LaRouche Supporter Pushes Limits Of Free Speech At Alaska State Fair

Upon first seeing this, the takedown of Sidney Hill, a disabled man at the Alaska State Fair, it looks disturbing.

That the man is a loudmouth and a LaRouche supporter is beside the point. These are the people that the Constitution is meant to protect.

It is a state fair and the First Amendment must be respected in public places, right?

Well there are a few limits. The Alaska State Fair is not on public grounds. It is private property. That changes the entire perspective of the event.

The courts have deemed that the First Amendment is restricted on private property. No one has a right to walk up on a person’s lawn and hold a protest there. Imagine Hill carrying his banner down the middle of a local mall as he barks out his thoughts. That would not be acceptable either. He would be interfering with the commercial interests of the businesses in a private setting. Yet the courts have been very careful about completely limiting free speech even in that setting.

What happened at the Alaska State Fair is more like a movie theatre or concert. People pay to enter with expectations of entertainment other than Sidney Hill. No one would accept Hill standing up in front of a movie theatre with his banner. The paid patrons would not be happy. Why should paying fairgoers expect less?

Hill made a commotion and interfered with a show performing nearby. That put him in a weak position regarding freedom of speech. Security first tried to persuade him to leave, but that did not work so he was arrested.

If Hill had performed his protest outside the gate on public property and this had happened, then there is a story. As long as he did not impede the movement of other people on public property, he has the absolute right to speak his mind. However, the Constitution does not give anyone the right to be an obnoxious jerk on private property.

Looking around the internet and it becomes clear that this video is becoming a favorite for those who think that America has become a police state under Obama.

You can see this presented at Infowars.com, BreitBart.tv, ConservativeAmericanVet.com, Dittos-Rush.com, GodLikeProductions.com, Casttv.com and many other places. These and the other websites who posted this video while criticizing the actions of the fair’s security fail to realize that Sidney Hill’s right to free speech at that venue is no more appropriate than a hacker breaking into their websites and posting pro-Obama messages. I have hunch they would not support free speech in those cases.

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Federal Worker Claims That Homosexuals Are Holding Him Back

This is from the Glenn Beck rally yesterday.

A black man challenged this white guy in a green shirt somewhere along the mall. The guy became defensive and tried to prove that he is not a racist because he has “black friends” and his wife is from South America. That line that was worn out in the 1960’s.

This fellow, a government employee, claims that homosexuals are holding him back from advancing in his job.

He claims that is happening because of “Nepotism, okay, favorite boyfriends and girlfriends, and affirmative action.”

If that statement is taken at face value, then the old heterosexual sleeping with the boss style is so last century. The new way to get a promotion is to sleep with a boss of the same sex.

If this is going on, this man has got a major case against the federal government, but I think he was just trying to find a way out of a confrontation without blaming his lack of promotions only on affirmative action…or his own incompetence.

This rally was all about smaller government, less taxes and reducing government waste. Too bad he did not consider quitting his job and getting work in the private sector so he could directly contribute to that goal. Instead he wants a promotion and a bigger paycheck.

I have feeling its going to be an interesting Monday morning at his federal office job. All those homosexuals are going to be upset that he has outed their little secret.

When someone gets this outrageous, I have to wonder if he doesn’t feel a little trapped in the closet himself.

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Beck Rally Estimated From “Tens Of Thousands” To “Not Less Than A Million”

Glenn Beck promised over one hundred thousand people would attend his rally at the Lincoln Memorial. He even hoped for more, as the permit with the National Park Service listed a rally for 300,000.

At different times in the day, Beck claimed that 300,000 to 650,000 attended the rally.

Michele Bachmann, who held her own rally of 1,000 at the Washington Memorial, drew cheers when she said, “We’re not going let anyone get away with saying there were less than a million here today because we were witnesses.”

Hopefully, Bachmann is never called to testify as a witness before a court of law. She will perjure herself.

