By anghiari

October 6, 2008 10:26 PM | Link to this

Hi all! Just posting this again at this specific site in case some mudpuppies didn’t get a chance to see this link to photos of the Fairbanks rally in an earlier comments section. I’m soooo proud of Alaskan Obama supporters. By the way, there was not a single mention in our Fairbanks Daily News Miner newspaper about the rally. Nada, despite contacting them with specifics AND only being about 4 blocks from their building. A conservative newspaper desperately trying to control reality. So….. we sent this link out via email to as many friends and family as possible, both in Alaska and in the Lower 48, and we’ve asked all to forward the link on and spread the word that MANY Alaskans are for Obama/Biden! fireweed (23:15:34) : http://www.flickr.com/photos/28321116@N06/sets/72157607750018225/detail/ This site has photos of the Fairbanks, Alaska Obama Rally from October 4th. It was at the Veterans’ Memorial Park on Cushman Street in downtown and went from 2:00 until just before 4:00. As you can tell in the photos, it was a nippy 35 or so degrees, though we had brilliant bursts of sun throughout the afternoon. There were many wonderful signs, lots of smiling faces and hugs, lots of energy and enthusiasm. Chants of “Fired Up/Ready to Go!” and “Obama!” filled the crisp air and echoed against City Hall and the State Building.

By anghiari

October 6, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

This ad represents a John McCain that is not far from the guy described in the Rolling Stone article. Rollingstone.com Make-Believe Maverick A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty TIM DICKINSON URL: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/makebelievemavericktherealjohnmccain 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.” McCAIN FIRST This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather. In its broad strokes, McCain’s life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers’ powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives’ evangelical churches. In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot