Free Sarah Palin! Let her speak!

live. unscripted. sans teleprompter. current world events. only.

that. will. never. be allowed. by. the. McCain. handlers.

Speaking of beehives…Cindy and Palin apparently have the same beehive-obsessed hairdresser on the campaign trail…

McCain missed years of our society while he was a POW. I think he has an urge to pick up his life before that, skip the rest of history, and make the 50’s and early 60’s current now. Talk about out of touch.

Leave it to Beaver…yeah, that about says it all.

Hi, Christy. My day was going along just fine until you mentioned Phyllis. The woman drives me crazy. Such a hypocrite. blegh Good wishes to you and family.

Have fun at the tea, Christy! Wish I could go, too.
I hoist a figurative cucumber sandwich in your honor.

FunnyD

Equal pay for women is good. It’s what feminists have done to it that’s the problem.

McPalin “family values” seem to be straight off the Mayflower.

Just like McPalin’s position on Title IX — or Laura Ingraham’s, I can never remember who wrote what for whom…

And, btw, the graphic for this just cracked me up…mweeee heeeee.

Oh that was K-Lo.

Adapted from “Leave it to Beaver”

Sarah Palin: Gee John, how come you know so much about buying cars?
John McCain: Well, Sarah, as unbelievable as it may seem they did have cars in my younger days.
Sarah Palin: Used cars?

Oh. Well, no wonder I didn’t remember…

Via TPM be skeptical of this bailout…I think we already are but is Congress:

http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13611

Added an update above — I’ll be on Rachel Maddow’s Air America Show this afternoon talking women, McCain and the economy. Just FYI…

http://corner.nationalreview.c…..JkYTA2Mzc=

Yeah, K-Lo sticks with me like a stomach flu.

Yeah, K-Lo sticks with me like a stomach flu.

Ouch! Can’t ya get like some antibiotics or penicillin or a shot of some type for that?

We have a fun book salon coming up at noon PT/3 pm ET, gang — Marcy’s hosting Bob Woodward on his new tome, The War Within. Ought to be some intriguing questions asked, to say the least…

What time?

Hi Christy, I love the revised mudflap art in the feministing.com banner.

So, who is the man that endowed Schafly with her weltanschauung*, since as a woman she clearly couldn’t have come up with it all by her little own self?

*ht to eCAHN

My Palin file to date:

1. Troopergate/ currently ducking a deposition under oath / at her direction 7 of her aides cancelled their depositions, her husband Todd has refused to obey a subpoena to testify, the state GOP is now trying to torpedo the investigation it helped start. The story now is that Palin did not fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan for refusing to fire state trooper Mike Wooten who was involved in a messy divorce with Palin’s sister but that Monegan had sought to go to Washington to seek funds to address Alaska’s severe problems with sexual violence and rape. Why Palin would be against this is unclear. However, state records show that Monegan’s trip had, in fact, been approved by the governor’s office
2. Replaced the guy she fired in troopergate with someone with a sexual harassment complaint who lasted 10 days
3. Todd’s Alaska Independence Party connections, and her own participation
4. Used a state site to promote mining interests over clean water.
5. Bridge to nowhere: being for it before she was against it
6. For earmarks before she was against them
7. Pumping money into a bankrupt Alaska dairy and then selling it off to cronies
8. Firing employees as mayor over loyalty issues
9. Asserting the right to ban books from the library and attempts to fire the librarian
10. Involved in the 527 for Ted Stevens
11. Her daughter’s pregnancy
12. Her own still dubious pregnancy/flying 3000 miles after her water broke
13. Her expensive ($25 million) screwup with building a rec center in Wasilla as mayor on land the city did not have clear title to
14. Anti-choice even for rape and incest
15. Anti-gay marriage
16. Pro-abstinence only (Tell that one to Bristol)
17. Pro-gun
18. Anti-environment: Spent $400,000 in 2007 to promote the aerial hunting of wolves and bears. Has fought designating polar bears as endangered due to diminishing sea ice from which they hunt.
19. Pro-drilling
20. Global warming denier
21. Creationist/wants it taught in schools
22. Thought the Pledge of Allegiance dates to the founding of the country (it was penned in 1892 and “under God” was added in 1954)
23. Thinks the End Times will occur in her lifetime
24. Attends a church with an anti-Semitic, anti-Islamic pastor
25. Charged the state nearly $17,000 in per diem travel expenses when she was living at home
26. Implied she sold the state plane on ebay but it, in fact, failed to sell there, and later elsewhere was sold at a loss
27. Charged the state to fly her daughter Willow to Juneau to tour the church where they worshipped when they were in town; charged the state for a $707 hotel room in New York for 3 days for daughter Bristol; charged the state for the family to watch the beginning of the Iditarod dog sled race and the Iron Dog snowmobile race which husband Todd won; in all her husband racked up $19,000 in state paid travel expenses, and her children Piper, 7, nearly $11,000, Willow, 14, around $6,000 and Bristol, 17, about $3,400
28. While mayor, Wasilla was the only city in Alaska which billed ($300-$1,200) rape victims and their insurance companies for rape kits and forensic examinations
29. Named Deborah Richter her campaign manager for governor to head a division which distributes dividends of Alaska’s oil royalties to its citizens. Richter had only one year of college and was a business partner of Palin in a land investment. Palin fired one of her aides John Bitney for having an affair with Richter during her (Richter’s) divorce
30. Thinks that Saddam Hussein worked with al Qaeda to attack America on 9/11
31. Favors Georgia’s admittance to NATO and military action against Russia if it crosses Georgia’s frontiers again
32. Appointed Franci Havemeister as Alaska’s Director of Agriculture whose primary qualifications were that she was a high school classmate of Palin’s and had had a childhood love of cows
33. Used a state database for political purposes by emailing 23,000 Alaskan business owners to lobby the Alaskan legislature in favor of reducing business license fees
34. Used a private Yahoo account to conduct state business; the account was subsequently hacked
35. Used the governor’s office to try to block a Workman’s Comp claim by her ex-brother-in-law Wooten by pressuring the company Harbor Adjustments which administers the program. Then awarded a continuation of the contract with Harbor Adjustments even though its bid was $1.5 million, $300,000 more than another competitor
36. Supports the Ledbetter decision which makes it extremely difficult for women to sue over pay discrimination

