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Barack Obama has himself some quality speeches. The only thing that could make them better is if the very words of his speeches gained the power of a chameleon and formed into a portrait of his face.
Mission accomplished.
This portrait of Barack Obama contains the entirety of his 2008 Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech… in his face!Barack Obama has himself some quality speeches. The only thing that could make them... more
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These are truly heart warming!
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In the days following the 2008 election, most Americans say the presidential campaign was the most exciting they experienced in their lifetime. Now that it’s over, the election certainly was entertaining - especially if you like underdogs, unpredictability and unconventional story lines.
Republicans, however, are pained to agree.
The GOP presidential campaign of 2008 will be analyzed for years to come. But not in the way that some Republicans had hoped for when they chose an experienced maverick, loved by the media, to face off against an inexperienced African-American who had trouble vanquishing his opponent in the primaries.
History is filled with examples of campaigns marked by bad decisions and poor performances that undermined their chances of victory.
But the McCain team ran a campaign that many say ranks on the bottom of this list. Pundits have called it an aimless and chaotic operation made worse by poor choices at key moments. Their first mistake was picking Gov. Sarah Palin.
Palin initially baffled the national media, as no one had heard of the former Wasilla mayor and one-term Alaska governor. When her teenage daughter’s pregnancy and Troopergate surfaced, the New York Times questioned whether she had even been properly vetted by McCain.
Palin answered her critics with a dazzling and electrifying speech at the Republican National Convention, and until mid-September, she appeared to be giving the McCain/Palin ticket a huge lift in the polls.
But quickly, her credibility quickly started to deteriorate. After terrible interviews on ABC News with Charles Gibson and CBS News with Katie Couric, the mainstream media started to portray her as a ditzy beauty queen who did not belong in the chair of the vice president. Tina Fey’s hilarious mockery of her on Saturday Night Live became a national sensation.
She appeared to regain a bit of her standing after a respectable showing against Joe Biden in their Vice Presidential debate, but Palin never fully recovered in the polls. The majority of Americans continued to view her as unqualified and unfit for the second highest post in the country.
The conservative Fox News even appears to have gone against her, releasing inside information about what is sure to prove just the beginning of the full story of Palin’s vice-presidential nomination. With news leaked from the McCain team, Fox News said when McCain’s people started prepping Palin for the national stage, they discovered that the Alaska governor couldn’t name the signatories to NAFTA (The US, Canada, and Mexico), nor did she realize that Africa was a continent rather than a country, and thought South Africa was the southern part of that country.
Even a majority of women, the constituency she was supposed to appeal to most, turned against her. On Oct. 2, 2008, Time published a popular article entitled, “Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin.”
The article stated that Obama was winning the female vote overall and that many women, particularly urban career women, thought Palin was just on the ticket for her looks and that her views on issues like abortion would make her election a step backward for women’s rights.
Talking about looks, Newsweek learned that Palin’s shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain’s top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her “outrageous profligacy.”
One senior aide said that Palin had been told to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. Instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus.In the days following the 2008 election, most Americans say the presidential campaign... more
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The United Socialist States of America bids you welcome !
Tonight, we see the true failing of President Bush: so radically damaging the Republican party brand, that a true American hero, servant, and most qualified man to run for President in 60 years was defeated by a socialist with practically no experience. A man that has poor character judgement, a history of socialist ideals, and fringe mind set will now be the leader of the world’s last best hope for Freedom and Democracy.
Mark my words, today we see the end of traditional America that has built this Country, and the begining of the end of America as a World Power. Why? Because Obama, with a majority of Liberals now in the Congress, will implement far left wing laws, and appoint far left wing Judges. He will pull troops out of Iraq in a shameful manner. He will be proven too weak in the face of ruthless tyrants and dictators on the world stage. He will raise taxes on America to pay for huge new social programs that will never be retired or see a sunset in funding. All of this will weaken our standing of being a superpower in the world politically, morally, financially, and militarily.
The Economy will tank thanks to employers laying off people. Companies will close or move overseas. Unemployment will go up, and we will see the largest increase in entitlement programs since social security was invented.
The only hope we have now, is that the damage to America brought upon us by Obama will be just enough to remove this idiot from power in four years. As well, let us hope we can remove his socialist, liberal, communist, progressive, radical friends in the congress… before they permanently ruin the Country for future Americans.
On an up note, no one can claim racism exists in America anymore, and racist laws like “Affirmative” Action can be abolished.The United Socialist States of America bids you welcome !
