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Sarah Palin Fast forward speed dating...

Policy-Techno — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:46:02 EDT

Park Avenue Diplomacy
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON

I don’t agree with those muttering darkly that the picture of Gov. Sarah Palin with a perky smile and shapely gams posing with a pleased Henry Kissinger, famous for calling power the ultimate aphrodisiac, is a sign of the apocalypse.

It isn’t even a sign of the apocalipstick.

How the mighty 85-year-old Henry the K has fallen from his days chasing Jill St. John and running the world to his hour briefing of a 44-year-old Wasilla hockey mom who may end up running the world.

Governor Palin knows a lot about the End of Days from her years at the Pentecostal Wasilla Assembly of God, which had preached (after a war in the Middle East about light vanquishing darkness) that Alaska would be a shelter for Rapturous “saved” Christians at the end of times when they ascend to heaven.

Sarah was motorcading around Manhattan even as a “greed is good” Wall Street experienced an End of Days vibe while a world gone sour on America descended on the United Nations.

After losing its moral superiority abroad with phony evidence for attacking Iraq, the U.S. has now lost its moral superiority in the financial arena. Once more, W. took the ball, carried it off the cliff and went biking.

It’s hard to imagine that John McCain and Sarah Palin still want advice from the Unwise Man Kissinger. It’s sort of like villagers in those old movies who bring in the wizened witch doctor to shake a stick over them.

Doctor K prolonged the war in Vietnam to help Nixon get re-elected and then advised W. on Iraq that the only way to beat an insurgency and save face is to stick it out, no matter how many American kids and foreign civilians die.

Sarah speed-dated diplomacy on Tuesday. She had her very first national security briefing from the director of national intelligence and then went to a meeting with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai. He thanked her for the help of the Alaskan National Guard in Afghanistan and told her about his young son, Mirwais, which means “the Light of the House.” Then she met with President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia.

Finally, Sarah huddled with Henry in his Park Avenue office, next to pictures of Ford and Reagan. The two made an odd couple: the last impure Rockefeller Republican and the first pure Rovian Republican, grown totally in the petri dish of cultural crusaderism.

Summoning his old Harvard teaching days, Kissinger surely looked for a common didactic starting point: She has seen Russia. “Goot. I haff seen it, too.”

(A senior Palin campaign aide told CBS News’s Scott Conroy that the governor’s foreign-policy experience was atmospheric, akin to the way someone from Miami might obtain a feel for Latin America. “It is very much being able to look off the tip of Alaska,” the aide said. “Metaphorically, I’m talking about.”)

Kissinger probably explained détente and Metternich to Palin, while she explained the Iditarod and moose carving to him.

They talked Russia, which is relevant.

Republicans, who have won so many elections painting Democrats as socialists and pinkos, have now done so much irresponsible deregulating and deficit spending that they have to avoid fiscal Armageddon by turning America into a socialist, pinko society with nationalized financial institutions and a financial czar accountable to no one and no law.

And Governor Palin spends so much time ostracizing reporters who might quiz her on NATO or the liquidity crunch that her press strategy is beginning to smack of Putin’s â€" but less lethal.

Even if she blows off the First Amendment â€" and lets McCain’s Rove, Steve Schmidt, demonize the press even though she disdains women politicians who whine â€" Bill Clinton is still a fan.

Besides talking about what a great man John McCain is on “The View” and “David Letterman,” Bill praised Palin at his Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York and will receive her there on Thursday.

“I come from Arkansas. I get why she is hot out there,” he said authoritatively, adding: “People look at her, and they say, ‘All those kids. Something that happens in everybody’s family. I’m glad she loves her daughter and she’s not ashamed of her. Glad that girl’s going around with her boyfriend. Glad they’re going to get married.’ ” He said voters would think: “I like that little Down syndrome kid. One of them lives down the street. They’re wonderful. ... And I like the idea that this guy does those long-distance races. Stayed in the race for 500 miles with a broken arm. My kind of guy.”

On “The View,” he said he understood that some women might vote for Palin on the basis of gender, even if it was against their economic interest.

“You can’t tell someone else that the ground on which they make their voting decision is irrational,” he said primly.

