BEST PLACE TO GET USA NEWS IS NOT FROM USA NEWS OUTLETS

After my last post and reading the excellent articles written around the world about the Presidential campaign at Watching America, I laughed and thought "wow, I'm going to read the news from this website. I learned things that I have seen no where" on the USA based news websites about our Presidentail campaign. Go down the extensive list at Watching America News Archive

Here are some
Germany:
McCain Unleashes the Attack Dogs
McCain Speaks but Says Little
McCain’s Speech: Tired, Old, Unimaginative
John McCain Plays John Wayne
France:
Obama’s Reply to the McCain Campaign's Attacks
McCain Tries to Moderate His Criticism of Obama
Israel:
Where Obama was Soaring, McCain was Sobering
Egypt:
McCain-Palin Ticket Chills Arabs, Muslims
Spain
Teen Pregnancy Brings Normalcy to McCain
Great Britain
McCain Caught in Web of Lies
Jordan
John McCain’s Folly
Slovakia
McCain Campaign Distorts Truth in Ad Campaign
Russia
Putin blasts US for financial crisis
Ireland
McCain Rocked By Freddie Mac Revelations
Saudi Arabia
Obama, McCain: Time to Get Serious


From Great Britain Independent.co.uk

Matthew Norman: The peculiar tragedy of this flawed hero, John McCain

Original source and credit: www.independent.co.uk/commentators/matthew-normanml

This bulbous oblong of coiled rage came across as an appalling old waxwork

Friday, 10 October 2008

For one whose single rhetorical flourish is the gratingly incessant appellation "My friends", John McCain has very few left. The roll call shrinks by the day as his bamboozled campaign grows nastier, and if the decline maintains its trajectory this year's Friends of McCain Thanksgiving Dinner in Arizona will be held, in homage to his naval career, in a solo canoe. By then, even the Clintons will have baled out because, barring a malevolent miracle, Barack Obama will be President-Elect, and Senator McCain's value to them as Oval Office seat-warmer until 2012 will have gone the way of Lehman Brothers. Even his wife, Cindy, can barely tolerate his presence, judging by the body language at the end of Tuesday's debate in St Louis. As they gingerly embraced, you sensed her wondering whether seven houses will provide a sufficient cordon sanitaire from each other's company come 5 November.

This debate was a riot of paradox, being at once both turgid and captivating, meaningless and hugely significant. As an aural event, it was tedious. Obama was much the more lucid, especially on healthcare and foreign policy regarding Pakistan, but McCain held his own on the economy (or about as well as any candidate advocating $300bn in tax breaks for large corporations and their CEOs could expect to do at this point in US fiscal history).

It was visually that this debate really mattered and, while it is too soon to divine public reaction from the polls, one suspects it went a fair way to securing Obama the White House in the absence of monstrous scandal: Barack and Britney caught in flagrante delicto at an Osama bin Laden fundraiser perhaps; Michelle giving OJ Simpson the Black Power salute on visiting day at the penitentiary; Russia unilaterally reviving the Warsaw Pact; or the detonation of a radioactive device on Pennsylvania Avenue.

McCain looked simply dreadful. Sallow, fatigued, hunched, tentative and miserable, this bulbous oblong of coiled rage came across as what the Prince of Wales knows as an appalling old waxwork. The clinching image, I think, was the rear overhead shot, as he made staccato movements across the stage that highlighted the large circle of hairlessness on his head. No bald man has won a general election in Britain or the US in the television age (Dwight Eisenhower was the last Anglo-American alopecian victor back in 1956) and this one is now a very long shot to buck the trend.

So much for this one, and on to "that one"... the most memorable moment of the debate season thus far. Flailing about idiotically in the quest to portray Obama as the Bush-Cheney cheerleader in contrast to his maverick self, Senator McCain mentioned an energy bill that emerged from the White House. "You know who voted for it? You might never know," he said, and then, without turning to face Obama, he flipped an arm in the younger man's direction. "That one," he added, lest any doubt remain.

We could argue until Doomsday whether "that one" was a rung or two down the offensiveness ladder from "uppity". My feeling is that it falls into that vast category of Things White People Don't Think Are Remotely Racist But Wouldn't Say In A Million Years About Other White People. Certainly, you can't imagine McCain using it of Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden.

