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September 20 / 21, 2008
Michael Hudson
America's Own Kleptocracy
Pam Martens
The Wall Street Model: Unintelligent Design
Lila Rajiva
Putting Lipstick on an AIG
Richard Rhames
A Bailout to Nowhere
Bill and Kathleen Christison
The Making of Recent U.S. Middle East Policies: a New Study of Neocon Influence
Robert Fantina
Republicans and Subpoenas: Never the Twain Shall Meet
Heidi Walters
Hung Up on Route 36: an 18-Wheeler and a Nuclear Cask
Anthony Papa
Imprisoned Voters and the Elections
Dave Zirin
Leave Josh Howard Alone
September 19, 2008
Steven T. Banko
McCain's Passion Play
Mike Whitney
The Point of No Return
Michael Hudson
The Dow Jones' Wonderfully Cheesy Addition
William Kaufman
Shattering the Glass-Steagall Act: the Bi-Partisan Origins of the Financial Crisis
Brenda Norrell
The Fall of Lehman Bros.:
Blowback for Black Mesa?
Keeanga-Yamatta Taylor
The New Rhetoric of Racism: Why Won't Obama Call It Out?
Clifton Ross
Bolivia: Cleaning Up the Bull Ring
Dave Lindorff
Hang On to Your Wallets: the Government's About to Rescue Us!
Cynthia McKinney
Seize the Time!
Susan Hurlich
Storm Survivors: a Dispatch from Cuba
Michael Donnelly
Let's Hand It All Over to the Democrats (They Helped Create This Mess)
Website of the Day
The Crisis Explained
September 18, 2008
Benjamin Dangl
The Machine Gun and the Meeting Table
Harvey Wasserman
The Senate's Drill, Drill, Drill Scam
Susan Abulhawa
The Lobby Has Spoken:
Biden and Israel
Robert Weissman
After the Fall:
the Financial Re-Regulatory Agenda
Anne-Marie McManus
McCain's Cinderella: the Fetishization of Sarah Palin
Corey D. B. Walker
The Poverty of 21st Century Progressivism
William S. Lind
Senator O'Bush: Why Obama is Wrong on Iran and Afghanistan
Ron Jacobs
Washington's False Logic of Torture
Dave Lindorff
American and China: Joined at the Hip
Binoy Kampmark
How Damien Hirst Got Away With It
Website of the Day
An Invisible Army
September 17, 2008
Stephen Conn
Palin and the Politics of Big Oil
Forrest Hylton
Reactionary Rampage in Bolivia
Patrick Cockburn
Petraeus Leaves Iraq
Gregory Elich
Inside North Korea
Ralph Nader
How the U.S. Auto Industry Wrecked Itself
Franklin Lamb
The Palestinians of Shabra-Shatila
Pam Martens
The Gang's All Here: Bush, McCain and the Old Iran/Contra Team
Dave Lindorff
The End of the Blue Chip Economy
Peter Morici
The Damage Deepens
Stanley Heller
The Killing of Count Folke Bernadotte
Douglas Valentine
Rambling David Foster Wallace
Website of the Day
Free Cindy McCain!
September 16, 2008
Paul Craig Roberts
US Economy: Rudderless and Reeling from Direct Hits
Tiphaine Dickson
Citizen Palin: Why Sarah Palin Quoted Westbrook Pegler
Stan Goff
America is Now Rome: an Open Letter to Christian Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
Uri Avnery
Tzipi's Choice
Michael Winship
Lipstick on Polar Bears
Jeff Halper
Warehousing Palestinians
Patrick Irelan
Bolivia Versus the Empire
Oscar Gonzalez
Who's Dumber? Ike's Refugees or Wall Street's?
Binoy Kampmark
Cheney and His Records
Fatemeh Keshavarz
Muslims are at Peace with You
Sen. Russ Feingold
Restoring the Rule of Law
Website of the Day
The Next Great Rock Band?
September 15, 2008
Mike Whitney
The Tumbrils Roll at Dawn
Peter Morici
Toxic Lehman
Patrick Cockburn
Take Another Look at the Surge
Charles R. Larson
The Maverick Has No Clothes
Jonathan Cook
The Expulsion of Palestinians from Jaffa
Nikolas Kozloff
Racist Rhetoric in Bolivia
Roger Burbach
Morales Confronts the Insurrection: Bolivia and the Echoes of Allende
Helen Redmond
Where's the Health Care Bailout?
