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The self-proclaimed "hockey mom" was booed by hockey fans in Philadelphia last night.
Sarah Palin did not receive the warmest welcome before she dropped the ceremonial puck at Saturday’s NHL hockey game between the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers. The Republican vice presidential candidate’s visit was one day after a legislative probe concluded that she abused her power as Alaska’s governor, CNN reported. The report probing Palin’s firing of Alaska’s public safety commissioner found that Palin violated a state’s ethic’s law — which prohibit using public office for personal benefit — when she tried to get Mike Wooten fired. Wooten was a state trooper and Palin’s sister’s ex-husband. The investigation also stated that Palin’s firing of the commisioner Walter Monegan was authorized.
"Flyers’ fans, please welcome the best-known hockey mom in the United States," the announcer said. Watch the YouTube clip below to see what happened next:
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These are two of the most shocking videos I have ever seen in My lifetime…John McCain Supporters. These people get to vote…These were shot at a McCain Ralley on Oct. 8th,2008. Do we want these people to choose our next president!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itEucdhf4Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIyqiGSVh6I
A Noble Loser vs. A Dirty Winner by Deepak Chopra
The reason that the Democrats have become experts at losing the Presidency is that the Republicans have become experts at the dirty win. Or so the mythology goes. This idea gained traction with the smear campaign run against Michael Dukakis in 1988, when the patrician George Bush played the part of Pontius Pilate, washing his hands while Willie Horton’s face was plastered all over the TV. Since then we have seen Swift boating and Democratic candidates faces split-screened with Osama bin Laden. This year sets a low water mark in dirty campaigning, with John McCain claiming that Barack Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergartners and that he is pals with ‘terrorist’ William Ayers, the former member of the Weathermen, and now professor at the University of Illinois. Even with Obama’s good poll numbers right now, McCain’s nasty accusations has some Democrats worried once again. Personally, I think there’s too much mythology and not enough realism at work here. Democrats have lost every election since 1980, with the exception of Bill Clinton, for several reasons:
* The Democratic majority was chipped away when the racist South turned Republican in the Nixon era.
* The union movement, which was solidly Democratic, collapsed.
* Blue collar voters, with the arrival of prosperity, stopped voting their pocket books and started voting their social resentments against war protesters, minorities, gays, and the elite class.
* Widespread disillusion with politicians after Watergate drove voters away, allowing splinter groups like the religious right to seize power in a climate of apathy.
* The rise of character assassination and fake scandals promoted by the right wing drove away good potential candidates who refused to fight in the mud.
* An aging population moved right, as happens in almost any aging society.
* Pressure from immigration, terrorism, and crime triggered an angry defensive reaction. This aided the right-wing’s opposition to social progress. Falling back on patriotism and xenophobia is commonly seen under these circumstances.
* The Republicans forged a new coalition of Southerners, social and religious conservatives, and the mountain and plains states, taking advantage of the electoral college (which can give a candidate the Presidency while he loses the popular vote).
If you add these factors up, it’s clear that dirty campaigning is only one ingredient among many factors in the Republican victories. Barack Obama’s task isn’t to win nobly instead of losing nobly, it’s to counter the factors I’ve listed. He needs a perfect storm against the demographic gains the Republicans have built in the last few decades. With the recent financial meltdown and the insecurity it is engendering across the country, it is likely that Obama now has that perfect storm. The voters’ focus on leadership that can address these economic issues should be enough to wash away the narrow majorities that Lee Atwater and Karl Rove were able to carve out of the middle class electorate.
The McCain campaign understands that the ground has shifted under their feet, and that negative ads will likely work only if the election is already pretty close, but given the limitations of their candidate, smear tactics is all they have. As Sarah Palin and McCain whip their crowds into frenzies of anger and hatred toward Obama, letting shouts of “terrorist!” and “kill him!” go unchecked, they may find that the shouts of this poisonous pocket of their constituency will be their enduring legacy. Going dirty without the underlying basis to win means going down in history as a dirty loser.
Mr. Chopra seems to get it said—-As before—-it’s truly time for Dems to get ‘mud-wraslin”—-and may i shout ‘kill him’ at McShame and not be arrested? is that not ‘terrorist-threatening’? and when-to-hell are we going to dump the ‘Electoral College’? a fossil from the days when ballots were delivered by horseback? until it becomes 1 vote/person this NOT a democracy—-when will this ‘BS ‘term’ quit being tossed about?
