Amerikaanse Presidentsverkiezingen #47: Kill Him!

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Op zaterdag 11 oktober 2008 18:16 schreef NDAsilenced het volgende:
"Things go from zero to Klan rally rather quickly in Albuquerque."

http://mccainrally.ytmnd.com

Michael Richards (Seifneld's Kramer) Racist Rant

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Op zondag 12 oktober 2008 13:55 schreef Arcee het volgende:
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Op zondag 12 oktober 2008 12:01 schreef Halcon het volgende:

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Da's een gebrek aan inzicht. Obama-voters zijn doorgaans van dit soort prutsers, uitgerangeerde artiesten of dakloze junks....

Ik geloof idd niet dat deze lui samen tot 5 kunnen tellen!

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Op zondag 12 oktober 2008 13:55 schreef Arcee het volgende:
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Op zondag 12 oktober 2008 15:45 schreef laforest het volgende:

O'Reilly, Americans to John McCain: Get Angry, Get Up And Fight!

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Op zondag 12 oktober 2008 16:27 schreef Tweek het volgende:
Die Nederlanders ook altijd.
http://dontvote4obama.wor(...)tsforobama/#comments

Al is het natuurlijk ook bezopen dat ze daar campagne gaan voeren, laat ze lekker thuis blijven.

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It shall all good come, when Rita Verdonk travels off to the USA to help McCain. Maybe brings she a plane full of Telegraafreaguurders to hand out leaflets!

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Op zondag 12 oktober 2008 16:27 schreef Tweek het volgende:
Die Nederlanders ook altijd.
http://dontvote4obama.wor(...)tsforobama/#comments

Al is het natuurlijk ook bezopen dat ze daar campagne gaan voeren, laat ze lekker thuis blijven.

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Op zondag 12 oktober 2008 13:55 schreef Arcee het volgende:
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Op zondag 12 oktober 2008 13:55 schreef Arcee het volgende:
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REPUBLICANS SNUBBING MCCAIN....

John McCain was in Minnesota yesterday, home to a very competitive U.S. Senate race. Given the attention that comes with a visit from a presidential candidate, one might assume that Sen. Norm Coleman (R) would want to travel alongside his Republican colleague.

But Coleman apparently concluded he was better off without McCain.

Coleman told reporters that he would not be appearing at a planned rally with McCain this afternoon. Could it be McCain's sliding polling numbers in Minnesota? His attacks on Obama? Coleman said he needs the time to work on suspending his own negative ads.

"Today," he said, "people need hope and a more positive campaign is a start."

What an interesting response. If Coleman wanted to quietly snub McCain, he could have told reporters he had a scheduling conflict and just couldn't make it to McCain's event. Instead, Coleman made it clear he was deliberately snubbing McCain, siding with "hope" and "a more positive campaign."

Nate Silver raised the point that Coleman isn't necessarily the only Republican reluctant to be seen with the Republican presidential nominee.

There are at least three groups of Republicans that might have an interest in distancing themselves from John McCain. Firstly, purple-state moderates like Coleman and Gordon Smith who don't like the campaign's tone. Secondly, the anti-bailout economic populists in the House who might be looking ahead to 2010 and 2012. And thirdly, true conservatives who never trusted McCain that much to begin with.

Far more so than Obama, McCain is dependent on the goodwill of fellow Republicans. With McCain having opted for public financing, RNC funds are an important part of his advertising budget. Because he's way behind Obama on McCain-branded field offices and ground operatives, he is depending on assistance from state and local party organizations. Republican enthusiasm lags behind that of Democrats, and so volunteer resources are scarcer; conservative activists will need to decide if they're going to make phone calls to support McCain or to help save their local Republican Congressman.

If McCain's poll numbers continue to lag, might we see more of these slights? Something to keep an eye on.

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A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 US Presidential election.

Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for President Eisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she will vote for Democrat Barack Obama.

Although hard of hearing, she keeps herself informed by reading newspapers and watching TV at the convent.

"I'm encouraged by Senator Obama," she says.

"I've never met him, but he seems to be a good man with a good private life. That's the first thing. Then he must be able to govern," she adds.

Sitting in her modest office in the convent where she has lived for the past 50 years, the diminutive nun appears uninterested in the row inside the American Catholic church over Senator Obama's support for pro-choice policies on abortion.

Asked about her hopes for the US under an Obama presidency, she says: "Peace abroad. I don't worry about the Iraq war because I can't do anything about it. Lord knows how it will end."

"It is very complicated," she said. "Those Eastern people are not like we are."

But despite taking part in the 4 November election, Sister Cecilia does not intend to return to the US.

"I have no plans for the future. I am too old to go back to the US. Life has changed too much."

But she still watches "very important events" on TV. The election comes under this category.

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Minister Bos heeft in Washington kritiek geuit op de houding van de Amerikaanse regering tijdens de vergaderingen van het IMF over de financiële crisis. Volgens Bos zien de Amerikanen de problemen op de financiële markten vooral als een bedrijfsongeval en niet als een belangrijk economisch probleem dat moet worden opgelost. Bos was er verbaasd over dat de Amerikanen zich op de belangrijkste momenten van de topconferentie lieten vertegenwoordigen door hoge ambtenaren, in plaats van ministers.

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Op zondag 12 oktober 2008 17:51 schreef laforest het volgende:

Palin Inquiry Update

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Op zondag 12 oktober 2008 18:05 schreef DutchErrorist het volgende:

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Oh alweer Fox?