Did you know that Barack Obama sued Citibank to force them to make more subprime loans back in his ACORN days? McCain is doing a terrible job of getting the word out about his opponent.

What you are really saying, is you would vote for anyone that keeps the GLBT citizens in their place, ignorance and prayer in our public schools, and promises to criminalize abortion.

Your local cops are using Yahoo for business, too. Keep an eye on who’s at library computers (not in uniform).
–Mike

Hey, if she broke the law, she broke the law. Considering the report was released by a unanimous vote of a legislative council with 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats all voting yes, I’ll take a certain amount of trust in that process.

If you’re worried about the media, you can also read the report for yourself. It’s on PDF at various websites.

And here’s why: only 10 of the 14 people on the commission were Republicans. The rest were Democrats. That’s one heck of a liberal bias, my friends.

We’ll see how this plays out, I suppose.

When a congressional inquiry says that their findings are that nine U.S. justices were unjustly fired by those who appointed them for not towing the party line hard enough and the attorney general, appointed by the president who in all probability inspired the firings, looks the other way, then justice for the highest offices in this country is broken. This is but one instance. There are many many others.

Did you read the rest of the linked article, or only what you wanted to hear? “You asked us to hold you accountable, Gov. Palin. Did you mean it?
Bottom line: Gov. Palin, read the report. It says you violated the ethics law.” Simply put, if you believe in ethics and the rule of law, I find it a complete contradiction that you would continue to support this unqualified person who is already enmeshed in scandal and has only been in a state level office for nearly two years. Sure, that is your choice, but you are losing credibility with each such statement, as the facts come out and you continue to ignore the inconvenient ones.

Your last line is chillingly cynical and telling: “If ethical, crime-free behavior were requirements – no one could vote for anyone, ever.” And it is once again one of your personal behaviors that you have decided to apply to everyone else, unrealistically. Here in Austin Texas, we have a congressional representative named Lloyd Doggett. Look up his record. He is an ethical man who has never even come under investigation of any kind, much less been indighted or cited as violating any ethical or other tenets of his station. He is a good decent man. I have met him and shook his hand. He sends me regular reports of his progress. He was one of the main targets of the completely ridiculous gerrymandering redistricting that went on a few years back, and yet he stayed in office, because he is an honorable and decent man. Jimmy Carter is another such man. There are many more, but few on your side of the aisle. Why is that?

Just because all of your favorite candidates are all under investigation does not make it so for the rest of us, or the rest of the country. Your generalizations are becoming more and more difficult for anyone paying attention to swallow.

“Tom be a little more honest, you don’t have a political agenda, you have a social agenda of intolerance and bigotry.”
I’m not intolerant or bigoted. I have no animosity towards those you think I may have such an attitude. I’m not going to be baited into naming any particular group or why I believe in the Republican stance on the issues that concern such groups – you can go to the RNC web site for that.

“This agenda violates every thing this country aspires to be.” That’s your personal opinion.

“What you are really saying, is you would vote for anyone that keeps the GLBT citizens in their place, ignorance and prayer in our public schools, and promises to criminalize abortion.”
That’s not what I’m saying at all. The GLBT citizens don’t bother me a bit, as long as it isn’t shoved in my face. As far as gay marriage laws are concerned, I believe that’s a different issue than being bigoted or intolerant.

I don’t believe any religion, for or against, should be taught in our public schools. I don’t believe that the big bang theory is against my religion. I believe Darwin’s theory of evolution should be taught in public schools, but as only a theory. If a parent wants their children to learn otherwise, they should either teach them at home or send them to a school based on their religion.

Abortion is the largest issue I have with voting Democrat and that’s all I have to say about that.

They go after everybody. They go after Obama, McCain, Biden, Shia LaBeouf, aspiring Miss North Carolinas, everybody. As far as the political process goes, that’s a part of the filter to keep (obvious) assholes out of higher office. Being Queen of the Harpies is not a desirable trait in a President. Well, to me, anyway. The press just helps me find out one way or the other, sniffing around like the rats in a maze that they are.

