Meet the New Mudslingers
Forget Swift Boat Veterans and 527s; this election's sneaky operators are nonprofits
Forget Swift Boats; this election year could become the battle of the armadas. Thanks to the success of misleading ads against John Kerry in 2004—as well as recent Supreme Court and Federal Election Commission actions—the current presidential contest promises to be more cacophonous and mud strewn than any in recent history, with a record number of down-and-dirty ads financed on the sly by big-money interests. Attacks bankrolled by "independent" groups—businesses, unions, and millionaires—and amplified by YouTube and reporters starved for news "will play a much greater role than ever before," predicts a top gop strategist.
There's just one catch: Groups that make it their express aim to influence federal elections—campaign and party committees, for example—are limited to $5,000 contributions from individuals and can't take money from corporations or unions. But recruiting enough $5,000 donors to underwrite a multimillion-dollar ad buy is a chore. So for those hoping to destroy a candidate with a clever spot or a cheap shot, the key question is which campaign-finance loophole to use.
In 2004, the answer was 527 committees, named after the tax-code provision covering them. These groups can take unlimited donations. Billionaire George Soros alone gave nearly $24 million to 527s that year, including America Coming Together and the Media Fund, which together netted about $140 million in support of John Kerry. On the gop side, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the Progress for America Voter Fund raised about $58 million, of which T. Boone Pickens pitched in $4.5 million.
The Federal Election Commission recently ruled that these four 527s had violated campaign-finance law—that they essentially were campaign groups in disguise and should have abided by the $5,000 limit. Yet for what amounted to nearly $200 million in illegal spending, the groups were fined, in total, only $2.4 million, three years after the fact—a punishment easy to dismiss as "the cost of doing business," in the words of Fred Wertheimer, president of the clean-campaign advocacy group Democracy 21.
Nevertheless, the fec action has made some donors think twice about 527s, says Wertheimer—which is why political operatives are busy cooking up other stratagems. One involves funneling money to nonprofit advocacy groups like MoveOn and the nra, known as 501(c)(4)s after another tax provision, for voter organization efforts and election-related ads. (Donations to these organizations, unlike those to educational and charitable nonprofits known as 501(c)(3)s, aren't tax deductible; many groups, such as the Sierra Club, have both a (c)(3) and a (c)(4) arm.) Under the 2002 McCain-Feingold act, these advocacy groups were banned from running "issue ads" directed at candidates within two months of a general election. But the Supreme Court modified that ban last June. Now a nonprofit could, say, run a spot just before election time noting that Candidate X once voted against building a wall on the Mexico border, warning that—cue the ominous music!—X is willing to let terrorists sneak into the United States, and exhorting viewers to call X to register their outrage. So long as the ad hasn't (officially) been coordinated with X's opponent and doesn't outright say "vote against X," it's fine. And here's the best part: There are no limitations on the size of a contribution to a (c)(4), nor do its donors have to be disclosed. Moreover, due to that same Supreme Court decision, unions and corporations can now directly finance their own issue ads, expanding the number of players who can slam—or slime—the candidates in 2008.
Wertheimer identifies a few outfits likely to emerge as major independent spenders this year. On the gop side, a likely big player is Freedom's Watch, a (c)(4) founded last summer. In 2007 the group—whose top donor has been casino mogul Sheldon Adelson—spent at least $15 million to support the surge in Iraq, and according to spokesman Jake Suski, it plans to expand its operations in 2008. (See "Betting on Red" in our last issue or at MotherJones.com.) In the Democratic camp, strategists including Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta and Service Employees International Union (seiu) official Anna Burger have launched a 527 named the Fund for America to raise money and distribute it to (c)(4)s doing voter organization in 10 to 12 key states; a parallel entity headed by Tom Matzzie, the former head of MoveOn's Washington office, will produce issue ads aimed at undercutting the Republican nominee. The Fund for America is hoping to raise at least $100 million.
