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Sarah Palin used to travel to Canada for icky, awful government health care


Former governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was in Canada speaking to a bunch of Canadians when she admitted to the crowd of listeners that as a child, she used to partake of the awful icky socialized Canadian medical system. From The Globe and Mail:

PALIN: We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn’t that ironic?

No, that’s not ironic. It’s hypocritical.

Sarah Palin has long railed against health care reform saying that if we reform health care in this country, it will lead to socialized medicine. Like they enjoy in Canada.

1 Comment by Rick on March 9, 2010
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Palin tells teabaggers that Obama’s budget is ‘immoral’

Speaking at the 2010 Tea Party convention in Nashville, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin told the nearly 600 teabaggers in attendance that the Obama administration’s 2011 federal budget was “immoral” because it increases the national debt.

Instead of just criticizing the Obama administration’s 2011 budget, maybe she’d like to share with everyone how she would balance the 2011 federal budget. The New York Times has an interactive chart that shows were all the money will go.

What exactly would she like to cut?

How about the $738 billion that we will be spending on defense? The thing is, most of the yearly federal budget isn’t up to the president. Most of the budget is controlled by existing federal law. Other then military spending, not much can be cut by whoever is sitting in the White House. If Sarah Palin would like Obama to make drastic cuts to the military, maybe she ought to tell everyone.

2 Comments by Rick on February 7, 2010
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Looks like Sarah Palin is still not reading newspapers

Professional Facebook blogger Sarah Palin is calling for President Obama to fire his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. The reason? Because he referred to some of us on the left as “retarded“.

From Palin’s Facebook page:

Are You Capable of Decency, Rahm Emanuel?

I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm’s continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts. Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm’s recent sick and offensive tactic.

The Obama Administration’s Chief of Staff scolded participants, calling them, “F—ing retarded,” according to several participants, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.

Just as we’d be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the “N-word” or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking.

A patriot in North Andover, Massachusetts, notified me of Rahm’s “retarded” slam. I join this gentleman, who is the father of a beautiful child born with Down Syndrome, in asking why the Special Olympics, National Down Syndrome Society and other groups condemning Rahm’s degrading scolding have been completely ignored by the White House. No comment from his boss, the president?

I think Sarah Palin needs to learn that people aren’t necessarily talking about her kid when they use the word retarded. To equate the word to an ethnic or racial slur is absurd.

It’s just a word.

What I really find to be funny about this is that she had to be told about the incident from a “patriot”.  It was reported in the favorite newspaper of all conservatives, The Wall Street Journal, and Sarah Palin didn’t know about it until someone told her. If she’s not reading The Wall Street Journal, she’s probably (still) not reading newspapers.

1 Comment by Rick on February 2, 2010
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Sarah Palin finally gets a job she’s actually qualified for

Shocker of all shockers, the “Fair and Balanced” cable news channel Fox News Channel has hired former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a contributor. She will appear on the channel on a regular basis.

Fox News Channel is a cushy landing spot for failed Republican candidates. Mike Huckabee has his own show on Fox News Channel. When RNC chairman Michael Steele finally gets fired, I’m sure he’ll end up on Fox News Channel too.

They most interesting thing about Palin getting this gig is that she will finally be putting that five school, six year Bachelor’s degree in communications to good use. Unlike the job John McCain asked her to run foe, she’s actually well qualified to be a talking head on TV.

1 Comment by Rick on January 12, 2010
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Why wont Sarah Palin admit she doesn’t like Asian people?

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In the New Yorker review of Going Rogue, Sam Tanenhaus writes that Sarah Palin’s father said she left Hawaii Pacific University after only one semester because she didn’t care too much for Asians. From the review in the New Yorker:

Palin, though notoriously ill-traveled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii. She and a friend who went with her lasted only one semester. “Hawaii was a little too perfect,” Palin writes. “Perpetual sunshine isn’t necessarily conducive to serious academics for eighteen-year-old Alaska girls.” Perhaps not. But Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, gave a different account to Conroy and Walshe. According to him, the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: “They were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.” In any case, Palin reports that she much preferred her last stop, the University of Idaho, “because it was much like Alaska yet still ‘Outside.’ “

I don’t know what I find to be more troubling: that Sarah Palin doesn’t like Asians or that she won’t just come out and admit it. If she had or has a prejudice against people of Asian decent, why can’t she just admit it? Where’s the harm?

I think secret racism is much worse than open racism. When a person is openly racist, at least you know who they are and where they stand. A person who is secretly racist is just as likely to discriminate against someone because of their racial background than someone who is openly racist.

It’s not as though Sarah Palin belongs to a political party that places a high importance on racial sensitivity.  Coming out and admitting that she doesn’t care for Asian people wouldn’t prohibit her from ever seeking her party’s presidential nomination.

Who knows, it might even help her score more votes.

4 Comments by Rick on December 6, 2009
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Sarah Palin becomes a Birther

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin appeared on the Rusty Humphries Show yesterday and the topic turned to President Obama’s birth certificate. No really, it did.
From DailyKosTV:

HUMPHRIES: Sarah Palin here on the Rusty Humphries Show. One of the questions Jason asks is would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?

PALIN: I think the public rightly is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue because I think there are enough members of the electorate that still want answers.

HUMPHRIES: Do you think it’s a fair question to be looking at?

PALIN: I think it’s a fair question just like I think past associations and past voting records. All of that is fair game. You know, I’ve got to tell you too, I think our campaign, the McCain-Palin campaign didn’t do a good enough job in that area. We didn’t call out Obama and some of his associates on their records and what their beliefs were, and perhaps what their future plans were, and I don’t think that was fair to voters to not have done our job as candidates and a campaign to bring to light a lot of things that now we’re seeing manifest in the administration.

