Now here’s this thing with John McCain…you know a couple of weeks ago, John McCain was supposed to be on the show. And at the last minute he calls me up –- and I’ve got a lot of respect…you get a call from a senator –- you get a call from a guy who is a bona fide war hero –- all of a sudden, you know, your lips start to vibrate. So I said “Sure, whatever you want.” And he says, “Look, Dave, the economy is about to crater.” It’s about to “crater,” his word. “And I have to rush back to Washington to save the economy.” And so it made me feel puny. So I said, “OK, Senator, do what you have to do. Rush right back to Washington.” And then I hung up and I felt like a patriot. I felt like I had done my part. And he was supposed to be on the show like an hour later. So now, we’re in a hole but everybody has to pull together in economic hardship times. So we all pull together and we get that guy with the big head from MSNBC. What’s his name? Keith Olbermann, yeah. Giant head. So he comes over. He’s good. He’s very good.
So now it turns out, not only did he not rush back to Washington, he spent the night here in New York City. He went on Katie Couric…he was on Conan…he was on Regis…he was everywhere. So now, in an attempt to save his campaign, they’re talking about coming back. You see what I’m saying? So we said, “Sure, we would love you to come back.” And even on the phone, he said, “I’ll bring….Sarah.” But they’re being squirrely. Politicians can be squirrely. Because we have a date picked. We do this show every afternoon at 5:30. He wants to do the show at 5. So one –- we have no guarantee he’s going to show up, period. And we’ve kind of already rearranged our schedule on his behalf to save the economy, right? By getting that big-headed kid in here to talk about the politics. You know what I’m driving at? I just don’t know if we can trust him.
And by the way, I don’t need to remind you that the road to the White House runs right through here.
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So now it turns out, not only did he not rush back to Washington, he spent the night here in New York City. He went on Katie Couric…he was on Conan…he was on Regis…he was everywhere. So now, in an attempt to save his campaign, they’re talking about coming back. You see what I’m saying? So we said, “Sure, we would love you to come back.” And even on the phone, he said, “I’ll bring….Sarah.” But they’re being squirrely. Politicians can be squirrely. Because we have a date picked. We do this show every afternoon at 5:30. He wants to do the show at 5. So one –- we have no guarantee he’s going to show up, period. And we’ve kind of already rearranged our schedule on his behalf to save the economy, right? By getting that big-headed kid in here to talk about the politics. You know what I’m driving at? I just don’t know if we can trust him.
And by the way, I don’t need to remind you that the road to the White House runs right through here.
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A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation's capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former POWs. It's the spring of 1974, and Navy commander John Sidney McCain III has returned home from the experience in Hanoi that, according to legend, transformed him from a callow and reckless youth into a serious man of patriotism and purpose. Walking along the grounds at Fort McNair, McCain runs into John Dramesi, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was also imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam.
McCain is studying at the National War College, a prestigious graduate program he had to pull strings with the Secretary of the Navy to get into. Dramesi is enrolled, on his own merit, at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in the building next door.
There's a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam call it an honor gap. Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a "confession" to his North Vietnamese captors. Dramesi, in contrast, attempted two daring escapes. For the second he was brutalized for a month with daily torture sessions that nearly killed him. His partner in the escape, Lt. Col. Ed Atterberry, didn't survive the mistreatment. But Dramesi never said a disloyal word, and for his heroism was awarded two Air Force Crosses, one of the service's highest distinctions. McCain would later hail him as "one of the toughest guys I've ever met."
On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.
"I'm going to the Middle East," Dramesi says. "Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran."
"Why are you going to the Middle East?" McCain asks, dismissively.
"It's a place we're probably going to have some problems," Dramesi says.
"Why? Where are you going to, John?"
"Oh, I'm going to Rio."
"What the hell are you going to Rio for?"
McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.
"I got a better chance of getting laid."
Dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, was not surprised. "McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man," Dramesi says today. "But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in."
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At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation's capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former POWs. It's the spring of 1974, and Navy commander John Sidney McCain III has returned home from the experience in Hanoi that, according to legend, transformed him from a callow and reckless youth into a serious man of patriotism and purpose. Walking along the grounds at Fort McNair, McCain runs into John Dramesi, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was also imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam.
