I'm sorry, but this is the most terrifying thing I have ever seen in my life.
September 30, 2008
Celebrate!
In honor of the first annual Judy Guilfoyle Appreciation Day, I've decided to post this little gem. It's the charming Cheyenne Jackson singing a medley of "Radames' Letter/Written In The Stars" at Seth's Live on Broadway. We love him.
Heidi!
The beautiful Heidi Blickenstaff singing "A Way Back To Then" from [title of show] at Seth's Live on Broadway at the Times Square Visitor's Center. Check out www.titleofshow.com and check out this amazing show!
September 26, 2008
September 11, 2008
NYC Stage Debut!
That's right, I'm making my first NYC stage appearance ever on Friday and Sunday evenings at 8pm! Here are the details:
THE U.S - IFICATION
OF AMERICA CONFERENCE
Are you American enough to attend the U.S-ification of America Conference? This Patriots Day Week be the best damn American you can be and attend the U.S-ification of America Conference. A collection of short plays split into two play series with one agenda; poking fun at some of Americas past and present issues. Be American and attend the U.S-ification of America Conference damn it!
September 11 - 14
Buy tickets at:
Brown Paper Tickets
or call 1-800-838-3006
THE U.S - IFICATION
OF AMERICA CONFERENCE
Are you American enough to attend the U.S-ification of America Conference? This Patriots Day Week be the best damn American you can be and attend the U.S-ification of America Conference. A collection of short plays split into two play series with one agenda; poking fun at some of Americas past and present issues. Be American and attend the U.S-ification of America Conference damn it!
September 11 - 14
Buy tickets at:
Brown Paper Tickets
or call 1-800-838-3006
September 10, 2008
Pig Lipstick
I'm a hockey player, so this Sarah Palin fiasco has been driving me up the wall. The fact that she's being linked to us in any way is gross. So on my Devils message board, there's been quite a political debate. I just wanted to post my comments from that board on my blog as well, b/c I think I've got some pretty good research in there that could be very helpful politically. Sorry for the length!
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Here, in no particular order, are my Top 10 Sarah Palin "Inconsistencies" or as we call them here in New Jersey, "Lies".
INCONSISTENCY 1: Sarah Palin is a self described reformer who opposes earmarks and pork-barrel spending. Palin claimed to be against the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” from the beginning. In many speeches since the RNC she said “Thanks, but no thanks” when it came to the bridge. The Alaska bridge pushed by Sen. Ted Stevens became a symbol of congressional misuse of tax dollars. It would have connected the town of Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport on it. Palin was actually for the bridge and only dropped her support for it after Congress canceled the earmark and Alaska would have to pay for it. The Anchorage Daily News quoted her on Oct. 22, 2006, as saying yes, she would continue state funding for the bridge because she wanted swift action on infrastructure projects. "The window is now while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist," she said.
INCONSISTENCY 2: Palin states that the firing of Walt Monegan, Alaska’s public safety commissioner, was not because he refused to dismiss her former brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, from the state police. Palin acknowledged that her administration had made more than 20 calls to the Department of Public Safety regarding firing Wooten. Members of the governor's staff and her husband, Todd Palin, had called and questioned Monegan about Wooten. Palin’s boards and commissions director, Frank Bailey, made a call to a trooper lieutenant complaining that there had been "absolutely no action for a year on this issue" and said that Gov. Palin and her husband were frustrated that Wooten was still a state trooper. This case is currently under investigation by the Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee.
INCONSISTENCY 3: Sarah Palin claims she is a reformer. In addition to supporting the “Bridge to Nowhere,” Gov. Palin billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business. Some reformer.
INCONSISTENCY 4: Palin said in her RNC speech, “But listening to him (Obama) speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the State Senate.” Sen. Obama has sponsored or been a key co-sponsor of numerous bills, including the "Lugar-Obama nonproliferation initiative" to secure unguarded weapons stockpiles in foreign countries -- which became law in January 2007. Obama was also a lead co-sponsor of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, and Sen. John McCain, a co-sponsor of the bill, thanked Obama for his work on the bill, which became law in September 2006. Obama also sponsored the "Democratic Republic of Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act of 2005" (S.2125), signed into law by President Bush on December 22, 2006. In the 110th Congress, Obama has so far introduced 59 bills for which he is the primary sponsor.
