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	<title>Comments on: Bachmann Doubles Down: &#8216;Barack Obama&#8217;s Views Are Against America&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: Since2oo6</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Since2oo6</title>
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		<title>By: San_Diego_Dave</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/22/bachmann-doubles-down/comment-page-2/#comment-5302308</link>
		<dc:creator>San_Diego_Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>She must have forgotten the first rule of digging. When you&#039;re in a hole you don&#039;t want to be in, STOP digging!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She must have forgotten the first rule of digging. When you&#8217;re in a hole you don&#8217;t want to be in, STOP digging!<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=5302308', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: proudem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Otherwise the United States may be literally changed forever.&quot;

That&#039;s the point Congresswoman Bachmann (soon to be former Congresswoman), the people are calling for change.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Otherwise the United States may be literally changed forever.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the point Congresswoman Bachmann (soon to be former Congresswoman), the people are calling for change.<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=5301908', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: hailardri</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe the Minnesota citizens should require that their representatives have successfully completed their 4th grade Civics class.

And be able to prove it.

Et tu Michelle !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe the Minnesota citizens should require that their representatives have successfully completed their 4th grade Civics class.</p>
<p>And be able to prove it.</p>
<p>Et tu Michelle !<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=5301884', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: cosmosis</title>
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		<dc:creator>cosmosis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let&#039;s &quot;touch a nerve&quot; with Crazy Bachmann and kick her ass to the curb.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s &#8220;touch a nerve&#8221; with Crazy Bachmann and kick her ass to the curb.<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=5301830', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Max-1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>.

Who is Michelle Bachmann, anyway?
Who is Michelle Bachmann, anyway?
Who is Michelle Bachmann, anyway?
Who is Michelle Bachmann, anyway?
Who is Michelle Bachmann, anyway?
Who is Michelle Bachmann, anyway?

What does Michelle Bachmann stand for?
What does Michelle Bachmann stand for?
What does Michelle Bachmann stand for?
What does Michelle Bachmann stand for?
What does Michelle Bachmann stand for?
What does Michelle Bachmann stand for?

Why did she choose to speak her mind so?
Why did she choose to speak her mind so?
Why did she choose to speak her mind so?
Why did she choose to speak her mind so?
Why did she choose to speak her mind so?
Why did she choose to speak her mind so?

How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?
How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?
How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?
How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?
How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?
How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?
How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?

Who &lt;em&gt;IS&lt;/em&gt; Michelle Bachmann?
Who &lt;em&gt;IS&lt;/em&gt; Michelle Bachmann?
Who &lt;em&gt;IS&lt;/em&gt; Michelle Bachmann?
Who &lt;em&gt;IS&lt;/em&gt; Michelle Bachmann?
Who &lt;em&gt;IS&lt;/em&gt; Michelle Bachmann?
Who &lt;em&gt;IS&lt;/em&gt; Michelle Bachmann?

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<p>Who is Michelle Bachmann, anyway?<br />
Who is Michelle Bachmann, anyway?<br />
Who is Michelle Bachmann, anyway?<br />
Who is Michelle Bachmann, anyway?<br />
Who is Michelle Bachmann, anyway?<br />
Who is Michelle Bachmann, anyway?</p>
<p>What does Michelle Bachmann stand for?<br />
What does Michelle Bachmann stand for?<br />
What does Michelle Bachmann stand for?<br />
What does Michelle Bachmann stand for?<br />
What does Michelle Bachmann stand for?<br />
What does Michelle Bachmann stand for?</p>
<p>Why did she choose to speak her mind so?<br />
Why did she choose to speak her mind so?<br />
Why did she choose to speak her mind so?<br />
Why did she choose to speak her mind so?<br />
Why did she choose to speak her mind so?<br />
Why did she choose to speak her mind so?</p>
<p>How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?<br />
How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?<br />
How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?<br />
How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?<br />
How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?<br />
How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?<br />
How is Michelle Bachmann uniting through her divisive speech?</p>
<p>Who <em>IS</em> Michelle Bachmann?<br />
Who <em>IS</em> Michelle Bachmann?<br />
Who <em>IS</em> Michelle Bachmann?<br />
Who <em>IS</em> Michelle Bachmann?<br />
Who <em>IS</em> Michelle Bachmann?<br />
Who <em>IS</em> Michelle Bachmann?</p>
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		<title>By: uansari1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has anyone answered Bachmann back by pointing out that while McCain rejected (after a long time) Pastor Hagee&#039;s endorsement, but still has yet to do the same for Reverand Rod Parsley?  The man claims America was founded to destroy Islam and McCain has called him a great spiritual advisor.  Are these views consistent with American values?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has anyone answered Bachmann back by pointing out that while McCain rejected (after a long time) Pastor Hagee&#8217;s endorsement, but still has yet to do the same for Reverand Rod Parsley?  The man claims America was founded to destroy Islam and McCain has called him a great spiritual advisor.  Are these views consistent with American values?<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=5301648', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: green</title>
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		<dc:creator>green</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is amazing to me how these right wing nuts come out spewing their crap all over the place - and then spend days back pedaling. This one calling some members of Congress (psssst, the Democrats) anti-American - and THAT ONE down south saying liberals hate real Americans. Huh? We are Americans - all of us, even the stupid ones.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is amazing to me how these right wing nuts come out spewing their crap all over the place &#8211; and then spend days back pedaling. This one calling some members of Congress (psssst, the Democrats) anti-American &#8211; and THAT ONE down south saying liberals hate real Americans. Huh? We are Americans &#8211; all of us, even the stupid ones.<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=5301616', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: green</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>jhop Says: 

