She should stay at home.
Even as 90% of parents given the same diagnosis she and her husband were given just ten months ago choose abortion instead of bringing a child with Down syndrome into the world.
She should stay at home.
Even as the Down syndrome population dwindles to around 350,000 and lower numbers herald warnings of less awarenss and money for medical research and institutional support.
She should stay at home.
Even as journalists in magazines like Newsweek label the latest tact aimed at exterminating children with Down syndrome a "search and destroy mission."
She should stay at home.
Even as the Democrat's candidate for President refers to teen pregnancies as punishments on par with Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
She should stay at home...
...and leave teaching her children about sex to the Democrats, whose candidate for President voted to support a sex education program, "...offered in any of grades K through 12 [that] shall include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections."
She should stay at home...
...and leave feminine leadership to women like Cintra Wilson who write of her, "What her Down syndrome baby and pregnant teenage daughter unequivocally prove... is that her most beloved child is the antiabortion platform..."
IF she stays at home...
...she sends a message to her teenage daughter, stating loud and clear that, "If you aborted this baby, we could have made a difference."
If she stays at home...
...she sends a message to parents faced with the prospect of aborting a child with Down syndrome, "You'll never be able to lead a 'normal' life. Your career ends with your child's birth."
If she stays at home...
...she sits on the sidelines of the energy debate. A debate she is more qualified to have than any of the men running for office. A debate that will have a direct impact on the very livelyhood of her family and closest friends. A debate that will have more of an impact on our economy and security than any other.
If she stays at home...
...the greatest loss will be ours.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
His Story
Barack Obama recently sat down with Bill O'Reilly and took part in what will probably be the most thorough grilling he'll receive over the course of the campaign. A lot was said during the interview but one specific point Obama made intrigued me.
From the broadcast transcript.
O'Reilly: They [my viewers] want a president who they can identify with...
Obama: And they should be able to identify with me because my story is your story. My story is your story.
End transcript.
We've heard plenty about John McCain's story and while the DNC was centered on "introducing" America to Barack Obama and by most accounts they didn't do a very good job on that front.
So what is Obama's story?
He was born in 1961 in Hawaii.
His mother was Ann Dunham, an eighteen year-old anthropology major at the University of Hawaii who had moved to Hawaii with her parents in 1959. Her religious views are difficult to discern. Her daughter Maya Soetoro-Ng, described her mother as an agnostic. In Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, he wrote that he, "...was not raised in a religious household." But then, in 2007, on the campaign trail, Obama stated that, "My mother was a Christian from Kansas... I was raised by my mother. So, I’ve always been a Christian."
His father was Barack Obama, Sr. a twenty-five year old student from Kenya. When Obama met Ann Dunham he was already married and had already fathered four children to a wife he left in Kenya while studying in America. According his son Barack, he had abandoned his Islamic faith and had become an atheist by the time he arrived in the states.
Obama and Dunham married in February of 1961 after learning that Dunham was pregnant. Their son, Barack Obama, was born in August. Two years later, Obama's father was accepted to study at Harvard. He left his wife and son and filed for divorce in 1964. He would only see his son once again, when Barack was ten-years old. Barack Obama remarried at Harvard. He and his third wife, Ruth Nidesand would have two children together before divorcing after they moved to Kenya, where he was reunited with his first wife. He died in an automobile accident in 1982.
His mother married Lolo Soetoro in 1967 and they moved to Jakarta, Indonesia which had recently been placed under the rule of Lieutenant Governor Ali Sadikin, a socialist, Islamic dictator. Obama's family would grow in 1970, with the birth of a half-sister, Maya Kassandra Soetoro. During his time in Jakarta he attended Sekolah Dasar Nasional Menteng No. 1 - an Indonesian public school. Little else is known about his time in Indonesia.
Obama returned to Hawaii in 1971 - why he returned to Hawaii is not clear. Some reports say that his mother urged him to return for educational purposes, others suggest the ten-year-old Obama made the choice himself. Regardless, he returned in 1971 to Hawaii to live with his grandmother and grandfather. They enrolled him in the prestigious Punahou School, one of the states' most prestigious schools. His grandmother, the vice president of a bank and grandfather, a salesman, paid for his expensive education.
According to Obama's book "Dreams of my Father," towards the end of his high school career he let his grades slip and used alcohol, marijuana and cocaine. Despite his poor grades he was accepted to and began his studies at Occidental College. Two years later he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He earned his BA in 1983.
After graduation he held two jobs in New York city, one with Business International Corporation as a finance analyst for companies operating abroad and the other with the New York Public Interest Research Group - from their website, they describe themselves as, "New York State's largest student-directed consumer, environmental and government reform organization."
He spent four years in New York then moved to Chicago, where he took a job as a community organizer with the Developing Communities Project. He worked for them for three years before beginning his studies at Harvard Law School in 1988. At Harvard, he was elected president of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated in 1991.
During a summer internship at Chicago's premiere law firm, Sidley Austin, Obama met his wife Michelle. Michelle Obama was born and grew-up on the South Side of Chicago. She earned her degree in sociology from Princeton and went on to study law at Harvard, earning her J.D. in 1988. Michelle worked as a lawyer and mentor for summer interns at Sidley Austin. Barack and Michelle were married in 1992.
Obama left Harvard with a contract and a $40,000 advance to write a book on race relations. In order to work without interruption, he and Michelle travelled to Bali where he wrote for several months. His book was published in 1995.
Between 1992 and 2004, Obama taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He worked for Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a law firm specializing in civil rights law. They don't do business as Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland anymore, Davis was drummed out of the firm and off the nameplate due to his ties to Tony Rezko, the Chicago political fundraiser who was one of Obama's first financial contributors and who is under indictment for wire fraud. He served on the boards of the Woods Fund, The Joyce Foundation and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge among others.
He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. He won his primary by disputing the signatures on both his opponents' petitions, both were disqualified and he ran unopposed. In the general election in the heavily Democratic 13th district of Chicago, he won by a large margin.
In 2000, Obama made a democratic primary run for Bobby Rush's House Seat. During the campaign, