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Lipstick Fascism

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:31:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "This is the path that America is on with Palin and McCain. The election of 2008 is a choice between the United States Constitution and Lipstick Fascism."

Frank Schaeffer is the author of CRAZY FOR GOD-How I Grew Up As One Of The
Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

We have seen the next Mussolini and she's wearing a skirt.

Sarah Palin is the face of a post-democracy America, post-constitutional and post-freedom America. She is the home town "little Austrian" vice presidential candidate to a cancer-riddled old man who, chances are high, won't see the end of his first term in office if he becomes president due to illness and old age. The woman who said that we don't need to read people their rights may well be the next president.

mock and belittle your opponents, nibble at the edges of the rule of law, promote violence,

grasp at a weird religion of "destiny" (their version of American exceptionalism) with an "us" against "them" mentality, blame others,

intellectual classes and the media, pit the working people against the perceived elite (Jews in Europe and today's university-educated Democratic Party leaders in America), take power based on grievance and fear and then set aside the constitution altogether based on claimed threats by outsiders.

Tags: palin, mccain, republicans, fascism

Republicans Launch Sexist Attack on Sarah Palin

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:11:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is the definition of "not getting it'.

Clip Source: www.thestar.com

Shortly after the news conference, the McCain campaign unveiled a new button in the Xcel Center, touting Palin as "The Hottest VP."

Tags: republicans, mccain, palin, sexism

Jesus was a Community Organizer, Pilate was a Governor

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:27:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

Thank you to my friend Daniel, who has done community organizing from Harlem to LA to Boston. Thank you to Biko Baker of League of Young Voters, who I once interviewed and was immediately impressed by. Thank you to Saul Alinsky, largely considered the father of community organizing (pictured above). Thank you to all of you I don't know, who every day, make the choice to listen to ordinary people's stories and help them link these stories into a template for honest-to-goodness social change.

And, yes, thank you to Barack Obama, for making the choice to be a community organizer so many years ago and for continuing to be proud and loud about the importance of the role of the community organizer for our nation's well-being.

Clip Source: www.feministing.com

Thank You Thursdays: Community Organizers

Thank you to all the community organizers, past and present, who have recognized the ways in which the personal is the political, hearing--in the individual stories of ordinary people--a common thread of struggle deserving of action and resolution. Thank you to those who jump started whole movements (feminism, civil rights, labor) with their audacity and daily, hourly, minute-by-minute courage to knock on doors, sit down with friends and strangers alike, educate, and most of all, listen. Thank you to the community organizers who have targeted environmental racism--making sure that folks aren't poisoned in their own neighborhoods just because they don't have the resources to fight back. Thank you to the community organizers who have targeted civil rights, educational failures, classism, racism, sexism, ableism etc. etc.

Tags: republicans hate poor powerless people

Your Pocket Guide to Speaking Palin-guage (Vol.1)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:57:34 GMT

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If you're a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fully vetting the individual you're "reckless." A Republican who doesn't fully vet is a "maverick."

If you say that for the "first time in my adult lifetime I'm really proud of my country" it makes you "unfit" to be First Lady. If you are a registered member of a fringe political group that advocates secession that makes you "First Dude."

A DUI from twenty years ago is "old news." A speech given without proper citation from twenty years ago is "relevant information."

And, finally, if you're a man and you decide to run for office despite your wife's recurrence of cancer you're a "questionable spouse." If you're a woman and you decide to run for office despite having five kids including a newborn... Well, we don't know what that is 'cause THAT'S NOT A FAIR QUESTION TO ASK.

Just learned a new one: IOKIYAR: It's OK if you're a Republican!

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Your Pocket Guide to Speaking Palin-guage (Vol. 1)

REPEAT THE FOLLOWING:

If you're a minority and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "token hire." If you're a conservative and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "game changer."

If you live in an Urban area and you get a girl pregnant you're a "baby daddy." If you're the same in Alaska you're a "teen father." (Actually, according to your own MySpace page you're an F'n redneck that don't want any kids, but that's too long a phrase for the evil liberal media to take out of context and flog morning noon and night).

Black teen pregnancies? A "crisis" in black America. White teen pregnancies? A "blessed event."

