http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/2008election/ en-us Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:44:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395966/posts A particularly heinous election day event happened in Philadelphia where members of the New Black Panther Party in black berets, black combat boots, black shirts and black jackets intimidated Caucasian voters with racial insults, slurs and a nightstick. Another party member was accused of managing, directing and endorsing their behavior. The entire event was captured on videotape. In January, the Justice Dept filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party. When the court date arrived In April, a federal judge had ordered default judgments against the Panthers after they refused to respond to the charges or appear in... Wash Times/Weekly Standard/the lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395966/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:44:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380703/posts A new book reveals for the first time the drama that unfolded on election night 2008, when McCain campaign staff battled Sarah Palin over a concession speech she planned to deliver. An excerpt published in The Daily Beast includes both the victory and concession speeches Palin had prepared to give, depending on the election outcome. The McCain campaign insisted several times that she not give the speech, and even turned the lights out on her while she and her family took pictures, fearing that she would speak anyway. The revelations offer little for those looking for more inside dirt on... Politics Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380703/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:17:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377306/posts The train left the station 22 months ago. Barack Obama's January 3, 2008 surprise victory in the Iowa caucuses established launched the junior senator from Illinois as a serious presidential candidate, at the same time it showed that Hillary Clinton was beatable. The POTUS returned to Iowa in July, August and finally on Halloween just a few just a few days before the November election where he made it clear that Barack Obama and the state of Iowa enjoyed a special relationship: "On the day of the Iowa caucus, my faith in the American people was vindicated, and what you... NY TIMES/THE LID http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377306/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:26:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376827/posts Today, I offer a flashback to a post I published one year ago today which offered 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama president of the United States. Was I right? Bob McCarty Writes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376827/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:04:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374540/posts KSTP investigated absentee ballot inconsistencies and reported their findings last night, and you can watch the video here. Many cities put up roadblocks to their investigation request -- and Bloomington threatened felony charges against KSTP if they reported on their findings. The most damning part is Sec. of State Mark Ritchie's denial of problems and response when asked to look at ballot envelopes and comment. "Ritchie first told us he could not read our examples, then said he wouldn't look at photocopies of absentee ballot envelopes." A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS investigation has found that mistakes made with absentee ballots in... True North http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374540/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:29:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371670/posts The Audacity to Win The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory David Plouffe - Author The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened— and how it will revolutionize our politics David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself. The Audacity to Win is his story of that groundbreaking achievement, taking readers inside the remarkable campaign that led to the election of the first African American president. For two years Plouffe worked... Penguin Books(USA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371670/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:31:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363686/posts Witness comes forward, history of Internet "Rumour" documented. Wordpress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363686/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:23:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2364102/posts By AP - newtimesonline.com Tue, 04 Nov 2008 | Print | E-Mail | PDF | Graphics Version Americas Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 After almost two years of campaigning, Democrat candidate Barrack Obama, Republican, John McCain yesterday brought their train to a halt in their respective home states to await the verdict of Americans. So far, the odds favour the once underdog in American politics, Obama, the African-American Senator from Illinois State . A Congressional Quarterly (CQ) politics monitored on BBC put the Kenyan born American ahead of his rival, Senator McCain. Even though Senator Obama leads in all polls, unlike in... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2364102/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:19:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352249/posts WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney had already sent out invitations for his Phoenix fund-raiser, offering supporters the chance to meet him in a Chase Field luxury box over a $300-per-person lunch or a $3,000 VIP reception. But when former rival John McCain called with an offer to be listed as host for the event in his hometown, Romney happily went back to the printer for a new invitation with McCain’s name emblazoned on it. Yesterday, McCain’s gesture helped Romney’s political action committee raise about $80,000. It also consummated an 18-month rapprochement between two competitors who battled for the 2008 GOP presidential... The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352249/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:09:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110651/posts October 20, 2008 By Kyle-Anne Shiver "A People's Organization is dedicated to an eternal war...A war is not an intellectual debate, and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play." - Saul Alinsky; Reveille for Radicals; p. 133 Rules? What rules? Laws? What laws? Clearly, Alinsky's acolytes take him at his word. When one is fighting a war "against social evils," one is above the law. Rules and laws are for the other people. I'm stunned by the irony here. For the past eight years, Americans have been bombarded nearly nonstop by cries of "Bush... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110651/posts#comment Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:30:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340549/posts "I in my life have been abused, also. I mean just with an ex‑husband, a husband, you know, that just beat the hell out of me, you know, a few times and then, you know, I killed him." Veritas Visuals http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340549/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:15:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2337485/posts Today, CanadaFreePress writer JB Williams posted a column discussing the two legally different documents that the Democratic National Committee produced to serve to the several Secretaries of State, in theory, certifying their presidential and vice-presidential candidates. The punchline? The one actually received by the States did not include language specifically referring to constitutional eligibility. Here’s AmericanDaughter.com’s take on the above-referenced article: Barack Obama and Joe Biden were not certified as legally eligible in the affidavits sent to the states by the Democratic National Committee. The tireless research of political writer J.B. Williams has uncovered the discrepancy. His bombshell article appears... Right Side of Life http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2337485/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:11:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336861/posts I thought I'd heard every possible charge about corruption at ACORN, a feisty, union-backed activist group that became infamous last year when it was investigated for voter registration fraud in 15 states. Just yesterday, 11 ACORN workers were accused by Florida prosecutors of falsifying information on some 900 voter registration forms. But this morning brings a Fox News report that ACORN officials in Baltimore offered to help get a housing loan and falsify tax documents for a proposed house of prostitution that would employ underage girls from El Salvador. ... In helping Mr. O'Keefe set up his supposed brothel, ACORN... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336861/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:29:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2321394/posts This website invites those who voted for Obama and now regret it to post their comments. There are about 1000 posts at the time of this writing and their goal is two million. Those who did not vote for Obama are invited to post comments made by friends or family who now regret voting for Obama. I encourage anyone interested to go to the site and post - but I hope that those of us who are infuriated by Obama will not use it to bash prior Obama voters. This opportunity for them to post Obama voter regrets can play... Official website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2321394/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:27:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2311059/posts A particularly heinous election day event happened in Philadelphia where members of the New Black Panther Party in black berets, black combat boots, black shirts and black jackets intimidated Caucasian voters with racial insults, slurs and a nightstick. Another party member was accused of managing, directing and endorsing their behavior. The entire event was captured on videotape. In January, the Justice Dept filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party. When the court date arrived In April, a federal judge had ordered default judgments against the Panthers after they refused to respond to the charges or appear in... washingon times/the lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2311059/posts#comment Sat, 8 Aug 2009 01:40:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302829/posts This is on Drudge right now at the top!! See link. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302829/posts#comment Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:04:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300548/posts There are, of course, a whole lot of truly baffling things about the Birther movement and its theories. But perhaps one of the most puzzling is this unanswered question: If President Obama really were born in Kenya, why didn't the McCain or Clinton campaigns dig up the evidence and publicize it? Why has that task fallen to the ragtag crew that is the Birthers, led now by Orly Taitz, a dentist/lawyer/real estate agent who got her law degree online and is regularly admonished for having little, if any, idea how to properly file her court papers? Turns out there's an... Salon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300548/posts#comment Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:54:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2288033/posts He coulda been a contenda! He coulda been the first Black President instead Colin Powell is a discredited Republican armchair political pundit whose opinion is just as valuable as the “Obama-sexual” Chris Matthews. Listening to Chris Matthews talk about Barack Obama is like listening to your father talk about having sex with your mother, Yuk! And listening to Colin Powell speaking for Republicans is like listening to Benedict Arnold speaking for America (yeah… that’s just not working Mr. Powell!). So after his much ballyhooed endorsement of Barack Hussein Obama it seems that Powell is showing buyers remorse... Creating Orwellian Worldview http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2288033/posts#comment Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:50:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282625/posts The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled Al Franken the winner of last November's Senate race, putting the former "Saturday Night Live” star on the brink of becoming a United States senator and Democrats on the cusp of holding a dominant supermajority in the Senate. In a unanimous 5-0 decision, the court upheld a three-judge panel's April 14 ruling that Franken defeated Republican Norm Coleman in the race by 312 votes out of 2.9 million cast.... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282625/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:31:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2267265/posts Stanford’s One-Party University by: Malcolm A. Kline, June 08, 2009 Developments on campuses from kindergarten through college help to show the prescience of author M. Stanton Evans’ law of inadequate paranoia: No matter how bad you think things are, when you look into them, you find that they are a lot worse. “In a startling investigation, The Stanford review discovered that the Stanford faculty’s donations favored Obama over McCain by the astounding rate of 43-to-1[He better watch his back],” Jason Dunkel, the business manager for the alternative newspapers on campus, wrote in a recent fundraising letter. “The numbers from the... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2267265/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 16:37:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266449/posts After ID of the new White House occupant was revealed following several opinion polls that mostly showed lead of Democratic Presidential Candidate Barak Obama over his republican rival John McCain, we the Arabs and Muslims admitted that we have been the invisible voter that decided the election result. When I say the Arabs and Muslims, I don't mean the regimes, but rather the oppressed peoples, who are ruled by tyranny and crackdown, most notably the groups that decided to stop being obedient to the American dominance and held resistance weapons against projects of American occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan, South Lebanon... The Yemen Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266449/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 02:26:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2264393/posts WOW, whoever said that God stopped performing miracles after the 1969 NY Mets has never been to Minnesota, the state where the dead people vote. And In case you were wondering, I am not talking about the 60 year-old people who wear tie-dyed shirts and used to follow a rock groups around. A Conservative government watchdog group had the voting records from the last election compared to people who died before November and found that voter records suggest that at least 2,800 people who voted in the election were very far out of town at the time, being fitted for... Minnesota Majority/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2264393/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 04:43:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260363/posts Imagine if Ku Klux Klan members had stood menacingly in military uniforms, with nightsticks, in front of a polling place. Add to it that they had hurled racial threats and insults at voters who tried to enter. Now suppose that the government, backed by a nationally televised video of the event, had won a court case against the Klansmen except for the perfunctory filing of a single, simple document - but that an incoming Republican administration had moved to voluntarily dismiss the already-won case. Surely that would have been front-page news, with a number of firings at the Justice Department.... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260363/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 07:03:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259396/posts Yesterday - less than three months after Kenneth W. Starr and I appeared in the California Supreme Court on behalf of our ProtectMarriage.com Campaign to defend Prop 8 - the Court finally issued its decision... all 185 pages of it! By a 6 to 1 vote, a nearly-unanimous majority of the Supreme Court upheld the vote of the people by which Prop 8 was passed into law to protect traditional marriage in our State Constitution. You can read the decision here as it appears on the Court's website. While there were no real surprises in the decision, and it looks... Flash Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259396/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 23:07:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2255073/posts Unless social conservatives were responsible for Sen. John McCain getting the nomination instead of a Washington outsider like Gov. Mike Huckabee or Gov. Mitt Romney, they were not responsible for the GOP loss of the presidency. McCain lost because he had the disadvantage of being a Senator and a member of the incumbents party when the economy was going the wrong way. It was natural for voters to think McCain would continue Bush's economic policies. An outsider might have been able to avoid being held responsible for the economy, particularly running against an incumbent Senator. A Republican governor could have... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2255073/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 23:24:13 GMT