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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
this election is about issues, not personalities. Democrats who waste time on Palin are doing the bidding of the Republicans.
It is fatuously self-indulgent to spill ink over Palin. McCain would be dangerous in office. Roe v. Wade is history if he is elected. The economy is heading into a recession that will last 12 to 18 months. The real unemployment rate is around 14%. The consumer is shopped out, debt laden and uninsured, all so that a few rich people can get richer.
McCain would increase the likelihood of a terminal nuclear war by following the Bush administration's steadfast determination to antagonize Russia, install destabilizing missile systems in Russia's backyard and reverse decades of arms limitation talks in favor of a new arms race.
Add to that the Republican contempt for science, which includes hostility to stem cell research, evolution (not a matter of scientific debate at the level of molecular biology), and climate research.
I have omitted the assault on civil liberties such as the freedom of assembly.
No one has offered a convincing argument that Palin-tology deserves more than a fraction of the attention it currently receives.
The irony of the Palin selection is that it was timed to minimize the post convention bounce of Obama - but it now appears it will be the Republican Convention that gets overshadowed by the selection.
When asked if she believes she'd be ready to step in as president if something were to happen to McCain, Palin's response was, "Yup, yup."
I don't know about you, but for me that sure inspires confidence in her abilities.
First, McCain's judgement is called into question. From most accounts he wanted to go with Lieberman, but caved under pressure from the right.
Second, he went along with releasing info about Palin in a piecemeal fashion, as a response to rumors (?) about the parentage of little Trig.
Third, the campaign is placing a weird emphasis on Cindy's work with adoptions. They trotted out an adoptive father tonight, with his adoring adopted daughter at his side.
Fourth, Palin is serving as a shield and smokescreen for McCain's positions, or lack thereof.
Fifth, the Republican platform committee today approved a plank BANNING abortion, in ALL CASES.
This election is taking on an importance that, honestly, I didn't think it had before. A McCain victory might possibly turn the country over to far right radicals in a way that seemed impossible six months ago.
How great it is to be a "Christian" Conservative. You get to be pious and intolerant, to rant and rave about the immoral and degenerate Liberals, Homo's and minorities. However, when they screw up they just declare that God forgives them and move on to the next target. Forgiveness is always reserved for the chosen few.
How many times have we heard them complain about unwed minority mothers or the importance of teaching "abstinence" to children. Republicans use every lie and smear in the book to attack anyone who stands in their way. There is absolutely nothing wrong with smacking them in the face with the truth.
..about just what in fact Palin-tology in plain words stands for.
Because from where I'm standing, it all seems to be about backwardness.
Miss Palin is hardly an unknown. More than 60 million Americans have read her story. Tim LaHaye reportedly based his heroine in the best selling "Left Behind" series on the trials and tribulations of Miss Palin's own life.
It's been what, four days and already I'm sick of hearing about her. Flat out exhausted. Maybe that was McCain's intention. Pick someone who has so many troubling stories that after awhile people will just cry uncle and say "fine, whatever."
I need a nap.
You are good.
My area of concern is that 17 and 18 are tender ages. Really these people are still children. And I would utterly respect the Palin's request for privacy for their children. That is why I am so shocked that despite pleas for privacy these young people are being rather brutally thrust into the campaign spotlight as though they were nothing more than props for Bristol's mother's ambitions.
Of course I approve of women pursuing their goals, but in that pursuit it is important that their children's own needs and choices are not tragically taken from them. After all, one never gets childhood back again and that is why it should never be hurried by the callous demands of politics. That is what I worry is happening with Bristol and Levi now.
You should've mentioned that Tucker Eskew isn't just any Bush strategist...he was one of Bush's top men in South Carolina during the 2000 Primary - you remember that one right? The one where Bush's team started spreading the rumour that McCain had an illegitimate black child?
Remember now?
I guess when McCain said that there was a special place in hell for those people, he was talking about his own campaign.
Think about that for a moment...he has now hired the very same man who slimed him so mercilessly 8 years ago. McCain may have been a moral man at one time, but he most certainly is not anymore.
So, the goal of the Republican convention is to convince America that McCain didn't just pick a really bad VP candidate? Who dreamed that one up? Watching the conservatives try to "rally" behind her is amusing, but also pretty pathetic.
I do have to say to the republican party- You are one of the two main political parties in this nation. You have a responsibility to put competent people on your ticket. You keep putting incompetent morons into positions of power, and it is dragging the US down the tubes. The dems have been running terrible campaigns, but Gore would never have invaded Iraq.
This is awesome. No one else wanted to fall on that sword so they picked a lunatic who doesn't care. In fact Palin probably thinks this is all GOOD! Watching the GOP is like imagining what the 911 pilots were screaming into the mike right before they hit the towers.
I saw the CNN folks reassuring Campbell Brown that she was not too tough on that Tucker fellow from McCain's campaign. WTF? He couldn't provide a single example of a decision Palin had made regarding Alaska National Guard (ANG) deployments, but tried to assert that just the fact that she is a governor means she had made decisions regarding the ANG that imbued her with military decision-making capabilities!?! Total bullsh!t. Governors aren't managing anything about their respective states' national guard units wrt their duties in Iraq or Afghanistan.
So when the spin doctors can't even field an obvious question, it is the press' fault! And to punish them for asking hard questions, McCain cancels his interview. F*ing candyass wants to be handled with kid gloves. I thought he was supossed to be some kind of POW tough guy who was ready to protect us and go toe-to-toe with scary people in the world. NOT! He is scared of reporters.
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 survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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