Well, actually you could, if you weren’t still sulking and plotting for 2012.

McCain/Bush? Republican Party Conspiracy? National Debt, Iraq war borrow/spent, print new greens & Housing crunch! - All coming home to us in big time!

Policy-Techno — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:39:09 EDT

McCain/Bush? Republican Party Conspiracy? National Debt, Iraq war borrow/spent, print new greens & Housing crunch! - All coming home to us in big time!

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 20 Sep 2008 at 09:17:33 AM GMT is:
$ 9 , 6 6 7 , 3 4 5 , 5 6 8 , 6 2 3 . 7 6
What the Media is hiding about Housing/Economic Crunch?

John McCain and George Bush continue the path of destruction as proven by the National debt figures
$ 9 , 6 6 7 , 3 3 7 , 9 6 4 , 7 0 6 . 7 4 Today
7/11/08 - $9.50 trillion
9/30/07 - $9.00 trillion
9/30/06 - $8.51 trillion
9/30/05 - $7.93 trillion
9/30/04 - $7.38 trillion
9/30/03 - $6.78 trillion
9/30/02 - $6.23 trillion
9/28/01 - $5.81 trillion
9/28/00 - $5.67 trillion
Surplus By Democratic Administration

Massive bailout loaming â†' I call it CAPITALISM/FREE MARKETS REBOOT. In my previous blogs I echoed Senator Barack Obama's economic plan of backwards mapping also called bottom-up. The theme I use very often is that "free markets need rules to play the game". McCain this week showed the world that he is no leader and is clueless. Free markets work under rules. Free markets is just a slogan McCain? This is what we get when we give power to McCain and his cloonies to run the country - financial collapse, high unemployment, hardship and slumps in all areas of productivity.

Do Americans ever learn? Elderly retirement savings are gone. If we didn't block social security, we would be in a hole today. Can someone tell Americans over 65 that McCain is not for their interest? It is sad to see these folks still supporting McCain and Wacky Palin don't just get it.

Every analyst wants us to believe that fine prints by banks and not fully telling homebuyers the nature of loans is the cause of the many foreclosures we have today. Wrong! If you havent followed the policy questions and this problem from day one, you would think that these folks have it correct. They are all liars!

In late 2006 or so, Senator Barack Obama wrote a letter to George Bush cautioning a loaming housing problem. Many have circulated this letter on the net. He had the foresight to see that the GOP's modification of banking laws shifted responsibility for securing loans from lenders to consumers. As a result, banks no longer made background financial checks done in previous years. Given that businesses always exploit deficiencies to make profits, this was a give away to banks. The dismantling of red zones was to make it easier for businesses to meet their goals. GWB and McCain would go on TV announcing how many minorities have purchased homes under GOP Administration. It is where McCain got the following: "The fundamentals of our economy are strong". He is ashamed now to tell how many minorities have lost homes under GOP. And some losses extend to secured homes that were purchased before the banking mess. It is not a minority issue. The is a small picture of Globalization. If you want to succeed, no prejudices, balance and use your intellect when to protect and when to open. It is a 27/7 job that needs thinking on your feet. McCain is old and we are suffering because of his old policies and clueless about 21st century challenges.

As a result of the banking modif law by the Republicans, Lenders gave interest only loans without financial background checks hoping that borrowers would handle defaults. Well, this worked as planned except that banks didn't see the perverse incentives coming. Banks packaged these loans and sold to investors on Wall Street.

During Iraq war, any slight shift in the economy sent any vulnerable market sector to a spiral with shockwaves to other areas. Remember that George Bush had printed a lot of greens to support his Iraq life style. The greens ended up on our streets. We had more greens, less jobs and inflation setting in. The Feds brutally try to put out the fire by manipulating interest rates. We dug deeper!

