Its Fantastic to see all the people out voting..but i went 5 times before I had the time to vote.
My concern is... I was going to vote no matter what.. but how many people will come back and try and vote again when the lines are 3 or more hours.... people have 9-5 jobs and all of them are not into the election as much as the people on this site are... getting them out may be the first time they ever voted...Will they come back and wait in 3 hour llnes when people have jobs and things to do.
When i finally allotted my entire friday to go vote... and stood in the line... one voter near me said this was his fourth time trying to vote... and when it became apparent that it would take over 2.5 hours from where we were in line... he left.
The guy next to me was his 3rd time there. AT least 6 people walked in and then walked out when they saw the lines and thats when i was far enough back to see them do that.
I am wondering since the early voting elections times are run by the republican govenor if this is a method to discourage votes.
I dont know what the return percentage is when someone leaves but i am sure it is never 100%. So if we lose any percentage it is lost votes.
Another thing to look at is word of mouth, when people know that the lines are 3 hours alot of them will simply say forget it i dont have time to wait 3 hours. Look I wanted to vote and it ment giving up an entire afternoon and not work, so that is not a good thing.
I will tell you what in broward county florida the election official in charge is up for relection and that is the only vote i made for an independent.
It doesnt take a rocket science to open more places even though you are restricted on the times to keep them open. there were roughly 6-8 people running the pre-voting... and ill tell you this there is no way the preelection votes can get any higher per day because it has reached terminal capacity.. it just cant handle anymore voters .
Ok THIS IS 150% a good post today. I blogged about the candidates not being here in FLorida and low and behold they show up here on monday and tuesday ...YOU GUYS LISTEN LOL
I saw Hillary today and she was great in FORT LAUDERDALE.
SO heres what happened in Fort LAUDERDALE TODay..Early voting started..so after the Hilary rally i went across the street to vote early at the main library..the line was in the hundreds out the doo... I HAVENEVER EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT.... so I decided to go to a local branch near by house... cars everywhere.. people lined up to the street..waiting time 4 hours... so i say WHAT THE HELL this is unbelievable is everybody this fired up? so i go to Wilton manors to vote same thing lines to the street waiting time in hours not minutes... so i run do my errands and say ill go back at 4 .. at 4 pm same lines and now they are posting the line wait outside as 2 hours forty minutes... at the same time i arrive at the voting place about 30 other poeple do and all of us decide to come back tomorrow ... which I will do...
but heres the best thing... It wasnt islotaed on the news it was like that EVERYWHERE..
and People arent waiting in line for 4 hours for more of the same so i would say its 90% or more obama voters ... better yet i bought an obam button at the hillary function and everyone that saw me when i went shopping to the market and other places asked me if i voted and how fired up they were about voting for obama ... i mean if there was a Mccain votr anywhere near they never showed themselves and the register clerk at walgreens and publix both said they were first time voters and voting for obama and they were in their 40's... I REALLY DO NOT THINK THE POLLS ARE REFLECTING HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO VOTE THAT NEVER VOTe and all of them today were voting for obama in Broward County Florida..
SO THIS IS A 150 % great day in fort LAuderdale for BArrack.. GREAT JOB BRINGING HILLARY HERE they playedd inall over the news ... and IN MY ENTIRE LIFE I HAV NEVER SEEN SO MANY PEOPLE COME OUT WITH ONE PURPOSE TO VOTE.. TO VOTE FOR BARRACK..
GREAT JOB OBAMA CAMPAIGN ..IT LOOKS REAL GOOD HERE REALLY GOOD..and if you read my other blogs you know im not a RAH RAH..lol
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GREETINGS OBAMITES!Some of you know that I lead an ongoing "charge" against the insidious journalism practiced by FOX NEWS and SHAWN HANNITY. I have taken it personally, as have many of you, when these Neoconservatives apply these dangerous, misleading and offensive practices to our candidate. While the attached letter was sent to over 80 newspapers, Editors and pundits, I took the liberty of forwarding it, separately, to Mr. Keith Olbermann and COUNTDOWN at MSNBC. I did so, because I know NO OTHER PUNDIT who could vocalize the feeling of indignation that so many of you have told me that you have felt. It warranted, I felt, the castigating tone that is one of Mr. Olbermann's "to the point" hallmarks. I was honored in that he conveyed my message "loud and clear." This, my friends, was beyond imperrative, because Mr Hannity's incidiary tone could have reasonably been expected to incite radicals who, in an a "John Wilkes Booth-like" show of mutated patriotic bigotry, could very well attempt to do PHYSICAL harm to Senator Barack Obama or to members of his family. Keith, however, took it ONE STEP FURTHER, and exposed the expressions of SANCTIONED HATE that have come forth from FOX owner, RUPERT MURDOCH and the patrons of his public-opinion boards and blogs. I have posted the TWO relevant links in the "boxed" section immediately following this one, as well as at the points of relevance in the main body of this piece for easy reader correlation. It may interest you to know that, yesterday, it was made clear, that Democratic Governor, and staunch Clinton supporter, Governor Ed Rendell, of Pennsylvania, has endorsed…FOX NEWS! (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23889508#23889508). The Governor described it as "a fair and balance"news service. Keith immediately bestowed upon him the same "testimonial" earned only by the members of that most "exclusive of exclusive," "members only" order; THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD! Subsequent letter: Shawn Hannity: STOP the anti-OBAMA “FOX-VIRUS” NOW (http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/rickbasora/gGBnpb)
GREETINGS OBAMITES!
Some of you know that I lead an ongoing "charge" against the insidious journalism practiced by FOX NEWS and SHAWN HANNITY. I have taken it personally, as have many of you, when these Neoconservatives apply these dangerous, misleading and offensive practices to our candidate. While the attached letter was sent to over 80 newspapers, Editors and pundits, I took the liberty of forwarding it, separately, to Mr. Keith Olbermann and COUNTDOWN at MSNBC. I did so, because I know NO OTHER PUNDIT who could vocalize the feeling of indignation that so many of you have told me that you have felt. It warranted, I felt, the castigating tone that is one of Mr. Olbermann's "to the point" hallmarks. I was honored in that he conveyed my message "loud and clear." This, my friends, was beyond imperrative, because Mr Hannity's incidiary tone could have reasonably been expected to incite radicals who, in an a "John Wilkes Booth-like" show of mutated patriotic bigotry, could very well attempt to do PHYSICAL harm to Senator Barack Obama or to members of his family. Keith, however, took it ONE STEP FURTHER, and exposed the expressions of SANCTIONED HATE that have come forth from FOX owner, RUPERT MURDOCH and the patrons of his public-opinion boards and blogs. I have posted the TWO relevant links in the "boxed" section immediately following this one, as well as at the points of relevance in the main body of this piece for easy reader correlation. It may interest you to know that, yesterday, it was made clear, that Democratic Governor, and staunch Clinton supporter, Governor Ed Rendell, of Pennsylvania, has endorsed…FOX NEWS! (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23889508#23889508). The Governor described it as "a fair and balance"news service. Keith immediately bestowed upon him the same "testimonial" earned only by the members of that most "exclusive of exclusive," "members only" order; THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD!
