The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn’t have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.
President Obama, this is an easy one. You’re supposed to be all about accountability and transparency. You’re not a dork obsessed with secrecy like President Cheney was.
A political action committee is thanking Gov. Sarah Palin for her conservative values and service to America in ads timed for release around Thanksgiving.
Our Country Deserves Better Committee, a PAC that supported Palin during her vice presidential candidacy, will begin airing the ads on Tuesday.
In one, comforting music plays as images of Palin are flashed on a screen and a male voice says, “Gov. Sarah Palin, a grateful nation wishes to thank you for serving the people of America with a servant’s heart.”
The more cynical among us might prefer to thank Sarah Palin for giving us endless hours of comedy and for handing the election to Barack Obama.
Today, in the parking lot of my local supermarket, I ran across this bumper sticker:
I’m not sure what this sticker might mean. upon completing a google search of “palinism bumper sticker,” I’m still baffled. There are no clear matches.
I take it to mean something like Michael Barone’s statement that “journalists trashed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republicans’ vice presidential nominee, because “she did not abort her Down syndrome baby.”
Sen. John McCain said Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama’s poll numbers are rising as the economy seems to sink “because life isn’t fair.”
“He certainly did nothing for the first few days,” McCain said Thursday on Fox News. “I suspended my campaign, took our ads down, came back to Washington, met with the House folks and got on the phone, and also had face-to-face meetings.”
John, life certainly isn’t fair. But it might be more fair if you told the truth about these things. You didn’t suspend your campaign, you didnt take down your ads, the GOP House folks ignored you and you went out for a fancy dinner with your buddy Joe Lieberman.
After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.
Palin told him that “dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time,” Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said “she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks,” recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.
A Republican rebellion stalled government efforts Thursday to avoid economic meltdown, a chaotic turnaround that disrupted the choreography of an extraordinary White House meeting meant to show joint resolve from the president, the political parties and the presidential candidates. Instead, the summit broke up so bitterly that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson got on one knee before Democratic leaders in a theatrical attempt to salvage talks.
After six days of bare-knuckled negotiations on the $700 billion financial industry bailout proposed by the Bush administration, with Wall Street tottering and presidential politics intruding six weeks before the election, there was far more confusion than clarity.
Sarah Palin shows off her unfortunately decorated Anchorage office.
I’m not really sure that I “get” this one.
Upon hearing McCain’s VP choice, my initial response was to laugh out loud. After all, Sarah Palin has been governor of one of the nation’s least populated states for only a couple of years. Before that she served on a town council and was also the mayor of Wasilla, AK. Or something. I only knew of her because some PUMA person has come to this site a time or two to boost McCain/Palin.
It’s an odd choice, considering that Palin is the target of an ethics investigation in Alaska and the fact that McCain’s choice of Palin takes McCain’s experience argument off the table. McCain is 72 years old and has had cancer four times. For that reason, it was imperative for McCain to choose someone who is ready to be president. I’m not sure that Palin is ready. But, she likes to kill caribou and knows how to gut salmon, so she must be an excellent pick.
But, the choice will help motivate the GOP base to vote for batshit crazy Palin, even if they can’t stand McCain. Maybe McCain just wanted to shore up his base with this pick to ensure that the GOP fundies show up en masse to vote for McCain/Palin.
It seems like a bizarre choice to me, but as a Democrat, I like McCain’s pick.
And am I the only one who thinks that Palin is really Tina Fey playing a character?
