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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Thursday

ABC News reports that high profile Democratic donors are jumping off the Barack Obama ship and throwing their support to John McCain.  According to ABC, "More than 85 of Clinton's fundraisers, including Donald Trump, Univision chief executive Joseph Uva, cable mogul Charles Dolan, philanthropist Norma Hess and one of Florida's biggest lobbyists appear to be skipping Barack Obama when it comes to writing checks."  The most recent prominent Clinton supporter to jump ship is Alma Sanford, the chair of the Tennessee Democratic Women’s Political Action Committee.


Our favorite former ex-motorocycle cop and nominal Republican Dennis Zine has found folks even more anti-paparazzi than he himself - in the Ciry of Malibu.  On October 2nd Zine will take his traveling roads show to the Malibu Performing Arts Center where he will, as the Malibu Surfside News says, make the case that "the First Amendment shouldn’t stand in the way of one of the best publicity vehicles that a politician in a world entertainment center could have, even if there aren’t many celebrities in their own district."

I'm throwing my support behind Bernard Parks for County Supervisor.  I have my issues with Bernie but he's one of the few local pols who comes as close to "getting it" when it comes to business and jobs - despite lapses such as voting for Jan Perry's goofy fast food ban.  Doug McIntyre writes in the Daily News Wednesday that Parks' opponent, Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas, has the "stench of whoredom dripping" from him when it comes to the millions of dollars spent by public employee unions to elect Ridley-Thomas.  Unions who will expect Ridley-Thomas to "service them" when he gets into office. 

From the history vaults: Speaking of Ridley-Thomas, here's something that shows that he's been a race-card
player since even before Johnnie Cochran.  At a 1991 LA City Council Meeting, during a debate that eventually led to the appointment of Willie Williams as Chief of Police, now deceased former Councilman Ernani Bernardi remarked to Ridley-Thomas "Wait a minute will you Curly?"  Ridley-Thomas was certain that was a racist comment however friends of the musician turned Councilman - who was 79 years old at the time - said that Bernardi called every young person "Curly," irrespective of race.

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34 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Michael you've really lost it. Yeah, go ahead and spin against Obama. THat's why he raised $11 million in ONE NIGHT. McCain has more lobbyists behind him and lies about it. Bitter Bernie was the worst chief in the history of LAPD and the city council morons who voted AGAINST a 2nd reappointment now think he's good enough for Supervisor. Do your homework Michael? Talk to his constituents who have said he's done nothing for their community. No development but more liquor stores in his district. The guy is a corrupt piece of crap. Why aren't you going after Villaraigosa with all the union money.

September 18, 2008 6:31 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Anybody want to caption this picture?

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09/17/McCain%20and%20Palin%20in%20Miichigan.jpg

September 18, 2008 8:24 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2008/09/wapo-white-hous.html

Need more evidence that the bad economy is hitting too close to those who allowed it to happen? White House press secretary Dana Perino narrowly avoided foreclosure on her house.

September 18, 2008 8:28 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

For those of you who are getting cranky about polls that are conducted among registered voters and not most likely voters, this new CBS poll shows that Obama has regained the lead, and it's the same among registered and most likely voters - 4%.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/17/opinion/polls/main4456249.shtml

September 18, 2008 8:36 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Too funny! 6 reasons why John McCain could not have invented the BlackBerry:

http://www.comedy.com/blog/2008/09/17/6-reasons-why-john-mccain-could-not-have-invented-the-blackberry/

September 18, 2008 8:39 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

B Hussein Obama's "tax plan" includes raising the maximum income tax rate from 35% to 40%, lifting the social security cap, another 15% subject to tax. So in effect if you live in a high tax state like California with a 10% rate you are facing a 65% effective incremetal tax rate. You dont need to be D Trump to figure out that is a recipe for disaster. He also wants to raise the current capital gains rate, currently 15%. He also promises reducing taxes for 95% of taxpayers. This makes no sense because currently 40% pay zero federal income taxes, so how do you reduce zero taxed paid? Answer, a "back door" welfare plan which will only encourage a bigger culture of entitlement.

September 18, 2008 8:56 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Obama-bin-Biden rail against millionaires and elites and critique McCain for being rich.

Then BRAG about getting $11 million in one night from decrepit Babs Streisand and a handful of other aging stars and trust fund babies.

