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	<title>Comments on: While Claiming &#8216;I&#8217;m Not Bringing It Up,&#8217; Hannity Repeatedly Brings Up Obama&#8217;s Cocaine Use</title>
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		<title>By: Since2oo6</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/21/hannity-cocaine/comment-page-2/#comment-5576308</link>
		<dc:creator>Since2oo6</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Max-1</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/21/hannity-cocaine/comment-page-2/#comment-5299154</link>
		<dc:creator>Max-1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>.

I hate bringing it up but...
... Has (ins)Hannity stopped beating his boyfriend yet?

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<p>I hate bringing it up but&#8230;<br />
&#8230; Has (ins)Hannity stopped beating his boyfriend yet?</p>
<p>.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5299154', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Austin</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/21/hannity-cocaine/comment-page-2/#comment-5297648</link>
		<dc:creator>Austin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Sean:
John McCain admits to having an affair with Cindy while his  wife was recovering from an accident.  Where did they have that affair.  How many times.  What positions did the &quot;do it&quot; during that affair.  Did Cindy swallow or spit . . . 

OK, sorry about that one.  Even Hannity wouldn&#039;t ask that question.  He&#039;d just ask if it was fair to ask that question.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Sean:<br />
John McCain admits to having an affair with Cindy while his  wife was recovering from an accident.  Where did they have that affair.  How many times.  What positions did the &#8220;do it&#8221; during that affair.  Did Cindy swallow or spit . . . </p>
<p>OK, sorry about that one.  Even Hannity wouldn&#8217;t ask that question.  He&#8217;d just ask if it was fair to ask that question.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297648', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: MapleStreet</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/21/hannity-cocaine/comment-page-2/#comment-5297606</link>
		<dc:creator>MapleStreet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dumb Question:  Why was it OK and in the past when Bush repeatedly (and against the law) got high but not OK that Clinton tried marijuana - and only in a country where it was legal ?

Why was it OK for Bush in college (because it was in the past)  but not OK (and not in the past) for Obama in High School ?

Why is it OK for Cindy Brady in the current but not OK for Obama in the past ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dumb Question:  Why was it OK and in the past when Bush repeatedly (and against the law) got high but not OK that Clinton tried marijuana &#8211; and only in a country where it was legal ?</p>
<p>Why was it OK for Bush in college (because it was in the past)  but not OK (and not in the past) for Obama in High School ?</p>
<p>Why is it OK for Cindy Brady in the current but not OK for Obama in the past ?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297606', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: prettybabe</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/21/hannity-cocaine/comment-page-2/#comment-5297550</link>
		<dc:creator>prettybabe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>People like Morris, Guliani and Hannity are not aware of the biblical proverb: &quot;Let he without sin cast the first stone.&quot; Morris is an adulterer. Ten Commandment violation. Guliani married a cousin, had an affair that his wife learned about in press conference, made his fortune off 7/11, children not speaking to him. A passel of Commandment violations. Fast lip Hannity is going to have a heart attack on TV or radio if he does not find a scandal large enough to bring down Barack Obama. Like all conservative haters on radio, their hate for Obama is personal. It has nothing to do with his politics.It&#039;s beyond him being a Democrat. Obama represents a loss of power for the all-white male control in the u.s. This is a fearful prospect for those white Americans who cannot except change, which will eventually come to pass whether it&#039;s through Obama or another minority. Though none of these haters will ever admit it, they actually envy Obama for achieving what they can only dream about. If you listen to any of them, they have all said this on air: &quot;If I was president ...&quot;, or &quot;If I was a senator...&quot; And then they try to advise candidates on how to run their campaigns. Rush Limbaugh thought he could initiate a write-in to get his name of the Nobel Peace Prize list! He felt he deserved to win.  For someone who&#039;s brain is on loan from God--God apparently shortchanged him, and didn&#039;t bother to tell him.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People like Morris, Guliani and Hannity are not aware of the biblical proverb: &#8220;Let he without sin cast the first stone.&#8221; Morris is an adulterer. Ten Commandment violation. Guliani married a cousin, had an affair that his wife learned about in press conference, made his fortune off 7/11, children not speaking to him. A passel of Commandment violations. Fast lip Hannity is going to have a heart attack on TV or radio if he does not find a scandal large enough to bring down Barack Obama. Like all conservative haters on radio, their hate for Obama is personal. It has nothing to do with his politics.It&#8217;s beyond him being a Democrat. Obama represents a loss of power for the all-white male control in the u.s. This is a fearful prospect for those white Americans who cannot except change, which will eventually come to pass whether it&#8217;s through Obama or another minority. Though none of these haters will ever admit it, they actually envy Obama for achieving what they can only dream about. If you listen to any of them, they have all said this on air: &#8220;If I was president &#8230;&#8221;, or &#8220;If I was a senator&#8230;&#8221; And then they try to advise candidates on how to run their campaigns. Rush Limbaugh thought he could initiate a write-in to get his name of the Nobel Peace Prize list! He felt he deserved to win.  For someone who&#8217;s brain is on loan from God&#8211;God apparently shortchanged him, and didn&#8217;t bother to tell him.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297550', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: zuch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Sean:

