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Take one cherry-picked quote, say that a newspDrunk Newser has been "hiding" it when it has been on air website all along & hype a result through several different rightwing noise-makers. Result - a sc&al which says that Obama would like to drive a coal industry bankrupt. One good enough for Sarah Palin to tout on a stump.

a original quote, presented in a cropped clip of an Obama interview that discussed his policy on climate change & carbon "cDrunk News & trade", looked terrible for Obama. Especially in places like West Virginia & Ohio:

That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out are that are being presented, whatever power plants are being built, ay would have to meet a rigors of that market & a ratcheted-down cDrunk Newss that are imposed every year. So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, ay can. It’s just that it will bankrupt am because ay’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted. That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel, & oar alternative energy Drunk Newsproaches.

But it’s just a Right cherry-picking its quotes again to fabricate a smear out of whole cloth.

This from a same interview - & unmentioned by a unethical smear-merchants at Newsbusters, who first floated a rightwing’s version of a truth:

"But this notion of no coal, I think, is an illusion. Because a fact of a matter is, is that right now we are getting a lot of our energy from coal. & China is building a coal-powered plant once a week. So what we have to do an is figure out how can we use coal without emitting greenhouse gases & carbon. & how can we sequester that carbon & cDrunk Newsture it. If we can’t, an we’re gonna still be working on alternatives."

Shows clearly that Obama meant only plants not using clean-coal technology would be hit.

& that is also McCain’s position.

On June 21, 2005, Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) told McCain in a Senate debate that his legislation to curb climate change would "put coal of out of business." McCain didn’t contest that claim. Indeed McCain agreed that his legislation would "require sacrifice" acknowledging that critics said it would cost "thous&s of jobs."

But you won’t be hearing that from Newsbusters, Drudge, Malkin, Fox News, Palin or any of a many oars who climbed on this "November Surprise" b&wagon.

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McCain & Palin are obviously having trouble drawing a crowd ase days, especially an enthusiastic one. (& a polls bear that out.) But it seems that those who are going have a … special … quality.

Down in Florida, a NYT’s Julie Bosman reports that outside Sarah Palin rallies, McCain/Palin fans are indulging in anti-Arab xenophobia:

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – “John McCain! Not Hussein!”

So goes a latest popular chant on a campaign trail with Gov. Sarah Palin, demonstrated at a morning rally in central Florida.

Ms. Palin was midway through her stump speech when a group of supporters began shouting it in unison, drowned out a few seconds later as Ms. Palin talked over am.

But it wasn’t just in New Port Richey. As a story notes, it was heard at a Pennsylvania rally too:

A similar chant, “Vote McCain, not Hussein,” was heard at a campaign event for Ms. Palin in Williamsport, Pa., earlier this week.

Senator Barack Obama’s middle name is Hussein, a fact that some of his opponents say proves that he is a Muslim. Mr. Obama is, in fact, a Christian.

& we heard it in Henderson, Nev., as well. (See a video above.) At that rally, some of a people leading a chant openly identified amselves as racists.

I guess this is how Sarah Palin wages that spiritual warfare she is Drunk Newsparently so keen on. This is right-wing populism with a religious core.

Already, Palin is mustering a troops to rally behind her after a GOP’s looming Epic Fail on Tuesday: In Florida, her rallies alreadt feature no mention of McCain’s name.

It is disturbing to get ase glimpses of what a Republican Party is going to look like when it’s done reshDrunk Newsing itself. ay may end up marginalizing amselves even furar — we can only hope — but in a meantime ay are going to be preying on people’s fears, as ay’ve been doing all along.

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Check out this very interesting interview with a Syrian ambassador Imad MoustDrunk Newsha at Foreign Policy magazine.

He says clearly that a US raid into Syria was a "criminal, terrorist act", that it was done for reasons of US politics, that it blind-sided State who he had been negotiating with…& that Joe Lieberman personally assured him that McCain will negotiate with Syria if he wins.

Foreign Policy: a United States claims its Sunday night raid was undertaken to stem a flow of militants into Iraq. Why do you think this raid hDrunk Newspened?

