I am sure they will find a slew of similar type unethical actions while she has been governor of Alaska.

And, these are rypical of the unethical behavior of most Republicans from the past 40 years or so.

I saw her interview with Couric. She was pitiful and I think Tina Fey’s impression is not at all funny, but ACCURATE.

Palin simply could not establish why she has foreign policy experience, other than Putin MIGHT fly over Alaska, and Canada is a neighbor of Alaska too. So I guess and executive from any state that borders Mexico or Canada must have foreign policy experience too.

Hmmm! Make one really wonder what experiences it takes to be President. Just look at Dubew.

Our contry, and specifically our community, absolutely cannot take a chance on a bigotted war-mongering idiot in Washington any more. She certainly is one in hand who is worth less than two evil dictatorial Bushes.

Hillary vs. Sarah in 2012 might be kinda FUN, for the purpose of exposing Palin’s breath-taking inadequacies, but *I* thought the contrast between McCain and Obama would be equally stark, and evidently it’s not, at least not to Joe Bowling Shirt in Parma, OH. He’s lost his job, his pension, his healthcare, and his house, but by G*d the Regurgiclones are gonna save him from GAY MARRIAGE. THAT’S why his marriage is in trouble: queers marrying each other. It COULDN’T be because he’s sitting on the couch swilling beer in a dirty wife-beater and getting fat and smelly while his wife works at the local Shop-’N'-Rob for minimum wage to try and hold their family together. The Republican Fascist business oligarchy has had EIGHT years to make government work. They have failed abysmally. Yeah, yeah, Clinton allowed DOMA and DADT to pass, BUT … when he left office, we were at peace, gas was $1.50 a gallon, and there was billions in surplus in the Treasury.

Eight years later, gas is $5.00 a gallon in some places, America is a world pariah, a great American city has been destroyed and left to rot while Cheney, Halliburton and their cronies make billions off fake attempts to “restore” New Orleans and “rebuild” the infrastructure of Iraq. And, oh yes, lest we forget: despite the blackout on pics of returning caskets and military funerals, over 5000 young Americans and G*d only KNOWS how many civilians have been killed in a TOTALLY ILLEGAL war.

And McCAIN is going to turn all that around??? HE gave advice and consent to it! It was HIS Party, the Elephantosaurus, that pushed all those things through during eight years of INCREDIBLY CYNICAL misrule.

Cheers,

Bud Clark
San Diego CA USA

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/09/27/why-voters-thought-obama-won-and-why-the-pundits-didn-t-get-it.aspx

The economy is weighing heavily on Pain Street, and the American people are looking for someone to give them some kind of relief. Plus it didn’t hurt that Obama is very presidential and McCain looks like a member of the lollipop guild.

So many people in the Obama camp might be disappointed though. Quite a few thought that McCain would have a “melt down”. It didn’t happen. Personally, I believe Obama looked more flustered. His looking down at his crib notes much too often made him appear a bit less prepared.

I’d give a few points to McCain for keeping his cool, and I’d subtract a few points from Obama for not being more emphatic in his response to the “surge” question and by his limp response to McCain‘s accusation that Obama lacked foreign policy experience.

I came away from the debate feeling that McCain would be less dangerous to the nation than the current POTUS IMBECILUS. Contrary wise, I was less impressed with Obama and his fast backtracking on nuclear energy and off-shore oil drilling. Predictably, Democrats lack the ability to completely committed to anything. Or anyone, in our case.

The next debate on Domestic Policies will be determinate. I’m sure McCain will be a complete Neanderthal on GBLT issues like ENDA, while toeing the fascist party line on DOMA and DADT. Whereas, I suspect Obama will give his usual canned, ambiguous, semi-committal, week-kneed response to any question involving the GLBT community — and then pray the moderator will move on quickly past the topic.