In response to the Deepak Chopra article.
First let me say that I am totally against the tactic that the repubs are using now. I don’t think it is going to win the White House, and I think it can cause serious racial rifts in our current social and economic situation. But, c’mon, like Depak Chopra is some kind of political expert. He is not even a very good spiritual teacher, and now I understand why. He is too invested in the human picture to be able to separate spiritual truth from human error. Seems like he believes that there is a God that would be on one side or the other. Boy is he confused. He thinks only the republicans are responsible for this mess. What a dolt. I used to think he was kind of quaint with his somewhat veiled spiritual teachings that fawn over Hollywood celebrities to help sell books and become a millionaire, but he is serious in wanting to have a voice in this political arena. The Beatles quickly divested themselves of the Maharishi when at their week long retreat, the great spiritual leader wanted to sleep with all their girlfriends and wives. The Maharishi was unmasked and exposed for what he was. He could spout spiritual truth but not practice it.
Dirty campaigning? The democrats have never done that? LOL I thought he was supposed to be an intelligent man. Where has he been? Puhleeze. He is too far from real truth to interest me. What new or enlightened thought or principal has he expressed? Everything that posters have quoted of his is of very basic political ideology. No answers, no inspiration, just more of the same. Doesn’t anyone get that the “middle class electorate”(who vote for republicans I guess), as he calls it, is not necessarily voting for the republican candidate, but against others that put them down for being who they are?
I don’t know if this is a perfect storm for Obama. I guess Mr. Chopra doesn’t realize that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were run predominantly by democrats, who by the way received more special interest money from those agencies than republicans.
It is time to wake up Mr. Chopra and maybe disengage yourself from the resentment you feel and begin a spiritual cleansing in order to heal the world.
Ftrannie,
wOw! What a first post to read this morning. A had to take a step back. I have to let you know that I have a personal relationship with Deepak. I was also a patient of his when he was practicing medicine. I have had 17 major surgeries and 37 hospitalizations, Lupus and I am Bi-polar.He had a major impact on my health and my dealing with my health issues. The impact he had was most positive. next ithink you should try to understand that Deepak and I both come from this place,” I am a spiritual Being, having a Human experience.” Next here is a short Bio of Deepak…
Time Magazine heralded Deepak Chopra as one of the 100 heroes and icons of the century, and credited him as “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine.” He is the author of more than 49 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-Rom titles. He has been published on every continent and in dozens of languages. Over a dozen of his books have landed on the New York Times Best-seller list. Toastmaster International recognized him as one of the top five outstanding speakers in the world. Through his over two decades of work since leaving his medical practice, Deepak continues to revolutionize common wisdom about the crucial connection between body, mind, spirit, and healing. His mission of “bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east” remains his thrust and provides the basis for his recognition as one of India’s historically greatest ambassadors to the west. Chopra has been a keynote speaker at several academic institutions including Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, Kellogg School of Management, Stanford Business School and Wharton.
Jennifer
I didn’t say he wasn’t a good practitioner at conventional and alternative medicine, as well as, I believe he is a loving person, but his understanding of spiritual principle does not go very far beyond “I am a spiritual Being, having a Human experience.” He seems to understand that and channels his level of awareness of that axiom into his medical healing. There is no doubt that he has integrity. I just question the level of his awareness beyond that. I have heard him and read him, as well as know people that studied under him, he is sincere and extremely intelligent. To me, he mixes his mental or human beliefs in with spiritual principle in order to not let go of his concepts of this life, and that is my point. He is not very different from the rest of us.
Jennifer
Do you really believe that Time magazine would have the spiritual discernment to know what was spiritual truth?
This is just one of 1,110 for Time Magazine heralded Deepak Chopra as one of the 100 heroes and icons of the century.
Dr Deepak Chopra MD, founder of The Copra Center in California, is acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine.
Dr Chopra, the author of over 43 books, has transformed the understanding of the meaning of health, through his creation of The Chopra Center for Well Being in 1995, which established a formal vehicle for the expansion of his healing approach using the integration of the best of western medicine with natural healing traditions.