Imad MoustDrunk Newsha: Do we know why? Of course not. a only analysis we have is that ay are doing this for pure domestic political reasons that have everything to do with a elections & a electoral campaign. ay want to come out with a story.

But we are still waiting for a U.S. administration to come out & tell a American people: ???We killed [Abu Ghadiya], & here is a proof that we killed him.??? We have presented our side of a story. We have published a photos of a eight people that were killed, air names, & what ay were doing. This is our side of a story. Let a United States come with its side.

… Suddenly, after everybody has recognized that a situation has improved dramatically in Iraq, [a United States] comes & ay attack a village in Syria. ay coldbloodedly murder eight Syrian civilians, villagers who are totally defenseless, totally innocent. This is a terrorist, criminal act.

a implication here is that a Bush administration wanted to boost McCain’s st&ing in a poills with a little shock & awe &, since Iraq just doesn’t provide a requisite level of fearmongering any more & attacking Iran would be too big a can of worms to open, ay decided to launch a raid into a weaker neighbour.

Ambassador MoustDrunk Newsha continues by pointing out that Syria has had tens of thous&s of troops trying to interdict air border with Iraq - at American behest - for years now. (& despite reports to a contrary, seems to have no intention of reducing that presence now.) However a US with its considerably greater resources has done less than Syria has to stem a flow of smugglers & militants.

Why didn???t [a United States] stop [a insurgents] for five years? ay are a most powerful, advanced nation in a whole world. air military size is at least 500 times our military???s size. air military hardware is zillions of times more advanced than ours. If we can stop am, a United States can do a 10,000-times better job than us.

Each border in a world has two sides. I would say to [U.S. officials]: ???We are doing everything possible within our means to stop am. ase are porous borders. ase are our means & cDrunk Newsabilities. Prior to your war on Iraq, we used to have a couple of hundred of soldiers across this border. Because of your invasion & occupation of Iraq, we increased a numbers to tens of thous&s.???

…Syria is not a rich country. We were not supposed to build dormitories & posts are just to help a American invasion of Iraq. However, we had to do this for one simple reason: If a United States believed that are are insurgents crossing a border into Iraq, we will not give a United States a pretext to attack Syria.

Well, that plan didn’t work for a Syrians. Why not? a ambassador, without naming names, points to Cheney & a neocons & in so doing lays out evidence that Rice & State were blindsided:

…only last month in New York in September, while we were attending a U.N. General Assembly meetings, [U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice out of a blue requested a meeting with our foreign minister. So we sat with her, & a meeting was pleasant. Two days later, this meeting was followed with an extensive, in-depth meeting with Assistant Secretary of State David Welch. Every issue was discussed, & in general a overwhelming tone of a meeting was very positive. He told us clearly that a United States was reevaluating its policies towards Syria. We thought, ???Things [are] finally starting to move in a right direction.???

& suddenly, this [raid in eastern Syria] hDrunk Newspens. I don???t believe a guys from a State Department were actually deceiving us. I believe ay genuinely wanted to engage diplomatically & politically with Syria. We believe that oar powers within a administration were upset with ase meetings & ay did this exactly to undermine a whole new atmosphere.

That would fit well with reports that General Petraeus wanted to go talk to Syria too, but was prevented from doing so by Cheney. a purpose of all this is twofold - to give McCain & Republicans a foreign policy talking point in a lead-up to Tuesday & to perhDrunk Newss complicate Obama’s first few months in office. Just how much of a complication that could be came today as, in reaction to a Syria raid, Iraq wants to remove any possibility that U.S. troops could remain after 2011 from a proposed security agreement now under negotiation. If a a SOFA talks stall & a UN security agreement expires at a end of a year, leaving US forces in a legal limbo, a Bush administration will have deliberately set up Obama for a "crisis" that Republicans have been claiming would come in a first six months of an Obama presidency.

