Lookin' good for Team McCainFollow

That's a pretty big stretch, even for you. I know Damien rarely speaks in complete rational thoughts, but how you got that translation from that quote is beyond me.

Only two colleges? Pffftt... Palin went to six universities in six years!!



(before finally getting her BA)

If you were sincerely interested in this a simple web search would yield relevant results. Obama has been active on behalf of communites his whole life, beginning as a community organizer, continuing as a civil rights attorney and professor of Constitutional law (for 10 years), as an Illinois congressman and as a US Senator. He has accomplished quiet a bit in his short time in elected office (12 years now). In Illinois he worked on ethics and health care reform, tax credits for low income workers, childcare credits, welfare reform, predatory lending, racial profiling, and capital punishment. His major accomplishments in the US Senate include ethics reform, nuclear nonproliferation, increased transparancy and accountability http://www.usaspending.gov, and as a co-sponsor of many other bills.



Palin has extremist/fringe views, but I think these are derived from the time/place she is in. She is a typical politician that will latch onto whatever is convenient at the time to advocate her political positions.

She was a member of the Alaskan seccesionist group (Alaska first- Alaska always) and Libertarian party, she believes that everything she wants to do politically is what God wants (if you voted for Kerry in 2004 you may be going to hell, just FYI), she was a member of a church that speaks in tongues and makes Jeremiah Wright seem tame(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html), her basic social propganda is predicated on family values yet her unmarried 17 year old daughter is pregnant and the blame somehow escapes her (what happened to blame the parents?), she uses public office as a means to execute personal vendettas and enrich her own small group, she lies on her stump speech so often that the media can't keep up with the fact checking (she was for the road to nowhere, didn't want to "stand in the way of progress," only against it when the money went dry and it became a national debacle)...and that is only scratching the surface after the first week.

He's accomplished becoming the first black man to become the presidential nominee, thereby ensuring that all you extreme right-wing racist/ religeous spoondangling, window lickers ar'n't sleeping very well due to the fear that you might have to call a negro your CinC.

Thats gotta count for something, right?

Democratic. Which makes for an interesting system where we eat our young and the primary opposition to the Democratic governor is the Democratic House leader. The GOP in the state is completely diminished due to scandals and mismanagement and is largely aligned with select parts of the state Democratic party these days. Blagojevich didn't win re-election as governor because he's awesome, he won because the state GOP is so crippled that they couldn't field any credible candidates.

I don't feel any shame over the party thing. Everyone knows Blagojevich is a ****, party be damned. He's the very stereotype of the "tax and spend liberal", pressing in social programs and leaving local governments to figure out how to finance them. On the other hand, we have awesome state Democrats like Pat Quinn & Lisa Madigan, who -- god willing -- will be unlocking the Springfield mansion in a couple of years.

Also agreeing that the Illinois Democratic governor has been awful, awful, awful. Really nothing useful done at all. And an example of wasteful spending was his insistence on making Chicago public transportation free to all elderly. Despite the fact that the public trans authority was woefully underfunded, and that seniors didn't really want or need the free ride.

If I was the Democratic Gbaji, I'd say this:

Heh, can't you see that the *real* sexists here are the Republicans? As soon as someone mentions "pig", they automatically link it with a woman. Isn't that sexism? In fact, I'd go further and say that picking a woman as VP is really quite sexist since it implies that a woman can't actually be President. You see, when you choose a certain gender over another, you're discriminating against the former gender by not implicitly deciding to not actively choose the gender in question.

Now I don't know much about biology, but my guess would be that women are born men but then have their penins cut off at some point. I mean, think about it, it's just common sense. So if the Republicans are not really sexist, why not just surgically add a ***** to Palin? Could it be because they're sexist?

Yup, that's what the Conservative media want you to think!

Heh, folks... ;)

Because, if you had read my post with any dose of comprehension, you'd see why it was irrelevent. Ask questions worth my while.