Wow BooMan.  That's all I can say.  Just wow.  Even though this was shot on the other side of my state, I know these people.  They are family, neighbors, local business people, government employees.  They are "everyman" in a wide variety of places around here.

But it is still jarring, physically and psychologically jarring, when you hear words like this come out of people's mouths.

I don't know why, but it still stuns me when I hear stuff like this in the United States.  It makes me nauseous.  We have so, so far to go.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

Right wing McVeigh style terrorism is going to escalate exponentially when Obama wins.

Let's hope the Secret Service and FBI are up to the challenge.

John McCain hates children

Hi Booman (and everyone else).  Someone ran ito a power pole last night and we lost all -- well -- power.  I'm at the Library, but since they tell me that power won't be restored until later today I'm more or less an absentee today.  I don't have a laptop so wifi isn't an option.

But it's a slow day right. Something about a debate tonight I hear . . . but who watches those?

LOL

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

well here's a counter: A Republican consultant's focus group in an upper-Midwestern state

Ben Smith, Politico, gets an email:

Voting for Obama anyway

I just got an astounding e-mail from a Republican consultant I know well. He's a guy who's always thought Obama had a "glass jaw," and was always among those agitating for hitting Obama harder.

Recently, he conducted a focus group in an upper-Midwestern state, showing them the kind of ad he thought would work: A no-holds-barred attack, cut for an independent group, which hasn't aired.

I'm just going to reprint his amazed e-mail about the focus group:

    Reagan Dems and Independents. Call them blue-collar plus. Slightly more Target than Walmart.

    Yes, the spot worked. Yes, they believed the charges against Obama. Yes, they actually think he's too liberal, consorts with bad people and WON'T BE A GOOD PRESIDENT...but they STILL don't give a f***. They said right out, "He won't do anything better than McCain" but they're STILL voting for Obama.

    The two most unreal moments of my professional life of watching focus groups:

    54 year-old white male, voted Kerry '04, Bush '00, Dole '96, hunter, NASCAR fan...hard for Obama said: "I'm gonna hate him the minute I vote for him. He's gonna be a bad president. But I won't ever vote for another god-damn Republican. I want the government to take over all of Wall Street and bankers and the car companies and Wal-Mart run this county like we used to when Reagan was President."

    The next was a woman, late 50s, Democrat but strongly pro-life. Loved B. and H. Clinton, loved Bush in 2000. "Well, I don't know much about this terrorist group Barack used to be in with that Weather guy but I'm sick of paying for health insurance at work and that's why I'm supporting Barack."

    I felt like I was taking crazy pills.  I sat on the other side of the glass and realized...this really is the Apocalypse. The Seventh Seal is broken and its time for eight years of pure, delicious crazy....

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

Imagine the outrage if black Obama supporters were saying this stuff about whitey!

"We reported back to hearts what we had seen, and told our footsteps all about where we had been."

Watching that video and hearing the ignorant, hateful comments come out of those people's mouths makes ME violent. If I were the one filming that rush of stupidity, I'm afraid I'd want to toss the camera aside and just shake the everlivin' shit out of them.

I can only hope that their numbers are small enough to render them impotent in the election. Or that they are just too fucking stupid to find the polls. Scary.

Many years ago, somewhere in the midwest, I got lost traveling.
I started asking for directions, but could not grasp the absurdity of the directions I was being given. Soon a security patrol unit stopped me & a fellow traveler, & wanted to know how we`d entered the grounds of the hospital.
 It appears, we`d inadvertently entered a mental facility without realizing it. The people in the video are those same people. I remember them & how they looked perfectly normal, & was shocked to find out there were seriously deranged. This is a true story.
The video takes me back in time.

The difference between theists and atheists is that the atheists don't set the theists on fire for refusing to agree with them.

Sadly, very few people in Ohio will see this. This needs to run on "regular" local stations.  I don't really watch t.v., so maybe stations are running clips from these rallies.

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Leave it to Al Jazeera to get the story and leave it to CNN to capitulate to the McCain campaign.

So tell me, which one is embracing their duty as the press?