Did You Cry To See That Fly Die
Dastardly act PETA say
Immoral show of humane decay
Destroying any life, how could he
You saw it, they showed it on TV
Outrageous and shameful
Uncaring and disgraceful
Catching the fly could’ve been done humanely
Rush! He could have shouted to his security
You didn’t have to see the cruelness
They could’ve stopped to get rid of the pest
Oops! Did I say pest when I should have said fly
Some didn’t think this harmless insect should die
Even though he tried to chase it away
Even though we all could hear him say
Things like, get of here! before he raise his hand
Hit it with precision like he was always in command
And with respect he took a tissue to remove the bug
Took it up before it dirtied the rug
Flying Little Insect Exterminated Swiftly
Like this President does all things accurately
Yet PETA finds something to say, why
I wonder what if it were a tick, mosquito, a louse or a flea
Even these are animals too, so would PETA have screamed cruelty?
U.S. Representative Congressmen Thaddeus McCotter
Republican-Livonia, Michigan
Congressmen McCotter is on the right track, the Auto Track for GM Chrysler, Real People, Liberty and Prosperity. The stimuls package from Capitol Hill is not enough to stimulate the Nation’s Auto Capitol in Michigan. The auto industry are “victims and not the cause of this dysfunctional time in our economy”. A life long resident of southeast Michigan, with unblinking loyalty, McCotter will not walk away from the auto industryA refreshing voice for the auto industry, Congressman McCotter has focused his efforts on preserving and promoting manufacturing and small businesses, because he knows they form the back bone of our community's economy. Serving on the House Financial Services Committee, with a championship record reducing the tax buden on Michingan families, fighting the War on Terrioism, keeping Michigan at work, helping improve health care and reduce government spending.Congressmen McCotter attended the first Fiscal Summit, an executive meeting last Monday, held by President Obama at the White House. McCotter was one of two members of Michigan invited to the summit. A big gigantic first step toward reaching bipartisan solutions on many issues to include, health care, social security, the tax code and other fiscal issues facing the nation.
First elected in 2002 to Congress, then re-elected in 2004, 2006 and again in 2008. Congressman McCotter was elected in Nov. 2008 to serve as Chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee, a leadership position once held by Vice President Dick Cheney. Congressmen McCotter is a graduate of Catholic Cebntrall High School, the University of Detroit and the Universtiy of Detroti Law Schoo. He is a bar admitted attorney by profession and has contuined to defeat democratic running mates.
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I cannot tell you how happy I am that our new President is so FRIGGIN' AWESOME!!!
He took the time, in the beginning of his Presidency, to speak with Al Arabiya TV - not just to yell and scream about the "bad guys" in the Arab world, but to talk about what is similar in our lives...
Obama to Al Arabia TV
AWESOME!!! (did I say he's awesome?)
Obama supporter, Jane Risher post a message about Joe Biden's interview with a sharp-edged Florida news woman. We both believe Joe did an excellent job of responding to the harpie. I think our campaign should put it on the front page of our site. Check out the YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXcImQfubMYou Go Joe Biden - I love your answers and your temperament!
I have a writing assignment and I need to interview someone who has been volunteering in Florida for this election.
Obama is quoted saying, "If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." As I've observed him over the past couple years, I've been impressed by his walk, his progress. He's remained steady and calm no matter what challenges have presented themselves. Not only has Barack matured during his campaign to exude even greater poise and diplomacy, but he's proven himself to be unflappable under fire by his opponents. I think Colin Powell's well-balanced perception of Obama, given during his interview with Meet the Press, stated eloquently what people all over the world are observing about Barack's walk, his talk and his confidence in running mate for VP, Joe Biden:
"...he (Obama) displayed a steadiness, an intellectual curiosity, a depth of knowledge, and an approach to looking at problems like this, picking a Vice President that I think is ready to be President on Day One. And also in – not just in jumping in and changing every day – but showing intellectual vigor, I think that he has a definitive way of doing business that would serve us well."
Powell concludes that segment of his interview by saying:
"I think he is a transformational figure. He is a new generation coming into the ... onto the world stage and on the American stage...."
I choose to put my trust in the leadership of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. I trust they will both prove to be trustworthy servants and continue to walk their talk all the way to the White House and for the length of their term(s) in office.
May God give them discernment and wisdom to administer sound advice and judgement in all matters, keep them from harm and from doing harm as they serve the American people and negotiate with world leaders to work toward protecting our freedom, ensuring peace, improving humanitarian and environmental health, and spearheading economic, education and political reforms.
McCain's interview described as...
* decidedly testy
* caustic and sarcastic
* decidedly sarcastic
* visibly irritated
* irritable and at times sarcastic
Links to Interview (2 out of 3):
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080930/NEWS09/80930049
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/?hpid=topnews
http://www.mikepirone.com/albums/People/grandpa_simpson_yelling_at_cloud_001.jpg
Palin says McCain "Absolutley Right On"
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/mccain-and-palins-interview-with-couric/?hp
September 29, 2008, 7:48 pm
Senator John McCain tonight said he was proud he had picked Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, even as an increasing number of critics, including an expanding circle of conservative writers, are questioning Ms. Palin’s qualifications to serve as vice president, and possibly president.
Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin spoke tonight to Katie Couric of CBS News. Earlier interviews with Ms. Couric that aired last week seemed to contribute to the concern that critics are expressing over Ms. Palin’s apparent lack of familiarity with major issues confronting the country.
In a fresh interview tonight with Ms. Couric in Ohio, Mr. McCain said that Ms. Palin had generated unusual excitement in the race. He did not discuss her qualifications.
“I’ve seen underestimation before,” Mr. McCain said. “I’m very proud of the excitement that Gov. Palin has ignited with our party and around this country.”
Ms. Couric asked Ms. Palin for her reaction to complaints that she is not ready for prime time.
“Not only am I ready but willing and able to serve as vice president with Senator McCain if Americans so bless us and privilege us with the opportunity of serving them, ready with my executive experience as a city mayor and manager, as a governor, as a commissioner, a regulator of oil and gas,” Ms. Palin said.
The interview began with a question about an incident on Saturday in Philadelphia, in which a voter in a restaurant asked Ms. Palin about cross-border attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan.
She had said she approved of such attacks, to “stop the terrorists from coming any further in,” which is the position of Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee.
Asked if she and Mr. McCain were “on the same page” on this subject, Ms. Palin said:
“We had a great discussion with President Zardari as we talked about what it is that America can and should be doing together to make sure that the terrorists do not cross borders and do not ultimately put themselves in a position of attacking America again or her allies. And we will do what we have to do to secure the United States of America and her allies.”
Ms. Couric noted that Mr. McCain had said earlier that such attacks were not something that should be discussed out loud, and asked him again: “Is that something you shouldn’t say out loud, Senator McCain?”
Mr. McCain said: “Of course not. But, look, I understand this day and age ‘gotcha’ journalism. Is that a pizza place? In a conversation with someone who you didn’t hear — the question very well, you don’t know the context of the conversation. Grab a phrase. Governor Palin and agree that you don’t announce that you’re going to attack another country.”
Ms. Couric asked Ms. Palin if she was sorry she had made the statement, but Mr. McCain jumped in.
“Wait a minute,” he said. “Before you say, ‘is she sorry she said it,’ this was a ‘gotcha’ sound bite that, look …”
Ms. Couric said it was not a “gotcha” moment and that the question was tossed out by a voter, not a journalist.
“No,” Mr. McCain said. “She was in a conversation with a group of people and talking back and forth. And, I’ll let Governor Palin speak for herself.”
Ms. Palin said that Mr. McCain was “absolutely right on.”
She added: “In the context, this was a voter, a constituent, hollering out a question from across an area asking, ‘What are you gonna do about Pakistan? You better have an answer to Pakistan.’ I said we’re gonna do what we have to do to protect the United States of America.”
Ms. Couric said: “But you were pretty specific about what you wanted to do, cross-border … .”
Ms. Palin said: “Well, as Senator McCain is suggesting here, also, never would our administration get out there and show our cards to terrorists, in this case, to enemies and let them know what the game plan was, not when that could ultimately adversely affect a plan to keep America secure.”
Ms. Couric asked her what she had learned from the experience.
“That this is all about ‘gotcha’ journalism,” she said, smiling. “A lot of it is,” she said, quickly adding, “But that’s O.K., too.”
After Ms. Couric had asked Ms. Palin about her negative reviews and Ms. Palin had said that she was ready, willing and able to serve, Mr. McCain put in:
“This is not the first time that I’ve seen a governor being questioned by some quote, ‘expert.’ I remember that Ronald Reagan was a cowboy. President Clinton was a governor of a very small state that had ‘no experience’ either. I remember how easy it was gonna be for Bush One to defeat him. I still recall — whoops, that one. But the point is I’ve seen underestimation before.
