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why didn’t they get rid of all the pomp and circumstance and just have the delegates submit their votes via web conference call?

Not only are all the delegates traveling, but all the speakers, all the guests, all the media, and all the protesters…

Is having a pompous convention where every one gets treated like kings more important then the carbon footprint they are leaving?

well wayfar out if you must know my politics.. I am not a green person.. do i feel the enviroment should be protected? of course.. Do i feel that humans and human growth should be stunted because of the enviroment? No

i don’t liter, but if i need a tree to be cut down to build a house I am all for it. I don’t pollute the ocean, however I know we should drill for oil off our coasts.

I was just pointing out in my question that many politicians tell us how to live, yet they don’t live that way…

and to the poster that said.. that getting elected is far more important than going green.. then that just shows that they don’t care about the earth, they just care to pander to the green activists to get elected..

What’s in the heart comes out via the tongue!

From Rush Limbaugh’s radio show yesterday…..

Hey, folks, you want to tweak the Drive-By Media with me right now?

You are aware, probably, that Barack Obama lost his bearings recently and said that he was going to campaign in all 57 states.

You heard this? And most everybody chalked it up to, ‘Well, he’s tired.’

You know, this is a Dan Quayle moment. I mean, Dan Quayle goes out there and misspells ‘potato,’ and we still hear jokes about it.

Barack Obama says he’s gonna go out and campaign in 57 states! He was just tired, you know, it’s been such a long campaign, he’s been so many places, he probably thinks there are 57 states.

Well, I have here a printout from a web site called the International Humanist and Ethical Union.

And here is how the second paragraph of an article on that website begins.

‘Every year from 1999 to 2005 the organization of the Islamic conference representing the 57 Islamic states presented a resolution to the United Nations Commission on human rights called combating.’

Obama said he’s going to campaign in 57 states, and it turns out that there are 57 Islamic states.

There are 57 Islamic states!

So did Obama just lose his bearings, or was this a more telling slip, ladies and gentlemen?

KEEP IT GOING, FOLKS! Our future is at stake…Make no mistake about it.

Hey RUFFALO M??? I DIDN’T misspell ANYTHING “dunce”!?! THAT is how HE(Quayle) spelled it - DUH…. Who’s lame now???

Democrats Sue Michigan G.O.P. on Voter Issue
By Michael Falcone
Updated Responding to allegations that Republican Party officials in Macomb County, Michigan plan to use home foreclosure lists to challenge voters at the polls in November, the Obama Campaign and the Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in federal court to prevent what they contended was an illegal practice.

Obama Campaign General Counsel Bob Bauer said that using home foreclosure lists as a basis for challenging voter eligibility would have a “deadly effect of the voting process” and argued that the practice would be illegal.

“This is a standard operating procedure within the Republican party that’s been under legal challenge,” Mr. Bauer said on a conference call with reporters on Tuesday.

Last week the chairman of the G.O.P. in Macomb County, James Carabelli, was quoted in the online publican, the Michigan Messenger, as saying that the party planned to use foreclosure lists to stop voters who no longer have valid addresses from casting their ballots.

“We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” Mr. Carabelli was quoted as saying, according to a Sept. 10 article in the Michigan Messenger.

Since the story first appeared, Mr. Carabelli has repeatedly denied that the party planned to use the lists, and in an interview with The New York Times suggested that he was misquoted.

“I have no voter challenging program here in my county,” Mr. Carabelli said late last week.

And in a statement on the Michigan G.O.P. Web site the chairman of the Michigan Republican Party Saul Anuzis called the story “a complete fabrication.”

“There has never been a plan to use foreclosure lists to challenge voters. There is no such plan, and there never will be such a plan. Period,” Mr. Anuzis said.

Mr. Anuzis repeated those assertions on a conference call today and said that the Republicans would formally ask the Messenger for a retraction. Absent that, he said, the G.O.P. would pursue a libel lawsuit against the publication.

According to a statement on its Web site, Messenger editors appeared to be resisting calls for a retraction.

“There will be no retraction because Mr. Carabelli and Mr. Anuzis’ claims are unfounded. The quotes were not fabricated. Michigan Messenger and the Center for Independent Media stand behind this story 100 percent.”

Mr. Anuzis characterized the Democrats’ legal action a “stunt.”

“It clearly shows their desperation as they move forward,” he said.

But the Obama campaign countered that the denials amounted to “backpedaling” on the part of the Michigan G.O.P., and said that they had enough evidence to go forward with the lawsuit.

“Our position is very simply, they can tell it to the judge,” Mr. Bauer said.

A copy the Obama campaign’s complaint, which was filed on Tuesday in United States District Court in Eastern Michigan, is available here.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/obama-campaign-files-lawsuit-against-republicans-in-michigan/

He said he was going to campaign in 57 states. What we all said…we don’t have 57 states. Is he dumb or just tired? Probably tired right…that makes sense.

