Double Standards & the Democratic Party

You go girl!

Great Video.

I am black women who has left the Democratic party. PUMA for real. Until Hillay2012 cleans house on the DNC, Pelosi, Dean, Kerry, T. Kennedy, Edwards, in the tank media, and the other Messiah followers. LISTEN closely….as Donna Brazile wants us to Stay home. You may not read our emails, the DNC will not be funded by us, our voices may not be heard thru the MSM, but the silence cast of our votes for the Mccain/Palin ticket on Nov 4th will have a ripple effect that will go down in history.

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Gandhi

I’m glad to see more African-Americans besides myself openly speaking out against Obama. People in the black community for the most part look at those of us who don’t support him as though we’re against our own people. It’s never been about supporting him simply because he’s the same color as me; it’s about who can do the best job. Obama wasn’t ready to run for President but race has protected him up to this point from being criticized about anything. During the primaries, we saw how any dig at his experience by the Clintons was twisted and made out to be racist (and the media didn’t help).

The Democratic Party should have supported Hillary for the presidency. Now they’re seeing the effects of their decision not to. I’m not saying that I agree with Palin on issues such as abortion and gay rights but let’s hear what she and McCain have to say in the debates first before we pass judgment. They say they’re willing to work across party lines; let’s see what that means.

It seems as if the lastest palin [DELETED BY ADMINISTRATOR] smear is also a lie, and is linked with people in obama’s camp. When are they going to start holding this man accountable.

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Thurs. is the anniversary of 9/11. Wonder if O. will come close to mentioning the war against terror which he obviously avoided at the convention.

OMG, somebody pick her up and make her a mayor. Lets get her started in politics!

rock on sista friend…you always tell it like it is

I love it!

Thank you sister!!

I will be pasting this video along!

You go girl!

I love it! You always seem to say what so many of us feel. I’m proud to be on the same side as you!
Thanks!!!

Solier4Hillary, God bless you

are you kidding? while you keep asking “what about, what about”, yes indeed, what about: what about palin turning down funding for unwed mothers (now her daughter is one, heh). what about palin turning down funding for families with disabled children (now she has one, funny how that worked out for her, on both counts). what about becoming mayor in a town, that is smaller than most united states high schools, that was debt free, only to leave it with a multi million dollar debt because some hair brained idea for a grand sports plex that has been an economical drain. what about her stabbing everyone in the back that has helped her get where she is.

the following (it’s quite long, but worth every word) is taken from a woman who has lived thru palin’s idea of government (pass it on):

ABOUT SARAH PALIN

I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.

Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a
first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools.
Her
father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher.
I also am on a
first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law.
I attended more
City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the
residents of the city.

She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular
girl in middle school.
Even men who think she is a poor choice and
won’t vote for her can’t quit smiling when talking about her because
she is a “babe”.

It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret.
She
kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents
for seven months.

She is “pro-life”. She recently gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby.

There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.

She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.

She is savvy.
She doesn’t take positions; she just “puts things out
there” and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.

Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a
champion snowmobile racer.
Todd Palin’s kind of job is highly
sought-after because of the schedule and high pay.
He arranges his
work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or
so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their
major source of income.
Nor has her life-style ever been anything
like that of native Alaskans.

Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.

She’s smart.

Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000
(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about
670,000 residents.

During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
this small city was turned over to an administrator.
She had been
pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had
gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had
given rise to a recall campaign.

Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservative”.
During her 6
years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
33%.
During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the
City increased by 38%.
This was during a period of low inflation
(1996-2002).
She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a
regressive sales tax which taxed even food.
The tax cuts that she
promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they
benefited residents.

The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration
weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed
money was needed, too.
She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it
with indebtedness of over $22 million.
What did Mayor Palin encourage
the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said
she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a
new library? No. $1m for a park.
$15m-plus for construction of a
multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece
of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was
still in litigation 7 yrs later–to the delight of the lawyers
involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the
community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it
would be. She also supported bonds for $5.
5m for road projects that
could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.

While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office
redecorated more than once.

These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.

As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus
in Alaska.
Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will
make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she
proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.

In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she
recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while
she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today’s
surplus, borrow for needs.

She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas
or compromise.
As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by
her or her staff.
Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the
basis of who proposed them.

While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected
City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from
the library some books that Sarah wanted removed.
City residents
rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin’s
attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew
her termination letter.
People who fought her attempt to oust the
Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.

Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club” when she first ran for
Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of “old boys”.
Palin
fired most of the experienced staff she inherited.
At the City and as
Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally
grateful and fiercely loyal–loyal to the point of abusing their power
to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the
case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).

As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he “intimidated”
her, she told the press.
As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska’s top
cop has the ring of familiarity about it.
He served at her pleasure
and she had every legal right to fire him, but it’s pretty clear that
an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn’t
fire her sister’s ex-husband, a State Trooper.
Under investigation
for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen
contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she
later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law.
She tried to
replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded
for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew
her support.

