Sarah Palin's Speech

[phee]

I have seen enough to formulate my ADULT opinion... I have also heard him directly contradict himself... to PANDER the people.

You have just described every politician ever.... like.... ever.

[TitsMcGee]

Oh, and I want a psycho running the country.....

Have YOU ever talked to a POW?????

NOT right in the head.....

Actually yes I have, and he was quite alright in the head. The question is have you talked to one or are you just assuming they are all messed up in the head? Yes there are the ones who have had their problems dealing with what happened to them, but saying that is all POW's are "not right in the head" is a rash generalization that for some is completely untrue.

[Oh_My_Goth]

Actually yes I have, and he was quite alright in the head. The question is have you talked to one or are you just assuming they are all messed up in the head? Yes there are the ones who have had their problems dealing with what happened to them, but saying that is all POW's are "not right in the head" is a rash generalization that for some is completely untrue.

Yes I have.....Several, as a matter of fact.....From a truly psychological standpoint.....

I WILL generalize on this point.....He was in a long time, and that DOES cause significant mental damage.....

I do not believe you know what you are talking about.....I could be wrong, but I doubt it.....

[Guest GodfallenPromos]

Actually, VPs in the US don't do much more than hold tea parties and go to funerals of people who weren't important enough for the president to show up for.

Sass....no...bad...no...

[Oh_My_Goth]

Actually, VPs in the US don't do much more than hold tea parties and go to funerals of people who weren't important enough for the president to show up for.

I would guess that in her role as VP she would actually have alot LESS to do than most working mothers.

If you want me to rattle off prominent ruling women in other countries, and their children, I can, I just don't think that's really necessary. I can also rattle off for you prominent women in business, military, medical and philanthropic lines of work who are balancing their home and work. Again, you have the Google machine, too, I'm sure you can find the same list I can. So, no, really, I do suspect that she will be able to raise her family AND competently do her job.

Makes me think though, I wonder if Egyptians had this very conversation about Cleopatra.

My husband invited the guys over for beer and made the babies RACE EACHOTHER FOR A BOTTLE!!!!

So, maybe the word 'perfectly' isn't quite true :LOL:

But, your point is dead on.

My friends ask me all the time why raising twins and working seems so easy for me. They ask me my 'trick'. And I say' Marry well' .It's true - if you have a husband who can get in the mix, you really and truly CAN balance your career, whatever that may be, with your home life. Todd Palin definitely seems like the hands-on type of dad. Good for him.

Also true.

*shuts up now*

Really?????

THAT is your come back?????

Tea parties?????

I am ashamed to be a woman right now.....

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Nevermind. I'll just not say that.

[Oh_My_Goth]

I am now ashamed to be qualified as a human.....

Thanx for clarifying it for Me, Gaf.....

{men are stupid & women are evil, so we are all fucked}

I have my view and you have yours.....

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

lol...Gaf...Irony is the Pot calling the Kettle Black...and you, sir....are a the blackest of Pots. You have an opinion of Sarah Palin, despite the multitude of facts that prove that she is ill-experienced to run this country.

You yourself have openly admitted to being racist...which is the judgement of someone based on their skin coloration and/or ethnic heritage.

When it comes to judging someone's private life due to their religion...specially when they choose to be as outspoken about it as Palin is....it is very easy to guestimate what their private life is like. I highly doubt that Palin is telling us that "Gods will is a Gas Pipline" and then runs home, fucks 4 guys, eats a roll of quarters, and then does a line of coke.....though the last would explain the statement about our "holy war" and "God-ordered pipeline".

Is it our opinion that makes it seem that she flip flop's more then a pair of sandals are the beach??

Every other day, their find more and more stuff that she is changing views on....it's like the woman has magic glasses or something....I mean...does Sarah Palin have a special "where do I stand on the issues" version of Tic-Tac-Toss?? Cuz it's starting to feel like it.

How did I miss this?

Dude, I know what racism is. So does everyone else. I will stand by my assertion that everyone is racists to some extent. Some of us are big enough to admit it and try to not let those feeling rules us.

