Blind Leading the Blind into Battle?

Thank you to Teabonics for the picture, if you haven't been over to Flickr and checked out the hysterical photo album people have been putting together of Tea Party Patriot signs, please do not hesitate any further. Be sure to pee before you check it out though!

Though the Tea Party supporters have greatly decreased in the past calendar year, they seem to be popping up in the news the past week since April 15th, Tax Day was last week. I wanted to express some of my feelings on the Tea Party situation as a whole in one post. I probably won't revisit the subject unless these elderly nut jobs start bombing things or committing acts of terrorism in the name of patriotism.

First things first. Sarah Palin? Really? I think we all know my track record with the former VP candidate and Governor of Alaska. As it stands, I still think my dog could do a better job at most things, including mothering her brood. Could these Tea Party supporters not have access to anyone better? The majority of Americans think she is useless so the new cause de jour picks her up to be a spokes woman? If you guys really want to be taken seriously drop Airhead Barbie and pick up that other nut job Glenn Beck.
Does this mean the Republican's don't want her back?

Second, watch your words. Encouraging citizens to take up arms against the government could be considered a serious terrorist threat in the times we live in. Domestic terrorism is not special, it does not make you any better than the extremists that flew planes into the Twin Towers, and it certainly doesn't get anything accomplished, especially change. Bill Clinton was right when he warned you to watch your words.

Third, where are all the blacks at your rallies? The Tea Party movement certainly looks to me like a bunch of older, wealthy whites. I think Andy Ostroy hit the nail right on the head when he wrote The Tea Party Movement Isn't About Racism? Read This... After reading that, I took a stroll over to The New York Times which released the findings of a poll focused around the new Tea Party Movement. Their findings?
Tea Party Movement Supporters tend to :

• Be White
• Be Male
• Be Married
• Over the age of 45
• With Conservative Republican Views
• Classify themselves as "angry" with Washington
• Place the majority of the blame on Obama (that is a whole post in itself)
• Believe the current administration favors blacks over whites

All extremely telling for me at least. I am not racist by any means, but I can certainly see the divide between the races, even more so once Obama took office. In the article is shows the majority of the Tea Party Supporters feel as though Obama does not share the views of Americans. In other words, according to these new radicals, the majority of Americans are white, church going, conservatives, certainly not the case. Another reason why Obama was voted in to begin with.

If that is the majority, then someone needs to run that by the majority that run in my circle up here in the great white North East that would rather go out shopping or fishing on Sunday rather than run down to the local chapel for a snooze.

But the movement wouldn't be your typical post Republicans if they weren't hypocrites. The majority of the Tea Party Supporters do not want any changes made to their social security benefits, or medicare, two large government programs in many cases highly funded by the government they are bitching and moaning about.

To wrap it all up, I want to share a quote which was at the tail end of the New York Times article on the poll.

“He’s a socialist. And to tell you the truth, I think he’s a Muslim and trying to head us in that direction, I don’t care what he says. He’s been in office over a year and can’t find a church to go to. That doesn’t say much for him.”

Said by Kathy Mayhugh, 67, a retired medical transcriber in Jacksonville. Mrs. Mayhugh, buying into propaganda of this nature puts you in the same category as Palin, uneducated.

Long Time No Post!

I never thought I would agree with anything Dr. Amy had to say, but she wrote a great blog yesterday about Sarah Palin and her hate...

What Sarah Palin can teach us about hate

Sarah Palin burst onto the national scene slightly more than a year ago at the Republican National Convention. Since then she has gone from disaster to disaster: she fatally weakened the Republican ticket, committed countless ethical violations, and couldn't even manage to govern the State of Alaska. Through it all, she has demonstrated herself to be simultaneously a blithering idiot and a confirmed narcissist.

On the eve of publication of her new book, it is worth examining Palin's one outstanding talent, her ability to incite hatred. The contemporary GOP is a party fueled on hate. Hate is the stock in trade of O'Reilly, Limbaugh and Beck, so it is no small feat that Sarah Palin could claim to be the hater-in-chief. In her rapturously received speech to the Republican convention she gave what amounted to a clinic in inciting hatred. It is worth looking back at that speech and how she did it.

