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Africa Horn
Turabi Wants Obama Win
[An Nahar] Sudan's veteran Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi, linked to al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who abandoned all hope when he entered there...
in the 1990s, hopes U.S. President Barack Obama
Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back...
will win a second term on Tuesday.

"Obama of course," Turabi told Agence La Belle France Presse when asked about his U.S. presidential preference during an interview.

"He's gentle towards the Mohammedans generally," Turabi said, and referred to Obama's childhood spent in Mohammedan-majority Indonesia, and his Kenyan father who was raised a Mohammedan.

Obama uses the word "terrorism" far less than his predecessor George W. Bush, and his name is a variant of the Arabic word "Baraka", Turabi said.

"You know what 'Baraka' means in Arabic? Blessing."

Obama, a Christian, was elected the first African American U.S. president in 2008 and is in a tight race against Republican rival Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. More to the point, he isn't President B.O...

Turabi has been a force in Sudanese politics for six decades, and was a key figure behind the 1989 coup which brought the Islamist regime of President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
to power.

Sudan then became a notorious refuge for turban Islamists, including bin Laden, leading to American sanctions which Obama renewed last week.
Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  So B. Hussein Obama's UN speech(*) won him the open endorsement of genocidal and terroristic islamofascism.

You really can be proud Mr President!

(*)"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/06/2012 14:38 Comments || Top||


-Election 2012
Foreign Election Observers Amazed By Trust-Based US Voting System
The most often noted difference between American elections among the visitors was that in most U.S. states, voters need no identification. Voters can also vote by mail, sometimes online, and there's often no way to know if one person has voted several times under different names, unlike in some Arab countries, where voters ink their fingers when casting their ballots.

The international visitors also noted that there's no police at U.S. polling stations. In foreign countries, police at polling places are viewed as signs of security; in the United States they are sometimes seen as intimidating.
Posted by: RandomJD || 11/06/2012 15:45 || Comments || Link || [336105 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We are too.

And the dhimocrats do everything they can to keep it that way.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/06/2012 17:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Police are "intimidating" only if you have something to hide or have no respect for the rule of law and those commissioned to enforce it.

Just my .02 cents worth.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 17:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Depends on whether the police themselves respect the rule of law, besoeker.

I grew up with family who managed to get out from a place where they didn't. Other members weren't so fortunate and died in Stalin's prisons.
Posted by: lotp || 11/06/2012 18:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Ask the voters in Wisconsin's union/recall if the union policemen were comforting.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/06/2012 19:07 Comments || Top||

#5  From a partisan commentary in the NYTimes today (edited):
The reason for this is clear: making democracy efficient takes second place in the United States to the cherished notion of letting local officials run the election system. In this “hyperdecentralized system,” in the words of Richard Hasen, a voting expert at the University of California, Irvine, the process of voting is left in the hands of “volunteers or poorly paid workers, many of whom lack adequate training or formal expertise.”

Their supervisors are partisans, often making decisions about spending money on new machines or expanding the system on the basis of how it will affect their party.


In some parts of the US, a police presence is regarded as indicating the "rule of law" is in effect. In other parts, a police presence means "might makes right."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/06/2012 19:25 Comments || Top||

#6  "hyperdecentralized system"

Otherwise known as the United States. The federal gummint is supposed to be limited; the Constitution gives the states responsibility for most things, and the feds are supposed to be restricted to the few things a central government can do best, such as foreign policy and regulating interstate commerce. (See "enumerated powers.")
Posted by: Barbara || 11/06/2012 20:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Decentralized systems are vulnerable to 'divide & conquer' strategies.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/06/2012 22:56 Comments || Top||


New Black Panthers Back at Philly Polling Place
A member of the New Black Panther Party who was charged with voter intimidation in the 2008 election for standing outside a Philadelphia polling site was back Tuesday morning -- in an official capacity.

Jerry Jackson, who was charged in the 2008 case along with Minister King Samir Shabazz, but later saw charges dropped by the Department of Justice, was seen early Tuesday outside a North Philadelphia voting site wearing the group's trademark black beret, combat-style uniform and heavy boots. Fox News confirmed he is a designated poll watcher.
Fox & henhouse...
Unlike in the 2008 election, members of the organization labeled as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center were not wielding billy clubs or forming clusters. In 2008, members of the New Black Panthers wore black paramilitary garb and stood in front of the doors leading to a polling place in Philadelphia. In that case, the Department of Justice later narrowed the charges against Minister King Shabazz and dismissed the charges against the party and Jackson.
And how is this different than teabaggers at the poling (sic) places?

It differs in that I cannot even imagine anyone feeling intimidated by Tea Party people. Also, it is not clear that the NBPP is behaving any differently than they did 4 years ago, and against which injunctions were issued (though criminal charges were dropped - over the strong objections of career DoJ personnel, at least some of whom resigned in protest.) A better comparison would be 'how is this different from Kluckers in sheets standing 'security' in front of Alabama polls in 1960?'
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/06/2012 12:39 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's like they only know trick: cheat.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/06/2012 14:39 Comments || Top||

#2  An example of dem..... "revenge".
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 15:06 Comments || Top||

#3  I guess it isn't election day in Philly without them at this point.
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/06/2012 15:58 Comments || Top||


Philly GOP: Poll inspectors being ousted for Dems
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/06/2012 11:29 || Comments || Link || [336087 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The people responsible should really be shot for this.

Complete fraud and intimidation and makes the whole democratic process null and void.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/06/2012 11:30 Comments || Top||

#2  That's what the Donks passed Posse Commitatus for. Remove the federal troops from the Southern polling stations to make sure only the 'right' folks voted. Their modus operandi haven't changed much in over a hundred years.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2012 11:47 Comments || Top||

#3  See, we DID need those UN poll watchers.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/06/2012 11:59 Comments || Top||

#4  No, those UN Observers were for the 'alleged' Republican suppression of votes, not the actual Donk suppression of votes. That's why they're not deployed in machine owned and operated every state. One set of rules for me, a different set of rules for thee.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2012 12:03 Comments || Top||

#5  If they wanna get physical somebody ought to get physical right back at them.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/06/2012 12:14 Comments || Top||

#6  In France the this woud lead to the invalidation of the votes cast in the district.
Posted by: JFM || 11/06/2012 12:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Had read this would be happening -- reported by Fox:

A group of retired Navy SEALs and other former special ops service members vowed to counter any attempt to intimidate voters by sending teams to sites in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Miami and Las Vegas. Former Navy Capt.

Benjamin Brink told Philadelphia radio station IQ 106.9 FM more than a hundred former SEALs, Army Rangers, Delta Force operatives and Green Berets volunteered for the job. But he said his men will not provoke confrontation, but rather "watch for intimidation, videotape it, if possible, and report it to the proper authorities.”
Posted by: Sherry || 11/06/2012 12:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Oh if I were in Saint-Hippolyte, I would not give a damn. :-)
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 12:46 Comments || Top||

#9  #6 JFM, that sounds like a pretty good rule.
Posted by: RandomJD || 11/06/2012 12:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Benjamin Brink told Philadelphia radio station IQ 106.9 FM more than a hundred former SEALs, Army Rangers, Delta Force operatives and Green Berets volunteered for the job. But he said his men will not provoke confrontation, but rather "watch for intimidation, videotape it, if possible, and report it to the proper authorities." Posted by Sherry

Arm and deploy them!
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 12:54 Comments || Top||

#11  Proper authorities? It's been reported on local TV and radio, it's all over the internet. If the proper authorities haven't taken action yet, when will they? Do we have to wait until the election's over and Obama has four more years? Because after that you know from experience that Holder won't do jack squat about it.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/06/2012 13:36 Comments || Top||

#12  You Americans ever before had presidential election where loss for the incumbent means a lot of the Dept. Justice top brass are going to jail?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2012 15:46 Comments || Top||

#13  The John Mitchell wing of the Bureau of Prisons might need some sprucing up.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2012 15:55 Comments || Top||

#14  I have learned that one of those organizations who "help" people to vote has been caught shredding thousands of Republican votes in Philadlphia. That is another thing who has to go: no helpers. Make the things right so there are no lines soeven if your old and have bad health you have no excuse (in Europe we have no lines so youmust be able to do it). In the interim put the fraudsters in jail, and throw the key into the Mariana Trench.
Posted by: JFM || 11/06/2012 15:56 Comments || Top||

#15  How about we just throw them into the Mariana Trench instead? After all, they're biodegradable!
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/06/2012 16:01 Comments || Top||

#16  caught shredding thousands of Republican votes in Philadlphia

JFM - do you have a source for that statement?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/06/2012 16:12 Comments || Top||

#17  I think it was voter registration cards that were shredded. I saw something about it but can't remember where. Just went looking for it again and couldn't find it. But it does indeed sound like there is criminal activity in Philadelphia.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/06/2012 16:21 Comments || Top||

#18  When has there not been criminal activity in Filth-a-delphia?
Posted by: Steve White || 11/06/2012 16:24 Comments || Top||

#19  Breitbart "citizen journalists" reported the shredding of GOP voter registrations forms.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/06/2012 17:32 Comments || Top||


Report: Obama Campaign Considering Pre-Emptive Victory Claim Strike
Best-selling Chicago-based author Brad Thor says he has been told that the Obama campaign is considering a move to demoralize Romney supporters early on Election Day.

