By Larry Johnson
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About: Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering. Mr. Johnson works with US military commands in scripting terrorism exercises, briefs on terrorist trends, and conducts undercover investigations on counterfeiting, smuggling and money laundering.
Mr. Johnson, who worked previously with the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, crisis and risk management.
Mr. Johnson has analyzed terrorist incidents for a variety of media including the Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, ABC's Nightline, NBC's Today Show, the New York Times, CNN, Fox News, and the BBC. Mr. Johnson has authored several articles for publications, including Security Management Magazine, the New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has lectured on terrorism and aviation security around the world, including the Center for Research and Strategic Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He represented the U.S. Government at the July 1996 OSCE Terrorism Conference in Vienna, Austria.
From 1989 until October 1993, Larry Johnson served as a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He managed crisis response operations for terrorist incidents throughout the world and he helped organize and direct the US Government’s debriefing of US citizens held in Kuwait and Iraq, which provided vital intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Mr. Johnson also participated in the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103. Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership the U.S. airlines and pilots agreed to match the US Government’s two million-dollar reward.
From 1985 through September 1989 Mr. Johnson worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. During his distinguished career, he received training in paramilitary operations, worked in the Directorate of Operations, served in the CIA’s Operation’s Center, and established himself as a prolific analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. In his final year with the CIA he received two Exceptional Performance Awards.
Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at The American University’s School of International Service (1979-1983) while working on a Ph.D. in political science. He has a M.S. degree in Community Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.See Authors Posts (886) on October 10, 2008 at 8:20 PM in Current Affairs
Sarah Palin cannot expect politicians in Alaska to have her back because she took on the special interests in the Republican party and whipped their ass. Now comes the charge that she “abused” her power? Why? Because she did not tell her husband to stop complaining about her asshole brother-in-law.
The fact that some seemingly rational people want to argue that this is disqualifying of Palin is a fucking joke. For starters, let’s review the fundamental conclusion–there is no evidence that Sarah Palin fired the Public Safety Commissioner because he wouldn’t fire her brother-in-law, the State Trooper. Got it?
Next, her State Trooper brother-in-law, a guy named Wooten, is still on the job. Now let’s ask a question. Let’s suppose that Sarah’s sister and this loser were still married. If this guy were allowed to stay on the job despite misconduct Palin would probably face charges that she was playing favorites.
Let’s look at this trooper’s record and start with the fact that the investigation of Wooten, which led to his dismissal suspension , started before Sara Palin was elected Governor. And this is not just some messy case of he said/she said. Turns out the Wooten was an out of control law enforcement officer. An investigation of his conduct concluded that he was guilty of the following:
Three incidents of Unbecoming Conduct
Three incidents of Personal Misconduct
One incident of Failure to Perform Duties Properly, Use of Government Property
Two incidents of Conformance to Laws
One incident Use of Alcohol
One incident Operation to Be Prudent and Lawful
These violations included using a taser on his ten-year old stepson, shooting a cow moose without a valid permit, and drinking beer while operating a marked Alaska State Trooper vehicle. (The dude sounds like the cop Seth Rogen played in Superbad.)
If you want to make the case that Palin’s husband should have ignored this clown, who reportedly made threats against the family, then you live in a world I do not know and I do not care to know. I don’t want drunken, angry, law-breaking assholes running around with a gun and badge. Todd Palin. Good on you man, you stood up for your family.
Wasn’t there supposed to be a verdict today?
Did anyone hear anything?
I’m siding with the people who are opposed to the guy who tasered his pre-teen son and who threatened to kill Palin’s dad, I believe. That’s an easy call.
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Here is some video from a McCain rally today. Two average Americans express their fear of an Obama administration and their distrust of Obama, himself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZcjyrzcwNY
What the woman says about Obama’s ethnicity likely came from the work of Kenneth Lamb. I cannot speak to its truth or falsehood. Here is what Lamb wrote on the subject:
http://www.kennethelamb.blogspot.com/2008/02/barak-obama-questions-about-ethnic.html
‘Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian, that from his mother. What those who want Mr. Obama to write history by becoming “America’s first African-American president” ignore is that his father was ethnically Arabic, with only 1 relative ethnically African Negro - a maternal great-grandparent (Sen. Obama’s great-great grandparent, thus the 6.25% ethnic contribution to the senator’s ethnic composition.).
