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BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE   BARACK OBAMA CALLED THESE REPORTERS SOBBING ON THE PHONE THIS EVENING.   "SWEETIE" WAS UPSET OVER THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN CALLING HIM OUT ON PLAYING THE VICTIM.    "BUT I ALWAYS PLAY THE VICTIM!" SWEETIE BARACK SOBBED.  "MY PEOPLE INVENT FANTASIES ABOUT PLOTS TO KILL ME, MY SURROGATES INVENT VERBAL ATTACKS ON ME AND IT ALWAYS DRIVES UP SUPPORT FOR ME.  IF I CAN'T PLAY THE VICTIM, HOW CAN I RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE?  IT'S NOT FAIR!"   FROM THE TCI WIRE:     Turning to the US presidential race.  Yesterday's financial goal for the Ralph Nader campaign was to reach $100,000 in the donations for the Nader Media Fund which led to some mocking in the press.  Not only did they reach $100,000, the campaign surpassed it, hitting $104,500 via donaors from around the country -- Texas, Wisconsin, Arizona, California, Oregon, Illinois, Colorado, Hawaii and elsewhere.  Meanwhile Richard Winger's Ballot Access News reports Ralph Nader is currently on the ballot in 38 states (the Green Party in 31, the Constitution Party in 33 and the Libertarian Party in 42 -- see chart at the top of the page). Hamza Shaban (The Cavalier Daily) observes, "What Democrats have failed to realize is this: Nader is most dangerous when he is ignored. As a politician on the fringe, he does not seek the broadest coalition but makes new ones. If his platform is not integrated into the Democratic party's, then he will relentlessly go after the disaffected and carve out his own demographic. What loyal Democrats call "spoiling," Nader calls a systemic and deliberate boycott."  Team Nader notes:   The Invisible Man, song by 98 Degrees - Justin Jeffre and Jeff Timmons. WATCH THE VIDEO The revolution will not be televised - but thanks to your help, it will be on youtube. We passed our media fund goal of $100,000 and brought in over $20,000 yesterday alone!  This video is our highlight reel from the "Open the Debates" super rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The rally took place on September 4, at the same time as the Republican National Convention in neighboring St. Paul. I flew to Minnesota to shoot video of this exciting event, then stayed up all night editing - I hope you enjoy the  result. Also, because of your generous support, you will see much more coverage of future events.  Please forward this video to your friends & family. Also please help us - subscribe to our youtube channel and rate our videos and comments!  Haven't had a chance to help our media fund grow? There's still time...contribute to our campaign today.   Onward    The RNC wrapped up their convention last night.  John McCain is the Republican nominee.  Governor Sarah Palin will be his running mate.  CBS Evening News' Cynthia Bowers reported on Palin (link has video and text) today.  CBS Evening News with Katie Couric found the anchor interviewing Cindy McCain on Wednesday (link has text and video).  Barack supporter Hillary Rosen (CNN) shows a stronger grasp of feminism than a number of leaders when she compiles her reasons for not supporting the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket but first calls out rank sexism, "I am a woman who someone took a chance on several years ago when they gave me a job that had only previously been done by old white guys. Experience? How do you get any if no one takes a chance on you? And the decision to take a chance can be instinctive, as John McCain said. And what about the argument that she is a negligent mother who will be distracted from her important role? I am a mother who constantly feels the pressure from others about whether I am fit to be a parent, whether I put my kids first often enough and whether my children get enough of my attention. Who has the right to judge my family? My grandmother always said, 'You can't tell time on someone else's clock.' Judgments about people's personal lives are better left unsaid and unrealized."   Tuesday night in Minneapolis, IVAW's Adam Kokesh participated in the Rally For The Republic.  Kokesh has posted a video of his speech at his website and below is transcription of the remarks he delivered:   Adam Kokesh: Thanks to a few neocon, chicken-hawk draft dodgers I was sent to Falluja in 2004 with the Marine Corps Civil Affairs Team and I found out the hard way that the greatest enemies of the Constitution of the United States of America are not to be found in the sands of some far off land but rather right here at home.  It's not enough to understand that the war in Iraq is simply unjust, illegal, unconstitutional, costing us a horrendous amount of money and destroying our military.  The issues before us today are a matter of life and death.  I continue to serve my country today as a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace and the Campaign for Liberty.  It is through the Campaign for Liberty that we will take Ron Paul's message, we will take the torch of freedom that he has borne so well for us, we will take it back to our communities and set brushfires of freedom in the mind of every liberty loving man, woman and child in this great country.  I'd like to take a second to recognize the veterans in the room -- if you would please stand -- and any active duty service members please stand.  These are the brave men and women who swore an oath with their lives to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.  And while it is our responsibility now to resist tyranny civily while we still can, there may come a time when we will say to the powers that be "With your blood or ours, we have come to water the tree of liberty."  And it is those veterans and myself, we will be on the frontlines.  Who will stand with us?  Thank you for taking that stand.  To all of you loyal soldiers in this new revolutionary army, it is an honor to count myself among your ranks and I salute you.  You want a revolution?  You better be ready to fight for it. Now I want you all to get back on your feet, take that stance for liberty with me, with all the veterans in this room, make for yourself the same committment with your lives, your fortunes and your sacred honor to our cause and make that pledge from your hearts where the fire of liberty burns that we will not rest 'till we achieve our goals and we get this new revolution in America.  Now I want you to stay on your feet for just for just another minute -- you're going to want to stay on your feet for this -- because now I have the great pleaure of introducing on behalf of the Campaign for Liberty, someone you have all been waiting to see, Aimee Allen.   Note, Adam is co-chair of IVAW.  He was speaking for himself at the Ron Paul rally as do all IVAW members participating in political campaigns for candidates.  IVAW does not endorse any single candidate, they do not belong to or serve one party.  IVAW is a diverse group in all ways including politically.  Their shared beliefs include an end to the illegal war, reperations for the Iraqi people and that US veterans' service is honored (and promises kept) by the US government.   Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has held multiple events in Wisconsin today and has more planned for tomorrow: Today she held a lunch (10:30 a.m.), a town hall (Walden III School, Racine) at one p.m., and a Park Six meet and greet starting at 4:30.  Saturday she will be speaking at the Fighting Bob Festival (Baraboo, Wisconsin at 10:20 in the morning and will be hosting another meet and greet this time at High Noon Salloon in Madison beginning at 5:30 p.m.).    RECOMMENDED: "Iraq snapshot" "Other Items" "Iraq" "I Hate The War" "The Kaminker Chronicles" "Lauren's Rice Topping and Sald in the Kitchen" "chalabi" "disgusted" "Ralph and The Mirror Has Two Faces" "Disappointments and strength" "Sad and mad" "Stop the sexism" "Nader, Roberta Flack, Ben's Chili Bowl" "Thoughts " "Weekend post" "Kwame Kilpatrick's disgrace" "Kwame the felon " "Barack needs a translator" "THIS JUST IN! 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