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I only call them like I see them and I see those that are attending the healthcare town halls simply to cause problems as just that - morons.  Have these people never had to deal with the likes of Aetna or Blue Cross or any other HMO (assuming they even have health coverage)?  Either they have and are happy to be walked all over or they haven’t and thus have no clue what a majority of us deal with!  And if they don’t have health coverage at all then I have merely this to say to them - shut up because each time you go to a ‘free’ clinic the rest of us are paying for you!

Here are some facts… patients in countries with national healthcare are not dropping dead left and right.  I experienced said ‘evil’ healthcare in both Australia (for Lyme Disease which they don’t even have there but I got in in CA) and in Scotland where I came down with a severe case of food poisoning and had to be taken to the hospital in the middle of the night by ambulance and was admitted and I got far better care there than I would have anywhere here with all the red tape HMO’s make everyone go through.  And do you know how much the Scotland incident cost me?  Wait for it…. a whole whopping NOTHING!

For all those whining about how the government is taking our freedoms away well maybe you should take a look back at *your* president who made it completely legal for the government to spy on each and everyone one of us in any way they want.  Who has made flying a complete and utter nightmare.  Who put us in the biggest debt ever and then bailed out those that screwed up so bad. 

However, back to healthcare.  They argue that under a national health plan we won’t be able to choose the doctor we want.  Um, do they have an HMO plan?  If your doctor isn’t in their plan then you can’t go unless you want to pay out of pocket… so that kills that arguement.  They argue that we will have to wait hours, days, weeks and months for procedures.  Have they been to a doctor’s office lately?  I already add an extra hour to my scheduled time and for any woman who has had to make a gyn checkup - yeah, that’s usually at least a month or two minimum wait.  So again, no  valid arguement there either.

President Obama is NOT taking away our current plans.  If you enjoy talking to a brick wall when trying to argue with Aetna and pay for that privilage and hope they will cover a basic medical condition then you will be able to continue to submit yourself to such punishment.  If you wish to attempt to get coverage on your own with an HMO and have a pre-existing condition, good luck but more power to you.  However, if you with to be covered for any and all medical condition, existing or future, and not have to give up your home to pay the monthly bill for it (and for the millions of us who have to get insurance on our own instead of through an employer it’s expensive) then you already know how necessary healthcare reform is in this country.  It will also force the HMO’s to bring their prices down to compete.

So to all those going to these meetings and making it all about themselves I ask this…. are you someone who proclaims to be a Christian?  Because last time I checked being a Christian meant being like Christ - thus thinking of others who are struggling with healthcare and it’s costs.  Shame on you for making it all about you.

And to those who are trying to convince themselves that America has the greatest health care system in the world I offer this - I’m selling a nice old bridge in Brooklyn, please let me know if you are interested.

For anyone who has been following the election and the months since, never before in history has a President-elect been looked to for answers and leadership than Barack Obama has been.  And, as he keeps reminding everyone, there is only one President at a time and he is not President yet.  Never has a President-elect had to do that!  What does that say about the last eight years?

Yet, even as America, it’s new leader and it’s people move forward, it seems to Ultra-Conservatives (aka as the Fundamentalists/Extremists of the Right) are trying to hold us back.  The likes of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are still out there whining and pushing intolerance and hatred.  Sarah Palin is still complaining that Katie Couric used ‘gotcha’ journalism on her.  Wow, Katie Couric?  Imagine what Palin would have gone through if a true hard-edge journalist had interviewed her?

To be clear, I am more conservative, but a moderate conservative.  I was raised in the Baptist denomination for the most part, believe in Creation and am still very involved in my church and the community (now the United Church of Christ however).  What I see in Obama is not just the first black President and let’s shove it in the faces of the moronic racists.  No.  Obama is merely a small part of what is going on here and it’s a shame that this nations own extremists (who are no different than Muslim extremists that we have labeled as Terrorists) refuse to embrace the massive leap forward this nation is finally taking - albeit these conservative extremists will, in fact, lose their power and control and that is no doubt what they fear the most for the good of the average person was NEVER part of their agenda.

As I watched the We Are One concert at the Lincoln Memorial today it was very clear that this is much more than about a new President.  This concert, and the celebrations to come, are for the people of this nation who have worked so hard, whether it be in the last few months on the campaign or their entire life fighting injustics, to bring us to where we are today.

