Things that make you go hmm....

So which is it Sarah? Are you expecting special treatment? You can't have it both ways!

Sarah Who?

All I can say is that the first executive decision McCain wanted to make was not his own. He wanted Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge but caved in to his "handlers". Whatever. Shows your mettle, John. Political pandering to women will not work. Thanks for thinking I'm that gullible. Maverick, my ass.

Sarah Palin is a woman who expects privacy for herself and her family, yet believes that other women shouldn't have that privacy, even after being violated and victimized by a rapist or incestuous pig. What's feministic about that?

Sarah Palin was FOR the "bridge to nowhere" before she was against it. She ran on it to gain her Mayoral position, then bailed out when the Feds weren't going to grant the earmark.

Speaking of earmarks, which McCain has been so outraged by, Ms Palin hired a law firm from Anchorage to help her gain the earmarks that she felt her little burg deserved...6.1 million dollars worth, only $800K less than the city of Boise, who has a population of 190,000. Hmmm, against earmarks and political corruption?

Reports the Chicago Tribune:
This year, Palin, who has been governor for nearly 22 months, defended earmarking as a vital part of the legislative system. "The federal budget, in its various manifestations, is incredibly important to us, and congressional earmarks are one aspect of this relationship," she wrote in a newspaper column.
In 2001, McCain's list of spending that had been approved without the normal budget scrutiny included a $500,000 earmark for a public transportation project in Wasilla. The Arizona senator targeted $1 million in a 2002 spending bill for an emergency communications center in town -- one that local law enforcement has said is redundant and creates confusion.
McCain also criticized $450,000 set aside for an agricultural processing facility in Wasilla that was requested during Palin's tenure as mayor and cleared Congress soon after she left office in 2002. The funding was provided to help direct locally grown produce to schools, prisons and other government institutions, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group.

So which is it? I'm so confused. This lady has gotten herself into more than she ever bargained for and frankly, her cracks are showing and I can't wait to hear her spout off about the Republicans and then have to debate everything she's said and done.

Why hasn't she allowed herself to be interviewed by the press? Why has she allowed her daughter to be put in this critical light and not expect discussion? Why did she want to secede from the Union as an Independent for Alaska, which is against the constitution of the US, and is what Abraham Lincoln sacrificed so much for? Why is she not scrutinized for rhetoric spoken in her church? Why is she forcing another tragedy on her daughter and this poor 18 year old kid, to further her political ambitions? Why has it not been revealed that baby Daddy is already the father of one? Why has she allowed herself to be involved with people like Ted Stevens, until it wasn't politically prudent?

Many, many, many questions have to be asked and if this woman chose to be vetted by the Press, then that's her problem, not the Media.

(Note: I love how they had Bristol covering her pregnancy with the brother, Trig. Were they really expecting people not to find out?)

The Hallelujah Chorus has broken out in sound and their song is "Joe Biden, Joe Biden, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu-u-ja-ah, YEAH!

I'm thrilled that Barack Obama has proven his intelligence and ability to make good decisions by choosing the man I believe to be the "Statesmen among Statesmen". He is the epitome of what a great politician can be...a real man of the people. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Hallelujah!

Tim Russert, my intellectual crush, has died and I'm devastated

My heart is absolutely broken. Even my husband knew about my crush on Tim. I love love love to talk about politics (much to the chagrin of many of my friends and family) and I could always count on Tim to fill that need. This was not a man of pretense, or ego. He was truth and honesty personified. I will miss him greatly.

Speaking of Hagee, here's a question for you Pastor

Hey Big Boy,

When did gluttoney become any less a sin than any other? Do the seven deadly sins apply less when you're Republican or a
"preacher"? Buddy, you need to practice a little more and preach a little less. I'm no McCainiac, but the best thing he ever did was drop you like a hot rock.

I get so tired of the barage of so called "Christian ideals" by the likes of this idiot and others, including people like Robertson and Msgr. Lisante on the right, and Wright and Father Flegar on the left. These people sure are opinionated about politics at the pulpits of their churches that reap the benefits of tax policies that save them millions of dollars a year. When did mocking political candidates become Christian? When did attacking people for their beliefs become American? What the hell is going on?! Aren't pastors and priests supposed to be above political rhetoric? This is really starting to become a circus of the sick and twisted.

Sincerely,

Another sinner

Sharon Stone is an asshole

"I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else," Stone said Thursday during a Cannes Film Festival red-carpet interview with Hong Kong's Cable Entertainment News. "And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?"

Wow, I didn't realize that Sharon Stone subscribed to the Robertson/Hagee School of Political Discourse? Is she serious? Was Hurricane Katrina a result of some bad karma? How about the tsunami in SE Asia, Sharon? What did they do? The poor villagers of Myanmar surely deserve their fate due to some cosmic shift, right? You're an asshole, Sharon Stone.

An open letter to Barack Obama about separate but equal

Dear Mr. Obama,

As a man of color, I'm sure you appreciate the idea that separate but equal, is neither equality nor justice. As the sister-in-law of a lesbian, I can tell you I share that same sentiment when it comes to the issue of gay marriage. I do have a problem with the heterosexual notion that we have some sort of Biblical entitlement to the word "marriage" but according to most Americans, marriage should be between one man and one woman. Okay, whatever. My proposal to you is this: Require all couples to seek out civil unions at their local courthouse. Easy as that. From the courthouses, they can move on to have their "marriages" in their houses of worship, parks, tents, wherever, and the government has finally separated themselves from the Church, in what I view to be a separation of Church and State issue. I have enjoyed a wonderful 20-year marriage with my husband, without the encumbrances of having to seek out and pay lawyers for the right to be at my husband's bedside if he's in the hospital, or the medical coverage afforded to us through marriage, etc, etc, etc. This is much more than a gay-straight issue, it's a humanity issue.

If people in America's past hadn't stood up for minority issues, where exactly do you think we'd be right now? I believe that as we remember the brilliant and ever-inspiring Dr. & Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. this week, we should also remember what he stood up for and died for...the right for all people to be respected and heard, and part of this great landscape we call America.