from glossyinc.com
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Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign policy positions could encourage
America’s enemies to test it during the early days of an Obama
administration, Sen. John McCain said Wednesday.

Sen. John McCain says he will consider a second economic stimulus package if he is elected president.

“And the thing that probably may encourage them a little is that Sen.
Obama has been wrong,” McCain said in an interview to be aired on CNN’s
“The Situation Room” at 6 p.m. ET Wednesday.

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Al-Qaida supporters suggested in a Web site message this week they
would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the U.S. as a way to
usher in a McCain presidency.

The message, posted Monday on the password-protected al-Hesbah Web
site, said if al-Qaida wants to exhaust the United States militarily
and economically, “impetuous” Republican presidential candidate Sen.
John McCain is the better choice because he is more likely to continue
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as
McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American
soldier,” the message said. “Then, al-Qaida will have to support McCain
in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his
predecessor, Bush.”

SITE Intelligence Group, based in Bethesda, Md., monitors the Web site and translated the message.

“If al-Qaida carries out a big operation against American
interests,” the message said, “this act will be support of McCain
because it will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so
that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaida. Al-Qaida then will
succeed in exhausting America till its last year in it.”

John McCain said Thursday that Barack Obama’s poll numbers are rising as the economy seems to sink “because life isn’t fair.”

“He certainly did nothing for the first few days,” McCain told Fox News Thursday. “I suspended my campaign, took our ads down, came back to Washington, met with the House folks and got on the phone, and also had face-to-face meetings.”

New CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corporation polls of several key battleground states released Wednesday found Obama has made gains across the board – either taking statistically significant leads, or erasing McCain advantages – over the past few weeks. Since the financial crisis began in mid-September, Obama has taken and held a lead over McCain in the national CNN poll of polls.

“I’m the underdog[ed. Huh?]. I love being the underdog…. We’re going to be up late on election night,” he said.

According to McCain, running mate Sarah Palin is also facing an unfair disadvantage as she heads into the debate tonight. “Frankly, I wish they had picked a moderator that isn’t writing a book favorable to Barack Obama. Let’s face it,” he said. “But I have to have to have confidence that Gwen Ifill will handle this as the professional journalist that she is… Life isn’t fair, as I mentioned earlier in the program.”

PBS journalist Gwen Ifill, the moderator of Thursday’s vice presidential debate, is writing a book about a new generation of black leaders that happens to include, of all things, Barack Obama. Perhaps she should stick to the revisionist type of history that Republicans so favor?

After last week’s debacle, where Obama call John McCain to try to come out with a joint statement, and McCain blew him off long enough to try and take the idea as his own thunder, we should have seen that the MCCain camp is fresh out of ideas that don’t involve negative politicking and as such shouldn’t have been shocked to hear McCain parrot Obama’s suggestion to increase the amount guaranteed by the FDIC from $100,000 to $250,000. For those who didn’t catch the statement by Obama this morning, Barack proposed raising the cap as a way to protect more of the life savings many Americans currently have in US banks. This is the statement that was posted on his site this AM at 7:51 EST.

Yesterday, within the course of a few hours, the failure to pass the economic rescue plan in Washington led to the single largest decline of the stock market in two decades.

While I, like others, am outraged that the reign of irresponsibility on Wall Street and in Washington has created the current crisis, I also know that continued inaction in the face of the gathering storm in our financial markets would be catastrophic for our economy and our families.

At this moment, when the jobs, retirement savings, and economic security of all Americans hang in the balance, it is imperative that all of us – Democrats and Republicans alike – come together to meet this crisis.

The bill rejected yesterday was a marked improvement over the original blank check proposed by the Bush Administration. It included restraints on CEO pay, protections for homeowners, strict oversight as to how the money is spent, and an assurance that taxpayers will recover their money once the economy recovers. Given the progress we have made, I believe we are unlikely to succeed if we start from scratch or reopen negotiations about the core elements of the agreement. But in order to pass this plan, we must do more.

