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A couple of my favorite excerpts:

I urge all my conservative friends who are not voting for Obama to read it and pass it along. And for those of you who are voting for Obama, please send this to your Republican friends who are still thinking rather than following.

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Powell, a Republican and friend of Republican presidential nominee John McCain, is appearing Sunday morning on NBC's "Meet the Press" program. His appearance has sparked rumors the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is going to endorse Obama, over his longtime friend McCain.

The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday that Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Powell's former chief of staff, said his ex-boss was "upset" by the "vitriol, bile and prejudice" aimed at Obama on the campaign trail.

"We've talked about this and I know it really bothers him and I'd expect him to talk about it," he said.

Wilkerson said Powell would likely make an endorsement now that the third and final presidential debate behind the candidates.

"He likes to make his decisions at the 60 percent point in terms of information and timing. Most people make a decision too quickly or too late, on the basis of too little information or having waited for all the information they are a day late and a dollar short," he said.

The right blames the credit crisis on poor minority homeowners. This is not merely offensive, but entirely wrong. Hitler blamed the jews for Germany's economic problems. Are there similarities with America's problem. Please read the Newsweek article

There are several ways in which the Bush family plays into the Savings and Loan scandal, which involves not only many members of the Bush family but also many other politicians that are still in office and still part of the Bush Jr. administration today. Jeb Bush, George Bush Sr., and his son Neil Bush have all been implicated in the Savings and Loan Scandal, which cost American tax payers over $1.4 TRILLION dollars (note that this is about one quarter of our national debt).

Between 1981 and 1989, when George Bush finally announced that there was a Savings and Loan Crisis to the world, the Reagan/Bush administration worked to cover up Savings and Loan problems by reducing the number and depth of examinations required of S&Ls as well as attacking political opponents who were sounding early alarms about the S&L industry. Industry insiders were aware of significant S&L problems as early 1986 that they felt would require a bailout. This information was kept from the media until after Bush had won the 1988 elections.

Jeb Bush defaulted on a $4.56 million loan from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida. After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office building that Jeb used the $4.56 million to finance was reappraised by the regulators at $500,000, which Bush and his partners paid. The taxpayers had to pay back the remaining 4 million plus dollars.

Neil Bush was the most widely targeted member of the Bush family by the press in the S&L scandal. Neil became director of Silverado Savings and Loan at the age of 30 in 1985. Three years later the institution was belly up at a cost of $1.6 billion to tax payers to bail out.

MCCAIN"S Son was a DIRECTOR at SILVER STATE BANK . SIVLER STATE WENT UNDER LAST WEEK. MCCAIN IS TOO CLOSE TO BUSH FOR COMFORT.

"She's not telling the truth when she told ABC neither she nor her husband pressured me to fire Trooper Wooten," said Walt Monegan, the Alaskan official whose dismissal by Sarah Palin is the focus of a state investigation known as "Troopergate". "And she's not telling the truth to the media about her reasons for firing me."

In an exclusive interview with ABC News.com, former Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan said he resisted pressure by the First Couple to re-open an old case against a state trooper, who was in a hotly contested divorce and custody battle with the Governor's sister Molly.

Alaskan lawmakers are investigating whether Palin and her husband used the power of the Governor's office to conduct a personal vendetta against their former brother-in-law, whose behavior during the 2005 divorce was described by the Palin family as " threatening."

In a 20/20 interview, Palin told ABC's Charles Gibson she dismissed Monegan for poor job performance and that neither she nor her husband pressured Monegan to fire State Trooper Wooten. "We never did. I never pressured him to hire or fire anybody," Palin said.

But Monegan told ABC News.com he was summoned to a meeting with Todd Palin in December 2006, shortly after Sarah Palin became governor.

 was called to her Anchorage formal Governor's office to talk with Todd Palin about an issue that was a private family matter," recounted Monegan. Todd became "upset," Monegan recalled, when told the allegations had already been investigated and the case would not be re-opened.

"When Sarah later called to tell me the same thing, I thought to myself, 'I may not be long for this job.'" But, Monegan said, he stood by his position. "I held the public trust. As Chief, I was responsible."

