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  • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/17/2008 1:52:00 PM

    sharenews want people to know who John and Sarah is and to learn the real Obama. How come sharenews and her cronies can't talk about Sarah's church problems. I have been trying for how long now and she still can't answer the question. They can talk about Obama's church problem and at least Obamaa denounced his Pastor, Sarah has not. Why oh why won't sharenews answer a simple question?

  • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/17/2008 1:09:43 PM

    To the people who still love Hillary Clinton but are now going to vote for McCain. I love the fact that McCain is dogging Hillary right now. They are saying that Hillary doesn't care for America and will not stand up to Iran. My god what will the McCain camp think of next.

  • Posted By: medchic @ 09/16/2008 1:44:40 PM

    Comment: Oh So What! This is the same argument Republicans made against Obama with regard to Rev Wright. Barack Obama sat in a church where racist comments were made, it doesn't make him a racist. I sit in a catholic church every week even though I disagree with some of their tenants (yes we have minds of our own and we don't all believe the same things on specific issues). There are few people who agree 100% with what their church states all the time. If you hold a person responsible for anything that is spoken by anyone within a group they belong no one will be above blame.

    • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/16/2008 2:09:03 PM

      Thats not how they treated Obama. Look at all the comments they say about Obama. They still talk about Rev. Wright. Now Sarah Palin sat in a Church to hear anti-Jewish comments from her Pastor and we are suppose to turn our heads? No way!

      • Posted By: medchic @ 09/16/2008 2:34:55 PM

        I'm not saying turn your head, I just think it's irrelevant. What matters is what SHE believes. Let's find out about that because I feel it will be much more interesting and relevant to the position she is running for.

        • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/17/2008 1:06:06 PM

          I agree with you that we should only care about what the candidate believes. But what Chin was referencing is the blatant hypocrisy of the Republicans when it comes to this woman.

  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/17/2008 11:27:44 AM

    Palin criticizes Clinton over protest

    Hillary Clinton has carefully avoided directly criticizing Sarah Palin, but the same courtesy apparently doesn't work the other way.

    Palin's spokeswoman this morning issued a statement hitting Clinton for pulling out of a protest being organized by several Jewish groups outside the United Nations on Sept. 22 against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Clinton cancelled after finding out that Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, also planned to be there.

    "Governor Palin believes that the danger of a nuclear Iran is greater than party or politics. She hopes that all parties can rally together in opposition to this grave threat," said Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman for Palin.

    Clinton aides were furious at organizers, saying they first learned from reporters that both Clinton and Palin were scheduled to appear, the Associated Press is reporting.

    "Her attendance was news to us, and this was never billed to us as a partisan political event," Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines told the AP. "Senator Clinton will therefore not be attending."

    A meeting would have been awkward, to say the least, bringing into the media spotlight the woman who nearly won the Democratic nomination and the woman now courting Clinton's loyalists.

    Palin reportedly plans to meet foreign heads of state at the UN. Amid questions about her lack of foreign policy experience, she acknowledged last week that she has never met one.

    link: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/09/palin_criticize.html

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/17/2008 7:29:35 AM

    i remember when hilary tried everything to knock obama down even the kitchen sink and it did not work! now the obama camp is trying everything including the kitchen sink on palin and its not working ! she gets bigger crowds at her rallies and he gets small ones his ego is crushed and he is worried that he will lose the white house ! and he should be ! McCAIN / PALIN 08 ! >>>>>>>>>> OBAMA / BIDEN BACK TO THE SENATE !

    • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/17/2008 9:53:04 AM

      Don't worry. Now Sarah Palin has a Church problem. That will hit the media. I can't wait to see McCain face.

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/17/2008 8:11:10 AM


      Hi willnotvoteobama, That is because Itruly believe that McCain and his camp has the Obama campaign all figured out (especially if I have, LOL), and have learned from the mistakes or unprepared moves the Clintons made to go up against the Obama tactics that were utilized since the primaries by the Obama camp and (no surprise) as we move onto the GE in the Fall. Obama learned in his early Community Organizer years (and ultimately his campaign supporters and some of the many Obama supporters he pays to blog) on to apply what is called the Saul Alinsky methods of People Organization which includes the use of manipulation of US Americans (unrenowned to them), and those political opponents that go up against them, through the use of subtle practices of intimidation, ridicule and guilt association as it relates to race and much more.

