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New McCain ad

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:03:52 EDT

Dear My Friends and Fellow Prisoners,

We cannot allow a terrorist to win this election. We must use all resources to defeat him.

I want to reiterate that all tactics including the following are officially allowed by my campaign and all of its surrogates:

Blatant lies, fear-mongering, hate-speech, pandering to racial and gender divisions as well as all other forms of ignorance, avoidance of intelligent media representatives, and manipulation of less intelligent media representatives.

We must press on because our values are at stake.

My name is John McCain and I approve this message.

MY HOLIDAY WITH JOHN McCAIN

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:52:44 EDT

A must read, and you'll get some good Neil Young music while you're reading:

http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html

" It was just before John McCain's last run at the presidential nomination in 2000 that my husband and I vacationed in Turtle Island in Fiji with John McCain, Cindy, and their children, including Bridget (their adopted Bangladeshi child). It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune to be in close quarters with John McCain for almost a week....."

Liars

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:47:42 EDT

Pop quiz: which one is the biggest liar?

Bush McCain Hannity McCain Rove McCain Rumsfeld McCain Cheney McCain O’Reilly McCain Abramoff McCain Delay McCain Brown McCain Rice McCain Gonzales McCain Davis McCain Hagee McCain Kristol McCain Scalia McCain Coulter McCain Pinocchio McCain Wolfowitz McCain Limbaugh McCain Roberts McCain Ingraham McCain Ailes McCain Dobson McCain Novak McCain Lieberman McCain Hume McCain Thompson McCain Savage McCain Brooks McCain Norris McCain Blankley McCain Krauthammer McCain Buchanon McCain Scarborough McCain Thomas McCain J.Bush McCain Craig McCain North McCain

Elitism

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:09:56 EDT

The GOP are at work redefining our language and our values at the same time.

According to the dictionary, the word elite has two definitions:

1. Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.

2. Representing the choicest or most select of a group.

Clearly, Obama fits the second, not the first. Not born into privilege, but excelling amongst his peers due to his own efforts and abilities, and the support and hard work of his family.

But what the slime bags are doing is blurring the two definitions. Thus, anyone who excels at anything, anyone who is intelligent or creative, is now "elite" in the "bad" sense of the word.

On the other hand, one who is mediocre (e.g., goes to 6 different colleges in 6 years before graduating with a B.S. in journalism) is highly virtuous due to their ordinariness. Mediocrity now represents "middle class family values".

So we should all become couch potatoes and feel good about ourselves, since we have avoided the shameful designation of being "elite". We should all teach our children to be as average as possible.

These Repugnacans need to be beaten and beaten badly.

To all ignorant Trolls

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:52:10 EDT

To all ignorant Trolls,

Please be advised that when you are writing your post, if a word becomes underlined in red, that means the word is misspelled.

However, if no words are underlined in red, that does not mean that no words are misspelled, because the spell checker does not check for grammar and context.

For example, you could safely type "Those democrats, there heads are up there asses."

Now it would NOT show up in red that you misspelled "their" as "there" twice.

Let that be a lesson to you all.

Piece be with you.

Christmas for me in St. Paul last night

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:49:35 EDT

I was lucky enough to be 30 feet from our next POTUS at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul last night to hear his speech. I waited in line for 6 hours and I would do it again in a heartbeat.

Both Barack and Michelle had a glow about them that was undeniable. Never having seen them in person before, I cannot say how much of that glow is always there and how much of it had to do with the greatness of the occasion.

Having watched many rallies on the web, finally going to one of these (and a special one at that) was incredibly intense. For a 47-yr old man to feel like a kid at Christmas again is amazing, but that is the best way I can describe it. In fact I felt that way all day yesterday and today. A true contact high.

I send my love, congratulations, and thanks to all of you out there who have been my electronic Obama companions for the past several months. And I look forward to more.

Swiftboated

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:33:09 EDT

2000
Bush lost the popular vote and was elected by the Supreme Court.

2004
Kerry was Swiftboated.

2008
Obama is being Pastorized.

This is no joke folks.
We need to fight or our country will be lost soon.

No adult left behind ?

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:16:05 EDT

This is true. Last night on one of the networks the reporter was at an HRC event and interviewed a "white middle class" couple. The man said something like, "My vote is for Hillary. I think the $20 savings from the gas tax thing is a lot of money, no matter what anyone says." And then the woman says "And she's so brilliant!"