The legality of this circuitous strategy, admits one Fund for America official, is not fully tested: "We've built into the budget a little money in the expectation that we're unintentionally going to go beyond the boundaries of the law. We know we'll get challenged and will have people watching us every step of the way." The good news for the independent spenders is that a congressional tussle over the appointment of commissioners left the fec with four of its six seats vacant at the start of the year, effectively shutting it down. "If you believe there's no sheriff in town," Wertheimer says ruefully, "anything goes."
Sure enough, the primary season has already seen some sneaky independent action. Prior to January's Iowa caucuses, a (c)(4) called Common Sense Issues set up the website TrustHuckabee.com to recruit pro-Huckabee precinct captains—a blatant and probably prohibited scheme to create a parallel campaign infrastructure. ("They are looking at a lot of litigation," says a former fec official who asked not to be identified. "This is way beyond anything anybody should try.") And a 527 named Alliance for a New America, financed in part by seiu affiliates, ran issue ads in Iowa hailing John Edwards' anti-lobbyist proposals. The Alliance received $495,000 from Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, the 97-year-old daughter-in-law of industrialist Andrew Mellon. A lawyer holding power of attorney for Mellon is an Edwards supporter, and he refused to explain how the generous contribution had come about.
Clearly, political operators weren't very fearful of the fec or irs. The recent rule changes, though, could make Swift-Boat-style character assassination tougher this year. If a 527 or (c)(4) group funded by unlimited contributions produces ads attacking a candidate's past or fitness for office, it will be difficult for the group to claim them as issue ads. "I suppose a group can say, 'We'll file as a 527 not for the purpose of influencing the election, but to educate the public on the quality of the candidates,'" says Jan Baran, a veteran Republican campaign-finance lawyer. "But that would be skating on thin ice."
Which leaves the diy option: There are no restrictions on how much an individual can spend to influence an election, as long as she or he doesn't coordinate efforts with a candidate or party. Though most big-money people prefer a degree or two of separation from bare-knuckle politics, this year's high stakes could nudge some in that direction. "There is the possibility a billionaire will spend $100 million on the presidential campaign 'just because I feel like it,'" says Democratic consultant Guy Molyneux. "There's the potential for a huge ratcheting up. And we will see some pretty tough stuff." After all, the lesson of 2004 was that it only takes one good ad campaign to undo a candidate.
"We're looking at an enormous shift in control from parties and candidates to outside groups," says the former fec official. "For a candidate, this can mean a loss of control of your message. And this also covers congressional candidates. Imagine if three weeks before the election, someone dumps $600,000 into your House race and you have no idea who it is." Candidates, he adds, "should be scared. Very scared." Maybe voters, too.
David Corn is Mother Jones’ Washington, D.C., bureau chief
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It will be interesting to see how people react. So far it seems the negative mudslinging crud is not effective just some fodder for the punditry.
In the general election the negative stuff might backfire.
Let's hope all those dollars are wasted on a public that would rather tune out of the dirt and into the real issues.
If the dollars are spent discussing the issues people won't mind as much but we are all conditioned to tune out most of the political ads because the lies have always been too thick from all sides.
Maybe one candidate or the other will win by such a margin that the first step will be a reunification of the country.
Will the next president make that happen?
google:
+newspaper revenue+ and then click on NEWS
and up come the continuing reports about
the newspaper industry, they are losing
readers and ad money right and left.
(One might see progress in that; it is
contrast reading to media frenzies,
showing that such frenzies do not generate any more readers, rather driving them away.
Not to forget the aspect that the media
are increasingly concerned only with
getting ad revenue from somewhere. All
reasoning turns around ad revenue.)
Saving costs on "information" can in fact save a whole lot more than just the
amount spent on some paper, etc. for instance, take a paper from a year or
two and then see how things work out
economically, financially, otherwise.
Not long ago they were all full with
properties, such ads, the whole lot of
credit ads (from firms now bust), and
not to mention the predictions that the
property boom will, guaranteed, last
forever. And also the other media are
considered are by now considered to have
reached their "maturity", that is, ad
revenue will dry up increasingly due to
circumstances.
The informed realize that the serious smearing is yet to come. Targets are the uninformed and frightened. Unfortunately, it seems to work every-time.