Tonight, we see the true... more
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Let me start by saying that I am humbled by the events of this evening and I could not think of a more fitting scenario in order to make my first post here on the White Rabbit Cult. I am so proud of my country to be able to see through the bigotry and petty lies that have been a constant smear across our television screens this election season and elect the man that truly is the best choice to lead our country out of the narrow-minded past and slingshot it into the open-minded future. This country was hungry for change and their plates shall runneth over. This is a pivotal election that has the potential to change our country for the rest of history.
That being said, I can’t get over the sickening feeling in my stomach that is hindering me from fully enjoying this miraculous event. I am a resident of the state of Arizona, and while I may not like the idea that I am in the minority in this state, I have always accepted it as a simple difference of opinion. I am someone who has always enjoyed political debate and conversations with people of both like and different minded opinions. However, while America as a whole took 1 giant step forward tonight, Arizona took two steps back. The first being the Yes vote on Prop 102 to ban same-sex marriage (more on that in my next post), and the second the nausea-inducing crowd at McCain’s consession speech. What I saw tonight during McCain’s concession speech struck me so deep into my gut that it was hard to get up after hearing it.
I am so ashamed that in the state that I so happily call my home, there were crowds so disrespectful to yell and boo while John McCain was trying to salvage the little honor and dignity he had left after his campaign dragged him through the mud. How despicable and disrespectful do you have to be to tarnish this amazing moment in history with your disgusting bigotry and hate? You people make me utterly sick to my stomach and anyone who reads this blog that may have been one of those aforementioned “hecklers”, for lack of a better word, please, I beg of you to send me your address so I can come and knock on your door and spit in your face to show you the disrespect that you have shown Barack Obama, the President Elect of the United States of America, and the millions of people who dared to dream and believe in hope in times of great peril.
Did you hear Obama’s crowd at the mention of McCain? They cheered. That is what decent people do. Unfortunately, I can no longer call my fellow Arizonans decent people because they just showed to the world that they do not deserve the label. I hope by tomorrow the joy will drown out the sadness, anger, and shame that I feel right now. Even through this all, I guess that’s the difference: I still have hope. Thank you, America. You have made the right choice. Good Night Everyone. Enjoy the new world you wake up to tomorrow.Let me start by saying that I am humbled by the events of this evening and I could not... more
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As polls closed on the West coast, the Illinois senator was projected to receive enough electoral votes to pass the 270-vote threshold.
Obama is projected to win California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii.
He also is projected to win Virginia, a state that hasn’t voted for a Democratic president since 1964.
As Obama built up a commanding lead over Sen. John McCain, senior aides to the Arizona senator were growing pessimistic about his chances.
When asked if they saw a path to victory, two senior McCain aides said no.
White Rabbit Cult earlier projected that Obama will win Ohio, a key battleground state with 20 electoral votes.
No Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio. Going into the election, polls showed Obama with a 3-point lead there.
Obama and McCain are running a tight race in Indiana as results are tallied in the battleground state.
With about 85 percent of precincts reporting, McCain held a slim lead in the state.
In addition to the presidential contest, voters were making choices in a number of key House and Senate races that could determine whether the Democrats strengthen their hold on Congress.
Former Gov. Mark Warner, a Democrat, will win a Senate seat in Virginia, White Rabbit Cult projects. He will replace retiring Republican Sen. John Warner.
Incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Dole, a Republican, is projected to lose her North Carolina seat to Democratic challenger Kay Hagan.
White Rabbit Cult also projects Democrats will win two other Senate seats currently held by Republicans. In New Hampshire, former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen will win over incumbent John Sununu, and in New Mexico, Democrat Tom Udall will defeat Republican Steve Pearce.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell held onto his seat in Kentucky.
Delaware voters re-elected Obama’s running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, to his seventh term.
White Rabbit Cult Eddie Harris said there were lots of long faces in the lobby of the McCain headquarters at the Arizona Biltmore hotel as McCain allies watched returns showing Senate Republicans losing their seats.
McCain and Obama were both expected to be watching the results come in from their home states.As polls closed on the West coast, the Illinois senator was projected to receive... more
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The White Rabbit Cult congratulates President Elect Barack Obama!!!
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People Of Florida… PLEASE READ!!!!
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Should we be surprised by this? Sign of things to come!
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With less than a week till Election Day, any movement in the polls is big news. In the Real Clear Politics national poll average, Barack Obama’s 8-point lead from Saturday has decreased to 5.9, due mostly to a gain in John McCain’s average.
