As a lifelong Democrat, I found Gibson’s actions last night interviewing Sarah Palin totally deplorable, and your edit of the interview not much better.

The Bush doctrine has been defined in several ways since Charles Krauthammer first used in in 2001, and by your own journalists. It was a trick question. She gave the right answer the first time.

Exact words–nope. We saw the actual video.

Your edits–why keep the same Israel question 3 times–you asked, she answered. Trying to make her seem like she is being evasive, “were you,”you just came off as rude and so determined not to listen to a word she said that all you heard was yourself pontificating.

Combine that with tone, body language and facial expression, and I have never seen a worse performance from a supposed media professional.

Hats off to Palin for not uncrossing her legs and ‘accidentally’ kicking him!

I have given up on any hope of any rationality in this election and you should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Give us REAL issues, not what YOU or Gibson think they should be.  You may have won the ratings war, because people genuinely want to see what she has to say, but you have lost viewers!

According to the Blog MommyLife:

http://mommylife.net/

Oprah shuns Sarah Palin

“There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over.”

Oprah, who has endorsed Obama wholeheartedly, has hosted Obama twice — in January, 2005 and again in October, 2006.”

This is complete hypocrisy.

I lost my respect for Oprah when she publicly endorsed him before anyone even knew who he was and made him a media rock star. It is ironic that they are now scrambling to hog as much media air time as they can to make sure she does not get any airplay. Even more amusing is the fact that his own advisors have said they can’t let Sarah Palin ‘steal his story’ of humble origins to meteoric rise.

She has been on the national stage for 4 days. Obama for months. He never would have got where he did without Oprah and he knows it. So to have Sarah Palin on would be to risk undoing all the damage to the little darling.

As Sarah Palin said, this is a man who has written two memoirs, but never AUTHORED a single piece of important legislation.

As John McCain said, Obama is a person who is running for president because a-he wants to WIN; b-he thinks it is HIS time and place in history, not that he wants to govern and lead and serve this country. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Obama has proven he will say or do anything to get elected.

His supposedly magnificent speech was everying HILLARY CLINTON argued for when she was running, education, health care. In fact, she has spent her whole life working for those things. Not just paying lip service to them.

No, it is not enough to say that it just shows they are both Democrats. It shows that SHE was the one who would have been able to lead from day one.

Obama may well have 300 foreign policy advisors. Perhaps they flip, he flops? Or is he just cynically manipulating the American people to get what HE wants? He changes position so often watching him is like watching a tennis match.

Oprah said it was not about race, that she was not that small and petty. Well, honey, it sure seems like you ARE small now by not welcoming Sarah Palin on your show to tell her story. Or John McCain. Or Cindy McCain. Or Hillary Clinton.They are certainly a lot more interesting that Obama. Why? Because it is all about HIM. With H. Clinton, Palin and the two McCains, it is all about helping OTHERS.

You talk about giving back? How about just giving fairly?

I am appalled. This woman showed up at work 3 DAYS after giving birth to show she had no intention of neglecting her child, or hiding it away because it is less than perfect. Now we have men attacking her for supposed future neglect, or even for having the child in the first place?

Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s wife, went through the same issue shortly after he was elected Prime Minister of the UK; no one attacked her as irresponsible.  We know that more downs syndrome babies are born to older moms, but I know two women,  a 21 and a 23 year old, who both ended up in the same situation, so it DOES happen and indeed can happen to anyone.

As for neglect, who the hell is any man to talk?  If the child is sick and has to stay home from school, who usually does it. Who is generally earning 70% less wages than a man? Who is often the first to suggest abortion as a way to get rid of an unwanted ‘problem’?

She is a Christian who stuck to her principles. She didn’t ditch them just because it was easy. And she certainly has not neglected her son. Rumor mongering about her and her family is as low as anyone has gone here, and let’s just call it what it is , the same blatant SEXISM that pervaded the media and caused Hillary Clinton  to lose what was REALLY the historic bid here, the first woman to make a run for the White House.

Jesse Jackson ran for president 24 years ago. Old news, Obama. Sorry. Lyndon Johnson was the one who worked for civil rights legislation and had it put into effect in 1964, long before the ‘movement’. H  Clinton pointed that out, you screamed racism. It was acutally a simple fact.

Sarah Palin for VEEP. Old news, sorry, even if on a Republican ticket is a change.

But a woman for president? THAT is what has all these guys panicking,”John McCain is quite senior, will he last 4 years? THAT is what this is REALLY all about.

I don’t see anyone attacking Obama’s decision to sire 2 kids and potentially pass along any genetic health issues to THEM! Or attacking Palin’s husband for impregnating her! They are upset at her choice,”these are the very people who claim they stand for a woman’s right to choose. Hypocrites, the whole lot of them.

