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Thanks John for taking the lead on this!
Just me but I think it would be more positive to show a total picture of Palin being cold and unfeeling while Biden has been a champion.
Biden has a long record of working to do good things for women, and Palin is 100% anti-woman but has a vagina. We can certainly see how this is a tough judgment call.
And in appreciation, a donation coming your way.
Come on 527s!
(female actor/narrator)
Joe Biden stood up for women and authored the Violence Against Women Act. He calls it "the single most significant legislation that I’ve crafted in my 35 years."
And Sarah Palin? As Mayor of Wasilla, she required rape victims to pay hundreds of dollars for their own evidence-gathering rape examinations.
How out of touch is Sarah Palin? The AK legislature had to pass a bill making it illegal for Sarah Palin to charge rape victims.
Sarah Palin: Wrong for women, wrong for America.
(This doesn't even get into the fact that Palin would force these women to keep any offspring, or that the McCain camp implicitly wants to do nothing to stop child molesters by being against teaching "Stranger Danger" and good touch/bad touch to kids, based on their outrageous Obama attach ad)
(Also, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Dem from Illinois brought up the topic in a Huff Post column, but this needs to get beyond liberal sites).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvpFUYTViLw
Maybe they'd be willing to tackle the Rape Kit issue?
has the Obama campaign produced a response to McCain on this?
where is Obama on this???
"A Palin spokesperson, contacted by USA Today, said the governor "does not believe, nor has she ever believed, that rape victims should have to pay for an evidence-gathering test."'
So some journalist who still has their testicles needs to ask her is that in effect saying that if said 'evidence gathering kit' is free of pills that will abort the zygote or make the uterine wall inhospitable to it then that is okay with her, and is it the prescense of said pills in the kit that she has a problem with?
Because she sure did something she didn't believe in by making people pay for those kits, and I bet that deferral is fundie-speak for her wielding her influence her.
According to this article, she had a direct role in making victims pay for the rape kits.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-alperinsher...
TAKING THE HIGH ROAD GOT US INTO 2 TERMS OF BUSHCO POLICY, WE CANT AFFORD ANYMORE. ITS TIME TO HIT BACK, HIT THE ISSUES AND HIT HARD OBAMA... JESUS CHRIST DON'T PULL THIS HIGH ROAD BULLSHIT AND LOSE US ANOTHER TERM!!!
...thank you and have a great day.
McCain/Palin have been lying about the crowds they've been pulling to their rallies.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070...
to borrow a phrase from A. Sullivan; when they're not lying they're bullshitting.
Scrutinize her beauty-pageant answers to Gibson--again. Every single answer sounds warlike, over-confident about her own "knowledge" and totally ignorant.
Once they have a complete package on this, they MUST let loose on the press this coming week relentlessly. It has nothing at all to do with abortion, etc,. and they should not let anyone tell them this.
Pictures, video should be helpful. Get an actual kit so they can show what's actually in it. Find news clips. It's all out there.
I would like to think it is not a womens issue, it is a human issue. Thank you John A., who is a REAL MAN, for pushing on this.
That said, and I hate to be a concern troll, but Obama doesn't seem to understand what he's going up against. It's like he never saw what happened to Gore or Kerry. First it was, don't worry about the national polls, it's the state polls that count. Now with him behind in the state polls, they're saying don't worry about the state polls, it's the ground game. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the Obama camp said, it's not about this election it's about the next one....
I am sure that municipal law enforcement, like any other trade, has its trade journals, and that in them there can be found articles about "best practices" or tales of how "what one city did to solve more rape cases", etc. Someone, please, do a journal search so that we can confront Palin with her hand-picked top law-enforcement officer deliberately moving against the advice of his profession and implementing a policy he knew would result in fewer successful prosecutions for one of the most horrific crimes. Then Palin herself literally signs off on his decision. This is a 2-hour job for a smart intern with LexisNexis, and when its the national association of chiefs of police saying that Wasilla's practices lead to more crime, not some dirty damn hippies. it WILL get some press.
Thanks for doing this!
