Rudy Asks: Where Are the Feminist Groups? Republicans Say Media Scared of Palin

yes, she changed someone’s corruption for her own , power without any limits, etiquet and moral.
Do not tell me about great Mom. Yes, thing happen. And MOm always feel the fault. But not went to gamble politics to teach us – how to live.
I do consider her entire life as disgrace, the race for career and no matter what.
Let’s face it.

What’s happening is that Palin is an existential threat to the coastal elites. She’s someone Mo Dowd would never meet out at the Hamptons and she won’t play along with them. Unlike Obama, who long ago learned to swim with the morally and politically bankrupt crowd that populates universities and urban centers, Palin really is an agent of change. That’s she’s a woman who doesn’t kowtow to the hidebound 60s feminism (which is really just leftist groupthink with an estrogenic veneer) now placed in the drinking water on the coasts, is just more galling to them. This is what real change looks like.

Looks like the DNC still believes in the glass ceiling!

The reason Sarah Palin is attacked so visciously by liberals is because she has more experience than the top of the Democratic ticket. When the Democrats whine about her lack of foreign affairs experience, all the Republicans have to do is point to Obama’s similar lack of foreign affairs experience. The Democrats forced Joe Biden on Barack Obama to shore up his lack of experience. It’s now clear to the entire country that the wrong man is at the top of the ticket. Dems are embarrassed, and Repubs are laughing.

What did the media say when John Kerry picked John Edwards? Didn’t John Edwards have less experience than Palin? Did anyone ask Edwards if he’d be able to perform his fatherly duties *and* be VP?
No.

AMERICANS are scared of Palin.
the media happens to be Americans.
scared that the republicans would throw the nation so far under the bus…that they would pick the absolute worst VP candidate in our history.
Again I was President of my student body in high school and President of the Residential student body at my college…over more people than Palin had in her hometown…
does that give me the requisite “executive experience” to be commander in chief?
sad sad sad…the last of John Mccain’s character has slipped away.

Yoo Whooo Rudy we are right here! You silly snits thought we would support Palin just because she is a women??….good grief, you are soooo out of touch! This woman is trying to set us back 50 years, thanks, but no thanks!

The media have pointed out what Palin is all about…her past, her ethics, and politics. Not that I like the media, but this time they have done some investigative journalism and the truth offends those who make choices simply to please the Christian right as McCain did in this instance.

jose
other VP candidates actually knew what the mujahadin was and had proven it over a year and a half…
can Palin even spell mujahadin?
it is her awareness, grasp and knowledge of ANY of the issues that face us (and knowing oil pipeline issues…is not an energy policy ugh)
that is the rerason she is the WORST VP candidate …in our entire nation’s history.

rick
are you talking about the protesters outside that they used tear gas on?

If palin were a guy from Alaska with the same experience, would mccain have picked him? You can BET the farm he never would have even considered him, which only proves that this pick was political and gives an insight into the decision making abilities that mccain has. Obama/Biden 2008!!!

Those Republicans who claim that Palin has more executive experience than Obama are laughable!

she has more experience than the top of the Democratic ticket.
Oh yea hon, she has much more experience sticking her fingers into the pork barrel, being a member of a certain party that wants to secede from the U.S., destroying people that don’t think as she does, cutting social programs, trying to ban books that she doesn’t agree with…etc. The list goes on and on.

Maybe Schmidt or Davis can get some lessons about whining from Phil Graham.
Look at the Newsweek interview that Palin gave about whining, and Hillary Clinton.
They put the information about Bristol out there. They are sending campaign people out to the television shows to spin, and they don’t like when they are pressed to answer the questions put to them — rather than obfuscate.
Look no further than the ridiculous talking points that the McCain camp sends their minions to the talk shows with. Foreign Policy through osmosis and geographic proximity.
Pot. Kettle. McCain/Palin.

again where are the questions and answers from PALIN HERSELF
are you not all aware that she has not been allowed to be asked questions…
maybe because she can’t answer them?
duh.
show me one statement…one interview…one word outside a speech that was written by someone else where she answered questions and follow ups that show her grasp on ANY issue we are facing…
and negotiating n oil pipeline IS NOT AN ENERGY POLICY!

“Governor Palin isn’t a Harvard law grad. She’s just an ordinary American citizen that was sick to death of corrupt government.”
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You’re right. She has a degree in journalism and started out as a Sportscaster before running for a mayor of a town of 5000.
Frankly, I WANT someone who ISN’T ordinary to be in the most demanding role of our Constitutional Republic.
We’ve had eight long years of the guy we’d like to have a beer with.
How about eight years of the guy who has a positive vision for our nation?

I can’t believe the frenzy. These crooked politicians are actually scared to death of this true reformer we’ve finally found. They’ll use every resource they can to destroy her because she’s just one of us and they destroy us as often as they can.

I have news for those of you questioning Obama`s foreign policy credentials.
Obama not only has a degree in foreign relations but also has served on the Senate foreign relations commitee for three years and met a lot of foreign leaders.
Palin has zero. Dont tell me about executive because michelle Obama has got executive experience too.

