http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27122742/?GT1=43001

Further proof of just how Islamophobic those inbred upstaters really are!

FOX News Poll: Obama Maintains Lead Over McCain

Barack Obama maintains a 7-point lead over John McCain, in the latest FOX News poll.

By Dana Blanton

Barack Obama leads John McCain by 46 percent to 39 percent, according to a FOX News national registered voter poll released Friday. Two weeks ago Obama led by 45 percent to 39 percent (Sept. 22-23).

Obama’s advantage comes mainly from doing better among women, blacks, young voters, those with a college degree, and unmarried voters. He has increased his edge over McCain among women to 16 percentage points, up from a 4-point edge last month (Sept. 8-9).

Obama has also improved his standing with his party faithful. A month ago, 79 percent of Democrats were backing Obama. Today it is 86 percent. McCain has consistently received the backing of over 80 percent of Republicans and is backed by 83 percent today.

Independents split their vote 34 percent Obama and 32 percent McCain, with 24 percent unsure. That’s little changed from two weeks ago when Obama was up by 36 percent to 31 percent and 29 percent undecided.

A 61 percent majority of voters believes Obama is going to win the election – more than three times as many as believe McCain will (18 percent). A month ago it was evenly divided: 41 percent Obama and 40 percent McCain (Sept. 8-9). This summer, voters were more likely to say Obama would win: 51 percent Obama and 27 percent McCain (July 22-23).

All of the interviews for the poll were conducted after the town-hall style presidential debate held on Tuesday, Oct. 7. Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from Oct. 8 to Oct. 9. The poll has a 3-point error margin.

There is no doubt the economy remains the single most important issue to voters this election. It is picked by 49 percent, which is more than all the other issues combined.

By 50 percent to 35 percent, Obama tops McCain as the candidate voters trust to handle the economy. Obama has the edge on all other issues tested save two – on handling the war on terrorism McCain is preferred by 14 points and on Iraq by 5 points.

The Obama-Biden ticket has a clear advantage on “having better judgment” (+ 7 points), “bringing the right change to Washington” (+ 15 points), “better understands American families and their problems” (+ 24 points). By a slim margin the Democratic ticket is also seen as better understanding “America’s importance in the world” (+ 3 points).

The McCain-Palin ticket has a significant edge on “having more experience” (+ 28 points).

What about the gut check question? If you had to make the toughest decision of your life, which candidate would you go to for advice? 42 percent say Obama and 41 percent McCain. That’s a significant shift from a month ago when 50 percent said they would go to McCain and 34 percent Obama (Sept. 8-9).…

http://elections.foxnews.com/2.....ad-mccain/

Alas, I too fit into that 61 percent that believes Obama will win.

Voters are stuck in their (erroneous) thinking, and the campaign is so ineffective at this point there’s no way anyone will be moved to vote for McCain but Obama’s ad blitz will likely attract more voters to their camp.

What’s been most disappointing of all is watching women respond to Palin.

I could respect them attacking her for her pro-life beliefs, wanting to continue in their “I want to have sex with anything that moves and have consequences magically sucked out of my womb,” but so many attacks, especially from the “tolerant” left have been based on her appearance, her beauty queen background or have just been, to use a word, “catty” in the stereotypical way that women talk around the water cooler if the boss gets a new secretary and she’s attractive.

I’ve read more than one report in papers of women actually saying Palin couldn’t be a feminist or work for “women’s causes” because she was “too attractive.”

As I’ve mentioned before, the McCain campaign is useless, but I’m much, much more disappointed in the American electorate.

We’re getting the exact President we deserve.

Pity it will take eight years of a Obama Presidency with veto-proof majorities in both houses of Congress to prove that to people.

Of course, by then it will be too late. You can’t take away Government freebies once they’re out there, no matter how destructive they are.

No, as many here have said, the shift that’s going on is tectonic in nature.

We’ll get our Government health care and pay our Federal mortgages to the local branch of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Of course the Feds won’t loan on anything not LEED-certified. Or any house over 1500 square feet (not environmentally responsible, you know.) Or to anyone wanting to build in rural areas (no transit out there, that wouldn’t be right.)

Nope, the Feds will tell you where to live, in what kind of housing you will live, what you’ll pay for it, how much you’ll pay them, hell they’ll probably even make it deductible from your paycheck like withholding. Next to FICA there will be 40% for “housing, food and health care.”

