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Would you like to own a record of the most successful grassroots campaign in presidential election history? A sprawling collection of art from the historic campaign, "Designing Obama" features over one hundred artists whose works contributed to a nationwide branding effort that helped inspire a nation.
With collaboration from Scott Thomas, the Design Director for the Obama campaign, and featuring forewords by Steven Heller and Michael Beirut, the 360-page, hardbound full-color book is being printed on demand. Like the Obama campaign itself, publication of "Designing Obama" rests upon the contributions of its supporters. The team joined funding platform KickStarter, to collect pre-order donations in hopes that the book will meet its minimum print run, a $65,000 goal. Judging by the initial response since the site launched yesterday, the book looks to be a shoe-in.
Follow the progress and making of the book on Twitter, and pre-order a standard copy for $50 from Kickstarter.Would you like to own a record of the most successful grassroots campaign in... more
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A California pastor told his parishioners to attend confessional if they had voted for President-elect Barack Obama because of his stance on abortion, the McClatchy Tribune reported.
The Rev. Joseph Illo, pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Modesto, Calif., said voting for a pro-choice candidate amounted to a punishable sin.
“If you are one of the 54 percent of Catholics who voted for a pro-abortion candidate, you were clear on his position and you knew the gravity of the question, I urge you to go to confession before receiving communion. Don’t risk losing your state of grace by receiving sacrilegiously,” Illo wrote in a letter dated Nov. 21.
Illo sent the letter to more than 15,000 members of his parish, one of 34 parishes in the Stockton diocese.
Illo also delivered this message in a homily, the Modesto Bee reported.
But not all priest agree with Illo’s point of view.
Rev. Stephen Blaire, bishop of the Stockton diocese, said Catholics don’t need to confess if they voted for Obama and should not be compelled to reveal their voting choice by their priest, the Associated Press reported.
“There were probably many priests, and I suspect many bishops, who voted for Obama.”
Many religious leaders warned voters against Obama during the campaign because of his stance on abortion. Earlier this month, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops cautioned Obama against enacting an “evil law” that would deregulate the “abortion industry”, saying it would alienate millions of Americans and sow disunity, Agence France Presse reported.A California pastor told his parishioners to attend confessional if they had voted for... more
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That is pretty crazy considering the whole damn town is named after a black man. In this economy newspapers cannot afford to get uppity.
Protestors spoke out Thursday against The Terrell Tribune's decision not to put Barack Obama's presidential victory on its front page.
The day after Obama was elected as president, the banner headline for the Tribune focused on the county commissioner's race. The headline read, "Jackson defeats Schoen."
About 25 residents, who said they had hoped to save the local paper with Obama's victory noted front page, picketed the newspaper's office Thursday.
"That's what I wanted, a keepsake," said Lera Duncan, who was among the protestors. "And this was very disappointing to me."
"They could have knocked me over with a feather," said Sarah Whitaker. "I was flabbergasted. I couldn't imagine such an historical event would not be on the front page somewhere on The Terrell Tribune."
Protestors pointed out that on Election Day, the Tribune had printed a John McCain-focused story as their lead story on the front page.
"It's not the people in the community," said another protestor. "It's the paper itself."
The Terrell Tribune's publisher, Bill Jordan, declined an on-camera interview.
"We run a newspaper, not a memory book service," he said. "We covered the local commissioner's race. We thought that was more important."
For those who may believe race played a part in the decision, the publisher pointed out that Democrat J.C. Jackson, who was at the center of the main story and who won the race for county commissioner, is an African American.
But while there were a few Obama-related stories within the paper, there was no story devoted to the presidential victory. That is pretty crazy considering the whole damn town is named after a black man. In... more
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Even as Gov. Sarah Palin exits stage left -- perhaps only temporarily -- back to the frozen tundra, we note that it was Fox News who broke the story that Sarah P. was a bit geography-challenged. Even as Gov. Sarah Palin exits stage left -- perhaps only temporarily -- back to the... more
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At 11:00 p.m. (Eastern Time), NBC News made its official projection that Senator Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States of America. In an amazing moment in American history, the ultimate color line has been broken. The last few days have challenged Obama's cool like never before, his election-day stress amplified by the fatigue of an 18-month campaign and the death of his grandmother just yesterday.
