Amerikaanse Presidentsverkiezingen #45: McCain is black

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Politics of Attack

It is a sorry fact of American political life that campaigns get ugly, often in their final weeks. But Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin have been running one of the most appalling campaigns we can remember.

They have gone far beyond the usual fare of quotes taken out of context and distortions of an opponent’s record — into the dark territory of race-baiting and xenophobia. Senator Barack Obama has taken some cheap shots at Mr. McCain, but there is no comparison.

Despite the occasional slip (referring to Mr. Obama’s “cronies” and calling him “that one”), Mr. McCain tried to take a higher road in Tuesday night’s presidential debate. It was hard to keep track of the number of times he referred to his audience as “my friends.” But apart from promising to buy up troubled mortgages as president, he offered no real answers for how he plans to solve the country’s deep economic crisis. He is unable or unwilling to admit that the Republican assault on regulation was to blame.

Ninety minutes of forced cordiality did not erase the dismal ugliness of his campaign in recent weeks, nor did it leave us with much hope that he would not just return to the same dismal ugliness on Wednesday.

Ms. Palin, in particular, revels in the attack. Her campaign rallies have become spectacles of anger and insult. “This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America,” Ms. Palin has taken to saying.

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Op woensdag 8 oktober 2008 20:18 schreef marcodej het volgende:
Dit gaat bijna té goed... Ik vrees voor een anti-climax op 4 november.

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State to review Palin per diem payments

By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE
The Associated Press

Published: October 7th, 2008 03:36 PM
Last Modified: October 7th, 2008 03:36 PM

Gov. Sarah Palin's practice of charging the state when she stays in her home must be reviewed to determine if she should pay taxes on the payments, state Finance Director Kim Garnero said today.

Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, released two years' worth of tax returns last week that did not list the per diem payments she received since becoming Alaska governor in December 2006. She collected nearly $17,000 during that period for 312 nights spent in her Wasilla home, about an hour's drive from Anchorage, according to state travel records.


Palin listed 157 days spent in Anchorage during 2007 on her travel forms. Garnero said Palin's work place as governor is considered to be Juneau, so she filed for the per diem payments when she stayed at her home in Wasilla.

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A typical work year for most employees is 260 days in a calendar year, but Garnero said the governor's staff told her today that her work year is considered 365 days because she is on call around the clock. That would mean Palin spent about 43 percent of last year working in Anchorage, and would allow the governor to continue receiving per diem payments that aren't taxed when she stays at her home, Garnero said.

The final decision likely will be made by the Internal Revenue Service, said Allen Bingham, an Anchorage accountant and member of the Alaska Society of Certified Public Accountants' taxation committee. IRS officials could determine that Palin owes taxes on past and future per diem payments, Bingham said.

Bingham said Palin's situation is unusual because she claimed such a large number of days working away from Juneau, something that would typically raise red flags when considering whether the per diem should be considered income.

"It's certainly one of those things that some of us have raised our eyebrows about," he said.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/548647.html

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Op woensdag 8 oktober 2008 21:11 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Ben benieuwd of dit nog een staartje gaat krijgen. Ik heb het gevoel dat Troopergate echter alles wel gaat overschaduwen.

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Op woensdag 8 oktober 2008 21:15 schreef ub40_bboy het volgende:

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Ja wanneer wordt dat eens bekend?

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Troopergate report due for Friday release

By WESLEY LOY
wloy@adn.com

Published: October 7th, 2008 08:07 PM
Last Modified: October 7th, 2008 08:07 PM

With his Troopergate report due Friday, legislative investigator Steve Branchflower appears to have the makings of a fairly complete account, despite weeks of resistance from the Palin family and administration.

Branchflower has, or soon will have, answers from nearly all the people he'd hoped to question regarding Gov. Sarah Palin's firing in July of former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

Some of the final witnesses include seven state employees, including the governor's chief of staff, who lost a court fight to kill subpoenas Branchflower obtained through the Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee to compel their testimony.

This week the seven are answering a list of questions known as interrogatories. The answers are submitted under oath.

Another key witness, Todd Palin, the governor's husband, also is answering a list of questions in writing, and has a deadline of Wednesday to turn them in.

A legislative panel has scheduled a meeting for 9 a.m. Friday to receive Branchflower's report on Monegan's firing and whether Palin or members of her administration abused their powers in pushing for the dismissal of a state trooper involved in a child-custody fight with the governor's sister.

