Watching McCain give two interviews last night.

The first one, "We have got to end these negative ads and talk about the economy".

The second one, "Senator Obama has to come clean about his close "connections" with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and what those connections mean for the country".

Then, there was the terrific idea by Presidential nominee Obama concerning companies that have shipped jobs overseas about giving tax credits when they bring the job back. Companies want to send labor to China where they don't have to pay health insurance and 401 plus half the labor cost. They believe they can sell the products here. The problem is, if the jobs are gone, there is no way to make money. Ship all the jobs overseas and double duh, who has money to buy? Especially if you are living out of your car. If you have a car.

Sending all labor intensive jobs overseas is an absolutley retarded way to make money. Destroy your base and home for a couple of bucks. Yea, good idea.

Teflon Obama

While prepping for my show this morning, I started to make a list of the types of things that would have knocked any other candidate for office out of the running. I included associations of Barrack Obama’s, as well as gaffes and mistakes he’s made.

I had to stop after 25 minutes because I just had to move on to prepping the rest of the show, but I could have continued on much longer. Folks, it’s amazing how many passes Obama has received. I know it’s an overused charge by talk show hosts, but any other candidate really would have been disqualified immediately, or mocked until their candidacy was a joke, if they had even a single one of these associations or mistakes.

I didn’t want this post to be gargantuan, so I give just the essentials. But these are all easily researched.

Associations:

Bill Ayers. What other politician wouldn’t even have to answer questions about his long and close association with a known and unrepentant terrorist?

Related to Ayers: This week’s revelation that Obama was a member of the radical ‘New Party’ in the 90s. This is a political party formed by socialists to push the country closer to socialism. Obama was a member and got their endorsement when he ran for the Illinois State Senate.

Jeremiah Wright. Imagine if John McCain were a member of a mainstream church that was in the least bit controversial. Imagine if he had just gone a few times to see Jerry Falwell preach. But Obama sits in a radical Afro-centric church for twenty years…week in and week out...and listens to all sorts of racist, vile, anti-American, anti-whitey, anti-Jew crap, and maintains a very close personal association with this pastor. He gives one hollow speech, kicks Wright under the bus,and so much for that. No questions can ever be asked…again…

Father Michael Flager: some white priest trying to ingratiate himself to the black community. A modern day reverse step-and-fetch it who spreads the same type of nonsense Wright does.

Obama’s not a Muslim. ….but he does have a number of Muslim associations that haven’t been investigated, including being friendly with Louis Farrakhan, who is another anti-America, anti-white, anti-Jew racist.

Tony Rezko…we all know his story.

Obama’s also got a fat poker buddy who is a county exec in Illinois who’s under federal investigation.

Obama’s close ties to Acorn, and the revelation this week that his campaign paid acorn 800-thousand dollars to register voters and then hid that expense on their election reports.

Obama’s got close ties to Fannie Mae, including Franklin Raines, who skimmed millions from Fannie while running it into the ground, and now advises Obama on ‘housing matters.’

Gaffes: Some call Biden a walking gaffe machine. Obama’s actually worse

He said he’d visited 57 states, with more to go. This guy is running for president and he doesn’t know how many states there are? Isn’t that worse than not knowing how to spell potato?

Joe Biden was called out for plagiarism. Well, Obama stole an entire speech from a black governor, Duval Patrick, and gave it as his own.

Obama often doesn’t know where he is: he’s called Sioux City Sioux Falls. He’s called Brownsville, Texas Brownville.
He’s called Rapid Falls Grand Rapids. He’s called Sunrise, Florida Sunshine, Florida..

Obama called a woman ‘sweetie’ while at an event in New Hampshire. That ‘offense’ alone would have ruined any republican politician.

Obama claimed that tornados in Kansas had killed ten-thousand people. Actual death toll: twelve people.

Obama said his parents got together as a result of the march on Selma. He was born in 1961. The march on Selma was in 1965.

Obama said Iran is a small country, so it doesn’t pose a serious threat to us.

Obama said he’d meet, without precondition, with the world’s dictators and thugs.

Obama said Arabic translators that were in Iraq were needed in Afghanistan. They don’t speak Arabic in Afghanistan..

Obama called Matt Lauer ’Tim’ three times in an interview, even after Lauer corrected him and said, I’m Matt….

Obama said he didn’t want to see his daughters punished with a baby.

