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Is TV stock picker Jim Cramer, a longtime Democratic donor, doing his best to spread hysteria in the stock market? Today before the market opened Cramer sounded almost apocalyptic, and before the trading day was over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was below 10,000 for the first time since 2004. According to MSNBC.com: Bullish investors should turn into shrinking violets as the stock market continues its shocking downward spiral, CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer told Ann Curry on TODAY Monday. In what Curry called a “dramatic statement,” Cramer emphatically urged any investor who has money they may need in...

I was just over on the Democratic Underground site to see what they might be saying about Sarah Paulin, and I noticed something very peculiar about the people who post there - they don't post complete thoughts. I went through thread after thread, and they were all alike. I had logged on there hoping to read some provocative commentary and to get a feel for what hard-core leftists are thinking, but I couldn't find any posts of any substance - no insightful or well-thought out comments. For the most part, people there just type a little blurb in the heading...

Will Joe Biden be removed from the Democratic ticket before the upcoming U.S. election? Also found on a search - Joe Biden to be withdrawn as Democratic VP candidate before 2008 presidential election

Ira N. Forman, Executive Director of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) today released the following statement: Today, Senator John McCain made his first critical presidential decision with his selection of his Vice Presidential running mate. McCain’s judgment appears lacking. In Governor Sarah Palin McCain chooses a running mate with zero foreign policy experience and a brewing scandal which is being investigated by the Alaska state legislature. The contrast with Senator Joe Biden could not be starker and more unfavorable for the soon to be Republican nominee. For a party which claims it is trying to reach out to the...

4:05 PM – Singing of "God Damn America" led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright 4:30 PM – Tips on Dodging Sniper Fire – Hillary Clinton 5:15 PM – John Edwards Speaks on "Family Values" via Satellite from Hotel Bathroom 11:30 PM – Al Gore Accepts Tony and Latin Grammy Awards

DENVER, Colorado (AFP) – Hillary Clinton takes center stage Tuesday vowing to unite Democrats after her primary battle with Barack Obama, on the second day of the convention that will crown him as White House nominee. The former first lady will make a closely watched primetime speech, at an event which she had hoped would mark the moment when she made her own piece of history, by becoming the first woman presidential nominee. But instead, as rumors of discord between the two camps still circulate, she will urge her disgruntled followers to back Obama, ... "Let there be no mistake...

Democrats used to love to bash President Bush for sending America to war without asking Americans to sacrifice. Now that it is an election year, you won't hear the s-word coming out of their lips. The Democratic National Committee draft platform is all goodies. The draft, "Renewing America's Promise," says the party will heed the American desire to "abandon the politics of partisan division" - and they are eager to do so, as soon as they are done blaming Republicans for high gasoline prices, the mortgage meltdown and an "unnecessary war." ... And: "The American people do not want government...

ISNA, A Named Hamas Co-Conspirator, Recently Propagated Material Calling For Murder Of Jews (Denver, CO) Americans Against Hate (AAH) is calling on the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) to disinvite Ingrid Mattson, the National President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), from speaking at its Denver convention. Mattson is scheduled to help lead a convention interfaith forum tomorrow, Sunday, August 24th. ISNA, a group related to the violent Muslim Brotherhood, was named by the U.S. government a co-conspirator for a 2007 federal trial which dealt with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. Also, as recently as...

Razor wire cut from Democratic convention jail facilityBy Judi Villa, Rocky Mountain News Updated 06:56 p.m., August 20, 2008 The Temporary Arrestee Processing Center that will be open during the Democratic National Convention will not have razor wires on the holding cells after all, officials said today. Instead, the 18-by-18 holding areas will be topped with chain-link fencing to keep inmates from climbing out, Undersheriff Bill Lovingier said today during a media tour of the facility northeast of downtown. Lovingier said that in response to community concerns, "We re-thought those plans, and we came up with a different plan." The...

