McCain will be revealed to be a Manchurian Candidate. Obama will be exposed as a bisexual who pays for sex and smokes rock cocaine. These scandals will clear the way for globalist Hillary Clinton to wear the purple.

I received an email from Paul Streitz, a Republican activist detailing ignomious actions of Mr. McCain when he was in the Hanoi Hilton. He had done broadcasts in Hanoi acting as a sort of Tokyo Rose. He was given the services of two prostitutes during his stay in prison. The source of this info is from a Russian agent who served in Hanoi as a translator and liaison for the Russians. Please check it out at http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_mc cainfiles.htm

I hope all of you folks with kids have told them to drop their Guitar Hero games and get back into first-person war simulation stuff. They will need those skills, as McCain launches his series of Crusades after the Jackasses push Billary past Obama because Big Biz, HMOs, and pharmaceuticals want Bubba back in the Big Chair so bad all other considerations are secondary, and even if it means giving yet another election away. The McCain draft will be in place and we will finally have some damn demonstrations in the streets-like we should have been having for the last seven years. Though I have registered Green I will pin my few remaining hopes on Obama somehow pulling an upset, but it’s wishful thinking; the party that gave us Dukakis, Gore, Mondale and Kerry has sold every American who isn’t already on board with the Bush/Cheney Reich into GOP bondage for another four years, while Laura Bush is primed for a Congressional run (Texans would probably elect her just on name recognition) and then a White House bid to front for a fifth Reich. It will take a few years, and we can all hope that Cheney’s failing health will opt him out of the new regime. There will be other wars, you’re goddamn right.

By cyrena, February 2 at 4:07 am #
Re: Underestimating Republican logic

By cyrena, February 1 at 3:55 am #
Not doubt about the ODDEST

Rupuglican logic = dogma

Keep it up.  We will see more attacks on Obama and/or Hillary as the primaries go on.  Just a taste of what the repug lie machine will do during the general election.  No matter which of these two becomes the nominee the lies and whispers will grow.  Thanks for doing a bit of “keeping them honest”.

Eugene Robinson is consistently fair and insightful? He has been an unabashed Obama supporter for months. As for Chris Matthews “genuflecting” to the Clinton campaign for underestimating them that didn’t stop him from going right back to his Clinton bashing the next day. If Chris Matthews and MSNBC doesn’t give you all the Clinton hate you want you could always try Limbaugh or O’Reilly or Hannity.

Eugene Robinson, as well as any other citizen has the right to say which candidate he prefers. But if he has any integrity, he then cannot pretend to report “fairly” about the candidates.

I think Obama is a slick-talking phony. My opinion and my right to my opinion. I cannot now pretend to be fair in my assessment of the candidates. It just doesn’t work that way.

Enlisting New Donors, Obama Reaped $32 Million in January

By Leslie Wayne and Jeff Zeleny
The New York Times
Friday 01 February 2008

As he was winning contests in Iowa and South Carolina, Senator Barack Obama raised $32 million in January for his presidential bid, tapping 170,000 new contributors to rake in nearly double the highest previous one-month total for any candidate in this election cycle.

This extraordinary influx of cash comes at a critical time, and is helping to fuel the Obama campaign’s nationwide advertising blitz and get-out-the-vote effort as it competes in the 22 states holding nominating contests on Tuesday, including expensive ones like California and New York.

The money was mostly collected from small donors, who the campaign is hoping will continue to give in coming months and who represent an increasingly formidable force in presidential fund-raising. By contrast, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has relied more on a smaller pool of big-money donors, many of whom have already given the maximum allowable under the law.

The $32 million is significant because no candidate who has not yet secured the party nomination has raised this amount in a single month. In March 2004, Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, raised $44 million, but that was after it was clear he would be the nominee. In this election cycle, the highest monthly take previously was the $17 million raised by Mrs. Clinton, of New York, last March.

“This is astonishing, and it may be Obama’s secret weapon,” said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign spending. “He has more small donors that he can squeeze for more donations, fewer donors who have maxed out and more donors in general.”

The Clinton campaign had not yet released fund-raising totals for January.

For all of 2007, Mrs. Clinton raised $118 million, and Mr. Obama $103 million. But a greater share of Mrs. Clinton’s money than Mr. Obama’s is directed to the general election, as many of her donors have reached the maximum they can give to her primary campaign.

The one-month total for Mr. Obama, of Illinois, also shows the growing power of the Internet as a fund-raising tool. Veteran fund-raisers said it would have been impossible for the campaign to raise that sum by relying solely on well-heeled donors and “bundlers,” donors who tap networks of acquaintances for support.

“When you get $32 million in one month, it is not because you have bundlers working,” said Orin Kramer, a New York financier and Obama fund-raiser. “It is because you have an avalanche of small donors operating online. It’s a revolution. People like me don’t achieve those kinds of numbers.”

What is particularly surprising is that this one-month total, which the campaign was eager to preview on Thursday, is coming after a year of intense fund-raising by Democratic candidates, who have far outraised their Republican counterparts. But with the race going beyond the Feb. 5 contests, the need for cash by the Clinton and Obama campaigns is expected only to increase.

“Most money is usually raised at the beginning, when the strongest supporters quickly come up with the most,” said Jan Baran, a campaign finance lawyer in Washington who advises Republicans.

On the Republican side, the candidate filings show other struggles. That of Senator John McCain of Arizona shows that his finances were perilously thin as the year ended and before he scored a major victory in the New Hampshire primary, which reinvigorated fund-raising efforts."…

The rest at the link…

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020108K.shtml

I stopped reading this after reading the first sentence, particularly, “...the new national pastime is gaming the electability factor.”

