Read Friedrich Hayek and understand how Hoover-Roosevelt policies, artificially low interest rates, and Keynesian "stimulus" create massive market discoordinations across time, destroying massive amounts of wealth in the process. And note well. Bush-Obama are the Hoover-Roosevelt of our time.
August 2008 Archives
AMERICANS HAVE A MORE FAVORABLE VIEW OF GOV. PALIN
than they have of Joe Biden. Sort of restores ones faith in the American people, doesn't it?
Here's a key finding from the Rasmussen Poll -- right out of the box Sarah Palin is viewed favorably by "80% of Republican women, 23% of Democratic women, and 61% of women not affiliated with either major party." Wait till they actually get to know the woman.
while b-HO wants to ban AR-15s; Palin shoots AR-15s, and apparently pretty well.
Every
shooter, every hunter, every gun owner, every competitor needs to
understand that it is time to, in the words of Bruce Willis, "cowboy
the 'f...' up."
A local [Seattle area] publisher is scrambling to fill orders for about 40,000 copies
of the only biography of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, which until Friday
morning had sold just 8,000 copies.
"What a stroke of luck," said Kent Sturgis, publisher and co-owner of Epicenter Press in Kenmore [Washington].
He had 3,000 copies of the hardback version left on Friday morning,
when Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced Palin as
his running mate.
"We decided right off the bat that we better go ahead and do a
paperback version," he said. "We were producing copies of this
paperback about 14 hours after the announcement, and they'll all be
shipped on Tuesday."
The book had climbed to No. 7 on Amazon's best-selling-books list by Saturday evening.
Sturgis met Palin at a Fairbanks fundraiser in 2006, and "boy, she's
really interesting," he said. "No matter what you think about her
politics, she's an interesting and an unusual politician."
Kaylene Johnson is a writer and long-time Alaskan who makes her home on
a small farm outside Wasilla. She enjoys hiking, skiing, and horseback
riding in the backcountry. She is married with two sons and two
grandsons. Her award-winning articles have appeared in Alaskan
Wilderness Discovery Guide, Alaska magazine, the Los Angeles Times,
Spirit magazine, and other publications. She received a BA from Vermont
College and holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University in
Louisville, Kentucky.
THE ANTI-PALIN SMEARS KEEP ROLLING IN.
I especially admire the college professors who are out smearing Palin. A handful of history professors who've sent money to Obama are telling reporters that Palin isn't up to the job of Vice President. None of this is disclosed to readers. And professor Alan Wolfe in the New Republic is spreading the outrageous lie that Palin named her kids after witches. Believe it because it's true. If Palin were a private citizen she could own Wolfe's house, Wolfe car, Wolfe bank account and the New Republic to boot, if she should want them. I'm guessing she wouldn't.
UPDATE: Alan Colmes is joiningthe smear fest. I love it when lefties get into peoples personal business. Shows us who they really are. And yes, Alan Colmes, babies are born at 8 months, and they aren't simply tissue to be left to die at that age. Ask my wife.
UPDATE II: Protein Wisdom has a Palin smear roundup. The sad truth is he's only skimmed the surface of the cesspool that's out there.
AN INTERVIEW WITH SARAH PALIN'S
MOTHER-IN-LAW. And an endorsement from a mayor who worked with Palin:
"This is a really nice person, and she's disarming in that way," said George Carte, 67, a retired geophysicist who was mayor of neighboring Palmer when Palin was mayor of Wasilla.
"I was very impressed with her as mayor," said Carte. "She did some
housecleaning with her department heads."
Meanwhile, Palin's home town of Wasilla, Alaska breaks out with Palin Fever:
Down the highway in the Frontier Mall, Patrick
Carney Jr. said that when he heard the news on television a day before,
"it knocked me flat." Carney comes from a large Democratic family, but
he's wavering now.
Brother Mark Carney, who was in high school
with Palin and works unloading freight, said Palin's addition to the
ticket "changed my vote. I think it's good taking someone who's lived
like a common person."
"She's highly principled. She may be from the
other party, but she's very honest," said their father, Patrick Carney
Sr., a former Democratic state legislator ..
Ed Kalnins, senior pastor of Palin's Pentecostal church, Assembly of
God, described Palin as tenacious. "Once she understands a truth, she
bites down on it and won't let go of the truth," he said ..
But not everyone in town is a fan.
Irl Stambaugh was Wasilla's first
police chief. When she was on the council, he said, they tussled over
the issue of closing time for bars. He wanted to change closing time
from 5 a.m to 2 a.m., but Palin thought that would infringe on business
owners. When she became mayor, she fired him.
"I think it was a personality conflict," said Stambaugh.
I TALKED A BIT ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY.
What does Palin have that Obama doesn't? I mean, besides the courage and ethics and energy to go up against a corrupt political establishment? (And no metrosexual jokes please.) Gingrich on the authenticity gap.
Palin will be a compelling and mold-breaking example for lots of
Americans who are told every day that to be even a bit conservative or
Christian or old-fashioned is bad form. In this respect, Palin can
become an inspirational figure and powerful symbol. The left senses
this, which is why they want to discredit her quickly.
