Today's quote: -"My rule of life has been never to harass the public with fendings and provings of personal slanders . . . I have ever trusted to the justice and consideration of my fellow citizens, and have no reason to repent it, or to change my course." THOMAS JEFFERSON, 1824.
At two rallies in Western Pennsylvania, Palin referenced at the top of her remarks a 2001 public radio interview with Obama that surfaced this week, in which Obama discussed the role of the courts in the civil rights movement. "There he was talking about the need for quote 'redistributive change,'" Palin said on the campus of Shippensburg University Tuesday night. “Sen. Obama said that he regretted that the Supreme Court hadn't been more radical. And he described the Court's refusal to take up the issues of redistribution of wealth as a tragedy. And he said he also regretted that the Supreme Court didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers there in the Constitution” Obama had, in fact, argued the opposite in the 2001 interview, saying that the civil rights movement had become too focused on making change through the judicial system, rather than from the ground up through community organizations. Lying, distortion, misrepresentation, dishonesty and character assassination appears to become a “party-line” for Republicans, their hunger for complete and dictatorial power has become so great under Bush and Cheney. But it is now time to end the destructive revolution and to restore a constitutional democracy to these United States of America.
Palin , using McCain’s words said, "Obama says that he wants to spread the wealth," stirring boos from the crowd. "In other words he thinks that it's your job to earn the wealth and it's his job to spread it." Restoring a former tax rate on the wealthiest 1% of the nation, and reducing the tax Rate of 95% of working Americans, is not a “sharing of wealth” but a return to then tax policies of this country since the income tax was introduced in 1933, taxation proportionate to your ability to pay. The Obama plan puts more money into the hand s of people who spend it, not into the hands of those who play with it for their own selfish ends.
Referencing the interview, Palin said, "So you have to ask, is this a suggestion that's he’d want to re-write the founding document of our great nation to accomplish his goals. And what does that say about his ideas on future Supreme Court justices?" What it says is that of you are going to comment on the Constitution, you had better study it, and even more importantly, understand it. Palin may start by reading Article V of the Constitution, and after she understands the workings of that paragraph, she might go to Article II, section 2, where it plainly provides the methods for the appointment of federal judges and Justice of the Supreme Court. And if Gov. Palin were concerned about the Constitution, how could she have supported the presidency of George W. Bush, who violated the Constitution more times than all the 42 Presidents preceding him combined. Ms. Palin has proven herself to be a total, self-serving fraud.
"Let me remind Barack Obama of something else. When judges don’t confiscate your property and your hard-earned -- all of your hard-earned money and then re-distribute that, he may call that a tragedy. But I call it fairness and adherence to our U.S. Constitution," Palin added later in her remarks. Obama described one of the "tragedies of the civil rights movement" was that "the civil rights movement became so court-focused". Once again, Palin exhibits her ability to distort, or her inability to understand the English language. What Obama had said was, "I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways, we still suffer from that.". With regard to “economic redistribution” Obama said, “I’m not optimistic about bringing about redistributive change through the courts, The institution isn’t structured that way.” Obama's 2001 interview made no mention of judges confiscating property. The Palin campaign did not provide clarification on what Palin was referring to with the remark.
Palin said the 2001 interview revealed Obama's "real ideology" and that his goal to "spread your wealth around" would only spread "scarcity and poverty and bureaucracy" and would stifle the country's entrepreneurial spirit. She asked those in the crowd to support the Republican ticket to preserve the "uniquely American system that our founding fathers created." If Gov. Palin were concerned about the “spreading of wealth” why doesn’t she account for the fact that during the past eight year, the Bush administration. The redistribution of wealth went from the middle class to the wealthy, while the numbers on the poverty class rose dramatically.
I find Sarah Palin a disgrace to the American political process, and that also is my opinion of the man who picked her to be his running mate, and who is “so proud” of her performance. But then, McCain supported the lies and distortions of George W. Bush for eight years - he’s “become accustomed to their charms” (My fair lady)
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