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This is just beyond the pale. The New York times reports Gov Palin's MAKEUP ARTIST is one of the highest paid staffers.

Ms.  Amy Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy award for her makeup work on the television show "So You Think You Can Dance?", was paid $22,800 for the first two weeks of October alone, according to the records. The campaign categorized Ms. Strozzi's payment as "PERSONNEL SVC/EQUIPMENT."

I"m sure she is doing  Cindy's and John's makeup too but ,Holy Smoke,  22,000  for two weeks work. How much Max Factor is that campaign using?  Given my limited math skills and  I could be wrong, but it seems Ms Palin's clothing and makeup, this doesn't count  clothes for her husband and family, has cost nearly 200,000.  If I was giving money to the Republicans,( this would mean *** froze over,) I would be seriously ticked off. Further Ms Palin, with her usual veracity, claims she didn' spend that much money on clothes. This is at the same time John McCain is saying yes we spent it but it was always going to go to charity. I think the decision to give it to charity was made the same instant it hit the news. But then again I'm just a little cynical.

Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“:

Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, “What does the Vice President do?”

PALIN: That’s something that Piper would ask me! … [T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.

Article I of the Constitution establishes an exceptionally limited role for the Vice President — giving the office holder a vote only when the Senate is “equally divided”:

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.

Moreover, the U.S. Senate website explains that the modern role of Vice Presidents has been to preside over the Senate “only on ceremonial occasions.”

In modern practice the Vice President doesn’t really control the Senate.

Oh, my this is painful. Is she just totally lost?

AM I the only one who feel the electoral college is antiquated and need to be revamped or removed?. I feel a popular vote would be far better. Our founding fathers had no way of knowing that how large we would grow or that we would all be literate and able of casting votes without someone to decide for us.I want my vote to count.

I know the ACORN thing is hardly news but....Am I the only one who hears banjo music in the background? They obviously didn't have a mom like mine , and probably yours, who said two wrongs don't make a right

from the LA times
Dozens of newly minted Republican voters say they were duped into joining the party by a GOP contractor with a trail of fraud complaints stretching across the country.

Voters contacted by The Times said they were tricked into switching parties while signing what they believed were petitions for tougher penalties against child molesters. Some said they were told that they had to become Republicans to sign the petition, contrary to California initiative law. Others had no idea their registration was being changed.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Four people have been indicted on charges of voter fraud in Kansas City, officials said Wednesday.Investigators said questionable registration forms for new voters were collected by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to improve minority and low-income communities.The four indicted -- Kwaim A. Stenson, Dale D. Franklin, Stephanie L. Davis and Brian Gardner -- were employed by ACORN as registration recruiters. They were each charged with two counts. I Federal indictments allege the four turned in false voter registration applications. Prosecutors said the indictments are part of a national investigation.ACORN and Project Vote recruit and assign workers to low-income and minority neighborhoods to register people to vote.

SO we are down to less than three weeks.Predictions?Reactions? What will you  do if Obama wins, what will you do if it's McCain? If Mc Cain wins , after I have screamed, cried torn my hair and beat my breast in public I will put all my money in the mattress and may take it to  a beach in Mexico. WIth my luck there;ll be an off shore drilling problem and I'll have oil soaked creatures washing around my ankles. Just a thought

I used to admire John McCain, I never felt he was suited to the office he aspires to but I did admire his service. Lately that admiration has slipped away totally. That he has people like Karl Rove, who engineered the whispering campaign that led to his own loss in 2000, is just sad. He wants the job so badly that he has hired the biggest slime balls in their profession. Who can forget the rumor that the McCain's adopted child was his own illegitimate mixed race child? Obama , while he has his own faults God knows, hasn't stooped to the level I see coming out of the shadow campaign. No one has dragged out CIndy McCain's drug problems or John's wandering eye, and  the Keating five has skated by..Obama has tried ,at lest on the surface ,to stick to the issues. I will be glad when this election is over and the nasty underbelly of American Politics slithers away for a while.

I know I am not the only one who has noticed this but... John Cornyn , is doing his darnedest not to come out and say he is a Republican incumbent.I am sure he is not the only one , nation wide, but it does strike me as an indicator. I think Republicans are so anxious not to be identified with the current administration that they  are leaving party affiliations out of their advestisements as much as possible. 

