2008 election

A call to arms for all PUMA shoppers:)

LOL.  Progressives are starting to speak up about the need for more female representation in our goverment.  The current UTNE magazine has a little piece as follows: 

"Women's PRIMARY Problem"

(Note to self: I am too old to do shots of Southern Comfort with PUMAs in New York. Owwwww, my head!)

Here are some Democratic bloggers who have articulated their reasons why they are not voting for Barack Obama. Keep checking back because I will be adding more to the list through tomorrow.

i am a feminist, i am a women’s activist, i am voting for sarah palin, by Prameela Bartholomeusz, DNC Platform Committee Member

i am supporting the mccain-palin ticket because, by hireheels

If you vote for Obama, this is what you’re voting for, by Dr. Violet Socks (there are 12 so far!)

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Barack Obama has come under some scrutiny after Obama For America aired a 30 minute product infomercial on Wednesday, Oct 29. Associated Press writer, Calvin Woodward, caught just some of the misleading or false claims made by Obama in the informercial:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was less than upfront in his half-hour commercial Wednesday night about the costs of his programs and the crushing budget pressures he would face in office. Obama's assertion that "I've offered spending cuts above and beyond" the expense of his promises is accepted only by his partisans. His vow to save money by "eliminating programs that don't work" masks his failure throughout the campaign to specify what those programs are — beyond the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. [emphasis added]

1. The liberal group Moveon.org offers a "fun" voter harassment video service. From the convenience of your computer you can harass, coerce, even terrify anyone on your email list with a personalized "you better vote for Obama or else" video message. The video delivery site, CNNBC site says the following:

Customize Videos For Yourself And Your Friends

This news video is a fun, memorable way to show your friends what might happen if any of us don't vote. Customize it for your friends—and feel free to send yourself one, too. And don't worry—after we send out the link to the video, we won't email your friends again. And we'll never sell or distribute your email address or your friends' email addresses.

Florida started early voting on October 20 for the general election match up between McCain and Obama (the Lord of lies, flip floppery, voter fraud, caucus fraud, race-baiting, and dirty politics). Traditionally, I've voted on election day, November 4, for all the Democrats, even the weakest of Dems. Why? Because I've been a loyal and unquestioning Democrat for 20 years. But this year, I've had enough with the Obamacrats and their shenanigans. No more. I'm ready for change. I'm ready for leadership that this country needs, wants, and deserves.

On Friday, October 24, 2008, I cast my PUMA vote in the great swing state of Florida for McCain/Palin 2008 and Hillary Clinton 2012.

Hey, friend, can you spare some change before 8PM tonight? I know money is tight, but these are worthy causes that could use your $5, $10, or whatever donation.

From blogger, Regency:

A favor folks: can you help spread the word about a rapid fire match offer just made to Democrats For Principle Before Party (spreading the word is more important for this than even donating, because the deadline is 8 pm tonight). Details about the match are at their website.

 

Here’s a bit of the text from that post:

You just can't make this stuff up. After apologizing for calling his constituents "racist" last week, Pennsylvania congressman, John Murtha, clarified his remarks in another interview by saying that the good people in western Pennsylvania are 'redneck' because he thinks that if they don't support Obama it's because (shhh, he's black).

"What I mean is there's still folks that have a problem voting for someone because they are black," Murtha said. Murtha said the history of southwestern Pennsylvania is teeming with racism. "This whole area, years ago, was really redneck," he told WTAE-TV Pittsburgh.

Double take? Yeah, I did that too when I first heard about it. On Wednesday, former Hillary Clinton supporter and Pennsylvania Congressman, John Murtha had this to say about the cold shoulder that his constituents in western Pennsylvania are giving Obama:

"This is what a feminist looks like," said Shelly Mandell, Los Angeles NOW chapter president, in her introduction of Gov. Sarah Palin at a campaign rally in California over the weekend. Mandell endorsed Palin as "an individual and a women's rights activist" and not as a representative of NOW. ABC's, Jake Tapper, has portions of the transcript and a Youtube vid so here's the story via Tapper:

Shelly Mandell, the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin over the weekend in California, speaking not on behalf of NOW but "as an individual, as a woman's rights activist for 30 years who has worked for all those years to see this day."

 

The vigilant Just Say No Deal (JSND) Coalition is keeping a watchful eye on ACORN. In a handy chart, the JSND editors have traced the nuts back to Obama's community organizing days, connected the dots to Obama's staffers and radical associates that form his new Democratic party, and linked to the entrenched interests within the Democratic Party that sheltered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, causing the economic crisis. The troubling news about ACORN keeps rolling in with little mainstream media Obamedia scrutiny. Reacting to "recent revelations of ACORN registering dead, underage, and fictitious voters," JSND released a statement on Monday, October 6th, saying:

Oh dear, oh dear. Is our post-Chicago School neo-liberal deregulated greed-is-good utopia showing the cracks in its free-for-all facade?

NEW YORK - When Wall Street woke up Monday morning, two more of its storied firms had vanished.

Lehman Brothers, burdened by $60 billion in soured real-estate holdings, said it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after attempts to rescue the 158-year-old firm failed.

Bank of America Corp. said it is snapping up Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in an $50 billion all-stock transaction.