Citing a "very solid source" in Chicago, Thor says the Obama campaign is looking to make it appear to voters that they have "this thing sewed up and are less than 24 hours to victory," according to his source.

Meanwhile, team Obama will also urge voters to get out and vote so they can say they were part of the important 2012 election that resulted in a second term for Obama.

While Thor can't reveal his source, he told TheBlaze multiple times that the source is very reliable.
The flip side of the coin, the author explained, is that the Obama campaign is counting on the mainstream media to drive home their narrative should they implement this strategy.


Does seem like the kind of thing President Revenge would consider? Does it seem like the kind of thing the mainstream media that remains in love with Obama would amplify? Yes, actually, it does.
Go ahead fuckhead. No seriously. People don't trust you anymore and a stunt like this, if you win, will completely ruin any and I mean ANY chance of bipartisanship (not that you cared in the first place). My bet is that this will backfire and really send the Romney voters into overdrive while Obama voters will say, "Cool" and go back to their bongs.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/06/2012 09:35 || Comments || Link || [336082 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The same strategy very nearly worked in 2000. Media called it for Gore when the polls were still open in the FL panhandle, which trends Republican. Result was that Republicans stayed home and FL was much closer than it should have been.

And if anyone still has doubts about the kind of people we are up against, the entire FL recount had nothing to do with counting ballots. The Dems knew they had lost on election night (Gore even conceded, if you recall). The recount mess was intended to prevent FL from certifying its results in time to participate in the electoral college. Without the FL numbers Gore would have won.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/06/2012 10:22 Comments || Top||

#2  ..Gore would have won if he'd taken his own home state. They knew better.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2012 11:48 Comments || Top||


Des Moines store near Obama rally has a message for the Secret Service
President Barack Obama is planning an outdoor rally here on Monday, but one store within the event's security zone is taking a stand against Secret Service searches inside the shop.

A sign on the window of Raygun, a clothing store that sells quirky T-shirts, tells Secret Service agents who intend to "sweep" the premises before Obama's speech that it does "not consent" to any searches. The sign also added a little humor, too: "It's not that there's anything illegal in here, we just employ several Colombian prostitutes and don't want to tempt you guys," the sign reads, a reference to news reports earlier this year about some agents who had solicited prostitutes in South America.

The Obama campaign was not amused. A store clerk told Yahoo News that the sign went up Monday morning, and Obama staffers have asked for its removal. The store is refusing.

Update 6:45 PM: The sign was removed from the window before Obama's rally started Monday evening.
Posted by: Beavis || 11/06/2012 07:03 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under:


Obama Ends Campaign in Half-Empty Arena
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/06/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336096 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Empty suit in a half-empty arena
Posted by: Frank G || 11/06/2012 9:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Empty man on a downward spiral.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/06/2012 9:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder how many people in Long Island or along the Jersey Shore are sleeping in this morning and shooting hoops this afternoon with old buds back in the hood ?

How's that Hope & Change going down now northeasterners ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 9:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Besoeker, this Northeasterner has had little hope for 4 years now and the change has been all bad.

Living in bright blue Massaholia I'm afraid that I probably threw away my vote today when I drew the line for Romney/Ryan and Scott Brown.

There are a few of us that pray for our republic.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/06/2012 11:48 Comments || Top||

#5  At least there were lots of other empty chairs to keep him company.
Posted by: RandomJD || 11/06/2012 16:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Alan: Please forgive my insensitive comment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 17:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Nothing to forgive Besoeker. I'm well aware of the fact that right thinking Massholes can caucus in the local Olive Garden without the need to make a reservation. We'd probably need 3 cars but that's about it.

If it wasn't for grand kids (and the grandma) I'd probably be out of here.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/06/2012 18:14 Comments || Top||


Barack Obama the not-so-happy warrior
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/06/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He hated attacking Romney - not his style - but he had to because of Romney's lies, now he's speaking from his loins.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/06/2012 6:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I am now adding "revenge" to my repertoire of usefull Obama words and phrases. Others on the same page include: rights, re-election, revolution, redistriction, retribution, and reparation.