HUMPHRIES: I mean, truly if your past is fair game and your kids are fair game, certainly Obama’s past should be. I mean, we want to treat men and women equally, right?

PALIN: Hey, you know, that’s a great point. And that weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about that Trig isn’t my real son, and a lot of people that went “Well, you need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he’s your kid,” which we have done, but yeah, so maybe we can reverse that, and use the same [inaudible] thinking on the other one.

I just don’t get the strategy of attacking Obama’s nationality. It’s been established that he was indeed born in Hawaii, which I guess technically makes him as American as Ronald Reagan or Thomas Jefferson. I just don’t understand the idea of attacking Obama for something he has no control over. Like every other human on this planet, he didn’t choose where he was born.

I think Sarah Palin needs to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. Does she want to be taken seriously as a viable presidential candidate in 2012 or does she want to be the leader of a fringe movement that questions Obama’s nationality? I don’t think she can be both.

by Rick on December 4, 2009
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Sarah Palin meets her doppelganger

13832_185006248587_24718773587_2840850_8261234_nSarah Palin was signing copies of her book Going Rogue at a Borders in Noblesville, Indiana when she met a woman that looks just like her. I haven’t seen something this amazing since that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where a transporter malfunction created a second Riker, Lieutenant Thomas Riker. It’s one of the reasons to this day I refuse to use a transporter, and instead use shuttles.

The photo appears on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page. It doesn’t identify who this woman is, but it states that the photograph is the property of SarahPAC, Sarah Palin’s official political action committee.

Is this a book tour or is it a touring political rally?

I thought it was a book tour. She’s been appearing at military bases, something she would not be able to do if she was campaigning.

by Rick on November 24, 2009
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Sarah Palin fans stiffed at book signing

Hundreds of fans in Noblesville, Indiana lined up all day in the cold and rain at a Borders bookstore for the chance to meet Sarah Palin and get their copies of Going Rogue signed by the former Alaskan governor.  The first 1,000 people in line that bought a copy of the book were given a colored wristband. This was supposed to ensure that they would get their book signed by Palin. The problem is that Palin left the book signing before everyone that had a wristband could get a signature.

Is it so hard to believe that a person who quit in the middle of her term as governor would also quit her own book signing? I say no. This is what makes her the lovable  that she is. You think she’s going to do one thing, but she does the complete opposite.

These people that walked away from the book signing without a signature should not be sad or disappointed. They should be happy. They’ve been rogued by Sarah Palin. They should display their colored wristband and their unsigned book as a shrine to Sarah Palin and the complete rogue that she is.

Granted, she could have stayed at the book signing and continued to sign books for everyone that stood all day in the cold and the rain, but that would have been inconvenient for Sarah Palin. She’s not particularly found of doing things that are personally inconvenient for her. For example, finishing her term as Alaska governor.

5 Comments by Rick on November 21, 2009
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Sarah Palin, keep your pants on

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From the ex-Governor’s Facebook page:

The choice of photo for the cover of this week’s Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this “news” magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant. The Runner’s World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness – a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation. The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now. If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The media will do anything to draw attention – even if out of context.

You know how you can make sure that you never appear on the cover of a national news magazine in your shorty shorts while leaning on the American flag? Don’t ever pose for a picture wearing shorty shorts while leaning on the American flag.

When I first read that Sarah Palin was complaining about the cover of Newsweek, I assumed that Newsweek had photoshopped the image. It didn’t even occur to me that she would pose for a photo like this.

That’s what I get for assuming.

3 Comments by Rick on November 18, 2009
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Sarah Palin does Oprah Winfrey

I watched Oprah Winfrey interview Sarah Palin and I thought she sounded good. Sarah Palin that is. She didn’t sound as clueless as she did during the 2008 campaign, but then again, how could she? It was almost hard to believe that this was the same woman that couldn’t name a single magazine she reads.

Almost.

The most interesting part of the interview was when Oprah asked her why she resigned as Alaska’s governor. Palin said it was because she had already decided that she wasn’t going to run for reelection and she felt like she was a lame duck. She also said something that sounded really odd. She blamed the reason for stepping down on Barack Obama. She said that people from the Obama camp were coming up to Alaska to do “opposition research.”

Watch it here:


I understand there are some on the right that want to blame everything on Obama, but this? I have a hard time believing that after winning the 2008 Presidential election, Barack Obama really cared about Sarah Palin. Why would he send people up to Alaska to do research on her?

I think the reason she quit was so that she could cash in on her sudden fame. If she resigned as governor, she could go on the paid lecture circuit and write a book. Instead of just admitting to this, she instead blames Obama.

She should have just said she wanted to make money.

2 Comments by Rick on November 17, 2009
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Sarah Palin will tell you what you can do with your fact checking

Former Alaska governor and vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin’s new book is coming out tomorrow. A lot of people, including those that worked in the McCain campaign, have taken exception to some of the contents of the book, specifically the parts she evidently just made up. The AP have been going through the book and have been writing about the factual errors the book contains. Palin has a problem with this. So much so that she wrote about it on her Facebook page:

Amazingly, but not surprisingly, the AP somehow nabbed a copy of the book before it was released. They’re now erroneously reporting on the book’s contents and are repeating many of the same things they spewed during the campaign and afterwards. We’ve heard 11 writers are engaged in this opposition research, er, “fact checking” research! Imagine that – 11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to “fact check” what’s going on with Sheik Mohammed’s trial, Pelosi’s health care takeover costs, Hasan’s associations, etc. Amazing.

She refers to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as though Sheik is his title, like the Iron Sheik. It’s not his title, it’s his middle name. Maybe she just likes to refer to people by their middle name. In that case, I’m going to start referring to her has Louise Palin. That’s her middle name.

Louise Palin also wrote the following:

We’ll keep setting the record straight, and we’ll keep reminding some in the media that Americans are very tired of their non-objective reporting.