McCain is studying at the National War College, a prestigious graduate program he had to pull strings with the Secretary of the Navy to get into. Dramesi is enrolled, on his own merit, at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in the building next door.
There's a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam call it an honor gap. Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a "confession" to his North Vietnamese captors. Dramesi, in contrast, attempted two daring escapes. For the second he was brutalized for a month with daily torture sessions that nearly killed him. His partner in the escape, Lt. Col. Ed Atterberry, didn't survive the mistreatment. But Dramesi never said a disloyal word, and for his heroism was awarded two Air Force Crosses, one of the service's highest distinctions. McCain would later hail him as "one of the toughest guys I've ever met."
On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.
"I'm going to the Middle East," Dramesi says. "Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran."
"Why are you going to the Middle East?" McCain asks, dismissively.
"It's a place we're probably going to have some problems," Dramesi says.
"Why? Where are you going to, John?"
"Oh, I'm going to Rio."
"What the hell are you going to Rio for?"
McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.
"I got a better chance of getting laid."
Dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, was not surprised. "McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man," Dramesi says today. "But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in."
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John McCain, you are no fool, and you understand the depths of hatred that surround the issue of race in this country. You also know that, post-9/11, to call someone a friend of a terrorist is a very serious matter. You also know we are a bitterly divided country on many other issues. You know that, sadly, in America, violence is always just a moment away. You know that there are plenty of crazy people out there.
Stop! Think! Your rallies are beginning to look, sound, feel and smell like lynch mobs.
John McCain, you're walking a perilous line. If you do not stand up for all that is good in America and declare that Senator Obama is a patriot, fit for office, and denounce your hate-filled supporters when they scream out "Terrorist" or "Kill him," history will hold you responsible for all that follows.
John McCain and Sarah Palin, you are playing with fire, and you know it. You are unleashing the monster of American hatred and prejudice, to the peril of all of us. You are doing this in wartime. You are doing this as our economy collapses. You are doing this in a country with a history of assassinations.
Change the atmosphere of your campaign. Talk about the issues at hand. Make your case. But stop stirring up the lunatic fringe of haters, or risk suffering the judgment of history and the loathing of the American people - forever.
We will hold you responsible.
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Stop! Think! Your rallies are beginning to look, sound, feel and smell like lynch mobs.
John McCain, you're walking a perilous line. If you do not stand up for all that is good in America and declare that Senator Obama is a patriot, fit for office, and denounce your hate-filled supporters when they scream out "Terrorist" or "Kill him," history will hold you responsible for all that follows.
John McCain and Sarah Palin, you are playing with fire, and you know it. You are unleashing the monster of American hatred and prejudice, to the peril of all of us. You are doing this in wartime. You are doing this as our economy collapses. You are doing this in a country with a history of assassinations.
Change the atmosphere of your campaign. Talk about the issues at hand. Make your case. But stop stirring up the lunatic fringe of haters, or risk suffering the judgment of history and the loathing of the American people - forever.
We will hold you responsible.
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What McCain said is plainly not true. Actually, there are two "untruths" in there. The first is that it's an "overhead projector". In fact, it's Adler Planetarium's venerable Zeiss Mark VI star projector, a beautiful machine that projects the stars and constellation on the dome, showing children what's in the night sky. The Zeiss is 40 years old, is showing its age, and cannot be fixed. They need a new system, and that's pricey.
The second untruth is about Obama voting to fund it: he didn't. Adler looked to politicians to help them raise money needed to replace the Zeiss. Obama put it in a budget proposal, but it never got funded, nor did Obama even get a chance to vote on it (it died in committee).
McCain must have known that what he was saying wasn't even close to being true. Yet he said it anyway, twice.
Planetaria do something noble and honorable: they teach kids. They teach kids science, which is something these children desperately need -- unless we want the next generation of Americans to believe humans walked alongside dinosaurs.
Funding planetaria is important, and something the government should be helping with if it's needed. Planetaria show us the beauty and grandeur of the Universe, and shouldn't be cynically relegated to being a political bludgeon used to score cheap points.
Zeiss Mark Vi image from Wikimedia, under the Creative Commons license.