      Anyone interested in learning more about Obamas use of the Saul Alinsky tactics that date back to his early years as community organizer when he first came to the South Side of Chicago) should read what I posted below. . . which I believe that John McCain and camp know what they are dealing with (which the Clintons did not in the Primaries to the degree they should have been) to be able to counter the Obama ploys and tactics that McCain now knows what they are dealing with now leading up to the General Election.


      (Continued in my post below)

      • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/17/2008 9:00:04 AM

        wow sharenews good morning to ya ! i have read that saul alinsky book "rules for radicals " and it is scary to say the least i'm working on the book "the case against barack obama " and i am getting more informed each day i thank you for your post ! they are great ! i am not as literate on a computer as most folks (kinda like mccain ) but still i have a opinion and will be doing my best to get folks to support mccain ! thx again !

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/17/2008 8:13:38 AM



        (Continued from my post above)

        SAUL ALINSKY - Obama was a deciple of his community organizer practices:

        * SAUL ALINSKY (Marxist Liberal, Criminologist - South Side of Chicago) - This was a man that Barack Obama ended up having quite an admiration for in his early years. Upon coming to the South Side of Chicago after college, Obama applied for a job as a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, a job he hooked up with after answering an ad in the Employment area of the newspaper. He ended up taking on that role as a Community Organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP), which focused on black city neighborhoods and later to work for Woods Fund (the same company that Bill Ayers worked for back in the early 90s with Barack for about 8 yrs). Saul Alinsky was responsible for establishing both the DCP and Woods Fund that Obama became employed in his early years.
        .
        BACKGROUND ON ALINSKY: Saul, in his early years, took on a well-known criminal investigator job in Chicago (which gave him access to a close connection to people of organized crime in the area). Through (what became to be) Sauls personal relationships with organized crime (mob bosses like Al Capone), and, given the field he was in, this man learned a whole new way of organizing people (e.g. a means of effectively manipulating people based on the various tactics practiced by criminals of organized crime, essentially based on not only the use of manipulation, but also intimidation and ridicule.)

        Obama not only took a course on how to use Saul Alinskys techniques of manipulation, intimidation, etc in the practice of amassing a people organization to embrace him in his campaigning, he mastered it and even taught other admirers of Alinksy these techniques back then.

        Obama has been utilizing these methods (founded on organized crime techniques) since his Community Organizer days, during his campaign run for the Illinois senate and US Senate, and ultimately in the Primaries and into his current run in the final months for President . These techniques can be found in Saul Alinskys book Rules for Radicals.

        The ALINSKY METHOD OF TECHNIQUES are based on people organization, manipulation, and intimidation that OBAMA, OBAMA CAMP and OBAMABOTS continue to embrace and practice as we move on towards theGE:

        * Personal ATTACKS

        * Playing the RACE card

        * Trying to play the GUILT trip

        * Trying to make people feel GUILTY ABOUT SLAVERY when they had nothing to do with it

        * Calling people that DO NOT AGREE with them STUPID. . .

        * . . . and more.

        ALL of the above things come right out of Saul Alinskys book.

        Non-Obama supporters . . Does all of the above sound very familiar in these blogs? Now we know why!!

  • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/17/2008 9:50:46 AM

    Today, Hillary Clinton is very very mad. The Republicans set her up to have Sarah Palin at an event at the U.N. the same day Hillary Clinton was suppose to be at a rally at the U.N. She canceled her appointment. Hillary Clinton is very upset with the McCain camp.

  • Posted By: Chloe123 @ 09/16/2008 4:59:12 PM

    Do you know what is beginging to "falter?" It isn't Plain it is the Media and the liberal press making it sound as if the people are as neurotic psycho as they are. Pailins favorability will only increase in time but the liberal press is in a sever state of panicv and tells ervyone that she is "faltering" so they have to second guess themselves. Do you they actually think the public is that naive? If the public is that naive they should not vote at all. Smart Women want Palin. Period.

    • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/16/2008 5:03:17 PM

      So you must agree that jews are being killed because they have not embraced Jesus. Palin sat in her Church and listened to this. Please explain to me what makes America smart if they pick Palin. A woman who said that rape victims should pay for their own rape kit.

