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Video ~ Jon Stewart ~ The Daily Show of October 20, 2008
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Jason Jones takes us for A Visit to Wasilla, Alaska ~ including interviewing the current Mayor of Wasilla ~ a must see at 9:30 ~ 14:25


What is the country that I want to live in? One that owns its huge "mistakes" and the intentional wrongs (example: treatment of the indigenous peoples of this land * ), then one that lives up to its national creed. We are a nation of human beings and yet we hear shouts of "Kill him!" about a Presidential candidate in the middle of masses who supposedly have leaders on the stage who are complicit in this unacceptable language in a country where respectability is falling off a cliff.

Each person who can, must vote. It is not enough to vote, though. The loudest and most pervasive voices must not be those who are calling for the Democratic Presidential candidate's head. We must not be a silent majority. We must not allow our elected and appointed politicians think we are not watching them. If they do, they may do things in our names that are appalling. We can admit this because there is a trail left by our countless leaders who have been guilty of this from the beginning of our history.

*Sign the petition for respecting Geronimo and humankind

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This book details how Barack Obama has succeeded in establishing a culture of ingenuity, enthusiasm, passion and collaboration– unlocking new levels of personal power and control. Leaders such as Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King know the secret to unleashing the human potential. His unique leadership style has been the catalyst of one of the greatest grassroots movements in history– and it is the spirit, the fuel, on which we will ride into the third millennium.

So just how did Barack Obama, a junior senator, become the nominee of the Democratic Party? How has Barack Obama amassed two million financial donors, raising over 400 million dollars? What is it that Barack Obama knows, that the Republicans have yet to discover? What is it that will make Barack Obama one of the greatest leaders in history?

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Obama doesn't call forth volunteers– he calls forth the leader that resides in all of us. He demands personal accountability—and gets it. He has created an army of grassroots volunteers that is not only contributing financial resources but hours of service in any number of tasks. He has tapped into the spirit of first-time voters and re-kindled the spirits of baby boomers.

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TINA FEY COULD REPLACE SARAH PALIN - DO YOU THINK SARAH TURNED THE SOUND DOWN AGAIN?

I THINK THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH LIFELINES FOR SARAH PALIN
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Sarah Palin and Katie Couric
as played by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

AMY POEHLER'S HILLARY CLINTON HAS A POINT ABOUT THE MEDIA

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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

NBC Universal Zaps YouTube Uploads of SNL Skit On Sarah Palin

By Sarah Lai Stirland

Google searches for the terms "SNL Palin," "Saturday Night Live," and "Tina Fey as Palin" rocketed off the roof over the week-end, as people around the United States e-mailed each other and blogged about Fey's uncannily-close impersonation of the Republican vice-presidential nominee.

Fey, Saturday Night Live's former head writer and creator of the show 30 Rock, appeared with SNL's Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton to "battle sexism" in the show's opening skit.

Soon after the episode aired, e-mails with links to the inevitable YouTube uploads flew around listservs. But the take-down notices went out just as quickly, notifying YouTube that the clips had infringed upon NBC Universal's copyright. One of the uploads had already been removed as of Sunday, but several more managed to stay up on YouTube as of Monday. And other web sites such as LiveLeak also hosted clips.

NBC Universal has since posted the skit up on its own web site. (Above) is an embed of the clip.

Source: http://blog.wired.com

ONE OF THEIR MOST IMPORTANT GOALS - SECRECY

...This is what was stated about not using clips in Palin's hometown newspaper for the purpose of vetting Palin: it wasn't used due to ONE OF THEIR MOST IMPORTANT GOALS - SECRECY

Secrecy. That is a quality that we have had in huge proportions with the Bush/Cheney administration.

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CNN on the vetting of Sarah Palin by the Republicans.


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Sarah Palin Scares Me by Marilyn Arons, a special needs parent, educator, and non-lawyer for 30,000 children for 30 years. Here Marilyn Arons expresses her thoughts about Sarah Palin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP9ibsQhiJE

Palin Cut Funding for Special Needs Kids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qTx7Z00NyU

The above two Youtube videos are related in subject matter - the rights of and responsibilities of caring for - special needs children. Being an advocate for special needs children is thoughtfully fielded.

GOV PALIN BELITTLING GOOD DEEDS IN BAD TASTE - SETS BAD EXAMPLE TO OUR CHILDREN

"Sarah claims to be a fundamentalist Christian,
but apparently the Golden Rule was sidelined
for the Democratic Convention."

