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Actively Mixing Church Activities & State Funds - Sarah Palin

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:43:58 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Somebody please save us from this ethics-less mangled wreck of human intellect. PLEASE!!

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

The camera closes in on Sarah Palin speaking to young missionaries, vowing from the pulpit to do her part to implement God's will from the governor's office.

What she didn't tell worshippers gathered at the Wasilla Assembly of God church in her hometown was that her appearance that day came courtesy of Alaskan taxpayers, who picked up the $639.50 tab for her airplane tickets and per diem fees.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

This photo from the Web site of The Office of the Governor of Alaska, shows, from left, Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, Gov. Sarah Palin, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, being prayed over by Pastor Ed Kalnins and a congregation made up of nearly 20 different churches and denominations at One Lord Sunday in the Mat-Su Valley, Alaska on June 8, 2008.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

An Associated Press review of the Republican vice presidential candidate's record as mayor and governor reveals her use of elected office to promote religious causes, sometimes at taxpayer expense and in ways that blur the line between church and state.

Think before you vote..

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:05:42 GMT

clipped by: nchnted
clipper's remarks: Un-rewritten history can clear away the slogans and buzz words. If we value our future we must not be fooled again.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Voters in the George W. Bush era gave the Republican Party nearly complete control of the federal government. Now the financial markets are in turmoil, top government and corporate leaders are on the verge of panic and scholars are dusting off treatises that analyzed the causes of the Great Depression.

Mr. Bush was never viewed as a policy or intellectual heavyweight. But he seemed like a nicer guy to a lot of voters than Al Gore.

Voting has consequences.

The G.O.P. has done a great job masking the terrible consequences of much that it has stood for over the decades. Now the mask has slipped

Obama: defined only by his vibe

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:25:42 GMT

clipped by: keith0718

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

Gaze into the giant zero of the Obama logo, the hole in the star-spangled donut, the vast fathomless nullity that is the gaping keyhole to the door of utopia. To a sad shriveled Republican cynic, there’s nothing there but the wide open spaces of Obama’s blank resume. But a believer will see therein the healing of the planet and the receding of the oceans. The black hole of Obama will suck you in through the awesome power of its totally cool suckiness.

Long-shot races closing the gap as Repubs slip

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:38:08 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Surprises in WV GA, KY:
West Virginia - the 2nd closest race in the nation, McCain up only 1.1 points!
Kentucky: incumbent Senate Repub Leader Mitch McConnell now has less than 50% of the vote
Georgia: Repub Saxby Chambliss up by less than two

Clip Source: sage

the data above suggest continued progress for the Obama-Biden ticket following Tuesday night's debate.

Meanwhile, things have shifted a bit in races for the Senate. A series of new surveys released over the last few days confirm a significant narrowing in Georgia, which we now classify as a toss-up. Republican Saxby Chambliss now leads Democratic challenger Jim Martin on our trend estimate by less than two percentage points (45.3% to 43.5%).

And in Kentucky, internal polls released by both campaigns disagree on the margin, but agree that incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell is winning less than 50% of the vote (48% on the poll from the Democrats, 47% on the poll by Republicans). Our trend estimate still gives McConnell enough of a lead (48.2% to 42.6%) to rate "lean" Republican status.

Tags: wv, polls, kentucky, georgia

Norm Coleman and the Free Suits

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:18:24 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern

Clip Source: blogs.wsj.com

Minnesota Media Hunt for Skeleton in Coleman’s Closet

Harper’s reported earlier this week that the vulnerable first-term Republican had gone suit shopping at Neiman Marcus. It quoted unnamed sources saying that the tab was picked up by a wealthy friend who is a major donor. Now the Minnesota press corps is hungry for answers, while the Coleman campaign essentially is offering a one-sentence response: “The senator has reported every gift he has ever received.”

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Stringent Senate ethics rules require the reporting and approval of any gift from a friend exceeding $250 – like when Kazimeny gave the senator rides on his private plane valued at $2,870 in 2004 and $3,960 in 2005. Some speculate that Coleman could have received the suits before taking office in 2002, back when he was mayor of St. Paul. Either way, the impression that a wealthy businessman might have curried favor with the senator could be toxic

Tags: minnesota, politics

McCain Education Policy

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:07:30 GMT

clipped by: Karamel625

Clip Source: www.edweek.org

McCain Emphasizes School Choice, Accountability, But Lacks Specifics

Likely Republican nominee has said little on trail about education.