Andrea
did you just really say
“Palin’s foreign affairs experience is on a par with Obama’s.”
and the easter bunny is coming to visit you.

She will be forged by fire, Bye Bye Hillary (cry, Cry), thanks Barak.

I do not want an Alaskan separatist bein my VP. Poor judgment by McCain. This is why 26 years of experience does not necessarily translate into good juedgment.

and what reform would that be that palin and McCain would bring…
taking out science all together and replacing it with the church completely?

I am struck by the GOP’s claim that they want change and that McCain & Palin will take on the bruisers in Washington that have put the country in such dire straits. The irony is that the same people that are singing McCain’s praises ARE the entrenched bruisers that got us to where we are. Don’t forget, 4 years ago these same people claimed George W. Bush was the messiah that was going to lead us to the promised land. And remember this as well: Bush and Cheney didn’t do it alone. The GOP cheered them on.

Aa fir Guliani….maybe feminists are not coming to Palin’s defense because of the hypocrisy shown by Republicans when dealing with Democrats in similar situations. Republican hypocriasy knows no bounds…

Palin a reformer???
Why is she under investigation in Alaska?
Why was she part of a separatist group?
Why doesn`t she believe in global warming?
Why is McCain who is on top of the ticket vowing to continue Bush`s policies?
Why was she heading a 527 group?
Thats not typical of a reformer.

Where are the Fem Groups – We Are Coming!
We WILL Come to the rescue – by the MILLIONS – we are called WOMEN!
The media bashing of GOV Palin is a DISGRACE – same dirty political tricks used on Hillary Clinton – we are watching – and will let you know in NOV that we will NOT tolerate this – or VOTE for obama. The media and DNC are a DISGRACE for not standing up to this abuse!

Disappointed-you had they same post on another thread. I asked you and got no response so I will ask again: Please name ONE (just one) example of foreign policy experience Palin has and your answer may not include the National Guard.

Mrs Palin in her earlier political career as mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a private lobbyist to help the tiny town secure earmarks from Stevens, entering Washington’s “pay to play” culture in which lobbyists, campaign contributions and lawmakers are intertwined.
The town obtained 14 earmarks, totaling $27 million between 2000-2003, according to data compiled by Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Federal lobbying records show that Wasilla hired the firm of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh in 2000 to arrange “funding of city projects.” The signature on the registration form is that of Steven W. Silver, a former top aide to Stevens, who chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee on and off between 1997 and 2005.

The media is questioning Palin`s experience, her links to separatists and abuse of power.
What is sexist about this? I need an answer.

Disapppointed but not Surprised,
Folks forget one important thing when comparing Obama’s experience with Palin….Obama has been vetted 18 months…Palin all of a week. 18 million voters voted for Obama in the Democratic primary….Palin was selected by one man. Like him or not America knows Obama now. How can anyone get to know Palin in two months? The truth is they can’t….not unless you are like GWB and can look into her eyes and see her soul…

Let’s play a little game.
One of the main talking points against Sarah Palin is that she’s “a heartbeat away” from the presidency and lacks the experience needed for that office.
So let’s begin.
McCain has a history of melanoma and many speculate that he’ll die immediately after taking the oath of office, leaving Sarah on her own without McCain’s guidance on foreign policy.
Biden has a history of brain aneurysms and also could immediately die after Obama takes the oath of office, leaving Obama on his own with Biden’s guidance on foreign policy.
In fact, between these two scenarios, Biden’s sudden death without warning is far more likely than McCain’s; I would venture to say that it’s a given fact that sudden death from an aneurysm is likely to happen while sudden death from melanoma is not.
So in either of these scenarios, where are we?
In Sarah’s case, we have Sarah as president, who has had time to prepare for taking over presidential duties. And we have Nancy Pelosi who automatically steps in as VP with a Democratic-controlled Congress.
In Obama’s case, we have him as president, with no time to prepare without Biden’s guidance. And we have Nancy Pelosi who automatically steps in as VP with a Democratic-controlled Congress.
Which of these two scenarios are you more comfortable with?

Joyce
McCain has selected a right wing extremist who doesn`t share the values of most women.
McCain has also opposed same pay for women and opposed the use of contraceptives for women but supports viagra for men.
McCain and Palin are also opposed to abortion rights.
Tell me why women and independents should vote for them. And i have news for you Obama is leading the female votes.

Mary Lou, learn basic civics. Pelosi does not automatically assume the Vice Presidency. The President nominates his own choice, just like they do with running mates

You republicans can spin all you want but it doesnt take away the fact that McCain has displayed poor judgment in his first most important decision.
This has already backfired.

Indy-Voter -I hope you don’t mind if I add to your great post: Obama has met with the heads of state of countries in the Middle East and Europe. He’s met with our commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s traveled with Sen. Lugar to secure loose nuclear weapons in Russia. We all know his policies regarding the Middle East, Russia, Venezuela, etc. Mention that not only do we know nothing of Gov. Palin’s foreign policy experience, we don’t know her thoughts on foreign policy, and neither does she – in a recent interview, she said she hadn’t given Iraq much thought.

