Sarah Palin in 2008 in front of a 49star flag... Secessionist? Hawaii Hater? Celebrating Alaska's 50th Anniversary of Statehood? This is a job for: The Truth Squad!
The ‘Truth Squad’? Why is it that Republicans love to have these little names? I’ve posted previously about Alaska’s own Don Young and his “A-Team”, and his “Wolf Pack” of lobbyists. For those of you who haven’t been keeping up with Don Young, these are all the lobbyists that get immediately patched through to our Congressman in DCwhen they call the office. These guys are Don’s big guns. The A-Team was referred to as a separate group, but is also a subset of the Wolf Pack. So if you’re on the A-Team, you’re also by default in the Wolf Pack, but if you’re in the Wolf Pack, you’re not necessarily a member of the A-Team.
We’re not only corrupt, we’re silly.
And now, on the national front, we have the McCain-Palin “Truth Squad”, a group of spunky Republicans put together based completely upon party affiliation, and mostly on ovary ownership, to dispel the myths that are circulating about Palin. A couple of these myths had to do with figuring out budget line items and reallocations so it looked, at first, like Palin had slashed funding for special ed, and for homeless teen mothers. She didn’t.
But other things that are supposed to make us feel better on the list include the fact that Palin didn’t actually attempt to force public schools to teach creationism, but that she merely “wouldn’t oppose” teaching creationism in public schools.
And she didn’t actually fire the librarian who wouldn’t agree to ban books. She only tried to fire her. After public outcry, she agreed to let the librarian stay, even though she wasn’t being ’supportive’. And the list of banned books that’s been circulating? Bogus! We don’t know which books Palin wanted the public librarian to pull from the shelves for content she found offensive.
And most of all, she was NOT officially a member of the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party, even though the Vice Chair said she was, (and called her out on video tape for infiltrating the Republican Party to get elected, while holding the AIP ideals). It was actually her husband that was a member of the secessionist group. She simply gave a supportive speech at their convention this year and told them to keep up the good work.
Don’t you feel better now? Phew! I was worried for a minute, but my mind is put at ease. It’s fortunate that the Truth Squad will be galloping across the land coming to the GOP’s aid. “We’re meeting it head on,” said Brian Rogers, a campaign spokesperson. All right! (fist bump).
Oh, and they dared to accuse her pastor of being a Jew for Jesus. That guy was only invited to speak by her pastor. And why should we care about her pastor, anyway. People shouldn’t be condemned for the views of their pastors. We learned that from Obama and Rev. Wright. We need to focus on what Palin herself believes. She’s just a normal sensible gal who thinks the world is 6000 years old, and that Jesus will come and rapture the faithful during her lifetime.
So knock it off, and quit with all this fringe, liberal, left-wing nutty blogosphere over-reaction, will you? Sheesh.
So, now that you have the Truth, are you pumped, and ready to meet the ‘Squad’?
National Members Of The Palin Truth Squad:
· Former Governor Jane Swift (R-MA)
· Governor Linda Lingle (R-HI)
· Lt. Governor Sean Parnell, (R-AK)
· Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
· Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
· Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
· Congresswoman Thelma Drake (R-VA)
· Congresswoman Mary Fallin (R-OK)
· Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
· Congresswoman Kay Granger (R-TX)
· Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
· Congresswoman Candice Miller (R-MI)
· Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R-NC)
· Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
· Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM)
· Jo Ann Davidson, RNC Co-Chair
· Rosario Marin, Former U.S. Treasurer
· Meg Stapleton, Former Aide To Governor Palin
· Kristan Cole, Lifelong Friend Of Governor Palin
State Members Of The Palin Truth Squad:
· Former Lt. Governor Jane Norton (CO)
· State Representative Amy Stephens (CO)
· State Board of Education Member Peggy Littleton (CO)
· State Representative Ellyn Bogdanoff (FL)
· County Commissioner Mildred Fernandez (FL)
· Former Iowa Senate President And Former U.S. Ambassador To The Eastern Caribbean, Mary Kramer (IA)
· State Representative Jackie Walorski (IN)
· State Representative Laura Brod (MN)
· Former GOP State Party Chairwoman And Former State Rep. Barb Sykora (MN)
· Jayne Millerick, Former NH GOP Chair (NH)
· State Senator Jennifer Beck, Honorary Co-Chair NJ Women For McCain-Palin (NJ)
· Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose, Honorary Vice Chair NJ Women For McCain-Palin (NJ)
· Bergen County Clerk Kathe Donovan, Honorary Co-Chair NJ Women For McCain-Palin (NJ)
· DA Dona Ana County Susana Martinez (NM)
· Former Lt. Gov. Lorraine Bono-Hunt (NV)
· State Senator Barbara Cegavske (NV)
· State Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert (NV)
· Sue Lowden, Nevada GOP Chair (NV)
&# 183; Kay Ayres, OH GOP Vice Chair (OH)
· Betty Montgomery, Ohio Women For McCain-Palin Chair (OH)
· Mary Taylor, Ohio Auditor Of State (OH)
· Margie Hughes, Clackamas County Chair Of Women For McCain-Palin (OR)
· Linda Neace, West Linn Small Business Owner For McCain-Palin (OR)
· Deanna Smith, Women For McCain-Palin Chairwoman (OR)
· Renee Amoore, PA GOP Deputy Chair (PA)
· Joyce Haas, PA GOP Vice Chair (PA)
· State Senator Lisa Baker (PA)
· Diana Irey, Washington County Commissioner (PA)
· Christine Toretti, RNC National Committeewoman and McCain-Palin Pennsylvania Co-Chair (PA)
· Kim Ward, Westmoreland County Commissioner and McCain-Palin Pennsylvania Regional Chair (PA)
· Former First Lady Susan Allen (VA)
· Lori Ann Miller, Young Republican Federation Of VA Chairman (VA)
· Former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow (WI)
· Peggy Oban Boze, McCain-Palin Chairwomen For King County (WA)
· Susan McCaw, Former Ambassador To Austria (WA)
· Della Newman, Former Ambassador To New Zealand (WA)
Wow. They’ve got everybody, from Palin’s own Alaska Lt. Governor Sean Parnell, to an RNC co-chair, from members of congress, to former ambassadors to nations in the southern hemisphere. Pretty impressive.
Now they’re all set to handle all those other nasty things people have been saying, head on!
I bet they’ll dispel all those horrible claims about her stand on global warming, reproductive rights, troopergate, promoting people who talk nice on Fox News, getting paid to stay at home, intimidating staff, raising taxes, not properly funding troopers, her actual executive experience, her real position on bridge to nowhere, the state of the small town where she was mayor, and being called the Queen of Earmarks! They’ll really clear the air. Right guys??
Right, Squad?
Squad?
hello?
(cricket)
Maybe they’re already on the “Straight Talk Express”?
I hope Huffington Post picks up your blog (or asks you to write a regular column). Soon!
Thanks, Nora! Coincidentally, they have, and this post is cross posted there.
AKMuckraker
truth is what you determine it to be… oh, sorry.. thought I was at a republican fundraiser….
Ugh. Washington Post:
Palin is Energizing Women from All Walks of Life
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903045.html?hpid=topnews
This woman? To make the first political donations in her life.
what I wonder is why do men dig her? She is not hot. Well, I guess she’s governor hot – kind of like the hot girl at the office; not hot, just the best of what’s there. And her voice is so grating. I would think that would totally turn men off.
And women? Are you kidding me? Sarah Palin reminds me of the Mom that takes a hit out on the cheerleading coach for not letting her daughter on the team.
And I do think the glasses Sarah wears are intentional. What happened to contact lenses? She is so fabricated it makes me cringe.
madbluedog-20 27 04
I completely agree…like the Lifetime special about the cheerleader mom in Texas…I pointed this out to my wife the other day…
I love this blog. I kind of hope it doesn’t get usurped by Huffington. That thing’s a mess. Or at least maintain an independent link? Also, the people who write comments here write in complete sentences and everything. Wonkette is funny but the comments are perverted and really not informative at all. Keep up the good work, Mudflat muckracker!
Post article sounds like a bunch of far right people who are finally excited about the election. Hopefully most of the moderate PUMA’s will show support, check the facts and move back to Obama.
So what happens when the convention bounce wears off and Obama returns to a slim lead in the polls? Will the press let go of the silliness and get down to substance? The issues? The real records of the candidates?
Or are we in for two months of caribou barbie?
My friends,
I hate to stray from the topic at hand, but had to share:
I just received a letter from John McCain. Well, that’s what the letterhead says! The “RNC Victory 2008″ people have found me and want money and a pledge (hahahahaha). This is the 2nd such Republican letter I’ve received this year — I’m a registered Democrat, but these imbeciles can’t even get that straight.
The letter, among other things (and yes, it’s addressed “Dear Friend”), claims that the Republican Party is a “grassroots foundation” (SOUND FAMILIAR??), and it of course lies about Obama’s tax increases and all the usual bullsh*t.
The letter does sound a bit desperate, though, it makes it sound as if the Republicans are really clamoring for money (they say their opponents are raising record funds — yay!!), and their goal is only 10 Mil. Heh. Didn’t Obama raise that in 1 night?
The best part is that they underline all of their lies for all to see. All of their repetitive talking points, etc. And it’s dated “Tuesday morning.” Like… they can’t even use regular dates now?
The last time I got one of these propagandous things, I hung it on my fridge with a sign that said “Democracy at Work!” Now I’m not sure if I should send it to somewhere more useful. From what I can see, it doesn’t contain any real useful “insider” info.
Anyway. Thoughts? Aside from hysterical laughter?
@ AKM
LOVE the picture! Well done, and congrats on what you’re doing for Alaska and for the country. From one who’s faith is in serious disarray, thanks to the fundies, you just may be a gift from God!
Am I the only one who almost gagged seeing Michelle Bachman’s name on the Truth Squad? If you recall the State of the Union (I think it was last year), she’s the chick in the red suit who was practically falling all over herself to get Dubya’s autograph on her program. Reminded me of the screaming teens at a Beatles concernt. Ok, that dates me. I admit it. Maybe Miley Cyrus gets similar treatment today.
Oops, hit the submit button too soon. Shouldn’t have had that last glass of wine, but that’s the only way to cope these days.
For those who need a more recent Bachman reference… She also suggested that drilling in ANWR would be great for increasing the caribou population as it would give them a nice warm spot along the pipeline to mate.
You just can’t make this stuff up!
madbluedog (20:27:04) :
what I wonder is why do men dig her? She is not hot. Well, I guess she’s governor hot – kind of like the hot girl at the office; not hot, just the best of what’s there. And her voice is so grating. I would think that would totally turn men off.
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I think Palin is getting the same attention a lot of women who wear glasses and are attractive get. It’s the ‘naughty librarian’ thing. It’s an image of sex and intelligence. And intelligence can really get a man’s attention, whether it’s really there or just a perception, when coupled with sex appeal, no matter how little is there.
I can’t say as I’ve minded benefitting from such assumptions… but I do wish that it was seen through more often. Such as in Palin’s case.
They need to keep Michele Bachmann front and center. She’s cuckoo. Seriously. And a fine representation of this group. When she was on Larry King tonight, she just smiled like an idiot, the minute the little red light came on and no matter what she said that smile never left her face.
Also, she’s a huge GWB supporter and I think that if they keep putting her front and center, she makes it easy to prove that McCain/Palin is just a continuation of the same.
I am offended that this mis named “truth squad” is all women.. pfft. Talk about pandering… talk about sexism.. this is so blatantly cynical.
and in that vein from Salon.com:
Alaskan Independence Party chairwoman Lynette Clark talks about why she doesn’t identify herself as an American, and about her kindred spirit Sarah Palin.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/10/alaska_secession/
PLEASE HELP MAKE THESE VIDEOS VIRAL.
The cruel aerial shooting of wolves is as Joy Behar said on LKL tonite “She’s pretty mean to animals”
Share it on as many blogs & websites as you can. This is horrific and cruel
All the above,truth squad this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JVnPcrXr28&NR=1
Get paid to bring a wolf foreleg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G2pb1VeEgg
Oh yeah, the “eBay plane” was sold to trophy hunters & corp media doesn’t mention this please pass along.
You know what makes me sick? Wasn’t it right about this time that the swiftboating of John Kerry commenced? The right (and by that I don’t mean Republicans – I mean the right wing machine) is incorrigible.
If America falls for this bologna…the Extreme right could never chant the battlecry Country first ever again!
@Palmdale
Yes, Michele Bachmann is as scary to me as Sarah Palin, except she’s just a relatively harmless member of Congress. I am unfortunate enough to live in her district. I still cannot understand how, in a year that Democrats made large gains in Congress, she still managed to win. Nothing would please me more than to see her unemployed come January.
Re: the Post article on Palin energizing women.
Take heart! My sister who is usually apolitical gave to the Obama campaign for the first time after Palin’s speech. She said she had to turn the TV off at some point because she was kind of put off by how mean Palin seemed. She lives in California, but still, it’s something. I’m sure there are other women like her who are just now paying attention.
My daughter text messaged me this is what she said, Hope you do not censor because of the language, she is 25 years old:
“Palin is a looming grey cloud over the USA . Not to mention that “Fuck Face McCain”, what the hell was he thinking “Oh MY God”, I am moving out of this country, if those Redneck degenerates win this election.”
ok.. hope this doesn’t pop up later as a double post… sometimes the magic works.. and sometimes it does not..
As a woman and a long time feminist (and proud of it!) I am offended that that misnamed group is all women! Ugh. That is blatant pandering and cynical beyond belief! Do they think this means they cannot be attacked?? I attack them.. despicable.
And on the secession issue, Salon has an interview with Lynnette Clark- very supportive of SP.
“Alaskan Independence Party chairwoman Lynette Clark talks about why she doesn’t identify herself as an American, and about her kindred spirit Sarah Palin.”
I’m still a bit off-put by Palin’s idea that good government is exemplified by billing rape victims for rape-kits used to collect evidence.
Can anyone help me grok the motivity on this issue?
My local news just reported the The Truth Squad wants an apology from Obama because they think the lipstick on a pig comment is sexist.
Great job ladies! Way to debase the meaning of sexism.
I think it was clearly ‘piggist’ and he need to apologize to pigs everywhere.
AKM
Another video on aerial hunting that shows that wolves pose no threat to wildlife and how they are decimating wolves and bears. This video is even better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArYAQBZ0W0o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mu_rqmFpL8&NR=1
Defenders Magazine
Spring 2007
Defenders in Action: Vote Scheduled on Aerial Wolf-Shooting Ban
Alaska voters will have another opportunity to ban the public from participating in aerial wolf shooting. Nearly 57,000 Alaskans signed a petition last year to place the issue on the next state ballot. In February, the state lieutenant governor certified the ballot measure, which will be voted on in August 2008. Alaskans have twice before passed similar ballot measures, but both were overturned by the state legislature. Meanwhile, more than 600 wolves have been shot by aerial gunners in Alaska during the past four years, including at least 38 in the first two months of 2007.
This will make everyone happy! I promise!
It also illustrates how talking respectfully with undecideds reaps more rewards. Let’s win some people over….gently.
Enjoy the article! It will give you hope!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fred-graver/knocking-on-ohios-door_b_125229.html
Someone, please tell me that all this is a dream or I’ve slipped into a parallel universe.
For a Nation that was once the beacon of hope for the world, look how far we have fallen: Truth Squads to refute the actual truth! Disgusting and dishonorable advertising by the McCain Campaign http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/mccain-ad-obamas-lone-edu_n_125205.html
I survived 9/11 for THIS? I survived alcoholism for THIS?
hey 20:18:07 — that washington post article about awakening the sleeping giant……….lookie what was near the bottom right of the page:
From Our Partner
Obama Modifies ‘Yes We Can’ Message to Exclude Area Loser
McCain Speechwriter Trying To Write Lines That Don’t Lead To Creepy Smile
Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain
More Stories From The Onion
well — i copies and pasted and the ONION didn’t carry over.
that dang tricky Onion – gotta watch those guys THEY ARE GOOD. and i don’t mean like mmm mmm good. i mean they can reproduce a newsarticle that would make their momma proud.
after falling for the Vogue cover – i have become incredibly cynical. that is why i google everything and read several sources before i believe anything nowadays.
what this campaign has truly done is show the world (and us mere webcrawlers) that we have some really talented spoofers and photoshop artists and well, crap – a gal can hardly trust a hyperlink anymore.
if the article sounds psycho – if the content doesn’t match the source – i recommend you lean back, take a sip of coffee or whathave you, i personally light a cigarette and think of ………..who would benefit from this craziness………and THEN i read it again.
you guys tell me – is that washington post article an Onion or the real thing?
We should form a “Truthiness” squad. Can we get permission from S. Colbert to do this?
I love all of you, but I started to bed hours ago and am not there yet!
Congrats, AKM, I thought I was re-reading, but it is late on the East Coast. Just wanted to peek at HuffPo before dragging the old tired bones….and then the tone seemed a little familiar. Stopped off to run a response to England on the last thread and then…here you were again. Great work!!!!!
Thanks Cassie. And I love the “Truthiness Squad!” That would have been the title if I’d thought of it first! AKM
The above list is missing the names of the Fox News/website political marketing teams; i.e., the scrolling bottom of the screen caption supervisors, visual imaging editors, website “straw man” story placement team leaders and some of the voices and producers who are so adept at what they do well – selling ideas, straw populist movements/stats and various lipstick shades.
I wonder how Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America) would view the truths squads and Fox news? Would he be remiss that the current day press lacks traits that formerly kept a democracy in check?
@ Arkangel
We’re all right with you, man. No, you’re not crazy. We’re not crazy. Sometimes I think we’re the only sane ones left. It truly is 1984… maybe a few years late, but right here and now. And it’s been coming ever since then. Up is down, down is up, truth is lies, lies are truth.
Those folks down south who survived Bull Connor’s dogs and fire hoses must have felt the same way. They overcame, and so can we.
John McCain has used “lipstick on a pig” several times during this campaign. However, if Obama uses it it’s sexist attack!
Remember when McCain was running against w? The Bush team accused McCain of attacking Bush all of the time when really they were attacking McCain. It’s a Rove tactic! Now the same ugly head rears up again. Everything Obama or Biden say is a personal attack against McCain or Palin! McCain hated it when it was used against him but it’s fine against Obama and Biden.
Doesn’t anyone remember George Orwell’s [Nineteen Eighty-Four] and the Ministry of Truth</a?? Honestly, folks .. it’s all there in black and white.
Okay. What’s going on? I’ve posted an article from Huffington Post THREE TIMES and it will not show. Although all my other posts do.
You have something against HP AKMuckraker?
I hate when people post long articles here but this one fills me with such HOPE that I have to. I hope it makes you feel as good and hopeful as it did me.
Knocking on Ohio’s Door — My Amazing Weekend
I did something this weekend that renewed my faith in this country, and made me feel great about being an American. I reached out to my “neighbor” about this election – although the neighbor lived 1000 miles away.
I went to Gallipolis, Ohio – a village on the Ohio River, where Ohio borders West Virginia. I took myself from New York City into the “battleground” of this election, and listened and talked to the people who are going to decide it. (As most of you know, there are 6 battleground states… and in most of those states, there are a handful of counties and precincts that are going to sway this election.)
Gallipolis is one of the few places in America that has not been “homogenized.” Just when you think that everywhere in America looks like everywhere else, this town doesn’t look OR sound like it. For one thing, they pronounce the name of their town “Ga-lip-Police.” (The locals, of course, are allowed to mispronounce it “gallipolie” or “gallipol-es”… you would be well-advised to say “gallop-police.”)
The next town is called Rio Grande, and it’s pronounced “R-eye-oh Grand.” As the Mayor of Rio Grande told me “We have our own language in these parts.”
Political campaigns tend to forget this part of America. The Obama organizer in Gallia County (a Harvard senior from rural Connecticut who gave up his first semester for Obama) told me “This is where Gore and Kerry lost Ohio.” When someone from a campaign walks up to someone’s door, there’s surprise, then a little bit of ranting (as in “well, finally someone’s listening, let me hit them with everything you’ve got”), and then … real talk. “Sit down on the porch” talk.
