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Really seems like a waste of time when Dan Rather stands ready to "produce" any kind of document to state whatever you want.
Be nice to Dan. It was a mistake and he said he was sorry.
Really seems like a waste of time when Dan Rather stands ready to "produce" any kind of document to state whatever you want.
what has she done as governor that leads you to believe that she's had adequate preparation for the presidency?
People cannot keep saying "mayor of a town of 9000" and ignore what she has done as Governor.
Do you really want to compare the accomplishments of the Governor and the community organizer?
Oh, sweet, sweet hypocrisy....
Oh sweet, sweet hypocrisy...
Seriously. I hadn't caught that before because those two lines weren't right next to each other like that. Good catch.
Really seems like a waste of time when Dan Rather stands ready to "produce" any kind of document to state whatever you want.
I don't think the mayor of Orange is ready to be VP. And Orange is bigger than Wasilla.
To be fair, Palin is the state governor now.
Though I don't think The Governator is ready to be president, either.
To be fair, Palin is the state governor now.
Though I don't think The Governator is ready to be president, either.
I think she has done more in her time than the last several guys we had in Sacramento. Our state is so screwed up. Arnold, Dave, Pete Wilson, Jerry Brown, Reps, Dems, it doesn't seem to matter who we have. Maybe we should have elected Gary Coleman or Mary Carey. Could we be any worse off?
For 20 months, in a state with a population under one million. I think the governor of California, a state with a population of 35 million, even after 20 months, would be better qualified.
I don't think the mayor of Orange is ready to be VP. And Orange is bigger than Wasilla.
Do you really want to compare the accomplishments of the Governor and the community organizer?
First, she took on the corrupt leadership in Alaska and won.
Under her leadership, Alaska invested $5 billion in state savings, overhauled education funding, and implemented the Senior Benefits Program that provides support for low-income older Alaskans. She created Alaska’s Petroleum Systems Integrity Office to provide oversight and maintenance of oil and gas equipment, facilities and infrastructure, and the Climate Change Subcabinet to prepare a climate change strategy for Alaska.
AL GORE WOULD BE PROUD, A REPUBLICAN ADDRESSING THE ENVIORNMENT
During her first legislative session, Governor Palin’s administration passed two major pieces of legislation - an overhaul of the state’s ethics laws and a competitive process to construct a gas pipeline.
2 IN HER 1st SESSION. WHAT HAS OBAMA DONE IN 4 YEARS?
Governor Palin is chair of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, a multi-state government agency that promotes the conservation and efficient recovery of domestic oil and natural gas resources while protecting health, safety and the environment. She was recently named chair of the National Governors Association (NGA) Natural Resources Committee, which is charged with pursuing legislation to ensure state needs are considered as federal policy is formulated in the areas of agriculture, energy, environmental protection and natural resource management. Prior to being named to this position, she served as co-chair of this committee.
Prior to her election as governor, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council and two terms as the mayor/manager of Wasilla. During her tenure, she reduced property tax levels while increasing services and made Wasilla a business friendly environment, drawing in new industry.
She has served as chair of the Alaska Conservation Commission, which regulates Alaska’s most valuable non-renewable resources: oil and gas. She was elected by her peers to serve as president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. In this role, she worked with local, state and federal officials to promote solutions to the needs of Alaska’s communities.
I think that is a pretty good record by any standard
By the way...on the Bridge to Nowhere.....you might find it interesting that Governor Palin was praised on the DEMOCRATIC web site in Alaska for her efforts killing the project.
By the way...on the Bridge to Nowhere.....you might find it interesting that Governor Palin was praised on the DEMOCRATIC web site in Alaska for her efforts killing the project.
She killed the project once Alaska had to pay for all of it by themselves. Very courageous!
Question: There are three major bridge and road projects greenlighted by the Murkowski administration the Knik Arm Bridge, the Gravina Island Bridge, and the Juneau Access Project. Now, odds are that after the whole "Bridge to Nowhere" label by the national press and their cronies, there'll be no more federal money coming. So my question for you is which of these projects do you support, and is this the best use of current federal transportation dollars and future state transportation dollars? We'll begin with Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin: You know, I support these infrastructure projects, and will build Alaskans, it's cheaper to do today than it is tomorrow. And I support our congressional delegations, they work very hard strong efforts with the delegation strength that they have today in their positions, especially Don Young and his position on transportation making sure that Alaska and her cities with TEALU[*] funds and other funding sources the ability to start making progress on these projects. I won't stand in the way of that progress.
JUNEAU, Alaska — Some called it a bridge to the future. Others called it the bridge to nowhere.
The bridge is going nowhere.
On Friday, the state of Alaska officially abandoned the controversial project in Ketchikan that became a national symbol of federal pork-barrel spending.
. . .
Palin said without federal funding, the state cannot afford a bridge, so the best option would be to upgrade the current ferry system.
“Despite the work of our congressional delegation, we are about $329 million short of full funding for the bridge project, and it’s clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island,” Governor Palin added.
Palin's speech at the RNC said:I suspended the state fuel tax, and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress.