Subsequent letter: Shawn Hannity: STOP the anti-OBAMA “FOX-VIRUS” NOW (http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/rickbasora/gGBnpb)
KEITH OLBERMANN presents: THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
March 19, 2008 - Hannity's Site Features Outrageous Obama Posts http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23716643#23716643 March 21, 2008 - FoxNews.com HATE SPEECH http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23716643#23750779
March 19, 2008 - Hannity's Site Features Outrageous Obama Posts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23716643#23716643
March 21, 2008 - FoxNews.com HATE SPEECH
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23716643#23750779
From: Rick Basora [the_dragonwolf@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:23 AM
To: KEITH OLBERMANN & COUNTDOWN [countdown@msnbc.com]
Subject: FW: SHAWN HANNITY - THE PINNACLE OF IRRESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM AT ITS WORST
The very “worstest” person in the world
Keith, You are my absolute “bestest PUNDITARIAN hero.” I’ve circulated this “modestly” but my deepest hope is that it gets to you. Kindly note the “Olbermannisms.”
SIC’EM!
Nothing can excuse the extremes of irresponsible journalism exhibited by Shawn Hannity and FOX on the 3/9/08 edition of Hannity's America. There, he deliberately attempted to vilify a Presidential candidate with tabloid-worthy disinformation. This is how tyranny is raised; by feeding it. I wrote this letter and sent it to the journalistic world in order to expose this un-American "jester". I am forwarding it to the respectable and credible Keith Olbermann, in hopes that he may use it as a "belt" with which to "spank" this buffoon for discrediting your legitimate profession of "informers of the world." If this “Roman Circus” of an election campaign succeeds in its apparent objective of robbing America of its “popular” will, let all Americans know, that Shawn Hannity stands charged and convicted of complicity.
From: Rick Basora Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 11:26 PM
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Subject: SHAWN HANNITY - THE PINNACLE OF IRRESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM AT ITS WORST
To Shawn Hannity and to the Management of Fox Broadcasting;
Last night, as I watched Shawn Hannity, on Hannity’s America, corrupt the minds of “the corruptible” with a program that tendered accusations of “terrorist” affiliations between Barack Obama and William Ayers of the former Weathermen, I was reminded of the collective “brainwashing” that, as a child, I was taught to believe was a characteristic only of “evil” nations like the former Soviet Union and of former Nazi Germany. As a child, I recall being assured by my 6th grade teacher that such a robbery of the human “will” would never be tolerated in America. FREEDOM, she said, could only be achieved by a people who were empowered with TRUTH as the element that, along with a sense of identity, made valid their RIGHT to CHOOSE it. Last night, your Shawn Hannity usurped that right from those Americans susceptible to the inflammatory; from those vulnerable to the politics of FEAR and from those ignorant BY CHOICE to the REALITIES of the Presidential candidates at large.
Mr, Hannity, I am compelled to remind you that, despite your reluctance, we still reside in a country where the rule of law prescribes that a person is innocent, and not by association, until proven guilty. I feel further obligated to engage your cynical racial and religious bigotry by reminding you that, if African Americans find refuge in institutions and churches whose very names herald a predictable WELCOME, it is because the sins of our fathers have forced them, however subconsciously, to find refuge in an identity. (Keith Olbermann's observations - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23716643#23750779) No, Mr. Hannity, a church with a name that speaks to a black congregation is not a racist statement; it is a statement of fraternity that you and our forefathers insisted on disallowing white America from fully participating in…and yet…they welcome us. Further, you “mouth” the word “Muslim” as if it were the very “sound” of social and religious leprosy. You might recall that legitimate Muslims are a peaceful people in non-complicity with the fanatics that did us and still wish us harm. Your message, sir, is one that has a history of inciting lynch mobs and, just in case Jenna, LA taught you nothing, ALL OF AMERICA will put that mob DOWN. While I am certain that Senator Obama would strongly sensor my statement, I will ask you that, if you must hate the mutations of religious principal, then, Sir, hate the religion of The Crusades, of the THOUSAND YEARS of European Inquisition, of Waco, Texas and of The Salem Witch Trials. Hate whatever fed the narcissism of Reverends Jim Baker and Jim Jones and you can start by hating the perversion of 10,000 pedophile priests, the Institutions that fed them our children. Hate those who sanctioned their rape and that, in doing so, stripped many of us of the comfort that one should find in the words “In God We Trust.”
As it has become commonplace with radical Conservatives, last night Mr Hannity invoked the late President Reagan and his anecdote of a father who, back in the days of the “cold war”, declared that he would prefer to see his two little daughters dead…rather than to see them live under a faithless and godless Communist regime. With that story, Mr. Hannity attempted to rouse his audience to a “pitch” of nationalistic outrage. It appeared to me that he was IMPLICIT LY charging Senator Obama of practicing a communist-like godlessness. Allow me to remind FOX and Mr. Hannity that it was Mrs. Hillary Clinton’s Wellsley College thesis honoring her ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT mentor, Saul Alinsky and his MARXIST teachings, that earned her the appellative “Alinsky’s daughter.” The document necessitated its being SEALED to the public by a 1993 special Presidential order issued by her husband who considered it a political liability because of its “radical” content. This document was “unsealed” in 2001 after the Republicans took office and is currently available for your scrutiny and review. What happens to human convictions after 40 years have passed is known only to those minds that contain them and to God Himself who made them; not to Shawn Hannity.
He went on to showcase President Reagan in a clip from his “Star Wars” speech, where he indicated that America was “a country that did not start wars.” Gentlemen, if this was Shawn Hannity’s way of weaving “illusions of war-mongering” with which to surround a Presidential candidate who stands on a platform of DIALOGUE as his preferred weapon of pre-emption of war, you may want to advise him about the fact that we ARE, in fact, in a war unjustly started; a war that he endorsed and that he is a member of the political party that started it. Senator Obama was the legislator who attempted unsuccessfully to galvanize an effective movement to avoid it. History has proven him to have been STRATEGICALLY CORRECT and no degree of Mr. Hannity’s resenting him for it will grant him access to that elite minority reserved solely for the JUDGEMENTALLY SOUND.
As the pariah of last nights “Hannity’s America” unfolded, it was clear that Mr. Hannity extended warm and humane concern for the life and wellbeing of one Britney Spears. In stark contrast, was his misguided and malicious presentation of the character, principals, religion and persona of one Barack Obama; a legitimate Senator of the United States, respected by what most polls reflect as the majority of our country’s electorate. In doing so, this contemporary carpetbagger has insulted the MILLIONS whose voices are the mandate that drives his candidacy. Hannity has slapped the essential face of Democracy; of the decent journalists and pundits of FOX and of our media. He attempted a coupe on the people’s right for TRUTH to be allowed to guide the American Electoral process. Most of all, Mr. Hannity has provided the most educated minds in America, described by Frank Newport of the Gallup Organization as being the core of Senator Obama’s support, with irrefutable evidence that any legitimate opposition to Senator Obama’s Presidential bid can only find momentum in feeble minds inspired by synthesized realities delivered by “tabloid” journalists beholden to tyrants who, regardless of their party affiliation, are certainly worthy of the descriptive, “MONSTERS.” It is no wonder, gentlemen that we are referred to in Europe as “hypocritical contradictions of ourselves.”
