“Police said they arrested Joe Fischer, 22, a senior at the university, and Hunter Bush, 21″

At least it wasn’t all Bushs’ fault this time.

Yes indeed Wardmama, it is rather ironic.

People (and I use that term loosely) in W. Hollyweird, laughing and chuckling over the hanging Palin effigy and then we have the Obamessiah figure hanging on the U of K campus.
OMG..!!! It’s a frikkin’ HATE crime!! Fry the little racist bast*rds!!

AC and Rush are absolutely right, liberals have no sense of humor, but they are overflowing with hypocrisy.

Also has anyone seen the Obama effigy? In almost every single article there is a pic of the Palin effigy. I only saw the Obama once – and it is a video – and dressed in sweats (yeah like Obama would ever) – with the only clue it’s Obama being a mask (supposedly – could not view the video nor see it in the pic).

This whole thing just goes to show that the race oops my bad, that the game damn what’s the best word [crusade, operation, offensive - pick your fav] is skewed toward one Candidate – The One ™.

I think that I will discuss with my hubby making a donation to these two men – wrong as they are – they were also wrongly arrested – unless CA steps up and arrests Mr. Morisette too.

GOP takes new approach in ads for Senate races

WASHINGTON — In the waning days of the 2008 elections, Republicans from the top of the ticket on down are making a remarkable appeal: Vote for me, because the rest of my party seems headed for defeat.
A spate of new ads paid for by the National Republican Senatorial Committee are premised on Barack Obama beating John McCain. Some even say that Democrats could pick up enough Senate seats to have a filibuster-proof majority of 60 votes. McCain, meanwhile, is arguing that a vote for him is a check against a Democrat-dominated Congress.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/p.....-gop_N.htm

Then:

The New York Times — Poll signals Palin is weighing down Republican ticket:

“A growing number of voters have concluded that Senator John McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, is not qualified to be vice president, weighing down the Republican ticket in the last days of the campaign, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. All told, 59% of voters surveyed said Ms. Palin was not prepared for the job, up nine percentage points since the beginning of the month. Nearly a third of voters polled said the vice-presidential selection would be a major factor influencing their vote for president, and those voters broadly favor Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee.”

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpo.....ew-22.html

Then:

Rifle maker bounces boss who supports Obama

WASHINGTON — Montana gunsmith Dan Cooper has been ousted as chief executive of the rifle company that bears his name after pressure from gun owners who are angry that he is supporting Democrat Barack Obama.

Cooper, founder and part owner of Cooper Firearms, told USA TODAY in a story published Tuesday that he has voted for Republicans for most of his life, but he is backing Obama “probably because of the war. And also because the Republican Party has moved so far right in recent years.” Cooper said he was attracted to the Democrat’s message about “the retooling of America, which involves the building of middle-class jobs and helping American small business be competitive with those overseas.”

Cooper contributed $3,300 to Obama’s presidential campaign, according to election records complied by the non-partisan CQ MoneyLine.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/p.....sted_N.htm

Then:

Election comes at key point for high court’s stance on abortion

WASHINGTON — John McCain’s and Barack Obama’s dueling statements on abortion rights have ratcheted up debate over the future of Roe v. Wade at a time when the Supreme Court could be at a crossroads on the 1973 decision that made abortion legal nationwide.

Only a bare five-justice majority appears ready to reaffirm the decision. That is a change from national election cycles in the last decade-and-a-half when at least six justices, including now-retired Sandra Day O’Connor, supported abortion rights. A single court appointee could decide whether abortion laws become more restrictive or more permissive and whether Roe v. Wade remains the law.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/w.....ourt_N.htm

So follow the progression:

1. Republicans have lost, give it up.
2. They weren’t qualified anyway.
3. Don’t worry, Obama isn’t going to take your guns, he “respects” the second amendment.
4. But if you screw up and elect a Republican, he will over turn Roe v. Wade.

Two arrested after Obama effigy found on campus

(CNN) — Two men have been arrested in connection with an effigy of Sen. Barack Obama that was hung outside a building at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, police said Thursday.

