An Apostle of Alaska

Once again America is caught up in a tight Presidential race and with a whole lot of emotion being placed on the questions who is the most experienced, who has demonstrated a real understanding of Iraq, who has the best plan for fighting terrorism, who comprehends and can best resolve Global Warming, energy costs, dependence on foreign oil, rising unemployment, growing inflation, rising cost of living, runaway medical costs, humongous deficit, growing trade deficit, lost jobs, lost revenue, declining family values, who is the most intelligent, who is the best looking, who is the most likable,,, and not to forget the subdued racial issue. Is there any one issue that could make all of those issues subordinate and that then could be considered above the rest? I think so and that is simply honesty. What each candidate offers on each of those issues is important but when discerning who to vote for, if we can???t trust their answers, if they practice a policy of deceit, if they literally use a strategy of boldly, arrogantly and continually lying without hesitation or conscience, as if that is their privilege, then their answers are meaningless and all we can expect from them is more lies. Now both candidates and their supporters will say it is the other doing that but is there any real and consistent evidence that one side is literally being aggressively dishonest? I think there is irrefutable evidence that is the case. As I see it, it has been a consistent Republican strategy, a Karl Rove like tactic, to say whatever they want loudly, boldly, often and have others repeat it so that some will accept it; if they get cornered, then they just arrogantly, boldly and dishonestly say something else the same way and move on. It can be denied but it is what we have constantly witnessed with most everything from the Bush Administration over the last eight years. Even Scott McClellan in his book WHAT HAPPENED told us that President Bush consistently practiced self-deceit (Scott???s words) and it would be really hard to find anything that they haven???t lied about, either to justify or rationalize or excuse or to hide or even to attack their opponent. Senator McCain also does it but isn???t quite as bold as Gov Palin who is right up to the task and could give Bush a run for his money. There is so much that is coming out now that shows she has no hesitation or restricting conscience to stop her from saying anything. Like Bush, she is bold, arrogant, feisty and dishonest, as she herself says, ???a pit bull with lipstick??? but also extreme and even bazaar in her beliefs and actions. I could provide a long list but it would go on for some length and anyway it is all there to be seen by anyone who wants to be rational and objectively look and those who don???t, they will just use the Rove tactic to rationalize that Obama is worse. Hopefully this time around there will be enough voters concerned for the truth and we will then get it right in November.

Gov Palin prides herself in being the ???pit bull with lipstick??? and now she and Senator McCain want to take credit for her being a ???pig with lipstick???, which of course is their privilege. If Senator Obama wanted to insult her I doubt it would be that veiled and subtle or unimportant as there is so much he could address with real meaning. Obama-Biden are literally focused on the issues, on what is important to the people, while McCain-Palin instead have emphatically stated they want it to be about personalities. Now why would they do that when all you have to do is look and see that the country desperately needs and wants change? Maybe because when you take away the camouflage on what McCain-Palin offer, all you find is more of the same. Maybe they have no choice because who they are loyal, indebted and committed to are those that want to continue with more of the same. The Republicans just want to make issues out of the meaningless and totally forget about the meaning in the issues. They could be called the party of one-liners, cute but empty.

Sarah Palin is so hungry for the limelight that she has thrown her Down Syndrone child, and her pregnant teenager to the care of her husband; who probably feels overwhelmed by the prospect, If not he soon will be.
Carl Rove's handiwork is clearly seen in John Mcains struggle for the presidency, and we the people need to take a close look into what he and Obama are offering for our future. Mcain has not offeref us nothing tangible, nothing that will help us keep our homes, pay for hospitalization for our grown child whose job does not afford him health insurance, and so much more. People lets not be bambozzeled by an white head old man feeling his cheerios having a young attractive woman by his side. mccain will toss her aside if he wins, and she will become his gofer.

Hey, did anybody see fat-ass Rangel on TV today about not paying taxes??? He's all for increasing taxes and spend our money... but he won't pay his taxes???? Are they all like this???

Barry. I am glad that you called a spade a spade and called that pig a pig. It was about time. But I worry that if you try to attack her yourself that it might backfire.....Sooooooooooooo. Why not have Michelle attack her? I am sure that would work a lot better.