I spent my time talking to what the Obama campaign and Gallia County’s organizers call “persuadables” – voters who had been Hillary supporters and needed a little extra work, Independent voters, or Republicans who at one time or another had been involved in a Democrat’s campaign. And I had some of the best conversations about jobs, gas prices, Iraq, race, religion and abortion that I’ve ever had in my life. They were free from rancor, from easy “sound bites,” and from the usual political rhetoric you see the pundits slinging every day on the air.
I walked for two days, knocked on over 100 doors and spoke to over 50 voters. By Sunday, I’d “gone rogue” and went beyond the “persuadables” list, talking to anyone who was sitting on the front porch. Even the McCain people were cheerful when they told me that I was wasting my breath.
A lot of the comment about this year’s election has centered on a powerful shift in the voting base. I think I saw some of that this weekend. People here tend to be lifelong party members. If you’ve been a Republican, it’s gut-wrenching to say you’re going to vote for Barack Obama. But I heard it. On the other hand, I also talked with a woman who was SO Democratic that she once forbade her son to play Abraham Lincoln in the school pageant, and she told me she might not pull the lever for Obama because of his switch on public financing and his support of FISA.
They are rewriting their political alliances out of a life-and-death sense that this country has gone horribly wrong. When you’ve been paying $50 a month for gasoline to drive to work, and now it’s $50 a week, that’s real. When you’re losing your job because the competition is overseas, and you know in your heart it’s because we’re just not competitive for so many reasons… that’s bad. When your kids are supposed to be educated in the “No Child Left Behind” program, but the school can’t afford the supplies or the teachers prescribed by the program, you start wondering what’s really wrong.
But I didn’t hear simple answers from them – part of that is because there’s a real distrust of Washington and Government in general. But part of it is that they know there are no simple answers. A lot of them are going to vote for Barack because they hate the way things are going now… but they also say he’s “the lesser of two evils.” The way things have been going over the past decade has played havoc on their lives.
This is cattle country and trucker country. (The main reaction I got to telling people I was from New York was “Oh, that George Washington Bridge… it’s 100 bucks for a semi to cross!”) We talked about how bad the highways in this country are, and the railroads, and how the country can’t even ship its own goods any more.
This is ironworker country. People are losing their jobs to foreign trade, and they know it. But one ironworker told me how he and his buddies had erected a giant “Iron Barack” statue outside their plant.
I had some amazing moments — I knocked on the door of a couple from India who will become citizens on the 18th of this month, and had the great privilege of handing them voter registration cards.
I had some weird moments… one guy told me how afraid he was that Barack, the first Black President, would get assassinated… “And it’ll all be on me.” Another woman told me that there wasn’t any reason to vote, that the End of Days was coming. I tried to convince her that, just as an insurance policy for her grandkids, she might want to cast a vote for Barack.
I talked to a Gulf War (the first one) vet who told me “I had Osama right in my sights… then they called us off… this is all about a fight between two oil families, the Bushes and the Bin Ladens.” He’ll vote Obama… as long as I convinced him that registering to vote only made him liable to do jury duty once in a while.
There are a LOT of Hillary supporters here. For the most part, they’ll end up voting for Barack – but there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done to get them to understand that Barack and Hillary share the same goals.
No one I spoke to was buying Sarah Palin. The women turn their nose up at her (and these are the hard-scrabble types Sarah’s supposed to appeal to). “How dare they think we’ll vote for her just because she’s a woman!” A lifelong Republican took Palin’s nomination as proof that “McCain has been bought by the Right Wing of the party… I used to like him.”
Like I said, it was an amazing weekend. And you can do it, too…
Here’s how:
Go to mybarackobama.com. Register. Search for caucuses and “out of town” groups in the battleground states. You’ll find events hosted by Obama organizers in Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Michigan, Ohio, and New Hampshire.
Call the organizer up. Introduce yourself. If there really isn’t enough going on for you to come out for, they’ll tell you. (A number of Pennsylvania and Ohio organizers did just that.) But if you’re lucky, you’ll find someone like Seth Bannon, the Gallipolis organizer who was my host this weekend.
Most places can put you up for a night or two – there are plenty of Obama supporters everywhere who would welcome you. Or, enjoy the wonders of the Super 8! (They’ll leave the light on for you, and if you leave your button on, you might have the experience I had of recruiting a new volunteer for the campaign.)
And start walking, start knocking, start talking. You WILL make a difference. I went to the Volunteer Fireman’s Festival in Rio Grande on Saturday night, and Seth and I were “celebrities” (but not like Paris Hilton, I promise) because we had traveled all the way to this part of Ohio to talk about Barack Obama.
The old “organizer’s handbook” says that every three people you talk to equals a vote. In some parts of this country, the election turned on 8-10 votes… precincts turn to counties turn to states… It all adds up.
We can win this election! But we’re in for the fight of our lives… and this is one way to go to the battlegrounds.
Madbluedog, she is porno hot. A friend of mine has told me this. He says he knows. I believe him. He says that Sarah reminds him of someone called “Janine”.
Palmdale, thanks. Mine is in “disarray” too for the last little while. Must study on this.
The biggest take-away from the article I posted is this:
He was respectful of these people. He must have been calm and not pushy, otherwise, they would have kicked him off the porch!
We need to be careful when we look down on others…call them rednecks, etc. Except for the obvious die-hard “i’ll vote republican even if they put up a monkey” people, the rest need to be talked to respectfully. It could become a vote and change the course of our war-mongering country.
Wow Susan. I am truly inspired by your post. Thank you for sharing!!
thank you again… and to further boost your great work-
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/opinion/09herbert.html?_r=3&em&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
@ Leonard — yikes, you’re right! And I thought Cheney was scary.
I can’t believe they’d once again try and further inoculate themselves from attack by stacking the deck with women. Dirty. F’ing. Politics.
I hate these people.
For the record, here is the footage of McCain using the same Pig and Lipstick line:
I have a few posts that go awry too.. but Susan from Atl.. I wanted to thank you for that post about walking the precincts in Ohio. That was truly inspirational!
Thanks!
Palmdale, CA (21:03:00) :
@ Arkangel
We’re all right with you, man. No, you’re not crazy. We’re not crazy. Sometimes I think we’re the only sane ones left. It truly is 1984… maybe a few years late, but right here and now. And it’s been coming ever since then. Up is down, down is up, truth is lies, lies are truth.
~~
I’m getting more of a Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood feel with Palin as Offred’s ‘wife’ figure (who was a figurehead for women returning to the home and hearth) and the spokesperson for the aunts, and the lack of equal pay for equal work things.
D’oh, now I have to read it again. lol, I shall enjoy it though. XD If you haven’t read it… you will find it very relevant to today’s world.
KY.. I think Obama should just run all the footage of Mc using that term as well.. and then the truth squad indignation of the sexism..
I wish they could just run the side by side quotes that the Daily Show ran of Rove, O’Reilly etc. no need for any words.. just run the clips..
Could the Onion writers be Caltech students or grads? Tech has a long and honorable history of the most amazing pranks. One of the more recent in a long-standing competition with MIT students was that a few Techers posing as MIT frosh interested in journalism managed to get hold of the MIT student newspaper masthead. Within a week, the Techers had recreated an edition of the MIT paper, sent it back to Cambridge, and had thousands of copies printed and distributed to incoming MIT students and parents.
Old timers may recall the Rose Bowl game where the card section was pranked to display “Caltech” instead of the rightful team’s name.
There is a tee shirt available for purchase at the Caltech bookstore. The front resembles an official MIT shirt. The back reads, “because not everyone can go to Caltech.” These were distributed one year to incoming MIT frosh. Proceeds from the sale of these shirts go to the school-sponsored “Prank Fund.”
Those interested in more info can go to http://www.caltech.edu and search on “pranks”. Enjoy.
Madbluedog,
Why do men dig SP? As several have said previously…she has that naughty librarian look. But here’s the real deal….she can shoot a gun, allegedly dress out a moose, chop and haul wood, birth babies, bake cookies, run a business and do it all looking good.
@ MadDogBlue – you know, she is sexy – and that’s what’s getting attention. However, I find her voice rather annoying. Like Joan Rivers whiney – like Rachel Ray annoying – like Roseanne Barr (though I’d tap Rachel). Seriously, she’s easy on the eyes – a novelty of sorts – and I am praying it wears off before the election. Shoot, I’d hit it – but just don’t talk. Moans are ok.
Seriously, it’s a new twist in a field usually dominated by dudes. And she’s a hockey mom – and women can relate to that. However, her anti-abortion stance is really just drawing women that would vote GOP anyhow – and some disgruntled Dems who are still soar at Hillary losing (I liken them to the fools in the South who still have Confederate money, convinced the Confederacy will rise again).
I just think it’s like buying an expensive toy and playing with it for weeks – then, you realize you have bills to pay, that you haven’t touched it in days and throw it up on eBay or craigslist for cheap.
She will be the Dem’s October surprise when the scandals take her (and the GOP) down for the count.
Obama really, really, really needs to beg Hillary and sic her on Palin. Otherwise, we’ll be wearing VPILF tees and 4 more years of Bush policies and a candidate who is touting change and will be too old to realize what it is.
Palin’s not attractive to me, I’m just sayin’
let’s take a moment and read this essay on Renewing America’s Leadership:
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070701faessay86401/barack-obama/renewing-american-leadership.html
July 2007:
Summary: After Iraq, we may be tempted to turn inward. That would be a mistake. The American moment is not over, but it must be seized anew. We must bring the war to a responsible end and then renew our leadership — military, diplomatic, moral — to confront new threats and capitalize on new opportunities. America cannot meet this century’s challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.
Barack Obama is a Democratic Senator from Illinois and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
—– and now THE Democratic Presidential Candidate September 2008.
This is the level of compassion and intelligence that has ignited our passion for the American Dream and to our Determination to preserve the Spirit of our Constitution………thankfully when we really can appreciate it and work together as a Nation to achieve.
i truly appreciate the fact that he is out there on the road these next two months shaping the hope and the dreams of men, women and children to see beyond our differences. that he is also seeing this crap on the news and on the internet — but bless him — is still standing tall and looking us in the eye and saying without hesitation — we can do this right.
omg…talk about going overboard- wow…they did not have anyone from the PTA ? or her Beauty Contestant Buddies ? or how about her friends from her waitressing days ? or the Children she babysat ? so are they like in Panic Mode or what ?
re: palin energizing women
you bet she is. Take a look here:
http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/
If you are female I encourage you to contribute as well. And everyone should digg it.
Mad Skillz, son:
Obama really, really, really needs to beg Hillary and sic her on Palin. Otherwise, we’ll be wearing VPILF tees and 4 more years of Bush policies and a candidate who is touting change and will be too old to realize what it is.
~~
Nah, Change will take on a new meaning. ‘Depends’.
Am hoping the American public keeps the candidates on track with the issues. Obama / Biden will win the debates since McCain/Palin can’t talk without “checking with staff” to determine their position. (I believe Rove has officially moved into McCains brain now)
I am posting again, despite my embarrassment at my earlier goof-up.
I got to thinking about the Truth Squad. The unspoken text is that Obama’s campaign is the lying side? And that McCain-ites are the Truth-Tellers? And the ridiculous size of that group! And what’s with the name ’squad’? Is it supposed to be like some army? It now seems they are now trying to preempt Truth as well as Change!?! And last, there’s definitely something creepily Nazi-like about making a group like this.
I went to find what some other people have said about Truth. People who maybe really cared about it. Food for thought.
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
-George Orwell
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” –Abraham Lincoln
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” -Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.” — Henri Frederic Amiel
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy (June, 1962, from the Yale graduation speech; as quoted by A. M. Schlesinger Jr. in A Thousand Days.) (Here Kennedy was talking about myth in the sense of ‘things you just grow up knowing.’)
Being able to read all the wonderful thought posted here has really helped me through this past week and a half. Because of this blog, and all the great people here, I donated to a political campaign for the first time. I asked a stranger and also an acquaintance at work about registering to vote – and about voting for Obama.
I know I’ve lost sleep trying to keep up here because this whole thing w/ SP is just so incredibly unbelievable to me. So please forgive me for jumping to conclusions earlier; and Rhett, again, I’m sorry.
meeting the minds of the truth squad:
from minnesota – well at least she makes no bones about it eh? oh jeez
Palin is a great smarmy-queen. Her nasal female chiding squeeze-throated quibbling. She’s just out to punish all of us woe-be-gone drifters.
misskae, don’t worry about your mistake.
I apparently have a conservative counterpart as well. I imagine a lot of names are used multiple times on both sides. So confusion is bound to occur.
meet the truth squad from oklahoma: her argument about hate crimes and protecting religious thought? you tell me. is it a valid argument against added protection from hate crimes versus just crimes that are hateful?
@ Mil
Yes, I have read the book, and this whole scenario is something right out of the novel. It’s also my wife’s favorite book (she’s the one who got me to read it) out of the several hundred we have around the house.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this just occurred to me while I was in the shower (where the best thoughts are always given to those who listen): We have two legitimate nut cases on a major party ticket to be President and VP of the US in McCain and Palin. NUT CASES.
As entertaining as Sarah Bullwinkle has become, we need to concentrate on the TOP NUT CASE, John McCain. While I admire Obama’s taking the high road, that last ad threw down the gauntlet. We need to answer in a tough and civilized manner…but TOUGH. Call Mac out on it; this wasn’t a 527 ad…it was APPROVED by Mac. Obama himself needs to make a statement about it that is forceful and respectful, for God forbid we see the “angry black man”…that’ll be an infinite source of fuel for these low lifes.
This needs to stop NOW. ENOUGH! This is the Presidency Of The United States we are talking about here. There ARE issues. There IS unemployment. There IS economic devastation. And all McCain can do is come up with TRASH like that ad?!
I have said this once on some blog: John McCain didn’t have to sell his soul, because he left it at the Hanoi Hilton. This ad and the way his campaign has been conducted has been proof of that.
God help this world if these two are elected. It would not only show the world THEY are NUT CASES but WE are CRAZY for allowing them into office. They are clearly a danger to the Republic and the planet.
I agree Arkangel. We need to focus on McCain and we need Obama to take a strong, but calm stance against such descipable ads.
ps: Kudos to your wife’s taste in books! It’s one of my favorites too.
from 2006 vetting document regarding library censorship:
Palin Asked City Librarian About Censoring Books, Insisted It Was “Rhetorical.” In 1996,
according to the Frontiersman, Wasilla’s library director Mary Ellen “Emmons said Palin asked her
outright if she could live with censorship of library books.” Emmons said, “This is different than a normal
book-selection procedure or a book-challenge policy…She was asking me how I would deal with her
saying a book can’t be in the library.” Palin said in response, “Many issues were discussed, both
rhetorical and realistic in nature.” [Frontiersman, 12/18/96]
Contracts
Wasilla
Palin Fired the Police Chief and the Library Director—Then Said She Did Not Fire Them But Sent
Them “Intent to Terminate” Letters. In 1997, Palin fired Police Chief Irl Stambaugh and Library
Director Mary Ellen Emmons. The Frontiersman wrote, “After news of the of the dismissals broke
Thursday night, Palin said she never meant to fire Stambaugh and Emmons. ‘It was an intent to terminate
letter to discuss my intent to terminate them or for them to submit resignations.’” Palin wrote in her letter,
“I do not feel I have your full support in my efforts to govern the city of Wasilla.” [Frontiersman, 2/5/97]
• Palin Rehired Library Director after Cementing Her Support. The Frontiersman wrote, “Palin
said she cemented Emmons’ support Friday afternoon for her new plan to join the library and
museum departments and felt like she could continue to work with Emmons. Her plan will create
more efficiency within the departments, Palin said, making better use of the public’s money.”
[Frontiersman, 2/5/97]
ack, typing spoonerism. Mea Culpa.
From Wed. Guardian ….. food for thought
The world’s verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/uselections2008.barackobama
can someone, please, tell me what XD means. thanks in advance.
Test.
Here is another tear jerker of dead wolves. Seriously, this environmental issue will stick to Teflon Sarah.
and thelma drake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-QkewvyPCU&feature=related
i am at least learning about the republcan women who are standing up for truth in our nation’s time of need ….. i listened to several videos about her various political platforms on youtube – a lot of negative ones are posted – but this one is actually from her campaign so it should represent her position on at least the topic of illegal immigration.
I know, it’s like Tourettes with me and these dead wolves, but this video is worth seeing and it covers all her egregious anti environmental, anti animal acts as well as the failed dairy.
You folks raise my spirits and make me believe there is still hope. I get so frustrated watching MSM. I love the story about traveling to Ohio and knocking on doors in small towns. Unfortunately, I have lung cancer and no longer can do these things but I so appreciate your bravery and hard work. I do blog and I do try to forward the best things to people that I think I can influence. And donate the small amounts I can afford. God bless all of you. And AKAMudraker, you deserve big medals, pulitzers, citations and a Nations’s thanks. You all keep me sane and that is hard when you are living in Texas! Take care. dears, and keep up the good work!
I believe it’s time to rent “V for Vendetta” again.
World wants Obama as president: poll
Posted Tue Sep 9, 2008 10:50pm AEST
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/09/2360240.htm?section=world
HEY – TRUTH SQUAD !!
McCain’s Lipstick Comment
Wonder if McCain remembers this.
McCain also criticized the health care proposals of Democratic presidential candidates as attempts at a “one-size-fits-all, big government takeover of health care” (CQ HealthBeat, 10/11). He said that the proposal recently announced by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) is “eerily” similar to the plan she proposed in the 1990s. He added, “I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig” (New York Times, 10/12).
http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2008/09/mccains-lipstic.html
McCain keeps talking about victory in Iraq.
You cannot win an occupation.
Why does he keep wanting victory? What does he think a victory would look like? People getting houses with white picket fences and singing kumbaya?
Okay, I realize some may raise their eyebrows at the mention of Camille Paglia’s name, but this article is worth the read. One may not agree with her assessment of Palin and the Democratic overreaction to her, but it helped me re-frame my thinking about why so many people seem to be attracted to her. I always appreciate someone who challenges my thinking in a respectful way (well…usually!).
PAGLIA UNLEASHED: Palin is feminism’s greatest leap forward since Madonna…
Fresh blood for the vampire
“A beady-eyed McCain gets a boost from the charismatic Sarah Palin, a powerful new feminist — yes, feminist! — force. Plus: Obama must embrace his dull side”.
By Camille Paglia
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/09/10/palin/
fawnskin, XD is a big laughing smile as far as I know, it’s a smiley. As for anything else… no idea.
Speaking of the truth, another WaPo article: how lies turn to facts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903727.html?hpid=topnews
McCain tells people almost every day that Obama will raise their taxes. Which is an outright lie. I feel this is the stuff people really vote on and am afraid this will get lost in the shuffle of all the other lies (bridge, chef, on and on). So spread the outrage and let people know Obama’s not raising taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 and wants to exclude seniors who make under $50,000 from income tax completely.
McCain justifies his lie by way of a vote that Obama cast on a budget resolution based on the Bush taxes being rescinded in 2012. But it’s nonbinding and irrelevant as they make up a new budget annually. And there’s nothing that limits Obama from making more tax cuts which he plans to do for some tax brackets.
Important things to do ….
Find out how your local county government selects poll workers; how the party selects poll watchers. Volunteer. Usually poll workers are paid a pittance. This is especially critical in populated cities and suburban areas. If people are being prevented from voting, call the media. Learn all you can about the process so that you know how it works. Make sure the people running the polling place understand the machines.
Press your local election commission to guarantee that all registered individuals are on the list. This is where provisional ballots become an issue. If the county hasn’t done it’s work, then too many people have to use them. Make sure they are offered.
Be a pest!