That means that Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father’s side.’
Normal American voters are expressing their doubts about Obama and his candidacy. Some feel that this is well past due.
If our government is going to take over the banks, then I will be scared of an Obama presidency too.
the man’s voice actually trembles with fear
I do not blame him
Mr. Villareal: What is the point you’re making? So what if Obama is of Arabic background rather than African. Who cares? He’s American. Born and raised here.
When I see my fellow conservatives spew this kind of racist nonsense, it upsets me — you’re only giving fuel for unwarranted charges that all conservatives are like this. Why don’t you keep your racism — form a fringe party or something, that’s where your paranoia politics belong.
Findings from the Bipartisan witchhunt commision.
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/132565
I read this link — and though it says as you posted above:
The goofballs who commented on that link are celebrating as if Palin is going to be arrested!?
Seems to me only the Attorney General is in trouble, according to that report.
The MSM and trolls will fume over this non-story all weekend but that will be about all of it, except maybe further entrenching and inflaming the GOP, PUMAs and most important pushing the indy’s leaning to Mac/Palin to stay with them. The MSM/trolls are making a big mistake smearing Palin. They never learn.
The goofballs are the paid obama blog trolls…what you didnt notice the same meme in message after message?
They are working overtime tonight.
What they are forgetting is that wanting a cop who beats his wife and tasers his stepson fired is not equivalant to hanging out with radical homegrown terrorists who bombed the capital and started your political career in their living room.
Yes and by attacking Palin they are giving Mac more than enough reason to come firing back even harder than before. And he will. Stupid Obama and his trolls.
You’d think that Obama’s staunchest supporters (the minorities in the inner city) would be most in favor of getting rid of an out-of-control cop (especially, a white one) no matter how it happened.
I mean, it’s not like there’s never been an incident in minority neighborhoods of innocent people being tasered by out-of-control law enforcement.
Especially in Chicago. Like Jon Burge.
If this is the worst they can come up with on Palin, she’s got to be the cleanest politician in history. They hacked her email and couldn’t find one thing except one of her friends mentioned the word “God”. Anyone with common sense will see this hit job for what it is: RIDICULOUS!!
I thought that Monegan was not fired, but offered another position which he decided not to take so he resigned. Is that not true?
He was offered another position. I believe he chose not to take it.
That was how it was understood in Alaska too.
See Ltr to editor Achorage News.
Letters to the editor (8/9/08)
Published: August 9th, 2008 12:15 AM
Last Modified: August 9th, 2008 12:32 AM
Get it straight: Monegan quit
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I’m not sure why the media, legislators, Dan Fagan and Andrew Halcro all insist on referring to the event that led to Walt Monegan resigning as a firing. My recollection was that Monegan was offered a reassignment to another position but he refused the position and now everyone is stirred up.
Reading the paper through the winter, I read many stories that attested to the many problems within Bush communities. The fact that these problems have not been resolved through leadership from the top command suggests to me that new direction was necessary. Incentives, community liaisons and other measures are needed to establish community trust in law enforcement.
If I were a superintendent of a school district and a high school principal was not a good fit I would have no problem reassigning that person to another position where he might do a better job.
It is time to stop the inflammatory rhetoric by using the term … “The firing of Monegan.” He quit!
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— Lawrence H. Adams
Wasilla
You know, the good people I knew up in Alaska probably find all this as further proof that all liberals are nothing but self-centered, self-serving, effete elitist nuts. And they’re using Alaskan tax dollars to advance all this trumped up crap to further, well, nothing but their own careers.
Wonder what the barky campaign has promised these wimps?
I look at it this way, I don’t care how they found, find in this trooper-gate mess. If someone had been doing their job to begin with there would have never been a trooper-gate. The man was caught drinking on patrol. He threatened to kill her father. He tasered his 10 year old step son, he should have gone to jail for that. Yet, where is he? Still being a trooper. That’s child abuse. He killed a moose because he was drunk and having fun on duty. What do you think would happen to one of us if we did this crap??