PEOPLE MAGAZINE DOES THE MCCAIN-PALIN TICKET
Here's the interview. Here's the picture:
Highlights:
As a new mom, how are you going to juggle all this? SARAH:
I am thankful to be married to a man who loves being a dad as much as I
love being a mom, so he is my strength. And practically speaking, we
have a great network of help with lots of grandparents and aunties and
uncles all around us. We have a lot of help.
So will your husband be on leave now indefinitely to be Mr. Mom? SARAH: I would say so, yes.
Gov. Palin, when you were 13 weeks pregnant, last December, you had an amniocentesis that determined Trig had Down syndrome. SARAH:
I was grateful to have all those months to prepare. I can't imagine the
moms that are surprised at the end. I think they have it a lot harder.
Mr. Palin, what does Sen. McCain need to know about working with your wife? TODD PALIN: She's a hard worker and she's not wired normal. (Laughter)
Sen. McCain, of all the candidates you considered, what drew you to her? JOHN:
Obviously, I found her to be very intelligent and very well-versed on
the issues. But I think the important thing was that she's a reformer.
She's taken on special interests since she ran for the PTA and the city
council and mayor. The courage, I guess, is what most impressed me.
Mr. Palin, you have this tiny baby with special needs. Do you worry
that people may wonder if she'll be giving short shrift to her family? TODD:
She's heard that her whole life - the challenges of being a female and
mother in the work force. I remember the first time
she ran for mayor one of her fellow council members told her you can't
run because you've got three negatives: Track, Bristol and Willow.
Those are the
three kids we had at the time. So when you tell her that kind of stuff,
she just gets fired up. We're an Alaska family that adapts.
A woman on the ticket is what a lot of Hillary Clinton voters wanted
to see. What's your message to women who might see a second shot at
shattering the glass ceiling? SARAH: Certainly in this election cycle, women aren't finished yet.
And women can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all. JOHN: I think that Sarah appeals to a lot of voters - I think because
of her independence, because of her reform agenda and her record of
balancing both family and service. It is motivation to not just Clinton
voters but to lots of voters.
Given her young age and relatively short resume, why is she any more
ready to be president than Sen. Barack Obama? JOHN: I don't think it's a short resume. She first ran for office
back in 1992. I don't know what Senator Obama was doing then, but the first
time she ran was 1992. That's 16 years. I think that's a pretty, pretty event-filled and record-filled resume. SARAH: And I haven't had too many years other than that to fill up yet. JOHN: There you go.
Do you feel ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? SARAH: Absolutely. Yup, yup. Especially with a good team around us.
"It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million
cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America, but it turns
out the women of America aren't finished yet and we can shatter that
glass ceiling once and for all."
SARAH PALIN'S SPEECH ACCEPTING THE NOMINATION FOR VP
This was a great speech and a great performance. She obviously admires John McCain and John McCain is clearly pleased with his selection. I can tell you that women with children are very excited about this pick. With a staggering 20+% lead among married men already, if McCain-Palin ticket can pull in such numbers with married women, this election is over.
Tony Benegas, 47, West Richland, a city councilman and a delegate to the national Republican convention:
"What an awesome pick. She's just an incredible person. Very
conservative. Extremely pro-life. I'm just awe-struck. I can't think of
a better choice. She's a gorgeous lady first of all. Five kids. Talk
about shattering the glass ceiling ... Here's someone I can
wholeheartedly support."
UPDATE II: Will the New York editors of the women's magazines put their leftist ideology aside in favor of telling the story of Sarah Palin their red state readers would love to read. I'm going with left wing ideology until I see evidence otherwise. UPDATE: PEOPLE magazine: Five things you didn't know about Sarah Palin. Maybe I'm wrong. Let's see what Red Book and Vogue and Vanity Fair, etc. have to say.
It's past time to get the DRAFT SARAH PALIN for Vice President movement up and
rolling. Imagine how the arguments against Palin would boomerang
against Barack Obama. They'd say that Palin doesn't have the
experience -- but she actually has years and years of executive experience.
Obama has, let's see, oh yes. None. They tout Barack Obama as a
"community organizer" -- Palin actually "organized" real communities as
a mayor, on the city council, and in dozens of civic organizations.
Obama was a hired agent of a left wing 60's style political "charity",
a political organizer working with actual 60's era terrorists and
bombers.
I'm sure leftists, Democrats and big city
journalists would make fun of where Palin is from -- the podunks of
Alaska and Idaho -- and they'll suggest she comes from a place so
isolated and alien from the rest of America that she can't understand
the country. That will score big points contrasting with a candidate
who came of age in the isolated left-wing Ivory Tower of several elite
private universities, a candidate who took many of his first history
and civics lessons in Indonesia, and who says his greatest influences
were his "fellow traveler" mother (as described by her oldest friends)
and the various leftist mentors, friends, and university pals he met
through the years, folks who were big fans of Fanon, Alinsky,
Farrakhan, and other from the fascist left.
We can't depend on
the "go along with the left, to get along with the left" Republicans to
get the message out that will defeat the Democrats .. So it's our job .. Sit
around and we'll get a ticket like 1996 with Dole-Kemp. We've already
sat on our hands and let the top of the ticket get away from us. We can
turn this thing around -- by drafting PALIN FOR VICE PRESIDENT. Let's do it.