I’m very proud of the excitement that Governor Palin has ignited with our party and around this country. It is a level of excitement and enthusiasm, frankly, that I haven’t seen before. And I’d like to attribute it to me. But the fact is that she has done incredible job. And I’m so proud of the work that she’s doing.”
The Minnesota Independent had an opportunity to interview former Governor of Iowa Tom Vilsack earlier today and asked him about last night's debate between Barack and John McCain:
Below is Minnesota Independent's edited transcript of the interview:
Minnesota Independent: We had the first debate last night between Obama and McCain. What did you take away from it?Tom Vilsack: First of all, this was a debate that Sen. McCain wanted to have first, focused on what he believe to be his strength — foreign policy. But I think Sen. Obama acquitted himself extraordinarily well. He showed great, comprehensive knowledge of the world and of the issues facing the United States. His presence on the stage was presidential. I think Sen. McCain at times appeared angry and a bit caustic. MI There’s a poll out this morning showing Obama leading in Iowa by eight percentage points. He’s consistently had a comfortable lead there despite the fact that Bush won the state four years ago. What do you attribute that change to?TV: It starts with Sen. Obama and the fact that he developed a close relationship with the people of Iowa as he campaigned. They got to know him, they were inspired by him, and they are attracted to the policies that he is articulating. Secondly, the state has trended more Democratic over the course of the last eight years. When I was elected governor the Republicans had a registration edge of 60,000. Today Democrats have a registration edge of 90,000. I think part of that is the new people that Sen. Obama is bringing into the party and into the political process every day. MI: Nationwide we see a slightly different picture. Despite the best climate for Democrats since Watergate, Obama is clinging to a rather small lead. Why do you think he’s having trouble stretching out that lead given the political climate? TV: I think America is still a divided country politically. So it doesn’t surprise me that the race is close nationally. I fully expect Sen. Obama to continue having this lead, and over the course of the next several weeks widening it, particularly as the focus of the debate is on the economy. It is very clear that Sen. Obama has a better grasp on the financial crisis this country faces and has a better short-term and long-term solution to that crisis. MI: What role do you think race is playing in the presidential election?TV: I think what it is doing is providing the country a wonderful opportunity to say to ourselves and to the rest of the world that we are finally prepared to live up to the ideal that was articulated by Martin Luther King 40 years ago, that indeed Americans are prepared and ready to judge someone not based on the color of their skin but on the content of their character. MI: Are you convinced that it’s necessary to spend $700 billion to get us out of the current financial mess? TV: I’m not convinced that anybody knows for sure what the right amount is. It may turn out that it’s less than that at the end of the day. It is fairly clear, though, that Main Street suffers when credit becomes hard to get. It’s fairly clear that we cannot afford not to respond to this crisis. Unfortunately Sen. McCain interjected himself into the process earlier this week. It was not helpful. We took a couple of steps back because of that, and I think people are trying to regroup this weekend. My hope is that by the end of this weekend there’s a deal. Then we’ll have to make sure it’s implemented properly and monitored properly. MI: We’re going to have a debate featuring the vice presidential candidates on Thursday. What do you make of Gov. Sarah Palin?TV: I fully expect her to do very well in this debate. She’s going to be well prepared. She’s going to be provided the answers and scripted in terms of what she can say. They’ve done a very good job of protecting her during the course of this campaign. MI: But do you think she’s a qualified vice presidential candidate?TV: I think it’s up to the people of the United States to make that decision. I will tell you that I have some serious concerns about the manner of the selection as it relates to Sen. McCain’s temperament and his decision-making process. Having myself gone through the vetting process in 2004, it’s hard for me to understand how a decision of that magnitude could be made in three or four days. Which apparently it was when John McCain was told by his handlers that he could not select a person that he wanted to select — which was either Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman — that that would not be acceptable to the extreme right wing of the party and he had to pick someone that was. He then spent a couple of days figuring that out. That’s not the kind of decision making that we should bring to the White House to decide some of the critical issues that face this country after eight disastrous years of the Bush administration.
Minnesota Independent: We had the first debate last night between Obama and McCain. What did you take away from it?
Tom Vilsack: First of all, this was a debate that Sen. McCain wanted to have first, focused on what he believe to be his strength — foreign policy. But I think Sen. Obama acquitted himself extraordinarily well. He showed great, comprehensive knowledge of the world and of the issues facing the United States. His presence on the stage was presidential. I think Sen. McCain at times appeared angry and a bit caustic.