Perhaps, Mr. Hannity, you may want to discuss issues that are current and of legitimate concern to America. I might suggest that you begin with programming devoted to the more than TEN MILLION DOLLARS in Saudi, Middle Eastern and Taiwan contributions received by the Clintons and disclosed by The Washington Post, The NY Times, Jihad Watch and more. Some good questions to begin with would be; how will this impact “President” Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy decisions regarding the war on terror if she and her husbands personal interests are funded by the world’s largest supporters of it? How will this Saudi endorsement affect her right to speak to women’s rights? How will Taiwan’s “offering” temper her engagement of China as the possible new “owner” of America? There are REAL issues, I assure you, that scream for addressing; issues of far greater nobility than your need for tabloid ratings. If, however, that is all that we can expect from you, you might consider a piece on the story that just broke on New York’s Governor Spitzer admitting to involvement in a prostitution ring. It is, as you know, yet another scandal from a State plagued by the seemingly polar opposites of unspeakable hardship and of chronic corruption by its politicians. That should be sordid enough to satisfy your personal and/or political libations, Sir.
Take heed of these, my closing words. The irresponsibility of Shawn Hannity’s “rabble rousing journalism” could very well inspire right wing radical extremists to commit acts in PATENT SUPPORT of his bastardized rant. Because you, Mr. Hannity, are in contempt of the most basic of professional standards and of the ethics of personal decency, we, the majority of America’s electorate hold you and The Fox Network personally responsible for any such actions and further hold you accountable for promoting them and for inspiring them. (KEITH OLBERMANN'S observations - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23716643#23716643)
If we are to learn the lessons willed to us by the American “giant” that was Robert F. Kennedy, it behooves us to recognize that YOU, Mr Hannity, are THE EXTREMIST.
“What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.” Robert Francis Kennedy
Rick Basora
Fort Lauderdale, FL
I was 11 years old in 1964 and proud of being the latest New Yorker promoted to the 8th grade. The familiar smells of my mother’s Spanish cooking added to the comfort of being included in the monthly gathering of my father, an “old-world” Puerto Rican, and his two brothers and their families. My father was the elder and, for as long as I could remember, like clockwork, these men met at my house, every month, to discuss politics, the month’s novelties, my cousin Nancy’s first Holy Communion, Uncle Oscar’s new job, who would be on Ed Sullivan, and so that everyone could tease my mom about her ongoing obsession with feeding my dad and I to death. This "five-foot-dumpling" of a wife and mother was convicted in her certainty that the measure of a woman’s worth, was found in the girth of her family's waistlines! As the kids ran about to the sporadic heralding of “…if you make me get up from here…” and the women discussed Lucy Ricardo's latest dress, the talk at the smoky table… where the men sat…always seemed to turn to HONOR. It was a subject spoken of in "broken English" by those who clutched the fierce objective of arriving at these shores, not merely to live in America... but to BECOME IT. HONOR: At that table, it was measured by how well each man there cared and provided for his family; how well each had repaid America’s hospitality and, each was accountable to the other two for compliance. It was, they said, what gave our family name its worth. HONOR; it was a word that seemed to be a big deal to these men and any one of them would grow by two inches when acknowledged with it by the others, but specially by the women of the clan. They were larger than life, those men, and as they donned their fedoras and left, I was always left with a yearning to somehow...one day, grow up to be just like them. Most of all, I wanted to grow up to be like my dad; the patriarch. On this particular night, just as he closed the door behind the last to exit, he turned to me and asked “Are you a man of HONOR, son?” I was startled... I wasn’t expecting the question! Searching for what I felt he was expecting as the “right” answer, I said “SURE, dad!” Pleasing him was my life's purpose. “Why," he asked. "Well... because I’m your son.” This must certainly be the right answer. A silent moment ensued, as he seemed to study me with an unsettling scrutiny that I had never before seen in his eyes. It made me uneasy…like being on stage…and forgetting your lines. “Then, you won’t mind explaining… what honor IS.” As I fumbled and scoured my brain for an answer, he stopped me in mid “fidget” and said... with something between a smirk and a smile,“You cannot be that which you do not know. Honor is different things to different people but, to all, it is the thing that, when choosing which fork to take when life’s road splits, compels a person to DO THE RIGHT THING. So from today forward, because you are my son, I will ask that you begin to reflect on the things that you are... and on things that you would like to become... so that you may grow into what you are meant to be. Whatever that may be, son, I need for you to become it…like your uncles and like me; as one of the "Basora men" who always try, no matter what, to DO THE RIGHT THING.” "You know..." he said, starting down the hall, "...the best gift that I can ever give your mother... and this country... is to build them AN AMERICAN."
Thirty three years later, mom succeeded and fed him to death. In my arms and surrounded by love; his two favorite Shepherds, like sentries, flanking his bed, I had never wished so hard for anything in my life, as I wished for that day; that he could speak to me from beyond this thing, this coma...just one more time...just one more time before he left me. "You're my best friend," I muttered. "I still need you. How can you even be certain that I've become this... man of HONOR?" His eyes parted slightly; mom, a nurse and my wife gasped... wide, reddened eyes... hands cupped to their mouths... as if frozen. "Because... it was you that compelled me... to never... ever... stop being one," he whispered... and died.
It has taken those 33 years of a work-in-progress to write this. It found its origins in the ways of my father and inspired, yet further, by the ways of WOLVES; the noble, social creatures that they are; a species that forsakes the frenzied existence of "the individual," living solely to amass "THE MOST THINGS" in favor of caring for their old... for their injured and disabled; of raising their young in a culture with no ORPHANS; of insuring the survival of THE PACK and in embracing a wondrous commitment by ALL… to doing THE RIGHT THINGS.
The Way of the WOLF Doctrines and Covenants of the Alpha MaleHonor is the inherent dignity of the doctrines and covenants by which one lives and the values that compel you to embrace them.To live with honor fulfills a life. To die with honor fulfills a destiny.Respect is the premium owed only to those with the courage to earn it.Nothing good will be written of the coward, the tyrant or the mediocre.Courage is not found in the absence of fear. It is found in the ability to step forward in spite of it.The tyrant orders the charge. Only the leader will head it.The tyrant fights all…to appear to be right. The leader fights for all…and for all that is right.Power not tempered by wisdom and compassion defines tyranny.Love with your heart; commit with your soul; believe with your gut; lead with all three.The true measure of strength is found in the ability to choose not to use it. But…if you must… Hurt before you injure; injure before you maim; maim before you kill; choose DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR.To ignore abuse is to endorse it. Love is the unselfish pursuit of the happiness of the beings you cherish.If you cannot express love, no one will know that you do.As you give of yourself, you will give to yourself.At the point of arrogance does pride lose its virtue.True partnership can only be achieved by separate and whole beings that retain their uniqueness even as they unite.A friend’s worth is measured by the stature of the person you become when they enter your life.Accept your relatives. Choose your family.A man’s honor can only repose in the heart of a woman whose strength and virtue proclaim and confirm the substance that it took to earn her.When life is allowed to yield less than its best, it will.Put mind in gear before mouth in motion.Dreams are the children of hope that whisper of all things that can be…in words that were never written…yet refuse to remain silent. Dreams are the blueprints of a better reality.Those who howl at the stars will be heard, at least, on the moon.For a pack without a destination, no trail is favorable.To solve a problem, you must first acknowledge that you have one.Doing nothing means nothing will change.Those who believe their own lies have fools as their witnesses.Pursue what you wish to do until summoned by what you are meant to do.Evil, like the blackest of nights, is the necessary darkness without which the magnificent aurora of virtue could never appear as splendid.Goodness is but a choice. Even the minions of the morally bankrupt are no match for one child clad in virtue and armed with truth. Nurture and proclaim him for in his spirit rests the seed of the alpha male, the heart of the pack, KING OF THE WOLVES. Rick F. Basora, son of Fil Basora, an Alpha Male
The Way of the WOLF
Doctrines and Covenants of the Alpha Male
But…if you must…
Rick F. Basora, son of Fil Basora, an Alpha Male
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Subject: Shawn Hannity - STOP the anti-OBAMA FOX VIRUS NOW
Dear Mr. Hannity;
By now you must certainly be aware that a NATIONAL MOVEMENT is in motion against you and against what America has come to know as THE FOX VIRUS that comes forth from the RADICAL EXTREMIST NEO-CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN mouthpiece that you and FOX have become. Presenting our voice to the media of America now comes in the form of the Robert Greenwald film “Fox Attacks Obama (Spreading the Virus)” which, as you can see, is the envelope sent “special delivery” and containing the national petition now underwritten by moveon.org and their Political Action’s Adam Green.
After the travesty of ethical journalism perpetrated by FEMA on October 26, 2007, where it hosted its own “staged” televised news conference reporting on the state of EMERGENCY SERVICES to victims of Hurricane Katrina, it was brought to the attention of America that, not only was the person addressing this “skit” a FEMA official, but so were those asking the questions who, while posing as reporters, were exposed by Al Kamen of The Washington Post in his article FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA. The fact that the article alleges that you carried this charade LIVE, and then passed on the video to MSNBC and other news outlets, renders FOX Television, and its agents, complicit in the efforts of what Christy Hardin Smith, of FIREDOGLAKE, calls The Department of Planting Your Own Propaganda And Hoping No One Notices assigned to the Bush administration.
Mr. Hannity, neither you, nor your colleague-at-arms, Rush Limbaugh, can be allowed, by a nation on the very brink of social, economic, political and global chaos, to continue manipulating puppet strings, pushing buttons and pulling levers the outcome of which you CLEARLY know nothing about. Mr. Limbaugh’s disgracefully titled attempt at hijacking the current Presidential election has earned him the dubious distinction of being named WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23908634#23908634) by MSNBC's KEITH OLBERMANN. It now appears on his own website with the headline Operation Chaos Under Assault.
As you frantically attempt to continue the milking of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy, synthetically created by your Conservative minions, you appear less than pathetic before an increasingly intolerant nation that, as you can see, by Senator John McCain’s attainment of the honorable position of The Republican Presidential Nominee, America has declared you and your Neoconservative “cult”, politically, philosophically, morally and subversively UNDESIREABLE.
I, and America, continue to observe your frenzied contribution to the engineering and staging of a premeditated and choreographed conspiracy aimed at discrediting the legitimacy of Senator Barack Obama as a Presidential candidate, as well as the WONDER of the grass-roots movement taking shape around him. We watch in dismay as you question your guests, carefully selected to provide the most desirable answers for the damming of the voice of HOPE that FOX radio has described as “sounding like Hitler.” Yet, when Democratic Analysts, Tanya Acker and Bob Beckel, as well as your own Alan Colmes, have asked you questions as simple as “So, are you saying that every child whose parents took them to the Trinity United Church of Christ is, therefore, disqualified from growing up to aspire to one day becoming President of the United States,” you conspicuously, and at every turn, refuse to answer the question. You are fully aware that, answering that question, honestly, would reduce you to the hypocritical contradiction of yourself that you are. Take note, Mr. Hannity, your refusal to respond implicitly convicts you in spite of you.
I was held in utter disbelief … which then slowly grew to anger when, last night, you summoned former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, to join in the spreading of THE FOX VIRUS. I found two things to be in poignant opposition with your intention of subverting America. The first was Mr. Gingrich’s repeated insistence that he did NOT question Senator Obama’s integrity, his loyalty to America or his non-alignment with Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s apparent anti-American rants. Later in the same program, and despite your best efforts, this same opinion was echoed, with even greater emphasis and eloquence, by Senator John McCain, who insisted on addressing issues of legitimate concern to our country and clearly, refused to participate in your scripted outcomes. You must, as a consequence, Sir, be torn between wondering if the walls of correctness are closing in on you or whether they, in fact, are spreading so far apart that your only company would be the members of your own League of Liars.
The second observation, born of your program’s intentions, last night, was your patent set-up of “JUDGMENT” as the supposedly flawed characteristic displayed by Senator Barack Obama in his choosing to continue to attend Wright’s Trinity church. You spoke the word “JUDGMENT,” with diacritical accentuation, no less than a dozen times and consistently modified it with adjectives such as “flawed,” “poor,” etc in your transparent attempt to pre-empt the Senator’s platform of SOUND JUDGEMENT in the furtherance of his Presidential bid. I will excuse myself from redundancy and I will quote my own words from the letter that, on March 16, 2008, I sent to you and Fox Management titled SHAWN HANNITY - THE PINNACLE OF IRRESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM AT ITS WORST:
“Gentlemen, if this was Shawn Hannity’s way of weaving “illusions of war-mongering” with which to surround a Presidential candidate who stands on a platform of DIALOGUE as his preferred weapon of pre-emption of war, you may want to advise him about the fact that we ARE, in fact, in a war unjustly started; a war that he endorsed and that he is a member of the political party that started it. Senator Obama was the legislator who attempted unsuccessfully to galvanize an effective movement to avoid it. History has proven him to have been STRATEGICALLY CORRECT and no degree of Mr. Hannity’s resenting him for it will grant him access to that elite minority reserved solely for the JUDGEMENTALLY SOUND.”
Last night, what achieved the “apex of the offensive,” Sir, was that you utilized former Speaker, Newt Gingrich, to assist you in making the point of presenting Senator Obama’s judgment as, somehow, flawed. Might I remind you that Newt Gingrich headed the 1998 charge to impeach President William Jefferson Clinton on charges stemming from the extramarital affair that he sustained with one Monica Lewinsky. In a March 8, 2007 Associated Press article featured on your very own FOX News, titled "Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Acknowledges ...Having Affair During Clinton Impeachment," we are presented with an interview with James Dobson of Focus on the Family that reveals the following:
“Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity.”
"The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge," the former Georgia congressman said of Clinton's 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. "I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials."