A sense of history stalked Obama everywhere on election day. Presently, hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans are already celebrating in Chicago's Grant Park, where the crowd is anticipated to reach 1,000,000 people or more. President-elect Obama is scheduled to appear to make remarks before the huge crowd in Grant Park at around 11:00 p.m. Central Time.
We are all so lucky to have witnessed this tonight.
This article includes a number of stunning photographs, video and a remarkable photo-gallery.At 11:00 p.m. (Eastern Time), NBC News made its official projection that Senator... more
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After the longest presidential campaign in history, Barack Obama saved a huge Virginia rally for last, speaking to 90,000 people in Manassas (VA). For his conclusion, he reached back to the very beginnings of his campaign to tell an inspirational story that had long ago fallen away from his routine.
It was about a small 60 year-old woman whom he had met during a visit to tiny Greenwood, South Carolina, in 2007, and it became a favorite during his Iowa caucus campaign. It ends with Obama leading a cheer of "Fire it Up, Ready to Go!"
Obama ended Tuesday night's Virginia rally by exhorting the large crowd: "In 21 hours, if you are willing to endure rainfall, to take the person who was not going to vote to the polls, if you will stand with me in a fight with me, I know that your voice will matter. I have one question for you, Virginia. Are you fired up? Are you ready to go? Fired up? Ready to go? Fired up! Ready to go! Virginia, let's go change the world!"
This article includes a number of stunning photographs and two videos.After the longest presidential campaign in history, Barack Obama saved a huge Virginia... more
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Democrats are trying to make an issue out of comments by Republican presidential candidate John McCain that dismiss Barack Obama's concerns over the safety of nuclear energy.
McCain mimicked his Democratic opponent at a campaign event in Cedar Falls, Iowa, on Oct. 26, saying Obama says nuclear power "has to be safe, environment, blah blah blah," when the two debate over energy policy. McCain went on to say that nuclear power is safe.
Congresswoman Shelley Berkley said Sunday that the remark dismisses safety concerns and insults Nevadans who oppose the construction of a national nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain. Most Nevada elected officials oppose the plan.
McCain supports the plan, Obama opposes it.
McCain spokesman Rick Gorka says Democrats are "definitely reaching" in their interpretation of McCain's remarks. He says it's "preposterous" to say McCain doesn't care about the safety of Nevadans.Democrats are trying to make an issue out of comments by Republican presidential... more
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Sarah Palin knows the way to the hearts of conservative Ohioans. In Lakewood, an affluent bedroom community 10 minutes from downtown Cleveland, Palin on Monday married two of her favorite attacks into one anti-Obama soliloquy that framed the Illinois senator as a creature of San Francisco--a city as hated by Republican voters for its congresswoman, Nancy Pelosi, as it is for being an overall bastion of liberalism. The crowd responded to Palin's enthusiastic attacks and promise of victory, at one point interrupting her to chant over and over, "We will win!"
Palin reminded the crowd of several hundred that San Francisco was the venue for Obama's remarks this spring that rural Americans cling to guns and religion because they are bitter. What a coincidence, then, that Obama was also in the City by the Bay when he disclosed that under a cap and trade plan he supports, polluters who disregard carbon emissions could "bankrupt" the coal industry. (Incidentally, John McCain also supports cap and trade, a program that would charge polluters for carbon emissions, giving companies financial incentives to reduce pollution). "There must be something about San Francisco," Palin said. "It's like a truth serum where when he's there he seems to be more candid. Remember it was there that he talked about, there you go, the bitter clingers, the Klingons, all of us, I guess, you know holding onto religion and guns."Sarah Palin knows the way to the hearts of conservative Ohioans. In Lakewood, an... more
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Citizen Kate ventured out into the political forest, if you will, to find out about the Green Party. And one thing they're not too full of, is the bling. Find out about their party and their candidate, Cynthia McKinney, Queen of Green.Citizen Kate ventured out into the political forest, if you will, to find out about... more
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Edie Falco is fidgeting and looks nervous. The star of “The Sopranos” admits to her N.C. audience she's a product of lower Manhattan who barely understands voters above 14th Street. She talks for just five minutes, and never mentions the names John McCain or George Bush.
