Answer: What Do you think?
I guess when McCain heard that 33+ million people watch O-TV on Wednesday, he panicked. Now McCain’s using HRC's play book to the letter. I can almost hear the discussion that took place:
JOHN MCCAIN: How did “that one” do with his commercial? (With clenched teeth)
RICK DAVIS: (McCain’s Chief Campaign Manager). Well according to Neilsen, the Commie pulled in 33 million.
MCCAIN: (Neck pulled back—blanked stare--but faced turns red) I don’t believe this [add curse word]. What are we going to do?
DAVIS: John, you need to humanize myself, maybe even shed a tear. But we got no more money in the kitty.
(Phone rings) What? Hey Steve [Steve Schmidt]. We need some more robo calls in Arizona?….Money?...Well sell some of Palin’s clothes. That whack job is not wearing them anyway.
MCCAIN: (Stares at the ceiling)….
DAVIS: Well we need a cheap way to get you exposure. What did Hillary do? Think, Rick, Think. (Fingers snapped) That’s it, you’ll go on SNL.
MCCAIN: (Eyes widened) Suppose my ratings are lower than Ms. Palin’s?
DAVIS: That’s a chance we need to take. Just remember, don’t force a smile, you look like a dying frog when you do that.
MCCAIN: Hey, you said that I should go on Larry King Live on Wednesday to offset that Ayers-loving Socialist’s infomercial. Now those liberal elite comedians are saying that the interview reminded them of the movie “The Bucket List.”
DAVIS: Well Hillary did it and it helped her.
MCCAIN: Yep. But didn’t she loose?
DAVIS: Yes, but she got a bump in the polls for a few days and that’s all you’ll need.
MCCAIN: Good point. Let’s do it.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/mccain-to-appear-on-snl/#comment-729093
Early Voting for the entire state of Florida has just been extended.
Every Early Vote location in Florida will now be every day from 7am-7pm up through November 2.
Please pass along this great news to everyone you know who will be voting in Florida. Click here to find your nearest early vote location.
Here's the release:
GOVERNOR CRIST EXTENDS EARLY VOTING HOURS ~~ ~Ensures maximum number of Floridians can exercise right to vote~ ~~October 28, 2008Contact:GOVERNOR'S PRESS OFFICE(850) 488-5394TALLAHASSEE - Governor Charlie Crist today signed Executive Order 08-217, extending the hours for early voting during the current General Election. Effective immediately, early voting sites will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., through Friday, October 31, 2008, and for a total of 12 hours between 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 1, and 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 2, 2008. "I have spoken with the Secretary of State and members of the Florida Legislature and have concluded that it is always the right thing to do to give voters every opportunity to cast a ballot," Governor Crist said. "I have a responsibility to the voters of our state to ensure that the maximum number of citizens can participate in the electoral process, and that every person can exercise the right to vote." Prior to the 2008 General Election, Florida has seen historic numbers of Floridians registering to vote for the first time. In addition, record numbers of voters have chosen to cast a ballot during early voting. Early voting began on October 20 and runs through November 2. Current Florida law allows for early voting to be conducted eight hours per day on each weekday, and for a total of eight hours during both weekends during the early voting period. Floridians can contact their county's Supervisor of Elections for dates, times and locations of early voting. Florida voters can also request absentee ballots to be mailed to them until October 29. Please see the attached Executive Order 08-217. STATE OF FLORIDA OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 08-217 WHEREAS, early voting is scheduled to end November 2, 2008; and WHEREAS, early voting turnout has already reached record levels and is forecast to continue with record turnout. There are only 267 early voting sites throughout the state and long lines have formed at many of the early voting sites; and WHEREAS, a historic number of Floridians have registered to vote for the first time in this election; and WHEREAS, new voting equipment is being used in 15 Florida counties; WHEREAS, as a result of this unique combination of circumstances resulting from the historic voter turnout in this election, there is a possibility that election officials will be unable to conduct an orderly election, and thus residents in our state could be deprived of a meaningful opportunity to vote; andWHEREAS, because of the existing and continuing possibility of an emergency occurring before or during the regularly scheduled election, and in order to ensure maximum citizen participation in the electoral process, and provide a safe and orderly procedure for persons seeking to exercise their right to vote;NOW, THEREFORE, I, CHARLIE CRIST, as Governor of Florida, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Article IV, Section 1(a) of the Florida