Three hundred absentee ballots in Rensselaer County, New York included Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with his name spelled “Osama”.
County Democratic Chairman Tom Wade said, “Of all the letters to hit by mistake, unfortunately it is a mistake which negatively impacts our Democratic candidate for president.”
Elections officials on both sides insist it was nothing more than a simple typographical error. Republican Commissioner Larry Bugbee added, “We have three different staff members who proof these things and somehow the typo got by us. We really apologize.”
Officials issued new ballots to all 300 voters since any corrections on a ballot nullifies a vote. The Obama campaign announced it was “glad officials are working to correct this error and we assume it won’t happen again”.
MCCAIN SAYS HE’LL WHIP OBAMA
When Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain face off in their final presidential debate Wednesday night at Hofstra University in New York, McCain says he’s going to “whip [Obama's] you-know-what”.
Speaking to volunteers at his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on Sunday, McCain said:
“After I whip his you-know-what in this debate, we’re going to be going out 24/7.” McCain immediately added: “I want to emphasize again, I respect Senator Obama. We will conduct a respectful race, and we will make sure that everybody else does, too.”
And I’m telling you, we’re coming on and we’re going to work 24/7 for the next — who’s counting — 22 days…I’d like to give you a little straight talk, we’re a couple points down, okay, nationally, but we’re right in this game. The economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two, but in the last few days we’ve seen it come back up because they want experience, and they want knowledge and they want vision. And we’ll give that to America, and I know that we’re going to win this race.”
The final debate, which will have the same format as the first, begins at 9pm ET, and will broadcast on major networks ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, in addition to cable news channels such as C-SPAN, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. The topics include domestic and economic policy and at the end of the debate, each candidate will have the opportunity for a 90-second closing statement.
‘REPUBLICAN MEANS SLAVERY’
The vandalism of the York County, South Carolina GOP campaign headquarters is the latest racially-charged event of the presidential election. Volunteers discovered the words “Republican means slavery” spray-painted on the door Saturday.
They also reported about 45 candidate signs had been stolen and a banner with a picture of John McCain had been spray-painted.
Recent McCain rallies have incited spectators to yell comments such as “kill him”, “treason” and “off with his head” when they refer to Sen. Barack Obama.
what A SPICY ASS POST!!!!
New york, Isnt that one of the hard charging Obama states. Sad.
Black people are so confuse. Republican dosent mean Slavery. Until the mid 70′s all of the south was demacratic. That means the people who want to keep slavery alive along with segragation were white dems. Texas and GA use to be Dem states until the republicans came to the south and started getting the black vote. Then all of the sudden if you want to win you had to be republican. Just a little civic for the young ones that dont know and the ones who forgot
Fuckin old FOOL! Cant STAND his OLD ass!
I live in NY. They did that ish on purpose-it’s so f***king racist here especially in those small towns upstate.
Like I said before this old man and his bimboes have lost their damn minds!!! Yeah, I really believe that was a slip that they wrote OSAMA on those ballots, more Freudian than, accidental, some of these white fools behind closed doors believe that mess!
They don’t want people to play the race card but they continue to play the point that he is not like “us” Americans, WTF, now this fool is talking about “whipping” somebody??? If he wants to go there his cracker ass won’t like the result!!!
ut, it doesn’t matter what they do or say, if Sen. Obama is to be President, he will be and nothing can stop it!!
OBAMA 08!!
THAT SHIT REALLY AND TRULY PISSED ME OFF!!….HOW THE FUCK U MISS “B” 4 “S”…..THEY PLANNED THAT BULLSHIT AND THEY KNOW IT…LOOKIN AT MY KEYBOARD RIGHT NOW…THE LETTER “S” IS NO WHERE CLOSE TO “B”….U KNOW WHAT THAT’S BESIDES THE POINT. JUST CUZ OF THAT IMA MAKE IT MY BIZNEZZ THAT BARACK WINS BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY…THIS COUNTRY IS RIDICULOUS SOMETIMES MAN !!
Some Important things voters should know:
1.Do not wear any paraphenalia to the polls when going to vote. You will not be allowed to vote.
2. If you are voting absentee like college students, please remeber to send your papers in NOW to receive the absentee ballad.
3. If you are voting absentee check your ballad and make sure everything is spelled correctly. IF not immediately order another one because they will throw away your vote if the absentee ballad has typos on them.
4. Put on some comfortable shoes for the day of voting. Lines will be long and people will try to tell you there are quicker ways to vote by doing this and that. Don’t be fooled or lazy. Wait in line no matter how long it takes!
Go out and vote people. If you can avoid voting absentee by going to the polls then please do so. Gore lost because they didn’t count the absentee ballads in many states saying they were late.