It's another decidedly low-key moment for the seemingly endless number of celebrities who back Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
“I've never had any intentions of trying to change anybody's mind,” Falco said. “I have personal reservations about celebrities backing candidates. I've heard a lot of celebrities talking about politics who in my estimation are not qualified to do so. Frankly, I'm embarrassed sometimes that they are representing my ilk, if you will.”
Four years ago, Bruce Springsteen was the face of celebrity in politics, making his first public endorsement of a candidate with a column in The New York Times, before leading a series of swing-state concerts during which he and others urged a vote for Democratic nominee John Kerry.
The pleas from The Boss didn't work.
So while Obama has his share of celebrity concerts and bold-face-name endorsements – Dave Matthews playing a show in his home state of Virginia, an e-mail to NASCAR fans from legendary driver and team owner Junior Johnson – he's using his support among famous faces differently this year.
“They're less focused on being messengers for the campaign and are more plugged in to helping the organization be more effective,” said Bill Carrick, a California Democratic consultant and veteran of past presidential campaigns.
The GOP has tried to bring celebrities into its fold, but the party knows that's not its base. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin acknowledged as much while speaking at a fundraiser in Greensboro last month.
“We were making a list of who are some celebrity singers who could come out and help us and gosh, for the life of us, the pickings were slim there,” she said. “Who's quasi-conservative out there in the celebrity land?”
Mostly, the answer is country artists such as Hank Williams, Jr. and Gretchen Wilson, who both have performed before rallies for the Republican ticket. Edie Falco is fidgeting and looks nervous. The star of “The Sopranos” admits to... 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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The skin heads who planned to assasinate Barack Obama and a lot of other black people evidently also hate gay people. Surprise, surprise.
From the Arkansas News Bureau:
YouTube and MySpace pages for Paul Schlesselman, 18, clearly show the alleged plotter's views on blacks and homosexuals.
He openly mocked the groups with coarse, obscene language in videos and in his postings to both sites. Schlesselman repeatedly used racial epitaphs.The skin heads who planned to assasinate Barack Obama and a lot of other black people... more
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New England's lone House Republican appears to have publicly broken with his party's standard-bearer, saying John McCain has not run a clean campaign and is likely to lose his bid for the presidency.
"I just don't see how [McCain] can win," Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays told the Yale Daily News earlier this week. "He has lost his brand as a maverick; he did not live up to his pledge to fight a clean campaign." Shays, who in 2006 became the only Republican congressman from New England, perennially finds himself in a heated re-election race.
The comments are the latest in a string of Republicans who have publicly criticized the Arizona senator's handling of the presidential race and predicted his defeat next week is all but certain. (Other Republicans joining the chorus include Former Maryland Sen. Charles Mathias, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.)
Fellow Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl and former GOP presidential Candidate Mitt Romney also have reportedly said they think McCain is likely to lose. Jon Kyl denied making the comments, though the Arizona Daily Star later produced audio indicating he did.
In his Yaale Daily News interview, Shays did not endorse Barack Obama, and said he remained skeptical the Illinois senator will govern from the center if he is elected president.
“It’s what all presidents should do, but [Obama] has never been there,” he said of Obama's ideological orientation.
Shays is a co-chairman of McCain's campaign efforts in Connecticut.New England's lone House Republican appears to have publicly broken with his party's... more
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A life-sized likeness of Barack Obama was found hanging from a tree with a noose around its neck Wednesday at the University of Kentucky, the second time in about a month such an effigy of the Democratic presidential nominee was reported on a college campus.
