Sarah Palin, McCain's attack wolf, has been on the campaign stump trying real, real hard to paint Senator Obama as a terrorist by association. Sarah-the-heels-are-on-and-gloves-are-off Palin obviously didn't realize when she arrived in national politics that everything she says will actually be fact checked by the media and others. And because heaven help us Palin is on the ticket for the highest offices in the land, journalists are also doing their own vetting of Sarah Palin, something John McCain obviously did not bother to do.
If Obama is guilty by association b/c he knows someone who participated in domestic terrorism when Obama was eight years old, what does that make Sarah Palin whose husband was,until very recently, a member of the Alaska Independent Party? The extremist Party wants to secede from the U.S. and its leader said he hated America and its flag. Sarah Palin apparently approves his message b/c she addressed the Party's Convention in 2008.
(The video and original diary posted on Daily Kos was created by Jed Report.)
I see Alaska has its own coterie of Rush Limbaugh styled wackos. Check out the AIG's leader.
McCain and Palin are apparently unaware that one of their very own Republican colleagues debunked the Ayers smear on NPR. Or maybe they know and just don't care. McCain and Palin don't seem overly concerned with the truth.
Have a listen here.
Sarah Palin seems to have a knack for inciting lovely potential
lynch mobs at her rallies. This is so gosh darn good for the good ol' U.S. of A.
Palin supporters shouted nasty epithets at reporters and an African American AV technician. - Palin made totally unfounded and inflamatory suggestions that Obama is a terrorist or is at least friendly toward terrorists and that he doesn't see the country the way you and I do (wink wink). - In response to the obove comments, one Palin supporter yelled "Kill him!" - Palin was introduced by a shaved headed sheriff who denounced what might happen on election day if Barack Hussein Obama is elected. - McCain asked rhetorically and impregnated with pejorative meaning "Who is Barack Obama?" One McCain supporter yelled "A terrorist!" - In an interview with Bill Kristol, Palin raises Reverand Wright and Bill Ayers and states that we should be talking about this more. Both old news. Both debunked. - Palin questioned Obama's patriotism. - The McCain campaign announces that they are abandoning discussion of the issues, as the Dow drops 800 points intra-day.
And today there was more of Palin's gracious hate mongering.
There you go again, John and Sarah. There's nothing like bringing out the best of us, doggone it.
Sarah likes to pal around with a pastor who has chased down witches. The man is so worried about witches that he performed a ceremony to protect Sarah from them. She willingly participated. Does this mean Sarah was or is possessed by witches? According to her logic, it would appear to be so.
Much has been written about Palin's strange ties to the witch hunting pastor and Palin's other really weird and rather atypical religious and political connections.
David Brooks, a conservative columnist for the New York Times, is quoted on the Huffington Post as having said:
Sarah Palin Represents a Fatal Cancer to the Republican Party.
Actually as far as I am concerned Sarah Palin represents a fatal cancer to national, state and local politics as a whole. Extremists like her have no place in any elected office.
3 comments:
Excellent work Libby!!!!!!! If there is anything this progressive minded scholar can do to help you spread the word please let me know. I have been attending all of the neocon organized events in my area and shouting them down and putting stickers on every flat surface and car I can find.
Sincerely,
Mitch
Hi Libby!
This is the only way I could find to contact you. you might be interested:
Shame Compounded by Sabotage
Texas has one of the highest number of overseas military personnel of our 50 states. Voting for overseas military personnel is so much of a hassle that a majority of eligible voters, and their family members who are eligible to vote, don’t bother. Of those who request an absentee ballot, only about 30% send it in, and 25% of those don’t get counted.
In 2004 the Department of Defense had a trial Internet voting system set up and ready to go for 100,000 overseas civilians and military personnel. They called it “SERVE.” 10 computer scientists were hired to inspect the system. They had agreed to issue a joint report, which would be released after all parts of the system had been examined. After only two meetings, four of the group decided to go public with their own report aimed at stopping the project. The other six were ready to give the go ahead.
The four dissenters claimed that the Internet was too insecure to be trusted. One of them, Barbara Simons, even predicted that if the project went ahead, “a hacker in Iran” could alter the outcome of the 2004 presidential election.
The New York Times published the report by the dissenters, and demanded a halt to the project. Undersecretary of State, Paul Wolfowitz, caved in under the pressure and killed the project.
Only now is the truth coming out that the dissenters had no science and no empirical studies, but only a gift for causing fear to support their claims. UOCAVA voters could have voted with all the security of an online purchase, or the communication of a military secret.
I am writing a book which will advocate Internet voting in the US. I address the security issues and the sabotage of SERVE in two chapters. “Internet Voting: The Great Security Scare,” and “The Reasonable Person Standard and the Critique of Leading Figures in the Making of Public Policy: The Case of Internet Voting."
These chapters are available for free reading or download at:
http://ssrn.com/author=1053589
All comments welcome!
William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.
InternetVoting@gmail.com
PS
I also show how Internet voting can be used to take away the power of Big Money in all US elections. Here is the cure for Citizens United!
Libby,
I just have a quick question for you but couldn't find an email so had to resort to this. I am a progressive blogger. Please email my assistant back at barbaraobrien@maacenter.org when you get a chance. Thanks.
Bill
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