Cool! I agree, Storm Large is hot, and she doesn't even have to wink.

Maybe we can all watch John McCain explode and use the F-bomb. Or explain why he voted to protect domestic terrorists who bomb abortion clinics, or why he even befriends them, like G.Gordon Liddy, who planned to assassinate columnist Jack Anderson, Watergate co-conspirator (to keep him from testifying), and to kidnap anti-war demonstrators during the 1972 Republican convention.
G. Gordon Liddy was an avid admirer of Adolph Hitler, yet McCain appears on his talk show and has had Liddy host a campaign fundraiser at Liddy's home on McCain's behalf. Here's Liddy's appeal to murder Fed. agents:

"In 1994, after the disastrous federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, he gave some advice to his listeners: "Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. ... Kill the sons of bitches."

Why do you hate America, John McCain, by "palling around with terrorists"? Or by chosing a VP candidate who "palls around with terrorists" like the America hating, secessionist Alaska Independence Party?

."I started having sex before the eighth grade, and I was addicted to heroin by the age of 21". Storm Large, now there is a great role model.

Any candidates other than Amanda Fritz and Charles Lewis showing up?

Back to Karol's point: Candidates Gone Wild is getting people involved in the political process in a fresh and relevant way. Not unlike the Bus Project's Trick or Vote event planned for the night of Halloween. It's great to see these awesome new ways to increase democracy and community involvement. And it's people such as Karol who are walking the talk to make them happen. Thanks, Karol.

Sarah Palin, stormed school board meetings to demand the teaching of Genesis in Science classes, blocked abortion clinics to prevent women from obtaining abortion services, tried to ban books from public libraries, had an affair with her husband's business partner, charged rape victims for their forensic examination and denied them emergency contraception, used high office to deny disability claims of ex-brother in law and instructed official to lie under oath (since recanted), fired respected Commissioner of Public Safety because he refused to bypass personnel rules and fire from state trooper force, illegally obtained confidential information from private personnel file of ex-brother in law to carry out personal vendetta. Continues to lie about faCts of the investigation and refuse to cooperate. There's a role model??

At least Storm Large doesn't claim to be qualified to be president of the United States of America.

Re: "At least Storm Large doesn't claim to be qualified to be president of the United States of America."

If the choice is between McCain, Obama, and Storm Large, I'll vote for Storm Large. When I saw her at CGW '06, she was smart as well as hot.

@ Harry So you're voting for Storm Large now instead of Nader? Dumping Ralph overboard for the hot lady!

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This will be front and center tomorrow night, John McCain's plan to tax employer provided health care and take away funding from medicare and medicaid. This will be a big hit with most Americans, especially seniors who can't get a doctor who will take them because Medicare is already underfunded.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/06/1500788.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones The Obama campaign kept the focus on healthcare Monday, this time seeking to draw attention to an article in today's Wall Street Journal that outlined how John McCain’s proposals would cut funding for Medicare and Medicaid in order to keep his plan budget-neutral.

The Journal reported that McCain would cut Medicare and Medicaid funding by $1.3 trillion dollars over the next decade -- based on estimates by independent analysts -- and use those savings to fund tax credits to help people purchase health coverage. The paper said the campaign had not given a specific figure for the cuts, but did not dispute the analysts' estimate.

Two battleground state surrogates, former Florida Sen. Bob Graham and Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, hosted the call. Both states have large populations of elderly voters.

Medicare and Medicaid serve seniors, the disabled and the poor. Graham said McCain’s plan would be disastrous for the oldest, the poorest and the sickest Americans, and would hurt state budgets.

“This plan would be a disaster. It would cut Medicare and Medicaid by over 20 percent over the next 10 years. It would dramatically reduce quality of health care for older Americans and the poorest and sickest of Americans, while at the same time adding to the burden of state governments,” he said. “Under Medicaid there is a set of benefits that are legally required of the state to provide. If the federal government reduces its level of support then that is just more of a burden that states – which are already in an extremely overextended basis – will have to pick up.”

Casey said some 2.2 million older Pennsylvanians served by Medicare and 1 million children served by Medicaid would be adversely affected by McCain’s proposal.

“What this health care plan indicates is that John McCain is out of touch with what Americans are going through. People are struggling as they never have before with this economy,” he said. “You have to wonder about what John McCain and his running mate, what their priorities are for America. Privatizing Social Security, gutting Medicare, deregulating health care is not putting country first, it’s putting radical, misguided, reckless ideology ahead of the interests of your country and ahead of the interests of families in America, especially older citizens and very vulnerable Americans.”

Where are you, Jeff Merkley? I know Steve Novick would be happy to play Gordon Smith so you two can stage the funniest mock debate ever. He just needs a little Brylcreem.

Be a pal, Jeff. Come to CGW and show your supporters the love.

Bill R: As hot as Storm is, I still would vote for Nader.

Dr. Dan McCanne of PNHP says of the Obama and McCain health plans:

"Neither a market of deregulated private plans nor a market of tightly-regulated private plans will work. Continuing to rely on the private insurance market will compound the crisis in health care financing, eventually forcing a government buyout of the system.

Instead of waiting for more pain, suffering, financial hardship, and even death, let's adopt a system that actually would make health care affordable for all of us: a single payer national health program.

Isn't prevention better than a salvage operation?"

Chris Hedges notes:

"Barack Obama's health care plan coddles the corporations that profit from the misery and illnesses of tens of millions of Americans. The plan is naive, at best, and probably disingenuous when it insists that we can coax these corporations, which are listed on the stock exchange and exist to maximize profit, to transform themselves into social service agencies that will provide adequate health care for all Americans...

The Democrats, who promise to end the war in Iraq, create jobs and provide universal health care, ignore these promises once election cycles are over. And we never make them pay. They gave us NAFTA, the destruction of welfare and increased military spending, and we gave them our vote." (If We Want Good Health Care from Obama, We Better Push Him to Change His Plan)

i have a bad feeling about this Obama, to me he comes out looking fake!!! plus his economy plan does not convice me at all...

we all know where MCcain is coming from so i am gonna go on the safe side...

california

edna wrote:

i have a bad feeling about this Obama, to me he comes out looking fake!!! plus his economy plan does not convice me at all...

we all know where MCcain is coming from so i am gonna go on the safe side...

california

Gee, where have I seen this before. Oh, ya, it's the Republican meme of last resort for the politically insecure. Since Obama looks better from almost every reasonable measure of presidential candidates, Republicans resort to fear of the other as their rallying cry to John McCain. Obama is relatively new to the national political scene [something Republicans themselves tout as a positive concerning their VP candidate]. Obama is intelligent and articulate - that's different. Obama is Black. That is very, very, different. And that is scary to insecure white voters with unresolved racist concerns.

Of course, blatant racists would have opposed Obama from the outset, but there are probably millions of white Americans who are uncomfortable around Black people, especially Black people in positions of power. Republicans are not hesitant to exploit any electoral advantage, including, perhaps, particularly, given the record, racism. If the Republicans could gain votes from anti-Semitism, they'd be talking about Jewish bankers.

Nice folks, these Republicans.

Wanna lay bets that was a GOP shill pretending to be a "common woman" with "concerns"?

Say, a luminous, small, Nain for your troubles?

Harry Kershner and some others continue to critique both major political parties [not without justification] and to conclude that they must vote for Nader or McKinney or some other minor candidate. That is their decision to make, of course, but they go on to call support for Obama a shameful act. This goes too far, as I have written on Blue Oregon before.

<h2>On this I have the agreement of Noam Chomsky, who explains why there is no shame in voting for the lesser of two evils.</h2>