It is NO man’s place to criticise any woman for being a mother or even grandmother unless he can be sure he has 100% unimpeachable credentials as a father.  To paraphrase Obama, much as I disagree with him about most other things, any fool can impregnate a woman. It’s what the man is prepared to face by way of responsibility after that fact that makes him a father, or simply a sperm donor.

And attacking a teenager is pointless. Even if it WERE true, she would not be the first grannie who ever had to raise a child as their own. It is no one’s business except her family’s, and does not bear in any way upon her ability to do her job, since she has clearly been doing it effectively in Alaska, unlike Obama, who turned up for only 130 votes in 3 YEARS.

It is time to get this campaign out of the gutter. I am not and never have been a Republican, and never will be. But can we please stop talking about background nonsense and deal with real issues?

Alan Colmes has dared to attack Sarah Palin less than 48 hours after she was named McCain’s Veep choice. Article here. The basis of the attack? For supposedly not taking adequate pre-natal care. His post is about as low as anyone can go, and the fact that he is trying to defend it actually makes it that much worse.

Of the same ilk is the post claiming it is not her child at all, but her grandchild by her eldest teen daughter. Original article here.

It is about time this sick and depraved sexism stops. Dozens of other countries all over the world, England, India, Israel, Pakistan, Jamaica, have had women excutives, some DECADES ago. GET OVER IT, you American men.

And since we all know women can multitask better than men, they will probably do a damned sight better at the job.

You may have sidelined Hillary Clinton this time around, but she will be back, and Obama, in the meantime, is going to have to live up to an nearly impossible set of expectations, and disappoint anyone not already disillusioned by his huge about-faces (hypocrisy in order to get elected?) that everyone has already witnessed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080804/ap_on_el_pr/obama
What does this say about him that on the one hand he acts so smugly self-confident, and on the other he is literally doing or saying whatever he wants in order to get elected.

Obama’s new ‘proposal’ includes two significant reversals of positions he has taken in the past: He had steadfastly fought the idea of limited new offshore drilling and was against tapping the nation’s emergency oil stockpile to relieve pump prices that have stubbornly hovered around $4 a gallon.

Not only did Obama push for drawing from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, he also reiterated his changing position on offshore drilling “” first revealed last Friday “” suggesting that he could live with it if done in an environmentally sound way and as part of a bipartisan energy compromise.

Once the got the nomination, he completely changed his tune and while I would not go so far as to say not to vote for him, since anything has to be better than yet another Republican, just keep in mind we need to hold him accountable so we do not end up with an even worse president than Bush.

More on the Obama flip flopping
I agree with some of this article,

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/07/21/080721taco_talk_hertzberg
except for his last point.

I don’t expect a president to be so inflexible that he seems to be wearing cement overshoes, but I DO expect him to have a backbone!

Now it is him supporting the government’s surveillance bill despite the fact that he said he would oppose it.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/11/obama.netroots/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Every day we have more and more evidence of his inability to stick to any sort of policy or principle.

But best of all, rather than declarifying or even defending his position, he then attacks the conservatives on THEIR record, even though he is voting with them, and saying “No, you’ve misunderstood. You’re the ones who have got it all wrong.”

I hate to say it, but the Democratic Party got it all wrong. Instead of listening to the will of the people in Florida and Michigan, they abandoned their democratic principles and refused to give Hillary Clinton her full delegate count, which would have easily put her over the number of delegates required to secure the nomination.

How is this any different from what the Republicans did to Gore in 2000? And look at the price we have been paying for it ever since.

What price are we going to pay for riding roughshod over democratic principles once again, when here is a man who has not even got anywhere near the Presidency yet, and is doing more about-faces than a platoon of soldiers on drill.

Hillary, you should have taken it to the Party to decide because as anyone could have told you, his inexperience and hypocrisy and lack of brains compared with you are plain for all to see.

It is interesting that George Bush mentioned appeasement the other week in the context of what is going on in the Middle East.

The British tried to appease Hitler, and got completely overwhelmed-it gave Hitler that much more time to build up his technical superiority and then wage his phoney ‘defensive war.’

The British government knew of concentration camps as early as 1936, and did nothing. We KNOW this because British novelists at the time were writing about it and protesting it, and their books were suppressed and are only now coming back into print through women’s presses like Virago.

The American government was still trading with Nazis until 1943.

In fact, George Bush’s grandfather laundered money for Hitler’s chief finance minister. So forgive me if I don’t listen to his opinion about ‘appeasement’ when the word in this instance is ‘collaboration’.

These are all historical facts, not opinions.

So let’s look at the facts now.

We KNOW this administration has lied time and time again to justify the present war. We have had independent confirmation that there is NO nuclear weapons program in Iran. Therefore, there is nothing to appease.

The Iranian people themselves despise their leader and protest against him regularly. Iran is not the problem. Instability and scaremongering in an election year is the problem.

We cannot appease, but nor can we be hypocrites and violate the sovereign rights of other nations.

All the fighting in this war, and clearly throughout human history, rarely produces benefit. But this is a phony war–we were LIED to.

