deep

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Another Video Of The Racist With “Obama” Monkey At Palin Event In PA

More Video of Racist with Monkey at Palin Event in PA

Daily Kos- by MichaelMorrillPA

Sun Oct 12, 2008 at 04:53:43 AM PDT

We brought you the hate- filled throngs in Bethlehem, PA earlier in the week.  Many of you expressed the hope that this was an isolated incident.  Unfortunately, there’s more.  Later today we’ll post a very similar video of Pennsylvanians calling Obama a terrorist, etc.  But Johnstown took off the sheets yesterday, with at least one person using the “n” word, and this man with his Obama monkey.

Very interesting to see the change in his attitude when the CBS camera points at him:
http://www.cbsnews.com/…

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Obama On Track To A Landslide

Daring to utter the ‘L’ word: Obama on track to a landslide

By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Barring a dramatic change in the political landscape over the next three weeks, Democrats appear headed toward a decisive victory on Election Day that would give them broad power over the federal government.

The victory would send Barack Obama to the White House and give him larger Democratic majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate — and perhaps a filibuster-proof margin there.

That could mark a historic realignment of the country’s politics on a scale with 1932 or 1980, when the out party was given power it held for a generation, and used it to transform government’s role in American society.

Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, is now well positioned to win the Electoral College. He’s comfortably holding most of the “blue” states that went for Democrats Al Gore and John Kerry in past elections, polls show, and he’s gaining momentum to take away several “red” states that have voted Republican in recent elections, including Florida, Ohio, Colorado and Virginia.

The Democrats are also widely expected to take big gains in House and Senate races. Like Obama, they’re reaching deep into once solid Republican territory. Even such stalwarts as North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, could be in jeopardy.

Building on the Democrats’ sweeping wins two years ago when they seized control of both chambers of Congress, big gains this year would be reminiscent of the Republican gains in 1978 and 1980 that delivered “the Reagan Revolution.”

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Sarah Palin’s Extremist Ties

Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition:  Sarah Palin’s Extremist Ties

Daily Kos- by Plutonium Page

Sun Oct 12, 2008 at 10:02:28 AM PDT

It was only slightly over a month ago that America was swept up in the carefully orchestrated GOP storm known as Sarah Palin. On August 29, 2008, John McCain told Americans that Palin is tenacious, tough, and could handle the job of Vice President just fine.  He praised her “grit”, “integrity”, and “good sense”.  He said that:

“She is exactly who this country needs to help us fight the same old Washington politics of me first and country second,”

Indeed, “Country First” has become the official McCain campaign slogan.  “USA! USA! USA!” is shouted by the frenzied, hate-filled, nationalistic crowds that gather to hear McCain and Palin speak.

What they don’t know about Palin is that her political career in Alaska was shaped by the ideology and support of fringe, anti-government, militia-organizing secessionists.

Here at dailyKos, we have but scratched the surface of Palin’s connection to the Alaska Independence Party (AIP). The big story that we suspected was there has finally been uncovered by Dave Neiwert and Max Blumenthal, who recently traveled to Wasilla, Alaska.

Neiwert laid the background for their AIP story in a September 22, 2008 article.  Of note:

This morning I interviewed John Stein, the former Wasilla mayor who was defeated by Palin in 1996 by using “a quiet campaign by some Palin supporters raising emotional issues like abortion and gun control, which had no apparent tie to municipal politics” — and as Phil Munger notes, a whisper campaign that Stein was secretly Jewish (Stein is a Lutheran).

The connection revolves mostly around three men known to have far-right leanings in the community: a builder named Steven Stoll, a computer repairman named Mark Chryson, and a third man named Mike Christ. All three subscribed to a bellicose, “Patriot” movement brand of politics — far-right libertarianism with a John Birch streak.

According to Stein, Steven Stoll — whose local nickname, according to Phil Munger, is “Black Helicopter Steve” — was involved in militia organizing in Wasilla the 1990s, and subscribed to most of the movement’s paranoid conspiracy theories: “The rumor was that he had wrapped his guns in plastic and buried them in his yard so he could get them after the New World Order took over.”