Psychologists have recently published findings on the five steps in the development of collective hate (Making a Virtue of Evil: A Five-Step Social Identity Model of the Development of Collective Hate, Soc Per Psych Compass 2/3 (2008): 1313–1344) and Palin seems to have embraced the model enthusiastically. According to the researchers:

The five steps are: (i) Identification, the construction of an ingroup; (ii) Exclusion, the definition of targets as external to the ingroup; (iii) Threat, the representation of these targets as endangering ingroup identity; (iv) Virtue, the championing of the ingroup as (uniquely) good; and (v) Celebration, embracing the eradication of the outgroup as necessary to the defence of virtue.

Let's look at how Palin accomplished those aims.

Identification, or I'm just like you: Palin led with a description of her family, proudly proclaiming, "Our family has the same ups and downs as any other ... the same challenges and the same joys." She emphasized her large family size, her family members in the military, her special needs child, her husband's blue collar job and her parents' background as farmer and small business person.

Exclusion, defining the other: Palin was quick to claim that her opponent talks one way in Scranton to working people (us) and another way in San Francisco (them, and they're gay, too) supposedly deriding religion and gun ownership. Palin invokes the Washington elites (them) as if the Republicans didn't hold the presidency, vice presidency, Supreme Court, and other major positions of power.

The threat: Her opponent supposedly wants to turn his back on victory in Iraq; her opponent wants us to be threatened by oil producing nations; and, worst of all, terrorists are trying to attack us and her opponent still cares about the Constitution.

Virtue: Her group is uniquely good. She implies that they, and they alone, are the people who care about family, about religion, about patriotism, about sacrifice, and she is sure that God cares uniquely about her group.

Celebration: Finally, the call to action, the insistence that the defeat of the other is required to defend the values of family, religion, patriotism and sacrifice.

Not only was the structure of the speech designed to evoke hate, the very words and the delivery were chosen to ridicule, demean and denigrate. She made is quite clear that her opponents are not merely political opponents, they are people unworthy of the basic respect that should be due to any individual, let alone two Senators who have served their country well.

Sarah Palin was perhaps more honest than she intended to be when she described herself as a pit bull with lipstick. She implied that she is vicious, immoral, bred to attack, and fed on misery and hate. The crowd lapped it up. She carefully followed the script for inciting hatred and the audience responded with thunderous applause. It was a virtuoso performance in the art of hate.

New Poll says....

Sarah Palin should be a homemaker.
32% of polled American's said Sarah Palin should take on the "career" of homemaker.
Really shows what the American people think.

My opinion, yes, she should become a homemaker. Her children have greatly suffered from her period of time in politics. We have comedians taking shots at her young teen daughter, her oldest daughter is now a single teen mother, and she also has a baby with a serious mental retardation.
Maybe slowing down and being one on one with her children would benefit them, instead of herself and what she can do being her first priority.

Now, I am well aware that there are mothers out there that NEED to work, but in her case, her husband and herself did just ducky for how long without any issues?
Maybe her daughter would have never got pregnant, engaged, broke up, and a single mother all within one year.

Just sayin'

Sarah Palin and the Debate

I know a lot of you have been waiting for this post this morning, or even hoping I stayed up last night to blog about the debate because it was that good. I am going to make this pretty short and sweet, even though I could probably go on for hours about it.

Sarah Palin read her script very well, but failed to directly answer any of the questions given to her. She may have rarely stumbled, but she kept using her back woods, po dunk phrases and comments when she felt backed into a corner.

You don't give "shout outs" in a VP debate. It is unprofessional and inappropriate. I wouldn't expect her to know any better because she is "main street wasilla". This is the big time lady, not Wasilla Alaska.

She continuously talked about her and John McCain are Mavericks and his senate record shows that, and shows he wants a change. All his record shows is he voted with Dubya 90% of the time, and that is not much of a change. It would just be 4 more years old Dubya, and failed policies that will continue to spiral this country into the ground. Which is where we are currently residing.

As for Sarah Palin's comment about her respect for women and womens rights, she is full of shit. She is the most misogynistic woman I have ever come across in my life. Her respect for women is only there if they are walking uterus's like the Duggar Mother who pops out kid after kid. Someone in Washington said it the best. Sarah Palin's greatest accomplishment has been not getting an abortion.
And on that note, if the McCain/Palin camp make it into the White House, you can kiss your abortion rights away.

These two are not mavericks, and they are Dubya and Dick. Except McCain has the brains in the operation, while all Palin has is the "look at me I am cute and when I can't answer a question I say funny things and make cute faces" going for her.
She is by no means qualified to be running Alaska, let alone the entire United States.