I couldn’t disagree with her more. If Americans want objective reporting, why do so many of them watch Fox News? On the contrary, a good many Americans want non-objective, biased reporting. They not only want their news to be biased, a good many of them will simply reject anything that doesn’t embrace their particular bias.

I also think Louise Palin is dead wrong about the AP. I think the AP is very serious about getting the facts right. Back when I found a t-shirt at Wal-Mart with a Nazi skull on it, I was interviewed by an AP reporter for an article they published about the controversy. When the article first appeared online, it incorrectly stated that I’m a veteran of the U.S. Navy. I’m not. I’m a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, not that it mattered.

I didn’t really care, because to me, it didn’t make a difference. I didn’t think my military service pertained at all to the article. About 20 minutes after reading the article, the reporter called me. He asked me whether I had said I was in the Navy or the Air Force. I guess he was going over his notes and noticed that I never said I was in the Navy. I told him that I was in the Air Force, but that I don’t think it mattered. He disagreed. He said that the mistake would be fixed immediately. He said the AP cared a lot about getting facts, all the facts, correct.

Sure enough, the AP quickly corrected the article.

I was impressed by this. I didn’t think it really mattered, but they went to the trouble of fixing a mistake anyway.

So when Louise Palin implies that the AP shouldn’t be trusted with the facts, I couldn’t disagree more.

2 Comments by Rick on November 16, 2009
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Who knew losing paid so well?

Word came out yesterday that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was paid a $1.25 million advance for her memoir, Going Rogue. Being that she was still the governor of Alaska when she received the payment, she had to report it on some kind of official state form. If it wasn’t for that, I guess we wouldn’t have found out that she cashed in to such an extent.

If it didn’t appear on an official government form, who would have thought publisher HarperCollins would have paid so much for Sarah Palin’s memoir? Not that fudging an official government form would be something Palin wouldn’t do. She is after all a Rogue. It’s just that when people falsify financial forms, they generally under report, not over report.

I think it’s remarkable that Sarah Palin would get paid so much for writing a book that chronicles so little. After all, it’s her memoir, right? What has she done in her life that would be interesting enough to require a book? She was governor of Alaska, but she quit her before her first term was complete. She ran as John McCain’s vice-presidential running mate, but she lost.

3 Comments by Rick on October 28, 2009
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Sarah Palin’s new book: ‘Going Rogue: An American Life’

rogueFormer vice-presidential candidate, former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin has picked a title for her upcoming memoir. It will be called, Going Rogue: An American Life.

On first glance, it seems like an incredibly silly title for an autobiography. Then again, perhaps the word rogue means something different to me than it does to most people. Having played Dungeons & Dragons in my youth, I identify the word rogue with the player character class that engages in sneak attacks. In the make-believe world of Dungeons & Dragons, a rogue is a thief. They pick locks and discover traps. They prefer to attack their opponents by stabbing them in the back.

In all the years I played Dungeons & Dragons, I don’t think I ever played a character that was a rogue. A rogue always seemed to me to be, I don’t know, a dick. A rogue was just not something I even wanted to pretend to be in the make-believe magical fantasy world of Dungeons & Dragons .

Can the word rogue be used without a negative connotation?  No, I don’t think so.  Merriam-Webster defines the word as a vagrant or a tramp, or a dishonest or worthless person.

So why then would Sarah Palin use the word to describe herself in her autobiography?  Maybe, just maybe it’s because it she knows the word fits.

1 Comment by Rick on September 29, 2009
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Sarah Palin steps down

Alaska governor Sarah Palin officially stepped down as governor and as luck would have it, she took the time to say a few words.   From the Associated Press (via MSNBC):

She also took aim at the media, saying her replacement, Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, “has a very nice family too, so leave his kids alone!”

And she told television cameras: “How about, in honor of the American soldier, you quit makin’ things up?”

Hopefully Governor Parnell wont use his children as props the way Sarah Palin did. It wasn’t the media that exposed Palin’s children to the public, it was Palin. It wasn’t the media that dragged her children around with her so that she could claim a per diem for their travel, it was Palin. She even brought Levi Johnston, the high school drop-out that knocked up one of her daughters, to the 2008 National Republican Convention and injected him into the public consciousness.  Something I’m guessing at this point even she wishes she had not done.

And as far as “makin’ things up” is concerned, she’s the one that enjoyed making up lies on the campaign trail, including that Barack Obama enjoyed “palling around with terrorists”.

I don’t understand what so many Republicans see in Sarah Palin.  I just don’t undertand the appeal.

by Rick on July 27, 2009
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Sarah Palin exploring legal options against those who try to guess why she is resigning

Sarah Palin, the soon-to-be former governor of Alaska, doesn’t appreciate people guessing why she is resigning.

From the Associated Press via MSNBC:

The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans has fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.

“To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as ‘fact’ that Governor Palin resigned because she is ‘under federal investigation’ for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation,” Van Flein said in a statement. “This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law.”

Shannyn Moore maintains a blog over at WordPress.com, entitled “Shannyn Morre: Just a Girl from Homer“.  On this blog she writes about politics in Alaska, including the soon-to-be  former governor Sarah Palin.  She also appears somewhat regularly on MSNBC.  Evidently it was one of her TV appearances that raised the anger of Team Palin, not her actual blogging.

From the Anchorage Daily News:

Van Flein, asked why he singled out Moore, said it’s because she went on national television and talked about it. Moore was on with MSNBC’s David Shuster on Friday, the day Palin said she will resign.

“There is a scandal rumor here that there is a criminal investigation into some activities and that’s been rumored for about, I don’t know, probably six weeks or two months,” Moore told him.

She said she’s never seen Palin appear as nervous as she did at the press conference announcing her resignation and “I think she was actually doing damage control for news that’s coming up later.”