YOU MSM IDIOTS, SARAH PALIN DOES HAVE FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE.
In fact, Sarah Palin has more foreign policy executive experience than Joe Biden, John McCain, and Barack Obama combined. Among other things, Palin has negotiated an arrangement where by Alaska natural gas will be piped across the Canadian border and into the United States.
For MSM idiots who haven't looked at a map, Alaska has an international border with Canada, and is next door neighbors with the Russian Empire, and shares a fishing region with Japan and South Korea. A governor of a state the size and location of Alaska necessarily has all sorts of contacts and negotiations with foreign governments. It's part of what a governor of Alask does.
"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero
foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency."
Maybe it's just that Obama is so utterly lacking in executive experience at the local, state, and federal level and so ignorance of the functioning of a federal system that he doesn't know what a governor does. Of maybe he's just lying. It's not like it hasn't happened before. A very weak and amateurish response on Palin from the Obama campaign.
Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats mooseburgers, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[6][7] Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it.[8]
Palin holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Idaho
where she also minored in politics. She briefly worked as a sports
reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working as
a commercial fisherman with her husband, Todd, her high school sweetheart.[5]
One summer when she was working on Todd's fishing boat, the boat
collided with a tender while she was holding onto the railing; Palin
broke several fingers.[5] Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP at an oil field on the North Slope[9] and is a champion snowmobiler, winning the 2000-mile "Iron Dog" race four times.[5]
The two eloped shortly after Palin graduated college; when they learned
they needed witnesses for the civil ceremony, they recruited two
residents from the old-age home down the street.[5] Todd is a Native Yup'ikEskimo.[5] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Anchorage.[10]
On September 11, 2007, the Palins' son Track joined the Army. Eighteen years old at the time, he is the eldest of Palin's five children.[10] Track now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq in September ..
Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council from 1992 to 1996. In 1996, she challenged the incumbent mayor, criticizing wasteful spending and high taxes.[5] The ex-mayor and sheriff tried to organize a recall campaign, but failed.[5] Palin kept her campaign promises, reducing her own salary, as well as reducing property taxes 60%.[5] She ran for reelection against the former mayor in 1999, winning by an even larger margin.[5][14] Palin was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.[11]
In 2002, Palin made an unsuccessful bid for Lieutenant Governor, coming in second to Loren Leman in a four-way race. After Frank Murkowski resigned from his long-held U.S. Senate
seat in mid-term to become governor, Palin interviewed to be his
possible successor. Instead, Murkowski appointed his daughter,
then-Alaska State Representative Lisa Murkowski.[5]
Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission,[15] where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest.[5]
After she resigned, she exposed the state Republican party's chairman,
Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was
accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a
lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.[16] Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.
In 2006, Palin, running on a clean-government campaign, executed an
upset victory over then-Gov. Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.[5] Despite the lack of support from party leaders and being outspent by her Democratic opponent, she went on to win the general election in November 2006, defeating former Governor Tony Knowles.
Highlights of Governor Palin's tenure include a successful push for an
ethics bill, and also shelving pork-barrel projects supported by fellow
Republicans. Palin successfully killed the Bridge to Nowhere project that had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark spending.
This is a home run folks.
Talking point #1: Sarah Palin has more executive experience than Barack Obama, Joe Biden and John McCain combined.
Talking point #2: Sarah Palin is honest and real in every way that Barack Obama is a lying phony.
Talking
point #3: Sarah Palin has changed Alaska and fought corruption in a
way that Barack Obama has never done in Chicago and Illinois.
Talking point #4: Next to Sarah Palin, Barack Obama looks like a metrosexual wimp.
Jonah Goldberg: "The base will love her. She's a true outsider and the only person in the race with serious executive experience."
David Freddoso: "She is everything Obama is not. A real reformer who took on her own party's corrupt establishment and won, defeating an incumbent governor, 80-20 .. If this is the future of the GOP, they're in good shape."
Nanette Everson: "Sarah Palin .. will connect with voters as an authentic American folk hero. First, as
a governor she passes the competence test. American voters have shown
again and again they will vote governors into the White House .. Palin is the perfect complement for McCain and the perfect antidote to Obama."
BARACK OBAMA CALLED OUT THE CHICAGO THUGS
-- taking a page straight out the Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals -- in an effort to silence investigative reporter Stanley Kurtz. Listen to Milt Rosenberg's radio show with Stanley Kurtz here.
Guy Benson was in the studio: "Stanley Kurtz's appearance on the Milt Rosenberg radio program in
Chicago last night provided an unsettling look into the authoritarian
tactics being employed by the Obama campaign to stifle and intimidate
its critics .. As I arrived at the downtown Chicago studios a few hours before show
time, the phones began ringing off the hook with irate callers
demanding Kurtz be axed from the program.It didn't take
long to discover that the Obama campaign--which had declined invitations
to join the show for its duration to offer rebuttals to Kurtz's
points--had sent an "Obama Action Wire" e-mail to its supporters, encouraging them to deluge the station with complaints."
his eight-year voting record in the Illinois Senate shows the Democrat .. took stands - particularly on anti-crime legislation - that put him to the left of his own party.