Oh, and where was Bristol?

Preping for her ass kicking....

First off, Sarah brings her 14 year old daughter Willow on an interview... why aren't these children in school? Oh thats right, this family doesn't think that school is too important since she kept her oldest knocked up teen out of school for over 5 months.

First question from Katie Couric... "Do you consider yourself a feminist?" So Palin says yes. Well here is a news flash to Mrs. Palin. Feminists are not pro life, they do not hate women, and they to not put them down and insult their intelligence by actually thinking Hilary supporters will support her just because she is female. That is the total opposite of a feminist. Being a feminist is so much more than just believing in equal rights.

Drill baby drill, considering domestic drilling would take about 10 years to impact the gas market here in the United States, so now that she has been confronted with that little piece of information, she can't come up with much more then, "Well if we started 10 years ago..."
Well we didn't! Unless you have a magical wand you can wave that can turn back the time, that is not an answer to the question.

She brings in these large crowds of naive religious nuts who think she is the answer to all us sinners in the US. Us sinners... outnumber you religious right wing extremists. Just so you know. :)

Then for her to say regarding Joe Biden "I've been hearing about his catchy senate speeches since I was in 2nd grade" just goes to show how much more experience and education he has than she does. She proves in her own words that he is more experienced and qualified for the job she is running for. She is an idiot.

She cannot answer specific questions, asked what news magazine and newspapers she reads, she answers "all of them" when asked again, which specific ones, she answers a second time, "all of them" do you not understand the question? Is your hair up too tight?

Moving on to questions about global warming... another bs answer instead of actually straight forwardly answering the question.

Question : If a 15 year old, is raped by her father, you believe it should be illegal for her to get an abortion. "I am pro life, and I am not apologetic about my position there." "I would council to choose life" Well GUESS FUCKING WHAT???? You get no say in someone else's choices.
You are no better than these nosy pro lifer assholes who stand out in front of abortion clinics harassing women going in the doors.
She wants adoptions to be made easier... well how about we focus getting all the kids up for adoption in this country adopted... RIGHT NOW in the United States there are over 155,000 children waiting to be adopted right now...

Anywho... that is all I have to bitch about this morning...

Palin on the outs!

Now the GOP is starting to question whether or not Sarah Palin is actually fit to take over the job of President if anything happens to John McCain. Just in the few short interviews that Palin and the McCain Campaign have done, it does not portray her as someone who is ready to be VP of the greatest and most powerful country in the world.
Now that the GOP has finally realized it, and that is coming to the surface and the public is realizing this. The American people are on to her and her lack of experience that would hurt our country in a major way.
In a news poll today, 70% of American people do not want Palin as VP and do not think she is fit to take over the spot of President in case something happens.
The McCain campaign is crumbling.
I can't wait to see Joe Biden wipe the floor with her during the debate this week. Well, that is if the McCain campaign doesn't change their VP pick by then.

Ya Ain't in Alaska anymore...

How about you just give some straight answers instead of pageant bullshit. You are not competeing for Miss America, you are running to be VICE PRESIDENT.
Or do you just not have an answer? Its ok if you don't, we know you have no idea what you are talking about already.

Palin Scared of the Media

Sounds like VP candidate Sarah Palin is really in over her head these days. While she is meeting with World leaders like the Afgan President, and the Columbian President. But of course she does not want any reporters present for her meetings.
Why?
Oh thats right, her foreign policy experience doesn't exist beyond "I can see Russia from my house"

I really hope the American idiots, I mean people can realize this is one BIG red flag to the problems she would cause in the white house.

Thank you Eve Ensler

Eve Ensle​r,​ the Ameri​can playw​right​,​ perfo​rmer,​ femin​ist and activ​ist,​ wrote​ the follo​wing about​ Sarah​ Palin​.
​

I am havin​g Sarah​ Palin​ night​mares​.
​ I dream​t last
night​ that she was a membe​r of a club where​ they rode
snowm​obile​s and wore the claws​ of drown​ed and starv​ed polar​
bears​ aroun​d their​ necks​.
​ I have a parti​cular​ thing​ for
Polar​ Bears​.
​ Maybe​ it's their​ snowy​ white​ness or their​
bigne​ss or the fact that they live in the arcti​c or that I
have never​ seen one in perso​n or touch​ed one.
Maybe​ it is
the fact that they live so comfo​rtabl​y on ice.
Whate​ver it
is, I need the polar​ bears​.
​