She is distracting but I want to hear her speech tonight and see what she has to say. The rampant sexism has been too allowable in the face of the angst over racism. The left is too anxious to blow her out of the water, and that tendancy of Obama to run behind skirts when attacked, too noticeable. The hypocrisy is palpable.
I don’t care for EXTREME conservatism. She supports issues that I can’t and won’t. But she deserves the same chance as Obama and she has more experience to work from, so she has a right to be heard without demeaning her because she is a woman. A minority of 51% is not to be ignored.
Otherwise, the Democrats become not the opposition, but the Party of Hate and that is not, I suspect, what they want to become. Still they are on that path and as a former Democrat gone independent because of what was done to Hillary Clinton, I have to make a decision based on what the candidates say and my sense of their ability to deliver.
Otherwise, republic is just another name for oligarchy, be it left, right or center.

These are all the reasons why Obama is winning this fall. How can republicans run down the country and expect to be given another four years.

What I want to know is, when did god change his mind? This woman doesn’t fit the “traditional christian” mother mold. A newborn with down’s syndrome, doesn’t he need his mother more than the “country”? At least, thank god, she doesn’t believe in birth control and believes in abstinence only, that’s why she’s going to be a grandmother, she forced those “values” on her seventeen year old daughter. Isn’t god’s position women stay at home and care for the children, and let the men be the leaders? She went to a “holy roller” Assembly of God church, she knows that. The media and the public taking swipes is offending the right. Well, according “them” she shouldn’t be there in the first place. When DID god change his mind people?

Yes, many women are “afraid” of McCain/Palin. We’ve worked hard and advanced our rights a long way the last 40 years and do not want to see that reversed.

Samantha,
Okay, so let’s say that Obama\Biden or McCain\Palin are true reformers. And let’s also say that Obama\Biden and McCain\Palin both have lack of experience in certain areas. It then comes down to policy. Republican policies have driven country to its knees. McCain supports continuing those policies. Obama does not. Plain and simple. If folks believe that Bush policies are correct but mis-managed then vote for McCain. If folks believe that a real change in policy is needed than vote for Obama….everything else is just noise..Just don’t give me any crap McCain\Palin will change Washington because they won’t…

Joyce says Obama has done nothing in his career to advance women.
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So you do not believe women doing the exact same job as men should be paid equally? Your candidate opposed it.

D`Obama
`Even if that’s true, it’s better than electing a guy who is friends w/ terrorists and other assorted America haters, and who espouses Marxist policies. Just sayn’
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Obama has to take responsibility just because Ayers knows him?
Am not surprised you also think McCain should be responsible for Lary Craig patronizing male prostitutes just because he knows him.

Mccain hounded Obama about experience, and leadership, He hounded obama on Country first, and the need to have a strong sense of foreign policy
Time and Time again he sent his reThugs to smash obama on his ineffective record, and questioned his judgment…
and now we see that mccain has went back on all that he said…
he put someone with zero foreign policy experience, little to no experience governing, put a woman on the ticket so he could hopefully get WOMENS votes (after all a women is a women is a women and palin is interchangeable with hillary clinton because they are women)
john mccain squandered his first presidential task to a gimmick for votes, he sold out his own message… how is this putting COUNTRY FIRST?
He didnt even properly vet her, he just seemingly woke up after obamas speach and said well were going to lose i guess i better roll the dice…thats right mccain likes to gamble… do you want him gambling with rush? N Korea? Iran?
Can we trust john mccains judgment when his judgment is so reckless?

The Caribou Cutie seems to be
in the last few minutes of her
15 minutes of fame.
McCain may think he has pulled
a cutie on the nation, but the
Cutie he picked is going home.

David from Texas
shes ready to be president?
lol what qualifications does she have? please go ahead and list them? She has ZERO foregin policy experience, you know taht thing you guys have been saying for months now that obama has too little
well obams foreign policy experience blows hers out of the water
or are you of hte belief that since alaska is close to russia that is all the foreign policy experience she needs?

The fact that so many see no problem with Ayers – apparently believing he’s “just a guy who lives in Obama’s neighborhood” – proves just how lax and in the tank for Obama the media has been!

McCain supporters are trying to say that if you are not republican then you dont love your country.
I feel very offended by that.

David from texas
it is not a very smart thing to cosider polls as election results.
What makes you think that it is always a strict rule for republicans to jump ahead of the Dems before elections?

“Obama has to take responsibility just because Ayers knows him?”
-Keith
Knows him? They are friends, colleagues on boards, etc. They worked together on several projects. Would you work on a project – no matter how noble you think that project might be – w/ a guy who did the things Ayers admitted to doing (not to mention, how he is proud of it, and wished he did more)?? If you would, we’re done here!

NMP, And if Obama is for equal pay how has he demonstrated that by his ACTIONS???? Like I said he claims to be for womens rights but everything he has done has shown the contrary.
Meanwhile my candidate chose a woman as VP and meanwhile the Republican party has boasted the three most high profile and intelligent blacks in recent history Rice, Powell, and Thomas. And also appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court- O’connor. Democrats have done what now? Oh I forgot, they sent Geraldine and Hillary down in flames and selected Mr. Nice guy Edwards who cheated on his wife who was battling cancer. A story which has conveniently gone away. When have the Democrats actually been for woman’s empowerment?

