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It was nearly gospel for the far-left that Bush would not cede the presidency peacefully. We had this idiot hypothesizing that Bush would cancel the elections; Psycho chicks like Naomi Wolf screamed about "fascist coups"; Some moron named Harvey Wasserman wrote a truly inane piece entitled "Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?", which was picked up and posted by numerous sites; and on and on... Guess what losers, you were all wrong. Cheney didn't barricade the OEOB and declare martial law and Bush didn't mobilize the armed forces to take over DC streets and launch cruise missiles into Chicago and...

Colin Powell held a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, touting the launch of Barack Obama's new website, USAService.org, which allows Americans to find -- and to promote -- local service opportunities that are searchable by zip code. President Bush's former Secretary of State said he was on the site this morning and vouched for its usefulness. But here's betting that Powell didn't have time to go through all of the events on it.

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TeamSarah.org, an online community of over 63,000 who admire Sarah Palin and all she stands for, currently is experiencing an attempt at framing the whole community as guilty of unsavory racist behavior. This apparently is part of an overall attempt by the the worst elements of the progressive faction, conduct for which all liberals should be ashamed to be associated, even indirectly. This was started, for example at DemocracyUnderground (which brags that it intends to turn the word conservative “radioactive”) — well before that unfair and arguably defamatory piece was published in The Huffington Post, an extremist liberal website that...

How do you elaborate on a headline like this? (HT Hot Air Headlines) The mainstreaming of a domestic terrorist continues apace. Of course, Huffington Post isn't "mainstream" in any real sense, but is considered as such by out-of-touch Old Media, which (post-election, of course) has frequently feted the 1970s Pentagon bomber. Here's the Huffington Post URL in case you wish to visit (I'd rather not hyperlink it): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-ayers/obama-and-education-refor_b_154857.html At the link, HuffPo describes Ayers as "Author and Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago." There is, of course, no mention of his...

A Kos Kid with the possibly ironic username of “Daisy Cutter” is weeping over the Israeli airstrikes against Hamas weapons dumps and training camps: Daily Kos: Israel’s ongoing war on Palestinian self-determination (EDIT: 200 dead, Obama: no comment). "With today’s news of IDF air strikes abruptly ending the lives of some 140 Gazans, I can’t help but feel an abject sense of horror at the fact that most Americans will probably find some way to blame the Palestinians for bringing this on themselves. Nevermind the fact that it was Israel who initially broke the ceasefire. Forget the fact that Israel...

A religion columnist and journalism professor says the mainstream media's coverage of the fire that gutted Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's home church has been thin, but it's hard to say exactly why it's been underplayed. Investigators say the fire that destroyed Wasilla Bible Church in Alaska on December 12 was likely the work of an arsonist, but the mainstream news media, with the exception of The Associated Press, has largely ignored the story. Terry Mattingly is the editor of the website GetReligion.org, a Scripps Howard columnist, and director of the Washington Journalism Center. He says because the fire occurred in...

They are calling themselves the Mid-South Community Organizers, and if that name sounds a touch triumphant, the people formerly known as Shelby County's Obama-Biden '08 volunteers just want folks to know they are serious about this whole "change" thing. Nika Jackson, who served as the Obama camp's lone Shelby County campaign staffer for much of the general election campaign, got together with about 50 local campaign volunteers over the weekend to reflect on what was accomplished and to begin plotting a way forward. In conjunction with Obama operations in other Tennessee counties, Memphis' newest group of community activists adopted their...

President-elect Barack Obama's 3 million campaign volunteers got re-enlistment notices this week. Campaign manager David Plouffe, in a mass e-mail sent Wednesday to former workers, asked how much time they can spare for four missions integral to Obama's effort to transform his victory into a broader political movement. The volunteers' options are, Plouffe wrote: -Campaign for progressive state and local candidates -Undertake grassroots local efforts to advance Obama's agenda -Train others in Obama's organizing techniques -Focus on local political issues. "Obama's building a political machine," said Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution, a center-left Washington research group.

In his first press conference after the election, Barack Obama cracked a joke about Nancy Reagan holding séances in the White House. (It was factually inaccurate; the former first lady was into horoscopes, not "Hellraiser.") This provoked the administration’s first apology, but not the first bipartisan critique. That came a week later, with the release of the administration’s job application. In 63 questions over seven pages, prospective White House employees are being asked — in addition to questions about finances, gun ownership and, possibly, flossing habits — to list “all aliases or ‘handles’ you have used to communicate on the...