As for the media, the swing away from newspapers to webpages, argued due to speed and cost-savings, places all the eggs in one basket. As demonstrated by Pakistan's recent 'accidental' worldwide blackout of "YouTube", the web/internet is fragile, as well as being packed with unsupported 'facts'.
Imagine a blackout of internet, mixed with your info sources being from a few, or no, paper media, and then only the corporate cable/ video garbage.
Perfect climate for hysteria and ignorance.
As Thomas Alva pointed out, in other words, in the war of mudslinging, the candidates with the fewest idiots wins. Let the games begin! Aint this fun?
So, can anyone say Public Financing? Is it not now patently obvious that this is out of control? The only way to redeem our electoral process is to throw private money of every kind out and enforce public financing. Failure to do so may result in the collapse of our democracy.
Why aren't there literally tens or hundreds of thousands of people signing up for the job? If we postulate the phrase, 'anyone can be president' to be an accurate statement(?), in theory there should be MILLIONS of candidates, not 3 or 4 pimped-up twitninnies that kind of all give the general impression they'd have a hard time holding down a job at McDonald's or surviving basic training etc. Sad, sad state of affairs, but that's what happens when there's too much money on the table and you let your standards go to @#$@...
REALLY throw these clowns a curve-ball, and offer to take the job at an hourly rate, say minimum plus oh, I don't know, lots of responsibility, probably long hours, gotta travel and stuff, say 18 bucks an hour. Put a time card clock IN the Oval Office. Have casual day.
Have Open House. Sleep in a tent in the front yard, as a way to 'lead-by-example' on the homelessness issue. Cook your own food. Make the People fulfill their role in government by saying 'hey, everybody, put your heads together, and get this voting thing happening, I am nothing without you, so I'm here, waiting for you to pick up the slack, there. Oh, and until you get it fixed, we're not collecting any taxes or anything, so it's up to you. We're here, waiting. Clock's ticking'
That'd mess em all up for DAYS. Weeks.
Hehehe. It'd also be fun. It'd also be right. It'd also be less lucrative, so D.C. would empty out like a busted gumball machine...YES!
I was going to say something........but on second thought.......
California Hemp Initiative Volunteers is looking for volunteer petition signature collectors
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So, let's see if I have this right..
1) The Republican Congress passed this law which basically privatizes and de-regulates the entire elections process.
2) The law was written/sponsored by McCain, which means he knows the loopholes.
3) McCain is challenging Dems to accept the restrictions of the law he wrote, which already benefits big-money Corporate insiders like McCain.
Hmmm. Surprise.
I am torn when it comes to public financing. I want more credible candidates in the race. [Although I admit Nader pissed me off in 2000 saying there was no difference between W and Al, on the issues that have hurt us. He was wrong then and those votes could have changed our recent past.] I want candidates other than Democrats and Republicans to have a honest shot at the presidency, the Congress, gubernatorial elections and state houses.
The problem I have with limiting the amount of money a person can spend on a campaign is how will the candidate respond when surrogates and business interest align against him/her during an election. If John Kerry or Al Gore had more money and time to work against those special interests, could they have done a better job beating back the smear? I think they could.
There is no question that these bottomless pits of money shift the direction of the debate. There is no question that it is mudslinging or that it appeals to the lowest common fear denominator people have.
Q: Who is able to stand a torrent of print and ad commercials saying things that are untrue and unbelievably unfair?
A: A candidate with a war chest filled with money.
See if you can use any of these links to get a story or run an add.
They are about Obama and his various contacts with terrorists, PLO, Black Panthers,Islamic Fund Raisers.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=63566
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=5734
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59456
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=63377
John Kerry is a coward, theif and liar. The Anti-Kerry crowd did right to [deleted] on him like him [deleted] on our veterans and all real Americans. His is also a gigglo, and delusional. And don't even get me started about the two whores, Nancy Pelosi and Hiliary Clinton. The man in Iraq that they protected and would not let the Military Snipers put a round through the mass killer's head a few years ago, is the one that has killed more American servicepersonnal and Iraqi civilians than anyone else. Pelosi and Clinton should be in Ft. Leavenworth Federal Penitionary. (Aid & comfort to the enemy at time of War. High Treason. A party to mass murder and support of mass murderers. Swindling of supporters money during last part of Clinton's campain. ETC, ETC. Some mudslinging is sometimes needed to get some truths out to the public.
