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Posted on Oct 19, 2008
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John McCain’s robocalls, which are bombarding swing-state voters with the message that Barack Obama “worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers,” are reportedly scaring children who make the mistake of answering their phones. Sarah Palin, who may or may not realize she’s on a sinking ship, says she disapproves of the robocalls.


Huffington Post / Sam Stein:

Many have contacted the Huffngton Post detailing concerns that their kids were being told, in essence, that the possible next president of the United States associates with terrorist figures.

“My daughter answered the phone today and began listening to the most disturbing call regarding bombing and terrorists. She ran with the phone to get me, I heard just the end snippet of the call and immediately called the number cited as responsible,” wrote a reader from North Carolina. “I was so angry and let them have it. I had to explain to my 7-year-old daughter that no one was bombing anyone else. This was a horrific experience.”

[...] “If I called all the shots, and if I could wave a magic wand,” said Gov. Sarah Palin, “I would be sitting at a kitchen table with more and more Americans, talking to them about our plan to get the economy back on track and winning the war and not having to rely on the old conventional ways of campaigning that includes those robocalls and includes spending so much money on the television ads that, I think, is kind of draining out there in terms of Americans’ attention span.”

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By heide, October 20, 2008 at 6:22 am Link to this comment
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youre a lieing son of abitch,,,ya i said it
if anyone is terrorizing people at the moment its your & your vp nominee unhuman selection

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By hippy pam, October 20, 2008 at 5:33 am Link to this comment

Hell-This idiot and his political agenda SCARES ME…and then he THROWS ms.WAH-SILLY in to the mix???[I think he was spending to much time looking at her tush.After all-Cindy IS GETTING A BIT LONG IN THE TOOTH]

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By kath cantarella, October 20, 2008 at 1:35 am Link to this comment
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If McCain wins, the human race deserves its imminent extinction.

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