I know McCain  and his staff are hitting the panic button but this is just ridiculous..

The McCain campaign is now broadening their attack on Obama's past association with William Ayers to include Michelle Obama -- even though McCain has repeatedly said spouses should be off limits during the campaign.

The attack? Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers' wife and fellow former Weatherman, went to work in 1984 for the major Chicago-based national law firm of Sidley & Austin, and three years later, Michelle joined the mega-firm as well.

That's it . That's the best they can do that two women  worked in the same firm that employed over 500  people. They did not work on the same floor work or  on a single case together they just worked for the same firm.

How sad and desperate is that.? 

Sarah Palin has been harping on one string lately, that is her one talent,and the particular tune she is playing currently  is that Obama was a a known associate of a terrorist . Really, when William Ayers was a part of the weathermen Barack Obama was EIGHT. These days Bill Ayers is a respected educator and hasn't buiilt or advocated building a bomb in  years. He and Sen Obama have sat on the same committees and I believe Ayers endorsed him at the beginning of his political career. I've sat on a lot of committees with a lot of people some of whom I really disliked and had nothing in common

But if McCarthy-era guilt-by-association is once again a valid political consideration, Palin, it would seem, has more to lose than Obama. Following her own logic, Palin thinks so little of America's perfection that she continues to "pal around" with a man--her husband, actually--who only recently terminated his seven-year membership in the Alaskan Independence Party. Putting plunder above patriotism, the members of this group aim to break our country into pieces and walk away with Alaska's rich federal oil fields and one-fifth of America's land base--an area three-fourths the size of the Civil War Confederacy.

AIP's charter commits the party "to the ultimate independence of Alaska," from the United States which it refers to as "the colonial bureaucracy in Washington." It proclaims Alaska's 1959 induction as a state "as illegal and in violation of the United Nations charter and international law."

AIP's creation was inspired by the rabidly violent anti-Americanism of its founding father Joe Vogler, "I'm an Alaskan, not an American," reads a favorite Vogler quote on AIP's current website, "I've got no use for America or her d***** institutions." AIP's central purpose was to drive Alaska's secession from the United States. Alaska,Current Chairwoman Lynette Clark, says Alaska "should be an independent nation."

Vogler was murdered in 1993 during an illegal sale of plastic explosives that went bad. Plastic explosives? Aren't they used to make BOMBS? The prior year, he had renounced his allegiance to the United States explaining that, "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government." He cursed the stars and stripes, promising, "I won't be buried under their ****** flag...when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home."  Neither Palin has never denounced Vogler or his blatant anti-Americanism.

Palin's husband Todd remained an AIP party member from 1995 to 2002. Sarah can be described in McCarthy-era vernacular as a "fellow traveler." While retaining her Republican registration, she attended the AIP's 1994 convention where the party called for a draft constitution to secede from the United States and create an independent nation of Alaska. The McCain Campaign has reluctantly acknowledged that she also attended AIP's 2000 Convention. She apparently found the experience so inspiring that she agreed to give a keynote address at the AIP's 2006 convention and she recorded a video greeting for this year's 2008 convention. In other words, this is not something that happened when she was eight!

So when Palin accuses Barack of "not seeing the same America as you and me," maybe she is referring to an America without Alaska. In any case, isn't it time the media start giving equal time to Palin's buddy list of anti-American bombers and other radical associates.

I have beenn watching the McCain Palin rallies over the past few days and frankly they are just a little scary. First, the introduction  seems to always involve saying Barack HUSSEIN Obama as if to point out he is different, possibly foreign or God forbid, Muslim. Then as Ms Palin rambles on on Obama's pallin around with terrorist. The crowd goes insane. Cries of "traitor" "kill him" lynch him" ring out. Are these people just insane ?How desperate are they?  I believe in freedom of speech but you just don't shout fire ina crowded theater. I am becoming very concerned for the safety of Sen, Obama with some obviously unbalanced Republican supporters running loose. This is very sad and disturbing

I maybe wrong but it seems like over the past week MCCain seems a little more sharp and on track ,less exhausted.DO you think he's started on Aricept? I's supposed to do wonders for early onset Alzheimers.