Authorities found a life-size effigy of the Democratic presidential candidate hanging from a tree outside the school’s Mines and Minerals building on Wednesday morning, police said.

Police said they arrested Joe Fischer, 22, a senior at the university, and Hunter Bush, 21, a former student at Bluegrass Community and Technical College.

“This was a serious incident. It caused a lot of wounds to be opened from racial tension,” Monroe said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/.....index.html

So when will those two, lets call them “happy,” guys from Cal be arrested for their Palin effigy? Just kidding.

Obama’s prospects in Missouri may hinge on the economy — and race

In nearly all-white St. Charles County, some Obama volunteers see the race factor in play. But the economy also plays a big role.

By Michael Finnegan

Reporting from St. Peters, Mo. — Some white union members in the suburbs northwest of St. Louis are blunt about their racism when Gary Booth knocks on their doors.

“I am not voting for a black man,” they tell Booth, who leads organized labor’s Democratic campaign effort in nearly all-white St. Charles County.

Others are indirect but make clear that their unease with Barack Obama’s race will influence their vote on Tuesday. “It’s a difficult thing to try to break down those barriers,” Booth said.

Whether Obama or Republican rival John McCain carries Missouri depends in no small part on the nearly 250,000 voters of St. Charles County, a fast-growing working-class area. It would be tough for any Democrat to win in this culturally conservative county, where many voters oppose abortion rights and gay marriage. However, the troubled economy and Obama’s huge campaign operation have put the entire state in play.

The nominee is making two trips to Missouri in the campaign’s final week. He has 44 offices in the state, which President Bush won handily in 2004, compared with McCain’s 16. As for unpaid volunteers in Missouri, Obama has thousands.

Steven S. Smith, a professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis, said Obama’s campaign was the most elaborate any presidential candidate had ever mounted in Missouri. “The sheer number of campaign volunteers going door to door — get-out-the-vote, voter-registration efforts — has been beyond belief,” he said.

Obama also is spending three times as much as McCain on television ads in the state.

Missouri’s economic distress also has enhanced Obama’s prospects. In St. Charles, a county of 344,000 near the convergence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, rising home foreclosures attest to the tough times. So do the 10,000 new empty lots on the county’s exurban frontier: Developers leveled them to build houses but cast aside construction plans in the absence of buyers.

Still, race remains a potent force in the White House contest here, even as Obama’s top advisors argue the contrary.

“The truly undecided are not undecided because of race,” campaign manager David Plouffe said. “They’re undecided because they haven’t decided who’s best on taxes, healthcare and other issues.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/po.....8417.story

Nice to see the union is spending their member’s own money to convince them they must vote Democratic.

I wonder what other “incentives” Booth gives them…

CVS slashes generic drug costs, escalates price war

Using the products as loss leaders, the drugstore giant will sell 90-day supplies of more than 400 medications for $9.99 and offer discounts for cash-paying patients at its in-store medical clinics.

By Lisa Girion and Andrea Chang

One of the nation’s largest drugstore chains ratcheted up a price war Thursday, offering deep discounts on generic prescriptions amid national concern about the spiraling cost of healthcare.

Drugstore giant CVS Caremark Corp. announced it would sell 90-day supplies of more than 400 medications for $9.99 and offer discounts for cash-paying patients at its in-store medical clinics.

The price war was unleashed by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the country’s largest retailer, a few years ago. Since then, many grocery stores have followed suit.

The price competition makes generic drugs just about the only healthcare bill that isn’t escalating. The lower prices provide a measure of relief to consumers who are struggling with rising health insurance premiums and other out-of-pocket expenses or have lost coverage altogether.

Now savvy shoppers can buy many prescriptions for less than laundry detergent, face cream or a pound of deli meat.

Retailers can’t make much, if any, profit off the cut-rate generics. But that doesn’t mean they won’t make money off the customers. The stores are using generic prescriptions as loss leaders to bring people in. And cheap drugs do drive other purchases.

“They are pulling us into the store,” said Stephanie Nelson, an Atlanta resident who shares shopping tips on her website Couponmom.com.

“As soon as you go to the back of the CVS to pick up your prescription or wait for it to be filled, what are you going to do? You are going to shop,” she said. “I’ll get my diet Coke, shampoo, whatever I need. I’m not going to a different store.”

Nearly every pharmacy — from the small corner drugstore to the industry giants — has been affected by the price war in much the same way that sales of everything from T-shirts to CDs have been transformed by Wal-Mart’s low-price model.

Gone are the easy-money days when drugstores could sell a month’s supply of a generic prescription for $8 and pocket the markup of 50% or more.

“Generics used to generate a significant amount of profit, and that’s all been changed by Wal-Mart,” said Joel W. Hay, an associate professor of pharmaceutical economics at USC. “That’s really squeezed the rest of the retail pharmacy industry. And now they are getting the price down to where there is no profit left, or very little.” …

http://www.latimes.com/busines.....5211.story

Wow, you’d almost think that a market economy works or something.

But that’s OK, it’s only going to be four months or so before the Federal Government imposes price controls in the name of “lowering prices.”

Struggling IndyMac borrowers may be in the dark about offer to lower their mortgage payments

The FDIC, which is running the bank, says more than half of those who were sent letters giving them the chance to rework the terms of their loans haven’t responded.

By E. Scott Reckard

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s program to lower loan payments for struggling borrowers with mortgages from IndyMac Bank has been lauded by consumer advocates and government leaders as a model of foreclosure prevention.

But when the FDIC, which is running IndyMac, mailed out 35,000 letters offering homeowners a chance to rework the terms of their mortgages, more than half the borrowers were apparently so discouraged, scared or stressed out that they didn’t bother to respond.

“Anecdotally, what you hear is that a lot of people kind of hunker down when they’re getting into trouble with their mortgages, and maybe just stop opening the mail,” said Mike Krimminger, a special policy advisor to FDIC Chairwoman Sheila C. Bair.

“Some people have contacted us previously but then just decide they can’t handle it anymore and go silent,” Krimminger said. “And some have maybe just walked away from the home. So it’s a combination of things.”

The FDIC’s experience has implications beyond IndyMac because the loan-modification program there is being looked at as one of the templates for an emerging government plan to help stem foreclosures. That plan would offer loan guarantees to encourage loan companies to alter as much as $500 billion in mortgages to make them more affordable to struggling homeowners.

But you can’t help borrowers if you can’t reach them. Despite the difficulties it has encountered, the FDIC appears at IndyMac to have been more successful at reaching them than most mortgage companies have been. Horror stories about elusive homeowners abound in the mortgage industry.

Bank of America’s Countrywide unit tried to contact one delinquent borrower 150 times before the homeowner called — in response not to the deluge of letters and phone calls but to news accounts of a new Bank of America plan to modify loans, said Steve Bailey, a mortgage executive at the bank. …

http://www.latimes.com/busines.....3024.story

Why, I think we need a Government Program to send out people to contact these borrowers and let them know about the new loan programs, don’t you think?

Obama’s 30-minute ad attracts 33 million viewers

By Matea Gold

Reporting from New York — If Sen. Barack Obama were a television executive, he’d have a hit on his hands.

More than 33 million people watched Obama’s paid political ad Wednesday night on seven networks, Nielsen Media Research reported Thursday, delivering a larger audience for that time period than the usual viewership so far this season.

On an average Wednesday night, the same networks get an audience of 30.3 million people between 8 and 8:30 p.m.

The commercial, which ran on CBS, Fox, NBC, Univision, BET, MSNBC and TV One, drew an audience that was more than half the size as the one that tuned into the final debate between Obama and Sen. John McCain on Oct. 15. That forum had 56.5 million viewers.

The infomercial was especially popular among African American viewers, attracting 15.2% of that demographic. Overall, 11.6% of television viewers watched the ad. …

http://www.latimes.com/enterta.....6560.story

Then again feeding Christians to the lions generated “great ratings” in Rome.

Whoops, I think I gave away the networks’ plans for the first fall season with the Dems in office.