      • Posted By: aneducatedtaxpayer @ 09/16/2008 11:35:12 PM

        Chindog! You are the biggest idiot I have ever read. Do you ever read more then your own rhetoric, ur that of the uneducated blogster or misogynist? I would like to educate you a little, if that is even possible.

        Sarah Palin was elected mayor of Wasilla in 96. It was already the standing policy in Wasilla, which she worked to change. Legislation was passed in 2000 to do just that. The person who was against this was the police chief.

        ???The bill passed the Legislature over the objections of Wasilla Police Chief Charlie Fannon, who said it would require the city to come up with more money to cover the costs of buying the rape kits and doing the exams.???

        • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/17/2008 9:39:56 AM

          Your the fool. This was something that she wanted. You will make up anything to prove your point bozo. You still can't explain her church problmes.

  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/16/2008 5:23:46 PM

    MSNBC just reported that these four artists have been trying to stop McCain from using their songs, unfortunately there is nothing that they can do because he purchased licenses for these songs about 3 years ago.

    Still The One -Orleans
    Right Now - Van Halen
    Our Country - John Mellencamp
    Baracuda - Heart (Theses women are EXTREMELY Angry)

    I wonder if it bothers McCain that these peple absolutely hate the idea that their music is in anyway associated with the Palin/McCain campaign. Since these people have no moral bounderies, I doubt it!

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/16/2008 6:24:22 PM


      To purchase license for these artists songs must have cost a pretty penny. If they gave them (repubs) that license 3 yrs ago for a price, they have no right to ask their songs not be utilized with the McCain campaign cuz they have every right to play them. If they object to the repubs having access to play these tunes why did they approve them to have license to them. Their bad.

      • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/16/2008 6:45:05 PM

        I really doubt if the licenses were purchased directly from the artists.

        • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/17/2008 7:17:16 AM


          Well, of course when I say THEY I dont mean the actual singer (yeah, I can just see John Mellancamp working thru a deal with McCains people in a backroom, LOL). My reference to THEY was in reference to whomever the person(s) is(are) that arranges such deals pertaining to licensing.
          .

  • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 09/16/2008 11:21:26 PM

    Palin's approval polls dropped 10 points in 3 days. This article may look absolutely quaint in another week. Nothing like a REAL crisis to weed out the lightweights.

    • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/17/2008 7:08:19 AM

      wow down 10 pts and is still beating obama's approval rating wow !

  • Posted By: glimps @ 09/17/2008 12:03:27 AM

    this women is a joke !! Palin is not the right "Choice" for women "Me"....

    i think her influence on the pick of judges will be very strong
    i think just because she can see Russia from her backyard in Alaska doent make her qualified
    i think she is a weak candidate because she had to ask " what does a VP really do anyway"?


    she cant expect me to take her seriously & she doesnt know what her job description / responsibility will be

    Repblicans like to say Dems are scared because McCain picked her... Heck Yeah !! she had to ask what does the VP really do"? (McCain brought the agism back into question) plus his cancer situation this wacko could actually become the president. ( maybe we should be searching for her VP). where is her substance? she is a blank character ... she is running on empty !!

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/17/2008 6:26:33 AM



      I think I will take my chances. . . LOL.

      Part 1 of 3: SARAH PALIN - Sampling of her Experience and Accomplishments

      Firstly, there is no government closer to the people than at the municipal level.
      Palin spent EIGHT (8) YEARS in CITY GOVERNMENT, winning a seat on the WASILLA CITY COUNCIL IN 1992 mostly thanks to her opposition to tax increases. She went on to serve two council terms from 1992 to 1996.

      THE MAYOR:
      She was elected MAYOR OF THE FAST-GROWING ANCHORAGE SUBURB IN 1996 and again in 1999. Mayor Palin had a record of REDUCING PROPERTY TAX LEVELS, increasing municipal services and ATTRACTING NEW INDUSTRY to her town.

      During her tenure in Wassilla, she was elected CHAIR OF ALASKA CONFERENCE OF MAYORS. Next for Sarah Palin was service as CHAIR OF THE ALASKA CONSERVATION COMMITTEE, a board which regulates the states oil and gas industry. In this appointive position she began to gain what would become extensive and VALUABLE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE in the area of one of Americas most pressing issues - ENERGY. It was in this job where Palin first really demonstrated the toughness, political courage and maverick spirit that would years later so impress presidential candidate John McCain.

