"Breaking News: McCain says Obama is not an Arab"

This is what the bubble at the bottom of the screen read at a McCain rally and town hall meeting he held yesterday.  And to see and hear his reaction to such claims is not as satisfying as I thought it would be.  Not at all.  I see a broken man who may actually regret the tone of his campaign.  

Presidential candidate Barack Obama has inspired artists to create more unsolicited music than any candidate in American history.

Below is a list of the most prominent songs written in support of Obama.

1. "Barack Obama" by JFC Reggae Band from VA, USA
   
   
2. "Yes We Can" by will.i.am, of the band Black-Eyed Peas
   
   
3. "Barack the Magnificent" by The Mighty Sparrow Calypso artist from Trinidad & Tobago
   
   
4. "Barack Obama" by [[Cocoa Tea], reggae artist from Jamaica who is creating a whole album dedicated to Obama ]
   
   
5. "Illinois Boy," by Annie Palovcik, an independent songwriter
   
   
6. "Black Republicans" by Juelz Santana & Lil Wayne, from 2006, predicting Obama's nomination
   
   
7. "I_Got_a_Crush..._on_Obama" by 'Obama Girl' aka Amber Lee Ettinger, a Youtube video that went viral
   
   

FINANCIAL CRISIS SOLUTION

Unlike prior responses to crises, the Bush administration has been making a valiant effort to solve massive financial meltdown we are facing. Although the remedies make some sense, the stock market has continued to plunge and the economy is suffering.

This weekend, the G-7 foreign ministers are meeting in Washington to address this world wide problem with a world wide solution. Based on prior experiences, prospects are not good.

The solution? Get Warren Buffet, Michael Bloomberg, and T. Boone Pickins together and do whatever they say.

homer  www.altara.blogspot.com

I'm listening to Palin's newest rally teleprompter speech.  The longest part BY FAR is abortion.

Since abortion hasn't come up yet nor has immigration I'm certain they will in the final debate.

I'm tired of hearing Democrats stumble on abortion.

the response should be simply - "the government should stay out of peoples' bedrooms and doctors offices as much as possible. Further, I trust women to have their own control over their own bodies.  The best way to reduce abortion is by having a strong economy, with healthcare for all Women and children"

John McCain is losing, and he knows he has to win some states away from Obama's column. Iowa is one state that McCain has to change from blue to red if he wants any chance to win. So today he is visiting Davenport, Iowa. My father was born in Davenport. His family (the Kunkels) have lived there since around the Civil War and used to have a sporting good store there. So I always pay attention to the local politics in Davenport. And I want to personally invite everyone to respond to McCain's visit to Davenport by supporting Democrats in Iowa.

Miscegenation:

The term "miscegenation" has been used since the nineteenth century to refer to interracial marriage and interracial sex, and more generally to the global process of racial admixture that has taken place since the Age of Discoveries, particularly through the European colonization of the Americas and the Atlantic slave trade.

Historically the term has been used in the context of laws banning interracial marriage and sex, so-called anti-miscegenation laws.

It is therefore a loaded word and is considered offensive by many.

I have earned just as much money in my "life" as the $480 million that Lehman Brothers paid their former CEO Richard Fuld, but it took me a little longer to earn it.

When I was born in 8000 BC, before the invention of agriculture, I immediately began receiving a typical salary for an assistant professor at a small southern college, $48,000 per year.

I earned this princely salary without a break for 70 years, and as soon as I died at the extraordinarily old age (for a caveman) of 70, I was immediately reincarnated in the obstetrics ward of our cave, and began earning exactly the same salary as before.

At the time of my first "death," 70 years of non-stop professoring had earned me about $3.5 million, significantly more than the average assistant professor will earn in an ordinary career of about 40 years, but some of us are just luckier than others.

After 70 more years of academic toil, I expired again and was immediately reborn and re-hired, and likewise again and again through 143 generations, until my accumulated earnings added up to $480 million!

I hope this little story will inspire the youth of today to get out and fight for the few remaining tenure-track postitions at small southern colleges.

In only 10,000 years, you can earn just as much money as former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, or any of the other bankers who destroyed the global economy.

Deception and tricks are nothing new coming from the Republicans. However, it's perfectly clear, at least to me, that we've all been duped, again, by John McCain and the Republicans. Alaskans have been fooled as well. After reading all 263 pages of the publicly released, Sarah/Todd Palin abuse-of-power report, and taking into account all that we now know of Sarah and Todd since McCain put her front and center in his presidential campaign, I've come to some frightening conclusions. The real Governor of Alaska is not Sara Palin. Furthermore, Sarah Palin is not McCain's real candidate for vice-president.

The real Governor of Alaska and John McCain's candidate for vice-president is Todd Palin.

I know it's far fetched. But, I believe Sarah is little more than the cute public face with hair extensions, facial ticks, and over-priced eyewear. According to comments made by Sarah's debate coaches, the woman's attention span is only good for about 30 minutes. Maybe her inability to concentrate explains the 5 or 6 universities she attended before earning a degree.

After she took office in 2006, Todd Palin attended 4 out of 13 cabinet meetings (maybe more). This is the same man who spent half of his time in the Governor's office. That's highly unusual given the fact that previous Alaskan First Ladies never spent that much time in their husbands' office. Instead, they put their energies into more traditional work like charities and such. From the report, it seems the First Gentleman of Alaska had almost as much interaction with the Governor's staff as did the Governor. I guess since Sarah's attention span is so poor, and it takes a lot of her time to be cute, somebody had to pick up the slack and it looks like it's been Todd Palin.

So, it may be far fetched, but it looks to me like Todd Palin is the real Governor of Alaska and Republican candidate for vice-president. Sarah's just the public face. This concept is nothing new. After all, we already have a figure head President, George W. Bush. Everybody knows the real President is Dick Cheney.