Bravo!!</description>
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<p>Bravo!!<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=5301558', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: texashick</title>
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		<dc:creator>texashick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Michelle:  Thanks for making Texans look smart.  We have some dumb folks here, but you are a freak.  Do you talk to your husband like that?  I bet you know that you&#039;d be on the curb if you did.  The gutter is where you just put yourself.  The curb is on the way up!  Give it a shot!  Your political life is DONE.  Thank GOD...the decent one...not yours.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Michelle:  Thanks for making Texans look smart.  We have some dumb folks here, but you are a freak.  Do you talk to your husband like that?  I bet you know that you&#8217;d be on the curb if you did.  The gutter is where you just put yourself.  The curb is on the way up!  Give it a shot!  Your political life is DONE.  Thank GOD&#8230;the decent one&#8230;not yours.<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=5301528', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Erik Kartmann</title>
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		<dc:creator>Erik Kartmann</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ms. Bachmann, Exactly how does that foot taste? And does it go well with that generic slice of humble pie you are trying to serve with it? Busted, disgusted, and now you can&#039;t be trusted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ms. Bachmann, Exactly how does that foot taste? And does it go well with that generic slice of humble pie you are trying to serve with it? Busted, disgusted, and now you can&#8217;t be trusted.<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=5301500', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jhop</title>
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		<dc:creator>jhop</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michelle, Michelle, you want to talk about character and relationships?&lt;

1) McCain&#039;s self-proclaimed &quot;proud&quot; friendship with convicted Watergate felon and terrorist, G.GORDON LIDDY?

2) Ask McCain why in 2006 he spent his 70th birthday on the yacht of the Italian felon RAFFAELO FOLLIERI, recently imprisoned for 5 years on 14 counts of fraud worth $6,000,000 - - McCain was accompanied by campaign manager, Rick Davis...what was their meeting with Follieri for? Rumor has it, to secure the catholic vote for McCain.  I’m a Catholic and it didn’t get mine. 

3) Also in 2006, why did McCain, again with campaign manager, Rick Davis, meet twice with convicted Russian mobster, OLEG DERIPASKA, re some deal with a metals trading company? The governments of Israel, England, and the US accused Deripaska of international espionage and other criminal activities. 

4) McCain has appointed Washington&#039;s uber-lobbyist, WILLIAM TIMMONS, to head his presidential transition team - - but do Americans know that for 5 years after the Gulf War Timmons was a lobbyist on behalf of Saddam Hussein, helping the murderous Iraqi dictator (reason for the 7-year US/Iraq War) to avoid punitive international sanctions? Shouldn&#039;t we be questioning McCain&#039;s judgment on Timmons - after all, he was consorting with this &quot;axis of evil&quot; enemy of America when he was in his late 50&#039;s/early 60&#039;s..As I recall, Obama was 8 yrs old when Ayers was an activist.

