Sarah Palin went to a Hong Kong and bashed the president. When the Dixie Chicks did this to W, they got death threats and were blacklisted from radio stations and concert venues. The wingnut bloviators went ballistic (How dare she criticize the commander-in-chief at at time of war?) Don't hold your breath waiting for the right-wing commenters to slam their very own centerfold.
Much was written yesterday about an interview Creepy Joe™ Lieberman did Friday in which he exclaimed about Bush-in-skirts Sarah Palin, "Thank God she's not going to have to be President from day one." In fact, if you read the interview in context, his "Thank God," clearly refers to the presumed health of his buddy John McCain.
What's more striking about the interview was his irritation when reporters asked him about McCain's negative campaigning. According to Hartford Courant reporters, he said:
"You guys are going down a road, you have contributed to the demeaning of our politics by this kind of focus," Lieberman said. "I mean, give me a break. Have any of you been out listening to me?"
That's Lieberman blaming the messenger for his own divisiveness.
Also, according to the Courant: "Lieberman said he has refrained from using a McCain campaign label for Obama's call for higher taxes on the wealthy — 'socialism.'"
Unfortunately, as noted in this blog a few days ago, that's simply not true. Lieberman stands on the same dais as everyone in the right-wing campaign who is furiously spewing McCarthyite claims of "socialism," "Marxism" and "Communism," in hopes of frightening a handful of American dimwits into believing that Obama is one of "them."
Here's what Lieberman himself said the other day in New Hampshire:
"I mean there's ways I suppose you can make the argument that there's some similarities between with what Senator Obama is talking about, a classic what used to be known as socialist theory. I just think you have to state it directly: Senator Obama wants to raise taxes and Senator McCain does not."
So much for his claims of innocence.
And if you want an indication of whom he's aligning himself with check these out.
My question to Creepy Joe™ Lieberman is, why not come to your own home state and try to sling some of this shit? Afraid of how the crowds might react to ridiculous red-baiting?
In endorsing Barack Obama for President, the New York Times has issued a beautifully-written, strongly worded recommendation of Obama's strengths, and a lacerating repudiation of George Bush's failed presidency, and of John McCain's divisive, desperate campaign.
The Times goes so far as to remind us that they endorsed Clinton over Obama in the primary, but that:
Watching him being tested in the campaign has long since erased the reservations that led us to endorse Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries. He has drawn in legions of new voters with powerful messages of hope and possibility and calls for shared sacrifice and social responsibility.
As for McCain they also admit their error in endorsing him as the Republican candidate saying he "has spent the last coins of his reputation for principle and sound judgment to placate the limitless demands and narrow vision of the far-right wing."
As for his running mate, Bush-in-skirts Palin, her tone has only grown shriller as the campaign lurches from the gutter into the ditch.
In yesterday's kiss-ass interview with the ridiculously-biased hate-monger Sean Hannity, in which Hannity resurrects every already-disproven, already-discarded by any credible source, already-demonstrated-as-canard accusation, and forms them into softball questions, Palin shows herself as a hateful, ruthless, racist, vicious, unrepentant right-wing demagogue, and a simpleton who would stand side-by-side with Bush and push America over the precipice.
She spews code words in her infantile, small-town, adopted mid-country, mall-polished, sing-song, Betty Boop vocal style - socialism, welfare, elite, pro-American, terrorist, ACORN, judgment - only interrupting her sophomoric analysis of world matters to lie, again and again.
Given the way her Alaskan church took control of many of the power positions in and around Wasila after she was elected mayor, one has to assume the Joan-of-Arc complex is at least a possibility. She wants the power of the state so she can dedicate it to the power of god.
As Sarah Palin denies emphatically, what has been specifically by investigators in the "troopergate" case, I'm beginning to think, more and more, that she has a Joan of Arc delusion. Appointed by God to do his work, and to take the rest of us into battle with her.
Strange, strange, strange that Cranky Old John McCain made it through an entire debate without referencing his young counterpart who has been poison the well of American politics.
For my money, McCain stumbled, bumbled and rambled his way out of the presidency tonight.
To be honest, Obama didn't mention Biden, but he hasn't sent Biden on the road to stir up mob hatred of McCain.
BTW, McCain did mention Creepy Joe™ Lieberman three times. Who is he really pining for?
