I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic' and 'different.'
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're an American story.
If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, then you're well-grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, help register 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, 8 years as a State Senator of a district of 750,000 people, chair the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people, sponsor 131 bills, and serve on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works, and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town of 7,000 people, 2 years as governor of a state of 650,000 people, you're qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, left your ill wife, and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the use of birth control, you erode the fiber of American society.
If you staunchly advocate abstinence-only education, while your teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, you don't represent America's family values.
If your husband is called 'First Dude', has a DWI conviction, didn't register to vote until 25, and was a member of a group that advocated secession of Alaska from the USA, yours is the quintessential American family.
And, finally, if you're famous for your quick temper, you're the one to have your finger on the red nuclear button.
OK, much clearer now.
Is THIS enough, all right, for the Repubs to give into? Torie Clarke, a McCain spokesperson, wrote a book titled "Lipstick on a Pig", I think in 2007. Enough said.....if you read through her chapters you will find how she advised Repubs to use the phrase....hmmmmm.....seems this was long before any of us ever heard the name SARAH PALIN (boy, am I getting sick of the name Sarah - so glad none of my 2 granddaughters ever got that name!) Want to buy the book? - here's a link to amazon for more info.
http://www.amazon.com/Lipstick-Pig-Winning-No-Spin-Someone/dp/0743271165
Great video....a link that should be included in all your emails.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3rkzHDSCMw&eurl=
Here's a link (a live link) to an Alaskan (progressive) radio station that has become a popular place for news on the upcoming election since Palin has become the GOP VP selection. You get to learn just about everything Palin/McCain does NOT want you to know.
http://www.kudo1080.com/
As you can imagine the main topic has been Palin. They have various call-in shows throughout the day and love calls from out-of-state. Here's their number: 907-569-1080
(Right now they are talking about Palin's pastor - many are callig in stating that IF Rev. Wright was fair game then Palin's Pastor should also be fair game.)
Comes with everything you see here: Dead caribou, M-16, snowmobile, sexy librarian glasses. She even talks with such phrases as: “I’m a pit bull with lipstick!” “My family is off-limits” and “What is it that the VP actually does?”
This is a great post from the Alaskan blog, mudflats.com, that should get sent to everyone on your email list, used on every blog that you go to, and the story told to anyone that will listen to you....there is a video within the post of a meeting of the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP) that's quite interesting - below is a copy/paste from the blog to peak your interest so you take the time to go to mudflats.com and read/listen
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/palin-republican-party-infiltrator-damning-video/
"Our current governor, we mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected. There’s a joke, she’s a pretty good looking gal, there’s a joke goes around we’re the coldest state with the hottest governor. (laughter) And there was a lot of talk about her moving up. She was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town — that was a non-partisan job. But to get along and go along — she eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with their ethics, and well, I won’t go into that. She also had about an 80% approval rating, and is pretty well sympathetic to her former membership.“
"The army as an alternative to jail may or may not be a good option. Vandalism doesn't usually involve a possible death sentence. Making a policy of getting people out of jail because military recruiters can't otherwise meet their recruitment goals raises serious questions about the popularity of a war.
Using your son to prove your fitness as a vice presidential candidate, by boasting of his enlistment in the army and impending trip to Iraq, knowing he chose the army as his alternative to jail, is both hypocritical and stupid. Hypocritical because you know that the only reason he's headed to Iraq is that he had no choice. Stupid because it's going to come out.
What kind of mother risks the emotional stability of her kids by exposing them to national and international ridicule to further her career?......" READ MORE
http://whatdoino-steve.blogspot.com/2008/09/unraveling.html
I can only wonder what the greatest community organizer of all time would think of Palin's remarks.
And who is that you ask? ......
Jesus Christ.
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/09/02/palin-our-leaders-are-sending-our-troops-to-iraq-on-a-task-from-god/
In Palin's own words on the Iraq war:
“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God.”
Let that sink in a minute. A task that is from God. Sarah’s war is a holy war. It’s not, apparently from the God that says “turn the other cheek” or “I am my brother’s keeper” or “the greatest of all these is love”. It’s not about diplomacy, international relations, figuring out why we are so despised in the Middle East, keeping Israel secure, revamping how the U.S. deals with its unsustainable dependence on foreign oil, combating poverty and desperation that leads young men to terrorism. Nope. This war is God’s will. It’s God’s holy war. She went on:
"That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan." AND, there's MORE!! - http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/sarah-palins-preacher-problem-end-times-coming/
"That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan."
AND, there's MORE!! - http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/sarah-palins-preacher-problem-end-times-coming/
