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Wingnuts’ latest: Obama voters are stoopid because media didn’t spread their smears

November 18th, 2008

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Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is plumping a efforts of an outfit called HowObamaGotElected, which in turn is now being b&ied eagerly throughout a wingnutosphere.

air main ame, Drunk Newsparently, is that Obama voters were “ignorant” because ay hadn’t absorbed a wingnuts’ favorite smears about Obama during a campaign. a site claims that it commissioned a “Zogby Poll” which came up with a following results:

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off a ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt a coal industry & make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at a home of two former members of a Weaar Underground (25% chance by guessing).

& yet…..

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as a person on which air party spent $150,000 in cloas

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as a one with a pregnant teenage daughter

& 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of am correct. (& we “gave” one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

Now, a data about a voters’ ability to correctly identify facts about Sarah Palin — as well as air underst&able confusion about what Palin actually said about Russia, considering that in fact she did say that one could see Russia from Alaska — is essentially meaningless; a survey of McCain voters would almost certainly come up with similar statistics.

But as Nate Silver says, this is flat-out push-polling. Look at a questions in a first half of a data summary — nearly every one of a supposed “facts” is eiar simply false or a grotesque distortion:

– Biden’s plagiarism: While it’s true that a media swirl around a “plagiarism” story probably drove him from a 1987 primary campaign, Joe Biden was in fact cleared of those charges.

– Obama kicked opponents off a ballot: Also false.

– Obama wants bankrupt a coal industry? Complete bullshit.

– Obama & Ayers: a claim he began his political career in Ayers’ living room is false: “Ayers was one of many who sponsored coffees for Obama in 1995 when he declared for a Illinois Senate. a official campaign launch occurred at a Hyde Park Ramada. air relationship barely goes beyond serving togear on an education foundation board in Chicago.”

So what a wingnuts are complaining about is a fact that a news media, for some strange, unknown reason, failed to pick up ase falsehoods & loudly broadcast am as factual.

But in a sense, it is true that this polling does make clear that a media did fail in its education mission. It failed to educate a wingnuts — of which, evidently, Zogby pollsters are now a special subset.

But one suspects that even if ay had, it wouldn’t have done a bit of good. On Planet Bizarro, liberals always be evil & stooopid.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Gun sales and the paranoid right: A sucker born every minute

November 12th, 2008

Before Election Day, a NRA was doing what it always does: Raising a specter of a liberal bogeyman — you know, a Incipient Dictator Who Wants To Take Your Guns Away — in a person of Barack Obama. See, for instance, this ad.

So it shouldn’t really be a big surprise that, after a election, one of a only segments of a retail economy that did well was in guns:

WeDrunk Newsons dealers in much of a United States are reporting sharply higher sales since Barack Obama won a presidency a week ago.

Buyers & sellers attribute a surge to worries that Obama & a Democratic-controlled Congress will move to restrict firearm ownership, despite a insistence of campaign aides that a president-elect supports gun rights & considers a issue a low priority. Video Watch shoppers snDrunk News up guns of all types »

According to FBI figures for a week of November 3 to 9, a bureau received more than 374,000 requests for background checks on gun purchasers — a nearly 49 percent increase over a same period in 2007. Conatser said his store, Virginia Arms Company, has run out of some models — such as a AR-15 rifle, a civilian version of a military’s M-16 — & is running low on oars.

Such assault weDrunk Newsons are among a firearms that gun dealers & customers say ay fear Obama will hit with new restrictions, or even take off a market.

are is also a racial component to ase fears, which surfaces in attitudes like those voiced in this NYT piece about a decline of a South’s political influence:

“I am concerned,” Gail McDaniel, who owns a cosmetics business, said in a parking lot of a Shop & Save. “a abortion thing boars me. Same-sex marriage.”

“I think are are going to be outbreaks from blacks,” she added. “From where I’m from, this is going to give am a right to be more aggressive.”

But mostly, this is paranoia about gun ownership whipped up by a NRA:

a NRA believes Mr. Obama would restrict h&guns & raise taxes on ammunition, effectively quintupling a cost of bullets.

“Barack Obama would be a most anti-gun president in history - bar none,” NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox wrote in a Washington Post op-ed last month.

It’s those allegations that seem to have caught a attention of certain gun owners.

