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Mccain-Palin 08! (pg. 23)
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| LazFX |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
goddamn hypocricy |
What is getting me and I see it every time I am around my kin folk is how the Christians are ralling behind this woman... that she is some ing saint or something... now that is hypocrsy there....
But all of these GOP Jesus freaks are like that...
The woman obiviously has failed bringing her kids up in the "christian" way,
and yes, the woman used her family values in her coming out speach, she was introduced as a typical "hockey mom", "one of us" so yeah, its fair game to me.... |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
Ladies and Gentlemen... I'm going to give you a gift. It's provided me with hours of worktime entertainment... so enjoy:
http://sarahpalin.typepad.com/my_weblog/
You really do have to take the time to read it all, because it makes Stephen Colbert look like Henry Kissinger. |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Ladies and Gentlemen... I'm going to give you a gift. It's provided me with hours of worktime entertainment... so enjoy:
http://sarahpalin.typepad.com/my_weblog/
You really do have to take the time to read it all, because it makes Stephen Colbert look like Henry Kissinger. |
Holy ! She has a wolf t-shirt background.
This is fake right? |
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| LazFX |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
Holy ! She has a wolf t-shirt background.
This is fake right? |
:D :D |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
This is fake right? |
I hope so. |
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| LazFX |
this is on the side bar a little down the page...
This site is a work of satire and is not affiliated with Sarah Palin in any way.
damn... ;)
but damn good though, lol |
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| LazFX |
| quote: | Originally posted by Groundhog Boy
And lastly, the main reason people are bringing up the experience issue is because the GOP did nothing but bitch and scream for the past 1-1.5 years about Obama's lack of experience, then suddenly go for someone with even less experience. How about some consistency with the message?? Is that really too much to ask? |
but lets not forget, with Alaska so close to Russia, they say, the GOP, that right there trumps all of Obama's and even McCain's experience..... :D |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | F-this to heck
The closest Chili's is 4.7 miles away?! You have got to be s***ting me. I thought this was supposed to be the big city with all your fancy pants restaurants- and I have to drive to goddamn Virginia to get some goddamn mushroom jack fajitas?!
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| quote: | Foreign Policy
I have been getting a lot of guff from people saying I don't know about Foreign Policy. First, I really appreciate everyone who's been sticking up for me. They are right, Alaska is near Russia (we are right by Kamchatka, just like in Risk). In fact sometimes I have to sign letters to them about who has been fishing too much (I still need to follow up about that, but it's under control).
The thing that nobody has pointed out though is that Alaska is also right by another country, Canada! We are pretty much surrounded in fact. But during my administration we have remained at peace. In fact after Todd won the 2007 Iron Dog Geraldine Van Bibber (she is in charge of Yukon) sent us a basket of maple candy, which I thought was very sweet of her.
Anyway I thought maybe if I wrote about it here people might get a better picture of what I know. Besides I am going to have to give a speech on Wednesday anyway, and I thought this would be a good chance to get a head start. I showed it to John and he said it was good but that he might get his speechwriters to "punch it up." That's fine with me, I just need time to practice once they're done so that I don't get any countries mixed up.
Foreign Policy
by Sarah Palin
Foreign Policy is an important part of the job of vice president. It means what you're going to make foreigners do, especially in Iraq.
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert. It shares borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey to the north, and Iran to the east. It has a very narrow section of coastline at Umm Qasr on the Persian Gulf. There are two major flowing rivers: the Tigris and the Euphrates. These provide Iraq with agriculturally capable land and contrast with the desert landscape that covers most of Western Asia.
Iraq is in the Middle East, where there is a lot of oil. However, some of the people there hate America. There are some countries nearby that love freedom and America (i.e. Saudi Arabia), but Iraq is not one of them, as proved by them electing Saddam Hussein. Most people think that he probably had something to do with 9-11, however it is now considered politically incorrect to say so out loud.
America got rid of Saddam, however the people of Iraq are still ungrateful. This makes Democrats sad, they want to leave Iraq. But President Bush wasn't looking for thank you's, he just wants to do what is right, which means we should stay in Iraq. Something which MCCAIN/PALIN will do!