His butt should have been fired long ago. Someone threatened my father he better hope the police get to him before I do, and I don’t care if he is a cop. Someone tasered my nephew there would be hell to pay. She didn’t fire the commissioner she offered him another job. Both those men should have been fired the commissioner for not doing his job and the trooper. Or is it OK to violate the law if you don’t like who the governor is?
If she’d have ignored everything he did we’d be seeing headlines of special treatment given to trooper because he was her brother in law. She’s damned if she does, and damned if she don’t in this situation. She made the right decision, I’d have fired them both and the trooper would be in jail.
Diana,
you are quite correct. To put it further into perspective, what if this were all reversed, & it came out that Michelle Obama had used Barack’s office to press for the dismissal of a crooked Illinois State Trooper? What would you think?
As much as i dislike & distrust the Obamas, i would have quipped a joke about Michelle being the man in the family, then said “You go girl!” She would have been doing the right thing.
I would also say, that is an Illinois state matter. Let them deal with it. To borrow an overworked phrase from Obama “Lets not inject presidential politics” into State affairs!
Lets show Alaska the same respect!
Palin rocks! The MSM will have a feast on this non-story.
Palin and McCain need to keep pounding on Obama and his lack of experience and his extreme views and associations.
Oh goodness. NY Post: Osama on the ballot.
Not to far from the truth!
Larry,
Great write. Thanks! I concur 100%.
McCain/Palin ‘08
It does not matter…Obama is the anti-christ.
Yes, Obama is the anti-Christ.
I’ve never known a nominee so arrogant and meanspirited - without an ounce of humility.
Well said! This pronouncement is not even a slap on the wrist, it’s a complete joke. The bipartisan group announced that here actions were so objectionable that she in not sanctioned, censured or prosecuted. What a joke! Go Sarah Go!
There was a pic of the “committee” - comprised of admitted Obama supporters.
I figure - since the corporate owned media gave Obama a pass for 2 years and the Dems fixed the nomination for him - this report on Palin could be fixed as well.
The committee was 10 -4 Republicans. You can’t just make stuff up.
Remember, she ousted a lot of the insiders in her party.
I think the timing of the investigation was obviously political. Everyone knew how this would turn out. They timed the report release to damage her. Those oil-Republicans in Alaska like their corrupt ties.
Too bad. This also puts Democrats on the side of a guy who tasered his own kid.
Progressive? *jeesh*
Excellent observation:
The Democrats should take care not to make a big deal of this very biased report. Your comment provides the perfect response….and didn’t the guy also threaten physical harm to their Dad?
Wrong again - they actually brought the time of the report forward to reduce it’s impact, because it was due to come out just before the GE. And that date was set before Palin was nominated.
Its ok for a police officer to drink on the job and taser his step son and threaten the life of the governors father.
However Its not OK for you to complain about it because if the guy you fire for not doing his job in running his office as you want him to asside from the police officer issue, asside from the fact he serves at your discretion, means you abused power according to the partisan Democrats on the commision that want to look into it for political gain…
On the other hand,
Its ok to blow up government structures and kill police officers
but its not ok for you to question the judgement of the guy who pals around with bill ayers and wants to be president.
Talk about hypocrisy of the democrats…oh wait thats not hypocrisy…thats the same standard.
Welcome to the DemoKratic party and the Politics of smear and intimidation.
The unanimous vote shows that there was nothing but politics here. Alaska is such a blue state, it’s obviously a democratic smear with corrupt republican help.
Actually the committee was overwhelmingly Republican - and Alaska is a deeply red state.
actually that unanimous vote was to release the findings report not to endorse it in any way.
I guess it must be gettin close to the end of time because this world cannot be fixed with all the corruption going on today. We have a man running for president who is friends with a terrorist & sits in a church for twenty years where they teach white hate; yet he’s the hero to the media. We have a man who’s a police officer who gets drunk on the job & threatens to kill people; yet he’s still on the job & people who complain are found guilty of abusing their power. Being a hero now must require being the biggest crook, thief & liar.
You sound like my husband… he is expecting Armageddon.
Well, I’m not expecting Armageddon.
A civil war is more likely under these circumstances, though…
Thank you Larry. Over on CNN they were talking about a “possible impeachment” because of this.
LOL
no.
Thank you. bullshit, endless bull.
Sarah Palin has an 80 to 90% approval rating in Alaska. She’s not getting impeached. My god, MSM doesn’t even try to hide their bias, even a little. The primaries emboldened them…like Obama…they must be stopped, by the people.
Actually the last poll was in the 60’s and it is dropping.
Think, it’s convenient that you left out the drop is primarily due to Democrats. Seems they don’t like their Republican governor now because she’s running against a Democrat.
Per The Anchorage Daily News 10/1/08
Ivan Moore, a local pollster, recently found that Palin’s support had slipped to 68 percent. The poll was conducted from Sept. 20 to 22 among 500 likely Alaska voters and has a margin of error of 4.4 percent.
Palin had done a good job of governing from the center, he said. But her recent mocking of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, for example, is a surprise to many Alaskans.
Brad Coker, managing director of Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc., said an approval rating in the 60s for a governor is good.
If this is done, then every politician needs to stand in line with Bush leading it. Oops…we have to get rid of Pelosi first.
LMAO. I hope the MSM burns in hell.
Good post, Larry. Also some extra stuff here that’s not mentioned about this story.
Todd Palin had to keep asking about Wooten because the AST refuses to give information about complaints that are made against officers. So the Palins didn’t know that Wooten was investigated, or had a suspension until this summer.
This is obviously a frame job. Either by the dems or the republicans, neither of whom want her to succeed. It’s obvious by the unanimous vote that this is nothing more than pure politics! I bet there’s a conspiracy with HUSSEIN NOBAMA in there somewhere too.
Great piece Larry, I can’t wait until they finally unleash the whitey video!
Yes well wasn’t Hollis French the head of the investigation? And isn’t he an Obama supporter? So that tells me, especially after that weasel said to wait for an October surprise, that this was a partisan attempt to discredit Sarah.
Get your waders out folks, the sh_t is getting waist deep. My disgust for Barry and his ‘bots grows deeper every day. That man will NEVER EVER EVER be my president.
Alaska is a republican state and the committee was 10 to 4 republican. Your claims of bias sound rather ridiculous.
No, actually…you sound sorta lame since you’re forgetting the history.
ignore this idiot. He is the kind of person who thinks what ever is put infront of him is the truth.
Just like the hope and change bullshit out of the obama campaign he buys hook line and sinker when the history of dirty tricks and no legislation to benefit his constituaency but plenty of deals to benefit himself is turned a blind eye to…
I’ll ignore this idiot that can’t construct a cogent sentence.
I read the verdict portion of this report and bottom line, it says Gov. Palin was within her right to fire the piece of crap. The slap that she violated ethics is a candy gram for Obama. I am really tired of the crap out of my former party.
Can’t you see this is just as heinous a crime and breach of the public trust as her taking of a per diem that she was entitled to by law?
GO SARAH~~
McCain/Palin 08
Standing up for FREEDOM!!
There was no crime. Was she arrested? Indicted? Fined? Parking ticket? “heinous a crime”? Wow you are overly dramatic.
Let’s just face the facts…. Sarah Palin is guilty of committing an explicit legal act. I also heard she has the gall to go around her neighborhood committing random acts of kindness.
Now you should look up George Smathers in Wikipedia and read was attributed to him as saying )it was a reporter’s hoax) about his opponent Claude Pepper of FL during a campaign. You will enjoy the story.
Many an old Gator remembers the Smathers anecdote from days past.
FYI, George and JFK were drinking and whore-hopping buddies when they were both in the Senate.
I was not aware of your obscure reference. So your comment was snark. OK.
If the MSM spins this against Sarah Palin then they are saying it is acceptable to taser ten year olds and beat your wife. Children and women are nothing. Good for Sarah Palin for stepping up to the plate and doing something about this guy.
She reminds me of the story about Harry Truman calling out the music critic who panned his daughter. The public thought Harry was right and so is Sarah Palin.
