My favorite Prez (F D R) returns with the NEW NEW DEAL! Hooray! GREAT TIME MAG COVER!

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been reincarnated as Barack Hussein Obama!
  

• John McCain will become the head of D H S! / or part of the new "Brain Trust"*

WAIT!  There's more!

• Doris Kearns Goodwin will become oh-fficial WHO EOP historian!
  

• The Chicago Mafia will make sure that ALL hot dogs will be Vienna, boiled,with hot peppers, celery salt, tomato, sweet relish, yellow mustard, pickles and red onions (must be red!) and on a steamed seeded bun! OR they will answer to (my cousin) Rahmbo Emanuel, who may be a new Harry Hopkins
  

and Rush Limbaugh, who has been losing his voice on the air today, will be SILENCED.

Ah, so.......

fair-ness = doc--trine?

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ps: I have not framed a time cover since the late mr. s. (Sinatra) in 1998

* *   FDR's Brain(s) Trust

The New Deal witnessed an increased role for intellectuals in government. The Brains Trust, a term coined by James Kieran, a New York Times reporter, refers to the group of academic advisers that FDR gathered to assist him during the 1932 presidential campaign. Initially, the term applied to three Columbia University professors: Raymond Moley, Rexford Guy Tugwell, and Adolph A. Berle, Jr. Within a few months, Basil ("Doc") O'Connor, Samuel I. Rosenman, and Hugh Johnson would join the group. These men would quickly help FDR develop an economic plan whose programs became the backbone of the New Deal: regulation of bank and stock activity, large scale relief and public works programs for people living in both urban and rural areas.

Moley, a professor of government and law who recruited the group, argued that a regressive tax (a flat tax all citizens pay: sales taxes, a flat tax on specific amount of salary, etc.) was the only way to rebuild the economy. Tugwell shaped much of the administration's agricultural policy, believing that the key to easing some of the depression's hardships lay in the ability of the federal government to address the growing imbalance between wages and prices. However, Berle rejected the idea of a planned economy per se, but suggested a "new economic constitutional order," that would include a larger federal role in the balancing of the economy.

In their first one hundred days in office, the Brains Trust helped Roosevelt enact fifteen major laws. One of the most important initiatives was the Banking Act of 1933, which put an end to the banking panic. After the Brains Trust defended its reform recovery program in 1933, it disbanded to make room for other advisers and lawyers capable of legislative draftsmanship.

For more information of the Brains Trust, visit the following web sites:

• "The New Deal Years" in Franklin Delano Roosevelt: President of the Century on the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute website

Copyright © 2003. The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers. All rights reserved. 

The McCain - Palin store is (re) OPEN for Business!

Sarah Palin, Conservative 2012 * Meghan McCain is a merchandising maverick, that one!

okay-doke! John , her Dad, FINALLY backs Sarah on Jay Leno, and then the e-mails hit the mailboxes -----buy the McCain leftover souvineers but wait, there's more! PALIN IN 2012~! and damnit, I will back my superstar, she is my Madonna, and I feel like a wannabee back in the 80's.....she is the hannah montana of the rino-world ((( (did i say rino?* -- slap me! but it eerily feels like the QVC sketch on snl just 10 days or so ago.....))))

OH, HELLs Bells!  I have to order this button to-day! Right now! I am a fan! Go team sarah!

*  r  epublican

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    n  ame

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John McCain,a disapointment? (( Oh, no! )) For not standing up for his running mate. (((Subject Line/2.0: CNN: "The Scapegoating of Sarah Palin")))

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, talks to media after she arrived at her office in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday, Nov. 7, 2008 for the first time since she began campaigning as Sen. John McCain's vice presidential running mate. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

Why hasn't the Senator spoken up about the scurrolous attacks on his former running mate? 

Did he even have a voice in the decision-making process, passing up on his pal Mr. Leiberman?

Is Palin a Diva? If so, so what? So is Hilary, in a $6,000 pant suit. So is Joe Biden. Al Gore. John Kerry. Joe the Plumber. All Prima Donnas. All having their 15 minutes of High-Viz.

But this is about doing the right thing: If the John McCain I knew and grew to love in 2000, the straight-talking Maverick is what he said he is, he would go right on CNN, or Fox, WHAT-EVER, and defend his running mate, period.

(((( And in Newsweek's issue "44", they call her a Diva, omigod, they basically say she wanted to do it her way....it was sickening to read Meacham & Co.'s slanted views. Horrible stuff. ))))

But no. McCain is doing nothing. And the silence is deafening.

Out, not with a bang, but a whimper.

AP/My Way wrote a story "Palin Denounces anonymous critics as  'cowardly'" 

I say whomever set Sarah up with Katie Couric (down from Campaign Comm Dir. Ms.Nicolle Wallace) should be kicked so hard in the rear that THEY should sail clear to Ancorage's best consignment -- thrift shop.

And are they so 'anonymous'? I worked with (some of) those volunteers and staffers of McCain's. Never liked them. Never liked staffers and never hope to see 'cliques' who are jealous of the likes of people like Palin anyway. When grapes are sour, fingers point. It is human nature. Sure is. THEY WILL NOT WORK FOR "TEAM SARAH" IN 2012.

Shall I name names?  > __________________________, ________________________, _______________________________, ______________________________, _______________________________________, ______________________________, _______________________________  < 

Remember: Palin was the reason we showed up. 10,000 at a time.

Campbell Brown (CNN) said it best, calling it "The Scapegoating of Sarah Palin" after all, Mark Salter, Steve Schmidt, Lindsay Graham, Cindy and John McCain, and ALL OF YOU STAFFERS, YOU PICKED HER! ((( own it !)))

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/06/campbell.brown.palin 

and even Newsweek surprises and makes good, and they write "Palin's 2012 Playbook"

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167473 :
Make Friends With Your Friends -When Ronald Reagan lost the GOP nomination to Gerald Ford in 1976, he wasted no time becoming the 1980 frontrunner by setting up his own PAC, and raising money for other GOP candidates around the country. You could start by helping Republican candidates raise money in the 2010 midterms, a strategy that would keep your name in the headlines and at the same time, allow you to put a few favors in the bank, which any good pol knows can be drawn on later. "The more candidates you raise money for the more supporters you have down the line," says Keith Appell, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative public-relations consultant.


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The Worm has Turned-over. The press backlash on lipstick, pigs and pitbulls

Obama in April, 2008: Today he says "Don't Swift-Boat me!" to the very same media folk?


DRUDGE: AS THE PRESS TURNS: OBAMA SAYS 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH'

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Phraseology Lesson:

Where does the phrase "the worm has turned" come from? from Maven Phrases:

It's one of many derived forms of an old proverb, the base of which is either tread on a worm and it will turn or even a worm will turn. It means 'even the most humble will strike back if abused enough'.

The proverb is first recorded in John Heywood's 1546 collection of proverbs in the form: "Tread a woorme on the tayle and it must turne agayne." Shakespeare uses it, of course: "The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on" (Henry VI, part III). It has remained common in all sorts of literature: "He's a very meek type. Still, the worm will turn, or so they say." (Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd).

The proverb's first American attestation is in 1703, and there are a number of eighteenth-century American examples, showing that it has been popular for some time.

In the form the worm has turned, the proverb is often used in the broad sense 'the situation has changed', which suggests that people aren't really clear about what it really means: The day was one short, flippary (sic) sound bite or two on how one Sen. Barrack H. Obama could say "fishwrap" and "lipstick on a pig" in two or three sentences and watch the worm turn 360 degrees in favor of Mr. McCain and running mate _____ (you know who!). Oh! And how the worm has turned for Mr. McCain--whose approval ratings now rise above Mr. Obama's s in my state by 10 percentage points! (re-tread on a quote from the venerable nyt)


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P.T.A. --words of wisdom from Sylvia H.

I received an excellent new way to refer to the acronym "P.T.A." from Sylvia Hadash, a friend of mine from Manassas, VA. It's

P RESIDENTIAL

T RAINING

A RENA

and do you know what? There isn't a darn thing wrong with that! What better training ground than state and local politics, the senate, more....Hey, this nonsequitur (sic) should go on a tee shirt and bumper sticker! It makes sense.

And for anyone that says that John McCain is too old, Sylvia countered, "Ronald Reagan was 70 when he accepted the oath of office."

Yes, he was.

We have nothing to worry about.

McCain + Palin, carry on! Campaign VS Obama and Biden. And OBAMA: reminder: lipstick on a pitbull, not a pig (!)

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This is precisely what Hillary Clinton said she started -- and now what Sarah Palin is going to finish -- for us. The womenfolk. All 18 Million.

---from the Washington Post.