Also near Iraq is Iran, a country that is run by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who also hates America. He is trying to get nucular weapons, which is something that North Korea is doing, too. We can't let them get them! This is why we are building a missile defense in Poland. Poland is an important ally in the war on terror.
In conclusion, Foreign Policy is a complex but fascinating topic.
Bibliography
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
3. http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing...c7ea83f11d8.htm
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| quote: | Bears!
Wow. I have been learning so much in the last four days. The McCain campaign has mostly been teaching me about foreign policy, cause it turns out I am pretty good already on domestic issues like talking to angry school board presidents, figuring out how much of a raise to give to the highway superintendent, and of course I am basically Alaska's expert on dealing with fishing permits :-)
But to help with the foreign stuff, they made me some really great flashcards about friend VS. enemy countries. The pictures of animals are the best part. Almost every country has a traditional animal mascot, a lot like sports teams. You probably already knew that America is an eagle, but did you know that England is a friendly lion (kinda like Aslan), Russia is a bear, and Iran is a scorpion with the head of a goat??
Anyways, finding out that Russia (also known as the Soviet's Union) is a "bear" made me think that hey, wait a sec, maybe i AM kinda ready for this foreign policy thing! I might not have gone on alot of trips away from alaska or talked to to very many foreigners (unless you count liberels!) but i have a heck of a lot of experience dealing with BEARS. one of the parts of my job that i am most proud of is that I have led the fight in Alaska against polar bears. The Interior Department (aka Big Government) tried to tell us alaskans that polar bears are an "endangered species" because of something called "global warming." Um, hey guys, have you BEEN to Alaska? It's cold as heck! anyway, I sued them and basically said "Until you can prove that this global warming stuff is actually science (aka never), then let us do what we want with our bears."
OK, so here is the best part. To say thank you to the people on the Mccain campaign who have been so great to me and my family over the last week, I have been working on a surprise for them. That surprise will be a policy statement about russia/bears that I will put into my acceptance speech at the convention! They are going to be so proud of me. I don't have very much written yet but here is how it will start:
My Fellow Americans: I know what it is like to be afraid. Many of you might be afraid of things like not having health care, being left on Earth when the rapture comes, or even being killed in a war. Although none of those things are problems for me, I can understand your feeling of fear because of something we face every day in Alaska. That thing is called bears.
Then will come the part about Russia (I haven't decided yet what policy to have about it--any ideas??).
Set your VCR's to record my speech, and don't tell John or anyone else on the campaign what I'm planning, ok? I want it to be a surprise.
PS I've been thinking about adding a line at the end that goes something like "Democrats say I have barely any experience. Well, I say to them that Joe Biden has BEAR-LY any experience!" I put it in because Todd says that as VP I have to be an "attack dog" but I think it might be too mean to the Democrats, after all it isn't their fault that there aren't any bears in DC.
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| LazFX |
You can't make this up!!
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McCain had criticized earmarks from Palin
Three times in recent years, the Arizona senator's lists of 'objectionable' pork spending have included earmarks requested by his new running mate.
By Tom Hamburger, Richard Simon and Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
September 3, 2008
WASILLA, ALASKA -- For much of his long career in Washington, John McCain has been throwing darts at the special spending system known as earmarking, through which powerful members of Congress can deliver federal cash for pet projects back home with little or no public scrutiny. He's even gone so far as to publish "pork lists" detailing these financial favors.
Three times in recent years, McCain's catalogs of "objectionable" spending have included earmarks for this small Alaska town, requested by its mayor at the time -- Sarah Palin.
Now, McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee, has chosen Palin as his running mate, touting her as a reformer just like him.
McCain has made opposition to pork-barrel spending a central theme of his 2008 campaign. "Earmarking deprives federal agencies of scarce resources, at the whim of individual members of Congress," McCain has said.
But records show that Palin -- first as mayor of Wasilla and recently as governor of Alaska -- was far from shy about pursuing tens of millions in earmarks for her town, her region and her state.
This year, Palin, who has been governor for nearly 22 months, defended earmarking as a vital part of the legislative system. "The federal budget, in its various manifestations, is incredibly important to us, and congressional earmarks are one aspect of this relationship," she wrote in a newspaper column.