I did not open the videos on the wolf killing. While at the office today, I opened a link (from one of the threads here) to an article that discussed the issue, and it described how Palin’s people shot the puppy wolves, after killing the parents.
I broke into tears, couldn’t stop crying. My husband is at the desk next to me, and when he realized why I was upset told me “I wish you would stop reading about THAT WOMAN!”
I am so incredibly disappointed by so many in this country for embracing this women in spite of her horrid behavior.
Yet, grateful to find this blog. Gives me hope.
The TV media never talk about McCain lying on taxes. They’re talking about “pig on a lipstick” now.
J T
Don’t watch the videos if they make you cry, just give them the credibility with the hits. That way they will creep into the corporate media. I want the folks who don’t know how horrific she is for the environment to cry. And recoil from McCain and Palin. Not You.
Here is a video that will make you cry for joy in a really good way. Enjoy a real Christian.
It appears to me Obama can use McCain’s own words to defeat him. Look at all of the youtube new clips where McCain is against what the majority wants changed in our country and our politics. I truly believe the under 30 vote are seriously being under estimanted. No one is polling this group, and they are sick and tired of the war. A large portion of this group have spent thousands on a college education and now they can get a job that pays the bills. My nephew is 26 lives in Austin Tx. He stated the college crowd will create shock and awe on Nov 4th. He has no doubt Texas will go to Obama.
Aw..J T, that is terrible. I used to think I was overreacting to the aerial wolf hunting because I don’t understand it and someone told me it was an overpopulation thing. But others say there is no imbalance of population amongst wolves, bears vs. moose, caribou.
Oh to be a fly on the wall at the next ‘Truth? Squad’ meeting. “Okay gals, oh and sorry, you too Parnell. I think we nailed it on the ‘Bridge’ issue. Great idea Bachman to use subliminal messages flashed across Palin’s ‘fashion’ glasses. Next order of business… global warming. Now since our VP does not believe in it we must discuss a way to tie it into terrorism or a muslim plot. Any ideas ladies and Parnell?”
My Prediction from Truth Squad… “No comment. No interviews.” Yes, they will take the HIGH PONY road. Yes, they will use what Palin has used time and time again… their ‘ass’ets, excluding Parnell’s of course. Why is he even in this elite squad of spinsters? Maybe because he really wants a job come November as gov.
Who is really using the ’sex’ism card here. The squad’s existence is only due to the blaring ineptitude of McCain’s vetting and the one-in-a-million (she is actually the 1 millionth on my list for VP) self-aggrandizing Sarah ‘Baracuda’ Palin.
so little time to get the REAL TRUTH out — so many Red Herrings…
@ Snoskred
As much as McCain talks about victory, he’s never given a hint of what that means to him. Does he mean a country with a functioning government and a rebuilt infrastructure where people can leave their homes and neighborhoods without fear of being killed and can sustain itself economically in a global economy, with education and healthcare for all its citizens? Or does he mean a country that has capitulated to the US oil companies? Two very different visions of victory. Maybe I’m cynical, but I have this feeling that so long as Big Oil gets the lion share of profits, he’ll settle for chaos for Iraq’s citizenry.
My husband is going to call the office of his fine Repub representative to ask why she has left her constituency during hurricane season to spend time in Alaska? “Are the needs of the McCain campaign more important that the duties you were elected to perform on behalf all residents regardless of party afffiliation?” Our tax dollars pay her salary and I am a Democrat. I think we should all call the current Representatives on the list and ask the same question of each of them. We, the People, pay their salaries and provide them health care….not John McCain!
Ooh, the MSM’s investigative teams are finally getting some new stuff:
‘TROOPERGATE’
Warned by the Court
A judge repeatedly told Palin and family not to badmouth her sister’s ex
By Mark Hosenball | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Sep 9, 2008 | Updated: 7:36 p.m. ET Sep 9, 2008
http://www.newsweek.com/id/158140
Kay Ayres insures there is Truth in Ohio: http://ohiogop.org/press/articles/2008/09/ohio-gop-vice-chair-kay-ayres-responds-ted-stricklands-surprise-attacks
Margaret Farrow has as good if not considerably better vita than Palin ? oh i see at the bottom – she supported George Bush – was she on a short list anyway? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Farrow
this gal has 10 years experience with PTA – and not on the short list? http://www.barbara4senate.com/
i could go on i am sure — but you know what strikes me as incredibly important about this list of 55 republican women?
the majority of them have more experience than Sarah Palin and WOW they are women and republican and they really like John McCain.
i would really like to know how many of them were on the long list for possible VPs.
i mean this is an impressive list. of women. most of them elected positions.
man the more i think about it — the more i really really really do not understand what the truth really is.
did these ladies ALL say no to John mccain when asked if they would be interested in being his VP candidate?
or am i just not understanding something vital here?
That lipstick on a pig is such a non-issue, the GOP is loosing it. I keep thinking of that interview with Palin where she accuses Hillary of whining over sexism.
Palin is turning out to be the GOP’s little Princess. They are making big deal out of the stupidest things.
Since she is such a cry baby, I am going to come out and say what I have been thinking. She is a shitty mother for throwing her poor teeanage daughter to the press. And she doesn’t show much sense hauling that poor baby all over the place.
Ok…all done being sexist for now. But how can you take the GOP’ s complaints seriously considering their sexist buttons promoting their “hot” candidate. Hell, in any office situation that would be grounds for a sexual harrassment case!
*sigh* What I wouldn’t do for Berkely Breathed to bring back Bloom County. I love reading and rereading his political comedy from the 80’s and 90’s. His new cartoon… “Opus” just doesn’t have the right feel for me anymore.
I can just imagine him making the Truth Squad into something like the Mary Kay Commandos. *wistful smile*
That would be the first time since 1976 that Texas goes to Democrats.
Found this:
“Having a Bush on the ticket each election from 1980 through 2004 (except 1996) has helped make Texas a reliably “red” state. In 2004, George W. Bush won the state by a margin of 61 percent to 38 percent over John Kerry. Texas’ population has grown rapidly in recent decades, and its 34 electoral votes are second only to California’s 55. Depending on the results of the 2010 census, the state could gain up to three more electoral votes in 2012.”
If you’re interested in the aerial wolf kills (i.e. predator control) read my recent post at exoticterrane.blogspot.com. The program didn’t start with Palin, but she has had nothing but enthusiasm for it, including her campaigning against the recent ballot proposition that was defeated on the statewide ballot on August 26th. It is all in line with her complete disregard for science.
Smitty, love that video. I’d seen it before…but still love it.
Thanks
I don’t understand people that can’t appreciate all of God’s creatures.
From Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/id/158140
Let the Truth Squad handle *that* one!
Texas will go for Obama???
I guess it’s possible that hell could freeze over!
Joking!
I would be shocked if Gaw ja (Georgia) went for Obama. Clinton got us in ‘92 but I think that was the only time other than Carter, in the last 40 years! I’m not holding my breath. I’m originally from Tn and they will go for McCain for sure althought my parents are voting Obama. We are all Independents and have voted both ways in the past. But these days, I’m so disgusted by vicious Republicans, I’ve voted straight democrat even when I don’t like the candidate. Republicans always win though….it is Georgia afterall. Atlanta goes one way but most of the rest of the state goes another. Many never met a war they didn’t like!
Why oh why can’t I replant Atlanta, it’s weather, people and beauty into a blue state?
Arkangel, I wish I had the luxury of sticking with the issues. They’re relatively easy to debate.
But this election is rapidly becoming a popularity contest. Representative Bachmann, who appeared on Larry King Live earlier tonight, said both old and young women in her district told her they think Palin seems like fun.
Deja vu all over again. Same moronic thinking that got GWB into TWH. People felt they could share a beer with him.
If some women are so hard up for a girls’ night out, post a request in the library, if the library allows that sort of thing, depending on the mayor of the town.
If someone tells me they are voting Palin because she seems friendly, I have to bring up her sarcasm. I have to point out that it’s not friendly to force a pregnant woman to have a baby when she currently has the right to terminate that pregnancy. I have to remind them that it isn’t nice to lie to people and say you didn’t want a bridge when you campaigned for it. A friend wouldn’t lie to you. You have no friend in Sarah Palin.
David Gergen just said that Obama needs to shift his focus from Palin to McCain. I have great respect for Gergen, but at this moment in time, I have to disagree. She’s not a schoolyard bully that can be ignored in the hopes she’ll go away. She IS the ticket. She IS the reason McCain’s numbers are up. She IS the reason crowds are swelling. SHE has to be confronted. Now.
It’s my hope that Obama won’t have to deal with her. Let Biden do it. Let surrogates do it. Let the 527s do it. But do it. Kerry didn’t and he was swiftboated right out of TWH.
Leonard Pinth-Garnell (21:06:01) :
Doesn’t anyone remember George Orwell’s [Nineteen Eighty-Four] and the Ministry of Truth</a?? Honestly, folks .. it’s all there in black and white.
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Yep. Rove is still manipulating the lizard brain of the check out line at Wal-Mart. It is all wearing very, very thin on me now. I am getting very sick of this system of psychological and emotional manipulation. From swiftboating now to shiftboating. Manipulating pooling to make us think we are losing. Waiting for the other shoe of an October surprise to drop. The same old, same old. Why is this nation stuck at perpetual 50-50. Why?
The same old formula of self identity groupthink manipulation since the 1930’s.
Gawd I hate it.
But I never once voted for Bush!!! So proud that I will always be able to say that!
Someone used the term “Grok” from Stanger in a Stange Land by Heinlein. Geez! How appropriate. Love that book. Hate the reality! Such smart people, caught up in the muck and mire of Republican/Rove politics!
“I’m getting more of a Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood feel with Palin as Offred’s ‘wife’ figure (who was a figurehead for women returning to the home and hearth) and the spokesperson for the aunts, and the lack of equal pay for equal work things.”
That is a great book. Palin also reminds me of the narcissist TV weather girl-turned-murderer in “To Die For”. Nicole Kidman played her (quite well) in the movie but the book is good, too; all based on a true story.
“Rove is still manipulating the lizard brain of the check out line at Wal-Mart.”
I know what you mean (above) but let’s remember that those kind of comments can really turn off undecideds. It is condescending after all.
Sorry, but I want Obama to win and if making myself unpopular by being confrontational, I have to do it. Too much is at stake.
A lot of people that do not comment read these comments.
SLC said:
Palin also reminds me of the narcissist TV weather girl-turned-murderer in “To Die For”. Nicole Kidman played h
OMG!!! I can’t beleive you said that! I was thinking the same thing this weekend! That is too funny….she really IS like her isn’t she?
Sally & JT,
WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN! There is no credible evidence about “culling” predators. Just like you are horrified, so will MILLIONS of others. The Christian video reached 27 million people, if we can reach a fraction of those people with her grotesque aerial hunting, it will sway people. Trust me. Just hit the videos & pass them along even if you can’t watch. Send them to AC360’s blog. He is doing a story on the aerial hunting tonite so make a comment! I swear, look at the Mike Vick story. A million dollar QB went to PRISON over 6 dead dogs. She won’t be able to defend $150 bounty for wolk legs.
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/09
http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2008/09/08/sarah_palin_wolves/
Gordon Haber is a wildlife scientist who has studied wolves in Alaska for 43 years. “On wildlife-related issues, whether it is polar bears or predator controls, she has shown no inclination to be objective,” he says of Palin. “I cannot find credible scientific data to support their arguments,” he adds about the state’s rationale for gunning down wolves. “In most cases, there is evidence to the contrary.”
Last year, 172 scientists signed a letter to Palin, expressing concern about the lack of science behind the state’s wolf-killing operation. According to the scientists, state officials set population objectives for moose and caribou based on “unattainable, unsustainable historically high populations.” As a result, the “inadequately designed predator control programs” threatened the long-term health of both the ungulate and wolf populations. The scientists concluded with a plea to Palin to consider the conservation of wolves and bears “on an equal basis with the goal of producing more ungulates for hunters.”
check out this tom toles cartoon at:
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/Q/H/2/shake-up-tt080905.gif
the watch obama quick video about lipstick on a pig – 47 seconds video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPd4yk0x-eg
republican blogs are saying obama plagiarized his statement from this cartoon and are sending it out to limbaugh etc, and to this person who did the cartoon.
i don’t know about this person but article is at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_main.html?name=Toles&date=09052008
they are planning on making it viral on internet and making a big deal about it.
just wanted to let you know.
Smitty,
Too true! There are plenty of ADF&G Biologists who agree with you privately, but stay quiet publicly. Their comments are at the heart of my posting in response to the (mostly correct) Salon article:
exoticterrane.blogspot.com
DeMo (22:28:39) :
“But this election is rapidly becoming a popularity contest. Representative Bachmann, who appeared on Larry King Live earlier tonight, said both old and young women in her district told her they think Palin seems like fun”.
I strongly encourage you to read Camille Paglia’s article at Salon. As I stated earlier, this article is worth the read. One may not agree with her assessment of Palin and the Democratic overreaction to her, but it helped me re-frame my thinking about why so many people seem to be attracted to her.
PAGLIA UNLEASHED: Palin is feminism’s greatest leap forward since Madonna…
“A beady-eyed McCain gets a boost from the charismatic Sarah Palin, a powerful new feminist — yes, feminist! — force. Plus: Obama must embrace his dull side”.
By Camille Paglia
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/09/10/palin/
AnneinWA (22:08:03) :
Exoticterrain ,
thanks for the info. What I am more interested in is making the US populace SEE what she approves of.
btw, good blog. I was aware that her predecessor was the one who opened the hunting but she offered the reward for the foreleg of a wolf.
This will stick, I swear it will.
I’m off to bed…but first I have a suggestion.
I think we should all pray for Obama to win!
Why not? Our prayers are just as valid as theirs.
And considering they are busy being hypocrites (can’t believe how they keep repeating the same lies over and over again, even after it has been publicly established they are lies)
I figure our prayers might get bounced ahead of theirs!
Remember the old TV Ad, you can’t fool Mother Nature? (Or the higher power, however you may believe.)
1984 is a good reference for this, but if you really want a parallel, go for the Handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood.
It’s set in the near future. There is a war, martial law is in effect. Women lose their rights. Then because of a decreasing fertility, woman become biblical handmaid’s as in ‘having kids for the rich families that can’t’. Women who can’t bear children either become houseworkers or are sent to clean ‘colonies’ of toxic waste. Men are in charge. There is always a war. There is always fear. No one ever has the truth. And men and women’s roles are determined by the Bible.
At the start of the movement there is a woman… she speaks passionately about women’s roles and ‘responsibilites’ and religion. She helps kickstart it all.
I promise you, if you want a way to scare people and get them thinking, get the book and lend it out. And there is an okay movie version of it. 1984 is good, but the Handmaid’s Tale will hit closer to home. I promise.
I’m guilty of watching it, but I really think that 24/7 cable news is a major factor in the destruction of our political system.
My daughter has lived in Europe for 12 years and is usually only in the US at Christmas so she doesn’t ever spend time watching the news. However, two summers ago she spent a couple of weeks with me and did have a chance to sample the cable news. She couldn’t believe what has happened and was disgusted. When she returned to Paris, almost the first thing a European friend who had also been in the US said to her was, “Did you see the news channels there? It’s all trash.”
Exoticterrain
Pictures and videos are worth way more than words. The little bit of video AC just showed could do major damage.
We’ve just gotta spread the videos out there in every nook and cranny, I sent them to almost my entire address book.
I could have used you all back before the invasion was declared. I went and found the UN Inspection Reports and read them all. I told everyone there were no WMDs and this was for oil. My husband was totally drinking the Kool-Aid big time. But we made a deal, if they found WMD’s I would vote for who he wanted and if not his pick was mine. Needless to say, he voted for Kerry. Now here we are four years later and, suprise!, another fabrication packaged up with a bow for the American People…all for oil again. This time he sees it all for what it is and he will be (voluntarily;) voting for Obama. Remind people about the old lies and deceptions and what that has cost us as a country. Then ask them why they think this should be any different. Yellow cake from Nigeria…McPitbull with lipstick…it all sounds a little suspect to me, ya think?
Yay! Other people who have read the Handmaid’s Tale! Let’s get it out there!
I am really saddened by this Truth Squad. The cable networks are going to be overjoyed with more drama. CNN has used Palin’s former Aide (equally beautiful) two days in a row to explain/validate her claims. Can’t CNN get someone who was not connected to Palin to interview? It is truly not objective reporting. Their analysis of her standing on global warming was good. KO and Rachel were great, but most people in rural areas won’t watch that.
It’s too bad that there were false leads. I think it’s expected, though, considering how little time McCaine gave us, considering no one knew this candidate AND considering the main media didn’t help. Ideally, I wish we had the right figures on the funding for special ed. That hurts. I blame McCain for this. He put us through all this agony of vetting because of the choice he made.
This election is both a disgrace and inspiration. Our country is further divided with Palin, though, and it’s a total embarrassment to display our dirty dishes to the world. They must think we’re nuts. The analysists have different opinions on how Obama should fight — ignoring or aggressively fighting. I wanted, naively, to see a presidential campaign without swift boating. Somehow, the media now has to be strong and stop all of this. Get all the facts, report them, and then move to really discuss issues/assets. They should demand that Palin be released from her crate.
“republican blogs are saying obama plagiarized his statement from this cartoon and are sending it out to limbaugh etc, and to this person who did the cartoon.”
How disappointed they will be to learn that Obama cited the cartoonist during the Olbermann interview.
Looky here. Looks like a conservative blogger already picked it up AND recognizes that Obama quotes from the cartoon. Damn, Straight Talkers will have to find another piece of BS to throw on the ground and see how many shoes it will stick to.
http://www.clipsandcomment.com/2008/09/08/barack-obamas-current-favorite-cartoon-by-tom-toles/
I never voted for Bush for our governor nor did I vote for him as president.
Since the 2004 election we had our state electoral maps re-drawn by a repubs who control our state legislature to benefit them. That being said we also have many more hispanics that are eligible to vote and they vote democrat. So we do have some hope. Even our conservative magazine Texas Monthly had a poll stating Obama could pull a surprise win.
I only saw a short clip on this today, but some survey/poll apparently indicated that a strong number of Independents were breaking to the McCain campaign. Then, there’s Ron Paul’s endorsement of third-party candidates (speech tomorrow?) to figure in.
I’ll say this once again. I believe we have become distracted by the Sarah Palin pick…and manipulated by Rove once more! We have HUGE GWB issues, which ARE McCain’s issues + his age + a harsh temper against which Obama must prevail…4 more years of the same smug, above-the-law politics is unacceptable.
Here’s a reference:
Polls: McCain Palin Winning Strong Support From Independent And Women Voters
AnneinWA,
Since it is a popularity contest we need to show them for what they are. McCain as a failed soldier who is surrounded by lobbyists and Palin as a Queen Cruella who aerially shoots wolves and bears against proven science that they are not a threat to caribou or moose.
thanks DeMo
for letting me know i only saw part of KO and i guess i missed that part. i go worried when i saw it on a repub blog so i thought i would just pass it along to everybody so we could be on obama’s defense.
glad to know he arleady cited the author of it.
it pays for all of us to stay informed
A realtor once told me, people buy houses on emotion, not reason. I think it is the same with voters. Palin triggers strong emotion. It overrides reason. The Walmart moms (plus a whole bunch of women who suffer from low self esteem) feel they can connect with her. Republicans have their guerilla marketing down a fine “T” – they know how to feed right into the emotional needs of their audience. They create hi-energy cheerleading squads and suck the undecided in. Today I was talking to a friend of mine (I swear to God, till I now I thought she was a sensible “thinking” person) and SHE was going soft on Palin. I quizzed her and she said ” I just LIKE her – she is so down to earth and I know she will get the right people to advise her” OMG I almost fainted. This person is not even a Christian – she is a BUDDHIST! Guys I am trying to be optimistic but there is something subversive going on – I can feel the undercurrent. I think Obama needs a whole new strategy. Reason won’t work. Maybe he needs to “up” his cool index – get whopping celebrity endorsements – something sensational. I don’t know what – a WOODSTOCK ?? I was watching FASHION ROCKS on CBS this evening – celebrities coming together for fighting Cancer. Everybody loves celebrities and celebrities love Obama. If it is a sizzling event – it will skew TV viewer-ship away from Palin and make her look like a frump. The Repugs may criticize celebrities but they will be jealous. One thing Obama has over McCain is the cool factor. And tell me who does not like cool? That is why Apple works. Super brand, cool image, iconic, cutting edge – all of which OBAMA is. Why not capitalize on his best asset to create momentum instead of flinging mud?
Bystander (22:48:31) :
Ron Paul is also going to be on the ballot in Montana – I can’t remember which party has chosen to place his name there. Paul said he doesn’t mind (paraphrasing here)…and there was more to that story, but I read it this morning and that seems like weeks ago!
Last post then I’m off to bed.
Karen,
I agree with you wholeheartedly about our news media. In fact, I’ve written several publications (CNN, WashintonPost, and a writer of another paper (forgot which)) recently to complain about their move to tabloid TV and away from investigative reporting. Without investigative reporting, any democracy is doomed. They are our only hope against authoritative government and having any real knowledge of what the government is doing. But instead, like someone said here, they go on and on about the pig with lipstick and who said it how many times instead of pointing out the inaccuracies McCain states about Obama’s tax plan. I wish everyone would just turn off the TV. I highly recommend Google news for all your information. It makes it easy to see all articles from all over the world on a topic. Especially Israeli newspapers….they talk about half the story that never makes it into our papers. Strange. Also, did you know that Olmert met with Bush a few months ago and tried to talk him into invading Iran before he left office? His staff was quoted in Haaretz. Did you hear that on CNN? I bet not. Google News is my home page. Without it, I might not have had credible information that invading Iraq was a mistake BEFORE we invaded. Obama and I must have been reading the same papers
It was hell being against the war in 2003….
Regarding Paris….oh I love Paris! I have never been able to understand the news when I’ve visited there because I don’t speak French other than courtesies. But I would imagine that you are right since the French like to read and argue politics. And because of that, they tend to be better informed….trashy, irrelevent blathering wouldn’t go over well with them.
Goodnight all!
I’m in Texas also and can proudly say I have never voted for Bush either. That’s what makes this even worse – I saw what Bush was when everyone was saying what a great fun guy he was. I knew the kind of person he was before he began his destruction of the country so this has been 8 years of a nightmare come true. I couldn’t believe he made it into office (can’t say elected) the first time and was physically sick the second. It wasn’t just him and the entire right wing of the party, but the fact that I was living in a country that wanted them in power.
AnneinWA,
Ron Paul will be the Constitution party candidate.
Bystander (23:04:10) :
AnneinWA,
Ron Paul will be the Constitution party candidate.
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Dare I hope that he pulls a Nader on McCain??
When a male friend, usually a good Dem, admitted that he was suffering from the “babe” factor, I suggested the following cure for Palin Disease: 1) get into a place where you can only hear Palin’s voice; 2) conjure up an image of the screechiest, whiniest girl in your high school class, who was sure she should be popular and blamed everyone else when she wasn’t; 3) listen to Palin speak and replace her image with this girl’s; 4) repeat as necessary. He tried it. It worked!
My friend linked the “babe factor” to the movie “Varsity Blues” – says the English teacher stripper resembles Palin. Haven’t seen the movie, so have to take his word on it.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/09/ron-paul-to-announce-presidential-endorsement-plans/
Looks like he’s just endorsing not running. Maybe a veep slot for him?
“Paul, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination, will tell supporters he is not endorsing GOP nominee John McCain or Democratic nominee Barack Obama, and will instead give his seal of approval to four candidates: Green Party nominee Cynthia McKinney, Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr, independent candidate Ralph Nader, and Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin, according to a senior Paul aide.”
The Real Sexists!
From the Truth Squad:
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) Voted Against Equal Pay Twice
· Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) Voted Against Equal Pay Twice
· Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Voted Against Equal Pay Twice
· Congresswoman Thelma Drake (R-VA) Voted Against Equal Pay Twice
· Congresswoman Mary Fallin (R-OK) Voted Against Equal Pay Twice
· Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) Voted Against Equal Pay Twice
· Congresswoman Kay Granger (R-TX) Voted Against Equal Pay Twice
· Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) Voted Against Equal Pay Twice
· Congresswoman Candice Miller (R-MI) Voted Against Equal Pay Twice
· Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R-FL) Voted Against Equal Pay Twice
· Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) Voted Against Equal Pay Once, For it Once
· Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM) Voted Against Equal Pay Once, Absent Once
Smitty (22:53:20) :
I am not suggesting that we stop putting the FACTS out there. That is simply my point. I believe we need to stick with the issues (what you mentioned are legitimate issues), and substantiate them.
I realize it’s difficult, for me, not to guided by my emotions. My husband (a Republican, but a good guy nonetheless) told me last night that it seems I am delighted each time a potential new rumor, about Palin, comes to the fore. I couldn’t argue with him. I had a visceral dislike for her, far before the end of her acceptance speech. Her arrogant style and smug attacks turned me off. I don’t want a self-described pitbull as a leader – we could simply skip the election and stick with Cheney if that’s our goal! She scares me – so does McCain.
However, I also realize that many others are viewing her through different filters. Camille Paglia stated: “This woman turned out to be a tough, scrappy fighter with a mischievous sense of humor”. Yikes! I thought when I read that, were we watching the same woman?
Bystander and Mil –
Thanks for the clarification on Ron Paul. I swore I would stay away from this computer today, but here I sit, weary, blurry-eyed…but fired up and ready to go!…to bed…
No, this kind of trash is not allowed in French elections. The campaign period is short, as it is elsewhere and they hold actual debates on tv. Two or three hours at a time, no commercials, just talk, and I know my daughter, her husband and everyone she knows sits and watches the whole thing. No mention of pigs, lipstick, moose or snow machines.
During the primaries when all the Florida delegate stuff was going on a stranger approached my daughter and asked, “What’s wrong with Florida? Are they corrupt or are they just stupid? Why can’t they ever hold an election?” She was sincerely confused and wanted an explanation. The rest of the world is paying close attention.
If anyone thinks up a curve ball strategy for Obama – please post. I wore myself out and am off to bed….
On Ron Paul, found this from Sept. 8: Ron Paul to be on Montana Ballot:
AnneinWa,
Thanks for the suggestion of reading Camille’s article. I find it very difficult to digest most of what she serves. In *my* book, she’s a woman-hating feminist. But I did read it. All I got, and it’s late in NYC so I readily admit I didn’t get it all, is that unless women come from hardy stock, they’re not true feminists.
So, Sarah the gun totin’ wolf killer is appealing because she can do what men traditionally enjoyed and some women find that appealing? I’ve got news for her. Feminists come in all shapes, sizes and colors. The woman who CHOOSES to call the kitchen her domain and serve a gourmet meal to her husband and three kids is exercising her right as a woman to define herself. And the woman CEO who CHOOSES to run a comapny is also exercising her right as a woman to define herself.
The women who relate to Sarah Palin because they both wear bras don’t get it and never will.
What I find interesting is that traditional fundamentalist Christians believe a woman’s place is in the home. Why would they vote for her?
I’m rambling now, so forgive me. The Republican signs at the RNC read “Country First.” Since Palin’s “First Dude,” or whatever she called him, was a member of the AIP and Palin addressed their convention, why isn’t anyone asking if she really puts country first? Get the pic of her in front of the flag with 49 stars to go viral. Is her allegiance to Alaska or to the United States? I think it’s a valid question. Hey, it’s more valid than asking Obama about the lapel pin, which was utterly ridiculous. The only people I know who regularly wear the pin are politicians.
Karen (23:12:58) :
“During the primaries when all the Florida delegate stuff was going on a stranger approached my daughter and asked, “What’s wrong with Florida? Are they corrupt or are they just stupid? Why can’t they ever hold an election?” She was sincerely confused and wanted an explanation. The rest of the world is paying close attention.”
Karen, many of us in this country have also wanted explanations about voting irregularities in Florida – more than once.
AnneinWA,
We share similar sentiments about Ms Palin. I believe our instincts, backed up by the facts are right on the money. In order to “shock and awe” the less inclined to pay attention to all that is at stake, we’ve got to pick one or two GOOD issues and go full bore. The environment is double edged right now with the gas prices, however, the aerial hunting is indefensible and the VIDEOS that document them are jarring to the LEAST interested person. They can be packaged and sound bitten and deadly,
We’ve just got to create a buzz about them and the bounty on the wolf leg and the sale of the plane to trophy hunters. That is both wrong and emotionally charged. How is the truth squad going to counter it
By the way, MUDFLATTERS, MUDSLINGERS AND FANS OF AKMuckraker, at least go to HuffPo and “digg” his blogs & sign up for the alerts. He’s put in too much work for us to not support him now!
Karen,
Okay, I didn’t go to bed. Did you read where Sarkozy is trying to institute major spying on all ciitzens? Sarkozy’s Big Sister. I cannot imagine the French will take too kindly to that. I bet they won’t roll over like we did when Bush brazenly, and repeatedly broke the law by spying on us! They don’t take any crap over there! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4703054.ece
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/the-mccain-palin-lies-and_b_125240.html A good post by Paul Begala on the media allowing lies to be repeated.
Karen,
Okay, I did not go to bed.
Did you hear about Sarkozy’s latest attempt at “big brother?”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4703054.ece
I cannot imagine the French will put up with that! Unlike us.
Third attempt
Karen,
Sarkozy’s recent attempt at big brother: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4703054.ece
Karen,
This is my third attempt. I wanted to include a link to an article about Sarkozy (French President) and his recent attempt at a big brother computer that would collect all kinds of data on everyone. This site doesn’t seem to like certain web addresses.
Has your daughter mentioned anything about it? I cannot imagine the French would put up with that (unlike us).
DeMo (23:18:11) :
Of course I agree with most of what you stated (on this blog, most of us are “preaching to the choir”! – that’s why I think viewing this situation from other’s viewpoints is vital). I would love to discuss the article with you further…maybe tomorrow? I was as interested in her take on the Democratic party as I was on the feminism aspect. As I said, I enjoy having my thinking challenged.
Smitty (23:18:50) :
I have been to Huffpo to “digg” AKMuckraker’s article. Pleased to see we agree.
From Holland I can only say that that guardian article was spot on. America wil be in trouble if they don’t do better this time. Feelling helpless in Europe..
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/opinion/10dowd.html?ref=opinion
Excellent Maureen Dowd!
Susan in Atl (23:27:20)
I’ll have to ask her but, no, I can’t imagine it happening.
I normally keep up with the foreign papers but have hardly had time for anything else since SP came on the scene.
Karen,
Thanks. I’ll be watching it unfold myself.
Mijk,
Welcome! See? Not all Americans are crazy! I’ve visited some Dutch friends in Holland year before last. Amsterdam and Deventer (?). You all must think we are all nuts.
Wish us luck!
Looks like I will be buying my first Nat Enquirer tomorrow!!
The NATIONAL ENQUIRER’S exclusive ongoing investigation of GOP VP Nom Sarah ‘Barracuda’ Palin’s goes far beyond a mere teen pregnancy crisis this week!
The Enquirer’s team of reporters has combed the Alaskan wilderness to discover the hidden truth about Gov. Palin’s family, which has become a central part of political identity.
The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that Sarah’s oldest son, Track, was addicted to the power drug OxyContin for nearly the past two years, snorting it, eating it, smoking it and even injecting it. And as Track, 19, heads to Iraq as part of the U.S. armed forces, Sarah and her husband Todd were powerless to stop his wild antics, detailed in the new issue of The ENQUIRER, which goes on sale today.
THE ENQUIRER also has exclusive details about Track’s use of other drugs, including cocaine, and his involvement in a notorious local vandalism incident.
“I’ve partied with him (Track) for years,” a source disclosed. “I’ve seen him snort cocaine, snort and smoke OxyContin, drink booze and smoke weed.”
The source also divulged the girls would do anything for Track and he’d use his local celebrity to manipulate other guys “to get them to steal things he wanted.”
“He finally did what a lot of troubled kids here do,” the source divulged. “You join the military.”
And as Gov. Palin has billed the state of Alaska for various expenses related to her children, as reported by The Washington Post, The ENQUIRER’s investigation reveals that she was so incensed by 17-year-old Bristol’s pregnancy that she banished her daughter from the house.
Another family friend revealed pre-prego Bristol was as much of a hard partier as Track was.
“Bristol was a huge stoner and drinker. I’ve seen her smoke pot and get drunk and make out with so many guys. All the guys would brag that the just made out with Bristol.”
When Sarah found out the teen was pregnant by high schooler Levi Johnston, she was actually banished from the house. As part of the cover-up, Palin quickly transferred Bristol to another high school and made her move in with Sarah’s sister Heather 25 miles away!
And the ENQUIRER also learned that Levi Johnston, the baby mamma’s future wedded dada, who was glad handed by John McCain at the GOP Convention, isn’t too happy about his impending shotgun nups either.
“Levi got dragged out of the house to go to Minnesota,” Levi’s friend told The ENQUIRER. “Levi realizes he’s stuck being with Bristol because her mom is running for Vice President.”
The friend also confided that both Bristol and Levi “broke up a few times and they definitely messed around with other people.”
Meanwhile, as members of the Palin family’s war viciously over “Trooper-Gate” and claims of Sarah’s extramarital affair have turned the political race into a chaotic arena of threats, denials and vicious attacks by political black ops, The ENQUIRER has discovered shocking new details about the red-hot affair scandal!
For the full story of the secrets Sarah Palin is trying to hide – pick up the new ENQUIRER!
Why has everyone forgotten the “really” amazing women associated with this campaign. Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Biden. Both from working/middle class families. One a Harvard educated lawyer and the other a lifelong educator and holder of a doctorate in education. Both mothers. Both unafraid to speak in public and share their views with the voters. These are the kind of women that we should admire.
timc, I have to admit that I’ll be buying one tomorrow too. XD Guilty pleasure.
Poor Bristol though. She’s never gonna live this down.
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no more, you are right. With Palin in the picture, the worthy women are being ignored. We should research for stories on them, and speeches. We need to give a contrast to the Caribou Barbie.
Can’t resist. Remember back in Oct 06 when Chavez was trying to give free oil to the villages? I found a quote from Murkowski 10/11/06. Governor Murkowski stated, “While the high cost of fuel is something that is heavily impacting rural Alaskans, President Chavez’ use of Alaska as a pawn in his international game to forward his dictatorship’s agenda is deplorable,” Think about that! Sound familiar. Once again Alaska (and this time Alaska’s oil) is being used as a pawn to forward the Conservative agenda. This time using the Gov of alaska as the attack dog (pig). whatever! My stomach hurts…
Secrecy and fear in Alaska:
http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/outside-media-needs-to-understand-alaskans-and-their-relationship-with-sarah-palin/
Nice article from my hometown newspaper — Watergate reporter spoke on failures in today’s media to challenge U.S. politics.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/176268
Since Americans are not able to deal with issues and think for themselves and seem to latch onto basic human stories, why doesn’t the Obama capaign come out with the TRUTH about the kind of guy McCain is:
He dated strippers (this does not make him a cool guy, but a cad.) When he was stationed there, he and other mid-shipmen would put mattresses into empty houses in Pensacola and invite strippers and prostitutes. This is the kind of man he is.
This is what he thinks of women — chattel. This is the same man who called his wife a C*nt in a elevator in front of others. Imagine how he speaks to his wife in privacy?
Aside from the disaster the GOP has been and will be for the country, McCain and his Babe, Palin, are not what we can allow to have the highest office of the land. Not what we can have represent us.
Will the Obama campaign tell us the truth of the kind of Pig McCain really is?
Hi,
I’ve been reading this site often and checking offered links since experiening the horror show they called the RNC…complete with Palin’s sarcastic, sneering, low-brow introduction of herself. Your website and all the comments and links have helped me get through these past days with smiles, anger and even a few tears (mostly anger and “you gotta be kidding!” moments).
Thanks…I’m good…I donated my first $50 to any campaign, right after Palin’s speech. This to Obama-Biden campaign. I am sending in another $50.
This poll information from BBC site may have already been posted, you people are thorough, but thought it interesting on what the world thinks of Obama being US President (much more over McCain) and how he will significantly improve foreign relations (Joe Biden will help him even more…I love Joe.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7606100.stm.
Thanks for such a great site. I hope I’m posting this correctly.
AnneinWA (23:34:57)
I would truly love to discuss Paglia’s assertions with you, but I think it’s far too comples a convo to have in this forum.
There is, however, one thought I’d like to expresss. Paglia says, “The party is in peril if it cannot observe and listen and adapt to changing social circumstances.” I agree with the notion that a political party must adapt to changing social circumstances, but I would argue that it is the Democratic party that does just that. I don’t think the party bends to gusts, but it adapts and responds to gale force winds, to use a poor metaphor. It is the Republicans who call themselves the Grand Old Party. They look backwards to the days of OLD to see how to move forward.
Routinely, Republicans select justices who are strict constructionists of the Constitution. Generally, Democrats nominate those who interpret the document and apply it to current social norms and mores.
I, like you, grow when my thoughts are challenged. Paglia’s argument only reinforced my belief, at least in this election cycle, that the Democrats are the party of (get ready) change.
Of course, I welcome any thoughts you would like to share.
timc, thanks for the preview of the Enquirer piece. As much as I like to think I’m “better than” common gossip, who am I kidding? That’s juicy stuff. Nothing criminal on Palin’s part, so no reason for her to step down, but good enough to tarnish her image as the mother so many can relate to. BUT, partisan politics creates strange responses. Some might relate to her even more. “Look at what she’s been through.” “Kids will be kids.” If they could make Bristol courageous for being pregnant, who knows how folks will respond?
If any of it is true, the woman has balls to accept McCain’s invitation. And, further proof that vetting was sorely lacking.
Oh, good grief take a brief nap, we all get a bit tired right? Then I wake up to hear Obama is off his stride, losing it….being made to look foolish. The guy looked tired! Sure he got mad, took the bait like they were telling him to do last night. The Media is telling most people what to think, not so much reporting it exceot if they find that long list of spin doctors at the top of this blog to interview theywill know the truth right? So after hearing from them we can decide for ourself, right and more righter?
Well many people have closed minds, sad or not, a mind set is a trap. If you get caught using all your strength watching this stuff I just have to turn my attention esle where. I like the list of values coming out on this blog and have actually learned some helpful things, and it’s value as a place to vent , it has lowered my bloodpressure, for that alone I thank you so much. I will run out a meds six days before our next SS check comes in, so I searching for a way to make some unexpected income.
“More available next week” Palin’s truth will be whatever will sell and get out the most folks to her next big event. “Change” brought Dems delightful audiances, so even dumb folks can learn. These are no dumb folks, they are going to throw curve after curve and we going to have to weather many more storms before 11/4 then Dem’s will have to have a lot of money to hire lots of lawyers to fight it out to get every last hanging chad vote counted in every singlel red or blue state then watch our tv’s and computers holding our breath while the very last light goes out on one of the election night maps, as each state is thrown to who ever has the most money to pay the Media to stay focused on their maps as each state is being counted, could they actual even wait til we on the west coast get done voting, thank you very much! Or are they gong to tell us at 10 pm pst who won the most electorial vote, most of my friends have gone to bed before then. We tent to vote early to beat the working peoples lines, if we can get to the polls that is. Please…….please help someone you know get to the poll. I’m calling to see which senior center buses will be taking elders to the polls, so I can help those that can’t get therre get a absentee ballot.
Money, money, money …follow the money, whose got the most money? To pay pollesters, county clerks and computer programers to fix those paperless trail voting machines, hackers get ready there is money to be made here, lawyers prepare the truth will be told or not, judges and state clerks polish up your party connection and keep your fingernails clean and your hair combed, your going to want to look good when the press and cameria crews show up.