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The second untruth is about Obama voting to fund it: he didn't. Adler looked to politicians to help them raise money needed to replace the Zeiss. Obama put it in a budget proposal, but it never got funded, nor did Obama even get a chance to vote on it (it died in committee).
McCain must have known that what he was saying wasn't even close to being true. Yet he said it anyway, twice.
Planetaria do something noble and honorable: they teach kids. They teach kids science, which is something these children desperately need -- unless we want the next generation of Americans to believe humans walked alongside dinosaurs.
Funding planetaria is important, and something the government should be helping with if it's needed. Planetaria show us the beauty and grandeur of the Universe, and shouldn't be cynically relegated to being a political bludgeon used to score cheap points.
Zeiss Mark Vi image from Wikimedia, under the Creative Commons license.
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I love my life. I love where I live. And I am passionate about my passions. I love to dance. Necessary to live: music, piano, singing, writing, acting, painting. Find my events at www.savedarfur.org and type in the zip code 02871 I support rwandapartners.org and womenforwomeninternational.org I have traveled to Europe many times since my early twenties. I spent November 2005,in Austria, Italy and Germany and have wonderful memories and some new friends. I would like to travel to Europe again, Africa, New Zealand and Australia, Kyoto, Japan and Arizona and New Mexico and Sanibel Island, Florida. I love the southwest where I have visited Hopi, Navajo, Zia and San Idlefonso potters. Life is exciting and I intend to live it full-out to the end. B.S. and M.M.
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Recent survey (quoting from the Economist) has shown what the top three concerns of an average American are in the following order, starting with the most important:
1. The economy
2. War in Iraq and Afghanistan, health care
3. Foreign policy.
Barack Obama wants to increase tax for the rich while John McCain is against that. John McCain believes that when the rich is taxed more, they have less money for future investment, thus restricting economic growth. He believes in trickle down wealth, whereby investment will help kick-start manufacturing and production, thus reducing unemployment and increasing wages of the bourgeoisie and the poor. This is exactly what George Bush did for the past 8 years yet the average median salary has remain stagnant, the rich (1%) gets richer while the poor gets poorer. I believe what that John McCain has the right idea, but somewhere downstream, the lack of moral oversight and regulation has resulted in the problem. One source of the poverty loop is due to sub prime mortgaging/ lending.
Sub prime lending is a loan to the usually less privilege and the poor, people who have bad credit history, or in other words, dodgy financial history, The loans that these people received usually comes at a higher interest rate that normal, supposedly because such loans have a higher risk of default, hence the higher risk involved should be mitigated by repaying the loan at higher interest rate. But a survey as reported by The Economist again stated that 61% of sub prime borrowers are actually entitled to obtain better and cheaper loans but they were not made aware (trapping them in ignorance, hence the so-called predatory lending) by the high-flying financiers. The people who are usually afflicted tend to be the POOR and LESS EDUCATED as well, hence they are trapped in the poverty cycle of having to find extra loans to finance the debt incurred by high interest rate which they do not have to take if they were made aware of their options. HENCE, THE RICH GETS RICHER (1% of the population) AND THE POOR GETS POORER.
Certain neo-conservatives have the tendency to blame the Democrats for everything. Dominic Lawson, writer to the Independent, son of Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of The Exchequer for the Conservative party in UK, indirectly pin-pointed the current conundrum to ex-Democratic president, Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was fighting for equal treatment for racial minorities especially the blacks. Jimmy Carter wanted the financiers to ignore the lack of credit history of the racial minorities. To the view of Dominic Lawson, the financiers are forced to take riskier options because of Jimmy Carters fight for equal treatment! That does not explain why 61% of the sub prime borrowers were not told about their options! If the financiers are really worried about the risk involved, they should have tried to dissuade and enlighten the borrowers with good credit history to take up cheaper loans that are open to them as well!
So I believe Obama is right to tax the rich more now to help the middle class and the poor. It has an immediate effect of reducing income disparity. Maybe in the future, when there is re-regulation of the financial market with moral obligations, the option of reducing taxes for the rich to encourage investment can be considered.
McCain should also stop talking about expanding the military. This money could be better used on the economy and general welfare of the Americans.
