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Perhaps in a story that should be nominated for a news of the strange column, we learn that Dick Cheney will be wheelchair bound for the inauguration after pulling a muscle moving boxes . Of course it's believable that Dick Cheney was moving boxes since I'm sure he didn't hire any movers. But it's also more plausible that he was standing over the shredder as another commenter noted. I haven't found too many bloggers or innocent observers who have been too sympathetic towards old Dick.
I'm wondering if anyone throws shoes at Cheney tomorrow. Just a bizarre thought that I had. Okay I guess that I'm sick.
I'm leaving for holiday on a jet plane in a couple hours. So this might be my first and last post till late tonight. I'll be in California for a week and no I'm not billing the State of Alaska.
Speaking of that issue, do you think that Bristol and what's his name were on State Time when they--- never mind I won't go there.
That luxury hotel in New York, I betcha she could see the U.N. from her hotel window.
Anyways, I'll let your imagination run wild on this one. But had the tables been reversed, I reckon it would have been a little different spin.
Not much else to report right now because I'm getting yelled at by my wife to come eat so we can head to the air o port.
Over the weekend Sarah smeared Barack Obama and misquoted Madeline Albright. So you say that's not uncommon in politics at this level although you hope that our candidates would be more dignified.
I'm certainly troubled with the content of Palin's remarks. However, what worries me more is her deliberate attempt to insult all of our intelligence.
Does she really think we are dumb enough to bite on equating Barack's loose association with Bill Ayers as "palling around with terrorists?" Look, Barack was a kid when Ayers involved himself with Weather Underground. Furthermore, Barack never made Ayers a member of the kitchen cabinet like a Phil Grahm.
"Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."
This comes on the news that I just received that Palin has associated Barack with terrorists. The McCain camp announced they are going to go increasingly negative over the next 30 days.
Several other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic, have debunked the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.
But I guess you wouldn't do that if you don't read any newspapers or publications other than the John Birch Society newsletter.
"We're going to get a little tougher," a senior Republican operative said, requesting anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss strategy. "We've got to question this guy's associations. Very soon. There's no question that we have to change the subject here."
Well what's good for the goose is good for the gander. I'm sure that Palin wants us going after every associate she has had in her entire life. But better yet , let's just keep this focus on the economy and how John McCain or Sarah Palin know nothing about how it works.
I know I don't have to ask anyone who is reading this what they think about these comments. I'm sure you will tell me.
If you have a spare dime brothers and sisters, donate tonight because it's about to get nasty.
I just got an email from a friend with a link to a PBS Now Poll that currently has 51 percent of people participating in the poll find Palin to be qualified to be Vice President. 48 percent do not find her to be qualified.
My friend made a good point that we do not know how this info will be used. Certainly we will not be helped by any public polls showing Palin to be qualified enough to be VP. We do have the opportunity to vote in this poll open to the public and express our opinion.
PBS fans would not be an audience that I would expect to find Palin qualified to be Vice President. Now, this is one of those polls where you can vote early and often so perhaps some Republicans have skewered the results.
I just got an email from a friend with a link to a PBS Now Poll that currently has 51 percent of people participating in the poll find Palin to be qualified to be Vice President. 48 percent do not find her to be qualified.
My friend made a good point that we do not know how this info will be used. Certainly we will not be helped by any public polls showing Palin to be qualified enough to be VP. We do have the opportunity to vote in this poll open to the public and express our opinion.
PBS readers would not be an audience that I would expect to find Palin qualified to be Vice President.
Cheney was a last-minute substitution as the guest speaker for the event. President Bush had been scheduled to make the visit but canceled late Wednesday night to stay in Washington to work on the growing national economic crisis.
People made $1,000 donations to attend the event and $10,000 donations to have their pictures made with the vice president.
I would like to see an itinerary of George's day yesterday. We think the taxpayers are entitled to know what he did to "work on the economy" yesterday.
George W. stays in Washington to work on the economy after the collapse. What was he helping his CEO buddies from Wall Street strap on their golden parachutes?
Kind of like reading "My Pet Goat" on September 11, 2001. I hope he at least read Green Eggs and Ham to some kids. That was my favorite Dr. Seuss book as a kid. I think they had George W.'s last little league t-ball game on the lawn a few weeks ago.
Well at least the folks in Huntsville weren't too disappointed. Bush got to talk to everyone via telephone.
Say you are scared. Say you are really scared. Say you are really really scared.
I'm glad I didn't have to wear a straight jacket while watching this nonsense. This would have been laughed at had it been an answer to a Beauty Pageant question.