David Michael Green
The Democrats Do Poland
David Macaray
The Boeing Strike
Ralph Nader
Remembering Peter Camejo
Website of the Day
The Ballad of Sarah Palin
September 13 / 14, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
Panic!
Jeffrey St. Clair
Inside Dirk Kempthorne's Closet
Wajahat Ali
Playing with the Constitution
Robert Fantina
Cheney Scales New Heights of Hypocrisy
Marcus Rediker
Notes on a Visit to the Favelas of Medellín, Colombia
Richard Neville
The Baby Killers
Ed Gaffney
Breaking the Siege of Gaza
Carla Blank
Neglecting a Grand Old Lady
P. Sainath
The Almighty and the U.S. Elections
Lee Sustar
Working Harder; Falling Further Behind
Joshua Frank
Liberalism and Its Bounds
M. Junaid Levesque-Alam
The Guantanamoized Age
Dennis Loo
Shock and Awe Comes Home to Roost
Zach Zill
Squeezed Out in New York City
Omar Barghouti
So You Think You Can Dance? Israeli Profiling of African-American Dancers
Bill Quigley
Social Justice Quiz, 2008
Andy Worthington
Bush's Bitter Legacy
Stephen Dunifer
Free Radio: Liberating the Commons
Seth Sandronsky
Bailing Out Big Auto
David Yearsley
Portabella's Bach: Grim, Trite and Incredibly Boring
Patrick B. Barr
Obama's Punchless Campaign
Rannie Amiri
Tasting Ramadan
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Flight Not Taken
Richard Rhames
What, Me Reason?
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
The Large Hadron Collider Powers Up
Poets' Basement
Deer Cloud and Buknatski
Website of the Weekend
Wasilla Valley PTA?
September 12, 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
The Next Cuban Missile Crisis?
Michael Hudson
More Dangerous Than the A-Bomb?
The Chicago School's Record of Infamy
Lloyd Miller
Palin and Alaskan Native and Tribal Rights: a Dismal Record
Steve Breyman
Georgia in NATO?
Maria Rivera
Cuba After Gustav and Ike: an Eyewitness Account
Jonathan Cook
Israel and the Dark Arts
Ayesha Ijaz Khan
U.S. Designs on Pakistan
M. Shahid Alam
The Mendacity of Missed Opportunities
Robert Weissman
Executive Pay and the "Market Economy"
Tanya Golash-Boza / David Brunsma
Immigration Raids Must Be Stopped
Website of the Day
Know Your Rights
September 11, 2008
Noam Chomsky
Towards a Second Cold War?
Sharon Smith
Afghanistan: You Call This a Good War?
Ron Jacobs
Palinomics:
She Ain't No Working Class Hero
Marjorie Cohn
God, Guns and Oil: A Palin Theocracy?
Mike Whitney
Cheney in the Caucasus
Jeffery R. Webber
Bolivia: a Coup in the Making?
Paul Cantor
The Other 9/11
Peter Morici
The Surging Trade Deficit
Ray McGovern
Iran's Road Less Traveled to Nukes
Linn Washington, Jr.
Screening Mumia:
The Suppression of Dissent in America
Website of the Day
Palin (Michael) for President!
September 10, 2008
Paul Craig Roberts
A Temporary Respite from Permanent Decline
Conn Hallinan
The Return of U.S. Death Squads
Ralph Nader
Who Needs Regulations When You've Got a Golden Parachute?
Peter Morici
Can the Bailout Work?
Joanne Mariner
The Horrendous Case of Aafia Siddiqui
Laura Tate Kagel /
Jen Marlowe
The Pending Execution of Troy Davis: a Case for Clemency
Chuck Spinney
Incestuous Amplification and the Madness of King George
Dave Lindorff
Lazy Thinking and Prejudice
Scott Campbell
Where Now for Oaxaca's Social Movement?
Paul Farmer
Haiti and the Hurricanes
Anne Kilkenny
Letters from Wasilla: the Sarah Palin I Know
Website of the Day
Democrats and Zombies
September 9, 2008
Michael Colby
The Obama Poll Drop
Chellis Glendinning
Retorno a 1968: From Berkeley to Mexico City
Vijay Prashad
Losing Game
Jeffery R. Webber/
George Ciccariello-Maher
Venezuela From Below
David Michael Green
Country Last
Brian J. Foley
The New Face of Republican Power
John Ross
Mexican Flag Wrap
Pierre M. Sprey /
Winslow T. Wheeler
Joint Strike Fighter:
Another Defense Acquisition Disaster
Nicole Colson
Sami Al-Arian's Long Road to Freedom
Marc Gardner
California's Anti-Homosexual Laws are Alive and Unwell
William S. Lind
The Baltic States and Russia: Toy Armies or Accomodation?