Quoting from the Nation who again quotes from the popular American, General Petraeus, they acknowledged that the in American military is not the only major factor that comes to play when it comes to stability in Iraq. General Petraeus himself attributed the success to diplomacy and bridging the cultural gap between the Americans and the Iraqis. It is less about directly interfering with Iraqis domestic affairs, but about mediating between Iraq warlords. The stability is also due to temporary truce between Shiite and Sunni factions, and the warlords in general have also turned their backs on Al-Qaeda operations in Iraq. The US administration is also less hostile to Iran, because it realises Irans role in backing the Shiite government to power. Even though US doesnt like it, it cant fight everyone at once in Iraq Both the candidates, McCain and Obama seem to be blinded by the , maybe more so to McCain who is in cahoot with uncurious Palin, seem to overplay the role of the .
With regards to Afghanistan though, I dont think Obama is doing the right thing to support attacking Talibans bases in Pakistan. It is violating the sovereignty of Pakistan. The problem Pakistan is having now is disorganised politics and having to deal with infighting, hence Pakistan is less capable to unite as a nation to counter the Al-Qaeda threat based in the remote mountainous region of Pakistan. The political kerfuffle in Pakistan has been due to excessive or American influence too close to (Muslim) Pakistani soil and the influence American administration held on General Musharaf.
As the Nation stated, if Americans hold back a little, the political climate in Pakistan might be more stable for the government to take an effective action against Al-Qaeda in its own country. I do agree with The Nation that too much resources are spent trying to fight terrorist in remote mountainous region. That region is cut off from effective recruitment and lack of facilities to train terrorists. Recruiting terrorists usually happen in heavily populated area. The training as in the case of 9/11 happens within US soil itself not in the caves of Afghanistan. Which idiotic mastermind goes to the Himalayas and brainwash a herd of mountain goats to become terrorists, learning to ride on a rock-slide to cause massive destruction?
As for foreign policy, I disagree with the Economist that John McCain is better off. Firstly, he is from the cold war generation. Russia and US are not fighting for ideological differences, they are now fighting for the control of oil services and resources. Tactics are different than that of cold war. For McCain to cut Russia off from G8 is foolhardy. Russia is part of the member in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which as a united front, is very powerful organisation that controls the flow of (oil and gas) resources, with Iran having the 2nd largest oil reserves, while Chinas vast foreign reserves can be a threat of different kind. China itself does not want a world with only US as hegemony. McCain with his idea of the League of Democracies might potentially push China away into Russias arms.
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1. The economy
2. War in Iraq and Afghanistan, health care
3. Foreign policy.
Barack Obama wants to increase tax for the rich while John McCain is against that. John McCain believes that when the rich is taxed more, they have less money for future investment, thus restricting economic growth. He believes in trickle down wealth, whereby investment will help kick-start manufacturing and production, thus reducing unemployment and increasing wages of the bourgeoisie and the poor. This is exactly what George Bush did for the past 8 years yet the average median salary has remain stagnant, the rich (1%) gets richer while the poor gets poorer. I believe what that John McCain has the right idea, but somewhere downstream, the lack of moral oversight and regulation has resulted in the problem. One source of the poverty loop is due to sub prime mortgaging/ lending.
Sub prime lending is a loan to the usually less privilege and the poor, people who have bad credit history, or in other words, dodgy financial history, The loans that these people received usually comes at a higher interest rate that normal, supposedly because such loans have a higher risk of default, hence the higher risk involved should be mitigated by repaying the loan at higher interest rate. But a survey as reported by The Economist again stated that 61% of sub prime borrowers are actually entitled to obtain better and cheaper loans but they were not made aware (trapping them in ignorance, hence the so-called predatory lending) by the high-flying financiers. The people who are usually afflicted tend to be the POOR and LESS EDUCATED as well, hence they are trapped in the poverty cycle of having to find extra loans to finance the debt incurred by high interest rate which they do not have to take if they were made aware of their options. HENCE, THE RICH GETS RICHER (1% of the population) AND THE POOR GETS POORER.