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Interviewed on MSNBC, Obama strategist David Axelrod revealed that 4 million individuals have now donated to the Obama camp. That’s up from 2.5 million last month, meaning -- if our math is correct -- that 1.5 million new people gave money to Obama. So how big will Obama’s September fundraising haul be? It looks like it might be BIG. Will it top the 100-million mark? (1.5 million new donors at 100 a pop… Well, you get the math.) This all perhaps explains how Obama outspent McCain by a nearly 3-to-1 margin last week, per data from the Wisconsin Advertising Project.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/08/1513552.aspx

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Op woensdag 8 oktober 2008 19:54 schreef ub40_bboy het volgende:
Vriend van mij is nu in New York en ze doen daar allemaal drinkspelletjes tijdens het debat. Als McCain of Palin maverick zegt moeten ze drinken. Wel mooi.

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Op woensdag 8 oktober 2008 21:00 schreef Monidique het volgende:
John McCain: "You need to know who you're putting in the White House -- where the candidate came from and what he or she believes."

Subtiel, . In de huidige context.

Verschríkkelijke toespraak trouwens. Echt heel erg. Charisma: 0. Niet alleen omdat zijn publiek klinkt als amateurvolleybalsupporters in de sporthal van Anna Paulowna, niet alleen omdat hij Amerikanen "my fellow prisoners" noemt^*, nee, het is gewoon ronduit belabberd.

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_{*: Zelfde toespraak, andere gelegenheid:}

McCain Loses It: Calls Americans 'My Fellow Prisoners'

McCain Loses It: Calls Americans 'Prisoners' (EXTENDED)

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Op woensdag 8 oktober 2008 22:04 schreef Caesu het volgende:
gelukkig schiet de menigte te hulp met 'Nobama' geschreeuw.

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Op woensdag 8 oktober 2008 14:37 schreef Reki het volgende:
McCain refuse to shake Obamas hand

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Op woensdag 8 oktober 2008 18:02 schreef pberends het volgende:

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Wat lopen die McCain-supporters altijd lekker uit nek te lullen, omfg.

Feit is dat jongeren in meerderheid op Obama gaan stemmen. Feit is dat blanke vrouwen in meerderheid op Obama gaan stemmen. Obama hoeft het echt niet alleen van negerts te hebben hoor. OMFG.

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Op woensdag 8 oktober 2008 22:32 schreef Elwood1802 het volgende:

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Jongeren

Koning McCain tovert nog wel wat uit zijn hoge hoed, let op mijn woorden linkse rakker.

Mocht Obama winnen dan kunnen we net zo goed gelijk het faillesement aanvragen

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One day after she told a Tennessee newspaper Obama is running the "dirtiest campaign in American history," Mrs. McCain criticized the Illinois senator for voting against a bill to fund troops in Iraq, a regular line of attack from her husband’s campaign.

“The day that Senator Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you,” she told a Pennsylvania crowd before introducing her husband and Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin.

“I would suggest Senator Obama change shoes with me for just one day. I suggest he take a day and go watch our men and women deploying," she also said, to boisterous cheers from the campaign.

The vote Mrs. McCain is referencing came in May of 2007, when Obama was one of 14 senators who voted against a war-spending plan that would have provided emergency funds for American troops overseas. He, like many Democrats, was pushing for an end to the war in Iraq, and the legislation included no provisions for that. Before that vote, Obama did support and vote for a funding proposal that included a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq — a troop funding bill McCain opposed.

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Op woensdag 8 oktober 2008 22:56 schreef pberends het volgende:

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Deze is ook géniaal:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=187569&title=6-Degrees-of-Desperation
op 1.25

Palin: "I was reading today a copy of the New York Times"
publiek: BOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Ehm... boe roepen omdat iemand een krant leest? Waar halen McCain en Palin deze redneck-publieken vandaan? Het is echt beschamend.

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Op woensdag 8 oktober 2008 22:32 schreef Elwood1802 het volgende:

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Jongeren

Koning McCain tovert nog wel wat uit zijn hoge hoed, let op mijn woorden linkse rakker.

Mocht Obama winnen dan kunnen we net zo goed gelijk het faillesement aanvragen

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Op woensdag 8 oktober 2008 22:42 schreef Hexagon het volgende:

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George Bush is zeker ook links?

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