AC 360 - bash Obama night!

[babylonsister]

Rightly, they're covering the floods, as they should.

But then...

Cindy McCain questions Michelle Obama's patriotism, AGAIN, because that's all she's got.

The Muslim community is 'outraged' about the volunteers who told women in headscarves they couldn't appear behind Obama. Even though Obama campaign apologized, advantage McCain!!?

The other 'issue' is 'softening' Michelle's image. :eye: Don't touch it, I say!

[malaise]

1. Watching that couple in Palo is painful

At least they were allowed to return home.

All these tears - it's too sad. :cry:

[babylonsister]

2. It's going to get worse, per proud2Blib: this is how serious it is...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3480214

[malaise]

3. The worst part is that these floods were predicted from March

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/03/16/news/doc47dc9476635be864338702.txt

<snip>
ST. LOUIS -- There’s a good chance of flooding on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers this spring because of soggy landscapes and a heavy snowpack in the upper Midwest, according to the National Weather Service.

“The stage is set,” said Mark Fuchs, hydrologist for the weather service’s office in Weldon Spring, Mo. “Even if we have a normal spring rainfall, it is very likely we’ll have minor to moderate flooding. “

Major flooding is unlikely, he said, unless the “worst-case scenario” arises. Fuchs described that as a fast melting of snow from Nebraska to Northern Illinois combined with heavy rains.

“Then we would have major flooding on the Mississippi and Illinois (rivers), perhaps even the Missouri,” Fuchs said.

The St. Louis area hasn’t been splashed by major flooding since 1995, when the rivers produced a lesser version of their record-breaking deluges in 1993. The Mississippi hasn’t been above flood stage downtown since May 2002, when the high level was 37.2 feet, or 7.2 feet over flood stage. Even that is 13 feet lower than the 49.5 foot crest on Aug. 1, 1993, when the river rose halfway up the Grand Staircase on the Arch grounds.

Fuchs said above-normal precipitation has fallen this winter across Missouri, eastern Kansas and Nebraska, and Iowa, saturating the soil. “Any rainfall we get now is going to translate into river runoff quickly,” he said.

[Common Sense Party]

5. Not that much of anything could have been done about it.

Other than people could have moved all stuff out of their basements and ground floors, and made peparations for their pets.

The water was coming, and it had no place else to go.

[malaise]

6. That's a whole lot

Other than people could have moved all stuff out of their basements and ground floors, and made preparations for their pets.
:D

There's little you can do when the water comes although if levees were being maintained they might have withstood the onslaught.

[Common Sense Party]

10. I guess. I grew up in Cedar Rapids. I'd never heard of a levee

until I heard that Led Zeppelin song. At least through town, there are no levees that I can think of.

[jwirr]

4. AOL has a poll that is beating the hell out of Michelle - when Kerry was

running we here on DU used to go in and vote these polls down regularly. I think it is too bad that we are letting this happen now. It lets our candidates think they are alone out there. Opinions count.

[babylonsister]

7. So post it and turn it around! Or not. I don't have much faith in AOL

polls. I think this is better:

Obama leads McCain In Three Swing States...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6379191&mesg_id=6379191

[jwirr]

8. I do not have faith in them either but what I am saying is that we can

manipulate them in our favor.

[lonestarnot]

12. AOL always has fixed polls. Have fun.

[Peacetrain]

9. I saw the run up to Anderson Cooper..and decided yep.. they are about

to do a 180 on Barack and Michelle..they have had a good week.. and as we all know by this time.. the right wing press is never going to stop beating up on Barack or Michelle, and making up stuff because they do not have a leg to stand on when it comes to programs.. and if the Barack has a good week.. the left leaning (what little of it press there is(), will get nervous and have to tear the candidate down with their bare hands eating up everything the right wing nut jobs hand them to show they are above it

[lonestarnot]

13. 5 or 6 networks owned by the corp. Do you expect something different?

[Peacetrain]

14. Your right..that is exactly what it is..

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. The Muslim community knows better than to vote McCain

Something smells in all that hoopla. To this well seasoned nose it smells like bullshit.