No car loans of course – but free bus passes for all, coupled with increased taxes for “mass transit.”

And the people will love it. Every time the idea is floated they already do.

Paid for? Why a return to 90% tax rates on the “evil rich” who “care nothing of the middle class.”

There will need to be an exemption for members of Congress and of course Hollywood stars, though.

Perhaps anyone covered by a union plan will be exempt from the Federal fees.

(Private plans can’t be trusted, only union plans are corruption-free you know.)

I don’t honestly think any of you reading this can say it can’t or even isn’t likely to happen.

Pakistan: U.S. Missile Strikes ‘Helping the Terrorists’

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — U.S. missile attacks on suspected militants in Pakistan’s northwest near Afghanistan are destabilizing the country and “helping the terrorists,” the Muslim nation’s Foreign Ministry said Friday.

The comments came as a homicide bomber attacked an anti-insurgent group in a northwest tribal area, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 50. The Orakzai area tribesmen had gathered to plan the demolition of a militant base.

Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters have established bases throughout Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal regions, where they are said to plan attacks on U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan as well violence in Pakistan.

Washington has pushed Pakistan to eliminate such insurgent sanctuaries.

Pakistan has carried out military offensives against insurgents while also trying to woo various tribes to turn against the extremists. Some pro-government tribes have set up militias to fight insurgents.

But in a sign of U.S. impatience with Pakistani efforts, American forces have stepped up their own crossborder assaults on alleged militant targets.

The U.S. is suspected in at least 11 missile strikes on the Pakistan side of the Afghan border since Aug. 23, killing more than 100 people, most of them alleged militants, according to an Associated Press count based on figures provided by Pakistan intelligence officials.

The United States rarely confirms or denies the attacks, which Pakistan’s military and civilian leaders have criticized as violations of the country’s sovereignty.

“We want them (the United States) to realize that these attacks are destabilizing the situation, and they are not helping them or Pakistan,” Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman Mohammed Sadiq told The AP. “They are helping the terrorists.”

The strikes are unpopular among many Pakistanis and used by critics and Muslim conservatives to rally support in their campaign to unseat the country’s broadly secular, pro-U.S. government.

The most recent alleged U.S. attack took place late Thursday in North Waziristan and killed at least nine people, between six and eight of them suspected foreign militants, intelligence officials said. They said they were trying to establish the identities of the victims.

The tribal regions also are considered potential hiding places for Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri and other non-Pakistani militants. …

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435642,00.html

Hmmm, we’re supposed to sit on our collective butts while Pakistan does nothing instead of, as the AP even admits, killing militants, because Pakistani citizens don’t like the idea of us doing what their government will not.

Hey, I’m sure Obama will be willing to sit down and talk to those involved, without preconditions, of course.

Well today Rush and Hannity (I don’t feel well and haven’t bothered to get up and turn off the radio) are now comparing Ayers to Tim McVeigh. Saying that using that comparison will bring it into people’s minds exactly what it was that Ayers did and how dangerous he was/is to America.

I just realized why Ayers past doesn’t register on me – he ‘rose’ to infamy when my dad died – I wasn’t paying attention.

If what he did in the 60s, isn’t bad enough – to have the arrogance in 2001 to say He didn’t do enough.

I am ashamed that anyone would vote for Obama simply on the fact that he will not admit his relationship with this guy (now he is saying that since Ayers was a Professor – He (Obama) thought he’d been rehabilitated) – what a crock. That he won’t turn on Ayers infers to me, that he believes the same things – which when you add Rev Wright – you have to know that Obama is of that ilk and believes it – and that does not bode well for what he intends to do as POTUS.

Obama Sued Citibank Under CRA to Force it to Make Bad Loans

http://www.mediacircus.com/200.....bad-loans/

Thousands of voter registration forms faked, officials say

From Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston
CNN Special Investigations Unit

CROWN POINT, Indiana (CNN) — More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana’s Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.

The group — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN — already faces allegations of filing fraudulent voter registrations in Nevada and faces investigations in other states.

And in Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

“All the signatures looked exactly the same,” Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. “Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same.”

The forms included registrations submitted in the names of the dead — and in one case, the name of a fast-food restaurant, Jimmy Johns. Sally LaSota, a Democrat on the board, called the forms fraudulent and said whoever filed them broke the law.