She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
help.
The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor.
She
abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t
like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.

Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything
publicly about her.

When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got
the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one
of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid.
She had no
background in oil & gas issues.
Within months of scoring this great
job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the
high salary.
I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the
structured hours, the work.
Sarah became aware that a member of this
Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)
engaged in unethical behavior on the job.
In a gutsy move which some
undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all
her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and
garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a
gutsy fighter against the “old boys’ club” when she dramatically quit,
exposing this man’s ethics violations (for which he was fined).

As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from
Senator Ted Stevens.
Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel
politics and publicly humiliated him.
She only opposed the “bridge to
nowhere” after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.

As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget
guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing
projects, calling them pork.
Public outcry and further legislative
action restored most of these projects–which had been vetoed simply
because she was not aware of their importance–but with the unobservant
she had gained a reputation as “anti-pork”.

She is solidly Republican: no political maverick.
The State party
leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated
them.
Other members of the party object to her self-description as a
fiscal conservative.

Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.

They call her “Sarah Barracuda” because of her unbridled ambition and
predatory ruthlessness.
Before she became so powerful, very ugly
stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made
point guard on the high school basketball team.
When Sarah’s
mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and
experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.

As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package of legislation known as “AGIA” that forced the oil companies to march
to the beat of her drum.

Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge.
She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to
global warming.
She campaigned “as a private citizen” against a state
initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from
pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the
state (depending on who you listen to).
She has pushed the State’s
lawsuit against the Dept.
of the Interior’s decision to list polar
bears as threatened species.

McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a
heartbeat away from being President.

There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more
knowledgeable and experienced than she.

However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are
regretting it.

CLAIM VS FACT
•“Hockey mom”: true for a few years
•“PTA mom”: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary
school, not since
•“NRA supporter”: absolutely true
•social conservative: mixed.
Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill
that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships
(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).

•pro-creationism: mixed.
Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to
promote it.

•“Pro-life”: mixed.
Knowingly gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby
BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life
legislation
•“Experienced”: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has
residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.

No legislative experience other than City Council.
Little hands-on
supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city
administrator to run town of about 5,000.

•political maverick: not at all
•gutsy: absolutely!
•open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets.
Not good at
explaining actions.

•has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
•”a Greenie”: no.
Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores
and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.

•fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
•pro-infrastructure: No.
Promoted a sports complex and park in a city
without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system.
Built
streets to early 20th century standards.

•pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on
residents
•pro-small government: No.
Oversaw greatest expansion of city
government in Wasilla’s history.

•pro-labor/pro-union. No.
Just because her husband works union
doesn’t make her pro-labor.
I have seen nothing to support any claim
that she is pro-labor/pro-union.

WHY AM I WRITING THIS?

First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed
voter. I am a voter registrar.
For 10 years I put on student voting
programs in the schools.
If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +
Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local
government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.

Secondly, I’ve always operated in the belief that “Bad things happen
when good people stay silent”.
Few people know as much as I do because
few have gone to as many City Council meetings.

Third, I am just a housewife.
I don’t have a job she can bump me out
of. I don’t belong to any organization that she can hurt.
But, I am no
fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will
cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.

You are so right on Patsy! You always tell it like it is.

Great words Patsy. I brought the same fact up(aon a string a couple days ago) regarding: soldiers deploying who have children and the double standard. There is no end to simply trying to slip by on rhetoric with the O campaign, with not an ounce of substance. Keep up the good work.
Thanks

Fantastic video. Those double standards are disgusting, and I haven’t heard anyone but you mention them.

Like your radio show too. Thx

My sisters are big supporters of BHO because he is a “Dem” and we are currently going back and forth about those double standards, but they have let me know they don’t want to hear it. They say they can’t support Palin because of her lack of experience and I say what? What about BHO’s lack of experience? Then they bring up issues about her church affiliation and I say what? What about BHO’s church (Rev. Wright) affiliation. One of my sisters sent a YouTube of the Daily Show (which I regularly watch but stopped somewhat during the primaries because he was slamming Hillary and not Obama) with Jon Stewart talking about how McCain changes his mind on every issue. And, once again, I told her not to go there because BHO has changed his mind on everything, too. Talk about double standards, hypocrisy.

I have to admit that McCain hit a home-run by nominating Palin—anytime anyone brings up any criticism of her, you can use the same criticism of her against BHO. Too brilliant! I have also underestimated McCain in the past, but not any more.

One other narcissistic move by BHO during this campaign season that my son pointed out: In BHO’s campaign bumper stickers/signs, his name is in a huge font, Biden’s is in a smaller font. In McCain’s campaign literature/signs/bumper stickers, both his name and Palin’s name are in the same size fonts!!! It seems symbolically that McCain supports equality more than BHO does!

McCain/Palin – ’08
Hillary – 2012