September 18, 2008 8:58 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Obama gets $11 million from:

Table No. 1
Christopher Boicelli, David Hoberman, Tia Hoberman, Eddie Murphy, Suzanne Saperstein, Eric Schmidt, Wendy Schmidt, Elizabeth Wiatt, Jim Wiatt, Christina Zilber

Table No. 2
Ina Coleman, John Emerson, Kimberly Emerson, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, Brindell Gottlieb, Bruce Karsh, Martha Karsh, John Lovelace, Lillian Lovelace, Austin Wilson

Table No. 3
Herb Alpert, Lani Alpert, Ernie Banks, Liz Banks, Bradley Bell, Colleen Bell, Jennifer Hecht, Sean Hecht, Burton Sperber, Charlene Sperber

Table No. 4
Antonio Banderas, Roger Birnbaum, Eva Chow, Michael Chow, Kai Cole, Tom Freston, Melanie Griffith, Irene Roth, Joe Roth, Joss Whedon

Table No. 5
Dan Abrams, Fernando Aguerre, Chris Albrecht, Terry Bean, Bruce Cohen, Festus Dada, Tom McGrath, Sandy Medallis, Eric Paquette, Jessica Pastino

Table No. 6
Phil Angelides, Jolene Blalock, Dana Kiesel, Robert Margolis, Vance Owen, Kathleen Poncher, Mitchell Quaranta, Nina Quaranta, Michael Rapino, Barbara Wiser

Table No. 7
Barry Meyer, Monica Rosenthal, Phil Rosenthal, Ben Silverman, Aaron Sorkin, Darren Star, Beth Swofford, Gary Tobey, Suzanne Tobey, Paula Weinstein

Table No. 8
Austin Beutner, Virginia Beutner, Jim Brooks, Ellis Jones, Lisa Jones, Barry Lang, Jane Lang, Jamie Lynton, Michael Lynton, Barbara Mandel

Table No. 9
Clarence Avant, Ron Gillyard, Lisa Hansen, Quincy Jones, James Lassiter, David Pressler, Brenda Richie, Mia Sara, Chris Silbermann

Table No. 10
Skip Brittenham, Gary Goldberg, Laurie MacDonald, Diana Meehan, Walter Parkes, Eleanor Rothman, Tom Rothman, Heather Thomas, John Wells, Marilyn Wells

Table No. 11
Christine Forester, David Geffen, Stanley Grinstein, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Marilyn Katzenberg, Jeremy Lingvall, Charlie Rivkin

Table No. 12
Christie Burton, Bob Daly, Carole Daly, Berry Gordy, Susan Harris, Mo Ostin, Paul Junger Witt, Robert Zemeckis, Leslie Zemeckis

Table No. 13
Kristin Dornig, LouAnne Kellman, Brian Khoury, Judith Krantz, Steve Krantz, Tony Krantz, Tim Ludwig, Virginia Mussio, Kim Parker

Table No. 14
Gerry Breslauer, Bruce Corwin, Anne Globe, Brad Globe, Joyce Klein, Barbara Marshall, Garry Marshall, Guy Oseary, Billy Ray, Peg Yorkin

Table No. 15
Jodie Foster, Janusz Kaminski, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Audra Nathanson, Jeff Nathanson, Rebecca Rankin, Stacey Snider, Hans Zimmer, Suzanne Zimmer

Table No. 16
Leonardo DiCaprio, Brian Grazer, Nicky Hilton, Cheryl Howard, Paige Howard, David Katzenberg, Karey Kirkpatrick, Chris Rock, Andrew Sassoon, Chosan Nguyen, Chris Columbus

Table No. 17
Samuel Amagen, Nicolas Berggruen, Charles Berney, John Langley, Renee Moore, Dolores Robinson, Jeff Skoll, Bruce Smith, David Rubin

Table No. 18
Jane Bovingdon Semel, Polly Draper, Ken Grouf, Jim Kelly, Bettina Kurowski, Richard Roberts, Adam Shankman, Edward Tabash, Christina Yorn, Mark Kleiman

Table No. 19
Nicole Avant, Kate Capshaw, Ari Emanuel, Sidney Felson, Kelly Meyer, Ron Meyer, Jennifer Perry, Andy Spahn, Steven Spielberg, Joanie Wyel

Table No. 20
Megan Chernin, Peter Chernin, Jami Gertz, Jim Gianopulos, Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Meyer, Barry Porter, Tony Ressler, Chris Rock, Reagan Silber

