That's really generous or really illegal

By SEDER

 

UPDATE: Washington Post has more examples of oddly politically inactive but really, really, generous donors to St. McCain.

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Part of St. McCain's booty in the days after he decided to advocate for offshore drilling.. or more specifically, advocating for more leases of public land/waters to oil companies... oil companies like Hess for instance...

Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp., drives a 1993 Chevy Cavalier and lives in an apartment in Queens, N.Y., with her husband, Pasquale, an Amtrak foreman.

Despite what appears to be a middle-class lifestyle, the couple has written $61,600 in checks to John McCain's presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, most of it within days of McCain's decision to endorse offshore oil drilling.

It's ironic, of course, that McCain wants to deep six Amtrak. Pasquale sure is generous, imagine that, contibuting that much money to a guy who wants to eliminate your job. I bet 60 grand buys a lot of'93 chevy cavaliers. To be fair, it may have low mileage..

Now this is not ironic, I think they call this, "quite a coincidence":

The donations, first traced by Campaign Money Watch last week, were part of $1.2 million in oil industry contributions to McCain's Victory '08 Committee, 73 percent coming after McCain reversed his long-held opposition to offshore oil drilling. The non-partisan watchdog group said oil executives and their spouses from Colorado, Mississippi, Louisiana, California, Indiana, New Jersey and Florida also donated.

I'm guessing this contribution will be returned soon...

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Latest Polls

In order of past performance:

Rasmussen:

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows the race for the White House is tied once again-- Barack Obama and John McCain each attract 44% of the vote. However, when "leaners" are included, it’s McCain 47% and Obama 46%.

Voters’ Trust for McCain on Key Issues Growing: John McCain is now trusted more than Barack Obama on nine out of 14 electoral issues tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The latest national telephone surveys find that McCain has the biggest advantage on the war in Iraq, by a 51% to 39% margin. Perhaps the most interesting finding of these polls is that McCain has expanded his leads on nearly every issue he had previously had the advantage on, while Obama’s leads have diminished over the past two weeks...

Gallup:

Gallup Daily: Obama Holds 4-Point AdvantageRegistered voters prefer Obama to McCain by 47% to 43%

Zogby:

ATV/Zogby Poll Toss-Up! McCain 42%, Obama 41% as Undecided Voters Increase

Obama loses support among his strongest demographic groups

UTICA, New York – A national Associated TV/Zogby International telephone poll of 1,011 likely voters conducted July 31-Aug. 1 finds Republican Sen. John McCain taking a razor-thin 42%-41% lead over Democrat Sen. Barack Obama in the race for the U.S. presidency.

The margin between the candidates is statistically insignificant, but demonstrates a notable turn-around from the Reuters/Zogby poll of July 7-9 that showed Obama ahead, 46%-36% in a four-way match-up that included Libertarian candidate Bob Barr of Georgia and liberal independent candidate Ralph Nader. McCain made significant gains at Obama’s expense among some of what had been Obama’s strongest demographic groups. For example:...

Conclusion: Despite his overseas photo op, in which he tried to look "presidential," the boy blunder, Obamalamadingdong, appears to be weakening, while McCain is strengthening.

And now, the part of the story Shedd doesn't want you to know

From RealClearPolitics:

Election 2008
RCP National Average: Obama 47.3, McCain 44.5 (Obama +2.8 )
Favorable Ratings: Obama +20.0, McCain +17.5 (Obama +2.5 )
Intrade Market Odds: Obama 59.2, McCain 38.1

Electoral College
RCP Electoral Count: Obama 238, McCain 163, Toss Ups 137
No Toss Up States: Obama 322, McCain 216

Battleground States
Colorado: Obama 47.0, McCain 45.3 (Obama +1.7)
Virginia: Obama 47.3, McCain 46.3 (Obama +1.0)
Missouri: Obama 45.3, McCain 47.3 (McCain +2.0)
Michigan: Obama 46.3, McCain 42.0 (Obama +4.3)
Ohio: Obama 46.0, McCain 45.5 (Obama +0.5)
Florida: Obama 45.2, McCain 46.8 (McCain +1.6)

And most telling is that McCain is LOSING GROUND to Obama in Arizona...McCain's home state.

CONCLUSION: As usual, Shedd demonstrates himself to be completely clueless outside the Official Talking Points he's been told to feed everyone.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith

Conclusion: SheddSHITspread is a DICKHEAD.

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Pookie,

Hi my name is Dick. I am not a dickhead, dickface or even act like a dick. I am a nice guy that happens to have the same name as the V.P. and if I ever acted like him my father would whip my butt, and I am 34 years old.

