Surprise, shock and some fear in a local neighborhood, after an anti-Obama display is hung from a tree. The display is at a home at Symmes and Hicks Road in Fairfield [Ohio].
And the person who put it there says the message isn't political, it's racist. Shawn Ley spoke with the man who isn't shy about his views.
There it is, right above the "McCain-Palin" sign: a make-shift ghost, hanging from a noose. A Barack Obama sign attached upside down. Obama's middle name: "Hussein" spray painted and misspelled above.
Mike Lunsford hung the ghost in his yard. He spoke to us off-camera, saying his views could hurt his employers business ... but he says make no mistake: He doesn't want an African American running the country.
Lunsford says he believes Barack Obama is not a "full blooded American." And he says the United States is a white, Christian nation - and only with white Christians should be in power. With Lunsford not willing to share his views on-camera:
"It's like whoa. He's definitely anti-black."
His neighbors are. Vickie Crowe lives next door. She's an Obama supporter.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Scholars and political prognosticators have devised numerous approaches to making election predictions. Add analysis of blinking to the the list.
And on that score, Barack Obama is projected to win in November because John McCain has blinked more than the Democrat during their debates, according to Joseph Tecce, a psychology professor at Boston College who has written a paper about blinking in debates.
Rapid blinking is an indicator of stress, Mr. Tecce said in an interview with Gatehouse News Service. Most people blink 10 to 20 times per minute, a rate that increases to 30 to 50 times per minute if they’re in front of a television camera, he said.
Senator McCain blinked 109 times per minute during the first presidential debate this fall, while Senator Obama blinked 73 times per minute, according to Mr. Tecce, who said that the gap persisted in the following two debates.
The professor said that the candidate who has blinked the most during debates has lost every presidential election since 1976, except for in 2000. George W. Bush blinked more than Al Gore, and lost the popular vote, but captured the White House.
To be fair, Senator Obama displayed some unappealing body language in the debates too, Mr. Tecce told Reuters. The Democrat tended to look at the ground more than his Republican challenger, he said.
But voters seem not to care as much about those visual cues as they do about rapid blinking, he said. When viewers pick up on the blinking, they seem to think, “There’s something about him that’s awfully twitchy and nervous, and I don’t think I want to vote for that guy,” Mr. Tecce said in an interview with Reuters.
I still think the blinking of McCain has to do with reaction to rationalizing lies as he tells them.
John McCain hung his final presidential debate performance on an Ohio plumber who campaign aides never vetted.
A day after making Joseph Wurzelbacher famous, referencing him in the debate almost two dozen times as someone who would pay higher taxes under Barack Obama, McCain learned the fine print Thursday on the plumber’s not-so-tidy personal story: He owes back taxes. He is not a licensed plumber. And it turns out that Wurzelbacher makes less than $250,000 a year, which means he would receive a tax cut if Obama were elected president.
McCain likes to say that he isn’t George W. Bush – and in this case of bungled public relations, it is clear he is not. The famously-disciplined Bush campaign operation would likely have found the perfect anonymous citizen to illustrate a policy proposal, rather than spontaneously wrap itself around an unknown entity with so many asterisks...
A McCain source said Thursday that the campaign read about Wurzelbacher on the Drudge Report, while another campaign aide confirmed that he was not vetted.
My Review of the final presidential debate between Obama and McCain can be summarized as a series of relentless mean-spirited insipid commentary from McCain. And in case we are unsure of the meaning behind the smirk and jerk:
mean , ignoble , abject , sordid mean being below the normal standards of human decency and dignity. mean suggests having such repellent characteristics as small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity <mean and petty satire>. ignoble suggests a loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind or spirit <an ignoble scramble after material possessions>. abject may imply degradation, debasement, or servility. sordid is stronger than all of these in stressing physical or spiritual degradation and abjectness.
What was up with McBlinky tonight? Series of pointless attacks, lies, and weird meandering commentary on Joe T. Plumber as known as Joe the Plumber also called under the alias Joe the small business owner.
Another worthless McCain performance, but expect the Rethuglicans to talk about how tough he was tonight. But yes, the emperor has no clothes. I wonder how many GOPers are going to jump ship after tonight.
(Reuters) - The Bush administration explicitly endorsed the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods against al Qaeda suspects in a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Rising Hegemon