Beauty pageant again. Palin says: God has made us a promise, if we will commit our works to him we will succeed. Our lives can be enhanced by applying this and by thinking optimistically. In Alaska we have mosquitoes. We also have the most beautiful mountains in the world. The choice is ours as to which we’ll focus on. You betcha.
In nearly the same breath as he's dismissed Barack Obama for not being experienced to take the office of president, Creepy Joe™ Lieberman extols the virtues of a woman he barely knows, Sarah "Bush-in-skirts" Palin, and who doesn't have the experience to know that she's swum too far beyond the ropes. But she keeps a flag of Israel in her office.
If you can stand to be amongst a crowd of rabid Floridian Palin devotees, you can hear the entire introduction here.
Lieberman has joined the McCain dance-of-death, discarding his principles as if they were spoiled fruit, abandoning those he represents as if they were lepers and acting the impresario for a cheap, tawdry spectacle that mocks the Constitution he vowed to protect.
Give me another slice of that Country First Balogna.
Sarah Palin is going to avoid the filter of the mainstream media...unless it serves her purposes, and happens to be with a mainstream writer who is sympatico with her "God Bless this great country of exceptionalism," line of crap.
So, as Bill Kristol writes today, he was on the phone with VP candidate Bush-in-skirts, and he asked here why she was dredging up the Bill Ayers connection, when the Reverend Wright relationship was so much more established.
Palin replied: "To tell you the truth, Bill, I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that — with, I don’t know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn’t get up and leave — to me, that does say something about character"
I guess that might open the door for the Obama campaign to talk about Palin's relationship to the various churches in which she has participated and, received exorcism from a self-proclaimed witchdoctor, talked about the war in Iraq as a mission from God, heard lectures on Palestinian raids into Israel (which she dearly loves, you betcha) as as sign of endtimes and the return of Jesus.
It's bad enough that her non-answer, mini-stump speeches during the debate sounded like glossolalia. Hate to have her begin to speak in tongues during a touchy international negotiation.
Now that Sarah Palin has accused Barack Obama of "pallin around with terrorists," it's time for her to explain her deep relationship with the Alaskan Independence Party, which her husband belonged to for several years, and whose annual convention she addressed this year.
Here's what AIP founder Joe Vogler said (many years ago), but which is still highlighted on their website:
"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."
What was that you were saying about exceptional Americans, governor?
These are words that should surely come back to haunt VP nominee (she seems to enjoy using the vernacular "VP" over "vice-president"), Bush-in-skirts, Sarah Palin.
They came in a nasty campaign speech where she attempted to reconnect Barack Obama with William Ayers, former sixties radical, and Weatherman (you would think Palin would feel a comraderie since she herself was a Sportscaster).
She was quoting a New York Times article, that we are expected to believe she picked up on her own (she said in the speech, "my copy of the New York Times." Right.), in which, in fact, the Times made clear that Obama's relationship with Ayers was infrequent and relatively casual.
Of course Palin twisted the article for her own perverse, divisive and negative purposes. Isn't The New York Times one of those "main stream media filters" she swore to avoid? When citing the Times she said, "according to the New York Times, and they are hardly ever wrong..." Now, since there is no video of this speech in Denver (which she repeated later in the day in Carson, California without her endorsement of The Times' veracity - video below), there's no telling if she winked when she delivered the line. If she intended irony, then she undermined her entire argument. If they New York Times cannot be trusted (and is there a conservative who does trust?), then her attack on Obama is illegitimate.
However, if she meant to praise the New York Times' accuracy in reporting, then any criticism it levels agains Palin, McCain, their campaign, or Palin's troubles in Alaska, have to be taken at face value, don't they? She can no longer dismiss these criticisms as the out-of-control crusade against her, Joe Sixpack, hockey moms and conservatives of all stripes, can she?
Inevitably, Palin will continue to accuse Obama of some who would "pal around with terrorists," she should be reminded that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin all could be accused of the same thing. This country began in revolution, guided by radicals and terrorists, and that people like Palin are betraying the freedoms and democracy that those terrorists fought for.
BTW, in watching this speech, she talks of America as "a nation of exceptionalism." She's apparently been asleep through the past eight years. If American is a nation or exceptionalism, how is it that our financiers are steeped in the "corruption and greed" she denigrated in her debate on Thursday? Exceptional greed?
