[Jerry Glenn Hartwig]

But Donna, the cause and effect of your argument doesn't hold water. Racists aren't going to vote for Obama no matter what. They're going to vote for McCain because he's not black, and there's really no one else to vote for. He'd 'draw' them for no other reason than that, so the fact racists are going to vote for him doesn't make him a bad person or bad candidate.

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[Donna English]

You're right. I leaped before I looked because I was so damned riled up! I'm sick over it. Jerry you know the voter turn out in our country is horrible. If the election is decided (and it could actually happen) by previously non-voting racists who will come out to vote based on nothing else than to keep Obama out-- well--uuuggghhh perish the thought!

Donna

[Michael Cantor]

Jerry - since Donna brought it up, I'll follow through. Your constant *wink* and *grin* are as ineffective a tic as McCain's grimace. If you think these are showing up as one of those horrid emoticons - they're not (at least not on my server.) And if they're not intended to - if they're just shorthand for "I am being funny now, and this is not to be taken seriously" well, it is a poetry site, and you should try to convey all that without the need to be so painfully explicit *meaningful look of intense thoughtfulness*.

[Terese Coe]

Palin paying herself a per diem to stay home is hilarious!

"Why, lil ole me, I'm no more than an inoffensive stay-at-home Mom, darlin! EVeryone knows I wouldn't harm a gnat! As long as I get my per diem, I'll be home workin my lil fingers to the bone...You know I wouldn't want to get out there with all the fuss and bother of the big boys fightin and brawlin--might mess up my lipstick! To say nuthin of my coiffure. And it's worth it, you see, for them to pay me to stay home. Mr. and Mrs. McCain, to say nuthin of my new friend Karl Rove, like it that way..."

Meanwhile Obama says "A pig with lipstick is still a pig" right after the WaPo asks whether Palin has influenced to media to go easy....LOL.

And her "closest friends" look in that photo as if they were being grilled by the KGB. Out of four or five, only one of the friends said she would support Paylin.

What a payoff that was.

[Andrew Frisardi]

How about Steve Schmidt, the guy that's behind the Republican smokescreen? An Italian newspaper says, "If the electoral campaign were the Simpsons, Schmidt would be Bart. And he'd convince his neighbor Ned Flanders to vote the way he says he should vote."

Same ol' Republican cynics and plutocrats and war mongers dressed up as just plain folks. <A HREF="http://www.herobuilders.com/08.htm" TARGET=_blank>The superhero-mother dons her duds.
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[Robert J. Clawson]

Palin's rap sheet:
http://thinkprogress.org/palin-digest/#ethics

[Kevin Andrew Murphy]

Originally posted by Laura Heidy-Halberstein:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/09/mccain-and-palin-once-ag ain-play-barracuda/#more-17733

So, ok, it doesn't matter what anyone else wants, if Sarah Barracuda wants it, Sarah Barracuda gets it.

The McCain campaign says they paid the licensing fee - they got the song. It's theirs and they're playin' it.

The band's former guitarist says that's fine - he's donating the royalities to Obama's campaign.

Republicans being arrogant dicks. Wow, who'da thunk?

I stand by my comment of "ride roughshod."

Kevin

[Janice D. Soderling]

About Robert's posting on Palin's rap sheet.

Palin Said Mortage Giants Are ‘Too Expensive To The Taxpayers.’ Speaking in Colorado Springs, CO, Palin said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” The companies, however, aren’t taxpayer funded

They are now. The taxpayers just got the bill.

[Terese Coe]

From today's LA Times:

Less than a month ago, Palin sat in the pews at the Wasilla Bible Church, to which she and her family belong, and listened to a sermon by David Brickner, who heads Jews for Jesus, a group cited by the Anti-Defamation League for its "aggressive and deceptive" proselytizing of Jews. Brickner said that Arab terrorism against the state of Israel was an expression of God's judgment on the Jewish people for their rejection of Christ. After Brickner concluded his remarks, a special collection was taken up to support the sect's activities.

A spokesman for the McCain campaign said Palin does not agree with Brickner's views, but somehow it's the kind of question a candidate ought to be able to answer for herself. Voters might also like to know whether Palin supports, as does her church, an upcoming conference that promises to change gays and lesbians into heterosexuals through the power of prayer. That conference, by the way, is being put on by James Dobson's Focus on the Family, one of the national evangelical organizations that discovered a sudden enthusiasm for the GOP ticket when Palin joined.

The rest is at http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...7601200.column

[Terese Coe]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/opinion/10wed4.html