UK spokesman Carl Nathe said the effigy was found Wednesday morning in a high-traffic area between a classroom building and parking garage. Police immediately took it down but released no information about their investigation.
University President Lee Todd said he planned to apologize to the Obama family on behalf of the school and that he is "personally offended and deeply embarrassed by this disgusting episode."
Federal authorities have been notified, Todd said. He said the effigy violates the university's code of ethics and won't be tolerated.
"I am outraged because we work very hard, every day, to build bridges across the divides," Todd said. "Diversity and inclusion are among our most precious core values. Episodes like this serve only to erode our confidence in and respect for one another."
Mike Lynch, a faculty member who works in a building near where the effigy was found, said he saw it around 8:40 a.m. He described it as life-sized with a Barack Obama Halloween mask, a suit jacket and sweat pants.
"This, as far as I'm concerned, says nothing - absolutely nothing - representative of this university or this community," he said.
Obama's Kentucky campaign director, Kenya McGruder, had no immediate comment.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan declined to comment specifically on the situation, but said an effigy can suggest a threatening tone or be an attempt to intimidate. He said the agency is "very proactive about addressing these matters."
It's the second time an effigy has been found on a college campus recently. George Fox University in Oregon, a small Christian college, punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness of Obama from a tree.
That effigy was found in September with a message taped to it - "Act Six reject." The message was targeted at participants of a scholarship program geared toward increasing the number of minority and low-income students and several Christian colleges, mostly in the Northwest.
In West Hollywood, Calif., authorities on Wednesday were looking into a Halloween display depicting a mannequin of GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin hanging from a noose. The display also displayed her running mate, John McCain, surrounded by fake flames.
At the University of Kentucky, Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center interim director Chester Grundy said he was outraged by the incident. A rally was being planned for 7 p.m. EDT Wednesday, where staff and student leaders are expected to speak in response, he said.
Gov. Steve Beshear called the incident "embarrassing" and "deeply offensive."
"This was not political speech. It was simply hate," he said.
Raoul Cunningham, president of the Louisville chapter of the NAACP, said he is still trying to sort out his feelings "because there may be a double-meaning because Barack Obama is black, that he would be hung from a tree - that goes back to lynching."
John Johnson, executive director of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, called the action unacceptable even if it was a prank.
"It's astonishing that somebody would do that at this day and time," he said. "You would hope that our country has progressed further than that."
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NEW YORK - With Barack Obama ahead of John McCain in recent national polls, some observers wonder if he could meet the same fate as Al Gore in 2000, when he won the popular vote but lost the presidency to George W. Bush.
Gore lost because Bush won a majority of the electoral votes, which are allocated to the winner of the popular vote in each state. Gore took the national vote because he received an excess of support in California, New York and other large, heavily Democratic states.
NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd said this type of “split result” is unlikely this year, but he observed that the McCain camp may be banking on it anyway.
“The McCain folks realize their only path now is an Electoral College path,” Todd said. “It’s very hard for him to win the popular vote.”
At the same time, Todd said, McCain could still win the presidency by squeaking by in just enough states to get the 270 votes needed to snag an Electoral College victory.
“You throw all that together and it is conceivable that Obama wins the popular vote by three or four million and he loses the Electoral College,” Todd said, adding: “I don’t think it is a big chance.”NEW YORK - With Barack Obama ahead of John McCain in recent national polls, some... more
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If Barack Obama wins the presidential election, it will be because he has beaten the Republicans at their own game, according to Karl Rove, the "architect" of George W. Bush's two victories.
The Democrats have copied Rove's formidable tactics and ground operation, pumping out a disciplined message, assembling a broad-based coalition that includes young first-time voters and African-Americans and drowning their Republican opponents with money.
"I've got to tell you, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," Rove said in an interview. "I can say, I'm deeply flattered."