And no one dared speak out against it because they were afraid of their careers being shredded if they did, since anyone who dared was labelled ‘unpatriotic’ at the time.

Obama was not even in office then-it was all very well for him to claim he would not have voted in favor of the war, but he has funded it ever since.

And are politicians meant to represent their own views, or those of their constituents? Clearly WE are at fault if we are not sending a clear message to our leaders as to what should happen.

The fact that Obama is now doing an about-face on his 16 month timetable shows a-he was just saying what people wanted to hear; b-he is na’¯ve and inexperienced; C-he is a hypocrite; D-all of the above.

Do we really want him to be president?

After the initial media honeymoon was over, he has managed to stumble and look like a boob at every turn. He has contradicted himself so often, McCain doesn’t even have to attack him, he can just watch him self-destruct.

His reversal on his supposed Iraq policy is just one in a long line of about faces, or is it just that he is two-faced.

One thing is for sure, you might not have like the Clintons, but what you saw and what they stood for was what you got. She has fought for education, health care, equal opportunities, for three DECADES, not three years. She deserved to be the candidate, and she is now the only thing standing between Obama and defeat in November.

Ever since he ‘won’ the nomination (by which read that they refused to give her all the delegates she won in Michigan and Florida, so that he seemingly went over the required total first) have all the party swarmed around him? NO.

Have huge donations poured in? NO.

Great press coverage?

Meaningful debates with McCain?

A real drive for the White House with a powerful majority behind him?

NO. NO. NO.

He wil go down in history as the greatest president that never was if he does not get his act together.

And by the way, Mr. Media Darling,, since you STILL don’t seem to have learned your lesson yet, just remember, the higher up you climb, the further you fall.

And watching you land on your butt all the time sure makes for great headlines, doesn’t it?

I have to say that this article on Obama already getting ready to reverse his Iraq policy (such as it ever was!) with which he conned the American people
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_el_pr/obama_iraq

has really made me see red.

In The New Republic’s article earlier than the yahoo one, “The Flip-Flop Fallacy”

http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=19697b01-fe09-413f-b0e8-7d4c8cf0d098

it talks about how McCain has a good chance of winning because Obama is flopping around like a landed fish gasping for air.

Obama is the King of flip-flop on ‘policy’ and he isn’t even anywhere near getting to be president.

And perhaps is NOT cynical manipulation, as many of us suspect from this most smug and self-righteous of politicians.

But it most certainly IS evidence of his total inexperience, and his pronouncement onIraqa total betrayal of the people who believed him when he said he was for change and ending the war.

It makes it all the more reprehensible that he attacked Hillary for ever voting for the war (remember that we were ALL lied to at the time), AND it just shows that Bill Clinton was right–he WAS selling people a fairytale!!!

B. Clinton was painted the bad buy for doing no more than calling the guy’s bluff! What he was saying was nonsense, and now he is admitting it.

Obama then distracted everyone when he claimed that B. Clinton was racist, that he was saying an African-American could ever be president was a fairytale, and then he was on a roll in the primaries and seemed almost unstoppable.

Except that those of us who were paying attention and did not believe the rhetoric-he knew he was lying, and those of us savvy enough KNEW he knew he was lying!

About ALL of it.

It is just a pity that we are stuck with this media darling, made of smoke and mirrors, because he is a terrible Democratic candidate who undermines himself every time he opens his mouth and tries to talk about the issues, which he knows so little about.

Every public pronouncement reveals his hypocrisy, and ignorance. Don’t be fooled by the smoke and mirrors, and hey, anyone who thinks he does not NEED Hillary for VP is drinking the same Koolaid as the ones who helped him steal the nomination from Hillary (she should have been given ALL the delegates inFloridaandMichigan, in which case she would be the candidate!)

Look at the whole Pastor Wright fiasco-he told people that to disavow him was like expecting him to disown his WHITE grandmother–why not just say Grandmother and have done with it–who is the racist here?

By all means vote Democrat to end the current disasterous policies, but never be naive enough to think this guy will ever make good, or be able to make good, on his promises. And let’s look forward to the next Democratic primary season in 2011-12!! And get it RIGHT next time.

Obama has once again tried to convince people that all is rosy now that he is a presidential candidate. He is telling the American people we are going through short-term economic pain. And that another round of stimulus checks will solve it.

Dude, what ARE you smoking?

Cos the rest of us are looking at the real world:

Oil at over $140 a barrel and climbing, with production cut in Nigeria and now in Libya, food prices up over 10% just since the beginning of the year, so that it actually makes more sense to stock up on groceries than put cash in a savings account,  the stock market plunging hundreds of points every day last week.

Once again, you have proven you are out of touch with reality, and your smugness is detestable, because you are offering no real solutions to the millions of Americans you are trying to con.  And the more you feed people this bull, the less change will come about. We need an experienced politician with the ability to balance the books-you are right, we DO need the Clintons. FAST.

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