This is bigger than I think any of us can really realize right now.  The power has been given back to the people.  It is *our* turn to take the next steps to make this country the best it can be.  Now is NOT the time to sit back and say ‘oh, I did my part. I worked on the campaing, I voted so now it’s up to Obama’.  No.  Now is the time for ALL of us to get out there and say “I did my part to get this country going in the right direction and I must continue to do my part because one man cannot do it alone”.

What if Rosa Parks never refused to move?  What if Martin Luther King never stepped out from behind the pulpit and spoke to the nation, simply accepted the injustices?  What if women never stood up to their husbands and demanded a right to vote?  What if blacks and whites alike never marched through Montgomery, deciding it was too much effort and wouldn’t result in anything anyway? 

So the next time you start to complain that this nation isn’t doing enough for the poor and homeless and struggling stop and ask yourself what have YOU done to help?  Have you taken a few hours out of your day per month to go serve food to the homeless at your local shelter?  Have you taken the time to take your slightly worn clothes to the local Salvation Army or have you opted for simply throwing them in the trash because it’s easier?  Have you taken one weekend out of your year to help build a house with Habitat for Humanity?  If the answer is no to these questions, do not blame the government or the President for it all starts at home, with each and every one of us.  NOW is the time to start that change. 

And for those who have complained that Obama’s inauguration events are costing too much and he should have scaled it back because we are a nation at war and with an economic crisis I first ask this, did Bush and the conservative extremists scale back in 2004?  Not one bit.  Secondly, this is far more than a celebration for Obama - this is a celebration of US!  A celebration of what can be, what will be and that above and beyond all else, we are a nation of people who have far more in common than different with each other.

For those who couldn’t have been bothered voting this past November just remember this. Starting Tuesday at noon, you no longer have a right to complain about anything that Obama or Biden do over the next four years.  Don’t vote?  Don’t complain.  If you couldn’t be bothered to take half an hour to even write in a vote if you didn’t like the two choices then you freely gave up your right to complain.  Harsh?  Not at all.  For all the women and men of all colors who died to fight for our right to vote the least you can do to honor them (your parents, grandparents) is to exercise your right to vote.  What a disgrace it is to the honor and memory of all those who gave up their lives for that.  Shame on you.

There’s an old saying ‘a bad penny always turns up’ and the same could be said, it seems, about one Sarah Palin.  Just when you think she has crawled back to her isolated world up there in Alaska (you betcha), someone gives her yet more tv time!  Why? 

After the disaster that was the pardon a turkey while it’s fellow turkeys were being slaughters in plain view behind her, we all thought that was it.  She was finally humiliated and laughed out of the headlines.  Well, like that perverbial bad penny, she still keeps showing up.

This time she has decided to wear the hat of media watchdog by claiming that the media is being nicer to Caroline Kennedy than they were to her because Ms. Kennedy comes from money.  Last I checked, generally you have to have a good bit of money to not only live in Alaska but to also have five children, a bum of a husband who doesn’t feel like working, a home with a lake view, a private plane, snowmobiles for all family members and the ability to go up in a helicopter to hunt whenever you want.  Had Ms. Palin come out making the arguement that Caroline Kennedy doesn’t have any political experience and that she was being given a free ride because of her name, that might have held water - although it would appear in politics having the Kennedy name can be just as much of a hinderence as a help and Ms. Kennedy has spent a good bit of her life working behind the scenes with charitys, community work (oops, that’s right working with the community means nothing, I forgot), schools, education, etc. - far more than Ms. Let me check out five different universities and settle on being a beauty queen who is handed a job at a local tv station Palin did.

Alas, no.  Sarah Palin decided that she was merely going to come out complaining (what she seems to do best) about how the media massacred her and having nothing bad to say about Caroline Kennedy and that it wasn’t her fault the Katie Couric interview was so bad, it was the campaigns fault because they made her do it.  Um, first of all, if she had become Vice President, she’d have to do tv and radio interviews… albeit Cheney has done a fine job of hiding somewhere.

It would seem that Sarah Palin has yet to accept the fact that people simply did not, and still do not, like her.  She labeled people.  She stereotyped people.  She divided people more than Bush could have hoped for.  She made some of the stupidest comments ever that made Paris Hilton sound like a genius (even Paris never claimed to be able to see another country from her backyard).  Ms. Palin needs to accept the loss, accept that people in the real world outside of Alaska simply do not like her and go back to doing whatever it is she does up there.  Maybe she could help her bum of a future son-in-law get a high school diploma (though she does claim he’s not a high school drop out) now that he doesn’t have a job again. 