5) John McCain likes to pose as someone who is against &quot;Washington special interests and lobbyists&quot;. Well, McCain received $1,700,000 in campaign contributions from lobbyists, compared to Obama&#039;s $219,000, and a February 22 Washington Post article reported that &quot;virtually every one&quot; of McCain&#039;s &quot;closest advisers&quot; &quot;was part of the Washington lobbying culture he has long decried&quot;, including Rick Davis, Wayne Berman, Carlos Bonilla, Acquiles Suarez, Charles Black, Nancy Pfotenfauer, Slade Gorton, Thomas Loeffler, James Couter, Christian Ferry, David Crane, Robert Aiken, Grant Aldonas, James Rill, William Timmons and Doug Goodyear. 

6) BREAKING NEWS - Just announced, Freddie Mac secretly paid Republican Doug Goodyear&#039;s consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the two firms collapsed! The McCain campaign hired Doug Goodyear to manage the Republican convention. The firm of Rick Davis, McCain Campaign Manager, was also paid over $3 million by Freddie &amp; Fannie to lobby against regulation. 20 McCain Campaign staffers were Freddie/Fannie lobbyists. 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/19/freddie-mac-paid-gop-cons_n_135995.html

7) In 2007, on Meet The Press, Tim Russert, exposed how John McCain, as head of US Senate Commerce Committee, in response to lobbying by VICKI ISEMAN, pressured the FCC to act favorably towards PAXSON COMMUNICATIONS, threatening them. McCain received $28,000 in campaign contributions from Paxson and flew four times on the Paxson jet to campaign events and spent time on Paxson&#039;s yacht in Palm Beach. McCain denied Russert&#039;s accusation, but old BUD PAXSON himself came out in public and confirmed McCain&#039;s guilt. John McCain lies to the American public when pretending to be &quot;an ethics champion, reformer and maverick&quot;, fact is his influence was often &quot;bought&quot; by lobbyists?

6) Sarah Palin accuses Obama of &quot;palling around with terrorists&quot;, but US voters need to know more about the years John McCain has been &quot;palling around with mobsters and organized crime&quot;. John &amp; Cindy&#039;s fortune is traceable to organized crime. On 3/31/07 the Bonanno &quot;crime&quot; family gave $11,000 to McCain&#039;s campaign. McCain is a big gambler and a central figure in Las Vegas and Indian Tribe casino deals? McCain, the biggest supporter in Congress of tax breaks for his casino buddies, has actually cost the US Government $326,000,000 over the past few years. 40 of the 60 lobbyists working for McCain Campaign have either lobbied/worked for gambling interests, including tribal and Las Vegas casinos, lottery companies and on-line poker dealers. And, and it is not about sensitivity to Native American reparations. 

7) This is shocking, but do US voters know about the United Nations Human Rights Commission Condemnation of John McCain, and how the Dineh-Navajo were swept off lands they&#039;d owned in Arizona since 1500 A.D. by legislations authored by Senator McCain, and their lands and the coal beneath handed over to Peabody Western Coal Group? The group, Common Cause, claims McCain received large campaign contributions from the corporations involved for his three Presidential runs, and Cindy McCain&#039;s family liquor distribution business landed huge &quot;payback&quot; contracts in Las Vegas, where the Dineh-Navajo&#039;s coal supplied lower cost power? McCain needs to be questioned and tell us the truth.
 
8) Although a big gambler, between 2000 - 2007, McCain reported no winnings on his tax returns. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a complaint with Senate Ethics Committee and an investigation has been initiated with IRS. If McCain is found to have witheld reporting any gambling income, it is a crime. 

9) In West Virginia, voters have reported Republican controlled voting fraud by machines which have been tampered with, when the voters switched the indicator for Senator Obama, kept on switching back to indicate John McCain. McCain Campaign has been grossly exaggerating the ACORN story in order to deflect attention from the real fraud that is being perpetrated at the actual point of voting NOT registration. The incorrectly filled registration forms collected by ACORN volunteers were identified by ACORN themselves and reported by them.

