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| Keith Olbermann comments on Sarah Palin, Mccain's VP pick |
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McCain's minimal vetting of Palin. All you
can say from this - regardless of what
happens with this Desperate Housewives
subplot beginning to play out - is that
McCain is more incompetent as an executive
than Bush:
As the Palin pick turns 72 hours old,
McCain's campaign is learning as much about
her from the media and from Democrats as they
are from what minimal political preparation
they had...
They've bragged that Palin opposed the famous
"Bridge to Nowhere," only to learn that
Palin supported the project and even told
residents of Ketchikan that they weren't
"nowhere" to her. After the national outcry,
she decided to spend the funds allocated to
the bridge for something else. Actually,
maybe it's more fair to say that coincident
with the national outcry, she changed her
mind. The story shows her political judgment,
but it is not a reformer's credential.
Likewise, though she cut taxes as mayor of
Wassila, she raised the sales tax, making her
hardly a tax cutter.
She denied pressuring the state's chief of
public safety to fire her sister-in-law's
husband even though there's mounting evidence
that the impetus did indeed come from her.
Ostensibly to clear her name, Palin asked her
attorney general to open an independent
investigation—the legislature had already
been investigating. (I am told that the
campaign was aware of the ethics complaint
filed against her but accepts Palin's
account.)
McCain's campaign seemed unaware that she
supported a windfalls profits tax on oil
companies and that she is more skeptical
about human contributions to global warming
than McCain is.
They did not know that she took trips as the
mayor of Wasilla to beg for earmarks.
They did not know that she told a television
interviewer this summer that she did not
fully understand what it is that a vice
president does.
You know what this pick remind me of?
Invading a country with no plans for what to
do once you got there.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai
ly_dish/2008/09/what-mccain-did.html#more
Tags : Barack Obama Joe Biden john Mccain Sarah Palin economy speech interview debate energy oil gas tax cut Iraq war president |
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Durée : 555 s |
| Mike Talks Katrina and McCain's VP Pick on Keith Olbermann |
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An Open Letter to God, from Michael Moore:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/ind
ex.php?messageDate=2008-08-31
"It felt like here was a democrat that found
his spine -- that was going to stand up --
that was going to fight back." -- Michael
Moore on Barack Obama's August 28th, 2008
Democratic National Convention speech
"Their treatment of women throughout the
decades -- leading up to even now -- this
sort of attitude that women are so stupid
that they're going to just vote for somebody
because they're a woman, even though this
woman is against the very things that women
are for and the things that women need. I
mean they really think women are, I guess,
just dumb or something. ... I don't think
women across the country right now are
feeling honored by this event today." --
Michael Moore on John McCain's running mate,
Sarah Palin
Find a whole lot of spine at
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Tags : michael moore countdown keith olbermann sarah palin john mccain hurricane katrina george w. bush barack obama |
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Durée : 465 s |
| Olbermann: the beginning of the end of America |
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Olbermann takes Bush on for the "Military
Commissions Act" and the death of Habeas
Corpus.
"And if you somehow think Habeas Corpus has
not been suspended for American citizens but
only for everybody else, ask yourself this:
If you are pulled off the street tomorrow,
and they call you an alien or an undocumented
immigrant or an "unlawful enemy combatant"
— exactly how are you going to convince
them to give you a court hearing to prove you
are not? Do you think this Attorney General
is going to help you?
This President now has his blank check.
He lied to get it.
He lied as he received it.
Is there any reason to even hope, he has not
lied about how he intends to use it, nor who
he intends to use it against?"
Tags : olbermann bush liar lie tyranny authoritarianism habeus corpus america |
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Affichage : 546090
Durée : 521 s |
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