All I am trying to do is get some humor in this before someone takes it too far.

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some humor in this before someone takes it too far

No need to ... shedds provides MUCH humor!!

I hear ya - My father wouldn't hesitate to give me a good backhand if he felt I needed it ... maybe that's what's wrong with these RepugliCANTS, their fathers didn't teach them enough manners and obviously didn't smack them around as much as they should have.

;-)

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
George Carlin

By Shedd August 6, 2008 - 3:31am

Now that you've failed to sidetrack the thread, how about giving us your thoughts and conclusions on McSame's questionable campaign donations...?
Extra bonus points if you can get through it without mentioning Obama...

Hey, what's that bumper sticker the Sideways Talk Express is sporting?

**snickers**
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Shedd is a Stupid Asshole

Shedd is obviously just pasting this post onto as many message boards as he can find. He will never respond to any of our comments because he won't be back here. He's just a sad little foot soldier on the wrong side of a war that he doesn't even understand. Kinda reminds me of the NOFX song The Irrationality of Rationality. How pathetic these trolls are...

McCain loves the troops

Many don't understand why McCain has voted again and again against our troops. He voted against safety equipment and against medical care and against educational benefits. Yet he says repeatedly that he is a huge supporter of the troops. Is he lying? How can he vote against them and yet say he supports them?

The answer is simple. Most of those bills were expected to be paid for using money generated from closing tax loopholes for corporations. The family McCain has hundreds of millions of dollars. He isn't against the troops, he is simply protecting his families investments.

It's possible that in McCain's big picture, keeping this vast fortune intact may be more important than a few troops.

Why would I make such an outlandish statement?

McCain walked around a Baghdad market surrounded by 150 troops he was using as human body shields. He put them in great danger for a photo op. It's obvious that to him, the photo op was worth the risk to a few dozen soldiers. He showed no concern for their safety. He said it was perfectly safe, and to him, it was.

I didn't see Obama walking around a Baghdad market surrounded by troops and Iraq is supposed to be even safer today.

shedd has an agenda

big news I know. Shedd believes that this info will discourage potential voters. Let us all work together to insure that this does not happen. We must not forget these facts;
McCain is not a maverick.
McCain is not a war hero.
McCain IS a racist
McCain does not care @ you unless you are a 100 millionaire +!
And somebody please tell Amy Goodman to stop intimating that Sen. Obama is no different before she aids in sinking yet another election.

Didn't repubs get all up in arms over something similar

with Hillary's campaign during the primary, something about someone who ran a chinese laundry that seemed to have lots of money to hand to her campaign despite obviously meager finances? Where's the outrage, or even the story, now that Crash McGrandpa appears to be running the same scam?

IOKIYAR.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith

Yeah, I keep forgetting that there is a double standard in

this country. I keep hanging onto that quaint notion that the law applies equally to everyone, you know, that "justice for all" crap.

"justice for all" is a

"justice for all" is a Metallica record, nothing more...

-- McCain = Four more years of the same --

Poll: Nearly half hearing too much about Obama

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/ap_on_el_pr/poll_obama_overexposure

Uh oh. This story on front page of Yahoo, too.

“Obama – the judgment to fix the petrol crisis with a tire gauge”

Yet another killing one-liner from im_so_wussy...

You have changed my mind. I'm going Republican! Get me to Wal-Mart so I can stock up on bibles and shotguns! Gotta trade my Accord in for a four-door diesel pickup. PRAISE JESUS I saw the light!

Oh wait. No, I didn't, because im_so_clueless is still just a sniveling little republican pussy.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Poll: 100% find Its_so_Retarded to be a waste of oxygen

It_so_Retarded - the judgement to support the worst president in the history of the United States.

ITSO

I know the MSM is too lazy to go and look at what he actually said but you seem somewhat resourceful.

I have so much air in my tires

that my car actually PRODUCES gasoline.

"Obama - the judgment to speak to Democratics like the idiots that they are"

Hey, dillhole! Proper

Hey, dillhole! Proper inflation of your tires can save you 12 cents a gallon.

So lets do a little math here:

$0.12 a gallon, 18 gallon tank, I go through a tank a week, 52 weeks in a year... saves $112 a year. Got a family with a second car? Double those savings. Got teenage kids? You get the picture...

Anybody out there interested in a free $112 a year?

Mock it if you want to, but the average American would find a use for that. It's nearly two free gallons of gas!

And oh, Obama's plan is NOT JUST to inflate your tires, that was yesterday's talking point, please move on.