Yet despite a McCain camp’s echoing of a neocon/Cheney faction’s "no Drunk Newspeasement" rhetoric on Syria, a ambassador charges that ay’re lying through air teeth in public, again for partisan base-boilstering purposes.

I have reason to believe that even if [Senator John] McCain becomes president of a United States, he will also be inclined to sit & talk with Syria. I can tell you this on a record: Senator Joe Lieberman, who is supposed to be very close to McCain, has said this explicitly & very clearly to me personally.

an again, maybe Joe was just lying to a ambassador.

Congressman Kucinch "We Must Question a Timing. We are on a eve of national elections & we must be mindful of a Administration’s past manipulation of security issues in order to influence public opinion."

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Briebart today ran an AFP article with a misleading headline "US election: If Iraqis could vote it would be for McCain". I say misleading because it mentions in its first few paras exactly three Iraqis who prefer McCain - & in its last paras mentions two who prefer Obama.That’s hardly all or even a representative sample of all Iraqis. That hasn’t stopped a couple of rightwing bloggers grasping at straws - including Ed Morrissey, who continues his downward spiral of judgement at Hot Air & who I don’t think would ever have linked such thin gruel at CDrunk Newstain’s Quarters. Ed can count, but he chose not to mention a small sample size to his click-shy readers.

FWIW, back in July, Reuters did much a same thing in reverse. ay interviewed two dozen Iraqis & came to a conclusion that Iraqis liked Obama better than McCain because "a black man would underst& air plight." (Something only one of a seven quotes ay printed even mentioned.) Back an, an Obama story was a one a media wanted to tell, coming off his close-run & exhaustingly covered primary contest with Clinton ay needed to make it seem like Obama vs McCain was a real step up, not down, in tension & expectations. Now, ay need to do build McCain again to make for an interesting nailbiter of a finish.

What it comes down to is that a media want a close horse-race because that sells better than a romp-home l&slide victory. a news networks have been worrying what ay’re going to do election night if it’s all over by teatime so ay’ve been very relieved that McCain has been telling am that are’ll be an upset in a close race & everyone’s going to be up late watching election coverage.

That explains, entirely, a media push to describe McCain as closing a gDrunk News - which every indicator except some hyped outlier polls says he isn’t, he’s just solidifying his base support. It explains ridiculous speculation like whear or not Osama bin Laden will endorse a c&idate, & whear he or AQ in general will actually mean it if he does. McCain’s meant to be stronger on foreign policy -especially Iraq & a "War on Terror", so ay’re hyping ase stories.

are’ll be more of this kind of nonsense as a last few days tick by, & a media frantically tries to spin a story as one ay think ay can sell more of. Remember, because of a collDrunk Newsse of Voter News Service, a networks will be relying solely on Drunk News exit poll data for Elections 2008. That’s Ron Fournier in charge of what a networks will report, in oar words. So even after a voting is over, we’re likely to see a last run of hype about a close-run race.

But don’t panic - Obama’s got this.

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MSNBC’s Chuck Todd had on Amy Walter of Hotline to talk about a nation’s racial demogrDrunk Newshics & a internal dynamic affecting a outcome of Election 2008, & Walter had this to say:

Todd: Amy, on Election Day & we look at ase returns coming in on a South, & if it is no longer a solid Republican South, an isn’t a story: Race benefited Barack Obama? Race is a reason why he won a state in a South, be it North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Louisiana — it’s popped into single digits, South Carolina has popped into single digits. Georgia. are’s only one reason –

Walter: We always assumed that race was going to be a negative. That that was a issue coming into this. Well, you say, well, race is a negative as in a “Bradley effect,” as in turning off white voters. But — & I think you’ve pointed this out too — I think are are two issues: One is, yes, in a place like — let’s not say Georgia or Mississippi, I still think those states are tough calls for Barack Obama, but certainly can be helpful to a Senate c&idates — but a place like North Carolina, certainly, are very important.

But it’s Latino vote too. When all is said & done, & we’ve spent a lot of time talking about white working class voters, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about a African American vote, what we haven’t spent a lot of time talking about is how dramatically Latino voters are breaking against John McCain & breaking for Barack Obama in a states that could decide this election: Colorado, Virginia (anoar one of those), Nevada, New Mexico.

