Video story about the Alaskan Troopergate scandal. The bipartisan Alaskan Commission who investigated the case found Governor Palin broke the Executive Branch ethics law by pressuring Walt Monegan to fire Trooper Mike Wooten, Palin’s ex-brother-in-law.

Palin says she is so happy to be absolved of any accusations of the investigation and hadn’t broken any criminal or ethics laws.

What? The commission found she broke the ethics law. How is that being absolved of breaking any laws? I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone, or Big Brother is in charge and I didn’t get the memo about the newspeak change.

You hit the nail on the head, Rachel, by calling a lie a lie and a liar a liar.

Do we want a Vice-President who lies straight-faced directly to the cameras when we know for a fact she is lying?

Wow, racism to abuse of power. Sounds like McSame to me…

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McCain’s campaign is so far from respectful it’s not even funny. The campaign created this mess, and now it’s coming home to roost.

I’m not talked down either, but I feel really good about the newest polls. The current electoral map now has Obama/Biden with 286 electoral votes (you only need 270 to win), McCain/Palin with 155 electoral votes and 97 are still a toss-up.

Just remember, the most important “poll” takes place on November 4, election day. Do not become complacent. We have 18 days to go. Get out and vote!

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What the hell happened to the issues? What about the economy? The economy that is melting down faster than reactor 4 at Chernobyl in 1986? What about energy policy? What about health care? Taxes? Foreign policy? Domestic policy? What about the freakin’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? What about climate change? What about the disregard for the U.S. Constitution by the current Bush administration, especially by Dick Cheney?

Senator McCain, I used to like and greatly respect you as an American hero and as a Maverick who really had some good ideas and who did reach across the isle in the Senate and work to make America better. But that was 8 years ago, and now I don’t know who you are anymore.

You are not the John McCain who fought for this country in Vietnam, the honorable officer and gentleman who graduated from the Navel Academy, or even the Senator who used to do what was right, not what was popular with the Republican party. What the hell happened to you??? When did you become associated with racists? You, Sir, have become a disgrace! — Sherri Joubert

Many news outlets are talking back to the McCain-Palin campaign about their lynch-mob mentality and hate-mongering toward Senator Obama. These tactics are racially divisive in a time when racial hatred is not supposed to be in the American ethos any longer.

Racism and racial hatred are still very much alive and well in America and I’m ashamed of that about us. We are better than that and we need to start acting like it!

Here are a couple of videos that show this more clearly than I can write about it.

Inciting the mob: actual footage of McCain-Palin rallies:

Keith Olbermann gets it right, clean up your act, John McCain!

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