Table No. 21
Lois Gunther, Richard Gunther, Jenna King, Michael King, Mattie Lawson, Michael Lawson, Lyn Lear, Irena Medavoy, Mike Medavoy

Table No. 22
Greg Daniels, Larry David, Sarah Emanuel, Marta Kaufman, Alexandra Meneses Simpson, Elon Musk, Liz Naftali, Talulah Riley, John Simpson, Michael Skloff

Table No. 23
Peter Berg, Leah Fischer, Sam Fischer, Camille Guaty, David Kelley, Tim Kring, Seth MacFarlane, Cheryl Miller, Jim Miller, Rick Rosen

Table No. 24
Will Ferrell, Andy Gordon, Tom Hamilton, Victoria Jackson, Brittany Lovett, Richard Lovett, Viveca Paulin Ferrell, Arnold Stiefel, Pauletta Washington, Renee Zellweger

Table No. 25
Frank Agrama, Debbie Attanasio, Mark Attanasio, Alan Fox, Daveen Fox, Carol Hamilton, David Khon, James Mangold, Candace McKeever, Wendy Wanderman

Table No. 26
Elizabeth Hayward, Michael Hayward, Mira Hayward, David Hines, Chris Lambert, Crystal Nix Hines, Lynda Resnick, Richard Riordan, Jan Tuttleman, Mary Urquhart, Lisa Wolf

Table No. 27
Jamie Lee Curtis, Van Fletcher, Richard Foos, Shari Foos, Christopher Guest, Alan Hergott, Skip Paul, Curt Shepard, Barbara Sherman, Richard Sherman

Table No. 28
Elaine Attias, Jules Daly, Kevin Eubanks, Bill Guthy, Meena Harris, Dennis Haysbert, Randy Jackson, Suzanne Saperstein, Abby Sher, Sam Simon, Jenna Stewart

Table No. 29
Jodie Evans, Amanda Fairey, Shepard Fairey, Ellen Grinstein, Rami Kolahi, Ken Luskin, Jonathan Palevsky, Max Palevsky, Sylvie Rabineau, Frank Smith

Table No. 30
Joe Calabrese, Margot Calabrese, Anne Gifford, Chad Gifford, Bram Goldsmith, Elaine Goldsmith, Russell Goldsmith, Ed Redlich, Catharine Soros, Jeffrey Soros, Sarah Timberman

September 18, 2008 9:01 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

8:58

Movie stars are less likely to ask for something back that will personally enrich themselves, as opposed to the developers, lobbyists, big oil execs, and all the manipulators who contribute to McCain.

September 18, 2008 9:01 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

6:31am- Give the picture another look. Make a rubber stamp of Villaraigosa and press it down on some paper. What do you get?
"Mark Ridley-Thomas"

ALL candidates get funding from people AND special interest groups as "forget-me-nots", but Ridley-Thomas has all that and a marriage proposal (he's ALREADY in bed with them). Check the amount of money in each man's campaign coffers and the sources.

Anyone deciding to VOTE AGAINST Parks as some payback from the past is GETTING A WORSE future with Ridley-Thomas. The writing is on the wall and this is effectively a lifetime job once elected. Damage control if nothing else will say NO on Ridley-Thomas. We can't afford his style of politics.

Ridley-Thomas gave us a peek at his current loyalties with the bill FOR MORE BILLBOARD blight that was defeated at the state level. Who might you think HE favors?

Your last sentence, "Why aren't you going after Villaraigosa with all the union money," must be directed to state and federal prosecutors because everyone ELSE has already brought these things up. Even so, that doesn't mean all other politicians should be left to fly under the radar.

In CD-14, and already know about Tony V.

September 18, 2008 9:11 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

8:56

You might want to refer back to the CNN story on a report released by the nonprofit Tax Policy Center that analyzed the tax plans of Obama and McCain.

McCain's plan would reduce taxes for the richest citizens and lower the corporate tax rate.

Obama's plan aimed the biggest reductions at the middle and lower classes, and raised rates for the richest among us, like Donald Trump.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates_taxproposals_tpc/

September 18, 2008 9:11 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I wonder why Antonio Banderas isn't voting for McCain he seems to like them old like Melanie Griffith.

September 18, 2008 9:19 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

B. Hussain Obama - the black Muslim, Socialist/Fascist "N"!!!

They don't come any sleazier than this black, radical Chicago thug!