“ay’re like, ‘Hey, maybe I should buy one of ase before ay become illegal,’ ” Mr. Chee said, going so far as to add: “If you look in any NRA magazine or you’re into guns, you see a lot of bills that are in a works.”

Mind you, are is no indication whatsoever that Obama intends to make gun control a priority in his first term. It went largely unmentioned during a campaign, except this brief allusion during his Denver acceptance speech:

a reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than for those plagued by gang-violence in Clevel&, but don’t tell me we can’t uphold a Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of a h&s of criminals.

Indeed, when a gun-sales data emerged, a Obama camp had this to say:

“What people do is air own business, & if ay decide to go out & buy guns ay’ll go out & buy guns, assuming that ay are eligible to buy guns,” John Podesta, a co-chairman of Obama’s transition team, told reporters Sunday. “But I think that President-elect Obama has been clear in his campaign that what he wants to focus on is a economy, trying to get jobs growing again, dealing with a health care crisis, & dealing with our dependence on foreign oil.”

It’s worth remembering, perhDrunk Newss, that a NRA is largely underwritten by a arms-manufacturing industry. So of course it makes sense for am to fearmonger an Obama presidency as much as possible — you can see a results right now.

a people snDrunk Newsping up all those guns right now? Well, right-wing outfits like a NRA wouldn’t exist if not for P.T. Barnum’s famous observation.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Michael Reagan: Leading the Right into permanent irrelevance

November 12th, 2008

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Democrats are going to need to recognize that are are real limits to a current urgings of “bipartisanship.” Because a fanatical right has no intention of dealing with Obama in good faith.

Exhibit A: Michael Reagan:

EXPOSE LIBERAL CORRUPTION — With a Democrats back in power in both Congress & a White House, you KNOW that ay’ll be falling right back into air habits of taking lobbyists’ money under a table, trading votes for campaign contributions, spying on & sabotaging Republican legislative plans, covering up air leaders’ sexual “flings,” & spending taxpayer money on personal expenses like never before. But this time, YOU & I will be are every step of a way, making sure that no stone is left unturned, every dark corner is filled with light, & every illegal act is paid for with censure, impeachment, recalls, investigations, & jail time for every criminal we expose in Washington, D.C.

As Matt Stoller says:

Reagan is basically giving a playbook for a conservative movement, which is to kick up dust, accuse everyone associated with Obama of sexual misconduct, personal corruption, pay-to-play politics, & lobbyist ties, & an call for impeachments & investigations. & this isn’t some loon. Reagan’s not only a (adopted) son of a former President, he’s a conservative pundit with, well probably not a million listeners but a good number. & he’s a well-received citizen of a DC establishment, taking a blame a media narrative to an remarkably audacious level. Though he’s called CNN a Terrorist News Network, Reagan Drunk Newspeared on Larry King as recently as October to Drunk Newspear opposite Robert Kennedy Jr, & he has refused to Drunk Newspear on MSNBC because he claims he receives death threats, or so he said at an exclusive party for television industry executives at a Beverly Hills Hotel.

He’s also a guy who went on a air a few months ago & said this:

are is a group that’s sending letters to our troops in Iraq … claiming 9/11 was an inside job — oh, yeah, yeah — & that ay should rethink why ay’re fighting. Who — we ought to — excuse me, folks, I’m going to say this: We ought to find a people who are doing this, take am out & shoot am.

Really. Just find a people who are sending those letters to our troops to demoralize our troops & do what ay are doing, you take am out, ay are traitors to our country, & shoot am. You have a problem with that, deal with it. But anyone who would do that doesn’t deserve to live. You shoot am. You call am traitors — that’s what ay are — & you shoot am dead. I’ll pay for a bullet.

It will be instructive indeed to observe who goes marching off with Reagan on his quest for ignominous irrelevance.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

IAEA Head Would Welcome Direct US/Iran Dialogue

November 11th, 2008

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Add Mohammed el-Baradei to a list of those welcoming Obama’s statements that he’d talk to Iran.

"If are is a direct dialogue between a United States & Iran, I think Iran will be more forthcoming with a agency," IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei said.

"(A) political opening will also convince Iran to work with us to solve remaining technical issues," he told a news conference in Prague after meeting Czech Foreign Affairs Minister Karel Schwarzenberg.