Palin Energizing Women From All Walks of Life



By Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post Staff Writer - Wednesday, September 10, 2008; A04



LEBANON, Ohio, Sept. 9 -- Susie Baron is a Republican, a mother of two and a home-schooler. She voted for Mike Huckabee in the Ohio primary, but now -- because of Sarah Palin -- she thinks she is part of something much bigger.



"I wouldn't even call it a Palin movement, I'd call it a sleeping giant that has been awakened," Baron, 56, said at a rally here Tuesday. She described its members as a silent majority of women in Middle America who "are raising our families, who work if we have to, but love our country and our families first."



"And until now, we haven't had anyone to identify with," Baron said, adding that traditional feminist groups such as the National Organization for Women do "not represent me."



Since her rapid transition from obscure Alaska governor to GOP vice presidential nominee, Palin has reenergized the presidential race and also further polarized it, setting her instant fan base, which sees her as a pit bull with lipstick, against those who dismiss her as just another Republican who happens to be a woman and seems intent on rekindling a culture war.



The crowd that came to see her here Tuesday showed that Palin's support is rooted in conservative women such as Baron, with the addition of some independents and even Democrats -- women who are "fed up with a man's world," as one rally attendee said, and in some cases dispirited by the treatment of Palin and of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primary race.



On the campaign trail, Palin has read the same remarks at each stop from notes or a teleprompter. She has answered no questions, except from People magazine, although she will give her first sit-down interview, to ABC News, this week. But her mere presence has been enough to generate huge enthusiasm.



The McCain and Obama campaigns are rushing to assess what the Palin force will represent. If it is a small but energized group of Republican women, it could have only marginal impact; if it is more, it could tip the balance of the campaign. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Palin has also mobilized liberal women.



"There's no doubt she has helped solidify and energize the right wing of his party," senior Obama adviser Anita Dunn said of Palin and McCain, while acknowledging that Palin has drawn the curiosity of people "who are not movement conservatives."



"She's new, and a good performer of that speech that she reads, but that doesn't necessarily translate into votes eight weeks from now," Dunn said. "Obviously, people are going to be interested, because she's new, but the more you learned about her, the more you see she's like any other politician, male or female."



Other Obama advisers said that once women across the board begin considering Palin's stands on social issues such as human embryonic stem cell research and legalized abortion -- she opposes both -- their interest will fade. That was a line of attack used by Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic vice presidential candidate, when he was asked Tuesday whether Palin's election would mean a step forward for women. "Look, I think the issue is: What does Sarah Palin think? What does she believe? I assume she thinks and agrees with the same policies that George Bush and John McCain think," Biden said. "And that's obviously a backward step for women."



The Republican National Committee responded by calling Biden's remarks "appalling and arrogant" and saying they are "better suited for the backrooms of his old boys' club."
"Sarah Palin's nomination as the Republican vice presidential nominee is a historic opportunity to break the highest glass ceiling," RNC spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson said.
Several senior officials in both parties said they think Palin's attraction is the result, in part, of a generally negative mood among some female voters this year, first, as Clinton faced a "boys' club" mentality in the Democratic primaries and then as Palin faced intense questioning, much of it highly personal, after McCain named her as his running mate.



To Republicans, Palin's burst onto the national scene could be a chance to redefine the nature of feminism in politics, recasting it beyond traditionally liberal issues such as abortion rights. "I hope so, because I think it's been unfortunate that it's been so closely pegged, so closely defined, to just a few issues," said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).



Murkowski, whose father lost to Palin in a 2006 gubernatorial primary, said Palin represented a "generational shift" for voters in her state, something that will bode well for her ability to appeal to younger female voters.



While Democrats reject the notion that Palin will somehow transform gender politics once her views are known, a few acknowledged that they have had little success in trying to define her. "I think there may be some hand-holding, but nobody's gone on a date yet," said Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.), a prominent Obama supporter who predicted that female voters will eventually return to his camp.



Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) said the issues that matter to female voters, not Palin's sudden rise to the national stage, will determine their votes in November, but she said the Democrats need to explain those policy differences. "I think it's our job to show the truth. They are more focused on an agenda than a gender," Klobuchar said.



After just a week, Palin is as popular as either Obama or McCain. White women in particular express favorable views of the Alaska governor, according to a newly released Washington Post-ABC News poll. Positive ratings of her spike to 80 percent among white women with children at home and among white women who are evangelical Protestants.