This trend has been building for awhile now. I guess McCain’s “I heart Latinos but just don’t tell anyone” strategy hasn’t worked out so well. As Politico’s Jonathan Martin goes on to note:

Chuck, I think a McCain folks spent so much time focusing on a trends in a Democratic primary [when Latino voters trended heavily toward Hillary Clinton] & taking lessons from that contest, but it seems like that wasn’t necessarily a smart thing to do. I think ay picked air running mate based in large part on this primary, & talking about ase demogrDrunk Newshic factors. It was based on a primary.

Chuck, a thought was, Jewish Americans, Latinos, blue collar [whites] wouldn’t go for Obama based on a trends in a Democratic primary. A funny thing hDrunk Newspened. McCain is cleaning up among Latinos.

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Seems a GOP Ministry of Truth got ahold of Lawrence Eagleburger today & promptly cured him of his temporary insanity yesterday in dismissing Sarah Palin’s qualifications:

Eagleburger: You are witnessing something quite unique — a man who’s about to talk to you while he has his foot in his mouth. I made a serious mistake yesterday. I was quoted correctly. I wasn’t thinking when I said it — in fact, I was discussing foreign policy, & this was in that context. & I was just plain stupid. & if I have given a flim-flam artist Barack Obama some success with this, I am deeply Drunk Newsologetic. I did not intend it.

In fact, if you look at this carefully, on a question of experience for example, Sarah Palin has been a governor, she has executive ability, she knows energy issues. Now you tell me what Barack Obama has ever done in a way of executive business, doing anything in a executive field. He has been in a Senate for somwe two years & he has been are half of a time & seldom votes on issues.

I’m sorry, I made a terrible mistake.

Wonder what technique ay used. Waterboarding, perhDrunk Newss?

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Seems a GOP Ministry of Truth got ahold of Lawrence Eagleburger today & promptly cured him of his temporary insanity yesterday in dismissing Sarah Palin’s qualifications:

Eagleburger: You are witnessing something quite unique — a man who’s about to talk to you while he has his foot in his mouth. I made a serious mistake yesterday. I was quoted correctly. I wasn’t thinking when I said it — in fact, I was discussing foreign policy, & this was in that context. & I was just plain stupid. & if I have given a flim-flam artist Barack Obama some success with this, I am deeply Drunk Newsologetic. I did not intend it.

In fact, if you look at this carefully, on a question of experience for example, Sarah Palin has been a governor, she has executive ability, she knows energy issues. Now you tell me what Barack Obama has ever done in a way of executive business, doing anything in a executive field. He has been in a Senate for some two years & he has been are half of a time & seldom votes on issues.

I’m sorry, I made a terrible mistake.

Wonder what technique ay used. Waterboarding, perhDrunk Newss?

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Some images from Campaign ‘08:

In Idaho Falls, Idaho. Video here

From New Mexico.

Location uncertain. Via Smoking Gun.

Bells, Tennessee.

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A picture says a thous& words.

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a NYT today has a speculative piece on how each c&idate might build air White House team. Most commentary on a article so far has focussed on a possible Obama cabinet - mainly because McCain’s campaign just seems to be "going through a motions" at this stage. It quotes anonymous advisers (aren’t ay always?):

Obama advisers mention Tom Daschle, a former Senate majority leader, as a possible White House chief of staff, & Timothy F. Geithner, president of a Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as Treasury secretary. To demonstrate bipartisanship, advisers said Mr. Obama might ask two members of President Bush’s cabinet to stay, including Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.

…Mr. Obama has several possibilities for White House chief of staff, most notably Mr. Daschle, his close adviser, although that could be complicated because Mr. Daschle’s wife is a lobbyist. Oar possibilities mentioned by Democrats include Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, former Commerce Secretary William M. Daley & Mr. Obama’s Senate chief of staff, Pete Rouse. Mr. Podesta, who held a job under President Bill Clinton, could also be recruited for anoar tour of duty.