Sir, translated into common English, this says…There are rules and laws that apply to ALL, including the President of The United States, but that I, because my name is Newt Gingrich, a Neoconservative, reserve the right to exempt myself from them. No, Mr. Hannity, your show, your network, your self-righteous, pontificating ploys called supporting guests, your intentions, your manic obsession with imposing dynastic rule… but most of all, YOU… are tacitly UNACCEPTABLE as is your effort to present this morally diseased neoconservative “fowl” as someone qualified to “judge the judgment” of EAGLES. I am taking the liberty of forwarding this correspondence to Representative Henry Waxman, who, last year moved to have yours and Mr. Rush Limbaugh’s actions investigated, as well as to Federal Communications Commission Chairman, Kevin Martin, who, I am advised, has been put on notice of the nature of your endeavors, that now appear to many, as being contrary to our very national security.
America will NEVER belong to your minion of disguised patriotic indigence, Sir, and, least of all, to YOU. I would suggest that you listen to a song, considered by many of my generation as an American Anthem, and that I recently sent to the Democratic Superdelegates as well. In ’64 Bob Dylan spoke of times that were “a-changing. I submit to you, Shawn Hannity, that there is an unmistakable wind of CHANGE in the air and MILLIONS, like me, bear witness to its hopeful reality. To you, and to those like you, frantically trying to stop this will be like trying to stop the wind. We have paid for this campaign and for this movement, unlike the politicians of yesteryears and of today, with our own monies, 5, 10, 25 dollars at a time. I know that you must resent the force that such a movement presents. Your colleagues must , as well, fear the threat to their lifetime relationships with lobbyist dollars that will scatter like fallen leaves on this wind. Yes, Mr Hannity, make no mistake. More than times a-changing, Sir, the times …THEY DUN HAVE CHANGED!
Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside And it is ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'.
From the song The Times They Are A-Changin’ by Bob Dylan (1964)
Complete lyrics - http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/times.html
Listen to it here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vou4qUu5YY
RICK F. BASORA
The last words, "Thank you," had barely left the mouth of the candidate on TV and I heard a boisterous commotion coming from just outside of my middle class, suburban Fort Lauderdale home. I started to become apprehensive and instinctively reached for "protection" (top drawer on the right) while trying to silence the "Alpo" security system. As I looked beyond the blinds, what started as a cacophony of voices, yelling, screaming; two women hugging and weeping in a driveway…, dropped in noisiness and rose in both theme and essence. As I stepped out, curiously, a neighbor yelled out "Did you hear the speech?" I asked myself, is this hoopla of laughter and weeping over Barack Obama's speech? Nah uuh…" The two women embracing had, for a long time, been neighbors but, more so, friends. The "Wright controversy" had really tried their friendship because one was an Obamite; the other, a Hillerean (both husbands Republicans). We are "close" on our block and we can find any excuse to kick up our heels and "get silly;" so…the beer, the music and the collapsibles came out as people spoke to people and to cell phones at the same time; Bill, Mike and Pedro blocked off the street with their trucks (Pedro's a State Trooper so…YES WE CAN (lol) and doors were opened and an impromptu block party was underway. I would have wished for "converts" but…oh well. The new subject of contentious BUZZ: a black Bobby Kennedy or a "jacksonized" Luther King? THIS IS NUTS, I thought! Conspicuously missing was the cloud of suspicion that had recently come to pollute the interactive trust of our block community and that had lingered until just before noon. All of a sudden I realized just how affected America has actually been over the Wright controversy. As I excused myself because I was compelled to satisfy the need to pen this, I was overcome by an almost melancholy sense of accomplishment. I knew then…in my heart…as did the people outside making the noise…that if America did NOT elect Barack…it was because it was not yet ready for the wonder that it would first need to grow into.Today, on this the 18th day of March, 2008, we have been served with what may be written into history as the 21st Century's most defining moment in the chronicle of a people's transition from THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS to THE DESTINY OF OUR CHILDREN; from hate and fear to compassion and understanding; from resentment to thoughtfulness; from denial to courageous realization; from sempiternal racial division to a celebration and exaltation of the magnificent multi-colored tapestry stitched by the very hand of GOD into the splendid work of wonder that is HUMANITY. Today, those who have depended on the demons of fear, ignorance and distrust to act as their captive audience made ripe for the continuance of a SOCIAL DIVISION that has become the drug of choice for those sociopaths obsessed with its perpetuation, have been dealt a mortal blow. On this day, the people of America have been given an improbable, albeit remarkable tool with which to breach the SOCIAL DIVIDE that has become the sole and hungry client base of the career American BIGOT; WISDOM. Make no mistake, however. The celebrated triumph of the human spirit that most of us are, at this very moment, reveling in, must and will be met with violent repudiation by those who stand in opposition of reconciliation. If the words of Barack Obama are allowed to speak to the very heart of a country hungry for unity and who, in moving forward, turns its back on the icon which is INTER-RACIAL FEAR, the leaders and lieutenants of institutional, racial and social prejudice will be denied the listeners for their sole subject of expertise; the GRAIL that they have practiced to validate, justify and champion; THE VERY CHALICE of HATE. Despite the disdain that I heard in the televised voice of Mr. Rush Limbaugh, it will be written that, in the middle of a day, in the middle of March on the year of the most contested presidential election in the history of America, even those held in humanistic stagnancy, not through malice, but by ignorance, have been literally pushed upward into a conscious, enlightened awareness that guarantees that, from this day, the harvest of recruits available to the minions of the morally indigent; those drawn to the ranks of racist America, will be reduced to the chronically cynical, the galactically disoriented, to those in terminal denial and to those choosing to live, from here forward, for the words "The HATE will Rise Again."The landmark discourse, made minutes ago by Senator Barack Obama, has been quickly touted as the most significant address of race issues in America since King's now legendary 1963 "I have a dream…"speech. It provides those who did not merely listen, but who objectively assimilated its content, with a rational narrative of answers to the questions that, with obvious and transparent intent, have been repetitiously brought forth, regarding his 20 year relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and his Trinity United Church of Christ. A metal beyond his years was evident as this young legislator from Chicago showed the resolve to denounce Wright's radical rhetoric while retaining the integrity that it took to declare inviolate the spiritual kinship that has existed with this, his former minister, who, quite frankly, would have been given up as burnt offerings by any of the other contenders facing the same "trial by fire." The most poignant reality is that it is a disconnection with the enigma that is HONOR that explains any inability to regard this courageous action as anything but HEROIC. The nobility of the gesture augured that, when pushed to the wall, Barack Obama, as my President, will not barter ME for political safety. Of equal importance, Barack spoke to the post-trauma of the black experience in America and reminded a beleaguered white working class that they too suffered from a post-traumatic syndrome rooted in their own history as kindred targets of unfairness and disregard. To "accuse, denounce, renounce, decry, rebuff, rebuke, reject, beat with a bat, dismember and summarily execute" are the standards of acceptable disassociation that, throughout this campaign, have been reserved SOLELY for the candidacy of one Barack Hussein Obama. Despite the tacitly ridiculous, I feel that the answers to any concerned questions have been tendered beyond any reasonable expectation. It would need to be left to the polls to determine if the rest of America concurs. Therefore, if the people of America call for the tired issue to be laid to rest, any Neoconservative measure intended to perpetuate that which has now been answered to the point of the redundant, can only be interpreted as an act of HARASSMENT and should be met by a vote of solidarity returned to sender in the