Here's one example from before the election via the Daily Kos: But when the church and its members invest millions of dollars in an attempt to write discrimination into my state's constitution and divorce my friend Brian against his will, there will be hell to pay.So what am I asking you to do? Some distributed research.There is a list of a bunch of Mormon donors to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign (in case that one goes down, here's a mirror with slightly worse formatting. Here's what I'm asking for:This list contains information about those who are big donors to...

We warned you about Obama and his supporters, and now . . .More . . .

How will President Obama deploy his Internet army?  | WASHINGTON — Campaign manager David Plouffe, in a mass e-mail sent Wednesday to former workers, asked how much time they can spare for four missions integral to Obama's effort to transform his victory into a broader political movement.The volunteers' options are, Plouffe wrote: Campaign for progressive state and local candidates Undertake grassroots local efforts to advance Obama's agenda Train others in Obama's organizing techniques Focus on local political issues. "Obama's building a political machine," said Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution, a center-left Washington research group."These people have...

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Armbinder: Reporters, and I can't exempt myself from this, have been salivating somewhat voyueristically for a round of public fighting between the Left, broadly represented by the Netroots, and the Obama transition entity. It will be interesting to see whether the press plays up Obama's influence on lawmakers, or if anti-Lieberman Democrats blame Harry Reid, or blame weak-kneed Senate Democrats instead of Obama. It's not just the Lieberman thing that will produce plenty of fireworks for the media to play up, of course. The pace of the closure of Gitmo, the disposition of the detainees from Gitmo and the secret...

It is the biggest and broadest American political force ever created -- a vast, electronically linked network of activists, neighborhood organizers and volunteers who raised record amounts of money and propelled Barack Obama to the White House. Now, as Obama turns from campaigning to governing, his advisors are struggling to harness this potent web of supporters to help him move his agenda over the next four years.But it is no simple task to convert an insurgency into a standing army.That challenge has sparked rare discord among Obama advisors who ran a highly disciplined operation with no public disagreements throughout the...

NEW YORK – Transition officials call it Obama 2.0 — an ambitious effort to transform the president-elect's vast Web operation and database of supporters into a modern new tool to accomplish his goals in the White House. If it works, the new president could have an unprecedented ability to appeal for help from millions of Americans who already favor his ideas, bypassing the news media to pressure Congress."He's built the largest network anyone has ever seen in politics, and congressional Republicans are clueless about the communications shift that has happened," Democratic strategist Joe Trippi proclaims. The results, he says, "will...

President-elect Barack Obama will take office in January with a weapon no president has ever had at his disposal: An online army of more than 10 million supporters who can now be put to use to help carry out a sweeping agenda. The vast lists of e-mail addresses and cell phone numbers compiled by the Obama campaign represent an opportunity for the incoming administration to establish a digital presidency that takes advantage of both new technologies and the wide enthusiasm that greeted Obama's candidacy. In the six days since Election Day, Obama's transition team has taken a series of initial...

WASHINGTON — A powerful new lobbying force is coming to town: Barack Obama's triumphant army of 3.1 million Internet-linked donors and volunteers. In a mass e-mail thanking them, written moments before his Grant Park victory speech, Obama put them on notice. "We have a lot to do to get our country back on track, and I'll be in touch soon about what comes next," he wrote. Many are eager. "I'm going to be sitting at the phone, asking, 'What do you want me to do next? I'm ready,' " said volunteer Courtney Hood, 37, a mother of three from Owings,...

There really are no words, though I suppose we'll manage to find some. Wonkette, which bills itself as "the DC Gossip," and is the creation of Ana Marie Cox, now gone on to bigger things at Time, has this photograph up of Trig Palin, dressed for Halloween as an elephant and being held in the loving embrace of one of his sisters. [H/t Damian at Conservathink.] Wonkette appends its comment, suggesting—and there really is no way to sugar coat it—that given the choice Trig would rather have been aborted: Little baby Trig must be so glad he wasn’t aborted for...

