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It seems there is at least one email going around now about Palin and the facts about her and her career. The Republicans and McCain supporters are crying about how unfair it is and that it was obviously generated by the Obama campaign as a smear tactic. The really ironic thing is that the email about Palin is all true! She is under investigation. She did fire a sheriff when she was mayor of Wasilla simply because he did not agree with her politically. She does hunt and takes pride in killing wildlife. She is a lifetime member of the NRA. She does support banning abortion for any and all reasons. She and her husband are members of a group pushing to have Alaska secede from the US. Her husband is a snowmobiling champion. She did support Ted Stevens ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ until it became a public embarassment then suddenly she didn’t support it anymore. There was nothing in that email at all that was made up. Yet the Republicans are complaining about it. Yet, it was proven the GOP supporters (if not the GOP themselves) were behind the rampant emails from the primaries that were 100% lies and smears about Obama. Those same conservatives have even come out and admitted that no, Obama was never a Muslim. It is the conservatives that have resorted to repeating and emphasizing Obama’s middle name as if that means anyone with the name Hussein is a terrorist. By that definition, anyone with the name Bush is a psychotic moron who by his own definition is also a terrorist. For more information about the lies (aka smears) spread by the conservatives about Obama visit http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome

I digress though. It would seem the the right wing wishes to continue on with the ‘do as we say not as we do’ attitude and expect Americans to continue to accept that. If we say something new and different it will automatically be a ‘liberal unpatriotic view’ but if they say the same thing a month later it’s ‘patriotic and pushing America forward’. Everything that has come out about Palin and has been criticized about Palin in just a week has, mostly, been fact. She has faced the same heat that Obama faced from her own party. The big difference? She is facing the heat for her real record and her real illegal activities and her real lack of experience. Obama faced the heat for lies and a smear campaign generated by the conservatives. Even today many of the churches spoke out about Palin making fun of Obama for considering community organizing as experience saying that without strong community organizers like him there would be no community. Seems community organizers play a significant part in keeping communities safe and invovled and, gasp, even attending church.

We the voters MUST put an end to the double standard. They don’t even try to hide it anymore. THAT is how stupid they think we are - and the fact that Bush did get in in 2004 doesn’t really argue their belief that Americans are brainless sheep.

It appears that so far Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are the only two truly willing to stand up and point out endlessly the lies and hypocracy of the Conservatives. More reporters need to do that. There is certainly enough video proof in the form of interviews just in the last four or five months so why is no one fighting back hard?

The Huffington Post has some great comparisons about this double standard. Some of them are…

1.) If your pastor rails against inequality in the United States of America, you’re an “extremist.” If your pastor welcomes a sermon by a member of Jews for Jesus who preaches that the killing of Jews by terrorists is a lesson to Jews that they must convert to Christianity, you’re a “fundamentalist.”

2.) If you’re a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fully vetting the individual you’re “reckless.” A Republican who doesn’t fully vet is a “maverick.”

3.) A DUI from twenty years ago is “old news.” A speech given without proper citation from twenty years ago is “relevant information.”

What still scares me more is the fact that nearly half of America either doesn’t see the hypocracy or they just don’t care.

And a bit of self-promotion… one of my current best selling items:

http://www.cafepress.com/ourvoicenow9.301960135 - REAL Women vote on The Issues NOT The Gender - a paraphrase from something Madeline Albright told a small group of supporters (somehow I got invited hehe) in PA on Wednesday.

Which is another thing - Palin is about to have to take on Hillary - not something I’d want to do!!

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