Estimating crowd numbers is a near-impossible task. The Park Service gave it up in 1997 after being criticized for underreporting the Million Man March.

NBC Nightly news estimated, “tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands.” For whatever that is worth it could be 40,000 to 400,000. Hopefully, the rest of their newscast had a little more attention to detail.

ABC News declared “the rally has attracted more than 100,000 people.”

If so, that is bad news for Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly said that if the crowd was over 100,000, then he would give up his 8 PM time slot on Fox News to Beck.

Maybe Fox News wants that change. They ran a banner stating “CROWD ATTENDING BECK RALLY ESTIMATED AT OVER 500,000.”

CBS News, using photos from AirPhotosLive.com, managed the only scientific estimate for the day – if there is a reliable science to this guessing. They estimated 87,000 attendees, with a variable of 9,000 either way.

That would make the crowd just under 100,000 on the upper end. It would also make O’Reilly’s job safe.

The numbers game does not prove much. Beck’s rally drew a decent, but not overwhelming crowd. What is significant is that it exposes some who like to exaggerate for political aggrandizement.

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Jester’s Court — August 28, 2010

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  • Now Barack Obama is being criticized for eating too much lobster.
  • Louisiana Senator David Vitter is putting pressure on some state newspapers that are not absolutely clear that his chief of staff pleaded guilty to a lesser charge than attacking his girlfriend with a knife.
  • Colorado Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck attended a birthday fundraiser for Democratic primary Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff. Romanoff who was trying to retire a $130,000 campaign debt. While some welcomed Buck, others called it a partisan ploy.
  • The case that Barack Obama is not a Christian, nor a Muslim, but a closeted nonbeliever.
  • General David Petraeus revealed his favorite singer – Enya.
  • Kenya has adopted an American-style constitution, which seems appropriate since America has a Kenyan President…or so I’m sure the next birther conspiracy will charge.
  • A North Carolina judge ruled that a woman was guilty of resisting arrest because she stayed on her porch instead of going inside as ordered by a police officer.
  • Brazil’s Supreme Court has overturned a ban on TV and radio programs poking fun at candidates.
  • A British war hero, who had his leg blown off by the Taliban, has been denied a handicapped parking permit three times because officials told him his disability “may get better.”
  • A group is attempting to recall three Iowa judges who supported the legalization of gay marriage.
  • The Muslim center near Ground Zero may qualify of for tax-free public funding.
  • In the UK, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Transport Secretary Philip Hammond wrote to local council leaders in England, calling on them to reduce the number of unsightly signs and other “street clutter.”
  • Former Congressman and convicted felon James Traficant appears to have received enough signatures to qualify as an independent in Ohio’s 17th Congressional District.
  • Vladimir Putin has undertaken a 1,200 mile road trip in an inexpensive Russian-built Lada Kalina as he tries to promote Russian automobiles.
  • After first announcing that they were going to enforce new dress-code rules, the California Assembly put on hold dress-code policies requiring women to wear a coat or sweater while in the chamber.
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Philippines President Appoints Her Gardener and Manicurist To Government Positions

Cronyism is an age-old problem of politics. Those who are most trusted by an officeholder get the best appointed positions. They often weld considerable power despites often being horribly inept or corrupt.

However, newly elected Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroya has taken it to a new level.

Champion swimmer Eric Buhain, who won medals in the Southeast Asian Games, was appointed by Arroyo as the executive director of the Bureau of Immigration.

Buhain is not totally unqualified. He did serve previously as chairman of the Philippine Sports Commission. Although the connection between sports and immigration is yet to be made, at least he has had some experience in an executive position.

Yet then she appointed her gardener, Armando Macapagal, to be the deputy of the Luneta Park administration. Deputy presidential spokesman Gary Olivar denied that the gardener is a relative of the President.

“Macapagal supposedly landscapes Malacañang lawns (the official residence of the Philippine president) but does not manage people,” wrote Philippine Star columnist Jarius Bondoc as he appointed the obvious reason Macapagal was not qualified for an administrative position.

