Got to love Fox News - it deserves its "reputation" - as well the most biased rubbish ever served up on television.
It seems funny that they have this "experts panel" i.e. bitter republicans who detest Obama - that well "in the name of fair and balanced reporting" - slag Obama off for the entire "SHOW". I guess Obama hasn't created any phony wars - and is not not slinging his guns - shame on him! He's focusing on solving real problems in stead - that's almost un-American these days.
I mean the Republicans - should just shut up - they managed to turn America into an international laughing stock. Instead they continue to denigrate their own country further.
Fox News - I guess is the sort of shit - that makes me question freedom of speech - particularly when that freedom is used to pump nasty propaganda to the dumb USA masses.
The biggest laugh is their "fair and balanced" - crazy, laughable.
Oh well... lets face the very fact that Americans are tolerating both Sarah Palin and the Republicans is a sign that the USA's days as the dominant power are coming to a close.
I'm not American - but it is a country that has been know for intelligent and powerful leaders.... sometimes I believe that Hilary and Obama are the tail end of that comet.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Palin says Obama friendly with terrorists
ENGLEWOOD, Col., Oct 4 - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Democratic candidate Barack Obama on Saturday of "palling around with terrorists," in the latest sign the campaign is turning increasingly nasty.
The comment by Palin, whose running mate John McCain is vying against Obama for president in the November 4 election, was dismissed by the Obama campaign as "gutter politics" and came shortly after the McCain campaign had already called the U.S. senator from Illinois a liar.
With polls showing McCain trailing Obama in many battleground states, including several won by Republicans in the 2004 election, Palin said "There is a time when it's necessary to take the gloves off and that time is right now."
Speaking at a fund-raiser in Englewood, Colorado, she launched an assault on Obama just days after both candidates urged Congress to set aside partisan politics to pass a $700 billion bad-debt securities package in a bid to free up frozen credit markets.
"Our opponent though is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough that he is palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," Palin said of Obama, also calling him an embarrassment.
Palin cited a New York Times story on Saturday that examined Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers, a former member of the Vietnam-era militant Weather Underground organization who is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Times concluded they were not close.
Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said, "Today, the McCain-Palin team took their discredited, dishonorable campaign one desperate step further, announcing that they were going to try 'turning a page on this financial crisis' and launching more personal attacks on Senator Obama."
"Instead of offering solutions for working Americans and families struggling through a failing economy, they have offered more gutter politics and false attacks," he said in a statement.
The comment by Palin, whose running mate John McCain is vying against Obama for president in the November 4 election, was dismissed by the Obama campaign as "gutter politics" and came shortly after the McCain campaign had already called the U.S. senator from Illinois a liar.
With polls showing McCain trailing Obama in many battleground states, including several won by Republicans in the 2004 election, Palin said "There is a time when it's necessary to take the gloves off and that time is right now."
Speaking at a fund-raiser in Englewood, Colorado, she launched an assault on Obama just days after both candidates urged Congress to set aside partisan politics to pass a $700 billion bad-debt securities package in a bid to free up frozen credit markets.
"Our opponent though is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough that he is palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," Palin said of Obama, also calling him an embarrassment.
Palin cited a New York Times story on Saturday that examined Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers, a former member of the Vietnam-era militant Weather Underground organization who is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Times concluded they were not close.
Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said, "Today, the McCain-Palin team took their discredited, dishonorable campaign one desperate step further, announcing that they were going to try 'turning a page on this financial crisis' and launching more personal attacks on Senator Obama."
"Instead of offering solutions for working Americans and families struggling through a failing economy, they have offered more gutter politics and false attacks," he said in a statement.
McCain campaign targets Obama as too risky
McCain campaign targets Obama as too riskyby The Associated Press Saturday October 04, 2008, 9:15 PM
AP PhotoRepublican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., participates in a women's town hall style campaign event in Denver, Thursday.WASHINGTON -- Falling behind in the polls one month before Election Day, Republican John McCain stepped up efforts to portray Barack Obama as too unacceptable for American voters. His vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused the Democratic nominee of "palling around with terrorists."
The onus is on McCain to turn the race around under exceptionally challenging circumstances. With the economic crisis working to Obama's advantage, the Democratic nominee has surged into the lead in both national polls and surveys of key battleground states, including Republican-leaning Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.
Palin's attack on Saturday came after McCain's advisers indicated the Arizona senator's campaign will ramp up his attacks in the coming days with a tougher, more focused message describing "who Obama is," including questioning his character, "liberal" record and "too risky" proposals.
Obama's advisers, in turn, say he will argue in the campaign's closing weeks that McCain is unable to articulate an economic vision that is different from President George W. Bush's unpopular policies.
On Saturday, Obama sharply criticized McCain's health care proposals as "radical," saying they could force millions of Americans to struggle to buy medical insurance. Republican officials accused Obama of lying as the campaign took an ever nastier tone.
In a speech to thousands of sun-soaked Virginians at a waterside park in Newport News, Obama said he would make health coverage more affordable to most Americans, paying for the subsidies largely by canceling the Bush administration's tax cuts for people making more than $250,000 a year.
Obama said he would save money in the health care system by holding drug and insurance companies "accountable for the prices they charge and the harm they cause."
McCain, meanwhile, spent Saturday at a resort hotel in Sedona, Arizona, preparing for his second of three debates with Obama scheduled for Tuesday at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
The upcoming debate is critical because McCain has dwindling chances to regain momentum. McCain suggested to supporters that he would take the gloves off and go after Obama more forcefully in Tuesday night's nationally televised debate.
AP PhotoDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at a rally on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., Thursday. McCain's campaign apparently believes that making Obama, who is seeking to become the first black U.S. president, supremely unacceptable in voters' eyes may be the Republican's best -- if not only -- shot at winning the presidency. But that risks turning off voters if McCain goes too far.
Palin got in a few early blows Saturday when she told a group of donors at a private airport in Colorado, "Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." She also said, "This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America."
The Obama campaign called Palin's remarks offensive but not surprising in light of news stories detailing the McCain campaign's come-from-behind offensive.
"What's clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy," Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan said in a statement.
Palin's incendiary comment was a reference to Obama's association with a former '60s radical, William Ayers, one of the founders of the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol during the Vietnam War era. Obama, who was a child when the group was active, has denounced Ayers' radical views and activities.
While it is known that Obama and Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood, served on a charity board together and had a fleeting political connection, it is a stretch of any reading of the public record to say the pair ever palled around. And it's simply wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts.
The escalated effort to attack Obama's character dovetails with TV ads by outside groups questioning Obama's ties to Ayers, convicted former Obama fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko and Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He and Obama live in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood and served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that develops community groups to help the poor. Obama left the board in December 2002.
Obama was the first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school-reform group of which Ayers was a founder. Ayers also held a meet-the-candidate event at his home for Obama when Obama first ran for office in the mid-1990s.
The escalated effort to attack Obama's character dovetails with TV ads by outside groups questioning Obama's ties to Ayers, convicted former Obama fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko and Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who made remarks considered to be anti-American in his sermons.
Obama aides said they long planned to focus on economic issues in the final weeks of the race, but the debate over the government's $700 billion financial bailout focused voters on such concerns more than they could have imagined.
The push on health care is an opportunity to raise the debate on a pocketbook issue that voters rank near the top of their concerns. According to an AP-Yahoo News poll taken last month, 78 percent of voters rate health care as at least a very important issue, which puts it behind the economy in a group of second-tier issues along with Iraq and terrorism.
Obama's criticism of McCain's health care plan was echoed by his campaign in four new television ads, four separate mailers targeted to swing state voters, radio commercials and events in every battleground state.
In Virginia, Obama devoted at least half his speech to criticizing McCain. The Republican nominee has proposed to tax the health benefits that 156 million people get through the workplace as income. In exchange, McCain would give tax credits to help pay for insurance -- $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for families, paid directly to the insurer they choose.
Obama said that under McCain's plan, younger, healthier workers would buy cheaper insurance outside the workplace, leaving an older, sicker pool to drive up the cost of the employer-based system.
"As a result, many employers will drop their health care plans altogether," Obama said. "And study after study has shown, that under the McCain plan, at least 20 million Americans will lose the insurance they rely on from their workplace."
He called McCain's plan "so radical, so out of touch with what you're facing, and so out of line with our basic values."
Doug Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior policy adviser, said the Republican's plan to offer a tax credit in exchange for taxing employer-paid health benefits would be a net plus for all but the most wealthy Americans.
Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant responded: "Barack Obama is lying about John McCain's plan to provide more Americans with more health care choices. Obama's plan only offers more government, while McCain's plan offers more choices."
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AP PhotoRepublican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., participates in a women's town hall style campaign event in Denver, Thursday.WASHINGTON -- Falling behind in the polls one month before Election Day, Republican John McCain stepped up efforts to portray Barack Obama as too unacceptable for American voters. His vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused the Democratic nominee of "palling around with terrorists."
