Forget the speech; worry instead about Gov. Palin’s record
Sarah Palin’s speech Sept. 3 told us a lot about her. It told us that she can distort the facts and deliver mean-spirited zingers with the best of them. But it didn’t tell us the truth about her extremist positions. Palin recently said that the war in Iraq is “God’s task.” She’s even admitted she hasn’t thought about the war much — just last year she was quoted as saying, “I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.” Palin has actively sought the support of the fringe Alaska Independence Party. Six months ago, Palin told members of the group — who advocate for a vote of secession from the union — to “keep up the good work” and wished the party luck on what she called its “inspiring convention.” Palin wants to teach creationism in public schools. She hasn’t made clear whether she thinks evolution is a fact. Palin doesn’t believe that humans contribute to global warming. Speaking about climate change, she said, “I’m not one, though, who would attribute it to being man-made.” Palin has close ties to Big Oil. Her inauguration was even sponsored by BP. Palin is extremely anti-choice. She doesn’t even support abortion in the case of rape or incest. Palin opposes comprehensive sex-ed in public schools. She has said she will only support abstinence-only approaches. As mayor, Palin tried to ban books from the library. Palin asked the library how she might go about banning books because some had inappropriate language in them — shocking the librarian, Mary Ellen Baker. According to Time, “news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving full support to the mayor.” She did support the Bridge to Nowhere (before she opposed it). Palin claimed that she said “thanks, but no thanks” to the infamous bridge. But in 2006, Palin supported the project repeatedly, saying that Alaska should take advantage of earmarks “while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.” BILL LIDDLE Rotterdam
Well then I may indeed stand corrected over here on those pictures but my wife and I were pretty upset about this here at first. Thank you for sending out the link to where it is fake on the Snopes. Sorry about it and I will apologoze for being wrong. But indeed I will say I am against her since without the experience she is a dead duck and kills the repubs. I listened to Mike Savage and he was straightening us out on this and HE is a true conservative. I think you need to look into the issues she had where she targeted the trooper and went against law enforcement too.
OK SAL...now this is a decent post to respond to. Phew!! I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but you are correct about listening to Michael Savage. He puts an entirely different light on the McCain/Palin ballot. Savage gives and entirely different view of BOTH parties. Take a listen if anyone gets a change on WGY monday-friday. Or check out his website. http://www.michaelsavage.com/
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Mr Liddle let's also look at who put Obama into office and who he's been associated with during his climb to fame and now Obama doesn't have a very good memory of ever knowing them. On Obama's record, he's the most liberal Democrat in the Senate and that's pretty hard to do considering that Ted Kennedy is in the running too. Obama can't even make a decision and when in the state Senate voted present on many many occasions, he's also for partial birth abortions, wants to make government bigger, and has changed his mind on quite a few issues when he found out it wasn't the popular decision.
By SCOTT WALDMAN, Staff writer Last updated: 6:30 p.m., Monday, September 8, 2008
BETHLEHEM - A woman wearing a Barack Obama campaign button says she was attacked by a man who used a racial epithet, but police say they don't have enough evidence to call the attack racially motivated.
The woman, who is white, told police she had left Beff's bar and was walking home alone just off Delaware Avenue around midnight Friday when the man approached her near St. Thomas church and tripped her, Bethlehem police Lt. Thomas Heffernan said.
The woman, whose name police did not release, fell to the ground and hit her face, cutting her lip, he said.
Heffernan said police are still looking into whether the Obama campaign button fueled the attack based on the victim's statements and the attacker's use of a racial epithet. But a direct link has not been established, he said.
``She told us she had earlier been at an Obama fundraiser and had a support pin on which would lead one to believe that's where his comments came from,'' Heffernan said. ``But not knowing who the suspect is ... it would purely speculative to draw any conclusion.''
The victim said the man used a derogatory term for African Americans during the incident, Heffernan said. Police monitored the area for two nights, but did not find a man matching the assailant's description, Heffernan said.
Police are still searching for the suspect, who is described as a white male in his 40s, 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighing approximately 140 pounds. Heffernan said the attack occurred at the intersection of Adams Place and Kenwood Avenue.
Two people walk into a bar, one's wearing an Obama for President button, the other, not. It's obvious from this evidence, presented here, your honor, that the second, the one not wearing the button, is purely guilty and evil as per the fact that the one with the button was attacked. I rest my case.