He makes my skin crawl! He is a real "N"!!! But I definitely would vote for a black man...i.e. Colin Powell or Condi Rice! Just not the magic "N"!

September 18, 2008 9:48 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

9:19 a.m.- It's all about your point of view. You say, "... he seems to like them old like Melanie Griffith."

From my point of view, she's still young. I saw "Something Wild" and have been a fan ever since.

So that makes ME old, like it or not.

It's all relative.

September 18, 2008 9:49 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Who is George Bush supporting for president?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bush19-2008sep19,0,2126868.story

Bush says he's working hard on economic turmoil

WASHINGTON -- With the financial markets in turmoil, President Bush said Thursday that he shares Americans' concerns and the government will act aggressively to avert a deepening crisis.

Bush was supposed to spend the day in Alabama and Florida raising money for Republicans and talking energy policy. But he canceled the trip to focus on what is unfolding as the worst financial meltdown since the Great Depression.


Aiming to be reassuring and to show that he is working on the problem, he said the markets are adjusting to the "extraordinary measures" that have been taken in recent days by the federal government.

"The American people can be sure we will continue to act to strengthen and stabilize our financial markets and improve investor confidence," Bush said in two minutes of remarks delivered outside the Oval Office.

He did not specify what actions would be taken. The president was to meet with economic advisers over much of the day, and was seeing Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson at the White House later Thursday.


"Our financial markets continue to deal with serious challenges," he said. "As our recent actions demonstrate, my administration is focused on meeting these challenges."

The market conditions have put the White House into crisis mode. But Bush has behaved very differently than in previous crises -- for instance around the start of the Iraq war, of after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 or last month's invasion by Russia of tiny neighbor Georgia. In those cases, Bush would talk nearly every day on the issue. This week, he has been notably silent.

September 18, 2008 9:54 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Wow! I would taken out a mortgage on my house to sit at a table with Ernie Banks. That sealed the deal for me!

Now compare this to the lobbyists who buy seats to a McCain event and staff his campaign.

September 18, 2008 10:25 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

O.K. let's play this game....

What table would you have wanted to sit at? I can't decide between Table 23 (David Kelley and Seth McFarlane) or Table 15 (I love Jodie Foster). Of course at 28 grand a seat, I wouldn't have been allowed into the Beverly Hills city limits!

September 18, 2008 10:52 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

really - Chris Rock paid twice to sit at two different tables?

September 18, 2008 12:19 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Obama's internet campaign started out innocently enough with basic e-mail networking , lists saved from previous party campaigns and from supporters who visited any of the Obama campaign web sites.

Small contributions came in from these sources and the internet campaign staff were more than pleased by the results.

Then, about two months into the campaign the daily contribution intake multiplied. Where was it coming from? One of the web site security monitors began to notice the bulk of the contributions were clearly coming in from overseas internet service providers and at the rate and frequency of transmission it was clear these donations were programmed by a very sophisticated user.

While the security people were not able to track most of the sources due to firewalls and other blocking devices put on these contributions they were able to collate the number of contributions that were coming in seemingly from individuals but the funds were from only a few credit card accounts and bank electronic funds transfers. The internet service providers (ISP) they we re able to trace were from Saudi Arabia , Iran , and other Middle Eastern countries. One of the banks used for fund transfers was also located in Saudi Arabia .

Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with a similar pattern of limited credit card charges

It became clear that these donations were very likely coming from sources other than American voters. This was discussed at length within the campaign and the decision was made that none of these donations violated campaign financing laws.

It was also decided that it was not the responsibility of the campaign to audit these millions of contributions as to the actual source (specific credit card number or bank transfer account numbers) to insure that none of these internet contributors exceeded the legal maximum donation on a cumulative basis of many small donations. They also found the record keeping was not complete enough to do it anyway.

This is a shocking revelation.

We have been concerned about the legality of bundling contributions after the recent exposure of illegal bundlers but now it appears we may have an even greater problem.

I guess we should have been somewhat suspicious when the numbers started to come out. &nb sp;We were told (no proof offered) that the Obama internet contributions were from $10.00 to $25.00 or so.

If the $200,000,000 is right, and the average contribution was $15.00, that would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That would also be 13 million contributions would need to be processed. How did all that happen?

I believe the Obama campaign's internet fund raising needs a serious, in depth investigation and audit. It also appears the whole question of internet fund raising needs investigation by the legislature and perhaps new laws to insure it complies not only with the letter of these laws but the spirit as well.