You know, perhaps I should point out your racism. Nah. The next time you are referring to someone as a Redneck or Hick, just pretend I am there laughing in your face and calling you on it.

You seem to have missed where almost every scandal has turned out to be total lies made up by people like the nut-jobs at Daily Kos ( I still laugh every time I think about you falling for that drivel). A few are just about as sexist as they can get and have no merit. The balance, one thing as it turns out, is still under investigation and the evidence seems to point to her not having done anything wrong.

There is this place, it's called reality. Join us.

[the eternal]

I am so glad I checked out of this thread, before all this shit got underway.

to stoke the fires for you guys.

And here we analyze McCain for picking her

Oh I'm so bad,

Carry on.

[Oh_My_Goth]

I am so glad I checked out of this thread, before all this shit got underway.

target="_blank to stoke the fires for you guys.

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And here we analyze McCain for picking her

Oh I'm so bad,

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Carry on.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Are you feeling OK? That was rather short for you.

[sass_in_the_pants]

Oh, and I want a psycho running the country.....

Have YOU ever talked to a POW?????

NOT right in the head.....

Yes, I have.

Around 6 tonight.

He's my dad.

Really?????

THAT is your come back?????

Tea parties?????

I am ashamed to be a woman right now.....

Dude, it was a JOKE. Like ha, ha funny.

Sheesh.

Everybody can be funny, but me. And what does that have to do with being a woman anyway?

You think Al Gore wasn't serving up some cucumber sammies, then you are sorely mistaken (see, that is also a joke.)

My comeback was actually the two paragraphs FOLLOWING the joke.

And the entire post before that.

None of which you responded to.

Huh. I wonder why.

[Oh_My_Goth]

Yes, I have.

Around 6 tonight.

He's my dad.

Dude, it was a JOKE. Like ha, ha funny.

Sheesh.

Everybody can be funny, but me. And what does that have to do with being a woman anyway?

You think Al Gore wasn't serving up some cucumber sammies, then you are sorely mistaken (see, that is also a joke.)

My comeback was actually the two paragraphs FOLLOWING the joke.

And the entire post before that.

None of which you responded to.

Huh. I wonder why.

AAAAaaa.....

Explains allot.....

I am sure your Da told you everything.....

[Msterbeau]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/0.../opinion/kamiya

Palin. Dominatrix. Hahahaha... I found that funny. This will be my sole contribution to this discussion. Carry on....

[sass_in_the_pants]

AAAAaaa.....

Explains allot.....

I am sure your Da told you everything.....

What does it explain?

What are you sure he told me everything about?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

From FACTCHECK.ORG as presented by Newsweek.

False Internet claims and rumors fly about McCain's running mate.

Summary

We've been flooded for the past few days with queries about dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about McCain's running mate, Gov. Palin. We find that many are completely false, or misleading.

Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn't cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.

She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.

She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She's been registered as a Republican since May 1982.

Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesty" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.

Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."

A few of these claims were included in a chain e-mail by a woman named Anne Kilkenny. We'll be looking into other charges in that e-mail for a future story. For more explanation of the bullet points above, please read the Analysis.

Analysis

Since Republican presidential nominee John McCain tapped Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate, information about Palin's past has been zipping around the Internet. Several claims are not true, and other rumors are misleading.

No Cut for "Special Needs" Kids

It's not true, as widely reported in mass e-mails, Web postings and at least one mainstream news source, that Palin slashed the special education budget in Alaska by 62 percent. CNN's Soledad O'Brien made the claim on Sept. 4 in an interview with Nicolle Wallace, a senior adviser to the McCain campaign:

O'Brien, Sept. 4: One are that has gotten certainly people sending to me a lot of e-mails is the question about as governor what she did with the special needs budget, which I'm sure you're aware, she cut significantly, 62 percent I think is the number from when she came into office. As a woman who is now a mother to a special needs child, and I think she actually has a nephew which is autistic as well. How much of a problem is this going to be as she tries to navigate both sides of that issue?