Well, I have here a printout from a web site called the International Humanist and Ethical Union. And here is how the second paragraph of an article on that website begins. ‘Every year from 1999 to 2005 the organization of the Islamic conference representing the 57 Islamic states presented a resolution to the United Nations Commission on human rights called combating.’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_the_Islamic_Conference

Obama said he’s going to campaign in 57 states, and it turns out that there are 57 states. There are 57 Islamic states.

So, did Obama just lose his bearings, or was this a more telling slip, ladies and gentlemen?

Not too many of you guys are doing a very good job of defending this slip of the tongue. It isn’t all that effective to just retort back to “well McCain said this and McCain said that.” I don’t care what McCain said. I want to know if Obama is a threat to the safety of this country. McCain obviously is NOT a threat. Not one single person can refute that. Now give me a reason to believe that Obama isn’t campaigning for the wrong reasons.
Fact 1: Obama is not a Muslim. Now really? Is this a fact? Are you sure about that? You don’t have the facts sugar just your little crush and delusions but that really won’t take you very far. Sorry.
Bob B: Please read the article and scroll to the bottom of the page for the 57 Islamic states. And please work on your grammar and spelling…I couldn’t make much of what you were saying.

Charles Keating
By Michael Abramowitz
PHOENIX — The McCain campaign pushed back hard against the new Obama attack over the Keating Five, arguing that the Arizona senator was treated unfairly by the Senate ethics investigation and asserting that John McCain had been much more open about his relationship with disgraced thrift executive Charles Keating than Obama has been about his connection with one-time radical William Ayers.

In a conference call with reporters this afternoon, John Dowd, the Washington lawyer who represented McCain during the Senate investigation, called the inquiry a “classic political smear job” by the Democrats running the Senate at the time, saying that they only included McCain to make sure that a Republican was among the targets. “John had not done anything wrong,” Dowd said.
Dowd’s point of view was amplified by Robert Bennett, the Washington lawyer and Democrat who served as special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee during the Keating Five investigation, which focused on whether McCain and other senators exercised improper political influence over the regulation of Keating’s failed Lincoln Savings & Loan.

In an interview, Bennett said McCain should never have been dragged into the ethics case to begin with. He said that after his own lengthy investigation, he came to the conclusion that the case against McCain and former Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) “should have been dropped” because the evidence suggested that once McCain understood that the Justice Department was investigating Keating, he backed off any involvement. Dowd noted that McCain threw Keating,once a strong supporter, out of his office after Keating pressed him to intervene in his case.
Bennett said former Sen. Howell Hefflin (D-Ala.) insisted that the two be included in the formal public inquiry because otherwise there would have been a month of public hearings “with no Republicans in the dock.” The other members of the Keating Five were Democrats.

“It was clear that McCain should not have been at the table nor should Glenn,” Bennett said. “I felt it was unfair for McCain to be included as part of the Keating Five.” Bennett stressed that he was not speaking as part of the campaign, though he noted he also represented McCain in his recent battles with the New York Times.

The sharp defense of McCain by Dowd was in contrast to McCain’s previous contrition about his involvement in the matter. He told the New York Times in 1999 that going into the meetings with regulators was a mistake. “Going into that room gave a definite appearance of impropriety,” he said.

McCain was ultimately exonerated by the Ethics Committee, which did fault him for exercising poor judgment in attending two meetings with federal regulators about their case against Keating, a once high-flying savings and loans owner who contributed $112,000 to McCain campaigns (as well as making gifts that were not found to be illegal). The collapse of Keating’s thrift ultimately cost taxpayers billions, and Obama’s campaign mounted a full-scale assault today on McCain’s involvement, with an ad and short web documentary questioning his judgment.

In an e-mail to supporters, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe argued that the Keating Five affair highlighted McCain’s support for a broad philosophy of deregulation that is eerily similiar to the crisis of today. “During the savings and loan crisis of the late ’80s and early ’90s, McCain’s political favors and aggressive support for deregulation put him at the center of the fall of Lincoln Savings and Loan, one of the largest in the country. More than 23,000 investors lost their savings. Overall, the savings and loan crisis required the federal government to bail out the savings of hundreds of thousands of families and ultimately cost American taxpayers $124 billion,” Plouffe wrote.

“In that crisis, John McCain and his political patron, Charles Keating, played central roles that ultimately landed Keating in jail for fraud and McCain in front of the Senate Ethics Committee. The McCain campaign has tried to avoid talking about the scandal, but with so many parallels to the current crisis, McCain’s Keating history is relevant and voters deserve to know the facts — and see for themselves the pattern of poor judgment by John McCain,” Plouffe added.

Brian Rogers, a McCain spokesman, said McCain has been “open and honest” about his relationship with Keating, in contrast with Obama’s statements about Ayers, one of the founders of the Weather Underground. “We’re seeing the opposite from Barack Obama,” he said