Flip Flop - And Payoff

I loved when at the DNC "candidate" McCain was compared with "Senator" McCain (I can't remember whose speech it was - need more blueberries). Anyway, the CarpetbaggerReport lists 76 issues on which McCain has flipped his positions. They are categorized into areas including:

• National Security
• Foreign Policy
• Domestic Policy
  
• and more.

I sure hope the Obama/Biden campaign will find this website for the inevitable and stale flip-flop attack that is bound to come from the repubs. Seventy six!! Scary.

Now, take a look at this analysis of the proposed bailout of the economy. Here's an excerpt:

• No one who foresaw the crisis, such as Krugman or Stiglitz, is involved in making the plan to fix it.

• The man overseeing the bailout is the ex-CEO of Goldman Sachs, a Wall Street Company. He helped cause the crisis.
• Paulson helped obtain the SEC exemption which allowed brokerages to increase leverage to 60:1 from 12:1.

Folks we really have to get active! Work for Obama/Biden this week.
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Thank You Keith!

I couldn't stand keeping my attention focused on lies Palin's, McCain's, the campaign's (see several posts back), but I am so glad that Keith Olbermann is keeping track of Palin's and is turning the karma around.


In the spirit of turning a sow's ear into a silk purse (hope you like the pig metaphor)...

By now you probably know that Palin made rape victims pay for their own forensic exams. Instead of complaining about her, make a donation to Planned Parenthood IN HER NAME! Great idea...I'm off to the Planned Parenthood site armed with the address for the Palin's home. You can read about the idea here (be sure to go to the bottom of the page).

How can they get away with this from the New York Times?
At the insistence of the McCain campaign, the Oct. 2 debate between the Republican nominee for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin, and her Democratic rival, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., will have shorter question-and-answer segments than those for the presidential nominees, the advisers said. There will also be much less opportunity for free-wheeling, direct exchanges between the running mates.

Go Joe! Go Barack!

Back to Deadly Serious

Great New Ad on Equal Pay

OUCH!

Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation. (emphasis added

The Non-Answer Answers

I've been writing to the media about what I consider misguided attempts at "fair and balanced" coverage. For example, after the Obama campaign released an ad pointing to McCain's career-long votes against equal pay, the media repeated the campaign's allegation that women in McC's senate office make more than those in Obama's. To me, an accurate media portrayal would be: when asked about the ad, the McC campaign had no facts to rebut it.

Here's another example of a non-answer, answer from the McC/SP "town hall" yesterday (which, unlike former meetings only permitted pre-ticketed supporters to attend). As you read, please note these things.

1. Palin never responded to the questions about "specific skills".
2. Palin never answered the implied question about foreign policy experience.
3. McCain had to get her back to her scripted talking points about energy = foreign policy and a son heading to Iraq = foreign policy experience. (Boy am I glad he didn't repeat the "we can see Alaska" line.
4. AND, drum roll, please - don't we women rail agains the sexism of men having to remake our points for us. Oh, John, you just don't get women!
   

But one woman challenged Palin on her qualifications.

“Gov. Palin, there has been quite a bit of discussion about your perceived lack of foreign policy experience, and I want to give you your chance,” the questioner said. “If you could please respond to that criticism and give us specific skills that you think you have to bring to the White House to rebut that or mitigate that concern.”

Palin replied at first by saying that opponents look for things to criticize her about because she is a “Washington outsider.” As for her credentials, she did not offer anything specific but asserted she will be prepared for the job by the time she assumes it — suggesting, perhaps, that the four months between now and then will add to her knowledge.

“As for foreign policy, you know I think that I am prepared and I know that on Jan. 20, if we are so blessed as to be sworn into office as your president and vice president, certainly we’ll be ready. I’ll be ready. I have that confidence. I have that readiness.”

McCain jumped in after that to tout her experience with energy issues, saying that dependence on foreign oil is one of the greatest threats to U.S. national security. He also suggested she was prepared because her son is headed off to serve in Iraq." SOURCE: the conservative WSJ

I don't watch TV, so I don't know how the MSM is covering the dissembling, but the blogsphere is ripping into the repubs as are some noted conservatives.

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Corporate Socialism and Obama's Wit

When the repubs bail out the financial industry (which is probably necessary), borrow from China to:

• line the pockets of Halliburton and rebuild Iraq,
  
• funnel money into the military/industrial complex or
  
• subsidize the oil industry it's a good use of taxpayer money.
  

BUT when the Obama campaign talks about investing in infrastructure, alternative energy innovation, education, and providing healthcare to most of the citizens - the repubs claim that the taxpayer will face higher taxes to pay for this (a distortion of Obama's plan). I don't know about you, but I'd rather invest my tax dollars in this country and in sectors that will create jobs and wean us from oil rather than invest them in bailouts (also called corporate socialism).

ON a HAPPIER NOTE
Barack has a great sense of humor.

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Women for Obama/Biden has been very active this week. Congressional endorsements, NOW endorsement, Joe and Hillary webcast. Makes me happy.

Get involved! Take action.

To Other Hillary Supporters...

I invite you to watch her in a discussion on women's issues with Joe Biden. See it here. (30 min)



I'm so glad Bush never privatized social security. So are Barack and Joe...New ad.

Duh..."fully informed..." Did you know about Troopergate? Did you know about her request for earmarks? What else did you not know about Palin, John?



Pretty good debunking of McCain campaign by CNN

Man Oh Man! Tell it Like it Is, Carly

I have admired Carly Fiorina for years and tout her book in my leadership training all the time. So, I was delighted when, yesterday Carly Fiorina - in a rare display of truth from the McCain campaign - said that Palin couldn't run a large corporation. WATCH here.

Now granted, the US government isn't a large corporation, but (if I recall correctly) its budget is about 3 (or is it 30?) times what HP's was when Carly left.

...as so happens with McCain and his surrogates, she later re-explained herself later and said that neither could McCain, Obama or Biden. I don't know...Obama has a vision, he knows how to engage the greatness in others and he's incredibly smart.

But, the commentaries I like best are from the alleged driver of the Straight Talk express. If you want to laugh before you continue today's work for Obama/Biden, take a peek.

UPDATE ON CARLY: Truth-telling gets her punished "Carly will now disappear," this source said. "Senator McCain was furious." Her previously booked interviews have been cancelled. Read the story here with link to CNN story.

You Go Joe! and Validation from Conservatives

Watch a worthy VP candidate discuss real issues!

Read criticism of the McCain/Palin ticket from noted conservatives.

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McCain's Horrible Record on Women's Issues

“For the past 25 years, John McCain has consistently voted against women's health. From opposing funding for family planning programs to voting against requiring insurance coverage of birth control, McCain has taken extreme positions. He has voted against women's health and has not supported legislation that would help reduce the rate of unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion. This has earned him a zero rating - the lowest rating we give in the U.S. Senate.”
(Source: Planned Parenthood)

McCain’s appalling legislative record - view it here. And here. And here.
In summary McCain's votes:
Equal Pay – AGAINST
FMLA – AGAINST before he was for
Choice – AGAINST (but he was for in 2000)
Insurance payments for birth control - AGAINST

Palin is painted as pro-women and an experienced executive. Let's consider what executive action she took to deal with “sexual abuse, rape, domestic violence and murder that make her state one of the most dangerous places in the country for women and children.” What did she do about it? NOTHING Read ABC news.

The republican platform seeks to deny women the right to choice even in the case of rape and incest.

Be informed. Be for Obama/Biden