Mr. Obama was the only member of the state Senate to vote against a bill to prohibit the early release of convicted criminal sexual abusers; was among only four who voted against bills to toughen criminal sentences and to increase penalties for "gangbangers" and dealers of Ecstasy; and voted "present" on a bill making it harder for abusive parents to regain custody of their children ..
WHY DID OBAMA WORK SO HARD
to conceal the character of his political thinking during his time at Harvard and the U. of Chicago? And why did Obama make sure not to publish a single scholarly article during all the years he was a law professor at the U. of Chicago? And, just to put a highlight on it, why did Obama vote "present" over 125 times while in the Illinois
legislature?
A New York Times article on his years at Harvard Law, where he was editor of the law review, said, "In dozens of interviews, his friends said they could not remember his specific views from that era, beyond a general emphasis on diversity and social and economic justice." A similar piece on his years teaching at the University of Chicago Law School said he notably did not participate in its intellectual debates.
The UIC records show that in the
1990s, Ayers was instrumental in starting the Annenberg Challenge,
securing a $50 million grant to reform the Chicago Public Schools, part
of a national initiative funded by Ambassador Walter Annenberg, who
died in 2002.
Obama was given the Annenberg board chairmanship only months before
his first run for office. He ran the fiscal arm that distributed grants
to schools and raised matching funds. Ayers participated in a second
entity known as the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, the
operational arm that worked with grant recipients. They met and talked
often.
When Obama first ran for office, articles in the Chicago Defender
and the local Hyde Park Herald mentioned his Annenberg chairmanship
among his qualifications.
During Obama's tenure as Annenberg chairman, Ayers' own education
projects received substantial funding. As we've noted in our series,
"The Audacity of Socialism," Ayers, now a tenured distinguished
professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist
revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable
students.
7) first candidate to admit he's had a pot and cocaine problem to head a major party ticket.
6) first candidate from the Chicago machine to head a major party ticket . 5) first candidate with a Muslim first and middle name to head a major party ticket.
4) first candidate who's taught Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" to head a major party ticket.
3) first candidate who allied himself with an America-hating terrorist to head a major party ticket.
THE AYERS / OBAMA DOCUMENTS ESTABLISH
that Obama "is a liar of the first magnitude." OK, so we already knew that. I still find the number and enormity of his lies astounding. Sure politicians often lie about their sexual affairs and policy flip flops -- but about nearly every aspect of their lives? This is something new, something we haven't seen before, and I think it's really hard for a lot of people to process.
A CLOSE AYERS / OBAMA RELATIONSHIP
extending over a period of half a dozen years -- that's what the Chicago Tribune is reporting as part of their coverage of Obama's years heading the Chicago Annenberg Challenge organization:
The UIC records show that Obama and Ayers attended board meetings, retreats and at least one news conference together as the education program got under way. The two continued to attend meetings together during the 1995-2001 operation of the program, records show.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MANAGES TO MENTION
the Ayers / Obama run Chicago Annenberg Challenge education organization without actually mentioning it by name, at the very tail end of an article on the Obama campaign's counter attack against the Ayers / Obama ads being run by the American Issues Project. Here's the non-mention mention:
The fight [over the Ayers / Obama relationship] may move to another front this week.
The University of Illinois
at Chicago is in the process or releasing documents detailing Mr.
Obama's involvement with a non-profit education project started by Mr.
Ayers.
Hmmm. What might that project be and who might have been THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD of that organization? Shhh. Don't tell the readers. Until the Obama campaign is ready to discuss that name and that chairman, it seems the Times will follow the Obama lead, and it won't mention that name and its chairman either.
Sure is a good thing they have all those editors at the Times. We wouldn't want things like that getting out if the Obama campaign didn't want them getting out.
The NY Times
is all meta - they are happy to bash the shadowy group besmirching
their candidate but are unwilling to note the long. strong tie between
Ayers and Obama by way of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. When last we looked,
Jim Rutenberg of the Times was utterly unaware of (or at least,
unwilling to report) that tie; now, his final paragraph warms up their
readers for revelations to follow:
The fight may move to another front this week.
The University of Illinois
at Chicago is in the process or releasing documents detailing Mr.
Obama's involvement with a non-profit education project started by Mr.
Ayers.
THE ANNENBERG DOCUMENT RELEASE ESTABLISHES THAT THE AYERS-OBAMA
working relationship at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was a close one. It also establishes that Obama saw the would-be reform organization as headed exactly toward the failure it would ultimately be judged to be. This is significant because the Chicago Annenberg Challenge shows us Obama both in a rare executive capacity as Chairman of the Board of the CAC, and in the role of a would-be reformer with a real world assignment. Obama seems to have failed in both capacities, a judgment perhaps anticipated by Obama himself:
The minutes [of the CAC's operational arm] characterized Obama's concerns as twofold: Whether the
group was raising additional money and whether money was being used
''to prop up existing organizations as opposed to creating fresh
educational practices in the schools?''
''At the end of five years, will we have broken the mold? Not
much seems to be bubbling up that is inspiring or substantive,'' the
minutes say, paraphrasing Obama.
Obama has sought to "disappear" his involvement with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge organization, failing to even mention it on his resume or when listing his credentials for public office. This is a disturbing way for a "reform" candidate to present himself to the pubic, as a man actively hiding his professional conduct in his most important reform effort -- and most significant position as an executive.