Such a move might have made Palin look heartless or hypocritical in view of her convention-speech pledge to be an advocate for special needs children and their families. But in fact, she increased special needs funding so dramatically that a representative of local school boards described the jump as "historic."

According to an April 2008 article in Education Week, Palin signed legislation in March 2008 that would increase public school funding considerably, including special needs funding. It would increase spending on what Alaska calls "intensive needs" students (students with high-cost special requirements) from $26,900 per student in 2008 to $73,840 per student in 2011. That almost triples the per-student spending in three fiscal years. Palin's original proposal, according to the Anchorage Daily News, would have increased funds slightly more, giving intensive needs students a $77,740 allotment by 2011.

Education Week: A second part of the measure raises spending for students with special needs to $73,840 in fiscal 2011, from the current $26,900 per student in fiscal 2008, according to the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development.

Unlike many other states, Alaska has relatively flush budget coffers, thanks to a rise in oil and gas revenues. Funding for schools will remain fairly level next year, however. Overall per-pupil funding across the state will rise by $100, to $5,480, in fiscal 2009. ...

Carl Rose, the executive director of the Association of Alaska School Boards, praised the changes in funding for rural schools and students with special needs as a "historic event," and said the finance overhaul would bring more stability to district budgets.

According to Eddy Jeans at the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, funding for special needs and intensive needs students has increased every year since Palin entered office, from a total of $203 million in 2006 to a projected $276 million in 2009.

Those who claim that Palin cut special needs funding by 62 percent are looking in the wrong place and misinterpreting what they find there. They point to an apparent drop in the Department of Education and Early Development budget for special schools. But the special schools budget, despite the similar name, isn't the special needs budget. "I don't even consider the special schools component [part of] our special needs funding," Jeans told FactCheck.org. "The special needs funding is provided through our public school funding formula. The special schools is simply a budget component where we have funding set aside for special projects," such as the Alaska School for the Deaf and the Alaska Military Youth Academy. A different budget component, the Foundation Program, governs special needs programs in the public school system.

And in any case, the decrease in funding for special schools is illusory. Palin moved the Alaska Military Youth Academy's ChalleNGe program, a residential military school program that teaches job and life skills to students under 20, out of the budget line for "special schools" and into its own line. This resulted in an apparent drop of more than $5 million in the special schools budget with no actual decrease in funding for the programs.

Not a Book Burner

One false rumor accuses then-Mayor Palin of threatening to fire Wasilla's librarian for refusing to ban books from the town library. Some versions of the rumor come complete with a list of the books that Palin allegedly attempted to ban. The story is false on several fronts: Palin never asked that books be banned; the librarian continued to serve in that position; no books were actually banned; and many of the books on the list that Palin supposedly wanted to censor weren't even in print at the time, proving that the list is a fabrication.

It's true that Palin did raise the issue with Mary Ellen Emmons, Wasilla's librarian, on at least two occasions. Emmons flatly stated her opposition both times. But, as the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman (Wasilla's local paper) reported at the time, Palin asked general questions about what Emmons would say if Palin requested that a book be banned. According to Emmons, Palin "was asking me how I would deal with her saying a book can't be in the library." Emmons reported that Palin pressed the issue, asking whether Emmons' position would change if residents were picketing the library. Wasilla resident Anne Kilkenny, who was at the meeting, corroborates Emmons' story, telling the Chicago Tribune that "Sarah said to Mary Ellen, 'What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?' "

Palin characterized the exchange differently, initially volunteering the episode as an example of discussions with city employees about following her administration's agenda. Palin described her questions to Emmons as "rhetorical," noting that her questions "were asked in the context of professionalism regarding the library policy that is in place in our city." Actually, true rhetorical questions have implied answers (e.g., "Who do you think you are?"), so Palin probably meant to describe her questions as hypothetical or theoretical. We can't read minds, so it is impossible for us to know whether or not Palin may actually have wanted to ban books from the library or whether she simply wanted to know how her new employees would respond to an instruction from their boss. It is worth noting that, in an update, the Frontiersman points out that no book was ever banned from the library's shelves.