I have a suggestion!
Why don't we (Citizens of the USA) vote to pool all donations / contributions for / from all candidates regardless of party membership including the Independents, and others. Each get a equal share, when politics for on the "Air" all candidates have to be invited. At the end of all campains and there is a winner sworn in, all leftover monies minus the minimum to keep the process going, get put into Social Security to make up for the borrowing that politicians, mostly Democrates have been taking out of SSI for their special projects, this way they can repay what they have been robbing the American people of the many decades since the sixties. Also, if you don't pay into the system, you don't get to draw from it. (SSI should not be used to be prop up the welfare system, if welfare is to expensive - try harder to get people that are physically able to work to get back to work. Welfare promotes criminal activities, and / or lifestyles. The powers that be, state that Pot Smoking directly leads to the use, and dealing of harder drugs. Will, unfair social programs like welfare systems promote the same live style too. There is a need to come up with something better than paying people to not work, for long period of time, and promoting what has became a type of "Baby Factories". And don't tell me, that there not a lot of lazy men out there in society, that don't go aroung knocking up usually uneducated, and poor, welfare receiving women and sponge of same. And the women, who make a living, getting repeatedly pregnate to specifically collect welfare. Temp. Public Assistance is one thing, long term or permanent Welfare is a whole different political "Animal". Cut monies that are given away to foreign countries that don't even make a effort to repay us should be looked into. Having the World Bank telling our US Banks that they MUST give loans to certain countries that have a really bad repayment history and then making our banks forgive these countries these debts....Well, guess who ends up making up these losses. The World Bank, if they are so concerned, should directly doing the loaning of moneies to aforementioned countries and they have to deal with the nonpayment, especially with the USA going bankrupted.
You still state: Thanks to the success of misleading ads against John Kerry in 2004 by the swift boat sailors as misleading and suggest that it was unfair...you seem to forget that John Kerry started that mess with his statements that swift boat sailers were baby killers and mass murderers, the swift boat sailors were simply trying to clear their smeared names from a coward and overall asswhole, not to mention a giggilo. His wounds were minor and self inflicted, had he been an enlistman, he would have been courtmartialed and sent to Ft. Leavenworth Federal Prison. Isn't it still on the books, that cowardice in the face of the enemy a capital offense that could (although rarely used) punishable by the death penalty?
Please, Obama and the Democratic Party, don't let Kerry run your campaign. Normally I hate mudslinging, remember what happened to John McCain by Bush during Bush's first run at the presdidency, that was mudslinging. But it is true that candidates and their people should stick with the pertinent issues. I still believe that the amount of money being generated by polictical entities is obscene. Left over monies, could be; should be used to boost up the Social Security program.
WHY aren't these dirtbags being prosecuted for liable/slander?
Free speech is one thing..outright lies are another - especially in political campaigns.
Doesn't matter the party..they ALL should be put in jail!
Question, Does anyone know if (N)Obama has ever worked a honest blue collar Job?
Ooh, why! Are Nobama's people and other communists so upset about the falling prices on barrels of oil? Is it really because they all have ACORNS up their rearends?
Did Osama bin Laden finally get a relative into the US Government? How does the name sound?
Barack Obama bin Laden!
Sara Palin.....Go Girl!
I think I am in LOVE!
Hiliary Clinton and Nancy Polosi eat crap!!!
Does a Muslim really ever totally convert from Islam? Does a Athiest / Communist ever become moderate? Does a real American turn against millions of his countrymen, and follow Syria's call to totally disarm all Americans, at a time that America is threaten from all sides, including from the inside, ignoring the fact that Hunting is a valuable tool for wildlife conservation? Ignoring that Socialism and not gun ownership is the major cause of violent crime perpetrated by out of control (former children) prodigues of Welfare whores, and the worthless [deleted]s that prey on women that just want a free ride (pardon the pun) at the expense of hard working people? I was wondering where the worst of the Democrates (Athiests and Communists) were going to get the money to pay for their programs, such as manitory health insurance....guess what, they put in Unions to take over companies, and rob the workers thru dues, fines, and embezzlement to give to their members that don't want to pay their own way.