What I think is going on here:
–The McCain campaign introduced Sarah Palin as a compelling candidate by emphasizing her biography. Given that this is the case, the media are now vetting that biography. The campaign only have themselves to blame for how the negative information for Palin has emerged. They should have, could have, managed it better.
–The McCain campaign has used “experience” as one of its main arguments against Obama. Obama went ahead and chose Biden, one of the most experienced statesmen in our country, to help him lead if they are elected. Now, McCain picks a VP who has no national or foreign experience. So the media are going to ask, why did her pick her, if experience is so important even by his own admission? By all indications so far, part of her appeal as a candidate is that she will be a good campaigner, a good political choice for the Republican base to rally around. She’s got spunk, they say, and they’re making her into a poster child for their core values. So the media will rightfully ask, given that McCain criticized Obama for just being a celebrity that spoke well, how did he decide it would be advisable to choose a VP for her celebrity and excitability potential? So now the media are evaluating her according to the very terms McCain has put out there these many months: a life story, experience, and seriousness of purpose.
–In addition, what the Obama campaign has put out there is the theme, judgment. Obama was praised by the media for his sound judgment in choosing Biden as VP. Now the media is turning to McCain and Palin and investigating the choice in order to determine what it reveals about McCain’s judgment.
This is why the New York Times and the Washington Post are examining the vetting process she went through. Was it a complete vet? There have been reports to the contrary, that it was very rushed and a last-minute decision. Does that indicate the kind of decision-making we can expect from a President McCain? She may very well prove to be a good choice, but in that case, McCain might just be lucky because it seems like he didn’t vet her fully. Personally, I’d rather have a diligent president than a lucky one.
It’s also a very interesting contrast with the Obama VP pick. We know that the finalists were subject to a complete and thorough vetting. We also know that Obama made his decision several days before the pick was announced. In addition, the Obama campaign had a very compressed schedule to work with because the primary wasn’t over until June. McCain, on the other hand, did not conduct a thorough vetting (his operatives were sent to Alaska on the day Palin was being announced, and as of yesterday they had still not checked the town records of Wasilla, where she was mayor), had several months advantage over Obama because the Republican primary ended much earlier, and yet still didn’t make his decision until the very last minute. I mean, the campaign was still gathering information on her the morning of the day that she was announced.
So the media is absolutely right to ask all these questions. Please keep asking them. If McCain hasn’t fully vetted her, we need the media to. Not because we want to know tawdry details about her personal life, but because we want to know that the person who may be a heartbeat away from the presidency has the judgment, experience, intellect, integrity, and gravity that the position requires. I don’t care if she’s a good campaigner, or interesting, or knows how to field dress a moose. I want to know, can she be president?

Joyce
“ And if Obama is for equal pay how has he demonstrated that by his ACTIONS???? Like I said he claims to be for womens rights but everything he has done has shown the contrary. “
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These are facts. Obama has senate voting records to back it. McCain has opposed every one of them.

“Obama has to take responsibility just because Ayers knows him?”
When the media uses the same amount of resources to investigate the papers released about the Annenberg Challenge as they are using to chase down a seventeen-year old girl’s sex life, then we might know the answer to your question.
The Democrats have become hateful. That is not a change I want anything to do with.

Krista and exactly what are those facts? Can you name anything?

Joyce – Let me introduce you to your candidate:
John McCain is one of only a few Senators to earn a Zero percent lifetime rating from Planned Parenthood’s Action Fund, and he only scored that high because the organization doesn’t have a lower rating. Let’s look at how he accomplished this.
McCain is so extremely anti-choice that he believes that Roe was wrongly decided, saying, “I do not support Roe verses Wade. It should be overturned.” (Sen. McCain, Associated Press, February 19, 2007).
He further stated, “If I am fortunate enough to be elected as the President of the United States, I pledge to you to be a loyal and unswerving friend of the right to life movement.” (Statement by Sen. McCain read by Sen. Brownback at the March for Life, Washington, DC, January 22, 2008).
Further, in an interview with George Stephanopoulous on ABC’s This Week, McCain said, “I do believe that it’s very likely or possible that the Supreme Court should, could overturn Roe v. Wade”. (January 19, 2006).
But Senator McCain is also opposed to providing birth control to prevent the need for abortion. Let’s look at his record:
He voted against requiring health care plans to cover birth control (3/22/03).
He voted against comprehensive, medically accurate sex education (7/25/06).
He voted against international family planning funding (3/14/96).
He voted against funding to prevent teen and unintended pregnancies (3/17/05).
He voted against public education for emergency contraception (3/17/05).
And he voted against restoring Medicaid funding that could be used for family planning for low-income women (3/17/05).

It’s 1898, Randolph Hearst is alive, and yellow journalism is flourishing.
You saw it with Senator Hillary Clinton during the Democrat Primary, and now you’re seeing it with Governor Sarah Palin in the General Election.
It is apparent by the conduct of the American Media, that it will do everything in its power by any means necessary, to prevent a Woman from being elected to Executive high office in the United States.
In addition, the American Media has fully utilized its leverage and influence with the objective to elect Senator Barak Obama President of the United States, and is working in concert with the Obama Campaign to affect that goal.
Only one question remains:
Will the American Media elect the President in 2008?