The percentage of white women with "strongly favorable" opinions of McCain jumped 12 percentage points from before the parties' national conventions. And nearly six in 10 white women in the new poll said McCain's selection of Palin increased their confidence in the decisions he would make if elected. In the Post-ABC poll, it is white women who helped McCain erase Obama's late-August advantage and seriously cut into the Democratic nominee's lead as the one who would bring more needed change to Washington.



Republican adviser Juleanna R. Glover calls Palin "the future of the GOP," and that was certainly the consensus at this stop in Ohio on Tuesday. McCain and Palin performed a ritual of Republican politics, speaking from a stage in front of the Golden Lamb Hotel, billed as Ohio's oldest inn. More than 5,000 guests filled the streets, packing it as fully as it had been four years earlier, when President Bush made the same stop.



But this event was more reminiscent of the Clinton campaign earlier this year: Mothers held their young daughters on their shoulders to catch a glimpse of Palin. Women held up pro-Palin signs and wore "I Love Sarah" stickers. One sign read "Working Mom 4 Palin." Another: "Strike Oil with Sarah." And another: "Outspoken Conservative Moms for Palin."



Like other women in the crowd, Baron, the home-schooler from Maineville, Ohio, expressed frustration that feminism and women's issues have seemingly been owned by Democrats whose values she does not share.



Julia Burns, 72, a Republican from Lebanon, cut in: "Men had better jump back. Women are going to take over. We're sick and tired of playing by men's rules. We're coming out of the ground, and they had better move out of the way."



Staff writer Paul Kane and polling director Jon Cohen contributed to this report.





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Gone Fishin'

I need this!

If you need to reach me, I am at abbebuckpr@aol.com, or projects@highvizconsulting.com

There is another blog, at www.abbebuckpublicrelations.blogspot.com I may be posting there.

I will be watching MSNBC, CNN, FOX and C-SPAN at the same time. Don't ask me how I do that - I am like Houdini with bipolar disorder -- AHA!

SEE YA LATER!

manically yours,

'jo lieberman'

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Alec Baldwin checks in: Don't worry, America. John McCain isn't another Geo. W. Bush--no, no, no -- Sarah Palin is!

du-oh, where's Karl Rove, babe? On FOX. Because for a lame duck he can do nothing.

One biting HUFF-PO article is below. And after this, I am taking a v a c a t i o n from this here high-viz-ability web-log, damnitall. I have real P.R. work to do. And I need to get PAID.

--gone fishin'

abbe buck, pr

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John McCain Is Not George Bush, Sarah Palin Is

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I thought McCain was the next Bush. I said so, like countless others, on this blog. More war. More debt while keeping taxes low and mocking the Democrats who want to pay down that debt. No vision regarding the energy issue. Or education. Or health care. More fear. Less solutions. No call for sacrifice where it really counts in terms of America's consumption. More favored treatment for American corporations. More foxes called to guard the henhouse in terms of our government's regulatory stewardship. And on and on. The Bush Nightmare, chapter three.

But McCain is not Bush. No matter what you think of McCain, you can't pin that on him. Now Palin? Palin is Bush. What helped propel Bush into the White House was not only some effective electoral nullification. It was his lack of a record in public office. The governorship of Texas is one of the more ceremonial of all the governorships in this country. The state legislature calls the shots. Bush came into power with less foreign policy experience than Barack Obama has now. And was "elected" to two terms. Bush had no foreign policy record to examine. He had only his father's rich friends and their stranglehold on the Republican National Committee to call upon. It proved to be more than enough.

Bush was elected and, of course, allowed a cast of neocon savages to take over from there. We knew next to nothing about Bush and even less about how Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Ashcroft, Gonzalez, Paddington, Bolton, et al would manage the world post 9/11.

We know nothing about Sarah Palin. Nothing. Which is not anywhere near enough information to elevate her to the position whereby she would succeed McCain if he died in office or suffered a catastrophic illness. At 72 years of age and in questionable health, McCain's fitness to coach a high school football team would be in doubt, let alone the grueling reality of the presidency of this country.

John McCain is, statistically, more likely to die or suffer some catastrophic illness during his first term than any other man that has sought the office. Who would succeed him? George Bush would succeed him. Someone with no record. No experience. Only question marks. Everywhere. Forget about the fact that Palin looks a lot like a really attractive TV star I know. Underneath all the Tina, she's George.

