SoSiouxMe's Blog

There's been a hostile takeover .....of the Fox political blogs.

Ever since the election, one disgruntled person has decided to monopolize the blogs, much to the dismay of most other bloggers.  Sixteen blogs in just the last two days.  If that weren't bad enough, they are looooong articles that are copied from other websites and pasted here.

Several bloggers have asked this person to cease and dissist, to get over it, to get a life.  Yet it goes on... and on... and on... and on..... 

Whether this behavior violates Fox's blogging policy, I don't know.  It certainly violates the "spirit" of blogging, at least when it's a shared blog.

If you want to dominate a blog you should get your own.

I wasn’t a big fan of Sarah Palin, but the way the McCain people are treating her is disgraceful.

When McCain’s campaign was faltering, she gave it a jump start. She revitalized it.

Maybe she shouldn’t have been on the ticket. Maybe she wasn’t ready. Maybe she should have just given the keynote speech. Guess what? Not her fault. The fact is THEY chose her. To blame her for the loss is totally unfair, but not at all surprising.

The reasons for losing an election are always complex, but if they have to blame it on one person, that person should either be John McCain or his chief strategist/campaign manager.

These guys need to grow some Mc Nuggets and take responsibility for their own failures.

Close the door, they're comin' through the window,

Close the door, they're runnin' up the stairs,

Close the door, They're hangin' off the ceiling,

Those Bah-dah-bah-dah-bah-dah are everywhere.

About three to six weeks before the election, we became infested with bloggers that aren’t really bloggers at all.  They’re political advocates, campaign staff, volunteers, and activists.  They’re easy to identify, because they post long articles from newspapers and websites.  It’s almost as if someone is feeding them the story of the day/week.  They seldom, if ever, comment on anyone else’s blog, because they’re not really here for an exchange of ideas or opinion.  They’re on a mission.

Some have apparently been instructed to invade and occupy.  Others just jab and run (most of them retreated after the election).  My personal favorites are the ones that are determined to monopolize the entire blog by posting three or four lengthy articles every day.

Too bad Raid doesn’t make a spray for blogger infestations.  Some of those bah-dah-bah-dah-bah-dah are hanging from the ceiling, and I can’t reach them with my broom.

And that’s my opinion….

Every four years I try to choose the lesser of two evils.  George Bush and Dick Cheney made that decision a little easier for me this time.  I don't want 4 more years of the same foreign policy failures, economic disasters, domestic negligence (New Orleans), and loss of Constitutional rights, to name a few.

The most heart-wrenching thing in the last eight years was watching the U.S.A. invade and occupy a sovereign nation after our president told us they had nothing to do with 9/11.  Sounds more like Communist Russia or Nazi Germany to me.  This is no longer the America I grew up in - respected around the world for her compassion and for coming to the aid of oppressed people.  Now we are the oppressor - makes me sick.

I originally thought that a McCain presidency would be different from the Bush/Cheney era until McCain himself said that he voted with Bush at least 90% of the time.  No thanks. I used to think McCain was a man of high standards and integrity.  I was not an Obama supporter and was seriously leaning toward voting for McCain ….until I saw how he ran this campaign.  I’m very disappointed that McCain would stoop to the same Rovian tactics that he used to abhor when Bush used them against him.  After watching how he conducted his campaign I’m convinced he and Bush just two peas in a pod.  

In their desperation to hold on to power, the McCain campaign along with the RNC have run a campaign of lies and smear tactics calling Obama a crooked Chicago politician, a friend of terrorists, a Muslim, a white-hating racist, “the most” liberal senator, unpatriotic, a Communist, a Marxist, a Socialist, an Arab, a dangerous man, a traitor, a non-citizen, and the list goes on.  No matter how many times these claims are disputed and proven false by independent sources, such as Snopes or FactCheck, they continue to circulate over and over and over.

I keep waiting for Obama to spew some split pea soup, spin his head around, and pee the floor.

Ron Reagan
Posted October 31, 2008 | 10:38 PM (EST)
Making It Official: I Endorse Barack Obama

I assumed most people already knew that I had supported Obama. Anyone who has spent five minutes listening to my program would have known that. But if it helped to make it official, I'm happy to make it so.

The Stench Run: Republicans Ramp Up Negative Attacks As Election Day Nears »

 

Huffington Post  |  Nicholas Graham  |  November 1, 2008 at 07:04 PM

 

With Election Day looming and the polls suggesting John McCain faces a daunting challenge, the GOP and the McCain campaign have ramped up their negative attacks on Barack Obama. Just to start, McCain attacked Obama's patriotism and Republicans made much hay out of a video that purportedly shows Obama attending a party where Palestinian, and Columbia University Professor, Rashid Khalidi was also a guest. Below is a round up of some of McCain's and the GOP's 11th hour attacks.

 

To read the full article:

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/01/the-sten
ch-run-republican_n_140056.html

 

from Snopes:

"Claim: A Certification of Live Birth document provided by the Obama campaign is a forgery.

"Status: False

"Example: I read that Obama will not release his birth certificate. Have heard rumors it's because he is listed as white. Or that because he isn't a U.S. born citizen.