I don'​t like ragin​g at women​.
​ I am a Femin​ist and
have spent​ my life tryin​g to build​ commu​nity,​ help empow​er
women​ and stop viole​nce again​st them.
​ It is hard to write​
about​ Sarah​ Palin​.
​ This is why the Sarah​ Palin​ choic​e was
all the more insid​ious and cynic​al.
​ The peopl​e who made this
choic​e count​ on the goodn​ess and solid​arity​ of Femin​ists.
​

But every​thing​ Sarah​ Palin​ belie​ves in and pract​ices
is antit​hetic​al to Femin​ism which​ for me is part of one
story​ -- conne​cted to savin​g the earth​,​ endin​g racis​m,​
empow​ering​ women​,​ givin​g young​ girls​ optio​ns,​ openi​ng our
minds​,​ deepe​ning toler​ance,​ and endin​g viole​nce and war.


I belie​ve that the McCai​n/​Palin​ ticke​t is one of the
most dange​rous choic​es of my lifet​ime,​ and shoul​d this
count​ry choos​e those​ candi​dates​ the fall-​out may be so great​,​
the destr​uctio​n so vast in so many areas​ that Ameri​ca may
never​ recov​er.
​ But what is equal​ly distu​rbing​ is the impac​t
that duo would​ have on the rest of the world​.
​
Unfor​tunat​ely,​ this is not a joke.
​ In my lifet​ime I have
seen the clown​ish,​ the inept​,​ the bizar​re be elect​ed to the
presi​dency​ with regul​arity​.
​

Sarah​ Palin​ does not belie​ve in evolu​tion.
​ I take
this as a metap​hor.
​ In her world​ and the world​ of
Funda​menta​lists​ nothi​ng chang​es or gets bette​r or evolv​es.
​
She does not belie​ve in globa​l warmi​ng.
​ The melti​ng of the
arcti​c,​ the storm​s that are destr​oying​ our citie​s,​ the
pollu​tion and rise of cance​rs,​ are all part of God'​s
plan.
​ She is fight​ing to take the polar​ bears​ off the
endan​gered​ speci​es list.
​ The earth​,​ in Palin​'​s view,​ is
here to be taken​ and plund​ered.
​ The wolve​s and the bears​ are
here to be shot and plund​ered.
​ The oil is here to be taken​
and plund​ered.​ Iraq is here to be taken​ and plund​ered.
​ As
she said herse​lf of the Iraqi​ war, "It was a task from
God.
"

Sarah​ Palin​ does not belie​ve in abort​ion.
​ She does
not belie​ve women​ who are raped​ and inces​ted and rippe​d open
again​st their​ will shoul​d have a right​ to deter​mine wheth​er
they have their​ rapis​t'​s baby or not.


She obvio​usly does not belie​ve in sex educa​tion or
birth​ contr​ol.
​ I imagi​ne her daugh​ter was pract​icing​
absti​nence​ and we know how many babie​s that makes​.
​

Sarah​ Palin​ does not much belie​ve in think​ing.
​ From
what I gathe​r she has tried​ to ban books​ from the libra​ry,​
has a tende​ncy to dispe​nse with peopl​e who think​
indep​enden​tly.
​ She canno​t toler​ate an envir​onmen​t of
ambig​uity and diffe​rence​.
​ This is a woman​ who could​ and
might​ very well be the next presi​dent of the Unite​d State​s.
​
She would​ gover​n one of the most diver​se popul​ation​s on the
earth​.
​

Sarah​ belie​ves in guns.
​ She has her own custo​m
Austr​ian hunti​ng rifle​.
​ She has been known​ to kill 40
carib​ou at a clip.
​ She has shot hundr​eds of wolve​s from the
air.




Sarah​ belie​ves in God.
That is of cours​e her right​,​
her priva​te right​.
​ But when God and Guns come toget​her in
the publi​c secto​r,​ when war is decla​red in God'​s name,​
when the right​s of women​ are denie​d in his name,​ that is the
end of separ​ation​ of churc​h and state​ and the undoi​ng of
every​thing​ Ameri​ca has ever tried​ to be.