Buried deep within the campaign Web site of Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican explains the principles that define his K-12 agenda: choice, accountability, and teacher quality.

Palin vs Palin

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:32:17 GMT

clipped by: spirithiker
clipper's remarks: Sarah Palin isn’t in this election to change anything in Washington, she is in this race to win. This is nothing more than a contest to her. Her competitive spirit is dictating that she not back down (an unthinkable act contrary to her very nature) and do whatever it takes to win.

The current state of the republican party has degenerated into an unethical, immoral, propaganda generating, smear machine designed more for character assassination than solidifying itself as a viable platform of positive change.

John McCain, who I believe is a decent person, has made a grave error in judgment, perhaps blinded by the prize, but nonetheless, has done himself and his party (and therefore his country) a grave disservice. As a result of his choice the world now sees him as selling out his principles for his party.

His only hope to win this election (and granted it would be an unprecedented and desperate attempt) is to replace Sarah Palin with, pretty much, anyone else.

Clip Source: www.truthdig.com

At the conclusion of the constitutional convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked, “Well Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” He sagely responded, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

If freedom is to flourish, they must be quick to rebuke government’s propensity toward tyranny, though their votes, stinging criticisms or protest marches.

Echoing Reagan, Palin continued: “We don’t pass [freedom] to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it,

On the basis of her comments in the debate, her campaign speeches and her interviews, it appears that she is undisturbed by presidential practices and theories of power that have crippled freedom.

In the 1970s, the disgraced Richard Nixon famously insisted that “when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”

And what is the Alaska governor’s public response to this assault on American freedoms? She stands on the political stump and applauds a corrupt ideology.

Tags: palin, mccain, politics

Republican Accusations

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:30:21 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: As the brief clip demonstrates, instead of the "sordid" characterizaiton spewed forth by the Repubs, the errors appear to be inconsequential.

This is what panic and lack of leadership can do to a campaign. The McCain campaign is showing its true colors and the majority of Americans are not saluting them.

Clip Source: www.columbiatribune.com

Blunt links ‘sordid’ ACORN to Obama

Gov. Matt Blunt sought yesterday to link Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with accusations of fraudulent voter registration in Missouri and other states by an organization that advocates for poor people.

Blunt, a Republican, called ACORN an organization with a "sordid history" of voter fraud in Missouri.

Jeff Ordower, the Midwest director of ACORN, said state law requires every organization registering voters to turn in every application card that has been completed to prevent selective registration. Ordower said ACORN turns in cards in three categories - those that are complete, those that are incomplete and those that are questionable. He said that policy was not followed in turning over cards in Kansas City.

Ordower said there were 85 duplicates and 35 with bad addresses out of 53,000 registrations.

The importance of voting - and not for your buddy!

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:26:34 GMT

clipped by: ruralart

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The lesson for Americans suffused with anxiety and dread over the crackup of the financial markets is that the way you vote matters, that there are real-world consequences when you go into a voting booth and cast that ballot.

For the nitwits who vote for the man or woman they’d most like to have over for dinner, or hang out at a barbecue with, I suggest you take a look at how well your 401(k) is doing, or how easy it will be to meet the mortgage this month, or whether the college fund you’ve been trying to build for your kids is as robust as you’d like it to be.

Mr. Bush was never viewed as a policy or intellectual heavyweight. But he seemed like a nicer guy to a lot of voters than Al Gore.

Palin a Cancer to the Republican Party

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:23:23 GMT

clipped by: glennbah

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

David Brooks and Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic Luncheon II

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Tags: palin, cancer, republican

Rednecks 4 Obama

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:46:28 GMT

clipped by: monstersmom
clipper's remarks: Love it!

I am in full support of anyone using their brain no matter their educational background, sex, race, gender, or physical abilities.

Clip Source: rednecks4obama.com

“We Hunt, Fish, Drink Beer and Support Barack Obama”

Clip Source: rednecks4obama.com

There is an official Rednecks for Obama section in www.barackobama.com, and there are a couple of great websites! (www.rednecksforobama.com) But, Tony Viessman, 74, retired Missouri State Highway Patrol Lieutenant hadn't seen these. He just knew why he, a self-proclaimed "half-redneck", strongly supported Barack Obama. He knew the same old politics of the republican party trying to claim any democrat candidate would "take away your guns". And, he knew the significance of the redneck vote in Missouri. And, he knew how badly this country needs Barack Obama as president. He took action!