Darn I’m just thrilled to see where all those bucks are going to be going, Obama stay on top of your game, you don’t have much experience with the behind the scene selling of America, sure you won out over Hillary with all her years on the public scene. I give Hillary credit for supporting the Demo ticket now, but if she doesn’t want to give it to the Bush clones, she better find some new words to say or is the media going to keep saying that is old news, unless they want to snip at her for what she said in the primary about Obama. I’ve got to go check my Pro-choice lists to see if all the women with freedom and soverity over their bodies have suddenly fallen off the planet.
BTW, ran into a Fundy friend today and she jumped me to see if I was going to vote for m/p and launched into how great it was that she was a right to lifer, which took us down the slipper slop of discussing when life begins. I listened politely for awhile, told her I’m proud to have worked for her right to choose, but was going to leave it up God as to when life begins, because lately I’m more concern about when life ends! I seen enough news clips of starving, beaten and blown to bits bodies whose life’s ending. I can’t even imagine how young scared 14-18 yro women can want to bring a child forced upon them into the world.
I have a friend that can’t decide if she should pay her heath and funeral insurance or pay the light bill. She’s scared she will not have a decent funeral or her last days will be inhospital, which as already taken over the title of her home for the doctors bills she had last year. I’m trying to help another friend get legalaid, so the developer that wants her house doesn’t convince her that the drop in the market has cut 50K off of it’s value. Another friend doesn’t get out much any more because he can’t afford to drive his car. He is one of the last WWII vets in his neigborhood and is scared he will lose his land for the same reason…high health costs. Their kids and meals-on- wheels don’t come to see them as much because of the price of gas. The city is trying to decide which to cut the senior/ablychallenged buses, the snow removal, or the swimming pool budget. Strange times, I felt guilty not jumping in my car and going over to see/feed everyone on my wellness calling list today then remembered I have already used all my budget for gas and may not get any more until my next SS check comes. Is my life better than it was 8 yrs ago, well only if I focus on the good stuff and keep doing what I can for change we can believe in.
i read the salon article…and now i want to know why it is not fair game to ask gov palin why she felt that it was important to “be welcoming” to a group that truly hates america
if there was a vid of obama speaking to the nation of islam, his candidacy would be over
this isnt a joke…this woman is a mole..she must never hold national office
ellen
here is the wingnut take on mccains mispent youth and his adulterous ways subsequent to returning from vietnam
it was a long time ago…and he has repented
oh…and he is a pow
personally, i dont care what he did as a midshipman…those guys are trained to be immoral
one cannot kill with impunity and be moral at the same time…it doesnt work
but what he did subsequent to returning from vietnam, must be revisted
he wasnt a kid anymore…he was a 40 year old man
just because he takes responsibilty for his actions, dont mean squat…he has never suffered for it…and he should now
he can never be president
Another message from Holland.
I would say the Guardian article is a must read for every American.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/uselections2008.barackobama
However, as the article implies – Obama’s popularity in the rest of the world only seems to lower his polls in the US. The bigger the problems, the more ostrich behaviour..
Every four years I get a lot of stress from the US elections, watching all the BS, feeling absolutely powerless AND knowing what implications and impact they have for the whole world. It is scary to know that these elections are being decided by people who seem to live in some kind of ’splendid isolation’. And even IF they would want to know, they would have difficulties to learn something about the rest of the world (because of your media that one seriously give the impression there is no other country on earth except for the US – not even mentioned the complete lack of serious content and serious journalism).
In the last 8 years, my American friends became more and more worried and frightened about the situation in the US. I already understood, but reading this blog I learn so much more details that now I really understood. And I must say I am really scared. Already couldn’t understand the choice for Bush, and he didn’t even have the primitive narcissistic attractiveness that has been brought into the arena now. So I think we are all in serious trouble now.
Anyway, one small fact that always strikes me when I read about the current rise in gas prices, being such an important issue for both Dems and Reps. Just to give you an impression from another part of the world: European gas prices have always been double or triple the US prices. Prices go skyhigh here as well.
Please read carefully: AT THE MOMENT IN THE NETHERLANDS WE PAY ABOUT 8,35 DOLLAR FOR A GALLON OF GAS.
Yes, I know, the euro is strong to the dollar. Yes, I know we live in a small country (but prices in the rest of Europe are comparable). But still.
The main part of our gas price consists of government taxes. Of course, people are complaining as well, but the government does not intend to lower the prices, since they want people to save energy and to become aware of the choices they make in transportation. And I think somehow everybody realizes that in the end this is the only reasonable perspective.
There is a lot of debate going on here about energy saving plans and long time ‘green’ changes. We are convinced that ‘Drill, baby, drill’ is not going to be the lasting solution. We wait for the US to take action on a lot of issues.
We really need CHANGE!
Obama is very popular here because he clearly knows the perspectives we have and knows how the rest of the world watches the US. Which brings me back to the conclusion of the Guardian article: ‘If Americans reject Obama, they will be sending the clearest possible message to the rest of us – and, make no mistake, we shall hear it.’
I wish you all my support to keep up your spirit and your good work.
I hate to say this folks. I think I gave Sarah Palin a contribution. Money, not my sacred swimmers.
It was back in the early 80’s during the summer that I was on a motorcycle tour around Lake Pend Oreille and Coeur D’alene.
I stopped at a little place called Sandpoint, Idaho and had a few beers in roadside cafe. There was a sassy brunette dancing the pole there, and as I left I tucked a 2-dollar bill into her G-string even though I was in a big hurry to leave.
I remember the place well because they had an effigy of a black man hanging from the rafters and when I saw that I was sickened and left before my food came to the table.
Apparently, there was a similar place in Wasilla up until the 1980’s that had the effigy hanging from a noose OUTSIDE the restaurant.
if you ever find these establishments, ask em if Sarah Palin ever danced the pole there….
BigSlick…now that is a creative internet rumour
kudos
who thinks this gets picked up by drudge?
Obviously, I was hit with a stupid stick and suffered temporary brain malfunction. Should the McCain campaign respond to the Enquirer piece, and I doubt they will, it will be along the lines of moral indignance. How could anyone malign this brave young man on the eve of his deployment. Ditto for daughter with child. She’s a young, courageous pregnant girl!
My only question, and I can’t believe I’m not just dismissing The Enquirer, if Levi is being roped into marriage, why did he tattoo Bristol’s name on his wedding finger?
The very defition of “conservatism” is to DISCOURAGE CHANGE and “conserve the current condition”.
Remember that, the GOP and the Conservative Right are the party who DISCOURAGE CHANGE by definition.
MCCAIN IS THE AGENT OF DISCOURAGING CHANGE.
REFORM means to take the same old shit and put it into a different shape.
Shape-shifters are in league with Satan aren’t they?
I think there’s a sound bite evolving there somewhere.
COURAGE TO CHANGE – CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN
Hey Uncle Joe,
There’s a lotta truth behind that rumor.
Fact – The lynching effigy in Wasilla was REAL and it was on one of the busier streets in town
Fact – Sarah Palin spent considerable time in Sandpoint Idaho during her bouncing college years
Fact – I did take that motorcycle tour
Fact – the cafe near Sandpoint with the effigy had a pole for dancers, and many were college girls working the summer season
Fact – There’s more truth behind what I wrote than there is behind lies that come out of Sarah Palin’s mouth at rallys across the USA or
One last thought before I go. Imagine if Track Palin were the kid arrested for vandalizing school buses in a drunken fit of rebellion against his parents, the schools, the establishment…..
Then imagine where his mother went to school and the team name.
University of Idaho VANDALS
the republicans can smell victory, and they will now stop at nothing. the big story now is the “lipstick on a pig” story, which they will milk for all it’s worth. Can. not. get over the MSM going along with making this comment bigger than, say, Palin’s abuse of power. simpler, for simple minds, I guess. Ambinder has a defense here, and includes a comment from John McCain:
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/obama_did_not_call_sarah_palin.php
Suddenly, common analogies are sexist?
John McCain. Speaking about Hillary Clinton….
McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s plan, he said it was “eerily reminiscent” of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” he said of her proposal.
Oh my goodness I love this blog and am losing way too much sleep trying to keep up with it. This election seems to have two different candidates running for two different positions. One wants to the be the American President the other wants to be the American Idol. Sadly it seems many people do not seem to know the difference anymore.
I decided to take a break from Mudflats and look around the MSM sites and I took note of the headlines from the last 24 hours. Just looking at headline copy alone I found the following:
13 Obama headlines, six of which were directly related to issues (mostly education and the mortgage crisist)
Three Biden headlines, two of which were about outrage over comments he made the other calling out SP on climate issues
Nine McCain headlines, one of which was about issues (environment), four attacking Obama (sex-ed, experience, etc.) and the rest about Palin’s impact on his campaign
33 Palin headlines!!, six about women the rest about religion, fact checks and speculation about what her stance is
I think that illustrates the distraction is a huge success and we really need to get back to the issues. Obama seems to be trying but no one seems to care. I really feel like I am watching an episode of American Idol!
“Truth Squad”?!?!..I feel like we are finally living in Orwell’s 1984. I, too, found this blog by an internet act of Grace. It has kept me sane these last few days. Keep up the good work.
Andrea Mitchell opened Morning Joe with the assertion that McCain himself has used the common phrase. Before breaking for the first commercial, they showed the clip of McCain saying it.
Mitchell also said that it was all female journalists who were on the conference call with McCain’s truth teller and none of them could believe her assertion that it was sexist, especially because Obama wasn’t talking about Palin.
However, they also showed the NY rags (Post and Daily News), both of which have front page headlines. Boar War is sort of clever. Lipstick Bungle not so much.
Joe Scarborough asserts that Obama was at his best during his interview with Bill O’. Rather than letting Bill beat him down, he leaned forward and defended himself. It’s not unlike Tom Friedman’s latest piece that says something along the lines that Obama has gone from cool to cold and that whoever slipped the Valium into his coffee should be arrested by Democrats.
The media wants a fight. I still don’t think Obama should come out fighting. Not his style. Remain dignified. Get passionate about your policies, but not about your opponent.
Smitty (22:16:29)
Thank you – it made me cry too. (I also haven’t watched the other videos, but after your comment I’ll at least click on them.)
Even the upstate SC a.m. news included mention of McCain’s use of the ‘lipstick on a pig’ comment. I wish they had shown the video too, but for here, it’s great that they even mentioned it.
Watching CNN last night from Campbell Brown to Anderson Cooper was a big fat bummer since they seemed to be buying into the Truth Squad PR BS. I am getting afraid, very very afraid. This is totally surreal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/uselections2008.barackobama
This is worth a read.
Truth Squad
Got these from an inter active blog similar to DKos:
If there were anything like a librul media in the US, Palin would already have been blown out of the water. As things stand, the MSM will do their best to ignore the dangerously loony religious cult known as dominionism. The author of the linked piece is an escapee and is well worth reading :
A Palin presidency may have literal apocalyptic consequences
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/9/17287/52924
The Time Magazine link for above
Time reports:
And the Today Show opened with both clips and a discussion of ‘How can this be sexist’ and ‘Is this an issue we should be talking about?’
Yay!
Try That Again:
Time reports:
or
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,219749,00.html
Time reports:
Chris, agree with you.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/uselections2008.barackobama
America is lost if McCain and Palin get in.
Hey Gang! If you haven’t donated yet to Obama, here’s the link:
https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/thetruth1?source=20080909_DP_D1_IL
Everyone hang in there! The debates are coming! I think that anyone with half a brain is going to be watching. The differences between Us and Them are going to be glaringly apparent.
Don’t despair, get involved! Here’s the link:
http://action.barackobama.com/page/s/volunteer
There is a very pertinent article in The Guardian today entitled “The world’s verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for.”
Tried to link it, but the post keeps getting lost. Go to guardian.co.uk for it.
This is the first time I’ve made a comment without reading the previous comments so it might have been covered already. I hope it has.
The picture of Palin in front of the 49 star flag is great. I have never been to Alaska but I have a 49 star flag. Some one pulled out their historic flag for the 50th anniversary and it is super appropriate. It reminds Alaskans and citizens of all the other states of a proud moment in the history of the USA. This flag and all other US flags (i.e. 48 stars) can be displayed at any time and on any occasion.
I would never vote for Palin, but we can’t knock her for being proud that Alaska was the 49th state.
Obama/ Biden 2008
A voice from Minnesota here — Michele Bachmann is the perfect person to help out the Queen of the Earmarks. She’s Queen of the Wingnuts!
I have high hopes she’ll get dumped this legislative session. Later I’ll try and find / repost that link where Carville ran her around in circles.
ABC news this morning had a segment by Brian Ross on the book banning-library story. Seemed to have all the facts straight, e.g. no actual banned book list but the inquiry was made. Had Anne Kilkenny explaining it on camera and also had quotes from the librarian (who did not want to appear and wants to put the incident behind her). They also related the story to beliefs in Palins’s church of the time, and via that method mentioned some books that the church wanted banned. At the end of the story, Robin Roberts holds up several sheets of paper from the McCain campaign and seems to imply that this is their “spin” response to the story. I am sure the clip will be available on ABCnews.com at some point.
Maybe a few cracks are finally starting to appear in the floor under Palin.
Does the Truth Matter Anymore?
For those who believe that men “dig” SP, please listen to the NBC Nightly News from last night:
Women for some unknown reason are moving towards Palin but MEN UNDER 50 are moving to Obama!
AKM, I stated in another thread that I think the idea of a Yahoo group is great!
Well, if I put in the link it would help:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#26627956
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#26627956
That’s the link I should have put in, sorry about that.
for BigSlick (02:16:43)
here is a pic of SP wearing a VANDALS hoody
http://cajunboy.tumblr.com/post/48314238/mommy-inlaw-trig-and-myself-from-the-myspace
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/
OK, three attempts to post a link and none of them showed up.
Maybe this one will. If it does go down to the poll results and click on the video.
I can’t get a link to the video on the report on NBC Nightly News to post. So if you want to view the results, which are very interesting, Google “nbc nightly news” and then go to the Latest Program column, Poll Position.
The addition of Palin has almost made Obama look like John Kerry – I agree with the post above who said she has become THE TICKET. McCain looks like a doddering old fool next to her. Sex sells, and she’s selling it for sure. Check out the 3 new SP “action” figures, one of which is pretty much a Tombraider, Lara Croft-esque figure with a gun strapped to her leg. WTF?? The New Yorker cover with Michhele Obama toting an AK 47 sent people into caniption fits, but the media is making it seem like the world is just eating SP up with a spoon and asking for more. There is racism, sexism and just ism at every level of this. It is freaking scary and the media is falling down on the job.
Keep up the awesome work Mudflats.
Agreed about Michelle Bachman, another voice from MN. But wouldn’t you expect her to be in this group with bells on? I’d like to see that video.
Sorry, apparently there’s so much ‘truth’ out there that they need 100 people to make sure it gets out. Well, sorry, that genie is out of the bottle. Maureen Down has a ‘Pygmalion-themed’ column today but she didn’t mention the ANG promotion, so I mentioned that in the comments. Someone posted that darn incorrect book list again. I like Ed Koch’s comment about that, ‘Scary.’ Our school librarian is horrified about that. Interesting how that resonates with people.
At NYT people are saying they think Barack has retreated into cerebralism…I don’t know if this is true. I think he and Biden have been out there taking it to the people. Maybe they need a truth squad of their own. I will join it. One of the reasons Republicans are successful is that they are well-organized. But the Obama campaign is, too, and I say, let’s work that angle.
I voted in the primary yesterday (MN) and it was so easy and civilized, not like in GA where the Deibold machines were so rinky-dink, and people would challenge you at the door, even if you weren’t ‘voting while a person of color.’ I am not kidding. People are checking their registrations and doing what they need to do for absentee ballots, etc. right now. Especially if you live in some of the key states, or states where there have historically been elections problems, volunteer as much time as you can over the next few weeks. Here they were saying even 16-17 year-old kids can be junior elections judges.
My husband says calm down, the Obama campaign expected this. But he always says things like that. My view is you can only do what you can do, but do something while you can.
Continuing to watch Morning Joe. Here’s something that occurred to me. Obama is losing air time because he isn’t going negative and he isn’t responding to the attacks. Yesterday’s air time was devoted to the pig comment, which was blown out of proportion.
So, does he clear the air/defend himself to get air time (address the negative kindergarten ad), or continue to take the high road? The high road is issuing a statement, discussing issues, but the networks aren’t covering that. Respond and it appears he’s on the defensive.
Tough call. The more air time McShame and Palin get, the more it appears that their popularity is growing. It gives the perceived or actual sense of momentum.
I’m starting to think he can incorporate a response in a way that is “folksy,” so that he doesn’t appear bothered by it, gets the coverage and the adoring/applauding crowds.
Also, what about that ‘Rapture’ angle? I mean, I sometimes wonder why policy decisions during Bush have been so bad. Do you think he feels Iraq is a step closer to the Rapture? Or that ignoring climate change is the best bet because of the Rapture? I don’t know about you, but I’d like my kids and my grandkids someday to live on this planet.
I am a Canadian who is watching your election with disbelief. This is truly a case of perception becoming reality or B.S. baffles brains. Palin is simply being used by Rove/McCain to take attention away from the real issues. Unfortunately, at the moment it seems to be working because Obama’s campaign appears to be totally distracted by her.
We have a Federal election going on right now in Canada which pales in comparison to the antics of the far right in America. If you elect McCain/Palin, there really is no hope for you guys.
Great website http://twovoters.com/?vid=1
not a 527 group but they have put together ads for the campaign!!
serious hit hard stuff
White Agate- Hi neighbor, North Dakota here. Did you read Chris link from above? The rapture angle is very interesting/frightening. I saved that link to research a little more.
DeMo-
“….if Levi is being roped into marriage, why did he tattoo Bristol’s name on his wedding finger?”
Well, it was either that or Sarahcudda was going to field-dress him like a moose!
Jim Staro-
I ADORE E.J. Dionne! Thanks, that is such a great post. That shameful ad plays right into the racial stereotype of the “big, bad black man”. I really don’t know how McCain looks in the mirror every morning!
BTW, loving your posts over on dailykos!
“….if Levi is being roped into marriage, why did he tattoo Bristol’s name on his wedding finger?”
Amazing what instant wealth will do, especially for the youngsters, I’d keep my eye on that couple and follow to see if life changes happen rather quickly, as to materialism.
DeMo- thanks for letting us know about Andrea on Morning Joe. I’m a regular watcher, but am so discouraged I couldn’t do that, especially with Mika yesterday defending SP about the bridge. Reading the last few entries has reduced my panic just a little. I think maybe the MSM is going to push back a little on the lies. On the other hand I see that McCain already has an ad up about the Lipstick, and Obama’s spokesman says he’s not going to talk about it. Oh great. In the poll below, there’s no choice that asks whether Obama was even talking about Palin. sheesh
MSNBC has a poll on whether “Obama went too far this time” about the lipstick comment. MSNBC.com
Go vote
Diva:
Thanks!! ;c}
Now for another pot of Java, and check to see if we’ve got any contracts signed, doubt it, I’m getting bored and over caffeined.
I wondered when drugs would come up…I will see about NE tomorrow.
I will check that Rapture link.
Almost more interesting about that list is who is not on it. I don’t know all of the names, but of course, there are no Bush family names that jump out…AKMuckraker, glad you are on HuffPost, more people need to read your amazing info!
It would be interesting to get a mini-bio of each of these women.
Thanks for keeping it real, all!
Nels-
“There is racism, sexism and just ism at every level of this.”
This is pure “Rove-ism”! That one word incorporates every evil campaign tactic known to man! What he didn’t learn from Lee Atwood, he has made up on his own!
They will steal this election if we do not get out the vote for Obama! That’s why the polls are so close. They KNOW the cell phones the kids use are not counted, so they will claim that “See? The polls showed this could happen!” as they flip hundreds of thousands of votes to McCain!