Oh, and also thanks for the comic relief. Love the batman photo! :-)
They're anti-abortion and anti-female, plain and simple,because they believe women should stay pregnant in spite of their situation and furthermore, after a baby IS born, the rightwingers want nothing to do with it. You're on your own totally if you follow their ideology. Bait and switch experts...
Their philosophy is obviously the old Harry Truman policy "it you can beat 'em then confuse the hell out of them"
I'm hoing the debates bring out the real differences, but I'm not too hopeful, the way the beauty contestant answered Gibson and the Rethugs got away with covering up her ignorance on the pundits' shows...
They are now and have been for years doing the heavy lifting for the GOP. Quit giving them the benefit of the doubt, they don't deserve it. And they aren't going to change, they are doing what they are being paid to do. We need a way to break them.
This is disheartening. Chuck Todd, MSNBC, has pretty much just said the Republicans are going to win. They know how to keep the focus on Palin. Notice he didn't tread into the area of lies, just that Republicans are good at retaining the focus. I am not sure if Obama can get past the Republican lies unless he gets down and dirty. Sure he beat Hillary but she is no GOP slime machine. Repubs know how to win on nothing more than slime.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26676452/
I also don't understand why they're not hitting him harder on the anti-choice issue. They had a radio ad out a while back -- after Palin, nothing?
I agree about Clinton... Palin wouldn't have been chosen if Clinton had been picked and that LOW INFORMATION 19% of voters who are still "undecided" would have split in favor of Obama / Clinton. It would have been a LOT easier. Biden needs to start doing his attack dog job. Otherwise, he needs to step aside and let Clinton join the ticket. I'm sure Hillary would get a lot more tough than, "McCain is my best, honorable friend" Joe Biden. I've been REAL disappointed in his performance.
That's not femism. That's just the opposite.
He said the important number is 43% of the voters are solid McCain and 39% are solid Obama and the other 18% hold the election in their hands. Now I have an interesting question. It is obvious that something is bothering these people about each candidate. When they get in the voting booth will they be afraid to vote for the black man or will they be afraid to vote for the lunatics? This election is not lost and it will come down to the last day. More Malox please!
But, until then, GO ELEANOR! ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY! ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY!
I'm a woman, I'm deeply offended at the rape kit info, but I also know if it comes out that A LOT of towns and cities either have victims, women's groups, non-profit groups, anyone but the municipality pay for it, then we will look like hysterical idiots. The Obama campaign has other fish to fry right now, and let's all agree - this is the candidate who vanquished the Clinton machine. Patience!
I am SO SORRY you were a victim!
I will REMEMBER YOU and resolve to fight even harder on behalf of our A-blogger friend!
It may be time to do the same thing over again...the same issues are still around, so it seems.
She was IN CHARGE of Wasilla and forcing women to pay for the "rape kit" and Alaska had to pass a LAW to defend victimized women because of Palin's radical beliefs. This is a great line of attack, and I believe we should exploit it! I will not breath easy until a Democrat takes the oath of office. The last two elections have been a disaster for our country. Many of us can not "just relax" because we know Obama should win "in a walk" and we are seeing the same old pattern of Rovian politics and the Republican's exploitation of ignorance and fear.
I'll re-think responding to a post next time.
Check out Bob Cesca's blog. He has the right idea.
If we want this election to be about issues - including women's issues - let's turn this particular topic away from Sarah Palin as everywoman, and turn to the real issue of women's health, reproductive rights, and - perhaps most compellingly - victim's rights.
McCain / Palin has made the Rovian decision to LIE their ASSES off. They don't care what the issue is they know they won't win if they tell the truth. They are rationalizing it with the idea they would "govern us better." Its the "end justifies the means" crap we've lived with for the past eight years. For instance, the American public was lied to about the Iraq War with the Bu$h Admin thinking, "They can't handle the truth, and we know better..." Well, we see how all that worked out! Its time for the media and journalists to do their job and stop this shit. The very least we can expect is to have honest leaders who tell us THE TRUTH. WE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH!
I also don't understand why the campaign isn't hitting them harder on the choice issue. A while back they had a radio ad that took it on squarely but now, nothing? It's even more important now!