Obama has proven he is not the candidate for POTUS. Since his convention, he has only got an 8 pt bounce, where normally, the candidate gets a 12-15 pt bounce in the polls. Even Dukakis, got a 12 pt bounce. This proves that Americans do not want Obama in office….
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Actually this just proves that polls are deceiving and not always right. Maybe when they start polling people with cell phones the polls will be more accurate.

Sandy B
`He made that big speech in Germany, remember??
Now there’s foreign policy experience for you……………..“
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No he also met the most powerful leaders in Europe and you decided to ignore that. These same leaders are our key allies. You McCain supporters must learn how to lie.

McCain was supposed to be on Larry King but decided to cancel the interview because he didnt know how to defend his awful pick for VP.
We need a tough leader like Obama who is able to face tough questions from the media.

McCain Campaign “No more Vetting Questions.” The press: Oh ok

“He also met the most powerful leaders in Europe”
Big deal.
There are no Churchills left to help us out in a world war anymore.

Let’s ask Rudi’s ex wives and string of mistresses how much respect HE has for women! And, surely somewhere there’s audio of John McCain telling that repugnant Chelsea Clinton joke. And I did hear Rush Limbaugh, Republican God himself, declare Sarah Palin a “BABE”. Sexist much?
Guess that makes all those questions about Barack Obama’s ability Racist.

Some of you guys are funny. Gov. Palin could not balance the Budget of a State of less than 700,000 population. How would She handle the Budget of the whole Country?
When HRC complained of sexism, Sarah Palin accused her of whinning and someone is now looking for Women’s group to defend her.
The arguments being put forward by the GOP are juvenile and infantile.
Since Mccain refused to vet her, Americans are simply helping him to do the vetting of a potential President.
It is fair for the GOP Goons to heap bunch of lies on Obama in the name of Campaign Ads while it is seen chauvinism, if the truth is said about Palin.
Mccain is old and he has done a disservice to the Country by choosing a running mate that has been discovered to be a failed Mother, a Vindictive Woman and a Secessionist who is likely to become the President if something untowards happens to Mccain.
I should think that a responsible Presidential Candidate should first and foremost, consider the Interest of the Country in this period of unprecedented Economy downturn, heavy balance of payment deficit and challenges to America’s power from abroad, to choose a Vice-President that would be able to handle the affairs of State at any time.
But for Mccain, the votes and contribution of the Social Conservatives and the Evangelicals are more important than nominating a Vice-Presidential Candidate that would be accepted and respected around the World if perhaps, She steps into the big shoes of POTUS.
I am scared and I’m sure everybody who wants the best for this Country is scared.
It appears that the GOP GOvernment are bent on pushing the Country further aground.
They intend to finish the Job George Bush started.

God must have changed his mind… again. Women are supposed to stay at home and raise the children and let men do the leading. It’s against scripture for a woman to be in a position of power. Just ask the Assembly of God, Catholics or the Southern Baptists. You know the ones at the forefront of pushing the religious agenda in this country. We can be thankful though for the fact she doesn’t believe in sex education or birth control and has a stance of “abstinence only”… After all that’s the only real way to curb teen pregnancy.

d:
So are you trying to say that all voters who have cell phones instead of land lines will be voting for Obama?
Not this one……………….
Posted by: SandyB | Sep 3, 2008 10:57:58 AM
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Not at all. I am saying that polls are not accurate since they don’t poll cell phones which have become the norm for millions. Many do not have landlines anymore.

“Not at all. I am saying that polls are not accurate since they don’t poll cell phones which have become the norm for millions.”
The pollsters know that and correct for it. Thanks for playing.

