Friday, September 19, 2008
The Government bailed out Wall Street today...these traders made risky, greedy decisions and in the end the government saved them by pumping in billions of dollars. The party of SMALLER Government. It's so ironic how they cling to this laissez-faire/economy will fix itself, economic plan.... yet when it comes to helping the PEOPLE of America who were not greedy, maybe they just couldnt afford insurance because they had to buy groceries...well to give them socialized health care would be as Huckabee taunted "EUROPEAN" and wouldn't let the people have their essential freedoms...you know freedoms like...signing insurance forms before being treated for the heart attack you're having.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Are Americans Dumb? I hope not.
Anybody who believes that the Republicans can fix the mess they created
probably believes that the iceberg could have saved the Titanic."
-- Hillary, with a zinger and 'forgetting' to be polite, above all else,
So the polls have had McCain coming from behind and now show him in either a lead or dead heat...I really don't care about national polls but care mainly about the key swing states. Nonetheless, I have to say I'm really annoyed and bewildered how half of the population is considering a vote for Mcain/Palin.
Let's break things down plain and simple to you small towners (I am one!) who just don't get it!
*Those urbanites are not OUT to get you, they are not all liberal elite. Elite however would be defined by the Republican candidates. For example
1. John McCain doesn't know how many houses he has (I know one more he doesn't need!)
2. They are worth millions in net worth and eat dinners in one night you could never afford in three weeks. Giulani and Palin quickly criticized Obama and the media as liberal elite, but the taxpayers of Alaska paid for Sarah Palins $700 per night hotels in the liberal elite NYC, she cheated Alaskans out of money so she could get paid to work from home (isn't that a common complaint of stay at home mom's...you don't get paid for your work?) Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090803088_pf.html
These people live it up on dollars you will never see perhaps in your whole life and then turn around and tout small town values.
* Second, many voters say they just want a common person as president, someone like them or someone they can drink a beer with. I don't want someone like me to be the President or VP, I want them to be smarter than me, experienced and capable of deciding if indeed we should support Israel in the even of an attack by Iran. I want the President to know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite, Waziristan, Kurdistan, and Balochistan. I don't care if you are a Mom, Hunter, Jew or anything else if you arent capable of explaining to me how to stimulate the economy and lower gas prices then you are not worth my time of day.
*It does not make you"liberal and elite" to have an education. Barack Obama went to the top law school in the US and was head of the Harvard Law Review, thats not affirmative action and it means something, he's smart and thats worth something! Upon leaving Harvard he had offers and could have easily joined as a clerk for the Supreme Court or prestigious law firms in Boston and NYC, he declined and chose to go and help the poor people of South Side Chicago. After all Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King and Jesus were community organizers of the sort...Pontius Pilate was a governor.
McCain graduated 894th out of 899 of his graduating class. Yes he fought in a war and thats honorable, but it doesn't give you experience of how to run a country. If anything being a POW should make you realize how avoidable a situation like war should be...hence, going around sing Bom Bom Bom Bomb Iran doe's not seem very prudent. We have homeless POW's all over the major cities, does that give them a qualification to run for President. You can't run POW as experience...take POW away and you have a senator...hmm the same title as Mr. Obama, which the McCain camp (once again showing hypocrisy) says isn't sufficient experience.
*Republicans cannot claim sexism as a defense when it has been something the party has completely ignored since its existence. They dont stand for womens equality! In fact it was McCain who called Chelsea Clinton an ugly dog and lest we forget how many times we heard the B word used with Senator Clinton. Now all of a sudden if you ask if someone not experienced is experienced.....criticize her for not doing an interview with anyone for 2 weeks...criticize the validity of abstinence only education when her 17 year old daugher is pregnant..It's sexist...This is the party that thinks YOU small towners are so stupid that you really believe its okay for McCain to mention lipstick on a pig but Barack Obama doing so is Sexist. Please, must you prove them right? I know you small towners, you aren't this stupid...you're caring, nice and have common sense...Don't fall victims to such vicious political Rovian attacks!
9/11 happened under Republicans...No other similar event happened on US soil for over half a century..please explain to me why people now believe that they will be safe under Republican watch, because another attack didn't happen? An attack didn't occur under 8 years of Clinton does that mean he and his party were the best at protecting us from terrorism? What has the the Iraq war done? It made more than 1/2 the world hate us....it created more hostility and terrorists. And made us trillions of dollars in debt..this makes YOU suffer
DO NOT, DO NOT use the deaths of those 3000 people as a justification for war and absolutely do not use it as a political gain for your political agenda...It's sickening. They did not die for use at your political convention. On the 7th anniversary of the tragic events, God rest the souls of those who died at the hands of evil and God protect us from the neo-fascism the government is trying to create with 9/11 as its justification.