There really are no words, though I suppose we'll manage to find some. Wonkette, which bills itself as "the DC Gossip," and is the creation of Ana Marie Cox, now gone on to bigger things at Time, has this photograph up of Trig Palin, dressed for Halloween as an elephant and being held in the loving embrace of one of his sisters. [H/t reader Damian G.] Wonkette appends this comment, suggesting—and there really is no way to sugar coat it— that given the choice Trig would wish he had been aborted:

Spies. They're "probably" in the room, she says ominously. Listening. Conspiring. Taking it all down. Cynthia McKinney thinks we're being watched, and she says so, leaning into the mike. The crowd of several hundred in this Atlanta public library auditorium -- graying Black Panthers gathered for a reunion, a pamphleteering Revolutionary Communist Party guy, Pan-African liberationists -- mostly nods in agreement. ........ She believes there are "credible reports" that the U.S. military dumped 5,000 prisoners -- each with "a single bullet wound to the head" -- in Louisiana swamps using Hurricane Katrina as cover. She believes that Jeb Bush --...

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post often writes with a good deal of attitude, and his Tuesday column was no exception. In his report on Sarah Palin’s campaign speech in Clearwater, Florida, laced with mocking Palinisms (“darn right,” “betcha”), he wrote that “the self-identified pit bull has been unleashed, if not unhinged.” The “unhinging,” in Milbank’s assessment, came when Palin charged that Obama still has some explaining to do about his relationship with 1960s Weatherman bomber William Ayers. Milbank also wrote that Palin blamed Katie Couric for her “less-than-successful” CBS interview. Other newspapers reported a more light-hearted Palin response to...

Carl Cameron of Fox News reported a few minutes ago during Special Report with Brit Hume that Reuters asked the organizers of tonight's vice presidential debate if the two candidates would be checked to see if they were wearing earpieces that would feed them answers and coaching during the debate.Cameron said Reuters asked if the candidates' ear canals would be looked at before the debate.At the end of Cameron's report, Hume started singing the Twilight Zone theme song, "Doo-do, doo-do. Doo-do, doo-do."Liberal bloggers made up a conspiracy theory that President Bush wore a wire during his debates in 2004 with...

Is there anyone out there who has been dredging up dirt on Arianna Huffington for the last decade and would like a place to dump it? If so, I may have a spot for you. That's my reaction to the Huffington Puffington Post's publication of a piece written by a professional (read George Soros-funded) WND hater by the name of Terry Krepel under he poetic headline: "Anti-Obama Author Corsi Reflects the (Lack of) Journalistic Values of his Employer, WorldNetDaily." Normally I ignore the slop Krepel dishes out daily in his screeds against me, my family, my business and my employees...

I rarely partake in either political discussions or mob rage, but what has transpired with the Palin “hacker,” and Gawker, is to my mind the very dead end, the very suicide, of the media cogniscenti, of anybody who touches it with a bargepole, or pretends it is anything short of a lynching of everything this country aims to stand for. This is not “hacking.” Hacking sounds kind of cute, like surfing, like something faintly nerdy and ingenious. No — the word is “surveillance,” and the cultures that invented it and perfected it were dictatorships, most of which have crumbled and...

We’re always searching the WWW to bring you choice morsels of fact-like news stories, photos and videos, and tonight’s discovery is sure to delight: Sarah Palin is a Jewess says the headline over at the Jewish Conspiracy Exposed blog. We need help publicizing the conspiracy, so good on you guys. Attendance at the Elders of Zion meetings is way down. Is it the economy, do you think? Anyhow, the story includes helpful hints on how to categorize the post: Filed under: israel, jewish conspiracy, jewish crime, media control, mossad | Tags: crypto jew, jew, jewess palin, libertyforum, LibertyForum.org, LibertyForum.org shutdown,...

Sun Sep 14, 2008 at 11:53:24 AM PDT I started phone-banking last week, and I've been doing a couple of hours a day since then. Today I called a bunch of voters in Pennsylvania, and had long conversations with five undecided voters. It was really illuminating. A lot of what I've been reading on this board is supported by my observations, but a lot ISN'T. First of all, all of the undecided voters I talked to like Palin. They like her a lot more than they like McCain. They are compelled by her energy and her looks and her demeanor....

The Weekly Standard’s Brian Faughnan notes here that things are looking good for McCain in the battleground state of Ohio at this stage in the race for the presidency. Ohio, as we all know, is a must-win state for whoever will go on to win the presidency. Daily Kos blogger and failed candidate for US Senate (as well as the US House) Paul Hackett (D-AntiWaristan) has noticed this as well and, after blaming poll numbers partly on racism, has what he feels is a “solution” that would “help” Barack Obama win the state of Ohio in November. Check this out...