(Exerpts) Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a skirt is Chief Executive Officer of this month’s Democratic National Convention in Denver. ...While the media hounded Wright for his anti-American rants and while presidential hopeful Senator Barack Hussein Obama divorced him as his personal pastor, Obama’s head will be crowned by Leah Daughtry, who ardently believes in the same Marxist “Black Liberation Theology” preached by Wright. ...“But wait there’s more! This New York-born Pentecostal minister is not only the head of their religious outreach, she’s the CEO of the Democratic National Convention. That’s right, the CEO of the DNC is a MARXIST! Folks…do...

Democratic Aides Working on Plan To Keep the Peace At the ConventionBy Anne E. Kornblut Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 8, 2008; Page A01 With the clock running out on preparations for the Democratic convention, advisers to Sen. Barack Obama are scrambling to reach a compromise with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton over exactly how her candidacy will be honored and how they will defuse the threat of upheaval from her supporters in Denver. The Obama and Clinton camps said this week that they agree on a central point: They would like to avoid an embarrassing display of discord from...

A group of anarchists that plans to disrupt the Democratic National Convention is promising to go away if the $50 million federal grant that Denver received to pay for convention security is invested in the community instead. (snip) Simons said the group's offer to sit out the convention if the city, the federal government and the DNC all agree to "redirect" the $50 million to things like health care is not a publicity stunt. "We understand that it's farfetched, but it's a sincere offer, and the goal of doing this is to really show what our priorities are," said Simons,...

KANYE, WYCLEF BOOKED FOR DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION: Artists scheduled to perform during event beginning Aug. 25 in Denver.(July 18, 2008) Kanye West, Wyclef Jean and N.E.R.D. have been tapped to perform at the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver to support the presidential nomination of Sen. Barack Obama. According to Billboard, West is rumored to be performing on behalf of Bono's One Campaign, which landed the rapper in conjunction with the RIAA. Jean and N.E.R.D. are expected to headline a party thrown by MTV and Rock the Vote. The convention, which begins Aug. 25 at Invesco Field in Denver, will culminate with...

Democratic convention planners and fundraisers are looking to make up for some lost time in Denver, now that Barack Obama has finally claimed the party’s presidential nomination. The Denver host committee needs to raise $40.6 million by June 16 but so far has collected only about $25 million. By contrast, Republicans are already on target to raise $39 million for their convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul. “Key supporters have continued to support their candidates and not the convention at this point,” said Steven W. Farber, co-chairman of the Denver host committee. Meanwhile, organizers for the Aug. 25-28 convention at Denver’s Pepsi...

AP tally: Obama effectively clinches nomination 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House. Campaigning on an insistent call for change, Obama outlasted former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a historic race that sparked record turnout in primary after primary, yet exposed deep racial divisions within the party.

No complaints from “Jewish” Democrats while Obama promotes and enables anti-Semites, racists, and Catholic-hating bigots Linda Berg of the National Jewish Democratic Council (double oxymoron, there is very little Jewish or Democratic about it) wrote the following in “It took a lot for McCain to Finally Reject Hagee’s Endorsement.” It took a You Tube vido of Rev. John Hagee proclaiming that Hitler and the Holocaust had been part of G*d’s plan to get the Jews out of Europe and into Israel for McCain yesterday to finally reject his endorsement. We understand where Hagee is coming from, not that we like...

The National Jewish Democratic Council has an extensive and well-documented track record of using its nominally Jewish identity to deceive Jewish voters. [http://www.stentorian.com/MoveOn/njdc.html] To this may be added its apparently willful smear of the Christian computer game “Left Behind: Eternal Forces.” [http://www.israpundit.com/2007/?p=5614] It therefore comes as no surprise that NJDC is willing to quote John McCain out of context to suggest that he, like Barack Hussein Obama, is willing to talk to terrorists and dictators without preconditions. The following material is from Ira Forman, the same individual who made the false statement that MoveOn.org was not a haven for anti-Semitic...

