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Alaska (600,000+ people) represents 00.22% of the American population.
Wyoming (home of V.P. Dick Cheney) represents 00.17% of the American population.
Ironic?
I can't wait for the V.P and Presidential debates.
For goodness sake, can we have an exchange of ideas and proposals?
Can anyone defend with a straight face (aside from we've avoided another 9/11) the condition our country is in?
Is the current condition the fault of:
The "liberal" mainstream media?
The Democrats?
Ivy League graduates?
Too many "big government" regulations on Wall Street?
Too many "big government" regulations on mortgage bankers?
The oil companies and their record profits?
Please enlighten us without saying "surge" and "mavericks."
Looking so forward to the candidate debates.
Would the majority of these postings ever be uttered in face-to-face settings? Curious.
Mike M, the double standards you pointed out are hard to ignore... Good points, all. Maybe here are two more...
White privilege is owning more than half a dozen homes and not being considered a member of the elite class, while owning a single home as a black family in the South Side of Chicago can only be due to questionable insider political ties and speaks to your uppity, celebrity-fueled persona.
White privilege is wearing, as a model of success, a designer outfit and jewelry worth more than a quarter million dollars to the Republican National Convention as the wife of a candidate, while earning an Ivy League degree as a black woman and working as an executive for a major hospital is only due to affirmative action, not hard work and sacrifice.
*BTW, I'm a white, male married father of two daughters who attend public schools. Homeowner, taxpayer, public university graduate. Centrist progressive. Heavily traveled throughout Asia and Europe, and nearly all 50 U.S. states. Probably has made me close-minded, I know.
Wonder how factcheck.org will evaluate this. Goes much deeper than a 30-second TV spot. Check it out.
http://www.mclobbyist.com/
Anyone wondering about McCain's position on preemptive strikes and use of military, read this article in the Atlantic.
Is this highly decorated and devoted public servant looking to overcome memories of defeat in Vietnam the way the elder Bush is said to have supported Iraq involvement because an "evil doer" had WMDs that never materialized.
Is supporting a war in the wrong place just to "win" truly the right thing to do?
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200810/mccain
A Pastor urges his flock not to talk to a reporter. Cool. Didn't this nation's founders come here to escape religious persecution, worship freely and say what they want under what would come to be called the First Amendment?
This 1996 article was published by the local Wasilla newspaper when the conversations of library book censorship arose. No book titles mentioned. But decide for yourself if questions were asked in "the context of professionalism." Is it coincidence that an elected official supported by local churches would immediately be asking a librarian after election about censorship of material? And remember, this was before the Web changed everything and pushed libraries near the bottom of any cultural battleground for free speech.
http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2008/09/10/breaking_news/doc48c1c8a60d6d9379155484.txt
Anyone ever been to Wasilla, Alaska? Google the town's name and the word "churches." You'll see more than 700 of them appear across the map, click after click. This for a town with a population around 10,000, while Anchorage, the largest city in the state, has just under 900 churches for more than 250,000 people (same Google query).
Am I against churches? Hardly.
But the ratio is telling. It shows how to get elected in Wasilla and beyond in a state with fewer than 700,000 people. You appeal to church-folk and introduce cultural wedge issues like abortion and gun control in a city election. You add a dash of fiscal conservatism once elected. Then you eat one of your own party leaders after you've used him and pulled in nice federal earmark dollars for the home voting crowd. You keep the minor-league Alaska news media smitten with your reformist image (hire them, too, as part of your PR team). You leverage into a statewide platform where the Republican party is king and will back you financially. (Check public election finance records.)
Then you don't blink when an aging Arizona U.S. Senator comes calling who needs the to shore up and energize his party's base. Last, you try to avoid the liberal media hell-bent on twisting the truth about your depth and record so they can support an opponent who is uppity and untested.
Only in America.
Small towns aren't the backbone of America. They are small towns.
Below is a link to the issues agenda heavily supported by religious activists. If you weld it to fiscal conservatism do you get an extremely energized base?
Are these the issues holding back our economy, keeping us from victory in Iraq, fueling our our diminished standing in the world?
http://www.afa.net/issues/
Has anyone here ever met an African American Hockey Mom?
Anyone?
The National Hockey League has a grand total of 13 African American players among its 650+ players, according to a ESPN feature earlier this year on race and professional hockey.
Is it any coincidence that "Hockey Mom" is now part of the political vocabulary, and it was popularized by Republicans campaign handlers?
Remember the hand-painted "Hockey Moms For Palin" signs at the RNC that were created by RNC aides, not the Moms who waved them for the television cameras of the liberal media that then broadcast their images into 40 million homes?
Hockey Moms.
Zero political love -- or coined phrases -- for Basketball Moms. Or Football Moms. Heck, not even Baseball Moms, who support the sport as American as apple pie and Chevrolet.
Hockey Moms.
An demographic named for the sport most popular in Canada and other places such as Sweden, Denmark and Russia.
You can look it up.
Maybe next presidential election cycle.
Just wondering.
*BTW, I'm white and of European ancestry.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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