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Todd Palin, Gov. Sarah Palin's Husband, Subpoena By Alaska's Legislature
2008-09-12 23:11:00
In a stunning move that points to the number of political enemies Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin may have created for herself in her less-than-two-years as Governor of that state, the Alaska Legislature voted to Subpoena her husband Todd in the ongoing investigation of her possible abuse of power in the firing of the public safety director of the State of Alaska. The event was not without its colorful events: Sen. Charlie Huggins, a Republican from Palin's hometown of Wasilla, appeared in camouflage pants on a short break from moose hunting to cast his vote. He lamented the political maneuvering that he saw as trying to interfere with the investigation. "I see all this duck-foot action under the water," Huggins said. "Let's just get the facts on the table. The Palin Administration is threatening to block the Subpoena, which can only bring more scrutiny to this entire story. It also calls into question Governor Palin's own claims of supporting open government because...
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Palin is Wrong on Former VP Credentials - Fact Check
2008-09-12 23:04:00
During her interview with ABC News Thursday, Sarah Palin attempted to deflect a question about the fact she has never met head of state by saying that "many" other vice presidential nominees in history hadn't met a head of state either. She was mistaken. Every vice presidential nominee over the last 30 years had met a foreign head of state.read more | digg story
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John McCain and his Blizzard of LIES
2008-09-12 23:04:00
This year, the McCain campaign keeps making assertions that anyone with an Internet connection can disprove in a minute. These stories have two things in common: they ?re all claims recently made by the McCain campaign ? and they?re all out-and-out lies.read more | digg story
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U.S. Government Helping to Arrange Sale of Lehman Brothers
2008-09-12 23:03:00
The Federal Reserve and Treasury are actively helping Lehman Brothers put itself up for sale, and officials are hoping a deal will be in place this weekend before Asian markets open on Monday, according to sources familiar with the matter.read more | digg story
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McCain On The View, Grilled On Roe v Wade
2008-09-12 23:02:00
He was grilled on Sarah Palin, his Obama sex-ed for kids attack ads, his view on Roe v. Wade , the separation of church and state and more.read more | digg story
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Personal Attacks
2008-09-12 22:07:00
If you took the Republican party at its word, you'd have to believe that they have no sense of reality. In politics, of course, it seems that folks rarely speak the truth. Spin rules and reality luks somewhere under the couch cushions with the pennies and popcorn kernels.Today, the Obama campaign released a spot emphasizing that McCain is out of touch, but speaking nothing but the facts: he can't use a computer (completely relevant in the Internet age and world of cyber-terrorism), doesn't know much about the economy, and puts a heavier emphasis on corporate tax cuts than helping the middle class. I'm having a problem seeing how these attacks are "personal." Personal attacks are the ones like the despicable recent attack levied against Obama by the McCain camp; the attack which digustingly distorted his record on education reform to make it seem as though he wanted to teach Kindergarteners about sex instead of how to protect themselves against predators. That's personal.O...
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California Unemployment Insurance Fund Going Broke - Economy Failing
2008-09-12 08:51:00
It's one thing to have people out of work and drawing unemployment, but it's more terrible to be in a position where that unemployment insurance fund is running out of money. According to the San Francisco Chronicle today the California unemployment insurance fund is running out of money and will have to borrow from the Federal Government for the first time since the 1930s.  The projected deficit for 2009 is $1.6 billion.   To make matters worse, not just California but 18 other states may find their unemployment insurance funds in deficit, including New York, Ohio, Michigan and Missouri.   
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"We Are Out Here" - Republicans Speak Truth to McCain's Lies
2008-09-12 04:57:00
We are out here - the Republicans or ex-Republicans who will no longer tolerate the racist, despicable slime machine that the right wing and the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign has become.One such Republican penned an article at Daily KOS - a place I seldom send people to read, because it has been so staunchly partisan. Yet this story merits the visit:I know, for I am one of them. I am not your typical progressive, being an ex-Air Force officer (9 years), evangelical Christian, card carrying conservative...Is this election going to be about lies, and distortions, or issues?It's Obama's tax plan that favors over 90% of this country's families and voters, whereas McCain's tends to give money to the wealthiest.It's Obama who wants to fix Health Care, whereas McCain says changes Obama proposes will reduce our choices and put bureaucrats in charge of our medical decisions. Has McCain never dealt with insurance company bureaucrats who control our health care already, making decis...