Further excited by Obama's answers to difficult questions in that hot auditorium, Tony and Les headed to Union Missouri, Obama's next stop. As they held the banner outside the auditorium, the motorcade came to a complete stop. Barack Obama stepped off the bus and ran over to thank Tony and Les, and to hear their story

Tags: redneck, obama, beer, hunting

panel found palin abused power

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:57:52 GMT

clipped by: doodleicious
clipper's remarks: evidentally all thats glowing pink to red are not just lips

Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

Panel finds Palin abused power; Judge orders email from her private accounts be preserved

In another setback for Ms. Palin, a judge on Friday ordered the state of Alaska to preserve any government-related e-mail messages that Gov. Sarah Palin sent from private accounts. The ruling, by Craig Stowers of Anchorage superior court, came as the result of a lawsuit brought by a resident, Andree McLeod, against Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee. Ms. Palin has occasionally used private e-mail accounts to conduct state business, and her Yahoo accounts were hacked last month. The judge ordered the attorney general to contact Yahoo and other private carriers to preserve any e-mail messages sent and received on those accounts. An assistant attorney general told the court that the governor was no longer using here private e-mail accounts to conduct state business.

Tags: politics

Media's Double Standard

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:16:34 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: I've noticed that the mainstream media still handles McCain with kid gloves. I wonder why that is...? OK, he was a POW, captured by an "enemy" of our government. But why should that give him a one-upmanship over Obama... as far as fair reporting is concerned? Maybe corporate media has more to gain under republican rule or maybe it's just that they fear a McCain attack because they've taken note of how McMean and his Cold-Hearted-VP pick's, mean-spirited, hateful innuendoes launched against Obama have stirred the "Republican base of loathing", to get "physical" with any contrived foe. I believe it's both but they've got the case of the willies when it comes to the ornery right-wing mentality, knowing they might band together and threaten not to buy the goods their sponsors hawk!

Clip Source: mediamatters.org

Media Matters: The media's enduring pro-McCain double standard

It isn't surprising that the conventional wisdom is that the news media have turned on Sen. John McCain. After all, decades of attacks from conservatives have conditioned reporters to believe that they are biased against Republicans -- even when there is scant evidence in the reporting to support such claims. And the McCain campaign has launched an all-out assault on the media, complaining relentlessly about the coverage its candidate has gotten.

McCain historically has been the recipient of the most favorable media coverage of any politician in modern American history

The truth

John McCain says "jump," the media still ask, "How high?"

they uncritically quote McCain campaign attacks on Sen. Barack Obama for things McCain himself has done.

When a campaign does something like this, the media often point out the hypocrisy, and the attack backfires. But those rules don't apply to John McCain.

media have sided with

McCain

Ayers and ACORN

Tags: mccain, palin, politics

The Mask Slips

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:23:26 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "Remember voodoo economics? That was the derisive term George H.W. Bush used for Ronald Reagan’s fantasy that he could simultaneously increase defense spending, cut taxes and balance the budget. After Reagan became president (with Mr. Bush as his vice president) the budget deficit — surprise, surprise — soared.
Just as they were wrong about trickle down, conservative Republican politicians and their closest buddies in the commentariat have been wrong on one important national issue after another, from Social Security (conservatives opposed it from the start and have been trying to undermine it ever since) to Medicare (Ronald Reagan saw it as the first wave of socialism) to the environment, energy policy and global warming."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

It’s not just the economy.

Voting has consequences.

The first is how wrong conservative Republicans have been on so many profoundly important matters for so many years. The second is how the G.O.P. has nevertheless been able to persuade so many voters of modest means that its wrongheaded, favor-the-rich, country-be-damned approach was not only good for working Americans, but was the patriotic way to go.

Palin abused her power as governor

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:16:29 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: No doubt, this will be the 50th version of this report. It is different to the one put out by the Republican Party yesterday in an arrogant attempt to confuse the uneducated.

Clip Source: www.theage.com.au

Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded today.

The politically charged inquiry imperils her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican presidential ticket.

Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report by a bipartisan panel that investigated the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials using their office for personal gain.

The inquiry looked into her dismissal of Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, who said he lost his job because he resisted pressure to fire a state trooper involved in a bitter divorce from the governor's sister.

Palin says Monegan was fired as part of a legitimate budget dispute.

The panel found Palin let the family grudge influence her decision-making even if it was not the sole reason Monegan was dismissed. "I feel vindicated,'' Monegan said

Tags: politics