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Oct 11, 2008 1:01 AM
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aviation,
Yeah, about the sexy act...Palin is the perfect female template in a stereotypical male-dominated culture (which she upholds) and which she allows to use her for the power it will give her...
Watch the movie, The Handmaid's Tale...(Robert Duvall and Faye Dunaway are in it)...CREEPY, truly.
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Oct 11, 2008 1:00 AM
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> ...McCain
> appeared at that point to reveal his true colors as a
> racist, and then drove the point home later,
> referring to Obama as "that one."
While I voted for McCain in my state's 2000 primary, I think his day is past... you cite something that is more evidence of his relatively venerable age or perhaps smugness, but not racism.
Then again, he didnt' support MLK Day.
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THE ECONOMY SHOULD BE THE REAL TEST for who is going to be President. Obviously the GLOBAL economic crisis is so bad it may spark a global depression. So, both McCain and Obama should see this as their first test as the next President. They should present the American public with their plan for their first 100 days in office and how they will work to restore confidence in the American economy.
If I want to get a bank loan to start up my own business, I need to present a BUSINESS PLAN to the bank to show that I have thoroughly analyzed the chance of success so they can feel confident in giving me the loan. So where are the business plans from McCain and Obama?
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Oct 11, 2008 12:59 AM
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unfortunately being a Vagina American is enough for some folks to vote for her, have talked to more than a few with this idea!
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Oct 11, 2008 12:59 AM
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Well I for one, feel that it is high time we had a woman for Grand Dragon.
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Oct 11, 2008 12:58 AM
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Personally, I think the Republicans must be recruiting audiences from nursing homes. That lady that stammered around and then finally said Obama was an A-RAB! Obviously, she is in the later stages of dementia. Have you ever seen so many white folks in one place? Behind McCain you see young people, but the people doing the shout outs and asking the insane and inane questions are seniors. Where do they get these folks? I am in my sixties, female, and white, yet I have supported Obama since day one. Of course, I do not suffer from dementia or believe in killing gays, don't need a gun and don't believe in "Godd" (you know, the one with two ds.)
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Oct 11, 2008 12:58 AM
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I cannot imagine pauline in the white house tonight show proofs to me that, the only reason that Mccain chose Pauline is to attract those 30,40,50,60, year old dudes who only think with one head. I can only imagine them masturbating in their home computer to some her pic in a bikini wake up AMERICA.
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Tyank you, Senoj517.
Yes, that nitwit Steven Moore left out a bit about the Boston Tea Party. They weren't protesting "taxation" as inherently evil. They were protesting "Taxation WITHOUT Representation." But, I think we can all agree, the wealthy in America are WELL represented.
One of the biggest problems with our tax system is that low-income Americans allow themsleves to be conned by people like Mr. Moore who say Obama will raise their taxes when, as Bill Maher pointed out, only people making over $250,000 would see their taxes go up under Obama's plan.
Republican's have demonized taxes, used that to transfer money to the wealthy, and Americans have fallen for the con.
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Oct 11, 2008 12:55 AM
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Excuse my obvious error, but you would think that a writer for the Wall Street Journal would be intelligent enough to see through Palin's apparently staged facade.
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Oct 11, 2008 12:53 AM
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BILL did talk about it in the opening of the show. I agree most people don't know that she was "associated" with the group and her husband IS an ex-member! A lot of people need to know this but don't.
Just like all the "feminists" that support Palin because she is a woman ( I am and I wouldn't vote for her if it was down to her and Charro). The fact is that Palin is against a woman's right to choose what happens to her OWN body. I would never have an abortion myself but if another woman decides that she needs to make that CHOICE then she should be able to. Just as gay people should be able to marry. I am not gay but if someone else CHOOSES to marry the same sex then hey guess what...
THIS IS THE USA!!!!!
you should be able to.
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Some really good points!!
The successionist group palid palin and achy breaky hubby belonged to wanted to kill government members if they didn't allow Alaskans to succede. Maybe that's where the idea of shooting mooses and wolves came from?
And the quote that sarah is attributing everywhere to Bill Ayers was actually said by the founder of the Successionist Party, a guy named Vogel, who was assassinated by another member in 1993 I think it was.....might have been 1995.