When I heard Governor Palin make fun of Barack Obama's community service, I thought about other people, myself included, who have done communithy service. She is not only making light of Barack Obama when she did this, but all people who do community service as well as belittling the people helped by community service organizers. It was how she delivered her words that were troubling. Shouldn't we be encouraging people to help others? Not putting them down for doing so. Governor Palin's children as well as other children tuning in to her speech, saw a woman belittling good deeds.

The way Governor Palin put it, the only way to legitimately do good for a community is to be in elected office. Some of the most important work is done by those of us in the community who simply step up to do what isn't being done by others - elected or not.

And as for Barack Obama, he chose to do community work because of the need in the community.

Palin's choice to score on Barack's community work as service and valid early experience borders on the kind of bullying that I saw in a TV ad where young people were being asked not to behave this way. The ad was about cyberspace bullying. And Rudy Giuliani used the same talking point, while making fun of Barack.

To me personally, it made Sarah and Rudy look small. But it made the people feel good in the hall. Sarah claims to be a fundamentalist Christian, but apparently the Golden Rule was sidelined for the Democratic Convention.

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Joe Lieberman on Sarah Palin: "Let's Assume the Best"
Andrea Mitchell: Do you feel Sarah Palin is qualified to be commander-in-chief if God forbid, something should happen to John McCain?

Joe Lieberman: Well...you know...let's assume the best (chuckles). John's in great shape, he's gonna be the president and let's assume that nothing bad will happen...why should we? But if it does...yes, she'll be ready.

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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert about Sarah Palin as Vice-President choice
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Video link: Lindsey Graham on Sarah Palin being Vice-President

Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani pay no attention to that man behind the curtain

SARAH PALIN SPEAKS AT HER CHURCH - HAVE A LISTEN

Sarah Palin

Qualifier for Vice President

The very things that scare me about Sarah Palin and John McCain appeal to others.

From what I am learning about Sarah's church - I grew up in a church much like Sarah Palin did.

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
Henry David Thoreau

Apparently, Sarah and I step to very different music. I have moved on.

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Sarah Palin speaks at her childhood Church in Wasilla, Alaska
Wasilla Assembly of God
Part One
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Sarah Palin speaks at her childhood Church in Wasilla, Alaska
Wasilla Assembly of God
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"Jews for Jesus" is an organization whose purpose is to convert the Jewish faith people to Christianity
Text of poster:
On Aug. 17, 2008 Sarah Palin attended a sermon by David Brickner, the founder of "Jews for Jesus". Governor Palin's pastor Larry Kroon has, as Palin does, deep cultural roots in evangelical Christianity, invited Brickner to the Wasilla Bible Church.
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Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 at this link
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John McCain Defends Sarah Palin Vice President Selection Part 1 of 4

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Silence Kills

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SARAH PALIN, john mccain and The World

Vetting by the World

Is this fair to Bristol?

This is just opinion. Mine.

Sarah Palin is not a smart choice for Vice President. She majored in journalism in college. She is unknown to the country. And in two months we can vote for her to be second in line to be our President. I heard someone today say that he thinks Sarah should be on the top of the Republican ticket.

Why?

If she was black, surely the Republicans would be saying she lacks experience. If Sarah was black, surely her having five children would be questioned. You know, is she on welfare? Her youngest child was born April 18, 2008. If Sarah was black, there would be a much longer list of negatives and questions being slung toward the fan.

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Sarah Palin at 2:57: "...what is it exactly that the VP does?"
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Palin Derangement Syndrome fever

By Arjun Ramachandran

She's the pro-life moose hunter, the former beauty-pageant contestant who would be the next US vice-president.

Less than a week since being announced by Republican presidential nominee John McCain as his running mate, a media storm has erupted around Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin.

Already intensely caricatured, Mrs. Palin and her family face heavy exposure as the US and international media attempt to fill the vacuum of information about the relatively little-known 44-year-old mother of five.

The most recent revelations surround the announcement that her teenage daughter, Bristol, was pregnant.

The controversy prompted the Los Angeles Times, in a blog, to liken Mrs Palin to Lynne Spears, mother of pop star Britney and actress Jamie Lynn, who became pregnant at 15.

In a statement, Mrs. Palin, who is avowedly pro-life, said Bristol intended to have the baby and would marry the father, Levi Johnston.

