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Obama referred to his Muslim faith.
That is just so silly. If you see the whole interview then it's clear that when Obama said 'my Muslim faith' he was saying that McCain has never directly accused Obama of being a Muslim. And if you still don't get it, then Obama even goes on to say expressly that. Here's the whole interview, not the 3 second edit the Republicans are using to smear him:
I'm hesitant to even call it a slip, since Obama's meaning is very clear to me. But nevermind, the anti-Obama legion have gone to town with it:
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That is just so silly.
Gotcha. Yes, the video I saw yesterday was a crucial couple of seconds short.
We'll file it under "the guy can't catch a break".
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Which counts as a negative swing because Obama was leading pre-conventions and is now even.
No, not at all true..leading up to the convention he was on average one or two points ahead...about where he is now.
But I just can't see Obama as being real happy about this result.
Sure, there were some missteps and I think any candidate would be unhappy just to be one or two points ahead, but all in all, there seems to be a quiet optimism creeping back into the Democratic campaign after an unsettling few days.
Every day there seems to be a new, often minor, but new nevertheless, revelation about Palin..see the buying off of the Alaskan National Guard guy above, and the Newsweek story..each one rubbing a bit of the sheen off her. The novelty is gone and she's not setting quite where McCain wants her to settle as their reluctance to expose her to the media means that almost everything you hear about her is negative now. Major mistake, coupled with an even bigger error making her the focal point of the ticket.
All it will take is a couple more stories like those and she becomes liability.
Obama may not be happy but I'm thinking Rove's boys are even less happy. The old GOP tactical philosophy of assuming everyone is unquestioningly dumb might be wearing thin.
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We'll file it under "the guy can't catch a break".
Yeah, but, like the pig jibe, these things may also have a backlash effect. In the same way people reacted against the unfairness of the Bristol attacks, there seems to be an undercurrent amongst the independents and others that doesn't like the attacks against Obama.
And at least one analysis sees the pig story as a deliberate attempt to paint the McCain camp as unreasonable and extreme.
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No, not at all true..leading up to the convention he was on average one or two points ahead...about where he is now.
I am reading the tracking polls off "538" 2 show negative and only 1 shows no effect: Rasmussen had Obama +2 prior to conventions and even now, Gallup had Obama +1 then and -5 now, Diageo/Hotline calls it a tie then and tie now. Where are your figures from?
The novelty is gone and she's not setting quite where McCain wants her to settle as their reluctance to expose her to the media means that almost everything you hear about her is negative now. Major mistake, coupled with an even bigger error making her the focal point of the ticket.
She is less than 24 hours from starting a series of interviews on ABC.
All it will take is a couple more stories like those and she becomes liability.
If those aren't watertight they become a smear to add to the waterbreaking/incestuous/grandson smear (amoung others) of last week. Sure they will play well to the Obama faithful, but amoung the swing voters...
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Where are your figures from?
Gallup has been rather out of step with all other polling over recent months and there have been serious questions about it's sampling database for weeks now. From the left, right and non-partisan statisticians. So looking at the others, Hotline, Rassmussen and NBC are showing a lead for Obama or a tie. Once those big post Convention bumps (including the 10 pointer from USA Today which caused a flurry but was quickly seen as an aberration) drift off the averages, it's pretty much where it was before the convention.
She is less than 24 hours from starting a series of interviews on ABC.
Are you serious? The fact that this is all she's done, a controlled vanity styled interview has added to the negative. Can you point me towards a Sunday face the press type show, an open press conference or anything of the sort...no, I guess not.
If those aren't watertight they become a smear to add to the waterbreaking/incestuous/grandson smear (among others) of last week. Sure they will play well to the Obama faithful, but amoung the swing voters...
Both those stories are watertight, Angus...backed, annotated, documented. There was a link to the promotion story above, with another link off that page to more.
The thing is, every day she looks a little shakier, a little more flakey, a little nastier, a little more corrupt. Her dishonesty over earmarks has made the front page of half a dozen major newspapers today. Everyday she lies about her bridge it digs a little deeper. It's like the death of 1000 knives....
Palin wasn't their secret weapon, she was their only weapon and she's looking like she may be McCain's achilles heel too.
Time will tell but I'm guessing that the Democrats are a tad happier than they were three days back.
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Sure, there were some missteps and I think any candidate would be unhappy just to be one or two points ahead, but all in all, there seems to be a quiet optimism creeping back into the Democratic campaign after an unsettling few days.
What's most disturbing is that it's still close. Just how many villages does the USA have, and how many idiots does each village need?
The ones that I talk to are all voting Democrat, so I'm always surprised when I hear of polls and it's 'close' or 'tied'.