WIGWAM: Why do you continue to use the “This is what I would do if in office” line of reasoning? You are not the yardstick of decent behavior in this country. Since it’s always easier to say such things from the sidelines than when in the hot seat, it makes you sound like a blow-hard, and proves nothing.

It must be hard to be a conservative right now; to continue to try to excuse away all the unethical and immoral acts that have been perpetrated on the American people in the past 8 years as “business as usual” while McCain tries to distance himself from his party with outright lies of how “mavricky” he has been. The sad thing is that most conservatives have been so conditioned into unquestioning bias as to believe:
Muslim = Bad terrorist person.
Liberal = Evil.
Socialist = Evil and unacceptable, unless it is bailing out Wall St. fat cats.
Obama = Muslim sounding name, therefore evil terrorist person.

But after 8 years of a complete sham of a government, the smell of decay is starting to seep past the perfume. If the corpse sits on the slab for much longer, it will be past the point of possible revival.

BTW, the only way to reduce or stop abortions is to provide open and honest sex education to our children, and stop limiting access to birth control and the morning after pill. We are all anti-abortion, some of us are just realistic enough, meaning we do not let our religious beliefs cloud our judgment, to understand making abortion illegal will never accomplish our shared goal, anymore than making drugs illegal has stopped drug use. The rest of us believe in the implicit right to privacy that is the foundation of Roe v. Wade.

The abortion issue is just one more way that the immoral minority wish to impose their religious beliefs on the rest of us. You can tell they are full of poop, because at the same time they profess their belief in the sanctity of life they support an illegal war and the death penalty.

The hypocrisy these contradictory positions displays is truly stunning.

I’ve noticed something running through all of your posts other than your restating of conservative talking points, and it is this:

You’re really, deeply SCARED, aren’t you? I wouldn’t say that you’re in a state of near panic or hysteria, but you have quite a bit of trepidation, doubt and insecurity about things that may happen in the near future over which you have absolutely no control, am I correct?

I’m not condemning you or gearing up to attack you or criticize you about anything, by the way – I’m just asking.

damn commie liberal bastards, I can see them now, getting all worked up reading Chomsky and then heading out to rape good,honest,god-fearin moose slayers!

Then taxpayers are forced to pay to abort the rape baby. Hail Satan!

Economic cycles may have some basis in fact,but the current mess is a discrete event attributable to specific players and agents.

snagglepuss: telling someone frightened they are frightened is an attack. Or will be interpreted as one. Dialogue offers hope, choose your words.

Being Republican, as it turns out, is not a shield against misogyny.

He looks like he’s 12!

Is what she did indictable? No.

But it wasn’t appropriate, especially for someone elected as an ethical reformer. And her Orwellian claims of “vindication” make this blemish on her record look even worse.

You asked us to hold you accountable, Gov. Palin. Did you mean it?

Bottom line: Gov. Palin, read the report. It says you violated the ethics law.”

Only a theory? In the scientific language a theory is a model of reality with the highest possible status, something that has been supported by a great number of facts and with a proved predictive power, something that has been so widely demonstrated that it is highly unlikely it will be ever disproved.

It’s a catch-22…..I rewrote that post five times before I put it up, because I was concerned that Tom Hale might interpret it that way, but that’s why I put in the part about “near panic” – because I DON’T think he’s on the verge of hysteria, but I do think that some political and economic fear-mongering has colored some of his thinking processes….

Mr. Hale – there’s no need to circle the wagons when I address you – I have nothing to gain by getting into an on-line beef with you, and such is not my intent…I do think that you are a good example of a reasonable person who has been affected in some subtle ways by unethical campaign tactics, ways that you may be unaware of….which may serve my larger point, which I was going to make after chatting with you and am now stating, about the EFFECTIVENESS of those tactics…

Takuan, we cool? I ain’t here to start fires…

Am I the only one who thinks that Yahoo account was a decoy?

Really? REALLY??? She can’t speak in full sentences do you think she is smart enough for that ploy simple as it might have been???