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Re: Pittenger's 'Favors' ad on Dalton

FFC1304 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:17:45 -0400

What a fantastic TV ad for Mr. Pittenger! NC NEEDs Robert
Pittenger to clean up the NC Senate!

Re: See! Dole likes poor people

bnartist — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:24:11 -0400

She can put this in your refrigerator. It's about as close as she gets to Salisbury:

See! Dole likes poor people

Gosh — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:46:08 -0400

I'd really like a Bridge to my Refrigerator about now.

Little help Senator?

When is terrorism ok?

RonB — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:17:04 -0400

When it is Republican Terrorism! Or as they like to call it, America First freedom fighters.

Be it John McCain's financial terrorist pals Keating and Grahamm, convicted terrorist G. Gordon Libby, or Mr. Big Beard, McCain embraces all kinds of terrorism.

Of course Palin and McCain think they are going to Washington to fight for "Joe" the "Plumber" -- an "undecided" voter who cast a ballot in the Republica primary, isn't named Joe, who doesn't have an apprentice's plumber's licence, and owes back taxes. He may think he shouldn't have to pay taxes since the government "owes" him a plumbing business despite having yet to prove any formal training.

Though he has as much plumbing experience that Palin has in fields other than beauty padgentry and tv sportscasting, so maybe he is on to something...

Re: Palin greets crowd of a few at Elon

riverrd — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:29:22 -0400

This just does to show that the repoblicans have many "Brown Shirts" that do the dirty work of their "leaders".

Re: The assault on a reporter by the big bearded Palin supporter

domewatcher — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:52:09 -0400

Well Isaac, you just cannot hit a home run every time. The important point is to just keep swinging.

Your comments have sent me "sprawling to the ground."

Re: The assault on a reporter by the big bearded Palin supporter

Isaac136 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:36:06 -0400

Domewatcher,

I've always counted on you to do this sort of thing WELL. But oh geeeeez, buddy, this just won't work. This effort was lamer than that reporter felt hobbling away from the scene of the crime.

Maybe if you'd have given it some time and allowed other poor stabs at a response to provide you some material to riff off of (couldn't wait for poor ole Terrell, could ya?), then perhaps your contribution wouldn't sound like someone talking too fast and anxiously.

Something tells me that this item will be percolating through the news for a while yet, but noooooooo, you couldn't wait to let your own thoughts cohere, and ya wind up blurting out something that sounds strained and jeopardizes the reputation you were hoping to buttress.

It seems like you conservative types are just falling apart in these last few days.

Pitiful!

The assault on a reporter by the big bearded Palin supporter

domewatcher — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:27:05 -0400

I hope that my reputation as a hammerhead has been well established. You have thrown down the gauntlet and I needed an extra glove anyway........so I picked it up.

It is certainly an unfortunate incident……being kicked in the back of the leg by a bearded Palin supporter.

But how much should we make of it. After all, the Obama campaign is telling us that we should forgive Bill Ayers for bombing the Pentagon. I know that a bearded Palin supporter kicking you in the back of the leg is bad…….but somehow bombing Federal buildings seems almost as bad.

And getting kicked in the back of the leg in Greensboro would not seem all that uncommon. (I dated some girls at the Woman’s College back in the ‘60s.) Around here they kick reporters in the back of the leg in the break room…..just trying to get them to consider all the good points of the buyout.

The account says some of the crowd turned when an Obama rap song started playing. Could this bearded Palin supporter have broken into a spontaneous and uncontrolled dance to the tune of the rap song? Was this all there was to it? Music and dance? Can reporters dance?

Hope the leg gets better and hope they give you “embedded pay” in the future. Being a reporter is not all roses and sometimes you got to face those bearded Palin supporters……….or was this guy actually Big Foot? I believe Big Foot lives in Alaska in the summer and he may be a big time Palin supporter.

This could be an even bigger story than getting kicked in the back of the leg by a bearded Palin supporter. A Greensboro sighting of Big Foot might not be big news in Greensboro but it would play well in Zebulon.

I do hope the reporter gets well soon and excuse me for making light of the injury.......but it's just what I do. They have tried several types of medications but so far...no luck.

Re: Reporter assaulted at Palin rally

Isaac136 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:10:55 -0400

I'm waiting for that, too, Scharrison. I've got money on Tangoz saying something very Tangoz-like in weight and applicability.

Reporter assaulted at Palin rally

scharrison — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:29:30 -0400

I'm curious to see how many regulars here will make excuses for the hammerhead that pulled this stunt:

http://joekillian.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/how-i-became-joe-sixpack/

“Oh, you think that’s funny?!” the large bearded man said. His face was turning red. “Yeah, that’s real funny…” he said.

And then he kicked the back of my leg, buckling my right knee and sending me sprawling onto the ground.

From my position there I saw the bottoms of a number of feet almost accidentally stomping me to death as the two political camps screamed back and forth, the music continued to blare and some of the Obama crowd moved the large bearded man and his friends away. When I was helped to my feet the bearded man was walking away quickly."

Re: Robocall targets Hagan on earmarks

FFC1304 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:10:02 -0400

Hagan raised our taxes by $5 BILLION , the debt by $7 BILLION...she's outta control...stop her now.

Re: Claims Dept: Alliance on Charlotte crime

cmitchz — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:06:18 -0400

Good work here. One other misleading piece of the picture that this ad paints, is the question of how much power McCrory really has had in dealing with Charlotte's crime rate. Off the top of my head, I think he has had a majority Democratic council every year he's been mayor. My general impression is that his hands have been tied with a council that has, dragged its feet with keeping up in the number of DAs here, compared to other cities around the country. Among other things.

Re: Robocall targets Hagan on earmarks

shimae — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:51:03 -0400

I testified with AG Cooper in DC about the impact of robo calls.

It is too bad that politicians continue to exempt themselves from Do Not Call law.

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1 - Creating a Political Do Not Call Registry
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4 - Getting politicians to take a do not robo call pledge (7 have)

As I testified at the US. Senate these robo calls are an epidemic and this election cycle “phone spam” and are invading the privacy of All American Voters.

Our members are taking a stand and saying enough is enough at the National Political Do Not Contact Registry at StopPoliticalCalls.org.

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Re: Hagan's votes on the temporary taxes

mickiep — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:34:51 -0400

Tax and spend liberals just hate it when their voting records are laid out for voters to see. Thats why they hate open government and love closed-door politics.

Re: Hagan's votes on the temporary taxes

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:07:05 -0400

I'm just fact-checking the ads. It's your job to make the arguments!

— RTB