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Palin Would Attack Russia - ABC News Interview
2008-09-12 01:09:00
In released text of the interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson, Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential Cadidate Sarah Palin was led into an answer regarding the U.S. involvement in the Russia n / Georgian conflict that revealed her lack of gravitas in thinking about and discussing foreign policy issues.  Palin pointed to the need to attack Russia as an option.  But in fairness, Palin quickly backpedaled to explain that other forms of punishGive Gibson credit for leading Palin rather than outright challenging her in a way that the McCain camp could consider sexist or bullying.  He showed that he's a real pro.  Here's the text: 
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9/11 - Remembering September 11th Today
2008-09-11 12:08:00
Today's September 11th , 2008 at 3 AM and I should be asleep, and so that's where I'm going to be right now.  Later today, I'll talk about where I was then.  
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Is Bristol Palin's Child's Real Father Black?
2008-09-10 14:36:00
 Last week, I uncovered a video where "Kevin" claimed to be the real father of the child Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol Palin is carrying and that the World has been led to believe was the result of the "involvement" of Levi Johnston, Bristol's boyfriend. In my blog post here: http://zennie2005.blogspot.com/2008/09/ke vin-on-youtube-video-claims-to-be.html&nb sp; I expressed some credibility concerns. But Kevin just sent this note which caused me to reopen this matter and -- as Anderson Cooper would say -- did deeper: Re: If this is true, then contact me. Re: If this is true, then contact me. i have yet to respond to any press at this point. my intentions are not to slander bristol name or mrs palins, john mccain's, or borack obama's campaign. as you can imagine i have gotten a over whelming response by press, young kids, politicians, racist, and youtubers alike. i am ready for this to all be over! i made and posted the video's to spark a small interest...
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Obama & McCain on taxes and the economy.
2008-09-10 02:12:00
Will Obama or McCain's proposal tax home sales more? What about capital gains? With ?both John McCain and Barack Obama offering tax cuts,? according to the Christian Science Monitor, ?the 2008 election promises a boost for the typical family budget? regardless. But the myths require debunking - smears circulate in email misrepresenting the differences - sometimes deliberately. Facts help..."New Tax" Falsehoods: One e-mail in particular contains a string of made-up taxes that it falsely claims Obama has proposed. He has not proposed a tax on new homes with more than 2,400 square feet, or a new gasoline tax or a tax on retirement accounts. The most laughably false claim is that Obama would tax "water." But it's out there, and in covering it the media echoes it... Want more facts?Capital Gains Rate: It's untrue that Obama is proposing a 28 percent capital gains tax rate. He said in an interview on CNBC that he favors raising the top rate on capital gains from its present 1...
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Wayne Berman, Top McCain Fundraiser, Also Lobbyist For Big Oil
2008-09-09 22:30:00
Wayne Berman's a key fundraiser for the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain and a member of the government relations staff of Oglivy, a PR firm with a Washington office.  Berman's a prime example of why people say that McCain's in the pocket of Big Oil.  Wayne Berman's serving as a lobbyist for Chevron in their legal battle against the country of Ecuador. Berman has taken the incredible step of trying to get the Bush Administration to take special trade preferences away from Ecuador if that country doesn't drop its billion dollar lawsuit against Chevron. I can personally save Wayne Berman the trouble by telling him Chevron's not at fault to anywhere near the levels charged by Ecuador.  But the other side of this story has nothing to do with Chevron and everything to do with Wayne Berman's key involvement in McCain's campaign.  With ties like Wayne Berman, it's impossible for McCain to claim he's not a friend of Big Oil.
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Petroecuador Employees Fight Over Occidential Petroleum's Left Over Luxury
2008-09-09 21:19:00
If one needs any evidence of how divided Ecuador's class culture really is, and of how this still-poor country (even with its oil industry) has so little that its citizens scrap for everything, we have this report of Petroecuador employees actually coming to blows over luxury cars left behind after the state forced that American oil company out of the country. Now, the resulting "wake" has improved the oil sector, if not the messy politics that defines it in this country. Now, Petroecuador controls 50 percent of all oil export production in Ecuador. And while Occidental has approached the Bush Administration for help in re-acquiring the assets seized by Ecuador, the nation's representatives are taking a hard line stance, not allowing a "an arrogant, portentous transnational that doesn?t respect Ecuadoran laws to harm our country,? according to Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa.  