Certain neo-conservatives have the tendency to blame the Democrats for everything. Dominic Lawson, writer to the Independent, son of Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of The Exchequer for the Conservative party in UK, indirectly pin-pointed the current conundrum to ex-Democratic president, Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was fighting for equal treatment for racial minorities especially the blacks. Jimmy Carter wanted the financiers to ignore the lack of credit history of the racial minorities. To the view of Dominic Lawson, the financiers are forced to take riskier options because of Jimmy Carters fight for equal treatment! That does not explain why 61% of the sub prime borrowers were not told about their options! If the financiers are really worried about the risk involved, they should have tried to dissuade and enlighten the borrowers with good credit history to take up cheaper loans that are open to them as well!
So I believe Obama is right to tax the rich more now to help the middle class and the poor. It has an immediate effect of reducing income disparity. Maybe in the future, when there is re-regulation of the financial market with moral obligations, the option of reducing taxes for the rich to encourage investment can be considered.
McCain should also stop talking about expanding the military. This money could be better used on the economy and general welfare of the Americans.
Quoting from the Nation who again quotes from the popular American, General Petraeus, they acknowledged that the in American military is not the only major factor that comes to play when it comes to stability in Iraq. General Petraeus himself attributed the success to diplomacy and bridging the cultural gap between the Americans and the Iraqis. It is less about directly interfering with Iraqis domestic affairs, but about mediating between Iraq warlords. The stability is also due to temporary truce between Shiite and Sunni factions, and the warlords in general have also turned their backs on Al-Qaeda operations in Iraq. The US administration is also less hostile to Iran, because it realises Irans role in backing the Shiite government to power. Even though US doesnt like it, it cant fight everyone at once in Iraq Both the candidates, McCain and Obama seem to be blinded by the , maybe more so to McCain who is in cahoot with uncurious Palin, seem to overplay the role of the .
With regards to Afghanistan though, I dont think Obama is doing the right thing to support attacking Talibans bases in Pakistan. It is violating the sovereignty of Pakistan. The problem Pakistan is having now is disorganised politics and having to deal with infighting, hence Pakistan is less capable to unite as a nation to counter the Al-Qaeda threat based in the remote mountainous region of Pakistan. The political kerfuffle in Pakistan has been due to excessive or American influence too close to (Muslim) Pakistani soil and the influence American administration held on General Musharaf.
As the Nation stated, if Americans hold back a little, the political climate in Pakistan might be more stable for the government to take an effective action against Al-Qaeda in its own country. I do agree with The Nation that too much resources are spent trying to fight terrorist in remote mountainous region. That region is cut off from effective recruitment and lack of facilities to train terrorists. Recruiting terrorists usually happen in heavily populated area. The training as in the case of 9/11 happens within US soil itself not in the caves of Afghanistan. Which idiotic mastermind goes to the Himalayas and brainwash a herd of mountain goats to become terrorists, learning to ride on a rock-slide to cause massive destruction?
As for foreign policy, I disagree with the Economist that John McCain is better off. Firstly, he is from the cold war generation. Russia and US are not fighting for ideological differences, they are now fighting for the control of oil services and resources. Tactics are different than that of cold war. For McCain to cut Russia off from G8 is foolhardy. Russia is part of the member in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which as a united front, is very powerful organisation that controls the flow of (oil and gas) resources, with Iran having the 2nd largest oil reserves, while Chinas vast foreign reserves can be a threat of different kind. China itself does not want a world with only US as hegemony. McCain with his idea of the League of Democracies might potentially push China away into Russias arms.
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This really pinpoints why I have found it impossible not to shake my head in bafflement and wonder about how much desperation has consumed John McCain. He can't think, not for one second, that this woman is ready to be VP. She is the ultimate example of why he is dangerously flawed and not fit to be president.
It may be campaign rhetoric to some, but I really do believe that the choice of VP is the first test of the nominee. Who do they deem capable of standing in for them if the worst should happen, which when you are eleventy-one and corrupted by power is like-not-out-of-the-realm-of-possibility.
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Presidential nominee John McCain allegedly had a date set with actress Jenny McCarthy. The topic of their discussion? Not love but, rather autism, and specifically the link between the condition and the use of thimerosal in the vaccines McCarthy believes cause autism.