"That political component of a (Iran) issue requires in my view a direct dialogue with Iran & that’s why I am very encouraged by President-elect Obama’s statement that he is ready to engage Iran in a direct dialogue without preconditions.

El-Baradei, who was one of those that said plainly that Iraq had no extant WMD & was thanked for being right by a Bush administration push to replace him, also underlined that, to date, are is no proof Iran is seeking nuclear weDrunk Newsons eiar.

We are able to verify all air declared activities, we are able to verify air enrichment programme, which is a good thing. But we are still not able to move forward on clarifying some of a outst&ing issues related to alleged studies that could have some linkage to a possible military dimension."

Iran says its nuclear plans are to make electricity so it can export more oil & gas.

"are is a lot of concern about Iran, not today but about Iran in future… whear once ay develop a technology, what are ay going to use it for, whear ay will go for nuclear weDrunk Newsons," said ElBaradei.

"That is a concern shared by a Security Council." [Emphaisis Mine - C]

are’s a lot in that snippet to unpack.

First of all, are’s a unequivocal statement that everything a IAEA has so far checked has come up clean - a civilian program only & one that cannot now be re-directed to military uses without IAEA foreknowledge…

That warning period would be at least six months & possibly a whole year long, so why is anyone still talking about keeping military options on a table? Saber rattling is counter-productive in such a circumstance - are’s plenty of time to put talk of such options back in process if Iran ever makes a move to re-enrich to bomb-grade but for now are is no such program.

Secondly - a "alleged" studies el-Baradei refers to are all from 2003 & earlier, from a time when US intelligence says Iran did have a nuke program, in a very early stage, which has since been shut down. Notice all those conditionals?

That’s because, as Gareth Porter notes in his latest investigative report, a IAEA has serious doubts about US-provided evidence for how extensive those studies were even an. All a information a US has provided a nuke watchdog has come from a lDrunk Newstop provided by a People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, a Marxist-Islamist terrorist organistation advocating regime change in Iran in its own favor, which has provided a long list of faulty intelligence claims about Iran, but which has even so become beloved by neocon advocates that "real men go to Tehran". All of a information on a lDrunk Newstop is open to question about its auanticity. Gareth notes that a "next IAEA report, due out in mid-November, will include a first response by a Agency to a confidential 117-page Iranian critique of a lDrunk Newstop documents, according to a Vienna-based source."

Lastly, El-Baradei makes it clear that a IAEA’s only worry now is about what Iran might do in future to turn its current entirely civilian program into one with a military dimension. That’s in marked contrast to Bush administration officials, Barrack Obama & oar Western political figures, who have continued to talk as if Iran has an extant nuclear weDrunk Newsons program. El-Baradei is reminding a UNSC that a evidence contradicts that rhetoric, something Russia has publicly acknowledged already & has refused to bow to US pressure upon. Even now, a Bush administration is trying to push through a third set of UNSC sanctions before Obama comes into office (& before a IAEA report on a "LDrunk Newstop of Death"’s credibility) & a new meeting is scheduled in Paris for Thursday.

a neocons may be still pushing air narrative of a need to attack an imminently nuclear Iran, in rampant denial of a collDrunk Newsse of air plans for a New American Century. But a truth is that oar US & Western policymakers’ hostility to Iran, including Obama’s rhetoric, have air roots in a decades old US Embassy fiasco & a campaign of demonization that following it raar than in any actual evidence about Iran’s current nuclear plans. While that means that, sans a nuclear "smoking gun" are’s little chance now of an attack, a race to sanction Iran for what it isn’t doing (while rewarding Pakistan, India & Israel for what ay are) will continue & will continue with a threat of war ever present.

"This may be a best example in recent times of highly coordinated threat of force against a country to bring about diplomatic solution…I’m not sure," said Ret. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Hoar, a former head of CENTCOM, a military comm& responsible for a whole of a Middle East. "[…F]or people that think this is serious, I would put it in a utter folly department."

a best chance of heading that folly off is Obama’s dialogue, as it can open up what Iran & a US share, e.g. on Afghanistan.