Individual reactions sent shockwaves to Wall Street. Most homeowners with the bad mortgages simply took keys to the bank and rented apartments. One home wouldn't dent a bank. But thousands of homes crippled banks. No one was buying the homes and so investors started feeling the pinch. All organs began collapsing and shutting down as a patient nearing dead. Now it is a MORAL HARAZARD that need bailout by taxpayers. How did we get here? Who caused the problem? John McCain and Phil Gram, his economic adviser and Bust and a few clueless GOPs

If the Administration had taken Senator Barack Obama's letter seriously and acted upon it, we wouldn't be this deep in the hole. Look at the National Debt and tell us how we get out of the hole with McCain when this old man tells us that economic recession is all mental? Won't you be comfortable with someone who understands market systems such as Senator Barack Obama? The trolls should rethink seriously about joinin us.

Why the Republican Party is becoming an old “Neocon Males’ Racist” Party: John McCain is attempting to run away – "I don’t represent the Republican Party”

Policy-Techno — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:21:17 EDT

Republican Party Talking Point today: “ McCain is not running for the Republican Party”. Hello! This is the POW hero fleeing his party. Let me tell you where the Republican Party is heading --- Hell!

No offense to anyone!

The last ‘8 years’ has seen an increased angry selfish and racist predominantly white dominated Republican Party while membership of the party dwindles. McCain is heading for the EXIT sign! The death of Jesse Helms has been replaced by another clique of racists Americans at the head is John McCain, Nazist Sarah Palin. Senator John McCain (racist old wacky bastard) now speaks in coded language promoting some of the extreme right wing segregationist mentality policies. From tax cuts to the top 1% to discrimination of women for example less pay for women and less rights for women. If you don’t believe me, look at the composition of the Republican Party and those who attend Senator McCain’s rallies. The attendees have a lot in common: They are mostly old white males and old white women! They are are of the past century. Like John McCain most Neocon Republicans have become mean hawks that feeds on the less unfortunate, exploit the powerless, dominate power and break rules with impunity. A carricature Sarah Palin, mean looking facist, tyrant Sarah Palin refuses to testify for troopergate. Welcome to the change of exploitation and stone walling and breaking rules with impunity. If you dare question the actions of the Republican Party, you are labeled unpatriotic or foreign. If you don’t look like one of them, you are labeled unpatriotic and seen as an outcast. These are actions of a so called POW Neocon facist Hitler like old lipstick and pig.

And Journalists like Joe Scarborough (Morning Joe) who up-to-date cannot provide evidence of the death girl found in his office before he bailed out of congress continues to call Senator Barack Obama unpatriotic. If Joe Scarborough were Hispanic or any other minority race, he would be in jail today. This is what most Americans have come to see as unfair rule of law. Some previledged male criminals are rewarded with a job on MSNBC.

Pat Buchanan (the gravy looking or tobacco chewing teeth) racist is another leader of the pact of morons! He is just as rotten and stupid and evil like John McCain. Any troll in here who supports McCain and evil Sarah Palin is a member of the pact of racist carricutures. Unsubscribe and run like a dog.

The Republican Party is what it is… A bunch of lowest form of animals that are racists, criminals, law breakers, war hawks and human exploitation scavengers. They have fangs now that are dangerous, but like extinct species, the party will become extinct too. The Republican Party is synonymous with corruption and a mafia (gang) of “old grouchy males and old grumpy women”

3/07 Senator Barack Obama asked for intervention: His own words below...

Policy-Techno — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:09:31 EDT

March 22, 2007

The Honorable Ben Bernanke
Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
20th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20551

The Honorable Henry Paulson
Secretary
U.S. Department of Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, D.C. 20220

Dear Chairman Bernanke and Secretary Paulson,

There is grave concern in low-income communities about a potential coming wave of foreclosures. Because regulators are partly responsible for creating the environment that is leading to rising rates of home foreclosure in the subprime mortgage market, I urge you immediately to convene a homeownership preservation summit with leading mortgage lenders, investors, loan servicing organizations, consumer advocates, federal regulators and housing-related agencies to assess options for private sector responses to the challenge.

We cannot sit on the sidelines while increasing numbers of American families face the risk of losing their homes. And while neither the government nor the private sector acting alone is capable of quickly balancing the important interests in widespread access to credit and responsible lending, both must act and act quickly.

Working together, the relevant private sector entities and regulators may be best positioned for quick and targeted responses to mitigate the danger. Rampant foreclosures are in nobody's interest, and I believe this is a case where all responsible industry players can share the objective of eliminating deceptive or abusive practices, preserving homeownership, and stabilizing housing markets.