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Saginaw Tribal Member Jackson stands by claim that Jack Abramoff was set as an example for lobbying greed-- by John McCain

Jack Abramoff was made the lobbying poster child for greed. So say several native americans who represent the tribes he worked for under Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Many of these part of a tribe who do not represent the big bucks, the big reputations, or are not enclaved in another lobbying firm.

In fact, they have a petition: www.originalsagchip39.org.

The little tribal members spoke on Jack's behalf at his sentencing.

They are making claim that he did get the job done.

Money did go to tribes via federal funding, SBA/HUBZones, and tribes were aware of programs in agencies such as HUD, BIA/DOI, HHS/IHS

They are saying that if John McCain had to set an example, Jack Abramoff was it.

(((We know Jack made many deals. He just got CAUGHT...up in more than even he ever imagined.))))

-------------------------------------------------------

http://www.themorningsun.com/stories/090708/loc_abramoff.shtml

Local News

Saturday, September 6, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008

Tribal members spoke at Abramoff's sentencing

By PATRICIA ECKER
Sun Staff Writer

Members of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe spoke both for and against disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff at his sentencing in Washington, D.C., last week

Several council members, including Chief Fred Cantu Jr., flew to the U.S. capital to speak in court on Thursday about how Abramoff had victimized the Saginaw Chippewas.

But former council member Delores Jackson also made her way to Washington in a van without air conditioning to give her testimony. Jackson lost her seat on the council after going public with her support of Abramoff, and continues to say Abramoff did nothing wrong.

"We paid him to do a job, and he did it," Jackson said. "I just told the truth."

A federal judge sentenced Abramoff to four additional years in prison. "Councilman Bernie Sprague testified on behalf of the Tribe," Joe Sowmick, spokesman for the Tribe, said.

Sprague testified that Abramoff defrauded the Tribe out of millions of dollars, and he urged the judge to impose a harsh sentence, according to a report in the New York Times.

Sowmick said the Tribe reached an agreement with Greenburg Traurig, the lobbying firm that Abramoff worked for, as did other Tribes across the country who were clients of the former lobbyist.

But Jackson argues that Abramoff, not the Tribe, was the victim. She said the lobbyist ran into the presidential ambitions of Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee.

"He was a scapegoat," Jackson said. McCain's Senate Indian Affairs Committee investigated Abramoff, and Sprague provided documents and powerful testimony before the committee.
Jackson accused Sprague of colluding with McCain.

"I don't know why Bernie would lie to a Senate investigation," Jackson said.

"I did my own research when I was on council," Jackson said. "He did the work he said he would do.

"He got us $3 million for schools," Jackson said. That money, however, came through a federal program designed to assist poor Tribes with schools run by Bureau of Indian Affairs; the Cantu administration gave the money back.

Jackson said Abramoff helped the Tribe fund Andahwod Senior Center, the Behavioral Health Department and road projects. Abramoff's defenders pointed to nearly $20 million in federal aid to the Tribe and local governments that they credit to Abramoff's lobbying work.

"They destroyed a man's career because he went against them," Jackson said. "I showed the council the proof."

Federal prosecutors recommended leniency because Abramoff cooperated in his own corruption case against lawmakers and former Bush administration officials.

He currently is serving a six-year term on unrelated charges and the new sentence will be served after that is complete.

Jackson points to a book by self-described liberal Boston investigative journalist Gary S. Chafetz, to be released next week, called "The Perfect Villain: John McCain and the Demonization of Lobbyist Jack Abramoff."*

The book charges that Abramoff was a victim of "a Shakespearean tragedy of deceit, betrayal and political vendetta in which the true villains are presidential aspirant John McCain, the Washington Post newspaper and the U.S. Department of Justice, all of whom participated in the railroading of an innocent man," according to pre-release publicity materials posted on Amazon.com.

"I am angry that John McCain has used our Tribe to further his own agenda," Jackson said.
"I apologized for our Tribe," Jackson said to Abramoff. "After the hearing, his son and wife came up to me and hugged me."

Jackson and several other Tribal members have started an online petition to free Abramoff at http://www.originalsagchip39.org/.

Sprague and Jackson were the top two vote-getters for an open seat on Tribal Council during a special election in July. Sprague won the seat by 11 votes over Jackson.