To Raul,As Thomas Alva pointed out, in other words, in the war of mudslinging, the candidates with the fewest idiots wins. Let the games begin! Aint this fun? Sorry Raul, more often the party WITH the most IDIOTs usually wins. Thats how, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and now Obama Bin Laden (OOps! I'm bad) Barack Obama (B.O.)when he wins.
Unions in California gave up to or even more than 80 million this year to their special politicians even if a lot of their members don't believe in that politico. I wonder, how many school teachers could be hired, and schools built or refurbished if that kind of money was given directly to that kind of cause, instead of given it a politician or political party, to misuse or pocket.
To Pat Tibbs, now at least you are thinking, to bad more people look at things with their eyes open, right or wrong, instead of just their emotions that blinds them to what the other important issues are that are being blindsided by the over reaction in the mortage crisis that is happening,,,, like trying to save our US Constitution and our freedoms, like the first ten amendments to the US Consitutution which is supposedly untouchable, but is constantly being attacked but the people that they protect along with the rest of us. I enjoyed your comments.
Is Barrack Osama really working for the Russians, Iranians, and Hugo Chavez to dismantle the US Constitution to weaken the US for a political take over. If he and the other Leftist Democrates succed I guess we will have our answer. Is he really the false prophet mentioned in the Bible? Is he really the 5th Djinn that the psychopath in Iran has been wanting to release to start Armegadon? How does his charismatic speeches really brainwash people who normally could or use to be able know what was right and wrong. Or is it a cause of the wrong thing being done for the supposed right reason, or supposed or thought of the right thing being done for the wrong reason? Fact: There has been other very charismatic political leaders who at first appeared to do good, but the result was far very being good for the world for the most part, I.E., Mao, Stalin, Khomeni, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Ill Sung, Mosselini, Osama bin Ladin, Marx, Jeffrey Dommer (Oos, was these a freudian slipt?) etc. Or is he just another misguided pathilogical charismatic liar on the same order as Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Who thought that a good lie was appropriate, if the result was getting what he wanted, even if said result was getting leaders of other nations including allies, very pissed off at the US. Hey, Democrates and other idiots, FDR was not God, and neither is Obama.
Has Obama visited US Troops in Iraq and or Afganistan and actually did anything other than just Talk. Did he have the balls to inform them that while they are over there fighting to get rights for the peoples there, he and the Dumbocrates intend to destroy the US Constitution that US Serviceperson have taken an oath to defend? Sara Palin actually had the heart and courage to pick up a M-4 Carbine and fire it at targets, I am pretty sure she would of and could have fired it at attacking troops in support of the troops if US enemies chose to attack right at that time. Would Obama actually been willing to pitch in if attacked, or would he have tried to hide and piss himself. Since he wants to destroy the US Constitution it seems that he sure would not defend it and our country.
Obama is right in one way, there are certain areas that we need to change.
1.Should non citizens be allowed to vote: NO
2.Should someone that can't handle life and is collecting money from programs such as welfare, section 8 etc, be allowed to vote: NO
3.Should convicts either still in prision or out be allowed to vote: NO
4.Should someone who can not take an oath to uphold or defend the US Constitution be allowed to vote: NO
5.Should someone who supports communists, terrorists, zealots, be allowed to vote: NO
6.Should unions or others that are taking money form foreign nationals, or governments or members be allowed to give large amounts or even small amounts of money for election campaigns of US Officials running for office: NO
7.Should one or two anti american, anti heterosexuals have more rights with the power to over rule the votes of millions of americans, just because those few don't believe in GOD, or loyalty to this country: NO
3 Million Dollars for a 30 minute infocomercial by Obama. How many hungry American children could have been fed. How many American Children could have a better life with the 1 half billion dollars that Obama has spent on this election. Sorry, kiddies, uncle Barrack would rather spend the money of television ads instead of buying warm clothes / coats , food etc this winter.