A subsidiary of the group was paid $800,000 by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign to register voters for the 2008 primaries, and ACORN’s political wing endorsed Obama back in February. But Obama’s campaign told CNN that it “is committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process,” and said it has not worked with ACORN during the general election.

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

More voter fraud by ACORN and the democrats. Obama paid $800,000 to buy votes from non-existant voters. Will anybody be arrested? Who will face the consequences? Of course we will, when that socialist wins. God help us all.

From the Wall Street Journal:

McCain Campaign Is at Odds Over Negative Attacks’ Scope

Senator Says Faith Issue Puts Obama’s Former Pastor off Limits

By Monica Langley and Elizabeth Holmes

Top McCain campaign officials are grappling with how far to go with negative attacks on Sen. Barack Obama in the final weeks of what is turning into a come-from-behind effort.

Sen. John McCain has allowed a series of increasingly harsh broadsides in new campaign ads and in speeches by his wife, Cindy, and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin. But the Arizona Republican has rejected pleas from some advisers to launch attacks focusing on Sen. Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Some McCain campaign officials are becoming concerned about the hostility that attacks against Sen. Obama are whipping up among Republican supporters. During an internal conference call Thursday, campaign officials discussed how the tenor of the crowds has turned on the media and on Sen. Obama.

Someone yelled “Off with his head” at a rally Wednesday for Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin in Pennsylvania. Later that day in Ohio, a man stood outside a rally holding a sign that said “Obama, Osama.” At a rally in Jacksonville, Fla., on Tuesday, someone in the crowd wore a T-shirt depicting Sen. Obama wearing a devil mask.

The Obama campaign, with widening leads in several national polls, dismissed the attacks. “Sen. McCain’s campaign has admitted that if he talks about the economy, he’ll lose, so we fully expect him to continue his angry, personal attacks,” Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said. “Barack Obama will continue to talk about his plans to strengthen our economy and create jobs because that’s what American families care about.”

Mark Salter, a senior McCain adviser, says Sen. McCain is “happy” with the campaign. “We believe we can turn this around and fight our way back,” Mr. Salter said.

Changes to Gov. Palin’s role were a topic during the conference call Thursday led by campaign manager Rick Davis, according to one person familiar with the discussion. Participants concluded that the Alaska governor had been “overscheduled.” They agreed that she would hold rallies directed at the conservative base in certain key states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maine and New Hampshire. She also has a few more fund-raisers to headline during the next week. …

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....21497.html

Preaching to the choir and refusing to go after Wright.

Yeah, that’ll work.

But Sen. McCain vetoed proposals to attack the Illinois senator for his 20 years as a member of the church led by Rev. Wright, whose harsh comments about racism in America and other issues created problems for Sen. Obama during the Democratic primary contest. Sen. Obama publicly severed ties with Rev. Wright earlier this year.

Sen. McCain has said Rev. Wright is off limits.

That decision, and the worry that the campaign could open itself to accusations of racism, has kept Rev. Wright out of their strategy.

One McCain senior adviser said the difference between Mr. Ayers and Rev. Wright isn’t race, it’s religion. “It’s not appropriate to attack someone’s faith,” he said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....21497.html

No, really. It’s done.. Stop wishing, stop hoping the public will come to their senses.

I mean really, between this and the fact that there should be ads on the air hammering on the fact that it was Democrats who refused to more harshly regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who cares about Ayers?

Obviously not the American electorate.

From the Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Weighs Backing Bank Debt and All Deposits

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is weighing two dramatic steps to repair ailing financial markets: guaranteeing billions of dollars in bank debt and temporarily insuring all U.S. bank deposits.

If the two moves come to fruition they would mark the government’s most extensive intervention yet in the financial system, as officials ponder increasingly far-reaching measures to stem the sprawling crisis.

The top economic officials of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations will meet starting Friday in Washington where they intend to discuss a proposal from the U.K. government to bolster bank lending. Problems in the credit market have led to widespread dislocation in the financial system and the broader economy.

Under the U.K.’s recently announced plan, which it is now pitching to the G-7 members, the British government would guarantee up to £250 billion ($432 billion) in bank debt maturing up to 36 months. The British concept to expand its proposal to other countries has a lot of support from Wall Street and is being pored over by U.S. officials, according to people familiar with the matter.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto said the U.S. “is reviewing the idea and discussing it with our British counterparts.”