words of those who spoke them to the centuries of distorted inhumanity that shaped Reverend Wright's painfully distorted views; "GET OVER IT!" It will be at the time, when those words are forced from our lips, that the floodgates will be thrown open on what has become known as "THE LAUNDRY LIST" of Obama's opposition. This WILL NOT happen because Barack will initiate or even desire it. It will be driven by citizens, worn by the "trailer park politics" that are the trademark of "The King of the Double-Wides", Rush Limbaugh, and his "pimp your vote 'n pull my finger" election strategies and who, like me, WILL FORCE THE ISSUE in our courts. Moving towards the election of a President, America must observe the politically postured alignment of FOX Television and its Neoconservative pundits, anchors and commentators. History has shown that their obsession with the forced-feeding of America can be predictably expected to drag this campaign episode to a conclusion of political martyrdom. As I listened to an MSNBC viewer e-mail being read on the air and insisting that the media now let go this matter in favor of legitimate ECONOMIC issues of paramount concern, I was reminded of the Clinton - Lewinski scandal of the late 1990s. Neocons of the Republican party, and their media vocals, blatantly disregarded the populous and dragged an American President through a highly protested impeachment proceeding that ultimately fell short of the 2/3 Senate majority needed to convict and remove him from office. In doing so, our "Magoo-like" conservative visionaries failed to see that, the only thing that they had succeeded in dragging across a snickering world stage; ragged, bloodied, ridiculed and clad in a muddied clown suite, was not Bill Clinton...it was AMERICA ITSELF. Those of us who can still recall that episode, as well as those of sufficient age to understand the function and mechanics of GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE will inevitably incur a rendezvous with OUTRAGE in confronting the following. At the time that this happened, the polls taken of the nations electorate showed that an average of 70% of Americans was against pursuing the allegations and impeachment. (N Y Times December 21, 1998). Neo-Republicans disregarded an overwhelming national majority...and simply...DID IT ANYWAY. I, for one, am on record as having shown my repudiation and disdain for neo-conservatism, and the EXTREMISTS that it breeds, by officially renouncing of my 20 year affiliation with the GOP. From that day forward, some ten or so years ago, I have been a proud registered DEMOCRAT. If this happens again, however, or if Superdelegates self-appoint themselves as the demi-gods that can replace a populous in the determination of an electoral outcome, we MUST then be attentive to the promise in the air that heralds the charter of The Constitutionalist National Committee aka THE CONSTITUTIONALIST PARTY. Most agree that it is an idea whose time has come. If we are to teach our children to believe in Democracy, then it is DEMOCRACY itself that we are bound to provide for them.As for Shawn Hannity, we can be assured of a unilaterally myopic assessment of today's event that, while panting with wet tongue slavering in the wind, will inspire him to eek out an "Atta boy" from his trailer-bound master, Rush Limbaugh, for having rolled over, played dead and for "fetching" a ball made slimy with the trivialization of the words of A GIANT. I await his show and you can expect that I will confront Limbaugh's political mongrel, Shawn Hannity, with the same stick that I did on March 10, 2008 and that, amongst numerous others, inspired American Initiative co-chair, Nancy Millinger, to follow with her now coined, "two word," grass-roots e-mail that simply said "TAKE THAT!"I leave you now to re-join the dancing in the MULTI-RACIAL streets...literally! RICK F. BASORA
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 11:26 PM
To: 'Hannity@foxnews.com'; 'Feedback@foxnews.com'; 'yourcomments@foxnews.com'
Mr, Hannity, I am compelled to remind you that, despite your reluctance, we still reside in a country where the rule of law prescribes that a person is innocent, and not by association, until proven guilty. I feel further obligated to engage your cynical racial and religious bigotry by reminding you that if African Americans find refuge in institutions and churches whose very names herald a predictable WELCOME, it is because the sins of our fathers have forced them, however subconsciously, to find comfort in an identity. No, Mr. Hannity, a church with a name that speaks to a black congregation is not a racist statement; it is a statement of fraternity that you and our forefathers insisted on disallowing white America from fully participating in…and yet…they welcome us. Further, you “mouth” the word “Muslim” as if it were the very “sound” of social and religious leprosy. You might recall that legitimate Muslims are a peaceful people in non-complicity with the fanatics that did us and still wish us harm. Your message, sir, is one that has a history of inciting lynch mobs and, just in case Jenna, LA taught you nothing, ALL OF AMERICA will put that mob DOWN. While I am certain that Senator Obama would strongly sensor my statement, I will ask you that, if you must hate the mutations of religious principal, then, Sir, hate the religion of The Crusades, of the THOUSAND YEARS of European Inquisition, of Waco, Texas and of The Salem Witch Trials. Hate whatever fed the narcissism of Reverends Jim Baker and Jim Jones and you can start by hating the perversion of 10,000 pedophile priests, the Institutions that fed them our children. Hate those who sanctioned their rape and that, in doing so, stripped many of us of the comfort that one should find in the words “In God We Trust.”
Take heed of these, my closing words. The irresponsibility of Shawn Hannity’s “rabble rousing journalism” could very well inspire right wing radical extremists to commit acts in PATENT SUPPORT of his bastardized rant. Because you, Mr. Hannity, are in contempt of the most basic of professional standards and of the ethics of personal decency, we, the majority of America’s electorate hold you and The Fox Network personally responsible for any such actions and further hold you accountable for promoting them and for inspiring them. If we are to learn the lessons willed to us by the American “giant” that was Robert F. Kennedy, it behooves us to recognize that YOU, Mr Hannity, are THE EXTREMIST.
“What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents." Robert F. Kennedy
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TURN THE OTHER CHEEK SO MICHELLE CAN SLAP AGAIN.Feb 20, 2008 6:37 PM
crazyhat 749 posts since Feb 10, 2008 I can barely discuss the awful behavior of Michelle Obama, yet again today. She reiterated and reinforced her statement that she has not been proud of her country until now. Guess the Civil Rights Movement and Womens Voter Rights did nothing to put her in Harvard. Let's turn the other cheek America, so she can slap us around again. Bill Clinton is a proud American, proud to be president. Hillary is the same. Michelle should be ashamed of herself. Such arrogance.
4micheal4 652 posts since Feb 20, 2008 Reply 1. Re: TURN THE OTHER CHEEK SO MICHELLE CAN SLAP AGAIN. Feb 20, 2008 6:51 PM Don't you just know people in Washington are laughing at her. I am. I am laughing at their Cult followers as well. I have seen what how the "cult mentality" destroy themselves and when they finally come around they are apologetic and look like idiots. Michelle is not ready to be a first Lady. She needs to learn how to be a Lady first..
rickbasora 125 posts since Feb 3, 2008 Reply 24. Re: TURN THE OTHER CHEEK SO MICHELLE CAN SLAP AGAIN. Feb 20, 2008 11:39 PM
The PRIDE that is felt by the people of a country where an individual's right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" was extended to persons of ALL races, and genders by the moral uprising of a Civil Rights Movement will always live in the shadow of the indelible SHAME for the cruel acts that it took a "movement" to end. The movement that freed women from the collective and social audacity that assigned them a place of "blanket" incompetence unworthy of a "ballot", I suppose, would enjoy the same PRIDE. With a heritage that qualifies Michelle Obama to pass judgement on both of those enigmas and with the brilliance required to gain access to Harvard and, quite possibly, to The White House, one cannot expect her to celebrate the movements that granted her "permission" to claim the inalienable rights bestowed upon her by a Constitution and by GOD HIMSELF! Acknowledging that there is NO PRIDE in having travelled the road that has lead to the America of TODAY can only indicate that, as First Lady, she has the objective understanding needed to help us arrive at the moral destination that should be the America of the years to come. My friends, In order to solve a problem, you must first recognize that you have one. In openly and courageously doing so, Mrs. Obama in no way slaps any of us in the face. Rather, she initiates the processes that may keep us from continuing to deserve the buffetings of history and of the world.