INCONSISTENCY 5: Palin believes global warming is not man-made. There is overwhelming evidence that global warming is man-made, a fact that even her running mate, John McCain, believes. National and international science academies and professional societies have assessed the current scientific opinion on climate change, in particular recent global warming. These assessments have largely followed or endorsed the IPCC position that "An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system... There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities."
INCONSISTENCY 6: Palin states that Barack Obama will raise everybody's taxes. In her RNC speech she states, “Taxes are too high, and he wants to raise them. His tax increases are the fine print in his economic plan….And let me be specific: The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes.” The non-partisan Tax Policy Center confirms that people making under $250,000 a year will in fact receive a tax cut under Obama's plan. Under $250k is the poor, the working class and the middle class. Under $250k is the American people folks.
INCONSISTENCY 7: From Palin’s RNC speech, “America needs more energy; our opponent (Obama) is against producing it.” Obama actually has an extensive energy plan. Highlights from his “New Energy for America” plan includes helping to create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future. Within 10 years save more oil than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined. Putting 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars -- cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon -- on the road by 2015, cars that we will work to make sure are built here in America. Ensuring 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.
INCONSISTENCY 8: Once again from her RNC speech Palin stated, “I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.” There is no deal to build a natural gas pipeline from Alaska. All that the governor obtained for her $500 million in state cash assistance is a promise from TransCanada that it will try to obtain federal licensing and financing to build the pipeline - nothing more than a pledge to try. At best, the first gas through the pipe is 10 years away. Doug Reynolds, an oil and gas economist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said the governor’s deal with TransCanada Alaska Co. to build the pipeline is useless unless there is also a deal with gas-producing companies to fill it, he said. Ms. Palin has refused to commit to limits on oil and gas production tax rates. And ConocoPhillips and BP have launched a competing pipeline company, called Denali.
INCONSISTENCY 9: From her RNC speech, "And I thought we could muddle through without the governor's personal chef, although I got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her." She got rid of the cook at the Governor's House in Juneau because she doesn't live there - so there is no need for a cook. Unlike all past governors who moved to the state capital in Juneau and took up full-time residence in the Governor's House just a few blocks from the Capitol, Palin and her family tried Juneau for a few months and then decided to return home to Wasilla.
INCONSISTENCY 10: From her RNC speech, “I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.” She didn't sell the jet on eBay. And she didn't make a profit as she and McCain later claimed. The jet was sold in August 2007 for $2.1 million to a Valdez, Alaska, entrepreneur through a private brokerage (not ebay) — about $300,000 less than a broker’s asking price, according to press accounts. Also, while Palin characterized the plane as an extravagance of former Gov. Frank Murkowski, who arranged for its purchase in November 2005, the plane saw heavy use transporting Alaskan convicts, according to flight records and interviews with corrections officials. When the state first began using the plane in November 2005, prisoner transport accounted for 58 percent of the jet’s use, and Murkowski’s office used it 23 percent of the time.
----(I'll stop my list at 10, it seems to be getting pretty wordy)----
So, for the McCain/Palin supporters who are quick to talk about Obama's inexperience, religious beliefs, Church background, and rhetoric, just please take the time to educate yourself about the policies and plans of your own candidates before you start to attack another. Palin has shown that she is not qualified to be a Vice President through her abuse of power and mismanagement of state funds. She decried Hillary Clinton's claims of media sexism, saying that it made women look bad, yet on a radio show, Sarah Palin laughed when a major political opponent of hers was called a bitch, and a cancer (Palin's opponent is a cancer survivor), and laughed again when a joke was made about her opponent's weight. She talks about Hillary Clinton making women look bad, and then laughs when a man insults a woman live on a radio show not once but three times.
McCain has shown poor judgement by selecting to place this woman within a stroke of the Presidency (pun fully intended). Their campaign talked about nothing but "Experience" before Palin was selected. Now the McCain/Palin ticket talks about reform (you all know the statistic about McCain voting with Bush 90% of the time, and while it certainly is a campaign talking point and something the media has also been floating, it still doesn't make it less true), change (from a woman who has never served in Washington but now wants it changed), and the importance of family (from a woman who doesn't believe in women's reproductive rights, family planning, funding stem cell research, or a comprehensive sex-education plan to help combat the high rate of sexual abuse befalling children). She values life but enacted an illegal wolf bounty program in Alaska. These are NOT the candidates for us. They can't be! I don't believe very many of us on this message board make over $250,000 a year (and if you do, maybe buy me some tickets), and those are the people that John McCain and Sarah Palin care about, have always cared about, and will continue to care about should you make the mistake of casting your vote for them.
Yes, the media has a gigantic hard-on for Barack Obama. Yes, it's the story they've been waiting to write for decades. Yes, they're spoon-feeding you all the information they want you to read to best frame the story that sells their spin. These are things that we all know. But taking out your frustrations with the media by voting AGAINST yourselves is foolish. Don't be bought by the media and vote for someone, Barack Obama included. But all you need to do is some under-the-surface research, which thanks to the internet, is easier to do than ever. Do this and you realize that McCain and Palin are categorically AGAINST everything that you need right now.
I was a Hillary Clinton supporter for the entire primary process, and beyond. But electing Barack Obama has never been more important. You can't give John McCain the potential nomination of 3 Supreme Court Justices. You can't give John McCain the authority to keep our troops dying for some transparent dangling carrot. You can't let John McCain keep ignoring our veteran's by denying them the benefits and resources they need once they've come home from duty.
Sarah Palin and John McCain might not see the importance or value in "community organizing", but Nelson Raver from Utah does. Because he is one. Nelson served in the Vietnam War, where he was honorably discharged after being severely disabled. He's served as a Veteran's Representative for the past 16 years, helping to find homeless veterans food, shelter, job training, and employment. He feels like McCain and Palin don't recognize his job as important b/c he's "just a community organizer". He also feels like he's serving his country whether it's in Vietnam or just helping one veteran. And how did John McCain actually fight for veterans? (I can't ask the same of Palin, since she hasn't served in Washington)
John McCain voted N (Nay) on four veterans benefits bills.
02/02/2006 HR 4297 Tax Rate Extension Amendment McCain voted N
11/17/2005 S 2020 Additional Funding For Veterans Amendment McCain voted N
10/05/2005 HR 2863 Health Care for Veterans Amendment McCain voted N
08/02/2007 HR 976 State Children’s Health Insurance Pgm CHIP) McCain voted N
McCain voted NV (Not Voting, Excused, Absent, or Present) on three other veterans benefits bills:
05/22/2008 S Amdt 4803 GI Bill and Other Domestic Provisions McCain voted NV
01/22/2008 HR 4986 Defense Authorizations Bill McCain voted NV
10/01/2007 HR 1585 National Defense Authorization Act McCain voted NV
(You guys love sources, these are from http://www.votesmart.org.)
Politics make people combative, they make people irate, and they make people take action. And all of that is good and healthy. This system, these processes, are what people have died for and will continue to die for. It's the freedom that comes with living here, and being a United States citizen. But please, don't take the vote that people have died for, and cast it for someone simply because you've been told to do so. Don't discount someone else's accomplishments as "party rhetoric" or "media sound bytes" if they're true. The media now is a propaganda agent and yes, they've chosen to back Barack Obama almost entirely. Doesn't mean that it's the right vote for you. Decide what you stand for by actually doing research and coming up with your own answers.
I've come up with my answer. And it's not Sarah Palin or John McCain.
That's why I'm voting for Barack Obama.
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Here, in no particular order, are my Top 10 Sarah Palin "Inconsistencies" or as we call them here in New Jersey, "Lies".