Moore said that there was a rumor that there was a criminal investigation into some activities involving the Palins.  She did not say that there was a criminal investigation.  She only said that was a rumor that there was a criminal investigation.  She also followed this up with what she thought Palin was doing by resigning.  She used the word “think” which means that it was merely her opinion.

You can’t sue people over their opinions.  At least not successfully and not in the United States of America.

The problem with what Sarah Palin did by annoncing that she was resigning as governor of Alaska is that it makes absolutely no sense.  A lot of people are trying to come up with a reason why she would do what she did.

I’m going to miss Sarah Palin.

5 Comments by Rick on July 5, 2009
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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin quits

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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced today that not only would she not be seeking a second term as governor, she will be stepping down in a few weeks.

Huh?

This makes no sense and that’s saying a lot for someone such as Sarah Palin. She didn’t step down when she gave birth to a special needs child. She didn’t step down when she ran for vice president of the United States. If she was prone to quiting, you would think she would have done so when either one of these two events took place.

This makes absolutely no sense.

7 Comments by Rick on July 3, 2009
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David Letterman learns that some people do not appriciate jokes about 14-year old girls having sex

David Letterman has found himself in a bit of hot water over a  joke he made concerning former Republican vice-presidential candidate Alaskan governor Sarah Palin. For whatever reason, Governor Palin was in New York doing something or other. While she was there, she and her 14-year old daughter Willow attended a Yankees game. Letterman used the occasion in his opening monologue on Monday night to make a joke.

This is what he said:

One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game.  During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.

Letterman later claimed he wasn’t referring to 14-year old Willow Palin, the Palin girl that was actually at the game, but to 18-year old single mother Bristol Palin. The Palin girl that recently appeared on the cover of People magazine in her high school graduation cap and gown while holding her baby.

How classy.

Sarah Palin has done a series of interviews where she claims that the 62-year old Letterman is cracking jokes about her 14-year old daughter being raped. She doesn’t believe Letterman’s excuse and has stated that anybody that does is being “naive”.

I don’t know who to believe, nor do I really care. What I do know is that Sarah Palin has seeming never missed an opportunity to parade her children out in the public spotlight. During the 2008 Republican National Convention, she not only put her pregnant 17-year old daughter Bristol on public display, but also Levi Johnston, the 18-year old high school drop out that knocked her up.  Can Letterman (or the writter who penned the joke) really be blamed for getting the daughters confused?

The one person in this whole mess that really has a reason to be angry is Alex Rodriguez.  Say what you will about A-Rod, he doesn’t have a history of inpregnating teenage girls, especially during a game.

2 Comments by Rick on June 13, 2009
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Israeli settlers mock President Obama by building “Obama Hut”

When President Obama gave a speech in Cairo, one of the topics he touched upon was the need for Israel to stop building new settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The day after the speech, defiant settlers began building a new illegal outpost in the West Bank.

They also built a wooden structure they mockingly called the “Obama Hut,” saying it was a sign of their appreciation of the American president.

Not content with merely naming one of their stupid huts after President Obama, at least one of the settlers questioned President Obama’s race and his religion. From the Jerusalem Post:

One of the activists said of Obama, “He’s an Arab Muslim and a gentile, he is fighting against the Jewish people and has declared that he will continue to do so. We already stated our intention to continue to build, no matter who is fighting us – Egypt, Germany or the US.”

If he had also added that President Obama also was palling around with terrorists, I would have thought he was a Sarah Palin supporter.

4 Comments by Rick on June 6, 2009
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Michael Barone is a douche

Michael Barone, senior writer for U.S. News & World Report, was speaking in front of a group of college administrators when he informed the crowd why exactly reporters weren’t very impressed with John McCain’s running-mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

It’s because she refused to abort her baby with Down syndrome.

From Politico:

“The liberal media attacked Sarah Palin because she did not abort her Down syndrome baby,” Barone said, according to accounts by attendees. “They wanted her to kill that child. … I’m talking about my media colleagues with whom I’ve worked for 35 years.”

He later claimed that he was only joking. Who among us doesn’t appreciate a joke about aborting a Down syndrome baby?

by Rick on November 12, 2008
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Sarah Palin gets pranked by Canadian radio show

Sarah Palin thought she is speaking to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Instead, she was speaking to a radio DJ from Montreal, Canada. I guess now we know why the McCain campaign wont let her field questions from the press. This woman is an idiot.

by Rick on November 2, 2008
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Sarah Palin might be looking at a $150,000 tax bill

ABC reporter Jake Tapper spoke to a “well-respected” and “well-known” tax attorney today who seems to think that Sarah Palin will have to pay income tax on the $150,000 worth of clothing the Republican National Committee purchased for her and her family.

Evidently both Palin and the RNC is saying that technically she does not own the clothing.  The RNC owns the clothes. She is only “borrowing them”.

The attorney said that wont fly with the IRS because it’s not like the RNC can use the clothing after Palin and her brood are done using them. [Political Punch]

by Rick on October 22, 2008
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Sarah Palin wears a scarf intended for Democrats

If you saw a woman wearing a red, white, and blue scarf decorated with patriotic images along with donkeys and the word “Vote”, what political party would you think she was a member of? Would you think she was a Democrat? Most of the time you would be correct unless that woman is the Republican candidate for vice president.

For some unknown reason, Sarah Palin appeared at an event in Reno, Nevada yesterday sporting a scarf intended for Democrats.  The fact that it’s covered with donkeys and not elephants gives it away. Maybe she thought they were moose. What’s next, will she show up at an event wearing a vintage Carter-Mondale t-shirt?

Maybe it’s not her fault. Maybe the maker of the scarf failed to put sufficient warnings on the scarf stating that it should not be worn by Republicans running for political office. [Stumper]

by Rick on October 22, 2008
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RNC spends $150,000 to clothe and accessorize Sarah Palin and her family

From Politico:

The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.

The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.

The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.

Politico asked the McCain campaign for comment, explicitly noting the $150,000 in expenses for department store shopping and makeup consultation that were incurred immediately after Palin’s announcement. Pre-September reports do not include similar costs.

Spokeswoman Maria Comella declined to answer specific questions about the expenditures, including whether it was necessary to spend that much and whether it amounted to one early investment in Palin or if shopping for the vice presidential nominee was ongoing.

“The campaign does not comment on strategic decisions regarding how financial resources available to the campaign are spent,” she said.

I’m not at all surprised by this news. When the Sarah Palin’s future son-in-law and high school drop out Levi Johnston showed up at the Republican National Convention all decked out in a fancy suit, I wondered were he got the money to buy such nice threads. He obviously didn’t even have enough money for condoms. I figured someone bought the suit for him.

by Rick on October 22, 2008
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Colin Powell endorses Obama

Colin Powell is on Meet The Press and is endorsing Barack Obama for President of the United States.  Not only has he stated that he will be voting for Barack Obama on election day, he detailed the reasons.  He mentioned one of the reasons being the fact that John McCain chose a running mate who is not qualified to lead.

Before John McCain chose Sarah Palin as a running mate, I was contemplating voting for McCain.  All that went out the window when he chose Palin to be his running mate.  I realized just how ridiculous a McCain presidency would be.  McCain choosing Palin was the smelling salts I needed to make me come to my senses.

I’ve always had the utmost respect for General Colin Powell. I’m glad to find out that he and I will be voting alike on election day.

2 Comments by Rick on October 19, 2008
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Sarah Palin likes the very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America parts of this great nation

I think Sarah the Hockey Mom has been getting jealous of all the attention Joe the Plumber has been getting lately.  What better way of getting attention then to say something stupid?

While speaking Thursday in North Carolina, she explained why she likes some parts of this country more then others:

We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans.

I think it’s important for someone who wants to be Vice President to not play favorites with the country. She’s running to be Vice President of the entire country, not Vice President of small towns.

I can only imagine the uproar that would be caused if Barack Obama or Joe Biden spoke at a rally in a large city and said that the best part of America is in large metropolitan cities. That large cities represented “real America”. That people living in large cities were more hard working or more patriotic them those living in small podunk towns.

1 Comment by Rick on October 18, 2008
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‘Joe the Plumber’ is not regestered to vote [UPDATED]

It seems that Joe Wurzelbacher, AKA “Joe The Plumber”, the McCain-Palin campaign’s favorite turd herder isn’t even registered to vote in Ohio.  Learning this fact makes me wonder why he bothered to complain to Barack Obama about his plan to raise taxes on bald guys people making over $250,000 a year.

Since he chooses not to participate in the democratic process, wasn’t there something else he could have been doing with his valuable time? Wasn’t there a plugged up toilet somewhere needing his attention? [Politico]

UPDATE: It appears that “Joe The Plumber” is registered to vote under his real name, Samuel Joseph Worzelbacher. I researched the Ohio voter rolls under the names Joe The Plumber, Detective Vic Mackey, Joe Wurzelbacher, and Joe The Turd Herder. I never thought of checking for a Samuel Wurzelbacher. My bad.

2 Comments by Rick on October 16, 2008
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Sarah Palin mistakes supporters for protesters

From the New York Times:

A massive crowd of at least 20,000 spread across the parking lot of Richmond International Raceway, and scores of people on the outer periphery more than 100 yards from the stage could not hear.

”Louder! Louder!” they began chanting, and the cry spread across the crowd to Palin’s left. Some pointed skyward, urging that the volume be increased.

Palin stopped her remarks briefly and looked toward the commotion.

”I hope those protesters have the courage and honor to give veterans thanks for their right to protest,” she said.

I bet she thought they were yelling “Liar! Liar!” instead of ”Louder! Louder!” because, well, she is a big liar.

by Rick on October 14, 2008
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Racist supporter monkeys around at Palin rally

Here we see a John McCain supporter and his Curious George doll nicknamed “Little Hussein” at a Sarah Palin rally held in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. What a shock that a man owning a plush monkey doll adorned with an Obama bumper sticker on it’s head would show up in attendance at a Sarah Palin rally. What are the odds?

Towards the end of the video, I almost feel sorry for this buffoon. It’s as though he realizes what an ass he is being and wishes he had not done it. He peels the bumper stick off Little Hussein’s head and looks around seemingly for a place to stash the monkey. You can almost see the gears moving in that head of his. He then notices the small boy in front of him being held by his father and decides to give the monkey to the little boy.

If I was the dad, I would be a little pissed off. I wouldn’t want my child learning it was OK to accept plush toys from creepy male strangers, especially at a Sarah Palin rally.

by Rick on October 13, 2008
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Racist Missouri Obama billboard angers some

Outside West Plains, Missouri on U.S. 63 sits a sign so absurd and racist that it’s almost funny.  At least it doesn’t follow John McCain and Sarah Palin’s latest talking points claiming that Barack Obama has terrorists for friends.

The billboard attempts to capitalize on Obama’s middle name, Hussein.  It’s not like he picked that name for himself in 1992.  The name was given to him by his parents when he was born.  I can’t see the logic in attacking someone over their middle name.  If I did, I might have something to say about John McCain’s middle name, Sidney.

And the billboard is not even factually accurate. I wish Barack Obama did favor gay marriage. Unfortunately, he does not. Instead, he favors civil unions. As far as taxes go, he is only raising taxes on the top 5% of taxpayers. He wants to give the rest of us a tax cut.

I’m not even sure that it is Obama wearing that turban.  It looks more like Baba Booey from the Howard Stern show. [Link]

9 Comments by Rick on October 12, 2008
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Did the Secret Service have a talk with John McCain?