What self-serving claptrap!  What arrogance and presumption!  No, Mr. Robinson, that is NOT the “new national pasttime” - except for members of the complicit corporate media like yourself!  A more honest statement would have been “The new MEDIA pasttime is gaming the electability factor.”

What a crock!

Peace.  (Maybe...)

Recently, fewer and fewer people and corporations are allowed to own the entire spectrum of news and commentary, forcing their version of the truth upon us, ignoring and failing to print any dissenting perspective to their own.

This issue is likely the most important issue facing America today, the manipulation of the free press by a few, controlling what we see, hear and read.

Thank you internet.

The election is a fixed deal no matter which one wins we citizens lose.

Obama wins. Period.

It has been more than evident to me, Barack Obama doesn’t make many mistakes. The clear vision he has enables him to speak well on virtually any topic. Most of his policy plans, dialog and speeches flow from him like refreshing mountain streams of inspiration.

Barack is confident, cool and assertive in every public appearance. People grasp immediately on his words. The only reason anyone is considering to vote for Hillary is their own political fatigue, which stops them from believing the truth when it is put in their face because they have been through all the lies of politicians. It’s sad when people lose faith, but trust me when I say Barack Obama is the man for the job, this is the right time for his campaign and he WILL be the next president of the United States of America!

cwhipps,

I had to chuckle at your comments. Ted Kennedy gang-banging women? (or gang raping, whatever). Is NOW REALLY calling for his arrest?

I swear, that’s how ODD it’s all been, and so often, it’s gone beyond the absurd, and into the hilariously absurd. (seriously, all I can do is laugh sometimes).

Then again, I do get real pissed off as well. Especially with stuff like, “Obama is a Muslim and a closet Islamist, and he’s going to have us all reciting the Quar’an, and all of us women are gonna have to rap up in burqas, chadors, or hiijabs. (Maybe all of them at the same time).

And what about Buchanan? Is he really calling for race wars in L.A.? Man oh man…another Charles Manson I always thought about him. As if there needed to be any stimulus for such. We’ve got a few of these Charlie Manson’s posting here at truthdig as well.

Anyway, I appreciate Eugene’s journalism as well. I only disagree with him, (slightly) in this piece, regarding Obama’s particular ‘stumbling block’ as he considers it to be the ‘experience’ thing. I’m not so sure he has any less than Hillary.

Admittedly, she’s held a US Senate position for longer than he has, and he’s still a Jr. Senator in that respect. But, he DID do some time in the Illinois State Senate, which I believe counts as experience in law making, and he’s done far, far more than she, with his legal profession. She’s been a corporate lawyer, but that was ‘way back in the day’, even if it WAS long enough to help represent George Bush when he screwed the investors of his Harken Oil company. So, I have a tendency to become annoyed with those who like to put Obama in the same ‘corporate bag’ as Hillary. In reality, he isn’t, because he just hasn’t been around long enough to be part of that ‘elite’, or the ‘old guard establishment’.

But, back to the experience thing. What about GW Bush? Now, that lack of ‘experience’ didn’t stop him. Seriously. The shrub had absolutely ZERO political experience, (except as a cheerleader for the Repugs a few decades ago) before Karl Rove got him the job as Governor of Texas.

Matter-of-fact, he basically came out of NOWHERE, even to get THAT job! I lived in Texas at the time, and nobody had ever heard of him. So, how did that happen? Now, he had that job for less than a full term, and he was really BAD at it. (I escaped right after he stole the Presidential election or Karl Rove stole it for him). Still, even when he started to run for that office, most Americans didn’t know who the hell he was either, at least not anybody outside of Texas. MORE people had heard of his brother, (though I didn’t know much about Jeb) and actually expected HIM to run for the office. At least he DID have some real experience.

But…not George Bush. He had virtually NONE. So, that’s my only point about the supposed drawback for Obama. Next to George Bush, (the MBA with ZERO experience), Barack Obama is senior and well seasoned.

So, if they voted for George -twice- even if he didn’t actually win the election, enough people voted for him, for them to get away with the hijack, and it damn sure couldn’t have been because he had any EXPERIENCE. (other than bankrupting everything he touched or sneezed on).

So, it’s like you said, we don’t really KNOW what might happen. Anything could.

So, we’ll see. I hope…

I wish Eugene Robinson owned MSNBC.

His analysis is consistently fair, and insightful. It’s so refreshing to hear someone argue rationally and patiently from a personal perspective.

This has been the ODDEST election season I can ever remember, and it’s giving punditry what must seem like a really long and hard look up it’s skirt.

We’ve had Chris Matthew’s nearly genuflect while performing his mea culpas to the Clinton campaign for underestimating them, Joe Scarborough delivering attack ad tag lines against the Republican frontrunner (John McCain: less jobs and more wars), Pat Buchanan calling daily for race wars in Los Angeles to aide Hillary Clinton, the New York chapter of NOW calling for Ted Kennedy (Ted Kennedy!) to be arrested for “gang banging” the woman candidate by endorsing her male opponent (she meant to say “gang raping”, but hey, when you’re being creative with vagina monologues...) and all the while, the pollsters are trying to cover their ass for unreliable predictions by blaming it all on “late breaking independant voters”.

It’s just pleasant to hear somebody say for once, “honestly, there’s no way to know what’s going to happen.”

Just what we needed after a generation of experts screwing up the country.