      She RESIGNED in January 2004 as HEAD of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after complaining to the office of Governor Frank Murkowski and to state Attorney General Gregg Renkes about ETHICAL VIOLATIONS by another commissioner, Randy Ruedrich, who was also Republican state chairman. State law barred Palin from speaking out publicly about ethical violations and corruption. However, she was vindicated later in 2004 when Ruedrich, who had been reconfirmed as state chairman, agreed to pay a $12,000 fine for breaking state ethics laws. She became a hero in the eyes of the public and the press, and the bane of Republican leaders.

      In 2005, she continued to TAKE ON THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT by joining Eric Croft, a DEMOCRAT, in lodging an ethics complaint against Renkes, who was not only Attorney General, but also a long-time adviser and campaign manager for Murkowski. The GOVERNOR REPRIMANDED RENKES and said the case was closed. It wasnt. Renkes RESIGNED A FEW WEEKS LATER, and Palin was again hailed as a hero.

      THE GOVERNOR:
      In 2006, Palin ran for governor and was elected in a landslide. According to Fred Barnes:
      With her emphasis on ethics and openness in government, it turned out Palin caught the temper of the times perfectly, wrote Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News. She was also lucky. News broke of an FBI investigation of corruption by legislators between the primary and general elections. So far, three legislators have been indicted.

      (Continued in my post below - Sarah Palin: Sampling of her Experience and Accomplishments)

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/17/2008 6:25:43 AM


      (Continued from my post above-Part 2 of 3: Sarah Palin: Sampling of her Experience and Accomplishments)

      IN THE ROUGHLY THREE YEARS since she quit as the states chief regulator of the oil industry, Palin has CRUSHED THE REPUBLICAN HIERARCHY (virtually all male) and nearly every other FOE OR CRITIC. Political analysts in Alaska refer to the BODY COUNT of Palins rivals. The landscape is littered with the bodies of those who crossed Sarah, says pollster Dave Dittman, who worked for her gubernatorial campaign. It includes RUEDRICH, RENKES, MURKOWSKI, gubernatorial contenders John Binkley and Andrew Halcro, the THREE BIG OIL COMPANIES in Alaska, and a section of the Daily News called Voice of the Times, which was highly critical of Palin and is now defunct.

      As Governor, Sarah Palins LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS LENGTHENED RAPIDLY.

      * She used her line-item veto to cut $268 million from Alaskas state budget.
      * She stood up to some of Alaskas most entrenched interests, including three big oil companies (BP, ConocoPhilips, and ExxonMobil) who hold the lease rights to much of Alaskas oil and gas wealth.

      * Once in office, Palin took an AGGRESSIVE STANCE toward the OIL COMPANIES. Her nickname from high-school basketball, Sarah Barracuda, was resurrected in the press. Early in her term, she shocked oil lobbyists when she was so bold as to not show up when Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson came to Juneau to meet with her. Palin, after scrapping Murkowskis deal, WOULD NOT GIVE BIG OIL THE TERMS THEY WANTED, yet insisted that the companies still had an obligation under their lease to deliver gas to whatever pipeline Alaska built. She invited the oil companies to place open bids to build a pipeline, but they refused. A bid by TransCanada, North Americas largest pipeline builder, was approved by the legislature in August.

      * Palin also RAISED TAXES ON OIL COMPANIES after Murkowskis previous tax regime PRODUCED FALLING REVENUES in 2007, DESPITE SKYROCKETING OIL PRICES. Alaska now has some of the highest resource taxes in the world. Alaskas oil tax REVENUES ARE EXPECTED TO BE ABOUT $10 BILLION in 2008, twice those of previous year. BP says about half its oil revenues now go to taxes, when royalty payments to the state are included.

      * Recently, Palin APPROVED GAS TAX RELIEF FOR ALASKANS, and paid every resident $1,200 to help ease their fuel-price burden.

      * Some other Palin accomplishments include supporting and signing an ETHICS BILL passed by the Alaska legislature and creating the ALASKA HEALTH STRATEGIES PLANNING COUNCIL to find innovative solutions to effectively provide access to, and help reduce the costs of, healthcare.