John McCain and Sarah Palin have been whipping up their base at political rallies making derogatory and untrue statements about Barack Obama. The crowd gets extremely agitated. Not only do they boo and hiss at the mere mention of Senator Obama’s name, many of them yell out words such as “TRAITOR” or “TERRORIST”. In one video taken at a Palin rally, someone can be heard yelling “KILL HIM” after she informs the crowd that Obama is friends with terrorists.

With this kind of crap going on, I figured it was only a matter of time before someone with the Secret Service had a talk with the McCain campaign. I would imagine it’s hard enough protecting the life of possibly the next president of the United States without his opponent running around telling people that he is a terrorist.

It appears that maybe somebody did.

McCain seems to be attempting to calm the frenzy down concerning Obama. He even takes the microphone away from one woman who accuses Obama of being an “A-Rab“.

by Rick on October 11, 2008
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Investigation finds that Sarah Palin violated ethics laws

The report filed by Steve Branchflower, the investigator looking into Troopergate was released yesterday afternoon by the Alaska Legislative Council and it doesn’t look very good for Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.  From the Anchorage Daily News:

Branchflower’s report contains four findings. The first concludes that Palin violated the state’s executive branch ethics act, which says that “each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”

I think it’s important to point out that it differentiates between “personal or financial interest”. Some Palin supporters are evidently saying that Palin was not using her power as governor to get her ex-brother-in-law fired for financial gain, so there was no ethical violation. While that’s true, she was trying to use the power of her office to settle an old score with her ex-brother-in-law. That is just as unethical as skimming money.

The report also paints Governor Palin in a poor light for seemingly unable or unwilling to reign in her husband Todd, the “First Dude” of Alaska. Often times it was the First Dude that was running around exerting pressure on state officials to get Sarah Palin’s ex-brother-in-law fired.

by Rick on October 11, 2008
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Meet some of the people at a McCain-Palin rally

Have you ever watched news coverage of a McCain-Palin rally and wondered what gives with all of the people in the audience booing and hissing at the mere mention of Barack Hussein Obama’s name?  I sure have.

Blogger Interrupted took a video camera to a rally in Strongsville, Ohio and asked some of those in attendance a few questions. The result is comedy gold. The sad part is that it’s all real and these people vote.

I don’t think any of them are even liquored up.

5 Comments by Rick on October 9, 2008
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Tina Fey as Sarah Palin in VP Debate

Former Saturday Night Live head writer returned to the show last night to once again play the part of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Even though she is a tree hugging liberal like me, I wouldn’t be surprised if Tina Fey secretly wanted McCain to win next month. Not only as a millionaire would she be getting a massive cut under a McCain presidency, she would never have to worry about not having anything to do on a Saturday night.

Tina Fey as Sarah Palin is comedy gold.

26 Comments by Rick on October 5, 2008
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Why is Sarah Palin ripping off Jesus?

The McCain-Palin campaign released the last two years of Sarah Palin’s taxes. The documents show that Sarah and the First Dude had a gross income of $166,080 in 2007. They donated $2,500 to charity that year and also made a “non-cash” donation to the Salvation Army of junk supposedly worth $825.

That totals out to be a whopping $3,325 they donated to charity. In other words, they donated roughly 2% of their earnings to charity.

What I find strange about this is that Sarah and Todd Palin are Assembly of God Pentecostal Christians. The Assembly of God teaches that you owe God 10% of your gross income to him. You pay this in the form of a tithe. As a member of the Assembly of God, you are required to both tithe and make other offerings to your church. The tithe is a minimum requirement while the offering is a voluntary amount of money that you give on your own. You give what you feel the Lord wants you to give.

Growing up in an Assembly of God church, I cannot count how many times I heard the pastor preach about the importance of paying your tithes and offerings. It was a regular Sunday morning topic.  I probably heard more sermons pertaining to tithing and making offerings then any other single topic in the 19 years I attended the Assembly of God church.

Finding out that Sarah Palin and her husband gave only 2% of their earnings and not the minimum of 10% makes me wonder just how serious they are about their religious convictions. Being that she is constantly lying about things and she has repeatedly gone out of her way to be vindictive to those she doesn’t like, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

7 Comments by Rick on October 4, 2008
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Sarah Palin pulled the ‘white flag of surrender’ crap on Joe Biden

I’ve been watching last night’s vice presidential debate between Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Joe Biden (off and on) on my iPod. I’m not sure it was really a debate. Sarah Palin seemed more interested in reciting all of the talking points she had memorized before the debate then actually engaging in a back and forth exchange of ideas with her opponent.

Not that I am surprised.

What did surprise me was when she accused Joe Biden of want to “wave the white flag of surrender” because he believes it is time to begin the orderly withdraw of combat troops from Iraq. It’s a ridiculous comment. Just who does she think Biden wants to surrender to? To Saddam Hussein? He’s dead. How about his sons? They’re dead too. Just about everyone that was in a position of leadership in the Hussein regime is either dead or sitting in a jail cell right now.

We won the war a long time ago.  Iraq is now a democracy. The Iraqi people are now free. No one in Iraq possess weapons of mass destruction.

The war is over. The war has been over for some time now. What’s going on now is a costly military occupation. Iraq will never prosper as a true democracy while it has a foreign army occupying it’s country.

I think what irks me the most about the whole “white flag of surrender” claim is that everyone that says it knows it’s not true. They say is anyway because they want to discredit the person they are speaking about.

I’ve had enough.

From now on, I’m going to be just as dishonest when it comes to people that want to keep our troops in Iraq. I’m going to say these people want to stay in Iraq so that we can “rip out Iraqi guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”  Of course it’s not true, but why should that matter?

If I’ve learned anything from the McCain campaign, the truth doesn’t really matter too much.