"Origin: In the first half of 2008, a number of rumors swirling around about presidential candidate Barack Obama coalesced in the claim that he 'refused to produce his birth records' because doing so would demonstrate some or all of those rumors to be true: that Barack Obama was "not African," that he was a Muslim with a middle name of Mohammed, that he wasn't born in the United States at all (and thus didn't qualify as a native-born citizen), etc.

"In any event the rumormongers were likely to be disappointed...."

Here's the link: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.
asp

From FactCheck.org, Aug. 29, 2008:

The Rocky Mountain News did in fact run an online article asserting that Barack Obama holds both American and Kenyan citizenship. The article was incorrect, and the paper removed the item from the article and ran a correction. The paper's editor, John Temple, formally apologized for the error in an Aug. 15, 2007, column. Neither the correction nor the apology has prevented the column from circulating across the Internet as part of the latest set of baseless rumors that Obama is ineligible to run for president.

There was a grain of truth to what the Rocky Mountain News reported, though understanding why requires a brief history lesson.

When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom's dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.'s children:


British Nationality Act of 1948 (Part II, Section 5): Subject to the provisions of this section, a person born after the commencement of this Act shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent if his father is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time of the birth.

In other words, at the time of his birth, Barack Obama Jr. was both a U.S. citizen (by virtue of being born in Hawaii) and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (or the UKC) by virtue of being born to a father who was a citizen of the UKC....

....But the paper failed to note that the Kenyan Constitution prohibits dual citizenship for adults. Kenya recognizes dual citizenship for children, but Kenya's Constitution specifies that at age 21, Kenyan citizens who possesses citizenship in more than one country automatically lose their Kenyan citizenship unless they formally renounce any non-Kenyan citizenship and swear an oath of allegiance to Kenya.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.

Here's the link:
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/does_barack_obama
_have_kenyan_citizenship.html

from the Washington Post
By Eli Saslow
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 30, 2008:


the truth: Sen. Barack Obama, born in Hawaii, is a Christian family man with a track record of public service.

Here's the link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20
08/06/29/AR2008062901871_pf.html

From the Associated Press, 7 hours ago: State declares Obama birth certificate genuine

7 hours ago

HONOLULU (AP) — State officials say there's no doubt Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.

Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said Friday she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have personally verified that the health department holds Obama's original birth certificate.

Fukino says that no state official, including Republican Gov. Linda Lingle, ever instructed that Obama's certificate be handled differently.

She says state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest.

Some Obama critics claim he was not born in the US.

Earlier Friday, a southwest Ohio magistrate rejected a challenge to Obama's citizenship. Judges in Seattle and Philadelphia recently dismissed similar suits.

From the Associated Press, 7 hours ago: State declares Obama birth certificate genuine

7 hours ago

HONOLULU (AP) — State officials say there's no doubt Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.

Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said Friday she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have personally verified that the health department holds Obama's original birth certificate.

Fukino says that no state official, including Republican Gov. Linda Lingle, ever instructed that Obama's certificate be handled differently.

She says state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest.

Some Obama critics claim he was not born in the US.

Earlier Friday, a southwest Ohio magistrate rejected a challenge to Obama's citizenship. Judges in Seattle and Philadelphia recently dismissed similar suits.

Sarah Palin just dropped $150,000.00 at Saks 5th Avenue and Neiman Marcus. That's cool. She probably needed a new wardrobe.

The thing I don’t get is why didn’t she shop at Wal-Mart since the Republicans think a full parking lot at Wal-Mart is an indicator of good economic times? Think how much more stuff she could have gotten for the money.

Fear tactics have worked very well for Bush & Cheney for the last 8 years.  Fear based on lies and half-truths got them elected.  After 9/11/2001 Bush & Cheney used fear to keep the people in line - fear of another terrorist attack, fear of WMDs, fear of “not supporting our troops” if you dared to oppose the Bush/Cheney war agenda.  Fear of “changing horses in mid-stream” or giving our enemies the impression that we weren’t backing the president’s war got them re-elected.

Fear is a very powerful motivator.  It can be very subtle - all you need is a suggestion, a hint.  That’s why it works so well in political campaigns.

Unfortunately, McCain seems to have forgotten how rotten he thought Rove's fear tactics, lies, and push polling were when they were directed at him.

Remember the phone calls people were getting in the south before the primary election when McCain was challenging Bush?  "Would you vote for McCain if you knew he fathered a black baby out of wedlock?"  The truth was he adopted a girl from India who was dark complected, but the seed of doubt was planted.

I guess McCain doesn’t remember what it was like to have Bush's campaign accusing him of being a traitor in Hanoi, of being homosexual, and his wife being a drug addict.

In a desparate attempt to win the election, McCain took a page from the Bush/Cheney/Rove playbook.  Unfortunately for him, this has caused many people to lose respect for him; and it makes it more difficult for him to distance himself from Bush when his behavior is so Bush/Cheney/Rove-like.  It seems he'd rather lose his integrity than lose the election.

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our Number one priority and we will not rest until we find him!"

- President Bush, September 13, 2001

 

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."

- President Bush, March 13, 2002 

 

The Democrats have had the majority in the House for less than 2 years.  They have had a ONE seat majority in the Senate for less than 2 years.  How is it some people think they are to blame for everything that's gone wrong in the last 10 or 20 years?

The Republicans have held the presidency for 20 out of the last 28 years.  The Republicans had control of the Presidency, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court for 7 out of the last 8 years.  They sure have made a mess of things.