The summit should consider best practice loan marketing, underwriting, and origination practices consistent with the recent (and overdue) regulators' Proposed Statement on Subprime Mortgage Lending. The summit participants should also evaluate options for independent loan counseling, voluntary loan restructuring, limited forbearance, and other possible workout strategies. I would also urge you to facilitate a serious conversation about the following:

* What standards investors should require of lenders, particularly with regard to verification of income and assets and the underwriting of borrowers based on fully indexed and fully amortized rates.

* How to facilitate and encourage appropriate intervention by loan servicing companies at the earliest signs of borrower difficulty.

* How to support independent community-based-organizations to provide counseling and work-out services to prevent foreclosure and preserve homeownership where practical.

* How to provide more effective information disclosure and financial education to ensure that borrowers are treated fairly and that deception is never a source of competitive advantage.

* How to adopt principles of fair competition that promote affordability, transparency, non-discrimination, genuine consumer value, and competitive returns.

* How to ensure adequate liquidity across all mortgage markets without exacerbating consumer and housing market vulnerability.

Of course, the adoption of voluntary industry reforms will not preempt government action to crack down on predatory lending practices, or to style new restrictions on subprime lending or short-term post-purchase interventions in certain cases. My colleagues on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs have held important hearings on mortgage market turmoil and I expect the Committee will develop legislation.

Nevertheless, a consortium of industry-related service providers and public interest advocates may be able to bring quick and efficient relief to millions of at-risk homeowners and neighborhoods, even before Congress has had an opportunity to act. There is an opportunity here to bring different interests together in the best interests of American homeowners and the American economy. Please don't let this opportunity pass us by.

Sincerely,

Barack Obama
United States Senator

I knew very little about Alaska before but now… The place is like a cult with head cult is con artist Sarah Palin

Policy-Techno — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:57:01 EDT

I knew very little about Alaska before but now… The place is like a cult with head cult is con artist Sarah Palin

For the last two weeks I have discovered that in Alaska, you can make up stuff, recreate, reinvent yourself and you are still a pit bull with lipstick and likable. I learned that no one cares about the truth in Alaska. I learned that the Governor is like a dictator for example Idi Amin of Unganda who even ate people. The Governor has affairs and no one dare challenges, not even the part time husband. Babies having babies in Alaska and Sarah Palin calls family values. A married Governor fires a boyfriend because he has an affair with another woman. I learned that the Governor has a baby that has no medical or birth record. Only three children were born at the Hospital where she claims to have put to birth. No trace of Palin Trigg. Yes, I learned that you can make up big stories get away with it. Is everyone in Alaska delusional? I don’t think so! I learned that God is worn on clothing. You wear God to a gathering and when you return you take God off. I learned that the people are anti Jews, anti Blacks, Anti Hispanics and not welcoming to any other ethnic group but the “Red Necks”. This came from Alaska News papers.

This entire forge about reforming Alaska is smokescreen. A few wealthy oil companies seat down with corrupt Republicans and the Governor and discuss who gets what cut and how much cut goes to the Governor. The few Republicans who want more are thrown out and labeled outcast. It is like a cult!

Two cults:
Religious cult --- minors have babies and it is okay
Political cult --- Con Artist Sarah Palin, the leader

I don’t believe the rest of America is like Alaska and behave like Sarah Palin. If you think I am naïve to dismiss these news papers, please convince me that the stories are not true.

Low Dwon for McCain/Bush: Drill baby drill

Policy-Techno — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:41:44 EDT

Bush/McCain Admins were having sexual relationships with employees of oil companies. More than 13 members identified.

Er! I didn’t get it when McCain said drill here, drill there and drill now. And the sexual perverts at the Republican convention chanted, drill baby drill.

Well, I learned something new!

You Can Put Lipstick On A Pig - It's Still A Pig... You Can Wrap An Old Fish In A Piece Of Paper Called Change, It's Still Gonna Stink After Eight Years"

Policy-Techno — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:28:30 EDT

Obama: "You Can Put Lipstick On A Pig - It's Still A Pig... You Can Wrap An Old Fish In A Piece Of Paper Called Change, It's Still Gonna Stink After Eight Years"

Can we ever outlaw racism in America?