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Sen. Joe Biden Rips Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin in Landhorne, PA
2008-09-09 19:19:00
Barack Obama picked not only the most experienced person in the Senate to be his running mate, but perhaps the most passionate one as well. In this campaign stop at Landhorne, PA, Biden reminded all Americans of the problems we've faced over the last eight years of the Bush Administration: lost jobs and a lost self-esteem.
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RACIST COLLEGE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT ADAM LADUCA STEPS DOWN - CALLED KING A
2008-09-09 13:14:00
You know, the more I see stories like this, the less faith I have in America.  What bothers me about this story of Adam LaDuca is that he's 21 years old and so this racist view is a reflection of his parents. ALLENTOWN, Pa. ? The leader of a statewide group of college Republican s has been forced to resign after posting racially insensitive comments about Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on the Internet.Adam LaDuca, 21, the former executive director of the Pennsylvania Federation of College Republicans, wrote on his Facebook page in late July that Obama has "a pair of lips so large he could float half of Cuba to the shores of Miami (and probably would.)"LaDuca, who previously had called Martin Luther King Jr. a "pariah" and a "fraud," also wrote: "And man, if sayin' someone has large lips is a racial slur, then we're ALL in trouble."The College Republicans asked LaDuca to resign after his remarks were publi...
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Palin Charged Rape Victims For Tests As Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska
2008-09-09 12:50:00
Palin Charged Rape Victims For Tests As Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska This Frontiersman article written while Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was Mayor of Wasilla has to be read to be believed: Published on Monday, May 22, 2000 9:00 PM  ANCHORAGE - Gov. Tony Knowles recently signed legislation protecting victims of sexual assault from being billed for tests to collect evidence of the crime, but one local police chief said the new law will further burden taxpayers.The governor signed House Bill 270, sponsored by Rep. Eric Croft, D-Anchorage, outside the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) exam room at Alaska Regional Hospital. In attendance at the signing were members of victims advocate groups, law enforcement agencies and legislators. The new law makes it illegal for any law enforcement agency to bill victims or victims insurance companies for the costs of examinations that take place to collect evidence of a sexual assault or determine if a sexual assault did occur. We wou...

Gov. Palin Requested Almost $1 BILLION in Earmarks: AP - No Kidding
2008-09-09 07:56:00
Folks, the lies and tall tales told by Alaska Governor and GOP VP Candidate Sarah Palin have grown bigger and bigger.  But this one's huge.  And I mean to the tune of nearly one billion dollars. According to the Associated Press, Palin has requested $750 million in earmarks during her short terms as Alaska's Governor.  For just 670,000 people in that state, that comes to $1,119 for each Alaska Resident. Earlier, I looked at this from a "per-day" perspective and came to the number of $853,623 per day.  But that was with just $576 million in requests.  This AP-estimate brings that number to $1,875,000 per day. That's almost $2 million per day.  In addition to this news, the Washington Post charges that Palin used state money simply for nights spent at home.  I suspect that money went to the care and feeding of her four kids and I don't write that to be funny at all.  The question is, is a $125,000 salary enough for a family of that size...
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Sarah Palin The Anti-Christ According To Deepak Chopra
2008-09-09 07:31:00
From: Deepak Chopra | In The Elephant Journal Posted: Friday, September 5th, 2008  Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City. By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure. Palin's pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper.  She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that h...
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Open letter to John McCain: Bureaucrats and Health Care
2008-09-09 05:24:00
What would you advise, my friend? You say you?re in favor of changing everything that?s wrong in Washington, you?re trying to reclaim your old label as a maverick, and distance yourself as far as you can from Bush after voting with him about 90% of the time - but leaving health care the way it is because Obama thought up changing it first? That's toadying up to the lobbyists from big insurance companies, that's politics as usual, and believe me, maverick, our health care system ISN'T working for everybody.Here's a story of how insurance-based health care decisions worked against a woman who suffered nerve damage during the birth of her second child. Health Partners changed her medication/treatment without consulting her records, or her doctor... no medical professionals were involved, just a clerk delivering news that her treatment was no longer eligible for coverage because nobody at Health Partners took the time to even read her diagnosis, let alone get a proper medical eval...
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Maverick my ass
2008-09-09 03:19:00
Once I learned just how much pork Sarah Palin got via earmarks I could barely believe the commerical media were glossing over it. But for McCain to try to reclaim the maverick personna after how he toadied up to Bush since 2000, and trying to paint his ticket as conservatives that can bring change? That's the epitome of unbelievable Rovian tactics.We may not know much about Palin yet, but we do know votes for John McCain are votes for more of the same.