Moreover, although Palin fired Emmons as part of a "loyalty" purge, she rehired Emmons the next day, and Emmons remained at her job for two-and-a-half more years. Actually, Palin initially requested Emmons' resignation in October 1996, four days before the public discussion of censorship. That was at the same time she requested that all four of Wasilla's department heads resign. Palin described the requests as a loyalty test and allowed all four department heads to retain their positions. But on Jan. 30, 1997, three months after the censorship discussion, Palin informed Emmons and Wasilla's police chief, Irv Stambaugh, that they would be fired. According to the Chicago Tribune, Palin did not list censorship as a reason for Emmons' firing. Palin rehired Emmons the following day. Emmons continued to serve as librarian until August 1999, when the Chicago Tribune reports that she resigned.

So what about that list of books targeted for banning, which according to one widely e-mailed version was taken "from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board"? If it was, the library board should take up fortune telling. The list includes the first four Harry Potter books, none of which had been published at the time of the Palin-Emmons conversations. The first wasn't published until 1998. In fact, the list is a simple cut-and-paste job, snatched (complete with typos and the occasional incorrect title) from the Florida Institute of Technology library Web page, which presents the list as "Books banned at one time or another in the United States."

Closet Secessionist?

Palin was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party – which calls for a vote on whether Alaska should secede from the union or remain a state – despite mistaken reports to the contrary. But her husband was a member for years, and she attended at least one party convention, as mayor of the town in which it was held.

The party's chair originally told reporters that Palin had been a member, but the official later retracted that statement. Chairwoman Lynette Clark told the New York Times that false information had been given to her by another member of the party after she first told the Times and others that Palin joined the AIP in 1994. Clark issued an apology on the AIP Web site.

The director of Alaska's Division of Elections, Gail Fenumiai, confirms that Palin registered to vote in the state for the first time in May 1982 as a Republican and hasn't changed her party affiliation since. She also told FactCheck.org that Palin's husband, Todd, was registered with AIP from October 1995 to July 2000, and again from September 2000 until July 2002. (He has since been registered as undeclared.) However, the AIP says Todd Palin "never participated in any party activities aside from attending a convention in Wasilla at one time."

There is still some dispute as to whether Sarah Palin also attended the AIP's 1994 convention, held in Wasilla. Clark and another AIP official toldABC News' Jake Tapper that both Palins were there. Palin was elected mayor of Wasilla two years later. The McCain campaign says Sarah Palin went to the 2000 AIP convention, also held in Wasilla, "as a courtesy since she was mayor." As governor, Palin sent a video message to the 2008 convention, which is available on YouTube, and the AIP says she attended in 2006 when she was campaigning.

Didn't Endorse Pat Buchanan

Claims that Palin endorsed conservative Republican Pat Buchanan for president in the 2000 campaign are false. She worked for conservative Republican Steve Forbes.

The incorrect reports stem from an Associated Press story on July 17, 1999, that said Palin was "among those sporting Buchanan buttons" at a lunch for Buchanan attended by about 85 people, during a swing he took through Fairbanks and Wasilla. Buchanan didn't help matters when he told a reporter for the liberal publication The Nation on Aug. 29: "I'm pretty sure she's a Buchananite." But in fact, she wasn't.

Soon after The AP story appeared, Palin wrote in a letter to the editor of the Anchorage Daily News that she had merely worn a Buchanan button as a courtesy to her visitor and was not endorsing him. The letter, published July 26, 1999, said:

Palin, July 26, 1999: As mayor of Wasilla, I am proud to welcome all presidential candidates to our city. This is true regardless of their party, or the latest odds of their winning. When presidential candidates visit our community, I am always happy to meet them. I'll even put on their button when handed one as a polite gesture of respect.

Though no reporter interviewed me for the Associated Press article on the recent visit by a presidential candidate (Metro, July 17), the article may have left your readers with the perception that I am endorsing this candidate, as opposed to welcoming his visit to Wasilla. As mayor, I will welcome all the candidates in Wasilla.