      (Continued in my post below - Sara Palins accomplishments/experience)

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/17/2008 6:21:00 AM


      (Continued from my post above - Part 3 of 3: Sarah Palins accomplishments/experience)

      * As governor, Palin is commander of her states National Guard. Not content to merely sit on the title, she traveled to Kuwait to learn about her troops mission there. On the return trip to Alaska, she stopped in Germany to visit wounded soldiers in the hospital, an activity that Barack Obama did not see fit to engage in during his own overseas venture, blaming the Pentagon for his snubbing of the wounded.

      * More accomplishments: Gov. Palin signed a RESOLUTION IN OPPOSITION TO THE FAAS PLAN TO INCREASE TAXES ON AVIATION FUEL, IMPOSE USER FEES AND SLASH AIRPORT FUNDING.

      * Also, before Palin became governor, her predecessor Frank Murkowski had purchased a Westwind Two business jet for the governors use at a $2.5 million price tag, despite the objections from the state legislature and the public. Her first order of business after taking office was to PUT THE JET UP FOR SALE. Palin did keep the governors state-owned Chevy Suburban, but she got RID OF THE DRIVER, saying it was WASTEFUL for the state to pay someone to drive her around, since she was perfectly capable of driving herself. The governors gourmet chef also got changed from a full-time to a seasonal-only basis because Palin considered it a luxury SHE DID NOT THINK ALASKANS SHOULD BE PAYING for. Her political enemies called all this superficial pandering.

      * Alaska is the only one of Americas states which borders on two foreign countries. Sarah Palin is CHIEF EXECUTIVE of our most important ENERGY STATE, one which lies only a few miles from Russian territory. She has negotiated sensitive agreements on fishing rights and other matters to keep the peace up there. She has also worked on important trade deals with other countries. She has received foreign heads of state and had discussions with them.

      There are many benefits to having Governor Sarah Palin on the GOP presidential ticket, and many of them have been already been discussed extensively by both new media and old in the few short days since John McCain introduced her to the GOP in Ohio. They all rest on a rock-solid base of achievement. SHE IS ONE VERY ACCOMPLISHED VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE.

      Sources:http://newsminer.com/news/2008/may/23/palin-vetoes-millions-state-budgethttp://money.cnn.com/2008/08/29/news/newsmakers/palin_oil.fortune/?postversion=2008083009http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122004983609584755.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

  • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/16/2008 7:04:19 PM

    Giuliani said today on Fox News that the economy is strong and thats how the Republicans feel. Are you joking?

    • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 09/17/2008 1:41:24 AM

      the Republicans lie and tell gross untruths and the morons who don't know any better believe anything they say a a fact.

  • Posted By: tjohn017 @ 09/16/2008 1:17:39 PM

    I would never vote for Sarah Palin, I am a woman, with a career and children, what matters is her policies and I am NOT for taking away a womans right to choose, I am NOT for the same old economic woes under republican rule, I am NOT for homophobia, and I am NOT for making the rich richer while the rest of the country suffers! Get real people, don't finish ruining this country over Hillary not getting the nomination!

    • Posted By: neverrepublican @ 09/16/2008 8:31:44 PM

      EXCELLENT POST, I ALSO TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!!!

      • Posted By: aneducatedtaxpayer @ 09/16/2008 11:47:42 PM

        What is wrong with the thought that it is her choice for life. I listened to her, she is not looking to change your choice. Nor could she from the post of VP! It is a choice are you saying that the only choice in life is to abort?

    • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/16/2008 5:12:01 PM

      Great Post, I am totally with you 100%. McCain is scary but Palin/McCain is absolutely frightening.

  • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/16/2008 8:19:26 PM

    Where oh where are the McCain supporters. Hahahaha. You gotta love it. I can't wait for the debate. Many questions McCain will have to answer. Oh yeah, don't forget the Special Olympics. She really proves that she cares for the special need children. Cut the funding for the Special Olympics.

    • Posted By: aneducatedtaxpayer @ 09/16/2008 10:59:16 PM

      Is that the debate between Obama and Palin!!! There is no comparison between he and McCain.

  • Posted By: aneducatedtaxpayer @ 09/16/2008 10:56:16 PM

    Has your liberal bias caused the loss of brain cells? Wake Up! You can not compare a quest speaker coming into a church to a sitting pastor!! There is no comparison between the two.

    Your problem is that you grew up in a household that did not teach you that you can be anything you wanted to be in life, you just needed to have the will and determination. For this reason I feel sorry for you.

  • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/16/2008 9:31:42 PM

    I remember the show Murphy Brown. Murphy was about to have a baby and be a single mother and still have a job and the Republicans and Dan Quayle said that this is wrong and is giving young girls the wrong ideal. Now we have Sarah Palin and her daughter and now the Republicans are saying that she can do anything. The Republicans are so two faced.

  • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/16/2008 8:16:56 PM

    Funny that when things were looking bad for Obama, sharenews and all her cronies were out in full force writing their negative comments about Obama. Now that McCain has been on the defense and Sarah Palin has lied about a teleprompter, her sitting in a Church while anti-Jewish comments were being said, her not wanting to cooperate with investigators and so on and so on.......They are nowhere to be found. They say one or two things and then they are gone. I love it.

  • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/16/2008 6:39:47 PM

    I love the fact that none of these phony McCain supporters have no answer for why did Sarah Palin sit in a Church and hear David Brickner say that Jews are being killed because they won't embrace Chrisitanity. Once you ask them this question, they keep running back to Rev. Wright.

    • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/16/2008 6:43:44 PM

      Because they pick and chose what outrages them. Nothing that Palin/McCain do is questioned, and we are the sheep LOL!

  • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 09/16/2008 6:09:25 PM

    Bush with a vagina?

    Actually, the body part being exploited here is the uterus. She's a mom, and if you buy the apple pie/mom myth, she's right there. Look, America, we have Daddy and Mommy in the White House, a return to old fashioned family values.

    Let's face it - McCain didn't have the luxury of picking a female candidate smarther than he is, she might just show him up. That narrowed the field considerably.

    If they wanted a republican conservative woman who, instead of a uterus, has a brain and a resume, McCain could have chosen someone like Senator Elizabeth Dole - who better to answer the call at 3 am than the former head of the Red Cross? The far right likes her just fine.

    He chose the caricature instead, because the appeal is motherhood, hoping to appeal to all who are mothers, and all who have one.

    This is one mother who doesn't buy any of it.

  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/16/2008 5:54:57 PM

    I don;t know if this has been posted here before, but I thought it was a really good article so here it is.

    Dear John McCain:

    We're not that stupid. Sure it would be nice if the women of America believed that everyone with breasts and a vagina believed in equality. But it ain't so. Women have differing views -- just like men.

    Some like beer; some like chardonnay. And some prefer AA. Some like automatic weapons; some don't. Some think every pregnancy is sanctified; some don't. Some think presidents should be qualified for office; some don't care.

    But to take the struggle for equal rights that has gone on for two centuries and embody it in the person of Sarah Palin is not just misleading but abusive. Charging rape victims for rape kits is a travesty of equal rights. Insisting that government impose your own views of abortion on others is anti-equality. Cutting funding for black teenage mothers is anti-feminist and racist. Lying to the electorate about your record is insolent. Do you think we're too stupid or indolent to check?

    We have checked. You are lying and so is she. But you must think that a big lie repeated over and over becomes the truth. And it seems that many Americans are with you on that.

    You are so good at the bold-faced lie that you even seem to believe it yourself. When Barbara Walters and Joy Behar accused you of lying on "The View," you claimed you weren't.

    I guess your handlers have decided that after eight years of Cheney-Bush saying one thing and doing another, truth no longer has any meaning. Say it often enough and we'll believe anything -- like the good commercial-watchers we are. So, prep Sarah to sound like Hillary -- and we'll be fooled.

    It remains to be seen how many will.

    But one thing is clear. You have reached a new low in your regard for the public. You have blown your credibility. Usually politicians wait to be elected to do that.

    It's fascinating to watch you and your party try to co-opt the idea of change, the idea of equal rights after eight years of being in total control and trashing the country for women, for workers, for taxpayers and for anyone who earns dollars.

    Do you really think we're that stupid? Apparently you do.

    Tax cuts for the rich have produced trickle-down unemployment. You want to try that again? We don't. The private sector has not policed itself. Failing banks and mortgage companies prove that. The deficit has swelled. Insurance rates for health care have swelled. Women are joining the ranks of the poor faster than ever.

    Play it again, John?

    As Sarah Palin said, lying about her lust for earmarks, "Thanks but no thanks."

    Sincerely,
    Erica Jong

  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/16/2008 5:37:31 PM

    Palin Spreads Debunked Teleprompter Story

    This is too funny!

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/palin-spreads-debunked-te_n_126762.html

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