“The Palin administration won’t release hundreds of emails from her office, claiming they cover confidential policy matters. Then why do the subject lines refer to a political foe, a journalist, and non-policy topics?” (09/07/08)

http://tinyurl.com/5toppl

Republicans: Osama sounds a lot like Obama. Do you want your granddaughter dating a darkie? Look into Sarah Palin’s eyes. McCain is a war hero, like Bob Dole. You can’t spell BIn-laDEN without Biden. Obama-Biden/Osama-BinLaden. You are getting sleepy.
Look into Sarah Palin’s eyes.

You are correct in everything you say in 81.

I just still see the economy and the war trumping all that, but yeah, if anyone can fuck this situation up, it’s the Democratic party “leadership.”

They could lose money at the track in a one-horse race.

True. If they manage to fuck this one up, it will be the mother of all fuckups.

The Democrats generally win national elections when the Republicans have mucked things up in such a cartoonishly absurd way that the Dems win by default. In these cases, the Dems don’t even have to offer much of an alternative. They just have to be “the other guy”. See: 2006.

However, they’ve been completely worthless on scaling back executive power, ending the war and fighting government corruption, as they implied they would two years ago, and as such, are actually less popular now than Cheney was when he shot his lawyer friend in the face.

Add that with Obama’s drift to the right, his votes on FISA and assorted flip flops, his standard vanilla Dem campaign and choice of status quo Biden as VP, I’m starting to feel for the first time that Obama is going to lose this thing. And it’s all going to be his fault.

And through their patented bullshit/spin prowess, the GOP is actually positioning themselves as the opposition party. Nevermind that they’ve had the White House for the past two terms.

I would eat broken glass before I’d vote for Obama, but come on!

These guys can lose an election when every possible advantage is theirs.

I honestly hope I’m wrong. Not because I want Obama to be president, but because the Democratic Party has EARNED him. After all their lesser evil crap and the disgusting tricks they pulled on Nader in 2004, they deserve to get exactly what they’re asking for.

And get it hard.

I want them to see Obama change absolutely nothing.

After seven years of their arrogance, sense of entitlement to my vote and their dismissiveness to progressive voters and voters that value civil liberties, they need to get their Messianic golden boy and see how empty he really is.

“If you think Gov. Palin’s addition to the McCain ticket will make a
big difference in the election, dream on. The evidence is overwhelming
that pocketbook economic issues — inflation and jobs — is the key
factor in determining the next president. The famous Misery Index
(unemployment rate + CPI inflation index) is at the highest level
since the first Bush lost his bid for reelection in 1992. Right now,
according to the Iowa Electronic Market, a futures market in politics,
Obama has consistently led McCain, and is most likely to win in
November with 53% of the vote. The IEM is also predicting that the
Democrats will maintain control of both houses of
Congress.” (09/08/08)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28419

WithPalin, McKain Weds the Worst of America’s Past
Posted by John Rensenbrink on 09/08/08

Palin an albatross for McKain?

McKain and his “smart” crowd have crowded out a failed sitting president. In trying to turn a new leaf, they seek to co-opt the Obama litany of change. On the other hand, with the governor of Alaska in their attack pack, they are stuck with something really “old”, an out-of-date right-wing factional extremist on “social” issues. I don’t think the Independent vote can stomach that crap—the Independent vote will decide this election.

If the Democrats have any brains left, or real courage, they will take Palin to the cleaners for her identification with a reactive and narrow faction representing the worst features of America’s past. They have a great opportunity to blunt and make nonsense of McKain’s in-authentic appeal to “change”. It’s something he clearly cannot claim with Palin on his team. With Palin he’s turning the clock back. But do the Dems have the intelligence, savoir faire, and courage—and just plain common sense honesty to make that argument and make it stick? I doubt it. They will as usual temporize, temporize, temporize on this and on foreign policy as well. And they will lose the election.

John Rensenbrink

I consider Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and North Dakota to be amongst the freest.

Q: If Alaska became independent, would U.S. military bases leave?

A: The strategic location of Alaska would indicate that it would serve U.S. interests to maintain a presence in Alaska. The military are good neighbors. There would be no compelling reason for the military to leave Alaska.

Sadly, I still don’t know of a better (i.e. less evil) state.

Same could be said for any state. What if I told you that the only state to be listed in the top 10 economies of the world, which subsidizes the U.S. government for almost 10 billion a year, is the largest agricultural producer, has the 6th most burdensome tax code in the US with exemptions, was not Alaska?

More and more, it is looking like the only answer to dissolve this unholy union is to start within our own states and work from there.

She should be running for President..of Alaska.

1. any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire.
2. a philosophaster.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/philosophe

And “philophaster”

a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/philosophaster

Neither definition fit what I was trying to convey. The context I have seen the word “philosophe” in made it sound like a “philosophe” was a deep thinker, but not necessarily a philosopher. Jefferson, it was said, was a “philosophe.”

There, now we’ve both learned something!