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itshappening
09-29-2008, 08:13 PM
Graham-Conley debate gets national audience

COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - A national audience can tune in to see Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham take on his long-shot Democrat challenger Bob Conley on South Carolina ETV.

ETV said Monday that cable channel C-SPAN will carry the Oct. 11 debate at 8 p.m. live.

Graham is running for his second term against Conley, a little known engineer and flight instructor in North Myrtle Beach.

C-SPAN also is carrying the Oct. 1 debate with Republican U.S. Rep. Henry Brown and Democrat challenger Linda Ketner.

ETV spokesman Rob Schaler says C-SPAN also has asked to carry that 7 p.m. debate live.

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No hiding place for Graham !

powerofreason
09-29-2008, 08:15 PM
Kewl! I hope Conley kicks his azz!

MRoCkEd
09-29-2008, 08:16 PM
C-span!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AJ Antimony
09-29-2008, 08:17 PM
Kick ass!

Kludge
09-29-2008, 08:19 PM
Y'know... C-Span may be the only project I like that's funded through means I don't approve of (anyone know how much of my bill I pay the cable company that goes only toward funding C-SPAN?)

Imperial
09-29-2008, 08:19 PM
Go conley! Pwn grahamnesty

RSLudlum
09-29-2008, 08:20 PM
Hell Yeah!!!

<copy> <paste> <send to all contacts>

:)

MRoCkEd
09-29-2008, 08:20 PM
Y'know... C-Span may be the only project I like that's funded through means I don't approve of (anyone know how much of my bill I pay the cable company that goes only toward funding C-SPAN?)
Actually, it isn't government funded. You may be thinking of PBS.

itshappening
09-29-2008, 08:43 PM
Bob Conley Charges Lindsey Graham with Setting the Stage for Nation’s Financial Crisis

September 29, 2008

Democratic challenger Bob Conley, running for South Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat, is strongly opposed to the kind of meddling in financial markets that is supported by Lindsey Graham and which is responsible for today’s economic crisis.

“The current economic crisis is a direct consequence of the flawed legislation Lindsey Graham voted for while serving in the House of Representatives,” said Conley. “Lindsey Graham has hurt South Carolina and the Nation beyond measure.”

Graham voted in 1999 for the euphemistically-named Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 which repealed the common-sense restrictions on the financial sector imposed by the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.

This repeal of Glass-Steagall set up the current crisis by allowing Wall Street firms to integrate banking, insurance and brokerage services under the same roof, with virtually no regulatory oversight.

“Lifting Glass-Steagall restrictions launched a new era of irrational risk-taking, led to dangerous financial practices, and allowed the perilous consolidation of the financial sector into too few hands,” said Conley. “This centralization of financial power now threatens to destabilize our economy and further sink our once vibrant Middle Class into a hole from which they may never climb out.”

Lindsey Graham’s vote in 1999 had the following impact on South Carolina and the Nation:

* Feverish speculation caused the so-called “dot.com” crash that wiped out $5 trillion in market value of technology companies from March 2000 to October 2002. At the time, Fed chairman Alan Greenspan called this “irrational exuberance”.
* Lax regulatory oversight set up, accelerated and perpetuated sub-prime mortgage loans and their bundling into prime investments that promised high returns – an unsustainable proposition by any common-sense measure.
* The results: $29 billion to bail out Bear Stearns; $85 billion for 80 percent of AIG to nationalize it; $150 billion in a stimulus package to flood the nation with cash; $250 billion to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; and now $700 billion to save the national economy from the excesses of Wall Street. All this with no guarantee of success!

After helping to lead our Nation into a financial crisis of such devastating magnitude, Lindsey Graham no longer can claim to have the knowledge, insight and hands-on experience to continue representing South Carolinians in the U.S. Senate.

In financial terms, it is time for the voters of South Carolina to withdraw Lindsey Graham from the U.S. Senate and deposit Bob Conley as their sound investment in the future.

http://aimhighwithbob.com/?p=40&preview=true

Jeremy
09-29-2008, 08:45 PM
epic win for us

Kludge
09-29-2008, 08:45 PM
Actually, it isn't government funded. You may be thinking of PBS.

Right, it's funded by cable companies. I'm assuming that means that the price is thus paid for by the cable subscribers.

RadioDJforPaul
09-29-2008, 08:46 PM
COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - A national audience can tune in to see Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham take on his long-shot Democrat challenger Bob Conley on South Carolina ETV.

Hurray! Maybe next he'll be a fringe candidate.

Jeremy
09-29-2008, 08:46 PM
Actually, it isn't government funded. You may be thinking of PBS.

mrocked is right, it's not government funded.... but wait, PBS is government funded? D: why do they always ask for pledges then?

Jeremy
09-29-2008, 08:51 PM
Right, it's funded by cable companies. I'm assuming that means that the price is thus paid for by the cable subscribers.

wait, huh?

Kludge
09-29-2008, 08:54 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-SPAN

"C-SPAN (officially, the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming."

"Brian Lamb, C-SPAN's chairman and CEO, conceived of C-SPAN while working at Cablevision, a cable industry trade magazine, as their Washington D.C. bureau chief. C-SPAN was created as a cable-industry financed, non-profit network for televising sessions of the U.S. Congress and other public affairs event and policy discussions. Bob Rosencrans, a cable industry pioneer, was alone in providing the initial seed funding of $25,000 to start up C-SPAN. It receives no funding from any government source, has no contract with the government, and does not sell sponsorships or advertising. It strives for neutrality and a lack of bias in its public affairs programming."

Edit: Sorry for the unintentional thread-jacking...

itshappening
09-29-2008, 08:58 PM
bump

Kotin
09-29-2008, 09:00 PM
PLEASE! for the love of God youtube this!!!!!!!!

brandon
09-29-2008, 09:14 PM
fuck the AP.

He's polling at 41% but he is a "long-shot" and "little known"?

Flash
09-29-2008, 09:19 PM
fuck the AP.

He's polling at 41% but he is a "long-shot" and "little known"?

If he's little known now at a mere 41%, then just imagine when he is known!

itshappening
09-29-2008, 09:21 PM
the AP did the same thing with Ron Paul, they called him a long shot all the time.

they're doing the same to the Ron Paul democrat!

coincidence?!!!

RSLudlum
09-29-2008, 09:24 PM
the AP did the same thing with Ron Paul, they called him a long shot all the time.

they're doing the same to the Ron Paul democrat!

coincidence?!!!

not at all, just like it isn't a coincidence the the Democratic Party isn't supporting Conley even though he's at 40% and practically no campaign funding vs. the Republican incumbent's coffers. :rolleyes: