In recent news from www.funniestbloginamerica.blogspot.com :
Republican presumptive Presidential candidate John McCain today told a hastily assembled St. Paul, Minnesota news conference that his 38th choice for the Vice Presidency, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, "enthusiastically" accepted his invitation to join the Republican ticket.

"It got a little embarrassing there," Sen. McCain admitted. "For a while, I was like, gosh, doesn't anybody want to be Vice President in this country, or what?"
Sen. McCain's first 37 choices all rejected the offer "in seconds, because none of them thought I could beat Obama," a red-faced McCain acknowledged. "They all thought, why risk being blamed? They wanted to preserve their chances for 2012."

Among the 37 Republicans and others who declined Sen. McCain's offer of a spot on the ticket were former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Connecticut Senator Joe Leiberman, former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre, TV chef Emeril, recording artist 50 Cent, former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath, actress Liv Tyler, Barney the Dinosaur, John McCain's wife Cindy, an unnamed bartender at Sky Harbor Airport Terminal C in Phoenix, New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the surviving members of the cast of 1960s TV sitcom Gilligan's Island.

"I know Vice President isn't a glamorous job," Sen. McCain admitted. "You mostly go to funerals of foreign leaders, unless you're inventing the Internet like Al Gore or running America like Dick Cheney. But the job is frankly what you make of it, and I would have thought I could find someone who had some sort of stature or name recognition or even came from a state where there are more electoral votes than caribou.

"But beggars can't be choosers, so I'm really glad Governor, um, what's her name, from Alaska, has graciously agreed to join me on the ticket."

pro life woman do not have amniocentisis!
why did she have that test if she is pro life and would keep her child no matter what OR was downs syndrome something that she could deal with as opposed to another illness. to me, that is CHOICE! she chose to keep her son because it was something SHE could deal with. we all need to have choices in our life, what WE can deal with is what ultimately matters, as it did with her.

and what woman who has a new born baby with an issue would not take maternity leave? why isn't she there for her family? i would think her new baby and children need her way more than mc cain does.

i think as a woman she has exhibited poor choices ad i would be embarrassed for her to be the next vice president.

i am a democrat mommy who sacrifices everyday to stay home with my 2 children. i believe a woman should have a choice what to do with her body and conception starts at a first breathe! get a grip people....do you think a baby can survive on it's own without a human or mechanical host??

i am amazed at the minds i see out there.
the thoughtless banter of crap the exudes from republican mouths. slime i tell you, slime.

you can post this on times square!

Have a look at Lovely Downtown Wasilla, Alaska

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking-one-ala...

. . .and then ask yourself if Sarah is your choice.

She sounded like she was running for PTA President in her acceptance speech. Not a clue about the world outside of her own pre-packaged life. McCain has lost all credibility no matter how they spin Palin. I'm supposed to vote for her because she was runner up in some hokey (or is it hockey) beauty pageant, got herself a husband named "dude," had a Down's syndrome child and refused maternity leave?
Pleeease. . .I know welfare mothers with more gumption and leadership experience than this woman.
And the idea that she will appeal to me because we share the same anatomical parts is proof of the Republican Party's pathetic and elitist understanding of what American women and families need or want. . .We want to keep our homes, feed our kids, be paid a decent wage and stop sending our sons and daughters to a war for which Bush will should surely be tried for war crimes. We want health care that doesn't kill us, water and air that doesn't poison us, equal pay for equal work and a stop to the oil industry's rape of America, and an end to a war that has made Bush/Cheney the leaders of "The Corrupt Bastards Club." Thats' what Sarah Palin stands for: George Bush and unbridled dehumanized greed!!

There were plenty of Republican women far more qualified than Palin. The problem with them is that they aren't pretty.

This is the same mentality that puts brainless bimbos in the FOX newsroom, hoping that the males will turn off their brains (as a Russian study showed they do when watching pretty female broadcasters) and that the females will feel that they have made huge strides because there is a woman.

It is insulting to both men and women that McCain couldn't come up with a more intelligent, more talented and more qualified woman for the number two slot. But they are counting on the sheeple responding to the post-hypnotic suggestion "gays, guns and abortions" and not think. They are counting on the reptilian brain response, instead of logical thinking.

I'm not so sure they are wrong when I read the talking points being repeated by the trolls here.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower

McCain's ridiculous choice for V.P. proves HIS unsuitability for office. Besides being a petulant response to his advisors nixing Lieberman & Pawlenty, he chose her, I'm sure, mostly because he thought he'd look like such a stud with Cindy on one side and Sarah on the other. Hmmmboy, two pretty wimmen think he's swell--Let's all vote for him!! Good gravy. Next we'll choose our president by throwing all our names into a hat and see whose comes out. That way at least we'd be likely to get candidates with more experience than being the new governor of half a doz. people. But, with his choice, McCain locked up the hypocrite vote and has a firm grip on all three of Alaska's electoral votes. woohoo.
Now, let's all get on with the contest of which Republican gets the best photo op that pretends to show how they give a rat's patootie about displaced poor/black people. It's too bad that the hurricane will get the blame for their convention being a dud. I wanted credit where credit is due.

