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Two Conservative Males Tell Us What Liberal Feminists Think
Taylor Marsh — ... Palin is that she would not only set our civil rights back a century if she had her way to enact policy, but that she’s not up to the standards for which we’ve fought for two centuries. One word: equality. This means that we’re treated equal to men, paid equal to men, not because we’re "attractive... confident... or happy," but because we earn it through our skill sets and preparedness. I can’t wait to hear how Rick and Bill explain this one. ...

Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — ... It turns out a good number of anti-Obama calls coming from the McCain campaign are being made by hired callers, not volunteers or pre-recorded robocalls. We know this because a woman lost her job at a West Virginia call center when she refused to read the stock script associating Obama with Bill Ayers. ...

Two Call Center Workers Quitting Jobs Rather Than Recite McCain Ayers Slime
TPM Election Central — ... Reading McCain's Ayers slime from a script into the phone was too much for one young woman, reports West Virginia's Charleston Gazette: ...

McCain's robocall problem isn't going away
Political Animal — ... doesn't seem to care for them. The calls are so scurrilous, in an area where McCain hired callers to read the script, instead of using an automated system, one woman at a phone-bank quit rather than lie to voters about Obama and Bill Ayers. For what it's worth, the Obama campaign is responding with its own robocall, but it includes ...

Woman quits job at call center over anti-Obama script
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — Source: The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia By Paul J. Nyden Staff writer WESTON, W.Va. -- Chaylee Cole, a student at Fairmont State University, lost her part-time job in Weston last Friday after refusing to make telephone calls attacking Barack Obama. McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee were paying for the calls, according to a "work paper" handed to Cole and her co-workers at the Weston offices of 1.2.1 Direct Response, a company based in Philadelphia. "I was working at the call center," Cole said. "We got a campaign ad talking about how Obama had been part of terrorist attacks on the Capitol, the Pentagon ...

We Are All Chaylee Cole
DownWithTyranny! — ... This morning all Americans should feel pride in one of us-- no, not Charles Keating's Ohio relative Joe the unlicensed plumber-- in Fremont State University student Chaylee Cole. When someone stands up to the inhuman all-powerful Machine and just says "no," the way Cole did, it is a person striking a blow for our national dignity and our liberty for all of us. ...

Jesse Lee: 13 Days Out: Giving McCain's Attacks the Contempt They Deserve
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Charleston Gazette (WV): "Chaylee Cole, a student at Fairmont State University, lost her part-time job in Weston last Friday after refusing to make telephone calls attacking Barack Obama... Cole said, 'We were just supposed to read that message and hang up. One of my other issues working there was that someone told me it didn't matter who picked up the phone, whether it was a 5-year-old or a 95-year-old. We should read the message.'" ...

McCain's Nasty Campaign Tactics Creating Joblessness
Shakesville — Literally. A woman in West Virginia and a man in Wisconsin have quit their jobs at call centers rather than read a script that included the message: "Hello, I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the US Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home, and killed Americans." The Wisconsinite had read negative scripts about Obama before as part of the job, but drew the line at that script, choosing joblessness and a clean conscience over being a ...

Remainders: Closet space
Ben Smith's Blog — ... happy with the $150,000 wardrobe. Josh Green writes about the Norm Coleman friend who wielded the credit card. Al Qaeda chatrooms enjoy the crisis, mull whether they'd prefer McCain. Sullivan manifestoes for blogging in the new Atlantic. Charlie Cook says all the metrics point to Obama. Kerry explains Biden's "crisis" comments by pointing to Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A woman quits her call center job after presented with an anti-Obama script. Peter Daou ...