But racism, while still a small, nagging threat to Obama's chances, is a red herring here. What was so revealing about "that one" was that it crystallised the uncontainable disdain that is annihilating McCain's reputation. It isn't undermining his candidacy, because the economic mayhem and his volatile reaction to it has already done that. Yet his inability to show Obama common courtesy is unveiling him to a previously admiring electorate as a mean-spirited, cantankerous old git. If the repeated use of "old" appears ageist, so be it. Everything about McCain's dismissive attitude to Obama is geriatric. In fact he is only 72, which these days is anything but old. My father is McCain's senior by a year or two, and could pass for his son. I have friends in their mid-80s whom I think of as contemporaries because there is nothing remotely retrograde about their perspective on life.

For all his energy, on the other hand, McCain could pass for 92 because he radiates the sourness of the crotchety Meldrovian grump, slumped in a high-backed, plastic chair snarling "dunno they're born" whenever a middle-aged politician appears on the telly. Everything about his debate demeanour bespeaks a man struggling mightily to subjugate his rage that, after all he gave up in the Hanoi Hilton – his freedom, health and, as seems increasingly evident, a portion of his sanity – this smartarse liberal from Chicago swans along, not yet out of his congressional diapers, to steal the prize to which he believes his sacrifice entitles him.

So while Obama vaguely but empathetically seeks to assuage the terrors of Americans about their financial future, McCain seeks sanctuary in the distant past. He unleashes the increasingly gruesome Sarah Palin, Alaska's very own Cretina D'Evil, to raise Obama's extremely tenuous links to William Ayers, a Weatherman four decades ago, and the only people listening are the rednecks at her rallies whose shouts of "Terrorist!" and "Kill him!" she is content to let pass without rebuke. McCain's flirtation with revisiting Tony Rezko, the bent Chicago property developer from whom Obama bought a chunk of land in a deal he long ago called "boneheaded", seems set to become a full-blown affair, meanwhile, and it can't be long before his surrogates dredge up the Rev Jeremiah Wright.

Like many failing generals, McCain is waging not the present war but the last one in which Field-Marshal Rove defeated John Kerry. He wants to shrink a truly Goliathan election into another Lilliputian one, a tactic as misconceived as making the race about mature and dependable character when it is so obvious that the only grown-up in the room is Obama.

What made McCain look so weak and hopeless on Tuesday wasn't just the combination of pallor, jerkiness, the tonsure and the contrast between how, when not speaking, Obama sat with commanding tranquillity, whereas McCain paced anxiously in the background like someone in a hurry who cannot remember where he parked the car. It was the image he projected of a man weighed down and constricted by the sense that the campaign he is fighting is unworthy of him, but unable to change his tune because there's nothing left to sing except "For God's sake don't trust this terrorist-consorting, America-hating naif."

It is the tragic hero's traditional fate to be brought down by a central flaw he cannot see in himself. The peculiar tragedy of McCain, a hero himself as his pandering to veterans ever reminds us, is that he well knows he is squandering his long-husbanded capital of personal decency with the sort of wild profligacy that created the economic catastrophe that should cost him the election. His entire sense of purpose and self-worth is founded on a romantic notion, bred in the bone of this son and grandson of admirals, of noble service to his country. This loss of his honour may prove more excruciating than losing the White House to a man that a year ago John McCain would never have dreamt of dismissing, with such vinegary condescension, as "That One". From Great Britain Independent.co.uk

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RALLYING THE TROUPS - RACISM IN DAYLIGHT AND OUT OF THE CLOSET

Daylight on racism at the McCain and Palin town hall meetings and rallies

You can call it whatever you need to - but latent racism or ignorance is coming out of the closet. And it is not a proud moment. The world is watching and some can loudly say that they don't care what the rest of the world thinks of us. But you know that saying about the chickens come home to roost? We can choose not to care. But even today GW Bush said the world needs to cooperate and work together.

How does that work exactly? We choose not to care what the rest of the world thinks of us then we ask them to care what our President says to them.

Here is an article from Great Britain on our Presidential race:

Viewpoint: The impetuous John McCain

By Jamie Stiehm Political commentator, Washington DC Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7663091.stm

Senator John McCain's personal charms are in danger of turning into a liability as the former Navy fighter pilot looms large in the American sky.

In private the impetuous, nearly manic nature of the Republican running for president is exhilarating - in public it's beginning to look like volatility, a cause for alarm among friends and foes alike.

Aside from an unfortunate reference to his opponent as "that one", McCain gave a rather restrained performance on Tuesday in the debate at Nashville, Tennessee.

It was a strategy to show voters he had, as he put it, "a steady hand at the tiller".

But contrast the mellow McCain of Nashville to the warrior of the first debate in Oxford, Mississippi, where he gripped the podium with an expression of suppressed fury, and seemed on the verge of swinging a fist at Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

Viewers could easily draw the conclusion that the candidate is dominated by his passing moods.

Collective crush

When I covered Congress as a reporter years ago, I lunched with the senator and his press secretary in the Senate dining room.

VIEWPOINTS Jamie Stiehm is a political journalist based in Washington DC, whose essays on the 2008 presidential campaign have appeared in the liberal, pro-Obama Huffington Post. This is one of a series of comment and opinion pieces that the BBC website will publish before the election.

There McCain showed me how he communicated with other prisoners of war in Vietnam, by tapping in Morse code on the table.

In a winning way, he also mockingly threatened to thrash author Michael Lewis, who had just cracked my heart. This light-hearted McCain "never met a stranger", as they say.

It's no secret the media had a collective crush on the straight-talking, disarming Republican when he ran for president and lost to George W Bush in 2000. For he was an honourable man, we felt.

One of his finer moments in the Clinton years was reaching out to a junior Democratic senator, Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, to pass a co-authored campaign finance reform bill.

At 72, the snow-topped senator knows this is his last try.

The first sign that his temperament may be "erratic" - as Mr Obama now puts it - was when he cancelled the first night of the National Republican Convention up north in Minnesota for fear of a hurricane down south.

Some thought McCain needed a reason to keep President Bush (who was scheduled to speak) from showing up at the party. But this sort of thing is just not done - it's never happened before.

Unpredictable

Then, when McCain suspended his campaign during the financial crisis and headed for the halls of Congress, his move shocked observers on both sides of the party aisle.

He ran the risk of missing the first debate, an odd form of political suicide.

In Oxford, his dark side showed up. Obama, he insisted over and over, does not understand Iraq, Army General David Petraeus and the like.

In fact, McCain has curiously made the "surge" general a personal issue: either you accept his word as gospel and ask to meet him or you don't understand war and peace in the Middle East.

(That kind of public deference to a commander, by the way, is counter to the American civil-military code, and points to something deep in McCain's way of seeing the world.)

Casting the unschooled Governor Sarah Palin in an understudy role was McCain's most spectacularly unpredictable decision. Impetuous? You betcha, the woman from Wasilla might say in her downhome way.

The larger picture is that a sobered-up American public wants to look and listen to determine if candidates have clear-cut answers to their questions and worries about a frail economy.

'Brawling traditions'

But few know what McCain is going to do next on the national stage, which could make voters uneasy in these troubled times.

The next question: if he does show up, which side of McCain are we going to see?

A minor variation on this theme is McCain's last-minute decision to stand up the popular late-night CBS talk show host, David Letterman - who took umbrage and has not let millions forget the slight.

Letterman claims McCain told him he had to rush back to Washington, but stayed in New York to be interviewed by Katie Couric, anchor of the CBS Evening News.

Former Ambassador Richard Holbrooke has described McCain's character as molded by the "brawling traditions of the United States Navy". There is something to that.

McCain boasts of his checkered record at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, where he graduated perilously close to the bottom of his class.

By his own admission, he was a hotheaded and privileged young man who narrowly avoided expulsion. Later, as a prisoner of war in Hanoi, the lesson he seems to have learned over long years is to never give up the fight, even when the war is lost.

The son and grandson of admirals, McCain still has a swagger in his step and a permanent air of defiance. It's part of his appeal, but it may sink his ship in this rough political sea.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/7663091.stm
Published: 2008/10/10

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US Election: Why top Tories are turning their backs on John McCain

By Iain Dale

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 10/10/2008

All my adult life I have supported Republican candidates in American presidential elections. Like most Tory MPs and activists, I have wanted to be impressed by John McCain. I went to see him speak at the Tory conference in 2006, expecting to be wowed. Like most others, I left profoundly disappointed by his speech, which was pedestrian and devoid of inspiration. Maybe he was having an off day, I thought.

I felt McCain - as a maverick - could distance himself from the ideological zealots in his party who have done so much to turn it from a political party into a narrow sect. Many of us thought Sarah Palin could give his ticket the "wow" factor Barack Obama had given the Democrats. We were wrong on both counts.

Many Conservative MPs have travelled a similar journey over the past few months - a journey most of us thought we could never make, and a journey that has resulted in a decision to break the habit of a lifetime and declare our support for the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama.