Joyce – Here’s the candidate, Obama, you claim does nothing for women:
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Preventing Unwanted Pregnancy:
Barack Obama is an original co-sponsor of legislation to expand access to contraception, health information and preventive services to help reduce unintended pregnancies. Introduced in January 2007, the Prevention First Act will increase funding for family planning and comprehensive sex education that teaches both abstinence and safe sex methods. The Act will also end insurance discrimination against contraception, improve awareness about emergency contraception, and provide compassionate assistance to rape victims.
PREVENTING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Reducing Domestic Violence:
One in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. Family violence accounted for 11 percent of all violence between 1998 and 2002. Barack Obama introduced legislation to combat domestic violence by providing $25 million a year for partnerships between domestic violence prevention organizations and Fatherhood or Marriage programs to train staff in domestic violence services, provide services to families affected by domestic violence, and to develop best practices in domestic violence prevention.
Strengthening Domestic Violence Laws:
Approximately 1,400 women a year – four every day – die in the United States as a result of domestic violence. And 132,000 women report that they have been victims of a rape or attempted rape, and it is estimated that an even greater number have been raped, but do not report it. Senator Obama co-sponsored and helped reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. Signed into law in January 2006, the bill funds and helps communities, nonprofit organizations, and police combat domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The legislation establishes a sexual assault services program and provides education grants to prevent domestic violence.
Fighting Gender Violence Abroad:
The genocide in Darfur has had particularly devastating consequences for women. Tens of thousands of women have been killed, raped, and displaced since the conflict began in 2003. Barack Obama has been a leading voice in Washington urging the end of genocide in Sudan. He worked with Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) on the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act, a version of which was signed into law. Obama has traveled to the United Nations to meet with Sudanese officials and visited refugee camps on the Chad-Sudan border to raise international awareness of the ongoing humanitarian disaster there. He also worked with Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) to secure $20 million for the African Union peacekeeping mission.
ECONOMIC ISSUES
Fighting for Pay Equity: (McCain opposes)
Despite decades of progress, women still make only 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. A recent study estimates it will take another 47 years for women to close the wage gap with men at Fortune 500 corporate offices. Barack Obama believes the government needs to take steps to better enforce the Equal Pay Act, fight job discrimination, and improve child care options and family medical leave to give women equal footing in the workplace.
Expanding Paid Medical Leave: Today, three-out-of-four low-wage workers have no paid sick leave. It is fundamentally unfair that a single mom playing by the rules can get fired or lose wages because her child gets sick. Barack Obama supports efforts to guarantee workers seven days of paid sick leave per year, a moderate proposal that should not impose too onerous a burden on employers.

The media does not like being suprised, maybe McCain should have leaked the Gov’s name ealier in the week. The US Weekly cover and OK mag cover though are clear examples of the media bias that are being brought up in this blog. The conservative media have been looking into Obama’s past with little being picked up by the rest of the media, with the exception of Rev. Wright, but they never, never have said an ill word about Obama’s daughters. Watching these attacks should worry people if Gov. Palin’s kids are fair game the next in line will be the media and their families do they want that?

“You mean like Obama’s boycott of Fox News?”
He’s being interviewed by O’Reilly on Thurs (I wonder if the ratings will be higher than for McCain’s speech).
Meanwhile McCain’s VP pick has yet to speak to reporters other than people magazine.
And McCain himself canceled cna interview with Larry King after one of his spox got nailed to the wall claiming that Palin leading the national guard meant she had foreign policy experience.

What is going on is media bias and rampant sexism. Disgusting!
Time to square up and face off.

“…I am saying that polls are not accurate since they don’t poll cell phones…”
Which COULD mean that McCain might actually be ahead instead of Obama.
Do you think only Obama supporters have cell phones just because they were all waiting around for that exciting 3 a.m. text message like good little sheep??

Ok so far the RNC had their party’s highest office holder in the land appear via video link before prime time and gave the prime slot to a former Democrat.
The theme of the evening was we’re all mavericks now.
Aren’t you guys proud of being Republicans?

Joyce
Obama worked across the aisle with Sen Lugar to drafted the nuclear disarmament bill between the US and Russia to keep nuclear weapons out of dangerous hands.
Obama was also a constitutional lawyer and prof. McCain is a carrier politician.

So again, what are Palin’s great accomplishments at reform?

The only reform Palin knows is firing people who disagree with her.

Jake,
What do i think? I think republicans are hypocrite…they went after Hillary with full assort on her character. Now, they are asking us to be fair to Palin. Was Giuliani fair to Hillary? Was Sean Hannity fair to Michelle Obama? Was Rush Limbaugh fair to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama?
As far as i am concern, the Republicans cannot eat their cake and want to have it as well. Let’s face it, if Obama had picked Gov Keane, the whole republicans echo machine will be yelling.

America is changing but the republican party is not. Did anybody see the faces and speakers at the convention last night?

Samantha
Trinity UCC is a very vibrant and well-respected church in Chicago and is attended and praised by all races. It does more work for the community than any other church in the area. Some of its 8000 members may get a little carried away with their rhetoric, but that happens in most churches.
Reality may not always be the same as the picture you have formed in your mind with very little evidence.

“Actually they don’t”
Actually they do.
Links don’t mean much, BTW. This is the web. I can give you links to any number of topics that are patently false starting with the Daily KOS coverage of Palin’s youngest and work our way down to Obama’s time in Indonesia, his brother’s poverty, the killings in Kenya, and so on. Then you have to figure out which are false and which aren’t.
It does mean you might want to vette the polls though. Polls haven’t been very accurate this year, I agree. As someone else said, McCain may be ahead but I suspect they are dead even. This is a polarized country.
If there is a noticeable sea change in this election, it is that ALL of the candidates have public flaws. We seem to be evolving past the need to vote only for saints and that is a sign of maturity not seen before in an American Presidential election.

David H
Obama mentioned his mother’s youth when he was asking people to back off the Bristol Palin story. And his parents got married, as far as what he was told; and if not, who cares?