Jim Vandehei & Josh Kraushaar of Politico.com have managed to keep the race issue alive in 2008 with their (misleading) piece “GOP fails to recruit minorities” . So yesterday we had whining liberals sad about Hillary not making it because she’s a woman and today we’ve got whining liberals mad that the GOP doesn’t have “enough” brown people in office. My question to Mr. Vandehei and Mr. Kraushaar is when was this piece when their beloved Clinton was in office? How many minorities did he appoint to his cabinet? None certainly as successful, respected, knowledgeable, and outspoken as Secretary of...

American liberals are getting increasingly frustrated with the use of the term “democratic socialism.” But I’m getting increasingly fed up with the improper use of the term “liberal.” John McCain is a liberal. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, like all modern Democrats, are something quite different. For the record, the term “liberal” originally referred to people like Thomas Jefferson, indicating their undying reverence for “individual liberty” and “personal freedom” above all other notions and their opposition to government power. People who believe in empowering government to strip liberty and freedom from individuals in the name of some greater common good...

NJDC’s Long Litany of Misinformation, Anti-Semitic Propaganda, and Anti-Christian Hate Propaganda The National Jewish Democratic Council (double oxymoron, there is nothing Jewish or mainstream Democratic about it) allowed itself to make the following noises in its blog today (http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2008/05/new-blog-republ.html). Every year, the Republic Jewish Coalition (RJC) shows time and time again that it puts partisan interests above Jewish concerns and that they relentlessly attack anyone with whom they disagree, sometimes using only half-truths and drastically misleading statements. As Jews, we have long since known the dangers of misinformation. Indeed, as the targets of the blood libel and the Protocols of...

McCain isn’t a Maverick? What a surprise … Senator McCain’s record has proven that time and time again, he’s a conservative when his party needs him. A May 7th Arizona Republic article revealed that since 1999, McCain has cast the deciding vote in Congress on major issues in favor of the Republican Party 14 times. By comparison, during this time period McCain’s only sided with the Democratic Party four times. ...It’s evident that despite allegations that McCain fights against the Republican Party, he isn’t a “maverick” after all.

Having returned from Princeton, I'm back "on the grid," and wanted to offer a few reflections on the current state of the Democratic race. (1) Many people with whom I spoke at the conference were interested in Obama's performance among working class whites. Nobody seemed to have an answer as to whether his poor results are a sign of electoral trouble in the fall. I still do not. Nevertheless, the conversations I had inspired two thoughts. First, I would intuit that, based on these primary results, voters in these places are at least going to give John McCain more of...

Tony Zirkle, a candidate in the Republican primary for Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District seat gave a speech to a rather unique audience, the Nationalist Socialist Worker’s Party, or the Nazi Party. ...This kind of attitude of racism and anti-Semitism is simply un-American. To his credit, it was a fellow Republican opponent for the primary, Luke Puckett, who brought this meeting to the attention of the media, and stated, “I can't believe, in 2008, someone could have such backward opinions." The point of mentioning this isn’t to paint the Republican Party as pro-Nazi, racist, or anti-Semitic; quite the contrary. owever, when...

Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch have written an interesting piece for today's Washington Post in which they argue that the 80's television drama "Dallas" helped win the Cold War. Their case is overstated, but not entirely invalid: It was the booze-and-sex-soaked caricature of free enterprise and executive lifestyles that proved irresistible not just to stagflation-weary Americans but viewers from France to the Soviet Union to Ceau?escu's Romania. "Dallas" wasn't simply a television show. It was an atmosphere-altering cultural force. The voluptuous charms of big oil, beautiful women, and sprawling ranches were dangled before viewers in nearly 100 countries, and spoke...