She does, however, seem to forget that for the first few weeks of her nomination, the media did not question anything she said or did!  They only touched the surface when they did finally start questioning.  Imagine what she would have been like if the media had attacked her full fo

Probably about the only thing everyone can agree on is that, realistically, there will never be true peace in the Mid-East.  It’s a nice dream that I am sorry to say, I don’t think will ever be realized, at least not in any of our lifetimes.

So, with that out of the way, I bring forth the question that seems to *finally* be being asked by some of the more hard-hitting journalists as well - why is the US giving carte blanche in support to Israel?  What have they done for us?  As I recall, it wasn’t that long ago where Americans were being targeted in Israel.

It almost seems that there is a fear in this country that if you don’t support anything and everything the Israeli government does then that somehow means you are anti-semitic.  That logic seems about as reasonable as Bush’s ‘if you don’t support me you support the terrorist’ rhetoric.

Does Israel have a right to protect itself? Yes.  Absolutely.  There is no question about that.  (Edit - I meant include they have a right to protect themselves if a situation warrants but no one was killed by the Hamas missiles - for the moment they were more of a nuisance as opposed to the hundreds killed by the Israeli attacks).  But what has been forgotten or purposely not reported is that since they took control of Gaza and basically walled the Palestinians in, they have treated the Palestinians almost the same way the Saddam treated the Iraqi’s who didn’t support him.  They have cut off food, water, electricity and other basic needs to the Palestinians - and have for years not just since this latest fighting started.  They do not allow the Palestinians to travel from one section to another without having to go through security checkpoints.  Didn’t we overthrow an entire government (albeit illegally) because Saddam did the same?

While in no means do I support Hamas, and please remember, if someone is Palestinian it does NOT mean they are members of Hamas - that would be the equivalant of saying if you are white and live in the south then you are a member of the Klan, I do question Israel’s over-reacting of the missiles being fired by Hamas.  Hamas’ missiles did not kill anyone.  In one day, Israel killed more than 250 civilians in Gaza and the deaths continue to rise.  They bombed two U.N. schools - the Israelis, not Hamas.

The timing also seems a bit… convenient.  Bush has less than two weeks left as President.  Did the Israeli government panic figuring it was now or never because the odds are Obama will not let them just attack and use the excuse of ‘but we’re Israel, you have to support us’?

While neither side is right in this issue, the saddest part is the hundreds of innocent lives being taken in the name of pride and arrogance.  I would like to believe that the average Israeli citizen is just as disgusted by the actions of their leaders as so many Americans were disgusted by the actions of Bush.

The first big question is - should they even be bailed out?  Well, yes and no.  Yes for GM and Ford who have shown that they at least have tried fixing things prior to going to Congress and actually have plans that include cutting the salaries of management and building more fuel-efficient cars and getting those cars out sooner than planned.  Should they have done this sooner?  Yes, but live and learn.  GM is even willing to let their decisions and everyday practices be carefully watched.  Chrysler?  Chrysler by no means deserves a bailout.  Their CEO has been nothing but arrogant and condescending throughout the hearings.  They are making no concessions such as cutting the current salaries of management, instead they are merely going to not have raises (at least not this year).  He even had to audacity to say that he didn’t make that much last year - only $1.2 million.  I guess when he runs a company that even Mercedes found too expensive to hold onto $1.2 million isn’t that much.

 However, one other thing that has come out of all of this is that the unions are as much to blame for the destruction of our economy as the CEO’s and Wall Street.  I had no idea that at least the UAW employees continue to get full health benefits, completely paid for, even after they retire!  WHAT?  Name any other company that does that!  Why are we paying for them to continue to get health care when we cannot even afford our own?  Last time I checked, when people retire, they go on Medicare (not the greatest but it’s something).  The unions were necessary at the time they were formed and they are still necessary to make sure that employees are not mistreated however, over the years, the unions have also become far too powerful and greedy - they are the current day mafia in my opinion.  There are union employees working the assembly lines who are getting paid close to $100/hour.  While I would hate working an assembly line there is no way that it is worth $100/hour!

So, while if the auto makers go under it will affect millions of other companies and business owners so yes, at least GM and Ford should be helped out, the unions really need to be looked at and dealt with as well.  The unions are destroying America, the economy and jobs.  THEY are a big reason as to why jobs get shipped overseas.  It is the unions who play a big part in making it so companies don’t have a choice but to either ship overseas or go out of business.

And yes, I am a member of a union, albeit not an auto union.  But the union’s abuse of power does not sit with only the UAW, it holds true for all unions nationwide and right now a number of us in the union I’m a part of are fighting the President of our union over his pride and arrogance and greed that have cost a number of us jobs!