Johnston has described himself on his MySpace page as "a f***ing redneck", the New York Post reports. "But I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some s*** and just f***in' chillin' I guess," the 18-year-old hockey player wrote.

"Ya f --- with me I'll kick [your] ass."

Johnston also wrote: "I don't want kids."

Some US commentators have held up the example of Bristol's teen pregnancy to say Mr McCain had not vetted Mrs Palin and her family circumstances properly before appointing her as his running mate.

Mr McCain reportedly met Mrs Palin only once before offering her the job as vice-presidential nominee.

"A series of disclosures about Governor Sarah Palin, Senator John McCain's choice as running mate, called into question on Monday how thoroughly Mr McCain had examined her background before putting her on the Republican presidential ticket," The New York Times reported.

Much has been written about Mrs Palin's links to the Alaskan Independence Party, a group pushing for a vote on Alaska splitting from the rest of the US and forming an independent nation.

The New York Times said that Mrs Palin "was a member for two years in the 1990s". However, The Associated Press reported that, while Mrs Palin's husband, Todd, had been registered as a member, she had only addressed the party.

Even US actress Lindsay Lohan, often the focus of the media herself, has weighed in about Mrs Palin.

"I've been watching the news all morning, like everyone else - and keep hearing about the issues related to 'teen pregnancy'," Lohan wrote on her blog.

"Well, I think the real problem comes from the fact that we are taking the focus off of getting to know Sarah Palin and her political views, and what she can do to make our country a less destructive place."

Mrs Palin's emergence has also focused attention on Hillary Clinton, who made a historic bid to become the first female presidential nominee before succumbing to Barack Obama.

Senator Clinton, who is now barracking for Senator Obama, has been relatively quiet about Mrs Palin's appointment, other than to say everybody "should all be proud of Governor Sarah Palin's historic nomination".

Ironically, McCain supporters have credited Senator Clinton's efforts with paving the way for Mrs Palin.

"Because of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the presidency and the treatment she received, American women are more highly tuned than ever to recognise and decry sexism in all its forms," said top McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina.

But Senator Clinton was "galled" that Mrs Palin might try to capitalise on the impact she made among women voters during the Democratic primaries, The New York Times reported.

The paper predicted Senator Clinton would now play a greater role campaigning for Senator Obama as a result.

Conservative columnists have decried the treatment of Mrs Palin in the press. Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin labelled "attacks" on Mrs Palin as "Palin Derangement Syndrome", and said there was "selective sympathy" for mothers who ran for office.

A blog, Palin Sexism Watch, has also started "to monitor, and round up, the sexist treatment given to Republican VP nominee, Sarah Palin".

FOXNews reported the top 10 words used by the media to describe Mrs Palin were: "conservative (49 per cent), abortion (44 per cent), brother-in-law (picking up claims that she improperly tried to get her ex-brother-in-law fired) (17 per cent), corruption and oil (17 per cent), risky or risks or risk (16 per cent), glass ceiling (13 per cent), Quayle (10 per cent), exciting (9 per cent), inexperience or "lack experience" or "limited experience" (8 per cent), and bold (8 per cent)".

Meanwhile, the New York magazine has credited Mrs Palin with helping to make politics funny again.

"Last week Jon Stewart addressed the issue of whether Obama and McCain were giving enough material to comedians ... Well, now that we've got a former-beauty-pageant-contestant vice-presidential candidate who was a small-town mayor three years ago, and who has a pregnant, unmarried 17-year-old daughter, do we all know what's funny?"

In a satirical vox-pop about Mrs Palin's nomination on humorous news site The Onion, everyday American "Scott Wise", a line cook, said: "Finally, somebody who can pull in the Alaskan/pro-life/moose-hunting/woman vote."

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

The Palin children's names are Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig, who was born in April 2008.


10 Things You Didn't Know About Sarah Palin

1. Sarah Louise Palin (nee Heath) was born Feb., 1964, in Sandpoint, Idaho. Her family moved to Alaska when Sarah was an infant. Her father, Chuck, is a retired schoolteacher.

2. She attended Wasilla High School where she played point guard on the state champion basketball team. Her nickname was "Sarah Barracuda."

3. Palin graduated in 1987 from the University of Idaho with a degree in journalism. She worked briefly as a sports reporter in Anchorage.

4. She refers to her husband, Todd, as the "First Dude." He's worked as a commercial fisherman and as a production operator on the North Slope for BP. He enjoys snowmobiling and has won the Tesoro Iron Dog, billed as the world's longest snowmobile race, four times.