The onus is on McCain to turn the race around under exceptionally challenging circumstances. With the economic crisis working to Obama's advantage, the Democratic nominee has surged into the lead in both national polls and surveys of key battleground states, including Republican-leaning Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.
Palin's attack on Saturday came after McCain's advisers indicated the Arizona senator's campaign will ramp up his attacks in the coming days with a tougher, more focused message describing "who Obama is," including questioning his character, "liberal" record and "too risky" proposals.
Obama's advisers, in turn, say he will argue in the campaign's closing weeks that McCain is unable to articulate an economic vision that is different from President George W. Bush's unpopular policies.
On Saturday, Obama sharply criticized McCain's health care proposals as "radical," saying they could force millions of Americans to struggle to buy medical insurance. Republican officials accused Obama of lying as the campaign took an ever nastier tone.
In a speech to thousands of sun-soaked Virginians at a waterside park in Newport News, Obama said he would make health coverage more affordable to most Americans, paying for the subsidies largely by canceling the Bush administration's tax cuts for people making more than $250,000 a year.
Obama said he would save money in the health care system by holding drug and insurance companies "accountable for the prices they charge and the harm they cause."
McCain, meanwhile, spent Saturday at a resort hotel in Sedona, Arizona, preparing for his second of three debates with Obama scheduled for Tuesday at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
The upcoming debate is critical because McCain has dwindling chances to regain momentum. McCain suggested to supporters that he would take the gloves off and go after Obama more forcefully in Tuesday night's nationally televised debate.
AP PhotoDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at a rally on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., Thursday. McCain's campaign apparently believes that making Obama, who is seeking to become the first black U.S. president, supremely unacceptable in voters' eyes may be the Republican's best -- if not only -- shot at winning the presidency. But that risks turning off voters if McCain goes too far.
Palin got in a few early blows Saturday when she told a group of donors at a private airport in Colorado, "Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." She also said, "This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America."
The Obama campaign called Palin's remarks offensive but not surprising in light of news stories detailing the McCain campaign's come-from-behind offensive.
"What's clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy," Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan said in a statement.
Palin's incendiary comment was a reference to Obama's association with a former '60s radical, William Ayers, one of the founders of the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol during the Vietnam War era. Obama, who was a child when the group was active, has denounced Ayers' radical views and activities.
While it is known that Obama and Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood, served on a charity board together and had a fleeting political connection, it is a stretch of any reading of the public record to say the pair ever palled around. And it's simply wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts.
The escalated effort to attack Obama's character dovetails with TV ads by outside groups questioning Obama's ties to Ayers, convicted former Obama fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko and Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He and Obama live in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood and served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that develops community groups to help the poor. Obama left the board in December 2002.
Obama was the first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school-reform group of which Ayers was a founder. Ayers also held a meet-the-candidate event at his home for Obama when Obama first ran for office in the mid-1990s.
The escalated effort to attack Obama's character dovetails with TV ads by outside groups questioning Obama's ties to Ayers, convicted former Obama fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko and Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who made remarks considered to be anti-American in his sermons.
Obama aides said they long planned to focus on economic issues in the final weeks of the race, but the debate over the government's $700 billion financial bailout focused voters on such concerns more than they could have imagined.
The push on health care is an opportunity to raise the debate on a pocketbook issue that voters rank near the top of their concerns. According to an AP-Yahoo News poll taken last month, 78 percent of voters rate health care as at least a very important issue, which puts it behind the economy in a group of second-tier issues along with Iraq and terrorism.
Obama's criticism of McCain's health care plan was echoed by his campaign in four new television ads, four separate mailers targeted to swing state voters, radio commercials and events in every battleground state.
In Virginia, Obama devoted at least half his speech to criticizing McCain. The Republican nominee has proposed to tax the health benefits that 156 million people get through the workplace as income. In exchange, McCain would give tax credits to help pay for insurance -- $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for families, paid directly to the insurer they choose.
Obama said that under McCain's plan, younger, healthier workers would buy cheaper insurance outside the workplace, leaving an older, sicker pool to drive up the cost of the employer-based system.
"As a result, many employers will drop their health care plans altogether," Obama said. "And study after study has shown, that under the McCain plan, at least 20 million Americans will lose the insurance they rely on from their workplace."
He called McCain's plan "so radical, so out of touch with what you're facing, and so out of line with our basic values."
Doug Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior policy adviser, said the Republican's plan to offer a tax credit in exchange for taxing employer-paid health benefits would be a net plus for all but the most wealthy Americans.
Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant responded: "Barack Obama is lying about John McCain's plan to provide more Americans with more health care choices. Obama's plan only offers more government, while McCain's plan offers more choices."
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