Constitution, by the Florida Elections Emergency Act, and by all other applicable laws, issue the following Executive Order, to take immediate effect:I hereby declare that, based on the above-described conditions, a state of emergency exists. It is hereby found and declared to be necessary to extend the voting hours during early voting. Accordingly, I order the Supervisors of Elections to open early voting sites from 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. through October 31, 2008 and open early voting sites for a total of twelve (12) hours between 7 a.m. November 1, 2008 and 7 p.m. November 2, 2008.IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Florida to be affixed, at Tallahassee, the Capitol, this 28th day of October, 2008. GOVERNORATTEST:SECRETARY OF STATE
GOVERNOR CRIST EXTENDS EARLY VOTING HOURS
~~ ~Ensures maximum number of Floridians can exercise right to vote~ ~~
October 28, 2008
Contact:
GOVERNOR'S PRESS OFFICE(850) 488-5394
TALLAHASSEE - Governor Charlie Crist today signed Executive Order 08-217, extending the hours for early voting during the current General Election. Effective immediately, early voting sites will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., through Friday, October 31, 2008, and for a total of 12 hours between 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 1, and 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 2, 2008.
"I have spoken with the Secretary of State and members of the Florida Legislature and have concluded that it is always the right thing to do to give voters every opportunity to cast a ballot," Governor Crist said. "I have a responsibility to the voters of our state to ensure that the maximum number of citizens can participate in the electoral process, and that every person can exercise the right to vote."
Prior to the 2008 General Election, Florida has seen historic numbers of Floridians registering to vote for the first time. In addition, record numbers of voters have chosen to cast a ballot during early voting.
Early voting began on October 20 and runs through November 2. Current Florida law allows for early voting to be conducted eight hours per day on each weekday, and for a total of eight hours during both weekends during the early voting period. Floridians can contact their county's Supervisor of Elections for dates, times and locations of early voting.
Florida voters can also request absentee ballots to be mailed to them until October 29.
Please see the attached Executive Order 08-217.
STATE OF FLORIDA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 08-217
WHEREAS, early voting is scheduled to end November 2, 2008; and
WHEREAS, early voting turnout has already reached record levels and is forecast to continue with record turnout. There are only 267 early voting sites throughout the state and long lines have formed at many of the early voting sites; and
WHEREAS, a historic number of Floridians have registered to vote for the first time in this election; and
WHEREAS, new voting equipment is being used in 15 Florida counties;
WHEREAS, as a result of this unique combination of circumstances resulting from the historic voter turnout in this election, there is a possibility that election officials will be unable to conduct an orderly election, and thus residents in our state could be deprived of a meaningful opportunity to vote; and
WHEREAS, because of the existing and continuing possibility of an emergency occurring before or during the regularly scheduled election, and in order to ensure maximum citizen participation in the electoral process, and provide a safe and orderly procedure for persons seeking to exercise their right to vote;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CHARLIE CRIST, as Governor of Florida, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Article IV, Section 1(a) of the Florida Constitution, by the Florida Elections Emergency Act, and by all other applicable laws, issue the following Executive Order, to take immediate effect:
I hereby declare that, based on the above-described conditions, a state of emergency exists. It is hereby found and declared to be necessary to extend the voting hours during early voting. Accordingly, I order the Supervisors of Elections to open early voting sites from 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. through October 31, 2008 and open early voting sites for a total of twelve (12) hours between 7 a.m. November 1, 2008 and 7 p.m. November 2, 2008.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Florida to be affixed, at Tallahassee, the Capitol, this 28th day of October, 2008.
GOVERNOR
ATTEST:
SECRETARY OF STATE
Who really knows how a president will run his administration once he's in office. Let's not forget that your current GOP president was on paper beyond experienced. MBA from Harvard--that liberal elite school, and the governor of a state that has extensive ties and repeated contacts with its foreign neighbor (unlike Alaska); Bush 43 had a history of reaching across the aisle and enacting non-partisans laws.