As if we needed another reason to think that the excitable Maureen Dowd and the empty headed Matt Damon are... well, excitable and empty headed... we get the newest raindrop in their river of blather as proof that their "research" into a subject seems to consist of hearing an unsupported claim and deciding it represent gospel truth. Our latest proof is that they both seem to have been taken in by a nutrooter lie, a fake quote that claims Sarah Palin said, "dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago." Both seem to have fallen for a parody of Governor Palin invented...

We keep saying this — and no one seems to listen — but over the course of this campaign, we’ve met about 50 people who worked on McGovern-72, and every one of them said to us, without quivocation, that the main reason McGovern lost to Nixon was McGOVERN’S SUPPORTERS. The way McGovern’s “youth army” behaved, and the terrible things they did in McGovern’s name, worked against their candidate and every day drove more people who would have never voted Republican over to Nixon. We’ll try to spell this out even more clearly: when people see things like this anti-Palin Ebay...

Oh noes! Palin is terroist! Daily Kos: Palin’s AIP group has terroists [sic] ties. "I just obtained this info. and need help getting it to go viral. AIP Is not a harmless group. It seems that they are tied to terrorist. Please help this go viral. If this was a Dem. Candidate, this would be on the msm 24/7. The scoop below the fold." Wait a minute! I thought the official Daily Kos talking point was that Al Qaeda is no threat at all? You have to wonder if there’s a point where these morons are embarrassed by the sheer...

Over the weekend, I noted the scurrilous claim of a left-wing blogger who “reported” the hearsay rumor that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called Obama a “Sambo” and Hillary Clinton a “bitch.” Even the nutballs at the Daily Kos deleted a posting about the smear. But it’s still out there.

It wasn't that long ago that the left considered this November's election a mere formality on the road to Barack Obama's coronation as president. They loved posting poll after poll showing Obama winning by huge margins. Oh, how they gloated about the massive loss John McCain was sure to suffer. Well, the polls have changed and now the latest USA Today/Gallup poll shows quite a different result: WASHINGTON — The Republican National Convention has given John McCain and his party a significant boost, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken over the weekend shows, as running mate Sarah Palin helps close an...

I'm surprised it took this long. “So Sambo beat the bitch!”This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Rumor That Palin Called Obama 'Sambo' Spreading Across Internet By Terry Trippany September 6, 2008 - 22:31 ET A new whisper campaign is forming in the blogosphere and creeping into web search engines across the internet as a self proclaimed e-zine called "LA Progressive" is spreading a false rumor that Sarah Palin called Barack Obama 'Sambo' while dining in an Alaska restaurant. Charley James, the author of the article that is unlikely to have his blogspot site shut down for Obama bias, also claims through 'anonymous sources' that Palin called Hillary Clinton a "b#^@h" in the same breath. It is...

The latest from the 'progressive' internet cesspool: "McCain was a horrible student . . . Palin's daughter conceived out of wedlock . . . McCain being 72 years old and having had cancer 4 times . . ." http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/americans-expect-their-president-to-be.html If they're reduced to this, they must be worried. And, with two of the biggest audiences of the season tuning in to McCain's and Palin's acceptances, they have good reason. BTW - Two quick points: 1. Until the other 'respectable' 'progressive' blogs stop linking to sites peddling this junk, they can stop denying they peddle this junk. 2. Check out what's...

Nutcase bloggers will have to find another smear against Sarah Palin … again. Did you hear that Todd Palin’s former business partner tried to get his divorce records sealed? Conspiracy theorists immediately began speculating on line that Sarah Palin — that vixen! — must have had an affair and broken up the marriage. Why else would the partner suddenly act to seal his records? As the Smoking Gun discovered, Scott Richter wanted them sealed — to protect himself from conspiracy theorists: --------------------- So when the blogosphere discovered today (via an online court docket) that Scott Richter, a Palin associate, personally...

The Kos: “Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor” Oh we get it Kos. So Palin is Pilate and THE ONE is Jesus. Right. Which proves why the devil is a lousy theologian. Fact is that Jesus wasn’t anything of the kind. True he was called a “rabble rouser, drunkard, glutton and friend of sinners”, but he was never accused of, nor worked as a community organizer. In fact his followers then we anxious at the fact that he seemed totally disinterested at the “social ills” of his time, speaking of a world to come and...

WHERE IS SECURITY?!! I can't believe this so-called "journalist" creep can just waltz up to Senator McCain's mother and daughter!!