Website of the Day
All Hope Rests with Piper Palin
September 8, 2008
Mike Whitney
An Interview with Michael Hudson on the Worsening Debt Crisis
Tariq Ali
The Godfather as President
Pam Martens
The Man Who Vetted Palin
Bill Quigley
The Weary Road Home: Displaced Poor Continue to Return to New Orleans
Malini Johar Schueller /
Ed White
Not About Me: Obamamania, Racial Porn-fest and Palinama
Robert Jensen
Pop Music and 9/11
Uri Avnery
Lonely Rider
Win McCormack
Palin Family Values
Howard Lisnoff
How Far From a Police State?
Maria C. Khoury
Taybeh Oktoberfest in Palestine
Website of the Day
Scaring Students from Voting in Virginia
September 6 / 7, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
Sarah Palin and the Good Book
Jeffrey St. Clair
That Dam Senator: A River Ran Through Him
Linn Washington, Jr.
The GOP Excluded Black-Owned Businesses from Contracts at St. Paul Convention
Patrick Cockburn
Did Bush Spies Monitor Iraqi Allies?
Gary Leupp
The September 3 Attack on Pakistan: a Precursor to More War Crimes?
Nancy Kurshan
CHI-town Lowdown: Memories of 1968
William Blum
Has Obama Already Lost?
Michael Winship
The St. Paul Police vs. the Independent Media
Fred Gardner
Joe Biden, Drug Warrior
Nikolas Kozloff
Sarah Palin and the Wal-Mart Moms: the Cultural Packaging of VP Candidates
Wajahat Ali
The Cryptkeeper and His Pitbull: the Past and Future of the GOP
Robert Fantina
Change Agents?
Karyn Strickler
Palin by Comparison: Sarah and the Hillary Voters
David Yearsley
What Their Fanfares Told Us About the Candidates
Richard Rhames
Bad Campaign Moon Rising
James L. Secor
Bandwagon Politics
Missy Beattie
Missy for Vice POTUS
Eric Patton
Baseless in Obamaland
Ben Terrall
Haiti and the Washington Consensus
Thom Rutledge
Mr. Magoo and the Kind Stranger: a Serious Political Problem
Dan Bacher
Arnold and the Manufactured Drought
David Macaray
Is Union Democracy at Risk?
Jane Stillwater
The Admiral's Child: a Psychological Reason for McCain's Flip Flops
Grady Harper
Should Hunting Really be High on Our Priority List?
Poets' Basement
Wolff, Payne and Holt
Website of the Weekend
We'll See Your Sarah Palin and Raise You With Maria McKee
September 5, 2008
Elizabeth Walters
Old Fears, New Worries in Louisiana
Bill Quigley
Gustav's Path of Destruction
Alan Farago
Nothing Means Anything: The Fantasy of John and Sarah
Dave Lindorff
The Things They Left Behind (Including McCain's First Wife)
Ira Glunts
A Lesson Before Lying: How Republicans Solved Sarah Palin's Jewish Problem
Peter Morici
The Big Slump
Deepak Tripathi
Politics, Morality and the GOP: John McCain as John Major?
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
The Energy of a Hurricane
Michael Donnelly
Change. God. POW.: a Summary of McCain's Big Speech
Martha Rosenberg
Free to Good Home, SUVs
Website of the Day
Sarah Palin's Air War: On Wolves and Bears
September 4, 2008
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Real McCain
Paul Craig Roberts
Who is Wrecking America?
Ron Jacobs
The Perishing Republicans, the RNC 9 and the Twin Cities Cops
M. Junaid Levesque-Alam
The Soft Surge
Andy Worthington
Rendered to Egypt for Torture
Osama Dawoud
How I Lost My Fulbright Scholarship
Stephen Lendman
Katrina Redux: the Militarization of New Orleans
Fidel Castro
Hurricane as Nuclear Strike
Website of the Day
Is McCain Palin's Bitch?
September 3, 2008
Patrick Cockburn
The Fake U.S. Victory in Iraq
Sen. Mike Gravel
Good Luck, Sarah!