Palin actually worked for Forbes. Less than a month after being spotted wearing the "courtesy" button for Buchanan, she was named to the state leadership committee of the Forbes effort. The Associated Press reported on Aug. 7, 1999:

The Associated Press, Aug. 7 1999: State Sen. Mike Miller of Fairbanks will head the Alaska campaign chairman for Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes, campaign officials said. Joining the Fairbanks Republican on the leadership committee will be Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin, and former state GOP chairman Pete Hallgren, who will serve as co-chairs.

Still, after nine years, the truth has yet to catch up completely.

No Creationism in Schools

On Aug. 29, the Boston Globe reported that Palin was open to teaching creationism in public schools. That's true. She supports teaching creationism alongside evolution, though she has not actively pursued such a policy as governor.

In an Oct. 25, 2006, debate, when asked about teaching alternatives to evolution, Palin replied:

Palin, Oct. 25, 2006: Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both. And you know, I say this too as the daughter of a science teacher. Growing up with being so privileged and blessed to be given a lot of information on, on both sides of the subject – creationism and evolution. It's been a healthy foundation for me. But don't be afraid of information and let kids debate both sides.

A couple of days later, Palin amended that statement in an interview with the Anchorage Daily News, saying:

Palin, Oct. 2006: I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn't have to be part of the curriculum.

After her election, Palin let the matter drop. The Associated Press reported Sept 3: "Palin's children attend public schools and Palin has made no push to have creationism taught in them. ... It reflects a hands-off attitude toward mixing government and religion by most Alaskans." The article was headlined, "Palin has not pushed creation science as governor." It was written by Dan Joling, who reports from Anchorage and has covered Alaska for 30 years.

That E-mail Author

Switching gears: Almost 100 readers have written to ask us if the many claims made about Palin in an e-mail written by someone named Anne Kilkenny are true. We can tell you that Kilkenny is a real person. (She was quoted by the Chicago Tribune, as we said above.) According to the New York Times, she's a Democrat. According to Kilkenny herself, Palin "has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's attempt at censorship."

We're still analyzing Kilkenny's claims, and we will be posting something on this soon.

Republished with permission from factcheck.org.

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Holland, Megan. "Intensive needs funding examined." Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2008.

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[Msterbeau]

OK. I lied. I'm posting one more time:

From MarcCooper.com

Daughter Dearest:

It’s with great pain and a certain measure of shame with which I write you this note. Having grown up in the 60’s and watched, sometimes at glaringly close range, the emergence of the women’s liberation movement, I had always harbored great dreams and aspirations for you.

But as I listened to Governor Sarah Palin address the nation the other night, I had to confess that – as your father—I have clearly failed. Honey, you will never be able to achieve such greatness as being nominated for Vice-President of the United States. Forget about it.

And for this sad reality, I accept all blame. ‘Twas I that steered you wrong.

Here you are, almost age 25, with what your mother and I believed was a solid education behind you and, yet, you are nothing but a common community organizer. Yes, the labor union you work for as an organizer represents nearly 2 million service workers – about three times the population of Alaska. But, alas, as Governor Palin pointed out, you have no real responsibilities. By helping janitors, security guards, nursing aides and orderlies gain a living wage, paid health care and a retirement fund, you have only robbed them of the personal initiative needed to go out there and make something better of themselves. You have rendered them feebly dependent on Big Labor and tax-and-spend Big Government – and all in their own crass self-interest in survival.

I’m not quite sure when I helped nudge you onto such a mistaken road. Probably sometime while you were attending that government-run high school in which we enrolled you. You could have joined the Fellowship of Christian Athletes as Ms. Palin did. Instead, I pushed you to become a columnist on the school paper. You could have spent your afternoon becoming the local barracuda on the courts. But, nope. Your Mom and I indulged your trivial passions for staging and directing the plays of Shakespeare. You could have competed to be Miss Woodland Hills or even Miss Congenial California but – no—there were your Mom and Dad encouraging you to finish writing your first play. Sorry.