INCONSISTENCY 1: Sarah Palin is a self described reformer who opposes earmarks and pork-barrel spending. Palin claimed to be against the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” from the beginning. In many speeches since the RNC she said “Thanks, but no thanks” when it came to the bridge. The Alaska bridge pushed by Sen. Ted Stevens became a symbol of congressional misuse of tax dollars. It would have connected the town of Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport on it. Palin was actually for the bridge and only dropped her support for it after Congress canceled the earmark and Alaska would have to pay for it. The Anchorage Daily News quoted her on Oct. 22, 2006, as saying yes, she would continue state funding for the bridge because she wanted swift action on infrastructure projects. "The window is now while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist," she said.
INCONSISTENCY 2: Palin states that the firing of Walt Monegan, Alaska’s public safety commissioner, was not because he refused to dismiss her former brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, from the state police. Palin acknowledged that her administration had made more than 20 calls to the Department of Public Safety regarding firing Wooten. Members of the governor's staff and her husband, Todd Palin, had called and questioned Monegan about Wooten. Palin’s boards and commissions director, Frank Bailey, made a call to a trooper lieutenant complaining that there had been "absolutely no action for a year on this issue" and said that Gov. Palin and her husband were frustrated that Wooten was still a state trooper. This case is currently under investigation by the Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee.
INCONSISTENCY 3: Sarah Palin claims she is a reformer. In addition to supporting the “Bridge to Nowhere,” Gov. Palin billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business. Some reformer.
INCONSISTENCY 4: Palin said in her RNC speech, “But listening to him (Obama) speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the State Senate.” Sen. Obama has sponsored or been a key co-sponsor of numerous bills, including the "Lugar-Obama nonproliferation initiative" to secure unguarded weapons stockpiles in foreign countries -- which became law in January 2007. Obama was also a lead co-sponsor of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, and Sen. John McCain, a co-sponsor of the bill, thanked Obama for his work on the bill, which became law in September 2006. Obama also sponsored the "Democratic Republic of Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act of 2005" (S.2125), signed into law by President Bush on December 22, 2006. In the 110th Congress, Obama has so far introduced 59 bills for which he is the primary sponsor.
INCONSISTENCY 5: Palin believes global warming is not man-made. There is overwhelming evidence that global warming is man-made, a fact that even her running mate, John McCain, believes. National and international science academies and professional societies have assessed the current scientific opinion on climate change, in particular recent global warming. These assessments have largely followed or endorsed the IPCC position that "An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system... There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities."
INCONSISTENCY 6: Palin states that Barack Obama will raise everybody's taxes. In her RNC speech she states, “Taxes are too high, and he wants to raise them. His tax increases are the fine print in his economic plan….And let me be specific: The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes.” The non-partisan Tax Policy Center confirms that people making under $250,000 a year will in fact receive a tax cut under Obama's plan. Under $250k is the poor, the working class and the middle class. Under $250k is the American people folks.
INCONSISTENCY 7: From Palin’s RNC speech, “America needs more energy; our opponent (Obama) is against producing it.” Obama actually has an extensive energy plan. Highlights from his “New Energy for America” plan includes helping to create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future. Within 10 years save more oil than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined. Putting 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars -- cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon -- on the road by 2015, cars that we will work to make sure are built here in America. Ensuring 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.
INCONSISTENCY 8: Once again from her RNC speech Palin stated, “I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.” There is no deal to build a natural gas pipeline from Alaska. All that the governor obtained for her $500 million in state cash assistance is a promise from TransCanada that it will try to obtain federal licensing and financing to build the pipeline - nothing more than a pledge to try. At best, the first gas through the pipe is 10 years away. Doug Reynolds, an oil and gas economist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said the governor’s deal with TransCanada Alaska Co. to build the pipeline is useless unless there is also a deal with gas-producing companies to fill it, he said. Ms. Palin has refused to commit to limits on oil and gas production tax rates. And ConocoPhillips and BP have launched a competing pipeline company, called Denali.
INCONSISTENCY 9: From her RNC speech, "And I thought we could muddle through without the governor's personal chef, although I got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her." She got rid of the cook at the Governor's House in Juneau because she doesn't live there - so there is no need for a cook. Unlike all past governors who moved to the state capital in Juneau and took up full-time residence in the Governor's House just a few blocks from the Capitol, Palin and her family tried Juneau for a few months and then decided to return home to Wasilla.