I don't know what to say anymore...please how can you look at the last 8 years economically, politically, culturally and say I want more of that...Mcain is a carbon copy of Bush, and Palin makes Bush look liberal... Right Wing Evangelicals should not fall for political trickery, the politicians touting it..have they ever came through for you? Has abortion stopped, do homosexuals still exist? This is hardly a topic that is even discussed once the office is assumed, you're being used!. Its a means of getting elected. Sinclair Lewis once said "when Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."
Every empire falls and I feel that America is starting its descent...I honestly believe a change in administration is enough to reverse that trend.
probably believes that the iceberg could have saved the Titanic."
-- Hillary, with a zinger and 'forgetting' to be polite, above all else,
So the polls have had McCain coming from behind and now show him in either a lead or dead heat...I really don't care about national polls but care mainly about the key swing states. Nonetheless, I have to say I'm really annoyed and bewildered how half of the population is considering a vote for Mcain/Palin.
Let's break things down plain and simple to you small towners (I am one!) who just don't get it!
*Those urbanites are not OUT to get you, they are not all liberal elite. Elite however would be defined by the Republican candidates. For example
1. John McCain doesn't know how many houses he has (I know one more he doesn't need!)
2. They are worth millions in net worth and eat dinners in one night you could never afford in three weeks. Giulani and Palin quickly criticized Obama and the media as liberal elite, but the taxpayers of Alaska paid for Sarah Palins $700 per night hotels in the liberal elite NYC, she cheated Alaskans out of money so she could get paid to work from home (isn't that a common complaint of stay at home mom's...you don't get paid for your work?) Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090803088_pf.html
These people live it up on dollars you will never see perhaps in your whole life and then turn around and tout small town values.
* Second, many voters say they just want a common person as president, someone like them or someone they can drink a beer with. I don't want someone like me to be the President or VP, I want them to be smarter than me, experienced and capable of deciding if indeed we should support Israel in the even of an attack by Iran. I want the President to know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite, Waziristan, Kurdistan, and Balochistan. I don't care if you are a Mom, Hunter, Jew or anything else if you arent capable of explaining to me how to stimulate the economy and lower gas prices then you are not worth my time of day.
*It does not make you"liberal and elite" to have an education. Barack Obama went to the top law school in the US and was head of the Harvard Law Review, thats not affirmative action and it means something, he's smart and thats worth something! Upon leaving Harvard he had offers and could have easily joined as a clerk for the Supreme Court or prestigious law firms in Boston and NYC, he declined and chose to go and help the poor people of South Side Chicago. After all Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King and Jesus were community organizers of the sort...Pontius Pilate was a governor.
McCain graduated 894th out of 899 of his graduating class. Yes he fought in a war and thats honorable, but it doesn't give you experience of how to run a country. If anything being a POW should make you realize how avoidable a situation like war should be...hence, going around sing Bom Bom Bom Bomb Iran doe's not seem very prudent. We have homeless POW's all over the major cities, does that give them a qualification to run for President. You can't run POW as experience...take POW away and you have a senator...hmm the same title as Mr. Obama, which the McCain camp (once again showing hypocrisy) says isn't sufficient experience.
*Republicans cannot claim sexism as a defense when it has been something the party has completely ignored since its existence. They dont stand for womens equality! In fact it was McCain who called Chelsea Clinton an ugly dog and lest we forget how many times we heard the B word used with Senator Clinton. Now all of a sudden if you ask if someone not experienced is experienced.....criticize her for not doing an interview with anyone for 2 weeks...criticize the validity of abstinence only education when her 17 year old daugher is pregnant..It's sexist...This is the party that thinks YOU small towners are so stupid that you really believe its okay for McCain to mention lipstick on a pig but Barack Obama doing so is Sexist. Please, must you prove them right? I know you small towners, you aren't this stupid...you're caring, nice and have common sense...Don't fall victims to such vicious political Rovian attacks!