If I were to ask you when you stopped your axe-murdering pederasty, would it be OK?  I mean, I just want to know how you feel about questions about your axe-murdering pederasty, and whether you&#039;ve decided that 23 kids is enough.  Because I think it&#039;s important to know your own views on the topic of whether your axe-murdering pederasty is an appropriate and legitimate area of inquiry....

Cheers,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Sean:</p>
<p>If I were to ask you when you stopped your axe-murdering pederasty, would it be OK?  I mean, I just want to know how you feel about questions about your axe-murdering pederasty, and whether you&#8217;ve decided that 23 kids is enough.  Because I think it&#8217;s important to know your own views on the topic of whether your axe-murdering pederasty is an appropriate and legitimate area of inquiry&#8230;.</p>
<p>Cheers,<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297492', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: BaxterJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>BaxterJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.entertonement.com/collections/5051/Giuliani-On-Obama%27s-Drug-Use&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This is what the GOP is reduced to for strategy at this point&lt;/a&gt;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.entertonement.com/collections/5051/Giuliani-On-Obama%27s-Drug-Use" rel="nofollow">This is what the GOP is reduced to for strategy at this point</a>?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297440', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;The Republic of Stupidity Says: 
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hussein toasterhead Says:

So if I bring up the speculation that Hannity might be a child molestor, is that okay?
___________

I notice Sean hasn’t DENIED it, has it? I find that very telling,,, don’t you?&lt;/em&gt;

In fact, I find it very suspicious that Hannity has always avoided the question of whether he is a child molester.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The Republic of Stupidity Says:<br />
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<p>hussein toasterhead Says:</p>
<p>So if I bring up the speculation that Hannity might be a child molestor, is that okay?<br />
___________</p>
<p>I notice Sean hasn’t DENIED it, has it? I find that very telling,,, don’t you?</em></p>
<p>In fact, I find it very suspicious that Hannity has always avoided the question of whether he is a child molester.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297408', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bilbo Hussein Baggins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry Hannity, there&#039;s a BIG difference between dabbling in drugs when you are young (you do remember W&#039;s cocaine use, don&#039;t you) and a woman who STEALS narcotics from a charity to support her habit.  There IS NOT equivalency there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry Hannity, there&#8217;s a BIG difference between dabbling in drugs when you are young (you do remember W&#8217;s cocaine use, don&#8217;t you) and a woman who STEALS narcotics from a charity to support her habit.  There IS NOT equivalency there.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297382', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Cal Malenky</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cal Malenky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sean Hannity: the push-poll personified</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sean Hannity: the push-poll personified<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297354', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: alphainfinityomega</title>
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		<dc:creator>alphainfinityomega</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let Hannity be an example to anyone who might feel the urge to inbreed.

&lt;strong&gt;¶ AIO&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let Hannity be an example to anyone who might feel the urge to inbreed.</p>
<p><strong>¶ AIO</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297346', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: upside99</title>
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		<dc:creator>upside99</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why is this even a TP news topic?

The only people that watch/listen to Hanitee-hee and lil&#039; Dickie are already Kool-aid addled Repugs, anyway.