Sarah Palin's police chief began to charge rape victims for their own rape kits. Sarah Palin signed the budgets that allowed this to happen. The Alaska State Legislature had to step in to stop this despicable practice.
And it just so happens that part of a rape kit involves emergency contraception, something Sarah Palin is explicitly against.
Paging Eleanor Smeal, indeed. McCain should just wave goodbye to all the women that flocked to him after the convention. This trumps Rape Gurney Joe by an order of magnitude.
The Obama Campaign won't waste this golden opportunity. But, it will wait for the right moment to run with this.
Look at how the Obama Campaign is nailing the McCain camp to the wall on the lying. Had it done that a week or two earlier, the MSM and people paying attention might have found that the Obama Campaign was overreacting and being unfair to McCain. By waiting, it's a lot harder to criticize the Obama Campaign for calling McCain and Palin liars.
Do you want the rape-kit story to get lost in the shuffle? Right now, the Obama Campaign has other narratives to run with (McCain is not a change agent & McCain/Palin are congenital liars).
Don't underestimate the value of message control. There are 52 days until the election. There is plenty of time to use this gem. If a 527 were to run with it now, the Obama campaign's narratives could get lost in the shuffle.
Just to add:
Birth control and high dose contraceptives are SEEN, by the radical anti-choice crowd, as abortofactants simply because they COULD expel the FERTILIZED ovum itself regardless of implantation. That's the whole reason they see birth control pills as evil.
This new information about the rape kits is about as frightening as it can get. What they HELL are Obama's people waiting for?!
"Maria Comella, a spokes-woman for the campaign of Palin and John McCain, said that Palin "does not believe, nor has she ever believed, that rape victims should have to pay for an evidence-gathering test."
She may be parsing by emphasising the "evidence-gathering" properties of the test, which Palin would support, as opposed to the feature in standard rape kit tests that allows choice in keeping a possibly fertilized egg or in stopping its further development. The latter she not support or want the public to pay for. Overall, this statement is still another big lie, told to the face of the AP reporter.
they were not! There were fucking pussies and they lost.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070...
Alaska has had a Violent Crime Compensation Board (VCCB) since 1971. Victims of violent crime can apply for compensation in case their other options have been exhausted.
http://www.state.ak.us/admin/vccb/faq_victims.s...
Illinois has one of these, too -- a Crime Victims Compensation Board (CVCB). It was started in 1973.
http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/victims/...
Righties are claiming that the Alaskan women could have received compensation from the VCCB for any expense Wasilla did not cover. And since Obama had to change the law to get the Illinois women to be compensated, Illinois was worse than Alaska.
I don't see that the VCCB actually did compensate for rape kits. Wasilla was the only community, it seems, that charged rape victims, and only under the Palin administration. When the Alaskan legislature finally forced Wasilla to provide the rape kits, the police chief complained that he did charge insurance when he could, and filed for the perpetrator to pay restitution otherwise. He DIDN'T mention the VCCB compensation in his homina-homina-homina, though.
So I don't think the VCCB did compensate for rape kits ever. And after the Alaska law was passed, making the municipalities pay, they wouldn't have had to. The Illinois CVCB does now, but only because Obama got the law changed.
Be careful out there.
http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/
On Tuesday, September 16, the Feminist Majority PAC, National Organization for Women PAC, Business and Professional Women/PAC, National Association of Social Workers PACE, National Congress of Black Women, and the Women's Information Network will make a decisive announcement regarding the 2008 presidential election.
What: Women’s rights groups make important announcement on the presidential election
When: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:30 pm
Where: National Press Club - Holeman Lounge, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
Who: Ellie Smeal, Feminist Majority PAC Chair
Kim Gandy, National Organization for Women PAC Chair
Deborah Frett, CEO of Business and Professional Women/PAC
Betsy Clark, NASW-PACE, Executive Director
E. Faye Williams, National Chair, National Congress of Black Women
Kristy Pagan, Chair, Women's Information Network
Video of the event will be posted approximately one hour after the event at the Feminist Majority PAC site