GET OUT THE VOTE! Check your registration, make sure your college kids are registered, carry proper ID to the polling place. DO NOT give them an excuse to challenge your RIGHT to vote!
Video-McCain, Lipstick on a Pig
This is over at kos in the recent posts column
John McCain also recently used this phrase to describe Barack Obama’s plans. Apparently, we should do as John McCain says, not as John McCain does.
White Agate : Hagee (Pastor Strangelove) described Iraq as the gateway to
the Apocalypse. I remember during the last Israel-Lebanon war, he went to Washington with thousands of supporters (claiming to speak for 40 million
US Christians) to petition Bush to allow Israel to continue bombing and to
push for an attack on Iran.
All these snake-oil salesmen who prey (and pray) upon the gullible are very good at what they do. I suspect that Bush is a rapture-ready moron and it seems certain that Palin is.
Women are flocking to Palin according to WaPo. Obama’s pig with lipstick
gibe couldn’t have been more ill-judged.
I’m not optimistic that good sense will prevail.
White Agate-
“At NYT people are saying they think Barack has retreated into cerebralism…”
I WANT a president who thinks! I WANT my president to be the smartest guy in the room again! I am so SICK of that bumbling idiot being our representative around the globe!
GACK-these “journalists” are making me ill!
Seems the WaPo is on it!!!!
Governor Is Asked To Release E-Mails http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903044_Comments.html
Jim-
Also at kos- “Newsweek Bombshell: Palin & Family Warned of “Emotional Child Abuse” by Judge”
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/9/234553/6424/948/592982
WOW! That hits HARD against her (and his) “Family Values” claim!
White Agate –
That is what as been bugging me as well. This has a lot of links, but like White Agate it has been bugging me to the point that I had to sit down and try to link up what was going on.
Here is what I have found out, and it’s frightening:
TIM RUSSERT: So we could have two wars at once?
SEN. McCAIN: I think we could have Armageddon.
– John McCain, on the Iran crisis. April 2nd 2006, “Meet The Press.”
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/2/23/9556/02805
Endorsement of John McCain for President: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2008/02/update_cufi.html
Pastor John Hagee stated:
“the United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both Israel and the West… a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ.”.
John Hagee, along with other Christian Evangelical leaders, created Christians United for Israel (CUFI) less than two years ago, yet it has already grown into one of the largest and most politically influential Christian grassroots organizations in the country.
Hagee: “When 50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians unite with five million American Jews standing together on behalf of Israel, it is a match made in heaven.”
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10052007/profile.html
CUFI has hosted calls with Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor, Senator Joe Lieberman, and Israel’s former Ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold.
http://www.cufi.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_Conference_Call
Senator Lieberman as late as July 2008 compared Hagee to Moses (now we understand the tie!): http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/27/lieberman-to-speak-at-cufi-event-hagee-must-still-be-moses/
From THE NATION:
When it comes to Pastor John Hagee, John McCain and Joe Lieberman have a lot in common. Both men addressed the 2007 convention of Hagee’s organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). McCain and Lieberman each voiced support for a pre-emptive strike against Iran. But while John McCain aggressively sought Hagee’s endorsement, only Joe Lieberman compared the Texas pastor to Moses. And judging by his agreement to speak at CUFI’s upcoming 2008 conference, Joe Lieberman still believes it.
Unfortunately for Joe Lieberman, it now turns out that John Hagee had in mind another modern-day Moses: Adolf Hitler. Hitler, Hagee tells us, was sent by God to deliver the Jews to Israel.
“Then god sent a hunter. A hunter is someone with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter. And the Bible says — Jeremiah writing — ‘They shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and from the holes of the rocks,’ meaning there’s no place to hide. And that might be offensive to some people but don’t let your heart be offended. I didn’t write it, Jeremiah wrote it. It was the truth and it is the truth. How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.”
At one point she mentioned that Hitler could be reborn. Across the table, a suspiciously old-looking “student” guffawed. “Hitler reborn? Hitler has been reborn,” he said, pausing for effect, “and his name is Obama.”
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=cufi_confidential
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow/357888
http://michaelonfargo.blogspot.com/2008/05/coo-coo-for-cufi.html
http://davidduke.com/index.php?s=cufi&submit=go (DAVID DUKE?????!!!!!!!/????????????? – now that’s a little much!)
MAX BLUMENTHAL: Well, we know in the past that Karl Rove and people in Karl Rove’s shop, like Tim Goeglein and Elliott Abrams, who’s in the State Department, who’s traveling, you know, to Israel with Condoleezza Rice, have met with Christian Zionist groups, so this is not an anomaly. But this group has a much larger voice than any of the other groups that have met with the Bush administration, and they claim — David Brog claimed to me that their principal achievement has been keeping a ceasefire off the table for the past month. So, their principal achievement has been essentially giving Israel a free hand and the IDF a free hand to kind of, you know, ramp up the war, and I think this has had catastrophic consequences for the Middle East and the peace process.
http://zionmychosen.com/index_files/Page1367.htm
http://zionmychosen.com/index_files/Page1345.htm
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/8/15/christians_united_for_israel_new_christian
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=Lieberman-At-Hagee-Confere-by-Gustav-Wynn-080723-34.html
Good reading and things we need to arm ourselves. The truth is middle America is NOT reading these things. It sounds like many Pastors are NOT reading these things. For the good ole Southern Baptist in me, I encourage a good reading of Colossians where the Bible WARNS OF CULTS AND FALSE PROPHETS.
Diva – the cell phone issue may not be as big a factor as we’d like it to be, particularly with gallup, who accounts for this with weighting demographics to help account for it.
Here’s a link to a Nate Silver column from July about the issue. The real problem is that we don’t know how much of a difference it’s making. It could be none, it could be a lot – but we can’t just assume that polls aren’t sampling cell-phone only users and so they’re left out of the poll. The real question is whether, for example, 18-30 yr olds with cell only service vote significantly differently from 18-30 yr olds who also have land lines. Most polls adjust their sample to see that each demographic is represented as it is in the voting electorate.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/07/cellphone-problem-revisited.html
to White Agate:
TIM RUSSERT: So we could have two wars at once?
SEN. McCAIN: I think we could have Armageddon.
– John McCain, on the Iran crisis. April 2nd 2006, “Meet The Press.”
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/2/23/9556/02805
Endorsement of John McCain for President: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2008/02/update_cufi.html
Pastor John Hagee stated:
“the United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both Israel and the West… a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ.”.
Founder of CUFI (Christians United for Israel)– Israel, U.S.A. and the Christian Right
John Hagee, along with other Christian Evangelical leaders, created Christians United for Israel (CUFI) less than two years ago, yet it has already grown into one of the largest and most politically influential Christian grassroots organizations in the country.
“When 50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians unite with five million American Jews standing together on behalf of Israel, it is a match made in heaven.”
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10052007/profile.html
CUFI has hosted calls with Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor, Senator Joe Lieberman, and Israel’s former Ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold.
http://www.cufi.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_Conference_Call
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/27/lieberman-to-speak-at-cufi-event-hagee-must-still-be-moses/
When it comes to Pastor John Hagee, John McCain and Joe Lieberman have a lot in common. Both men addressed the 2007 convention of Hagee’s organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). McCain and Lieberman each voiced support for a pre-emptive strike against Iran. But while John McCain aggressively sought Hagee’s endorsement, only Joe Lieberman compared the Texas pastor to Moses. And judging by his agreement to speak at CUFI’s upcoming 2008 conference, Joe Lieberman still believes it.
Unfortunately for Joe Lieberman, it now turns out that John Hagee had in mind another modern-day Moses: Adolf Hitler. Hitler, Hagee tells us, was sent by God to deliver the Jews to Israel.
“Then god sent a hunter. A hunter is someone with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter. And the Bible says — Jeremiah writing — ‘They shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and from the holes of the rocks,’ meaning there’s no place to hide. And that might be offensive to some people but don’t let your heart be offended. I didn’t write it, Jeremiah wrote it. It was the truth and it is the truth. How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.”
At one point she mentioned that Hitler could be reborn. Across the table, a suspiciously old-looking “student” guffawed. “Hitler reborn? Hitler has been reborn,” he said, pausing for effect, “and his name is Obama.”
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=cufi_confidential
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow/357888
http://michaelonfargo.blogspot.com/2008/05/coo-coo-for-cufi.html
http://davidduke.com/index.php?s=cufi&submit=go
MAX BLUMENTHAL: Well, we know in the past that Karl Rove and people in Karl Rove’s shop, like Tim Goeglein and Elliott Abrams, who’s in the State Department, who’s traveling, you know, to Israel with Condoleezza Rice, have met with Christian Zionist groups, so this is not an anomaly. But this group has a much larger voice than any of the other groups that have met with the Bush administration, and they claim — David Brog claimed to me that their principal achievement has been keeping a ceasefire off the table for the past month. So, their principal achievement has been essentially giving Israel a free hand and the IDF a free hand to kind of, you know, ramp up the war, and I think this has had catastrophic consequences for the Middle East and the peace process.
http://zionmychosen.com/index_files/Page1367.htm
http://zionmychosen.com/index_files/Page1345.htm
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/8/15/christians_united_for_israel_new_christian
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=Lieberman-At-Hagee-Confere-by-Gustav-Wynn-080723-34.html
Well, as Elenor Roosevelt famously said: Great people speak about ideas, average people speak about issues and small people speak about people.
Since the public discussion lead by the MSN focuses on the small themes of people, here goes:
Track was expelled and then sent to Idaho. I think some kind of boot camp school.
More details on the real background why here.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132×6892728
And he went off to another state when?? In 2006??
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.sport.p...
WASILLA – Four days after teens sabotaged Mat-Su school buses and forced
local schools to close for a day, a Wasilla mother said she is still shocked her son participated in the vandalism.
Coon and three other teens are suspected of disabling nearly half the First Student bus fleet by pulling valve stems from tires on 44 buses, which caused the tires to deflate. They also allegedly unplugged 110 buses from their engine-block heaters so the buses were unable to start in the below-zero weather.
Troopers said Friday that charges have not yet been filed, but on Wednesday they reported that the students – two from Burchell and two from Wasilla High School – were inspired by a popular MTV show, “High School Stories.” The program seeks out high school pranks and then re-enacts those pranks for television broadcast
All four students are on interim suspension and face possible expulsion by the school board.
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http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/032003/sta_briefs.s...
School bus service resumes after vandalism
ANCHORAGE – Regular school bus service for Chugiak and Eagle River students resumed Wednesday after mechanics repaired brake lines on 50 school buses that were vandalized sometime before Monday morning.
The buses belong to First Student, the company that provides the Anchorage School District with about two-thirds of its buses and drivers and exclusively transports Eagle River students.
District officials said Tuesday that the estimated cost of repairs and lost revenue for First Student was $36,000.
The vandalism left about 2,700 students without their normal transportation to school. More than 560 students were absent from Eagle River and Chugiak schools on Monday, which school officials said is more than normal. Bus service resumed Tuesday on some, but not all, routes.
To White Agate – I have been wondering the same thing. I can’t post all the links at once, so I’ll try to give you a few to chew on.
TIM RUSSERT: So we could have two wars at once?
SEN. McCAIN: I think we could have Armageddon.
– John McCain, on the Iran crisis. April 2nd 2006, “Meet The Press.”
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/2/23/9556/02805
Endorsement of John McCain for President: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2008/02/update_cufi.html
to White Agate:
Pastor John Hagee stated:
“the United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both Israel and the West… a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ.”.
Founder of CUFI (Christians United for Israel)– Israel, U.S.A. and the Christian Right
John Hagee, along with other Christian Evangelical leaders, created Christians United for Israel (CUFI) less than two years ago, yet it has already grown into one of the largest and most politically influential Christian grassroots organizations in the country.
“When 50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians unite with five million American Jews standing together on behalf of Israel, it is a match made in heaven.”
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10052007/profile.html
CUFI has hosted calls with Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor, Senator Joe Lieberman, and Israel’s former Ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold.
http://www.cufi.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_Conference_Call
To White Agate:
When it comes to Pastor John Hagee, John McCain and Joe Lieberman have a lot in common. Both men addressed the 2007 convention of Hagee’s organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). McCain and Lieberman each voiced support for a pre-emptive strike against Iran. But while John McCain aggressively sought Hagee’s endorsement, only Joe Lieberman compared the Texas pastor to Moses. And judging by his agreement to speak at CUFI’s upcoming 2008 conference, Joe Lieberman still believes it. NOW WE UNDERSTAND THIS LINK FROM THE RNC – AHHHH HA!
Unfortunately for Joe Lieberman, it now turns out that John Hagee had in mind another modern-day Moses: Adolf Hitler.
Hitler, Hagee tells us, was sent by God to deliver the Jews to Israel.
“Then god sent a hunter. A hunter is someone with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter. And the Bible says — Jeremiah writing — ‘They shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and from the holes of the rocks,’ meaning there’s no place to hide. And that might be offensive to some people but don’t let your heart be offended. I didn’t write it, Jeremiah wrote it. It was the truth and it is the truth. How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.”
AND THIS IS DOWNRIGHT SCARY – WONDER WHY WE HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT THIS FROM THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN DEMANDING THAT THE MCCAIN CAMP APOLOGIZE LIKE THEY ASKED OBAMA TO DO FOR A SILLY BILL MAHR QUOTE:
At one point she mentioned that Hitler could be reborn. Across the table, a suspiciously old-looking “student” guffawed. “Hitler reborn? Hitler has been reborn,” he said, pausing for effect, “and his name is Obama.”
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=cufi_confidential
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow/357888
http://michaelonfargo.blogspot.com/2008/05/coo-coo-for-cufi.html
http://davidduke.com/index.php?s=cufi&submit=go (DAVID DUKE?????!!!!!!!???????)
TO White Agate:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/27/lieberman-to-speak-at-cufi-event-hagee-must-still-be-moses/
When it comes to Pastor John Hagee, John McCain and Joe Lieberman have a lot in common. Both men addressed the 2007 convention of Hagee’s organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). McCain and Lieberman each voiced support for a pre-emptive strike against Iran. But while John McCain aggressively sought Hagee’s endorsement, only Joe Lieberman compared the Texas pastor to Moses. And judging by his agreement to speak at CUFI’s upcoming 2008 conference, Joe Lieberman still believes it.
Unfortunately for Joe Lieberman, it now turns out that John Hagee had in mind another modern-day Moses: Adolf Hitler. Hitler, Hagee tells us, was sent by God to deliver the Jews to Israel.
“Then god sent a hunter. A hunter is someone with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter. And the Bible says — Jeremiah writing — ‘They shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and from the holes of the rocks,’ meaning there’s no place to hide. And that might be offensive to some people but don’t let your heart be offended. I didn’t write it, Jeremiah wrote it. It was the truth and it is the truth. How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.”
NOW WE UNDERSTAND THE LINK OF LIEBERMAN AT THE RNC . . . AHHHH HA!
Hey guys, I’ve put up a blog entry on my blog regarding the lipstick/pig thing.
Apologizing in advance for being self-serving! http://swineprincess.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/of-lipstick-and-pigs/
TO WHITE AGATE:
AND THE SCARIEST OF ALL:
At one point she mentioned that Hitler could be reborn. Across the table, a suspiciously old-looking “student” guffawed. “Hitler reborn? Hitler has been reborn,” he said, pausing for effect, “and his name is Obama.”
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=cufi_confidential
Sorry, and more:
http://www.care2.com/news/member/434996229/870931
Point is, it looks like a deal was cut to keep Track out of Jail.
Ok, ok, the election is not about her family. But it is about McCain and Palin and honesty.
And the facts emerging about her family tell us there is LOTS of dishonesty in the background — no to mention severe family disfunction.
Good morning Mudflat’ers,
Another day, another day to fight the good fight.
Here is a video and text of JFK’s inauguration speech. I re-read it from time to time and it never fails to inspire and clear out any doubts I have as to the importance of individual action in the face of great challenge.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkinaugural.htm
The truth of the matter is that truth does matter.
Be resolute and stay focused on issues of substance!
Volunteer, donate, vote.
Proud2B-
“How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.”
NOW WE UNDERSTAND THE LINK OF LIEBERMAN AT THE RNC . . . AHHHH HA!”
So Lieberman really was the “token Jew”?
(I can say that because my hubby is a wonderful Jewish man! )
Lie baby, lie!
Diva –
Looks that way – he’s being used for this extremist’s groups “greater purpose.” I have several wonderful Jewish friends who are working feverishly for Obama. When I called them about this last night, they were aware of some of Lieberman’s tactics, but they don’t believe Israel will be able to even SURVIVE (physically) with all this talk of war, war, war.
The thing that makes me sad is that there is a small, but strong, contingency of mis-informed people who are going to spill a lot of innocent blood for a cause that they cannot predict.
Stay focused on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as they were never intended to incite “Holy Wars” but to allow us all to live in peace and worship as we decided to worship.
LMAO!!!!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26633775
you go Obama!!!
Lipstick on a PIG!!!
LOL!!!
hey thats what they get for distorting about teaching K schooling sex ed damn reptards.
Something I read but don’t know if it is true. Is it true that Palin , or maybe it was another governor, they tried to move the state capitol to a different town or city? Is this true?
Proud2B-
As is de rigueur in the Northeast, once they reached a certain age, my in-laws moved to Florida,
My MIL is very politically active down there and was so dismayed that it looked like McCain was a shoe-in. Now, with the Jews for Jesus stuff, along with Ed Koch coming out for Obama, the tide is turning!
Fingers crossed and salt thrown over shoulder!
Any I am just loving this Lipstick on a PIG
thing funny as hell! 
I think I’ve figured it out. The McCain/Palin campaign is trying to make US, the “angry left,” unattractive to “them” (independents). They hit hard with lies/distortions, really reprehensible ads, to make us foam at the mouth. It is partly working. I’m going to have an ulcer when this is all over. The thing is, we have to control our anger, and use it in productive ways. We have to strive to be calm, factually accurate, knowledgable about the candidates, and consistant, without being strident in our offense/defense. Be kind to people who don’t agree with you. Let your anger out with people who are already with you, like here. It’s a very hard thing(I know I’ve already stumbled), but it’s that important. Talk well, donate, volunteer, organize, mobilize.
Obama/Biden 08
Diva –
Tell them to PLEASE GET THE WORD OUT. I was very proud of Mayor Koch, too! We need Florida – we need to remember what happened in 2000 with Gore and the hanging chads (i can’t believe I can even remember the handing dang chad…)
HUG THEM FOR ALL OF US, DIVA, AND THANK THEM!!!
@Proud2B
Wow. Hagee has always scared me, but now… I am becoming more and more convinced that the fundies of every stripe (Christian, Jewish and Muslim) are working to bring about whatever version of Armageddon they believe in. They believe they are the meek that are to inherit the earth and they’re getting weary of waiting for the rest of us to die off. I have heard my fundie uncles, who are both Baptist ministers, admonish their (very small) flocks to do everything they can to bring about the end times. I always thought they were colorfully wacky. Silly me.
For the record: Jane Swift was “acting” Governor of Massachusetts. She was never elected to the position. Paul Cellucci left to become Ambassador to Canada and then Mitt came along to make sure that Jane didn’t get a chance to become the Gov.
Swine princess – thanks for the link to your site. Yes, I guess you do get to have the floor on this one!. Glad for the reminder of Torie Clark’s book. Am linking to you on another site I post on.
More and reasoned comments from an Anonymous poster at
http://blogreally.com/2008/09/big-book-of-track-palin-rumor-links.html
“First, the school bus vandalism occurred late November 2005.
If he was one of students accused of school bus vandalism a few days later in early December 2006, Track Palin likely would have been held in juvenile detention for a few days.
Whether or not he was subsequently expelled might await a disposition of the charges against him in the juvenile court, which could take a few months. That might take it out to the summer of 2006.
It appears that he moved to Portage, Michigan, to join a Midget AAA team there in the fall of 2006. That meshes with his likely expulsion from school locally.