Obama asked a crowd in Iowa…Iowa…if they’d seen the price of arugula lately.

And this is where I had to stop.......

http://www.jaywebershow.com/

Government to nationalize banks.

The free market argument is officially DEAD.

DoJ: E-mails during Stevens renovations kept secret
By Manu Raju
Posted: 10/13/08 10:47 PM [ET]

Sen. Ted Stevens’s wife has refused to release a slew of e-mails from the time of an elaborate remodeling project at the couple's Alaska home, the Justice Department alleged in court documents Monday night.

The fight over the e-mails could be critical in the powerful Republican’s corruption trial, since they could give the government ammunition during cross-examination of the senator's wife, Catherine, who is expected to take the witness stand this week.

Since August 2007, the Justice Department has sought thousands of e-mails between the senator's wife and nearly 40 key people involved in the gift-giving scandal that has landed the Alaska Republican in criminal court. Defense attorneys have accused the government of undertaking an eleventh-hour "fishing expedition" since Catherine Stevens's law firm, Mayer Brown LLP, has already provided prosecutors with 26,000 pages of documents. In a weekend motion, the senator's attorneys asked Judge Emmet G. Sullivan to quash subpoenas for the e-mails, which include messages between Stevens and his wife dating back to 1999.
But, according to the government's latest filing, Catherine Stevens has resisted giving the government documents before 2005, even though the criminal charges extend to 1999 and the bulk of the renovations were carried out in 2000 and 2001.

"The only impediment to the production of these documents appears to be defendant, who does not have standing to quash the subpoena since any spousal privilege relating to these electronic documents has been waived," wrote Edward Sullivan, an attorney with the Justice Department.

"Defendant ... seeks to quash for strategic reasons only, knowing full well that the government is entitled to receive and review these documents before Mrs. Stevens (or defendant) testifies," the Justice Department says.

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Iraqis are being attacked and killed for returning to their homes
Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008
By Corinne Reilly | McClatchy Newspapers

Only a small fraction of the roughly 5 million Iraqis who've fled their neighborhoods in fear since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion have gone back, although returns have picked up since the Iraqi government last month began urging people home.

In Baghdad, where most of the sectarian cleansing has taken place, about 8 percent of the people who moved within the country have gone back to their neighborhoods, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Many Iraqi families have returned to their old homes in peace, but a disturbing trend already is emerging: They're being targeted and attacked, and in some cases killed, for trying to go home. Some have been threatened. Others have found explosives tied to their front doors. Some have had their homes blown up.

The trend, along with an uptick in sectarian and ethnic violence in northern Iraq and growing tensions among rival Shiite factions in the south, is a worrisome development for American political and military leaders who're increasingly eager to declare victory in Iraq so more U.S. troops can be sent to Afghanistan.

Sectarian cleansing has helped to reduce the violence in Iraq to a four-year low, but the small number of returnees who've been targeted so far could be a warning that the violence could return, too.

"There are insurgents still remaining on all sides who don't want the situation to improve," said Bassim al Hassani, a member of the Iraqi parliament's committee on displacement. "So they are targeting a few to send a message to many."

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In southern Ghazaliyah, an area once dominated by Sunni insurgents and al Qaida in Iraq, Shiite families have come home to makeshift bombs, military officials said. A few returnees' houses have been blown up, and at least one resettler has been killed, a Shiite who was gunned down in a drive-by shooting.

In other neighborhoods, returnees have been kidnapped, said Mazin al Ajaili, the head of the Baghdad city council's displacement committee.

"We are hearing of people coming home and finding letters with a bullet tucked in, or they find messages written on their doors," Ajaili said. "Sometimes one family member is killed so the rest will leave again."

The Brookings Institution began recording threats and attacks against returnees this summer, said Elizabeth Ferris, a senior fellow at the center-left Washington policy group, which uses on-the-ground researchers to track displaced Iraqis.

As the number of people returning home has increased, so has the targeting, Ferris said.

"We're hearing about some pretty direct threats — people getting phone calls or finding notes on their doors telling them they'll be harmed if they don't leave again. . . . But we're just getting individual anecdotes. It's still hard to say how widespread it is."

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To the people of Iraq. We apologize for the unnecessary pain, suffering and death delivered to your nation by The United States of America under the leadership of the republican party and specifically George Bush.