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Letterman's joke about Palin's daughter is obscene, needs better apology

CBS late night host David Letterman has gone looney over the years. He used to appear to be like an ordinary man. Lately he appears to be a left-wing nut.

His jokes about political conservatives have gone too far. Another sad thing is that MSNBC is standing up for the CBS host. MSNBC is now pro-rape? I knew General Electric Company was evil, but I didn't think it was this evil.

Letterman's own words about Gov. Sarah Palin and her 14-year-old daughter is below:


Letterman attempts to apologize:


It is sad that it is funny to make fun of conservative politician's children and not liberal politician's children. If a conservative host would have done this to a liberal politician, the media would have asked for a resignation.

The media bias is everywhere.

Palin's comments on Obama's stance on infanticide

Obama doesn't like black people, prefers "bridge to nowhere"

Remember when Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans and everyone blamed President George W. Bush, FEMA and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco. There was a time when New Orleans' mayor Ray Nagin had some blame, but that all was swept away.

Remember when there was a televised Katrina relief effort where Kanye West said on air that "George Bush doesn't like black people"?

It turns out that the most merciful Barack Obama and his running-mate Joe Biden did not want to help those Katrina victims either.

Wondering what this was about? This bill was to amend the "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska. Instead of giving Alaska money, Sen. Tom Coburn proposed shifting earmark funds to Katrina relief. This, gave the senate a second chance to change their vote on this bridge, but it didn't change the minds of the "hope, change and yes, we can" team.

Here are some notables who thought a "bridge to nowhere" was more important than helping the victims in New Orleans:
Barack Obama (D-IL, 2008 Democratic Presidential Nominee), Dick Durbin (D-IL), John Kerry (D-MA, 2004 Dem. Nominee), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Joe Biden (D-DE, 2008 VP Nominee).

Apparently, Sarah Palin was wrong by being for the "bridge to nowhere" before being against it. And, it was right to be like Obama and Biden to be for the "bridge to nowhere" and then on a second chance still being for the "bridge to nowhere". Yet, the Obama ad says differently. Watch this ad and realize how dumb Obama's campaign really is. Below the YouTube video are links in case you don't believe the facts about Obama's "bridge to nowhere" voting record.




Bridge to Nowhere Links
Chicago Observer: Obama and Biden voted for bridge to nowhere
Washington Post: H R 3058 Vote

Sarah Palin did the right thing. She is NOT Washington as usual.

Palin's Acceptance Speech Was A Grand Slam

It was as if the Obama Campaign was up by three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, but the Obama team was up to bat in the top of the ninth. Then with Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani on base and Sarah Palin up to bat, she waited for her speech. The speech came and she hit it out of the park and won the game with a walk-off grand slam.

Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin focused on her time in Alaska as a member of the PTA, the city council, a mayor and governor. She talked about her experience as a "community organizer" in her city as mayor. She talked about her far from perfect family, a family much like an average American family. She talked about middle-class Americans are "bitterly clinging to religion and guns." She also talked about the unfair media and that she will not do as the media tells her to do. When she said this there were chants of "N-B-C, N-B-C" from around the XCel Energy Center arena. She also spoke of alternative energy and the energy we have today. McCain and Palin will drill for oil, and research and implement new types of energy as well as old types of energy such as nuclear.

She went straight for the Obama-Biden Campaign gut. She spared no expense and kept on fighting with her "hockey mom" mentality.

What a great speech! Her speech blew Obama's and Biden's combined out of the water! She looked like a professional. Wait, she is! She is more experienced than Obama and Biden and she proved that tonight!

IMPORTANT LINK
Gov. Palin's Speech Script from ABC News

(Palin photograph is from the Associated Press and RNC Convention logo is courtesy of the GOP)

Obama-Biden attack Palin's looks, daughter

Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) and her daughter are being unfairly attacked by the "hope and change team."

Joe Biden said about Palin, "She's good looking."

Biden and Obama don't see anything more than her good looks and say that she is not experienced.

And, now that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant, this is now that talk. The Obama-Biden "hope and change team" are now saying that she may not even want this baby. How nice. It would be that team that would go for the baby killing route.

And now CNN's Campbell Brown says that Palin should not have taken the VP offer to protect her family.