I told the Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for that Bridge to Nowhere.
If our state wanted a bridge, we'd build it ourselves.
Straining to show new dedication to lower spending, House and Senate negotiators took the rare step of eliminating a requirement that $442 million be spent to build the two bridges, spans that became cemented in the national consciousness as "bridges to nowhere" because of the remote territory and small populations involved.
I was interested to pursue Palin's lie about the Bridge to Nowhere a little closer
I was interested to pursue Palin's lie about the Bridge to Nowhere a little closer:
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I might be concerned about staying on the Bridge
you do know where it leads?
that's the Sarah Palin brand of can-do, no-excuses, moose-hunting feminism -- a world away from the whining, sniping, wearily ironic mode of the establishment feminism represented by Gloria Steinem, a Hillary Clinton supporter whose shameless Democratic partisanship over the past four decades has severely limited American feminism and not allowed it to become the big tent it can and should be. Sarah Palin, if her reputation survives the punishing next two months, may be breaking down those barriers. Feminism, which should be about equal rights and equal opportunity, should not be a closed club requiring an ideological litmus test for membership.
The witch-trial hysteria of the past two incendiary weeks unfortunately reveals a disturbing trend in the Democratic Party, which has worsened over the past decade. Democrats are quick to attack the religiosity of Republicans, but Democratic ideology itself seems to have become a secular substitute religion. Since when did Democrats become so judgmental and intolerant? Conservatives are demonized, with the universe polarized into a Manichaean battle of us versus them, good versus evil. Democrats are clinging to pat group opinions as if they were inflexible moral absolutes. The party is in peril if it cannot observe and listen and adapt to changing social circumstances.
Oh the irony.Newsweek, March 2008
NEWSWEEK: Sarah Palin, you are a Republican and a conservative one at that. It's unlikely that you and Hillary would agree on too many issues. But, yet, as a woman, chief executive—someone who's been through the grinder—when you look at the coverage and you listen to the conversations, what do you see?
SARAH PALIN: Fair or unfair—and I do think that it's a more concentrated criticism that Hillary gets on so many fronts; I think that's unfortunate. But fair or unfair, I think she does herself a disservice to even mention it, really. You have to plow through that and know what you're getting into. I say this with all due respect to Hillary Clinton and to her experience and to her passion for changing the status quo. But when I hear a statement like that coming from a women candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or a sharper microscope put on her, I think, man, that doesn't do us any good. Women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country, I don't think it bodes well for her, a statement like that. Because, again, fair or not fair it is there. I think it's reality and it's a given, people just accept that she's going to be under a sharper microscope. So be it. Work harder, prove to yourself to an even greater degree that you're capable, that you're going to be the best candidate. That's what she wants us to believe at this point. So it bothers me a little bit to hear her bring that attention to herself on that level.
ABC News, Sept. 3
Prospective first lady Cindy McCain tells ABC News' "Good Morning America" she "absolutely" believes sexism is behind critical coverage of her husband's vice presidential pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- even though Palin months ago slammed Hillary Clinton's "perceived whine" in making similar complaints during the Democratic primary.
..."I think it's insulting," McCain told Sawyer. "I think it's outlandish. And for whatever reason, the media has decided to treat her differently, because, I believe, because she's a woman."
While McCain believes sexism has fueled much of the criticism against Palin, she didn't disagree with conservative commentator and radio host Rush Limbaugh's assertion of the governor. "We're the ones with a babe on the ticket," Limbaugh said.
"She is. She's lovely. I think she's beautiful," McCain said in response to the comment.
Washington Post, Sept. 3
In a "hear me roar"-style press conference, a parade of elected officials and GOP operatives issued a lengthy defense of the Alaska governor's credentials, and former Massachusetts governor Jane Swift said Palin has been the target of "an outrageous smear campaign...She has taken on the corrupt special interests in Washington and Alaska. She has stood up for families and made a difference," Swift said. "She is more prepared than Barack Obama to be the president of the United States. ... The Republican Party will not stand by while Sarah Palin is subjected to sexist attacks."
...Palin's allies were less pleased with the questions they got from the assembled crowd, though they continued to defend their candidate. When asked whether it was sexist for both Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and McCain campaign manager Rick Davis to suggest Palin would be able to handle foreign policy matters by leaning heavily on McCain's staff, Republican National Committee Victory 2008 chair Carly Fiorina did not answer the question. Instead, she continued to decry the attacks against the governor and questioned why Obama hasn't been questioned more about how he "has relied heavily on his campaign staff for foreign policy advice."
Newsweek, Sept. 2
RNC Victory Chair and Senior McCain Adviser Carly Fiorina: “I am appalled by the Obama campaign’s attempts to belittle Gov. Sarah Palin’s experience. The facts are that Sarah Palin has made more executive decisions as a mayor and governor than Barack Obama has made in his life. Because of Hillary Clinton’s historic run for the presidency and the treatment she received, American women are more highly tuned than ever to recognize and decry sexism in all its forms. They will not tolerate sexist treatment of Governor Palin.”