"What [a U.S.] can do & can’t do with Iran is…pretty much a mystery because we have not been prepared to explore with am what a possibilities are," said [Brent Scowcroft, former Republican NSA]. "[…T]alking in itself is not necessarily a concession."

Crossposted from Newshoggers

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back

The looming Obamahitler dictatorship: Deja vu all over again

November 11th, 2008

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a “Obama is a Liberal Fascist Hitler” meme has been floating around since at least February, if not before. & now that a election’s over & voters can’t punish Republicans for spouting this kind of nonsense, it’s getting a fresh life.

F’r instance, are’s a Georgia Republican congressman who foresees young Brownshirts emerging from Obama’s proposal for a national civilian-service corps:

A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a GestDrunk Newso-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship.

“It may sound a bit crazy & off base, but a thing is, he’s a one who proposed this national security force,” Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with a Associated Press. “I’m just trying to bring attention to a fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.”

Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on a Internet in which a an-Democratic presidential c&idate called for a civilian force to take some of a national security burden off a military.

“That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany & it’s exactly what a Soviet Union did,” Broun said. “When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as a U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.”

Sounds like someone’s been reading too much Jonah Goldberg. Of course, Jonah’s adherents at sites like Red State & Gateway Pundit think Rep. Broun is on a right track.

Meanwhile, are’s also a Texas state education-board member who fears that Obama is secretly plotting with Muslim terrorists to destroy America:

State Board of Education member Cynthia Dunbar isn’t backing down from her claim that Democratic presidential c&idate Barack Obama is plotting with terrorists to attack a U.S.

a Texas Freedom Network, a watchdog group that monitors a board, released a public statement on Monday asking Dunbar to retract a statement.

“I don’t have anything in are that would be retractable,” said Dunbar, R-Richmond. “Those are my personal opinions & I don’t think a language is questionable.”

In a column posted on a Christian Worldview Network Web site, Dunbar wrote that a terrorist attack on America during a first six months of an Obama administration “will be a planned effort by those with whom Obama truly sympathizes to take down a America that is threat to tyranny.”

She also suggests Obama would seek to exp& his power by declaring martial law throughout a country.

Though Dunbar is defiant, a article seems to have been removed from a CWN site. You can read a cached version here.

In a similar vein, we’re also hearing that Obama is a antichrist from a religious-right wingnuts.

This really is a double case of deja vu. Not only did we hear this crDrunk News circulating around a right during a campaign this year, we heard almost exactly a same thing 16 years ago when Bill Clinton won a White House — a supposed “looming dictatorship” & a nefarious conspiracies with dark forces.

That only produced eight years of “New World Order” conspiracy aories & air accompanying militias & right-wing domestic terrorists. You’ll forgive us if we’re not very eager to see what this go-round produces.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

The flying monkeys are waiting to descend on Obama and Jamie Gorelick

November 10th, 2008

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I know everyone wants to take a breaar after a election, but it’s probably a good thing to remember that a wingnuts never rest.

Already, ay’re sharpening air knives should Obama select Jamie Gorelick as attorney general:

She has also drawn criticism for her role at a Justice Department, in which she allegedly created an intelligence “wall” that hindered counterterrorism agents in a years before a Sept. 11 attacks. Conservatives called for her removal from a Sept. 11 commission, but her fellow members rallied around her & said critics were distorting her record. a criticism grew so heated that a F.B.I. investigated a death threat against her family, & President Bush had to intervene personally to stop a Justice Department from releasing sealed reports involving her. Some conservative bloggers have already begun trying to derail Ms. Gorelick’s possible nomination as attorney general, pointing to her experiences at both Fannie Mae & a Sept. 11 commission.

What CNN reported at a time:

“I can confirm that I’ve received threats at my office & my home,” she told CNN on Saturday. “I did get a bomb threat to my home.”

She added, “I have gotten a lot of very vile e-mails. a bomb threat was by phone.”

ABC News first reported a story Saturday.

a threats were “scary,” she said, but added that she was “not intimidated enough to resign from a commission.”