 So, Congress, Obama, whomever, if you really want to help get the economy back on track, keep jobs in America and help all Americans, take a long, hard look at the unions and their practices and what they have been given and maybe it’s time we take a bit back from the unions.

Normally I post blogs based on the political scene, and I suppose in some way this is political.

 As a member of SAG I have been in limbo since June.  No new projects have come into my city because films have not wanted to risk being in the middle of filming should the Screen Actors Guild go on strike - completely understandable.  However, our President, Alan Rosenberg, has done nothing more than be a stubborn, arrogant negotiator who is refusing to budge based on his pride.

It all started last year when the Writers Guild was heading into negotiations.  Rosenberg went on about how all unions must unite and if the Writers went on strike we would support them.  He was, however, hoping they would hold out until SAG’s contract was up in June.  Well, the writers did go on strike and that didn’t work out too well.  The soon settled.  It was then the Directors turn next.  They settled almost immediately - no strike called for.  Then AFTRA, who also settled right away.  Which all made Mr. Rosenberg look pretty stupid.  When our contract came up in June, he laid down the demands and has since refused to concede on everything - despite the economy.

Just today SAG members received an email stating that we will be receiving our ballots regarding striking in December and that we are not to believe the ‘media hype’ because they are lying and we are only to trust what is told to us in SAG emails.  Gee, wonder why that sounds familiar… oh yeah, because we, as Americans, were told the same thing by the Bush Administration when a few of us were questioning his actions in planning to invade Iraq.

 Alan Rosenberg may consider himself a left-wing liberal who despises everything Bush does and stands for but in this situation Alan Rosenberg is no different than George W. Bush… both full of arrogance and pride and thinking of themselves above anyone else.  It’s a bit funny how extremists on both sides end up being exactly the same.

Yes, that is what I said. And what do I have to back this up? Well, the reason I haven’t posted recently is because I’ve been putting in 10-12 hour days at my local Obama office and, as the election gets closer, that time is increasing. Generally, things have been calm in my area (which is being viewed as THE deciding area for Pennsylvania) until this past week.

The other day I was driving to the office, I have three Obama bumper stickers on my car, and the next thing I know some woman in an SUV is on my tail at a red light beeping her horn and giving me the finger and cursing me out for supporting Obama. Now, I realize both parties have extremists on both sides yet it does seem to be the McCain supporters who seem to be the ones reacting like a cornered animal. But okay, I was willing to write it off as she was having a bad day and that just set her off.

Until tonight. We were working late and I ran out to get coffee for a few of us. When I came back around 10pm, a car pulls up in the parking lot beside me with four 20-somethings - two guys in the front and two girls in the back. The guys start yelling stuff to me and I was merely ignoring them then I saw our security guard (yes, the campaign has had to get a security guard for our office) came to the door and one of the girls said, “Let’s just go.” They then sped off. We also had another guy come in to the office yelling about how a black man has no right to even think of running a white country - hmmm, last time I checked it was the Native Americans who were actually here first and the white men stole the country from them. And I’m in a Northern State for heaven’s sake! Though Murtha was right, Central and Western PA is extremely racist - no one can deny that.

I have, as a result, chosen to remove my bumper stickers not because I don’t want people yelling at me but because for the last week whenever I go out to my car in a parking lot I have to check to make sure that no one punctured the tires or worse. And with the election getting closer it’s only going to get worse. Our office is such that I have to say that more than once the thought has crossed my mind of how easy it would be for someone to just drive by and shoot it up. Not a happy thought when I’m there feeling like a sitting duck.

Then there’s the story of the McCain volunteer in Pittsburgh who, earlier this week, claimed a black man attacked her at an ATM machine when he became enraged by her McCain bumper sticker. Funny thing was she didn’t want to go to the hospital - told the police she’d go another day. And as her story sounded less and less believable sure enough, today she confessed she lied about it and carved the letter “B” on her own cheek. Is this really how desperate the McCain people have become? McCain himself stated that no one has to fear anything if Obama is elected. But that damage has been done. The “Pitbull with Lipstick” (gee, isn’t a female dog also known by another name??) Palin did what she set out to do - divide this nation even more by encouraging racism and hate and yes, domestic terrorism by scaring their supporters with lies about Obama once more.

For a party that claimed to be disgusted by the fact that Iraqis had to worry about being killed for voting and being terrorized if they didn’t vote for the right person, they certainly seem to be doing the exact same thing to Obama supporters here. I guess it’s just more of the ‘do as we say not as we do’ mentality that the Republicans have embraced of late.