You want to talk about energized, I’m energized. And I’m referring here to the dramatic emergence of the lady I think of as Little Miss Mooseslayer of Alaska as possibly our next vice president, or even president, if fate were to take such a turn. Is she my kind of candidate, or is she my kind of candidate? I’ve been watching a video of her talking to a gathering in her childhood church, the Assemblies of God, telling the folks, “It was so cool growin’ up in this church, gettin’ saved here,” and sounding for all the world like a peppy but not terribly serious teenager rather than the actual governor of a state, even a state as sparsely populated as Alaska. (You can find the video by looking for “Sarah Palin church video” on YouTube.) Her talk is all “you guys” this, and “you guys” that, and how you guys gotta pray for our soldiers goin’ out to Eye-rack, one of whom is actually her son, which comes as a shocker because she doesn’t sound much older than maybe 16 herself. But there she is, Sarah Palin, age 44, governor of Alaska (closest state to Russia), giving a pep talk in a Pentecostal church, throwing in a mention of a $30 billion gas pipeline and telling folks: “I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that pipeline built” — yes, God’s will — and then also a mention of the war in Iraq being “a task that is from God.” (“Eye-rack” is how she says it.) Like, really cool. “May Alaska be blessed through all you guys,” she says. And then there’s the pastor standing next to her, saying, just as matter-of-fact as if he were talking about the weather: “I believe Alaska is one of the refuge states in the Last Days, and hundreds of thousands of people are gonna come to the state to seek refuge, and the church has to be ready to minister to them,” referring of course to the Book of Revelation with its prophecy of the final cataclysmic days before the appearance of the New Jerusalem, when multi-headed dragons battle in heaven and thunder, lightning and earthquakes batter the earth. And Little Miss Mooseslayer is beaming. Possibly the next vice president, even president, of the country over which Thomas Jefferson once presided. Contemplating hordes of desperate people trudging up through Canada with their bedding on their backs to seek refuge when Gabriel blows his awful horn. Naturally I called up the Web site of her current church, the Wasilla Bible Church, to see if it preaches the same lofty theology that is standard in born-again circles, and sure enough, in their “Statement of Faith” they declare the Bible to be the “inerrant word of God” – seven-headed dragons and all — and they affirm that those who “exercise genuine faith in the Lord Jesus Christ” will be saved and go to heaven, while the rest of humanity will go to “judgment and damnation.” I always love that part. Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Little Miss Mooseslayer will enjoy an eternity of bliss. The Dalai Lama (a Buddhist), Sen. Joe Lieberman (a Jew) and a few billion other people will burn forever in hellfire — because, what the hey, guys, they had the chance and they turned it down. Really cool, gettin’ saved. Too bad they missed out. These self-designated Christians are so proud of this faith of theirs they actually flaunt it as a credential for high office. Indeed, it appears to be the major reason why John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate — there could hardly be any other. So I am greatly looking forward to the next two months. I want to see if this bright-eyed little cheerleader for Jesus who faces down moose has the courage to face the dreaded and probably godless “media,” which seems to be a bugaboo in her circles more terrifying than a herd of grizzlies and one always certain to evoke a chorus of boos. Not to fear, I would like to tell her. No one in the media would dare to ask her about the damnation of the Dalai Lama, or about the Last Days, or about the inerrancy of the command not to eat the meat of animals unless they are cloven-hoofed and chew the cud, to pick at random just one little example from Holy Writ. Even about the war in “Eyerack” being a task from God. No one in a national press conference would be likely to touch that one either. The reason: Flimflammery is off-limits if it falls under the heading of religion. Too bad, since religion seems to be the reason she got chosen. Along with guns — I almost forgot that one. Guns and God. Oh, if she gets to be president! Will I be in clover then! Carl Strock can be reached at 395-3085 or by e-mail at carlstrock@dailygazette.com.
now you repubs are beating up little ladies to try to prove your points, which is too bad, just like the atrying you are do to bully the conservs over here in Rotterdam. How can a repub be a conserv if he beats up old ladies for their views? This indeed is a question that has no answer my friends. I hope the conservs wake up and force FAILIN off the ticket indeed. This has to come to an end before the liberals and abortionists take over the country. Leave Obama alone he will ruin himself and tell us McCain what you are gonna do for US? Start by booting the go go boots from your ticket, sir, indeed
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- In an election for President of the United States in North Carolina Tuesday, September 09, Republican John McCain suddenly and breathtakingly surges to a 20-point win over Democrat Barack Obama, 58% to 38%, according to this latest exclusive SurveyUSA election poll conducted for ABC11-WTVD.