NJDC denounces McCain’s ties to Hagee but has nothing to say about Obama and Michael Moore [http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=814] “How Does McCain Really Feel About Hagee?” by the National Jewish Democratic Council’s David Kim [http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2008/04/mccain-unsure-a.html] attacks John McCain for accepting the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee. Before we address NJDC’s concerns about Pastor Hagee, we remind our readers that the National Jewish Democratic Council has been totally unresponsive to our well documented requests [http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=685] for it to denounce: (1) Barack Obama’s pastor and church, which have published blood libels of the United States and Israel while calling upon God to damn America...

What are the characteristics that set one presidential candidate apart from the others? Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or John McCain ain't got nothing on Keith Russell Judd: He's the only candidate locked up in federal prison. But you, lucky Idaho, can vote for him. The—dare we say—longshot candidate filed to be on Idaho's ballot for the nation's top office on March 17, paying the $1,000 fee required if a candidate is not of national prominence. His name is now listed alongside Clinton and Obama as the state's official Democratic presidential candidates. Judd has also filed as a write-in candidate in...

This is more of a reminder to our readers to the National Jewish Democratic Council, which we are sure will not reply to this in any manner. We encourage our readers to copy and circulate this to others, especially Jewish Democrats, to remind them that the National Jewish Democratic Council has absolutely no standards with regard to racism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of bigotry when it comes from Democrats. On April 23, 2007–almost a year ago–we asked the National Jewish Democratic Council to object to meetings between Democratic Presidential candidates and Al Sharpton, whose record of promoting hatred of white...

I am a conservative who has been living at the website democraticunderground.com. Why? Cause it's like watching a car crash in slow motion. It's WW3 over there and I can't stop visiting, looking, and laughing at those guys over there. Do I need help? Or is my "Schadenfreude" ok. I mean we are talking about Dems here...lol

The Zionist Organization of America has “called upon Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to quit his racist, anti-American, anti-Israel church and repudiate his pastor, Jeremiah Wright.” Noting that the National Jewish Democratic Council condemned Mitt Romney for appearing at the museum of a long-dead EX-antisemite, we are confident that NJDC will support ZOA’s request. Henry Ford retracted and repudiated The International Jew, but Jeremiah Wright has never retracted, repudiated, or apologized for his own hate speech, his publication of a manifesto from a genuine Hamas terrorist, or his placement of quote marks around “state” of Israel, as if...

WASHINGTON - On this presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton can agree: They sometimes disagree with their trash-talking supporters and will try to cool it. Advisers to the Democratic candidates shed some light Friday on the private chat the two candidates had Thursday on the Senate floor. The talk lasted three or four minutes in full view of reporters watching on the balcony above who could see them talking, but not hear what they said. "They approached one another and spoke about how supporters for both campaigns have said things they reject," said Clinton spokesman Phil Singer. "They...

Group doubles chances by filing under two names. A group that has promised a lively street scene of "old hippies," anarchists and others during the Democratic National Convention may have doubled its chances of getting a permit to protest in city parks. Mark Cohen and his wife, Barbara, organizers for the Recreate 68 Alliance, have filed separate applications under different organizational names. "I don't see anything unfair about it," Mark Cohen said ... But Erin Trapp, director of the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, which is accepting the applications, said the city has told organizations to submit one request per...

As heavyweights in this year's presidential election blaze paths across Texas for events and the occasional debate, the primary color in many places isn't blue or red, but green. All the hotel rooms, meals and miscellaneous expenses of the campaigns, their staffs, and the reporters who cover them add up. Bruce Kellison with the University of Texas' Bureau of Business Research says with a net effect. "Generally speaking it can be every dollar that's spent directly typically has a two to three dollar impact on the local economy," he said. And that's not the only place the campaigns are forking...