5. Palin and her husband have five children, Bristol, Piper, Track, Willow, and Trig. Trig, born in 2008, has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. Her son Track joined the army in 2007.

6. Her favorite meal is moose stew.

7. She comes from a family of outdoor enthusiasts. Her parents, Chuck and Sally Heath, enjoy hunting and fishing, and have both completed marathons.

8. Palin was named Miss Wasilla in 1984 and was a runner-up for Miss Alaska. In 1996 she was elected mayor of Wasilla.

9. She's a lifetime NRA member and enjoys hunting, fishing, and snowmobiling.

10. Elected in 2006, she's Alaska's first female governor and the youngest governor elected in the state.

Source: www.usnews.com

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Bill Maher on Sarah Palin

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Article on Barack Obama at Columbia College Today

After high school, Barack Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. Barack Obama earned his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law.

The resume and experience of Obama and Palin Compared

HILLARY SPILLED IT ~ ASSASSINATION POSSIBILITY AS A REASON TO STAY IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SUMMONS HOPE IN A DARK WAY

HILLARY HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR A WAY TO WIN ~ IF VOTES DON'T WORK ~ IF MATH CANNOT BE MANIPULATED

SHE IS WAITING FOR ASSASSINATION

If she can't win it, she can always be in the wings in case there is an assassination.

What Hillary wants us to know, on at least a subconscious level, is that assassination is just another reason not to suspend her run for the White House.

Hillary took the air out of her balloon.

In a nutshell, I was raised Republican, but by the time I graduated college with my first degree I had transformed into a Democrat. While I was in college, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and also Robert Kennedy was assassinated. Robert Kennedy's brother, John F Kennedy, was assassinated when he was President while I was a freshman in high school. Malcolm X was also assassinated when I was in high school.

I have been a strong supporter of Senator Barack Obama for President, volunteering in New Hampshire for a week leading up to the primary there, in my state of Rhode Island and doing phone banking for the New Jersey primary. This is all outside my comfort zone, but I chose to do it because this candidate was important enough for me to step outside of my comfort zone.

I have been appalled at Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign continuously. Instead of listing point by point of the times I have been appalled, many of the points are listed in this video.
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Special Comment about Hillary Clinton and her Assassination comment as a reason to remain in the race despite no way for her to win by votes

Hillary Clinton used the word "assassination" today when explaining why she should stay in the race when there is no way she can win the nomination. As a Barack Obama supporter I have had the thought of this tragic potential in my mind. In the back of my mind is the fear that Barack Obama has a chance of being assassinated, but I don't say it outloud often. I mentioned it only two times over the last several months, but only to people who are supporters of Barack. Fear never has dictated my behavior, so fear hasn't dictated my wishes and actions in this Presidential campaign.

Enter Hillary Clinton. Today, is not the first use of the word "assassination" by Hillary Clinton in this campaign. It doesn't seem to be an idea she fears, but it gives her hope. How does Hillary put this utterance back in the bottle? What a screw up.

The media coverage that I have seen of this has been way too forgiving to Hillary. She doesn't even get it. The mere mention of the word "assassination" is abominable. It puts it out there in the universe. Hillary didn't say the word "assassination" and then follow it up with "God, forbid" she just used it for her purpose to support herself. What shreds of neutrality I had left for her have gone.

I think the fact that Barack Obama had to have federal secret security service detail earlier than other candidates ever have in the course of a campaign indicates there were reasons to merit it. And the stepped up security measures made at his speech in Rhode Island over the one I previously attended in New Hampshire, indicated that his life has been threatened in this campaign. Barack and Michelle Obama haven't talked about it, but I believe it has happened. But it hasn't stopped Barack from his intention to carry on. And we should not be waiting for it to happen as apparently Hillary is.

Hillary Clinton is a narcissist. She has proven she will do anything to win. She said nothing in her response of "not intending to offend" to Barack Obama. She has been hoping that something would happen to Barack Obama so that she would be the Democratic nomination. Now we have it on video.

Hillary Clinton is supposed to be the "experience" candidate. She has shown she is a racist over and over thoughout this campaign. Today, she has shown no empathy, no sensitivity and poor judgment.

Hillary Clinton is not fit to be President.

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Discussion about Hillary Clinton and her use of the word "Assassination" as a part of her rationale to have hope to win the Democratic nomination for President of the USA

Assassinations in the USA in the sixties
Just three assassinations listed in the sixties

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