Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette Blogs

Sen.Obama spent 4 million dollars to run one of the most
expensive political ads in tv history. Yes, he ran a one-half
hour prime time infomercial on networks across the country
on 10/29 including NBC, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, BET, Univision
and TVOne. This is not counting the millions he has spend on his campaign. I wonder why Obama and his crew didn't use that money as an example of "spreading the wealth" and donate it to the failing economy?

I don't know about you, but I'm excited, more excited than I've ever been to cover a football game. I've covered state championship games (the last three SCISAA Class 2-A title games, in fact), college bowl games, and more high school rivalry games than you can shake a stick at, but I've never looked forward to a game more than tonight's matchup.

Don't know which one I'm talking about? That ought to tell you how perfectly the local high school schedule played out this season, with not one, but two, region titles on the line tonight in Beaufort County.

Voters in some states are getting strange, misleading phone calls about early voting. Some of these calls are computerized and claim to be from Michelle Obama, and deceptively trick voters into thinking they can "vote by phone." Other calls are live and target Spanish speaking households

By JEFF VRABEL

No one needs a 2,000-pound pumpkin. No one. Such massive pumpkins are absurd and unnatural and freaky-looking, and good news only if you're part of the powerful international lobby Big Pie.