From Seneca Falls to … Sarah Palin?

Let me tell you guys something. If you think voting for Sara Palin is the right thing to do because she is a woman, think again.

Read this article it's on how SHE CHARGED RAPE VICTIMS FOR RAPE KITS AND FORENSIC EXAMINATIONS. She didn't stop the policy until it was brought to her "attention" BY THE MEN. For some of you, it's abortion, for me and so many others, it's Domestic Violence and Rape...

And make no mistake, Alaska is at the top of the list on Domestic Violence. Get some earmarks for that. Reform that. Write a bill about that. Do some investigating regarding that. Fire the public safety commisioner because of that.

If this is the woman you want, then you guys can have her. I just hope and pray you don't experience DV or sexual assault.

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
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E0D81038F934A25752C0A9649C8B63
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5Rzb

I am one of many Canadians who is astounded and appalled by McCain's cynical and irresponsible choice of running mate. Why do Americans consistently choose "good ol' boys" over intelligence and competance? (And don't let Palin's hairdo fool you -- she's just one more in a long line of ill-educated frat boys foolish enough to think they're able enough to run the most powerful country on the planet.) It should have been Gore, not Bush, all those years ago: The world would be in better shape now. Let's hope that this time American voters redeem themselves and choose character and first-rate abilities over the crass ignorance and politucal posturing epitomized by Palin and McCain.

A fellow blogger on this site, Davole, happened to mention this subject today to me, and I had it on a back burner. Thank you, Davole, for bringing this issue to the forefront. For that reason I thought I would pull out this topic for Obama supporters to comment on cuz I know I for one would be interested in hearing what you think of this plan that (last I knew) Obama still planned on implementing if he became POTUS:

Obamas Plans For Global Wealth Redistribution
Saturday, February 16, 2008

This is not getting as much attention as it should:

Unnoticed by most Americans this week, the Obama/Hagel GLOBAL POVERTY ACT was quickly approved by a senate committee and cleared for the next step, debate in a democrat-controlled senate.

The GLOBAL POVERTY ACT is unique in its breathtaking scope. It is NOT FOREIGN-AID. The Act will require the President and Congress to set aside .07% of the annual Gross National Product - our GNP - to be DISTRIBUTED AROUND THE GLOBE to RELIEVE POVERTY at a cost of about $800 billion dollars annually TO TAXPAYERS. It is Barack Obamas response to the call of the Bali Global Warming Conference for a global carbon tax; a BLATANT REDISTRIBUTION OF THE PLANETS WEALTH to the powerless.

Coupled with his riveting stump speeches which generate huge emotional reactions from his equally huge audiences - speeches which literally CALL FOR A REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH right here AT HOME AS WELL - Barack Obamas sponsorship of the GLOBAL POVERTY ACT gives us a CHILLING PREVIEW of an Obama presidency.

Just to put that $800 BILLION into perspective, realize that IT IS MORE THAN HALF
of what we spend on entitlements now. What Obama is proposing is an approximately 65% INCREASE IN ENTITLEMENT SPENDING (huh?????), except that this time the ENTITLEMENTS ARE NOT EVEN FOR AMERICANS!!

That is an ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY that AMERICANS, already heavily burdened with taxes, CAN ILL-AFFORD to pay. So why should we have to pay it? Because OBAMA, the DEMOCRATS and their LIBERAL BUDDIES in the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY have decided that it is what AMERICA???S TITHING SHOULD BE in order to achieve the rather VAGUE GOAL of FIGHTING GLOBAL POVERTY.

Of course, one would think that before Americans are required to foot this heavy new entitlements bill OBAMA and HIS COMRADES would have TO PROVE that any of the money America has spent before on FIGHTING POVERTY has moved us any closer at all to actually ENDING poverty; but that probably makes too much sense.

Maybe, INSTEAD OF FORCING AMERICANS TO PAY FOR THIS FOREIGN AID, Obama could just set up a new CHECK BOX on our TAX DOCUMENTS letting US VOLUNTEER to send the money if we want to. Because if his idea is a good one lots and lots of Americans would support it, RIGHT?