A growing number of bloggers such as Richard Cohen, Brigitte Gabriel, Sharon Hughes, Charles Krauthammer, Kenneth Blackwell, Naomi Ragen, Debbie Schlussel, Ed Lasky, and William Levinson are pointing out Barack Obama’s numerous connections to unsavory individuals and organizations that espouse and promote hatred of Jews, Catholics, white people, Israel, and/or the United States. By “connections” we do not mean casual social contacts, but Obama’s deliberate efforts to seek out these entities and gain their support. ...Naomi Ragen Naomi Ragen dismisses the “smear” and makes frontal attack on Obama The Jews who are considering voting for Obama (or Clinton) should be...

John McCain is not a moderate unless the term “moderate” now includes someone who believes that “Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned.” John McCain is not a moderate unless the term “moderate” now includes someone who believes that “gun control is a proven failure in fighting crime,” who “opposes holding gun manufacturers liable for crimes committed by third parties using a firearm,” who “opposes restrictions on so-called ‘assault rifles’,” and who believes “that banning ammunition is just another way to undermine Second Amendment rights.” ...Maybe by GOP standards McCain is a moderate. But our country...

National Jewish Democratic Council whitewashes hate speech and anti-Semites for political gain A kapo was a concentration camp trustee while Judenrats, as described by Wikipedia, “were generally composed of leaders of the Jewish community… They were forced by the Nazis to provide Jews for use as slave labor, and to assist in the deportation of Jews to extermination camps during the Holocaust. Those who refused to follow Nazi orders or were unable to cooperate fully were frequently rounded up and shot or deported to the extermination camps themselves.” Kapos and Judenrats therefore had the excuse that they had guns to...

Who are these Democratic superdelegates?Those that may hold the balance in the race include former presidents, the party faithful, white- and blue-collar workers -- and the unemployed. By Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer February 17, 2008 WASHINGTON -- John Millin, an ophthalmologist, fits people for glasses and performs cataract operations. Debbie Marquez owns a restaurant whose specialty is chicken enchiladas in creamy jalapeño sauce. Christopher Stampolis is looking for a job now that the industrial recycling company where he worked for the last decade closed. They share one bond -- late this summer, they will help choose the...

No Place For Slander In Jewish Discourse by Ira N. Forman of the National Jewish Democratic Council warns against sinat chinam, or baseless hatred. History abounds with examples, such as anti-Semites attempting to blame problems like bad harvests and plagues on Jews, Nero blaming Christians for the fire that destroyed Rome, Inquisitors and witch-hunters inventing heretics and witches to justify their existences along with the worst atrocities in history, and so on. Orwell’s 1984 includes a fictional example of a subversive named Goldstein, who may or may not even exist. Sinat chinam, or baseless hatred, also has an opposite: the...

I don't know what happened on the other thread, but I got an "internal error" and it won't let anyone reply... Democratic presidential candidates, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and former Senator John Edwards (D-NC), stand onstage at the CNN/Congressional Black Caucus Institute Democratic Party presidential debate at the Palace Theatre in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, January 21, 2008.

California's 33rd Congressional District is hard-core Democrat. Ethnically diverse, cutting a swath from Hollywood through the city's historic black heartland, it's so thick with Democrats that John Kerry won 83 percent of the vote during the 2004 presidential election. Republicans didn't even bother to field a candidate in the last U.S. House race. So why would Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney be interested in voters here? In a twist on political logic, heavily Democratic patches in California are being fiercely contested by some Republican presidential candidates because of a change in state election rules. For the first time in a...

Reeling from the punch-in-the-gut she received in the Iowa primary, former first-lady and Democratic presidential candidate – and media fav - Hillary Clinton made an unbelievably desperate and transparent attempt to resurrect her suffering campaign. Facing the devastating duo of the third place showing and endless personal attacks painting her as cold and emotionless, America’s most popular enabling wife reached into her bag of tricks and pulled out the only weapon that isn’t part of her competitor’s arsenal: Hillary wept.

