09-10-2008, 12:19 PM | #1 (permalink) | |
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Palin and rape victims
anyone else heard about this yet?
Palin was Mayor of Wasilla, AK from 1996-2002. This was an article run in Wasilla paper in 2000 about a new state law. Quote:
even if this isn't Palin's doing herself, she did appoint this police chief during her term, and to let this stand on her watch is an outrage. even if the intent is to eventually "pass the cost along to the criminal" on sentencing, making the victim pay at ANY point, even if they are "reimbursed" is rediculous! especially when the reason is to prevent the "burden" from being placed on the taxpayers. yeah, increasing-white-women-converting-to-mccain-after-obama-overlooked-hillary, this woman really has your back when it matters...
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09-10-2008, 12:35 PM | #3 (permalink) | |
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09-10-2008, 12:55 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Worry not, the WSJ and Fox will be issuing a talking points mem... I mean story, yeah story, shortly to explain why this makes perfect sense.
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09-10-2008, 01:11 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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"women are behind palin" mostly in the republican dream factory.
it produces smoke. don't inhale: it's harder than your first puff on a sheesha.
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09-10-2008, 04:17 PM | #6 (permalink) | |
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So you're holding Palin responsible for an opinion expressed by someone else?
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09-10-2008, 05:25 PM | #7 (permalink) | |
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09-10-2008, 05:49 PM | #8 (permalink) | ||
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you. |
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09-10-2008, 06:15 PM | #10 (permalink) | |
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Sarah Palin did appoint the police chief in question. She fired the previous Chief because he wanted SOME gun control and then found Fannon to replace him. |
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09-10-2008, 06:19 PM | #11 (permalink) |
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Palin is an asshole. There, I said it, it's out there (to the small TFP crowd). How can anybody support her? She's for all the bad things and none of the good things the GOP represents.
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09-10-2008, 06:50 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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There's more information out there than what's just in the article, but the Huffington Post did reference one of the issues surrounding his dismissal: he wasn't willing to play ball with the NRA. It's a strange story, and it makes Palin look like a grade A moron. A corrupt moron.
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09-11-2008, 09:22 PM | #15 (permalink) |
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I am actually finding it quite hilarious that Palin is causing such fits of apoplexy in the liberal and liberal minded community.
Like a politician has never used their power to advance their cause and/or help friends in the past. And I'm not talking about just these 2 articles either. If you listen to the press, its like she is the second coming of Satan. |
09-11-2008, 11:13 PM | #16 (permalink) | |
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Obama, my vote is pretty much yours to lose. Don't blow it.
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09-12-2008, 01:58 AM | #17 (permalink) | |
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But I agree with jorgelito, the Dems are losing this by the way they're handling Palin. They're falling for some new spin on some real old tricks. "You're hitting her just because she a woman, you're a sexist" "You can't hit her she a woman, if you do hit her she's a victim." This is all silly, like the lipstick on a pig BS. McCain can use it in talking about Hilary's health ideas, that's cool. Obama says it about McCains policies, that a sexist remark aimed at Palin. Palin's a politician and her record, experience and thoughts on policy should be an open book. Her family? Her children be left alone. Her husband, if he has been CC'ed State Gov. e-mails and is a member of the AIP, she should be asked about that.
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09-12-2008, 02:09 AM | #18 (permalink) | |
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To win the Dems need to concentrate their message on the positive. Argue for what you are going to do not what is bad about the other side. There has been enough negativity.
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09-12-2008, 02:21 AM | #19 (permalink) |
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The sad fact is in the US negative ads and campaigning has been very effective time and time again.
As the race stays tight and time runs short the mud will fly. Obama basically gave the 527's a green light recently. The rights 527's are gearing up too. It's going to get very ugly, IMHO.
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09-12-2008, 02:41 AM | #20 (permalink) |
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Every time I see Obama speak, I see him repeating a positive message.
I also see him repudiating any people disparaging his opponents. The only people I've heard say he ok'ed 527 attack ads are news reporters telling the audience that they heard it somewhere. some democrats I've never heard much about may attack Palin, and op-eds may attack her, but I don't know how this transfers to Obama...
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Marc Ambinder (September 09, 2008) - Quietly, Obama Campaign Calls In The Cavalry
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09-12-2008, 02:54 AM | #22 (permalink) |
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Exactly what I said: reporters claiming they heard something from somewhere.
I've seen every Obama speech and snippet and have never witnessed him indicate through body language, hinting, or otherwise that he wishes any attack ads on McCain or Palin. In fact, it's the opposite. When you paste something indicating Obama is personally ok'ing personal attacks in any way shape or form, I'll retract my stance. EDIT: btw, even if accurate, "hammering" someone is not the same as smearing or sliming an opponent. There are tons of legitimate issues to hammer both McCain and Palin on that are factually correct and damning. The ads against Obama, however, have been gross mischaracterizations of the reality and his political stances.
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Since he can't legally do that be prepared to remain on your stance. All this stuff happens through staffers and behind the scenes. Quote:
My concern is we go into full shiftboat mode on either or both sides.
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09-12-2008, 03:27 AM | #24 (permalink) |
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or we drown in an ocean of lint.
but no matter what happens, come november it will be presented as legitimate. so it doesn't matter if we drown in an ocean of lint or not. personally i have found that if you do not want to entertain the notion of drowning in an ocean, it's best not to swim in it. how does one go about not swimming in the ocean of conservative lint? like the other ocean, it seems everywhere. and repetition is power--redundancy, you know--what shapes the distinction signal--noise. there's no a priori. redundancy is determinate. repetition is power.
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09-12-2008, 03:38 AM | #25 (permalink) |
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If you believe that Obama is secretly signaling to people to start sliming his opponents then you should not vote for him. My understanding is that he wants to elevate the current political discourse because he believes that's what the general population wants and, as a result, a genuine campaign will prevail on the issues alone.
I doubt he wants your vote if you view him with cynicism. I know I don't want cynical people in our camp as it undermines the ideology of our movement for which he stands.
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09-12-2008, 04:06 AM | #26 (permalink) | |
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i should perhaps have made clear that i would hope obama figures out a way to not only maintain that posture on the road, but also to impose it on television. that seems to me the problem---i read some recent stats: 94/100 americans have at least one television--65% say that they rely on television as their primary infotainment source.
what's happening is the division of the campaign--the one that happens in 3-d and the one that happens in 2-d. the republicans, having nothing to say but hoping to reduce the election to a personality contest, are running a campaign fitted to 2-d. obama's so far has been better fitted to 3-d. i'd rather see the 2 and 3-dimensions closer together--so far the republicans have been able to dominate the 2-d register by streaming lint into to. and we're chumped too---look at the number of palin threads and what they're about. this is an expression of wedge politics. i still smell rove lurking, a fetid cloud. addendum: *this* is why letting sarah palin anywhere near power is a terrible terrible idea. read about the war with russia... jesus fuck. what planet is she on? Quote:
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09-12-2008, 05:26 AM | #27 (permalink) |
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COHEN: But if you want change, you want the Democratic party, Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus who our minister prayed about, Pontius Pilate was a governor.
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I'm still voting for Obama.
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