Obama holding press conference right now on financial bailout.

McCain holds his cue cards.

Well, that was rash… *g*

Rachel’s show starts at 6 pm ET — I’m not certain what time my segment will be on, but it was a little over a 15 minute back and forth between the two of us. :)

Can’t wait!

Just hoping it’s not contagious or anything like that…

I’m a worrywart. Mrs Palin is bringing home the Republik base, some of ‘our’ voters who supported Hillary are not ‘comfortable’ with Obama, the race is tightening when by all odds is should be widening. McCain is seizing the ‘outsider’ mantle and at least some voters are swalling it (beyond all belief). We simply don’t know what voters will do when they are afraid, and the current meltdown is making them afraid. We know that the ‘Bradley Effect’ probably means Obama has to have a 4 to 5 point lead in the battleground states to win there.

As to the nightmare scenario (other than a victory by McPalin): the meltdown worsens towards the end of October, and the election is ‘postponed’ because of a national emergency. The bail-out proposal essentially hands the dictatorship over to the Treasurer (and whoever stands behind him). Bernanke is a very smart guy, but he is out of his league in this one. He is playing with the heaviest behind-the-scenes political and economic hitters in the United States, if not the world. He’s an academic; he’s not a cipher by any means, but unless I am terribly mistaken, he cannot go head to head with these snakes.

Only Obama can at this point.

She’s the itch Blue Texan just can’t scratch enough. (ewwwww. Am stopping now. I think I just made myself sick…)

LOLOLOLOL!!!!

William Timmons Sr. represents the nexus between Johnny Mac and Freddie Mac.

Johnnie Mac’s transition team leader is in the pocket of Freddie Mac.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._0923.html

Generally, that big chunk of “undecideds” or “leanings” start making up their minds after debates. We’ll hopefully start seeing movement one way or the other at some point soon given the first presidential debate is coming up on Friday evening.

But Obama absolutely has to close the deal and, at least here in WV, he’s making progress but he isn’t there yet…

Christy,

Have you or David looked for any connection between Tony Alamo and Palin? I saw a report of an interview where he claimed that puberty equaled consent. Made me think of Palin right away. After all, they are both wacked out fundies and into survivalist stuff. I googled a little but didn’t find anything.

Sorry, this is a drive-by. BBL

Yeah, I reported on that on the 12th…Mr. Timmons has had his hands in both financial and energy pies, as well as deregulation ones, for decades — since at least the Nixon Administration.

I haven’t as yet, but I can’t speak for Dave — he’s been doing a lot of digging on those issues, I know!

Glad to see the story has legs. With the mortgage crisis on the front burner, hanging it around McCain’s neck is as good as it gets.

Anybody notice that the more Palin gets in the news, the less Cindy is standing with her man?

Also, he hasn’t worn an American flag pin in ages….

28. While mayor, Wasilla was the only city in Alaska which billed ($300-$1,200) rape victims and their insurance companies for rape kits and forensic examinations.

