John & Cindy McCain on SNL .. with Tina Fey

Another classic Saturday Night Live political skit. This time John McCain joins "running mate" Tina Fey as they do their version of an infomercial on the QVC channel. Cindy McCain makes a cameo as well. Great stuff !!!

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Educational Resumes of Obama, McCain, Biden & Palin

You are the employer. You have these resumes in front of you. You decide who is the most qualifed to run this nation ...

Obama:
*Occidental College (Los Angeles) - 2 years studying Politics and Public Policy.
*Columbia University (New York) - B.A. Political Science with a specialization in International Relations.
*Harvard Law School - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude, Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Law Review.

Biden:
*University of Delaware - B.A. in History and a B.A. in Political Science.
*Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

McCain:
*United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 of 899.

Palin:
*Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester - Business Administration.
*North Idaho College - 2 semesters - General Studies.
*University of Idaho - 2 semesters - Journalism.
*Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester.
*University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism.

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The Presidential Dance Off ... it's on !!

Watch this video ... awesome !!

Obama +8.0% !!!

Polling Data

Poll	Date	Obama (D)	McCain (R)	Spread
RCP Average	10/16 - 10/24	50.4	42.4	Obama +8.0
Rasmussen Reports	10/22 - 10/24	52	44	Obama +8
Gallup (Traditional)*	10/22 - 10/24	51	44	Obama +7
Gallup (Expanded)*	10/22 - 10/24	51	43	Obama +8
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby	10/22 - 10/24	51	42	Obama +9
Hotline/FD	10/22 - 10/24	50	43	Obama +7
Newsweek	10/22 - 10/23	53	41	Obama +12
IBD/TIPP	10/20 - 10/24	46	42	Obama +4
ABC News/Wash Post	10/20 - 10/23	53	44	Obama +9
GWU/Battleground	10/19 - 10/23	49	46	Obama +3
CBS News/NY Times	10/19 - 10/22	52	39	Obama +13
FOX News	10/20 - 10/21	49	40	Obama +9
NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl	10/17 - 10/20	52	42	Obama +10
Associated Press/GfK	10/16 - 10/20	44	43	Obama +1
Ipsos/McClatchy	10/16 - 10/20	50	42	Obama +8
CNN/Opinion Research	10/17 - 10/19	51	46	Obama +5
Pew Research	10/16 - 10/19	53	39	Obama +14

Intrade Political 'Securities'

Barack Obama to win 2008 US Presidential Election	86.8%
John McCain to win 2008 US Presidential Election	13.4%

[Real Clear Politics]

From +5.2 to +7.2 in One Day !!

Polling Data

Poll	Obama (D)	McCain (R)	Spread
RCP Average	50.2	43.0	Obama +7.2
NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl	52	42	Obama +10
Rasmussen Reports	50	46	Obama +4
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby	50	42	Obama +8
Hotline/FD	47	41	Obama +6
Gallup (Traditional)*	51	44	Obama +7
Gallup (Expanded)*	52	42	Obama +10
ABC News/Wash Post	53	44	Obama +9
CNN/Opinion Research	51	46	Obama +5
Ipsos/McClatchy	50	42	Obama +8
IBD/TIPP	47	41	Obama +6
Pew Research	53	39	Obama +14
GWU/Battleground	48	47	Obama +1

See All General Election: McCain vs. Obama Polling Data

All Polls, Including FOX News .. Obama +5.2

Poll	Obama (D)	McCain (R)	Spread
RCP Average	49.3	44.1	Obama +5.2
CNN/Opinion Research	51	46	Obama +5
Rasmussen Reports	50	46	Obama +4
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby	50	44	Obama +6
Hotline/FD	47	42	Obama +5
Gallup (Traditional)*	50	45	Obama +5
Gallup (Expanded)*	52	43	Obama +9
GWU/Battleground	49	45	Obama +4
IBD/TIPP	47	42	Obama +5
LA Times/Bloomberg	50	41	Obama +9
CBS News/NY Times	53	39	Obama +14
USA Today/Gallup (Traditional)*	50	46	Obama +4
USA Today/Gallup (Expanded)*	52	45	Obama +7
Pew Research	49	42	Obama +7
Ipsos/McClatchy	48	39	Obama +9
Democracy Corps (D)	51	42	Obama +9
ABC News/Wash Post	53	43	Obama +10
FOX News	46	39	Obama +7
Newsweek	52	41	Obama +11

[RealClearPolitics]

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Presidential Debates - Round 1

Here is [Barack Obama's] campaign manager David Plouffe's reaction to the first presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain:

This was a clear victory for Barack Obama on John McCain’s home turf. Senator McCain offered nothing but more of the same failed Bush policies, and Barack Obama made a forceful case for change in our economy and our foreign policy. While Senator McCain wants to keep giving huge tax cuts to corporations and said nothing about the challenges Americans are facing in their daily lives, Barack Obama will be a fierce advocate for tax cuts for the middle class, affordable health care, and a new energy economy that creates millions of jobs. While foreign policy was supposed to be John McCain’s top issue, Barack Obama commanded that part of the debate with a clear call to responsibly end a misguided war in Iraq so that we can finish the fight against al Qaeda in Afghanistan. John McCain needed a game-changer tonight, and by any measure he didn’t get it,”

said Obama-Biden campaign manager David Plouffe.