@32…R U BLIND???…..CAN U NOT READ THAT FRIGGN POST U SEE ON UR SCREEN??…I MEAN MY GOD…IF U DONT READ SUMTHIN RACISTS ABOUT THAT THEN I THINK U NEED TO REDEFINE UR OUTLOOK…IT IS SO OBVIOUS, BLATANT AND CLEAR STEVIE WONDER CAN SEE THAT’S RACISTS AND I’M NOT EVEN TRYNA BE FUNNY. I DONT KNOW WHETHER UR WHITE, BLACK OR WATEVA…ITS NOT EVEN ABOUT THAT…ITS JUST THE SIMPLE FACT THAT 4 SUM REASON SOME WHITE PPL JUST DONT WANNA SEE BLACK PPL PROSPER TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL AND ITS SAD, ITS VERY HEARTBREAKN WHEN U THINK ABOUT IT.
IM SORRY BUT THIS BOTHERED ME SO MUCH I HAD 2 RIGHT A THIRD POST…WTFFF!!!!!…. I’M SORRY THIS MIGHT FEED IN2 THE HATE BUT I DONT GIVE A DAMN RIGHT NOW…IF McCAIN DOES HAPPEN 2 WIN (I BIND IT UP IN THE NAME OF JESUS, THE DEVIL IS A LIAR), I HOPE HE KEELS OVER AND DROPS DEAD RIGHT ON HIS OLD, WRINKLY FACE RIGHT WHEN HE’S BEING SWORN IN AND SEE HOW AMERICA LIKES IT WHEN THEIR SWEETHEART PALIN TAKES OVER….I WILL BE LAUGHN ALL THE WAY 2 JAMAICA CUZ MY ASS AINT STAYIN HERE THATS 4 SURE.
That’s some bullshi*t…they meant to do that…..either way mistake or no mistake…we are on the verge of our first black President!!!!
fyi it was the republican party that freed the slaves and was pushing for reconstruction and trying to integrate the former slaves into american white society this shift of democrats representing the majority of black didnt occur until fdr’s presidency and it was lbj passing the civil rights act that made most southerners leave the democratic party…
A typo my foot. that was not a typo, that was just someone who wanted to be funny, but it’s not. OBAMA 08, BUMP mcain/palin
@41
It was very necessary. What are you afraid of? I’m just getting to the root of all of this.
Burying your head in the sand makes you just as ignorant as the people at the rallies. This is no time to be a coward and you sound like you are one.
@71
But ask yourself why they freed the slaves. It damn sure wasn’t out of the kindness of their own hearts. They saw no other choice. At that time the black race was too populated. We began to educate ourselves and underground railroads were forming.
There were too many of us verging on a better way of life. Of course, they didn’t have the opportunities that we have today, but they worked with what they had and set us up for where we are today.
I believe slaves were freeing themselves long before the republicans did.
thats such a dumb mistake to make on the ballots especially seeing that S and B are soooooooooo far from eachother on the keyboard
Also, I hope this is not a double post. But I just wanted to point out that just because the republican pary ended slavery does not mean they are a trusted party. I have a problem with them not fighting for and underming the black vote. They even go so far as to disenfranchise African Americans. Now with all this being said, how can they be trusted?
This doesn’t mean I always trust democrats either. They make off the mark comments and sit in black churches as part of their campaigning when they no full well they already have the majority of the black vote locked up.
Now, Barack Obama did something that I haven’t seen any other candidate do before. He went door to door to get votes. Now that’s how you campaign. Taking it straight to the people.
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I meant “undermining”. Sorry for the typo. Too bad I can’t spellcheck after writing my comments.
That is not a f**king typo. I swear they will do anything to prevent this man from getting elected.
@ 74 i wasnt sayin that that wasnt the case i was just tryna say that the vandalism was stupid and didn’t make any sense…but you’re right slaves were freeing themselves in the commotion of the war before they were legally free
Make sure all you complaining bout typo or no typo go out Election Day and make your mark beside the correct name
he’s gonna do what??….”whip” him?
oh dear…
I guess it is karma because what type of man leads rallies featuring violent chants against another human being??? Douche!
oSama?… that is bullish. they new what they were doing but yea.
haters are gonnn hate.
omg i swear john mcains cheecks are so SOGGY.
i swear idk why cindy mccain is with this slobbb shes is a 10.
he aint wopping NO ASS. stop faking your campain is failing obama is ahead in everything i saw something this weekend that obamas plans in everything except foreign policy was better than McCains. mccain is desperate.. stop with all the dumb tactics that should how much of douche bag you are. Palin is dumb loser.. obama is surely a terrorist right?.. so im guessing her ass is a eskimo. dumass
fight the power, y’all…
it’s in OUR hands…
Seen this last week on MSNBC, the proof readers need to be fired. I mean their job is to proof read and they clearly didn’t do that.
Obama 08 & 12
TYPO, MY AZZ!!!! I’M A TYPIST BY TRADE, AND ON THE KEYBOARD, THE “S” AND “B” AND SO FAR APART, NO ROOM FOR ERROR! THAT SH*T WAS INTENTIONAL, I CAN’T GO WITH THE TYPO BULLSH*T!!
Ok…so im a little like WTF??? The “S” is nowhere near the “B”key on a keyboard…this is, this is I gotta give to the U.S. they really are on that ishhhhhh….well anyway
“MY PRESIDENTS BLACK”…*no typo*