An e-mail from a mom with a special needs child:
Sarah Palin, outlining her goals as VP said today:
Palin, who has a four-month-old son with Down Syndrome, said she would ensure government is on the side of families with special needs children.
She has not earned the right to speak for us...sorry. Her party has never been on our side, has fought to do away with special education entitlements, cut everything, every needed therapy, every hour of respite we needed.... fought ADA, the Civil Rights movement that bars discrimination against those with disabilities. Four months into the role, she is not only not vetted to speak for us, she is not even there for her baby now, participating in the early therapies, early start programs that so many of us fought for, gave up our lives, our careers to insure..We fought and won those rights, championed proven early intervention programs that Republicans fought and have tried to cut for as long as I've been a parent of special needs child....
and that would be 34 years last July, folks.
Pat
The largest political demonstrration in the state's history. Read all about it!
Palin: Let me speak specifically about a credential that I do bring to this table, Charlie, and that's with the energy independence that I've been working on for these years as the governor of this state that produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy, that I worked on as chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, overseeing the oil and gas development in our state to produce more for the United States.
McCain: Well, I think Americans are going to be very, very, very pleased. This is a very dynamic person. [Palin's] been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply.
The truth is more like 2.4 percent. Largest state? Population of Alaska: 683,478; population of Deleware: 864,764. Population of the nation's largest state: 36,553,215. Size isn't everything.
"The Wasilla High School yearbook archive now doubles as a veritable directory of state government." The New York Times looks into Palin's political history.
Those "white women" who have decided they'll vote for the GOP now that one of their own is on the ticket might want to make note of the Wassila policy with regards to rape victims under Palin's watch. If you've been raped and you have the timerity to want to prove it, you're going to have to pay.
We still don't know how to vote. Palm Beach County is heavily Democratic, of course. This does not bode well for November.
John McCain has 159 lobbyists on his campaign staff. And he's a lying piece of shit, the kind of guy who'd call his wife a "cunt" in public.
"Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt." McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days." (via Raw Story)
A hot beef sundae? Pizza on a stick?
From Anne Kilkenny's open letter about Sarah Palin:
"During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.
"Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservative”. During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.
"The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing." (emphasis added)
Fox news bozos report that Obama supporters threw US flags in the trash. And expected someone to believe it. Not even GOP voters are that stupid. Are they? According to Wikipedia, Carl Cameron, one of the liars involved: "In another instance, Cameron wrote a story posted on the Fox News website which included fabricated quotes from Kerry; the senator purportedly called himself a 'metrosexual' and Bush a "cowboy" and spoke effeminately about a manicure. Official Fox News spokesman Paul Schur later said it was intended to be an internal joke not for publication, and the network apologized for the piece, but only on its website, and only through a tag on the article in which these quotes appeared." Talking Points Memo weighs in on the Cameron/McCain connection. (Gracias a Jose en Queso)
Rudy Giuliani doesn't know what a community organizer is. What a surprise. He's the kind of corrupt and smug pharisee that people have to organize against. Community organizers create "social movements by building a base of concerned people, mobilizing these community members to act, and developing leadership from and relationships among the people involved. Community organizing creates "social movements by building a base of concerned people, mobilizing these community members to act, and developing leadership from and relationships among the people involved." (Wikipedia) In other words, it's a synonym for democracy. We're thankful now that Rudy's career has gone the way of his first two marriages. Rudy's the darkness before the bright, beautiful new morning.
When I was in college everyone I knew read community organizer Saul Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals. it was our bible. And it was dedicated to the first man to ask the impertinent question: "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins--or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer." That and Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Hillary Rodham Clinton did her senior thesis at Wellesly on Saul Alinsky. Michelle Obama gave a nod to Alinsky in her DNC speech. Here's Alinsky: “The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive — but real — allies of the Haves…The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means… The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be."
Sarah preaching to the choir at her Assembly of God church. God wants us to kill the Muslims.
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