Interesting article from U.S. News here discussing when Michael Whouley convinced John Kerry to tour Iowa in a helicopter (the "Kerry-copter") and saved his flagging campaign. Now Whouley is working for Hillary, and she's going to campaign in a helicopter. Is that all it takes? It's nothing new. LBJ used a helicopter, dubbed the "Johnson City Windmill" to spur his come from behind Senate win in 1948. He was copying New Jersey Republican Senator H. Alexander Smith who had used a campaign helicopter successfully in 1946. In the case of the "Hillacopter" I hear they are going to come in low into each town with loudspeakers blaring the "Ride of the Valkyries" . . .
If the Hillacopter encounters the Ron Paul Blimp, imagine the fun!
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"Broom One"
ht to ? Lucianne?
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If Bill comes, they can play the theme from "Don Juan in Hell"
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Helicopters have an annoying habit of falling out of the sky. (Hope, Hope, I Hope.)
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Speaking of Shrillary, I polled all my extended family's females, not one vote out of thirty-one.
Didn't bother polling the men.
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Makes sense since everybody knows the Bushees can crash planes, but not helicopters. Yet.
/kos
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Barnstorming in a crop duster bi-plane would be more Iowa sensitive. She'd look better in a helmut and goggles anyway. Maybe a banner behind it with "To Hill with Your Votes!"
Some amazing numbers were posted Friday for this weekend's movie releases. Warner Bros' I Am Legend opens closer to $80 million than the studio's hoped-for $50 million from Friday through Sunday after making a whopping $29.6 million Friday in 3,606 theaters.
This more than demonstrates that Will Smith is now the biggest U.S. box office stud bar none and breaks his previous opening record (I Robot's $62 mil in summer).
This also will easily be the biggest December movie opening ever...
...I won't have exit polling until tomorrow, but Smith is one of the few, if not only, Hollywood stars right now who tracks extremely well with both African-American and Hispanic audiences as well as whites.
That accounts for why I Am Legend's numbers went through the roof even though its "last man on earth who's not alone" subject matter is a downer. "But put Will Smith into it, and it really changes the equation," a Warner Bros source told me. "It's definitely tracking four quadrant."
I'm told the movie played broadly -- almost equally male/female, under age 25/over 25, ethnic/non-ethnic -- and playability was strong with all audiences being at or above the norms with males slightly stronger than females. That was evident even going into Friday, I was told, when the PG-13 thriller had definite interest among young males (74%), older males (67%), young females (56%) and older females (49%).
The only question now is whether the East Coast storms will affect Saturday and Sunday turnout there, prompting one Warner exec to rue not having a degree in meteorology... This was immediately compared to the publics willingness to accept a "polite and erudite" successful black man as a presidential candidate, and it is a comparison that will not be lost on Hillary's campaign. In fact, they should be shaking in their boots.
After Record Lows, Bush Gains With Republicans, Independents
Poll numbers at the link. No surprises, though the movement amongst independents who think the war is making progress is about 14 points better.
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No cite for this, but the 12/14 ABC nightly news with Charles Gibson broadcast mentioned good news for Iraq, in that no major violence was reported today.
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Oh, dear - this will set off a mad search by the mainstream media for traces and evidence of quagmire, incompetance and needless death. Any bad news will be fallen upon with tears of grateful ecstasy and screaming headlines above the fold.
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So much for the 'Great Wall' of the MSM. Even with the full power of government behind it, the Soviet propaganda machine couldn't hold back the truth. Of course their apologists rationalize the 'fall' happened only because the 'right' people were not in charge. MSM think they're the 'right' people.
There is no substitute for personal testimony/experience by one's family, friends, neighbors, community to 'validate' what the true story is. Just as the MSM media buries stories about crime perpetrated by 'protected groups', it can not overcome personal experience, no matter what the 'intentions' are. The same here. The troops coming home and telling the story. In Vietnam they carried the story that the government wasn't. It destroyed the credibility of the government. Here it is the story of Iraq that MSM doesn't tell. It is destroying the credibility of the MSM. Amazing how institutions don't learn.
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Bush's own poll numbers rising, parallel to Petraeus' progress in Iraq. The American people continue to have contempt for Congress, with lower approval ratings than the War. Here's yet another reason why.
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No the MSM and other Dem allies will not search for Quamire/Losing stuff - they will do what they ahve done: try to drop coverage completely so that they can keep peopel IGNORNAT of the success.
The MSM has yet to show victories (like MUsa Qala, Anbar, etc) on the news as victories.
And now it looks like thye never will.
They are abrogating their DUTY to inform the public - they are trying to influnce it instead. I say bring antitrust against all the big networks, Fox included. Break them up.
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Little wonder they are so afraid of bloggers. They were the leak in the damn of lies that was holding back the truth. The foundation has now been eroded away and the damn is breaking and cracking.
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They still can't resist trying to manipulate the news. In this case, they *changed* the poll questions from earlier polls, to downplay the change in public opinion in support of the war.
Before, when the public mood was more against the war, the question was "more" honest, along the lines of "Do you support the war in Iraq?"
But now the question is changed to "Is the war in Iraq worth fighting?"
You'll not that this question is a lot more contrived. Its axioms begin by saying that there is a "war" in Iraq, not an "occupation"; and "fighting", not "reconstruction", is going on, which is what almost ALL of the US military in Iraq are doing.
In truth, probably less than 1% of the US military in Iraq is currently "fighting" at all. Maybe 15% are to some degree supporting these "fighters", but the other 84% are either rebuilding Iraq, training Iraqi military and police, or just maintaining the US presence in the region.
So what would the American public say if asked to respond to a truly honest question:
"Is worth it for the US occupation forces in Iraq to continue to rebuild that nation?"
You have to wonder what the poll results from that would be.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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