Governor Palin initially agreed to "cooperate fully" with the Alaska state legislative investigation but since being chosen as John McCain's running mate both she and her husband have refused to testify voluntarily. Friday the legislature issued a subpoena for Todd Palin.

Just what kind of morons do John McCain and the Republicans take us for?

Oh sure, Americans can be as stupid as any other people in the world, but, hell, we're not totally insane. Perhaps since Senator Pander Bear has decided to give his trophy wife, Cindy, some spa time after that stressful convention wardrobe shopping -- the $300,000 acceptance speech get-up was quite the bomb; can I get it at Wal-Mart? -- and he has been jetting around the country with his new Frontier-mama girl toy, Sarah, and her Alaskan Separatist hubby, Todd, he must think the rest of us are just sitting around like zombies in underwear watching our 60-inch plasmas while waiting for his lackeys on FOX to crank on the bubble machine, cue up some good, old-fashioned Lawrence Welk champagne music and tell us what a better world it will be in just a couple of months when McCain becomes the president who will change everything.

Well, I've got some Breaking News for the senator. If he thinks grinning through his breathtaking lies of revisionism while calling us his "friends"and flashing his new shiny object, Sarah, with her gas-filled boners will distract Americans from the fact that it was the Republican party -- his party -- and its president, George W. Bush, that created the hell that has been wrought on this country for the last eight years, the joke is on Grandpa McSame. His party's broken road is no longer paved with yellow bricks and this time we will pay mind to the man behind the curtain. We will not play Cowardly Lion to his debased Wizard.

The United States has suffered an administration that has perpetrated a brazenness and vulgarity on its people that will be remembered in history. Their lies, hypocrisy, and deceitfulness have been more outrageous than anybody's mind could possibly have imagined. We have watched with dropped jaws and profound embarrassment the idiocy and incompetency of George W. Bush and his contemptuous desire to flout the will of the people over and over. John McCain'sparty and its president have taken this country down a veritable rathole with a failing economy and a perpetual war with no plans to make anything right or better for the future. Both Bush and Cheney have used the people for their own selfish best interests. McCain supported them in it. At every turn, he cheered it, ballyhooed it, defended it and called it "success". In its off-course careening, John McCain never criticized or challenged the Bush administration to change one single thing.

Yet, he expects, after voting with Bush for eight years, for us to somehow believe he has had a kind of "Paul-on-the-Road-to-Damascus"conversion? That he has experienced an epiphany that has caused him to suddenly oppose all those disastrous decisions made by his own party? That he is going to "reform" us out of this unholy mess? Heck, even my toy poodle, Chocco, is not stupid enough to fall for that sham.

So McCain can go ahead and call himself a "maverick". He can call himself whatever you wants, but Americans know a phony when we see one. We know lies when we hear them. We know the smell of hypocrisy when it stinks. As was seen at their convention, when it comes to phony lies and hypocrisy, Republicans are Masters of the Universe.

Because he cannot run on his record, John McCain intends to make this election about Barack Obama. But as Senator Obama so clearly articulated in his acceptance speech, this election will not be about him. It will be about us. And how we have become a country whose people are sick and tired of being sick and tired. About how we are ready to get the Titanic that is America, that the Party of Bush and McCain steered into the iceberg, back on peaceful and prosperous dry land. In the rich words of our current RepublicanPresident, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me----you can't get fooled again."

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wrote in her line-item veto changes by hand in this copy of a 2008 spending bill obtained by The Washington Post.

By Paul Kane
ST. PAUL -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.

After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation -- "SP" -- Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.

According to Passage House's web site, its purpose is to provide "young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives" and help teen moms "become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families."

Palin's own daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant and has plans to wed.

"Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family," Palin said in a statement released by the McCain campaign. "We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy, as has always been the tradition of children of candidates."

Earlier today the Associated Press reported that Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, opposed funding to prevent teen pregnancies, a position that Palin also took as governor. "The explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support," she wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates.

Reporters asked McCain in November 2007 whether he supported grants for sex education in the United States, whether such programs should include directions for using contraceptives and whether he supports President Bush's policy of promoting abstinence.

"Ahhh, I think I support the president's policy," McCain said.