McCain - Palin
revere | September 19, 2008George Bush has consistently gone beyond his legal and constitutional authority and it appears this is still another way John McCain would like to be President McBush:
At a joint rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Thursday, Republican John McCain slammed the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) for being "asleep at the switch" saying that if he were president, he would fire Chris Cox, the chairman of the SEC since 2005 and a former Republican congressman.
McCain said the SEC has allowed trading practices such as short selling to stay in place that turned the "markets into a casino."
"The…
revere | September 18, 2008So with socialism Republican style (socialize the losses, privatize the profits) both Obama and McCain are saying the saw the meltdown coming. We know Barack Obama gave a prescient speech on the financial markets 6 months ago. It wasn't covered much because it wasn't a very interesting sounding topic. Now John McCain tells us he was concerned, too:
"Two years ago, I warned that the oversight of Fannie and Freddie was terrible, that we were facing a crisis because of it, or certainly serious problems," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told CBS this morning. "The influence that Fannie and Freddie had…
revere | September 17, 2008Devilstower over at Daily Kos does what I think is an effective job of eviscerating John McCain (admittedly this doesn't take a lot of effort these days, but I still admire this take down). Poor Al Gore keeps getting tagged with saying he invented the internet (something he never said, by the way) but now we know it was actually John McCain who invented it and cell phones and wifi thrown in. Here are some excerpts from "McCain's" response (yeah, like he knows what's in it!) to the ScienceDebate2008 question answered weeks ago by Obama:
Take this reply to a question about maintaining America's…
revere | September 16, 2008It's those damn lefties at the Wall Street Journal again, nitpicking poor John McCain. Just because McCain said that the Governor hadn't sought any earmarks or special interest spending for her state:
Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hadn't sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress, presenting her as a fiscal conservative. But state records show Gov. Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to fund $453 million in specific Alaska projects over the past two years.
These projects include more than $130 million…
revere | September 15, 2008That anyone would think -- much less say -- as John McCain did of Governor Palin that she "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America" means either McCain is one of the stupidest people in America (doubtful, since the competition is too strong); or that he doesn't mind talking bullshit if he thinks it will help him and he thinks most Americans are stupid. You choose. But surely Governor Palin must know the basic data about energy, given it is Alaska's main source of support. "Don't call me Shirley":
Challenged by [ABC's Charlie] Gibson on her "national…
revere | September 14, 2008I'm getting tired of Governor Palin. Maybe I'll move on to her running mate, what's his name. The serial liar. McCain. But before we leave the Governor, this being Sunday Sermonette and all, here's Bill Maher on the subject:
Bill Maher aside, what do we know about Palin's religious views and how they might affect us in the real possibility she becomes President should the aging McCain die or become incapacitated, say by a fifth return of his cancer:
When asked directly about the "God's plan" comment by Charlie Gibson on the Nightline interview I must say she showed herself as a remarkably…
revere | September 13, 2008Brought to you without comment:
WALLACE: Senator McCain, if I may -- Senator McCain, you didn't like it much when Governor Romney said recently that he spoke for the Republican wing of the Republican party.
Who's more conservative: you or Mitt Romney?
MCCAIN: I think it's pretty obvious that that statement was a paraphrase of Howard Dean's statement about the Democrat party.
The fact is, I'm running on my record as a reliable conservative of 24 years. And the indicators of that, obviously, is that I've fought wasteful spending, I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security…
revere | September 12, 2008This is another in our Daily Dose of Sarah Palin, because even if John McCain didn't think it was that important to learn a lot about the person who might be the next President should some medical event befall the 72 year old cancer survivor should he be elected, most people want more information. Previous installments here. So much material, so little time. Today, commanding the National Guard.
Sarah Palin's argument she is "ready on Day 1" to be Commander in Chief of the US military rests on her role as commander of Alaska's National Guard unit. Unfortunately the state's commander of that…
revere | September 11, 2008This is another in our Daily Dose of Sarah Palin, because even if John McCain didn't think it was that important to learn a lot about the person who might be the next President should some medical event befall the 72 year old cancer survivor should he be elected, most people want more information. Previous installments here. This story is all over the news today, so while I've had in in my back pocket for a few days, I decided to go with it along with everyone else: Palin and rape.
Joe Biden is the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President. One of Biden's many accomplishments was the…
revere | September 10, 2008This is another in our Daily Dose of Sarah Palin, because even if John McCain didn't think it was that important to learn a lot about the person who might be the next President should some medical event befall the 72 year old cancer survivor should he be elected, most people want more information. Previous installments here. Today we discuss Sarah Palin's true nature.
