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The irony of someone - whose parents depended on government assistance to survive and pull themselves out of hard times - now trashing the system and calling it socialism, is delicious.

Maybe it’s only socialism when it applies to single parents or people with dark skin. It’s as bad as someone who complains about big government when their parents were postal workers or teachers.

The most important and true part of his statement. When asked about the ‘accusations’ that Obama was a Muslim, Powell answered that of course he wasn’t, and ’so what if he was?”

“And the party has moved even further to the right, and Governor Palin has indicated a further rightward shift. I would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court, but that’s what we’d be looking at in a McCain administration. I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, “Well, you know that Mr.

I know, I’m stating the obvious.

Turning to Thursday night’s Alfred E. Smith Dinner in New York, where both McCain and Obama spoke, Limbaugh said “McCain killed, he really killed. Obama didn’t. I learned something else about Obama last night. This guy is harboring a lot of bitterness. I don’t know who wrote his material, but whoever wrote his material is damn mad. And he’s mad. He’s mad about the way the media is treating him.

“I learned something else. He does not have a sense of humor. I said yesterday that Obama, everyone talks about him being cool. He’s not cool. He’s cold.

From FiveThirtyEight, via Sullivan:

So a canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she’s planning to vote for. She isn’t sure, has to ask her husband who she’s voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, “We’re votin’ for the n***er!”

Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: “We’re voting for the n***er.”

The article is about how even in areas where there is some widely held racism, even the most yokely of yokels are realizng they are screwed if they don’t get their heads out of their inbred asses.

Another fun quote:

Over in Indiana, PA and Northern Cambria, PA, volunteers fielded complaints of a massive wave of ugly robocalls both paid for by John McCain’s campaign and those paid for by third parties.

Barack Obama gave a speech in Toledo, Ohio, the other day, and behind his podium were several American and Ohioan flags. Not exactly newsworthy stuff.

The problem is, Ohio’s flag features a prominent, large “O.” Obama’s right-wing detractors didn’t know this, and assumed that the Obama campaign had created its own flag to stand alongside the American flag. Conservative activists and talk-show hosts had a bit of a freak-out. Here’s a hilarious example.

On the October 15 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bob Grant said: “[W]hat is that flag that Obama’s been standing in front of that looks like an American flag, but instead of having the field of 50 stars representing the 50 states, there’s a circle?” He then said: “Is the circle the ‘O’ for Obama?

For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet…here are Barack and McCain ‘roasting’ each other and having a little laugh at the Alfred E. Smith dinner last night.

Obamas best lines (imho):

“My greatest strength would be my humility. My greatest weakness is that it’s possible I am too awesome.”
Many of you know that I got my name from my father. “Barack” is Swahili for “That one.” I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn’t realize I would run for president.”

“I can’t shake the feeling that some people here are voting for me.