Besides having hands laid on her to protect her from demons and witches Sarah Palin believes the earth is only 6000 years old and man and dinosaurs raomed freely together.   Does this strike anyone else as a bit off?

I once spent a highly frustrating hour trying to get a student to find Phoenix Arizona on a map, He persistently  tried to find it  first in Europe and then Africa. He was doing a little better than John McCain and he had a functioning IQ of about 70. You cannot tell me John McCain actually knew he was talking about Spain and it's prime minister. I have listened to that train wreck of an interview several times now and it gets worse every time. That his staff tried to make It better by insisting that he knew he was insulting the Spanish government is appalling.I know he is probably exhausted and that the campaign is very draining and he IS 72..BUT,do we really want this man in charge? Do we want him fumbling around trying to remember the difference between Iraq  and Iran ,Shite and  Suni, Erope and South America?
Surely, someone on his staff has written" there is no Czechoslovakia"  on his hand for him by now.So far in this campaign he has shown he is  CLEARLY not an expert on foriegn relations and he is totally out of touch with our"fundamentaly sound"economy. He main campaign theme, that he intendends to be an agent of change, is highly suspect as he has been in Washington for  26 years and has yet to effect any great change, Sorry folks he is too old and out of touch with reality,this man does not need to be President of the United States.

My friend Sammy sent this to me. I googled it it's true . There are multiple entries. It is disgusting

by Tracy Leaman on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 4:06pm.

Bush / GOP Sarah Palin
This is finally it for me, the straw that has broken the proverbial moose’s
back! I thought maybe it would be her membership in "Feminists for
Life", the staggering amount of hypocrisy coming from her camp, her
daughter being the poster child for what happens when we teach our children
that birth control is dangerous, the stance on how her daughter's pregnancy is
a "family matter" we should all stay out of, but my private medical
decisions should be made by politicians, because they are not "family
matters"?
But no, none of that has enraged me as much as the most recent discovery
that while Sarah Palin was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, she charged rape survivors for their
rape kits.

A rape kit is a sexual assault forensic evidence kit, used to
collect DNA that can be used in criminal proceedings to assist in the
conviction of those who commit sex crimes.

The kit is performed as soon as
possible after a sexual assault or attack has been committed.

As a
general rule, rape survivors (nor victims of any other crime) are never charged
for collection of evidence.


While Palin was Mayor, survivors were charged between $300 - $1200 for rape
kits.

As someone who has been a long time volunteer at my local rape
crisis center, I have seen way too many rape kits administered over the
years. It is not a pleasant process for survivors, but more of a re-victimization.


And to be charged in order for the police department to collect the evidence,
is yet another re-victimization!
And to add insult to injury, once you have been through this traumatic
ordeal, then been charged for the police to collect the evidence, Sarah Palin
will have 1.

blocked the ER from allowing you to receive emergency
contraception before you leave so that you can make sure you are not
impregnated by your rapist and 2.

if you do become pregnant by your rapist, she
does not support your right to an abortion in the case of such violence.


NOTE: Gov. Tony Knowles signed a sexual assault bill to change this horrible policy in 2000.



GOOGLE IT

I guess I should be used to politicians' who lie. It is the norm and always has been . However, I am a little shocked when Sarah Palin repeatedly stands up and says she didn't want  the Bridge to nowhere. "Thanks but no thanks:" Talk about the BIG LIE

CNN anchor John Roberts played a videotape of Sarah Palin in a 2006 gubernatorial debate in which she endorsed the bridge from Ketchikan to Gravina Island saying, "I'm not going to stand in the way of progress that our congressional delegation and the position of strength that they have right now." Perhaps her supporters, noting Palin's support for banning books, teaching creationism and doubting global warming will argue that for her, calling the bridge "progress" was her way of saying she was against it.) But the Anchorage Daily News forecloses that option, reporting, "In September, 2006, Palin showed up in Ketchikan on her gubernatorial campaign and said the bridge was essential for the town's prosperity."

Really? Thanks but no Thanks" they really must think we're stupid