Rove recalled how Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, outlined their electoral strategy at the Democratic convention in August: "He explicitly said we have deliberately copied the army of persuasion of the Republicans."
The results can be seen in the long queues for early voting in western and southern states, which could herald the dawn of "Obamaland": Democratic control of the White House, the Senate and House of Representatives - offering the Illinois senator the chance to shape the nation for a generation.
"If the US really is entering a period of unchecked left-wing ascendancy, Americans at least ought to understand what they will be getting," The Wall Street Journal commented. It listed universal healthcare, greater regulation of business and industry, the restoration of union power and substantially higher taxes as likely consequences.
The "precriminations" among Republicans are already under way, with accusations flying inside John McCain's campaign about the wisdom of choosing the charismatic but flawed Sarah Palin as his running mate.
The revelation that the Republican National Committee spent about $US150,000 ($242,000) on Palin's designer wardrobe, $US36,000 on her make-up artist and $US19,000 on her hairdresser has detracted from the Alaska Governor's folksy, moose-hunting image.
On the road, however, she continues to hold McCain's ramshackle campaign together, galvanising voters who would like to see her run for president in 2012 if the Arizona senator is defeated.
Rove believes Palin, 44, remains "an enormous plus" for the party. However, he believes she will need to raise her game if she wants to be seen as a leader.
"When you're fresh and new, people make allowances for you," he said. "If you're a first-time candidate, you are not expected to know the name of South Ossetia or Abkhazia. When you come back on the stage, you're expected to have a higher degree of sophistication, knowledge and ability."
A number of Obamacons - Republicans for Obama - have been lining up behind the Democrat alongside former secretary of state Colin Powell since he criticised McCain's judgment and selection of Palin.
Rove believes McCain, 72, can confound his critics and emerge the victor if he hammers Obama on the threat of higher taxes and national security, two areas of traditional weakness for Democrats. "Wanting to raise taxes - anyone's taxes - in a slowdown is a warning sign of a misguided economic philosophy," Rove commented recently.
The electoral map on Rove's own website shows pivotal states such as Ohio, Virginia and Colorado, which voted for Bush in 2004, tumbling to Obama. According to his projection, if the election were held tomorrow, Obama would win 306 electoral college votes to McCain's 171, with 61 too close to call.
Nearly a million people have cast their votes in Georgia and more than 600,000 in Florida. It could be a sign of a coming "electoral tsunami" for Obama, according to Rove - or merely proof that reliable voters have cast their ballots early.
In North Carolina, formerly a solidly Republican state, 210,000 African-Americans registered as Democrats have already voted, compared with a total of 174,000 registered Republicans of all races. Blacks have made up 31 per cent of early voters so far, even though they form 21 per cent of the population.If Barack Obama wins the presidential election, it will be because he has beaten the... more
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Police: Crowd for Obama rally tops 100,000
Barack Obama presided over a rally in downtown Denver today so enormous and energetic that even he seemed surprised at his following.
"Goodness gracious," Obama said as he took the stage and looked at the mass of people at Civic Center Park. The crowd spread up the steps of the state Capitol and onto surrounding side streets.
Later, in Fort Collins, Obama spoke to tens of thousands of people on a Colorado State University lawn known as "The Oval".
Obama is rallying voters to get to the polls before Nov. 4 in his effort to win a state that twice sided with President Bush.Police: Crowd for Obama rally tops 100,000
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Ummmm-hmmmmmm....I was born at night -jus' not last night. I wanna see receipts.
The McCain-Palin campaign said Sunday that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has used only one-third of the $150,000 in clothing and cosmetics that the Republican National Committee purchased for her in high-end shopping sprees after she was chosen to run with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
McCain said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “some third of that money is given back — the rest will be donated to charity.”
“She lives a frugal life,” McCain said. “She and her family are not wealthy. She and her family were thrust into this,” McCain said. “She is a role model to millions and millions and millions of Americans.”
Palin’s spokeswoman, Tracey Schmitt, elaborated: "A third was returned post-convention. Many of the remaining clothes have never been worn. She wears a lot of her own clothes from Alaska. Regardless, what wasn't returned will go to charity after Election Day."