One step we could take to potentially broaden support for the legislation and shore up our economy would be to expand federal deposit insurance for families and small businesses across America who have invested their money in our banks.

The majority of American families should rest assured that the deposits they have in our banks are safe. Thanks to measures put in place during the Great Depression, deposits of up to $100,000 are guaranteed by the federal government.

While that guarantee is more than adequate for most families, it is insufficient for many small businesses that maintain bank accounts to meet their payroll, buy their supplies, and invest in expanding and creating jobs. The current insurance limit of $100,000 was set 28 years ago and has not been adjusted for inflation.

That is why today, I am proposing that we also raise the FDIC limit to $250,000 as part of the economic rescue package – a step that would boost small businesses, make our banking system more secure, and help restore public confidence in our financial system.

I will be talking to leaders and members of Congress later today to offer this idea and urge them to act without delay to pass a rescue plan.

Shortly thereafter, at 8:20 AM EST, McCain appeared on CNN with that exact same suggestion. Coincidence, I doubt it. When in trouble, co-opt you opponents ideas and pretend they’re yours..

From Wikipedia.

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement police or peace officer powers that maintain “law and order” on non-federal property (states, their counties and municipal divisions) in the former Confederate states.

The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the United States National GuardConstitution or Congress.

under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the

From Army Times:

Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the
day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of
Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or
manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.
…

They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control
or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive
poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological,
radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.

Training
for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes
specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the “jaws of life” to
extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a
CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how
to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area.

The
1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal
package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger
Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and
nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals
without killing them.

“It’s a new modular package of nonlethal
capabilities that they’re fielding. They’ve been using pieces of it in
Iraq, but this is the first time that these modules were consolidated
and this package fielded, and because of this mission we’re undertaking
we were the first to get it.”

The package includes equipment to
stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or
controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets.

Anyone else a touch concerned??

from http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/palins-revelations-repent-the-end-is-near/

Rev. Howard Bess:

Palin now denies that she wanted to censor library books, but Bess insists that his book was on a “hit list” targeted by Palin. “I’m as certain of that as I am that I’m sitting here. This is a small town, we all know each other. People in city government have confirmed to me what Sarah was trying to do.”

[He] says that Palin also helped push the evangelical drive to take over the Mat-Su Borough school board. “She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board,” said Munger, a music composer and teacher. “I bumped into her once after my band played at a graduation ceremony at the Assembly of God. I said, ‘Sarah, how can you believe in creationism — your father’s a science teacher.’ And she said, ‘We don’t have to agree on everything.’

“I pushed her on the earth’s creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she’d seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them.”

Munger also asked Palin if she truly believed in the End of Days, the doomsday scenario when the Messiah will return. “She looked in my eyes and said, ‘Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.’”

Sarah Palin ABC Interview With Charlie Gibson Part 1

GIBSON: But this is not just reforming a government.
This is also running a government on the huge international stage in a
very dangerous world. When I asked John McCain about your national
security credentials, he cited the fact that you have commanded the
Alaskan National Guard and that Alaska is close to Russia. Are those
sufficient credentials?

PALIN: But it is about reform of government and it’s about putting
government back on the side of the people, and that has much to do with
foreign policy and national security issues Let me speak specifically
about a credential that I do bring to this table, Charlie, and that’s
with the energy independence that I’ve been working on for these years
as the governor of this state that produces nearly 20 percent of the
U.S. domestic supply of energy, that I worked on as chairman of the
Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, overseeing the oil and gas
development in our state to produce more for the United States.

GIBSON: I know. I’m just saying that national security is a whole lot more than energy.

PALIN: It is, but I want you to not lose sight of the
fact that energy is a foundation of national security. It’s that
important. It’s that significant.

…

GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?

PALIN:  In what respect, Charlie? (no clue what the Bush Doctrine is)

GIBSON: The Bush — well, what do you — what do you interpret it to be?

