US Election Coverage 2008

[The Truth]

So Obantu finally admitted on camera that he wants wealth redistribution? My oh my, the stupidity of Obantu never ceases to amaze me. You would think at this point in the race, he wouldn't let the cat out of the bag so to speak. But what does he do? He sticks his foot in his mouth. I think Obantu's mouth is too fast for his mental capabilities. By the time he thinks something through, it has already came out of his mouth.

 

[Capitol Hill]

ITS THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN CIRCULATING THE ARAB MUSLIM STUFF ABOUT OBAMA

John McCain supporter Gayle Quinnell told the crowd at a McCain Rally in Minnesota that "Obama is an Arab." McCain took away the microphone but failed to address Quinnell's unabashed bigotry or the incidents of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and anti-African American bigotry that has become an increasingly regular feature of GOP rallies as the election draws near. "No ma'am," he says. "[Obama's] a decent family man, citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues."
An interview with Quinnell was done via streaming cell phone. Interviewers include Noah Kunin, Senior Political Correspondent from The UpTake, Adam Aigner of NBC News and Dana Bash of CNN.
Quinnell said she obtained the information on Obama being an Arab at "her local library" and from a pamphlet obtained at a local McCain campaign office (provided by a fellow volunteer not the campaign itself). She has taken it upon herself to redistribute the information as widely as possible by making copies of the pamphlet and sending it to random names in the phone book.

The interview script is as follows:

Gayle Quinnell: I went to the library in Shakopee and I got lots of ... three pages of information about Obama
Adam Aigner of NBC News: And what kind of information did you get?

Quinnell: I got to tell you, you call me. It's a long story. I'm afraid of what's going to happen to this country.

Aigner: What would you think would happen? Do you think it would become Muslim country and what would that mean?

Quinnell: It would be bad

Aigner: So even though Senator McCain told you that he didn't feel that was true and you ought to be more respectful, you still fear that?

Quinnell: I still do. Yeah. I'm not alone. I go to Burnsville, the main Republican headquarters and I do a lot of work over there. A lot of sending out mail and talking to people. And all the people agree with what I'm saying to you about Obama.

Aigner :Then do you feel there are a lot of volunteers for McCain who feel that way?

Quinnell: Yes. A lot of them. In fact I got a letter from another woman that goes over there to Burnsville and she sent me more things about Obama.

Aigner: What was on the letter?

Quinnell: Oh all kinds of bad things about him and how, I mean I have to tell you to call me. It's all bad.

Reporter: Are a lot of people getting this letter and are a lot of people believeing it and is that turning a lot of votes or support for McCain?

Quinnell: Yeah I sent out 400 letters. I went to Kinkos and I got them all printed out. And I sent about 400 letters. I went in the telephone book and sent them out to people. So they can decide if they would want Obama.

Aigner: Can you give me your name again?

Quinnell: Gayle Quinnell and I honestly think that these people hear about this Obama, they wouldn't want him.

Aigner: Because they would know what you know in the letter?

Quinnell: Yeah, he read that letter. In fact when I was standing in line , there were about eight girls, young girls standing in line. And they said "what have you got." I had one of the letters and they said "Give it to me. I want to read it. I want to read it" And they read it. And they just went (shakes head) . They hadn't read it before and they didn't (unintelligible) all that information. To me it's bad news.

Aigner: So maybe if I call you you'll give me one of the letters maybe?

Quinnell: I sure can!

Aigner: You don't have another one on you now?

Quinnell: No I don't. But I can give you what I got and I can give you what she sent me in the mail.

Aigner: I'd be interested to read it.

Quinnell: OK

Aigner: And can you spell your name for me?

Quinnell: Q-U-I-N-N-E-L-L

Aigner: E-L-L? And Gayle is just...

Quinnell: G-A-Y-L-E

Aigner: And where you from?

Quinnell: I'm from Shakopee.

Aigner: Shakopee?

Quinnell: Shakopee, Minnesota

Aigner: And and I'm sorry how old are you ma'am?

Quinnell I'm 75

Aigner: 75?

Quinnell: (Nods yes) And I got a lot of grandkids and a lot of kids, I've got five kids. I got seven grandkids and they all think the same way.

