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