In 2001, McCain's list of spending that had been approved without the normal budget scrutiny included a $500,000 earmark for a public transportation project in Wasilla. The Arizona senator targeted $1 million in a 2002 spending bill for an emergency communications center in town -- one that local law enforcement has said is redundant and creates confusion.
McCain also criticized $450,000 set aside for an agricultural processing facility in Wasilla that was requested during Palin's tenure as mayor and cleared Congress soon after she left office in 2002. The funding was provided to help direct locally grown produce to schools, prisons and other government institutions, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group.
Wasilla received $11.9 million in earmarks from 2000 to 2003. The results of this spending are very apparent today. (The town also benefited from $15 million in federal funds to promote regional rail transportation.)
The community transit center is a landmark: a one-story, tile-fronted building with a drive-through garage. Its fleet of 10 buses provides service throughout the region. Mat-Su Community Transit Agency officials say the building was made possible with a combination of federal money and matching gifts from a private foundation.
Taylor Griffin, a McCain campaign spokesman, said that when Palin became mayor in 1996, "she faced a system that was broken. Small towns like Wasilla in Alaska depended on earmarks to take care of basic needs. . . . That was something that Gov. Palin was alarmed about and was one of the formative experiences that led her toward the reform-oriented stance that she has taken as her career has progressed."
Palin, he said, was "disgusted" that small towns like hers were dependent on earmarks.
Public records paint a different picture:
Wasilla had received few if any earmarks before Palin became mayor. She actively sought federal funds -- a campaign that began to pay off only after she hired a lobbyist with close ties to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who long controlled federal spending as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He made funneling money to Alaska his hallmark.
Steven Silver was a former chief of staff for Stevens. After he was hired, Wasilla obtained funding for several projects in 2002, including an additional $600,000 in transportation funding.
That year, a local water and sewer project received $1.5 million, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, which combs federal spending measures to identify projects inserted by congressional members.
When Palin spoke after McCain introduced her as his running mate at a rally in Ohio last week, she made fun of earmarking. She said she had rejected $223 million in federal funds for a bridge linking Ketchikan to an island with an airport and 50 residents, referring to it by its derogatory label: the "bridge to nowhere."
In the nationally televised speech, she stood by McCain and said, "I've championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress thanks, but no thanks, on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said, we'd build it ourselves."
However, as a candidate for governor in 2006, Palin had backed funding for the bridge. After her election, she killed the much-ridiculed project when it became clear the state had other priorities. She said she would use the federal funds to fill those needs.
This year she submitted to Congress a list of Alaska projects worth $197.8 million, including $2 million to research crab productivity in the Bering Sea and $7.4 million to improve runway lighting at eight Alaska airports. A spokesman said she cut the original list of 54 projects to 31.
"So while Sen. McCain was going after cutting earmarks in Washington," said Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense, "Gov. Palin was going after getting earmarks."
http://www.latimes.com/news/printed...,0,284198.story
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| Krypton |
| Don't you just love the turn of events? Last month the Republicans were on the attack with all their Paris Hilton smear ads. Now they are on the defensive and it's by their own accord! I haven't heard one criticism from the Obama campaign yet about Palin. It's all coming from the media! Obama doesn't have to criticize...yet...smart to let the media do that for him.. |
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| LazFX |
DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR OR WHAT??
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It didn't take long. We've already brought you news of the official investigation into Gov. Palin's firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. Steve Branchflower, the lead investigator, began trying to arrange a deposition of the governor days before her veep selection. And despite claiming executive privilege to shield requested emails, up until that point Palin had promised full cooperation with the probe.
Now, however, she is refusing to submit to questioning by Branchflower unless he and the legislative committee that appointed him agree to relinquish control of the investigation and turn it over to a state review board made up of three Palin appointees.
Yesterday, Palin took the unusual step of having her lawyer, Thomas van Flein, file an ethics complaint against her with the state's Attorney General. This, she hopes, will lead the AG to give the investigation to the aforementioned state personnel board. Unless that happens, and Branchflower agrees to close down his investigation, she will refuse to testify.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/212774.php
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I am done today.... good night |
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| Krypton |
| It's 2 o'clock in the afternoon homie. |
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