Policy-Techno — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:07:15 EDT

When I heard Sarah Palin mock community organization in Chicago, the first thing that came to my mind is a coded word for racism. Then the GOP Congress man used the Southern slang for N-word.

Then McCain asked if most Americans feel comfortable with McCain and Sarah Palin (White) or Senator Barack Obama and Michelle (Black). McCain has forgotten that Senator Joe Biden is White. McCain divided Americans into two camps White versus Blacks.

Can we ever outlaw racism in America?

Media Bashing 101

Policy-Techno — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:34:31 EDT

The New York Times
Week in Review

September 7, 2008
TARGET PRACTICE
Media Bashing 101
By MARK LEIBOVICH
St. Paul
SARAH PALIN’S national opening last week was judged an unqualified success by the media elite, even though much of her debut speech Wednesday night was devoted to whacking the media elite.
“I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone,” Governor Palin of Alaska said, drawing the wildest applause of what would be the raucous night of the Republican convention.
Ms. Palin capped off a succession of speakers, â€" Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee â€" who took turns pummeling their favorite target, the news media, which in turn gave the news media the chance to talk about its favorite subject all week (the news media).
We have played this video game before. Indeed, the Republican tradition of media-bashing goes back decades, at least to the convention of 1964 when former President Dwight D. Eisenhower called out "sensation-seeking columnists and commentators," and the Cow Palace in San Francisco burst into jeers and catcalls at the reporters there. The sentiment was immortalized in Richard Nixon’s vice president Spiro Agnew who memorably charged that many in the press corps were mere “nattering nabobs of negativism” â€" and for good measure â€" “an effete corps of impudent snobs.”
In other words, the bashers and bashees have been through this and know the drill. There was an almost homey familiarity to the ritual. And despite the hot words from the podium, it was hard to find a journalist last week who felt any unusual sense of siege or discomfort.
Tom Brokaw was in the Xcel Energy Center Wednesday night when Ms. Palin was stoking up the media grill, which at one point ignited into a chant of “NBC, NBC, NBC” from the Alaska delegation and spread through adjacent sections. Mr. Brokaw said he was subjected to some “good natured ribbing, friendly fist-shaking,” in the hall, but “nothing out of the ordinary,” or, for that matter, nothing that would impede him from discharging his normal celebrity duties.
“If the number of people who wanted their picture taken with me was any indication, it wasn’t a big deal,” Mr. Brokaw said.
Everyone knew their roles, recited their lines, and it was all somewhat reminiscent of the old cartoon in which Sam the sheepdog spends all day trying to thwart Ralph the wolf from stealing the sheep â€" and then, at day’s end, the two adversaries exchange pleasantries, punch a clock and head home.
Still, despite the familiarity of the blood-sport, the media-mashing game has changed considerably over the years, just as the media itself has. For starters, it would be wrong to dismiss the events of last week â€" particularly the media hurricane around Ms. Palin and her family, justified or not â€" as some fleeting squall of hysteria. This was, in fact, an unusual circumstance, perhaps the first real convention controversy to unfold in the age of real-time blogging, YouTube, Twittering, or whatever it is they’re calling this age these days. It seemed like no detail of these proceedings was deemed to trivial for dissemination, somewhere. (For what it’s worth, I think I broke the story that Bristol Palin’s fiancé, Levi Johnston, appeared to be chewing gum on the convention stage Wednesday night. Pulitzer letter to come.)
Nor should this blitz against the news media from the right be dismissed as simply glib and tired lines from the old Republican playbook. “The mainstream media, which has been holding endless symposia here on the future of media in the 21st century, is in danger of missing a central fact of that future,” wrote Peggy Noonan, the Wall Street Journal columnist and former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan. “If they appear, once again, as they have in the past, to be people not reporting the battle but engaged in the battle, if they allow themselves to be tagged by that old tag, which so tarnished them in the past, they will do more to imperil their own future than the Internet has.”