SOURCE article: http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/obamas_plans_for_global_wealth_redistribution

I am a woman who knows that it's not the gender that makes a good public servant, but their policies. I, for one, will not be voting for a woman who has no idea what the "Bush Doctrine" is, thinks that dinosaurs are a myth, and is under investigation for firing her trooper brother-in-law after he divorced her sister. It would be great to have a woman in office, but not at the expense of our future and our children's future.

I am a woman and I do not want Sarah Palin to represent me... not now, not ever.

John McCain knew that Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac would collapse, and thereby unjustly burden the American public!

In 2005, Senator John McCain cosponsored the Federal Housing Enterprise Reform Act to regulate the powers and procedures of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac.

These 2 massive federal finance agencies had been operating without controls in a blatant irresponsible manner, and had been found guilty in court of falsifying financial records and statements in order to provide supposed justification for bonuses to be given to their higher echelon administrators.

These 2 organizations had been coerced by Democrats, who because of political opportunism, wanted them to grant mortgages to individuals who would be unable to make their required monthly payments. That would be in accordance with the irresponsible Democrat belief that everyone should be entitled to have their own home, irrespective of their actual ability to afford that luxury.

Both of these mortgage lending institutions have contributed massive financial sums to support the political aspirations of Chris Dodd and Barack Obama.

Senator John McCain realized 3 years ago that fraudulent transactions were rampant within these 2 enterprises, and that they would soon collapse if remedial action was not undertaken.

Their bankruptcy would result in the American taxpayers having to go into debt to resurrect or ???bail-out??? these fraudulent Congress protected entities.

As was to be expected, this proposal to institute meaningful financial reform measures was obstructed by the Democrats in the Senate, and the proposal failed to be adopted.

This year, due to the Democrat furor over the collapse of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac, the American taxpayers are burdened by having to pay a minimum of 450 billion dollars to ???bail out??? these 2 recklessly managed lending companies.

John McCain exposed and opposed the corrupt lending practices of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac.
Barack Obama ???milked the system??? and profited by obstructing reform of their corrupt lending practices.

Democrats have demonstrated that they can wreck the mortgage industry.

Are you willing to vote them into office, and give them a blank check to mismanage the American economy, security, and health care?

Women might be blinded by a Palin candidacy, but they will turn away from her when all of her lies, deceit, and criminal activity is opened by the Alaska Legislature and the Sate and Federal courts, to make Palin a destructive force to women and an embarassment to her gender.

Hey folks, this is a great one too, she's real earthy alright:
"The governor did have a tanning bed put in the Governor's Mansion," Roger Wetherell, chief communications officer of Alaska's Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, confirmed to this newspaper. "It was done shortly after she took office [in early 2007] and moved into the mansion."
Ben Smith of the Politico confirmed the report.

Republican congressman endorses Obama

Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, a maverick Republican from Maryland, endorsed Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president in an interview Wednesday with WYPR, Baltimore's National Public Radio station.

Gilchrest, who lost a primary campaign and is retiring from Congress, has already endorsed the Democrat running for his seat, Frank Kratovil. Justifying his endorsement of Obama, Gilchrest said that "we can't use four more years of the same kind of policy that's somewhat haphazard, which leads to recklessness."

Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), "have the breadth of experience. I think they're prudent. They're knowledgable."

Gilchrest's reference to prudence may be an allusion to a widely-circulated op-ed written by conservative David Brooks, who questioned whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had the necessary wisdom and prudence.

link: http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0908/Republican_Congressman_endorses_Obama.html

Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO turned John McCain Victory chair, said Tuesday that Sarah Palin isn???t qualified to run her old company.

Appearing on a KTRS Radio show in St. Louis, Fiorina was asked by the host, ???Do you think she has the experience to run a major company like Hewlett Packard????

???No, I don???t,??? Fiorina answered. ???But that???s not what she???s running for. Running a corporation is a different set of things."

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Electoral Votes

227 McCain

207 Obama

104 toss-up


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