If you allow yourselves to see beyond the obvious, you will find that, in her controversial statement, lays the motive that transfers the Obama promise of CHANGE from the pages of rhetoric to the substance of conviction. To alter a wayward child's behavior, you must love it enough to "change" it. To engage the daunting task of changing America, you must certainly have to LOVE America. There can be no reason but LOVE that could inspire a woman, a mother, to accept the life-threatening challenge that The Obamas have accepted in order to take up the destiny of those charged with securing ours. In doing so, Michelle, like her husband, teaches us that courage is not found in the absence of fear. It is found in the ability to step forward in spite of it. Therefore, to laugh or to ridicule such a "lady" is the act of those to whom acknowledging what Mrs. Obama IS parades before their eyes as proof of what they ARE NOT. On the other hand, those with the wherewithal to, not merely look, but SEE, will find confirmation of what they CAN BE. To us Obama people, we call that HOPE!
A man and a country's honor can only repose in the heart of a woman whose strength and virtue confirm and proclaim the substance that it took to earn her. As you question Michelle's worthiness of us, consider what she is putting at grave plausible risk and ask yourself; do you deserve her?
Late last night, I advised two dear and respected board members of my decision to withdraw from these boards because the disrespect, disregard and "drunken tavern" demeanor that I've observed to be climatic in some of these is having a virulent and toxic effect on my spirit and on the way that I see my people and our way; the American way... for which my brother tripped a claymore and blew up like confetti; the American way... for which good people (fathers, sons, moms, sisters) soak the earth with their blood in defense of. Tonight, however, you've dragged me back by my heart and by what you've left of my pride as an American MAN to stand and be counted in defense of the honor of who may very well be called upon to carry The Honor of The United States of America, my future First Lady, from YOU who demand respect from a world that, in observing you, witnesses a nation in the ongoing manic act of disrespecting itself!
...and you expect Michelle to be PROUD? Shame! SHAME on you!
Goodnight
The following was submitted to FOX NEWS for consideration:
Five independent sources, washingtonpost , The New York Times' mediamatters, jihadwatch, nysun and digg dot com, confirm that the Clintons have received contributions exceeding $10,000,000 from the government of Taiwan, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern interests for The Clinton Library fund. The article in Jihad Watch is particularly telling.
So, who do I want answering that White House phone at 3 in the morning? I expect for that phone call to be answered by a President whose successful bid for office and/or other personal interests were NOT significantly funded by individuals, industries or countries whose interests would be better served by the nature of the answer to that call. We feel stronger yet that the phone MUST NOT be answered by such a President that, while still a candidate, required keeping the identity of such benefactors CONFIDENTIAL.
Attached are washingtonpost , The New York Times' mediamatters, jihadwatch, nysun and digg dot com articles revealing the Clintons as recipients of contributions exceeding $10,000,000 from the government of Saudi Arabia for The Clinton Library. Hillary has made universal women's rights one of the platforms of her Presidential campaign. During the Iowa caucuses, she accused Iowans of being "Mississippi-like" in having failed to elect women to their legislature. Further, she recently pointed to her speech in China in defense of women's rights worldwide.
How can Mrs. Clinton be an advocate for the rights of women to live their lives free of the most heinous of abusive practices that are commonplace and mundane in Saudi Arabia, while receiving the implicit endorsement of such a barbaric regime made paramount by the acceptance of their multi-million dollar contributions? What moral authority will empower the words of a President Hillary Clinton when, at 3:00 A.M., international women's rights organizations call for immediate emergency American intervention to save the lives of a nine teenage Saudi girls to be beheaded in the morning for the crime against morality of "dancing and holding hands?" Mrs. Clinton, will you refund, denounce and reject?
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised Thursday that an internal investigation would probe all facets of how information was leaked that may have influenced the U.S. Democratic presidential primaries, including the alleged comments by his own chief of staff, Ian Brodie, and the subsequent leak of a sensitive memorandum.
Opposition politicians yesterday demanded Mr. Brodie's dismissal amid reports that he leaked information that set off a chain of events that some say resulted in Senator Barack Obama's loss in Tuesday's Ohio primaries.
"New reports indicate very clearly that it was Ian Brodie, the chief of staff," New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton said yesterday in the Commons.
"My question to the Prime Minister is very simple. Will he now apologize to this House, the American people and Senator Obama, and will he fire his chief of staff?"
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff Ian Brodie watches from the back of the room during a photo op before the government caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Wednesday. (Tom Hanson/Canadian Press)
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From Friday's Globe and Mail
March 6, 2008 at 9:52 PM EST
Mr. Layton was joined in his demands for Mr. Brodie's firing by the Liberals.
Mr. Harper responded that he plans to investigate the entire matter, suggesting that Mr. Brodie's role and that of a leaked memo will be looked into. He acknowledged that the matter is a serious one and that it was damaging "in a way that was completely unfair."
"… I have also said that it is completely contrary to the interests of the Government of Canada."
The controversy began after Mr. Brodie allegedly told a group of journalists from CTV News that candidate Hillary Clinton was not serious about earlier suggestions that she would reopen NAFTA if she became president. The network later reported that it was Mr. Obama's campaign that had informed Canadian diplomats not to be overly concerned that he would fundamentally change the deal. The network also reported that Ms. Clinton's officials indirectly tried to deliver the same message, a report the campaign denied the next evening.
Later, a memo from a Canadian diplomat in Chicago emerged in which Mr. Obama's chief economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, was quoted as saying that Mr. Obama's NAFTA stand was about "political positioning," rather than an articulation of policy.
The Clinton campaign has used the issue against Mr. Obama, saying he is insincere in his opposition to NAFTA. Ms. Clinton went on to win the primary in the state of Ohio, where NAFTA is blamed by some for the loss of manufacturing jobs.
Meanwhile, yesterday, U.S. ambassador David Wilkins, who called the NAFTA leak "interference" when he spoke to the CBC yesterday, said he overstated the case.
"It's a regrettable instance, it should not have happened. But certainly… regret has been expressed very strongly by the Canadian government," Mr. Wilkins told The Globe and Mail.
"I do think the term 'interference' is a little strong. It implies some intentional act. And I've got no way of knowing whether it was unintentional or intentional, or anything of that nature. But my statement of interference was not meant to mean intentional interference by the Canadian government, and unfortunately that's the way it got played."