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Below is a Reuter's story about Palin's daughter:

Palin rebuts rumors, says daughter pregnant

By Steve Holland

ST. PAUL (Reuters) - The 17-year-old unmarried daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.

Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin's five children with her husband Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, according to aides of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, the aides said.

The Palins, in a statement released by the McCain campaign, said Bristol "came to us with news that we as parents knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned" and that their daughter "has our unconditional love and support."

"We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates," their statement said.

Senior McCain campaign officials said McCain knew of the daughter's pregnancy when he selected Palin last week as his vice presidential running mate, deciding that it did not disqualify the 44-year-old governor in any way.

McCain officials said the news of the daughter's pregnancy was being released to rebut what one aide called "mud-slinging and lies" that have circulated on liberal blog sites.

According to these rumors, Sarah Palin had faked a pregnancy and pretended to have given birth in April to her fifth child, a son named Trig who has Down syndrome. The rumor was that Trig was actually Bristol Palin's child and that Sarah Palin was the grandmother.

PRO-LIFE GROUPS OFFER SUPPORT

Palin is staunchly anti-abortion, and pro-life groups welcomed the decision to keep the child.

James Dobson, an influential Christian evangelical conservative, said his Focus on the Family group had always counseled young mothers to see their pregnancies through, "even though there will be of course challenges along the way."

"That is what the Palins are doing, and they should be commended once again for not just talking about their pro-life and pro-family values, but living them out even in the midst of trying circumstances," he said in a statement.

Charmaine Yoest, head of Americans United for Life, said, "We join them in welcoming this new life."

The McCain campaign was outraged by the blog rumors.

"There's no doubt that liberal blogs such as one called www.barackoblogger.com and some in the mainstream media were pushing a false story about Gov. Palin's most recent pregnancy with fervor," said senior McCain adviser Nicolle Wallace.

A senior McCain official said its camp had no evidence that the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama was pushing the story, but said the blog rumors circulating on websites that appeared to support Obama had the effect of being "a real anchor around the Democratic ticket."

OBAMA OFFENDED

Speaking to reporters in Monroe, Michigan, Obama said he was offended by the McCain aide's statement and that he considered people's families off-limits.

"We don't go after people's families. We don't get them involved in the politics. It's not appropriate and it's not relevant. Our people were not involved in any way in this and they will not be. And if I ever thought there was somebody in my campaign that was involved in something like that, they'd be fired," Obama said.

Obama also said: "This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor or potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories."

The news broke as Republicans gathered in St. Paul for their convention to formally nominate McCain and Palin as the party's candidates. Palin is only the second woman picked as a U.S. vice presidential nominee.

In the short period since she was announced last Friday, Palin has helped to energize the Republican Party's conservative base, giving McCain fresh energy going into the campaign for the November 4 election against Obama and his No. 2 Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.

(Additional reporting by Caren Bohan and Ed Stoddard)

(Editing by Howard Goller and Jackie Frank)

Jimmy Carter attacks McCain's POW time

Jimmy Carter is a nice guy and will always be, but where does he get off attacking McCain's time in Vietnam. Think back and remember Carter's administration. Where does he get off saying this?! Carter was one of our worst presidents in history, not because he was mean, he was a nice guy, it was because he lacked total foreign experience. He didn't know of anything that happened outside of Georgia.

While I am talking about Jimmy Carter, the Democrats are now praising him, even though he had a lousy presidency. It was a good thing that Ronald Reagan came to pick up the pieces. Now regarding experience, which is the talk these days. Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has had more experience than Jimmy Carter prior to his presidency. Obama keeps talking about Palin's time as mayor in a small town, yet he doesn't talk about Carter's time as mayor in a smaller town in Georgia. Come on!

Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama are one of the same. Both out of touch. Below is the USA Today article about Carter attacking McCain. (Link to article)

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Carter: McCain 'milking' POW time

By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY

DENVER — Former president Jimmy Carter called Republican presidential candidate John McCain a "distinguished naval officer," but he said the Arizona senator has been "milking every possible drop of advantage" from his time served as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Carter spoke Thursday with USA TODAY and Gannett News Service reporters before Barack Obama's acceptance speech to cap off the Democratic National Convention. Carter spoke of Obama's challenges facing the lingering effects of racism in the United States and the ability of the Clintons to bring their supporters over to Obama. He decried Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman's decision to "abandon" the Democrats by speaking at the Republican convention next week.