Campaign officials said they did not have information about when the clothing had been returned, or dollar amounts. Previously, the campaign had not mentioned returns, but said the clothing would be donated to charity.
“We've been saying this for the most part all along; although it hasn't exactly broken through,” one aide said.
The Chicago Tribune reported Friday after an exclusive interview with Palin: “’That whole thing is just, bad!’ she said. ‘Oh, if people only knew how frugal we are. It's kind of painful to be criticized for something when all the facts are not out there and are not reported,’ said Palin, saying the clothes are not worth $150,000 and were bought for the Republican National Convention. Still, she has been wearing pricey clothes at campaign events this fall. She said they will be given back, auctioned off or sent to charity. Most of them, she said, haven't even left the belly of her campaign plane.”
Ummmm-hmmmmmm....I was born at night -jus' not last night. I wanna see receipts.... more
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Campaigning Saturday in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a city once represented in Congress by another vice presidential candidate named Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin delivered one of her longest stump speeches to date and revealed that she was “annoyed” with the line of questioning presented by Katie Couric in her now-infamous interview with CBS.
Palin reprised a story she last told a week ago in Noblesville, Indiana about her sit-down with Couric, which was widely panned.
“Last time I was here I got to tell a crowd that I had to give a national interview that didn’t go so well,” she said. “And it was because I was kind of annoyed with the questions that I was being asked because I thought they were kind of irrelevant to, you know, national security issues and getting our economy back on track, so I kind of showed some of that annoyance.”
Couric did, in fact, ask Palin several questions about the economy and national security, focusing in particular on the congressional bailout package, the mortgage crisis, John McCain’s record on regulation, the war in Afghanistan, hunting terrorists in Pakistan, Russia, Iran, Syria, Israel and the role of the United States in the world.
Palin joked, however, about another line of questioning.
“But I think the one question that I answered that everyone could agree on, it maybe shows where my heart is… too is, she asked me this relevant question: What was my favorite movie? And I said ‘Hoosiers!’”
The governor continued to press the campaign’s message of the day: that Barack Obama and congressional Democrats will, if elected, expand government and redistribute the hard-earned dollars of regular Americans, criticisms that brought on accusatory shouts of “socialist!,” “Communist!” and, at one point, “Hussein the socialist!”
Palin said that on election day, “what we're going to have to do together, voters, what we have to do is fight for what is right and free and uniquely American. Let us put our trust in each other, not big government.”
The Indiana crowd — easily Palin’s largest of the day — was warmed up by country legend Hank Williams, Jr., who often appears at Palin campaign events to perform his recently-penned ode to the GOP ticket: “McCain-Palin tradition.”
But Williams may have been channeling the enthusiasm of the crowds for Palin — and also reflecting recent reports that Palin is “going rogue” with an eye toward the 2012 presidential race. At one point during his performance, he intentionally scrambled the song’s lyrics and put the Alaskan at the top of the ticket, praising a “Palin-McCain tradition.”
That musical witticism earned Williams a loud cheer from the crowd.Campaigning Saturday in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a city once represented in Congress by... more
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Barack Obama took his comparisons of John McCain and President Bush one step further Saturday night at a rally in New Mexico, implying the two Republicans are like the duo of Batman and Robin.
"John McCain suggested that he would be the one to change George Bush's policies," Obama said, before adding that if that were to happen it'd be "like Dick Cheney attacking George Bush."
"It's like Robin getting mad at batman. John McCain hasn't been a maverick. He's been a sidekick when it comes to George Bush's economic policies.”
Earlier in the weekend, Obama said running mate Joe Biden had said McCain criticizing Bush would be "like Tonto getting mad at the Lone Ranger."
Biden never actually said that — but he has made similar references using Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The Illinois senator heads to battleground Colorado for events Sunday.Barack Obama took his comparisons of John McCain and President Bush one step further... more
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