I write​ to my siste​rs.
​ I write​ becau​se I belie​ve we
hold this elect​ion in our hands​.
​ This vote is a vote that
will deter​mine the futur​e not just of the U.S.
, but of the
plane​t.
​ It will deter​mine wheth​er we creat​e polic​ies to save
the earth​ or make it forev​er uninh​abita​ble for human​s.
​ It
will deter​mine wheth​er we move towar​ds dialo​gue and
diplo​macy in the world​ or wheth​er we escal​ate viole​nce
throu​gh invas​ion,​ under​minin​g and attac​k.
​ It will deter​mine
wheth​er we go for oil, strip​ minin​g,​ coal burni​ng or inves​t
our money​ in alter​nativ​es that will free us from depen​dency​
and destr​uctio​n.
​ It will deter​mine if money​ gets spent​ on
educa​tion and healt​hcare​ or wheth​er we build​ more and more
metho​ds of killi​ng.
​ It will deter​mine wheth​er Ameri​ca is a
free open toler​ant socie​ty or a close​d place​ of fear,​
funda​menta​lism and aggre​ssion​.
​

If the Polar​ Bears​ don'​t move you to go and do
every​thing​ in your power​ to get Obama​ elect​ed then consi​der
the chant​ that fille​d the hall after​ Palin​ spoke​ at the RNC,
"​Drill​ Drill​ Drill​.
​" I think​ of teeth​ when I think​
of drill​s.​ I think​ of rape.​ I think​ of destr​uctio​n.
​ I think​
of domin​ation​.
​ I think​ of milit​ary exerc​ises that force​
mindl​ess repet​ition​,​ empty​ing the brain​ of analy​sis,​ doubt​,​
ambig​uity or disse​nt.​ I think​ of pain.
​

Do we want a futur​e of drill​ing?​ More holes​ in the
ozone​,​ in the floor​ of the sea, more holes​ in our think​ing,​
in the trust​ betwe​en natio​ns and peopl​es,​ more holes​ in the
fabri​c of this preci​ous thing​ we call life?​


Eve Ensle​r

Laughable...

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.'

Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the
Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified
to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.

If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.

If you're husband is nicknamed 'First Dude', with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska
from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

Sarah Palin ABC Interview Review Part 2

It is like a train wreck, I really don't want to watch, but I can't help but to look.
I had to watch part 2 of Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson last night, and it again, confirmed my thoughts that she is not fit to run this country, and it also confirmed my very bold opinion that she is in fact a misogynist. Here we go....

Now trying to compare Wasilla Alaska to the United States as a hole is simply foolish. The rest of the country or world in general is nothing like this small town Alaskan city. The issues that someone in Atlanta or New York city is feeling, is nothing like Wasilla. (Oh, and on a side note, what is with the closed fist with the thumb sticking out waving trying to make a point?)
Obama regretting not picking Hilary Clinton? I doubt it. Obama and Biden do not need some family circus surrounding them to win the White House. They do not need a female on their campaign to try and bring in the woman vote. They can win on experience alone. John McCain realized the only way he was going to even get any kind of a momentum is with picking a controversial no name woman and it worked.
But remember, there is still 2 months to the election, and the momentum you have now, is not going to last after Biden wipes the floor with you in the VP debate.
(Another side note... The GOP is not a party of change, it never will be a party of change, it is a party of rich old white men that would rather have the both of you assassinated before you change what they have created in the past 8 years.)

Now all these "solutions" that Sarah Palin brought forth for helping to strengthen the economy are all democratic values, all things the democrats have been trying to implement into change in this country for years. I wonder if Sarah Palin thinks that she is running on the democratic ticket? Because it sure sounds like she and John McCain are not on the same page.
Sarah Palin entered office in Wasilla, Alaska with NO debt, and left with a 13+ million dollar debt. Oh ok, she is a republican. PHEW!

Ok, so lets change people losing their homes, lets change the taxes, and lower them, lets make health care affordable, lets get people some jobs to lower the unemployment rates.... Wow, I am pretty sure those are all things the Obama campaign has been going on since he started running for president. Hmmm... Again, I think you are disagreeing with John McCain here.
Now, why don't you give Mr. Gibson a real answer instead of dancing around the issues. He is asking you direct questions, you are not answering those questions, the man can only ask you the same thing 3 or 4 times before he has to move on to the next question.
Are you really this dim witted?

Of course you are a "Washington outsider" but give it a couple years and you will be in the pockets of special interest groups, just like every other Republican who is in Washington, just like your "maverick" John McCain. He wants to say he is not in the pocket of anyone, yet the FACTS show differently.
Again, I think you are very unprepared for this interview.