10) John McCain&#039;s campaign has directed $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states. A joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the California GOP made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy in June for purposes of &quot;registering voters.&quot; The managing partner of that firm is Nathan Sproul, a renowned GOP operative who has been investigated for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and spearheading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to hinder the Democratic ticket.
Democrats have not blanketed the campaign, badgering the public every single day calling John McCain a fascist or Nazi or anything else based on the above decisions. Sen. Obama believes that the issues facing the nation today and thoughtful proposals for resolving those issues, with the commitment of the American public, should be the basis upon which people vote.  He is probably right.  But I am outraged at the plethora of Obama demonizing and just got tired of being nice. Reactionary, maybe, but I am one 70-year- old lady who decided enough was enough!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michelle, Michelle, you want to talk about character and relationships?&lt;</p>
<p>1) McCain&#8217;s self-proclaimed &#8220;proud&#8221; friendship with convicted Watergate felon and terrorist, G.GORDON LIDDY?</p>
<p>2) Ask McCain why in 2006 he spent his 70th birthday on the yacht of the Italian felon RAFFAELO FOLLIERI, recently imprisoned for 5 years on 14 counts of fraud worth $6,000,000 &#8211; - McCain was accompanied by campaign manager, Rick Davis&#8230;what was their meeting with Follieri for? Rumor has it, to secure the catholic vote for McCain.  I’m a Catholic and it didn’t get mine. </p>
<p>3) Also in 2006, why did McCain, again with campaign manager, Rick Davis, meet twice with convicted Russian mobster, OLEG DERIPASKA, re some deal with a metals trading company? The governments of Israel, England, and the US accused Deripaska of international espionage and other criminal activities. </p>
<p>4) McCain has appointed Washington&#8217;s uber-lobbyist, WILLIAM TIMMONS, to head his presidential transition team &#8211; - but do Americans know that for 5 years after the Gulf War Timmons was a lobbyist on behalf of Saddam Hussein, helping the murderous Iraqi dictator (reason for the 7-year US/Iraq War) to avoid punitive international sanctions? Shouldn&#8217;t we be questioning McCain&#8217;s judgment on Timmons &#8211; after all, he was consorting with this &#8220;axis of evil&#8221; enemy of America when he was in his late 50&#8217;s/early 60&#8217;s..As I recall, Obama was 8 yrs old when Ayers was an activist.</p>
<p>5) John McCain likes to pose as someone who is against &#8220;Washington special interests and lobbyists&#8221;. Well, McCain received $1,700,000 in campaign contributions from lobbyists, compared to Obama&#8217;s $219,000, and a February 22 Washington Post article reported that &#8220;virtually every one&#8221; of McCain&#8217;s &#8220;closest advisers&#8221; &#8220;was part of the Washington lobbying culture he has long decried&#8221;, including Rick Davis, Wayne Berman, Carlos Bonilla, Acquiles Suarez, Charles Black, Nancy Pfotenfauer, Slade Gorton, Thomas Loeffler, James Couter, Christian Ferry, David Crane, Robert Aiken, Grant Aldonas, James Rill, William Timmons and Doug Goodyear. </p>
<p>6) BREAKING NEWS &#8211; Just announced, Freddie Mac secretly paid Republican Doug Goodyear&#8217;s consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the two firms collapsed! The McCain campaign hired Doug Goodyear to manage the Republican convention. The firm of Rick Davis, McCain Campaign Manager, was also paid over $3 million by Freddie &amp; Fannie to lobby against regulation. 20 McCain Campaign staffers were Freddie/Fannie lobbyists.<br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/19/freddie-mac-paid-gop-cons_n_135995.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/19/freddie-mac-paid-gop-cons_n_135995.html</a></p>
<p>7) In 2007, on Meet The Press, Tim Russert, exposed how John McCain, as head of US Senate Commerce Committee, in response to lobbying by VICKI ISEMAN, pressured the FCC to act favorably towards PAXSON COMMUNICATIONS, threatening them. McCain received $28,000 in campaign contributions from Paxson and flew four times on the Paxson jet to campaign events and spent time on Paxson&#8217;s yacht in Palm Beach. McCain denied Russert&#8217;s accusation, but old BUD PAXSON himself came out in public and confirmed McCain&#8217;s guilt. John McCain lies to the American public when pretending to be &#8220;an ethics champion, reformer and maverick&#8221;, fact is his influence was often &#8220;bought&#8221; by lobbyists?</p>