To any fellow Obama supporters, please, don’t be afraid but don’t be stupid. Keep an eye out at all times and leave the office in pairs. To the McCain supporters - this is a free country and we are allowed freedom of speech and expression - even if it isn’t the same opinion you have.

With tonight’s much-anticipated VP debates looming, I am still hearing talk about how the bar has been lowered for Palin since she’s not really much of a debater. Why? Would the bar have been lowered for Hillary? No. Expectations would have been high for her in this same position so why are people willing to give Palin some room here? She’s not running in yet another beauty pagent, she’s running for Vice President of the United States. With McCain as her running mate, odds are pretty good she might just end up being President so why, exactly, should the expectations be lower for her? Was it not the Republicans who kept saying the running the country is not ‘on the job training’? Why is it different when it’s their candidate who hasn’t an inkling of a clue?

I am saddened by this nation to hear that because Palin is a woman and new to this that it’s okay if she doesn’t do well and apparently if she gets her name right that will be above expectations. What is wrong with the voters? We are in a time where we need to restore our name and credibility in the world and how, exactly, will that be achieved by someone who, when asked what her views are or if she give examples of laws, she replies, ‘Well, I’ll look into it and have to get back to ya on that’?

Far be it from me, however, if some voters insist on voting for someone simply based on gender and/or party even if that candidate manages to make even Paris Hilton seem like Einstein.

Yesterday came the announcement from McCain that he is suspending his campaign, cancelling his appearance at the debate on Friday, and heading back to DC to work on the economy. He asked Obama to do the same, trying to make it look as if Obama didn’t suspend his campaign as well that he didn’t care about the economy. Last time I checked the President takes care of more than one thing at a time. Last time I checked if McCain was President he wouldn’t be able to suspend his Presidency to take care of a fire on California and ignore the other issues. What kind of leadership is McCain really showing here? A deep concern for the economy (which would make sense with his seven homes and thirteen cars at risk) or the inability to deal with one thing at a time?

Today, he has also requested that the Vice-Presidential debate be postponed for Palin as well. Now THAT is far more telling. The GOP still will not let her be interviewed by the media other than those they hand choose and have control over what questions are asked and they are still whining that she is being ‘picked on’ by the media because she’s a woman. She’s running for VP, odds are she’d end up as President. If she can’t handle the heat then she never should have been picked. They certainly didn’t stand up for Hillary when things were being said about her. She sucked it up and accepted that it came with the territory.

It seems to me that there is a lot being covered up with the McCain-Palin ticket and it terrifies me that so many are ignoring the obvious facts and still supporting the lies and spinning from the GOP.

More on the economy front - why are we, the American people, not up in arms over the fact that Paulson wants this $700 Billion bailout with no strings attached and no questions asked? Why has he made it clear in writing that if he gets this that he will never be allowed to be prosecuted? What is he planning on doing with the money? If he was really using it to do what he claims then why the concern over being questioned and possibly prosecuted for it? And for those who missed it, he also managed to blame future administrations for the economic mess. Yes, future - as in never existed yet.

Yet, I cannot say it is only the GOP and their supporters who are completely clueless. This past weekend, I attended a private home event with Jill Biden. Many of the women there were Hillary supporters and were there to hear Mrs. Biden’s reasoning as to why they should support Obama (yes, there are those who still refuse to swallow their pride and do what’s best for the country). While some of the questions they asked were old news but I can understand they wanted to hear an answer in person the one suggestion that was brought up made me want to lunge across the room and whack this person upside the head. She told Jill Biden that Hillary needs to do a thirty second telelvision ad telling her supporters that she is supporting Obama and she wants them to as well. And that this commercial needs to be aired often. Based upon Jill Biden’s face, I suspect I would have been in line behind her to slap this woman. She very diplomatically reminded this woman that Hillary had, in fact, done that at the convention. The woman replied that wasn’t enough. They needed commercials telling them what to do.

Yes, these women, supposedly intelligent and educated, agreed that they needed a complete stranger to do a tv commercial telling them what to do before they would vote for Obama. I bit my tongue but I really wanted to stand up and tell them that if they needed their tv to tell them what to do they had no right voting because they were obviously too stupid to vote too.

While it appears stupidity is running rampant among voters on both sides, I go back to the original part of the post. What is McCain trying to hide by ducking out of the debate and what is the GOP trying to hide by keeping Palin hidden? And why don’t the voters educated themselves a bit more than merely a tv ad?

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!!