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*The book is being released on AMAZON:

Editorial Reviews

Product Description: Gary Chafetz is a liberal Boston journalist who set out to chronicle the scandal involving conservative gun-for-hire and super-lobbyist, Jack Abramoff. Instead he uncovered a Shakespearean tragedy of deceit, betrayal and political vendetta in which the true villains are Presidential aspirant John McCain, the Washington Post newspaper and the U.S. Department of Justice--all of whom participated in the railroading of an innocent man. Chafetz benefited from exclusive and unconditional access to the jailed Abramoff and to many never-before-released documents. The blizzard of stories originating from the Washington political machine painted Abramoff as an implausibly greedy lobbyist who cheated Indian tribes, bribed politicians and corrupted the political process--a fascinating tale but, ultimately, untrue. The true story, as Chafetz recounts in The Perfect Villain, is even more riveting and compelling.

About the Author: Gary S. Chafetz is a twice Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigative journalist who worked for The Boston Globe for ten years. In 1992, Boston Magazine named him Boston's Best Investigative Reporter. The following year, Boston Magazine named him one of the ten best journalists of the past twenty-five years.

New book: "The Perfect Villain: John McCain and the Demonization of Lobbyist Jack Abramoff"

AP: Abramoff gets 4 years prison in corruption scandal
Email this Story Sep 4, 6:18 PM (ET)By MATT APUZZO

The whole story is here: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080904/D9305V402.html

EXCERPT:

Although Abramoff expressed remorse Thursday, he also has spent his time in prison cooperating with a book that portrays him much differently: as a victim of Washington politics.

The book, set for publication later this month and obtained by The Associated Press, says Abramoff was pressured to plead guilty. The book blames The Washington Post and Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee whose Senate committee investigated Abramoff, for making him the fall guy.

"I never expected that I would have to go to prison," Abramoff says in the book, "until it became clear that the media could not allow this play to close without the hanging of the villain."

In "The Perfect Villain: John McCain and the Demonization of Lobbyist Jack Abramoff," Boston journalist Gary Chafetz portrays Abramoff as an innocent man who excelled in an already corrupt system and was undone by biased prosecutors, reporters and political enemies.

McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

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Barack holds his own with Brother Bill

Fox News Channel, say what you will. And I will opine. If my husband, the blue collar, republican fan of "BROTHER BILL" AGREES, THEN IT MUST BE TRUE!

OMG! Obama is more than a celebrity with his own prez seal and executive furniture!! Who would have thought he had a brain in his Harvard head? MY HUSBAND! Obama may have conceded that the surge was a success, but other than that he held his own. And that is no easy feat in the den of----- SPIN ZONE.

shock! awe!

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McCain tells Woodward: "Everything is F * * * * * * spin!" re: Bush WHO: and, how!

DRUDGE REPORTS :
In new book, Woodward quotes McCain: 'Everything is f---ing spin'... and McCain is correct!

You know, my blog is dedicated to S * P * I * N and consequences!

The book is by Bob Woodward, the beltway stalwart, with absolutely no sympathy for George.

from FOX NEWS: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,417064,00.html

Bush refused to grant an interview to Woodward for "Denial," but gave the author several interviews for "War Within." Such increased access did not seem to improve Woodward’s opinion of Bush.

"President Bush has rarely leveled with the public to explain what he was doing and what should be expected," wrote Woodward, an assistant managing editor at the Washington Post, in "War Within." "He did not seek sacrifice from most of the country when he had the chance. He did not even mobilize his own party. Republicans often voiced as much suspicion and distrust as Democrats. The president was rarely the voice of realism on the Iraq war."

On the other hand, Woodward acknowledged the success of Bush’s surge of additional troops into Iraq in 2007.

"Violence was down so much in a few places that some U.S. soldiers were not receiving combat action badges because there was no fighting in their area," he wrote.

Woodward notes that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama opposed the surge, while GOP presidential candidate John McCain was “advocating more troops for years.” Woodward also quotes McCain expressing frustration with the Bush White House, clenching his fists in the West Wing and exclaiming to Woodward: “Everything is f---ing spin.”

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I am Joe Lieberman!

Damn ----OMG, I must be a REPUBLICAN! A rock - ribbed, steak-loving, vodka--swilling pearl-wearing republican! I am a Jew Broad from the Northside of Chicago. Who woulda thunk this? What happened to me in 2000 when I fell for John McCain's message? Is he back? So many republicans hated him (including my former clients ____________,___________,
______________,__________________)*

Rove the evil mastermind stopped him with rumors years ago. Why am I not in Minneapolis? Why am I not working for John McCain? Why am I not trying to meet Gov. Sarah? am i joe lieberman? i am a democrat to my bones who is swinging republican....am i joe lieberman?

uh-oh! maybe not!