Vijay Prashad
The Indian Left and the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
Nikolas Kozloff
Palin, Hunting and the American Psyche
Ralph Nader
Repeal Taft-Hartley
Howard Lisnoff
Forty Years in the Streets (And They're Still Beating Up Journalists)
Steve Early / Cal Winslow
Can SEIU Members Exorcize the Purple Shades of Jackie Presser?
Shepherd Bliss
A Field Report From Slow Food Nation
Bill Quigley
Living in the Car After Gustav
Website of the Day
Growing Up Okie: an Interview with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
September 2, 2008
Marjorie Cohn
Raiding Democracy in St. Paul
Jonathan Cook
Palestinian Village Faces Army Reign of Terror
Robert Weitzel
Biden and Israel
Corey D. B. Walker
Where Do We Go From Here?
John Ross
The Kidnapping Boom in Mexico
Eric Walberg
Wag the Dog in Georgia
Judith Scherr
No Day in Court for Ronald Dauphin
Richard Morse
Haiti, 2008
B. R. Gowani
What If the Israel Lobby was the African-American Lobby?
Michael Greenberg
Loofah Day in Cleveland
Website of the Day
Thanks for the Memories!
September 1, 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
Making a Killing in Iraq: McCain and the Telecoms
C. G. Estabrook
The War Will Go On
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Will a Russo-American Nuclear War Happen (Soon)?
David Macaray
An Elegy for Labor Day
B. R. Gowani
The Lobby as Juggernaut
Saul Landau
Real Gold Winners
Charles Orloski
Going Down to Hell's Cul-de-Sac
Gloria La Riva
Profit and Disaster in New Orleans
Website of the Day
Springsteen: Factory
August 30 / 31, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
Obama's Speech; McCain's Palinomy
Bill Quigley
Gustav is Coming
Jeffrey St. Clair
Valley Boy:
The Rise and Fall of Richard Pombo
Andy Worthington
Shining a Light on the Dark Prison
Deepak Tripathi
The Race for the White House: Notes From a European Observer
Stanley Howard
A Prisoner's Tale of Abuse
Dave Lindorff
Troopergate in Alaska
Wajahat Ali
Palin on the Prowl:
a Cougar for the PUMAs?
Robert Fantina
McCain and Palin
Josh Schlossberg
A Bias for Life: the Role of the Environmentalist
Benjamin Dangl
Beyond Voting
Missy Beattie
Stars, Stripes, War and Shame
Howard Lisnoff
Better Cuba Than Florida?
Suzan Mazur
Rethinking Evolution with Stuart Newman
Rev. Jim Rigby
What Would Jesus Ride to the Conventions?
David Yearsely
Katy Perry Meets Mozart
Serge Quadruppani
Italy's Years of Lead
B.R. Gowani
What If the Israeli Lobby Was the Islamic Lobby?
Richard Rhames
Empty Political Calories
Poets' Basement
Holt, Davies, Corsale and Landau
Website of the Day
Return of the Druids
August 29, 2008
Mike Whitney
How the Chicago Boys Wrecked the Economy
Brian Cloughley
Resurgent Russia
David Ker Thomson
Jacko and Me: Dispatches From Fifty
Joanne Mariner
A UK Window on CIA Abuses
Neve Gordon
The Ordeal of Sahar Vardi, Refusenik
Chris Genovali
Of Whales and Off-Shore Drilling
Ron Jacobs
What's a Godfearing Country to Do?
Michael Donnelly
Honest Abe in Denver?
August 28, 2008
Judy Gumbo Albert
The Battle of Chicago
Paul Cantor
Who Killed Victor Jara?
Saul Landau /
Farrah Hassen
Axis of Evil Defeats Neocons
Andy Worthington
Clearing Out Guantánamo
Ben Terrall
Return to Port-au-Prince
Leonard Peltier
Message to Obama: Symbolism Alone Will Not Bring Change
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Miasma of Bi-Partisanship
Donna J. Volatile
The Obama Construct
Website of the Day
Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker and Maya Angelou on the Meaning of Obama
August 27, 2008
Anthony DiMaggio
The Myths of Joe Biden
Jordan Flaherty
Three Years After Katrina
Ralph Nader
The Politics of Avoidance
Melissa Checker
Carbon Offsets, More Harm Than Good?