INCONSISTENCY 10: From her RNC speech, “I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.” She didn't sell the jet on eBay. And she didn't make a profit as she and McCain later claimed. The jet was sold in August 2007 for $2.1 million to a Valdez, Alaska, entrepreneur through a private brokerage (not ebay) — about $300,000 less than a broker’s asking price, according to press accounts. Also, while Palin characterized the plane as an extravagance of former Gov. Frank Murkowski, who arranged for its purchase in November 2005, the plane saw heavy use transporting Alaskan convicts, according to flight records and interviews with corrections officials. When the state first began using the plane in November 2005, prisoner transport accounted for 58 percent of the jet’s use, and Murkowski’s office used it 23 percent of the time.
----(I'll stop my list at 10, it seems to be getting pretty wordy)----
So, for the McCain/Palin supporters who are quick to talk about Obama's inexperience, religious beliefs, Church background, and rhetoric, just please take the time to educate yourself about the policies and plans of your own candidates before you start to attack another. Palin has shown that she is not qualified to be a Vice President through her abuse of power and mismanagement of state funds. She decried Hillary Clinton's claims of media sexism, saying that it made women look bad, yet on a radio show, Sarah Palin laughed when a major political opponent of hers was called a bitch, and a cancer (Palin's opponent is a cancer survivor), and laughed again when a joke was made about her opponent's weight. She talks about Hillary Clinton making women look bad, and then laughs when a man insults a woman live on a radio show not once but three times.
McCain has shown poor judgement by selecting to place this woman within a stroke of the Presidency (pun fully intended). Their campaign talked about nothing but "Experience" before Palin was selected. Now the McCain/Palin ticket talks about reform (you all know the statistic about McCain voting with Bush 90% of the time, and while it certainly is a campaign talking point and something the media has also been floating, it still doesn't make it less true), change (from a woman who has never served in Washington but now wants it changed), and the importance of family (from a woman who doesn't believe in women's reproductive rights, family planning, funding stem cell research, or a comprehensive sex-education plan to help combat the high rate of sexual abuse befalling children). She values life but enacted an illegal wolf bounty program in Alaska. These are NOT the candidates for us. They can't be! I don't believe very many of us on this message board make over $250,000 a year (and if you do, maybe buy me some tickets), and those are the people that John McCain and Sarah Palin care about, have always cared about, and will continue to care about should you make the mistake of casting your vote for them.
Yes, the media has a gigantic hard-on for Barack Obama. Yes, it's the story they've been waiting to write for decades. Yes, they're spoon-feeding you all the information they want you to read to best frame the story that sells their spin. These are things that we all know. But taking out your frustrations with the media by voting AGAINST yourselves is foolish. Don't be bought by the media and vote for someone, Barack Obama included. But all you need to do is some under-the-surface research, which thanks to the internet, is easier to do than ever. Do this and you realize that McCain and Palin are categorically AGAINST everything that you need right now.
I was a Hillary Clinton supporter for the entire primary process, and beyond. But electing Barack Obama has never been more important. You can't give John McCain the potential nomination of 3 Supreme Court Justices. You can't give John McCain the authority to keep our troops dying for some transparent dangling carrot. You can't let John McCain keep ignoring our veteran's by denying them the benefits and resources they need once they've come home from duty.
Sarah Palin and John McCain might not see the importance or value in "community organizing", but Nelson Raver from Utah does. Because he is one. Nelson served in the Vietnam War, where he was honorably discharged after being severely disabled. He's served as a Veteran's Representative for the past 16 years, helping to find homeless veterans food, shelter, job training, and employment. He feels like McCain and Palin don't recognize his job as important b/c he's "just a community organizer". He also feels like he's serving his country whether it's in Vietnam or just helping one veteran. And how did John McCain actually fight for veterans? (I can't ask the same of Palin, since she hasn't served in Washington)
John McCain voted N (Nay) on four veterans benefits bills.
