Mr. D.F. Rogers writes,
Okay, so the Republicans have branded Obama as a “celebrity” and have mocked him as another Britney or Paris. So, now we have Palin, who has turned into – a celebrity! With about as much real political expertise as Paris has acting skills.
At The Guardian in the UK, Michael Tomasky explains our confusion here in the US with how the GOP characterizes the McCain and Obama tickets:
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers — a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track — you’re a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend five different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.
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I think the opening skit on SNL lacked something in the writing, perhaps because I don’t buy the underlying premise, but Tina Fey’s impression of Sarah Palin is truly remarkable.
It’s been seven years since that awful day. We were having our kitchen remodeled, and on 9/11 the wall tile was being installed. When we got home we saw one of the new cabinet doors had been destroyed. Very weird. I don’t know what happened, but it caused a significant delay, because we had to wait for a replacement to be delivered from Canada. The tile contractor had to cover the extra cost, of course.
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The History Channel had a very dramatic special about the World Trade Center, made up of raw footage, and I’ve spliced together a few minutes from it.
George W. Bush promised he would bring Osama bin Laden to justice, but he didn’t. He failed utterly. Instead, Bush got Saddam Hussein, who had nothing whatsoever to do with the attack on America on 9/11/2001.
If McCain is elected in November there will be no investigation into what really happened to lead us to invade and occupy Iraq. We must find out with absolute certainty, and putting the Obama/Biden ticket in office is the only hope we have of doing that.
I had to laugh when I heard from an older friend that his 70-year-old lady friend, a retired nurse, said of Sarah Palin, “She’s a monster.” I haven’t seen Palin’s entire interview with Charlie Gibson, but I’ve seen enough to know we should be very scared of her. Listen to her dissemble, trying to back out of her assertion that our being in Iraq is a “task from God.” She was thinking like Lincoln?? Oh, puh-leez!
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Fannie and Freddie CEOs may collect millions
By Martha GraybowNEW YORK (Reuters) – The top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both losing their jobs as part of a government bailout, may get multimillion-dollar payments from the mortgage finance companies upon their exits.
I am so fed up with executives walking away from their failures with millions of dollars. This is simply unfair. We need a serious attitude change in Washington, and I promise you that John McCain is not the man to deal with out of control executive compensation.