The Dem libs are scared to death….a qualified female Governor more qualified than their top of the ticket community oranizer. Dems and their attack media/bloggers spreading rumors and slime better start thinking of BACKLASH with 54% of the female population. This used to be a generational election to me, but now I’m thinking it may come down to a battle of the sexes. And for those who are so excited to vote for the unqualified black man, now there will be millions of us excited to vote for a qualified female VP…..she compliments McCain perfectly, what a great pick!
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN

“Why is it the only stories we find about Obama’s family residing in Africa seem to come from European markets?”
Why don’t we hear stories of McCain’s first wife or Cindy McCain’s half siblings?
And why can’t anyone tall me some of Palin’s accomplishments at fighting corruption

Good Morning America had a piece just this morning talking about McCain’s first wife and their three children.
Apparently one of his older sons works in the “Family” beer business.
Can’t be too much feuding going on.

The press is being unfair to Palin and that is definite. The press was unfair to Hillary clinton and when Katy Coruic had the AUDACITY to state so that skank Olbermann crucified her for it. All of you Obama people won’t put up with one crumb of this kind of treatment towards your candidate otherwise you scream like someone is slamming your foot in a door. But it is okay for his machine and his supporters to pick on anyone they want to and everyone has to accept it and feel that that is the way it is in politics. Talk about double standards! I guess if Hillary and Palin were born with a fruit basket between their legs than everything would be fine. Obama says that families are off limits yet he is running a commercial now that claims McCain represents Country Club Politics because he could not give a definitive answer as to how many homes he owned. The reason he could not give the answer was because the homes are his wife’s homes and wife’s families homes. Her father came to this country with nothing, much like Obama, and built up a huge business for himself. McCain wanted to be sure whose name the homes were in before answering and he was crucified for saying he had to check on it. Did any of you Obama supporters ever see the inside of Obama’s house? It is like a museum inside so for him to point the finger at McCain and say Country Club Politics, etc. is very hypocritical. Obama and his wife try to act like one of the common people and they are no more common people than anyone else running for office in politics! I hope he loses big time in November!

The ‘Republican talking points” to sell Palin is her ‘Executive Experience” – They are attempting to use that against Obama ( hi straw – meet grasp). If that is now the new threshold can someone tell me what McCain’s ‘Executive experience is?

OBAMA SUPPORTERS ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES WITH CELL PHONES. I am supporting John McCain and I have a cell phone. So, I think you are right. When the cell phones are counted in the polls we will see the true results.I have to laugh. Many Obama supporters are still living home with mommy and daddy or even older supporters are living with mommy and daddy yet they think they know who should be President. How about them learning not to sponge off of mommy and daddy first! lololol

Tell them like it is Rudy!

“Some of its 8000 members may get a little carried away with their rhetoric, but that happens in most churches. Reality may not always be the same as the picture you have formed in your mind with very little evidence.”
The problems with TUCC are not related to their excellent community work but to their official endorsements of Black Liberation Theology and radical separatists such as Louis Farrakhan.
Whatever you may think about Palin’s positions on Creationism and abortion, they pale in contrast to the positions of the liberation theologists and the hate filled rants of Farrakhan.

Many Obama supporters are still living home with mommy and daddy or even older supporters are living with mommy and daddy yet they think they know who should be President. How about them learning not to sponge off of mommy and daddy first! lololol
Posted by: Mary Anne | Sep 3, 2008 12:02:28 PM
You really think so. LOL Oh, ok. You just keep on thinking that.

Samantha-Obama has met with the heads of state of countries in the Middle East and Europe. He’s met with our commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s traveled with Sen. Lugar to secure loose nuclear weapons in Russia. We all know his policies regarding the Middle East, Russia, Venezuela, etc. We know nothing of Gov. Palin’s foreign policy experience, we don’t know her thoughts on foreign policy, and neither does she – in a recent interview, she said she hadn’t given Iraq much thought.

I pretty sure that instead of a “bounce” the GOP will be getting a dip in the polls.
The GOP’s bright young history making star can only come out and regurgitate stale old GOP talking points; More Government regulation of a woman’s uterus, more guns, less taxes, and by the way since 2006 we are now against earmarks and special interest money. She was for it before she was against it. Hmmm….Why does the GOP convention seem like an old Lawrence Welk re-run?

From lifelong democrat Susan Estrich …
What they’re doing to her………..and I mean friends of yours and mine….what they’re saying, second guessing her prenatal care……..with her youngest child….. even going so far as to suggest she took unnecessary risks………..maybe she was even responsible for the Down’s Syndrome………this whole business of saying maybe she was covering up for her teenage daughter’s pregnancy….they are dumping all over the daughter…..I find it Really offensive….and I think a lot of women in particular….who ended up supporting Hillary because they were so offended by the sexism may well be offended by what they see as the piling on of Sarah Palin.

I am going to ask a non-political question. Can someone please tell me what it means and does when someone post a stop post with a time and * ?

“If that is now the new threshold can someone tell me what McCain’s Executive experience is?”
Start with his stint as commanding officer of the Navy’s largest squadron, the Replacement Air Group in Jacksonville, Fla. after his time in physical therapy on being repatriated after the VietNam war. The Florida unit was sub-par when he arrived. The men who served with him in that command refer to his skills as nearly ‘magical’ in taking an accident plagued unit with half of its fleet disabled to its first meritorious unit citation with all ships in the air.
There’s more if you want to read.

