US Elections 2008 - 4

[Guest]

ramana,
<b>Another thought why no reaction from administration yet?
If BO spoke from foot that can be issue.
Because this can also cause diplomatic issue, but Shame of India may not react.</b>

[Guest]

Check this

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>OPEC Engineered Obama’s Harvard Admission</b> (oops! More Obama Skeletons)
September 03, 2008 

This just surfaced, rather innocently, as a matter of fact.
Legendary civil rights lawyer, Percy Sutton, 87 yrs old, was being interviewed and just innocently admitted that years ago,<b> Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour </b>called him and asked him to use his (Percy’s) connections at Harvard to help Barack Obama get him into law school.
Now the question is who is this gentleman?
Turns out, “his business and professional interests include co-founding the <b>International Law Firm of Al-Waleed, Al-Talal & Al-Mansour</b>, representing the O.P.E.C. interest of the famous Los Angeles trial,<b> I.M.A.W.C. vs. O.P.E.C.,</b> according to African Venture partners Here is Percy Sutton, Esq. on Inside City Hall: speaking the truth, but revealing yet another little skeleton about Barack Obama:

So, know we know why he doesn’t want offshore drilling> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You tube Link

Dr. Khalid Al Mansour - What should Muslims do - Youtube

[Guest]

The biggest loser in all this is Hillary. Now she is in a lose-lose situation. If Obama wins, she can't compete till 2016 and if McCain wins she will most probably have Palin to run against in 2012 as I dont think republicans are going to let McCain continue for 4 more years if Palin is waiting on the wings. Even if it is McCain in 2012, the first woman magic is gone with Palin becoming VP in 2009, so she is just yet another democrat and worse off bcos the left wing is against her. Also Hillary loses exclusivity as a serious woman candidate in Palin enters the national scene.

The lesser lose situation now for Hillary is to go for a Obama win and hope Palin just goes away in 2012 and 2016.

[Guest]

Hillary time is over. Best outcome, all feminist or woman rights organization are exposed in US. They are basically far-left liberal women who think if you burn bras, go for abortion and stay with man who sleep around, if you are victim of man, you are true woman. These NOW, Norla, Emily etc are democrats, far-left wing. All these organization are asking why she continued with pregrancy? why she is working woman with five kids? They never asked when RObert Kennedy with 10 kids and wife pregrant with 11th was campaigning for election. He was a man and belonged to democrat Party.

Regarding Hillary, she was publically humiliated by her husband, she stayed with him, being a victim helped her to move ahead in politics. Obama did same, used every single way to humiliate her with her husband's woman problem etc, she started wearing Pant-suit to feel like a strong woman, but at the end she is back to support Obama, now excuse is for party, for her political interest. During campaign trail Hillary tried taking shots, tried to behave like male culture. That time women did support her because they had not seen other side.
What Sarah Palain represents is regular woman with stable marriage and children with regular issue and comfortable with her skirts/ woman attire. You can be woman and a leader. She is not doing Moose hunting or flying plane to impress people but that is her lifestyle as she lives in a roughed land.
I think it’s more with culture issue. Let’s see how it will change perception.
Among women this is a big issue.

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-Viren+Sep 4 2008, 09:04 PM-->QUOTE(Viren @ Sep 4 2008, 09:04 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Sep 4 2008, 09:59 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mudy @ Sep 4 2008, 09:59 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Reid reaction to Palin speech was "Shrill", this is again a very sexist comment.
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Why's it a sexist comment? This comment could have been made against even Gu911iani too.
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shrill
adjective
<i>Elevated in pitch: high, high-pitched, piercing, piping, shrieky, shrilly, treble. Music: acute. See high, sounds</i>
verb
<i>To utter a long, loud, piercing cry, as of pain or fright: screak, scream, screech, shriek. See sounds </i>


Not good to tell a woman you are shrill, don't try at home <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sept. 5, 2008 - The New Agenda, a non-partisan women’s advocacy organization, has written and delivered an open letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his press secretary, Jim Manley, demanding an apology and recantation of remarks made by Manley in retort to Sarah Palin’s RNCC acceptance speech.

On September 3, Manley, speaking to CNN, referred to Palin’s speech as “Shrill and sarcastic political attacks.”

Sacha Millstone, a founding member of The New Agenda sees the “shrill” characterization as distracting from the actual issues, “For some reason it has heretofore been acceptable for the media and politicians to comment on the voices, clothing and appearance of female candidates, while the same characteristics are never discussed about male candidates. No more. It demeans women, and takes away from the credibility of their messages. We call on all participants in the political arena to cease the sexist focus on physical characteristics.”

