John McCain, you have offended ME. I am from Chicago. The CHICAGO MACHINE ad is untrue. Totally. Take it down. NOW.

click on logo. Slime from McCain. Bad, bad, bad.

I am a Chicago girl. Get this, you bonehead. Your slime ads are untrue. Chicago has patronage. And Mayor Daley Senior was BOSS. I worked for him when I was in high school. I was a messenger girl. But Barack Hussein Obama started out as an INDEPENDENT.

And he was never a friend of the Illinois Governor. The Trib says so:

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2008/09/mccain-ad-takes.html

Stop your Karl Rove tactics now, please, sir.

I adore your choice of Sarah Palin, and love the leverage and her 15 minutes of fame, plus.

I love your values and your right to say it, as John Adams would. Fire Chris Cox. Bring in Andrew Cuomo. Okay.

But the more you slam Senator Obama (D-Ill.), the deeper you and your Republican cronies dig in.

Bad move, babe. Stop while you are AHEAD.

You almost had me.....

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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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