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This past week-end, my step daughter and I volunteered for the Biden Rally in Suffolk. We helped set up chairs and made posters the night before the Rally then came back early the next morning to volunteer again and ended up in the "cheer leaders" group! It was fun. Our group were to keep the crowd cheering, clapping and waving their arms as we waited for Joe Biden and then as he gave his speech. I heard that it was the first time a candidate from a presidential ticket has ever held a Rally in our city. Joe Biden was a dynamic speaker and actually rather handsome on stage! Paige was surprised when after the speech Senator Biden held a few babies, she didn't know that was an age-long politcian's thing.
Tomorrow Barack Obama is speaking in Norfolk at Harbour Park and guess what!? Yep, Paige and I are volunteering again! We will arrive at 4 p.m. and stay until after the rally which starts at 9:30 p.m. It's gonna be a loooooong but exciting day!
Here are a few photos from Saturday's Rally with Senator Joe Biden:
It becomes more apparent by the day that the choice of Sarah Palin may come to haunt the McCain campaign this November. It has now come to light that Moose-ah-lini used her private yahoo email account to conduct state business--flagrantly circumventing Alaska laws requiring all state-related correspondence to be archived and saved. And we recently learned that the self-titled pit-bull's private lawyers (or, more accurately, McCain's) are suing to stop the ethics inquiry she welcomed and the Republican-dominated, bipartisan Legislative Council unanimously decided in July to initiate. Talk about being before the investigation before she was against it. But of course all that was before Obama's choice of Biden and his subsequent convention bounce, and well before McCain realized he was absolutely fucked in November without someone or some way to get evangelicals excited about him--or at least some Republican. As it turns out, now that she's the Republican VP nominee, she'd rather have the investigation conducted on her turf by a "Personnel Board" answering only to her administration. Here's the best part: she filed an ethics complaint against herself--the only way to constitutionally get said Board to investigate--and her appointed, non-elected Attorney General instructed state employees not to cooperate with the Legislative Council supboenas. I guess her brand of government reform is ignoring it altogether when it proves politically inconvenient to her ambitions.
There's a very distinct possibility no laws were violated or ethics impinged, but I generally tend to think that where there's smoke there's a good chance of fire. The bottom line, of course, is McCain's glaring hypocrisy. How can he convince any lucid American he's going to "reform" Washington when he's running as a 25-year veteran of said institution whose running-mate is fleeing from her own ethics inquiry and doing whatever she can to shut it down?
McCain took a risk in picking such a political amateur, but he'll do well to stop her making more sophomoric mistakes so early. It does little good to run as an agent of change and government reform when your running mate agrees to cooperate with a bipartisan ethics investigation and then, six weeks later, does all she can to derail it. I hope Sarah's family enjoys moose-stew as much as she does because, frankly, that's about all she's qualified to nuke.
Forget about linking John McCain to George Bush. Barack Obama would benefit from telling Americans that Sarah Palin is every bit as vacuous and unskilled as President Dubya ever was, and she's equally evasive of the media.
I'm shocked by the lack of confidence McCain continues to have in his insulting and dangerous choice of Sarah Palin. Aside from her abuse of power by intervening in personnel matters in Alaska, the blatant lie about opposing the "bridge-to-nowhere," and her laughable claim to be against congressional earmarks when Alaska is the leading per-capita recipient of those very same congressional funds, why don't we hear more from this co-maverick of his?
If Palin is ready on day one to be a heartbeat away from the most powerful job in the world, then why quarantine her from reporters while sending her out speaking the same stump speech on teleprompter she gave at the convention? I could hazard an intelligent guess, but there's clearly no need to discuss that or any pressing, relevant issues now that McCain has a token, pandering ploy of a runningmate. Who cares if she's competent when she excites the base (particularly the men) and values the "culture of life"--except of course the life of animals she wears around her neck and those she "field-dresses" for a novel snack (moose stew, for the record, is the puppy chow of choice for this self-described pit bull). I have a friend who is an Emmy-winning actor on a long-running daytime soap opera. He said yesterday that he was still dumbfounded he has "given more interviews to the press than Sarah Palin." Isn't this the woman that, if elected, could be one second away from having her trigger-finger on 'The Button?' With less than two months left until the election, don't Americans deserve and need to know where McCain's number two stands on the issues that really matter in our everyday lives? Not likely, it seems, since campagin manager Rick Davis admitted two weeks ago this campaign wouldn't be about issues, it would be about personalities. Hmm. Well, the problem with running a campaign on personality is twofold: a) McCain doesn't seem to have much of one without Palin; and b) the person-we'd-rather-have-a-beer with already had a crack at running the country and it didn't turn out so well, remember? For for all his good-ol' boy charm--never mind he was the very New England born, silver-spooned, prep-school, Ivy League elitist he likes to mock--and despite his [apparently] endearing inability to formulate two thoughts into a coherent sentence, these last eight years have been so disastrous to our economy, military and global credibility that we will be spending the next eight years just starting to clean up the mess. And although he loved Jesus, guns, and white people and appealed to the fundamentalist base, he's still not appealing--even when disguised in a skirt and lipstick with a Cracker-Barrell updo.
Is Hawaii really part of America?Is Alaska really part of America?
Charismatic star power when speakingDitto
Sometimes sounds like an egg-headSounds like a ditto-head
Opponents try to paint spouse as not patriotic (“Proud“ statement) Ditto (Alaska Independence Party)
Opposes more drilling for oil in AlaskaAsked churchgoers to pray for a natural gas pipeline in Alaska
His former church pastor doesn’t always watch his tongue In her church they speak in tongues
Has somewhat rigid position on abortion Has extremely rigid position on abortion
Believes in faith-based initiatives Practices faith-based politics