Bob Sommer
Blaming the Sixties
Cynthia McKinney
How the Democrats Helped Bush Hijack the Country
Ali Khan
Pakistan's Flawed Presidency
M. Junaid Levesque-Alam
The Only Good Muslim is the Anti-Muslim
Dave Lindorff
Strip-Search Nation
David Macaray
Labor's Hard Lessons
Website of the Day
Stagnant Income in an Eroding Economy
August 26, 2008
Patrick Cockburn
The Big Questions About Iraq
Michael D. Yates
Obama and the Working Class
Paul Craig Roberts
Is War With Russia on the Agenda?
Andy Worthington
The Guantánamo Suicide Report
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
Obama's Promised Land?
Huwaida Arraf
Sailing into Gaza
Joseph Grosso
Back to the Future: New York's Housing Crisis
Sheldon Richman
What About the Ossetians?
Binoy Kampmark
Impasse at Singur
Website of the Day
Taser Bait in Denver
August 25, 2008
Patrick Cockburn
US Out of Iraq by "2011"
Bill Quigley
Katrina, the Pain Index
Jonathan Cook
Israeli Outposts Seal Death of Palestinian State
James McEnteer
Death by Paranoia
Uri Avnery
The Devil's Hoof
Will Potter
The State Deparment's Green Scare Wing
Robert Jensen
Technological Fundamentalism
Stephen Lendman
Reinventing the Evil Empire
Wajahat Ali
Biden His Time
Carl Finamore
The Future of Trade Unions in China
Website of the Day
Don't Blow Up the Mountain, Boys
August 23 / 4, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
"Change," "Hope"...Why They Must be Talking About Joe Biden!
Jeffrey St. Clair
Killing Salmon with Paul O'Neill: Power, Profits and the Future of the Columbia River
Patty O'Grady
John McCain in a New Context: Why the Senator is No War Hero
Nicole Colson
Obama and Big Corn
Steve Conn
Obama and the Mining Cartel
Deepak Trapathi
Pakistan in Uncertain Times
Robert Fantina
Once Upon a Time in America: a McCain Administration
Jonathan M. Feldman
Obamanomics: Does the Left Have Anything to Say?
Joshua Frank
Targeting Pelosi (and the War Machine): an Interview with Cindy Sheehan
Osama Qashoo
Sailing to Gaza
Howard Lisnoff
The Long Silence: American Jews and the Palestinians
David Michael Green
Sen. McShame and the Wreckage:
John McCain Discovers America
Dave Lindorff
Why Not Let the Republicans Deal With This Mess?
Christopher Brauchli
A Banner Month for Passports
Alan Farago
Who Crippled the Government?
Michael Winship
Cash Register Conventions
Richard Rhames
Vlad the Derailer: Can Putin Save America From Itself?
David Rosen
The Culture Wars Are Over: But Culture Warriors Are Still Terrorizing America
Patrick B. Barr
Don't Try to Tame the Lightning Bolt
Jamie Newlin
Western Turf Wars: the Politics of Public Lands Ranching
Poets' Basement
Glendinning, McEnteer and Bonner
Website of the Weekend
Cafe Reconcile, New Orleans
August 22, 2008
Boris Kagarlitsky
Fallout from the Georgian War
Laura Carlsen
Obama and Latin America: Change or Continuity?
Bob Barr
No War for Georgia
Marwan Bishara
From Russia with Love: Putin Hits Georgia, Bloodies Bush
Peter Morici
Is the Fed Still a Central Bank?
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
The Big Heat
Charles Mostoller
The Battle for the Amazon
Sumbul Ali-Karamali
Obama is Not a Muslim: But Would It Be So Terrible If He Were?
Keith Rosenthal
Standing Up to Union-Bashing
John F. Miglio
The Devolution of the Baby Boom Generation
Website of the Day
Fire Sale in the Markets!
August 21, 2008
Allan J. Lichtman
Is Georgia 2008 a Repeat of Hungary 1956?
Dave Lindorff Loserville: How Obama Blew It
Ralph Nader
The Problem with Problem Banks
Joanne Mariner
The Military Commissions, So Far
Wajahat Ali
Descent Into Chaos: an Interview with Ahmed Rashid on Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Taliban
Ron Jacobs
Georgia and Historical Farce
Rostam Purzal
The Left and Iran
Anthony Papa
Unlocking the Power of Art to Counter Injustice
Website of the Day
Rocky Mountain Way
August 20, 2008
Michael Neumann
Russia and Georgia: Proportion and Distortion
Ray McGovern
Musharraf Out Like Nixon
Eric Walberg
Georgia's Ossetian Debacle
Fidaa Abed
Blocking a Gazan's Path to San Diego
Daniel Haack
The Pentagon's Most Prolific Pundit
Mike Whitney
Greenback Surges, Euro Shrivels
Website of the Day
Hands Off South Africa's Centre for Civil Society
August 19, 2008
Paul Craig Roberts
Are You Ready for Nuclear War?
