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Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:54 PM

I Think the Personal Touch is Best. Just Check Out My Ads

Holly Bailey
In Iowa today, Mitt Romney gave his seal of approval to the state’s decision to move its GOP presidential primary to Jan. 3. “I think it’s a good thing that Iowa is first,” Romney told reporters, according to the Politico’s Jonathan Martin. “Iowans have shown over the years that they’re willing to get to know the candidates on a personal basis and make a judgment on their heart and character, not just their ads.” Not that there’s anything wrong with ads in Romney’s book. His comments came on the heels of yet more details on just how extensive the former governor’s advertising has been during the first nine months of the campaign. According to the Nielsen Company, Romney has placed 10,893 TV and radio ads so far-more ads than any other two presidential hopefuls combined. Bill Richardson placed second, with 5,975 ads, and Barack Obama was third, placing 4,293 ads. According to Nielsen, Romney ran 10,199 ads on local TV, the bulk of them in Iowa, where Romney hit the airwaves 5,058 times. He ran 1,658 ads in New Hampshire, 977 ads in Vermont (where the TV market reaches residents in northern New Hampshire), 893 ads in South Carolina and 1,413 ads in Florida. None of his GOP opponents even came close to his ad buys. Rudy Giuliani, who has yet to air a TV ad, ran 642 radio spots. Ron Paul ran 232 TV ads, all in Iowa, and John McCain aired 166 TV ads in New Hampshire. At the same time, McCain leads the presidential pack in cheaper online advertising. According to Nielsen, McCain had 4.3 million sponsored links in August. Dennis Kucinich was second with 1.8 million sponsored links and Romney was third, with 1.7 million. But we have a feeling that it’s only a matter of time before the other candidates close the gap. Just Google “Fred Thompson.” Right now, when you search for info on the former Tennessee senator, a banner ad comes up touting Mike Huckabee’s Web site. “Huckabee Finn?” it says, playing off former White House aide Dan Bartlett’s recent comments about the former Arkansas governor’s last name. “Check out the real story.”

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Posted By: sgtusmc (March 16, 2008 at 2:01 PM)

I like the Word Suicide 3-16-08

Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 NH.veteran@yahoo.com

I first want to apologize I have been using the wrong date on my past few letters.  

So many of the right people in the right gov. agencies read my letters yet they do nothing.  These so called right officials are so set on believing that I am a nut and paranoid, that they ignore what I write and condemn me.  I have serious disabilities that I received while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps.  The NH governor and Judges have so violated the law that using the news media to strip a disabled Veteran of any public dignity, so the public has stereotyped me crazy.  Yes you are probably right.  I do see the world differently than others.  Some thirty years after receiving a head injury in the MC, I still have no memory of my child hood.  I broke my back during one Vietnam offensive and was blown off a runway and lost most of my hearing in both ears during another offensive.  I learned to love the United States of America because I lived in some of the dirtiest, crude and deadliest conditions before I have any memory of seeing the U.S. I came back to the “World” (US) to a place that I do not belong.  Never have I violated the law on purpose.  I have volunteered every day to help others just the make the U.S. a better place.  I owe this to those that never returned alive.  

A criminal is someone whom violates the law with intent to harm others.  Judge Peter Fauver did just that.  The NH Supreme court is so biased that it refused to hear a case presented by a high school drop out.  Fauver made me and attorney to represent a Madbury NH family for a zoning issue because Fauver thought it would allow him to screw this family to benefit the selectmen’s criminal acts.  I proved the case beyond any doubt and Fauver ignored the law to harm others.  A judge is not above the opinion of the people or the law.  The State and local police under the direction of the NH governor and the Sheriff’s dept harass my family at work and home to cover up crimes committed by a judge.  For the system to allow a U.S. congresswoman (Shea-Porter) to use her political powers to medically harm me is beyond any belief.  For the Inspector General of the NH Veteran’s admin in Manchester. NH to stop my VA medical for service injuries received as a U.S. Marine (two of the three Combat related) can not be tolerated.  I write these letters because it is every U.S. citizen’s responsibility to correct the wrongs in government.  I may be crazy to put my live on the line for our country.  That would make every U.S. military personal crazy also. The right people that do nothing but sit idle and allow the NH Judges and government official to harm a disabled veteran are not bad people.  These right people are just believing what powerful people tell them.  I tell every news paper in the U.S. to print my letter with a disclaimer and allow me to suffer the consequences.  The unedited opinion of the people is the most important part of the news media’s ethical responsibility.  I think as a 100% disabled U.S. Marine I have earned the right to have this letter printed across the U.S. unedited.   “truth is a powerful weapon”

Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper


Posted By: sgtusmc (March 16, 2008 at 12:56 PM)

I like the Word Suicide 3-16-08

Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 NH.veteran@yahoo.com

I first want to apologize I have been using the wrong date on my past few letters.  

So many of the right people in the right gov. agencies read my letters yet they do nothing.  These so called right officials are so set on believing that I am a nut and paranoid, that they ignore what I write and condemn me.  I have serious disabilities that I received while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps.  The NH governor and Judges have so violated the law that using the news media to strip a disabled Veteran of any public dignity, so the public has stereotyped me crazy.  Yes you are probably right.  I do see the world differently than others.  Some thirty years after receiving a head injury in the MC, I still have no memory of my child hood.  I broke my back during one Vietnam offensive and was blown off a runway and lost most of my hearing in both ears during another offensive.  I learned to love the United States of America because I lived in some of the dirtiest, crude and deadliest conditions before I have any memory of seeing the U.S. I came back to the “World” (US) to a place that I do not belong.  Never have I violated the law on purpose.  I have volunteered every day to help others just the make the U.S. a better place.  I owe this to those that never returned alive.  

A criminal is someone whom violates the law with intent to harm others.  Judge Peter Fauver did just that.  The NH Supreme court is so biased that it refused to hear a case presented by a high school drop out.  Fauver made me and attorney to represent a Madbury NH family for a zoning issue because Fauver thought it would allow him to screw this family to benefit the selectmen’s criminal acts.  I proved the case beyond any doubt and Fauver ignored the law to harm others.  A judge is not above the opinion of the people or the law.  The State and local police under the direction of the NH governor and the Sheriff’s dept harass my family at work and home to cover up crimes committed by a judge.  For the system to allow a U.S. congresswoman (Shea-Porter) to use her political powers to medically harm me is beyond any belief.  For the Inspector General of the NH Veteran’s admin in Manchester. NH to stop my VA medical for service injuries received as a U.S. Marine (two of the three Combat related) can not be tolerated.  I write these letters because it is every U.S. citizen’s responsibility to correct the wrongs in government.  I may be crazy to put my live on the line for our country.  That would make every U.S. military personal crazy also. The right people that do nothing but sit idle and allow the NH Judges and government official to harm a disabled veteran are not bad people.  These right people are just believing what powerful people tell them.  I tell every news paper in the U.S. to print my letter with a disclaimer and allow me to suffer the consequences.  The unedited opinion of the people is the most important part of the news media’s ethical responsibility.  I think as a 100% disabled U.S. Marine I have earned the right to have this letter printed across the U.S. unedited.   “truth is a powerful weapon”

Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi                


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