You were on board with this "bridge to nowhere" until it started making you look like you had mud on your face. Now that Alaska has already got millions upon millions of dollars in this process, you are against it. Sounds a little hypocritical.

OK, now here we are at my most hot button issue in this election. Roe V. Wade. When Charlie Gibson asked Governor Palin if she thinks that Roe V. Wade should be reversed... she said YES!
Little does she know HOW MANY women votes she lost with that answer alone. She believes that the issue of abortion should be decided on a STATE by STATE government. But the problem with that is, if a MAJORITY in one state believes that abortion should be illegal, those poor women that do believe abortion should be legal, and need abortion services are going to be screwed. Back alley abortions are going to start all over again. But she is so pro woman right?
Saying that a "culture of life" is best for America because that is what you believe in is just not going to work. Not every woman in America wants their greatest accomplishment in life to be not having an abortion and pushing out kid after kid like you have done.
You want women to embrace their other options, but you, yourself, CUT funding for programs that assist teen mothers in Alaska. Seems a little hypocritical huh?

Stem cell research, you differ in opinion on John McCain.
Abortion in cases of rape and incest, you differ in opinion on John McCain.
You are not giving clear answers. Charlie Gibson has no idea what you are saying!

Gay Marriage, you are against, but you aren't going to judge them, you just wont allow them to get married if you have any say in it.
Fully automatic weapons (just what we need on the streets of America) 70% of this country supports a ban on semi automatic weapons on the streets, Sarah Palin, of Po Dunk Alaska thinks they should be allowed.
Well guess what... in South Central LA, they aren't hunting ELK, they are hunting humans, the humans and culture of life you so whole heartedly support NEVER being killed. Maybe you should think about that?

As for her opinion on running a country and managing a family of 7 at the same time.
Well obviously she isn't doing that great as a parent considering her oldest son who is now serving our military was doing drugs, her 17 year old daughter is pregnant, and her youngest child needs special medical attention and special attention because of his downs syndrome. The only person in this family that is going to miss out is that baby because he is not going to get the attention and special care that he needs from his parents, instead he will have some stranger doting on him.

That is really all I have to say about this until the next interview comes out. I am so disgusted by the Americans that actually support this bimbo, and I am even more disgusted by her and John McCain.
She is clearly not qualified. She is clearly not able to run this country in the case of something happening to John McCain, she can't even answer a straight question.
This is all just pathetic.

Sarah Palin ABC Interview Review

What did I think about her interview (part 1) with Charlie Gibson. LOL! Sit back, relax, and enjoy this ride!

Opening, on September 11th, 2008, 7 years after the horrible terrorist attack on our country, which changed our world forever, for Sarah Palin to sit there, and say, she is READY to run the country in the event that something happened to John McCain, is nothing more than a bold faced lie to the American people. Her experience in National Security and Foreign Policy alone, show how inexperienced she is.
Now the lack of hesitation she has to take the VP spot, knowing her lack of experience on the se major issues does not help out our country or help the McCain ticket out, what it does it showcase her selfish nature. She wanted this position. She did not consider the thoughts or opinions of others including her small children, and teens who are already clearly screaming for attention they clearly aren't getting at home.
Now, she continues to bring up the commitment that she, and John McCain have to "reforming"" this country, yet she doesn't have enough commitment to care for her children and be a more involved mother...

"National Security is a lot more than just enegry" - Charlie Gibson...
When presented with that, who starts stuttering trying to make it seem like she is more qualified than she really is? Oh Oh! Sarah Palin!

In Sarah Palin's lifetime she made ONE real trip outside of the country, last year to visit troops in Kuwait and Germany. Traveling to Canada and Mexico doesn't qualify as a major our of the country trip, both countries are like the Diet Coke of America. They WANT to be America, but they just quite can't be America. Nor has she ever met a foreign head of state. Not only that but also showing that she does not know much about the MAJOR issue between Russia and Georgia that has been taking place.
Now tell me you want this woman to be running this country!!!

Now lets move over to Iran, shes Republican, and she is on the McCain ticket, of course she is going to support a war against Iraq. Because of course, if they have nuclear weapsons, they are "dangerous" so "we have got to put the pressure on Iran". Both phrases used by Sarah Palin herself, a woman with no experience with dealing with Terrorism or Iran. I wonder if she knows how they treat women in Iran?