02/02/2006 HR 4297 Tax Rate Extension Amendment McCain voted N
11/17/2005 S 2020 Additional Funding For Veterans Amendment McCain voted N
10/05/2005 HR 2863 Health Care for Veterans Amendment McCain voted N
08/02/2007 HR 976 State Children’s Health Insurance Pgm CHIP) McCain voted N
McCain voted NV (Not Voting, Excused, Absent, or Present) on three other veterans benefits bills:
05/22/2008 S Amdt 4803 GI Bill and Other Domestic Provisions McCain voted NV
01/22/2008 HR 4986 Defense Authorizations Bill McCain voted NV
10/01/2007 HR 1585 National Defense Authorization Act McCain voted NV
(You guys love sources, these are from http://www.votesmart.org.)
Politics make people combative, they make people irate, and they make people take action. And all of that is good and healthy. This system, these processes, are what people have died for and will continue to die for. It's the freedom that comes with living here, and being a United States citizen. But please, don't take the vote that people have died for, and cast it for someone simply because you've been told to do so. Don't discount someone else's accomplishments as "party rhetoric" or "media sound bytes" if they're true. The media now is a propaganda agent and yes, they've chosen to back Barack Obama almost entirely. Doesn't mean that it's the right vote for you. Decide what you stand for by actually doing research and coming up with your own answers.
I've come up with my answer. And it's not Sarah Palin or John McCain.
That's why I'm voting for Barack Obama.
September 07, 2008
BRITNEY PERFORMS?!?!?!?
Just found this secret rehearsal footage at MSN. It's a brand new song, and they're not sure if she's rehearsing for a tour or for a performance at the VMA's later tonight...but she looks GREAT!
Britney's Back!
IT'S BRITNEY BITCH!
Britney's Back!
IT'S BRITNEY BITCH!
September 04, 2008
Sarah Palin
I decided I wasn't going to video blog about this one, because it's nice to actually type thoughts out once in awhile, although nothing replaces the act of physically writing something out.
I'm voting Democrat this November, and was a big Clinton supporter before Hillary's speech at the Convention, and I'm now supporting Obama.
When Obama came out and said "Families are off-limits, especially children," and then mentioned that his mother was 18 when he was born, I thought to myself "You know, he's right, let's just judge the candidates on their own merits."
Sarah Palin, however, CHOOSES to use her Down's Syndrome child, Trig, as a political prop. She wields that poor child like a weapon against liberals, and it’s sad. Bristol continues to be a news story because Sarah Palin has supported an abstinence-only education program and cut funding to help educate teens about pregnancy, yet continues to parade her in front of the camera with her shiny new wedding ring. 5-year old Piper was put in broad view of the camera, holding baby Trig and kissing his head. Don't tell me that it's unfair to get into family issues and then use your family and their stories, like Track shipping off to Iraq on 9/11 and your nephew Casey serving in the Persian Gulf, to shore up your political base and then bemoan the invasive "biased liberal media".
Sarah Palin is a power-hungry, dangerous woman who uses her gender as a shield when it’s convenient and as a battering ram when it’s not, firing those around her who don't support her political aspirations and scratching and clawing her way to what she perceives is her place at the table. She fired a state trooper who was divorcing a member of her family; she is currently the subject of an ethics investigation in Alaska about that case. She decried Hillary Clinton's claims of media sexism, saying that it made women look bad, yet on a radio show, Sarah Palin laughed when a major political opponent of hers was called a bitch, and a cancer (Palin's opponent is a cancer survivor), and laughed again when a joke was made about her opponent's weight. She talks about Hillary Clinton making women look bad, and then laughs when a man insults a woman live on a radio show not once but three times. Palin had the audacity to use the momentum of the Clinton campaign to try to divide and conquer the still on-the-fence Clinton supporters by talking about the 18 million cracks in the highest and hardest glass ceiling, but has done nothing to further the rights of women, aligning herself against women's reproductive rights and a solid educational program that teaches responsibility to young men and women.
