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Joe Biden is on and he just kicked butt about Iraq and what has to happen in Iraq in order to stabilize the country. He talked about getting Iran and Syria on board in order to stabilize Iraq. He said that McSame and Palin just don't have a plan to do this, or at least one they talk about.

I really can't see Palin, despite all the briefings, knowing issues as well as Biden does. He can pull facts out of his head that she won't even be aware of no matter how much coaching she gets.

I really am looking forward to their debate. And don't miss the show, it really is worth watching.

I was thinking about Senator No-Spine and Governor Barbie's claims to being reform-minded and opposed to earmarks, so I decided to look up which states get the most bang for their buck on the federal tax dollars they pay. The latest information I could find was from 2005.

On the Republican side:

Coming in at number 2, behind only New Mexico, is Alaska at $4.81 they get back for every dollar they pay in.

Arizona happily occupies the number 8 slot, getting $2.16 in federal tax expenditures for every dollar they send in.

On the Democratic side:

Illinois is 48th out of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, receiving 30 cents for every dollar they pay to the feds.

Delaware doesn't do quite as well as Illinois, getting back $0.23 on the dollar and coming in at 50th, ahead of only Minnesota.

Why is the GOP running candidates from welfare states? What is it about "liberal" states that makes them so able to support the less productive, needier, don't need to be responsible because the Fed is always there to bail them out states?

Obama came out and gave McPOW and Caribou Barbie a nice freindly kick in the balls.

Speaking to 800 people at the Wabash Valley Fairgrounds in Terre Haute, Ind., the Democratic presidential nominee ridiculed John McCain and his running mate, the Alaska governor, for describing themselves as agents of change at this week's GOP convention.

"Don't be fooled," Obama told the crowd surrounding him in a large barn. "John McCain's party, with the help of John McCain, has been in charge" for nearly eight years.

"I know the governor of Alaska has been saying she's change, and that's great," Obama said. "She's a skillful politician. But, you know, when you've been taking all these earmarks when it's convenient, and then suddenly you're the champion anti-earmark person, that's not change. Come on! I mean, words mean something, you can't just make stuff up."

McCain has vowed to wipe out earmarks, which are targeted funding for specific projects that lawmakers put into spending bills. As governor, Palin originally supported earmarks for a controversial Alaska project dubbed the "bridge to nowhere." But she dropped her support after the state's likely share of the cost rose. She hung onto $27 million to build the approach road to the bridge.

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Obama delivered some of his most withering criticisms yet of McCain, although he did so with chuckles and an air of mock disbelief. McCain has acknowledged voting with President Bush 90 percent of the time in Congress, Obama said.

"And suddenly he's the change agent? Ha. He says, 'I'm going to tell those lobbyists that their days of running Washington are over.' Who is he going to tell? Is he going to tell his campaign chairman, who's one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Is he going to tell his campaign manager, who was one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington?"

"I mean, come on, they must think you're stupid," Obama said as the crowd laughed and cheered.

That's what I like to see , call them on their bullshit. I expect the media bobble heads will be clutching their pearls , and heading to the fainting couches because he dared to criticize their favorite trailer park queen though.

And unfortunately , the GOP have a point , a lot of Americans ARE stupid.

Bush mass for shut ins is on the air!

LIVE FROM THE ST GEORGE THE BLESSED CATHERDRAL IN CRAWFORD TEXAS ITS BUSH MASS FOR SHUT INS!

Good morning Bush worshippers, those who are ill and those who it's just best not to mix with society. May Lord God Bush bless you all for coming. For it is he who brought us life and everything else. He is a thousand points of light! He makes the sun rise in the morning, puts the frost on our flakes and puts the fruit on the trees. All praise the glory of Lord God Bush. Today we celebrate Takeoveer.

TAKEOVER CELEBRATION

Today we celebrate Lord God Bush taking over the evil government sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. He shall install holy republican people to oversee these former liberal organizations so they can become holy..

SING PRAISE TO LORD GOD BUSH

I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around,this is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometownIn '65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night, in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed, in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come, to my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown
Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming backto your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
Talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and saidson take a good look around, this is your hometown

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF CHENEY

Lord God Bush looked down upon the people and spoke. `We are taking over these morgage companies and I shall install men in my own image to right that ship just as I righted this blessed country'.

What is it that the Profit Cheney is trying to teach us? It is that by taking over these morgage companies and installing men just like Lord God Bush, that ship can be righted too. This the word of George.

Bush mass is over

Your attendance has been recorded and will be sent to the proper authorities. Go in arrogance, may the Lord God George W Bush be with you.

Frank Rich nails it, yet again.

In the G.O.P., Bush love is now the second most popular love that dare not speak its name.

We still don’t know a lot about Palin except that she’s better at delivering a speech than McCain and that she defends her own pregnant daughter’s right to privacy even as she would have the government intrude to police the reproductive choices of all other women. Most of the rest of the biography supplied by her and the McCain camp is fiction.

She didn’t say “no thanks” to the “Bridge to Nowhere” until after Congress had already abandoned it but given Alaska a blank check for $223 million in taxpayers’ money anyway. Far from rejecting federal pork, she hired lobbyists to secure her town a disproportionate share of earmarks ($1,000 per resident in 2002, 20 times the per capita average in other states). Though McCain claimed “she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” she has never issued a single command as head of the Alaska National Guard. As for her “executive experience” as mayor, she told her hometown paper in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, the year of her election: “It’s not rocket science. It’s $6 million and 53 employees.” Her much-advertised crusade against officials abusing their office is now compromised by a bipartisan ethics investigation into charges that she did the same.

How long before we learn she never shot a moose?

Read the whole thing. You won't regret it.

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The US State Department on Friday rejected Russian criticism of the United States for sending a sophisticated warship to deliver humanitarian aid to Georgia.

"We certainly reject the Russian charges," deputy spokesman Robert Wood told reporters when asked about Moscow's reaction to sending the Mount Whitney, flagship of the US Sixth Fleet, to the port of Poti.

"It's bringing humanitarian supplies, such as, I believe 4,000 blankets, juice, diapers, hygiene products. There's absolutely no foundation to this Russian charge," Wood said.

Moscow charged that the ship might contravene international conventions and was unsuited for its supposed aid mission.

"The question arises of whether the USS Mount Whitney's entry into the Black Sea conforms with the provisions of the Montreaux Convention of 1936," foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko told journalists, referring to an international pact limiting naval deployments there.

The Russian spokesman described the Mount Whitney as "the number one ship of its type in the US Navy" and noted its sophisticated reconnaissance technology.

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POTI, Georgia -- The flagship of the U.S. navy's Mediterranean fleet anchored Friday outside this key Georgian port, defiantly delivering humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged U.S. ally in a slap at Moscow.

The USS Mount Whitney was the first navy ship to travel to Poti since Georgia's five-day war with Russia last month. The continued presence of hundreds of Russian soldiers here has been a major point of friction between Russia and the West, which insists Moscow hasn't honoured a ceasefire deal to pull back to positions held before fighting broke out Aug. 7.

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