Man what a idiot............

TALLAHASSEE, FL—In a campaign gaffe that could potentially jeopardize Sen. Barack Obama's White House bid, the Democratic presidential nominee told nearly 8,000 supporters Tuesday that, if elected, he would be a terrible president.

The blunder, captured by all major media outlets and broadcast live on CNN, occurred when the typically polished Obama fielded a question about his health care policy. Obama answered by saying he would give small business owners a tax credit to help them provide health care for their employees, and then added, "Now, I'm not completely certain that my plan would work because, overall, I think I would make a bad president."

According to sources, before those on hand could fully process what Obama had said, the Illinois senator continued to stumble, claiming that, were he to win the general election, he'd have absolutely no idea what to do.

"My youth and inexperience would definitely make me an awful president," said Obama, whose seven-minute misstep was further exacerbated when he called himself "no expert" on the economy. "To be perfectly honest, I'd be worried about putting me in charge of the most powerful military in the world because I'm not any good when it comes to making important decisions. Also, I'm not sure how much I care about keeping this great nation of ours safe."

"I'm an elitist, I hate Israel, and I want to lose the war in Iraq," Obama concluded, and then, seemingly unaware of the magnitude of his blunder, smiled, gave a thumbs-up to the stunned crowd, and urged his supporters to get out and vote on Nov. 4.

Immediately following the speech, Obama campaign officials released a written statement alleging that their candidate's comments had been taken out of context. In addition, Obama's top adviser David Axelrod claimed that the senator was quoting former president Abraham Lincoln when he said, "I am not the guy to head the executive branch of the United States government. Trust me. I'm really not."

Beltway observers agreed that the gaffe could come back to haunt Obama on Election Day.

"This might very well be the sound bite voters have in their heads when they step inside that booth on Tuesday," ABC political analyst George Stephanopoulos said. "It's just not the message you want to send to voters when you are up in the polls. Saying that you would make a bad president, especially when your entire campaign has been built around the idea that you would make a good president, doesn't play well with independent and undecided voters."

"Also, swing states like Ohio and Florida have historically leaned toward the nominee who thinks he'd be a good president, rather than the nominee who thinks he'd 'probably just screw everything up worse,'" Stephanopoulos added.

An analysis of historical documents supports Stephanopoulos' claim, and confirms that the past 55 winning presidential candidates—with the exception of a dying Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944—all strongly maintained they would be good or great presidents throughout their campaigns, and never hinted otherwise.

"I think Sen. Obama may have opened up a slight window for John McCain here," New York Times reporter David Sanger said during Wednesday's taping of Charlie Rose. "If the McCain camp can find some way to exploit this miscue, it could have the potential to be a real game-changer."

However, a CNN poll taken moments after Obama's speech revealed that the candidate's misstep may have simply gotten lost amid the 24-hour news cycle. Though most citizens said they would prefer a candidate who thinks he'd be a good president, 23 percent said they would still vote for someone who thinks he would make an okay president. Furthermore, 35 percent of citizens said they would vote for a nominee who promised to be a serviceable, or even a so-so, president.

Forty-two percent of citizens polled said that, at this point, a "just plain bad" president would also be good enough.

"I am more certain than ever that I will vote for Obama," Windham, NH resident James Kilner said. "This is the first time I have really connected with a candidate, mainly because I think I would make a pretty bad president, too."

As of press time, the McCain camp has yet to respond to the potentially damaging blunder. However, many feel this is exactly what the Arizona senator needed following a mistake he made earlier in the week when he said that "a vote for McCain is a vote for mass genocide."

What cracks me up about the yes on 8 fanatics is that they believe that denying gays to marry will some how make the gay issue go bye,bye..............Because of all the fuss over gay marriage that the haters have created the one thing for sure now is that all their kids are very well aware of Homosexuals.........Gays are part of our society and they are not going to go ''back into the closet'' because some silly proposition passed...........To me it comes down to do I believe that all men are created equal.....The answer is Yes i do............Besides gay marriage will not effect my marriage or my life one bit. I really believe that in 20 years this will be a non-issue because most kids today view homosexuality differently then their folks.............

