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Recent polls show Democratic Senator Barack Obama has begun to take a commanding lead over Republican Senator John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election, both nationally and in key battleground states necessary for winning the electoral college.

Nationally: The last 3 released national polls revealed an average 5.3 point lead for Barack Obama over John McCain. [Sources: ABC/WP 9/27 - 9/29, Pew Research 09/27 - 09/29, Rasmussen Tracking 9/28 - 9/30].

Ohio: The last 3 state polls in Ohio show an average 3 point for Obama over McCain. [Sources: SurveyUSA 9/28 - 9/29, Quinnipiac 9/27 - 9/29, InAdv/PollPosition 9/29]

Pennsylvania: The last 3 state polls in Pennsylvania reveal an average 10 point lead for Obama over McCain. [Sources: Quinnipiac 9/27 - 9/29, Franklin & Marshall 9/27 - 9/29, FOX News/Rasmussen 9/28]

Phil Gramm, John McCain’s senior economic adviser:

“You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession… We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness.”

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At least McCain admits to knowing nothing about economics, this is just beyond humiliating:

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? Allow them to spend more, and put more money into the economy, instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade — we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.

Bask in this America: A drunk, countrah-fied idiot from the backwoods of Alaska could be your next President if the ticking time bomb that is John McCain’s heart (/soul) explodes in the next 4 years. And you thought George Bush was bad…

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I have been foiled yet again:

Your organization’s Internet use policy restricts access to this web page at this time.

Reason: The Websense category “Tasteless” is filtered.

URL: http://disgracefulandsexy.com/

I will make this brief. This week was the fifth anniversary of one of the most disastrous endeavors in American history. The invasion of Iraq has cost America thousands of lives, billions of dollars, and devastated any future prospects of a normalized state in Iraq for the foreseeable future (not to mention the untold diplomatic damage such unilateral action has caused). It’s fitting that on the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Bush would declare “a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror” was achieved by the five years spent in Iraq. It appears the Chief Executive is either delusional or myopic: the Iraq war neither combatted terrorism (and in fact stoked more of it) and has yet to be a victory in any sense of the word. On the same day, poll numbers showed that Bush has also achieved the lowest approval rating of his Presidency — 31 percent — which is also among the lowest among modern presidency’s (lower then Clinton during impeachment, lower then Carter during the Tehran hostage crisis, and even lower than Nixon after Watergate).

Interesting Statistical Comparisons

Every 9.74 days, there is an equivalent amount of casualties in Iraq & Afghanistan as September 11th.

There are 9.53 Virginia Tech shootings in Iraq & Afghanistan every day.

There is on average 305 daily civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In 14 days, as many Iraqi and Afghani civilians are killed as the entire amount of American military personnel killed since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2002 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Note: There is some discrepancy between various sources on the amount of civilian casualties since the US-led invasion in Iraq and Afghanistan. A study in October of 2006 listed over 650,000 killed (see Washington Post article below) while other sources vary from over 1 million to just over 80,000 (see British-government funded Iraq Body Count below). I computed 400,000 Iraqi civilian fatalities and 45,000 Afghani civilian fatalities by averaging several sources, though I personally feel these are conservative estimates.

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Polling data from American Research group and Pollster.com.

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From a Fox News Poll:

Who is Usama Rooting For?

Who does Usama bin Laden want to be the next president? More people think the terrorist leader wants Obama to win (30 percent) than think he wants Clinton (22 percent) or McCain (10 percent). Another 18 percent says it doesn’t matter to bin Laden and 20 percent are unsure

Yes, that’s right, Fox News is basically conducting push polling for the RNC by asking potential voters who they think Osama Bin Laden would vote for. And guess who won! Your man of questionable ‘madrasa’ background and middle names, Barack Hussein Osama!

Remember Kids Barack Obama would talk with the enemies of our military-industrial complex! And you know what that means: he’s complacent against terrorism.

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“I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don’t like cynical people. I don’t like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy. You don’t have to justify it. You don’t have to fight for it.” - Michel Gondry

Bjork - Declare Independence, directed by Gondry:

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As good as it gets

The Origins of Super Delegates, or
How the Democratic Elite Enacted a Crooked System to Keep Their Kind on Top

1968

The seeds of the current Democratic system of nomination were planted in the ashes of fires and riots of the 1968 convention and election. Entering the cycle, the Democrats were split into four camps. The old guard favorite and residing president, LBJ, was facing falling popularity and poor health, and in March of ‘68 he withdrew from the race. His VP, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. of Minnesota, then entered the race representing the old-guard machine and boss wing of the Democratic party.

The other two candidates were Eugene McCarthy, running on an anti-war, pro-youth platform, and Robert Kennedy, who represented the pro-Civil Rights platform. The fourth faction were the old school Democrats, aka Dixiecrats.

With there being increasing evidence that Ron Paul is shifting from his Republican Presidential campaign to his reelection campaign for the House of Representatives — essentially dropping out of the Presidential race — the question becomes what to do with all the energy, effort, and money behind Mr. Paul’s spirited run. While I did not agree with a lot of his platform, he showed he was a viable, sincere candidate and, unlike other ‘outsider’ or independent candidates (Nader in 2004 or 2000, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, Dennis Kucinich), he proved that he could combine grassroots support, galvanize several cross-sections of the population, and have significant fund raising capability. Though it appears he has ruled out running as a third party candidate for the 2008 Presidential election, his campaign shows that there is a tremendous opportunity to establish another national political party in America (and if anything has been made clear by the internal treatment of Paul, Kucinich, and Gravel by the Republican and Democratic party, it’s that the parties want nothing to do with them or public discussions on dissent and policy disagreements).

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And it’s not Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, it’s John McCain. While it’s starting to appear that McCain has wrapped up the Republican nomination, there has been a noticeable revolt among sectors of the conservative elite against his pending nomination. From the Evangelical right to the anti-Immigrant right, members in and outside of the party have pledged not to vote or support McCain, and Ann Coulter went as far to say she would campaign for Hillary Clinton if she faced John McCain in the general election.

James Dobson: “I am deeply disappointed the Republican Party seems poised to select a nominee who did not support a Constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage, voted for embryonic stem cell research to kill nascent human beings, opposed tax cuts that ended the marriage penalty, has little regard for freedom of speech, organized the Gang of 14 to preserve filibusters in judicial hearings, and has a legendary temper and often uses foul and obscene language.