But that is not all. The next in line for overseeing a budget of millions of pesos was Arroyo’s manicurist.

Manicurist/beautician Anita Carpon was appointed as a trustee of the Home Development Mutual Fund, better known as the Pag-IBIG Fund. The fund is a national savings program that allocates funds “for the housing needs of government employees.”

Spokesman Olivar explained that the appointments were made because Arroyo wants “ordinary people represented in government offices and agencies whose activities impinge on the lives of ordinary people.”

Some people have a hard time buying that.

“Carpon is not known for financial expertise to oversee multibillion-peso housing mutual fund of all employees. Nicknamed Nitz, she is often scolded by Arroyo for mismatching presidential handbags and shoes,” wrote the columnist Bondoc.

That should work out just great for matching together the housing needs of government employees.

This a train wreck coming if there ever was one. With this kind of judgment, it will take a miracle for Arroyo to avoid the anticipated corruption and mismanagement that is going to mar her administration.

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Castro: Bin Laden Is A CIA Spy

Fidel Castro may be getting older and feebler, but the real problem is what is going on in his head.

Castro claimed that the recent lease of classified documents by WikiLeaks proved that Osama bin Laden is really an agent of the CIA.

Castro call bin Laden a “subordinate” of George Bush.

“Bush never lacked for Bin Laden’s support. He was a subordinate. Any time Bush would stir up fear and make a big speech, Bin Laden would appear, threatening people with a story about what he was going to do.”

When ideas like that are floating around, it helps explain why Cuba’s economy was run into the ground for the last 50 years.

Castro said the leaked documents proved that bin Laden has been a CIA agent all this years. Castro did not elaborate on what he has been reading that no one else has seen.

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Venezuelan Politician Fundraises With Breast Implant Raffle

For $6 you can enter the raffle for Gustavo Rojas, a candidate for Venezuela’s National Assembly.

The grand prize is not a television, car or even dinner with Rojas. Nope, it is a free breast implant.

“The raffle is a financing mechanism, nothing else. It’s the doctor who will do the operation, not me,” said Rojas.

Breast implants are big business in Venezuela where 30,000 occur every year. In 2007, President Hugo Chavez spoke against the growing trend of giving implants to girls on their 15th birthday.

No word yet on Rojas’ position on that issue.

But why did Rojas choose breast implants?

“We decided on breast implants because we wanted to target a specific public sector.”

For most politicians cars, clothes or electronics would probably qualify as a specific public sector, but that would be too ordinary.

“Some people raffle TVs and we decided to offer this. It’s an interesting prize and there’s a lot of interest,” Rojas explained.

Rojas discounted feminist criticism of his raffle.

“When someone raffles a TV, some people think it’s a good TV but others don’t like it. It’s the same. I’m not showing disrespect to anyone.”

Rojas is a candidate for the opposition First Justice Party.

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Jester’s Court — August 27, 2010

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  • A Massachusetts Congressional candidate is running on a platform “Sick of Congress?” with his agenda printed on a barf bag.
  • The Calgary Public Library is trying to encourage municipal voting with its “Don’t be an idiot” campaign.
  • Mormons give Barack Obama the lowest approval of any religious group with 24%. Whereas Muslims approve of the Obama presidency with 78%.
  • The number of babies born in the U.S. is at its lowest point in 100 years.
  • Fortunately, this has been changed. A middle school in Mississippi segregated class officer positions by race. President was reserved for white students, vice president for black students, etc.
  • At an airbase in Germany, the Air Force is using falcons to prey on other birds so as to keep the airspace clear.
  • New Jersey Governor Chris Christie fired his education commissioner after his office bungled away $400 million in federal education funds. The commissioner requested that he be fired instead of resigning so that he could collect unemployment.
  • Another less-than-great thing about Iran. Its copyright laws are set up to protect Iranians, but foreign copyrights are all but ignored.
  • A fatwa has been issued against pets in Iran.
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Sweden’s High Court Rejects Recognition of Madonna Of Orgasm Church

Despite a final plea, Sweden’s Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal that would have allowed for the official recognition of the Madonna of the Orgasm church.