<p>6) Sarah Palin accuses Obama of &#8220;palling around with terrorists&#8221;, but US voters need to know more about the years John McCain has been &#8220;palling around with mobsters and organized crime&#8221;. John &amp; Cindy&#8217;s fortune is traceable to organized crime. On 3/31/07 the Bonanno &#8220;crime&#8221; family gave $11,000 to McCain&#8217;s campaign. McCain is a big gambler and a central figure in Las Vegas and Indian Tribe casino deals? McCain, the biggest supporter in Congress of tax breaks for his casino buddies, has actually cost the US Government $326,000,000 over the past few years. 40 of the 60 lobbyists working for McCain Campaign have either lobbied/worked for gambling interests, including tribal and Las Vegas casinos, lottery companies and on-line poker dealers. And, and it is not about sensitivity to Native American reparations. </p>
<p>7) This is shocking, but do US voters know about the United Nations Human Rights Commission Condemnation of John McCain, and how the Dineh-Navajo were swept off lands they&#8217;d owned in Arizona since 1500 A.D. by legislations authored by Senator McCain, and their lands and the coal beneath handed over to Peabody Western Coal Group? The group, Common Cause, claims McCain received large campaign contributions from the corporations involved for his three Presidential runs, and Cindy McCain&#8217;s family liquor distribution business landed huge &#8220;payback&#8221; contracts in Las Vegas, where the Dineh-Navajo&#8217;s coal supplied lower cost power? McCain needs to be questioned and tell us the truth.</p>
<p>8) Although a big gambler, between 2000 &#8211; 2007, McCain reported no winnings on his tax returns. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a complaint with Senate Ethics Committee and an investigation has been initiated with IRS. If McCain is found to have witheld reporting any gambling income, it is a crime. </p>
<p>9) In West Virginia, voters have reported Republican controlled voting fraud by machines which have been tampered with, when the voters switched the indicator for Senator Obama, kept on switching back to indicate John McCain. McCain Campaign has been grossly exaggerating the ACORN story in order to deflect attention from the real fraud that is being perpetrated at the actual point of voting NOT registration. The incorrectly filled registration forms collected by ACORN volunteers were identified by ACORN themselves and reported by them.</p>
<p>10) John McCain&#8217;s campaign has directed $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states. A joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the California GOP made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy in June for purposes of &#8220;registering voters.&#8221; The managing partner of that firm is Nathan Sproul, a renowned GOP operative who has been investigated for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and spearheading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to hinder the Democratic ticket.<br />
Democrats have not blanketed the campaign, badgering the public every single day calling John McCain a fascist or Nazi or anything else based on the above decisions. Sen. Obama believes that the issues facing the nation today and thoughtful proposals for resolving those issues, with the commitment of the American public, should be the basis upon which people vote.  He is probably right.  But I am outraged at the plethora of Obama demonizing and just got tired of being nice. Reactionary, maybe, but I am one 70-year- old lady who decided enough was enough!<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=5301364', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mmanion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is frustrating to no end that these right wingers simply can&#039;t take responsibility for their own behavior and statements.  Sarah Palin&#039;s abuse of power is the fault of a partisan witchhunt, not her incredibly stupid actions.  Michele Bachmann is given 13 minutes to pretty much free associate all the BS in her head, but she was &quot;tricked&quot; into saying stupid things. Come on. This is why they are so horrible at governance. You simply can&#039;t learn from your mistakes if you are unable to acknowledge you made them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is frustrating to no end that these right wingers simply can&#8217;t take responsibility for their own behavior and statements.  Sarah Palin&#8217;s abuse of power is the fault of a partisan witchhunt, not her incredibly stupid actions.  Michele Bachmann is given 13 minutes to pretty much free associate all the BS in her head, but she was &#8220;tricked&#8221; into saying stupid things. Come on. This is why they are so horrible at governance. You simply can&#8217;t learn from your mistakes if you are unable to acknowledge you made them.<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=5301350', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: bull2008</title>
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		<dc:creator>bull2008</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In reference to a post above about the 50&#039;s by 49erDem...