9/11 happened under Republicans...No other similar event happened on US soil for over half a century..please explain to me why people now believe that they will be safe under Republican watch, because another attack didn't happen? An attack didn't occur under 8 years of Clinton does that mean he and his party were the best at protecting us from terrorism? What has the the Iraq war done? It made more than 1/2 the world hate us....it created more hostility and terrorists. And made us trillions of dollars in debt..this makes YOU suffer
DO NOT, DO NOT use the deaths of those 3000 people as a justification for war and absolutely do not use it as a political gain for your political agenda...It's sickening. They did not die for use at your political convention. On the 7th anniversary of the tragic events, God rest the souls of those who died at the hands of evil and God protect us from the neo-fascism the government is trying to create with 9/11 as its justification.
I don't know what to say anymore...please how can you look at the last 8 years economically, politically, culturally and say I want more of that...Mcain is a carbon copy of Bush, and Palin makes Bush look liberal... Right Wing Evangelicals should not fall for political trickery, the politicians touting it..have they ever came through for you? Has abortion stopped, do homosexuals still exist? This is hardly a topic that is even discussed once the office is assumed, you're being used!. Its a means of getting elected. Sinclair Lewis once said "when Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."
Every empire falls and I feel that America is starting its descent...I honestly believe a change in administration is enough to reverse that trend.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Why the Media Should Apologize
BY Roger Simon
ST. PAUL, Minn. — On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.
On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.
We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.
We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?
We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?
Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.
It is not our job to ask questions. Or it shouldn’t be. To hear from the pols at the Republican National Convention this week, our job is to endorse and support the decisions of the pols.
Sarah Palin hit the nail on the head Wednesday night (and several in the audience wish she had hit some reporters on the head instead) when she said: “I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.”
See Also
* John McCain's idealistic dilemma
* Palin wows GOP, puts Dems on notice
* Clinton aides: Palin treatment sexist
* Politico's guide to the conventions
But where did we go wrong with Sarah Palin? Let me count the ways:
First, we should have stuck to the warm, human interest stuff like how she likes mooseburgers and hit an important free throw at her high school basketball tournament even though she had a stress fracture.
Second, we should have stuck to the press release stuff like how she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere (after she supported it).
Third, we should never have strayed into the other stuff. Like when The Washington Post recently wrote: “Palin is under investigation by a bipartisan state legislative body. … Palin had promised to cooperate with the legislative inquiry, but this week she hired a lawyer to fight to move the case to the jurisdiction of the state personnel board, which Palin appoints.”
Why go there? What trees does that plant?
Fourth, we should stop making with all the questions already. She gave a really good speech. And why go beyond that? As we all know, speeches cannot be written by others and rehearsed for days. They are true windows to the soul.
Unless they are delivered by Barack Obama, that is. In which case, as Palin said Wednesday, speeches are just a “cloud of rhetoric.”
Fifth, we should stop reporting on the families of the candidates. Unless the candidates want us to.
Sarah Palin wanted the media to report on her teenage son, Track, who enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007, and soon will deploy to Iraq.
Sarah Palin did not want the media to report on her teenage daughter, Bristol, who is pregnant and unmarried.
Sarah Palin thinks that one is good for her campaign and one is not, and that the media should report only on what is good for her campaign. That is our job, and that is our duty. If that is not actually in the Constitution, it should be. (And someday may be.)
The official theme of the convention’s third day was “prosperity,” but the unofficial theme was “the media are really, really awful.”
Even Mike Huckabee, who campaigned for president this year by saying “I am a conservative, but I am not mad at anybody,” discovered Wednesday night that he is mad at somebody.
“I’d like to thank the elite media for doing something,” Huckabee said, “that, quite frankly, I didn’t think could be done: unify the Republican party and all of America in support of John McCain and Sarah Palin.”
And could that be the real point of the attacks on the media? To unify the Republican Party?
No, that is simply the cynical, media view.
Though as Lily Tomlin says, “No matter how cynical I get, it’s just never enough to keep up.”
I couldn’t resist that. For which I am sorry.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.
On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.
We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.
We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?
We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?
Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.
It is not our job to ask questions. Or it shouldn’t be. To hear from the pols at the Republican National Convention this week, our job is to endorse and support the decisions of the pols.
Sarah Palin hit the nail on the head Wednesday night (and several in the audience wish she had hit some reporters on the head instead) when she said: “I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.”
See Also
* John McCain's idealistic dilemma
* Palin wows GOP, puts Dems on notice
* Clinton aides: Palin treatment sexist
* Politico's guide to the conventions
But where did we go wrong with Sarah Palin? Let me count the ways:
First, we should have stuck to the warm, human interest stuff like how she likes mooseburgers and hit an important free throw at her high school basketball tournament even though she had a stress fracture.