If barky is installed in the White House, it will be lawful to taser 10 year olds and beat your wife. In fact, it will be encouraged by the Mullahs.
I don’t think very many people knew much about this case. Now they will and when they see it I think they will side with Palin, if they care at all which is doubtful.
That’s a great Truman story. I had forgotten about it. Thanks.
Where is the “Whitey Tape” when we need it?
Lord help us all!
Can we stop the trope that Obama is cool and collected in a crisis - he is Missing In Action! Paralyzed by fear! McCain is out there taking action.
His panel of 300 experts don’t seem to be able to come to an agreement on what to recommend to change things around.
could this be the opening Fitzpatrick has been awaiting to see how far the slime Odumbo would go to steal the WH?
Will Fitzpatrick now enter an Odumbo rally and take him away in handcuffs?
I have gotten reports that even CNN is not going anywhere with this story. I would have had him fired too if he threatened to kill my father. Silly. And he wasn’t even asked to be fired, just moved away from her family.
Oh yeah? They were just having a discussion over there about it and it wasn’t very good towards Sarah. CNN is in the tank and submerged except for Dobbs and Beck. Watch how much more negative play this gets than what they did with the Ayers/Acorn stuff. A terrorist is so easy to forgive, while a husband protecting his family, with a wife who happens to be the governor and did nothing wrong, is treated worse than an indicted criminal. Watch the MSM play it’s corrupt game. If OB gets elected, I hope the MSM gets everything they deserve when he throws them under the bus because he no longer needs them. Payback is a bitch.
Sarah and Family ROCK!
….But report says that Palin’s termination of Public Safety Commissioner Monegan was “proper and lawful.”
I just got off the phone with my brother who is stationed in Japan about this and Obama just lost another supporter.He has been sitting on the fence at one point only because of the crap bots were sending me and what he was reading on my blog. When he came down here when I was in the hospital those idiots left messages saying they hope I stayed in the hospital yada yada…
But anyway he agreed with me on two things…one this Palin shit reeks of hit job blown out of proportion. Especially considering she had no problem taking them on and being considered a outsider of the establishment.
The second thing was that Ayers contribution when they have stressed Ayers was just some guy in the neighborhood. Take in consideration the fact he made the contribution and the Obama campaign has lied, it says alot. 2001 is a year people will always think of only one thing. Despite the fact that they are not even remotely related, thats how people minds work.
Throw in domestic terrorist making contribution on __ __ date in 2001. All people will hear is “domestic terrorist and 2001″.
Personal gain as in having a bad apple out of the barrel as opposed to help with buying a mansion you can’t afford?
I’m laughing my ass off! I’ve never been more convinced that McCain will win big.
I’m glad your convinced, but we still have to WORK.
I’m taking my ass to Scranton, PA tomorrow.
We can do this!
I went to the McCain office here to sign up to volunteer this weekend since we are on a 4 day weekend. I swear I do not know where they get this idea they will win NC. I havent seen ONE Obama/Biden sign! But I did get me a McCain/Palin sticker for my car! They were soooo nice and I am looking forward to tomorrow. Plus there were alot of prior service working at that location so they really have a REALLY good ground game. Plus they have access to the base which is a good thing also.
I rented three vans to help get people back and forth to the polls for the first week for people who dont have transportation. I know I am excited and hope I have some good stories to tell tomorrow.
I’m really tired of that angle!
Obama might win Virginia!
Obama might win North Carolina!
Obama might win Montana!
Obama might win Nebraska!
My Lord, what a unifier!!
It’s a huge load of bull.
Larry, I am an avid reader on your site, but I am losing all hope in the election.
Will you ever follow up on the whitey tapes, or the explosive damaging information about barky that was supposed to stop his nomination the week before the convention?
After the McCain rally today, I am wondering about this whole election. McCain tells us we shouldn’t be afraid of a barky administration when just last week, he said barky was dangerous. What is going on? Barky being in the presidential race has already taken many of our rights and freedoms. We have been threatened at the voting booth, at the caucuses, we can’t voice our opinion or even tell pollsters who we prefer because of fear and intimidation. We can’t put signs on our cars for fear of vandalism, we can’t put up yard signs in many areas for fear of property damage. We are threatened with legal action if we speak out. What country is this again?