We missed on perhaps the most important CLUE in determining how a candidate will run their administration: How they ran their election campaign. Shady campaign (Bush 43); shady administration (I need not recite here what I'm talking about). Erratic campaign (McCain); erratic administration. Disciplined campaign (Obama); disciplined administration.
And please don’t blame the so-called liberal media for McCain’s schizo campaign. As a student of politics, this may go down in history as the worst campaign ever.
Enough Said!!!
Hey you're not going to believe this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/11/politics/fromtheroad/entry4515246.shtml
Please Look at this clip and comment. If were that boy's mother, I would have kick the daylights outta him.
These days, ethics, integrity and public policy are definitely in the spotlight. How many people are eating at this trough?
The coagulation of national credit worthiness is affecting the world economy which in many cases is nothing more than paper. The Federal Reserve will hopefully take on more aggressive moves. SEC is looking at institutional toxic waste even though some people have become rich selling the derivatives.
Is it because there is an equity scare going on domestically and Paulsen protecting the tax payers in order to win voters empathy and anx for the 678 drop in the stock market today? And the week isn’t over yet. The industrial averages dropped below the 678 points, that’s scary. We are 30% below liquidity and we have only known to go down to 49% in the past. What will tomorrow bring?
Now that everyone in America is ready to loose their shirts and struggling with their retirement funds and saving assets is the Federal Reserve going to collapse? If the reckless corporations are loosing propositions then where does this place those Americans who work for these corporations? Underwriting the responsibility of the banks that approved these bad loans is not prudent to me. Government intervention may stop the downward spiral but who in the treasury can assure us where the bottom is.? Will the $700 billion bailout stop the hemorrhaging? Every time I look up there is another report that another $35 billion was offered to AIG two days ago.
SO how does McCain fare in the economic picture? In spite of 34% of those polled by CNN say that they had a more favorable response for Obama after the last debate compared to the first one. McCain is calling Obama a “man of the street”, “palling around terrorists” and implying his financial experience isn’t as strong as McCain. The clean race that McCain claimed to run is falling apart. Could this be because Republicans, who are loosing this 2008 presidential bid, are realizing that they have less than 27 days to stop the economic bleeding so we will pay more attention to the Republican contest?
I find the 11 point Obama Gallup lead is causing a “desperate distraction” (as Obama calls it) created on behalf of McCain and being utilized and vocalized by Palin is using the financial crisis to steer up the borderline racism, aggressive name calling, rehashing Hillary Clinton accusations against Obama, encouraging angry letters to the editors and legislators and agitating community rallies attendants into angry attack dogs. Palin said it right, what is the difference between a bulldog and a hokey mom, lip stick. What is the difference between a closet racist and a corporate racist, the corporate racist agitates others into doing their bidding.
Then there is ACORN. Yes, the company that took Motor voter law to court that was represented by a law firm where Obama worked years ago. Obama’s camp says Obama was a community organizer however he never worked for ACORN as we hear FOX, the Republican media, implying. Who does the fact checking at FOX anyway?
The fight is over Ohio and the swing states which are barometers of the Presidential election. Rumor says the presidency has never been won by an individual who didn’t secure Ohio. Is it not a wonder that ACORN is being targeted in OHIO? Exchanges are being shown at rallies for McCain and Palin to be more aggressive. So what does McCain do, he spins on Obama’s non relationship with William Ayres, a member of the Underground terrorist group. Obama was eight years old living in Hawaii when Ayres was a radical 60’s bomber. Quite ironically, Ayres lives on the same street as Obama, happens to be on two boards that Obama sits on but somehow we are to believe that Ayres is influencing his political decisions. I don’t know everyone on my street and I am sure some of us don’t have much in common but to appeal to a rally crowd, isn’t this an indication that McCain is in trouble? Why didn’t McCain bring it up in the debate?
Fox exposed concerns of voter registration today. Apparently practices of the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now also known as ACORN, which is a collaboration of 75 nonprofit groups in ten states and is under heavy scrutiny. ACORN is a known social activist group that uses very radical approaches to express their social and political activism. They are known to block the entry of banks, stand in the middle of mortgage companies with protest signs and loud slogans, as well as having rallies to interrupt business on well-trafficked financial corners. They allegedly express the injustice involved in providing loans to middle and low-income individuals. In some instances they even held public media events accusing bankers of “redlining areas” and deliberately not extending lines of credit to various minority and diverse groups. A second organization is the Woods Foundation.