Second, we should have stuck to the press release stuff like how she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere (after she supported it).
Third, we should never have strayed into the other stuff. Like when The Washington Post recently wrote: “Palin is under investigation by a bipartisan state legislative body. … Palin had promised to cooperate with the legislative inquiry, but this week she hired a lawyer to fight to move the case to the jurisdiction of the state personnel board, which Palin appoints.”
Why go there? What trees does that plant?
Fourth, we should stop making with all the questions already. She gave a really good speech. And why go beyond that? As we all know, speeches cannot be written by others and rehearsed for days. They are true windows to the soul.
Unless they are delivered by Barack Obama, that is. In which case, as Palin said Wednesday, speeches are just a “cloud of rhetoric.”
Fifth, we should stop reporting on the families of the candidates. Unless the candidates want us to.
Sarah Palin wanted the media to report on her teenage son, Track, who enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007, and soon will deploy to Iraq.
Sarah Palin did not want the media to report on her teenage daughter, Bristol, who is pregnant and unmarried.
Sarah Palin thinks that one is good for her campaign and one is not, and that the media should report only on what is good for her campaign. That is our job, and that is our duty. If that is not actually in the Constitution, it should be. (And someday may be.)
The official theme of the convention’s third day was “prosperity,” but the unofficial theme was “the media are really, really awful.”
Even Mike Huckabee, who campaigned for president this year by saying “I am a conservative, but I am not mad at anybody,” discovered Wednesday night that he is mad at somebody.
“I’d like to thank the elite media for doing something,” Huckabee said, “that, quite frankly, I didn’t think could be done: unify the Republican party and all of America in support of John McCain and Sarah Palin.”
And could that be the real point of the attacks on the media? To unify the Republican Party?
No, that is simply the cynical, media view.
Though as Lily Tomlin says, “No matter how cynical I get, it’s just never enough to keep up.”
I couldn’t resist that. For which I am sorry.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Cartoon & Joke of the day
John McCain’s V.P. pick is the governor of Alaska, a unknown hockey mom named Sarah Palin that no one ever heard of. The only other job she had in politics was the mayor of a small town known as Wasilla, Alaska, and now she has the opportunity to be on a ticket opposite of Barack Obama, the first black man she’s ever seen. - Bill Maher
"Thirty-eight million people watched Barack Obama at the stadium in Denver. There were 84,000 full-throated supporters who turned out there at the field. The Republicans fired back today. They say, 'We can also fill a stadium with thousands of screaming people. For example, the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina.'" –Bill Maher
Monday, September 1, 2008
What were Bush and McCain doing while New Orleans DIED 3 years ago?
So I'm a little late (3 years) with this information but I find it extremely interesting and coincidental. Hurricane Katrina hit the morning of August 29th which is also the birthday of Senator McCain. President Bush and Senator McCain were celebrating the Senator's birthday while New Orleans DIED in the meantime. This is not a bash on McCain since he really had no role of doing anything outside of his position as Senator of Arizona, however, as one of an elite 100 you should really put forth some effort to at least show concern about a natural disaster that killed 2000, mainly poor black Americans. Before time of the Senators birthday in the afternoon it had become evident in the morning just how truly devastating this would be to New Orleans. However, the old mans birthday seemed to be of utmost importance to the President at least on that day and for about 3 more days. Lets just be glad Gustav was not another Katrina and that the local level government did a good job this year in evacuating the residents and that very minimal looting occurred.
In case you thought I wouldn't corroborate my sources, here is the official picture from www.whitehouse.gov showing what Pres. Bush was doing on the afternoon of Hurricane Katrina
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/images/20050829-5_p082905pm-0125-515h.html
Note below picture reads:President George W. Bush joins Arizona Senator John McCain in a small celebration of McCain's 69th birthday Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, after the President's arrival at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix. The President later spoke about Medicare to 400 guests at the Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort and Country Club in nearby El Mirage. White House photo by Paul Morse
In case you thought I wouldn't corroborate my sources, here is the official picture from www.whitehouse.gov showing what Pres. Bush was doing on the afternoon of Hurricane Katrina
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/images/20050829-5_p082905pm-0125-515h.html
Note below picture reads:President George W. Bush joins Arizona Senator John McCain in a small celebration of McCain's 69th birthday Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, after the President's arrival at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix. The President later spoke about Medicare to 400 guests at the Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort and Country Club in nearby El Mirage. White House photo by Paul Morse
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