The McCain campaign also e-mailed reporters a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled "Ignore the Chauvinists. Palin Has Real Experience" earlier this afternoon.
Washington Post, Sept. 10
Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday that Sen. John McCain's claim that he will shake up Washington after agreeing with President Bush for so long is like "putting lipstick on a pig" -- a common colloquialism that Obama has used for years, and one that even some Republicans have been known to say. But to the McCain campaign, it was an example of unbridled sexism clearly aimed at Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
"Senator Obama uttered what I can only describe to be disgusting comments, comparing our vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, to a pig," former Massachusetts governor Jane Swift declared in a conference call with reporters.
Obama uttered the phrase in the midst of ridiculing the Republican nominee's commitment to change. "John McCain says he's about change, too," Obama said in an appearance here, leading into a string of ways he contends McCain represents more of the same -- on economic policy, taxes, education, foreign policy, campaign tactics. "That's not change. That's just calling something that's the same thing something different. You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig," Obama went on, and the crowd erupted in cheers.
Swift, the newly designated chair of the "Palin Truth Squad," demanded that Obama apologize. She said Obama must have been talking about Palin because she is the only one of the four candidates who wears lipstick, and she called the remark an obvious reference to Palin's joke in her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last week that the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is lipstick.
Boston Globe, Sept. 9
Biden was asked by a local television reporter in Milwaukee on Monday what Palin, the surprise GOP vice presidential pick who is energizing the party base, means for women. "Well look, I think the issue is what does Sarah Palin think? What does she believe?’ I assume she thinks and agrees with the same policies that George Bush and John McCain think,’ Biden replied. ‘And that's obviously a backward step for women."
This afternoon, the Republican National Committee all but accused Biden of sexism. “One would’ve thought that comments like the one Joe Biden made about Governor Palin today were reserved for the back halls of the old boys club, but apparently flagging poll numbers have brought this brand of offensive attacks to the forefront," Blair Latoff, a RNC spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Boston Globe, Sept. 8
Palin, the Alaska governor who was selected more than a week ago to be Senator John McCain's running mate, has yet to make an unscripted public appearance. Instead, she has used her public events to deliver speeches, not to answer questions directly from voters or reporters.
...Palin will start doing interviews "within the next few days," McCain said on CBS's "Face the Nation." A McCain aide said Palin will be interviewed in Alaska by Charles Gibson of ABC News over two days, most likely Thursday and Friday, the Associated Press reported. "She's not scared to answer questions," McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said on Fox News Sunday. "But you know what? We run our campaign, not the news media. And we'll do things on our timetable...So until at which point in time we feel like the news media is going to treat her with some level of respect and deference, I think it would be foolhardy to put her out into that kind of environment."
So is this that "can-do, no-excuses, moose-hunting feminism" that's "a world away from the whining, sniping" variety Paglia speaks of? Is this what Palin's "not doing yourself a disservice by even mentioning it, just accepting that you're going to be under a sharper microscope, and working that much harder to prove to an even greater degree that you're capable" looks like?Associated Press, Sept. 9
More than 40 million people tuned in last week to listen to the speech from Palin, the 44-year-old, first-term governor whom McCain announced as his surprise vice presidential pick just days before. Since then, that basic script is all anyone has heard from her publicly, and her only interaction with the media was a brief conversation with a small group of reporters on her plane Monday — off the record at her handlers' insistence. Associated Press reporters were not on the plane, but an aide told the journalists on board that all Palin flights would be off the record unless the media were told otherwise. At least one reporter objected. Two people on the flight said the Palins greeted the media and they chatted about who had been to Alaska, but little else was said.
By comparison, her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, has been campaigning on his own, at times taking questions from audiences. He split off to campaign separately from Barack Obama the day after Obama announced his selection. They reunited at their party's convention and spent the following weekend campaigning together. Biden's appearances have touched on a range of issues — in Florida he talked about U.S. support for Israel, in Pennsylvania it was economics and tax policy. He was interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press" last Sunday.
...So far, Palin has barely spoken with voters either. Since the convention, she and McCain have breezed through a Wisconsin ice cream shop, a New Mexico restaurant and a Missouri barbecue place, shaking hands with diners but not taking any questions. Photographers and television cameras have been allowed full view while reporters are typically kept too far away to ask questions or hear most of the conversations. Her public remarks essentially have been excerpts of her convention speech, delivered while introducing McCain at rallies.
Yep, that's vintage Paglia all right.Palin has made the biggest step forward in feminism since Madonna channeled the dominatrix persona of high-glam Marlene Dietrich and rammed pro-sex, pro-beauty feminism down the throats of the prissy, victim-mongering, philistine feminist establishment.
Yep, that's vintage Paglia all right.
Feminism, which should be about equal rights and equal opportunity, should not be a closed club requiring an ideological litmus test for membership.
Sadly, that is the case. Feminism only wants women to succeed if they're liberal. End of story. If you're a conservative, you can't be a feminist because you're "a step backwards" or "extreme." You're only allowed to excel and gain high office and balance work and family if you're a liberal and pro-abortion. It's terribly sad.