The move to back all U.S. bank deposits, which is only in the discussion stage, would be aimed at preventing a further exodus of cash from financial institutions, including small and regional banks, some of which are buckling under the strain of nervous customers. In recent weeks, customers have pulled money out of some healthy community banks under the assumption that the government will only insure all the depositors of larger banks in the event of a failure.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435621,00.html

So, bottom line, the US is going to make this move because Americans are a bunch of panicked, uneducated idiots who act on rumor rather than fact.

Yep, the Democrats’ dream scenario.

Sheep for citizens and a Government that is acting Just Like Europe.

Biden: McCain Economic Plan Would ‘Reward’ Greedy Banks

ST. JOSEPH, MO — Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that Republican John McCain keeps switching responses to the economic crisis and now advocates a plan for troubled mortgages that would “reward banks and lenders for their greedy behavior.”

Biden has increasingly tried to paint McCain as “lurching” from one position to another in a bid to convince voters that he would be capable as president of addressing the nation’s economic woes.

“Now he’s gone to the point of actually wanting to reward banks and lenders for their greedy behavior,” Biden said. “Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a steady hand.”

McCain has proposed to devote $300 billion — nearly half the recent financial rescue package passed by Congress — to buying troubled mortgages at face value from financial institutions. McCain promotes it as a way to help homeowners.

But Barack Obama’s running mate said the real winners would be the banks that made the bad loans.

“He’s going to spend $300 billion of your money so the banks don’t lose a single penny. I’m not making this up — I know it sounds like fiction — but I’m not making this up,” Biden told several hundred supporters at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph. “That’s not bailing out the homeowner, you’re bailing out the bank.”

McCain spokeswoman Wendy Riemann said Biden’s criticism was an example of “putting politics above the interests of the people.”

“The homeownership resurgence plan proposed by Senator McCain represents no new expense to the taxpayer, but refocuses priorities to more directly assist the homeowners on Main Street who are suffering instead of the greed on Wall Street,” Riemann said.

McCain’s campaign has changed its mortgage plan. When the campaign distributed its description of the plan, it said the government would buy failed mortgages at discounted rates. Conservatives had pushed for that language because many of the homes are not worth the amount mortgaged.

But on Wednesday, the campaign deleted that line, which would mean the government would pay the full value of the mortgage. …

http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/p.....geId=1.1.1

Of course the refusal of banks to loan money to each other is supposedly at the root of the continuing slow crash of the market, and bailing ot a bank may save companies and thus thousands of jobs; bailing out a homeowner that got in over their heads does nothing (and of course that homeowner will come back crying to the Government when their employer closes because they didn’t bail out their employer’s bank.)

Personally I think the market would settle down if Bush and Congress just stopped trying to manipulate it.

Investors are irrationally selling on fear, and banks are justifiably hoarding cash so they don’t go under themselves.

Both behaviors that aren’t completely called for, but in the face of never knowing how the Government is going to manipulate things next, why not just play it safe?

From Fox News:

Parents Outraged Over Baby Doll They Say Mumbles Pro-Islam Message

A doll some are claiming utters pro-Islam and even satanic messages has outraged parents in Oklahoma and Pennsylvania.

People insist they can hear Fisher-Price’s “Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo” mumbling “Islam is the light” and “Satan is king,” according to KJRH.com and MyFOXKC.com.

“There’s no markings on the box to indicate there’s anything Islamic about this doll,” said Gary Rofkahr of Owasso, Okla., who was at work when another man brought the toy in to show his colleagues.

Rofkahr said he found various versions of the doll at local Target and Wal-Mart stores, which have since pulled the toys from their shelves, reported KJRH.com.

Pennsylvania Targets have also reportedly stopped selling the doll, according to MyFOXKC.com.

Fisher-Price referred all calls to parent company Mattel, which didn’t immediately respond to FOXNews.com’s requests for comment.

A Target representative told KJRH.com the company has no plans to recall the doll nationwide.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435164,00.html

They should have just had the doll say “Vote Obama” instead; then it would have been a non-story.

Fisher-Price eventually released a statement:

The Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo dolls feature realistic baby sounds including cooing, giggling, and baby babble with no real sentence structure. The only scripted word the doll says is “mama.” There is a sound that may resemble something close to the word “night, right, or light.”

