It should be noted that both of the aforementioned people had children with their spouses.

ahahahahahaha……

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Dear Editors, Reporters and Commentators,

Reporting is hard. It must be if so many reporters fail to report obvious newsworthy
events. There are a few exceptions. Thank you Campbell Brown for being courageous.
Shame on you Savannah Guthrie for failure to dig. There are others in the mainstream
who deserve credit and I am sorry if I overlooked you. Maybe you didn’t chime
in loud enough over the din of loudening lies from the reckless McCain campaign.

Yesterday Representative Lynn Westmoreland called Senator Obama “uppity”.
When asked if that was what he meant, he repeated it. “Uppity”. No
longer is “elitist” enough, but the less nuanced “uppity” is
what is really meant. This was apparently not considered news worthy, but the questionable
cries of sexism against Governor Palin are. Really? When asked, a McCain spokesperson,
Fiorina backed off a bit when asked which allegations specifically were sexist.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/westmoreland-calls-obama-uppity-2008-09-04.html

She said the allegation that Palin’s husband belonged to a fringe group and a report
that suggested she was a Nazi sympathizer for wearing a Pat Buchanan button were
“problematic” — not necessarily sexist.

But allegations that Palin is racist and sexist aren’t even given any airtime.
“Sambo” referring to Obama, “bitch” referring to Hillary Clinton
and “Arctic-Arabs” referring to Native Alaskans are perfectly fine discourse
if the corporate media are to be believed. More than one or two people are on the
records as having heard Palin use those terms with frequency. So vet this:

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/

I don’t like rap much either and I’m africian-american. This country is still led mostly by “white” people. Yes, most of our US athletes are “black”, and yes the top two US women tennis players are “black”, and yes the world’s top sprinters are “black”. So what…there are still a lot of great “white” athletes – but why do you focus so much on color – are we not all Americans? Yes even though the world’s greatest golfer is half black, and now yes the best choice for president is half black, one is half asian and the other is also half white.
Your problem is that you want to separate the human race into colors, ethnic groups and maybe nationalities. In fact, mitochondrial DNA proves that all humans on earth are descended from 1 of only 33 different women. The whole concept of “race” is an 1800’s fallacy. The human species is all descended from the first humans who came from the great rift valley of eastern Africa. I have more in common genetically with my blond haired-blue eyed “white” cousins from Europe than with a black haired-brown eyed “black” native Australian. Distance from Africa is the key.

That all being said – let’s just stick to the issues in this election. John McCain – who I voted for in the 2000 California primary – is a great American. Barack Obama – who is also a man who loves his country, is potentially a great American. I am voting for Barack this time because we need new leadership and new direction. The republicans have had power under Bush and control of congress for 6 of the past 8 years. They have lost all sense of fiscal responsibility – we are fighting a war on borrowed money. This policy alone is insane, and if it continues will bankrupt our nation. Clinton and the republican congress got it right when they slightly raised taxes on the wealthy and by balancing our budget gave us the surpluses that Bush/Chenny squandered. We could have gone to Mars, used the money to reinvigorate our education system and fully funded our k-12 schools like we did in 1950/60’s. I think we also should have invested in renewable energy projects for our schools and government infrastructure. We can no longer run a modern nation without well funded schools, health care for all, etc… We also need to remove the burden of paying for health care off of our businesses and place it in the hands of government so we can be competitive to business in other countries. Health care in not free.

I’ll give you that we do need to control our borders, and we do need to eliminate wasteful programs. I completely trust a new generational leader like Obama to take us in these new directions we need to go – we do not need any more happy talk like I saw at the republican convention. Our nation needs to return to paying our bills on time with a balanced budget. We need to grow up as a country and be the world leader in more than just our military power. We need to set an example for the rest of the world by being financial adults our children and grandchildren can respect. We need to balance our budget by asking the wealthy to pay their fair share and start now. If our young heroes can fight this war, then those who can afford it need to step up and buy the bullets. Iraq has the money to pay for it’s own defense. We won this battle in the war on terror – let’s move on to Afghanistan, and let the Iraqis take care of Iraq.

10… 1 to screw in the bulb and the other 9 to complain that the bulb is too white.

Here is the paragraph from the article I’m referring to:

In fact, Juneau observers note that Palin kept her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork ladled out by indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. She only opposed the “bridge to nowhere” after it became clear that it would be politically unwise to keep supporting it, these same insiders assert.

Here is the newspaper article (Anchorage Daily News, Oct 22, 2006) with (then candidate for governor) Palin, in her own words (item #5):
http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/510378.html

So as you can see, there is one comment that is not myetsriously veiled. Time will tell is there will be more than just this one.

There is one fact that isn’t in blue – Palin was for the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ before she was against it. And since she, McCain, and all the GOP talking points are that she was always opposed to it, this amounts to a bald faced lie.

Here is the paragraph from the article I’m referring to:

In fact, Juneau observers note that Palin kept her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork ladled out by indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. She only opposed the “bridge to nowhere” after it became clear that it would be politically unwise to keep supporting it, these same insiders assert. Then, Palin fell back on her old habits and publicly humiliated him for pork-barrel politics.

Here is the newspaper article (Anchorage Daily News, Oct 22, 2006) with (then candidate for governor) Palin, in her own words (item #5):
http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/510378.html

Here is the paragraph from this article I’m referring to:

[i]In fact, Juneau observers note that Palin kept her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork ladled out by indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. [b]She only opposed the “bridge to nowhere” after it became clear that it would be politically unwise to keep supporting it[/b], these same insiders assert. Then, Palin fell back on her old habits and publicly humiliated him for pork-barrel politics.[/i]

Now here is the actual newspaper article (Anchorage Daily News, Oct 22, 2006) with then (candidate for governor) Palin, in her own words (item #5):
http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/510378.html

Look, there is alot of trash talk flying back and forth as usual. But in my experience, this does not bode well for Palin. Where there is smoke there is usually fire. I suspect that as the November elections approach, more unsavory news, more to do with her governing than this racist track, will become exposed and substantiated in the national media. This one attempt to spin the facts already show her to not be the person she presents herself as, and I think that is likely to be the tip of the iceberg. If more of this stuff pans out, then she isn’t fit to wield such power.

Regardless of whether you believe that wealth should be redistributed and the US become even more of a welfare state, with absolutely no reward or incentive for hard work or ingenuity, ignorant generalizations about entire groups are in no way helpful to the discussion.

I suspect few here will understand the reference, but glimpses of Obama’s ideas about social policy have it ringing in my ears: Who was John Galt?

"’So Sambo beat the bitch!’ This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidenti…

This whole article is exaggeration and not a single comment has a source that is not mysteriously veiled. This is an obvious hit piece against Governor Palin. Please spare us the ridiculous lies; only a moron would believe an article so one sided as this. If you call yourself a journalist, you are the liar.