Deepak Tripathi
A New Age of Torture
Marwan Bishara
The Politics of Evil in the US Elections
Saul Landau
Baseball Diplomacy or Just Baseball?
William S. Lind
Leave Georgia Alone, George
Martha Rosenberg
Whole Foods and Other Food Offenders
James Brittain
The Road to Tyranny in Colombia
Pratyush Chandra
Krugman's Great Illusion
David Macaray
AFSCME's Strike Against the University of California
Website of the Day
McCain Plagiarizing Solzhenitsyn
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Weekend Edition
September 20 / 21, 2008
Palin and the Culture of Life
Impalement
By MISSY COMLEY BEATTIE
A few political pundits have suggested that Barack Obama must remember he is running against John McCain, not Sarah Palin. But this isn’t the case. John McCain is obsolete, breathing near-dead breath into every microphone near his face. It is Sarah Palin who has galvanized the Republican base. It is she who draws the crowds.
Some among the electorate who were undecided, now, have declared themselves. For Palin. I read an article in which a Catholic voter said that Palin’s position on “life” had changed his mind. He’s for the McCain/Palin ticket.
This “life” issue is fascinating. Because those who are most vocal about the sanctity of life seem to disregard the inhumanity of war. Does it matter to them that so much life is destroyed in war? Do they ever think of the children? The paradox is mystifying.
Every time I see Palin on television, I think of the photograph of her next to a caribou she’s just slaughtered. She’s kneeling behind the bleeding animal, admiring her kill. One of her children looks on.
And I am reminded of Samantha Caine, a mom and PTA participant who, while slicing carrots in her suburban kitchen, suddenly, chops veggies like a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu. Then, faster, faster, faster she moves until she throws her knife, spearing a tomato to the door. Later, she kills a deer with her bare hands. This is no ordinary woman. She’s former CIA agent Charly Baltimore, an assassin who has amnesia. This isn’t real though--it’s a movie, The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Sarah Palin is Samantha Caine, emerging from small-town life to provide ultraconservative values as warrior princess and VP for a man who has flipped and flopped like a catfish out of water, a man who can’t speak one sentence without looking at notes or a Teleprompter unless he’s suggesting something tawdry like offering up his wife Cindy as a piece of judged meat at a bikers’ rally. Or exploiting his POW status.
Sinking in the polls, the bland and stumbling John I-don’t-know-enough-about-it-to-give-you-an-informed-answer McCain was groping his way toward Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge as possible second-in-command picks until Rovian shapers prevailed, eliminating the two because they are pro-choice. The Samantha Caine/Charly Baltimore heroine of the Republican Party came to the rescue.
Sarah Palin is Viagra.
And this is a problem.
The movie character provides a couple of entertaining hours. But Palin, a person of questionable authenticity, could be in a position to change our lives and the lives of people all over the map. In an exceedingly negative way. In her quest for the number two spot, which, given McCain’s serious medical history, could lead her to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, she has rewritten her past. Palin has forgotten her support for the Bridge to Nowhere, forgotten that she cut funding for special needs children, forgotten her ties to big oil. And these are just a few examples of memory deficits. Perhaps, Palin has amnesia.
The lies are coming faster, faster, faster. McCain steps back, deferring to Palin’s ability to rally the crowds he had lost until she boarded the Bullshit Bus. She even shouts her name first when speaking of a “Palin and McCain administration.”
We should all be frightened by someone who says the war in Iraq is a “task from God.” And that takes us back to the puzzling inconsistency--the sanctity of life in the womb verses the sanctity of life in its many stages post-birth.
A Christianist, Sarah Palin separates and compartmentalizes, placing a value on some life, not all life. She is extreme. Those who oppose her views get the ax.
I have a feeling she’d like to use her bare hands.
Missy Beattie lives in New York City. She's written
for National Public Radio and Nashville Life Magazine.
An outspoken critic of the Bush Administration and the war in
Iraq, she's a member of Gold Star Families for Peace. She completed
a novel last year, but since the death of her nephew, Marine
Lance Cpl. Chase J. Comley, in Iraq on August 6,'05, she has
been writing political articles. She can be reached at: Missybeat@aol.com
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