Carter, however, focused heavily on McCain. He said he was bewildered by McCain's performance at the Saddleback Presidential Forum hosted by pastor and author Rick Warren in Lake Forest, Calif., earlier this month.

Carter said that whether he was asked about religion, domestic or foreign affairs, every answer came back to McCain's 5½ years as a POW.

"John McCain was able to weave in his experience in a Vietnam prison camp, no matter what the question was," Carter said. "It's much better than talking about how he's changed his total character between being a senator, a kind of a maverick … and his acquiescence in the last few months with every kind of lobbyist pressure that the right-wing Republicans have presented."

Carter said Lieberman, Al Gore's running mate in 2000 and now an independent, had cast his lot with the GOP by deciding to speak at the party's convention.

Lieberman switched his party registration after losing the 2006 Democratic senatorial primary to Ned Lamont, who made opposition to the Iraq war central to his campaign. Lieberman kept his seat and has helped Democrats maintain a 51-49 voting edge.

"I would hope that the Democrats could have enough senators elected in November so that we would not any longer need to include Joe Lieberman among the senators," Carter said.

Carter called Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech at the convention Tuesday "superb" but questioned her for pointing out her accomplishments in some areas and merely saying that Obama shared those concerns.

Carter said former president Bill Clinton's speech Wednesday was "perfect." Carter said the two speeches took pressure off Obama by uniting the party and ensuring that Clinton supporters would support Obama.

Carter cited a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll last week that found 47% of Clinton supporters said they were solidly behind Obama and 30% said they would vote for McCain, someone else or no one at all. "I think that this week has eliminated that disparity," he said.

Carter also spoke of the segregation he saw growing up and said racism is "always a subtle factor" in American politics. He called this November's election possibly the most "momentous, important" U.S. election in the past 100 years, and he was confident that Obama could overcome the racial divide.

But he said race could ultimately be the deciding factor.

USA Today video of Carter interview

A look at Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin is introduced as John McCain's vice presidential choice in Dayton, Ohio. Video is from C-Span via YouTube.

Reuter's news story about McCain's VP Choice Palin

Dr. James Dobson backs Palin choice, McCain

Who is Sarah Palin?
Wikipedia article
Alaska Governor's Office
McCain-Palin Campaign Website

Good Choice for McCain with Palin

In a campaign that has been about "hope" and "change", it was John McCain who picked a candidate that was not a Washington insider. Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, is as far outside of Washington as you can be, you have to leave the continental United States (the lower 48) in order to get to the wild frontier of Alaska.

As I have heard today in the media, this is what Palin has done in the past:
*journalist
*mother (hockey mom)
*member of the PTA
*member of Wasilla, AK city council
*Wasilla mayor
*Alaska governor

I am still leaning towards Bob Barr, but this new vice presidential candidate has left me wondering, does John McCain have a chance to beat the messiah? Yes. McCain picked a right person for the job. And, the Hillary Clinton supporters may cross party lines to McCain.

I will have to pay close attention to the G.O.P. Convention this coming week, this McCain-Palin ticket looks pretty good right now. Obama better be worried.

Below is an Associated Press article from Yahoo! News:
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McCain chooses Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for V.P.

By LIZ SIDOTI and BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writers
1 hour, 7 minutes ago

DAYTON, Ohio - John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a maverick conservative with less than two years in office, as his vice presidential running mate Friday in a startling choice as the Republican National Convention drew near.

At a raucous rally in the swing state of Ohio, McCain introduced Palin as the political partner "who can best help me shake up Washington and make it start working again for the people who are counting on us."

Palin, the first Republican woman tapped for national office, promised: "I'm going to take our campaign to every part of our country and our message of reform to every voter of every background in every political party, or no party at all."

"... Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties," added the woman who has built her career in large measure by challenging fellow Republicans. "The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons."

In a fast-developing presidential campaign, McCain made his selection six days after his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, named Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, as his running mate.

The contrast between the two announcements was remarkable — Obama, 47, picked a 65-year-old running mate with long experience in government and a man whom he said was qualified to be president.