Debra: So your a Hillary supporter now for Palin. What does Palin represent on abortion,birth control, sex education,that would even come close to what Hillary stands for?

From Amy D. Goldstein
It’s fascinating to me that it’s the Democrats, and especially Democrat women are attacking John McCain’s choice of Gov. Sarah Palin. Their criticisms boil down to three tangential categories
1. Criticizing her choice to have a down syndrome baby
2. Casting dispersions on her because her 17-year old daughter is pregnant and will keep the baby and marry the father
3. Objecting to her being a mother and Governor or VP
What happened to women’s liberation? What happened to choice (that usually means A or B, not just A)? What happened to equality?
It seems that the Republican Party is more accepting of mothers who work and of not-so-perfect family situations. The Democrats seem to be stuck in a 1950′s time-warp where mothers must necessarily stay home (perhaps to live off welfare checks?), all children must be perfect (or hidden from society), and unplanned pregnancies must be quickly and quietly terminated.

“Find some neutral press and she probably will!”
So she’s ready to be President and face down people like Putin but needs a friendly venue in which to answer questions.
Obama is going on O’Reilly.
McCain runs away from larry King.

“Also note, that some how magically, Rezkos wife had 30k cash on hand and a net worth of -30k.”
Net worth is probably like the McCain set up, ya know where’s hes the kept man but nothing is in his name.
“But yet she managed to snag a 600k piece of property, just to flip it back to Obama for a huge loss.”
She sold 1/6 of the property at 1/6 of the price she paid.

A more cynical version: there’s some jealousy in play here.

Sarah Palin will do well with those small town Americans that Obama thinks are bitter and clinging to guns and religion, AND Hillary supporters who saw them gang bang her too.
I see BACKLASH coming, if the Obots, paid and otherwise keep it up.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN!

Debra I am bitter because this country has gone to hell with the republicans running it.

Dear Mayor Noun…Verb…09/11 -
We should all be afraid of a potential President who makes the most important decision of his campaign on information provided the day before and then blames the media when the truth about his nominee starts oozing out. We’ve been here before and look where it’s gotten us. It’s pure Bush administration…screw something up and then lie, distract, and divide. Enough.

Ryan C
Why is Larry King afraid of John McCain?

“Why is Larry King afraid of John McCain?”
He isn’t.
McCain is the one who canceled because Samantha Brown asked Tucker Bounds a question about Palin that Tucker could not answer.
Palin has yet to speak with any reporter outside of People magazine.
McCain is giving his 1st national interview (other than Leno) tonite since going into hiding from the press after his houses gaffe.
Meanwhile Obama is going on O’Reilly on Thurs.

“Corsi’s racist rants on FreeRepublic were considered par for the course. ”
Posted by: Ryan C | Sep 3, 2008 12:54:33 PM
___________________
hmmmmmmm
Anything anti- B O is automatically labeled “racist”.
We should add this mis-begotten anomaly to the new book of political change!

This is getting funnier by the day. The republicans sound like a bunch of whiners. They are kidding themselves that this ticket will help with the women independents out there. All the polls out show women just aren’t buying into this. It has nothing to do with working mothers. It has to do with the economy and the supreme court. The repubs are pushing this story line, not the dems.
The Who said it best, “won’t be fooled again.”

Ryan:
That is an outright lie:
“McCain is the one who canceled because Samantha Brown asked Tucker Bounds a question about Palin that Tucker could not answer. ”
I WATCHED Samantha pushing Tucker with pointed questions about Sarah which were intended to show her in poor light.
I WATCHED as TUCKER nobly extricated and acquitted himself with honest and unbiased answers which gave an a more truthful picture of the vice presidential candidate.
I do not know what it is McCain was supposed to have cancelled B U T
I D O know that whatever it was, there was NO reason for it to be based on this this particular issue!

So posting racist and anti semitic comments and appearing on white nationalist radio is ok?

Why does Sarah Palin’s husband hate America?

Samantha Brown
is the Travel Channel Queen, a perky blonde with a whacked sense of humor.
Campbell Brown
is the CNN anchor who went into the tank early for Obama and has yet to crack a single joke that is funny.

Corsi is not ok. But just because he repeated pre-existing information doesn’t discredit the factual basis of that information.
If Corsi says the sky is blue, does that mean the sky isn’t blue?

anon:
Don’t you mean “Lower 48?”
Did you attend school with Obama?

Real men like McCain aren’t intimidated by strong women.
Pretty much sums up why Obama didn’t choose Hillary.

look, if all the supposed controversies that obama had to go through were condensed to five days it would look a lot like this–but probably even worse. how long was the media stuck on reverend wright? “proud of america?” i hope journalists understand that the reason scrutiny is so high is because no one knows anything about her, so everything is coming out fast.

“Real men like McCain aren’t intimidated by strong women”
How would McCain even know? He met her once before picking her as VP.

Obama has no foreign policy experience or executive experience.
Palin has run a business, a city and a state. Obama has run his mouth.
Notice during the Dem convention that not one person could get up on stage and talk about what Obama accomplished as a community agitator.

anon,
the Iraquis did NOT agree with Barack’s original plan. And we didnt implement it. Wake up and think for yourself.