Interesting.

Via Allah "Rainbows and Valentines" Pundit.

Is it That Long? As Robert, notes, Frank the Undead Giant Rabbit thinks it's a lot shorter than that.
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Posted by: Ace at 02:01 PM | Comments (49)
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Obama can't seem to handle his job.

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Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM | Comments (121)
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A picture from "Dragon Con," of a bunch of girls dressed as Slave Girl Princess Leia having a pillow fight.

This is another way to say not entirely safe for work.

Thanks to Maetenloch.

Back in fifteen minutes.

I need... lunch. Or something.

Posted by: Ace at 11:56 AM | Comments (51)
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These are jealously guarded things.

How jealously guarded? Well, Hillary Clinton requested Obama provide her with this list, so she could contact his donors and try to get her campaign debts paid off.

He refused. Despite the fact that he was actively courting her support.

But he gave it ACORN, a group with which he has "no ties."

One note of caution: She was fired, apparently for running up charges on her ACORN credit card, so she's a disgruntled employee.

But then, only disgruntled employees spill on their employers.

A former staffer for an affiliate of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now testified today that the organization was provided a "donor list" from the presidential campaign of Barack Obama in late 2007 for fundraising efforts.

Anita Moncrief, a former Washington, D.C. staffer for Project Vote, which she described as a sister organization of ACORN, said her supervisor told her the list of campaign contributors came from the Obama campaign. Moncrief said she has a copy of a "development plan" that outlines how Obama contributors who had "maxed out" under federal contribution limits would be targeted to give to Project Vote, and that it was her job to identify such contributors.

Moncrief testified that ACORN and Project Vote were virtually identical.

A Republican lawyer submitted a computer disk of the Obama database to Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson.

Moncrief, whom Project Vote fired earlier this year, testified for more than two hours during a hearing on a Pennsylvania Republican Party lawsuit aimed at curbing voter fraud in Tuesday's general election.

An Obama campaign spokeswoman last week had said the campaign has "no ties" to ACORN.

Moncrief, 29, who now lives in Virginia, also said that she had taken a call from an Obama campaign worker inquiring whether it was the same organization Obama had worked with in the 1990's.

Moncrief said she had received repeated warnings to "back off" from testifying today by people she knows at ACORN.

"I thought it was powerful testimony. She took a great personal risk," said Heather Heidelbaugh, an attorney representing the state GOP.

Posted by: Ace at 11:45 AM | Comments (67)
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Hard to believe?

Um, where have you been?

Well played, Al Jazeera.

Note that while Al Jazeera covers this (because they're psyched!), the rest of the media embargoes it.
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Posted by: Ace at 11:21 AM | Comments (47)
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Here's that LAT story, from April 10, wherein they describe some of the contents of that videotape, and claim that a brief mention of the party, without providing details or whom Barack Obama might have been sharing a table with, is sufficient reportage.

Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama

They consider him receptive despite his clear support of Israel.

By Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

by Peter Wallsten, substantially regurgitating an article written by Debbie Schlussel without providing credit

April 10, 2008

CHICAGO -- It was a celebration of Palestinian culture -- a night of music, dancing and a dash of politics. Local Arab Americans were bidding farewell to Rashid Khalidi, an internationally known scholar, critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights, who was leaving town for a job in New York.

A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.

Challenged his thinking? He was always on the Palestinian's side -- until he decided to run for President.

By his own admission he sought out "Marxist professors" and foreign students and radicals to associate with. His spiritual mentor, his pastor for twenty years, the man who married him and baptised his children, is an avowed "anti-Zionist" and unavowed, but quite evident, Jew-hater.

When, precisely, was he hanging out with Israel supporters and being indoctrinated with Zionism?

For one's views to be "challenged," one must first hold views contrary to the challenge.

Can Obama note a single on-the-record statement of support for Israel before he began running for Senate?

Obama was "challenged" by PLO spokesman Khalidi's anti-Israel views in much the same way I am "challenged" by an offer of a cheesesteak with a side of handjob.

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Posted by: Ace at 10:46 AM | Comments (28)
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Compare and contrast.

The weak letter about the subprime catastrophe he had created.

But he didn't feel a mere letter was enough when it came to a cause he was passionate about:

Obama made the enemy combatants' defense his personal cause, the lawyers said: "Senator Obama worked with us to count the votes, and he personally lobbied colleagues who worried about the political ramifications of voting to preserve habeas corpus for the men held at Guantanamo."

I realize this post is racist, somehow, by the way. No need to tell me so.

Posted by: Ace at 10:29 AM | Comments (32)
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The Bradley Effect is merely a subset of the "socially desirable answer" phenomenon. People tend to tell pollsters the socially desirable answer.

Here's one simple example: When a pollster is asking if someone is a likely voter, and if they've voted in three of the past three elections, etc., in which way do you imagine people tend to lie?

Towards claiming they're reliable, conscientious voters, of course. That's the socially desirable answer. Only a smaller number of people, such as steve_in_hb, are honest enough to state the true socially undesirable answer.

In steve_in_hb's case, that answer is "Voting is for fags."

But most people, when asked by a stranger, will give the socially desirable answer.

Unlikely voters tend to lie and say they're likely voters, or very likely voters.

But there's more to it than that.
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Posted by: Ace at 10:54 AM | Comments (143)
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$174,800 in one person's name.

Which brings us to the case of Mary T Biskup of Manchester, Mo, who discovered there were scores of small online donations made to the Obama campaign in her name, even though she hasn't given him a dime. They added up to $174,800, which is a wee bit over the $2,300 limit. This very generous donation was not billed to her own card, but to someone else's - meaning (as the Post says) "someone appropriated her name".

Ah, but who? And, if just one unwitting front is responsible for 175 grand of the Obama take, how many other Mary T Biskups are there out there?

Dude, they're "untraceable".

But the answer is "a lot".

UPDATE: Not charged to her card. The donations just came in using her name. "Someone else's + scores of small online donations" = many cards.

UPDATE2: A reader at HA who says he has 30 years of Credit Card Fraud investigation experience tips Ed on the "depth of deliberation and deception" involved in turning off ASV.

Retooling credit transaction systems to accept shady donations is change I can believe in.

Slublog sent me that.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 08:45 AM | Comments (84)
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Dirty Harry has the offer.

Come on you LA Times people...they are laying you guys off by the dozens! You could be next. Don't cover for The Man, take care of yourself.

BTW- This offer isn't just for the LA Times copy of the tape. There maybe other versions of it out there and the person who gave he LA Times their copy appears to be eligible for it as well.

Posted by: DrewM at 08:24 AM | Comments (68)
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