Barry, I am so glad you finally called a spade a spade and called that pig a pig. Ugh.....I hate her.......And she wants to appear on Oprah. Oprah don't go for white trash. She belongs on the Povich show. She and all her brood. They should be forced to go paternity testing. My mom says that Palin probably has never heard of the Ivy League and that she probably thinks a liberal arts college is where liberal send their kids to learn how to draw. Oy vey.

OBAMA SAID to crowd in Virginia yesterday: You can put lipstick on a pig . . . Its still a pig.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPd4yk0x-eg


NEW AD: McCain camps quick response to Obbamas PIG WITH LIPSTICK comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZd_Y_D-RaA


Is Obama a Hack?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLrU2ZBQlR0&feature=iv

Even as a Jr. Senator....Hussein Obama has gotten very good at on thing....Pork Barrel Earmarks.............he has requested nearly $$$$$ ONE BILLION to the tune of around $$$$$ ONE MILLION Per Day. Talk about some CHANGE we can believe in.....Sen. McCain during the same time requested NONE.

Hussein Obama is a CROOK and a FRAUD.....$$$ ONE BILLION.....WOW...that's a lot of pork...especially for a mohammed.

NOBAMA!!!

White women will as Rove puts it vote against their better judgement if we can convince them that the other choice is strange and unlike the men they know and white men will vote for a face that is attractive to them because most of them don't care what is behind the face.

This is all to evident by the almost unbelievable interests in the lip stick.

After reading your article on Palintology, I now agree with my husband's assertions that Newsweek definitely has a left wing adjenda. I am very disappointed in your writers and your magazine, I guess I always believed that you tried to be fair and unbiased in every article, I always hoped that no matter what my political beliefs were I would get the straight story from a major magazine like Newsweek.... clearly I was naive. Your article on Sarah Palin did little to hide your disdain for her, her beliefs and her accomplishments, you used every opportunity to use her "critics" to hint at supposed impropriety and only grudgingly admitted to the possibility that she is an amazing woman who could be an amazing VP. Shame on you Newsweek! If I can see your blatent bias in this article, then the rest of the world will too. You have really disappointed me. Posted by dribrats @9/09/08 11:33pm

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1839724,00.html

AlaskaNomics:101 ...Palin Lies...A LOT !!!

Sarah Palin thinks she is a better American than you because she comes from a small town and a superior human being because she isn't a journalist and has never lived in Washington and likes to watch her kids play hockey. Although Palin praised John McCain in her acceptance speech as a man who puts the good of his country ahead of partisan politics, McCain pretty much proved the opposite with his selection of a running mate whose main asset is her ability to reignite the culture wars. So maybe Governor Palin does represent everything that is good and fine about America, as she herself maintains. But spare us, please, any talk about how she is a tough fiscal conservative.
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Palin has continued to repeat the already exposed lie that she said "No, thanks" to the famous "bridge to nowhere" (McCain's favorite example of wasteful federal spending). In fact, she said "Yes, please" until the project became a symbol and political albatross.

Back to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 2 1/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. The trick is that Alaska's government spends money on its own citizens and taxes the rest of us to pay for it. Although Palin, like McCain, talks about liberating ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, there is no evidence that being dependent on Alaskan oil would be any more pleasant to the pocketbook.

Alaska is, in essence, an adjunct member of OPEC. It has four different taxes on oil, which produce more than 89% of the state's unrestricted revenue. On average, three-quarters of the value of a barrel of oil is taken by the state government before that oil is permitted to leave the state. Alaska residents each get a yearly check for about $2,000 from oil revenues, plus an additional $1,200 pushed through by Palin last year to take advantage of rising oil prices. Any sympathy the governor of Alaska expresses for folks in the lower 48 who are suffering from high gas prices or can't afford to heat their homes is strictly crocodile tears.

As if it couldn't support itself, Alaska also ranks No. 1, year after year, in money it sucks in from Washington. In 2005 (the most recent figures), according to the Tax Foundation, Alaska ranked 18th in federal taxes paid per resident ($5,434) but first in federal spending received per resident ($13,950). Its ratio of federal spending received to federal taxes paid ranks third among the 50 states, and in the absolute amount it receives from Washington over and above the amount it sends to Washington, Alaska ranks No. 1.