McCarthy was eager to meet with McCain after learning he believes there may be a link as well, and apparently flew herself out for a meeting with the Republican senator to try to make autism a major part of the presidential campaign.
According to reports, however, McCain backed out after his flack decided the subject matter was too controversial. Right, like presidential nominees should avoid discussing anything controversial! If they did all they'd end up doing at debates was drinking Yoohoos! Although not attributed anywhere, the post on IMDB claims McCain also bailed after learning there is no hard evidence linking vaccines with thimerosal and autism. Either way, McCain declined to meet with the former Playboy centerfold (huge mistake, dude!) and McCarthy has now set her sites on meeting with Senator Obama.
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SWIFTBOAT PHOTOGRAPHY
I have always been a fan of Ms. Greenberg's ability to create a unique vision and lighting style. But this incident revealed her as someone who is both dishonest and without even a shred of professional responsibility.
Just because you are capable of doing something does not make it right to do so. The placement of the "fake" light coming in from up high shows her intent was dishonest -- she was trying to deceive everyone else involved with the shoot.
I have been a lighting photographer for over 20 years. I teach lighting at Strobist.com. And I would not have noticed that an overhead beauty dish (complete with shining modeling light) was not firing in the midst of a few thousand watt-seconds going off.
Ms. Greenberg probably loathes this kind of duplicitous behavior when it is displayed by politicians. How is she any better than the worst of them?
Worse, the constructed images she is since publishing on her website, "Manipulator," are clearly display malice and might expose her to libel in spite of McCain's status as a public person.
Ironically, if this gets picked up by the (non-photo) mainstream media, it will be incorrectly held up as an example that all journalists are hatchet people, out to get a favored candidate elected.
Which, of course, would serve to galvanize McCain's supporters and get them to the polls in November. My guess is that Ms. Greenberg did not think this far ahead while rubbing her hands in glee. This may be the most stupid, dishonest thing I have ever seen a photographer do.
From here on, next time you shoot a politician be ready to produce your voter registration card to show your are "the right kind of person" and have every image reviewed by his or her handlers before you can leave with your photos.
Ms. Greenberg has just managed to smear an entire industry in fifteen minutes. Thanks a lot, Jill.
David Hobby
Strobist.
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I have always been a fan of Ms. Greenberg's ability to create a unique vision and lighting style. But this incident revealed her as someone who is both dishonest and without even a shred of professional responsibility.
Just because you are capable of doing something does not make it right to do so. The placement of the "fake" light coming in from up high shows her intent was dishonest -- she was trying to deceive everyone else involved with the shoot.
I have been a lighting photographer for over 20 years. I teach lighting at Strobist.com. And I would not have noticed that an overhead beauty dish (complete with shining modeling light) was not firing in the midst of a few thousand watt-seconds going off.
Ms. Greenberg probably loathes this kind of duplicitous behavior when it is displayed by politicians. How is she any better than the worst of them?
Worse, the constructed images she is since publishing on her website, "Manipulator," are clearly display malice and might expose her to libel in spite of McCain's status as a public person.
Ironically, if this gets picked up by the (non-photo) mainstream media, it will be incorrectly held up as an example that all journalists are hatchet people, out to get a favored candidate elected.
Which, of course, would serve to galvanize McCain's supporters and get them to the polls in November. My guess is that Ms. Greenberg did not think this far ahead while rubbing her hands in glee. This may be the most stupid, dishonest thing I have ever seen a photographer do.
From here on, next time you shoot a politician be ready to produce your voter registration card to show your are "the right kind of person" and have every image reviewed by his or her handlers before you can leave with your photos.
Ms. Greenberg has just managed to smear an entire industry in fifteen minutes. Thanks a lot, Jill.
David Hobby
Strobist.
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ELISABETH HASSELBECK: There has also been a question burning amongst voters and actually our viewers, and that is the question of Roe v. Wade. And as president, if you were, no softballs coming from me, even though you have my vote. Would you as president work to overturn that? And then would Sarah Palin be working to overturn Roe v. Wade?
SENATOR JOHN McCAIN (R-AZ): I think what we would be doing is appointing or nominating justices to the United States Supreme Court and other courts who strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States. We would not impose a litmus test on any issue because thats not fair to the American people. But they would have to have a clear record of strict interpretation.