Quite transparent that fellow, but certainly not in the manner he intended.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 6:29 Comments || Top||


Non-citizens registered to vote in Lawrence, MA but officials shrug
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336064 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Managua on the Merrimack. Massachusetts' very own third world hellhole...
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/06/2012 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Is there any way for a class action or omethhing similar leading thm to jail?
Posted by: JFM || 11/06/2012 4:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Non-citizen voters are indeed problematic. A non-citizen POTUS however, even more worrisome.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 7:09 Comments || Top||


Keep Calm and Finish Him
Feel free to use this thread for election-day discussion.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/06/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336090 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Obama Campaign Planning to Proclaim Early Victory to ‘Demoralize Romney Supporters’"

Don't panic over exit polls or networks 'calling' states. Don't get complacent either.

Just vote.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/06/2012 2:38 Comments || Top||

#2  And remember: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/06/2012 2:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Good Luck.

Whoever "wins" America is in for a rough time, obviously I'd prefer someone who has a proven record of turning around failed enterprises and cutting failure out of systems over a marxist community organiser, but the economy won't improve until the cultural damage of thinking you can vote yourself rich, or house-sit yourself rich ends.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/06/2012 5:17 Comments || Top||

#4 

Sorry, after four years of this fellow, I have no more capacity for additional political demoralization.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 6:51 Comments || Top||

#5  IIRC, CBS called it early in 2000. I was taking my kid to soccer practice and hadn't even voted yet. But I voted anyway.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/06/2012 8:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Re-arraigned my work day so that I could vote first thing and not at 6:30PM tonight.

A hundred people ahead of me in line this morning and a couple hundred behind. Pretty good turnout for 28-degrees as most of the line was outside the polling place. Waited in line about 25-minutes.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/06/2012 9:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Longest line I've ever had in my red district in central PA. Philly is already starting to throw out poll watchers to stuff the box. Ordered extra popcorn for tonight.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/06/2012 9:05 Comments || Top||

#8  2000 election ups and downs
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/06/2012 9:06 Comments || Top||

#9  Seeing a lot of Romney signs and bumper stickers in Blue and liberal Sacramento.

I estimate that nearly 40% of the cars with political bumpers carry a Romney one.

No way in hell he will win this county, but it is encouraging.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/06/2012 9:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Demoralize Romney supporters? Ain't going to happen. These people are going to crawl over broken glass for a mile to vote--they are not easily demoralized. Some of these voters are WWII vets and they know what is at stake.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/06/2012 9:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Whatever the results todayvthe tea party should develop ballot measures fir every state for the 2014 elections that make it harder to cheat (voter ID for example) and very painful if caught (no voting again, ever, and maybe ten years in the pokey).

I also wouldnt mind deleting voter registration rolls and starting from scratch.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 11/06/2012 11:10 Comments || Top||

#12  just voted. I had to wait in line for the first time ever, and there was a longer line when I left. Is this important? No, because I live in Kansas where W got 88% of the vote. Huelscamp will win and represent our rural heritage. In the primary 19 RINO republicans were beaten by conservatives and the legislature will now reflect its citizenry. There will be no more Sebelius's as governor of this state.
Thanks to our SOS Kobach you must be a registered voter and have a photo ID to participate. You also have a choice of paper or touch screen so those uncomfortable with the touch screen can cast their ballot. Now, if we can just get rid of our liberal supreme court and change the method that they are appointed we will again have a federalist state.
Posted by: bman || 11/06/2012 11:40 Comments || Top||

#13  Voted before coming to work this morning (county just outside Richmond, Va.). Got in line at 8:05 (parking was unbelievable), walked out the exit at 9:05. The line went the length of the school hallway and doubled back on itself. There were 8 voting booths. Besides President, Congressman, and Senator, we were also voting on 2 state Constitutional amendments. Everybody polite and cheerful (though I’d hate to be there at 6:45 tonight!).
Posted by: Barbara || 11/06/2012 12:28 Comments || Top||

#14  Can't get to polls until ~6 pm (if I skip dinner.) 10 1/2 hr workday plus 1 - 1 1/2 hr commute each way blocks the rest of the hours.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/06/2012 12:30 Comments || Top||

#15  Skip dinner, Glenmore!

It's just one meal for one day, as opposed to 4 years.
Posted by: Barbara || 11/06/2012 13:16 Comments || Top||

#16  @darthvader- your message warms my heart. I'm in Contra Costa and have been having a dream of the icing on tonight's cake that CA goes Red. A girl can dream right?
Posted by: warthogswife || 11/06/2012 13:17 Comments || Top||

#17  Keep dreaming, warthogswife. I'll vote in CA tonight myself. We're not all loony.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/06/2012 13:42 Comments || Top||

#18  Voted at 0715 in Eagle River, Alaska. Mainly professional people and military voting in this precinct. People were pretty quiet and behaved. They know what the stakes are.