September 18, 2008 1:06 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

PEOPLE HAVE TO PICK BETWEEN EVILS IT'S CLOSE BUT I THINK OBAMA GETS IT BY A NOSE. MCCAIN WILL RUIN THE ENVIRONMENT FOR OIL AND LOOSE MORE MONEY ON THIS WAR.

September 18, 2008 1:32 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

All any intelligent person has to do is look at the mess our country is in and has been in for the last 8 years under the Republicans. This has opened the door for terrorists to take advantage of a country that is in turmoil financially thanks to Bush and people like McCain who refused to regulate and over see the banks. McCain and Palin can only offer the same bullshit like Bush. You can't be that naive to want more of this crap.

September 18, 2008 1:40 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/18/hacker-claims-to-have-tricked-yahoo-to-gain-password-to-palin-e-mail/

Looks like, in fact, Palin may have made it easy for pranksters, not liberals, to hack into her personal email by forgetting some of the basic rules of creating passwords.

Often people who aren't too bright use very obvious passwords to help them remember the passwords. So knowing things like their children's names, their dogs' names, where they went to school, the make of their favorite sem-automatic weapon allows hackers to hack.

September 18, 2008 3:48 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/217710.php

Too funny. Or is it sad. In an interview with the Spanish media McCain got terribly confused about whether or not the Prime Minister of Spain is a friend or enemy, and even whether or not Spain is in Europe.

This is going to be one heck of a presidency. Wouldn't you think that some White House people would be briefing him before an interview on the subject of relations with Spain? But then again, maybe they did and just simply forgot.

September 18, 2008 4:00 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

McCain calls for Bush to fire the former conserevative Repbulican congressman who now heads the Security and Exhange Commission. Wanna bet that McCain's top advisers are the same ones who advised Bush to appoint the guy in the first place?

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) - Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain on Thursday called for the firing of Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox. McCain said Cox "serves at the appointment of the President and, in my view, has betrayed the public's trust. If I were President today, I would fire him."

September 18, 2008 4:09 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

How could Phil Angelides, an honest elected official, afford that kind of money? Tasteless as it was the day after the stock market plunged, Metrolink crashed and people in from Texas to New Orleans were losing their homes, millions forced to evacuate. Memories of Katrina fresh.

Just because McCain married into money doesn't give these upstarts of "the people's party" the right to be so flagrantly Louis Catorce.

September 18, 2008 4:33 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Doesn't the name "Sarah Palin" mean anything in this state anymore?

From the Los Angeles Times today:

ALASKA

Rep. Don Young won the Republican primary for the state's only House seat, state officials said in Juneau.

With the last 350 absentee and provisional ballots tallied from the Aug. 26 election, Young beat Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell by 304 votes.

Parnell, who had the backing of Gov. Sarah Palin, has said he would ask for a recount. That could take 10 days, officials said.

September 18, 2008 4:44 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Ruben Navarrette: Party before policy on immigration reform
Article Launched: 09/17/2008 06:16:29 PM PDT


AS they recall the failure of immigration reform in Congress, Democrats want to come off as the good guys.

This means burying the fact that their patrons in organized labor instructed them to kill any compromise that included guest workers - a concept AFL-CIO President John Sweeney termed "a bad idea (that) harms all workers."

And it means trying to refute a new Spanish-language television ad from the McCain-Palin campaign that blames Barack Obama and other Senate Democrats for undermining immigration reform in 2007 with procedural delays and "poison pill" amendments intended to make the legislation unpalatable to Republicans.

Translated, the ad says: "Obama and his congressional allies say they are on the side of immigrants. But are they? The press reports that their efforts were `poison pills' that made immigration reform fail. The result: No guest worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure borders. No reform. Is that being on our side? Obama and his congressional allies: Ready to block immigration reform, but not ready to lead."

That is exactly what happened. It was smart but cynical politics. Led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrats were able to please the unions and deny a Republican president a huge legislative victory, all the while making it look as if the opposing party was to blame for the debacle.

Luckily, some members of the media kept their eye on the ball and put the blame where it belonged: on Reid and the Democrats. The Washington Post's David Broder, in a column published in June 2007, blasted Reid for going "out of his way to rewrite (the immigration bill) to meet the demands of organized labor."
Now, in response to the McCain-Palin ad, Democrats are practicing revisionist history. Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey said in a statement released by the Obama campaign: "To say that Barack Obama and Senate Democrats blocked the bill that Republicans filibustered is hypocritical and not true. John McCain has lost his credibility when it comes to the immigration issue ... (He) cannot attack Democrats on immigration in Spanish while pandering to the extreme right Tancredo wing of the Republican Party in English."