*http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/08/justice_dept_seeks_reduced_abr.html

Justice Dept Seeks Reduced Abramoff Sentence

Since his conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges, former lobbyist Jack Abramoff has spent more than 3,000 hours helping more than 100 law enforcement agents in an ongoing federal corruption probe that has implicated "scores of other persons not yet charged," attorneys said in court filings today.

The Post's James V. Grimaldi reports that the extent of Abramoff's cooperation was described in documents from both prosecutors and defense lawyers. They are seeking leniency from the judges who heard the two cases that landed the Republican influence broker in federal prison in Cumberland, Md.

If a federal judge in Washington accepts the recommendation from the Justice Department, Abramoff would serve no more than another three years and three months in prison, not accounting for credit for good behavior awarded by the Bureau of Prisons. Abramoff's attorneys are seeking even more leniency that could have him released from prison by 2010.

In November 2006, Abramoff began serving a sentence of five years and 10 months for fraud in his purchase of a Florida casino cruise line. Attorneys for both sides are seeking a reduction to three years and nine months.

Abramoff's sentencing in a parallel case of tax evasion, fraud and conspiracy to ply public officials with gifts in exchange for official actions had been delayed until he had mostly completed his cooperation with authorities. The sentencing is set for Sept. 4 before U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle.

In the public corruption case, the Justice Department is asking Huvelle to sentence Abramoff to five years and four months rather than the maximum 11 years and three months he'd be eligible to receive. The sentences in the two cases would be served at the same time. The government also is seeking about $23 million in restitution.

Abramoff attorneys Abbe D. Lowell of Washington and Neal R.Sonnett of Miami noted in a memorandum that in addition to the meeting with FBI and other agents, Abramoff had reviewed more than a half-million documents.

They also noted that the ex-powerhouse lobbyist had helped convict more than a dozen people, in addition to admitting guilt himself, and his case had prompted reforms that the attorneys said were widely known as "Abramoff Ethics Rules." Among those who have pleaded guilty were former Rep. Robert Ney (R-Ohio), who this month was released after he completed his prison sentence, and J. Steven Griles, the No. 2 official in the Interior Department.

The court papers indicate an extensive ongoing investigation by referencing a document that is sealed because it contains grand jury information. Still under investigation are former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and retiring Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.), among others.

One new scheme revealed in the papers is that Abramoff and his team of K Street lobbyists padded their billing records -- not to cheat clients, most of whom had hired them on retainer, but to bilk additional bonuses out of their firm, Greenberg Traurig LLP, because "padded hours possibly resulted in higher bonuses," according to a government brief signed by William Welch, head of the public integrity section, and prosecutor Mary Butler.

Abramoff's attorneys also referred to a statement by Noel Hillman, former public integrity chief at Justice and now is a federal judge in New Jersey, who has said that Mr. Abramoff's decision to plead guilty and cooperate and expose the wrongs he and others did was a 'watershed' event in addressing public corruption."

By The Editors August 27, 2008; 7:11 PM ET Abramoff Scandal

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Redemption.

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The Maverick is taking the biggest gamble of his political life -- and he just might win ALL THE MARBLES!

Republican presidential candidate John McCain (L), his wife Cindy (R), and his vice-presidential running mate Sarah Palin (C) talk with diners during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The rival US presidential campaigns descended on eastern battleground states Saturday as all eyes were on McCain's shock pick of a little known Alaskan politician and neophyte as his running mate.(AFP/Robyn Beck)

I like this chick!

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Is it substance or issues in DECISION 2008 or: Will the voter be torn between the twinkle in McCain's eye or the power of OBAMA RAMA?

Watch this. ((( Photo and link below from "six words to changes the world" (thanx!) )))

and then, along comes Sarah Palin. -- six words to change the world

Babay, if you want change, you got it! CONTROVERSY, Maverick-style, is John McCain's middle name.

First of all, it was totally out of left field, a McCain hallmark.Or is it? There are 18,000,000,00 votes out there. Votes of the women. Where will they go? To John McCain? To Barack Obama? To UNDECIDED? To Ron Paul?

Secondly, it is a risk. Albiet an uncalculated one to many.* Reactive. Perhaps. But if it is one that will go tit for tat (you pick Mr. Biden for seasoning, well for total change, I choose Mrs. Palin), THAT IS THE WAY THAT WE ARE IN A SOUND-BITE ERA. iT WILL BE LOOKED UPON AS SHREWD AS HELL.

