Please make her go away...

First it doesn't appear she has ANY idea that she is a) not the top of the ticket and b) what the positions of the top of her ticket are



Second, she now says that by calling her out on her "negative" campaigning the press is violating her first ammendment rights.

Salon's Glenn Greenwald calls her out

"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."

According to Palin, what the Founders intended with the First Amendment was that political candidates for the most powerful offices in the country and Governors of states would be free to say whatever they want without being criticized in the newspapers. In the Palin worldview, the First Amendment was meant to ensure that powerful political officials such as herself would not be "attacked" in the papers. Is it even possible to imagine more breathaking ignorance from someone holding high office and running for even higher office?

Rashid Khalidi

Back in my college days I was assigned to write a paper after 9/11 investigating the cause. While others focused on American freedoms being hated by the 'evil doers' my paper focused on the history of western influence in the middle east. To me it was much more important to understand why they hate us than just the mere fact that hate exists. Well my conclusion was basically that while some intentions are/were good and just, often the outcomes were not. I traced the real problem back to the British white papers and the start of establishing an Israeli state (and what should have been the start of establishing a Palestinian state as well). The promise to one people that would displace another group of people.

Well, now the latest attack against Obama is his tie to Rashid Khalidi. I do not know much about Khalidi but I did just read this article he wrote regarding the Palestinian plight. From this article I do not see him as radical or anti-semetic. I think America has lost it's way with the divisive demonizing of the "other".

I recognize that it is human to want to identify your enemies, but I think that a focus on understanding our enemies would serve a much greater purpose and lead to much more favorable results.

Poll

Poll: Obama-Biden 13 points up in national poll
By The Associated Press – 42 minutes ago

THE POLL: CBS-NY Times national poll.

THE NUMBERS: Barack Obama-Joe Biden 52 percent, John McCain-Sarah Palin 39 percent.

OF INTEREST: The Democrats have a 13-point lead when Bob Barr and Ralph Nader are included. Obama-Biden lead by 52-41 if the race is narrowed only to the Democrats and Republicans. More than two-thirds of voters feel Barack Obama could work well with members of the opposing party. More than half say he is prepared for the job of president. And almost half are confident he could handle an international crisis. But more than half of McCain's supporters say they are scared of an Obama presidency. Obama leads McCain by 20 points among those who have already voted.

THE DETAILS: The poll of 1,005 likely voters was taken Oct. 25-29 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Haven't we let fear drive our decisions for the last eight years? How's that worked out for ya?

Wit and Wisdom

This blog is hilarious, I love fiesty old women that have actually learned from their life experiences!!

This is my favorite of all the posts.

My hat’s off to McCain for trying to set the record straight about Obama not being an Arab, but what does it say about his judgment that he handed a live microphone to Ma and Pa Kettle in the first place? I mean what truck and tractor pull was cancelled to make room for that stop on the Straight Talk Express?

I have posted a collection of the crazies at McCain/Palin rallies before but couldn't put the right words together. Thank you, Helen.

Enjoy!

Nice!

Misquote me once, misquote me twice...I'll call you out!

For awhile, critical thinking, was what I felt was one of the main causes of the crazy statements and mis-information being tossed around the "newshole" (my other new favorite word). I have a new word of the day. Comprehend. I now realize that many people do not even understand the concepts, policies and talking points they try to think critically about. Not that I am some genius that really gets it all, but damn if there is some major lack of comprehension of basic (and complicated) ideas going on.

Main Entry: com·pre·hend
Pronunciation: \ˌkäm-pri-ˈhend, -prē-\
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French comprendre, comprehendre, from Latin comprehendere, from com- + prehendere to grasp — more at get
Date: 14th century
1 : to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of
2 : to contain or hold within a total scope, significance, or amount [philosophy's scope comprehends the truth of everything which man may understand — H. O. Taylor]
3 : to include by construction or implication

Another for the history books.

Denver.

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