Given the amount of time Republicans devoted to slamming the “mainstream,” “elite,” “establishment,” “left wing” “Washington insider” members of the fourth estate, it’s worth asking how much the exercise will really advance the party cause.
“It’s a very unifying thing in the world of the Republican base,” said Mike Murphy, the Republican media strategist and former McCain lieutenant. “But I doubt there’s any swing voter outside Cleveland who would think the big problem in this country these days is media bias against Republicans.”
Kevin Madden, a former aide to Mr. Romney’s presidential campaign, said that complaining about press bias can win short-term sympathy for Republicans. “It’s sort of a two-by-four to the media’s mouth that we like to wield,” he said. There’s a certain comfort to it, he said, “and maybe it results in some self-evaluation from the media that will result in more balanced coverage.”
Or maybe not. Either way, attacking the news media is “a tactic, not a message,” Mr. Madden said, and not the kind of tactic that can swing an election. It can, however, be an escape hatch out of short-term jams. When The New York Times published an explosive story last February about Mr. McCain’s relationship with a lobbyist, for instance, the campaign’s hard push-back against The Times â€" and what they called the “liberal media” â€" helped rally to his cause many conservatives who had previously not been there.
But media bashing may work better in dashes (like paprika) â€" nothing too relentless or overwhelming. It wasn’t enough to get Barry Goldwater and Bob Dole elected in 1964 and 1996 and George H. W. Bush re-elected in 1992. They were three of the noisiest in their complaints about bias.
Even on the Democratic side, the presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton became very vocal for a time about cataloging how the press favored Barack Obama â€" which might have made the Clinton team feel better, but did nothing to change the end result. (On the other hand, a few years after the Agnew riposte, Nixon won in a landslide in 1972.)
McCain’s campaign provides an interesting test case. He is something of a media Frankenstein in his own right, a creation who has over the years benefited greatly from friendly relations with â€" and coverage from â€" the press. This coziness has brought Mr. McCain suspicion and derision from some Republican colleagues in the Senate. (That’s when they’re not asking him to put in a good word for them with the Sunday show bookers.)
At the last Republican National Convention, in New York City, Mr. McCain hosted 50-or-so media A-listers to a 68th-birthday party for himself at La Goulue on Madison Avenue. The guest list included network anchors, network news executives, Sunday talk show hosts and a lot of other media types who all qualify as Kind of a Big Deal. Mr. McCain proposed a hearty and gracious toast to his guests that night, raising his glass to “my base.”
Four years later, Mr. McCain has presided over the most media-hostile convention in recent memory (though he did not partake himself in his acceptance speech Thursday night). His campaign seems to have made a decision to run against “media bias” to burnish the candidate and running mates’ reformer credentials.
They have many more weapons at their disposal than, say, the first President Bush did in 1992 when his supporters produced a bunch of “Annoy the Media, Elect Bush” bumper stickers.
Today’s generation of Republican media bashers have blogs, the Web, YouTube, blast e-mails, BlackBerry-alerts and a whole lot of other tools and outlets their forebears never enjoyed. That list also includes â€" some would say â€" Fox News, the highest-rated cable news channel and heavily favored by conservatives.
The blur of new media creates fresh opportunities for attack, counterattack, counter-counterattacks, odd alliances, strained allegiances, hidden agendas and, most of all, confusion.
“People walk up to me and start complaining about some crawl they just saw on CNBC,” said Mr. Brokaw, referring to the business news channel owned by his network. “And I have no idea what they’re talking about. It’s like the ‘Star Wars’ bar.”
On Thursday afternoon, Karl Rove, the former Bush political-swami-turned-Fox News-commentator, was walking out of the Xcel center when a reporter stopped and asked him if he could still bash the media since he is now in the media.
“I’m not in it,” Mr. Rove explained. “I’m around it.”
It’s not clear what the distinction is, or what he meant, but somehow it felt emblematic of the week in St. Paul.

Where did McCain pick this Neo-con?