Let's be very clear about what Sarah Palin is. Whatever else bad she is -- and there's a lot of bad there -- she's mainly a politician and an exceptionally talented one. Very slick. As Sam Goldwyn once said, "If you can fake…
revere | September 9, 2008The newsmedia are being tested to see if a bald-faced lie in a McCain ad will pass without comment. So far they are acquitting themselves well. Sarah Palin's lie that "she said thanks but no thanks" to the Bridge to Nowhere (accompanied by the Road to Nowhere), a lie proudly repeated by John McCain although he knows it's a lie and then inserted into a McCain campaign commercial approved by John McCain, is now being called out by just about everyone, including the Wall Street Journal (not to mention Newsweek, the Washington Post, Associated Press, etc., etc.):
Despite significant evidence to…
revere | September 8, 2008We've come to expect politicians to shade the truth on occasion and we've seen some recent high profile examples of outright lying. For example, John McCain's repeated claim that Sarah Palin sold the previous governor's luxury jet on ebay and even "made a profit". Every part of that claim is a fiction and McCain had to know it. George Bush, of course, lied as a matter of policy, with deadly consequences. At least Clinton's lies were essentially harmless to lie and limb. Then there's Sarah Palin. She lies, too, principally about herself and her record. The list of her lies is getting pretty…
revere | September 7, 2008Naturally I find Sarah Palin's mixing religion and politics odious. Whether it's believing that the War in Iraq is a task from God or that Alaska's young people should pray that "God's will" be done in constructing her preferred version of a natural gas pipeline or thinking that it's fine to teach Creationism in science class, this is a person who feels untroubled and confident about the rightness of her personal religious views. Moreover she believes in the literal interpretation of the bible. So naturally I find Sarah Palin's religion and politics odious. What's to like?
I don't care about…
revere | September 6, 2008This is another in our Daily Dose of Sarah Palin, because even if John McCain didn't think it was that important to learn a lot about the person who might be the next President should some medical event befall the 72 year old cancer survivor should he be elected, most people want more information. Previous installments here. So much material, so little time. Oh, well. Let's do the library story today, since it's tied up with her alleged small town mayor claim.
Now Sarah Palin is claiming being the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, makes her a different kind of politician. Youknow, the kind who is in…
revere | September 6, 2008This has been around, but even if you've already seen it it's still funny. And instructive. Well, maybe not for everyone. Some people aren't trainable:
revere | September 5, 2008This is another in our Daily Dose of Sarah Palin, because even if John McCain didn't think it was that important to learn a lot about the person who might be the next President should some medical event befall the 72 year old cancer survivor should he be elected, most people want more information. Previous installments here. Today it's Troopergate.
Governor Palin has a nasty problem Alaskans call Troopergate. It is under investigation by a bipartisan commission of the Alaskan legislature about whether she abused her power. Palin has reportedly lawyered up. The story is the kind of messy and…
revere | September 4, 2008This is another in our Daily Dose of Sarah Palin, because even if John McCain didn't think it was that important to learn a lot about the person who might be the next President should some medical event befall the 72 year old cancer survivor should he be elected, most people want more information. Previous installments here.
In answering a questionnaire for gubernatorial candidates in 2006, here's how she answered a question, about civil rights for people of different sexual orientations:
Do you support the Alaska Supreme Court's ruling that spousal benefits for state employees should be…
revere | September 3, 2008This is another in our Daily Dose of Sarah Palin, because even if John McCain didn't think it was that important to learn a lot about the person who might be the next President should some medical event befall the 72 year old cancer survivor who would occupy the position should he be elected, most people want more information. Previous installments here. What we see is that Palin is a perfect fit for the most extreme right wing Republican platform in that party's history.
I'm not interested in Sarah Palin's family joys and sorrows. Not my business. But I am interested in her version of…
revere | September 2, 2008Not many people know much about John McCain's new running mate, Sarah Palin, first term Governor of Alaska (in office 20 months). Not even John McCain knows that much about her. He only met her twice before deciding she was worthy of being his running mate. So let's take a look at her record, as best we can with someone with as meager a history as she has. We'll do it a piece at a time, starting with the qualification most talked about, her stridently (almost) absolute anti-choice stance. She is more rigid and ideological than even consistent anti-choice McCain, who is willing to entertain…