MI There’s a poll out this morning showing Obama leading in Iowa by eight percentage points. He’s consistently had a comfortable lead there despite the fact that Bush won the state four years ago. What do you attribute that change to?
TV: It starts with Sen. Obama and the fact that he developed a close relationship with the people of Iowa as he campaigned. They got to know him, they were inspired by him, and they are attracted to the policies that he is articulating. Secondly, the state has trended more Democratic over the course of the last eight years. When I was elected governor the Republicans had a registration edge of 60,000. Today Democrats have a registration edge of 90,000. I think part of that is the new people that Sen. Obama is bringing into the party and into the political process every day.
MI: Nationwide we see a slightly different picture. Despite the best climate for Democrats since Watergate, Obama is clinging to a rather small lead. Why do you think he’s having trouble stretching out that lead given the political climate?
TV: I think America is still a divided country politically. So it doesn’t surprise me that the race is close nationally. I fully expect Sen. Obama to continue having this lead, and over the course of the next several weeks widening it, particularly as the focus of the debate is on the economy. It is very clear that Sen. Obama has a better grasp on the financial crisis this country faces and has a better short-term and long-term solution to that crisis.
MI: What role do you think race is playing in the presidential election?
TV: I think what it is doing is providing the country a wonderful opportunity to say to ourselves and to the rest of the world that we are finally prepared to live up to the ideal that was articulated by Martin Luther King 40 years ago, that indeed Americans are prepared and ready to judge someone not based on the color of their skin but on the content of their character.
MI: Are you convinced that it’s necessary to spend $700 billion to get us out of the current financial mess?
TV: I’m not convinced that anybody knows for sure what the right amount is. It may turn out that it’s less than that at the end of the day. It is fairly clear, though, that Main Street suffers when credit becomes hard to get. It’s fairly clear that we cannot afford not to respond to this crisis. Unfortunately Sen. McCain interjected himself into the process earlier this week. It was not helpful. We took a couple of steps back because of that, and I think people are trying to regroup this weekend. My hope is that by the end of this weekend there’s a deal. Then we’ll have to make sure it’s implemented properly and monitored properly.
MI: We’re going to have a debate featuring the vice presidential candidates on Thursday. What do you make of Gov. Sarah Palin?
TV: I fully expect her to do very well in this debate. She’s going to be well prepared. She’s going to be provided the answers and scripted in terms of what she can say. They’ve done a very good job of protecting her during the course of this campaign.
MI: But do you think she’s a qualified vice presidential candidate?
TV: I think it’s up to the people of the United States to make that decision. I will tell you that I have some serious concerns about the manner of the selection as it relates to Sen. McCain’s temperament and his decision-making process. Having myself gone through the vetting process in 2004, it’s hard for me to understand how a decision of that magnitude could be made in three or four days. Which apparently it was when John McCain was told by his handlers that he could not select a person that he wanted to select — which was either Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman — that that would not be acceptable to the extreme right wing of the party and he had to pick someone that was. He then spent a couple of days figuring that out. That’s not the kind of decision making that we should bring to the White House to decide some of the critical issues that face this country after eight disastrous years of the Bush administration.
If at one time women were considered heretical for swimming upstream against feminist orthodoxy, they now face condemnation for swimming downstream — away from Sarah Palin.To express reservations about her qualifications to be vice president — and possibly president — is to risk being labeled anti-woman.Or, as I am guilty of charging her early critics, supporting only a certain kind of woman. Some of the passionately feminist critics of Palin who attacked her personally deserved some of the backlash they received. But circumstances have changed since Palin was introduced as just a hockey mom with lipstick — what a difference a financial crisis makes — and a more complicated picture has emerged.As we’ve seen and heard more from John McCain’s running mate, it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn’t know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion. Yes, she recently met and turned several heads of state as the United Nations General Assembly convened in New York. She was gracious, charming and disarming. Men swooned. Pakistan’s president wanted to hug her. (Perhaps Osama bin Laden is dying to meet her?)And, yes, she has common sense, something we value. And she’s had executive experience as a mayor and a governor, though of relatively small constituencies (about 6,000 and 680,000, respectively). Finally, Palin’s narrative is fun, inspiring and all-American in that frontier way we seem to admire. When Palin first emerged as John McCain’s running mate, I confess I was delighted. She was the antithesis and nemesis of the hirsute, Birkenstock-wearing sisterhood — a refreshing feminist of a different order who personified the modern successful working mother.Palin didn’t make a mess cracking the glass ceiling. She simply glided through it. It was fun while it lasted.Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I’ve been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I’ve also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted. Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there’s not much content there. Here’s but one example of many from her interview with Hannity: “Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we’re talking about today. And that’s something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.”When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted Obama’s numbers, Palin blustered wordily: “I’m not looking at poll numbers. What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who’s more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who’s actually done it?”If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.If Palin were a man, we’d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she’s a woman — and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say what is painfully true. What to do?McCain can’t repudiate his choice for running mate. He not only risks the wrath of the GOP’s unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess his executive decision-making ability. Barack Obama faces the same problem with Biden. Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.Do it for your country. — Kathleen Parker is a nationally syndicated columnist.
