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Lose a war to win an election………SHAME ON YOU JOHN McCAIN …bring your charge of sedition if you truly believe that SIR…you used to be an honorable man…so you were always for the GI’s and Obama wasn’t as your ad says? What about the New GI Bill? Liar…I still respect you, but you disrespect everyone else’s intelligence…
Oh yea…the Socialist Workers Party has a candidate…his name is Róger Calero….NOT Barack Obama…look it up…
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Voice of Reason
2:04PM Jul 29th 2008
* neoconservative - 1 : a former liberal espousing political conservatism
2 : a conservative who advocates the assertive promotion of democracy and United States national interest in international affairs including through military means
* conservatism - a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change; specifically : such a philosophy calling for lower taxes, limited government regulation of business and investing, a strong national defense, and individual financial responsibility for personal needs (as retirement income or health-care coverage)
* liberalism - 1: a theory in economics emphasizing individual freedom from restraint and usually based on free competition, the self-regulating market, and the gold standard
2: a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties
THIS MESSAGE IS TO CONSERVATIVES
the way i can tell the difference between neoconservatives and conservative … Sen Dick Lugar, Sen Chuck Hagel & Rep Ron Paul are RINO'S....
if your answer to this is yes then this message is NOT for you....
Conservatives...i would like to appeal to you in an attempt to clear the smoke...
your choice of voting for John McCain is a vote to continue the neoconservative false control over a party they don't belong in...they should have started their own…Sen McCain used to be a maverick and i was not a fan then...now he is aligned with the neocons entire neocon agenda...still not a fan...
so he is either Democrat in a Republican suit or a Neoconservative in a conservative suit...burn my ears to hear him call himself that...but he is a nice guy…just not being a nice guy lately
i was once a Ron Paul supporter...i have come to support Barack Obama not because i agree with everything he says, but because i believe him when he says the Democratic Party is a big tent and that conservative voices will be welcomed...i like that...and there are blue dogs over here that are pretty good guys...you should check it out before you vote...this is serious stuff...
maybe after the neocon collapse of the party they stole, if the Democrats are not as welcoming as they claim, then we can rebuild the Republican Party....as for me...i am disgusted by what the party i once loved has become and i like the rhetoric from Obama on inclusion...i will take a chance on him to see if it is only rhetoric or real...there will be another election in four years...and the chicken littles will all cry that the sky could fall in that four years...LOL...neocons peddle fear because they are afraid of everything..."a scared dog will bite the mailman even without provocation"
THIS MESSAGE IS FOR DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
Obamacans are conservatives that have come to follow and believe in the promise of Barack Obama to welcome conservatives under the big tent - this means the entire party must adjust a bit more to center...too far left will not hold the new members of the family...just advice...thanks for the invite
THIS IS TO OBAMA SUPPORTERS IN THE GRASS ROOTS ON THE GROUND
we are in the last roughly 100 days...this is the final push...i would suggest this next couple of weeks is best used by checking your groups for trolls...we must prepare to rock and roll while the neocons keep throwing poop...the voters that are still trying to decide desire information and the neocons are not providing any...message this week is troll check...and as for PUMA voters...shove them out...they are only McCain voters pure and simple ...there is NO point to try to bring them home...they were never Democrats...they are either Republicans pretending or they are Clinton Party...that party is gone...
TO THE MEDIA
If you are inspired…don’t beat yourselves up…just make sure you are ethical and doing your level best to be objective, but you are entitled to be inspired…you guys are voters as well…
Don’t allow them to make it appear that you are not ethical…defend yourselves if necessary…
Lastly …pray for Novak, Kennedy & the soul of Russert…
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