From there, the mistakes only multiplied. Instead of letting you wait till the responsible age of 44 before letting you secure a passport, we strained our family budget and squandered who knows how many thousands by putting you on countless Flights to Nowhere. New York, Washington, New Orleans, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Santiago, Mexico City. And to what end? So you could return home –as the huggable Mayor Giuliani so neatly put it—some sort of “cosmopolitan?” Exposure to so many foreign ideas (like the notion of spending an idle afternoon reading a book in a café instead of learning to field dress a moose) only contaminated you, rendering you insensitive to and contemptuous of the day-to-day needs of bowling league members in Michigan’s Macomb County. Worse, you returned from those European jaunts as a brainwashed follower of the elite, angry left media. By the 12th grade, all the warning signs were there. I’d walk into your room at 1:00 in the morning and catch you with a flashlight under the covers reading the book pages of The Atlantic. Why didn’t I nip this all in the bud and buy you a well-oiled Remington 12 gauge so you could plink the coyotes south of Ventura Blvd.?

The real disaster came, of course, in college. Four straight years wasted at UCLA when you could have been following the course of the Governor, sampling five different schools over six years. You were reading Orwell. By then she was practicing Doublespeak. You were studying public policy, by then she was figuring out how to win the 909 votes she needed to become Mayor of Wasilla. You were inclined to donate $100 to the ACLU. She was way ahead of you, sweetie, as she calculated how to avoid the ACLU from short-circuiting her plan to prune the local library of un-American and anti-Christian propaganda. She was on her way up and you, dear child, were dead-ended in the silly task of trying to organize seven hospitals back-to-back.

It’s not healthy to dwell on so many regrets, I know. And as I said, this is mostly the fault of your parents. While you are the victim of these reckless choices, your Mom and I, nevertheless pay a very heavy price. If we had only been sage enough to bar you from sex ed class and contraceptives and instead had let you rely on abstinence and prayer, there was an even chance you could have been pregnant by age 17. You’d have a joyous 7 year old child right now to help you get through your 10 hour a day workday. The father might even have married you-- and might even have a job. And we’d have a lovely grandchild who a mere decade from now could produce us a great-grand-child and we would all still be young enough to go snowmobiling together – the next time it snows in Woodland Hills.

Ah, but better not to dwell on the negative. Make the best of the little we have given you and grant us your understanding and forgiveness. And don’t despair too much. Remember, when McCain-Palin come to power, real change is gonna come and we’ll all be better off.

Dad

[Guest GodfallenPromos]

OK. I lied. I'm posting one more time:

From MarcCooper.com

Daughter Dearest:

It’s with great pain and a certain measure of shame with which I write you this note. Having grown up in the 60’s and watched, sometimes at glaringly close range, the emergence of the women’s liberation movement, I had always harbored great dreams and aspirations for you.

But as I listened to Governor Sarah Palin address the nation the other night, I had to confess that – as your father—I have clearly failed. Honey, you will never be able to achieve such greatness as being nominated for Vice-President of the United States. Forget about it.

And for this sad reality, I accept all blame. ‘Twas I that steered you wrong.

Here you are, almost age 25, with what your mother and I believed was a solid education behind you and, yet, you are nothing but a common community organizer. Yes, the labor union you work for as an organizer represents nearly 2 million service workers – about three times the population of Alaska. But, alas, as Governor Palin pointed out, you have no real responsibilities. By helping janitors, security guards, nursing aides and orderlies gain a living wage, paid health care and a retirement fund, you have only robbed them of the personal initiative needed to go out there and make something better of themselves. You have rendered them feebly dependent on Big Labor and tax-and-spend Big Government – and all in their own crass self-interest in survival.