(PHONE NUMBER EDITED OUT OF CONVERSATION)


Noah Kunin (The UpTake): Do you volunteer at the Republican Party Headquarters or the McCain Campaign office over in Burnsville?

Quinnell: McCain. McCain Headquarters in Burnsville.

Noah: The McCain headquarters.

Quinnell: It's out over by , over by that post station there.

Noah: Yeah, I know which one you're talking about. And just to be sure to make sure we got your quote OK, you called Obama and Arab terrorist?

Quinnell: Pardon?

Noah: You called him an Arab terrorist? Is that correct? Why do you think he is an Arab?

Quinnell Because his dad is. If you... I'll send you the paper.

Female reporter: His dad is Muslim His dad was Muslim. Barack Obama has never been a Muslim.

Quinnell: No but he's....

Dana Bash of CNN: He's a Christian.

Quinnell: He's not an Arab either, he's a --

Bash: His father was Muslim, and he's a Christian.

Quinnell: Yeah, but he's still got Muslim in him. So that's still part of him. I got all the stuff from the library and I could send you all kinds of stuff on him. In fact....

Bash: What did you think about McCain said. He said he's a decent person.

Quinnell: Well he did have didn't have (unintelligible)... I think McCain wanted to (unintelligible) I don't think he wanted to say anything against him. You know he didn't want to cut him down. That was my way of thinking. I don't think he wanted to cut him down. So he just kind of brushed me off.

Reporter: Plus he criticizes Barack Obama plenty himself, so why wouldn't he do it now?

Quinnell: Well I probably brought up something that he didn't want to talk about.

Reporter: Do you think John McCain thinks that he's Arab? Do you think he knows this stuff that you're saying you know is fact?

Quinnell: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe he doesn't want to bring it up then. I don't know why. Is there some way I can get to you more information.

Bash: Can you wait for me for like five more minutes?

Quinnell: Yeah.

Bash: I want to an interview on camera. Our camera team is occupied right now. What's your name?

Quinnell: Gayle Quinnell (Spells name again)

Bash: In case I lose you, you don't have a cell phone do you?

Quinnell: No I wish I had it on me but I don't.

Bash: See the pretty lady over there with red hair? That's our camera. As soon as she's done , we'll be over there Ok

Reporter: What was your reaction when Senator McCain backed away

Quinnell: What was my reaction? Well when he didn't want to talk about it...

 

[Yo Yo]

GT kimwana kinalipa figa ya kibantu................
........nasubiri pumba za Mc cain

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Hank Williams amechemka, but let him get his 5 minutes of fame.
Duh!!!! Nyaniiiii naona CNN imeshaanza kufuatilia connection ya Palin with Alaska Independent Party (AIP) and its seccessionism.... so who is 'pallin'around with terrorists'? Kaaaaazi kwelikweli!

Aisee kwanja la Hank kiboko....halafu hii ni McCain-Palin remix....nakuhakikishia wiki ijayo itakuwa namba 1 kwenye billboard.....

 

[Lusajo]

Aisee kwanja la Hank kiboko....halafu hii ni McCain-Palin remix....nakuhakikishia wiki ijayo itakuwa namba 1 kwenye billboard.....

Hahaha!! wanaoweka music kwenye Billboard Chart ni vijana na vijana woote wana-m-back Obama kasoro wewe tuu.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Hahaha!! wanaoweka music kwenye Billboard Chart ni vijana na vijana woote wana-m-back Obama kasoro wewe tuu.

hiyo ya vijana woote kum back Obantu umeitoa wapi? kwenye polls?

 

[Susuviri]

This is it!! Obama admitted yesterday that he wants to redistibute wealth. This is anathema to many conservatives. He told this to a guy called Joe the plumber in Ohio and the guys was on Neil Cavuto show and is not sold on Obantu. Obantu kwisha habari yake......yiiiiiiippppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......hatutaki socialism....akagombee Kenya....maaana hapa kiwsha habari.......