A lower court ruled in favor of recognizing the church as a religion, but on appeal a higher court determined that Madonna of the Orgasm “cause offence not only in the broad groups of the population that have Christian roots, but also in society as a whole.”

The founder of the church, Carlos Bebeacua explained the church’s ideology, “The orgasm is God, the orgasm should be worshiped.”

Ruling that a church maybe offensive to a society would seem to open the doors to banning a lot of things. Beside, what is so offensive about an orgasm?

Hmm, perhaps they are opening affiliates in other countries.

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Mobile Scanning Vans On The Roads In The U.S.

From Forbes:

The Z Backscatter Vans, or ZBVs, as the company calls them, bounce a narrow stream of x-rays off and through nearby objects, and read which ones come back. Absorbed rays indicate dense material such as steel. Scattered rays indicate less-dense objects that can include explosives, drugs, or human bodies. That capability makes them powerful tools for security, law enforcement, and border control.

…and for invasion of privacy.

There is a purpose for this technology in the military or checkpoints at borders, but to think that it is going to stay there is wishful thinking.

This would seem to be an outright violation of the Fourth Amendment, but I bet some judge is going to rule that no one has an expectation of privacy while on public roads. With these vans, there will not be any privacy. That is for sure.

Over 500 of these have already been sold to the U.S. and foreign governments.

They are already being used in the U.S. to search for those smuggling drugs and humans and to locate concealed bombs.

I wonder how long before the handheld version comes out so that a cop only needs to scan a vehicle instead of asking for permission to search it.

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Glenn Beck’s Rally And The Mosque Near Ground Zero

Tomorrow Glenn Beck will hold a rally “Restoring Honor” at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech.”

A number of civil rights leaders consider this a travesty. They see it as a direct insult to Dr. King’s ideals of justice, inclusiveness and compassion. Even though King’s niece, Alveda King, a fundamentalist Christian, will speak at the rally, there is a general feeling among many liberals that this event is inappropriate.

That is the same reaction many conservatives have about the building of the Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero.

Both Beck and mosque opponents cite the same reason for their opposition. Beck’s rally is charged as an insult to the long civil rights struggle King endured. The mosque is seen as an insult to those who died at Ground Zero.

Both may be insults of some sort, but it does not matter. Politics is not a game built upon placating the sensitivities of one’s political opponents. Its purpose is just the opposite.

Beck’s right to hold a rally at the Lincoln Memorial is his right of freedom of speech. The mosque’s construction is about freedom of religion.

The argument that the mosque should be built further away from Ground Zero is the same argument that can be made that Beck should hold his rally at another location or date.

I don’t buy it. If you support one position, then you must support the other. Beck has a right to hold a peaceful rally on public property at anytime. The mosque has the same rights to be constructed as any project in New York City.

Those who oppose either one of these also have the same rights to object. Whether it is an Al Sharpton organized event at Washington, D.C., or the protesters at Ground Zero, they have the same rights as what they oppose.

However, those rights end when someone tries to suppress the rights of another. It is perfectly fine to oppose the mosque and criticize it, but not to suppress the rights of the people to build it.

The same is true for Beck. A counter protest is perfectly acceptable as long as no one tries to silence him.

I can understand the argument not to allow both Beck and the mosque to proceed.  That argument sees limits on freedom of speech and religion if it infringes on another’s sensitivities. I may oppose that argument as repressive, but at least it has some reasoning behind it.

I prefer the argument allowing both to proceed because that favors a broad expression of freedom of speech and religion.

It gets interesting when someone supports one, but not the other. I say interesting because there is not a defensible argument to make under those pretenses.