4 Comments by Rick on October 3, 2008
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VP debate moderator is a scary black woman that writes history books

Some members of the right wing spin machine have been in a tizzy over the fact that the moderator for tomorrow night’s Vice Presidential debate, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, has written a book about the black political movement. The book is entitled Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama and it is scheduled to be published sometime in January 2009. The book looks at the the various people that have contributed to the breakthroughs that black people have made in the world of politics since the civil rights movement.

As if you could write a book about the history of black people in politics and not mention Barack Obama.

Some McCain-Palin backers are claiming that Gwen Ifill will be biased in tomorrow’s debate between Vice Presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. Personally, I don’t think they have anything to worry about when it comes to Gwen Ifill moderating the debate.

That’s not to say I don’t think they have anything to worry about. It’s just that Gwen Ifill is the least of their problems. The idea of Sarah Palin debating Joe Biden in front of millions of people without a script or a teleprompter has got to be taking years off their lives.

I actually almost feel sorry for them.

1 Comment by Rick on October 1, 2008
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Sarah Palin thinks the bailout is about healthcare

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Sarah Palin’s lies might be catching up with her

It appears Sarah Palin’s lies just might be catching up with her.  ABC News seems to be spending a lot of time doing what the McCain campaign refused to do.  They are investigating the facts involving Troopergate:

An internal government document obtained by ABC News appears to contradict Sarah Palin’s most recent explanation for why she fired her public safety chief, the move which prompted the now-contested state probe into “Troopergate.”

ABC News has been investigating Troopergate.  Fighting back against allegations she may have fired her then-Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a “rogue mentality” and was bucking her administration’s directives.

“The last straw,” her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The project, expected to cost from $10 million to $20 million a year for five years, would have been the first of its kind in Alaska, which leads the nation in reported forcible rape.

The McCain-Palin campaign echoed the charge in a press release it distributed Monday, concurrent with Palin’s legal filing. “Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.,” the release stated.

But the governor’s staff authorized the trip, according to an internal travel document from the Department of Public Safety, released Friday in response to an open records request.

That’s something I never quite understood.  If Monegan’s trip to D.C. was unauthorized, how did he get there?  Did he travel on his own dime?  That’s what you would think if he was indeed a rouge government official who did things without the approval of the governor’s office.  Having an authorized travel document from the governor’s chief-of-staff that states he was going to Washington D.C. to meet with Senator Murkowski would prove that Palin is lying.

And what does Sarah Palin have against combating rape?  When she was mayor of Wasilla, rape victims were required to pay for their own rape kit when they were brought to the hospital.  She has also made it clear that she is against a woman receiving an abortion, even when they are the victim of a rape.  She fired her top cop supposedly because he tried to secure federal funding to help deal with Alaska’s high number of forcible rapes.

What’s up with that?

by Rick on September 20, 2008
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Alaska’s First Dude refuses to testify

From my new favorite newspaper, the Anchorage Daily News:

Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband has refused to testify in the investigation of his wife’s alleged abuse of power, and a key lawmaker said today that uncooperative witnesses are effectively sidetracking the probe until after Election Day.

Maybe Todd Palin is just too busy to testify.  He is the grandfather father of a baby with Down syndrome and his wife Sarah is kind of busy these days joining John McCain on the campaign trail making him look even older then he is.  That’s something I didn’t even know was possible.

by Rick on September 19, 2008
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The absurdity of Sarah Palin

The story that Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s used two freebie Yahoo email accounts for official Alaska state business demonstrates just how nutty McCain picking this woman to be his vice president truly is.

Did she honestly think that a free Yahoo email account was even remotely secure? For a woman who can see Russia from her house, she sure doesn’t understand security.

As the Governor of Alaska, she had secure email accounts that she could use to conduct official state business. Instead, she chose to use two free Yahoo accounts for all her official state business. The reason she would turn to Yahoo instead of using the official Alaska state email servers is that she didn’t want to deal with any of Alaska’s so called sunshine laws.  That’s where people — citizens if you will — can request to see any correspondence (including emailed messages) sent or received by a government official as a matter of public record.  Palin believed that by not using the official Alaska government email accounts, she was outside the jurisdiction of the sunshine laws.

I’m not so sure that she was.  In fact, I don’t understand how she could think that any of her Yahoo emails were outside the scope of the sunshine laws.  She used these freebie email accounts — gov.sarah@yahoo.com and gov.sarah@yahoo.com — for all of her official email correspondence.  By placing the “gov” in front of each address, she makes them seem official.

And what exactly does she think she has to hide?  Will we know before election day?

1 Comment by Rick on September 18, 2008
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Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account hacked

The freebie Yahoo email account Alaska governor Sarah Palin uses to avoid Alaskan freedom of information law has been hacked by members of the group known as Anonymous.  They gained fame by taking on the forces of Scientology by posting creepy YouTube videos.

When I say the word “hacked”, I am using the term very loosely. Most likely the members of Anonymous just guessed what her Yahoo password was and typed it in and gained instant access to her account.

My guess is that her password was “Hot4Todd”.

I don’t know why an anti-Scientology group would set their sights on Sarah Palin. She’s not a Scientologist. She’s a Pentecostal of the Assembly of God variety. [Huffington Post]

2 Comments by Rick on September 17, 2008
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Sarah Palin vetoed funding for Alaska Special Olympics

Think Progress is reporting that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin vetoed $275,000 for Alaska’s Special Olympics.   She slashed the organization’s operating budget in half.

Some might say this flies into the face of her earlier statement that she would be a friend and advocate for families with children with special needs. As if to say that Barack Obama and Joe Biden would be an enemy of families with children with special needs. In her defense, this veto might have happened before she became the grandmother mother of a child with Down syndrome.