Tory MP Richard Spring, who doubles as David Cameron's envoy to the City of London, is one of many who have always supported the Republicans, but are now backing Obama. "It's important for America's reputation in the world to be improved and Obama can be instrumental in bringing this about," he says. "He sends out a signal of change."

Spring's colleague Andrew Tyrie agrees: "I have always been a Republican, but Bush has done so much damage to the project of the family of western nations that I feel only an Obama presidency can rectify it. We need something that is demonstrably a huge change."

Richard Spring estimates that at least half the Conservative Parliamentary Party would vote for Obama given the chance, something that would have been unthinkable in the pre-George W. Bush era.

Many shadow ministers remain publicly coy about their leanings, but it's remarkable how few, even privately, express any enthusiasm for the McCain-Palin ticket. Senior whip Simon Burns and the shadow business secretary, Alan Duncan, have both outed themselves as Democrat supporters, but few others are willing to go on the record.

One shadow cabinet member is a signed-up member of the Obama fan club, yet believes if he were to admit to it publicly, it would damage his status within the party. He likens it to the reluctance of so many Tory MPs to sign up to David Cameron's leadership campaign in the early days. "We thought people would think we had taken leave of our senses," he tells me. "Cameron and Obama are both agents of change, in a way that their opponents never could be." He adds: "The Conservative Party is always suspicious of change - until it has been proved to work."

Few Obama-supporting Tories seem remotely bothered by his extremely liberal voting record in the Senate. Simon Burns says: "Obama is like any true compassionate Conservative. He is focusing on helping the vulnerable and the middle classes." Another former Republican-supporting Tory MP, Ben Wallace, thinks an Obama victory is necessary to give the Republicans a much-needed jolt. "Young people on the centre-Right don't have a home to go to," he complains. "The religious Right has taken over the Republicans." He cites the so-called Blue Dog Democrats, who believe in fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets, as the reason British Conservatives can feel comfortable about supporting Obama.

While Cameron remains a fan of McCain, he has been very careful to demonstrate even-handedness, as he knows only too well that Obama is closer to many of his own ideas and goals. Cameron's trusted adviser, Steve Hilton, has wisely been given the task of developing closer relations with Obama's entourage during his six-month stay in California. Could it be that the Tory leader himself is a closet Obama backer?

Original source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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The Gulf Times of Qatar: McCain Contempt is No Laughing Matter:

...the most cringe-worthy viewing came when McCain tackled America’s bogeyman of yesteryear and reemerging cause for concern, Russia. Recounting a time that he met with Vladimir Putin, McCain said: “I looked in Mr Putin’s eyes and I saw three letters – a K, a G and a B.” This coming from a man who hopes to be the lead diplomat of one of the most powerful countries in the world...

The Independent of Great Britain: McCain is Deluding Himself

La Repubblica translated from Italian ~ Science, Environment and Stem cells: Obama vs. McCain

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JOHN McCAIN SAYS BARACK OBAMA IS NOT A MUSLIM

As a teacher, I set the tone of my classroom. Just the volume of my voice could inspire, lull or engage my students. The intensity of my words delivery affected my students. It was instantly evident. The dynamism of my delivery was reflected back to me. It was stunning to be aware of this while watching it happen on a consistent basis. I was the music teacher, so I had every student in the schools I taught in. And I had unique awareness of these things, because in music we use tempo, intensity, dynamic, various expressive styles, stressed beats, rhythmic engaging patterns and the changing of these elements within a composition to produce the music. I saw these very same elements while used in speech while teaching the lessons worked the same ways as in music and songs. My students responded also to the warmth in the delivery. This must have been true. At the beginning of class periods would bring hugs as well as during lessons. The elementary students reflected the warmth they felt through manner, words and my respect for them.

There was a fourth grade classroom teacher, that took this fact to the edge. She used fear to control her students. Then when she got called on that, she used a combination of demeaning put-downs with contrasting sugary, pretentious praise - this allowed her to manipulate her "troops". They were the most difficult class to teach music. It was like they were phantom people in a way.

So when I watched this week the audiences that turned out for McCain and Palin's rallies and their supporters' crude, unleashed hateful speech, such as: off with his head, he's a terrorist, a muslim, if you didn't do anything to stop him, consider how you'll feel when you wake up and he is President on November 5th, etc. - I saw the audience reflecting McCain and Palin's incendiary words and demeanor. Our words are more than mere words. They come from our spirit, go out into the universe and affect our world beyond letters and punctuation marks. They become our world.

If you want to change the world, you must consider how, what will your style be.

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou

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John McCain stalls his flaming rhetoric and speaks to his inflamed followers

John McCain at a campaign rally, October 10, 2008

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Maya Angelou on the power of words - CBS

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. Maya Angelou

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. Maya Angelou

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Poem ~ Still I Rise by Maya Angelou


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Barack Obama is a US citizen, a patriot and a family man running for President of the United States of America

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VERDICT OF PALIN GOES AROUND THE WORLD

The following text is from the BBC website of Great Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk

Palin guilty of abusing her power

The Palins have made allegations against Trooper Wooten

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is guilty of abuse of power, according to a probe by the state legislature.

Mrs Palin was accused of sacking a senior state official, Walter Monegan, in connection with a family feud.

She allegedly fired him for refusing to sack a state trooper who was in a bitter custody battle with her sister.

The verdict of the state legislature could have a significant effect on Republicans hopes of winning the US presidential election next month.

Mrs Palin, who is John McCain's running mate, denies any improper behaviour.

"I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110 (a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act," investigator Steve Branchflower concluded in the 263-page report.

But Alaskan state Senator Gary Stevens, a Republican, said there were "some problems" with the finding.

"I would encourage people to be very cautious, to look at this with a jaundiced eye," said Senator Stevens, after it was announced the report would be released.

Injustice?

The investigation into the affair began before Mr McCain selected Mrs Palin as his running mate in August.

He [Trooper Wooten, pictured] didn't do anything under my watch to result in termination Walter Monegan Alaska's public safety commissioner Q&A: Palin 'Troopergate' affair

Critics say Mrs Palin used her power as governor to settle a personal feud.

Several Republican politicians attempted to have the investigation stopped on the grounds that it was politically motivated.

The Republican vice-presidential candidate says she fired Alaska's Public Safety Commissioner, Walter Monegan, in July over a budgetary dispute.

But Mr Monegan maintains he was dismissed for resisting pressure from Mrs Palin and her husband, Todd, to fire State Trooper Mike Wooten, Mrs Palin's former brother-in-law.

Todd Palin has admitted he did publicise what he called the "injustice of a violent trooper keeping his badge".

But he said his wife then told him to drop the matter. Mrs Palin has not given evidence to the inquiry.

Mr Monegan said he simply wanted the truth to be made known.

"The governor did want me to fire [Mr Wooten], and I chose to not," he told the Associated Press news agency.

"He didn't do anything under my watch to result in termination."

Speaking last month, Mr Wooten denied being a violent person or having threatened the Palin family during his divorce battle.

"I don't go around threatening people," he told The Associated Press.

"If that's the type of person I was, I think - at least I would hope - there would be a lot more in my file saying this guy is a threat to society."

'False story'

The McCain campaign on Thursday issued its own report, written by its staff, stating that the Alaska governor was not guilty of any wrongdoing.

Sarah Palin denies any wrongdoing over the affair

"The following document will prove Walt Monegan's dismissal was a result of his insubordination and budgetary clashes with Governor Palin and her administrators," campaign officials wrote. "Trooper Wooten is a separate issue."

The 21-page report suggests that the allegations against Mrs Palin stem from a conspiracy planned by a former campaign opponent of hers, Andrew Halcro, and Mr Wooten.

"It is tragic that a false story hatched by a blogger over drinks with Trooper Wooten led the legislature to allocate over $100,000 of public money to be spent in what has become a politically-driven investigation," it concludes.

In what the BBC's Jonathan Beale in Washington describes as a clear attempt to deflect any potential criticism, the McCain campaign says the inquiry has been muddied by innuendo, rumour and partisan politics. End of BBC website text.

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BARACK OBAMA IS NOT A TERRORIST, AN ARAB OR A MUSLIM - GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN ILLEGALLY USED HER POWER

"Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself "
Franklin_D._Roosevelt *

NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE WORTHY OF FEAR

NOT ALL PEOPLE WITH THE NAME HUSSEIN ARE BAD

SEE King Hussein of Jordan

THE USA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN BEING IN POWER

The following text is from www.hartford-hwp.com

The relationship between the CIA and Saddam Hussein is a long one. In 1963, the Americans plotted with the Ba'ath against Abdel Karim Kassem, a man who, in the words of the writer Said Aburish, retains more of the affection of the Iraqi people than any leader this century. The CIA supplied lists for the Ba'ath to kill leftists and communists, and Washington flew arms to Kirkuk to use against the Kurds.