No on 8

They are illegal and they ran from the police because they KNOW that they are illegal criminals...........They are not victims they are criminals that are destroying our country............Arrest and deport all illegal aliens today...you sow what you reep!

Four immigrants died while trying to flee authorities by jumping into a canal on the Gila River Reservation.

The incident began on Sunday around 12:30 pm., when Gila River Indian Community police officers pulled over a suspicious van near State Route 87 and Gilbert Road, on the reservation.

When officers walked toward the van, the driver drove off but encountered officers on the other side of the road

The van, which authorities suspect carried about 20 illegal immigrants, was boxed in.

Passengers ran.

A man was rescued from the canal on Sunday. He is in the custody of federal immigration officers, according to Gila River spokeswoman Alia Maisonet.

Fourteen other suspected illegal immigrants who escaped from the van are also in federal custody; five of them were found near the site of the stop; nine were found near the Honeywell testing facility west of the Santan Mountains.

Some jumped through a farm fence while others attempted to escape through a nearby canal that was 7 feet deep, Maisonet said.

All four bodies found in the canal were adults. There were no children involved in the incident, authorities said.

One of the victims, a woman, was airlifted to a hospital but died Sunday night. The body of a man was also found that same night.

Sunday's search ended shortly after 8 p.m., when it became too dark, Maisonet said.

The search resumed Monday morning, when rescuers found the bodies of two men.

The banks in the canal are inclined and slippery, which made it difficult for the jumpers to get out, Maisonet said.

Some immigrants were wearing two sets of clothing, which weighed them down, she added.

Three Gila River officers jumped in the canal Sunday and rescued a man and the woman who later died at the hospital.

A water rescue team from the Pinal County Sheriff's Office was called in.

Bureau of Immigation and Customs Enforcement spokesman Vincent Picard said an investigation is ongoing and it has not been determined whether the driver drowned.

The immigrants were from various countries, including Mexico and Guatemala, Picard said.

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WTF is wrong with some poeple?????

AP NEWS  Police say a Michigan man has been arrested after "receiving sexual favors from a vacuum" at a car wash.

The Saginaw News reports the 29-year-old Swan Creek Township man was arrested Thursday in Saginaw County's Thomas Township, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit.

Police Sgt. Gary Breidinger says a resident called to report suspicious activity at the car wash about 6:45 a.m. An officer approached on foot and caught the man in the act.

The suspect, whose name wasn't immediately released, is being held in the Saginaw County Jail.

This is one of the main reasons that I am voting for Obama.................

(Newser)The next president will be able to either preserve the Supreme Court’s current ideological balance, or set it on a new conservative path, the Wall Street Journal reports. The youngest of the court’s liberals is 69, while the oldest of the conservatives is only 72. Hence, John McCain could deliver the most conservative court in decades, while Barack Obama would be likely to maintain the status quo.

What kinds of nominees are the candidates likely to appoint?

• McCain has typically been uninterested in judicial politics, and will probably rely on the same Republican legal establishment as President Bush. Judges from this group would probably emphasize the original intent of the Constitution’s framers.
• Obama, a constitutional scholar, disagrees with the notion of “original intent,” and would appoint justices interested in applying modern context and expanding rights. 

lol.............

CHICAGO - Flush that, "Joe the Plumber"!

Barack Obama's own toilet and sink repairman came to his client's defense yesterday - saying newly famous plumber Joe Wurzelbacher needs a reality check.

Troy Dunn, 44, a licensed journeyman working for Boersma Plumbing in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood, where Obama lives, told The Post that Wurzelbacher was bad news for the profession.

"That Joe the Plumber isn't even a licensed plumber," said the Democrat, union member and strong Obama supporter.

"He's taking our work. [John] McCain talks about the middle class, and then he brings up this guy as his champion. The middle class is being hurt by people exactly like him," said Dunn, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Oak Forest and has an 8-year-old daughter.