I understand that Menendez is trying to earn Obama's good graces after being a vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton in the primaries. But did he really compare McCain to Tom Tancredo, the nativist congressman who also sought the GOP nomination in this year's primaries?

Senator, I know Tom Tancredo. I've written about Tom Tancredo. And John McCain is no Tom Tancredo. One of the few things that these men share is a strong dislike for one another. In one debate, McCain described Tancredo's explanation of what makes someone an American as "beyond my realm of thinking."

Others on the left are also lending a hand to Democratic efforts at damage control. They include groups dedicated to the admirable goal of achieving comprehensive immigration reform. What is not so admirable is the way that these groups have turned on McCain, whom not long ago they praised for fighting the good fight on the immigration issue. Now they claim that McCain has flip-flopped.

Baloney. They're the ones who flip-flopped, and for no grander reason than because we're in an election year.

"We are stunned," declared Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, a Washington-based liberal-leaning organization in a statement.

"A Spanish-language ad approved by Sen. John McCain accuses Sen. Obama and the Democrats of derailing immigration reform? He knows better. The whole political world knows better. Comprehensive immigration reform was blocked not by Democrats but by Republicans. ... Immigrants and Latinos are intelligent. They know the difference between fact and fiction."

I always appreciate it when non-Latinos are patronizing and tell me what I should or shouldn't know. I know this much: Some folks inside the Beltway are so eager to put a Democrat in the White House that they're putting party before truth.

They include Latino groups such as the National Council of La Raza and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund who, as Sharry said, should know better.

During a conference call this week with reporters, NCLR Vice President Cecilia Munoz also criticized the ad and called immigration an issue that "tends to determine who the good guys are and the bad guys are for Latinos."

That implies that these advocacy groups can tell the difference. That's the point. Blinded by partisanship, they haven't a clue.

ruben.navarrette@uniontrib.com.

Ruben Navarrette is a syndicated columnist with The San Diego Union-Tribune.

September 18, 2008 4:48 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I read the news story which juut proves how much bullshit FatBoy Higby prints about Sarah Palin.

But what was also interesting is the a group called AnonyMous is thought by some to be responsible. I still remember AnoyMous and Don Quixote going at it on this blog. AnonyMous is a real trouble maker, make Don Quixote can reach out to Sarah Palin and they can get that low down dirty rascal AnonyMous !!!


http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/18/hacker-claims-to-have-tricked-yahoo-to-gain-password-to-palin-e-mail/

Jose Nazario, a senior security engineer with Arbor Networks Inc., said he knows “through personal contacts” that members of the group Anonymous were involved in the Palin e-mail attack.

September 18, 2008 4:56 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

All this political bable has made me hungry, who has the best Huevos Rancheros?


http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/498728

September 18, 2008 7:57 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

The only way to bring forth change is to expose the Local, County, State and Federal politicians, Republican and Democratic a like, on their money trail. Both Presidential Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are claiming CHANGE????

Please view videos on ABC News: The Money Trail with Brian Ross & The Investigative Team.

ABC News – Nightline
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/MoneyTrail/

September 18, 2008 8:59 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

FBI investigating Obama campaign hacked Palin's email. Dang if that's true Obama is in deep doo doo.

September 18, 2008 11:15 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Has Joe Biden ever called Obama Curly?

September 18, 2008 11:15 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

oh boy! did don quixote hack palin's computer?

September 18, 2008 11:16 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

What a bunch of nuts! Both Democrats and Republicans helped to create this mess, and lined their pockets while the economy started to nosedive. In many ways, this current financial crisis resembles that of the Crash of '29, except shortselling stock caused the Great Depression, and bundling real estate debt into securities caused the current crisis. The underlying cause of both however, was greed.

Both political parties remind me of two bunches of schoolboys arguing over who wants change more, who has the better programs, and which group's fault it is for the current situation - not realizing, nor admitting it's the fault of both groups.

"Politics can be compared to practicing medicine without a license. It's the art of looking for problems, finding them everywhere, misdiagnosing the disease, and then applying the wrong prescription."
--Author unknown.

September 18, 2008 11:50 PM  

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