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Gov Sarah Palin Speech Highlights

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:38:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not a community organizer...

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McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain?

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:18:02 GMT

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The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else.

"Sa-rah! Pa-lin!" came the chant at a Colorado Springs rally on Saturday moments before Republican nominee John McCain took the stage with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a woman who was virtually unknown to the nation just a week earlier. The day before, thousands screamed "Sa-rah! Sa-rah! Sa-rah!" at an amphitheater outside Detroit.

In the short time since McCain spirited the 44-year-old first-term governor out of Alaska and onto a national stage as his running mate, Palin has become an instant celebrity. And since her speech at the Republican National Convention, watched by more than 40 million Americans, she is emerging as the main attraction for many voters at their campaign appearances.

The excitement with which people are turning out to see Palin could complicate a key line of attack that the McCain campaign has been building against Democrat Barack Obama for months.

Tags: mccain, palin, politics, celebrity

Palin First For Bridge- Then Against

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:06:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Flip-Flop we call that. Pandering to power.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Palin "bridge to nowhere" line angers many Alaskans

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - It garnered big applause in her first speech as Republican John McCain's vice presidential pick, but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's assertion that she rejected Congressional funds for the so-called "bridge to nowhere" has upset many Alaskans.

During her first speech after being named as McCain's surprise pick as a running mate, Palin said she had told Congress "'thanks but no thanks' on that bridge to nowhere."

In the city Ketchikan, the planned site of the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," political leaders of both parties said the claim was false and a betrayal of their community, because she had supported the bridge and the earmark for it secured by Alaska's Congressional delegation during her run for governor.

When she was running for governor in 2006, Palin said she was insulted by the term "bridge to nowhere,"

"People are learning that she pandered to us by saying, I'm for this'

John McCain and Sarah Palin's Guerrilla Campaigning in Colorado Springs

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:40:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This morning, Republicans tell me that a worker at Invesco Field in Denver saved thousands of unused flags from the Democratic National Convention that were headed for the garbage. Guerrilla campaigning. They will use these flags at their own event today in Colorado Springs with John McCain and Sarah Palin.

UPDATE I: I just spoke with the person at Invesco who found the flags and he thinks both sides are exaggerating a bit. The person claims the majority of the bags with flags in them were near the trash, on a dock, and would have been thrown away. The person thinks it was probably an “oversight” by the Democrats rather than any nefarious plot against the flag. But the person doesn’t believe anyone was coming to get them: “The flags were there for a week and a day and no one came looking for them.”

http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/2008/09/06/republican-recycling/

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Thousands of flags from Obama's r~~evival meeting~~ ~~coronation~~ acceptance speech were destined to for recycling (or worse) before a worker at Invesco Field rescued them from the trash heap.

Doing such actions to the symbol of this country is worse than burning it in protest. Casually discarding ia flag like a used Kleenex belies a offhand indifference to what the flag stands for that is stunning to comprehend, and goes far beyond buring a flag as a protest. At least when you burn the flag, it's for a reason, and while I myself will never, ever burn a flag for any reason, if you decide it's a reasonable way to demonstrate for your cause, do so. But don't try to dodge what comes next, when others will get upset that you're burning something for which people have literally died for. Civil disobedience that breaks no laws is not civil disobedience.

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Tags: dnc denver, invesco field worker, american flags, rubbish bins, mccain and palin campaign, colorado springs

pictures of convention day

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:25:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: even though I am not political, thought these would appeal to my political buddies on here!

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

In pictures: Convention - Day Three

Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin made her first speech to the party's National Convention in St Paul, Minnesota.

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Dems/Reps Speeches through Wordle

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:31:43 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Michelle Obama

It's all over: Years of planning, hours of speech-writing, millions spent on creating the venues to host thousands of Democratic and Republican convention attendees.

What remains are the words that the politicians spoke (or didn't,) and the promises they made.

To re-cap those words, we thought we'd create a Wordle gallery of the most notable candidates', spouses', and supporters' speeches.

Wordle is an online application created by IBM's senior software engineer Jonathan Feinberg. Using text entered by its users, it creates visually alluring "word clouds" that show you the frequency at which words occur within that text. The more often a word occurs, the bigger it appears in the cloud.

Mark Warner

Hillary Clinton

Edward Kennedy

Joe Biden

Barack Obama

John McCain

George W. Bush

Sarah Palin

Joe Lieberman

Cindy McCain

Tags: wordle, mccain, obama

Confessions from an RNC Goon Squad Member..

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:32:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.salon.com

Confessions of an RNC security guard

From sushi-scarfing Secret Servicemen to drunken Sarah-Palin lust, witness the underside of the Republican shindig.

The group is a mix of moonlighting prison guards and cops, infantrymen and Marines between tours of duty in Iraq, immigrants, assorted freelance goons and young career seekers. There is also a crisp-looking airman and an outspoken right-wing ideologue, who never fails to demonstrate his remarkable talent for transforming any conversation, even one about the weather, into a discussion about the Mossad.

The RNC, I am told, is a training ground for these recruits. Those who perform well during the grueling 12-hour shifts before, during and after the convention will be considered for permanent jobs at the security firm.

Tags: rnc, bush, republicans, sarah palin, mccain, black water, kbr, 1st amendment, free speech, free press

blinkx

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:03:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: blinkx is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine. All of this content is now available to viewers around the world with an unprecedented degree of flexibility and personalization. At www.blinkx.com, users can search for video content, create personal video playlists, or build a customized Video Wall for their blog or MySpace page.

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Over 26 million hours of

video

. Search it all.

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blinkx is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine.

Unlike other multimedia search engines that attempt to re-purpose technology built for the Text Web, blinkx uses a unique combination of patented conceptual search, speech recognition and video analysis software to efficiently, automatically and accurately find and qualify online video. Today, blinkx is the world’s largest single index of rich media content on the Web, delivering more content from a broader range of sources than either Google or Yahoo!

All of this content is now available to viewers around the world with an unprecedented degree of flexibility and personalization. At www.blinkx.com, users can search for video content, create personal video playlists, or build a customized Video Wall for their blog or MySpace page.

Tags: video search-engine

James Fallows on Biden

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:42:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fallows is smart and this piece is right on....Joe is on fire, he's real and very very good.

Clip Source: www.bloglines.com

The wages of cockiness

I mentioned just after Sarah Palin's speech that her tone of outright mockery toward Obama compounded the gamble represented by her selection as McCain's VP candidate. Her Limbaugh-style sass was likely to make the conservative base all the more enthusiastic, which has indeed happened. But it held the potential of mobilizing an opposite, larger base of people who had been tepid about Obama but didn't like the tone, beliefs, or qualifications of Palin - or, more important, who were concerned about what this last-minute selection revealed about McCain's deliberative process and weighing of risks.

Tags: biden, palin

We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eigh

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:48:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Quote by Barack

Clip Source: www.quotationspage.com

We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.

Barack Obama, Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08

Tags: obama quote

Christian, Remember This Is What It Is All About

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:40:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Where are the Christians on free speech? Journalists are being raided at the Republican National Convention and they continue to support the party that encourages such behavior. Don't they see the connection? Are they going to wait until they are personally affronted? It will be far to late if it isn't too late already. What they need to do is start speaking out, buy a video camera to record incidents like this, and let others know. The Republican Neocons are monitoring your response and when they see you pull the covers over your head, they will attack us all.

Newsweek Mar 2007 reported that 80% of Americans claim to be Christian. If this is so, where is the light, where is truth, where is hope in any degree compared to what your Lord brought? If you said you follow the god of darkness I would believe you.

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During the spring of 2006, graduating senior Brittany McComb was chosen to give the valedictory speech at Foothill High School in Henderson, Nev., by virtue of achieving the highest GPA in the school. After composing her remarks, she submitted them to school administrators according to standard district policy. School administrators, with the advice of their district legal counsel, censored her speech, deleting all three Bible references, several references to "the Lord" and the only mention of the word "Christ."

