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Daughters and Sisters Against Palin

It's the future talking: listen to these bright young women and the reasons they have trouble with what Sarah Palin stands for.

H/T @MelSil via Twitter.

Cynematic hardly has time to blog at P i l l o w b o o k.

Has the Violence We've Feared Already Begun?

On October 17th, Joe Killian, a reporter for the Greensboro, North Carolina News & Record, was assaulted by a McCain-Palin supporter at a Palin rally.

While covering the rally at Elon University along with fellow News & Record reporter Mark Binker, Killian saw that about a dozen apparent Obama supporters had spread themselves throughout the crowd. In his blog entry about the incident, he writes:

As Palin got into her speech they began chants of “Obama” and screamed out rebuttals to the points in her speech. This angered some in the crowd — some responding with cursing, others chanting “U.S.A.” and “NObama” to drown them out. Eventually the cops came and escorted them off of the baseball field.

Intrigued by the incident, Killian went looking for the Obama supporters to ask about their reasons for attending the rally. He found one who was willing to be interviewed. Killian writes:

I sidled up to one of the Obama supporters and asked why they were there, what they were trying to accomplish.

As he was telling me a large, bearded man in full McCain-Palin campaign regalia got in his face to yell at him.

“Hey, hey,” I said. “I’m trying to interview him. Just a minute, okay?”

The man began to say something about how of course I was interviewing the Obama people when suddenly, from behind us, the sound of a pro-Obama rap song came blaring out of the windows of a dorm building. We all turned our heads to see Obama signs in the windows.

This was met with curses, screams and chants of “U.S.A” by McCain-Palin folks who crowded under the windows trying to drown it out and yell at the person playing the stereo.

It was a moment of levity in an otherwise very tense situation and so I let out a gentle chuckle and shook my head.

“Oh, you think that’s funny?!” the large bearded man said. His face was turning red. “Yeah, that’s real funny…” he said.

And then he kicked the back of my leg, buckling my right knee and sending me sprawling onto the ground.

This is not the first time the press have been threatened or harassed at a Palin rally.

McCain Oopsapalooza Tour 12: 0 for 3 Presidential Debate Edition

Pretty is as pretty does. Oops.

Video: Katie Couric's Interview with Hilary Clinton On The Pres. Debates

Hilary Clinton on last nights Presidental Debate: "Barack Obama won, and now it is 3 for 3"!

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I helped write this ad with Laura Dawn and Peter Koechler of Move On, and Doug Liman, who directed. And if you don't recognize the cameos from Blake Lively and Penn Badgley, we'll be doing a follow-up ad called "How to talk to your kids about Gossip Girl."

Liz Gumbinner tries to use her copywriting skills for good, not evil, whenever possible. In her spare time, she blogs at Mom-101.

Past Opponents, Associates of Ayers Agree: Stop Targeting Obama over Ayers Connection

In this letter to The New York Times, former federal prosecutor William C. Ibershof, who lead the team of federal prosecutors who attempted to convict members of the Weathermen, including William Ayers, on conspiracy, weapons and bombing-related charges in the 1970s, states:

I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.

Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.

Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago.

History professor and author David S. Tanenhaus, who spent his graduate years in the '90s studying the legal history of the Chicago's juvenile-justice system, tells the story in Slate of a professor of education at the University of Illinois, whom he met during his studies - a man who volunteered to teach poetry classes to troubled youth in the Chicago juvenile justice system, and whose wife was the director of the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University.

McCain Oopsapalooza Tour 11 Along the River DeNial: Special "I'm Rubber, You're Glue" Edition

(Previous Oopsapaloozas here.)

Big words from the angry little man at the Fake Talk Express:

“When are you going to take the gloves off and just go at him?” a supporter asked the GOP nominee, leading the nearly 1,000 supporters in the crowd to leap to their feet and cheer.

“How bout Tuesday night,” McCain said, alluding to the next Presidential debate.

McCain threatened to Bring. It.

But It must've still been in Cindy's purse, or Palin's beehive. Or somewhere. It didn't get brung.

All bark on the stump speech, no bite in the debate I guess. McCain couldn't seem to muster the wherewithal to deliver his sleazy innuendoes to Obama, face to face.

Interesting. And just about every poll on the planet said that Obama was the clear winner--more worthy of trust, more likeable, more knowledgeable, more likely to fix the economy, more likely to care about middle class voters. Oops.

McCain a gambling man? Let us count the ways he lost his most recent bet

Newsweek's Richard Wolffe on Olbermann tonight talking about John McCain's hubris with regard to the bailout:

Here we have John McCain failing to live up to his own standards, his own measures. He said that he would suspend his campaign and get a deal he did neither. He said wouldn't debate until he got a deal there was no deal but he debated anyway. He said he wasn't going to phone it in—he was going to be fully involved—and he went to the phones. And, lastly his surrogates tried to claim credit for the deal but it ultimately fell apart. So by his own measure, McCain lost at least four different ways just in the last three or four days.

Presidential? Yeah, not so much.

Wolffe wraps it up by stating that McCain has lost credibility. He can't talk about the economy and the bailout in any way that helps himself so all he can do is attack Obama.

Let's not forget that a week ago, McCain was telling the country, "The fundamentals of our economy are strong." And still people want to vote for this guy? What am I missing here?

John McCain is yelling at MOMocrats co-founder Stefania Pomponi Butler to get off his lawn.

Wick Allison endorses Obama in D Magazine; says he's a conservative for Obama

In his article, "A Conservative for Obama," Wick Allison, former publisher of National Review and current Editor-In-Chief of D Magazine, wrote, "The more I listen to and read about “the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate,” the more I like him. Barack Obama strikes a chord with me like no political figure since Ronald Reagan. To explain why, I need to explain why I am a conservative and what it means to me."

Allison states in his article's subtitle that his party, "has slipped its moorings. It’s time for a true pragmatist to lead the country."

Read his story and explanation for why he thinks Obama is the best next President here.

Stewart and Colvert Mock the Vote with new Entertainment Weekly Cover

I can't wait to hear the conservative pundits on the new EW cover that features John Stewart and Stephen Colbert parodying the controversial New Yorker magazine cover of a few months ago.