There is no whitey tape and there are no explosive revelations. Please state what rights you have lost in this election. Which pollster has phoned and threatened you? What legal action have you been threatened with for speaking out? Aren’t you speaking out now? Is anyone threatening you?
The MSM is already spinning it. The headline in the AP article. Schuster over at MSNBC. It’s all a bunch of BS. I hope THAT ONE brings it up in the debate. If anything, it may really fire up the Mac.
Not much to spin though. How can you spin this story? She fired tried to remove a chronic alcoholic and child abuser.
You can spin it by leaving out all the important facts…they’ll find a way.
Obama supporters LOVE child abusers, is that I have to take from this. CNN has already basically dropped this story, only BSNBC keeps on talking about it like its some big deal. Sarah had EVERY RIGHT to want this guy fired and he is not even fired, what gives with that, he is still an alaskan state trooper, allowed to carry a gun even though he threatened to kill her father, he tasered a 10 year old boy, and beat her sister. The media loves this because they don’t want to discuss Ayers, Wright, Resco, Odinga and especially ACORN, a group that now in PA they are saying they are not sure if they can even have an election now because of all the fraud they found, THAT is an issue, FRAUD, not some jackass trooper who put a gun to the head of the governor’s father and threatened to blow his brains out. That trooper is lucky I wasn’t the governor, I would have tasered his ass
That’s my thinking. If a governor had NOT done something about an officer so obviously out of line? Good gravy, since when do we back people who keep bad officers armed and raring to break laws?
Ridiculous. But it was always a ridiculous story. The drinking on duty alone should have gotten him fired.
In any case, the commission recommended no action. Surprise, surprise.
It’s a non-story that will be used to further sling mud. Nothing more.
There is a reason why I agree with my brother on this Ayers thing. A very big reason. Thinking something like troopergate is more important then terrorists and terrorism right now will have the dems dropping in the polls faster than the next excuse they make defending his Ayers actions. But then again, these people seem to think the dems will win NC. NC.
I think Palins just proved that they are willing to “protect and defend.” What better qualification for the White House could there be? Still voting McCain/Palin.
McCain Palin show good judgment, even if I disagree emotionally with McCain, but Obama always always always shows bad judgment. Not a person I want to be looking over my money.
This is why I was so angry at Mc Cain today with his Obama is a decent man, on his own McCain site they are eating Palin alive now with the news of this ruling that she abused her power.
The media headline is she abused her power, every single one of them is attacking her now all with the slant she is not fit for office, but yet Mc Cain comes out to play nice to Obama because some supporters are calling for Obama;s head.
Now we must all sit here read this nonsense about Sarah, listen to even FOX getting into the act, knowing how well they all wanted this woman out of the race and stay quite because its the upstanding thing to do, play fair, play decent and lets all think of the right way to do things, while Obama and his supporters and sticking it to us in every turn.
Right McCain I get you, go tell them now its ok what they are doing to Sarah and she need not worry if Obama wins he is decent and he will take care of her…..geez
that’s cause as much as I respect John McCain for everything that he has done for our country, he is soft, and I am saying that as nicely as I can, he is a very good speaker but not a strong leader. he is folding, and basically having Sarah do all the dirty work for him. That is NOT a leader, man I wish that it had been Romney/Palin, they would have won in a freakin landslide, even with this horrible economy the way it is right now it wouldn’t have mattered cause Romney is NO Bush, how about Guiliani would have been a great choice to be President, and having Sarah as VP would have been a great combo. I think McCain is just too old, I saw him at that boring ass debate, he looked old and tired, he had so much energy the night before in New Mexico, I thought he had finally woken up, nope, not an ounce of fight in him, in fact, he looked worn out, and today, telling that guy that Obama is a decent guy, has Obama said ONCE that McCain is a good guy, has Obama ONCE told his messiah loving supporters to stop spreading HORRIBLE lies about Sarah and her family, nope, but yet Mccain can say that Obama is a good guy, everyone started booing in the crowd, did you all notice that, they started booing