New poll showing McCain making huge gains the last couple of days. This was the most accurate poll in 04 apparently. Interesting that of people that display the American flag a large majority are voting for McCain. I also read yesterday that the government of Iran (they're our friends, right?) is backing Obama, also Hamas.
Since McCain started talking about Joe the Plumber he's rocketed ahead in the polls. Some say he's going to win all fifty states! What I want to know is why in the hell Obama doesn't get out there talking about Xavier the Proctologist! Is he stupid? Lazy? What's Obama's problem? GEt the hell out there and start telling people how you're not going to raise taxes on Xavier's proctology practice!
Free, is the heart, that lives not, in fear.
Full, is the spirit, that thinks not, of falling.
True, is the soul, that hesitates not, to give.
Alive, is the one, that believes, in love. JCP
After my morning reading today, I couldn't help but wonder what would be left to be said, if McCain actually did something racist? One NYT's writer, in justifiying comparing McCain to George Wallace actually brought up the "kill him" lie, as truth. One wonders if there is anything the media won't do to elect Obama.
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Ontario 32 - Aria
Free, is the heart, that lives not, in fear.
Full, is the spirit, that thinks not, of falling.
True, is the soul, that hesitates not, to give.
Alive, is the one, that believes, in love. JCP
More on donations. As is pointed out in the article, you have to actively disable the security software for this stuff to happen. It's not operator error, it's intentional:
Della's street [Mark Steyn]
I mentioned earlier that "Della Ware" of "12345 No Way" had managed to make a campaign donation to the fraud-friendly Obama website but not to the McCain site, and that the Obama money was whisked out of her account and into Barack's swollen coffers moments later. "Della" - real name Erika - emailed The New York Times and managed to persuade them to cover the story, if only on their blog. We'll see if the news is fit to print tomorrow morning. The headline is unusually robust - "Obama's Online Site Accepts More Fakes" - although the story continues: To be fair to the Obama campaign, officials there have said much of their checking for fraud occurs after the transactions have already occurred. When they find something wrong, they then refund the amount.
If they'd really wanted "to be fair", the Times would have pointed out that, in order to accept donations from "Della Ware" and "Saddam Hussein" et al, the Obama website had, intentionally, to disable all the default security settings on their credit-card processing. I took a look at the inner sanctum of my (alas, far more modest) online retail operation this afternoon and, in order to permit fraud as easy as that which the Obama campaign is facilitating, you have to uncheck every single box on the AVS system, each one of which makes it very explicit just what you're doing - ie, accepting transactions with no "billing address", no "street address" match, no "zip code" match, with a bank "of non-US origin" (I've got nothing against those, but a US campaign fundraiser surely should be wary), etc. When you've disabled the whole lot one step at a time, then you've got a system tailor-made for fake names and bogus addresses.
So the Times seems to have missed the point - which is that this cannot be an unfortunate accidental side-effect of the unprecedented tsunami of enthusiasm for Barack the Spreader, but has to be something far more calculated. As Jim notes over in Geraghtistan: The press has been telling us about Obama's amazing online donations for more than a year now. There is absolutely no excuse for not digging into this story.
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Ontario 32 - Aria
Free, is the heart, that lives not, in fear.
Full, is the spirit, that thinks not, of falling.
True, is the soul, that hesitates not, to give.
Alive, is the one, that believes, in love. JCP
I read McCain has said he wont be attending his own election night party. If that is so it seems like he has already given up hope. Kind of unfortunate for all of the down-ticket Repubs but as you might imagine I am not losing any sleep over it.
Good to see you found something of such substance to mention. I guess if he doesn't go to his election night party it's because he's racist.
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Ontario 32 - Aria
Free, is the heart, that lives not, in fear.
Full, is the spirit, that thinks not, of falling.
True, is the soul, that hesitates not, to give.
Alive, is the one, that believes, in love. JCP
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