New York Times. Palin’s record as mayor/govenor. Cronyism….hiring classmates for $95K yr jobs for which no experience, etc. “Good job, Brownie.” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=1&hp=&adxn…

DeB-Today I was on the cable car going to Union Square next to an affluent looking, well dressed man. Blazer, pressed khakis, blue & white pin-striped shirt, aligator loafers…expensive watch/haircut/tan. I asked him who did he think will be the next president. “I hope McCain.” “Why?” “Because Obama said he was for change but picked Biden who is old WDC, big mistake, and McCain picked someone totally new who will come in and really change things.” That’s how stupid Americans are. She’s a puppet for the oil companies, dumb as a box of rocks, already a proven liar and bilking her state, incompetent, no significant experience, war monger…….and that’s a change. I didn’t bother responding to him.

Susan, Alternet had an article that 40-ish women grew up playing with Barbie and that Palin is the real life Barbie they want to be friends with. Great. http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/98608/sarah_palin_can_be_you…

DeB—David Swanson, author of ‘After Downing Street Memo” posted this piece on Smirkingchimp.com….it’s a Christman letter to Obama about why he lost. I’m really concerned about voting machines too. Even Newsweek said the GOP is already doing all sorts of voter suppression things in Ohio, etc. We are watching a repeat of 2000,2004. This thing is so imp I feel like…find a nice way to replace Biden with HRC and do it now…of course that would be the ultimate flipflop and would dominate the news for weeks…and we have 8 weeks. What is with the Demos that after 8 years still don’t have the voting machines rectified?? http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/17107

DeBu—-I hadn’t seen the tape just read it, watched the tape aft reading what you wrote. That’s such a smear tactic because no facts just innuendo…The other thing is that the campaign may have decided that Obama only should answer particular things…Michelle isn’t running for office. EH just has zip credibilty w/me

wow editor… I definitely didn’t write the above and went back to the thread trying to find it to see who did but couldn’t. I’ve never lived in Washington as it references, I never voted for Ross Perot. I’ve never been confused about who I’m voting for….that is not anything I wrote!!!

Laurie—-Sign up as a blogger at Huffingtong Post and put it there, also Buzzflash.com write in their viewer mailbag……they have 1M readers a month very activist…and HuffPos very activist too, Email it to Obama campaign. thanks!!

Sanders—Hysterical. And what’s so weird about that is it isn’t once…Rudi G is always dressing up like a woman…what’s with that?!

Gee, I’d forgotten about that…..rough and tumble…we’ve actually turned into a comparative tea party. Ha.

Jennifer, I was kind of half kidding….but thanks for this because I also half remembered the story. How could the Athenians be so dumb…sad…we haven’t grown much.

Wildlife Defense Funds Announcement of Support for Obama calling Palin “Anti-Environment” WASHINGTON - Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund today endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) for President and Vice President of the United States. Below is a statement from the organization’s president, Rodger Schlickeisen. “John McCain’s choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate confirmed that the only candidates we can truly count on to protect our air, land and water are Senators Obama and Biden, and we are proud to today offer our endorsement of the Obama-Biden ticket,” said Schlickeisen. “John McCain’s record on the environment has been extremely mediocre at best, often erratic, and clearly inferior to that of either Obama or Biden. Now, his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate provides a very clear warning that - as difficult as it may have been to contemplate earlier - a McCain-Palin administration would likely be just as bad as the Bush-Cheney one on many major environmental issues. So when it comes to sound environmental policy, to conserving wilderness areas and wildlife, to standing up to the special interests, there really is now no contest between the two tickets. While the McCain-Palin campaign studiously avoids most environmental issues and offers energy proposals based largely on Big Oil’s wish list, the Obama-Biden campaign is offering solid positions in nearly every environmental area, including forward-looking energy solutions. Continued Schlickeisen, “When McCain picked the notoriously anti-environmental Palin, he surrendered any reasonable argument that his administration would make finding real solutions to our nation’s serious energy, conservation and environmental problems a priority. The McCain-Palin ticket is now the overwhelming preference of big oil companies that have made billions in profits, while average Americans struggle to fill their tanks. That should tell voters who care about the environment and our children’s future all they need to know.” Defenders Action Fund underscored its endorsement by launching a new TV ad about Palin’s environmental record, focusing on her support for the aerial hunting of wolves, a cruel practice she actively champions in Alaska. The program licenses private citizens to fly airplanes and shoot wolves from the air or chase them to exhaustion before landing and shooting them point blank. The gunners then sell the pelts of the animals they kill for profit. The program also targets grizzly and black bears. The ad, which will air in presidential swing states, shows a new and extreme side to the Governor, which has yet to be fully explored in the media. “Sarah Palin not only condones the aerial hunting of wolves and bears, she actively promotes it,” continued Schlickeisen. “She has even gone so far as to propose a bounty of $150 for every severed left foreleg of a wolf the hunters can produce. Her promotion of this ghastly and unscientific program - which she pursues while simultaneously suing the federal government to eliminate protections for the imperiled polar bear - offers voters a glimpse of her values and character that is quite different from the picture carefully crafted by the McCain-Palin campaign’s professional speechwriters. It should also provide voters with a good idea of what a McCain-Palin administration’s approach to stewardship of our nation’s natural resources would be like. Americans deserve to know about this real side of Sarah Palin before they make up their minds about her. “Put simply, if voters care at all about the environment, about protecting our air, land, water and wildlife for future generations, then they should look past the misleading rhetoric of the McCain-Palin campaign and support Obama-Biden,” concluded Schlickeisen.