Three major polls have seen a significant squeeze in the past five days, causing this trend. Today, a Rasmussen poll put Obama at a 3-point lead. McCain has gained 3 points in their survey since Saturday and Obama has lost two, putting the race at the narrowest margin this poll has seen since late September.
This followed the drastic squeeze seen in the Reuters/Zogby/C-SPAN this weekend. After enjoying a 12-point lead in their poll last week, Obama’s lead shrunk to around 5 points and held steady there for a few days.
The latest poll to close was Gallup. Their traditional likely voter turnout model has Obama up by three, after having a 7-point lead at one point last week. (Take note: Gallup has multiple voter models. Which one is right depends on who shows up to vote. The other models have Obama up by 7-points today.)
As we’ve cautioned in this blog space before, it’s best to keep up with the state polls too. Remember, the Electoral College doesn’t make decisions based on national mood.
With that in mind, here is graphical snapshot of where the polling lies as shown on the Yahoo! News Political Dashboard. Below, we break out specifics about the 11 battleground states’ most recent polling averages and trends. The data for both is supplied by our friends at Real Clear Politics.With less than a week till Election Day, any movement in the polls is big news. In the... more
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On the playgrounds of elementary school, one of the worst taunts imaginable is to be told, “you fight like a girl.” Now, in fact, girls don’t necessarily fight “like girls,” while some boys do. But, regardless of gender, why is this style of brawling the object of scorn?
Because it means to turn your face from your foe, close your eyes, and flail about wildly with your fists. Even with a good reason to fight, it means to fight blindly. Even if courageously, it means to fight stupidly. You may, sometimes, actually hit your opponent. But in your violent frenzy, you are sure to hit others you had no need to hit, thereby inspiring new enemies unnecessarily while exhausting yourself to scant purpose. Scant, because all too few of those punches will land on the face you meant to, and maybe had good reason to smack.
Which brings to mind George Bush’s feckless “Global War on Terror.” After 9/11 we had good reason to smack al-Qaida and the Taliban, the radical Sunni Muslim groups responsible for the murder of 3,000 Americans on American soil. A few well-landed jabs guided by a clear-eyed strategy might have finished them off. Instead, our Commander-in-mis-chief turned his head, closed his eyes, and starting swinging hysterically, “fighting like a girl.” As a result, though empowered by the finest military in human history, he grossly misused and abused it, wielding that “fist” with the incompetence of the proverbial schoolgirl, crashing it into brick walls, innocent bystanders, stray livestock and occasionally, yes, the nose of an honest-to-gosh jihadi.
And so, after seven years of flailing, we still haven’t knocked out either al-Qaida or the Taliban, or come to terms with the double-dealing of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, our “allies” who, directly or indirectly, support them. However, we have invaded and occupied Iraq (which had nothing to do with 9/11), and installed a Shia Muslim dominated government there that is, predictably, pro Shia Iran. Of course, we are now told that increasingly assertive Iran is our new greatest enemy, though that assertiveness is largely a result of our own befuddled, self-defeating policies in Iraq. Hmmm….
All the while, with few exceptions, John McCain and the Congressional Republicans mindlessly cheered every ill-aimed slap in this mockery of a war strategy like a schoolyard mob. This is the “experienced” McCain who told us in 2002 we could just “muddle through” to victory in Afghanistan while we shifted resources to Iraq. Told us that we had to do so because Iraq had WMDs. That Iraq was actively collaborating against us with al-Qaida. That Iraq was behind the anthrax attacks. That occupying Iraq would be easy. That Iraq’s oil wealth would pay for it all. That the Sunni and Shia in Iraq had no history of violent conflict. Of course, since he repeatedly gets his Sunnis mixed up with his Shias, his confusion on this last point is understandable.
But, call ‘em lies, or call ‘em misjudgments, either way, these claims were wrong. All wrong. For thousands of American soldiers and marines, fatally wrong. For a U.S. economy sliding into recession, a trillion dollars worth of wrong. Now, with the limited success of the surge, we’re supposed to hail him as the second coming of Solomon?
Give me a break.
Republican politicians always maintain they are tough on national security. Well, they certainly do talk tough (or “sing tough,” as McCain chortles about plans to “bomb, bomb, bomb,… bomb, bomb Iran”). They publicly flex their verbal muscles at every opportunity like preening, oily body builders. But when push comes to shove comes to oily fracas, they close their eyes, switch off their brains, and “fight like girls.” Which would be fine if we didn’t have real enemies in this world who need a good upper cut to the jaw. On the playgrounds of elementary school, one of the worst taunts imaginable is to be... more
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Ordinarily I would say that a person’s politics should never be a factor in employment, unless the political position would compromise the job performance.
