McCain’s ‘Hail Sarah’ Pass

You know, when I was a young woman working for MSNBC, I thought Alter was great. Since then, I realize that sarcasm is the tool of the cheap shot, and I tune out as soon as I start detecting that unmistakable method of expression. Though I lean left, I still can't stand the Olberman foaming at the mouth bit, and here, Alter does not appear nearly as buffoonish as Olberman, but the sarcasm wears on me. Can't you lose it, and still make your (very valid) points? Though I have consistently voted for Democrat candidates (except for one Republican congressman, which I then regretted) I am currently reading Peggy Noonan's little book called "Patriotic Grace." It's a refreshing break from the polarized sneering punditry with which we are innundated. When are these "journalists" going to step up to the plate and discourse in ways that will help our nation move forward and really solve our problems? With their finger-pointing mockeries, they are acting as nothing more than court jesters for the parties.

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.'
'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.'
'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.'

'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years'

'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. from dependence back into bondage'

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...' Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE,
ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE

Is anybody else as sick as I am of the vitrolic he-man woman haters club the democrats have turned into?
Inclusive is not their watch word of the day, neither is tolerence.

Mr Alter continously underestimates the abilities of women. This is just more of his 'that woman can't do that job" hysteria he always writes about anytime a femal republican is elected to or appoitned to well, pretty muvh anything. When you don't like or respect republicans and you do not like or respect women you wind up working for newsweek or time or any msm writing hatchet pieces with little or no truth, just his "opinion."
tiome or newsweek cutting up republican women.

Kingfish Obama is using the same cadence as was used in All The KIng's Men to portray Willie Start aka Huey Long/ Listen to it and you will see.

To be honest I think he would be wise to call Obama - Kingfish. Listen to a the old movie of the All the King's Men and see how Obama has copied the exact style of speech the actor use to emulate Willie Start. How many years did he practice that??? Kingfish Obama - every man a king, every women a queen, a chicken in every pot. How dumb are you Obama supporters not to see this? You have been bilked big time.

SArah to belly flop. Heh! Obama can't even swim!!!! roflemao!!! How sweet.

The Left Wing od the Democratic Party hates witha passion all things American - especially the muddle class of America. the hate everything Sarah Palin represents and guess what --- that is most of America. Grow up!

I was refering to the "Democratic Underground". You nailed it perfectly for your own identiy. LOL!!! Eat moose.

Sarah Heah Palin is the Mother of Modern Conservatism. Westward-Ho.

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When will Obama be vetted with the hard and corruptness by the press as has Sarah Palin. huh? huh?

Obama is nothing more than Puff the magic Dragon. SAD

Before the election arrives - the American electorate will consider Obama little more than Puff the Magic Dragon.

If Obama was not man enough to offer the VP slot ot Hillary Clinton ---- he certainly is not man enoughto be President of the USA.

Welcome Sarah Palin, Vice President of the United States of America!!!!!

Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac, Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, AIG and the rest of the failed institutions have failed primarily because of former Senator Phil Gramm. The Gramm-Leach-Biley Act stripped away the regulations separating banking from investment companies, insurance companies and mortgage guaranty companies. Those regulations were added after the Great Depression when it became obvious that allowing banks to be in bed with the stock market was a sure way to rig the system to collapse, as it did in 1929.

Lo an behold, a few years after the regulations were removed, the sh!t has hit the fan, and the inter-related investment, insurance, mortgage and banking industries are now starting to collapse, and guess what, you, the taxpayer will have to pay to clean it up.

Phil Gramm is the Senator who brought you the "Enron Loophole" that de-regulated futures trading, causing the prices of oil, gas and food to spiral out of control.

Senator Phil Gramm was McCain's top economic advisor until recently, when he was forced to step down after he said that there is no problem with our economy other than a "mental recession" on the part of a "nation of whiners." Phil Gramm is the man who McCain said he wants to name Secretary of the Treasury if he becomes President. You have to believe John McCain when he says that he knows little about the economy -- so little that he doesn't even know who to choose as an advisor.

Barack Obama addressed the Enron Loophole, futures trading, short-selling and Wall Street de-regulation months ago in his economic position papers, which are available on his website. Obama has been saying all along that he is going to put in strict regulations and clean up Wall Street.

McCain just started saying that he favors regulation in the past couple of weeks. How is it that McCain is going to put in new regulations, when he plans to appoint Phil Gramm, the man who caused the de-regulation, as Secretary of the Treasury? McCain says he would fire Christopher Cox, the SEC Chairman, to solve the problem. However, the problem is caused by lack of regulations on the legislative level, regulations that were removed before Cox was appointed. The SEC can only enforce regulations that actually exist, so making a scapegoat of Cox solves nothing. I would suggest that McCain is guilty of saying what's politically expedient, that he does not actually intend to regulate the banking industry. McCain knows that most Americans are unaware of the details.

I am a middle-aged white conservative Republican who loves America. I am voting for Barack Obama.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15050.html
http://www.newsweek.com/id/145011/page/1
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6007788.html
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http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5Rzb

Obama is a graduate of the top universities in America - hardly an auto -didact.The undisguised contempt for intellect and education in this country is astonishing and really depressing. Obama combines a well honed intelligence with a real understanding of the problems facing the country. Palin understands herself and her own ambition. Just saying something doesn't make it so. If your 12 year old tried to convince you he could drive the car, would you let him if he just kept on and on about it?
Palin's relationship with the truth is tenuous at best and downright delusional at worst. If my 5 year old daughter played as fast and loose with the truth as Palin does, she would be told in no uncertain terms that that kind of behaviour is reprehensible and wrong. She is not even honest enough to realise that she doesn't know something, a sure sign of a fool according to the proverb. (He who knows not,and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him.) Obama and Biden are keeping it honest. Let's give them the power to do some good.