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Electorates are generally known for having short memories. Unfortunately this kind of memory loss can be hazardous to the body politic and a nation’s economic welfare. This is why electorates need to be periodically reminded of the misdeeds and inordinate ambitions of those who lust for power. In a country that had an honest media this job could be safely left to crusading journalists. Unfortunately the American media are so thoroughly corrupt and politically bigoted that they have become a significant threat to America’s national security and the democratic process. In short, they have joined America’s enemies.

NJDC Squarely Behind Organization that Defends Islamofascism and Promotes Hatred of Israel ...The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) as defined by the U.S. State Department, but the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee calls one of its senior members a “political leader.” Also, take a look at the anti-Israel hate videos at this page. ... THIS IS WHAT THE NATIONAL JEWISH DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL IS SUPPORTING. Lest we forget, the National Jewish Democratic Council is the same organization that uses its nominally Jewish identity to: (1) Whitewash the most vicious imaginable anti-Semitic hate speech from its...

Democratic donor Norman Hsu attempted suicide on runBY NANCY DILLON DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF Thursday, October 18th 2007, 4:00 AM Jailed fund-raiser Norman Hsu began popping pills on his way out to California for a court appearance last month and continued to down over-the-counter drugs in a failed suicide attempt when he went on the run, the Daily News has learned. Hsu's effort to kill himself is detailed in court papers obtained Wednesday by The News. The "excessive number of over-the-counter pills" eventually led Hsu's kidneys to fail and induced severe delirium. He was in such bad shape...

There’s a new sheriff in the Democratic partyWhy secular progressives are Soros at liberals By Dave Weinbaum Published: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:43 PM CDT Bill O’Reilly is onto something. His book Culture Warrior describes a dangerous turn in southpaw politics and how the “liberals in charge of the Democratic Party” (LICDIPS) are wooing them. The Soros led and financed “secular progressive’s” (SPROGS) disdain with the not far enough left has contributed to the lowest poll ratings for congress in American history. Did I mention Democrats control Congress? Those at the top of the Dem ticket are petrified. They can’t...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two-thirds of Michigan's state government workers were told Friday not to report to work Monday as negotiations continued on a budget plan that could avert a partial state government shutdown. Messages went to about 35,000 state workers, telling them they were being placed on a temporary layoff beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday and not to go to work unless otherwise notified. About 18,000 state employees will remain on the job, including 12,000 prison employees, said Liz Boyd, a spokeswoman for Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm. "We will have limited state police," Boyd added. A shutdown would mean...

City engineer warns of dismantling cranes. Construction and business leaders are up in arms over an e-mail from a Denver city engineer warning there could be a moratorium on construction in downtown Denver a month before the Democratic National Convention next year. The issues raised in the e-mail sent by city engineer Joe Saejiw this summer also warned that tower cranes may have to be disassembled, a move that could cost millions of dollars. The scenarios outlined in the e-mail could wreak havoc on the $160 million economic windfall that officials predict the 35,000-person convention will bring to the city...

When it comes to the “money primary,” Yale employees favor Democratic presidential candidates over their Republican rivals — by a margin of 45 to one. Federal Election Commission filings from the first two quarters of the year show that University faculty and staff have given $44,500 to Democratic presidential candidates — most often to Sen. Barack Obama — and just $1,000 to Republicans. Obama has received $15,700 in contributions from Yale affiliates, while Sen. Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 has received $9,950 in donations so far. Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut raised $9,300, while Republicans Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee attracted...

Disgraced Dem donor arrested in Colorado AP - 6 minutes ago SAN FRANCISCO - Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was arrested in Colorado late Thursday after he failed to show up for a court appearance related to a felony theft conviction.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was a wanted man again after he failed to show up for a court date Wednesday and a judge issued a new warrant for his arrest. Hsu, whose criminal past has roiled the campaigns of top presidential candidates, was scheduled to ask a judge to cut in half the $2 million bail he posted last week when he turned himself in after spending 15 years on the lam from a felony theft conviction. Instead, San Mateo Superior Court Judge Robert Foiles ordered Hsu's bail forfeited to the county and issued a new...