I spent the evening at the phone bank for the Colorado McCain/Palin campaign. Former Lt. Governor Jane Norton was there for a few hours making calls, along with a couple of dozen other volunteers. The young man in the picture next to Lt. Gov. Norton is a freshman in high school who had spent the entire day making phone calls on behalf of the McCain/Palin campaign. more...

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Review at Zombie. And it wasn't really a review...

Turns out the review was very short — what I had thought (from reading the citations in the onlines articles) were just short quotations from it was in fact the entirety of the review. But it was accompanied by a photo of Obama, standing by his statement. The review was part of a column called “Mark My Word,” in which Chicago notables praise their favorite current books.

More: Well, obviously, he was a guy in the neighborhood. Bill Ayers' book, mentioning what a great neighborhood it was, noted that Louis Farrakahn lived there... and of course Barack Obama.

Pic of the blurb below.

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Tip from a retired blogger.

Looks like Barack Obama and Bill Ayers worked on the same floor of the same building together for three years.

Now remember, the NY Times described Obama and Ayers as having “crossed paths.” Ben LaBolt, Obama’s spokesman said:

Mr. LaBolt said the men first met in 1995 through the education project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and have encountered each other occasionally in public life or in the neighborhood.

IÂ’m going to suggest that two guys working in the same building for a period of years probably crossed paths pretty often.

I'm going to suggest that Barack Obama and Bill Ayers (the domestic terrorist whose bombs killed Americans, and who is still a radical and who recently stated that he still wishes he had bombed more innocent Americans) are bosom buddies and have been for many years.

The company you keep.

More [ace]: Fellow 60's radical and Barack Obama campaign site blogger Mike Klonsky worked in the same office.

Isn't it funny that you only learn this stuff from blogs.

Thanks to CJ.

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Epilogue: Senator John Kerry remains Senator John Kerry.

And also a douchebag.

Thanks to CJ.

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I found this touching ode to Obama in the comment section of this Pajama's Media post about the Obama supporter who assaulted the McCain volunteer.

We don't get a lot of culture here at AoSHQ, so I thought I'd share it with you:

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The Week is an OK read. It's a digest that pulls from a lot of sources. Lefty-tilty, but they do allow the cons to get their shots in, too.

Check out this bit on this season's voter fraud. It's short. A lot has been left out of the article, but it is a thin weekly publication, after all. A full rundown would fill a tome. This was maybe the top half of the page in their small mag.

The first half of the article lists legitimate fraud concerns and Obama's ties to ACORN. The rest of the article bats those concerns down.

The press always pushes this tiresome line that Mickey Mouse and Mary Poppins will never show up to actually vote. They never mention that filing a false registration is still a crime.

And man oh man, they never mention that the traditional object of filing multiple thousands of false registrations is to overwhelm the poll workers who check those registrations. Therefore creating opportunities for bad actors.

Articles in The Week are by necessity short, but explaining these concepts would have required little text.

What sentence was deemed indispensible?

It’s all part of “the Republicans’ concept of democracy,” said Joel McNally in the Madison, Wis., Capital Times. “The original idea of our Founding Fathers was to limit voting to white, male property owners.” The GOP, it seems, still resents that those halcyon days are over.

Emphasis me. That's the last line in the article. The parting shot.

You will note that it is not in quotes. That appears to have come directly from the so-called journalist. The gal or guy who is supposed to simply report what other people do and say.

The journalist is not paraphrasing Mr. McNally, either. Here is the article the quote comes from. Fourth paragraph from the bottom.

Obviously this crap happens all the time, everywhere. But it's good to point it out for our special friends in the media every once in a while, just to let them know that we do notice when they do it, and we have for years and years.

See, the problem with you journos is; even when you're supposed to be presenting both sides, you just can't help yourselves. You just have to piss off half your audience by insulting their intelligence and calling them all racists.

Twits.

Aaaanyway.

What's up guys? How's your Saturday night going, eh? I'm about to switch to alcohol and head for the porch for a smoke.

If any trolls show up, have Geezer call me on the cell.

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This is a post my wife Merri did at The Jawa Report.

Just to make it clear, I did not write the post. How can you tell? It's a damn good post

Why copy it and not just link it? Well, linking it is far to nepotistic, even for me. And, over there, I can't turn a troll's comments into "I suck cock." But I can over here. Enjoy!

The University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL) invited "unrepentant terrorist" William Ayers back in February to speak at the University on November 15 as the keynote speaker at an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the UNL teachers college.

Officials had said Ayers was invited to come Nov. 15 because of his expertise in research related to small schools and urban education.

Ayers is currently at the University of Illinois Chicago and is an education professor.

Tonight, UNL announced that it has rescinded its offer for Ayers to speak due to "safety concerns."

The announcement comes after Gov. Dave Heineman and others asked the university to rescind its invitation.

"This has become an embarrassment, not only to the university, but the state of Nebraska," Heineman said. "I've heard from parents who want to pull children out of the university, contributors who no longer want to give to the university. It's not worth it, considering who this individual is."

The University, in particular Board of Regents Chairman Chuck Hassebrook insists that it had nothing to do with the pressure from the Governor or other leaders and that those calls to cancel were "crass opportunism."

The chairman of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents says calls from the governor and other politicians had nothing to do with the cancellation of a visit from William Ayers.

Chuck Hassebrook says those calls were crass opportunism.

He says the decision fell to the college that invited Ayers to speak months before he became a central figure in the presidential campaign.

He also said this, though:

But nonetheless, he is relieved. He called Ayers an "unrepentant terrorist" and said he shouldn't be given a keynote address.

Earl Scudder, a Board of Regents candidate, called the invitation "a rare example of poor judgment."

"if they properly investigated that background when he was invited in February," said Scudder. "I would hope he would not have been invited to address the University students."

But Scudder stopped short of demanding the University rescind the invitation.

"I don't think it's appropriate for any of us as University supporters or candidates for the board of regents to be trying to pressure people to avoid unpopular figures."

While I passionately disagree with Scudder's decision not to demand the invitation be rescinded, I do agree with his concern about the University looking at Ayers background. A simple Google search would have given any half-brained twit enough material to say "hell no, he ain't coming HERE." Either way, though, it was egregiously reckless. If they didn't do their homework, they have no idea who they are inviting to come speak at their University and if they DID do their homework, it is a horrific lapse in judgment.

I personally call bullshit. I believe the pressures of many helped deliver the message that WE DON'T WANT BILL AYERS IN NEBRASKA!! The fallout had the University carried through with their plans would have been significant.

Update: Egregiously reckless, indeed.

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Heading out for a while. For once.

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Self-parody. Again from Palestra.

Ohio's code:

3503.02 Residence determination rules.

All registrars and judges of elections, in determining the residence of a person offering to register or vote, shall be governed by the following rules:

...

(C) A person shall not be considered to have gained a residence in any county of this state into which the person comes for temporary purposes only, without the intention of making such county the permanent place of abode.

Democratic lawyer Don McTigue feels this law is too vague for his comprehension.

We just met with Don McTigue a few hours ago, and he told us that Ohio law has a very liberal interpretation of "residency." He wasn't willing to speak about any specific individuals or cases, but he repeatedly mentioned that it is not the media's job nor his job to decide whether or not someone is a 'resident.' According to McTigue, that's up to the Boards of Elections.

We asked him what his interpretation of the Ohio Revised Code was and referred him to RC 3503.02 RESIDENCE DETERMINATION RULES (See link above).

Specifically regarding section "C," Mr. McTigue told us that the big question is whether or not the person in question INTENDS an address to be their residency:

"Is it temporary vs. permanent, well... I mean... is anything temporary? You know, what is temporary, what is permanent?"

Mr. McTigue gave us the example of employment: "If you're working here, although sometimes work is temporary as opposed to permanent, I mean let's be honest... no job is permanent."

A job which is specified in advance to last several weeks is, I'm afraid to say, quite temporary.

I was a lawyer too, McTigue. Trust me on this: Campaign workers who come to a state and do not attempt to establish their own residence, but merely flop with college students for the three weeks of employment, are not "permanent" residents of the state.

And no "liberal interpretation" of the law can rescue them.

I cite the leading case In Re The Fucking Obvious.

Obama instructed his campaign workers to vote illegally.

Period.

Thanks to Joe (not the Plumber).

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Because Lord knows there's no stories out there about The One you need to cover.

Just weeks before Election Day, a former banker has filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court claiming he was fired for reporting to his bosses that there had been some shenanigans with the paperwork on a loan involving the purchase of Barack ObamaÂ’s South Side home and its neighboring lot.

Kenneth Conner claims in the suit that an appraisal found the vacant lot purchased by Obama fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko was worth $125,000 less than the bank’s first appraisal. The Republican National Committee was peddling the suit today with the apparent hope that Conner’s allegation would lend credence to the suggestion Obama needed Rezko’s help to finance the purchase of the Kenwood home–something Obama has denied.

The suit also includes this intriguing assertion: The Rezko loan file was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in Chicago, and when the bank responded to the subpoena the lower appraisal wasnÂ’t included in the papers sent to federal investigators.

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