Registrants say that ACORN employees used bully tactics to force local citizens to fill out voter registration forms whether or not the voter said that they were already registered. We hear on the news today that a woman who didn’t want to be identified said that ACORN canvassers were so in your face that you felt compelled to fill out the information just so that they would go away. The same woman claimed she had filled out five forms.
Several federal raids have been made in Reno, Nevada on ACORN offices. Usually on the state level the violators can be given up to one year of jail. With no prior convictions, this may amount to no or little jail time. On the federal side, Ricoh Statutes call these actions criminal conspiracies and can land violators up to 15 or more years of prison. There have been 12 Boards of Registration being investigated due to ACORN employees coming forward.
What I am able to discern, Congress approved funds for ACORN up to $5,000,000. It is questionable as to whether or not Republican groups were funded through ACORN but so far there hasn’t been any media response to this. What is also alleged is that most ACORN workers were supporters of OBAMA. An ACORN representative says that ACORN workers are bipartisan. There are serious allegations of possible voter fraud throughout the United States if these same employees are responsible for participating in the primary elections in ten other states.
ACORN activists manipulated the Community Reinvestment Act to make banks enter into subprime loans” says Neil Cavoto. His program discussed that the high risky loans are being applied to Democratic leadership who in turn went to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and asked for review of loan practices which lead to the “eventual leniency, which was used to approve loans within the past three years. Chris Dodd is becoming the Democratic poster child and being singled out as one of the key players in the Mac and Mae debacle.
What is in question is whether or not public grants were also used to pay ACORN employees to assist people in voter registration. A legal representative for ACORN alleged that they are bipartisan and all they did is canvass and register citizens. It is believed that in some instances individual’s double registered people in order to make their voter quotas. In some cases legitimate PAC’s also paid ACORN employees to increase their voter files. What is in question is whether or not tax payer’s dollars were used to pay ACORN employees which spell larger federal scandal.
If ACORN representatives did participate in this “ill got gains” than yes, they should be dealt with accordingly. McCain is said to be impatient and once he realizes that he isn’t getting any traction and should be paying attention to solving or presenting his views on the economy maybe he’ll quit. He has also changed positions on those families who are loosing their homes. At first he mentioned to use Hillary’s strategy of freezing all loans and reassessing the cost of the homes and reinstitute that net price and have banks rewrite the loans. There wasn’t any traction here. Then realizing the loss to the banks, McCain changed his position and starting attacking the homeowners for taking out loans that they couldn’t afford in the first place and exclaiming that the banks were giving homeowners the benefit of the doubt. Well, today he changed again, this time he is being empathetic to the homeowners and asking why did Obama vote for the Paulsen bailout?
Based on McCain’s statements today, he would have never allowed these low income families to have these lines of credit. However, if you check the records, many of the homes being foreclosed on are in affluent as well as middle income neighborhoods. I agree we should not make the tax payers be the bail out mechanism for real estate speculators. Home values are dropping more than 25% in our area. Newer home developments in the Inland Empire, for example, are almost ghost towns as property values drop up to 50%.
But at the same time, Republican pundants don’t want to talk about McCain being one of the Keating Five.
Today, General Motors Corporation dropped 31% so that shares are $5.00. Their shares haven’t been this low since the early 1950’s. Ford is in trouble too, dropping 20%. J.D. Powers is predicting that the American auto giants are eventually going to go away on the global market. Crude dropped to a 20% low, dropping 40% since the start of the summer.
Donald Trump says that we will eventual return to the “vanilla loans” our parents had to qualify for, instead of the NINIJA (No Income, No Job or Assurances) risky loans. But to finger point when there were levels of financial restrictions and policies that needed to be ignored at banks and mortgage institutions is pretty shallow in comparison. This incompetency or greed is causing a world market explosion and spins foreign credit exchange on its head. Isn’t this another attempt at changing the subject and to keep blaming while Republican financial leaders take the nation into six trillion dollars of debt?
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Go to this Web page to see if and when felons are allowed to vote in your state (x = areas of disenfranchisement):
The Sentencing Project – Human Rights Watch:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/29/internationalcrime.uselections2008.