If you grow up in Hawaii you're "exotic." Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're the quintessential "American story."

Similarly, if you name you kid Barack you're "unpatriotic." Name your kid Track, you're "colorful."

Tags: palin, lightweight, stay home

Peggy Noonan, Reagan Speechwriter: Palin Pick is "Political Bullsh*t"

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:29:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Caught on tape: Noonan, former McCain adviser, and Chuck Todd on Palin pick. Ouch!

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan and former John McCain adviser, Time columnist, and MSNBC contributor Mike Murphy were caught on tape disparaging John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate.

PN: It's over.

CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.

PN: Saw Kay this morning.

CT: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this --

MM: They're all bummed out.

CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --

MM: I totally agree.

PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.

CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.

MM: Yeah.

Tags: palin, lightweight, stay home

No Gay Sex, Please; We're from Virginia

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:39:06 GMT

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The Minneapolis-St. Paul area has a large and vibrant gay nightlife, where club managers said many Republicans were expected this week.

"We've had quite a spike, mostly people who are curious come down and they wind up leaving and having a good time," said Robert Parker, the manager of the Gay 90's club in downtown Minneapolis which features a popular "drag queen" show.

"Mississippi, Alabama, California, Arizona, I've seen people from all over, said Parker.

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

No Gay Sex, Please; We're from Virginia

A campaign official for the Virginia Lieutenant Governor cancelled an order for 150 guidebooks to entertainment in Minneapolis-St. Paul after discovering they included a 6-8 page section for gay and lesbian nightclubs.

"Having a section dedicated solely to GLBT will be a BIG problem for many of our folks. We simply can't hand them out," wrote the aide, Melissa Busse, in an email to the guidebook publisher, Rake Publishing, obtained by ABC affiliate KSTP.

In a statement, Virginia Lt. Gov Bolling said he was sorry the cancellation occurred "and wish it had not happened." He said the delegation would reimburse the publisher for his costs.

Juno from Juneau: A Video Report from the RNC Floor on Palin's Problem

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:49:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Christian Taliban.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Juno From Juneau: A Video Report From The RNC Floor On Palin's Problem

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The Republican National Committee's 2008 convention draft platform pledges to continue waging the right's war on sex education. The platform reads: "We support abstinence education and oppose school-based clinics that provide referrals, counseling, and related services for abortion and contraception."

Could Bristol Palin have benefited from the sex education and contraceptives the GOP seeks to deny to public school students?

In my latest video, "Juno From Juneau," I probe the GOP reaction to this question on the floor of the Republican National Convention.

members of the Alaska delegation were forthright about their enthusiasm for faith-based abstinence-only programs and restricting abortion even in cases of rape and incest.

One delegate

told me

that her three daughters are only allowed to go on dates with their father, who lectures them on chastity and makes them wear "purity rings"

Tags: rnc, palin, abortion, contraception, sex ed, abstinence-only

Bwaaaaaahaaaahaaahaaaaa...!

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:23:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Speak it, brother!

Clip Source: voices.washingtonpost.com

Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain's presidential bid,

"This election is not about issues," said Davis.

Tags: the republican party is officially bankrupt

Ain't it the Truth...

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:00:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Black and white in America.

Clip Source: firstread.msnbc.msn.com

I found this on the net...pass it around...it's soooo true. "Only in Republican America would a black man with a law degree from Harvard, 12 years in politics, four years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and manager of one of the most impressively flawless and forward thinking presidential campaigns ever not be ready for the presidency while a white female evangelical with 19 months in national politics and a bachelors in journalism is considered "ready on day one." so true.

McCain Hires GOP Operative Who Smeared Him in 2000

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:28:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Politics sure makes strange bedfellows.

Clip Source: blogs.abcnews.com

McCain Hires GOP Operative Who Helped Smear Him in South Carolina in 2000

Former officials of Sen. John McCain's 2000 campaign expressed shock and disbelief Monday to learn than the GOP presidential nominee had hired South Carolina political consultant Tucker Eskew.