For a free society to exist, the right of expression must always trump the limits that sensitivity demands. It is not wrong to respect another’s sensitivities, but it is always wrong to restrict expression.

Not surprisingly, Beck has said that he has questions before the mosque is built, but he has not raised any questions about his own rally.

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Louisiana Congressman Fleming Says This Election Between A “Godless Society” And A “Christian Nation”

It was so much easier in the good old Cold War days to demonize the godless commies in the Soviet Union and Red China. Now we have people like Louisiana Rep. John Fleming who warns the voters that this November election is a decision between godlessness and Christianity.

Fleming is taking the unlikely argument that if his side does not win Congress, then we are going to end up like our mortal enemies … the Dutch, Swedes and Germans.

Appearing with Louisiana Senator David Vitter, who is hardly an icon of Christian morality, Fleming put forth this propaganda … er, argument.

“We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like Western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we’re going to continue down the other pathway where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties and that we remain a Christian nation. So we’re going to have to win that battle, we’re going to have to solve that argument before we can once again reach across and work together on things.”

I wonder if Fleming has ever been to Europe. Perhaps he has not noticed that the majority of French, Spanish and Italians honor a religious figure called a Pope. Drive through any town in Europe and there are churches, often massive and with architectural beauty unsurpassed by most other places in the world.

Perhaps Fleming has also forgotten that the United States lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers in two World Wars because of an ideological kinship with Western Europe. The United States spent billions upon billions of dollars defending these atheists and socialists against the Soviets, but now they are the antithesis of America to Fleming’s eyes.

Just when did Western Europeans become the bogeyman to American values?

Fleming has it all wrong and does not even make a good argument for his case.

Since when did Europeans oppose freedom of speech and individual liberties? It was in Europe that caricatures of Mohammad were published in the name of free speech. Here in America, “South Park” cannot even put Mohammad in a bear suit without being criticized. (That is not even Mohammad anyway. It is simply a drawing of a bear suit. Does anyone really think that “South Park” creators actually draw Mohammad and then draw a bear suit over him?)

Europe even has widespread gay marriage and gays in the military, but Fleming probably thinks that fits with his argument since it includes “godless” homosexuals.

I find Fleming’s last sentence particularly disturbing.

“So we’re going to have to win that battle, we’re going to have to solve that argument before we can once again reach across and work together on things.”

I see. Fleming’s ilk wins the election and suppresses opposing views and then everyone can work together because everyone believes the same. I thought he was in favor of free speech, but apparently not. I doubt if Fleming’s omission of freedom of religion was accidental either.

Fleming seems to have forgotten lesson one of American politics. Free speech is supposed to create a marketplace of ideas so that the best that liberals and conservatives have to offer rises to the top. Fleming’s thoughts are a perfect example of that. They sink to the bottom like a rock.

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Jester’s Court — August 26, 2010

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  • A federal court has ruled that it is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment for the government to secretly attach a GPS to a vehicle in a person’s driveway and track them. The reasoning is that no on has an expectation of privacy from a vehicle parked in a driveway.
  • Balancing himself on a rubber raft, Vladimir Putin shot darts for collecting skin samples at a gray whale on Russia’s far eastern coast.
  • The Taliban have poisoned Afghan schoolgirls for the ninth time.
  • Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson apologized for writing in an email that Social Security is “a milk cow with 310 million tits!”
  • A gay Democratic candidate for the Kansas Legislature said that he received a death threat on a homophobic note left on his front door.
  • Among the items auctioned from former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s storage building were photos and handwritten letters, confidential client-attorney papers from Blagojevich’s lawyer days and opposition research on his 2006 gubernatorial race rival.
  • Former EBay head Meg Whitman is outspending Jerry Brown 86-1 in their gubernatorial battle in California. The race is “neck to neck” or even has Brown leading.
  • Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin, forgot to renew his campaign websites domain. For a while today, the domain had expired. It is now back and running again.
  • Levi Johnston said that he wished he had not apologized to Sarah Palin about the things he had said. Johnston said his comments were all true because he has never lied about anything.
  • Chilean officials have told the miners trapped half-a-mile below the surface not to get fat.
  • Alabama Rep. Bobby Bright, one of most conservative Democrats in Congress, on voting for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker again. “Never cross a bridge until you come to it. She may get beat (for re-election), she may step away, she may get sick and die.”
  • John McCain is still waiting for J.D. Hayworth to call him and concede.
  • Former French President Jacques Chirac will pay the city of Paris 550,000 Euros to drop a civil case against him, improving his chances of avoiding a conviction on charges of creating phony jobs while mayor.
  • A special investigation concluded that Gov. David Paterson’s testimony about his plans to pay for World Series tickets last year was “inaccurate and misleading.” Paterson may face criminal charges.
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Candidate Serenades TV Anchor