In Aburish's biography of the Iraqi leader, the author quotes many anti-Saddam Iraqis including Ahmad Chalabi, leader of the INC on CIA cooperation with the second Ba'ath coup in 1968. Later, in the 1980s, the United States and Britain helped arm Saddam in his confrontation with Iran only to turn against him over the 1990 Kuwait crisis. When in 1991 the Iraqi people rose against Saddam, the United States was fearful that change would put its majority Shi'ites and thus Iran in power, and US forces stood by as the Republican Guard crushed the rebellion. The CIA then worked on sponsoring a coup in Baghdad, a strategy that crumbled in 1996 when Iraqi intelligence infiltrated a conspiracy led by the ex-Ba'athist Iyad Alawi. Having rounded up hundreds of officers, the mukhabarat sent a message to the CIA team in Amman: We have arrested all your people. You might as well pack up and go home.

The CIA's half-hearted support for the INC also ended in 1996, when Saddam exploited Kurdish in-fighting to crush an INC presence in the Kurdish-controlled zone in the north. As Iraqi tanks moved in, the CIA fled and left the INC people to their fate. Washington washed its hands of the affair, and Chalabi noted that CIA officials are not known for their veracity.

In 1963, Saddam Hussein worked with the CIA to carry out the coup by the Baath party, which eventually brought him to power in Iraq.
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The McCain-Palin supporters are claiming that Barack Obama will ruin the USA. They repeatedly say he is muslim, which is not true. Their anger is the kind that comes from rage. Rage is not rational. They are angry, but Barack Obama is not the source of their anger. It is transference and from past fears

Transference is a phenomenon characterized by unconscious redirection of feelings for one person to another...a reproduction of emotions relating to repressed experiences, especially of childhood, and the substitution of another person ... for the original object of the repressed impulses.

* "Franklin D. Roosevelt had campaigned against Herbert Hoover in the 1932 presidential election...his first inaugural address took on an unusually solemn, religious quality. And for good reason—by 1933 the depression had reached its depth.

Roosevelt’s first inaugural address outlined in broad terms how he hoped to govern and reminded Americans that the nation’s “common difficulties” concerned “only material things."

Source and the entire speech can be found at: http://historymatters.gmu.edu

There is no reason to have rage against Barack Obama.

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From Wasilla, Alaska's newspaper: http://www.frontiersman.com/blogs/palin

Palin abused power, reports finds

By Michael Rovito/Frontiersman

Published on Friday, October 10, 2008 4:26 PM AKDT

ANCHORAGE -- The long awaited Troopergate report says Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power by violating an Alaska Statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.

"The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust," the report says.

Independent investigator Steven Branchflower says in the report he feels former Public Safety Commisioner Walt Monegan's refusal to fire trooper Mike Wooten was not the sole reason Palin fired him, but likely contributed.

Branchflower does say that Palin has the authority to fire Monegan.

The report that was released is only what's being made available to the public. Before the report became public Sen. Kim Elton said some parts of the report are confidential because they deal with personnel matters.

The Legislative Council convened at 9 a.m. this morning at the Legislative Information Office downtown. The council then went into executive session to discuss the Troopergate investigation report's findings.

A group of pro-Sarah Palin protestors greeted legislators as they filed into the office this morning. David Boyle, who admitted to working for the McCain-Palin campaign, called the Troopergate investigation a "kangaroo circus" run by Sen. Hollis French.

"I'm here to support a wonderful governor," Boyle said.

The pro-Palin protestors moved outside during executive session and swelled to about 20 people. By 11:30 a.m., the protestors had left.

The McCain campaign yesterday released its own report, a day before the Legislature's report was scheduled to come out, clearing Palin of any wrongdoing.

"The Palins make no apologies for wanting to protect their family and wanting to bring attention to the injustice of a violent trooper keeping his badge and abusing the workers' compensation system," the McCain report's conclusion says..

Media from seemingly all over the world, including from the BBC and an Asian outlet, are covering the meeting along with national media and local outlets.

The Frontiersman will update this story as more occurs.

Contact Michael Rovito at michael.rovito@frontiersman.com or 352-3352.

Source: www.frontiersman.com/articles/2008/10/10/local

Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals

Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin's political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy. "Her door was open," says Chryson -- and still is.

By Max Blumenthal and David Neiwert Oct 10, 2008

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