He said he accepts the expressions of regret from Mr. Harper and the Canadian embassy in Washington, and now thinks "it's important we all get this behind us."
It's unclear, however, whether Mr. Obama's campaign will be as quick to forgive as Mr. Wilkins — a Republican appointed by George W. Bush.
Ms. Clinton's chief strategist, Mark Penn, said Wednesday in a conference call with reporters that the so-called "NAFTA-gate" leaks "had a significant impact" on the key race in Ohio, where Ms. Clinton won handily.
The Tories have said that Mr. Brodie does not recall having a conversation in which he discussed the NAFTA issue.
Mr. Layton continued his attack on Mr. Harper last night on CNN, when he was interviewed by Conservative U.S. commentator Lou Dobbs, who opposes NAFTA.
"It's not right, he hasn't yet apologized and he hasn't yet fired the source of the leak so we'll keep working on that on our end," Mr. Layton said.
The NAFTA matter, combined with the controversy surrounding the late Chuck Cadman, put the government on the defensive for much of yesterday.
"It is the only defence of the Prime Minister that we do not know how to choose among all the scandals he has," Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion said.
Mr. Dion was referring to allegations from Mr. Cadman's widow, Dona, that the Tories had offered a $1-million life insurance package if Mr. Cadman would support the Tories three years ago in their efforts to defeat the then-government of Paul Martin.
"The problem with the Leader of the Liberal Party is he is so busy chasing appointments that never happened, favours that were never given, lawsuits that were never cancelled," Mr. Harper said.
With a report from Canadian Press
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“What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.”
Robert Francis Kennedy
“He doesn’t have experience.” “He’s not qualified to be commander of our military.” “His middle name is Hussein.” “He’s wearing ethnic clothing.” “He snores.” “He has terrorist ties.” “His wife isn’t proud enough.” “He doesn’t wear a flag pin.” “He’s not black enough.” “He’s a muslim.”…and today…”He did a “WINK-WINK” to Canada on NAFTA.”…hours before a critical election…dispersed during the election… and having an effect on the election. Sadly…Shamefully…Canada’s apology for what has left me speechless came too late to reverse the damage done to THE MAN and to OUR RIGHT TO HOPE! ……. HOW CONVENIENT!...........more on this on a separate post following investigation into possible Clinton Campaign complicity.
Belated Canadian apology:
http://about.reuters.com/dynamic/countrypages/mexico/1204588843nN03391783.ASP
http://www.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2008/03/03/2008-03-04T000047Z_01_N03391783_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-OBAMA-UPDATE-1.html
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/clinton_obama_gave_canada_wink.html
A legitimate candidate has been accused of speculative incompetence, contrived (or hoped for) corruption, terrorist affiliations"(but no one mentions the Clintons and Yassar Arafat), of political double talk with governments and subjected to the demonization of “his very name”. The ferocity of the attacks (even as Republicans call for their members to vote for Hillary) can only be defined by a Washington infrastructure in fear of the effects that the Obama ETHICS REFORM LEGISLATION would have on their collateral incomes. I, as well as other political thinkers in my state, have concluded that it is time...and we MUST oblige Mrs. Clinton’s "serve" and begin the task of educating America’s voting population in the manner that she has inspired us to do with her own campaign of "EDUCATION." In keeping with our candidates theme of taking a higher road, we will commit to doing so, not with speculations or conjectures...but with documented facts that have not led to convictions because (1) the parties involved were and are subject to “O.J. SIMPSON” impunity or (2) the witnesses related to the cases mysteriously died or committed suicide. The intention of this exercise is not to seek justice but to arouse America to THINK…so that we, as a nation, never again have to read a headline describing our election in the press of a foreign ally, such as the one that appeared two days after the election of 2004, on November 4th on the front page of London’s Daily Mirror and which read:
How Can 59,054,087 People be so DUMB?
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2004/11/how_can_59054087_people_be_so_dumb/
The following is subject to the legal premise of res ipsa loquitor; the facts speak for themselves.
HILLARY CLINTON - 35 YEARS of EXPERIENCE...and counting - a priliminary synopsis
PA Democratic Party - CLINTON'S TRUTH = HEALTH CARE PLAN TO SCANDLE + FRAUD + DEATH LIST = LONG LONG LAUNDRY LIST
http://www.padems.com/node/843
List of Alleged Crimes In the Clinton Administration
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/crime2.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpNyXf6teU4
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/ethical.html
With Friends like These ... Everything you ever wanted to know about the Clintons' shadiest donors
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=076fd56f-4aca-4683-a9d1-3c55d748946e
The Clinton DEATH List
http://www.lizmichael.com/clintond.htm
The Shocking Video Hillary Does NOT Want You to See (Peter Paul)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn4_LXERusY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88633A0wShg&feature=related
http://www.2004dnc.com/peterpaulhillaryclinton/index.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7007109937779036019
http://www.hillcap.org/pp_complaint_022504_njw.pdf
HILLARY THREATENED JUANITA BROADDRICK 2 WEEKS AFTER RAPE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KZ8ICvutc0&feature=related
Shays Shocker: Clinton Raped Broaddrick Twice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORfppYixrXM&watch_response
Chris Matthews calls Clinton control of media "FASCISTIC" why the Press resents The Clintons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjMNoCldIMk&NR=1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPe-9GW6jsI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSMrjWe69bQ&feature=relatedHillary
Clinton EXPOSED AS A RACIST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDHbHcOV1N4&feature=related
SECTS, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE: Hillary Clinton’s ethnic slurs – what she thinks of Jews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxlpI3LuvtU&feature=related
Soldiers love Ron and Barack, and lobbyists love Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, the No. 1 recipient of lobbyist cash, receiving $823,000 in 2007 from the lobbying industry, which gave about $2.7 million overall.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/military-donors.html
THIS BLOG WILL BEGIN DEPLOYMENT TO THE 10,000 MEMBERS of STUDENTS FOR OBAMA and a first week demographic distribution of a targeted 100,000 recipients. Thereafter, it will be made available for media consideration so as to allow it maximum public exposure before Pennsylvania and the other remaining primaries. I will wait till it is appropriately posted to by those wishing to comment so that it may convey a plurality of voices far more significant than that of the author. In keeping with the spirit of tolerance set forth by Oprah Winfrey, ALL ANTI- OBAMA posters from THE OPRAH DISCUSSION BOARDS are invited to contribute with their thoughts as well. I appreciate their participation in advance as they will serve to underline our purpose.
The search for Clinton related proof sources needs to be an ongoing thing until the day that we seat our candidate or America mandates differently. Therefore your continued and ongoing posts, particularly those that contribute legitimate findings of concern, will help to keep this banner (in the words of my friend 4michael4) "FRESH" and current.
In closing, I dedicate this blog and this effort to my father who taught me to define HONOR! Therefore, let us not become the stuff of those that oppose us. There can be no HONOR without RESPECT…and…Respect is the premium owed only to those with the courage to earn it.
NEXT, I will share what has been prepared for the SUPERDELEGATES. YOU'LL LOVE THIS!
For now, LET’S GO TO WORK!
