Jazz,

Its simple, its called the Nixon strategy…

Everybody in DC knows that Freddie Mac and Fannie were the personal ATM job slots for Dem hacks like Jim Johnson [fired from Obama's VP selection team], Franklin Raines [affirmative action hero who got millions in bonuses for running FMs into the ground] and that Assistant AG under Janet Reno who managed to keep the CIA & FBI apart [Jamie Gorelick] enough so that Al Qaeda could slip through the cracks. A big piggy bank for Dem hacks & jobbers.

Maddow represents how representative the average DNC media flak is of the American people.

You must be thinking of Dodd and Dorgan, (D)-crooks, shaking down Washington Mutual for special mortgages.

OK, that aside, I enjoy listening to Bob Barr. He refers to McCain as “this guy”, and he's willing to take both candidates to task. It's probably pretty easy for him to do so, since he is the “outsider” here. I would love to see him in the debates, even if the media deems him “unworthy”.

jwest, I doubt we will hear anything about that money train you listed. We certainly heard a lot about McCain having an advisor who lobbied for the companies. At the same time I'm sure we could find a money list with McCain on the top that isn't too flattering either. Methinks two wrongs don't make a right. But since you bring it up, wasn't Dodd being looked into for all of this at some point?

1. Dodd, Christopher J S D-CT $133,900
2. Kerry, John S D-MA $111,000
3. Obama, Barack S D-IL $105,849
4. Clinton, Hillary S D-NY $75,550

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-sen...

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Have to disagree. There is absolutely no evidence that Obama “called Palin 'a pig.”

Au contraire, that's what the McCain disingenuously alleges, after McCain undeniably used that expression against Hillary Clinton.

How this type of messaging works (and it clearly is working if you look at the polls) is still a mystery.

No. it's not!!!

Most Americans get their news from CABLE (FOX, MSNBC, CNN), TV (CBS, ABC, NBC) and talk radio (Limbaugh, Hannity , Savage & company) . CABLE when it is not a mouth-piece for the right, is busy reporting on the doings of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears & Company, TV is thirty minutes every night, 10 of which are commercials, 10 of which are current events and 10 of which are pure pointless bullshit, and Talk Radio just plain fucking lies.

And to complete the picture we have the Democrats afraid to use the one tool that they have at their disposition “CLASS WARFARE” for fear of losing their funding.