Hahaaaaaaa! " He told that to a guy called Joe the Plumber in Ohio" Hahaaaaa! You guys are so desperate. Inaonyesha wazi hamsikilizi debates hizi zilizopita. Obama amezungumzia hili kwa kirefu alipozungumzia ile taxation system yake na akasema it is fair. Babu yako akasema it is not fair.
Nyie kaeni mnashangaa na kuzubaa na kufurahi point zisizo na maana.
Redistribution of wealth happens everytime you pay taxes, because when they build roads and pavements with your money, everybody will use it whether they paid taxes or not. Hiyo ni redistribution of wealth. Nyie hamjui hata basic principle ya economy!
Lakini at least mmenichekesha na huyo Ukweli jinsi mnavyofurahia ujinga. Unafikiri tukilinganisha skendo za Kisura na AIP pamoja na Babu yako na lobbyist wa Saddam Hussein, hii ya redistribution of wealth itawasaidia? Hamna kitu.... mbona ACORN imekufa mmebaki na Fixed News pushing useless propaganda! Kwikwikwiiiii!

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Hahaaaaaaa! " He told that to a guy called Joe the Plumber in Ohio" Hahaaaaa! You guys are so desperate. Inaonyesha wazi hamsikilizi debates hizi zilizopita. Obama amezungumzia hili kwa kirefu alipozungumzia ile taxation system yake na akasema it is fair. Babu yako akasema it is not fair.
Nyie kaeni mnashangaa na kuzubaa na kufurahi point zisizo na maana.
Redistribution of wealth happens everytime you pay taxes, because when they build roads and pavements with your money, everybody will use it whether they paid taxes or not. Hiyo ni redistribution of wealth. Nyie hamjui hata basic principle ya economy!
Lakini at least mmenichekesha na huyo Ukweli jinsi mnavyofurahia ujinga. Unafikiri tukilinganisha skendo za Kisura na AIP pamoja na Babu yako na lobbyist wa Saddam Hussein, hii ya redistribution of wealth itawasaidia? Hamna kitu.... mbona ACORN imekufa mmebaki na Fixed News pushing useless propaganda! Kwikwikwiiiii!

Accorn haijafa...umesikia ruling ya jana Ohio?

 

[Susuviri]

Accorn haijafa...umesikia ruling ya jana Ohio?

NImesikia ruling ya Ohio and it has nothing to do with ACORN! It is disenfranchisement of voters by GOP and we are aware that GOP wants to push ACORN and disenfranchise more voters lakini tutapambana nanyi!!

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

NImesikia ruling ya Ohio and it has nothing to do with ACORN! It is disenfranchisement of voters by GOP and we are aware that GOP wants to push ACORN and disenfranchise more voters lakini tutapambana nanyi!!

Yaani Acorn wamechemsha kweli kweli. Eti wamemwandikisha hadi Mickey Mouse kupiga kura...come on now...y'all must be desperate to win.....na huko Las Vegas walimwandikisha Tony Romo na T.O. Hawa Acorn Obantu alifanya nao kazi...yaani huyu Obantu hana ethics kabisa....zero...zip....nada.

 

[Hofstede]

Yaani Acorn wamechemsha kweli kweli. Eti wamemwandikisha hadi Mickey Mouse kupiga kura...come on now...y'all must be desperate to win.....na huko Las Vegas walimwandikisha Tony Romo na T.O. Hawa Acorn Obantu alifanya nao kazi...yaani huyu Obantu hana ethics kabisa....zero...zip....nada.

Obama alifanya nao kazi 15 years ago, McCain two years ago, baada ya kulilia endorsement yao na kupigwa chini GOP wameamua kama noma na iwe noma, na wamesahau kuwa babu yao alihudhuria mpaka summit ya ACORN, yaani GOP ni zero...zero...empty...empty...zip...zip....nada....nada. Wana akili kama mjusi mmoja anaitwa "Agama Lizard" (aka solokoto), huyu sifa yake kubwa ni kusahau, anaweza akaona chakula akatoka mbio kukifuatilia halafu njiani anasahau na kurudi alikotoka mbio. Hao ndio Grande Old Panic

 

[Icadon]

Mambo si mambo Team McCain....