BARBARA WALTERS: Thats kind of the other way of saying people who would want to overturn Roe v. Wade.
McCAIN: That, that, well, that is saying that, I believe Roe v. Wade was a very bad decision, Barbara. [audience groans] I think it was a bad decision. I thought other, I thought other decisions of the United States Supreme Court were bad decisions. But I want people on the Court who, quote, "do interpret" and not just on the issue of Roe v. Wade, but on other issues.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Do I have to be worried about becoming a slave again?
McCAIN: My interpretation of the Constitution of the United States is that the United States Supreme Court enforces the Constitution of the United States and does not legislate nor invent areas that are responsibilities, according to the Constitution, of the legislative branch.
HASSELBECK: So it was in how the law came up, it was in how Roe v. Wade came apart was the issue. You, you want it to be through the Constitution from the people not from the bench.
McCAIN: And I believe that if Roe v. Wade were overturned, then the states would make these decisions.
GOLDBERG: Sir.
McCAIN: Yes?
GOLDBERG: Can you just, and I dont want to misinterpret what youre saying. Did you say you wanted strict Constitutionalists? Because that, that-
McCAIN: No, I want people who interpret the Constitution of the United States the way our founding fathers envision-
GOLDBERG: Does that-
McCAIN: -for them to do.
GOLDBERG: Should I be worried about being a slave, about being returned to slavery because certain things happened in the Constitution that you had to change.
McCAIN: I, I understand your point.
GOLDBERG: Okay, okay.
McCAIN: I understand that point and I, I, [applause] thank you. Thats an excellent point.
GOLDBERG: Thank you sir.
McCAIN: And I thank you.
WALTERS: Before we go, before we go, just to give a different picture because you talk- [laughter]
GOLDBERG: I got scared.
JOY BEHAR: Shes picturing herself on the plantation.
GOLDBERG: I got scared. I gotta start running.
WALTERS: You and Sherri, well take care of you. Us white folk will take care of you.
SHERRI SHEPHERD: Oh my God.
MCCAIN: I have committed myself to a Pro-life position because I happen to believe that life begins at conception, but that is an issue that I respect other people's views.
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9:41 - I can't believe it's over already. I could have listened to them talk about Service for at least another seven minutes.
9:38 - Obama's doing a good job in this forum.
I'll bet McCain's glad that nobody's watching it.
9:36 - Hear that? It's Barack Obama's job as president to make the government cool again! Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!! That's my Fonzie impersonation.)
9:35 - Did he say anything interesting about Palin? I fell asleep.
9:31 - Oh, small town mayor talk!
9:26 - From the comments: "Uh-Oh. Obama urges Americans to learn a foreign language. Palin is sure to respond he wants us to learn Muslim." - Cube
Cube's on fire tonight.
9:24 - Why does Obama even try to propagate this meme that he would have served in the army if there had been a war? Yeah, like he would have signed up to go to Vietnam or Iraq. Does anyone really believe that?
9:22 - I think Obama escaped his cone of silence during McCain's interview.
9:21 - Obama just said that the ROTC should be allowed on campus at Columbia.
Fascist!
9:20 - Obama's grandfather served under Patton?! Gah!
These guys are brilliant at slipping their talking points into any situation.
9:19 - From the comments: "This forum makes Ishtar look like Star Wars." - Cube
9:16 - We're in a break, and Obama is working the crowd like Don Rickles.
This really is like the Bizarro Saddleback Forum, about community service instead of Jesus and an Obama-friendly crowd with McCain on the defensive.
9:14 - Judy Woodruff just said this is not a night to focus on the differences between Obama and McCain.
So, what is it about? What's the point of any of this then?
9:11 - He said the word "mosque!" J'accuse!
9:10 - Holy wow! Did you know Barack Obama was a community organizer?! When he could have had a lucrative career on Wall Street?! I just keep learning all kinds of things about these guys.
9:08 - Special shout out to Zeke and Bernie.
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She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnams infamous Hanoi Hilton prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.
But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.
Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.
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I have no bitterness,she says. My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasnt the reason for my divorce.
My marriage ended because John McCain didnt want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.
Some of McCains acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to play the field. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.
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I thought, of course, we would live happily ever after, says Carol. But as a war hero, McCain was moving in ever-more elevated circles.
Through Ross Perot, he met Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California. A sympathetic Nancy Reagan took Carol under her wing.
But already the McCains marriage had begun to fray. John started carousing and running around with women, said Robert Timberg.
McCain has acknowledged that he had girlfriends during this time, without going into details. Some friends blame his dissatisfaction with Carol, but others give some credence to her theory of a mid-life crisis.
He was also fiercely ambitious, but it was clear he would never become an admiral like his illustrious father and grandfather and his thoughts were turning to politics.
In 1979 while still married to Carol he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage.
Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans rights, said: I have been following John McCains career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is deceit.
'When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it. Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.
This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.
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Whereas republican institutions can find permanent safety only upon the basis of the universal intelligence of the people; and whereas the great disasters which have afflicted the nation and desolated one half its territory are traceable, in a great degree, to the absence of common schools and general education among the people of the lately rebellious States: Therefore,
Resolved, that the joint committee on reconstruction be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing in the capital a national Bureau of Education, whose duty it shall be to enforce eduction, without regard to race or color, upon the population of all such States as shall fall below a standard to be established by Congress; and to inquire whether such a bureau should not be made an essential and permanent part of any system of reconstruction.
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Resolved, that the joint committee on reconstruction be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing in the capital a national Bureau of Education, whose duty it shall be to enforce eduction, without regard to race or color, upon the population of all such States as shall fall below a standard to be established by Congress; and to inquire whether such a bureau should not be made an essential and permanent part of any system of reconstruction.
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First off: if we're going to talk about things my money shouldn't be spent for, Useless Fucking Wars goes right at the top of the list. $3 mil for bear DNA studies is chump change compared to the cool trillion we've spent on a travesty.
Secondly, McCain thinks he was being cute with his answer, and conservatives are going to adore that "paternity issue or criminal issue," but all it shows is how fucking ignorant he is. DNA is not limited to those two things. DNA does a fuck of a lot more than identify daddies and crooks. Why not consult my modest little post on the subject, Johnny? Learn something.
Not that he will. He's made his bed with the anti-science religious frothers, and stuck Sarah Palin in it, and seems to be enjoying rolling around in it.
There are roughly 6,897,451 reasons not to vote for McCain. His antipathy to science is right up there in the Top Ten. This country can't afford to let science slide. Ecological studies tie in to the health of our biosphere, which is where we all live and work. Maybe bear DNA doesn't sound as sexy to McCain as his new Dominionist running mate, but it's just a small part of piecing together the large puzzle that's going to tell us how to keep our world healthy enough to survive in it.
Not that McCain's new bestest buddies give a rat's ass about that. They all think it's their job to bring on Armageddon. They want the world to end.
Well, I don't. I want science funded, I want the wars to stop, and I want a healthy world. So, fuck you, John McCain. No science-bashing, warmongering hypocrite is ever getting my vote.
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My name is Carlos Miller and I am a multimedia journalist who was arrested by Miami police after taking photos of them against their wishes, a clear violation of my First Amendment rights. Since that arrest on Feb. 20th, 2007, I've been fighting a lengthy battle against the State of Florida to prove my innocence. Recently, a jury acquitted me of disobeying a police officer and disorderly conduct, but convicted me of resisting arrest without violence. I am now appealing the conviction. During the sentencing, an extremely biased judge gave me four times the amount of probation the State was seeking because he was angry that I had blogged about my case. Judge Jose L. Fernandez said he was "shocked" by my lack of remorse in this case. But why should I show remorse for crimes I did not commit? Click here to read more.
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But the next day, as I travelled with McCain around South Carolina, he told me that his campaign's brush with death had less to do with fund-raising than with his role in championing the ambitious immigration-reform bill, supported by the White House, that died in Congress this year. "It wasn't the budgetary problems. That was an inside-the-Beltway thing," he said, referring to press coverage of his campaign's setbacks. ... "It was immigration" that hurt his campaign, he said when he continued, after a series of apologies on both sides. "I understand that. I was told by one of the pollsters, 'We see real bleeding.
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