Nobody I know would ever be swayed by anything either of those two assklowns say.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why is this even a TP news topic?</p>
<p>The only people that watch/listen to Hanitee-hee and lil&#8217; Dickie are already Kool-aid addled Repugs, anyway.</p>
<p>Nobody I know would ever be swayed by anything either of those two assklowns say.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297324', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Progressive Veteran</title>
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		<dc:creator>Progressive Veteran</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh so its good to see that Republicans think its okay to abuse pain killers, but not okay to abuse cocaine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh so its good to see that Republicans think its okay to abuse pain killers, but not okay to abuse cocaine.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297316', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: LibertyLover</title>
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		<dc:creator>LibertyLover</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Heh. The republican talking heads are so frustrated that Barak Obama is as tephlony as Ronnie Reagan used to be... nothing that they throw at him seems to stick. I guess Obama is either that clean and open or just so hopeful that Americans are just tired about all the mud the talking heads like to throw.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heh. The republican talking heads are so frustrated that Barak Obama is as tephlony as Ronnie Reagan used to be&#8230; nothing that they throw at him seems to stick. I guess Obama is either that clean and open or just so hopeful that Americans are just tired about all the mud the talking heads like to throw.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297286', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Doc Rock</title>
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		<dc:creator>Doc Rock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dubya! Dubya! &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_substance_abuse_controversy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dubya!&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dubya! Dubya! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_substance_abuse_controversy" rel="nofollow">Dubya!</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297274', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: 49erDem</title>
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		<dc:creator>49erDem</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Republicans. They&#039;ve proven themselves to be bad winners and now they&#039;re proving to be even worse losers. In fact, they&#039;re such bad losers that their &quot;movement&quot; is pretty much over.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Republicans. They&#8217;ve proven themselves to be bad winners and now they&#8217;re proving to be even worse losers. In fact, they&#8217;re such bad losers that their &#8220;movement&#8221; is pretty much over.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297244', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: 5th Estate</title>
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		<dc:creator>5th Estate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>misshusseinmolly #17: I think you could call it &quot;&lt;em&gt;questionable journalism&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. 

The specious questioning is also part of the MCCain/GOP strategy of painting Obama as &quot;other&quot; by constantly asking &quot;Who &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; Obama?&quot;. 
That Republican orifice on The View, Hasselbeck, for example, has been parroting this meme for weeks, at every opportunity. 
McCain and Palin have posed the question to their rallies.

They keep asking the question but they refuse to acknowledge the answers that have been provided by both Obama and press investigations over the past TWO effing &lt;em&gt;years&lt;/em&gt;!.

It is all the more bizarre when we pose the corollary question, &quot;&lt;em&gt;who &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;is &lt;/em&gt;John McCain?&quot; 

For at least &lt;em&gt;eight &lt;/em&gt;years the McCain everyone &#039;&lt;em&gt;knew&lt;/em&gt;&#039; was the &#039;war-hero&#039; and the political &#039;maverick&#039; with a &#039;bipartisan&#039; streak. That is what the public and especially the press chose to believe, &lt;em&gt;without question. &lt;/em&gt;. Had McCain never run for the White House that&#039;s what the majority would probably &lt;em&gt;still &lt;/em&gt;believe about him. 

Ironically I&#039;d say his 2000 effort helped maintain the facile acceptance of his claimed qualities due to the vicious nature of the Bush/Rove counter-campaign against McCain, which earned him enough sympathy to kibosh any further questioning of his character or principles. 

Only now, as the official GOP candidate for president has the press bothered to examine him in depth, and thanks to the unusually protracted &quot;season&quot; and his early (compared to the Dems) emergence as the presumptive GOP nominee the press and the public has come to re-learn what they &#039;knew&#039; about John McCain and have arrived at a very different estimation of him than before---an estimation based on research, not assumptions and blind acceptance of McCain&#039;s own propaganda. 

Furthermore the manner in which McCain&#039;s campaign has been  run has revealed far more about him than a dispassionate or even a partisan examination of his official record ever could. 

In stark contrast Obama&#039;s record offers very little that is inconsistent with his persona and his own &#039;propoganda&#039; whilst his personal conduct and that of his campaign as a whole has only enhanced his image, not diminished it. 

I was one who was very concerned about Obama&#039;s professional political experience (but not his personal qualities) but it has become clear to me that his intelligence has largely transcended the conventional requirements for political success. Obama is clearly as genuine and principled a politician and a person as you could hope for. McCain on the other hand has shown himself to be the complete opposite--not, I would add, as professionally corrupt as so many of his GOP colleagues ( Ted Stevens, Tom Delay, Duke Cunningham for example), but rather corrupt in himself as a self-serving incompetent who believes his own hype. 

We now &lt;em&gt;know &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;who &lt;/em&gt;John McCain is, and we &lt;em&gt;know &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;who &lt;/em&gt;Obama is and it looks like the majority knows who they would rather have as a resident in &quot;the people&#039;s house&quot;. 