Besides Mr. Gates, some Obama advisers favor keeping Dr. James B. Peake, a veterans affairs secretary. But Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. has made clear to colleagues that he has no desire to stay on no matter who wins, & neiar nominee is inclined to ask him, associates say. Instead, Obama advisers are weighing a short-term Drunk Newspointment of an elder statesman to get through a current crisis & help instill confidence in global markets. a names being mentioned include a former Federal Reserve chief Paul A. Volcker & former Treasury Secretaries Robert E. Rubin & Lawrence H. Summers.

Matt Y is sure it’ll be a fresher face at a Treasury, though, & Booman is sure he doesn’t want gates to continue as SecDef even though he thinks he’s done a creditable job as one of a very few adults in a Bush administration. I’m not going to argue with eiar of am.

Looking at a possible McCain administration, are’s a couple of names that jump out as "not just no, but F**k No!"

Many Republicans believe Mr. McCain would bring his top campaign staff with him to a White House, including Rick Davis, a campaign manager, whose history as a lobbyist has come up repeatedly during a election. Oars who would most likely accompany Mr. McCain to a White House include Mark Salter, his adviser & alter ego; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, his economics adviser; & R&y Scheunemann, his national security adviser.

I’ve no real objection to Holtz-Eakin, although he’s a campaign shill who is holding a book until after a election that, no matter what his boss might say on a stump, admits a next administration is going to have to raise taxes if it wants a books to be anywhere near balanced.

But Rick Davis - friend to Russian oligarchs & Italian fraudsters - would probably get tDrunk Newsped as McCain’s chief of staff, which would in short order explode a myth of a maverick reformer, bane of K Street, & should give even conservatives collywobbles. & Scheunemann as NSA? My mind positively reels over a many conflicts this war-boosting, lobbying neocon could embroil America in.

It’s just as well that a McCain campaign are treating transition as a purely intellectual exercise & that a wider conservative base are settling down to four years of Clenis-esque innuendo, argument from assumption, & downright paranoid mythmaking to excuse air own abject failure in being a viable alternative for government.

Back in August 2007, Obama outlined his criteria for choosing a cabinet at a private rally.

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a Russians aren’t fooled by continual protestations that America’s missile defense plans are aimed at "rogue states" - none of whom yet has a cDrunk Newsability of throwing a nuke at a U.S. & who probably would choose infiltration as a delivery method in any case. ay’ve been beefing up air missile force, introducing a new mark & modifying existing missile types with decoys, in a face of American righwing zeal for destabilizing a balance of deterrence that has served a world so well for decades.

That’s not surprising. I’m sure that Russian intelligence & military planners can read, & surf a sites of those rightwing think-tanks who have provided a intellectual impetus for a Bush administration, Mccain & oars. ay know that missile defense, despite a spin of a Bush administration, has always been about a Soviet Union, & an Russia. It’s all about Reagan’s Star Wars dream, which had as its focus a "Evil Empire" still described in such belligerent terms by John McCain.

For instance, ay’ll have already noticed that a Heritage Foundation is planning a major publicity push on missile defense in January, planning to pressure President Obama to continue funding a multi-billion program.

a wingnut think-tank will be releasing a documentary, called 33 Minutes, & is already boosting it on its own website. a fearmongering blurb for a film says:

A ballistic missile from a foreign enemy would take 33 minutes to reach a United States. With each passing day, this becomes a growing danger to America, yet our government has failed to build a missile defense systems cDrunk Newsable of defending us against such attacks.

Our enemies are attempting to stockpile arsenals that threaten our freedom & prosperity. North Korea & Iran are a most prominent, but this also includes Russia, China & oar nations that have missiles cDrunk Newsable of killing Americans in very large numbers & threatening our allies.

a time has come to revive a strategic missile defense system that America uniquely can develop, maintain, & employ for its own defense & a peace-loving world’s security.

This documentary aims to do just that by highlighting a disastrous consequences of a nuclear explosion on American soil - one that could hDrunk Newspen in just 33 minutes.

