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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
There are a number of people around the internet claiming "I'm a democrat" then giving the GOP and McCain a glowing review. These people are clearly GOPers trying to sway independents. GOP meeting have long encourage people to write "letters to the editor" claiming to be "former democrats" or "independents."
Your frauds.
John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as Vice-President raises a number of questions:
John McCain is the oldest nominee in history for the office of President. While doctors from the Mayo Clinic say that he is reasonably healthy for his age, he is more likely to experience health problems than a fit male who is 20 years younger. That is why his pick of Sarah Palin truly matters. Is SHE presidential material?
Sarah Palin is being praised because she knowingly decided to give birth to a child, four and a half months ago, who has Down Syndrome. Her son, Trig, is classified as a special needs child. But apparently such a child who at this critical, formative stage in his development, may have a special need for an attentive mother, is not going to have that need fulfilled. His mother is off running as a Republican Vice-President and she is receiving praise for being a “pro-life” politician. Is this the best that a truly loving mother can do? Abandon her child to others, while she pursues a political career?
Sarah Palin, we are told, opposes sex education in public schools. Apparently she did not do a first-rate job of sex education in private either. Her 17-year-old daughter is now an unwed mother-to-be. This dubious achievement is now being hailed by social conservatives as proving, once again, how “pro-life” the Palins are. Bristol’s boyfriend, Levi Johnson, used to have a YouTube page in which he reportedly said he did not want to have children and described himself as “a f**king redneck”. (The website recently disappeared).
One reasonable question would be: has this young couple been “bought off” for political reasons? (Along the lines of John Edwards’ mistress receiving a great deal of money to keep scandal at bay.) Someone should look into the possibility at least. The Republicans have a lot riding on protecting McCain’s reputation during a close election race.
Time will tell how long this teenage romance will last… but those who run McCain’s campaign care that the marriage looks as respectable as a shotgun wedding ever can and that it endures until the election has taken place
No one who was in favor of voting for Hillary Clinton could possibly think of Sarah Palin as an equivalent, simply because she is a woman. Whatever McCain’s reasons for choosing her as a running mate, he should not mind if the national press vets Palin for a second time, assuming she has nothing to hide.
First, her daughter's teenage pregnancy plays well to the religous right, which is very displeased with John McCain in general. It was probably a plus, in the minds of McCain's handlers (Rove & Co.).
Second, she has an unblemished record of diehard support for fossil fuel interests - all the talk of her being a "reformer" is ridiculous. Even her husband is an employee of British Petroleum, who stands to make billions off the Transcanada deal that Palin brokered.
For example:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a bill authorizing the state to award a license to TransCanada Corp. to start developing a natural gas pipeline. Palin signed the bill on Wednesday in Anchorage, and expects the license to be issued within three months. The license allows TransCanada to move forward with plans to develop the 1,715-mile (2,760-kilometer) pipeline from a treatment plant at Prudhoe Bay to the Alberta hub.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/28/business/NA-US-Alaska-Gas-Pipeline.php
That's for development of the highly polluting Alberta tar sands projects.
Or this one:
Washington Post, Aug 31, 2008The American Petroleum Institute and four other business groups filed suit Thursday against Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director H. Dale Hall, joining Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's administration in trying to reverse the listing of the polar bear as a threatened species.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/30/AR2008083001538.html
Similarly, she worked hand in hand with Randall Luthi of the Minerals Management Service, (Cheney's ex-aide from Wyoming) to get the Chukchi sea oil drilling lease sales pushed through. Here is what Palin has to say on that issue:
"There are even bigger sources of crude than ANWR . . . such as offshore areas like the Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea. Congress can help us with those areas right now, bringing even more energy than ANWR and bringing it quicker." - Sarah Palin
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/02/america/Arctic-Ocean-Drilling.php?src=QHA089
She also claims global warming is has nothing to do with the use of fossil fuels.
All in all, her energy future outlook is identical to the Cheney program. Still, the right-wing blogosphere is vigorously denying she is involved with oil, though. This is pretty funny reading (linked):
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/sarah_palin_is_no_tool_of_big.html
Since nobody responded to you, the "yup yup" thing is from the interview she just gave to People Magazine a few days ago. You can bet the gloves came off for that one.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20222685_1,00.html
Wow. You did it. I'm speechless.
Thanks. That was awesome of you. Seriously.
Good hearing from you as well. And I agree, I think Obama does have a handle on this. My only concern is that the wave of good people supporting him may not yet realize there is this mythos/logos thing going on, and there's so much that could be done to really sweep the craziness out once and for all. I mean, it can't get much crazier than it has (can it???).
Thanks for the lift. It's time for a new story. We ought to be the ones writing it this time.
Carry on!
yup, yup...
I feel sorry for Britol. I would not be surprised, if she felt her parents were not paying attention to her and her sisters. Her older brother is going to Iraq, and one can assume her parents were concerned. Then her parents have a down syndrome baby. A child who needs special care. So she turns to her boyfriend. So now she is having a baby. Her mom is off campaigning, she is suppose to help care for the baby brother. Plus, in my opinion, the boyfriend doesn't seem that great. She has to get married, stop her plans for her future. I think she caught in a bind. When the rightwingers say she is so great for keeping the baby, I wish they would say the best thing would be to put the baby up for adoption.
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