Policy-Techno — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:06:24 EDT

George Bush In Lipstick

'More Aligned With Bush Than McCain Himself'

Climate Change Isn't Man Made... Wants To Outlaw Abortion Even In Cases Of Rape And Incest... For The 'Bridge To Nowhere' Before She Was Against it... Blocking Ethics Investigation In Alaska... Against Putting Polar Bears On Endangered Species List... Former Bush Speechwriter: A Repeat Of Bush 2000...

Palin In '06: I Won't Let "Spinmeisters" Turn Bridge To Nowhere Into "Something Negative"

Policy-Techno — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:40:39 EDT

Palin In '06: I Won't Let "Spinmeisters" Turn Bridge To Nowhere Into "Something Negative"

If Sarah Palin is an all American woman then, I am on the wrong planet. This woman is a cheater and liar!

Report: McCain Pushed Woman In A Wheelchair: Bad Temper

Policy-Techno — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:35:00 EDT

(Hufftington Poset) On Sunday, McClatchy Newspapers published a story on Sen. John McCain's oft-discussed temper, detailing one incident in which McCain allegedly pushed a woman in a wheelchair.

According to McClatchy's report, in 1996, McCain was met in the Senate office halls by a group of family members of POW-MIAs who had been pressing him to pursue more information on their relatives.

Six people present have written statements describing what they saw. According to the accounts, McCain waved his hand to shoo away Jeannette Jenkins, whose cousin was last seen in South Vietnam in 1970, causing her to hit a wall. ....

FoxNews Reporter: “McCain was on Face The Nation facing his age”

Policy-Techno — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:43:48 EDT

FoxNews Reporter: “McCain was on Face The Nation facing his age”

“McCain was on Face the Nation facing his age!”

Did FoxNews just turn against McCain? Cracks begin

GOP Problem:McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain

Policy-Techno — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:08:21 EDT

McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain. And McCain - Bush is hiding. For the past two days GOP can't seem to flip the names back.

Several times, they have come up but with McCain-Bush. Strategists went back --- used Sarah Palin to introduce McCain and Palin-McCain came up. Not good! They decided to use McCain alone and McCain-Bush came up.

This is a nightmare for GOP. Most are asking why did McCain select Palin. The senate and house races are a big problem because they are focused on flipping the names.

Two Scariest Words For The GOP: McCain-Bush: Fight McBush: Sarah Palin is a decoy

Policy-Techno — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:38:58 EDT

Two Scariest Words For The GOP: McCain-Bush Divorce declined on all counts and levels. McCain made his bed and he will sleep on it.

Macho McCain hiding Behind a woman: Will the real McBush please stand up!

Policy-Techno — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:42:32 EDT

Frank Rich: McCain Vetted Palin Like He Vetted The Iraq War

American inner cities at war - don't forget

Policy-Techno — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:33:55 EDT

Most of America are good people but a few misguiderd think that: Community organization, in dangerous inner city accomplishment are less than a mayor of a rich small town in Alaska. Sarah Palin will not last half a day in South Side Chicago. She plays with guns for shooting moose. In South Side Chicago, gangs kill people with guns. In small town Alaska, people listen even when they disagree. In South Side Chicago gangs and youths don’t care about what you have to say. In Small town Alaska, you a given authority to boss others. In South Side Chicago, you earn and lead without authority. You are forced to develop a different sets of manageral skills and interpersal skills and creating results.

Saving lives of 200 teenagers in a week in South side are the accomplishments a small town mayor of upper class income folks archives in 8 years. Now we understand why being a community organizer in the inner city is far the archievement you can accomplish than beeing a mayor of a large city like NY or a small town in Alaska. Real guns in South side Chicago kill people. Real guns in small town Alaska are used to kill moose. That is the big difference between a community organizer in South Side Chicago and Mayo of a small town in Alaska. Make no mistake! Inner cities in LA, PA, OH, NY, MI are battling crimes and need people like Senator Barack Obama not Sarah Palin or John McCain.

John must have piloted a plan in Vietnam, an organized and civilized war, He needs to fight inner city war and come out alive. Until then, his POW status is in paper not deed. American cities come first and that is where we need experience, a lot of experience

Sarah Palin' s subtle subliminal racist remarks: The ugly side of some Alaska folks.

Sarah Palin remarks are far reaching because they extent to Nazism support in words and deeds.

John Ridley: The Guide to the Conservative Palinguage Vol.2 -- the People's Edition.

If you are biracial and born in a state not connected to the lower 48, America needs darn near 2 years and 3 major speeches to "get to know you." If you're white and from a state not connected to the lower 48, America needs 36 minutes and 38 seconds worth of an acceptance speech to know you're "one of us." If you spend 18 months building a campaign around the theme of "Change," it's just "empty rhetoric." If one week before your party's national convention you suddenly make your candidacy about "Change," that's "red meat."

Please let’s not move this country backwards! History will juge what we do today. Ask yourself if you support Senator Barack Obama because of the content of his character and his accomplishments for mankind or that that the Alaskan Miss contgeniality who changed 6 schools over 8 year’s period represents the best of Americas value system? Ask if someone who preaches parenthood but does a very lousy job is better to lead this country. Ask if an a adulterer and law breaker and a cheater and a liar is better for America. And ask if someone who is not only a neo-con but a Nazist sympathizer is a fit for American value system! If you answer these questions with a clear conscience, then you can be at peace with yourself that you are making a call not because of hate but because you care hove much we have long suffered for the last 8 years.

For some of us, the election of Sarah Palin and McCain/Bush may mean nothing in our lives because of our status within the society but for that common man/woman/child, black and white and Latino and Asian who is living on food stamps, looking for a job and not knowing where the next meal would come from, why not see how Senator Barack can help move us in the direction of reconciliation so that we prosper and bring with us those that want to work?

God help us all!

Community Organizer versus Mayor of small town Alaska

Policy-Techno — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:54:13 EDT

I give the speech an F

Policy-Techno — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:06:40 EDT

McCain has an F in the speech. It proves that McCain is a nobody

Senator Barack Obama: A true Leader!

Policy-Techno — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:37:29 EDT

Today, Senator Barack Obama was asked about insults, psychotic remarks, lies by Sarah Palin. Senator Barack Obama said that, “I expected the attacks. The problem is that I am running against McCain and not Sarah Palin. I take issues with her definition of community organization. About her experience, she is the best to describe her experience”. I reflected on this and came to the conclusion that Sarah Palin is a distraction. McCain is using her to hide his short commings. Now let me define why Senator Barack Obama is the leader we want.

I have spent considerable about two years studying change, change culture and leadership. Senator Barack Obama’s leadership of change is not just in theory but in practical terms. An illustration: General Electric used most of what Senator Barack Obama is talking about leadership and change to be an effective and successful company. Jack Wells can testify to this fact! Most large corporations continue to survive despite the economic situation we have today because of sound strategic planning and change leadership to sustain it during hard times and good times. We have heard Senator Barack Obama talk about coolness and steady in the face of challenges. We have watched him go through those challenges for more than two years. He is humble and respectful. We have seen Mr. John McCain exploded. He lacks temperament. It is not the sign of a leader.
When Senator Barrack Obama talks about bottom-up, he is referring to backward mapping used by policymakers. McCain lacks knowledge, judgment and integrity. His hands are corrupted with lobbyists, affairs, cruelty and lack of human feeling.

A couple a weeks ago, I gave a presentation on economic policy and concentrated on Post Keynesians (relates to fiscal policy, supply, money, production and maintenance of full employment). At the end, I looked at the housing market, price of food items such as milk, and the dining table stuff we have today. George Bush and McCain created this problem, period. Look back at the great depression! We were just coming out of one of the Great Wars! If a country is engaged in protracted war, sooner any upset in an economic sector would send shock-waves across the entire economy. It is true today. Senator Barack Obama was right and McCain was wrong.

If we had a sound economic policy, a slowdown is helpful to revive new industries and stimulate growth. This time, the revival is not possible because of our over extension overseas. We can participate in this global economy but strategically. We can do it in a way that protects our industries, industries that are a source for employment. That is Senator Barack Obama’s position. If we continue to print more money to send to Iraq (McCain’s polices), the money finds its way back into the US, flood the market. As a result the prices of goods and services rise and incomes are not adjusted to keep up with inflation, so hardship results (Economic 101). Wall-Street felt the effects today.