that for 3 freaking days tried to bury Sarah Palin. Are you people really that stupid or, do you just assume your base is that stupid? They're trying to save face, idiot. They got they're asses handed to them last night. A woman came down from Alaska last night and bitch slapped the holy hell out of them.

"When in danger, when in doubt...run in circles....scream and shout".
How the democrats plan to deal with the fact that the Republican VP selection has more executive exprience than their Presidential nominee

if George Bush came over to you and punched you in your wallet and then you, not being able to find George Bush, went over to Arnold Swarzenegger's House and blew it up, burnt it down to the ground with him in it then wouldnt leave. And when asked by Arnold, who's all crispy and limbless why you hadnt left yet, you said,"Dont worry, Im keeping out the Cheneys.".

Palin is a way of lowering the intellegence level of the arguement again. Just like -No Child Left Behind lowering the over-all intellegence of American students so they're more easily mis-lead by slogan loaded theocratical ideological advertising campaigns. No experience, and thats why they chose her. And its because saying Obama had no experience, was blown away by 2 years of solid campaigning in a trial by fire primary, and then him wrangling the world leaders on his last away trip on top of that which really worried the Republican brass. So their only other option was to go "Totally no experience all Heart-String Pulling BS". This way they can try to reafirm attacks they wish to make against Obama for so-called in-experience by saying we cant attack her for her in-experience, without having to admit Obama is somehow in-experienced in an equal way. It's flimsy.

Riggs Murtough--,"Thin"-"No shit thats thin"-"See through"-"I tell you what that's pretty fuckin thin right there"-"Anorexic"

The poor-Republicans-nursing on the nipple of the provisional teaching that does not permit all to attain supreme happiness-the goal of religion should be to become happy-to foster the growth and unlimited potential of all-the world is a complex place-we all know this-but there is one all important governing law-call it God, the Force, whatever-we all know deep in our hearts it exists-we comprimise our truest sense of purpose by acquiescing to something-"ominipotent" but as Nelson Mendala said: "It is not our darkness that we are most frigthened of it is our greatest potential to far exceed the realm of a "God" that we can be great unto our selves and each other-is the forgotten divinity-Sarah Palin is the emblem of a people lost-it is sad for them and us all-we must do whatever but embrace them-get out the vote-dialogue and pray however you can to see the divine in all sentinent beings-thats you all, folks! Thank you Thom Hartmann for an amazing show, an incredible voice (literally) and for asking the tough questions...let the Republicans take over again-it will suck but maybe we need to see the implosion...Also, in closing, War is the last abomination...the taking of human life...not an unborn life...but a life...living and breathing NOW...the taking of that life in an act of agression is the greatest degradation of our existence. Bringing about death, letting it occur is the utlimate misdeed...no politician, no king, no priest, no one can purport that it is ever justified-Peace is so much harder to acheive but this inner battle towards ones own human revolution is the imperative of the human spirit to create peace within ones own life to experience it without....No matter how you look at it...your environment is a reflection of you and your responsibility...take responsibility for a fair and just election...then whatever happens you can knwo you did your best!

--Why did Wasilla rarely received few any earmarks before Palin became mayor? She actively sought federal funds and hired a lobbyist with close ties to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who made funneling money to Alaska his hallmark.

Thom, thanks for all your good work. You may want to edit the paragraph from your blog posting above.

McCain Supporter: Wasn't enthusiastic about McCain, was still going to vote for him anyway. But after Sarah Palin last night, am still voting for McCain but now feel "energized" about it.

... Logic anyone ?

Story one-- people in the media with our best interests in mind are selflessly and nobly searching for truth by extended and deep inquiry into fundamental issues. However, they are incompetent or coincidentally inept, don't recognize that they are succumbing to illogical incongruent and almost incomprehensible talking points. They are liberal. They are main stream.
Story two-- rich and powerful people realized that they could maintain control and power by creating a media emeshed with business and government to reduce the public discourse to opinion and gossip and then control those thoughts with repitition, intimidation, ridicule, fallacies and false arguments. Black is white, white is black, and it is all "propaganda".

Why does it matter that we call it what it is? Because the labels we give things attach meaning. Americans believe in a fair fight. So lets say two candidates climb into a boxing ring, lets call them John and Barack. The bell rings, and Barack swings, but just as he does, the referee pulls out a bat and whacks him in the head. He staggers and the John kicks him in the groin. When Barack covers up, the referee takes the bat and cracks him in the knees. Every time Barack starts to swing the referee hits him with the bat, so that soon he is flinching.
Is the problem that Barack is not a good boxer who keeps missing and flinching, is the problem that the referee isn't doing a good job....
Or is this a mugging and until we stop calling the man with the bat a referee we won't stop it.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

As intriguing as is the dirt storm swirling around Sarah Palin, we must now realize that we are very foolish to waste time continuing to dig into it. Let’s not forget that she is not the one we will be voting to elect or defeat as president. Neither will we even be voting for or against John McCain as a personality. This election is about whether we will seize the moment to shake up the power structure that has wrecked this country and brought us to the brink of catastrophe in every imaginable way.

To vote Republican in this election is to vote for a continuation of the status quo. If you are satisfied with the way things have been going for the last eight years vote Republican. Things can only get worse.

The two names at the top of the ticket are just caricatures, figureheads, the tip of an iceberg. These two individuals, dressed anew and labeled as “tenacious mavericks,” “agents of change,” or whatever may seem to fit the moment and undercut the opposition, they only represent the deeply entrenched powers that be who have, in fact, dressed Palin and McCain in their proverbial sheep’s clothing.

However McCain & Palin are being packaged and sold to the voting public, they will owe their offices and their lives to shrewd and unscrupulous GOP powerbrokers and profiteers who have no intention taking any loss on their huge investments in the political power structure that they control.

We are not voting for personalities here. It’s not a matter of who you could imagine having a beer with. While some might have been chugging pints with Georgie boy in their dreams over the last eight years, look where the designated drivers in the GOP leadership have driven this country: to the brink of catastrophe. Is this the road we want to keep following? Are those backseat drivers, drunk with power, the ones we still want calling the shots?

The choice of Palin was clearly not John McCain’s. In his last ditch effort to win the position he’s felt entitled to for over ten years, a position that would complete his life story and secure his legacy for future generations, why would this seasoned politician take such a risk as choosing a polarizing figure he had only met once in his life.

With his about-faces on the issues that once may have once justified the “maverick” label, McCain has obviously sold his soul for a chance to satisfy a personal lust to sit in the Oval Office before he dies. Like G.W. Bush, McCain is nothing more than a willing puppet, dancing to the tune of those entrenched, unelected powers behind the scenes who have promised to fulfill his dreams of personal aggrandizement if he just plays along.

The awesomely shrewd GOP operatives were in no way unaware of all the scandals and the effect their choice could have on the campaign. Remember their “Shock and Awe” campaign? Sarah Palin was chosen to throw a new last-ditch shock wave that is achieving just the amount of awe that they intended.

With November 4th looming just eight weeks from today let’s not play into their calculated risk lest we succumb to this new wave of Shock and Awe that followed this wildly outrageous VP nominee they threw at us. It is just a ploy to divide and conquer their opposition and, sadly, it seems to be working.

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