HELP PUT SARAH PALIN’S BRUTAL KILLING OF WILDLIFE AD IN MORE SWING STATES. WILDLIFE ACTION COMMITTEE SUPPORTS OBAMA AND NEEDS DONATIONS TO GET THESE ADS IN SWING STATES….PLEASE SEND THIS LINK AROUND. MURDERING WITCH!!! THIS IS DISGUSTING. http://www.defendersactionfund.org/

MUST MUST MUST MUST SEE—— SCROLL DOWN TO SEE WHAT THAT B**** PALIN SUPPORTS IN KILLING WILDLIFE I KNEW IT WAS BAD BUT NOT THIS BAD: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/12/brutal-ad-targets-palins_n_1259… SHE’S DISGUSTING; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1oxCudLmc4

Here’s Huffington Post with Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota calling Sarah Palin “not ready” to be vice president, referencing her recent statements on Russia and Iraq and her “laughable” experience arguments. “One enters Johnson’s private hideaway office in the U.S. Capitol to find the Democrat sitting next to a stack of newspapers. While his staff is undergoing a wholesale office move this week, the Senator is working here, only a couple paces from the footpath of tourists, who stream steadily through the hallway just outside the small office’s door. Up for reelection this year in a deep-red state, the Senator was eager to talk politics. Declaring himself unimpressed with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s first interview with Charles Gibson Thursday night, Johnson called her “not ready” to lead the country as vice president. “And this idea that she has national security experience because of the Alaska National Guard, it’s just laughable,” he added. On the topic of Russia, Johnson said he would have been comforted if her statements in support of a possible war with the nuclear power had been joined “with some discussion of diplomacy.” Nodding toward the pile of newsprint, Johnson said Palin “thinks Iraq had something to do with Sept. 11,” a reference to a Friday Washington Post article in which the Alaska Republican is quoted telling soldiers headed for deployment that they would soon be “defend[ing] the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans.” “I don’t know what else you can do except just keep repeating the facts on Iraq,” Johnson said. “I do it until I’m blue in the face.” Though his speech and body movement remain affected by the severe brain hemorrhage that nearly killed him in late 2006, Johnson expresses a palpable desire to keep moving ahead on his top priorities, which include job creation, in addition to farm assistance and water development. “South Dakota is a very dry state,” Johnson said, adding that the earmark process frequently vilified by John McCain is actually critical for some of his constituents. “We need a lot of work on [these projects] to keep the clean water pumping,” he said. He even offered a bit of advice to Barack Obama, suggesting that the Democratic nominee should point out the ways in which these programs benefit average Americans. “I think John McCain’s mantle of ‘reform’ can be challenged,” Johnson said. “Especially since he’s backed away from some of those issues that gave him [that reputation], such as immigration reform.” The Senator also shared a personal story about working in the Senate with John McCain. When serving as the body’s rotating chair, Johnson recalls an episode in which he was told, mistakenly, by the Senate’s parliamentarian that another Senator was floor manager when it should have been McCain. “Boy, he really gave me heck for that,” Johnson said, though the only impact was a few minutes lost on the Senate floor. “I explained I was just doing what the parliamentarian had instructed me to do, but boy … he can be hard to work with.” Johnson said he was recently reminded that he’s hardly the only Senate colleague to have experienced McCain’s reportedly white-hot temper. “We had a caucus the other day and Harry Reid asked everyone, ‘raise your hand if you’ve never been insulted by John McCain,’” Johnson noted with a glint in his eye. “And no one did.” FYI— because someone mentioned posting entire posts….I looked up Fair Use….is you aren’t doing it commerically and credit source it’s fine.

DeB—Palin about Anwar drilling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ys4HGbiONY&feature=related