Brilliant? Compared to what? The dark of night, or the light inside of your head?

Oh lord our country needs help

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:05:44 EDT

I've been avoiding the evening "news" for weeks now. Tonight I decided to go off the wagon. Oh what educational stuff I've been missing out on!

I was informed that Obama is losing support among more than 51% of right-handed, white voters who are shorter than 6 feet tall with brown hair and who live south of 45 degrees latitude and make less than $47,500 per year and who actually believe that $20 is "a lot" of money. It said nothing about IQ, which I thought was kind of strange. But apparently it is THIS segment of the population that really matters most to the functioning of our democracy. I think it's written in the Constitution somewhere. Wow, I feel much more informed now.

John Lennon speaks to us now

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:17:05 EDT

I'm sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope

I'm sick to death of seeing things
From tight-lipped, condescending, mama's little chauvinists
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth now

I've had enough of watching scenes
Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
It's money for dope
Money for rope

Ah, I'm sick to death of hearing things
from uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

I've had enough of reading things
by neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

Simulated Town Hall Question for Hillary

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:55:35 EDT

Simulated Town Hall Question for Hillary

Questioner: “Could you please explain how difficult it is for someone as highly educated and socially enlightened as yourself to rely so heavily on support from voters who generally are much less educated and much more likely to hold racial and other stereotypes as compared to supporters of Barack Obama ?”

Hillary: “That’s not really a problem for me, because I’ve spent my entire career learning how to appeal to and manipulate the opinions of this segment of society. When you do this for 35 years, it starts to become second nature.”

Just a friendly reminder: Don't be bamboozled or hoodwinked.

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:40:26 EDT

Most of the media that you watch or read are owned by large corporations with vested interests.

The media is so concerned with "vetting" the candidates, but who is vetting them ?

It is up to us to question everything.

Even those who seem to be professional and well-respected:

What is their biography?

What do we really know about them ?

Where did they go to school and what did they study?

Who is their pastor, their spouse, their mentor, their financial supporter?

Who gave them the right to tell us what America thinks, or what we should think ?

Don’t believe any more that they are there to protect your interests or to report the straight facts.

Investigate and think for yourself, or you are handing over your rights to them.

An Ode to Hillary, in kind of a Beat style

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:59:45 EDT

Hillary is an elitist monster

who should be obliterated at 3AM

with NAFTA lapel pins delivered by make-believe sniper fire

while wearing a yellow pant suit

standing at the alter of the Trinity United Church of Christ

bitterly proclaiming that Obama is not a Muslim (as far as she knows)

but he’d make a great vice president

although he is not quite ready to be president

depending on what the meaning of the word “is” is.

The time is now

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:51:54 EDT

Lookin' for a Leader' by Neil Young

Lookin' for a leader
To bring our country home
Re-unite the red white and blue
Before it turns to stone

Lookin' for somebody
Young enough to take it on
Clean up the corruption
And make the country strong

Walkin' among our people
There's someone who's straight and strong
To lead us from desolation
And a broken world gone wrong

Someone walks among us
And I hope he hears the call
And maybe it's a woman
Or a black man after all

Yeah maybe it's Obama
But he thinks that he's too young
Maybe it's Colin Powell
To right what he's done wrong

America has a leader
But he's not in the house
He's walking here among us
And we've got to seek him out

Yeah we've got our election
But corruption has a chance
We got to have a clean win
To regain confidence

America is beautiful
But she has an ugly side
We're lookin' for a leader
In this country far and wide
We're lookin' for a leader
With the great spirit on his side

Someone walks among us
And I hope he hears the call
And maybe it's a woman
Or a black man after all

-Neil Young, from Living with War

Go here and find some other good things:

http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html

Thank you.

RTV in St. Paul. This election is for JFK, MLK, and RFK. Bring it home. — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:38:31 EST

Thank you for waking me and millions from our cynicism. Thank you for lighting something inside of us that was out for too long. Thank you for reminding us of our commonalities and what it feels like to unite with others who look or speak differently, and how this brings a strength that cannot be achieved with guns or money. Thank you for showing not only us but the world what we are. Thank you for showing us courage. Thank you Barack and Michelle for making the decision to do this. We will do what we can to change the vote tomorrow and in the coming months. But whatever happens, I believe that you have already changed the course of this country. Let's not stop this train.