When asked why she thinks that we were attacked on 9/11 she says "Ya know, there is a very small percentage of Islamic believers who are extreme and they are violent, and they do not believe in American Ideals" Ok, well lets look at YOUR opinion on some major American issues/ideals and YOU are very extreme and instead of being violent, you would rather wait till you get into office, and take those ideals that many Americans believe in, and do away with them because you morally disagree with them.
*Gay Marriage
*Abortion
Just being TWO, but they are VERY large, and IMPORTANT issues in this country currently.
She continues to say, living in a post 9/11 world, that we will not allow ourselves to be the victim of an attack like that. If we continue to keep republicans in office, you bet your ass that we are still going to be a sitting duck. The person who planned the attack on this country, and funded it, is STILL ALIVE and has NOT been brought to justice. We are playing Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden. I found Carmen San Diego in a shorter period of time on a video game as a kid than our government has taken to find Bin Laden.
Oh, thats right, Saddam Hussien because more of a priority because of Bush's little boy "you did this to my daddy".
Welcome to America.

Now here comes the big money question. "Do you believe in the Bush Doctrine?"
THIS BITCH DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE BUSH DOCTRINE IS?!?!?!?!?!?
But shes FIT to be the VP????????

She believes Bush has tried to rid this world of Islamic extremists, yet they are multiplying!!!! They are not going away, they are getting stronger. Their hate for America is getting more violent. Why? Because they hate Bush, and they hate our freedoms.
Nothing you Sarah Palin, or John McCain does is going to change that. It has been like this forever and will continue to be like this as long as we continue to have the freedoms that we do today. Lastly, when asked if it is right that we cross the border to go into Pakistan without their approval, she could not give a straight answer. She danced around the question, like she did with many other of the questions.

Lady, war is not a task from God. War is not what God wants us to be doing. Maybe you Gay hating, murdering abortion doctors God wants us to be at war, but my God sure doesn't want us to be at war.

Thank you Charlie Gibson for making Sarah Palin look like an inexperienced hick.

Car Seat Safety...

It is 2008, not 1908.... Car seat Safety is EVERYWHERE! There is no excuse to be ignorant to the laws and not have your child properly restrained while in a moving vehicle. I do not care if this is a car, mini van, or a golf cart. Accidents still happen, and it is still the law.

No, it is not Britney Spears that sparked my rant today, but if I didn't know any better, I would say our public figure being careless with their infant's life today is related to the Spears family.

Our Golden Girl Sarah Palin, VP pick for the McCain campaign, drove around Point MacKenzie Correctional Farm with her son in her arms while on a tour with the warden. A few days after this incident occurred, Palin was contacted by her Public Safety Commissioner and received a warning about not strapping her two month old infant into a car seat for the ride around the facility, after someone apparently complained about her actions.

Hell, I would complain about it too! The child was barely 2 months old when it happened.

Palin dismissed the complaint and warning as petty and no action was taken against Palin at the time. (By the commissioner whom she appointed)

Palin used her "hockey mom, family woman, working mother" and made her family a political center piece to get her into the Governors chair, but now that the tables have been turned she wants her family (who got her to where she is today) left out of it. You cannot have your cake, and eat it too.

Back to my original point.
Palin/Spears?

Palin - Pregnant 17 year old daughter
Spears - Pregnant 16 year old daughter

Palin - 17 year old underage drinking daughter
Spears - Britney... that about sums it up right?

Palin - Driving around with her 2 month old infant in her arms.
Spears - Driving down the highway with her infant in her arms.

It is starting to become a trend here.

Saturday

When Saturday rolls around... I do not want to be bothered by anything.
Children, husbands, cleaning, pets, phone calls, telemarketers, nothing...

So I got dragged to the mall today, and now I fully remember why I do not go to the mall during the weekend. Too many teeny bopper, Britney Spears wanna-be's, throwin' down the F bomb like it is cool, making out with their boyfriends in the food court...
WHERE ARE YOUR PARENTS?
Good luck, you will be the next Jaime Lynn Spears/Bristol Palin. Hope little Jose decides to stick around and play house once your feet are no longer visible.
Its ok though because you can live off of WIC, Food Stamps, and Medicaid while others in the real world have to bust their asses to provide you with all those "free" luxuries.

Now run along, work at Hot Topic for $7 an hour and think that will support a baby.