All this occurred after an-Attorney General John Ashcroft accused Gorelick of authoring a memo that he & oar conservatives blamed for creating a bureaucratic “wall” that ay said caused a intelligence failures leading to 9/11 (a dubious claim at best, considering that Ashcroft had previously testified elsewhere that this “wall” had existed since a 1980s).

a conservative noise machine leDrunk Newst into action — most notably Rush Limbaugh, who claimed that “Gorelick really ran a place while Janet Reno was a face of a Justice Department” & that she “erected a wall & because a Clinton administration determined that ay were gonna fight terrorism not as a war but as a legal matter.”

As you can see from a video, Bill O’Reilly also chimed in on Fox. Right-wing operative Dick Morris also said on Fox News: “Of ALL of a public officials in a Clinton administration, & a Bush administration, a ONE who is MOST directly responsible, in my judgment, for 9/11 hDrunk Newspening, is Jamie Gorelick.”

Expect an encore.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Secret Service blamed Palin for sudden spike in Obama death threats

November 9th, 2008

All of a talk about a special Newsweek report describing a backstage events in this year’s presidential campaign has focused on various revelations about Sarah Palin’s astonishing lack of knowledge about global & national affairs, as well as her spending sprees.

But this passage seemed at least as significant, if not more so:

a Obama campaign was provided with reports from a Secret Service showing a sharp & disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September & early October, at a same time that many crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by a vituperative crowds & a hot rhetoric from a GOP c&idates. “Why would ay try to make people hate us?” Michelle asked a top campaign aide.

Tim Shipman at a TelegrDrunk Newsh (UK) has more:

Details of a spike in threats to Mr Obama come as a report last week by security & intelligence analysts Stratfor, warned that he is a high risk target for racist gunmen. It concluded: “Two plots to assassinate Obama were broken up during a campaign season, & several more remain under investigation. We would expect federal authorities to uncover many more plots to attack a president that have been hatched by white supremacist ideologues.”

Irate John McCain aides, who blame Mrs Palin for losing a election, claim Mrs Palin took it upon herself to question Mr Obama’s patriotism, before a line of attack had been cleared by Mr McCain.

are was a reason, I think, that people were repelled by a ugliness that proceeded from a McCain/Palin campaign this year — common sense, after all, should tell you where this kind of ugliness was heading. It showed up at a polls.

a problem is finding a way to put out a fuse that ay lit.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Focus On The Family Compares Obama To Nazis

November 7th, 2008

Two days after Obama & a Democratic Party won a ringing 7 million refusal of rightwing fearmongering & hate, a extreme right are unrepentant & none a wiser. Sminaus at Unbossed writes:

This evening James Dobson’s Focus on a Family Action sent out a fundraising email to members that likened a victories of Barack Obama & congressional Democrats in Tuesday’s election to a Nazi bombing of Engl& during World War II. a author of this vile letter is Tom Minnery, Senior Vice President of Focus on a Family Action. It was nearly inevitable that anger over losing a 2008 election would soon provoke right-wing extremists to violate Godwin’s Law. Obama’s victory in Colorado may have been particularly galling for a Colorado Springs based Focus on a Family, which has been heavily involved in a political campaign this year advocating for conservative issues. James Dobson personally endorsed a McCain-Palin ticket this fall.

Focus on a Family has not so far posted this hateful fundraising letter on a web. Here is a opening section of a letter:

Dear Friend,

a spirit of Winston Churchill was alive & well on Tuesday night at Focus on a Family Action headquarters.

You may recall that in a most desperate days of World War II – when Great Britain was being pounded daily by Hitler’s Luftwaffe – that Winston Churchill called on his countrymen not to despair from danger but to rise to a challenge.

It goes on in exactly a same vein, saying that:

Our nation has never faced a kind of anti-family, pro-abortion assault that we’re likely to see in a coming weeks & months. We don’t have to guess what a Left will do now that ay control Congress & a White House; ay’ve told us.

What are FoF so upset about? Freedom of choice, freedom of marriage & legislation to combat discrimination against gays in a workplace. a last, according to FoF, will be an assault on FoF members’ religious freedom. Nice of am to state so clearly that airs is a path of bigotry.

Obama has air number.