The stature of the blogs is a striking feature of the American elections. There are more of them, and some of the best journalists now working exclusively online (which means there are several news cycles in a day, and newspapers are outdated by 9am). Sites like Politico have done a talent swoop; the Drudge Report is checked several times a day by most American journalists, used as a radar. Now there are attack dog sites: scores of them, eager to tear into the other side. The Daily Kos – described as “extreme left” by Fox – is one. But others,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The blogs are alive with the sound of Sarah. Republican candidate John McCain's staffers may deplore the online rumor mill that forced them to announce the pregnancy of newly minted running mate Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter. But experts have some perhaps unwelcome advice: Get used to it. "It used to be that a rumor would float across your desk and you'd say, 'That's just so outrageous we're not even going to respond to it,'" said Republican strategist Todd Harris, a former McCain spokesman. "But nowadays you really have to push back forcefully against almost every single bit...

The moment the McCain camp confirmed it had chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as its choice for VP, conservatives, females and many mothers across the country rejoiced. She brought so many positives that I couldn’t help but wonder how long it would take the left to dig for the negatives. Shortly after the announcement a friend asked me “when do you think the weird, rural farmer’s daughter rumors will start? Apparently, not long after. The Daily Kos (or as I like to call it, The Daily Gross) has stooped to a new low by repackaging a plot line from last...

When Markos Moulitsas saw that one of the contributors to his liberal blog was accusing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of lying about her 4-month-old baby, he was a bit skeptical. "I feel a little weird about the questions being asked," he says. "But I also feel a little weird about saying, 'Shut up, people.' It takes a lot for me to step in and squash what's on Daily Kos." In less than 48 hours, the allegations by a Kos diarist known as ArcXIX ricocheted into the mainstream media, when John McCain's designated running mate announced Monday that her 17-year-old daughter...

An online prediction market weighs in on whether VP candidate Sarah Palin will be dropped from the Republican ticket. NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Now the Democrats aren't the only ones who can try to capitalize on the negative buzz growing around Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the prospective Republican VP candidate. Intrade, an online prediction market based in Dublin, created a contract Tuesday morning on the likelihood that John McCain will drop Palin as his running mate. After opening at a probability of just 3%, the odds on Palin being cut from the ticket climbed to 18% around 9 a.m. and...

PROOF THAT OBAMA DELAGATES KNEW ABOUT BRISTOL, according to a contributor/blogger at obama's official site

We are pleased to announce that Sen. John Edwards, Sen. Barack Obama, and Gov. Bill Richardson confirmed their participation in a Presidential Leadership Forum to be held August 4 in Chicago. Confirmations from other candidates are forthcoming. The event—the first ever collaborative presidential forum with both a respected blogger and a leading member of the traditional media as moderators—is an opportunity to use technology to empower citizens to engage and evaluate America's potential leaders, both face-to-face and online. Many political candidates, including Edwards and Obama, already frequently use sites like Daily Kos to dialogue with the public.

We noted the nutroots’ deepening Palin Derangement Syndrome over the weekend, topped by a diarist at the Daily Kos who’s been spreading disgusting, bottom-of-the-barrel rumors — picked up by the excitable and shameless Andrew Sullivan — about Gov. Sarah Palin’s youngest child and attacking one of Palin’s daughters as the mother of Trig. The Free Republic fights back with photos of a very pregnant Gov. Palin in late February. I linked to an April blog post from an airline passenger who met the pregnant governor on a flight from Fairbanks. It is unbelievably surreal that this dirtbag Kossack rumor has...

Wirh the leftist fringe attacking Governor Sarah Palin, her Down Syndrome Baby and her innocent teenaged daughter, I thought I'd post an update. Here are some of the updates on the ignorant, hatemongering story that Gov. Palin "faked" her pregnancy that I have been keeping up with. (I was going to say "keeping abreast" with, but...) Update #2- One Woman's Eyewitness Account of Pregnant Palin All the speculation on whether Governor Palin was pregnant is easily put to rest by the eyewitness account of Elizabeth Eubanks from April 29 of this year. Eubanks was in an airport in Fairbanks waiting...

Bristol Palin and Sarah Palin pregnancy scandal? Rumors began circulating online Friday about whether Governor Sarah Palin or her daughter Bristol is actually young Trig's mother. The risk of reporting rumor as news without doing research and your homework for an article, is an embarrassment when the facts eventually come to light. The rumors began with a popular liberal website, Daily KoS, and certain media outlets reported on them and was even reported here at tPC. Conservative activists have been pleased Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has tapped Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, observers say. The Politico...