Interesting thing: The voter roll printouts are
a-K and L-Z. LZs are 2 to 1 in numbers over AKs.There must be a problem with the accuvote machine, so the PAPER ballots go into a big hopper. We fill in the selection by inking in an oval with lots of space around it. Simple. Paper trail. It can be done.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/06/2012 14:11 Comments || Top||

#19  The popular vote doesn't decide the Presidential election but it does make a difference in the reality of DC politics.

A 'selected not elected' Obama will not be able to do as much damage as a 52% Obama. Think Supreme Court nominations!

So vote even if your state is deeply red or blue. Your vote for President will make a difference.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/06/2012 14:23 Comments || Top||

#20  Given O's record so far, whatcha been smoking Elmerert Hupens2660?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2012 15:48 Comments || Top||


#22  I don't smoke. I also don't have any illusions re Obama. If reelected his foreign policy will have truly nightmarish consequences.

Bush43 was politically weakened because he lost the popular vote. The Democrat's unprecedented filibuster of judicial nominees was one of the consequences of this.

My point was that Republicans (if they grew a spine) might be more likely to e.g. filibuster radical SC nominees if Obama were to lose the popular vote.

A vote for Romney will diminish Obama's political capital whatever the outcome in the EC. The Bush precedent has shown this.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/06/2012 16:27 Comments || Top||

#23  Romney Charges Reporters for Election Night Party
Mitt Romney "appears to be setting a precedent this election year in charging journalists and news organizations for any access to a presidential campaign headquarters on the night of the election," Mass Live reports.

Romney "will be holding his election night gathering at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, where access costs anywhere from $75 for a chair in the ballroom to $1,020 for permission to use the media filing center. Broadcast news organizations will be paying up to $6,500 for workspace."

"Obama's campaign party will be held at McCormick Place, in Chicago, and although his campaign is charging for premiums, credentialed reporters are granted access, which includes a workstation, electrical power and a wireless Internet connection, at no cost."
Posted by: Sherry || 11/06/2012 16:34 Comments || Top||

#24  Obama couldn't care less about all your written and (a lot more important) unwritten laws as long as he has the executive power, EH2660. If he's reelected, kiss your constitution---in particular 22 amendment ---goodby.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2012 16:39 Comments || Top||

#25  I share your fear g(r)om. He'll become another Robert Mugabe at his first opportunity.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 16:41 Comments || Top||

#26  Hey Besoeker, if you can't win today---you'll just have to do it the hard way. The Tree of Liberty, etc...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2012 17:07 Comments || Top||

#27  That's when you know you are going to win.

Mitt Romney walked out of his campaign jet at Pittsburgh International Airport here Tuesday afternoon and was met by an unexpected sight: hundreds upon hundreds of supporters packed into the top and middle levels of a nearby parking garage, cheering the candidate’s arrival.

A visibly moved Romney, clad in a white shirt and slacks, stepped into the late afternoon sun and walked across the tarmac to a spot near a metal fence separating him from the supporters in the garage.

Press entourage in tow, he waved to the crowd for several moments, saying nothing.

Afterward, a reporter asked Romney how the moment made him feel.

“That’s when you know you’re gonna win,” he said as he walked back across the tarmac and into an SUV that carried him off to his second stop of the day.

See the pic at the link
Posted by: Sherry || 11/06/2012 17:33 Comments || Top||

#28  Thanks Sherry. Win or lose, you had to know that sight meant a lot to Willard.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 17:37 Comments || Top||

#29  If Romney wins, I feel like he will be President for all of America instead of a divisive, pit-one group-against-another community organizer.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/06/2012 17:48 Comments || Top||

#30  NEWS FLASH

“Obama expected to take an early lead until Republicans get off work.”


Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 17:49 Comments || Top||

#31  SEX IN THE SHOWER POLL

In a recent poll commissioned by President Obama, his supporters have proven to be the most likely to have had sex in the shower.

The survey was carried out for democrats by a leading soap and toiletries firm.

The results revealed that 86% of Obama supporters said that they have had
sex in the shower.

The remaining 14% said they haven't been to prison yet.

Sort of brings tears to your eyes...



Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2012 17:51 Comments || Top||

#32  Exit polls typically show it tight, but Obama doing well.

I remember that with Kerry too and then the real results came in.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/06/2012 18:05 Comments || Top||

#33  Edit

The exit polls, as typical historically, show it tight but Obama doing well.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/06/2012 18:06 Comments || Top||

#34  LOL, Besoeker.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/06/2012 18:41 Comments || Top||



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