Amy Siskind, another founding member of The New Agenda, sees the acceptance of sexism in politics as a direct result of leadership, “It is high time that the leadership of all political parties stand-up and speak out against the sexism that has, until now, been allowed to grow and fester in the political arena. We need our country’s political leadership to kill the roots wherever and whenever they grow.”<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Guest]

Look what far-left is doing
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Comedian Bill Maher cracked a tasteless “joke” involving Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Down syndrome child — and referred to the Alaska governor as a “stewardess.”

In the monologue of his most recent HBO show, Maher noted that Palin has five children including an infant “that has Down syndrome. She had it when she was 43 years old. And it looks a lot like John Edwards.” <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

What if normal child due to fever or some reason lose some brain resaoning or with Autism etc, do these guys will make such sick jokes.

[ramana]

Mudy, Thanks for the assessment of Obama's info on the Bill OReilly show. I too thought he was letting out an assessment he was privy to- TSP is preparing for war with India using the US aid from GOAT.

Viren, Sub rosa means under the table or secret.

[Guest]

Most surprising no reaction from Shame of India, Manmohan Singh. Which is most distrubing.
Why no diplomatic noise? It means Moron Singh is completly sold out.

[acharya]

<img src='http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00393/PeterBrookes385_393102a.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Helsingin Sanomat, Finland
<b>Along Came Sarah</b>

By Pekka Mykkänen
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[acharya]

<b>US culture wars are back</b>

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[acharya]

<b>REPUBLICAN CONVENTION McCain Speaks but Says Little</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Scores of Republicans saw it the same way. Two high-ranking strategists from the last election campaign, interviewed not far from the XCel Energy Center, knew that McCain was doing well in the polls against Obama. But they were far more excited about Sarah Palin's performance on Wednesday -- and full of talk about a future Republican Party without John McCain. "If Sarah Palin does well for herself in this campaign, she could be our next candidate in four years," the two Republicans said.
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[acharya]

De Telegraaf, The Netherlands<b>
A White Convention</b>
By Jan-Kees Emmer
Translated By Dorian de Wind
September 5, 2008
The Netherlands - De Telegraaf - Original Article (Dutch)
It had already caught my attention in the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, where Republicans convened. The audience was noticeably whiter than the one at the Democratic Convention last week in Denver. On my way to Wasilla, I came across the numbers in the New York Times. And they do not lie. Not only was the Republican Convention indeed much whiter than the Democrats' was, but also when compared against previous Republican gatherings, the attendees have become considerably “one-sided.”
A couple of numbers: 93 percent of the Republican delegation is white. This was 85 percent in 2004 and 89 percent in 2000. This year, among Republicans, five percent were Hispanic and three percent black. By comparison, with the Democrats, this year, 65 percent were white, 23 percent black and 11 percent Hispanic. About the same as in previous conventions, because Democrats have rules for this. Read the complete statistics “here.“ (New York Times Political Memo, “Two Conventions With No Shortage of contrasts,” September 3, 2008)

[acharya]

<b>John McCain Plays John Wayne</b>
Die Welt, Germany[b]
By Torsten Krauel
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[acharya]

<b>Obama Silent on Russia</b>
Iltalehti, Finland
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[acharya]

Le Monde, France
<b>With Sarah Palin, Republicans Hope to Have Found Their “Obama”</b>
By C. Ls.
The parallel is clear: with Sarah Palin, the Republicans hope to have found their “Messiah,” their “Obama.”
Translated By Sarah Whorton
09/04/08
France - Le Monde - Original Article (France)

You only need to see the cover of the Weekly Standard, the American neoconservative magazine, over the weekend, to find John McCain’s “bright idea.” “Is she what we were waiting for?’ asks the weekly magazine, toying with the phrase often employed by Barack Obama at the beginning of his campaign. The parallel is clear: with Sarah Palin, the Republicans hope to have found their “Messiah,” their “Obama.” “A ghost haunts the elite liberals in New York and Washington: the ghost of a young conservative, without inhibitions, attractive, from rural America, and free from the Bush administration’s mistakes,” writes editorialist William Kristol. “This ghost has a name: Sarah Palin.”

Barack Obama carefully prepared the way to launch his candidacy, and he told his story himself. Sarah Palin was totally unknown to the public, even though she is the most popular governor in the United States (80% approval rating). The media and Democratic blogs rushed to get her biography. John McCain’s staff did not foresee the flood of disclosures that followed.