I’m not quite sure when I helped nudge you onto such a mistaken road. Probably sometime while you were attending that government-run high school in which we enrolled you. You could have joined the Fellowship of Christian Athletes as Ms. Palin did. Instead, I pushed you to become a columnist on the school paper. You could have spent your afternoon becoming the local barracuda on the courts. But, nope. Your Mom and I indulged your trivial passions for staging and directing the plays of Shakespeare. You could have competed to be Miss Woodland Hills or even Miss Congenial California but – no—there were your Mom and Dad encouraging you to finish writing your first play. Sorry.

From there, the mistakes only multiplied. Instead of letting you wait till the responsible age of 44 before letting you secure a passport, we strained our family budget and squandered who knows how many thousands by putting you on countless Flights to Nowhere. New York, Washington, New Orleans, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Santiago, Mexico City. And to what end? So you could return home –as the huggable Mayor Giuliani so neatly put it—some sort of “cosmopolitan?” Exposure to so many foreign ideas (like the notion of spending an idle afternoon reading a book in a café instead of learning to field dress a moose) only contaminated you, rendering you insensitive to and contemptuous of the day-to-day needs of bowling league members in Michigan’s Macomb County. Worse, you returned from those European jaunts as a brainwashed follower of the elite, angry left media. By the 12th grade, all the warning signs were there. I’d walk into your room at 1:00 in the morning and catch you with a flashlight under the covers reading the book pages of The Atlantic. Why didn’t I nip this all in the bud and buy you a well-oiled Remington 12 gauge so you could plink the coyotes south of Ventura Blvd.?

The real disaster came, of course, in college. Four straight years wasted at UCLA when you could have been following the course of the Governor, sampling five different schools over six years. You were reading Orwell. By then she was practicing Doublespeak. You were studying public policy, by then she was figuring out how to win the 909 votes she needed to become Mayor of Wasilla. You were inclined to donate $100 to the ACLU. She was way ahead of you, sweetie, as she calculated how to avoid the ACLU from short-circuiting her plan to prune the local library of un-American and anti-Christian propaganda. She was on her way up and you, dear child, were dead-ended in the silly task of trying to organize seven hospitals back-to-back.

It’s not healthy to dwell on so many regrets, I know. And as I said, this is mostly the fault of your parents. While you are the victim of these reckless choices, your Mom and I, nevertheless pay a very heavy price. If we had only been sage enough to bar you from sex ed class and contraceptives and instead had let you rely on abstinence and prayer, there was an even chance you could have been pregnant by age 17. You’d have a joyous 7 year old child right now to help you get through your 10 hour a day workday. The father might even have married you-- and might even have a job. And we’d have a lovely grandchild who a mere decade from now could produce us a great-grand-child and we would all still be young enough to go snowmobiling together – the next time it snows in Woodland Hills.

Ah, but better not to dwell on the negative. Make the best of the little we have given you and grant us your understanding and forgiveness. And don’t despair too much. Remember, when McCain-Palin come to power, real change is gonna come and we’ll all be better off.

Dad

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[phee]

This is a joke, but a funny one:

[Rev.Reverence]

palin in church part 1

palin in church part 2

If you have to pray for something to happen... it is not G*D's will. (ie. pipelines)

So say the KBL.

...& I do not understand how a "Christian" can say the words:

"Task from G*D"... in relation to any war!

I can quote scriptures as well...

Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are savage wolves.

From the O.T. (that Torah for some)...

Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain.

1 more...

He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

Yes.. I just called Palin a 'hired hand'.

[Rev.Reverence]

That is soo cool.... my post was no joke... it is quoted from the scriptures that THEY use...

This is a joke, but a funny one:

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

this one;s pretty funny too.

[Rev.Reverence]

this one;s pretty funny too.

yes... it is...

[n0Mad]

From FACTCHECK.ORG as presented by Newsweek.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain tapped Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

He did what? lol

I can quote scriptures as well...

So can I ...

Luke 22:36 (New International Version)

36He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.

Straight from the mouth of Christ. You can make the Bible prove anything if you take passages out of context. Heck, you can make any quote from anywhere prove anything if you take it out of context.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

People forget that part.. Jesus promoting armed rebelion... unless it proves some point they want to make.