The “black helicopter” concept “became popular in the United States militia movement, and in associated political circles, in the 1990s as an alleged symbol and warning sign of a conspiratorial totalitarian military takeover of part or all of the United States”.  Timothy McVeigh, among others, was a firm believer.

Neiwert and Blumenthal followed up with a fantastic article published yesterday in Salon. If you weren’t already convinced that John McCain’s team had no idea what they were doing when they chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, you will be after reading this story.

Meet Sarah Palin’s best Alaska pals:

Though Chryson belongs to a fringe political party, one that advocates the secession of Alaska from the Union, and that organizes with other like-minded secessionist movements from Canada to the Deep South, he is not without peculiar influence in state politics, especially the rise of Sarah Palin. An obscure figure outside of Alaska, Chryson has been a political fixture in the hometown of the Republican vice-presidential nominee for over a decade. During the 1990s, when Chryson directed the AIP, he and another radical right-winger, Steve Stoll, played a quiet but pivotal role in electing Palin as mayor of Wasilla and shaping her political agenda afterward. Both Stoll and Chryson not only contributed to Palin’s campaign financially, they played major behind-the-scenes roles in the Palin camp before, during and after her victory.

Palin backed Chryson as he successfully advanced a host of anti-tax, pro-gun initiatives, including one that altered the state Constitution’s language to better facilitate the formation of anti-government militias. She joined in their vendetta against several local officials they disliked, and listened to their advice about hiring. She attempted to name Stoll, a John Birch Society activist known in the Mat-Su Valley as “Black Helicopter Steve,” to an empty Wasilla City Council seat. “Every time I showed up her door was open,” said Chryson. “And that policy continued when she became governor.”

So let’s get this straight. John McCain’s team chose someone whose political career was tightly interwoven with – and supported by – extremists. Not just average wingnuts. Extremists. Radicals. A secessionist and a paranoid militia organizer.

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Rachel Maddow: Spying On Americans Having “Phone Sex” (VIDEO)

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This video is from MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast October 10, 2008.

(h/t Raw Story)

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The Woman Who Could Have Prevented This Financial Mess Was Silenced by Greenspan, Rubin and Summers

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Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, with Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, left, at a House hearing in 1995.

By Katrina vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com. Posted October 11, 2008.

A sad tale emerges of willfully arrogant behavior designed to undermine a wise woman’s good judgment.

“Break the Glass” was the code-name high-level Treasury Department figures gave the $700 billion bailout; it was to be used only as a last-resort measure.

Now millions have been sprayed and damaged by broken glass.

But more than a decade ago, a woman you’re likely never to have heard of, Brooksley Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — a federal agency that regulates options and futures trading — was the oracle whose warnings about the dangerous boom in derivatives trading just might have averted the calamitous bust now engulfing the US and global markets. Instead she was met with scorn, condescension and outright anger by former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and his deputy Lawrence Summers. In fact, Greenspan, the man some affectionately called “The Oracle,” spent his political capital cheerleading these disastrous financial instruments.

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William F. Buckley’s Son Voting for Obama

Sorry, Dad, I’m Voting for Obama

The son of William F. Buckley has decided—shock!—to vote for a Democrat.

Christopher Buckley

Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance.

Or would they? But let’s get that part out of the way. The only reason my vote would be of any interest to anyone is that my last name happens to be Buckley—a name I inherited. So in the event anyone notices or cares, the headline will be: “William F. Buckley’s Son Says He Is Pro-Obama.” I know, I know: It lacks the throw-weight of “Ron Reagan Jr. to Address Democratic Convention,” but it’ll have to do.

Dear Pup once said to me, “You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.”

I am—drum roll, please, cue trumpets—making this announcement in the cyberpages of The Daily Beast (what joy to be writing for a publication so named!) rather than in the pages of National Review, where I write the back-page column. For a reason: My colleague, the superb and very dishy Kathleen Parker, recently wrote in National Review Online a column stating what John Cleese as Basil Fawlty would call “the bleeding obvious”: namely, that Sarah Palin is an embarrassment, and a dangerous one at that. She’s not exactly alone. New York Times columnist David Brooks, who began his career at NR, just called Governor Palin “a cancer on the Republican Party.”

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