Barry Entero willing the name of Barack Obame when he lived in Indonesia. What was he and what was he doing while there. How about when he lived in Pakistan. Guess who else are in these countries. To Barack Obama, LEAVE THE US CONSITUTION AND OR BILL OF RIGHTS ALONE. You can end a lot of the resistance to you if you would state that you would abide by and defend our Bill of Rights, our country and OUR US Constitution. Yes, there are changes that need to be made, but destroying our rights as US Citizens is not the right way. [deleted] OFF if you intend to carry out your threats against the USA.
Obama Barrack supporters Kill (by shooting) 5 homeless persons in homeless encampment in LA Yesterday? Most dangerous criminals are Democrates and support Obama bin Barrack. (Barrack Obama). How do you like this twisted story, you communists seem so good at it, the lies that is. I guess you just come natural to it, a carryover from the FDR years of anti american activities?
John Kerry was promoted as a Vietnam War "Hero". Fact is besides what I had already writen about the Jerk. The was a man by the name of "Bob" Kerry that was a Medal of Honor winner during that time, and it sure wasn't "John" Kerry, pictures prove it, Bob Kerry lost part of his leg saving his shipmates (Navy Seal I believe he was).
If you want to start working on getting rid of hardcore crime, start with the communist / socilist rich / powerful elite in Hollywood. They scream about Americans that like to hunt and own guns (most is a heritage that use to and still binds families together) and try to portray them / us as homicidal maniacs. Fact is, their social welfare schemes (look up definition of slavery) is the real cause. Look at the backgrounds of most gang members and their way of life styles and their locations. (Childhoods of the damned?)And then Hollywood glorifies, violence, disrespect, street prostution, how to be a man and a pimp, how to steal, murder, and betray family, neighbors, country and themselves. They even televise shows paying people to backstab and form unions to screw each other over for money and call this entertainment. Hunters generate the biggest source of revenue for wildlife species conservation than these idiots and peta and jerks like the Sierra Club combine. If you want or think that socialism / communism is so great go and live in a true socialist / communist country and leave this country alone, you (Hollywood) are the real problem along with the radical part of the music industry. Interracial relationships have improved a lot the last 25 years, but you do your best to us apart. By the way the communists country you should go live in, try Cambodia, or Laos, or North Korea, I am sure your prospere there. Stop the real cause of violence, Stop Hollywood and the Democratic Part.
Need to impeach Hilary Clinton. Tried to keep that murderess out of the Whitehouse but she got in anyway, one way the other anyway. Nancy Pelosi must go.
Hope the others mellow out and not be a danger to the US of A. Hey, Hilary how many people the Butcher of Sadr City, Iraq has killed now, not to mention all the US Service Personnel, since you saved him from a sniper's bullet. How many children, American and Iraq would have their fathers and or mothers still, if this butcher had been put down.
To Angry Idiots:
Brainwashing the angry masses, because Why? Because they easier to manipulate, perhaps?
Look at most of if not all the talk shows....All the guests on the shows are usually angry. Even the host or hostess are usually angry on their behalf.
Angry about what? About being victims. People had been unfair to them. Their families, the system the country, life had been so unfair to them. Boohoo! These people are furious about being victims, but they thrive on it. They woundn't know what to be if they couldn't be victims.
I eventurally realized, under a lot of chronic anger is a sewer of self-pity, and then I saw that I used to be one of these people, without the self-pity, most of the anger tends to disipate and life improves. Most people seem to enjoy their anger and self-pity. I realized that I was letting my anger and self-pity make me sick in mind, soul and body.