Read Friedrich Hayek and understand how Hoover-Roosevelt policies, artificially low interest rates, and Keynesian "stimulus" create massive market discoordinations across time, destroying massive amounts of wealth in the process. And note well. Bush-Obama are the Hoover-Roosevelt of our time.
August 2008 Archives
AMERICANS HAVE A MORE FAVORABLE VIEW OF GOV. PALIN
than they have of Joe Biden. Sort of restores ones faith in the American people, doesn't it?
Here's a key finding from the Rasmussen Poll -- right out of the box Sarah Palin is viewed favorably by "80% of Republican women, 23% of Democratic women, and 61% of women not affiliated with either major party." Wait till they actually get to know the woman.
while b-HO wants to ban AR-15s; Palin shoots AR-15s, and apparently pretty well.
Every
shooter, every hunter, every gun owner, every competitor needs to
understand that it is time to, in the words of Bruce Willis, "cowboy
the 'f...' up."
A local [Seattle area] publisher is scrambling to fill orders for about 40,000 copies
of the only biography of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, which until Friday
morning had sold just 8,000 copies.
"What a stroke of luck," said Kent Sturgis, publisher and co-owner of Epicenter Press in Kenmore [Washington].
He had 3,000 copies of the hardback version left on Friday morning,
when Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced Palin as
his running mate.
"We decided right off the bat that we better go ahead and do a
paperback version," he said. "We were producing copies of this
paperback about 14 hours after the announcement, and they'll all be
shipped on Tuesday."
The book had climbed to No. 7 on Amazon's best-selling-books list by Saturday evening.
Sturgis met Palin at a Fairbanks fundraiser in 2006, and "boy, she's
really interesting," he said. "No matter what you think about her
politics, she's an interesting and an unusual politician."
Kaylene Johnson is a writer and long-time Alaskan who makes her home on
a small farm outside Wasilla. She enjoys hiking, skiing, and horseback
riding in the backcountry. She is married with two sons and two
grandsons. Her award-winning articles have appeared in Alaskan
Wilderness Discovery Guide, Alaska magazine, the Los Angeles Times,
Spirit magazine, and other publications. She received a BA from Vermont
College and holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University in
Louisville, Kentucky.
THE ANTI-PALIN SMEARS KEEP ROLLING IN.
I especially admire the college professors who are out smearing Palin. A handful of history professors who've sent money to Obama are telling reporters that Palin isn't up to the job of Vice President. None of this is disclosed to readers. And professor Alan Wolfe in the New Republic is spreading the outrageous lie that Palin named her kids after witches. Believe it because it's true. If Palin were a private citizen she could own Wolfe's house, Wolfe car, Wolfe bank account and the New Republic to boot, if she should want them. I'm guessing she wouldn't.
UPDATE: Alan Colmes is joiningthe smear fest. I love it when lefties get into peoples personal business. Shows us who they really are. And yes, Alan Colmes, babies are born at 8 months, and they aren't simply tissue to be left to die at that age. Ask my wife.
UPDATE II: Protein Wisdom has a Palin smear roundup. The sad truth is he's only skimmed the surface of the cesspool that's out there.
AN INTERVIEW WITH SARAH PALIN'S
MOTHER-IN-LAW. And an endorsement from a mayor who worked with Palin:
"This is a really nice person, and she's disarming in that way," said George Carte, 67, a retired geophysicist who was mayor of neighboring Palmer when Palin was mayor of Wasilla.
"I was very impressed with her as mayor," said Carte. "She did some
housecleaning with her department heads."
Meanwhile, Palin's home town of Wasilla, Alaska breaks out with Palin Fever:
Down the highway in the Frontier Mall, Patrick
Carney Jr. said that when he heard the news on television a day before,
"it knocked me flat." Carney comes from a large Democratic family, but
he's wavering now.
Brother Mark Carney, who was in high school
with Palin and works unloading freight, said Palin's addition to the
ticket "changed my vote. I think it's good taking someone who's lived
like a common person."
"She's highly principled. She may be from the
other party, but she's very honest," said their father, Patrick Carney
Sr., a former Democratic state legislator ..
Ed Kalnins, senior pastor of Palin's Pentecostal church, Assembly of
God, described Palin as tenacious. "Once she understands a truth, she
bites down on it and won't let go of the truth," he said ..
But not everyone in town is a fan.
Irl Stambaugh was Wasilla's first
police chief. When she was on the council, he said, they tussled over
the issue of closing time for bars. He wanted to change closing time
from 5 a.m to 2 a.m., but Palin thought that would infringe on business
owners. When she became mayor, she fired him.
"I think it was a personality conflict," said Stambaugh.
I TALKED A BIT ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY.
What does Palin have that Obama doesn't? I mean, besides the courage and ethics and energy to go up against a corrupt political establishment? (And no metrosexual jokes please.) Gingrich on the authenticity gap.
Palin will be a compelling and mold-breaking example for lots of
Americans who are told every day that to be even a bit conservative or
Christian or old-fashioned is bad form. In this respect, Palin can
become an inspirational figure and powerful symbol. The left senses
this, which is why they want to discredit her quickly.
