The Water Cooler

Don't believe me, look at the polls of undecided voters! Tonight CBS, CNN and others basically gave this one to Obama by a 2 to 1 margin. About a third in each case said tie with about 50 something to 60 percent saying Obama. McCain gets about 30 percent. The knockout blow for Obama was when HE brought up the Ayers issue and used it to show how feeble it is as a make believe talking point for Repugs. He forced McCain to say he didn't care about some "has-been terrorist". OK, I guess Johnny can pull something like 100% of his ads running at this point since he just admitted it was a bunch of bullshit. Game over. Unless McCain and Bush find a way to orchestr…

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Do Facts Matter? By Thomas Sowell Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on election day, just a few weeks from now. Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being fooled a whole lot of the time. The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain— which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had …

Interesting article By Tom Van Riper, Forbes.com Aug 20, 7:55 pm EDT What do sports fans spend the most time grousing about? Above all else, it’s lousy teams or high ticket prices. Woe is the fan forced to put up with both at once. Who wants to pay premium prices to sit in the stands and watch the losses mount? Fans in Miami know about that. Over the past year, the city’s four major sports teams – the Dolphins, Marlins, Heat and Panthers – have combined to win just 40 percent of their games while fans have forked over money for tickets and accouterments at the seventh-highest rate among 29 major sports metros. Throw in a $38,632 median household incom…

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information — an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century. Obama's executive order, the latest in an aggressive first week reversing contentious Bush policies, was warmly welcomed by liberal groups and denounced by abortion rights foes. The ban has been a political football between Democratic and Republican administrations since GOP President Ronald Reagan first adopted it 1984. Democrat Bill Clinton ended the ban in 1993, but Republican George W. B…

OK, so the WSJ isn't known to be a bastion of liberalism... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122463199532056477.html This is a good article.

Lets get this place hopping, I need other stuff to read to make my time go by faster outside of Bears news.

OH NOOOOOOOEEESSSSS!!!! The Obama campaign gleefully sends over an announcement of a major endorsement.... for John McCain... by Dick Cheney. "In three days we'll choose a new steward for the presidency and begin a new chapter in our history," the Vice President said Saturday morning. "It's the biggest decision that we make together as Americans. A lot turns on the outcome. I believe the right leader for this moment in history is Senator John McCain." This isn't, perhaps, the story that McCain headquarters wants in the news, though the press is undoubtedly going to play it up. Cheney is, after all, the Vice President. If there was one GOP o…

http://www.7obamanations.com/ Muslim faith, not a christian nation....hhhhuuummmmm As for Lovie backing Obama, C'mon 95 % of African Americans are voting that way, any real surprize here?

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http://www.economist.com/Vote2008/ Et tu, Australia? LOL! The whole world hates Repugs.

OK, so my last word on the election wasn't my last word... But this is HUGE! Even Reaganites are behind Obama! http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/...endorses-obama/ (CNN) — Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN's Fareed Zakaria this week he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday. Duberstein said he was influenced by another prominent Reagan official - Colin Powell - in his decision. "Well let's put it this way - I think Colin Powell's decision is in fact the good housekeeping seal of approval on Barack Obama." Powell served as national security advisor to Reagan during Duberstein's tenure as chief of staff.

Anyone watching his press conference right now? This guy is insanely delusional.

This is since WWII. Hardly a small sample size. Take a look at the graphs and make your own call. Seems obvious to me. From http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/09/notes-to-self-f.html

Both are very cool.

UPDATE: You can see a short video showing the humor Obama uses to deliver this speech. As I've noted many times, there is no way McCain is going to convince America that this guy is anything but the genuine article. ORIGINAL POST: I suggest you read this if you want to cut through the crap some of our right wing members are posting here. If you don't think what Obama here says is compelling, or you simply don't believe him, fine, vote McCain. If, on the other hand, you're touched by his words and you've got no reason to believe McCain more than Barack, think carefully about what we've seen happen to this country over the last 8 years and maybe even conside…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/02/s...f_n_140087.html

The embarrassment of riches. Wow! http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14963.html Interesting how this "Commie" "Terrorist" is appealing to so many folks who call themselves Republicans. Could it be, maybe, that they're looking through the smokescreen and seeing the reality that Obama is really a Centrist with better plans for the future of this country?

All week I've been providing facts and evidence backing up my opinion that we need new leadership in this country. Here's another. I'm sure I'll get called jobless or something in relation to this as well. Again, toothless Repug's opinions aside, the facts are the facts... Infant Mortality - US Ranks 29th Source: WebMD Gang, we have to do better than this! We've been sold a bill of goods that our health care system is the "Best in the World!" by Republicans and the corporations that pull their puppet strings. How can we abide this? How on earth can we accept this as a society? Maybe, just maybe, we ought to take the profit motive out of health care?…