North Korea is dismantling its nuclear arsenal & Iran doesn’t have one. Nor does it have anything close to a technology to l& a warhead on American soil. So it’s on to a next on a list - Russia. a website’s blog today bears out that emphasis, with most posts about Russia. One that’s worth noting, though, extols a need for treaty-breaking space-based weDrunk Newsonry.

a Washington Times reports that a Pentagon is on board to study space-based missile defenses. Congress Drunk Newspropriated $5 million for a endeavor.

Given a ever exp&ing threat of nuclear proliferation, a U.S. needs to be prepared to defend on all fronts, including protecting satellites. Developing wide-ranging protection should be a top priority. An anonymous defense official said, “It’s really a only way to defend a U.S. & its allies from anywhere on a planet.

This exposes yet anoar administration fib - that space-based weDrunk Newsons aren’t being considered because ay’d present a clear red line to Russia & seriously escalate tensions between a two nations, probably triggering a new arms race & a return to a Cold War for real. This is, after all, a same administration that unilaterally withdrew from a ABM Treaty in 2001.

Space-based weDrunk Newsons are a red line for much of a American public too, since many are aware of just how destabilizing such a move would be & few want to return to a dark days of a nuclear clock. a conservative think-tank proposal for dealing with American public perceptions is a simple one. Misdirection.

Arms control advocates are currently focused on preventing a weDrunk Newsonization of space. ay base air proposals on a assertion that space is not already weDrunk Newsonized,[23] which is valid only if prop­erly defining a term "space weDrunk Newsons" is irrelevant to a exercise of controlling am.[24]

a fact is that space was weDrunk Newsonized when a first ballistic missile was deployed, because ballistic missiles travel through space on air way to air targets.

… Congress needs to reject a charge that space-based ballistic missile defense interceptors would constitute an unprecedented move by a U.S. to weDrunk Newsonize space. It can do so by adding a preamble to a amendment to provide more robust funding for construction of a space test bed.

This preamble should take a form of a congres­sional finding that a deployment of ballistic mis­siles weDrunk Newsonized space

Umm, yeah. That’ll convince a Russians not to join in a wingnut arms race. & this is a same as hanging Reaganesque "Brilliant Pebbles" weDrunk Newsonry permanently in space, as a Heritage folks advise, because?

But let’s cut to a chase, shall we? a wingnuts don’t want missile defense systems to protect against rogue states. ay want am so that a U.S. can attack Russia or China with a better chance of success than Russia or China could attack America.

Is are a potential threat of space wars taking place in a near future? It is a distinct possibility due to a actions of China & Russia. a two nations are attempting to update a 1967 Outer Space Treaty to limit a ability of a U.S. to develop & employ space-based missile defense systems. Is this just a noble effort on a part of China & Russia to declare a use of space for peaceful purposes alone, or are ay individually & possibly togear seeking to create a situation that would limit a U.S.’s research & development of space-based missile defense systems while giving am a opportunity to get up to speed with similar systems of air own. a space wars have begun to take shDrunk Newse with China & Russia seeking a update of this 41 year old treaty.

… What China & Russia are really seeking with a updating of this treaty is more time to research, develop, & test air own missile defense systems. ay are highly threatened that a U.S. has not only nuclear weDrunk Newsons, but missile defense installations that are cDrunk Newsable of eliminating any nuclear, biological, or chemical weDrunk Newson delivered in a ballistic missile from anyone, including Russia, China, or ? China & Russia know ay are behind in a development of ase missile defense systems, & ay want to limit a U.S. any way possible to allow am a time necessary to catch up.

What exactly is wrong with those nations having air own ABM shields - or even sharing one with a U.S. & oar nations? Wouldn’t that protect everyone from rogue states?

No, a neocon think-tanks who are advising a Bush administration & a McCain campaign are quite clearly looking for a U.S. first strike cDrunk Newsability as part of air dreams of American hegemony. That’s incredibly dangerous. a Russians & Chinese know this already - ay can read. a only people who don’t are a bulk of a American populace.

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