Just like Obama will, no doubt, encourage the Congress to shelve all “controversial” legislation concerning us that would force him to take a principled stand on our behalf — that is, if he makes it to the oval office. If you don’t believe me then just look at the anti-Gay “religious” leaders and former Reagan/Bush supporters he has put on his campaign. Oddly, not a high profile Gay or Lesbian pro-rights activist is anywhere in sight at the Obama camp. It makes you wonder what exactly has he promised these White “social conservatives” and Black Baptist homophobes on his so-called “Faith“ tours?

Submissive disparagement, not active optimism, seems to be the rule amongst too many GLBT Obama supporters today. I get really vexed when I see my GLBT friends’ trust taken for granted and then their hearts broken, time after time, by sociopathic, manipulative, self-serving politicians. Even one of our next door neighbors, who is a loyal Obama supporter, does not for a moment believe that Obama will lead in the least bit on our issues. He is resigned to that because he fears the alternative so much.

Yet, McCain and Obama both believe that we should not be married to our life-partners. The team of McCain and Obama both proudly proclaim that they will each defend and uphold heterosexual privilege over us. So, why bother? Do we trust Obama’s shallow, non-commitment to our “half equal” rights over McCain’s up-front opposition to us. These are our choices?

My gay neighbor’s spouse (yes, they were recently married in California this September) agrees with me. When he was accused of being “selfish” by his straight Democratic friends (because my friend did not defer his human rights to other “issues” facing the country) my, recently married, gay neighbor proposed the following tee-shirt slogan for the edification of all so-called “Liberal“, straight Obama supporters:

“Call Me Selfish Only If You Are Willing to Give Up Your Right to Marry the One You Love”

I guess it would have to be printed in small letters or on a really big tee shirt, but the message is powerful enough to make each of us question, in our own hearts, why must we have to choose from any of the above?

If there are no consequences for betraying us, then why should any politician ever take us seriously. If we cannot understand the political principle of “Quid Pro Quo”, and demand its application, then we have already betrayed the future of our own kind. Sometimes you have to lose a battle in order to win the war. If that’s what is required for people to take us seriously, then we had better stop raising people up who are keeping us down. We don’t owe anybody our votes — they work for us. Make them earn it.

I have reluctantly assumed the mantle of the Devil’s Advocate. In reality, I am a Registered Democrat. But, ultimately, the choice is yours. I grow weary of having to do the “I told you so” dance. I’d be more than glad to pass my dance-card on to somebody else. But, just in case, I’m going to dust off my best club-shoes — that is, if Obama wins and follows Democratic Party’s predictable patterns of political expediency, at our expense. I hope I’m wrong. For all our sake.

~ Bud Evans

I have had many posts lost without ever being posted and showing up. Someone needs to fix this commentary system, please.

McCain acted like child who was being punished for lying and then had to apologize for the lies. He was arrogant and condescending to even Jim Lehrer.

Just because he is an old man and was once a prisoner-of-war, he thinks he knows better how to dictate to the people of the world. Actually, if he had not been so arrogant and a superior-acting (yet-not-so-competent) pilot, his plane would probably not have been shot down and he never would have been a prisoner. (Please, he admitted this in his own acceptance speech!) I think he got what he deserved as an incompetent sailor-pilot.
I certainly do not wish torture on anyone, but to a great extent he was a victim of his own stupidity and carelessness.

Now he acts with haste and instead slows down the bail-out negotiations in Washington, said nothing in the meeting yesterday, and has admitted he knows nothing about ho business works. He leaves that up to his wife.

I get the impression that McCain is mostly obsolete in Washington and most politicians ignore his shenanigans. His credibility is suspect, and he takes credit when credit is not due to him (or his party, as well).

And if he saw the financial “train wreck” coming, why did he not use his influence and bully-pulpit to head off the wreck? Because he wanted it to happen, and wanted to benefit from the bail-out. That is why!

His wife is filthy rich, from selling alcohol to the poor and middles class, and he has never known what it is to be an ordinary American. He and his family are self-serving and greedy. And he is a real Reaganite, who wants to steal from the poor and give to the rich. McCain makes me want to puke.