Tags: media, fascism, police state, church

Free Speech Graveyard at the Democratic National Convention

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:11:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "...if you are able also to become free, rather do that...do not become slaves of men." 1 Cor 7:21-24

"It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery." Gal 5:1

What part of these verses do the 80% of Americans who claim to be Christian not understand? Their true colors are showing; they are darkness.

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Free speech zones have been employed by both Democrats and Republicans at past political conventions. This year, however, Democrats face the embarrassing possibility that they will be the only party actually caging dissenters. Yet as John W. Whitehead points out in this week's vodcast, when political protest is caged, it's not just the rights of a few protesters that are at stake—the very definition of freedom is in danger.

Super Duper Publications- useful learning materials

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:46:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.superduperinc.com

Welcome to Super Duper^® Publications!
Enter a world of fun, creative speech,
language, and hearing; special education;
classroom; and occupational therapy
materials for children with special needs.

Fluff vs. Facts: Fact-Checking Sarah Palin

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:58:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What Sarah said during her RNC speech was VERY misleading. Conservatives especially should take note of her fiscal record on government spending before they jump up and down at their own Wonder Woman savior with her own stage-craft.

Trust is established on proof, not mere presentation and rhetoric. Even conservative Michael Savage is going after Palin and McCain as mere show horses, while the masses of the seduced and ear-tickled of the conservative naive get swept away by a little known governor who knows how to play to an audience, of men in particular, whose scandals and real "ethics" and "family values" are just now coming to light. Republicans are being tricked the most--and not for the first time--McCain loves it!

And about the Alaska plane that she put on Ebay...

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REALITY: PALIN WAS FOR THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE BEFORE SHE WAS AGAINST IT.

REALITY: UNDER PALIN, WASILLA GOVERNMENT SPENDING & DEBT SKYROCKETED.

Total Government Expenditures Increased 63 Percent Under Palin.

Palin Supported Increasing Wasilla Sales Tax From 2 to 2.5 Percent

Palin Left Behind Almost $19 Million In Long-Term Debt, Compared to None Before She Was Mayor.

PALIN: “It was the spirit that brought me to the governor’s office, when I took on the old politics as usual in Juneau … when I stood up to the special interests, the lobbyists, big oil companies, and the good-ol’ boys network.”

Palin’s Oil & Gas Appointee Is Former Lobbyist for TransCanada.

Palin’s Former Chief of Staff is Stevens’ Campaign Manager.

As Mayor, Palin Hired a Washington Lobbyist to Help Get Earmarks for Wasilla – Lobbyist Was Former Chief of Staff for Indicted Senator Ted Stevens.

REALITY: PALIN HAS REPEATEDLY SUPPORTED TAX INCREASES

REALITY: PALIN IS CLOSE TO THE OIL INDUSTRY

February 2008: Palin Wouldn’t Endorse McCain

Tags: sarah palin, mccain, rnc speech

Sally Quinn Does Complete U-turn on Sarah Palin

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:52:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Kudos to Sally Quinn for recognizing that she was wrong about Sarah Palin. So will other media types currently sneering at Palin, such as Campbell Brown, also experience a similar revelation? I'm not holding my breath but after Sally Quinn's dramatic turnaround I guess anything is possible.

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.

Clip Source: newsbusters.org

Well, something must have happened in the few hours between Quinn's CNN appearance and her apology for her own statements like this on Fox's O'Reilly Factor later that day:

SALLY QUINN: You pointed out the other night that you thought I was being unfair and that I had judged her before I heard her speak and that I knew anything about her and I think you were right. I thought that she was amazing in her speech. She was funny and smart and poised and confident and she gave a great speech, beautifully delivered, and I think she is going to be a formidable opponent. So all of that, I think I was wrong about her. And I didn't know anything about her.

BILL O'REILLY: So not only did Miss Palin do a good job as you just said but your column and other columns like yours rallied the folks to her side and actually helped the McCain-Palin ticket dramatically.

QUINN: Oh, I think you're absolutely right. I think that there's been a huge backlash against the media...

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Tags: sarah palin, sally quinn, bill o'reilly's factor, fox news