Candidates have been trying to find a way to control questions from journalists for years. Chris Young, a mayoral candidate in Providence, finally achieved that. He simply serenaded the anchor with a song he wrote.

Chris Young is a Democrat, but his ideology is more a mix of left and right with a strong dose of craziness.

Young says he is Catholic, pro-life, anti-war, favors lowering taxes, refuses campaign contributions and wants citywide on street parking for everyone. Apparently, Young is somewhat of a well-known figure in Providence for his antics and his multiple races for office.

Here you can see a photo of him being hauled off by police offices with his shirt pulled above his belly. He was disruptive at a meeting where he shouted at Rep. Patrick Kennedy and the Congressman’s position on abortion.

In this photo, a statue of the Virgin Mary is being forcibly removed from his arms as he is seated for a candidates’ debate in July. Young brought the large statue and placed it on the debate table. The debate was delayed for an hour as 10 police officers were called in to remove Young.

In 2008, he criticized corruption at the state capitol and legislators’ interest in Satan.

Perhaps the anchor should be happy that all he did is sing for her.

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Jester’s Court — August 25, 2010

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  • Alvin Greene, South Carolina Senate candidate, was kicked out of a restaurant after a woman accompanying him got into an argument with Democrats attending a meeting at the restaurant.
  • North Korea has condemned Japan for blowing up a Korean ship – 65 years ago in 1945.
  • The Japanese city of Obama is trying to cash in on the fame of its name by creating Obama natto, a concoction with soybeans fermented by Bacillus subtilis. Most foreigners find it unappetizing. Usually it is made with white soybeans, but in this case black ones were used.
  • New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is sending a staffer in a chicken costume to follow his opponent, former Rep. Rick Lazio, because Lazio won’t debate him.
  • Facebook rejected a pro-marijuana legalization ad because Facebook claimed it promoted smoking.
  • Iranian newspapers are now banned from mentioning leaders of the opposition green movement.
  • Philippine President Benigno Aquino censored his Facebook page after internet users ignored an appeal to stop bashing his government over its handling of the deadly hostage crisis.
  • The Correctional Service of Canada has started an internal investigation into how the Official Languages Act was renamed the “Quebec Nazi Act” on Wikipedia.
  • A California bill would make it a misdemeanor to impersonate someone online with the purpose “of harming, intimidating, threatening or defrauding.”
  • Vietnamese authorities are refusing to prosecute three men who gang-raped a transsexual woman.
  • Finally, an Obama inflatable sex doll.
  • Ken Mehlman, former RNC chair and head of George Bush’s 2004 campaign is gay. He wants to work for gay rights now.
  • Ichiro Ozawa, a main Japanese challenger for the prime minister position, called Americans “simpleminded.”
  • Mexico is cracking down on drugs. Unfortunately, that is legal drugs, like antibiotics.
  • Illinois Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, emphasized his bipartisan credentials as he talked up Republicans and down Democrats. “I know plenty of Republicans who are outstanding leaders — who are terrific people,” Giannoulias said. “I have plenty of Democrats that are complete bozos — that’s just the reality of it,” Giannoulias followed up.
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