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it's sad that whomod cant deal with a woman in power, first Hilary and now Palin, no wonder women are switching their votes in droves....

whomod failed to read the whole story he linked to, Palin got them out from under payments for a plane that was rarely used. of course being a supporter of the jet setting hollywood elite he cant understand this. he would have rather her burned up the taxpayers money(and tax them to pay for it btw), at least they could fly in class!

North Hollywood school shows up on McCain speech background

By Tony Castro, Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 09/05/2008 03:59:43 PM PDT

What's in a name? Students at Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood were finding out first hand Friday what Shakespeare might have meant.

Their school became the center of nation attention after a blow-up photo of the front of the mansion-like school building was mistakenly used as a backdrop for GOP nominee John McCain's nationally televised acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention Thursday night.



Republican convention planners apparently Googling for a photo of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, may have found a picture of the exterior of the school instead.

By late Friday morning, the middle school's phone system had become so overloaded with calls that Principal Donna Tobin posted an official response on the school's web site rather than field all the calls personally.

"It has been brought to the school's attention that a picture of the front of our school, Walter Reed Middle School, was used as a backdrop at the Republican National Convention," Tobin said in her statement. "Permission to use the front of our school for the Republican National Convention was not given by our school nor is the use of our school's picture an endorsement of any political party or view."

Early afternoon Friday, a San Fernando Valley Democratic Party official and parent of a student at the school held a news conference in front of the suddenly nationally famous backdrop to make political hay of the Republicans' embarrassing incident.

"It was a big mistake wasn't it," said John Heaner, the Region 13 director of the California Democratic Party and member of the Walter Reed Middle School PTA.
"When you show a picture like that for five minutes in prime-time and you're not sure what you're showing, that's revealing.

"I can't lay this at feet of John McCain directly, but certainly his campaign is to blame."

Regional 13 of the Democratic Party extends from North Hollywood to West Hills and from Brentwood to Santa Clarita.

McCain and Republican officials did not immediately comment.

But the story became fodder for McCain bashing in the blogosphere.

LAist.com wrote that the mistaken middle school's photo on Google "sounds like the most plausible reason for how North Hollywood made its way into John McCain's big speech... unless he loves the San Fernando Valley that much.

"In any event, school officials are pissed and news of the flub has already made its way to their Wikipedia page, so now you know it's real.

"Incidentally, the school's facade does look like a huge mansion, perhaps not too dissimilar from one of McCain's houses."

G-man seems to be a one trick pony.

It's despicable that this sort of thing happens to anyone. Especially someone like John MCain who served honorably and suffered for his country. It's just endemic of this attitude that opponents must be destroyed at all costs.

John McCain has overtaken Barack Obama in the Gallup daily tracking poll and has his highest level of support in that poll since early May.

McCain leads Obama 48 percent to 45 percent among registered voters, by Gallup’s measure. McCain has so far earned the same convention bounce as Obama, though at a more rapid pace.

Obama peaked at a 5-point convention bounce in polling published last Tuesday. He was ahead 49 percent to 43 percent in the Gallup poll conducted before the Republican convention. He then soared to 50 percent for the first time of the election, by Gallup’s measure, while McCain fell to 42 percent.

McCain’s 5-point to 6-point bounce so far, like Obama’s, remains at par with historical expectations. In the 22 major-party conventions since 1964, the nominee walked away with, on average in most years, a 5-point to 6-point uptick in Gallup’s polls. The presidential polling will likely remain in flux until the middle of next week.

Today's Gallup report continues to include some polling conducted prior to McCain's acceptance speech. Tomorrow's report will be the first to include interviews solely conducted following the close of the GOP convention.

Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll also reported today that when "leaners” are included, Obama and McCain are now tied at 48 percent. That means that, by Rasmussen’s measure, Obama’s 6-point bounce has been erased. CBS News polling had shown the same outcome midway through the GOP convention.

McCain’s resurgence in the polls comes as Nielsen Media Research reported that the Republican convention earned more television viewers than the Democratic convention. Republicans earned an average audience of 34.5 million, while Democrats earned an average viewership of 30.2 million.

Obama, McCain and GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin all earned a similar and record audience for their convention speeches, each nearing about 40 million viewers.

While McCain's accounts have captured the pain of her addiction, her journey through this personal crisis is a more complicated story than she has described, and it had more consequences for her and those around her than she has acknowledged.

ohn McCain’s “Straight Talk Express” zoomed past Barack Obama yesterday in a series of presidential polls.

But the news is not all bad for Obama, with some voters aproving of his values, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.

Poll points include:

McCain leading Obama 48 to 44 percent overall, with the GOP ticket still holding the post-convention bump.

Obama up by 5 points with women, but McCain ahead by 12 points among white women.

Sarah Palin ranked higher, at 42 percent, than either McCain or Obama when white women were asked which candidate shares their values and principles “a lot.”

Obama has an 18-percentage-point lead among voters who said they look more to a contender’s values and views than experience.

Yesterday’s Gallup daily poll puts McCain up 48 percent to 45 percent over Obama among registered voters.

Yesterday’s Rasmussen daily poll also shows McCain up by 3 points.

www.nationalenquirer.com

There was a time (I never believed it, but there was a time) when McCain was considered a "straight talker.

There was a time (I never believed it, but there was a time) when McCain was considered a "straight talker.

Now if you ran ...John McCain, i'd be running over to GOP campaign headquarters shouting HURRAH! an honest Republican ticket!!

McCain-Palin Crowd-Size Estimates Not Backed by Officials

By Lorraine Woellert and Jeff Bliss

Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Senator John McCain has drawn some of the biggest crowds of his presidential campaign since adding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to his ticket on Aug. 29. Now officials say they can't substantiate the figures McCain's aides are claiming.

McCain aide Kimmie Lipscomb told reporters on Sept. 10 that an outdoor rally in Fairfax City, Virginia, drew 23,000 people, attributing the crowd estimate to a fire marshal.

Fairfax City Fire Marshal Andrew Wilson said his office did not supply that number to the campaign and could not confirm it. Wilson, in an interview, said the fire department does not monitor attendance at outdoor events.

In recent days, journalists attending the rallies have been raising questions about the crowd estimates with the campaign. In a story on Sept. 11 about Palin's attraction for some Virginia women voters, Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher estimated the crowd to be 8,000, not the 23,000 cited by the campaign.

He doesn't post, he spams. That's what he's always done. He's too cowardly to actually communicate with anyone here (send him a PM. He hates reading those). He spams all the liberal talking points for the week then runs away hoping no one challenges him on anything.