PEOPLE MAGAZINE DOES THE MCCAIN-PALIN TICKET
Here's the interview. Here's the picture:
Highlights:
As a new mom, how are you going to juggle all this? SARAH:
I am thankful to be married to a man who loves being a dad as much as I
love being a mom, so he is my strength. And practically speaking, we
have a great network of help with lots of grandparents and aunties and
uncles all around us. We have a lot of help.
So will your husband be on leave now indefinitely to be Mr. Mom? SARAH: I would say so, yes.
Gov. Palin, when you were 13 weeks pregnant, last December, you had an amniocentesis that determined Trig had Down syndrome. SARAH:
I was grateful to have all those months to prepare. I can't imagine the
moms that are surprised at the end. I think they have it a lot harder.
Mr. Palin, what does Sen. McCain need to know about working with your wife? TODD PALIN: She's a hard worker and she's not wired normal. (Laughter)
Sen. McCain, of all the candidates you considered, what drew you to her? JOHN:
Obviously, I found her to be very intelligent and very well-versed on
the issues. But I think the important thing was that she's a reformer.
She's taken on special interests since she ran for the PTA and the city
council and mayor. The courage, I guess, is what most impressed me.
Mr. Palin, you have this tiny baby with special needs. Do you worry
that people may wonder if she'll be giving short shrift to her family? TODD:
She's heard that her whole life - the challenges of being a female and
mother in the work force. I remember the first time
she ran for mayor one of her fellow council members told her you can't
run because you've got three negatives: Track, Bristol and Willow.
Those are the
three kids we had at the time. So when you tell her that kind of stuff,
she just gets fired up. We're an Alaska family that adapts.
A woman on the ticket is what a lot of Hillary Clinton voters wanted
to see. What's your message to women who might see a second shot at
shattering the glass ceiling? SARAH: Certainly in this election cycle, women aren't finished yet.
And women can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all. JOHN: I think that Sarah appeals to a lot of voters - I think because
of her independence, because of her reform agenda and her record of
balancing both family and service. It is motivation to not just Clinton
voters but to lots of voters.
Given her young age and relatively short resume, why is she any more
ready to be president than Sen. Barack Obama? JOHN: I don't think it's a short resume. She first ran for office
back in 1992. I don't know what Senator Obama was doing then, but the first
time she ran was 1992. That's 16 years. I think that's a pretty, pretty event-filled and record-filled resume. SARAH: And I haven't had too many years other than that to fill up yet. JOHN: There you go.
Do you feel ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? SARAH: Absolutely. Yup, yup. Especially with a good team around us.
"It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million
cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America, but it turns
out the women of America aren't finished yet and we can shatter that
glass ceiling once and for all."
SARAH PALIN'S SPEECH ACCEPTING THE NOMINATION FOR VP
This was a great speech and a great performance. She obviously admires John McCain and John McCain is clearly pleased with his selection. I can tell you that women with children are very excited about this pick. With a staggering 20+% lead among married men already, if McCain-Palin ticket can pull in such numbers with married women, this election is over.
Tony Benegas, 47, West Richland, a city councilman and a delegate to the national Republican convention:
"What an awesome pick. She's just an incredible person. Very
conservative. Extremely pro-life. I'm just awe-struck. I can't think of
a better choice. She's a gorgeous lady first of all. Five kids. Talk
about shattering the glass ceiling ... Here's someone I can
wholeheartedly support."
UPDATE II: Will the New York editors of the women's magazines put their leftist ideology aside in favor of telling the story of Sarah Palin their red state readers would love to read. I'm going with left wing ideology until I see evidence otherwise. UPDATE: PEOPLE magazine: Five things you didn't know about Sarah Palin. Maybe I'm wrong. Let's see what Red Book and Vogue and Vanity Fair, etc. have to say.
It's past time to get the DRAFT SARAH PALIN for Vice President movement up and
rolling. Imagine how the arguments against Palin would boomerang
against Barack Obama. They'd say that Palin doesn't have the
experience -- but she actually has years and years of executive experience.
Obama has, let's see, oh yes. None. They tout Barack Obama as a
"community organizer" -- Palin actually "organized" real communities as
a mayor, on the city council, and in dozens of civic organizations.
Obama was a hired agent of a left wing 60's style political "charity",
a political organizer working with actual 60's era terrorists and
bombers.
I'm sure leftists, Democrats and big city
journalists would make fun of where Palin is from -- the podunks of
Alaska and Idaho -- and they'll suggest she comes from a place so
isolated and alien from the rest of America that she can't understand
the country. That will score big points contrasting with a candidate
who came of age in the isolated left-wing Ivory Tower of several elite
private universities, a candidate who took many of his first history
and civics lessons in Indonesia, and who says his greatest influences
were his "fellow traveler" mother (as described by her oldest friends)
and the various leftist mentors, friends, and university pals he met
through the years, folks who were big fans of Fanon, Alinsky,
Farrakhan, and other from the fascist left.
We can't depend on
the "go along with the left, to get along with the left" Republicans to
get the message out that will defeat the Democrats .. So it's our job .. Sit
around and we'll get a ticket like 1996 with Dole-Kemp. We've already
sat on our hands and let the top of the ticket get away from us. We can
turn this thing around -- by drafting PALIN FOR VICE PRESIDENT. Let's do it.