Before you cast your vote, read what these presidential candidates have in store for our military and veterans.
by Joshua Hudson
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 17.4 million – 74 percent – of this country’s 25 million veterans voted in the 2004 election. That means 14 percent of the 121 million votes were cast by veterans.
Active duty, Reservists, Guardsmen and veterans all know the next president will have a direct and significant influence over their lives for the next four years. The next president will determine the course of the war. He will be the champion voice from the bully pulpit for veteran’s rights and benefits. He will be the commander in chief of the military and the steward of their families while our warriors are deployed.
The 2008 presidential election will be full of historical firsts and a significant moment in our American legacy. It will be the first time two sitting senators are competing for the presidency. The last sitting senator to win the election was John F. Kennedy 48 years ago. It is also the first year that a candidate with African-American heritage has been put up for nomination by a political party for the job as commander-in-chief. If elected, Senator McCain will be the oldest elected president and the first from Arizona to hold that office. However, this election focuses on more pragmatic concerns.
Our country is still at war in the Middle East. We are facing a serious credit crunch caused by a free fall in the housing market. [Meanwhile, food and fuel prices continue to sop up the last of American pay checks like a starving man scraping the last gravy from his plate with a biscuit.] The nation is unsatisfied with its health care and its social security programs. America wants change, and both candidates are promising to bring that to Washington.
I saw the interview with McCain's "Hockey mom".
I was impressed by my negative reaction to her. It was mainly that she supports the Iraq War so strongly. It did not seem natural for her to be so for something that her children might have to die for, given McCain's 100 year war possibility in Iraq.
What do y'all think?
Sarah:
Through the Humble Eyes of a Clueless Hood-Rat
When you’re raised in the ghetto and you’re either unaware or deprived of the many resources that society has to offer, you learn to make due with what you have. In that regard, I was fortunate enough to recognize at a very early age that the acquisition of knowledge, and the ability to think, is free. So while my economic condition may have restricted me to the ghetto, there was no force on Earth that could limit my mind through the imposition of caste and privilege. If one is determined to seek out knowledge, the opportunities are just as vast at the corner library, as at Harvard University. Thus, one must choose to be ignorant.
Armed with that insight, I tried to compensate for the deficit in my formal education by making every effort to mold myself into the most logical and objective thinker that I was capable of becoming. As a result of that effort, I quickly found that those skills served as a great defense against the condescending hubris of those who presume to be better educated, and more intellectually astute.
The McCain campaign has kept Sarah Palin shielded from the media since she was announced as his running mate. What country are we living in here? Anyway, ABC has the exclusive finally:Part 1 and Part 2. More to come.
I think despite the hard work the campaign has clearly put in with Palin (who clearly memorized a lot of things), she didn't do very well with foreign policy. It's pretty clear why they've kept her under wraps. The idea/image of Palin has united Republicans, but the more she's exposed in unrehearsed situations like this, the worse the prospects for McCain. She's a good governor, and has done some good work in her state, but clearly she just hasn't thought about national or international politics much at all, to the point where she just doesn't have an opinion on these things. In the end, I think the fault of this pick is less about Sarah Palin's severe weaknesses as a candidate than the fact that the man in the hot seat, the one we should really worry about, picked her.
BUT On the other hand folks, I can feel myself being convinced of Palin's strengths every day. You know, the fact that you can see Russia from an island in Alaska IS a perfectly logical reason why the governor of that state would give her credibility and mean she's qualified to discuss our relations with that country and the Georgian conflict!