The proof is in Sarah Palin's pudding. A woman from Alaska who has governed for 2 years is not qualified to be the President, or even the Vice President. She might be what Alaska needed, but she is NOT what America needs. I do not trust a woman to reform Washington if she has never worked there. Her mother-in-law said that even she wasn't sure why Sarah had been asked to join the ticket. Peggy Noonan, a former Reagan and Bush speech writer said the Palin pick was "political bullsh*t", and Mike Murphy, a McCain Campaign adviser, said that choosing Sarah Palin was "gimmicky".
Sarah Palin delivers a great speech, with all the talking points the McCain campaign could get her to memorize in a week, but John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin is the WORST kind of pandering, and the fact that she can play into that pandering and deliberately target women is sickening.
Sarah Palin is NO Hillary Clinton, and any claim she makes to be a legitimate contender for a political office is laughable. She's John McCain's Flavor-of-the-Month and nothing more. Oh, and she's pretty. Lest I leave that out. Sarah Palin might be a hockey mom, but I’m a hockey player and I’m not buying the act.
I'm voting Democrat this November, and was a big Clinton supporter before Hillary's speech at the Convention, and I'm now supporting Obama.
When Obama came out and said "Families are off-limits, especially children," and then mentioned that his mother was 18 when he was born, I thought to myself "You know, he's right, let's just judge the candidates on their own merits."
Sarah Palin, however, CHOOSES to use her Down's Syndrome child, Trig, as a political prop. She wields that poor child like a weapon against liberals, and it’s sad. Bristol continues to be a news story because Sarah Palin has supported an abstinence-only education program and cut funding to help educate teens about pregnancy, yet continues to parade her in front of the camera with her shiny new wedding ring. 5-year old Piper was put in broad view of the camera, holding baby Trig and kissing his head. Don't tell me that it's unfair to get into family issues and then use your family and their stories, like Track shipping off to Iraq on 9/11 and your nephew Casey serving in the Persian Gulf, to shore up your political base and then bemoan the invasive "biased liberal media".
Sarah Palin is a power-hungry, dangerous woman who uses her gender as a shield when it’s convenient and as a battering ram when it’s not, firing those around her who don't support her political aspirations and scratching and clawing her way to what she perceives is her place at the table. She fired a state trooper who was divorcing a member of her family; she is currently the subject of an ethics investigation in Alaska about that case. She decried Hillary Clinton's claims of media sexism, saying that it made women look bad, yet on a radio show, Sarah Palin laughed when a major political opponent of hers was called a bitch, and a cancer (Palin's opponent is a cancer survivor), and laughed again when a joke was made about her opponent's weight. She talks about Hillary Clinton making women look bad, and then laughs when a man insults a woman live on a radio show not once but three times. Palin had the audacity to use the momentum of the Clinton campaign to try to divide and conquer the still on-the-fence Clinton supporters by talking about the 18 million cracks in the highest and hardest glass ceiling, but has done nothing to further the rights of women, aligning herself against women's reproductive rights and a solid educational program that teaches responsibility to young men and women.
The proof is in Sarah Palin's pudding. A woman from Alaska who has governed for 2 years is not qualified to be the President, or even the Vice President. She might be what Alaska needed, but she is NOT what America needs. I do not trust a woman to reform Washington if she has never worked there. Her mother-in-law said that even she wasn't sure why Sarah had been asked to join the ticket. Peggy Noonan, a former Reagan and Bush speech writer said the Palin pick was "political bullsh*t", and Mike Murphy, a McCain Campaign adviser, said that choosing Sarah Palin was "gimmicky".
Sarah Palin delivers a great speech, with all the talking points the McCain campaign could get her to memorize in a week, but John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin is the WORST kind of pandering, and the fact that she can play into that pandering and deliberately target women is sickening.
Sarah Palin is NO Hillary Clinton, and any claim she makes to be a legitimate contender for a political office is laughable. She's John McCain's Flavor-of-the-Month and nothing more. Oh, and she's pretty. Lest I leave that out. Sarah Palin might be a hockey mom, but I’m a hockey player and I’m not buying the act.
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