What an insight! Those people loved their anger, they were always going be angry, and when they died, their last words would be some self-pitying drivel. I eventually realized that I was scared [deleted]less I might end up like them. Life can be good, although not perfect, unless you happen to be a perpetual adolescent that cannot get their [deleted] together. What is worst they look up to people that blatantly use their self-pitying anger to twist them mindless slaves, and getting them to think that all the crap is Just, Fair and Justified. If you have any doubts, lesson carefully at the speeches in the last political campaign, and then get an old translated version of Schnickelgruber's speeches from the late 1930s and early 1940s. Schnickelgruber was the real name Hitler. Do likewise of speeches by Joseph Stalin, Mao, and Osama bin Ladin. These great speech makers had the ability to get people to embrace their anger and self-pity as a collective spirit so that they could be manipulated easier. After all a well rested, rational, happy and self-assured human is usually harder to lead around by their noses (Noses substituted for male body part). Think that this is not correct..how much of the latest campaign speeches of the newly elected actually had any substance to them. Where they actually designed to evoke the emotions, whether than the intellect? Highly emotional people are indeed easier to move in a desired direction, that a great speaker can play upon! Afterall, look at how, in the 1960s, the communists were able to influence the brainless idiots that were attending our colleges and universities, and are now the professors in same. That and all the tons of drugs that they distributed to the hippies, gangs and others (and it is still happening. People do need something to believe in, isn't god, country and family better things to believe in, than drugs, violence, political power trips, welfare whoring / slavery. And yes, Welfare and illegal prostitution and both a form of slavery, the only ones that don't think so are the feeble-minded, pimps, drug pushers, gang members, rap music promoters, and democrates. Think, has life gotten any better as our families have been broken apart, belief in god has been deemed politically incorrect, and belief in our country at an all time low, and underneath it all, that we have been brainwashed to believe that we should feel guilty and and dispondent for being Americans? And some of the worst are Unions, and supporters of Unions. Look at the greed of the United Auto Workers Union has done to the American Auto makers, and look at how much is being asked of the bailout, actually above and beyond of the inital bailout to go to the UAW Unionist pensions, benefits that had lead to the problem in the first place. Want to solve the problem? Get rid of the Unions, get rid of the Democrates that support them (not all democrates are bad, just misguided) and companies treat their employees right because it's the right thing to do. Well, it would be a start, along with getting certain people to respect themselves and get back to earning their money, benefits, and quit thinking that they are entitled to things that they did not work for or pay into. Self Respect, ever hear of it?
600,000 new government employees under Barack Obama. Maybe he isn't so bad after all. After all we do need to increase our military troop levels. Yes, let's bring back the draft. Got a older teenager that can't stay out trouble, no problem ---have him or her drafted. Jails overflowing, Draft the [deleted]s. Got a spoiled rich kid that doesn't want to anything but party, sell drugs, pimp women ---- Draft them. Got some jerk who whole life style is to knock up women and collect welfare until it runs out, and then moves on another air head stupid enough to go along with the sicko? --- Draft Him! Are you a welfare parisite? With a out of control brat, that doesn't want to go to school, and just wants to drink, smoke, shoot up, collect airhead females for his "Crib" because he or she has a 3rd grade education and knows everything in the world? --- Draft Them.
Overheard at a Hamas meeting.
Alright, people, great work! For the
last 3 yrs we have sent more than 6500
rockets into Isreal, killing countless,
little kids and women and men.
Later: Oh, My God!
The evil Ireali's are attacking us. Please Dumb Europeans and United Nations, please save us, so that after a brief respite we can start it all over again. (Dumb Europeans and United Nations don't seem to catch onto the fact that just like Al Queada, that we just like to be able to murder people and like playing the part of professional victims. Ha! Ha! Besides, our friends in Russia, will send us more arms and money to keep on killing, and blowing things up. Thank you Dumb Europeans and United Nations, as long as you show us support, we will keep our national past time of killing people.
To Dumb Europeans and United Nations:
From the rest of the world: Gee, thanks alot for your great work! NOT!