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This Thursday night will be Biden vs. Palin for the Vice Presidential debates. That should be VERY entertaining.

The Real McCain

TheRealMcCain.com and many other people feel that the mainstream press is hiding the truth about John McCain and wants you to watch the truth. Through series of videos, such as this one, they hope that more American's will get a peak behind the iron curtain of mainstream media.

Is This Who You Think Should Be In The White House?

Meet Sarah Palin ...extremist conservative, with little experience and no foreign policy background ... and best of all ... she doesn't even know what a VP does and she's involved in an investigation.


John McCain just celebrated his 72nd birthday and if elected he'd be the oldest president ever inaugurated.

And after months of slamming Barack Obama for "inexperience," here's who John McCain has chosen to be one heartbeat away from the presidency: a right-wing religious conservative with no foreign policy experience, who until recently was mayor of a town of 9,000 people.

Huh?

Who is Sarah Palin? Here's some basic background:

She was elected Alaska's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage.Link

Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.Link

She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000.Link

Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.Link

She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.Link

She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species - she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.Link

This is information the American people need to see.

MoveOn.org also asked Alaska members what the rest of us should know about their governor. The response was striking. Here's a sample:

She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. - Rose M., Fairbanks, AK

She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She's a hunter and fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond Alaska. - Christine B., Denali Park, AK

As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is not a feminist, and she is not the reformer she claims to be. - Karen L., Anchorage, AK

Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national level, and very much unequipped to run the nation, if it came to that. She is as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not one person feels she is ready for the V.P. position. - Sherry C., Anchorage, AK

She's vehemently anti-choice and doesn't care about protecting our natural resources, even though she has worked as a fisherman. McCain chose her to pick up the Hillary voters, but Palin is no Hillary. - Marina L., Juneau, AK

I think she's far too inexperienced to be in this position. I'm all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn't done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices. This is a patronizing decision on John McCain's part- and insulting to females everywhere that he would assume he'll get our vote by putting "A Woman" in that position. - Jennifer M., Anchorage, AK

So Governor Palin is a staunch anti-choice religious conservative. She's a global warming denier who shares John McCain's commitment to Big Oil. And she's dramatically inexperienced.

In picking Sarah Palin, John McCain has made the religious right very happy. And he's made a very dangerous decision for our country.

In the next few days, many Americans will be wondering what McCain's vice-presidential choice means. Please pass this information along to your friends and family.

[Moveon.org]


Watch this video in which Sarah Palin admits she has no clue what the Vice President even does. Incredible.

Gun-toting beauty queen ...

Here's an allegation that was recently proven false due to the recently announced pregnancy of 17 year-old Bristol Palin:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/30/121350/137/486/580223

10 things to know about McCain

For all the coverage this week of Senator John McCain's background, there are some important things you won't learn about him from the TV networks. His carefully crafted positive image relies on people not knowing this stuff—and you might be surprised by some of it.

Please check out the list below, and then forward it to your friends, family, and coworkers. We can't rely on the media to tell folks about the real John McCain—but if we all pass this along, we can reach as many people as CNN Headline News does on a good night.

Click here to tell us how many people you can pass it on to—and to see our progress nationally: http://pol.moveon.org/mccain10/

10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):

1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.¹



2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."²



3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.³
   


4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."⁴



5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.⁵



6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.⁶



7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."⁷



8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.⁸



9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."⁹



10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.¹⁰

John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be. Please help get the word out—forward this email to your personal network. And if you want us to keep you posted on MoveOn's work to get the truth out about John McCain, sign up here:

http://pol.moveon.org/mccaintruth/

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Sources:

1. "The Complicated History of John McCain and MLK Day," ABC News, April 3, 2008
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/the-complicated.html

"McCain Facts," ColorOfChange.org, April 4, 2008
http://colorofchange.org/mccain_facts/

2. "McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq," Bloomberg News, March 12, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aF28rSCtk0ZM&refer=us

"Buchanan: John McCain 'Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi,'" ThinkProgress, February 6, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/06/buchanan-gandhi-mccain/

3. "McCain Sides With Bush On Torture Again, Supports Veto Of Anti-Waterboarding Bill," ThinkProgress, February 20, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/mccain-torture-veto/

4. "McCain says Roe v. Wade should be overturned," MSNBC, February 18, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17222147/

5. "2007 Children's Defense Fund Action Council® Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard," February 2008
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=act_learn_scorecard2007

"McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion," CNN, October 3, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/mccain.interview/

6. "Beer Executive Could Be Next First Lady," Associated Press, April 3, 2008
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-S1sWHm0tchtdMP5LcLywg5ZtMgD8VQ86M80

"McCain Says Bank Bailout Should End `Systemic Risk,'" Bloomberg News, March 25, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHMiDVYaXZFM&refer=home