On his 72nd birthday, McCain chose a 44-year-old running mate who until recently was the mayor of small-town Wasilla, Alaska — and made no claim she was ready to sit in the Oval Office.

His campaign issued a statement saying she was, but even so, it wasn't a point lost on Obama's campaign.

"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," Adrianne Marsh, a spokeswoman for Obama, said in a written statement.

Unlike Biden, who attacked McCain sharply in his debut last week, Palin was indirect in her initial attempts to elevate McCain over Obama.

"There is only one candidate who has truly fought for America and that man is John McCain," she said as the Arizona senator beamed. McCain was a prisoner of war for more than five years in Vietnam.

McCain trails Obama in the polls among women voters, and Palin moved quickly to remedy that.

She mentioned that she followed in the footsteps of Geraldine Ferraro, who was the Democratic vice presidential running mate in 1984, and referred favorably to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who drew 18 million votes in her unsuccessful run against Obama for the Democratic nomination.

"But it turns out the women of America aren't finished yet and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all," she said.

Republicans said that McCain hoped to blunt Obama's message of political change with his pick, and it appeared likely she could remove all doubt about her home state in the fall campaign.

Obama has targeted Alaska and its three electoral votes, one of several he hoped to turn competitive in the fall despite its long tradition of voting Republican.

Palin has a strong anti-abortion record, and her selection was praised warmly by social conservatives whose support McCain needs to prevail in the campaign for the White House.

President Bush complimented McCain for "an exciting decision."

"Governor Palin is a proven reformer who is a wise steward of taxpayer dollars and champion for accountability in government," a presidential statement said. "By selecting a working mother with a track record of getting things done, Senator McCain has once again demonstrated his commitment to reforming Washington."

"It's an absolutely brilliant choice," said Mathew Staver, dean of Liberty University School of Law. "This will absolutely energize McCain's campaign and energize conservatives," he predicted.

With his pick, McCain passed over more prominent contenders like Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, as well as others such as former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, whose support for abortion rights might have sparked unrest at the convention that opens Monday in St. Paul, Minn.

The timing of McCain's selection appeared designed to limit any political gain Obama derives from his own convention, which ended Thursday night with his nominating acceptance speech before an estimated 84,000 in Invesco Field in Colorado.

Public opinion polls show a close race between Obama and McCain, and with scarcely two months remaining until the election, neither contender can allow the other to jump out to a big post-convention lead.

At 44, she is younger than two of McCain's seven children.

She is three years Obama's junior, as well — and McCain has made much in recent weeks of Obama's relative lack of experience in foreign policy and defense matters.

In its formal announcement, the campaign pointed to her powers as head of the Alaska National Guard and the mother of a soldier herself as evidence that she "understands what it takes to lead our nation..."

McCain has had months to consider his choice, and has made it clear to reporters that one of his overriding goals was to avoid a situation like 1988, when little known Sen. Dan Quayle was thrown into a national campaign with little preparation.

A self-styled hockey mom and political reformer, Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, population 6,500, until she became governor.

Palin flew overnight to an airport in Ohio near Dayton, and even as she awaited her formal introduction, some aides said they had believed she was at home in Alaska.

She became governor of her state in December, 2006 after ousting a governor of her own party in a primary and then dispatching a former governor in the general election.

More recently, she has come under the scrutiny of an investigation by the Republican-controlled legislature into the possibility that she ordered the dismissal of Alaska's public safety commissioner because he would not fire her former brother-in-law as a state trooper.

Palin has a long history of run-ins with the Alaska GOP hierarchy, giving her genuine maverick status and reformer credentials that could complement McCain's image.

Two years ago, she ousted the state's Republican incumbent governor, Frank Murkowski in the primary, despite having little money and little establishment backing.

She has also distanced herself from two senior Republican office-holders, Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don young. Both men are under federal corruption investigations.

She had earned stripes — and enmity — after Murkowski made her head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. From that post, she exposed ethical violations by the state GOP chairman, also a fellow commissioner.

Her husband, Todd Palin, is part Yup'ik Eskimo, and is a blue-collar North Slope oil worker who competes in the Iron Dog, a 1,900-mile snowmobile race. The couple lives in Wasilla. They have five children, the youngest of whom was born in April with Down syndrome.

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Associated Press Writer Liz Sidoti reported for this story from Denver.