Eskew, along with Warren Tompkins and Neal Rhodes, were key members of then-Gov. George W. Bush's South Carolina team during the 2000 primaries. McCain and his team long held Bush, Tompkins, Rhodes and Eskew responsible for the various smears against McCain and his family in the Palmetto state during that contentious contest.

The tactics used against McCain by Bush and his allies in South Carolina left a deep scar on both McCain and his wife Cindy.

Eight years later, with a tough fight of his own, McCain has turned to one of the same men.

Tags: mccain, bush, south carolina, 2000 election

Sarah Palin Confirms 17-Year Old Daughter's Pregnancy

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:34:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How's that abstinence-only education working for you?

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Palin confirms daughter's pregnancy

The Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has announced that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.

Bristol Palin, one of Palin's five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Senior McCain campaign officials said McCain knew of the daughter's pregnancy when he selected Palin last week as his vice presidential running mate, deciding that it did not disqualify the 44-year-old governor in any way.

Tags: palin, lightweight, stay home

McCain: Palin a "Soulmate"

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:45:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Soulmate?

Clip Source: www.politico.com

McCain: Palin a "soulmate"

John McCain, in his first television interview since his shocking vice presidential pick, said that he saw in Sarah Palin "a partner and a soul mate."

Tags: mccain is afraid of women

Praying for Rain? Be Careful What You Wish For...

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:35:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So sorry Jerry Falwell isn't around to tell us the people of New Orleans "deserve it".

Clip Source: www.dailykos.com

Praying for Rain? Be Careful What You Wish For....

As Hurricane Gustav barrels toward the Gulf Coast and residents are fleeing in droves, I am reminded of this "humorous" piece put out by Dobson's Focus on the Family organization last week:

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Yes, that was Stuart Shepard of Focus on the Family encouraging people to pray for rain of biblical proportions to ruin the Democrat's big night in Denver. How Christian of him, no? And, how oh-so-ironic that Hurricane Gustav is now threatening to derail their own convention. While the residents of the Gulf coast are in our own hearts and prayers as they weather this storm, there does seem to be a sense of justice that New Orleans and memories of Katrina would come back to haunt this Republican convention. The memories of Katrina should rightly haunt them for the rest of their years.

Hurricanes qualify as "rain of biblical proportions",

Perhaps God is trying to tell you something. You would do well to heed these signs and atone for your sins.

Tags: focus on the family

Sarah Palin's Mother-in-Law Leans Towards Obama

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:05:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: LOL

Clip Source: www.nydailynews.com

Sarah Palin's mother-in-law uncertain about how she'll vote

Faye Palin, Gov. Palin's mother-in-law

WASILLA, Alaska - Sarah Palin's hometown rallied around her as mayor - now Republicans wonder if the rest of America will warm up to the surprise pick from cold country.

Though her mother-in-law has doubts.

Faye Palin admitted she enjoys hearing Barack Obama speak, and still hasn't decided which way she'll vote.

"We don't agree on everything. But I respect her passion," she said. "Being pro-life is who Sarah is."

"I'm not sure what she brings to the ticket other than she's a woman and a conservative. Well, she's a better speaker than McCain," Faye Palin said with a laugh. "People will say she hasn't been on the national scene long enough. But I believe she's a quick study."

Tags: palin, lightweight, stay home

Wasilla, Alaska

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:47:42 GMT

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Clip Source: mudflats.wordpress.com

What is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan’s Perspective.

Lovely Downtown Wasilla, Alaska

Wasilla is the heart of the Alaska “Bible belt” and Sarah was raised amongst the tribe that believes creationism should be taught in our public schools, homosexuality is a sin, and life begins at conception. She’s a gun-toting, hang ‘em high conservative. Remember…this is where her approval ratings come from.

Wasilla has a population of about 5500 people, and 1979 occupied housing units. This is where your potential Vice President was two short years ago. Can you imagine her negotiating a nuclear non-proliferation treaty? Discussing foreign policy? Understanding non-Alaskan issues? Frankly, I don’t even know if she’s ever been out of the country. She may ‘get’ Alaska, but there are only a half a million people here. Don’t get me wrong….I love Alaska with all my heart. I’m just saying.

Tags: palin, lightweight, stay home