The Palin/McCain campaign (and yes Palin before McCain because that's essentially what the campaign was last week) will keep Palin away from media interviews for approximately another two weeks.
From GOP Strategist Tony Harrs - here's an excerpt, but also watch the clip
"The Press is going to be pounding her and the campaign wanting to know where access is. There will be a lot of noise that voters don't really care about... It's a smart move by the campaign...."
Harris says she needs to learn about McCain's record.
Are you kidding me?
Just another reason Sarah pales in experience to Joe Biden. I can understand Alaska does not have a major media market. But this logic does not make any sense. Let's just leave it at that.
According to a biography - "Sarah" by Kaylene Johnson - Palin and three friends went to the University of Hawaii at Hilo after graduation from high school in Alaska in 1982. But they left after a few weeks because of the constant rain there, the book said.
The registrar at Hawaii-Hilo has no record that she ever enrolled, school officials said Thursday.
Palin, then known as Sarah Louise Heath, and a friend then traveled to Honolulu and enrolled at Hawaii Pacific University, a private, nonsectarian school. She attended only as a freshman during the fall of 1982, school spokeswoman Crystale Lopez said.
She was in the business administration program as a full-time student, Lopez said Thursday.
"We're trying to track down someone who knew her," Lopez added.
From Hawaii Pacific, Palin transferred to North Idaho College, a two-year school in Coeur d'Alene, about 30 miles east of Spokane. She attended the college as a general studies major for two semesters, in spring 1983 and fall 1983, spokeswoman Stacy Hudson said.
"We were not able to track down club affiliations or anything," Hudson said.
The school identified one of her professors but he did not remember her, Hudson said.
Prior to her selection by McCain, the North Idaho College Alumni Association notified Palin in June she would be the recipient of its 2008-2009 Distinguished Alumni of the Year Award.
From North Idaho College, Palin transferred 70 miles south to the University of Idaho, the state's flagship institution. She majored in journalism with an emphasis in broadcast news. She attended Idaho, whose mascot is the Vandals, from fall 1984 to spring 1985.
She then returned to Alaska to attend Matanuska-Susitna College in Palmer in fall 1985.
Then she returned to Idaho, for spring 1986, fall 1986 and spring 1987, when she graduated. Despite her journalism degree, she does not appear to have worked for the college newspaper or campus television station, school officials said. She worked briefly as a sportscaster for KTUU in Anchorage after she graduated college.
The McCain campaign did not have an immediate comment on Palin's higher education record.
Palin's biography on her Alaska governor's website indicates only that she graduated from Idaho in 1987.
The story doesn't end there. Apparently Palin didn't list all of her schools in some bio information
A recent profile of her in the school's alumni magazine, before her selection to run on the GOP ticket, listed only Hawaii Pacific, North Idaho and Idaho as schools she attended. She also explained in the profile that her curiosity and love of writing made journalism a natural choice.
While there may or may not be something there, it is kind of wild that she transfered so many times. We do need to find out as much as we can about someone we know so little about.
((We've had a great night $100 in $20 increments. I know i pledged some more also. Let's see if we can't reach our goal) - promoted by admin)
Tonight Sarah Palin will be introduced as the Republican running mate for John McCain. No doubt, the McCain/ Palin ticket will get an immediate fundraising boost as we did last week.
We must do our part and continue to give. The Republicans are not even talking about Bush at this convention. They are doing a good job of making voters forget.
If 100 of us give $5 tonight we can raise $500 collectively. I know all of us are in a bind, but together we can make a difference. Let's show the big money Republicans that we are still in it to win it. We cannot sit by and say that Palin is awful and that guarantees it is a win.
Collectively, The Progressive Electorate has raised $295 for Barack. I know that we can at least do $1,000 with your help.
After taking over as Mayor of the small town of Wasilla,
Palin fired the longtime local police chief. The former police chief, Irl Stambaugh says he was fired because he stepped on the toes of Palin's campaign contributors, including bar owners and the National Rifle Association.
Stambaugh's lawyer, William Jermain, says the chief tried to move up the closing hours of local bars from 5 a.m. to two a.m. after a spurt of drunk driving accidents and arrests.
"His crackdown on that practice by the bars was not appreciated by her and that was one reason she terminated Irl," said Jermain.
In his 1997 lawsuit, Stambaugh also alleged that his stand on restricting concealed weapons upset the NRA.
Mayor Palin has stated on several occasions that the National Rifle Association encouraged her to fire Chief Stambaugh because of his stance against the concealed weapons legislation," the lawsuit claimed.
A federal judge ruled that Palin had the right to remove this chief from office. While, I think that her firing the Chief is really a non-scandal, the rationale is a bit damming.
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