Black Voter Registration Purged by Florida Republicans
2008-09-08 21:19:00
While the media focuses on the antics of McCain's chosen VP battleground states are purging their voter rolls.In Colorado, one fifth of all voter registrations were dropped. Florida is refusing to accept 85,000 new registrants -- overwhelmingly blacks. Ohio & Nevada are scrubbing tens of 1000s of voters who lost their homes.read more | digg story
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Headline News Robin Meade Used My Jesse Jackson Interview
2008-09-08 08:52:00
I happened upon this cached page of the August 30th 2008 presentation of CNN Headline News Anchor Robin Meade's coverage of the DNC Convention, which featured my Jesse Jackson Interview . Thanks Robin! I also happened on CNN's presentation of my "Clinton argument" video, which is here, too.

Zennie Abraham - CNN iReporter Interviewed After Obama Speech At Invesco Fi
2008-09-08 08:40:00
iReporters inside the stadium 2:51 iReporter Zennie Abraham describes what it was like inside Invesco Field. This was my interview that I gave from inside the "Blogger Lounge" on the 4th floor level at Invesco Field.  What CNN did not know is that I had to talk loud over the din from the bloggers still in the room at the time.   But still I thank CNN for giving me the chance to share my experience with the nation and the World.  
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John McCain Gets BarackRoll'd - Sarah Palin Next?
2008-09-08 07:34:00
I love this. It's as if John McCain really did get BarackRoll'd at the Republican National Convention.  It stands to reason that Sarah Palin's next.
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Palin Won't Do Interviews Until Treated with "Deference"
2008-09-08 07:20:00
Rick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won't subject herself to any tough questions from reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference."read more | digg story
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Palin Confuses Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae and Government Role - First Gaffe
2008-09-08 02:52:00
Well, McCain campaign advisor Todd Harris said they didn't want Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to make a mistake early on, and that's exactly what happened today.  Palin, commenting on the news that the Federal Goverment was going to take over the poortly performing loan organizations Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae, apparently did not know that the firms were privately owned and held.  Palin said this, as written by the McClatchy Washington Bureau: McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, speaking in Colorado Springs, Colo., said Fannie and Freddie had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." The companies, however, aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization.It's this basic lack of knoweldge of Federal Government operation that both Obama / Biden supporters and GOP backers who questioned McCain's logic in selecting Palin are concerned with.  Palin has no experience in t...
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John McCain Reportedly Shoved Woman In Wheelchair in 1996
2008-09-08 00:15:00
We still get report after report on examples of Senator John McCain's temper. Here's another one: In 1992, McCain sparred with Dolores Alfond, the chairwoman of the National Alliance of Families for the Return of America's Missing Servicemen and Women, at a Senate hearing. McCain's prosecutor-like questioning of Alfond ? available on YouTube ? left her in tears. Four years later, at her group's Washington conference, about 25 members went to a Senate office building, hoping to meet with McCain. As they stood in the hall, McCain and an aide walked by. Six people present have written statements describing what they saw. According to the accounts, McCain waved his hand to shoo away Jeannette Jenkins, whose cousin was last seen in South Vietnam in 1970, causing her to hit a wall. As McCain continued walking, Jane Duke Gaylor, the mother of another missing serviceman, approached the senator. Gaylor, in a wheelchair equipped with portable oxygen, stretched her arms toward McCain. "M...
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McCain Now Leads Obama In Gallup 48 to 45 Points Today
2008-09-08 00:10:00
After the Republican Convention Senator John McCain now leads Senator Obama in the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll for the weekend, 48 percent to 45 percent and mostly due to the newly-engaged conservative base excited over McCain's running mate, Governor Sarah Palin.  But since this poll was conducted during the weekend days (today is the 7th), I think it reflects that more older people were at home to answer the phone. By Tuesday, Senator Obama will recover his lead.  
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Sarah Palin Asked For $853,623 In Earmark Money Per Day As Governor
2008-09-07 21:04:00
This video of an interview grilling by Fox News' Chris Wallace of McCain Campaign Manager Rick Davis reveals that Alaska Governor and GOP VP Candidate Sarah Palin hired a Washington Lobbyist to get $27 million in earmarks for Wasilla, Alaska when she was mayor (and left that town with a $20 million deficit) and as governor she asked for $589 Million in Pork Barrel Projects. That comes to $853,623 per day for a state of just 670,000 people!
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