SARAH PALIN’S BIG LIE

An OB/GYN examines the Palin pregnancies

By Jennefer Russo, M.D.

First, let’s get one thing straight. I agree with Barack Obama that a politician’s family life should be off limits to the press and to criticism. But if that politician has put her children in the public eye and used them as an example of how American families should be modeled, I think she has permitted us to discuss them when they stray from her example.

Sarah Palin has stated in the past that she would oppose abortion for her daughter, even if she had been raped. A daunting statement, given that in her home state of Alaska the rate of rape is over twice the national average and the rate of child sexual abuse is six times the national average. Now her daughter is supposedly five months pregnant and going to “keep her child”, which I assume means that she is not going to give that child up for adoption.

Some statistics:
• By age 19, 70% of teens have engaged in sexual intercourse
• The annual pregnancy rate is approximately 8 percent among women aged 15 to 19
• Nearly a third of these pregnancies end in abortion, but almost 60 percent result in a live birth.
(Source: The Alan Guttmacher Institute, “Facts on American Teens’ Sexual and Reproductive Health”, 09/2006.)

Sarah Palin supports abstinence-only education, which has been demonstrated to be harmful to young people, depriving them of the information they need to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Per Planned Parenthood:
“The teen pregnancy rate in the United States is more than twice that of many European countries that advocate comprehensive sex education and accessible contraceptive services. Despite that grim reality, more and more money is allocated each year for irresponsible, misleading abstinence-only programs. The Bush Administration has been a vocal advocate of expanding abstinence-only programs, which teach that abstinence is the only acceptable behavior for adolescents, leaving out vital information that includes discussions on contraception, safe sex practices, sexual orientation and abortion. Though studies show more than half of teenagers between the ages of 15-19 are sexually active (Moore, Driscoll and Lindberg, A Statistical Portrait of Adolescent Sex, Contraception and Childbearing, 1998), more than $100 million is spent by the federal government in programs that censor information about safe-sex practices.”

Bristol Palin, the daughter of a woman who opposes abortion and sex education, is now the prime example of the result of these attitudes. A pregnant, unmarried 17-year-old who is likely still in high school is now going to be forced into motherhood as a result of the ignorance of her own mother. A girl who missed 8 months of high school last year because she had mono. Apparently the Palin’s have a high regard for education.

There is speculation that the new pregnancy may be a cover-up for Bristol’s previous delivery of Sarah Palin’s child, Trig, who was born in April. As an obstetrician/gynecologist, I would like to speak to those rumors. Sarah Palin’s story, and the media’s story, is that she delivered this child at 8 months after breaking her bag of water during a public event. The rumors state that Palin broke her bag of water, gave a speech a half-hour later, and then took a plane from Texas to Alaska to deliver the baby. This scenario is nearly impossible. Sarah Palin has had four previous babies. In my experience of delivering thousands of babies, I would predict that Sarah Palin would deliver within a couple of hours. She would likely have had rapid labor and delivered her baby during the speech or delivered the baby on the plane.

On the other hand, if her story is somehow true, it implies a total disregard to the life of her baby. Almost every woman, except for maybe one addicted to drugs, understands that she will soon deliver when her water breaks. When she has had four other babies, she understands the speed of her own labor. She would likely be starting to have contractions during that speech. If she had indeed not gone into labor, she could have developed a severe infection, or the baby’s umbilical cord could have prolapsed, leading to decreased oxygen flow to the baby. If she had delivered in the plane, she would have been delivering a premature baby with Down’s syndrome (which involves a higher risk of cardiac defects) without the assistance of emergency medical personnel. The baby therefore had a high risk of death, which Palin definitely would have known.

From my experience as an obstetrician, I have a very hard time believing this story. Either the story about her labor and delivery is a lie, or Sarah Palin is a dangerously negligent mother. So which is it? What are they up to? In saying that her daughter, Bristol, is now five months pregnant, they seem to be trying to cover up the parenthood of the previous child. There will be nothing to cover up when the baby is born “late” because her daughter is really only currently three months pregnant, unless they induce delivery of a premature infant to perpetuate the ruse.

This disaster should finally expose the doublespeak of the Republican political machine. Again, I would generally agree with Senator Obama that private life is off limits in political life. But not when the candidates presume to dictate American citizen’s personal life with their own beliefs. Then their hypocrisy is fair game.