Friday, September 05, 2008

Fresh with freezer burns



Palin Power: Fresh Face Now More Popular Than Obama, McCain

"what was most impressive was her speech’s freshness." asshat2

His campaign manager is a corporate lobbyist. His chief fundraiser is a corporate lobbyist. His chief political adviser is a corporate lobbyist. There are, by some counts, around 150 different corporate lobbyists who are either on the campaign staff or are major fundraisers for the McCain campaign. Paul Waldman.

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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Scared police is no police

While Cindy McCain and the Republicans inside the RNC shat dimes for the proleptically unfortunate of Lousiana (and admired themselves for so doing), US journalists were getting beaten, robbed and incarcerated by USian polizei in St. Paul.

  • Secret Service ripped press credentials from the necks of legitimate journalists with high-level passes to the convention, and walked away, ignoring requests for ID, receipts.
  • Minnesota Police advised the journalists to not be present in the streets, but to spy on the demos from afar, through telephoto lenses.
  • Police removed batteries from journalists' cameras.

Scared police is no police.

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