He returned in March of 2007 to graduate from the Wasilla High School. In April 2007 it was announced that he signed a tender to play on the Alaska Avalanche for the 2007-2008 season in Anchorage.
http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:CgF18aivKj4J:www.akavalanche.com/4_13_2007_frontiersman.html+Track+Palin+Alaska+Avalanche&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
He enlisted in the U.S. Army, sometime between April and September 2007 getting a $20,000 bonus tied joining by September 11 2007.
The Palin campaign issued a press release on September 15, 2007, which said, “Gov. Palin has declined to comment. The Palin family wants to keep private some aspects of his decision, spokeswoman Sharon Leighow said.
Track was adamant about not wanting publicity, according to a military spokesman.”
I would guess that the juvenile court disposition did not directly or indirectly require enlistment because of the sequence of events and U.S. Army enlistment policy.
Moreover, I believe that there could be nothing more required of him by the juvenile disposition before he would be permitted to enlist — the case had to completely closed.
It is difficult to reconcile his decision to sign with the Alaska Avalanche but nevertheless enlist having pursued a hockey career most of life unless (1) he was academically unqualified for college and (2) realized he had no future in professional hockey. It must have a very personal and difficult decision.”
Actually they are playing the bait and switch routine.
Trying to start something and then pointing fingers afterward.
Pure whinerdom these reptards are.
does anyone know when the term “Truth Squad” came into the lexicon? I tried to google it and I hit of a LOT of neo-Nazi Gestapo type sites that I’m frankly scared to hit. The term “Truth Squad” just SOUNDS ominous to me maybe because Mudflatters has been educating me on what all of this really means tied together.
Any thoughts?
Interesting article on Joe Scarborough that has been kept quiet by the MSM!
http://www.truthalliance.net/Archive/tabid/67/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/583/Default.aspx
Lest, we forget, there would have been no need for a Surge if Bush & Co. had not taken the U.S. into a Phony & Pretend War on Terrorism while the Real War on Terrorism in Afghanistan where Bin Ladin lived, was ignored! And if we do not Wise up this might happen in the future!
http://www.youtube.com/v/PdJUCU1UH2w
In a cleverly pre-emptive strike, McCain is falsely accusing Obama of wanting to teach children sex education because they knew Newsweek will be soon coming out with an article on Sarah Palin! “Judge Warned Palin About Emotional Child Abuse!”
Well I say gloves off and start swinging they aint holding anything back when attacking.
Obama needs to just stay cool and be clever and witty with his responses like he did yesterday.
And remind the public that the McCain people cant have it both ways.
@Palmdale, CA – the Onion started in Madison, WI, not Caltech. Another great school known for pranks!
You cant sit there and cry wolf then be a wolf thats just hypocritcal.
But hell when has the GOP not been a bunch of hypocrits??
bacaangel:
The story is already out:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/158140
“As the divorce case dragged on, the judge’s concern about family “disparagement” appeared to deepen. In an order signed Jan. 31, 2006, which granted Palin’s sister and Wooten a final divorce decree, Judge Suddock continued to express concern about attacks by Palin’s family on Wooten. The judge even threatened to curb Palin’s sister’s child custody rights if family criticism of Wooten continued.”
AM:
For the record, Sue Myrick is R-NC. I should know, crazy old bat.
Truth squad, homeland security. I’m sure there are other words that have that ring to it.
thanks for the link lemonfair
I feel so much better now that the Truth Squad is on it. Especially JoAnn Davidson, who is the one who called Palin, “Sarah Pawlenty” in her remarks at the convention. (See the Daily Show’s moment of zen–http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184088&title=Moment-of-Zen—Sarah-Pawlenty)
Anyhow got togo to work!!
LipStick on PIG!!!!
classic stuff there man!!
Oh and Palin?? put up or shut up is all I have to say.
Sick and tired of hearing her campaign pull the picking on me card after the attacks shes made this last week.
She aint no Barbie, and she damn sure aint no HILLARY!!!
GO! Obama/Biden!! 2008
Anonymous:
See that screen you’re looking at, checkout that keyboard you’re typing on, and that fanlike sound coming from that box, Use It To Search For What Troubles You, others aren’t your Brain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was starting to loose hope because I keep reading all these articles that McSame/Barbie are leading in the polls, then I read this article
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/09/09/election-wild-card-first-time-voters/
I think the polls are wrong, and the media is trying to dishearten dems so much that we won’t vote. I had to borrow some money from a friend today so I can get to work tomorrow. I can’t live like this anymore. Something has to be done. I am giving all my extra money (what little there is) from now until Novemeber to the Obama campain, and I am going to post the facts on as many “young” people blogs as I can think of. Let’s all get the word out!
@SwinePrincess –
LOL! Well, I would agree with you that they ARE colorfully wacky!!!!!!!
I guess I just grew up differently. I grew up with a resounding “…be VERY careful…” as Colossians was drummed into my head as it warns against “CULTS” and false prophets and it’s pretty direct, too.
My Church focuses on the positive. You know: Love one another. Help one another. Greatest of these things is Love.
Prince of Peace. . .that kind of stuff.
I do remember from growing up in a pretty fundamentalist church, however, that our tent revivals talked a LOT about Revelation. A story I remembered was nagging me, so I just looked it up and please forgive me up front if I offend you as that is not the intent:
“…Satan will be released from his prison and will go to DECEIVE THE NATIONS IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH (…let me see here….US, China, Russia? I don’t know….) TO GATHER THEM FOR BATTLE. ….They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves (Jerusalem?)…BUT FIRE CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND DEVOURED THEM (from Palin’s oil pipeline perchance?) And the Devil, WHO DECEIVED THEM….was thrown where the Beast and the FALSE PROPHETS had been thrown.”
I’m scared to even write that!!!!!!! Even our Fire and Damnation Preacher growing up didn’t preach the stuff we hear spewing from Hagee’s, Rove, Palin’s mouths. I do remember that False Prophets stuff though – in between the casseroles and fans blowing.
For the record, Sue Myrick is R-NC. I should know, crazy old bat.
And soon to be unemployed, trust me!!
@ellen
good catch. I wonder if the “Web Exclusive” article with move to the print mag as well… three years ago guys — they told her to quit disparaging Wooten 3 years ago. If McCain’s vetters didn’t know this…
When oh *when* will the Eagleton Factor click in???? It is just making me so sad that someone who *should* be a liability is, on a daily basis, pulling more votes in to the Republiars.
@JimStaro:
And soon to be unemployed, trust me!!
AMEN TO THAT!
The rumors about what books she wanted to ban have been as silly and weird as everything else. But now, in late breaking (and even sillier) news, perhaps we have some genuine insight about it:
http://www.kennamdahl.wordpress.com
Diva and Proud2BUSA,
I can’t pretend to speak for all Jews, but I can tell you that with Palin’s talk of our troops being on a task from G-d, I emailed all my Jewish friends, both those I am pretty sure are voting for Obama and those who I think are leaning towards McCain. Scare tactic? Yep, and I don’t care. I’m scared! When a candidate is one breath away from saying holy war, I want other Jews to know what she’s about.
I never knew about Lieberman’s relationship with Hagee’s group. I didn’t like the guy to begin with. His appearance at the RNC enraged me. Now? I won’t be able to look at him.
While I currently don’t hold Carter in high esteem (Israel an apartheid state), I credit him with the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. (May Sadat rest in peace.) It wasn’t done on the battlefield. Peace through negotiation.
McCain will jump to the defense of Israel sooner. But he will jump into war. I believe Obama will come to Israel’s defense through negotiations. If there is ever to be peace in the region, and I have my doubts, I know it can only happen through negotiation. When calmer heads prevail (moderate politicians and citizens), then we can begin a path to peace. McCain isn’t moderate about war. Obama is.
I don’t want to hijack this thread with my Jewish/Zionist feelings. It’s not what we’re here for. But, as a Jew, I support Obama because I trust that he will stand by Israel without endangering Israel. And, if necessary, he will support Israel’s right to defend her citizens.
Every Jew I know factors Israel into their consideration when voting for POTUS. Sort of like women wanting to know a candidate’s stance on reproductive rights.
Believe me, I’m getting the word out. Loud and clear. And I’m being heard.
@Proud2B
no offense taken! I grew up with the colorfully wacky uncles… my take on them comes from my parents mitigating their preaching of Revelation. I too grew up with the threat of Revelation hanging over my head should I not make the Rapture cut. Revelation is a frightening book. Hagee and others like Hal Lindsey make it even more frightening by interpreting it for us so that we understand, like the Calvinist Johnathan Edwards in 1741 admonished his church: “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours.”
I think I was in Junior High or maybe High School when I read that and thought “Wow, that’s not a God I want to know.” and promptly started searching for something else. I found it and ’nuff said.
I really object to religions that use fear as their primary method of recruiting new members. Fear is always about power and control.
I think so many of us have become complacent because of the First Amendment. It is that amendment that guarantees us our right to religion and speech and this wonderful place under freedom of the press. I think that because it is there I am safe. I am not. Because that same Amendment will be used to scare a majority of people in to taking it away under people like Sarah Palin and her spiritual advisers.
Now I really do want to move into Harley’s Canada basement!
@Proud2BUSA-
Your post just sent shivers down my spine and my morning coffee all over my keyboard. Armageddon?! Good God, he IS a NUT CASE! :O
[We need to be careful when we look down on others…call them rednecks, etc. Except for the obvious die-hard “i’ll vote republican even if they put up a monkey” people, the rest need to be talked to respectfully. It could become a vote and change the course of our war-mongering country.]
I agree, but believe we need to not look down on them for ANY cultural trait. It’s one thing to say they are unifnformed, and another to disparage their social group or socioeconomic status. IMO, it’s as bad as slamming someone for their race.
And it’s inccurate. I know MANY rednecks who are so angry at the way the neocons have destroyed the GOP that they are about read to leave the party. My father-in-law, after a lifetime of voting Republican, is voting for Bob Barr this election.
I see it like this: one of the most insulting things the GOP does to its voters is take advantage of their conservative mindset of following the leader and being loyal, and blatantly lying to them, shamelessly manipulating them to do what the corporate backers of the GOP want them to do.
Conservatives as a group do not independently question their political party’s actions and usually believe what the GOP says, no matter how absurd it is. I don’t see this as ignorance. I see it as how they are wired. Of course, it helps that they have been programmed to shun the very tools that would help them not be a minpulated robot–such as critical thinking classes at college, which (and within the last 3 years I finished my second degree) in California are required to get a degree.
It is a tough position we are in because a large part of the Republican voting base does not question the GOP and simply siphons up the propaganda they are spoon-fed by the GOP propagandists, file it away in their brains under “truth,” and then regurgitate it out to their friends, enemies, message boards, and media feedback sites.
I don’t know the answer as to how to get around this, but I do know that snobbishly dismissing them as rednecks and crackers won’t work. It simply makes them more entrenched in their believe that the GOP is truth and everything else is lies, amps up their natural proclivity to martyrdom and paranoia, and gives the GOP ample ammunition to “prove” to their minions that liberals really are all the bad things the GOP has worked so hard to convince their voters we are.
Let’s hope that Andree McLeod gets the e-mails that SP sent to hubby Todd. Doing offical state business using a Yahoo address wasn’t too smart. WaPo has a report about this in today’s (9/10) paper.
Valhalla, got a link?
@ DeMo –
Thank you for those words and sentiments. You are saying exactly what my friends are saying as well. I think most Jews, Christians and any sane person would 100% agree with you.
As for Lieberman, I will never, ever look at him the same. I thought he was a moderate, and here he is, a fox in sheep’s clothing.
I can almost forgive Palin because she really is just here for this Extreme Group’s puppeteering pleasure (she should be smart enough to know better is the only glitch), but McCain and Lieberman? They have allowed their ambitions to overrun their sense of duty and what is right for their constituency and country. They’ve been bought. How empty that must feel inside.
This is YET ANOTHER REASON why the separation of church and state should stay separate. To have raving lunatics have all these secret scary meetings behind the scenes where they are expressing their true feelings (and I’m okay with freedom of speech, but just come out and say it!) when in the media they are trying to come across as friendly, elderly “statesmen” and mislead a group of people whom they know won’t read for themselves…Now, THAT’S EVIL!
Rude Post Alert: They’re fixated on the lipstick remark being sexist, but what about the stinky fish comment? That would seem a more obvious…uh.. reference to complain about.
Hagee is the antichrist!
Proud2B and DeMo
I am also spreading the word about Palin/Hagee/Lieberman (wow-what an unlikely trio!) Believe me, the Floridian Jews are a vocal, tenacious bunch and they have not gotten over their rage and embarrassment in 2000. Imagine being accused of voting for Pat Buchanan! ACK!!!!
I love this paragraph, DeMo. Your whole post was well thought-out but to condense into a sound bite, I chose this:
“McCain will jump to the defense of Israel sooner. But he will jump into war. I believe Obama will come to Israel’s defense through negotiations. If there is ever to be peace in the region, and I have my doubts, I know it can only happen through negotiation. When calmer heads prevail (moderate politicians and citizens), then we can begin a path to peace. McCain isn’t moderate about war. Obama is.”
Short, concise and powerful! I’ll be including that in my emails!
Sue Myrick is from NC not FL
For those of you waiting for the NEW National Enquirer (Sep 22, 2008, edition), I have it pictured and excerpted here.
IMHO, there is nothing in there that seriously harms her. The affair is said to be 10 years old, some deny it was truly consummated. Also, Track ’s OxyContin abuse is far seamier (lots of details). Bristol and Levi’s wedding is alleged to be shotgun (maybe there will be actual shotguns there, too).
ds55- NO MORE like that, ok? Totally unnecessary. If you like that sort of humor, you won’t like it here.
Just sayin’
biotic:
Jane Swift also told the Globe after she was defeated that it had been a mistake to think she could manage the job and take care of her children at the same time. (don’t have time at the moment to look for a link)
@SwinePrincess –
I may be asking to join you in Harley’s basement!!!!
Harley, you may need to start building out now – we’ll start a fund.
I am so sorry for your damnation experience. It IS scary, isn’t it that they think that will actually DRAW MORE PEOPLE into their church? It’s kind of counter-intuitive, but look at what there doing in this election and I guess human behavior is counter-intuitive at times.
Thank goodness my background and current belief system remains simple (similar to WHAT I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN). As I stated earlier, we focus on the love your neighbor, respect all living creatures, don’t be a fool, kind of things. In my Church at least, we learn to come to Jesus as a small child would – I don’t think that means starting wars, killing polar bears, and judging people. I thought they meant sharing juice and crackers, taking a good nap or time out when you get crabby, and hugging and giggling a lot. Silly me….
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Ah, it makes me so proud that one of her Squadders is from my great state of Minnesota. All hail Queen of the Lightbulbs, Michelle Bachman from district 6. Is Palin just gathering up all the crazies on the conservative side?
THE REAL JOHN MCCAIN !!! SPREAD THE WORD !!!
JOIN THE FIGHT TO SPREAD THE TRUTH
http://therealmccain.com/squad/?utm_source=rgemail
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[Truth squad, homeland security. I’m sure there are other words that have that ring to it.]
Those terms evoke very bad things and make them seem good, and that is heinous, IMO.
“Truth Squad” takes Orwell’s 1984 term for propaganda gone wild and sanctifies it by filling it with female politicians and calling it the group that will stop the “harassment” of Sarah Palin.
Homeland Security–*uck a duck, that’s straight out of Hitler’s Nazi Germany. When that name was first announced it horrified me because, to take a propaganda term used by Hitler to unite the Good Germans behind his heinous cause, and use it for a government body that is supposed to be protecting us, is too horrible for words. It defiles America. More importantly, it leads the rest of the world to believe that Americans either do not see the homage to Hitler, or condone it, especially when the GOP voters TWICE voted for Bush Jr.
Scary times.
My mother, a union organizer (yikes! does that qualify as a “community organizer”?), raised me in the union. I spent Saturdays since I can remember helping out at the union hall or at an event. Little hands can stuff envelopes as well as bigger hands.
She worked with the migrant farm labor in California in the 1940s to 1960s, and I learned a lot from her. She worked in a very violent situation, as union organizers were routinely severly beaten, sometimes to death, during that era. Women were especially at risk because rape was then (as it has always been) used to intimidate women who were so bold as to speak their mind.
She taught me so much, and one of the things she taught me was this: when you work in the field (meaning the union “field,” not the crop field), go in peace but carry a baseball bat for insurance.
We have other ways to protect ourselves now from physical confrontations. It may not be a baseball bat, but we should be prepared for and aware of what we are getting into.
When I hear the GOP make up names like “Truth Squad” and “Homeland Security,” I think about that advice, and wonder if I will ever need that insurance we should all take with us when we know we will be facing opposition from the kind of people who will use an homage to Hitler’s Nazi Germany and its propaganda campaign to name a new government body whose purported reason for being is to keep us safe.
Scary times. Be prepared.
Diva –
Include Mayor Koch’s comment about even the suggestion of banning books is akin to going back to the Dark Ages.
I LOVE HIM!!!!
‘Lipstick on a pig’: Attack on Palin or common line?
Well some prospective, like even Palin uses it.
“Ministry of Truth”
Totally Orwellian world we are living in now.
Barack-please, lead us out!!!!
Here’s the WaPo article on Andree’s attempt to get SP’s e-mails.
WASILLA, Alaska, Sept. 9 — Gov. Sarah Palin is being asked by a local Republican activist to release more than 1,100 e-mails she withheld from a public records request, including 40 that were copied to her husband, Todd.
Palin had claimed executive privilege for documents copied to her husband, who is not a state employee, in responding to an open records request in June made by Andrée McLeod, an activist in Anchorage. The administrative appeal filed yesterday by McLeod’s attorney, Donald C. Mitchell, argued that by copying Todd Palin on sensitive state correspondence, the governor and her aides shattered the privilege rightly afforded elected officials.
“She has allowed Todd Palin — who has not been elected by the people of Alaska, who is not a state employee — to entangle himself apparently as he sees fit in the operations of the executive branch of the state government,” Mitchell said.
“From the case law, if government voluntarily opens up that internal decision-making to what I would call civilians, then that is waiver of that protection of the government policy decision-making process. That is what happened here, and it happened because Sarah Palin doesn’t understand it,” he said.
Todd Palin was frequently copied on e-mails relating to Alaska State Troopers and the union representing public safety employees, according to McLeod, who received four boxes of redacted e-mails in response to her request. At the time, both Sarah and Todd Palin were complaining to the state public safety commissioner about a disciplinary matter involving Sarah Palin’s ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper.
Palin also routinely does government business from a Yahoo address, gov.sarah@yahoo.com, rather than her secure official state e-mail address, according to documents already made public.
“Whoops!” Palin aide Frank Bailey wrote, after addressing an e-mail to the governor’s official state address. “Frank, This is not the Governor’s personal account,” a secretary reminded him.
Calls seeking response from the governor were not immediately returned by a Palin spokesperson. Palin last month described McLeod as a disgruntled former employee, though in 2004 Palin endorsed her as a state House candidate “not afraid to stand up for what’s right.”
Mitchell’s appeal, addressed to Palin in her capacity as the decision-maker on the earlier records request, questions the wisdom of the governor and her aides shipping messages about state business between their public and private e-mail accounts “with complete and total abandon,” he said.
“There’s a reason the governor should be using her own official e-mail channels, because of security and encryption,” the lawyer said. “She’s running state business out of Yahoo?”
On March 17, minutes after peppering a state official about whether e-mails about state business contained on a personal BlackBerry could become public, senior Palin aide Ivy Frye addressed a message to both Palins and two other aides: “In sum, it’s just as I thought — questions of confidentiality are still unanswered by law.”
McLeod, a former state employee who once was close to Palin, filed an ethics complaint last month against Palin and others. She cited e-mail traffic that appeared to show that the governor’s office improperly helped a Palin fundraiser obtain a civil service position.