So ms. unread quotes Vogel and claims it was Bill Ayers, simply due to his association to Obama.
And one of the things that Maxine Axlerod said to that harpy Bay Buchanan last night was that the president of Northwestern University was on the same Annenberg panel with Obama and Ayers and asked her if he should be investigated too?
Axlerod, a Republican, chastised Buchanan for the horrid, mean spirited and damaging campaign being run by McSenile and Co. and said she was ashamed and didn't recognize the GOP any longer as the one she had grown up with....Kudos to Maxine.
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Oct 11, 2008 12:53 AM
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This post is more a statement than a reply to these political topics. Here goes! When will we take individual responsibility for being aware enough, to see the unconsciousness, not only within ourselves, but of it's effects on this perhaps doomed planet?
This is not an opinion on global warming, wars, extreme poverty....on and on and on...these are facts. In 6000 years of written history...there have been more than 16,000 wars...never a moment of peace!! Just a preparation for more war.
The deadliest weapon in each individual is the ego.....I am this ...I am that.....This illusory identification in a life that is transient and quickly transient at that, is the "root" cause for the suicidal path we are on. If we don't become more simply aware of our thoughts, actions and emotions....we are just victims to them and are just clashing with other victims....therefore war, etc., etc.,
There is no group solution to any of this....simply because there is no "group".....only individuals, therefore the remedy is an individual one. There is no "outside" solution.....only by going within and being a witness to ourselves is it possible to create a distance from these phony identifications.
Lastly (cause I'm tired  ) ....the only possible way to understand is through a heart that is alive....the mind (ego) is mostly a place, an illusory one, where true understanding is not possible.....only an endless question and answer session......
..."the priest and the politician....the Mafia of the soul"
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When you think about the platforms of different political philosophies, most people envision the range of ideologies as a straight line, with communism on the extreme left and fascism on the extreme right. However, to really understand the view point of the political party the best way to do this is to envision that the line is actually curved, like drawing the line on a tennis ball. If you are on one end of that line looking down the line, you don't really see the end of the line; you just see it go over the horizon. And anything that people can't see they just label it as the extreme end of the line. So if you are a communist maybe you can only see socialism on the horizon and can't see democracy, conservatism, fundamentalism, and fascism. In this case the communist would simply declare that anything beyond socialism is outright fascism. Similarly, a conservative might look at a moderate as a liberal and see a liberal as a socialist or communist. This is why those people whose views are more in the center of the line have greater perspective because they can see the line moving to the horizon in both directions. Education and insight help you to stand taller so you can see even more of the line in each direction.
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I was very surprised that a point from the debate between Obama & McCain was not brought up on the show this week. Rachel Maddow spotted it, I was incredulous when watching it happen. The basic point is McCain was very condescending to a black questioner in the "town hall" audience when not answering his question.
He told the man in a tone like one would use with an ignorant young child that he may have never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac before the mortgage crisis....as if saying that this man probably would never be able to afford a home or consider buying one (probably true if McCain wins the election). McCain appeared at that point to reveal his true colors as a racist, and then drove the point home later, referring to Obama as "that one."
Obama to his credit, answered the man's question, treating the man as the intelligent person he was. And he didn't, as McCain did, refer to the man by the wrong name.
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I have o say that i am 28 and have only voted on once in my life time that is for bill clinton, did not vote for bush or gore but my vote this year will go for OBAMA and yes if this means our taxes go up so be iT as it is i m struggling now with my bills. I JUST WANT CHANGE, REGULATION AND THE FUCKEN ABILITY FOR ME TO BE AMERICAN AND GET A LOAN TO BUY A GAS SUSLER.
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Oct 11, 2008 12:50 AM
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I think it was Jon Stewart (this past week) who noted that Palin (et all) love to go to NYC and publicly feel the pain of 9/11... but, then they leave and denounce New Yorkers (and the rest of us on the East Coast) as though that's not part of the real America, too.
If it was good enough for Al-Qeada (sp?) to attack America there, how about the right-wingers suck that up too? Smalltown America isn't America, it's just one of its parts.
Or, is it truly patriotic to divide the nation? What would Lincoln or the Fouding Fathers say to that, I wonder.
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