Interview with a United Nations Official in the Gaza Strip. Bad mouthing Isreali strikes near UN so called schools. Stated that with 17,000 personnel in Gaza, the see what is happening. Forgets or neglects to report all of the rockets that Hamas has been firing into Isreal the past 3 years. Neo Nazism alive and well in the United Nations. And the leftist Media (World wide and the US Newsies) just eating it up, like good little Gestapo wantabees. If the newservices didn't flock to this trouble spot anymore, and did not show so much favoritism to Hamas mass murderers, would Hamas then mellow out, or would their thirst for blood, and destruction maintain such a high level. Is it coincedence that some many of the so called observers / teachers in that part of the world seem to have severe leftest leanings, ie, Russian, French Communist, GERMAN Facists who seem to really get along well with the people that are so vocally supportive for the Old Third Reich, of Nazi Germany, and have stated a fondness if not outright worship of Adolf Hitler? Not all of the people over there really beleif that proprganda bull[deleted], I am sure, for those that can actually think for themselves and just want peace and be able to make a life for their families, that is the real tragedy. For the ones that thought it was great to have Hamas come into power, and wellingly let Hamas place rockets near their homes and schools...well don't be so surprice you start receiving incoming rounds in retaliation. Ater all it was yoir decisions that placed you there...so own up to your own actions.
Isn't it ironic, that the military and VA has denied medical / health services to so many former military personnel just on the basis of the time period that they served, and yet the liberals are pushing so very hard to upgrade the medical system for Harden crimals, and giving THEM more and more medical treatment. We so called Unprotected or so called cold war Vets were and in most cases are still either denied medical treatment or get substandard treatment even with medical plans through our employment. Let's hear it for the violent criminals and their upgraded medical benefits. Who says that crime doesn't pay. Thank you Democrates. Is Obama and his cabinet going to doing anything to improve this situation for US? Or going to keep pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into medical services for murders, drug dealers, robbers, rapiest, pedophiles in our prision systems?
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UN Reps and Hamas comes up with another propanda weapon.
Dress up an uninjured little girl and show her smiling and laughing in a hospital bed and claim she was brutally shot by a Isreally soldier. Would locals lie about seeing it happen? Hell, yes!
Perhaps, but a Hamas murderer into a uniform of a Isreally soldier and actually shoot a little girl in Gaza? Hell yes they would do this, afterall the Iragis did it at the start of the war.
Communists love to use these tactics. And Vietnam has been spreading theses tactics to use against the US and the West for decades.
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A man was wandering around
A man was wandering around in a field,
thinking about how good his wife had been to him,
and how fortunate he was to have her.
He asked God, "Why did you make her so kind hearted?"
The Lord responded, "So you could love her, my son."
"Why did you make her so good looking?"
"So you could love her, my son."
"Why did you make her such a good cook?"
"So you could love her, my son."
The man thought about this. Then he said,
"I don't mean to seem ungrateful or anything,
but why did you make her so stupid?"
"So she could love you, my son."
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One day, while a woodcutter
One day, while a woodcutter was cutting a branch of a tree above a river, his axe fell into the river. When he cried out, the Lord appeared and asked,
"Why are you crying?"
The woodcutter replied that his axe had fallen into the water. The Lord went down into the water and reappeared with a golden axe.
"Is this your axe?" the Lord asked. The woodcutter replied, "No."
The Lord again went down and came up with a silver axe.
"Is this your axe?" the Lord asked. Again, the woodcutter replied, "No."
The Lord went down again and came up with an iron axe.
"Is this your axe?" the Lord asked. The woodcutter replied, "Yes."
The Lord was pleased with the man's honesty and gave him all three axes to keep, and the woodcutter went home happily.
One day while he was walking with his wife along the riverbank, the woodcutter's wife fell into the river. When he cried out, the Lord again appeared and asked him, "Why are you crying?" "Oh Lord, my wife has fallen into the water!"
The Lord went down into the water and came up with Jennifer Lopez, as beautiful as ever. "Is this your wife?" the Lord asked.
Without a doubt, "Yes, my Lord" cried the woodcutter.
The Lord was furious. "You cheat! That is an untruth!"
The woodcutter replied, "Oh, forgive me, my Lord. It is a misunderstanding.
You see, if I said 'no' to Jennifer Lopez, You will come up with Catherine Zeta-Jones. Then if I also say 'no' to her, You will thirdly come up with my wife, and I will say 'yes,' and then all three will be given to me.
But Lord, I am a poor man and I will not be able to take care of all three wives, so that's why I said 'yes' this time."
The moral of the story is: WHENEVER A MAN LIES, IT IS FOR AN HONOURABLE AND USEFUL REASON............!!!!!
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Wertheimer identifies a few
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