7. "Will McCain's Temper Be a Liability?," Associated Press, February 16, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022

"Famed McCain temper is tamed," Boston Globe, January 27, 2008
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/27/famed_mccain_temper_is_tamed/

8. "Black Claims McCain's Campaign Is Above Lobbyist Influence: 'I Don't Know What The Criticism Is,'" ThinkProgress, April 2, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/02/mccain-black-lobbyist/

"McCain's Lobbyist Friends Rally 'Round Their Man," ABC News, January 29, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4210251

9. "McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam," Mother Jones Magazine, March 12, 2008
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-spiritual-guide.html

"Will McCain Specifically 'Repudiate' Hagee's Anti-Gay Comments?," ThinkProgress, March 12, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/12/mccain-hagee-anti-gay/

"McCain 'Very Honored' By Support Of Pastor Preaching 'End-Time Confrontation With Iran,'" ThinkProgress, February 28, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/28/hagee-mccain-endorsement/

10. "John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record," Sierra Club, February 28, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/environment/77913/

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Mitt Romney

Two negative ads recently launched by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has spent more on advertising than any other candidate, either misrepresent his rival's records or include distortions, according to a CNN analysis of the commercials.

The ads come as the Republican air war has erupted into a series of attacks ads, just days before the Iowa caucuses on January 3, Wyoming caucuses on January 5, and the New Hampshire primary on January 8.

In one Romney television ad running in New Hampshire, the announcer calls rival Sen. John McCain "an honorable man" then goes on to ask "but is he the right Republican for the future?"

"McCain pushed to let every illegal immigrant stay here permanently..." the announcer charges. "Even voted to allow illegals to collect Social Security."
Watch Romney's ad attacking McCain »


But the ad distorts the position of the Arizona Republican, who has narrowed Romney's lead in New Hampshire. McCain's compromise legislation introduced last summer, which was backed by President Bush, would have required illegal immigrants to return to their home countries and pay a fine for breaking the law before applying for legal status.

McCain also voted to allow illegals to receive past Social Security benefits only after obtaining legal status.

Romney, for his part, ordered a police crackdown on illegal immigrants two weeks before he left the job of governor of Massachusetts.

While Romney is strafing McCain in New Hampshire, his target in Iowa is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

In the anti-Huckabee commercial, the announcer calls Romney and Huckabee "two good men," then asks "but who is ready to make tough decisions?"

"Mike Huckabee? Soft on government spending.... His foreign policy? 'Ludicrous,' says Condoleezza Rice," the announcer continues.

Secretary of State Rice, however, did not call Huckabee's foreign policy "ludicrous." Rice was responding to Huckabee's criticism of the Bush administration for what he called an "arrogant bunker mentality" on world affairs in the January/February issue of Foreign Affairs magazine.

McCain is fighting back by using criticism of Romney from editorial writers, which has the effect of making him seem less negative.
Watch McCain's ad responding to Romney »


In the McCain ad, the announcer says, "As you hear Mitt Romney attack John McCain, consider these words from New Hampshire newspapers. The Union Leader says John McCain has 'conviction' and 'Granite Staters want a candidate who will look them in the eye and tell them the truth.' "

"John McCain has done that," the announcer continues, quoting the newspaper's editorial. "Mitt Romney has not."

While Romney's ads say a few nice words about Huckabee and McCain before ripping their records, the commercials could backfire on Romney. In races with crowded fields, negative ads have sparked voter backlash against squabbling politicians. The attacks wind up helping candidates who stick with a positive message.

That may be why Huckabee on Monday announced he had pulled a television ad his campaign had prepared to respond to Romney's criticism.
Watch Huckabee explain why he pulled the ad »


He said he called his staff Monday morning and told them he wanted it pulled.

"I just decided that's not the way we want to run it," the former pastor said. "It's never too late to do the right thing."

Huckabee acknowledged that he expected "cynicism" from those who believe that by showing the ad at the news conference he is still launching the attack while coming across as a candidate who wants to stay positive.

But, Huckabee said, he expects that if he had not shown the ad, reporters would have asked to see it.

"Conventional political wisdom is that when you're hit, and it's beginning to do damage, the smart play is to hit back," Huckabee said during an event in Des Moines, Iowa. But he said, "that's not the way we want to run it."

"We have to decide we can change the kind of politics and the level of discourse," Huckabee said. "We've got to start somewhere, so we might as well start here and might as well start with me."

Huckabee said the commercial was sent to Iowa television stations and may air for a day before being pulled out of rotation. Huckabee also said he would not be surprised if the commercial was posted on YouTube.

Romney launched a television ad in Iowa Monday, titled "Everywhere," that emphasizes a positive message.

In that commercial, Romney says, "Everywhere my family and I go we hear that America's challenges are simply too big for Washington politicians. I've spent my life tackling big problems -- helping turn around business, the Olympics, and state government."

"Together we can grow our economy, stop illegal immigration, defend life and preserve the values that make America the hope of the Earth," Romney says. "It's time to turn around Washington."

Source [CNN]