As for the mass amounts of people who don't understand the English language... or speak it... LEARN IT OR GO HOME! The United States is good enough to give you medical insurance, food, WIC, and god knows what else you are draining us for, but you cant leave a couple fucking words like EXCUSE ME or THANK YOU!

Women's Rights?

Do we need to go back to back alley abortions and fighting for everyday rights?

Of course not! Which is why we shouldn't vote for anyone affiliated with Sarah Palin!

4 more years of Bush/Cheney!

First of all, there were more people in the convention hall Sarah Palin just addressed than in her home state. (FACT, thank you ABC)
Well, a few reflections of Pompous Palin's speech.
Just because John McCain served in Vietnam (like MANY men in his age group did) does not mean he is automatically qualified to be President.
She stated he is not in the pockets of big oil, or big Washington buyouts... which we all know is pure bullshit.
She compared herself to a dog, which seems fitting.
She could do nothing but take shots at the Obama Campaign in a nasty, belittling, and demeaning way. So McCain, and Palin have no room to talk when people do the same to them. If they feel the need to put others down in that type of way, they should expect the same and not cry about it.

Hypocrites much.

As for Mr. Levi Johnston... when you are on national TV, LIVE, in front of millions of people.... THROW OUT THE GUM! Kid was sitting there chomping on his juice fruit like it was all he ate all day.

And for Ms. Bristol Palin, I am sorry little girl, but you are NOT 5 months pregnant, either that or you are starving yourself. Eat something!

Palin Circus at the Republican National Convention

I would be lying if I said I wasn't excited to see the Palin Circus tonight on TV.
Sarah Palin, right wing, misogynistic, pro life, Christian, freak show.
Her husband the house husband who is jealous his wife wears the pants in the family.
Bristol, her 17 year old, underage drinking, unwed, knocked up daughter.
Levi Johnston, self proclaimed redneck, hockey loving, non child wanting, daughters baby daddy.
Trigg, her 4 month old child who I still don't believe is hers.

No, I did not just type that with a straight face either.

Bravo John McCain. If you want half a chance of winning this election, drop the Alaskan Freak show!

Mistake #80,983

Being made by the Republican Party.... Bringing Levi (Bristol Palin's baby daddy) to St. Paul.

I just don't get it?

Since Friday when Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain's VP pick, a lot has come out about this virtually unknown Governor of Alaska. But the one thing that gets me the most is her suspicious pregnancy, announcement of the pregnancy, labor story, and really everything that went along with her mysterious fifth child.

Most women, senators, Governors, Celebrities, and people in the spotlight feel the need to announce their pregnancy long before the 6-7 month mark rolls around. I just don't understand why it was such a big secret for a outspoken, pro life, Governor not to tell anyone till well into her Third Trimester.

Why get on a plane and fly over 8 hours to give a speech when you are in your last month of pregnancy with a child you know will need special medical care at birth? It is a very rare occasion where an OB/GYN will allow a patient to jet set across the country for such a big and draining event that close to delivery.

Then to actually leak amniotic fluid the morning of your speech, call your OB/GYN and have them agree to go ahead and continue your plans, knowing you are in premature labor?
Or what about after that speech is over, calling your OB/GYN for the OK to fly over 8 hours when it is a very large possibility you will give birth to a premature, special needs child while on this flight?

It just doesn't make sense.
As a mother, who has been through it, I just don't see it adding up.
This is not a personal attack, it is just me being confused as hell wondering what the big mystery to this story is that hasn't come out yet. Because with such random, "off", and suspicious circumstances surrounding this, it will only be so long before the truth will need to come out in an attempt to save the McCain Campaign.

Sorry John McCain, but trying to push the gender card did nothing but put a nail in your campaign coffin.

*EDIT UPDATE* Less than 5 minutes after this was posted, it was confirmed that Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin's oldest daughter is currently pregnant at the age of 17. She will "keep the baby" (of course because that is what pro life parents force their children to believe is right, and do) and marry the boy who knocked her up. While it would be close, Trigg Palin could STILL be the son of Bristol Palin since according to her mother Sarah, Bristol is 5 months pregnant.
Obviously Sarah Palin's first priority is not the truth.
Obviously her backing of abstinence only education is not working in the Alaska School System if her 17 year old child is having a child herself.
Obviously there is a problem in the household if this 17 year old child was able to get pregnant.