“By withholding these emails, Sarah Palin has broken on her promise of being open, honest and transparent,” McLeod said in a statement. “It’s old-school politics and not the kind of reform she pledged to Alaskans.”
WaPo 9/10 Karl Vick
Proud2B
Ed’s already quoted!
Yeah, they love him, too. His opinion still holds a lot of weight.
Re: “McCain and Lieberman.”
I think the fact that McCain apparently had his heart set on naming Lieberman as VP indicates that McCain, as president, would be willing to do anything Israel wanted.
One of my concerns about Lieberman has always been, even going back to before 2000, the fact that he is a fundamentalist, and fundamentalists see things (especially on issues attached to their religion) as either fundamentally right or fundamentally wrong. If an issue is fundamentally right, then they will stop at nothing to support that right. If it is fundamentally wrong, they will stop at nothing to stop that wrong.
Lieberman is a loose cannon. He has a knee-jerk reflex to support Israel, no matter what the consequences to the United States and the planet. He does not consider whether Israel is right or wrong because, in his mind, it is fundamentally right, therefore it can never be wrong.
So I think that McCain must be similarly oriented towards Israel (but not for fundamental religious reasons); otherwise, he would never have seriously considered Lieberman for VP.
another topic – from that VoteSmart site I wrote about yesterday, this is what has been compiled thus far – some of this was taken from another blog who was researching at the same time as I was – thank goodness, because going through all of that is very dry:
These are from ACTUAL McCAIN VOTES in the Senate where he opposes positions favored by the MAJORITY OF AMERICANS.
1. 70% of Public thinks invading Iraq was a MISTAKE, but McCain sides with Bush and votes to invade.
2. 70% of Americans think oil companies are too greedy and that is why they are paying more at the pump, but McCain wants to adopt Big Oil plans to drill, drill, drill for MORE PROFITS. REMEMBER, we’re not a socialist country (looks like we’re headed the OTHER way), so the only profits to be made are from Exxon, etc, and the coffers for the Lobbyist who will sway your President’s vote.
3. 70% of Americans do NOT want to invade Iran, but McCain says bomb, bomb, bomb Iran and votes for Kyl-Lieberman saber-rattling.
4. 75% of Americans FAVOR ratifying Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, but McCain sides with Bush and votes against it.
5. 60% of Americans believe workers should have a right to organize into a union, but McCain sides with Bush and votes against it.
6. 70% of Americans favor INCREASING financial aid for college and McCain bucked his party and lost that senate vote 78-18
7. Most Americans are AGAINST fraud in Iraq contracts and want more oversight, but McCain sided with Bush and voted against more oversight.
8. Most Americans believe gun makers should be liable for making defective guns and McCain bucked his party and lost that vote 90-8.
9. Most Americans FAVOR energy assistance to low income people, and McCain buscked his party and lost that vote 94-3
10. Most Americans FAVOR children’s healthcare, just like they do for seniors, and McCain sided with Bush and lost that vote 68-31, and this would have become law with 10 more votes in the house to sustain an over-ride of Bush’s veto.
WHEN MCCAIN SIDES WITH BUSH, HE GOES AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
THAT IS NO MAVERICK, THAT IS ANTI-AMERICAN!!!
Ummm, having former Lt. Governor Farrow (WI) on the “truth squad” is like appointing Colonel Sanders on a Save the Chickens board. She has quite the record of not letting facts get in the way of her ideology. Most recently, in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election this past April, Farrow sent out fundraising letters blasting incumbent Justice Louis Butler for releasing a sex predator into Milwaukee County. Problem was, Justice Butler’s decision did no such thing, and the predator remains incarcerated today. Long story short? She lied. Outright. To help win an election.
I sense a pattern developing…
Jim, this whole lipstick flap is just WATB stuff! These guys (and gals) think they can keep gaming the refs but the American people are not falling for it!
How many times can Sarah cry, “Wolf!” before the “wolves” fight back?
Here’s a WaPo article that may explain (reading between the lines) why Scott Richter tried to get his divorce file sealed. It had to do with SP’s firing of John Bitney.
“Sarah Palin and John Bitney go way back. They were in the same junior-high band class. Mr. Bitney was a key aide in Gov. Palin’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign. When she took office, she gave Mr. Bitney a job as her legislative director, and a few months later stood beside him at a news conference and praised his work.
” ‘Whatever you did, you did it right,’ she told Mr. Bitney and his team. Seven weeks later she fired Mr. Bitney for what her spokeswoman now describes as ‘poor job performance.’
“What happened in between? According to Mr. Bitney, Gov. Palin got a call from another old friend, Scott Richter, informing her that his wife, Debbie Richter, and Mr. Bitney were having an affair. Mr. Bitney had kept that secret from the governor, even as he told her of his divorce, he said.
WSJ as reported in the WaPo Media Notes Howard Kurtz 9/10/08
Political Amazon –
Your mom is my hero! WOW. Now, THAT is a Patriot and a HERO.
Just a quote to complete my, um, research:
In the same way, the Government of the Reich, which regards Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attaches the greatest value to friendly relations with the Holy See, and is endeavoring to develop them. (Adolf Hitler, March 23, 1933)
Proud2BUSA (05:16:34) :
does anyone know when the term “Truth Squad” came into the lexicon?
I found this at the Online Etymology Dictionary http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=truth: Truth squad in U.S. political sense first attested 1952. Truthiness “act or quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than those known to be true,” catch word popularized in this sense by U.S. comedian Stephen Colbert, declared by American Dialect Society to be “2005 Word of the Year.”
And you gotta love William Safire who wrote an entire article in 1988 on the term http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3D7173EF930A35754C0A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
Interestingly the Good Senator from Arizona is mentioned in this article, to wit:
”GET YOUR TRUTH Squad on the road,” the Bush campaign was exhorted by supporters who felt that Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis was making unchallenged claims.
Republican Senator John S. McCain 3d of Arizona was promptly dispatched into cities where Mr. Dukakis was scheduled to appear. His task was to present questions about the candidate’s record. Presumably, Senator McCain or another surrogate for Mr. Bush would remain to rebut his remarks until the Democrat had left.
Safire, in his scholarly way, later delves into the etymology of the word far more deeply than the Online Etymology Dictionary does.
Political Amazon-
“So I think that McCain must be similarly oriented towards Israel (but not for fundamental religious reasons); otherwise, he would never have seriously considered Lieberman for VP.”
C’mon! We all know he just wanted Joe to keep whispering the answers in his ear!
“How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.”
- Adolf Hitler
“The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom”
- Adolf Hitler
WHAT WAS IT THAT MCCAIN SAID IN HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH? That he won’t “start” a fight, but won’t walk away from it either. I thought that was an original from the TV series “Rifleman,” but I was wrong!
Always before God and the world, the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills”
- Adolf Hitler
“What we have to fight for is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the creator”
- Adolf Hitler
A couple of things and then I MUST get some sleep.
Proud2BUSA said: YET ANOTHER REASON why the separation of church and state should stay separate.” Amen! Critical to who we are as a nation. Religious freedom. I know that wasn’t the exact intent of your words, but I’m taking it (with your permission) to echo that if the fundamentalists and evangelicals gain control, the rest of us will be praying as they see fit. And some don’t care to pray at all and more power to them. We don’t have a national religion and we can’t ever let anything approaching a national religion emerge.
I don’t believe McCain is a religious fanatic. But I think he chose Palin because of her gender and her clear devotion to her religion. A wink and a nod to the core constituency he couldn’t get on his own.
Diva, I’m honored that you would use my words in your emails. Thank you.
Some McCain rep said this morning that the reference to old fish was an obvious reference to McCain’s age. Really? Totally missed that. (A journalist just jokingly quipped that she’s insulted Obama referenced wrapping the fish in newspaper.)
Just heard on MSNBC that Palin’s gripe with Obama’s pig comment is because she’s been telling the hockey mom-pit bull “joke” since its debut at the RNC. Well, maybe you should stop comparing yourself to a dog with an unfair reputation for attacking without provocation. He is steadfast that he will not apologize. He maintains it is a common cliche, which it is, and it wasn’t directed at her. It was directed at the notion that the McCain/Palin ticket is an agent for change when their proposals mimic Bush’s failed policies. Context.
On that note, if I don’t grab an hour of sleep, my posts will get even longer, and nobody wants that. But I’ll be back later! I rely on this site and you folks for my political information. So, thank you.
They can’t tell the truth for themselves, so they’ve got a whole squad to do it for them!! They must be telling a lot of lies if they need a whole squad.
Here’s an interesting article.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/10/uselections2008.barackobama
Maureen Dowd’s op/ed piece in Sept 10th is great; Sarah as Eliza Doolittle!
and a list of questions for Gibson.
Proud2B
thanks for being one of the Good Christians… you restore my hope.
Amazon… I’ve been meaning to thank you for your post on Christian Reconstructionism… I am linking to you from my blog and here’s the post again in case anyone has missed that excellent article http://www.politicalamazon.com/cr-ahmanson.html#motherjones
Concerning Jon Bitney/Scott Richter/SP story, I should used the WSJ source as there is more info there. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122092043531812813.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_topbox
Boy, it looks like the mccain camp better worry about Ron Paul and their supporters!
The crazy thing about this truth squad , all 50 or so of them , is that McCain/Palin are going to have to keep them on the same page. So manny lies, exaggerations and daily scandals how can they all get it strait. Someone is bound to blow the gig.
Opposition to equal pay for women–now that is sexist!
AS much as Caribou Barbs hates whining, her party is doing a lot of whining….
DeMo -
I hope you’re right about the Jewish community rightly being nervous about Palin, and I hope it turns Florida.
Palin has hijacked “Rosie the Riveter” picture!
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palineffect10-2008sep10,0,4798081.story
I want to throw up!
Estee Lauder doesn’t make enough lipstick to make that pig any better!
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/521344.html
check out what the Alaskan newspapers have to say about Sarah the riveter
@SwinePrincess – thank you!!! Back atcha. This is such a nice, SAFE place to voice one’s views and not be attacked. I love diversity, and it is what makes our Country GREAT.
I agree with the earlier comment about Barack has got to stop being so Cerebral at this point. You like that. I like that. But is sounds like we’re a minority of Americans who want that in our President. They have to come up with some SOUND BITES. and FAST.
I’m all for Mahr’s comment last night: I’m not against Sarah Palin because she is from a small town. I’m against Sarah Palin because she has a small mind.
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/521344.html
check out what the Alaskan newspapers have to say about Sarah the riveter
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
here is a great poll site:
http://www.pollster.com/
Question
Didn’t Palin play the sex-ed teacher in “Varsity Blues”? I seem to recall…
Demo –
No offense taken – use it. I say AMEN. There is nothing scarier to me than a State Religion, State Prayer, State whatever because it harks back to some very bad historical events in our history. What is scaring me is WHERE ARE OUR VETERANS FROM WWII – i know they are getting quite old – my dad was a Korean War Vet and he’s mid-70’s, but we need those voices of people who fought facism and Nazi states.
WHERE IS AL GORE?
WHERE ARE THE CLINTONS?
WHERE IS OPRAH?
WHERE ARE ALL THOSE MOVIE STARS AND THEIR MONEY TO DO THE “PRIVATE CITIZENS FOR…” BARACK OBAMA ADS?
The only people I hear standing up strong against this machine are Bill Mahr (who got questioned for the first time I think last night about being too harsh on a candidate), Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert and Olberman. Remember police states? These smart, smart thinkers are billed as “comedians” – Nazi’s can turn them into a buffoon, a shrill, a clown. We have to be careful, and we need others than our smart, sharp entertainers to be up front and center speaking up. WHERE ARE THEY?
McCain uses “lipstick on a pig” line on Hillary
http://twovoters.com/
Please check out these videos and pass around. This is a duo of two older men who put these ads together for Obama outside of the Obama campaign. I think the ads are very hard hitting against Mccain. Please pass them around.
Good Morning Mudpals! My husband is getting jealous…he asked if I was going to leave him for a mudflatter;). One other quick one before I get to my point…Diva, would love to connect your FL relations with my FIL. He might listen to someone in his “demo” versus the “liberal” DIL.
Okay, I finally got to copy what I put up on ADN yesterday but I think it is still a good talking point:
Regarding “Questions for Palin”, I would like to put all this in the most simple terms so here it goes:
If The United States was looked at as a Corporation with 51 sub-companies, the American people would be the Board. The Board is in charge of Hiring/Electing the CEO and CFO. Before anyone is given thess very critical positions there would be a very thorough interview process. References would be checked and re-checked. Any questionable rumours would be scrutinized before this person was “hired”. Can you imagine interviewing for an executive position, or really any position for that matter, and telling the interviewer “I will answer questions when I am ready and when you show me deference”? I think you would be laughed right out the door and never considered again. The interviewer(s) has/have every right to ask questions that are relevant to the job because it will have an effect of the company’s future, financial and otherwise, if this person is given the job. Let’s get real people, Ms. Palin has applied for the 2nd highest job at our company! I do care what her thoughts are on aspects that directly affect our “employees”, “stockholders”, “customers”, “competitors”, et al. I have every right to ask questions as does the other Board members whether you like them or not. When you are asking me to give you one of the most important positions in the “company” I must think of the “company” first. That includes questions of judgement, priorities, and the applicant’s ability to handle challenges. Our “company” is in trouble and we need a strong “team” to fix it. The future of the “company” depends on this critical decision. The Board cannot just depend on what is stated on the resume… I mean how many times have people “stretched” the truth on those? So I am sorry if some folks are upset that I want answers but as a Federal tax payer I have the right to ask them. This is our “Company” and it is our obligation to make sure whomever is chosen for these critical positions are the best we can find. We have already made the mistake of believing the resume and look where that got us. All I ask is for everyone to think of this in these terms and I hope you might understand why I want to know if what is on the resume is real or not. Any CEO, CFO etc candidate would be given the same treatment, whether they were a man or woman. And they certainly would not be asking for “deference”.
Something weird going on w/ Andrew Sullivan over at his Atlantic Mag blog. He’d been covering the Palin story hard for the last week. He disappeared for a couple days , left a cryptic quote in German from Wittgenstein about “things left unsaid”. Today he just ran a surreal tribute to heroic anti-abortion Sarah and her baby with Down’s. This is a 180 degree turn from what he’d been writing.It is bizarre, like the body snatchers left a pod next to his bed. His blog takes no comments, so there is no way for anyone to post and ask what happened. Pressure being applied?
Diva — love to see that one in an Obama add today ,, this should be sent to everyone possible right now …
Thanks for all of the fundie/rapture links. I will read up today. For a while now I have been thinking, ‘What’s up with Sen. Lieberman?’ I still think that, but it’s a bit clearer.
Hitler has been reborn as Obama? What? These people are truly unhinged. What are they afraid of? The future? Well join the party. But the answer is not to retreat into your own ideology but to look at the world for its possibilities, people and for the wonderful variety thereof.
We are no doubt in Orwellian/Handmaid’s Tale territory. I wonder what the Obama campaign’s ‘what if’ scenarios are. I lived in GA during the 2000 election and I have to say Gov. Plain reminds me of Katherine Harris. If it goes to the Supremes, we are in trouble. That deck is pretty well stacked.
Going to make some more calls and find out what I can about the ‘Truth Squad.’
Obama is live on MSNBC talking about education and laying out his plan. He’s just brilliant when he takes that approach. He looks confident and actually knows what he’s talking about unlike some who have been reading the same speech (with no substance) for over 10 days now. Let’s not get distracted folks.
Go to https://donate.barackobama.com/page/content/splashsignupcky/ and donate. Get involved.
Cynthia, TX WOW thanks! I’ve only watched one of the vids and I’m already making downloads (my in-laws are computerphobes) and emails! THANK YOU and Mudflatliners keep up the good work!
swineprincess, these guys are like 527’s but not affilated with the Obama campaign at all. I heard them speak on radio this morning. I believe they took out a full page ad in this weeks Newsweek or maybe it’s next week.
Proud2BUSA: Agreed! Where are the Clintons?!?! I think Bill Clinton is set to meet up with Obama and McCain at the Columbia U. conference on education, but that’s all I’ve heard. What about the celebs? That’s what I was saying yesterday, what would Vanity Fair do? This is the ‘Truthiness Squad’ I am talking about.
If the powers that be in the Democratic Party dysfunctionally let Obama/Biden twist in the wind, for shame! Then we deserve what we get.
AKMuckraker: Still planning on that town meeting on the 15th. I want to see the transcripts.
Stop the hand-wringing for chrissakes.
Jefferson hired a scandalmonger to ruin Adam’s reputation–while he was Vice President. He labelled Adams a “hoary incendiary”. The scandalmonger went to jail but the uproar over his imprisonment swept Jefferson into the White House.
These attacks are part of American politics. Get your hands dirty or join Second Life and do something different with your online time.
Also, hello? Palin hit a line drive for American women in politics. Stop running all over the field pretending the sun is in your eyes. Catch the ball and hurl it home, baby.
She’s a savvy politician who has captured the fancy of many conservative voters. She is also sex on a podium and Biden will turn into a blithering idiot in the debates. Steel yourselves for that.
More power to her.
Now, with the help of The National Enquirer (fingers crossed) and the legions of bored reporters in Alaska, let’s get down to the messy business of toppling her off her pedestal.
“Truth Squad” – Such a friendly sounding name for a group
Kind of like Death Squad or Firing Squad
Of course no one bothers to point out that the reason for this idiotic facisist sounding bunko group is because our own Sweet Sarah – candidate for the VP of the United States of America is not allowed to have a thought of her own or is completely incapable of an saying anything in public unless she is reading it from a teleprompter and therefore needs a whole squad of ‘truthsayers’ to tell us what the ‘real’ truth is.
I clicked on the Newsweek article last night to read a link someone posted here and ended up reading
The Real Sarah
It was pretty pro Sarah but the last page really just drove home to me how woefully unqualified this women is be even considered for the VP OTUS.
Congrats on the HuffPo cross-post! I’m very happy for you.
Diane Rehm, on her NPR Show just offered the Mike to Palin in a discussion about the Media and Palin:
Now the show just ended so the audio feed isn’t up yet, probably in a couple of hours.
If anyone wants to listen you can visit the link above than, but you might want to listen especially to Heather Higgins comments, of which she spun Diane’s offer away, her other attempts are just mind boggleing, she Hasn’t A Clue That Elections Are About The People And Their Right To Know, as one caller tried to point out, to Heather it’s Just controlling the Message for the Media, Damn The People!!!!!
I posted this really late last night so thought I should repost for the morning crowd. I am making my call right now and hope others take up my challenge to question the “Truth Squad”.
My husband is going to call the office of his fine Repub representative to ask why she has left her constituency during hurricane season to spend time in Alaska? “Are the needs of the McCain campaign more important that the duties you were elected to perform on behalf all residents regardless of party afffiliation?” Our tax dollars pay her salary and I am a Democrat. I think we should all call the current Representatives on the list and ask the same question of each of them. We, the People, pay their salaries and provide them health care….not John McCain!
White Agate:
Now that we understand the link between Lieberman, Rove and the “fundie’s” as you call them, although there is NOTHING FUN about these people, when I went back and played the link that was posted this AM:
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39179-mccain-s-youtube-problem-just-became-a-nightmare
It’s so telling! What Lieberman whisper in McCain’s ear what to say about Iran training terrorists! WOW!!!!
“KILL BABY KILL” followed by these videos:
If you want some hard hitting ads, all we need to do is go for the aerial wolf and bear hunting. EVERY SINGLE PERSON who saw these videos recoiled in horror. Of course we stay on the economy, but folks, nothing will stain the brain as much as saying what they mean is “kill baby kill” in response to drill baby drill.
Let’s make them viral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JVnPcrXr28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArYAQBZ0W0o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e5PxXtc9VM
She wanted a $150 bounty for the foreleg of a dead wolf.
http://www.salon.com/env/featu…..in_wolves/
Sept. 8, 2008 | Wildlife activists thought they had seen the worst