IIRC, Palin instituted this plan. The city had paid for rape kits prior to Palin’s mayoralship. Palin created the budget that cut that expense from city expenditures.

Do I have this right?

If BushCo sat on the bailout for months…
why must Congress act in hours.

Brakes on the bailout!

brb, gang — need to get some bread going in my bread machine before the Woodward book salon gets going…promised The Peanut we’d have a hot loaf for supper. (Who says you can’t try to save the world and fix a whole grain loaf of goodness for your family while being a liberal feminist? Take that Phyllis Schlafly. *G*)

President Bush:

“Our system of free enterprise rests on the conviction that the federal government should interfere in the marketplace…”

Sometimes it’s just plain fun to steal a sound bite and use it out of context, just like John McCain.

Here’s the entire quote:

President Bush:

“Our system of free enterprise rests on the conviction that the federal government should interfere in the marketplace only when necessary. Given the precarious state of today’s financial markets and their vital importance to the daily lives of the American people, government intervention is not only warranted, it is essential.”

Froomkin today is Fat Cats First. I wonder what he could be writing about? On the good side, he documents what looks like universal rejection of the Paulson plan. For those who listened to the some 5 hours of hearings today, Paulson persuasively made the case for why he shouldn’t be put in charge of 15 cents let alone $700 billion.

“Who says you can’t try to save the world and fix a whole grain loaf of goodness for your family while being a liberal feminist?”

PRICELESS!

Yeah, he wasn’t convincing. He has zero facts. You can see that he is very pressured about it and afraid that it won’t go into effect, but who knows where that fear is really coming from…

I did not get the impression that Congress bought his argument. It was like an accountant trying to make a case with no figures to cite.

I hope you got permission before baking that bread.

Special Book Salon upstairs hosted by emptywheel with Bob Woodward and The War Within

I’m going to have Mr. ReddHedd read that this evening. And then he will laugh…a LOT. *G*

I get the impression that they expected the con to fly through Congress over the weekend and that the Dems would go along to get along as Nancy usually insists. Good to see that emails and phone calls make a difference.

“We cannot have the taxpayers bail out AIG or anybody else.”

John McCain

Dood, that’s old news. Like, from last week.
Gotta check from hour to hour McShame’s stated position on any given issue…

FunnyD

That is one lucky Peanut you got there.

Ya know that point in movies where the good guys can finally relax after going through some sort of ordeal and then someone notices something creeping up behind them and says something like “hey guys you better look at this”

Ahem!

Hey Guys …

The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.

Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.

Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.

It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.

But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/…..d_090708w/

What do they know that they’re not telling us?

a friend living in turkey was feeling left out and decided to start a move to get people to donate to Planned Parenthood in Palin’s name..and have a card sent to the McCain HQ

This is a response from PP
TW : got my reply from PP today for my donation yesterday in honor of S Palin.
Cecile Richards, President
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
P.S. About the McCain-Palin ticket: I believe my late mother, Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas, would have said “women voting for this ticket is just like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.” Pass it on!

Lately, I have been sorely missing the voices of both Ann Richards and Molly Ivins. Oh what I would not give…

Looks like Sarah has Added Significantly to her foreigh policy credentials with her visit to the UN today.

Palin meets Karzai without usual reporters in tow

NEW YORK – Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has not held a press conference in nearly four weeks of campaigning, on Tuesday barred most pool reporters from her meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the first foreign head of state she has ever met.

Journalists protested the campaign’s decision to exclude all but photographers and a TV crew from Palin’s sessions with foreign leaders. CNN decided to withdraw its TV crew, effectively denying Palin the high visibility she sought for her initial foray into world affairs. The campaign then reversed course, saying pool reporters — a small group that provides information to all media — could attend the meetings planned after Karzai hosted Palin at his suite in The Barclay New York Hotel.

I guess it’s a feather in FDL’s cap to get Woodward, but I think I’ll pass.

I’ll just say I find it hard to believe this is the same guy that helped expose Watergate.

Jed’s got today’s Obama statement posted about the Wall Street Welfare Initiative and his version to protect taxpayer and homeowners.

Given how critical we’ve been of a lot of his recent reporting — especially during the Libby investigation — it’s a miracle he consented to come on and answer any questions. But we thought since so much of the media blitz for this book has involved surface issues, and not a lot of in-depth questioning from other reporters, we’d give all of you a shot at asking him what you really want to know. *G* Because I know there are a lot of folks with a LOT of questions…

We need to grow this government!”

John McCain

Free Sarah Palin! Let her speak!

What a good bumper sticker!!