YOU MSM IDIOTS, SARAH PALIN DOES HAVE FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE.
In fact, Sarah Palin has more foreign policy executive experience than Joe Biden, John McCain, and Barack Obama combined. Among other things, Palin has negotiated an arrangement where by Alaska natural gas will be piped across the Canadian border and into the United States.
For MSM idiots who haven't looked at a map, Alaska has an international border with Canada, and is next door neighbors with the Russian Empire, and shares a fishing region with Japan and South Korea. A governor of a state the size and location of Alaska necessarily has all sorts of contacts and negotiations with foreign governments. It's part of what a governor of Alask does.
"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero
foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency."
Maybe it's just that Obama is so utterly lacking in executive experience at the local, state, and federal level and so ignorance of the functioning of a federal system that he doesn't know what a governor does. Of maybe he's just lying. It's not like it hasn't happened before. A very weak and amateurish response on Palin from the Obama campaign.
Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats mooseburgers, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[6][7] Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it.[8]
Palin holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Idaho
where she also minored in politics. She briefly worked as a sports
reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working as
a commercial fisherman with her husband, Todd, her high school sweetheart.[5]
One summer when she was working on Todd's fishing boat, the boat
collided with a tender while she was holding onto the railing; Palin
broke several fingers.[5] Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP at an oil field on the North Slope[9] and is a champion snowmobiler, winning the 2000-mile "Iron Dog" race four times.[5]
The two eloped shortly after Palin graduated college; when they learned
they needed witnesses for the civil ceremony, they recruited two
residents from the old-age home down the street.[5] Todd is a Native Yup'ikEskimo.[5] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Anchorage.[10]
On September 11, 2007, the Palins' son Track joined the Army. Eighteen years old at the time, he is the eldest of Palin's five children.[10] Track now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq in September ..
Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council from 1992 to 1996. In 1996, she challenged the incumbent mayor, criticizing wasteful spending and high taxes.[5] The ex-mayor and sheriff tried to organize a recall campaign, but failed.[5] Palin kept her campaign promises, reducing her own salary, as well as reducing property taxes 60%.[5] She ran for reelection against the former mayor in 1999, winning by an even larger margin.[5][14] Palin was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.[11]
In 2002, Palin made an unsuccessful bid for Lieutenant Governor, coming in second to Loren Leman in a four-way race. After Frank Murkowski resigned from his long-held U.S. Senate
seat in mid-term to become governor, Palin interviewed to be his
possible successor. Instead, Murkowski appointed his daughter,
then-Alaska State Representative Lisa Murkowski.[5]
Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission,[15] where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest.[5]
After she resigned, she exposed the state Republican party's chairman,
Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was
accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a
lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.[16] Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.
In 2006, Palin, running on a clean-government campaign, executed an
upset victory over then-Gov. Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.[5] Despite the lack of support from party leaders and being outspent by her Democratic opponent, she went on to win the general election in November 2006, defeating former Governor Tony Knowles.
Highlights of Governor Palin's tenure include a successful push for an
ethics bill, and also shelving pork-barrel projects supported by fellow
Republicans. Palin successfully killed the Bridge to Nowhere project that had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark spending.
This is a home run folks.
Talking point #1: Sarah Palin has more executive experience than Barack Obama, Joe Biden and John McCain combined.
Talking point #2: Sarah Palin is honest and real in every way that Barack Obama is a lying phony.
Talking
point #3: Sarah Palin has changed Alaska and fought corruption in a
way that Barack Obama has never done in Chicago and Illinois.
Talking point #4: Next to Sarah Palin, Barack Obama looks like a metrosexual wimp.
Jonah Goldberg: "The base will love her. She's a true outsider and the only person in the race with serious executive experience."
David Freddoso: "She is everything Obama is not. A real reformer who took on her own party's corrupt establishment and won, defeating an incumbent governor, 80-20 .. If this is the future of the GOP, they're in good shape."
Nanette Everson: "Sarah Palin .. will connect with voters as an authentic American folk hero. First, as
a governor she passes the competence test. American voters have shown
again and again they will vote governors into the White House .. Palin is the perfect complement for McCain and the perfect antidote to Obama."
BARACK OBAMA CALLED OUT THE CHICAGO THUGS
-- taking a page straight out the Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals -- in an effort to silence investigative reporter Stanley Kurtz. Listen to Milt Rosenberg's radio show with Stanley Kurtz here.
Guy Benson was in the studio: "Stanley Kurtz's appearance on the Milt Rosenberg radio program in
Chicago last night provided an unsettling look into the authoritarian
tactics being employed by the Obama campaign to stifle and intimidate
its critics .. As I arrived at the downtown Chicago studios a few hours before show
time, the phones began ringing off the hook with irate callers
demanding Kurtz be axed from the program.It didn't take
long to discover that the Obama campaign--which had declined invitations
to join the show for its duration to offer rebuttals to Kurtz's
points--had sent an "Obama Action Wire" e-mail to its supporters, encouraging them to deluge the station with complaints."
his eight-year voting record in the Illinois Senate shows the Democrat .. took stands - particularly on anti-crime legislation - that put him to the left of his own party.