Some states allow felons to vote during and/or after parole or probation, a few others allow voting while in prison. Most Democracies around the world allow felons to vote in jail, on probation or on parole, so this is an issue that America has to work on. Meanwhile, it would be good to supply the necessary to those who have the right to vote, check with your local official for voting procedures for felons.
Why have a Spa day at one of your bosses' homes while prepping along a creek.
Talk about being up sh*t's creek without a paddle.
This was NOT great planning on the Obama campaign's part. First of all, everyone knows Tallahassee is football country.
I could have told them that this would have been the worse weekend to be in Tallahassee. FSU is playing Colorado in Jacksonville and their fans left last night. FAMU has a huge classic in ATL and most of the "VOTING" students are gone to the game there.
Tallahassee is like a ghost town right now. The voters that need to be reached are doing football in another city.
Again, if they would have just asked me........................................
All jokes aside, this is plain and simple bad planning. If you want to win the capital, Tallahassee, you will have to have the student vote.
Ok: Bam is getting angry. Marueen Dowd of the NYT nails it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21dowd-sorkin.html?hp
GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.”
You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I want the word “patriot” back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn’t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can’t do both at the same time and call it patriotic.
They have to lie — the truth isn’t their friend right now. Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they’ve earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It’s not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too?
I don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. And you’re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained. There are times when you are simply required to be impolite.
There are times when condescension is called for!
Nothing will make the GOP happier than to shift the narrative away from the economy by artificially stirring up controversy where they could accuse someone BIG of being “sexist” against Palin. Could that someone be Oprah Winfrey???
I recently received an email from a friend warning me of a small group of women in Florida who have created an e-petition to boycott Oprah’s Show. Why? Oprah did not want to have Palin on her show before the election. I was asked to DVR her shows to keep her ratings from potentially plummeting.
(For weeks I thought about whether Oprah could have Obama and McCain on her show—even before Palin was picked--and thought it was highly unethically for Oprah to have any candidate on her show since she’s publicly endorsed Obama.)
First I thought that the GOP would be silly to go after Oprah (remember the cattle industry). But with some of her white female supporters still harboring hurt feelings over her endorsement of a black man over a woman, Oprah may be vulnerable. And with FOX NEWS out there, who knows.
If they try to come after you, Oprah, just know that you have millions of us supporting you. But I am a believer in disarming your opponent with a simple sentence.
Thus, Oprah, if the GOP decides to come after you, just say this:
“Since when is the Republican Party a defender of women’s rights?
OR
“If the GOP is so concerned about sexism, give us equal pay, better child care, etc.
”Every law proposed to help women causes in America has met the most resistance from Republicans. Equal pay, maternity leave, child care, universal health care, etc. was advocated by Democrats but resisted by the Republicans as too expensive a proposition for big business which also results in bigger government. (I guess giving away $1,000,000,000,000 of OUR money to bail out Wall Street this week is cheap by comparison). By allowing the McCain camp and others to call anyone sexist where they have been the sexist pigs themselves has shifted the narrative to the GOP as defender of women’s rights. That must stop and Ms. Oprah controversy I thinks could be the opening to have a strong response.
If you are interested in volunteering to make sure the poor and minorities are not given the chance to vote based on GOP "Dirty Tricks," please click on this link and sign up.
http://www.866ourvote.org/
I recently said why I would support the "Obamiden" ticket at Congress.org, go to http://congressorg.capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=11843481 to stake your claim and send your message to your local officials. This is what I wrote...
I will vote for the Obamiden ticket for President because it remains the best option for America. I have had the luxury of being "decided" for the entirety of this campaign season. I knew that President Obama would be an excellent choice for America when I read the Audacity of Hope back in 2006. In the book, I was able to learn most of Obama's policy opinions and what direction he would like the country to move towards. But more importantly, readers would get to see why he believes in the policies he wants to make, why he thinks some ideas are good and why some are bad, and why our past political indifferences should not deter us from making the changes that are necessary today. Lastly... I got to see that he wants what's best for everyone, regardless of political affiliation, race, creed, religion, gender or age group. Every politician says that they want this, few demonstrate it in their policy decisions. This is why I believe Barack Obama should be President.Sincerely,Angelo Stone
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