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No Moderate, No Realist, McCain the Neocon
More at http://www.therealnews.com/c.php?c=080301YT
Matt Welch, of Reason.com, provides a history of McCain and his move to the militant neocons Pt4
Sep 9, 2008 12:15 AM
Re: No Moderate, No Realist, McCain the Neocon
McCain is the most egregious flip flopper currently in office. Remember 2000 McCain? That guy was the exact opposite of 2008 McCain.

McCain's also a lick spittle selling his soul on everything he's ever supported just so to bear hug Dubya's brand of government.

McCain is no doubt the third term of Bush's legacy.

Over 10 banks, Bear Sterns, Freddie Mac, and Fannie May have failed. Unemployment is at historic levels. This is a Recession heading into something worse. Far worse.

All while oil companies are making the greatest profits in the history of the world. And Bush is spending more money than any Democrat president in history on his cronies like Cheney's company, Halliburton. Heckuva job, Bushie.

66% of corporations don't pay any taxes at all like you and I do.

Even worse, McCain's old. And with Palin and her brood backing him, we're at the most terrifying state of leadership in our history.

Oh, sorry. I know we're not supposed to vet Palin's lies and potential crimes in office. It's good we set this precedent now to ensure Palin's whining will effectively stop all future disagreements.

Palin's whining to "go easy on her" would surely serve her well as a potential Commander in Chief if she had to deal with China and the Middle East.

I'm not an Obama guy. But how is this McCain/Palin ticket even considered an option in even the most fevered neocon syphallitic dream.
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The Betrayal of the Sisterhood or What’s Wrong with Sarah Palin ?

By Leslie Singer –Professional Brand Executive, Educator and Mother

For the longest time I thought, as a strong, independent self-made, self-sufficient professional woman - that I shared a secret only my fellow womanhood knew about. We were part of a secret sect. We didn’t join a march or burn our bras or wear buttons promoting equal pay for equal work. That was so yesterday. We just hung in the trenches and worked and worked and worked and gallantly marched on toward the glass ceiling like gladiators.

I look up with awe to Hillary, Martha, Carly and Oprah and so many others as my role models for perseverance and I respect their tough skin to withstand the mudslinging. These women not only broke through - they built their own ceilings. How proud the suffragettes must be.

I applaud Ruth Bader Ginsberg, revere women like Susan Eisenhower, and to quote Katie Couric’s attempt at cool, I say to all glass ceiling breakers (give a shout out sista’s) - ‘you GO Girl!’

I believed we were all fighting for the same rights - rights over our bodies, freedom to choose, equal pay for equal work and the right to become leaders of industry.

It wasn’t that long ago that women were considered property, married women had no rights to property, custody rights favored men, and women weren’t allowed to practice medicine or law. Not being able to vote was the least of our problems.

But overnight – like a punch in the stomach – many of my sisters have let me down. There was a crowd of these turncoats at the RNC. They cheered for Palin! And in doing so they were saying, “YES, veto our right to choose! YES, ban gay marriage! YES, Censor libraries! Great idea! “Yes, ‘Sarah from Alaska’, you be the arbiter of our lives and tell us what’s right for us and our families. Yes! Be our beacon of righteousness.” And the women cheered on!

Palin spoke of her daughter’s situation as a private family matter. That’s right Sarah, a ‘private family matter’. Not a government, church or state matter. It escapes Sarah Palin that her daughter had the freedom to choose, as our daughters should.

That a woman would support abstinence and try to deny sex education for our children is a crime. You can’t live in this media driven culture and not arm your children with vital information.

Only parents should have the right to censor what their children read, not the government, in the libraries that our tax dollars support. And we have a right to read whatever we damn well want to read. Read my lips Sarah: We aren’t a one-size-fits-all world.

That she proudly supports her child going off to fight a war, that we should have never been in that is draining this country’s infrastructure, growth and global good will is stunning. I wish him and her Godspeed on that one.

One would think at the very least Palin’s feminine side would grasp that government couldn’t mandate the power of love. And if a woman is raped, discovers a genetic abnormality or has economic circumstances hindering her options and subsequently makes abortion the best alternative for herself - that’s HER choice.

Furthering her barking, she glowed in the promise that children with special needs will have a ‘friend in the White House’. She would have been better off inviting her fellow sisters – the likes of the Shriver’s and Kennedy’s, who single handedly and tirelessly made their life work culminate into the global initiative called the Special Olympics. Maybe she can humble up for a minute and realize that her Down syndrome child has endless opportunities and rights that wouldn’t be on the books if it wasn’t for others before her.

No doubt a woman who is aces in hunting, killing, and gutting animals for sport will be fine having to shoot down whatever. You Go Girlfriend! – Show us that Alaskan wildlife before you drill it to death. The kind of hunting Sarah does however, from helicopters and planes, the animal really doesn’t have a chance. And if she gets elected, we might not either.

Let us all hope that we continue to live in a country where fighting for one’s right will still be an option. The suffragettes are most likely too tired to roll in their graves, but I am sure they are scratching their heads. We need a collective voice, ladies, and we need it now to protect our rights - for our sake, our daughters’ sake, and in honor of those that fought so hard so we can achieve anything – even the road to the White House. If Sarah had a soul it wouldn’t escape her that she has a role to play to advance and support the strides we have all made as women. Not all of us, Sarah, are gun toting abstinence-supporting God-fearing, creationist, book-burning hunters. Some of us just want to live simply by the laws of the Constitution.

This is a call to arms ladies. Cast your vote not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as a woman.

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Re: No Moderate, No Realist, McCain the Neocon
Great, thoughtful, and inspiring post, Leslie.
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