Obvious Offense

For forty-eight hours, the entire country was buried in Palin’s familial complications and Wasilla, Alaska’s (population 8,000) local chronicles. Was she under pressure to have her ex-brother-in-law fired from the police force while engaged in a complicated divorce with her sister? An inquest was opened by the local assembly. Is she wedded to the petroleum lobbies?

Americans have also discovered the cultural difference that exists with Alaska. In the “48 contiguous states,” she is criticized for being too close to petroleum interests. But in Juneau (the capital of Alaska), she is almost considered “anti-petroleum” for daring to increase fees paid by the petroleum companies.

Mrs. Palin was also caught flip-flopping in the controversy over the “bridge to nowhere,” a project allowing Alaska to earn federal credits for constructing a bridge connecting the small town of Ketchikan (around 9000 inhabitants) to the island of Gravina, which houses several dozen residents. During her campaign, she was in favor of the bridge. Once elected, she changed her mind.

She is still criticized for recruiting a lobbyist from Washington to obtain government grants, when she presents herself as a champion for reform. Todd Palin, her husband, has been criticized for being part of the Alaska Independence Movement. She also assisted in this organization’s meetings.

“Cultural War”

But it was the confirmation that Bristol, her 17-year old daughter, is pregnant, that raised sarcasm and relaunched the “cultural war” that sets the Right and Left against each other in terms of “values.” Until Mrs. Palin’s appearance, conservative Christians were, this year, not very mobilized. Attacks from the Left woke them up. “In the eyes of people who believe themselves to be sophisticated world citizens and who are proud of saving the planet by buying rights to pollute, a women who brought five children into the world is unbelievable,” writes the director of the right-wing review American Thinker.

Finally, Mr. McCain, who wanted, through Mrs. Palin, to restore his image of “independent,” finds himself associated with this “cultural war” that he didn’t arrange. Wednesday night, Sarah Palin attempted to rectify things. She did not question, in her speech, either abortion or creationism, and hardly mentioned God. She presented herself as representing small town America, anti-elite, the America of people who “produce their food, run their own factories, and fight their own battles.”

“Country first!” is John McCain’s slogan. For chronicler David Brooks, a new cultural war is replacing the 1960s war: “Small town America against cosmopolitan America.”

[Capt M Kumar]

<!--emo&:rock--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rock.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rock.gif' /><!--endemo--> "Sa-rah! Pa-lin!" came the chant at a Colorado Springs, Colorado, rally on Saturday, moments before Republican nominee John McCain took the stage with his vice presidential pick Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a woman who was virtually unknown to most Americans just a week earlier. The day before, thousands screamed "Sa-rah! Sa-rah! Sa-rah!" at an amphitheater outside Detroit.

"Real change with a real woman," read one sign at a Wisconsin rally. "Hurricane Sarah leaves liberals spinning," cried another.

In the short time since McCain spirited the conservative 44-year-old first-term governor out of Alaska and onto a national stage as his running mate, Palin has become an instant celebrity. And since her speech at the Republican National Convention, watched by more than 40 million Americans, she is emerging as the main attraction for many voters at their campaign appearances.

"She's the draw for a lot of people," said Marilyn Ryman, who came to see her at the Colorado rally inside an airport hangar. "The fact that she's someone new, not the old everything we've seen before."

McCain has sought to portray Palin as a bulldog who will help him "shake things up" on Capitol Hill.

Washington, he said Saturday, is "going to get to know her, but I can't guarantee you they'll love her."

"We do!" came a cry from the crowd. At a rally in Albuquerque later, McCain acknowledged the juice she has injected into his campaign.
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[Guest]

She is a crowd puller.
Latest rumor from Demo camp, Biden may be dropped on health or family reason.

<b>Obama Admits Muslim Faith</b> - youtube

How Obama entered into Harvard ?
<b>Obama camp denies Sutton story</b>
watch video , Black Panther Perry Sutton is under bus so is other Black Panther Khalid al-Mansour

[Hauma Hamiddha]

In US the politicians are merely a front end for certain behind the scene controllers. Bush and Cheney were perfect puppets as their own personal interests and inclinations matched the common denominator of the different sects of these controllers. This time around neither Obama, nor old McCain nor Palin match the common denominator. Each matches a certain clique of the controllers. This is what may make things interesting in the future as the different sects controllers maneuver to pull and push the front ends to their advantage. Mrs Clinton was probably a scapegoat in the altar of these maneuvers. Look at the groups controlling the "free" American media to see how the sects are playing out the game.

[acharya]

<b>McCain-Palin Ticket Chills Arabs, Muslims</b>
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[acharya]

<b>Palin meets AIPAC board, voices support for "special friendship between two democracies"</b>
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