-- McCain = Four more years of the same --

Isn't that more than what we would have saved from the

vaunted gas tax holiday that Crash McGrandpa and Hillary were trying to peddle not so long ago? At that time, idiots like our trolls were all touting that as the cure to our energy woes. Now a simple thing that requires no legislation and is actually touted on the Energy Department's own website is supposed to be a gimmick?

Somewhere in Texas, Barbara Bush is wondering if she has another idiot son out there making a fool of himself. We may have found him. Jeb, is that you?

Here, dtaylo75 - let me try getting through to this nitwit

You need to put in in a context a Repug mental midget would understand ...

Hey, Cletus! Guess who else says that proper tire inflation helps with fuel economy! And, they've been saying it since ... 2006!

Tire maintenance key to safety, fuel economy
July 25, 2006
Tires are the Rodney Dangerfield of the automotive world. Even though they're the only component of the car that actually touches the pavement, tires "get no respect."

Tires influence the braking, steering, comfort, handling, fuel efficiency and driving safety of every vehicle, but are often ignored or misunderstood by many consumers. Tires pound over potholes, careen off curbs and screech to a halt, but the prevailing public sentiment is, "They're round, black and have tread. Beyond that, who cares?"
http://www.nascar.com/2006/auto/07/25/tires/

Ooooooooooo ... look who ELSE is sayin' the same dammed thing! Well, I'll be!!

Ohio Tire Company and GOP Senator Also Promote Proper Tire Inflation to Save Oil
Submitted by Jeff on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 10:31am.
Huge kudos to Bill Sloat for digging up support by Sen. George Voinovich (R-Cleveland) and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. for a sensible point recently mentioned by Barack Obama, i.e., that simple steps like properly inflating tires can add up to large savings on oil consumption. Voinovich's comment is from an email sent out in July:

http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/content/ohio-tire-company-and-gop-senator-a...

Dammed liburalfeminaziislamofascists this bunch is!

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Good grief, you are an

Good grief, you are an idiot. And I don't insult people gratuitously.
You have to work really hard at being stupid to get an insult from me.

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Great come-back!! LOL

"You have to work really hard at being stupid to get an insult from me."

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George Carlin

It's Things Like This...

...

After initially helping to raise money for former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican, and Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sargeant, 50, has emerged as a major player in Florida fundraising for McCain.

...having Hillary's name mentioned in the same sentence about the same questionable goings-on as Republicans like Giulianineleven and McSame that make me happy all over again about the fact that Obama won and Hillary lost.

And it makes me even happier about helping to make that happen...
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Just another point that shows Hillary is really a repub

masquerading as a dem. I still wouldn't be shocked to see her as part of a putative McCain administration in some role. If that happens, Crash McGrandpa better have a mighty good food tester!

By Uffdaguy August 6, 2008 - 1:59pm

I still wouldn't be shocked to see her as part of a putative McCain administration in some role.
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Oregon GOP Candidate Endorses Obama

Oregon GOP Candidate Endorses Obama
The Huffington Post | August 4, 2008 03:10 PM

...

Haugen, a businessman and Army veteran, is running an uphill campaign in a district Wu has held onto against good Republican challengers. So instead of embracing fellow Republicans in a state that's moving increasingly left, Haugen is falling in line with Obama, and he's is listed on State House Speaker Jeff Merkley's website as a backer; Merkley is the Democratic nominee against Senator Gordon Smith.

The endorsements aren't something Haugen is hiding. "We certainly understand why people are so surprised to see" Haugen backing Obama, the campaign writes on its website, citing the Democrat's positions on foreign policy and the economy over John McCain's.

But Haugen's is a position that causes the Oregon Republican Party some heartburn. The state party is continuing to offer tacit support for Haugen's candidacy (though they're not returning his phone calls) while local party officials have shut him out of some events, PolitickerOR reported over the weekend.

GOP Senator Uses Obama In Another Ad

GOP Senator Uses Obama In Another Ad
August 1, 2008 10:43 AM

Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) uses Barack Obama in another ad -- even though the candidate endorsed his Democratic challenger.

In the ad, Smith touts his work with Obama on gas prices.

Video at link.

Is anyone going to watch the steroid convention in Beijing?

Steroids meet pollution in an epic battle.

I'll give odds on pollution

...starting at 5:3.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith

Pollution Already Won

Many athletes (mostly runners) aren't even competing in some events because it would practically be suicide. China's plan: bomb the pollution clouds away. No joke!

We need to work clean energy into our trade agreements with China if we are truly going to make a dent on greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Either that or stop doing business with China since they are killing us with their poor manufacturing processes (lead, material substitutions, etc.).

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