Also, it’s apparent that she has a real problem with telling the truth. Criticizing Sarah Palin for lying is a lot like criticizing molten lava for being hot.

20 Comments by Rick on September 16, 2008
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Tina Fey as Sarah Palin


Former Saturday Night Live writer Tina Fey made a return visit to her old show last night to help with the opening monologue. Those that said Tina Fey looked an awful lot like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin were exactly right. Tina Fey did a dead-on impersonation of woman Republicans want to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

by Rick on September 14, 2008
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Wasilla rape victims were billed when Sarah Palin was mayor

What exactly does Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate have against women who are rapped? Not only does she think that a rape victim should be forced to have a rapist’s child even if her rapist is a blood relative, Wasilla rape victims were sent a bill to cover the cost of their own rape kit. A rape kit is used by law enforcement to collect physical evidence from a rape. They cost anywhere from $300 to $1,200.

The Wasilla police department would first try to bill the victim’s insurance company and if they refused to pay for the cost of the rape kit, the victim herself was sent the bill. I’m not really sure why an insurance company would pay for the rape kit. They are intended to gather physical evidence, not to treat injuries.

The state of Alaska had to step in and create a special law that forbid the practice from happening. [Anchorage Daily News]

by Rick on September 12, 2008
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When in doubt, blame Abraham Lincoln

I watched some of the Sarah Palin interview shown last night on ABC News with Charles Gibson. Now we know why the McCain campaign wont allow the press to talk to Palin.  I can’t say I really blame them either.

One of my favorite parts was when she blamed Abraham Lincoln when asked about her comment to her former church that the Iraq war was a “task from God”.

GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?

PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.

GIBSON: Exact words.

PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln’s words when he said — first, he suggested never presume to know what God’s will is, and I would never presume to know God’s will or to speak God’s words. But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that’s a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God’s side. That’s what that comment was all about, Charlie.

No, that’s not what that comment was all about Charlie.  Her statement to the Wasilla Assembly of God church was nothing at like anything Abraham Lincoln said.  In fact, it sounded a lot more like the Blues Brothers’ “We’re on a mission from God” then anything Lincoln ever said.

5 Comments by Rick on September 12, 2008
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Sarah Palin’s costly sports complex

That liberal rag The Wall Street Journal did some fancy reporting on the complete boondoggle the Wasilla sports complex turned out to be under Sarah Palin’s watch. Not only does she claim not to know what a community organizer is — would it have killed her to look it up on Wikipedia before her speech? — I don’t think she knows an awful lot about being a mayor either.

Sarah Palin sure ain’t no Mayor McCheese. [Wall Street Journal]

by Rick on September 10, 2008
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This is why I like Joe Biden

Once again, the McCain campaign is offended over something said on the campaign trial. Will this be on ongoing theme until the election? From CNN:

During a campaign event in Columbia, Missouri, Biden did not mention his Republican counterpart by name but said, “I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy … and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect.”

Biden’s support of stem cell research is at odds with the position taken by the Republicans’ vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose 5-month-old son, Trig, has Down syndrome.

Palin, an evangelical Christian, opposes stem cell research because it involves the use of human embryos, but her running mate, GOP presidential nominee McCain, does support stem cell research.
“Well, guess what, folks? If you care about it, why don’t you support stem cell research?” asked Biden, the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama.

Biden is exactly right. You cannot pretend to care about those with disabilities if you are going to insist that a 100-cell blastocyst is a human being and be against government funded stem cell research.

There is only one political party that supports stem cell research.

1 Comment by Rick on September 10, 2008
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The McCain campaign is quick to play the victim [Updated]

The McCain campaign is claiming fake outrage over something said by Barack Obama while on the campaign trail. While in Lebanon, Virginia, Obama talked about how John McCain is claiming that he is the candidate offering change. From ABC News blog Political Punch:

“That’s not change,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of what Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is offering. “You know, you can put lipstick on a pig,” Obama said, “but it’s still a pig.”

According to the McCain campaign, the phrase “lipstick on a pig” is a sexist slur directed to McCain’s running-mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, because, well, I don’t know why. Before yesterday, I always thought it was just an old expression referring to the futile act of trying to dress something up as something that it’s not. For instance, the claim that a conservative could also be an advocate of change. The term “conservative” and the term “change” are direct opposite of each other.

The ironic thing is that it’s an old metaphor that McCain himself has used while speaking on the campaign trail. From CNN’s Political Ticker:

In Iowa last October, McCain drew comparisons between Hillary Clinton’s current healthcare plan and the one she championed in 1993: “I think they put some lipstick on the pig, but it’s still a pig.” He used roughly the same line in May, after effectively claiming the Republican nomination.

As far as fake outrage goes, this is pretty desperate. Say what you will about Gov. Sarah Palin, she’s no pig. Maybe if she was unattractive or a member of law enforcement, I could understand the McCain campaign attempting to insist this was a slur directed towards Palin. It just looks like they are eager to play the part of the victim.

Update: Here is the video of John McCain using the phrase, “lipstick on a pig“. What a hypocrite. I’m now having a hard time remembering why I ever respected this man.

2 Comments by Rick on September 10, 2008
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Politicians lying about their record

by Rick on September 9, 2008
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Sarah Palin: “So Sambo beat the bitch!”

According to a waitress that served Alaska governor Sarah Palin and five or six of her political colleagues, Palin referred to Barack Obama as a “Sambo” and to Hillary Clinton as a “Bitch”.  It was a few days after Obama locked up the nomination.  She reportedly said, “So Sambo beat the bitch!” Evidently she got quite a chuckle from everyone sitting at the table.

Maybe this is just the way hockey moms talk.

Too bad she wont allow anyone from the news media to interview her or ask her questions.  This would be one of the many things an interviewer could ask her about.  [LA Progressive]

by Rick on September 7, 2008
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