Because the original sound track is compressed into a file that can be played through an inexpensive toy speaker, actual sounds may be imprecise. Attached is the original sound file for your reference, in which you can clearly hear that the doll does not say any phrases or words.

We remain confident in the high quality standards of our Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo dolls. If consumers have any questions or concerns regarding any Mattel or Fisher-Price toys, they may contact our consumer relations center at 800.524.TOYS (8697) and we will be happy to assist them.

We take every call from our consumers very seriously and do our best to help address their concerns.

http://www.kjrh.com/news/local.....8108ba4971

Personally, I’m with Fisher-Price on this one; the “messages” heard when playing Stairway to Heaven backwards are more intelligible than this.

But listen for yourself (MP3 format) and decide…

Obama tried to sway Iraqis on Bush deal

In private conversations on troop presence, candidate pitched delay

By Barbara Slavin

At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn’t be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval.

Mr. Obama’s conversations with the Iraqi leaders, confirmed to The Washington Times by his campaign aides, began just two weeks after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in June and stirred controversy over the appropriateness of a White House candidate’s contacts with foreign governments while the sitting president is conducting a war.

Some of the specifics of the conversations remain the subject of dispute. Iraqi leaders purported to The Times that Mr. Obama urged Baghdad to delay an agreement with Mr. Bush until next year when a new president will be in office – a charge the Democratic campaign denies.

Mr. Obama spoke June 16 to Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari when he was in Washington, according to both the Iraqi Embassy in Washington and the Obama campaign. Both said the conversation was at Mr. Zebari’s request and took place on the phone because Mr. Obama was traveling.

However, the two sides differ over what Mr. Obama said.

“In the conversation, the senator urged Iraq to delay the [memorandum of understanding] between Iraq and the United States until the new administration was in place,” said Samir Sumaidaie, Iraq’s ambassador to the United States.

He said Mr. Zebari replied that any such agreement would not bind a new administration. “The new administration will have a free hand to opt out,” he said the foreign minister told Mr. Obama.

Mr. Sumaidaie did not participate in the call, he said, but stood next to Mr. Zebari during the conversation and was briefed by him immediately afterward.

The call was not recorded by either side, and Mr. Zebari did not respond to repeated telephone and e-mail messages requesting direct comment. …

http://washtimes.com/news/2008.....bush-deal/

Yes, I checked and double checked the dateline on the Wash Times piece, and it’s Oct. 10…

From Fox News:

Nebraska Law School Dean Says OK to Admit Minorities With Lower Test Scores

LINCOLN, Neb. — The dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law says it is OK to admit minority students, even though they may have lower test scores than whites the school turns down.

Steven Willborn says minority students are needed to help add diverse opinions to classroom discussions.

Willborn was responding to a study released Wednesday by an anti-affirmative action group. It says the law college has been discriminating against white students by admitting minorities with lower test scores.

Willborn questioned the findings and said the college never provided the Center for Equal Opportunity with data that showed the race of students. …

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435306,00.html

It’s amazing that minority groups have never recognized that in the name of “helping” them, Democrats do nothing but belittle them and play down their chances of ever succeeding.

Don’t worry, they say, don’t work hard, you can’t succeed due to racism anyway.

That’s a positive thing to tell anyone?

if George Washington Carver were alive today I’m sure he would be told by the left not to bother with his inventions, as white folks would never accept them.

Chavez will swap gas-guzzlers for clean cars

CARACAS, Venezuela – Give up your gas-guzzler and get a free car. That’s President Hugo Chavez’s offer to Venezuelans.

Chavez says he plans to start a program next year that will give away cars running on less-polluting natural gas to people who turn in old cars that consume “too much gasoline.”

The socialist leader says he’ll even throw in a year of free fuel — though that’s a relatively minor bonus in oil-rich Venezuela, where gasoline goes for 12 cents a gallon.

Saturday’s offer didn’t say what sort of cars will be offered or how many will be given out.

Venezuela has signed accords with companies from more than a half-dozen countries to exploit its mostly untapped natural gas reserves — the largest in South America. …

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200....._free_cars

Naturally, I’ve already seen many, many comments on multiple web sites of the form “If Chavez can do it why can’t we” and “The GOP says socialism is bad, but look – free green cars!”

Yep, as long as people get their free stuff from the Government, who cares about politics?