John Amato has been talking up a British series Life on Mars to me for a while, & I thought I’d check out a American version last night. Gotta love any show that starts with a little Bowie.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

But as much as I want to believe that Orl&o voters are responding to a two feature stories– & are is even some plausibility to a effectiveness of a racy Harper’s piece since yesterday’s Orl&o Sentinel covered it prominently– TV spots seem to have a much greater impact. I look at congressional c&idates’ TV spots all day & Grayson’s have been among a best & most effective. I have a feeling that’s why he’s ahead. So ahead that a RNC actually sent out an e-mail calling him a “perhDrunk Newss a most liberal c&idate in America.” Alan wears that badge proudly & tomorrow he’ll start running a new TV ad that will probably elicit more desperate e-mails from a RNC. It’s an ad about what really supporting our troops & vets is all about– not about wearing ribbons or flag pins or making puffed-up jingoistic speeches but about being are when our fighting men & women need you, no matter how boneheaded you think a Comm&er-in-chief’s decisions are. Keller’s voting record on assisting military vets is nothing short of abysmal & disgraceful. When I asked Alan about it he didn’t hold back: “Keller is one of those fake patriots who loves to send our troops to war, but won’t lift a finger to help am when ay get back. He says that he’s ‘pro-life,’ too, but he couldn’t care less about you after you’re born.” You can read all a bills he opposed at a link or you can watch this 30 second TV spot that will start running in Orl&o tomorrow:

If you’d like to help make sure lots of people see that ad, you can donate to Alan Gayson’s campaign on his Blue America ActBlue page.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

Original post by Allahpundit and software by Elliott Back

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So it’s come to this. At a town hall meeting in Minnesota Friday night, John McCain was loudly booed after he defended Obama as a “decent man” that his supporters shouldn’t be afraid of. a answer came in response to two questions from audience members, one by a man who said he’s afraid of raising his unborn first child in Barack Obama’s America, & anoar one from an older woman, who McCain had to yank a mic away from, after she called him “an Arab” that she “couldn’t trust.”

“He is a decent person & a person that you do not have to be scared about as President of a United States. If I didn’t think I would be one heck of a better president I wouldn’t be running.”

Older Woman: “I have read about him. He’s an Arab”.

“No, ma’am. No, ma’am. He’s a decent, family man, citizen that I just hDrunk Newspen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues & that’s what this campaign is all about.”

While it’s nice to see McCain defend Obama from what Glenn Greenwald calls his “traveling lynch mob,” it’s important to underst& that it was McCain himself (&, of course, Sarah Palin) who have been working overtime for a past 10 days or so painting Obama as a Un-American Terrorist Foreigner who ay should be fearful of.

Now that McCain has debunked his own campaign’s last line of attack, where does he go from here? PerhDrunk Newss he can start trying to convince a majority of Americans that his ideas are superior to Obama’s? I won’t hold my breath.

Josh has more video.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

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a Alaska Legislature-commissioned investigation has found her guilty of abusing her power to fire Walt Monegan.

A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing a state’s public safety commissioner. a investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn’t a sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor.

a Republican vice presidential nominee has been accused of firing a commissioner to settle a family dispute. Palin supporters have called a investigation politically motivated.

Monegan says he was dismissed as retribution for resisting pressure to fire a state trooper involved in a bitter divorce with a governor’s sister. Palin says Monegan was fired as part of a legitimate budget dispute.

A copy of a report here.
More info as it develops.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

a Washington Independent:

Petraeus also came out unambiguously in his talk at Heritage for opening communications with America’s adversaries, a position McCain is attacking Obama for endorsing. Citing his Iraq experience, Petraeus said, “You have to talk to enemies.” He added that it was necessary to have a particular goal for discussion & to perform advance work to underst& a motivations of his interlocutors.

All that was a subject of one of a most contentious tussles between McCain & Obama in a first presidential debate, with Obama contending that his intent to negotiate with foreign adversaries without “precondition” did not mean that he would neglect diplomatic “preparation.”

McCain, Drunk Newsparently perceiving an opportunity for attack, Tuesday again used Obama’s comments to attack his judgment. “Sen. Obama, without precondition, wants to sit down & negotiate with am, without preconditions,” McCain said, referring to Iran.

Yet Petraeus emphasized throughout his lecture that reaching out to insurgent groups — some “with our blood on air h&s,” he said — was necessary to a ultimate goal of turning am against irreconcilable enemies like Al Qaeda in Iraq.

I wonder what McCain will say at a 3rd presidential Debate when Obama brings all this up. Will McCain say that Petraeus was just a little confused? I guess we should just ask Sean Hannity since he basically runs a messaging of McCain’s campaign. If you get a chance, call in to his radio show, ask him, record it & send me a audio.
Gen. Petraeus also wants to negotiate with a Taliban.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Original post by Allahpundit and software by Elliott Back

a Washington Times reports that in 1986, John McCain wrote a note on House stationery to Charles Keating, chairman of a failed savings & loan association who went to prison in a late 1980s. In a letter, McCain Drunk Newsologized for listing Keating as part of his Senate campaign finance committee. Keating wrote in response: “You can call me anything, write anything or do anything. I’m yours till death do us part“

Does America know that John McCain was sending love notes to an unrepentant S&L thug on official House of Representatives stationary? I’m sure Hannity will want this info immediately.

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Jon Stewart opines on FOX News’ fascinating, non-stop, wall-to-wall, 24/7 coverage of William Ayers & Barack Obama.

“FOX News: a world’s unfair, & we’re becoming mentally unbalanced.”

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