Barack Perot
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So Obama is doing a 30 minute info-commercial about his campaign. Interesting. Ross Perot did this in 1992. I’m surprised that Cindy ‘I’m worth $400 million dollars’ McCain didn’t pony up.
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Thursday Night News Roundup
John McChickenshit couldn’t tell Obama to his face how he really feels about him,
OBAMA: Well, I am surprised that, you know, we’ve been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days that he wasn’t willing to say it to my face.
Pallin’ around with domestic terrorists? Huh Sarah?
- That Gov. Palin, when a Wasilla city council member, formed an alliance with some of the more radical far-right citizens in Wasilla and vicinity, particularly members of the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party who were allied with local John Birch Society activists. These activists played an important role in her election as Wasilla mayor in 1996.
- Once mayor, one of Mrs. Palin’s first acts was to attempt to appoint one of these extremists (a man named Steve Stoll) to her own seat on the city council. This was a man with a history of disrupting city council meetings with intimidating behavior. She was blocked by a single city council member.
- Afterward, Mrs. Palin fired the city’s museum director at the behest of this faction.
- She fomented an ultimately successful effort to derail a piece of local gun-control legislation which would simply have prohibited the open carry of firearms into schools, liquor stores, libraries, courthouses and the like. The people recruited to shout this ordinance down included these same figures, notably the local AIP representative (who became the AIP’s chairman that same year).
- She remained associated politically with the local AIP/Birch faction throughout her tenure as mayor on other issues, particularly a successful effort to amend the Alaska Constitution to prohibit local governments from issuing any local gun-control ordinances.
Will Obama be immune to the Bradley Effect?
This was on Rachel Maddow’s show last night and on her radio program. Interestingly they are saying the Bradley Effect worked in reverse on Obama in the primaries.
Beautiful Sarah, less than perfect
The Motherload 
It’s great how Fox blogger Ms Tantaros likens Palins’ ‘just-like-you-and-me’ folksiness as being too busy to worry about things such as tweezing, waxing and moisturizing. Hell, “Palin’s got an election to win, a jam-packed campaign schedule, a state to run, and five children. She’s not perfect. She’s real.”
South DaCola email box; The RNC journalists arrests
Brian from MPLS sent me this about his experiences;
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Here’s something I put up on the RNC arrests of journalists.
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The site may look familiar. There still a lot of things that are being sorted out through this. I did go to a forum between journalists, cops and the city of St. Paul. I asked the Asst police chief of St. Paul why some journalists were released at the scene and others were sent downtown. He said there was a “gap in communication.” Interesting….
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This post points to two more stories of journalists in the same situation.
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http://liberalmediaelite.com/?p=830Â they are much more interesting than mine.
Saturday Odds & Ends
I saw this in McKennan park today. Thought the Al Franken sign was a nice touch – I wonder if Daugaard lives there?
LMFAO- Saw this video today, I think the kid nailed it. “I hope you hit a whale on the way to France.”
Seems the McCain campaign is spinning the Hockey Mom status of Palin a little further . . . I always thought she was a VPILF instead?
The school board decided to not let extremists distribute their crap in the schools anymore, but the Gargoyle Leader has even a better idea . . . junk mail and spam. Yeah, that’s a GREAT IDEA! this from the same people who endorsed Vernon Brown and the sales tax hike.
Perhaps there still is some way for the school district to help those groups whose important missions revolve around helping children grow and learn. Electronic communication quickly is becoming universal. Some sort of opt-in e-mail distribution list might make sense. The schools could then turn that list over to organizations that ask for it, thereby escaping the middle-man role. The same could be done with mailing addresses.