In 3 previous SurveyUSA NC tracking polls, McCain had led by 8, 5, and 4 points. Today: 20. McCain has gained ground in every demographic group. Among men, McCain led by 9 last month, 27 today. Among women, Obama led by 2 last month, trails by 12 today. McCain holds 9 of 10 Republican voters; Obama holds 3 of 4 Democratic voters; independents, who were split last month, break today crisply for McCain, where, in the blink of an eye, he is up by 25.
The following was asked of 671 likely voters (more data on collection listed at the bottom):
* If the election for President were today, would you vote for ... (choices rotated) Republican John McCain? Or, Democrat Barack Obama?
58% McCain (R) 38% Obama (D) 2% Other 2% Undecided
The Hunt for Sarah October City slickers invade Wasilla September 9, 2008
Democrats understand Sarah Palin is a formidable political force who has upset the Obama victory plan. The latest Washington Post/ABC Poll shows John McCain taking a 12-point lead over Barack Obama among white women, a reversal of Mr. Obama's eight-point lead last month. [Sarah Palin]
It's no surprise, then, that Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin's hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background. My sources report the first wave arrived in Anchorage less than 24 hours after John McCain selected her on August 29.
The main area of interest to the Democratic SWAT team is Mrs. Palin's dismissal in July of her public safety commissioner. Mrs. Palin says he was fired for cause. Her critics claim he was fired because he wouldn't bend to pressure to get rid of a state trooper, Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a bitter divorce battle with Mrs. Palin's sister. Mr. Wooten is certainly a colorful character. He served a five-day suspension after the Palin family filed a complaint against him alleging he had threatened Mrs. Palin's father. They also accused him of using a Taser on his 10-year-old stepson, drinking in his patrol car and illegally shooting a moose.
Mrs. Palin will return to Alaska for the first time in nearly two weeks on Wednesday night, when she is scheduled to arrive in Fairbanks. Local Republicans will hold a "Welcome Home" rally for her. You can bet some of the Democratic opposition research contingent will be in the audience taking notes. They'll be the ones arriving in rental cars and wearing fancy dress shoes from back east.
Paterson accuses McCain campaign of racism September 9, 2008 Updated 5:50 p.m. The Associated Press
ALBANY — Gov. David Paterson said today the McCain-Palin presidential campaign insinuated racist overtones into criticism of Sen. Barack Obama's work as a community organizer. "There are overtones of potential racial coding in the campaign," Paterson said at an event in New York City. Paterson says the Republican candidates haven't directly talked about race, but it's strongly implied in comments Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and others have made about Obama. "The Republican party is too smart to call Barack Obama 'black' in a sense that it would be a negative," Paterson said. "But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did at the Republican convention. A 'community organizer,' they kept saying it, they kept laughing, like what does this mean? "It means that an individual who could have gone to Wall Street and made a lot of money, and then run for office because he could buy media time, chose to go back and work in programs in a neighborhood where he thought he could make a difference and became an elected official based on his involvement right in his own community." Peter Feldman, a spokesman for Sen. John McCain, says the accusation is untrue. "This is a tactic that the Obama campaign has used before, and which McCain campaign manager Rick Davis correctly called divisive, shameful, and wrong," Feldman said. "Governor Palin's remark about Barack Obama's work as a community organizer was in response to the Obama campaign's belittling of her executive experience." At the Republican National Convention, Palin compared her work as a small-town mayor to Obama's work as a community organizer. "Since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities," she said then. Feldman says Palin's comments were a response to insults about her own political experience. Paterson is New York's first black governor.
You know, I bet that Alaska never got as much "tourism" as it's getting now from the people of the press. Imagine, she's turning around the economy of that state, and the liberal media is doing by traipsing up there to check into her to try to find something they can use against her. You gotta love it.
Me, Sal, have been warning you all here that when the truth gets brought out by the civic activists that went up there to get the truth, McCain will be smart to get rid of this putan. This scandal is one of the worst ever seen in my life since watergate and I know indeed that the lawyers that the government sent there will surely want to get over over there. I am sad McCain didnt do his homework and picked this girl in the last few days without doing the checking over here. He has only a few days till she gets either arrested or resigns. The truth is on its way and all 30 of the activists will bring it out. thank you for this from the bottom of our hearts in America. All of us here are glad that this gun moll wont get in now
Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra.
"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."
"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."
"We've had enough of the same old thing."
The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."
Obama better get himself another speech writer. I don't know if it is just Palin's natural personality, or that she is getting an extra blessing from God through her faith, but she sure seems happy all of the time and the media or the opposition, just can't seem to touch her negatively. I don't knowwhat it is she's got....but she's got something!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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