John McCain is at odds with many of his top advisers over launching a renewed attack on Barack Obama's ties to his long-time pastor and mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to campaign sources.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and several top campaign officials see a sharp attack on Wright as the best — and perhaps last — chance to rattle Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill. ) and force voters to rethink their support of him. But McCain continues to overrule them, fearing a Wright attack would smack of desperation and racism, the officials said.

With McCain unlikely to budge, GOP officials are hoping groups outside of the campaign will finance an ad attack on Obama-Wright ties. It is unclear if any conservative group has the cash to bankroll a serious effort, however.

“Wright is off the table,” said one top campaign official. “It’s all McCain. He won’t go there. His advisers would have gone there.”

The aides argue that the 20 years that Obama spent in the fiery Wright’s pastoral care — and his later assertion that he knew nothing of his former minister’s more extreme statements — provide an opening to challenge Obama’s judgment and honesty in a relevant and politically resonant way.

“He was a central figure in Obama’s life, shaping Obama’s thinking, and he made the extreme radical comments that are borderline anti-American,” the campaign official said.

But McCain will not allow it, according to campaign sources.

“There’s a slippery slope in politics on the racial divide, and Sen. McCain made it very clear early on that he did not want to get into that area,” a top Republican official said. “I don’t want to be known as a racist, and McCain doesn’t want to be known as a racist candidate.”

Among those who think Wright is fair game is McCain’s running mate, Palin, who told conservative commentator William Kristol for a New York Times column last month: “To tell you the truth, Bill, I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that — with, I don’t know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn’t get up and leave — to me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up.”

In his famous speech on race, delivered in Philadelphia in March, Obama condemned Wright’s use of “incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike.”



Wright, who married the Obamas and baptized their daughters, has shown no remorse for his videotaped tirades — most famously, “God damn America,” which he said several times in a row. At the National Press Club in April, he said: “I said to Barack Obama last year, ‘If you get elected November the 5th, I'm coming after you, because you'll be representing a government whose policies grind under people.’”

In early June, on the brink of clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama tried to put the controversy behind him by announcing that he and his wife, Michelle, were leaving Wright’s former church, Trinity United Church of Christ, “with some sadness.” Obama said it had become clear statements made at the church “will be imputed to me, even if they conflict with my long-held views, statements and principles.”

The McCain campaign’s decision to cordon off the use of Wright from ads and debates has provoked simmering consternation among many leading Republicans and conservatives, who believe the pastor’s fulminations might be the single most effective weapon McCain has left against Obama.

“McCain felt it would be sensed as racially insensitive,” the official said. “But more important is that McCain thinks that the bringing of racial religious preaching in black churches into the campaign would potentially have grave consequences for civil society in the United States.”

Asked about the issue during the firestorm over it last March, McCain told Sean Hannity on Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes”: “I think that when people support you, it doesn’t mean that you support everything you say. Obviously, those words and those statements are statements that none of us would associate ourselves with. And I don’t believe that Sen. Obama would support any of those. ... I do know Sen. Obama. He does not share those views.”

Conservatives who want McCain to focus on Wright contend that the omission is another sign of a campaign that is unwilling to play tough enough with the Obama juggernaut.

As the top Republican official said: “There is a future beyond this election.”

 

[Mwazange]

Nilimsikia palin anaongea jana Scranton kuwa eti serikali yake na McCain itafuta deficit within their first term. Nikaona kweli huyu mama anaaona policy zake za Wasila zitaendesha nchi. Unaweza ukacontrol budget ya caribou kwa kipindi hicho lakini sio nchi kubwa kama US within that time frame.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Mambo si mambo Team McCain....

John McCain is at odds with many of his top advisers over launching a renewed attack on Barack Obama's ties to his long-time pastor and mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to campaign sources.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and several top campaign officials see a sharp attack on Wright as the best — and perhaps last — chance to rattle Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill. ) and force voters to rethink their support of him. But McCain continues to overrule them, fearing a Wright attack would smack of desperation and racism, the officials said.

With McCain unlikely to budge, GOP officials are hoping groups outside of the campaign will finance an ad attack on Obama-Wright ties. It is unclear if any conservative group has the cash to bankroll a serious effort, however.

“Wright is off the table,” said one top campaign official. “It’s all McCain. He won’t go there. His advisers would have gone there.”