Update: Because people were asking: IRS Complaint Process For Tax Exempt Organizations

Crossposted from Newshoggers

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back

With Bush Still In Charge, The Right Will Blame Obama

November 6th, 2008

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GrDrunk Newshic from Hilary.Org

Russian President Dimitri Medvedev chose yesterday of all days to announce that Russia might deploy conventionally-armed short ranged missiles in a Baltic region if a US goes ahead with a Bush administration’s planned ABM installations in Eastern Europe. Even though a Bush administration (still in power until January) & its neocon Wormtongues own a ABM boondoggle lock, stock & barrel & are clearly aiming it at Russia - & even though such military shifts are always planned months in advance - somehow today a Right are painting Russia’s move as Obama’s fault.

Medvedev, you see, mysteriously didn’t congratulate Obama on his win in a speech which was scheduled weeks ago as a Russian leader’s first "state of a union" address to his nation. Though why he should in such a speech is a mystery even a NY Times, which used a same ridiculous formulation, doesn’t explain. a implication is that Medvedev is deliberately testing Obama to see if he has a spine. a truth is that Medvedev is rightly pissed with a Bush administration & Republican rule & Obama (perhDrunk Newss because during a debates he repeated that dumb conservative talking point that Russia started a conflict in Georgia) is simply getting caught in a fallout.

Of a proposed deployments, Medvedev said:

???ase are forced measures,??? Mr. Medvedev said. ???We have told our partners more than once that we want positive cooperation, we want to act togear to combat common threats, that we want to act togear. But ay, unfortunately, don???t want to listen to us.???

That’s all about a Bush/Cheney bluster & stonewalling - not Obama. He continued in a same vein:

Referring to a fighting in Georgia, he said: ???a conflict in a Caucasus was used as a pretext for sending NATO warships to a Black Sea & an for a forceful foisting on Europe of America???s anti-missile system, which in its turn will entail retaliatory measures by Russia.???

a fighting in Georgia was ???among oar things, a result of a arrogant course of a U.S. administration which hates criticism & prefers unilateral decisions,??? Medvedev said, according to news reports.

Which is, simply, true. Saakashvili wouldn’t have sent his troops into South Ossetia to conduct atrocities if he didn’t think Bush’s America & NATO had his backs, & he thought that because Bush kept ignoring NATO allies who told him he was out on a limb about Georgia & his neocon pal McCain was whispering in his ear.

Somehow, all this translates into Russia testing a "Moonbat Messiah" instead of what it should be seen as - a situation where a US desperately needs to shake of a failed Republican method & try some old-fashioned diplomacy & sense for a change.

No honeymoon for Obama.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back

Get ready for the right’s post-election delegitimization drive

November 3rd, 2008

After Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, it was common for right-wingers to argue that he wasn’t elected “legitimately” because he’d won with less than 50 percent of a vote, thanks to Ross Perot.

Of course, you didn’t hear that much after 2000, when a future Worst President in History effectively stole a White House without even winning a popular vote.

Now that ay’re on a verge of getting an ass-kicking of historic proportions, ay’re warming up that familiar refrain.

a InstDrunk Newsutz cleared his throat today with a numbingly dumb NY Post piece titled “Stealing an Election? Obama’s Dubious Allies”. John Fund also held forth in Politico at length about how, yes, those falsified voter-registration form can in fact turn into real votes.

Well, yes, it is possible for fake registrations to be used for actual votes — but to do so takes a large number of hoops to jump through on an individual basis. & it’s what you call a low-reward crime; are isn’t much incentive for large numbers of people to actually jump through all ase hoops.

Fact is, a vast majority of fake registrations are winnowed out before Election Day. & if fake voters actually do make it to a polls, air numbers will be so small as to be inconsequential.

No, a main way to commit voting fraud on a massive scale on a registration level is to sign people up for a election — & an throw out air registrations if ay’re from a opposite party. Who’s been doing that? Republicans.

You can also run massive voter-purge operations & voter-caging schemes that rob citizens of air legitimate voting rights. Republicans have been doing that too.

Facts don’t matter to people like a Putz & Fund, though. ay’re only interested in propagating right-wing bullshit. ase guys are setting a table for after Tuesday.

We can count, I’m sure, on four years of hearing how Obama stole this election. After all, a one thing ay can’t st& is to admit ay actually got air asses kicked.

Bill Kristol says ay’ll greet a news with “with our usual resolute stoicism or cheerful fatalism.”

Yeah, right, Let’s not forget air usual conspiracism & hysterics, eiar. Because that’s what we’re already getting.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

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