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Um, wow ...
Governor Is Asked To Release E-Mails
By Karl Vick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 10, 2008; A04WASILLA, Alaska, Sept. 9 -- Gov. Sarah Palin is being asked by a local Republican activist to release more than 1,100 e-mails she withheld from a public records request, including 40 that were copied to her husband, Todd.
Palin had claimed executive privilege for documents copied to her husband, who is not a state employee, in responding to an open records request in June made by Andrée McLeod, an activist in Anchorage. The administrative appeal filed yesterday by McLeod's attorney, Donald C. Mitchell, argued that by copying Todd Palin on sensitive state correspondence, the governor and her aides shattered the privilege rightly afforded elected officials.
"She has allowed Todd Palin -- who has not been elected by the people of Alaska, who is not a state employee -- to entangle himself apparently as he sees fit in the operations of the executive branch of the state government," Mitchell said.
"From the case law, if government voluntarily opens up that internal decision-making to what I would call civilians, then that is waiver of that protection of the government policy decision-making process. That is what happened here, and it happened because Sarah Palin doesn't understand it," he said.
Todd Palin was frequently copied on e-mails relating to Alaska State Troopers and the union representing public safety employees, according to McLeod, who received four boxes of redacted e-mails in response to her request. At the time, both Sarah and Todd Palin were complaining to the state public safety commissioner about a disciplinary matter involving Sarah Palin's ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper.
Palin also routinely does government business from a Yahoo address, gov.sarah@yahoo.com, rather than her secure official state e-mail address, according to documents already made public.
"Whoops!" Palin aide Frank Bailey wrote, after addressing an e-mail to the governor's official state address. "Frank, This is not the Governor's personal account," a secretary reminded him.
Calls seeking response from the governor were not immediately returned by a Palin spokesperson. Palin last month described McLeod as a disgruntled former employee, though in 2004 Palin endorsed her as a state House candidate "not afraid to stand up for what's right."
Mitchell's appeal, addressed to Palin in her capacity as the decision-maker on the earlier records request, questions the wisdom of the governor and her aides shipping messages about state business between their public and private e-mail accounts "with complete and total abandon," he said.
"There's a reason the governor should be using her own official e-mail channels, because of security and encryption," the lawyer said. "She's running state business out of Yahoo?"
On March 17, minutes after peppering a state official about whether e-mails about state business contained on a personal BlackBerry could become public, senior Palin aide Ivy Frye addressed a message to both Palins and two other aides: "In sum, it's just as I thought -- questions of confidentiality are still unanswered by law."
McLeod, a former state employee who once was close to Palin, filed an ethics complaint last month against Palin and others. She cited e-mail traffic that appeared to show that the governor's office improperly helped a Palin fundraiser obtain a civil service position.
"By withholding these emails, Sarah Palin has broken on her promise of being open, honest and transparent," McLeod said in a statement. "It's old-school politics and not the kind of reform she pledged to Alaskans."
It just gets weirder, really.
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"She's running state business out of Yahoo?"
These guys need some help from Nicky Hagar.
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From the sounds of things, I imagine they'd prefer the help of Sammy Hagar.
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What's most disturbing is that it's still close. Just how many villages does the USA have, and how many idiots does each village need?
You saw the RNC....the only other places I can recall (putting up my Godwin barrier) that sort of nationalistic country-name chanting fervour was in the fascist states of the 30s, North Korea, BNP meetings in the UK and sports matches.
These are folks who believe that their almost exclusively white, mostly well off crowd and ticket are the 'mavericks'..
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Palin also routinely does government business from a Yahoo address, gov.sarah@yahoo.com, rather than her secure official state e-mail address, according to documents already made public.
Now I know why Sarah, our governess, couldn't get her preferred email address.
You saw the RNC....the only other places I can recall (putting up my Godwin barrier) that sort of nationalistic country-name chanting fervour was in the fascist states of the 30s, North Korea, BNP meetings in the UK and sports matches.
Except the chant of drill, drill, drill, that was more reminiscent of a Marx Brothers flick.
To be fair, though, people keep forgetting the jingoistic horror-fest that was the DNC convention of four years ago.
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Now I know why Sarah, our governess,
Fantastic, people still have governesses.
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Fantastic, people still have governesses.
Our dear Sarah is more of a literary device than an actual person, but yeah, plenty of people have governesses these days. Except they call them nannies, I believe.
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Except they call them nannies, I believe.
That's nowhere near as cool.
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'Nanny' is very déclassé. We prefer au pair.
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But I just can't see Obama as being real happy about this result.