Mr. Obama was the only member of the state Senate to vote against a bill to prohibit the early release of convicted criminal sexual abusers; was among only four who voted against bills to toughen criminal sentences and to increase penalties for "gangbangers" and dealers of Ecstasy; and voted "present" on a bill making it harder for abusive parents to regain custody of their children ..
WHY DID OBAMA WORK SO HARD
to conceal the character of his political thinking during his time at Harvard and the U. of Chicago? And why did Obama make sure not to publish a single scholarly article during all the years he was a law professor at the U. of Chicago? And, just to put a highlight on it, why did Obama vote "present" over 125 times while in the Illinois
legislature?
A New York Times article on his years at Harvard Law, where he was editor of the law review, said, "In dozens of interviews, his friends said they could not remember his specific views from that era, beyond a general emphasis on diversity and social and economic justice." A similar piece on his years teaching at the University of Chicago Law School said he notably did not participate in its intellectual debates.
The UIC records show that in the
1990s, Ayers was instrumental in starting the Annenberg Challenge,
securing a $50 million grant to reform the Chicago Public Schools, part
of a national initiative funded by Ambassador Walter Annenberg, who
died in 2002.
Obama was given the Annenberg board chairmanship only months before
his first run for office. He ran the fiscal arm that distributed grants
to schools and raised matching funds. Ayers participated in a second
entity known as the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, the
operational arm that worked with grant recipients. They met and talked
often.
When Obama first ran for office, articles in the Chicago Defender
and the local Hyde Park Herald mentioned his Annenberg chairmanship
among his qualifications.
During Obama's tenure as Annenberg chairman, Ayers' own education
projects received substantial funding. As we've noted in our series,
"The Audacity of Socialism," Ayers, now a tenured distinguished
professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist
revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable
students.
7) first candidate to admit he's had a pot and cocaine problem to head a major party ticket.
6) first candidate from the Chicago machine to head a major party ticket . 5) first candidate with a Muslim first and middle name to head a major party ticket.
4) first candidate who's taught Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" to head a major party ticket.
3) first candidate who allied himself with an America-hating terrorist to head a major party ticket.
THE AYERS / OBAMA DOCUMENTS ESTABLISH
that Obama "is a liar of the first magnitude." OK, so we already knew that. I still find the number and enormity of his lies astounding. Sure politicians often lie about their sexual affairs and policy flip flops -- but about nearly every aspect of their lives? This is something new, something we haven't seen before, and I think it's really hard for a lot of people to process.
A CLOSE AYERS / OBAMA RELATIONSHIP
extending over a period of half a dozen years -- that's what the Chicago Tribune is reporting as part of their coverage of Obama's years heading the Chicago Annenberg Challenge organization:
The UIC records show that Obama and Ayers attended board meetings, retreats and at least one news conference together as the education program got under way. The two continued to attend meetings together during the 1995-2001 operation of the program, records show.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MANAGES TO MENTION
the Ayers / Obama run Chicago Annenberg Challenge education organization without actually mentioning it by name, at the very tail end of an article on the Obama campaign's counter attack against the Ayers / Obama ads being run by the American Issues Project. Here's the non-mention mention:
The fight [over the Ayers / Obama relationship] may move to another front this week.
The University of Illinois
at Chicago is in the process or releasing documents detailing Mr.
Obama's involvement with a non-profit education project started by Mr.
Ayers.
Hmmm. What might that project be and who might have been THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD of that organization? Shhh. Don't tell the readers. Until the Obama campaign is ready to discuss that name and that chairman, it seems the Times will follow the Obama lead, and it won't mention that name and its chairman either.
Sure is a good thing they have all those editors at the Times. We wouldn't want things like that getting out if the Obama campaign didn't want them getting out.
The NY Times
is all meta - they are happy to bash the shadowy group besmirching
their candidate but are unwilling to note the long. strong tie between
Ayers and Obama by way of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. When last we looked,
Jim Rutenberg of the Times was utterly unaware of (or at least,
unwilling to report) that tie; now, his final paragraph warms up their
readers for revelations to follow:
The fight may move to another front this week.
The University of Illinois
at Chicago is in the process or releasing documents detailing Mr.
Obama's involvement with a non-profit education project started by Mr.
Ayers.
THE ANNENBERG DOCUMENT RELEASE ESTABLISHES THAT THE AYERS-OBAMA
working relationship at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was a close one. It also establishes that Obama saw the would-be reform organization as headed exactly toward the failure it would ultimately be judged to be. This is significant because the Chicago Annenberg Challenge shows us Obama both in a rare executive capacity as Chairman of the Board of the CAC, and in the role of a would-be reformer with a real world assignment. Obama seems to have failed in both capacities, a judgment perhaps anticipated by Obama himself:
The minutes [of the CAC's operational arm] characterized Obama's concerns as twofold: Whether the
group was raising additional money and whether money was being used
''to prop up existing organizations as opposed to creating fresh
educational practices in the schools?''
''At the end of five years, will we have broken the mold? Not
much seems to be bubbling up that is inspiring or substantive,'' the
minutes say, paraphrasing Obama.
Obama has sought to "disappear" his involvement with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge organization, failing to even mention it on his resume or when listing his credentials for public office. This is a disturbing way for a "reform" candidate to present himself to the pubic, as a man actively hiding his professional conduct in his most important reform effort -- and most significant position as an executive.
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