The aides argue that the 20 years that Obama spent in the fiery Wright’s pastoral care — and his later assertion that he knew nothing of his former minister’s more extreme statements — provide an opening to challenge Obama’s judgment and honesty in a relevant and politically resonant way.

“He was a central figure in Obama’s life, shaping Obama’s thinking, and he made the extreme radical comments that are borderline anti-American,” the campaign official said.

But McCain will not allow it, according to campaign sources.

“There’s a slippery slope in politics on the racial divide, and Sen. McCain made it very clear early on that he did not want to get into that area,” a top Republican official said. “I don’t want to be known as a racist, and McCain doesn’t want to be known as a racist candidate.”

Among those who think Wright is fair game is McCain’s running mate, Palin, who told conservative commentator William Kristol for a New York Times column last month: “To tell you the truth, Bill, I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that — with, I don’t know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn’t get up and leave — to me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up.”

In his famous speech on race, delivered in Philadelphia in March, Obama condemned Wright’s use of “incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike.”



Wright, who married the Obamas and baptized their daughters, has shown no remorse for his videotaped tirades — most famously, “God damn America,” which he said several times in a row. At the National Press Club in April, he said: “I said to Barack Obama last year, ‘If you get elected November the 5th, I'm coming after you, because you'll be representing a government whose policies grind under people.’”

In early June, on the brink of clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama tried to put the controversy behind him by announcing that he and his wife, Michelle, were leaving Wright’s former church, Trinity United Church of Christ, “with some sadness.” Obama said it had become clear statements made at the church “will be imputed to me, even if they conflict with my long-held views, statements and principles.”

The McCain campaign’s decision to cordon off the use of Wright from ads and debates has provoked simmering consternation among many leading Republicans and conservatives, who believe the pastor’s fulminations might be the single most effective weapon McCain has left against Obama.

“McCain felt it would be sensed as racially insensitive,” the official said. “But more important is that McCain thinks that the bringing of racial religious preaching in black churches into the campaign would potentially have grave consequences for civil society in the United States.”

Asked about the issue during the firestorm over it last March, McCain told Sean Hannity on Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes”: “I think that when people support you, it doesn’t mean that you support everything you say. Obviously, those words and those statements are statements that none of us would associate ourselves with. And I don’t believe that Sen. Obama would support any of those. ... I do know Sen. Obama. He does not share those views.”

Conservatives who want McCain to focus on Wright contend that the omission is another sign of a campaign that is unwilling to play tough enough with the Obama juggernaut.

As the top Republican official said: “There is a future beyond this election.”

No worries....McCain will win this election.

 

[Susuviri]

No worries....McCain will win this election.

Kwikwikwiiii! sawa bana Babu yako lazima atashindaaaaa! mcCain oyeeeee!

 

[Susuviri]

Mnaangalia CNN, yaani conservatives are sooooo agitated! Kwikwikwiiiii, Begala anacheka huyo! Haya few more minutes, hebu tumcheki babu yake Nyani atakavyofanya vizuri.....

 

[BAK]

Mnaangalia CNN, yaani conservatives are sooooo agitated! Kwikwikwiiiii, Begala anacheka huyo! Haya few more minutes, hebu tumcheki babu yake Nyani atakavyofanya vizuri.....

Wanainama!, Wanainuka! wanaona haya haooooooo! Bado dakika chache kabla ya Obama kumuadhiri McOld kwa kumpa mkong'oto bab kubwa ambao utamfanya akatafute kazi kwenye kiwanda cha mvinyo cha mkewe. Bye bye McOld thanks for your services 🙂

 

[Yo Yo]

hehehe ....babu anatetemeka kiti alichokalia kinawaka moto...

 

[Yo Yo]

Obama said..Obama said...Obama....huyu babu hana point yeye anapiga madongo tu kwa Obama...ajibu hoja za kimsingi......

 

[Susuviri]

Waaah! Waaaah! Naonewa, my friends! Obama is spending more money than me! Waaah! Babu sasa ameingia kwenye whining stage.
Na huyo Joe the plumber nimecheka sana! Haya Nyani babu yako namwona yuko very irritated, hivi zile medication zake mmempa?