The embracing of such a decision as a "first" woman Veep for the REPOS is a 360 for the conservatives, who are pretending (as the Clinton's did embracing Barack) that they love her! The staid, button down REPOs do not ordinarily choose the blacks or the women or the Jews.

Let that be told. And this -- here is opinion from my house:

My husband: "McCain is toast. Who is she outside of Alaska? Who cares about Alaska? And thepipeline is not going to do crap. Alternative energies like T. Boone Pickens talks about, like propane and coal will."

My son: "He just shot himself when he picked that bitch. Who is she? Why? He is a desperate man by competing with Obama. He could have won."

My Dad: "Who the hell is she? What is he (McCain) doing? He gave the election to the schvartze (the black)"

My brother: "I would ___her! She is hot! And now I can tell my daughter that she may be president someday. That a woman could do anything (((so I want to ask, what about Hillary?--- but Hillary lost)))... [more] ...Obama has no values of his own. He is a suit who was a liberal organizer here in Chicago.He has a politician backing him. This woman is different that the usual politician. A mother. Five kids. A business owner. Like us."

((( If Mr. McCain becomes President McCain, I must buy my brother a deep rich Cremo Cigar, ala Limbaugh, I reckon. We share an opinion here. Sarah Palin is "us")))

And I never changed my designation as a Republican from the VA Primary in 2000 when I went from Liberal Democrat to voting for John McCain (surprising my spouse and my Dad!)

And so it goes. - Linda Ellerbee said that. She still says that.

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*UPDATE: 7:30 p.m. ET. So pundits will have all weekend to pick apart or praise McCain's choice of Sarah Palin. By selecting Palin – the rookie governor of Alaska – as his running mate, Republican John McCain has taken the most daring and dangerous move of his presidential campaign. Big risks bring big rewards. Or they flop, big time. Just ask Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro. So why Sarah Palin?
Read his answer here.

OBAMA has a new FAN CLUB - OMG!*

*Say, what if all of this negative (tongue firmly planted in) but! cheeky publicity back-mis-fires in Mr. McCain's face? Ouch!

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John McCain NEWS: The man who brought Jack Abramoff down is using his lobbyist in fund raising!

OY VEY! - love those lobbyists! Especially Ralph Reed. I remember it all too well.
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Abramoff scandal figure helps McCain * Reed assisting Republican with fundraising effort
Associated Press • August 14, 2008 • From Lansing State Journal

WEST BLOOMFIELD - A political strategist tied to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal is helping raise money for John McCain, urging Georgia Republicans to attend a fundraiser for the presidential candidate in Atlanta.

Ralph Reed, former director of the Christian Coalition, touted himself as a member of McCain's "Victory 2008 Team" in an e-mail that solicited donations on McCain's behalf. The Republican National Committee is hosting the fundraiser set for an Atlanta hotel Aug. 18.

A House investigative committee in 2006 found Reed interceded with the Bush White House to help some of Abramoff's clients. Reed's public relations firm also received $4.2 million from Abramoff to mobilize Christian voters to fight the opening of casinos that could compete with Abramoff's Indian tribe clients.

Reed later said he regretted the actions, which contributed to his 2006 Republican primary loss in a bid to be Georgia's lieutenant governor. Abramoff went to prison for conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion.

McCain led a Senate investigation into Abramoff's dealings with Indian tribes, which included information about his ties to Reed.

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Ah, Obama (finally) strikes back under 60 seconds

it's so damn (white) of him! snark ~~ snark ~~snark~~~

for the John McCain haters everywhere (and you know who you are! I saw you in those committees....SENATE COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS ) no HURRUMPH comment!

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0808/Obama_finally_responds_to_Celeb_with_Bush_rap.html?showall

click on the video! Great music! Coaching by George Clooney, perhaps?

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Paris Hilton mocks McCain - P.R. for Presumed-President Obama = P R I C E L E S S

Will Farrell owns this site

DRUDGE HEADLINE (in all of it's gaiety!) ---it feels sooo good to blog about miss hilton again. she is so like barbara hutton without being a victim (grin)

OMG: PARIS STRIKES BACK; MOCKS MCCAIN IN 'AD'





here it is!





http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d





and do you know what? She is making sense! Chuckleheads (men) may run, but Paris is truly priceless. Thank you, Miss Hilton. Legally blonde, I love you.





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