PALIN: His world view. (Hopeful)

GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.

I realize everyone is good and tired of hearing about her, but some of her recent comments have come to frighten me. In her interview with Charlie Gibson on 20/20, Sarah, when asked about the Bush Doctrine, first responded by asking what Charlie meant by tat phrase…. I may not be a Poly Sci major, but even little ole I know what the “Bush Doctrine” is. I know how it was first presented, in a speech, as official policy of the Bush presidency as it related to foreign policy, and how it was modified and expanded over the years. I am smart enough to realize that even if you don’t know the major policy points of every single presidency, you should at least be basically conversant with the current policy, especially if you are trying to be but a heartbeat away from having to either defend or modify that doctrine. To not know that, is excusable if you’re an average Joe, or a elementary school student, but is completely inexcusable if you’re running to be V.P. Furthermore, trying to bullshit your way through an answer that has absolutely nothing to do with the original question shows a pretty deep intellectual weakness. She also, when queried about her qualifications as an expert on Russia, stated that her state’s proximity to Russia, provides her that expertise, by this rationale, my proximity to Kansas makes me an expert on growing corn, and if I lived in texas I’d be a policy expert on South America.
Now, another small point I want to make tonight is that as a race, Blacks are probably a lot more socially conservative than most people would believe. What forms the way we end up voting is that we believe that personal morality should never be enforced as public policy. We have something of a memory of that being the case in America’s past in a way that affected us rather adversely. it’s okay to be ant-abortion, anti-immigration, anti-homosexuality from a personal point of view. Maybe YOU would never have an abortion, maybe YOU would never be homosexual, that’s fine, you don’t have to have an abortion, you don’t have to go out and have a homosexual experience. But what you do and believe should not and cannot be forced on others. Every person’s morals are personal and private, and should never spring from legislation, but from personal belief. After all, there are large segments of America that believe miscegenation is immoral, should those laws be reinstated as well?, should a official national religion be defined? and if so, which segment? Baptist, Southern Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Lutheran, AME? It’s a slippery slope and our nation, and our children would be best served if we stayed on the even path, the center road, and stayed off the deges on EITHER side.

Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”

by Charley James

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
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McCain told a crowd in Pennsylvania yesterday that he had called
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to express solidarity with the people of Georgia, saying:
“Today, we are all Georgians.”

Saakashvili said on CNN’s American Morning today,“Yesterday, I heard Sen. McCain say, ‘We are all Georgians now,’Well, very nice, you know,
very cheering for us to hear that, but OK, it’s time to pass from this.
From words to deeds.”

John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, a former
lobbyist for the government of Georgia, told reporters that
McCain and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili are friends that have
been speaking throughout the conflict “to exchange daily updates about
what’s going on.” and that McCain
and Saakashvili enjoyed a day of water sports in the summer of 2006.

“I can confirm that Sen. McCain and President Saakashvili were jet-skiing on the Black Sea together,” he said.

Asked about Barack Obama’s statements on the Georgia situation,
Scheunemann accused the Democrat of lacking experience on the matter,
saying his record consists only of a handful of paper statements, most
of which related to matters of loose nuclear material. But McCain’s
record on Georgia and Russia, he argued, runs deep. Geez. stepped in it a bit there didn’t he…

Let’s get this straight. If McSame makes allusions to Barack’s heritage, it’s not racist. If McSame’s surrogates make allusions to Barack’s race, allusions to his religion (Based on his middle name), makes allusions to his qualification for office, based on his popularity, makes allusions to his color based on his electability, it’s NOT racist, but if he defends himself against those self-same allusions, he;s playing the race card? This is republican politics at it’s best. If you answer the question, when did you stop beating your wife with anything, then you are apparently admitting that you beat her at some point. If you don’t answer, then you must be beating her or else you would answer. Gotta love ‘em. No substance, just smear.