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Sometimes it is best to lay low and let someone hang themselves with their own words first. Let the honorable Governor of Alsksa speak without giving her anything to speak about and then attack as appropriate.
Her 'executive experience' is criminally actionable. Keep hammerin' home the investigation of revenge over public safety. It speaks directly to her experience in office and make no mention of her sex.
To criticize John McCain is to criticize the flag.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
ps. Obama's political instincts are proving to be excellent. It's scary sometimes, but I'm liking the way he holds off and doesn't do a lot of knee-jerk reaction to their shit...
The mainstream media has reached a tipping point, I think. The stakes are way too high now and I see traces of reality-based talking-heads getting more airtime. We don't watch FOX, though.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/CA6592163.html
They should stick to questions like how to gut and clean a moose.
:)
She's not making Pregnant Bristol hold the baby!!!
Nah, Sarah wasn't hiding Bristol's belly.
He should try in 60 days to articulate that voters that while there's a desire to elect a female to a higher office, Hillary Clinton had the experience to be commander-in-chief. Sarah Palin clearly doesn't.
Hillary didn't gain the nomination due to previous exposure. She wasn't trusted based on her previous issues in the clinton administration. But she is an attorney, a senator and was in the oval office for eight years. Considerable experience.
Sarah Palin is not someone to make light of but a person who's governed a state for 500 days with a population above Vermont and Wyoming. By truly looking at her voting record, not a republican fact sheet, clearly shows a pattern of poor decision making and inexperience.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/3/8333...
Obama should stay clear of this, exactly as he has been doing. People need to trust Obama.
I thought that was supposed to stop with Tom DeLay and Abramoff forcing abortions in the Mariana Islands.
Remember would they would take their contributors there to rape the children?
Ask GOOGLE about it.
There's just something about children having sex that the GOP can't even pretend to hate.
McCain is not even a Decider
I think people should also start demanding NOW just who John McCain is going to pick for his cabinet. Sarah Palin does not have the experience to run the country if john McCain were to die or what if he had a stroke and were incapacitated 2 months into office.
We the people should know who will run the country.
I think we have the right to ask him that. OR we will be stuck with a puppet/shadow government with Palin smiling away while God know who else runs the country. James Dobson? Big Oil?
This is the game the GOP is playing right now. THEY are the ones who released the information about Palin's kid. THEY are the ones that keep bringing up the "mommy works" issues. THEY are the ones promoting the abortion issues.
Notice how this game is played. Almost every Republican today has said in one matter or another that the press, the Dems, and the internet are blasting Palin on those issues. Really, I haven't seen one story on the blogs I read that have had an article about Palin's fitness as a mother. As for as the 17 year old, McCain's campaign put out that information and mostly people seem to be sympathetic to the plight of this 17 year old.
We are collectively being played again! The Republicans are figuring to gain a whole lot of empathy for Palin by blaming EVERYONE for all those anti mom stories YET the only ones making it an issue are the Republicans. Let's see if some bright reporter asks for specifics, asks for the name of the blogs and asks which news agency has written articles on Palin's fitness as a mother.
the McCain campaign keeps bringing up the "sticky" issues and then blames the press or the blogs or anyone else for dirty politics. I swear I'm really beginning to think that Palin is mother of that youngest child....because Steve Schmidt keeps bringing it up, for one thing...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/212778.php
John McCain is too LAZY to be president.
Although, I do agree with Randi Rhodes: the VP pick is a crazy choice, but it makes perfect sense. The republicans have a history of putting incompetent people in important positions (think "Brownie", or think "Bush"). The strategy is to wait for the results of their choice to wreak havoc and create fear and confusion. This is what they want. Why?
1) Because they thrive off of chaos, disaster, failure. It is the only environment where they can push through their goal of privatizing everything -- literally, everything!
2) They can't push through their social agenda (which is aimed at controlling people and weakening their freedoms) unless things are grim and the social safety net is weak. Happy, satisfied people are not scared people. They want us unhappy and fearful -- and angry at each other.
3) An incompetent person put in charge of an important aspect of government makes a perfect puppet. They LOVE puppets! They NEED their puppets! And, the more corrupt the puppet the better. They seek out the corrupted and unethical so they can use blackmail to control them. They couldn't care less about the public image this creates -- they control that quite well since the "news has been cancelled", as Randi likes to say.
4) They wanted someone who wouldn't mess with what the neocons have planned for our country and world. They want somone ignorant who will nod their heads and say "sounds good".
5) All their other choices were people with experience, real opinions, and some independent thinking. That is the last thing they want. Also, folks like Leiberman have lots of enemies within the party. Palin? She has no enemies, since no one knows her.
6) Corrupted, heavy handed, ignorant folks like Palin make BIG and BAD and DANGEROUS decisions as easily as they decide what to have for dinner. Look at Bush and Iraq. The neocons put their plan into action by using these easily controlled idiots like Palin.
7) She is totally anti-environment in Alaska. Read: take my oil, leave a mess. I don't care. Whoo-hoo! Bonus points for the neocons.
I still think they really stepped in it and made a huge tactical error. I think this will cost them many, many votes. I think they have lost control of the Palin story and have lost control of ther message. However, in a twisted, sick way the choice does make some sense.
Why has it taken John McCain 30 years in Congress to want to be a reformer? At any given time during the past 30 years he could have bucked system, been a reformer, been a true maverick. If he was not running for president, would he be known as a reformer?
The New Republican Party
The Republicans are openly embracing underage out-of-wedlock pregnancy and Sarah's policy of denying proper sex education to kids will ensure that many American families get to undergo the joy that she is currently experiencing?????? Let's not focus on weird Pastors who think Iraq and 9-11 are is God's gift to America. Rather let's focus on a HUSBAND who promotes an animus of the United States and wishes Alaska weren't any part of it.
If the Republicans are yelling "It's off limits" then you better redouble your efforts to examine it.
Enjoy.
This is truly a job for Hillary. Hillary attacking her in the way described above would be far more effective than Obama's critiques. Obama has everything to lose here.