Oh, these Rethuglican “tough guys “have awfully thin skins when it comes to listening to the truth. Cwcarlson (any relation to Tucker?), there are no “accusations” here. These are all documented facts, many of which have received precious little coverage from the press. Unlike, say, the ridiculous and over-repeated charge that Obama is a Muslim (which actually shouldn’t present a problem, other than to bigots, except for the inconvenient fact that it isn’t true). Or the daily references to Bill Ayers, in spite of the facts that Obama was 8 years old at the time of Ayers’ activities in the Weather Underground, and that many of the others who served on the Annenberg Foundation (as well as Annenberg himself) were Republicans.
Unfair to make references to Bristol’s current and unfortunate predicament? Sorry, but as several posters have pointed out, Ms. Palin has made her daughter and the rest of her family fair game by clumsily dragging them around to all her campaign appearances (including the ludicrous attempt to hide Bristol’s belly with Baby Trig at the Republican convention, and the late-night awakening of the baby himself for a video op at the end of the Palin-Biden debate).
Andybcrazy and Pashan have both rightfully pointed out Rush Limbaugh’s cruel jabs at Chelsea Clinton. Forget Limbaugh: what about McCain himself, who joked before an august Republican audience that the reason Chelsea was so ugly was because her father was Janet Reno? Disgustingly sexist and homophobic comment, which I understand, of course, wouldn’t bother most of the extreme right wingnuts posting here.
For that matter, forget about Bill Ayers and let’s talk terrorism here: Todd Palin was a member of the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party for several years, and Sarah Palin offered welcoming comments to their state convention. Now the late fuehrer of the AIP, Joe Vogler, DID hate the United States of America: “I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”
Vogler disappeared in May 1993, just weeks before he was scheduled to give a speech to the United Nations condemning American tyranny and advocating Alaskan independence. His appearance was to have been sponsored by the government of Iran. Convicted thief Manfried West confessed to having murdered Vogler in what he described as a plastic explosives sale gone bad.
Finally, listen to Sen. McCain’s “friend”, convicted Watergate burglar, now ex-con and talk show host, G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy, whom McCain considers a “patriot”, was sentenced to 20 years for his Nixon-era crimes against democracy. He spent 5 1/2 years in prison (including 100 days in solitary), and didn’t have to serve his full sentence because that horrible liberal, Jimmy Carter, issued him a pardon. He’s also donated $5,000 to McCain’s campaigns, and the Senator has also appeared on his program over the last few years.
But these two gems should be the clincher for “law and order” Republicans. In Liddy’s autobiography “Will” (as in “Triumph of the … “) he admitted to having discussed a plan to murder the late muckraking journalist Jack Anderson. And in 1994, he declared on the air: “Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they’re going to be wearing bulletproof vests. Kill the sons of bitches.”
Oh, these Rethuglican “tough guys “have awfully thin skins when it comes to listening to the truth. Cwcarlson (any relation to Tucker?), there are no “accusations” here. These are all documented facts, many of which have received precious little coverage from the press. Unlike, say, the ridiculous and over-repeated charge that Obama is a Muslim (which actually shouldn’t present a problem, other than to bigots, except for the inconvenient fact that it isn’t true). Or the daily references to Bill Ayers, in spite of the facts that Obama was 8 years old at the time of Ayers’ activities in the Weather Underground, and that many of the others who served on the Annenberg Foundation (as well as Annenberg himself) were Republicans.
Unfair to make references to Bristol’s current and unfortunate predicament? Sorry, but as several posters have pointed out, Ms. Palin has made her daughter and the rest of her family fair game by clumsily dragging them around to all her campaign appearances (including the ludicrous attempt to hide Bristol’s belly with Baby Trig at the Republican convention, and the late-night awakening of the baby himself for a video op at the end of the Palin-Biden debate).
Andybcrazy and Pashan have both rightfully pointed out Rush Limbaugh’s cruel jabs at Chelsea Clinton. Forget Limbaugh: what about McCain himself, who joked before an august Republican audience that the reason Chelsea was so ugly was because her father was Janet Reno? Disgustingly sexist and homophobic comment, which I understand, of course, wouldn’t bother most of the extreme right wingnuts posting here.
For that matter, forget about Bill Ayers and let’s talk terrorism here: Todd Palin was a member of the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party for several years, and Sarah Palin offered welcoming comments to their state convention. Now the late fuehrer of the AIP, Joe Vogler, DID hate the United States of America: “I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”
Vogler disappeared in May 1993, just weeks before he was scheduled to give a speech to the United Nations condemning American tyranny and advocating Alaskan independence. His appearance was to have been sponsored by the government of Iran. Convicted thief Manfried West confessed to having murdered Vogler in what he described as a plastic explosives sale gone bad.
Finally, listen to Sen. McCain’s “friend”, convicted Watergate burglar, now ex-con and talk show host, G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy, whom McCain considers a “patriot”, was sentenced to 20 years for his Nixon-era crimes against democracy. He spent 5 1/2 years in prison (including 100 days in solitary), and didn’t have to serve his full sentence because that horrible liberal, Jimmy Carter, issued him a pardon. He’s also donated $5,000 to McCain’s campaigns, and the Senator has also appeared on his program over the last few years.
But these two gems should be the clincher for “law and order” Republicans. In Liddy’s autobiography “Will” (as in “Triumph of the … “) he admitted to having discussed a plan to murder the late muckraking journalist Jack Anderson. And in 1994, he declared on the air: “Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they’re going to be wearing bulletproof vests. Kill the sons of bitches.”
Don’t get me started on the Keating Five.