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The power of unmarried women

post from Everyday Citizen on 05 September 2008 07:00:29 PM. © Everyday Citizen

I received this email from Women's Voices Women Vote. As a single woman I couldn't believe that I[...]

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Cocktails and Chilling Out

post from Taylor Marsh on 05 September 2008 07:00:00 PM. © Taylor Marsh

BY TAYLOR MARSHThank heavens it’s Friday night. It’s been a wild two weeks, with both conventions now in the can. For Democrats, people showed up to see talent. For Republicans, they showed up to see a nominee’s rhetorical train wreck.[...]

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Hillary Camp: Go After McCain, Not Palin

post from TalkLeft on 05 September 2008 06:58:00 PM. © TalkLeft

Politico:

Hillary Rodham Clinton has no intention of becoming a Sarah Palin attack dog — but has no qualms going after John McCain, people close to the former first lady say. “She’s not the answer when it comes to winning conservative women — she never was — and we’re not going to be anybody’s attack dog against Sarah Palin,” said a Clinton insider. “To be fair to Obama’s people, they haven’t asked us to do that.”

Slamming Palin to win back women already hostile to Obama is pointless, the insider said, because Clinton’s most loyal base is working-class voters, not women in particular. “Attacking Palin is checkers, attacking McCain on the economy is chess.” Clinton will continue to yoke McCain and Palin to President Bush on pocketbook issues.

(Emphasis supplied.) Everyone got the memo except the Left blogs it seems.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

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Barack Obama takes it to Fox News

post from media girl - progressive, feminist, empowered on 05 September 2008 06:56:56 PM. © media girl - progressive, feminist, empowered

While Sarah Palin hides from and John McCain whines about the press -- which is really a way to show how "tough" you are -- Barack Obama walks in and sits down with anti-progressive Bill O'Reilly, who hardly could be considered a friendly personality.

video details and more

Barack Obama has been in debates, town halls, interviews, small group meetings for 18 months now. You can't accuse him of hiding.

Come out of your shell, Sarah Palin! Let us see past the PR! What are you afraid of?

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Jewish Group Launches Online Campaign Against
McCain/Palin

post from TalkLeft on 05 September 2008 06:48:00 PM. © TalkLeft

The National Jewish Democratic Council has begun an online campaign to oppose Sen. John McCain's choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate:

Senator John McCain made a poor choice in his first critical presidential decision with his vice presidential selection of Governor Sarah Palin. We, in the Jewish community, have to question McCain’s judgment for choosing a right-wing religious conservative with absolutely no foreign policy experience and a brewing scandal which is being investigated by the Alaska state legislature.

It is ironic that McCain, who turned 72 last week, has said, “The fundamental principle behind any selection of a running mate would be whether that person is fully prepared to take over.” And then McCain selected Palin???

More....

Among the objections to Palin:

- Palin believes that creationism should be taught in our public schools.

- Palin is against reproductive choice and is against abortion even in cases of rape and incest.

- Palin does not believe climate change is man-made.

- Palin says she is against wasteful government spending, yet she endorsed the “bridge to nowhere” and then flip-flopped when it became a political liability.

Additionally, just last month, Palin was at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church, where she attended a speech by David Brickner, the Executive Director of Jews for Jesus. During the speech, Brickner described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity.

If she is such a supporter of Israel, why didn’t she condemn Brickner’s speech at the time?

Do we really want Palin to be one heartbeat away from the presidency?

You can sign their petition here.

More reasons for Jewish voters to oppose McCain/Palin are here. Politico had this last week on the topic.

In reality, Palin's record on Israel, while friendly, is as thin as you'd expect from the first-term governor of Alaska.

Here is the NJDC's Factsheet on Obama vs. McCain. (pdf)

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Troopergate: A devastating exposé

post from Crooks and Liars on 05 September 2008 06:45:45 PM. © Crooks and Liars

ABC investigative journalist Brian Ross digs into the Troopergate story and comes to one obvious conclusion: Palin clearly lied about her involvement.The editorial board of the biggest newspaper in Alaska wants Sarah to stop stalling:Gov. Sarah Palin is taking the wrong approach to Troopergate. She should be practicing the open and transparent, ethical and [...]

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CBS' Rodriguez allowed McCain adviser to claim
unchallenged that Obama "has a plan to raise" taxes

post from Media Matters for America on 05 September 2008 06:45:41 PM. © Media Matters for America

During the September 5 edition of CBS' The Early Show, co-anchor Maggie Rodriguezdid not challenge McCain campaign senior adviser Steve Schmidt'sassertion that "Senator [Barack] Obama has a plan to raise" taxes.Rodriguez did not note that Obama has proposedcutting taxes for low- and middle-income families, and McCain's own chiefeconomic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, has reportedly saidthat it is inaccurate to say that "Barack Obama raises taxes."According to Obama's "TaxFairness Plan," "Barack[...]

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GOP Platform Bucks McCain, Backs Palin on
Abortion

In an interview with CBS’ Katie Couric Wednesday, Cindy McCain seemed surprised to learn that her husband John wants to see Roe v. Wade overturned. But as it turns out, the surprises hardly end there for the McCains when it comes to abortion and the 2008 Republican platform. By rejecting John McCain’s limited proposed exemptions [...]

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Kelly ODonnell: McCain has been hesitant to use
POW past until now

Apparently Kelly has been held captive for five years, too. There simply is no other explanation. Download | Play Download | Play “Well I want to tell you in about nine months of traveling with John McCain and hearing hundreds of speeches I have never heard him talk in such great detail about his own personal story [...]

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Sarah Palins civil rights record

Sarah Palin is a new political superstar. She is said to have more experience than Barack Obama but one thing she does not have is much of a civil rights record outside of gay rights issues. She also has a very Republican view on hate crimes legislation and gay marriage. Click the link below to learn [...]

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