Probably not -- then again, the conventions get the kind of coverage no sane broadcaster would ever give a party conference here. So, if you can't leverage a poll bounce off of the best part of a week dominating the political news cycle... Well, incompetence doesn't even begin to describe it.
The question is, Angus, will it last.
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Fantastic, people still have governesses.
Our dear Sarah is more of a literary device than an actual person, but yeah, plenty of people have governesses these days. Except they call them nannies, I believe.
Nope, a governess and a nanny are two entirely different things. A nanny attends to the physical needs of children and supervises their play - a governess is for much older children and is a teacher employed in a private capacity.
In a similar vein of confused social types, I see Palin described sometimes as "preppy" which is about a far from Palin's type as a person can get; Obama is a preppy. Palin doesn't seem educated at all, much less well educated.
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'Nanny' is very déclassé. We prefer au pair.
In this part of the world, usually Pembantu (literally: helper) or Amah.
And it's the middle class Indonesian way to have at least one per child..the richer you are, the more you have. And kids treat often them appallingly (as, sadly, so do the fathers too often). That said, the kids often grow up far closer to the pembantu than the parents.
A friend did an interior revamp for a guy in Jakarta who had two for his dogs..seriously.....make of that what you will but it didn't make me like the elite here any more.
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I spent two months in the Dominican Republic last year, learning Spanish (kind of like going to Scotland to learn English, only warmer). One of my teacher's families had a nanny/maid, who -- apparently -- they had bought as a little girl and essentially raised as a servant, and who is now in her forties. I think. She was only ever referred to as 'la muchacha'. To the Dominicans, it didn't seem at all unnatural, and they got very upset at the mention of 'esclavitud.'
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It just gets weirder, really
Yeah.
Other email addresses they might want to check out:
nixon_deepthroat@gmail.com
billclinton_intern_cigar@hotmail.com
winstonpeters_moneyIforgotAbout@yahoo.com -
'Nanny' is very déclassé. We prefer au pair.
Again with the confusion... a nanny has professional childcare qualifications, earns more money and is right to resent any housekeeping duties that might be foisted on them - while an au pair is untrained, earns much less money than a nanny and their duties do included light housekeeping
It's so hard to define good help these days.
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And the stuff keeps on coming:
An Alaska judge warned Gov. Sarah Palin's family against trying to get her then-brother-in-law fired, according to court records.
Investigators want to know if Sarah Palin tried to use her position improperly to get her former brother-in-law fired.Investigators want to know if Sarah Palin tried to use her position improperly to get her former brother-in-law fired.
That warning came long before the controversy over her dismissal of the brother-in-law's boss, the state's public safety commissioner, records show.
Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, is battling allegations she and her advisers pressured Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire her sister's husband, State Trooper Mike Wooten.
Palin's sister, Molly McCann, and Wooten were in the process of getting a divorce when the judge hearing the couple's case said McCann's family appeared to be putting Wooten's job at risk at a time when he would be required to pay child support.
"It appears for the world that Ms. McCann and her family have decided to take after the guy's livelihood, that whatever who did what to whom has overridden good judgment," Superior Court Judge John Suddock said during an October 2005 hearing. "Aesop told us not to slay the goose that lays the golden egg. For whatever reason, people are trying to slay the goose here, and it tends to diminish his earning capacity."
Are court records watertight enough for you, Angus?
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Are you serious? The fact that this is all she's done, a controlled vanity styled interview has added to the negative.
Definitely serious. She is doing a high profile exclusive for ABC. ABC will hype its publicity, the negative reaction by the other press will hype its publicity. The lead on ABC for the next two days is going to be Sarah Palin laughing at some of the rumours spread and a lot of people will be watching.
Can you point me towards a Sunday face the press type show, an open press conference or anything of the sort...no, I guess not.
No, Simon I guess she isn't doing any of the low profile, barely noted interviews of the type Biden is putting out. Quite how this plays negatively though...
If by next week Palin is running open press all current negativity will be reversed, because her actions will prove her nay-sayers wrong - again. Which will make her look more credible than her detractors - again.
Both those stories are watertight, Angus...backed, annotated, documented. There was a link to the promotion story above...
Just off the top of my head, the Republicans can seriously dent that promotion story by pumping positive quotes the officer made about Palin in the early period or saying that the promotion was a natural occurance in his career due to him.
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If by next week Palin is running open press all current negativity will be reversed, because her actions will prove her nay-sayers wrong - again. Which will make her look more credible than her detractors - again.
Angus, I can't believe you're not even slightly worried by the documented evidence of her behaviour in power.
Just off the top of my head, the Republicans can seriously dent that promotion story by pumping positive quotes the officer made about Palin in the early period or saying that the promotion was a natural occurance in his career due to him.
You mean, lie about it?
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