However I have to sympathize with the writer of this letter.
Dear Fellow Business Owners
As a business owner who employs 30 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama will be our next President, and that my Taxes and Fees, will go up in a BIG way.
To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Customer will have to see an increase in my fees to them of about 8%. I will also have to lay off 6 of my employees. This really bothered me as I believe we are family
here and didn‘t know how to choose who will have to go.
So, this is what I did. I strolled thru the parking lot and found 8 Obama bumper stickers on my employees’ cars. I have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off.
I can’t think of another fair way to approach this problem. If you have a better idea, let me know.
I am sending this letter to all Business owners that I know.
Sincerely
XXXX
YYYY Corp.
I think it might even be illegal but I have little sympathy for those people. When a we know that a politician’s policies will destroy businesses, then the people who put that cretin in power should be the first to pay for the damages.
I also need to emphasize that this is an emotional response, not a rational one. If the business owner were to ask me I would say that it’s probably illegal even if I am sympathetic to him.Ordinarily I would say that a person’s politics should never be a factor in... more
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We had to flip it on its side so we can fit it onto the page.
Hope you like it!
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Some guy claims he stumbled upon some naked pictures of Barack Obama’s mother, and he’s posted them to the Internet.
No, really. These are unconfirmed… leave us your thoughts!
This gets weirder and weirder every day. Some guy claims he stumbled upon some naked pictures of Barack Obama’s mother,... more
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Well, we've arrived at the last debate - which, for some reason I thought would be a way for citizens to finally have their questions heard. Apparently, not. I marched with the Iraqui Veterans Against the War, we were in the shit together, and still, I, like all Americans, get zero access.Well, we've arrived at the last debate - which, for some reason I thought would... more
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Citizen Kate marches with the Iraqi Veterans Against the Iraq War (IVAW) and ends up in a lot of crap as she continues her quest to get questions in the final debate.
I've been trying to get questions from viewers, friends and regular citizens in the last Presidential Debate between Barack Obama and John McCain at Hofstra University. I navigated through the campus, CSPAN, BBC, a two-sided protest, and now I found the key to making it happen: Iraqi Veterans Against the Iraq War.
A group of Iraqi Vets against the war marched the gates with their demand to get two questions into the debate. We joined efforts so that we could get all of our questions answered from the candidates.
Of course, we were met with the resistance from cops in uniforms, horses and crap. Seriously. I think I still smell like poop. Or maybe that's the scent of this election?
Note to self: Fighting for your cause can sometimes lead to a lot of political shit. Citizens should be allowed to ask questions of the candidates. Now, wouldn't that be the shit?Citizen Kate marches with the Iraqi Veterans Against the Iraq War (IVAW) and ends up... more
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Nobody knows if newspaper endorsements actually make a difference with voters. You can find arguments going both ways.
White Rabbit Cult will be tracking the endorsements for each candidate up until election day. We will link to the endorsement story whenever possible.
As of 10/27, among the top 100 papers, Obama has been endorsed by papers with a circulation of 16.0 Million, McCain by papers with a circulation of 4.2 Million, and papers with a circulation of 0.8 Million have announced they will not be endorsing a candidate.
We have also list the top 100 newspapers by circulation who have not yet endorsed a candidate. (Rankings of newspapers which have endorsed in parenthesis.)
When we’re able to we will add a (D) for papers that endorsed Kerry in 2004, an (R) for papers that endorsed Bush and an (N) for papers that did not endorse. If you know who a paper endorsed in 2004 please add it to the comments.
Feel free to let us know about any endorsements we don’t list.
We will add any interesting articles we find regarding each endorsement as an asterisk.
And as always… you can comment on the lists and your feelings on who endorses whom.Nobody knows if newspaper endorsements actually make a difference with voters. You can... more
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Apparently presidential candidate, John McCain was involved in a car crash that claim the life of another person back in 1964. The McCain campaign will not confirm or deny these new allegations regarding his concealed Naval hspital records.Sources close to the actual story, claim the John McCain was the driver of one of the cars involved in the accident, but would not comment on whether the person killed was in the McCain car, or the other car. Those sources also claim that the local police as well as Naval investigators did retrieve debris from the site that they felt might have benn incriminating to the then young McCain. Apparently presidential candidate, John McCain was involved in a car crash that claim... more
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Great Barack Obama "HOPE" poster parody from our friends at Mad Magazine featuring Alfred E. Neuman!Great Barack Obama "HOPE" poster parody from our friends at Mad Magazine... more
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