"The biggest problem for this industry is that people like him turn up, unlicensed and working illegally, and they take work away from people who are working aboveboard."

Dunn said he began working on Obama's house - and its six bathrooms - four years ago and has returned roughly every six months to do such tasks as fix leaky faucets and, in one case, investigate a "bad smell."

"I've never met him, but I've met his wife," he said.

"She's a real nice lady . . . I'm not a big fan of going there right now, though, because of the Secret Service . . . It's kind of a pain."

In Florida yesterday, McCain defended Wurzelbacher, saying the Ohio man had been "smeared."

Dunn said, "McCain made Joe the Plumber look like a joke. I think he was using Joe the Plumber, the poor guy. He probably won't get any work anymore now that everybody knows he doesn't have a license."

http://www.nypost.com/seven...

Arpaio raids Mesa City Hall; mayor outraged

Mayor outraged by sweep for illegal migrants

My Hero Joe has big balls..........................Go Joe ! Good job !

Sheriff Joe Arpaio traded angry words and accusations with Mesa officials Thursday after 60 deputies and posse members armed with search warrants stormed City Hall and the public library in the middle of the night in a hunt for illegal workers.

"I believe the safety of our citizens was gravely compromised" when Maricopa County sheriff's deputies in "battle gear" swept into city buildings about 2 a.m. while cleaning crews were at work, Mesa Mayor Scott Smith told reporters. "I believe we had set the scene where bad things could have happened."

Arpaio defended his tactics, claiming the raid came only after a former city employee called the sheriff's illegal-immigration hotline to report that a cleaning company under contract with the city was hiring illegal immigrants.

Deputies fanned out and arrested three people; 13 others, including a manager at Management Cleaning Controls, were arrested at residences later that morning, Arpaio said. Ten were arrested on suspicion of identity theft and six for potentially being in the country illegally.

The 16 arrested included six people who were not named in the warrants. Arpaio said they are still looking for 15 more company employees.

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Jimenez, 36, was replaced as mayor, and the city's new leaders are trying to find some way to persuade Arpaio to stay.

"This town really does need him," said Janice LaBorin, 25, a home healthcare worker. "There are too many criminals and little gangbangers here."

Plenty of people still want Arpaio out, but among some, defiance has given way to contrition.

Jimenez "took the wrong tactic," said Lupita Llamas, the owner of two Mexican restaurants in a mostly empty colonnaded shopping arcade. Arpaio is "a powerful person. You have to talk to him carefully."

The rift between Guadalupe and the sheriff began the night of April 3, when Arpaio brought his anti-illegal immigrant sweep to the parking lot of the Family Dollar store.

The two-day operation was one of several Arpaio has launched across Maricopa County ostensibly to stop crime, but also to identify illegal immigrants.

Arpaio, who calls himself the "toughest sheriff in America," has taken the aggressive position that he can arrest and deport illegal immigrants even if they have committed no serious crimes.

Deputies stopped people for the slightest infractions -- a cracked windshield, broken taillight, jaywalking -- and asked whether they were in the country legally.

Residents complained that deputies were stopping anyone who looked Latino, which is basically the entire town. Guadalupe is 51% Latino and 49% Native American, according to census figures.

Helicopters buzzed overhead while Arpaio held forth before television cameras at his parking lot command post.

Jimenez confronted him there. As cameras rolled, she complained that his news release falsely stated that town officials had asked him to come to fight illegal immigration.

"You came here under false pretenses," she said.

"I came here to protect your community from crime," Arpaio replied.

As he walked off, he added, "If you don't like the way we operate, you get your own police department."

Two weeks later, Arpaio sent Jimenez a letter notifying her that he would cancel the contract because it now appeared that Guadalupe, which had been patrolled by the department for 20 years, would not let him enforce all state laws.
 

http://www.latimes.com/news...

Palin is creepy......Wacky religion.........wacky people.......creepy, very creepy.