I assume the right wants to go back to the 50&#039;s because men dominated the political and social dynamics, the creation of the urban sprawl was underway, and there seemed to be a more rigid religious base.

Oh, and even though the 15th amendment &quot;gave them the right to vote,&quot; blacks had a hard time actually voting due literacy tests and poll taxes.  They were finally given full access to the vote in the 1960s with the passage of the 23rd amendment (abolishing poll taxes) and passage of the 1964 Voting Rights Act.

So...if the right wants to regress to the 50&#039;s, would they be ready to face another set of decades like the 60&#039;s and 70&#039;s with all that this nation went through? By our collective history, we can demonstrate that any attempt to go too far in one direction will likely be corrected by a rising up of those with differing opinions.

I believe the intent of the right would actually be to cement us in the 50&#039;s and stifle any attempt to grow beyond that point.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reference to a post above about the 50&#8217;s by 49erDem&#8230;</p>
<p>I assume the right wants to go back to the 50&#8217;s because men dominated the political and social dynamics, the creation of the urban sprawl was underway, and there seemed to be a more rigid religious base.</p>
<p>Oh, and even though the 15th amendment &#8220;gave them the right to vote,&#8221; blacks had a hard time actually voting due literacy tests and poll taxes.  They were finally given full access to the vote in the 1960s with the passage of the 23rd amendment (abolishing poll taxes) and passage of the 1964 Voting Rights Act.</p>
<p>So&#8230;if the right wants to regress to the 50&#8217;s, would they be ready to face another set of decades like the 60&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s with all that this nation went through? By our collective history, we can demonstrate that any attempt to go too far in one direction will likely be corrected by a rising up of those with differing opinions.</p>
<p>I believe the intent of the right would actually be to cement us in the 50&#8217;s and stifle any attempt to grow beyond that point.<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=5301308', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
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		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What is that thing above her left breast but below her pit? Is that one of those stupid condom pockets that used to be popular on teen girl squad fashions?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is that thing above her left breast but below her pit? Is that one of those stupid condom pockets that used to be popular on teen girl squad fashions?<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=5301284', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ohsuzanna</title>
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		<dc:creator>ohsuzanna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;What a terrible thing to have lost one&#039;s mind.  Or not to have a mind at all.  How true that is.&quot;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;


           &lt;em&gt;-- Vice President Dan Quayle in a speech to the United Negro College Fund&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8220;What a terrible thing to have lost one&#8217;s mind.  Or not to have a mind at all.  How true that is.&#8221;
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<p>           <em>&#8211; Vice President Dan Quayle in a speech to the United Negro College Fund</em><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=5301270', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: 1984</title>
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		<dc:creator>1984</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Either way, McCains proposed taxcuts will sink USA deeper because of huge debt levels. Bin Ladin may get his wish if McCain wins and does something as stupid as that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Either way, McCains proposed taxcuts will sink USA deeper because of huge debt levels. Bin Ladin may get his wish if McCain wins and does something as stupid as that.<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=5301266', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: 1984</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/22/bachmann-doubles-down/comment-page-2/#comment-5301258</link>
		<dc:creator>1984</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the right needs to hear what comments McCain made before changing his mind or began to lie in order to fish votes from the right.

&lt;em&gt;“I have never engaged in class warfare. I am very much in FAVOR of tax cuts for middle-income and lower-income Americans. I’m deeply concerned about a kind of class warfare that’s going on right now. It’s unfortunate. There’s a growing gap between the haves and have-nots in America, and that gap is growing, and it’s unfortunately divided up along ethnic lines.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  McCain back in 2000

More (excuse the source):
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24421&amp;page=1#c1
When republicans lower the taxes for the wealthy its tax relief, when Obama lowers for the vast majority of people its socialism. Elections are about branding and slogans. The right are better at campaigns than they are running the country...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the right needs to hear what comments McCain made before changing his mind or began to lie in order to fish votes from the right.</p>
<p><em>“I have never engaged in class warfare. I am very much in FAVOR of tax cuts for middle-income and lower-income Americans. I’m deeply concerned about a kind of class warfare that’s going on right now. It’s unfortunate. There’s a growing gap between the haves and have-nots in America, and that gap is growing, and it’s unfortunately divided up along ethnic lines.&#8221;</em>  McCain back in 2000</p>
<p>More (excuse the source):<br />
<a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24421&amp;page=1#c1" rel="nofollow">http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24421&amp;page=1#c1</a><br />
When republicans lower the taxes for the wealthy its tax relief, when Obama lowers for the vast majority of people its socialism. Elections are about branding and slogans. The right are better at campaigns than they are running the country&#8230;<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=5301258', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WOW this dumber than Caribou Barbie bimbo really ought to get a job more in line with her skillset. Something like night janitor at Starbucks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WOW this dumber than Caribou Barbie bimbo really ought to get a job more in line with her skillset. Something like night janitor at Starbucks<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=5301216', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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