But John McCain and his ardent supporters know nothing except their own fantasy that they know who they are (&quot;real Americans&quot;) whilst they still insist that no-one really &#039;knows&#039; who Obama is.

Funny how McCain constantly says &quot;my friends&quot; whereas I can;t think of any occasion  where Obama has used that expression, yet Obama seems to have a lot more genuine &#039;friends&#039; than McCain.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>misshusseinmolly #17: I think you could call it &#8220;<em>questionable journalism</em>&#8220;. </p>
<p>The specious questioning is also part of the MCCain/GOP strategy of painting Obama as &#8220;other&#8221; by constantly asking &#8220;Who <em>is</em> Obama?&#8221;.<br />
That Republican orifice on The View, Hasselbeck, for example, has been parroting this meme for weeks, at every opportunity.<br />
McCain and Palin have posed the question to their rallies.</p>
<p>They keep asking the question but they refuse to acknowledge the answers that have been provided by both Obama and press investigations over the past TWO effing <em>years</em>!.</p>
<p>It is all the more bizarre when we pose the corollary question, &#8220;<em>who </em><em>is </em>John McCain?&#8221; </p>
<p>For at least <em>eight </em>years the McCain everyone &#8216;<em>knew</em>&#8216; was the &#8216;war-hero&#8217; and the political &#8216;maverick&#8217; with a &#8216;bipartisan&#8217; streak. That is what the public and especially the press chose to believe, <em>without question. </em>. Had McCain never run for the White House that&#8217;s what the majority would probably <em>still </em>believe about him. </p>
<p>Ironically I&#8217;d say his 2000 effort helped maintain the facile acceptance of his claimed qualities due to the vicious nature of the Bush/Rove counter-campaign against McCain, which earned him enough sympathy to kibosh any further questioning of his character or principles. </p>
<p>Only now, as the official GOP candidate for president has the press bothered to examine him in depth, and thanks to the unusually protracted &#8220;season&#8221; and his early (compared to the Dems) emergence as the presumptive GOP nominee the press and the public has come to re-learn what they &#8216;knew&#8217; about John McCain and have arrived at a very different estimation of him than before&#8212;an estimation based on research, not assumptions and blind acceptance of McCain&#8217;s own propaganda. </p>
<p>Furthermore the manner in which McCain&#8217;s campaign has been  run has revealed far more about him than a dispassionate or even a partisan examination of his official record ever could. </p>
<p>In stark contrast Obama&#8217;s record offers very little that is inconsistent with his persona and his own &#8216;propoganda&#8217; whilst his personal conduct and that of his campaign as a whole has only enhanced his image, not diminished it. </p>
<p>I was one who was very concerned about Obama&#8217;s professional political experience (but not his personal qualities) but it has become clear to me that his intelligence has largely transcended the conventional requirements for political success. Obama is clearly as genuine and principled a politician and a person as you could hope for. McCain on the other hand has shown himself to be the complete opposite&#8211;not, I would add, as professionally corrupt as so many of his GOP colleagues ( Ted Stevens, Tom Delay, Duke Cunningham for example), but rather corrupt in himself as a self-serving incompetent who believes his own hype. </p>
<p>We now <em>know </em><em>who </em>John McCain is, and we <em>know </em><em>who </em>Obama is and it looks like the majority knows who they would rather have as a resident in &#8220;the people&#8217;s house&#8221;. </p>
<p>But John McCain and his ardent supporters know nothing except their own fantasy that they know who they are (&#8221;real Americans&#8221;) whilst they still insist that no-one really &#8216;knows&#8217; who Obama is.</p>
<p>Funny how McCain constantly says &#8220;my friends&#8221; whereas I can;t think of any occasion  where Obama has used that expression, yet Obama seems to have a lot more genuine &#8216;friends&#8217; than McCain.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297228', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dick Morris:  Registered Toe Jam Trafficker.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dick Morris:  Registered Toe Jam Trafficker.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297196', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: CageyCretin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Look, I&#039;m not bringing anything up, but why doesn&#039;t McCain or Palin talk about their financial ties to terrorist organizations?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look, I&#8217;m not bringing anything up, but why doesn&#8217;t McCain or Palin talk about their financial ties to terrorist organizations?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297186', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Would it be alright to ask how many teenage girls McCain has had non-consentual sex with? Just asking if it&#039;s o.k. to ask.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Would it be alright to ask how many teenage girls McCain has had non-consentual sex with? Just asking if it&#8217;s o.k. to ask.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297176', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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