Chopra’s work is changing the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellness. Formerly the Chief of Staff at Boston Regional Medical Center, Dr Chopra built a successful endocrinology practice in Boston in the 1980’s. Chopra realized in his medical practice that there was potential in western medicine for the establishment of a new life-giving paradigm, one which encompassed the fundamental principle that perfect health is more than just the absence of disease. He began to envisage a medical system based upon the premise that health is a lively state of balance and integration of body, mind and spirit. He is widely credited with melding modern theories of quantum physics with the timeless wisdom of ancient cultures. In 1992, he served on the National Institutes of Health Ad Hoc Panel on Alternative Medicine.
Jennifer
I can dig it, but isn’t that what the Chinese have been doing for several thousand years? My grandmother was a practitioner that was saying the same thing back in the 60’s. Dr. Mao, by DOM, is a 38th generation practitioner of his family. Chinese medicine has always been about that balance. I am not questioning that, and maybe it is that I have expectations of Dr. Chopra that I shouldn’t. I applaud him for his methods and I am glad that he is an advocate for the good of mankind, therefore, it seems to me his impersonalization of repubs or dems would be the way to go, He is a doctor, what if President Bush were sick, would he refuse him because he blames this country’s problems on him? Can he do that? Would he do that? I don’t know. I believe love always has to be the first course of action. Thats all I mean.
‘He is not very different from the rest of us’. One of his very points, we are all Children of the same universe with the same potential for unlimited possibilities! And on the rest I just have to say from my viewpoint, I see thing differently in respects to my friend and mentor Deepak.
Jennifer,
Point taken and peace and grace.
as you, i truly loathe those reaping fortune from numb-nutz looking for more $$$, longer life, etc., etc., and paying!—-but Chopra’s ‘Reagan rant’ was dead-on’—-so he should have gone for politics? I’m a Green, as both current parties have their ‘good, bad, and ugly’—-way back, when Nixon was paving the way for Pol Pot’s Kyhmer Rouge, my ex and i were selling T-Shirts, w/The White-House on the front and the logo, ‘Help Stamp-Out Organized Crime’—-seems little has changed—-
What Chopra said was:
“The reason that the Democrats have become experts at losing the Presidency is that the Republicans have become experts at the dirty win. Or so the mythology goes”
“Personally, I think there’s too much mythology and not enough realism at work here.”
Which is to say he does not believe the “dirty win” mythology. He then goes on to list the many reason that he thinks Democrats have lost.
If you disagree, then why not state what you disagree with and why, rather than just trash him?
And what about Freddie and Fannie? Do you think they are the major reason for the collapse?
And are you saying the Democratic Candidate took more “special interest” money than the Republican?
“Dirty campaigning? The democrats have never done that?”
What does that even mean? Are you saying that the Democrats have engaged equally in dirty campaign tactics? If so, I think some links and factual backup are in order.
If you disagree with Mr Chopra’s analysis, then please provide your reasoning instead of resentfully attacking and ridiculing and sneering at Mr Chopra.
The above
“If you disagree, then why not state what you disagree with and why, rather than just trash him?”
was written to Frannie.
Oh’ Yes I Agree with you ! I noticed at the Grant Park Party that President Obama had glass all around him .And I have heard comments where I live from various people that >”someone will probably kill him & he better have everything glass around him .And these crazy kids from Bells Tennessee are just that ..Crazy and I wonder how many more Carazies are out there and is Obama ready for this? I mean really ready ? I hope all his rich friends have thought of his security long and hard ?(Oprah) I am so afraid for him .He is too good to be true .I get very sad and almost cry when I think yes maybe someone will try to kill him ?
And maybe thats why President Obama doesnt say anything about all these threats ? Because he is “Ready” and waiting for such a thing to take place . I had flash backs to Doctor King and I got very sad .Then I thought if he did get killed this country would go nuts .It would be a civil war …and not about Blacks and Whites this time .This time it would be Republican and Democrats fighting in the streets .
I really resent and totally do not like John McCain any longer after that ad about President Obama had ties to Terrorists ..That was tootally uncalled for .President Obama was 8 yrs old ? What a MORON that McCian is .Just shows you he had idiots running his camopaing …and that ignorant uneducated Palin put the cherry on the cake .
One more thing I PRAY and HOPE President Obama makes a SWEEP of the White House for BUGS …Remeber what NIXON did …lets Never forget NIXON …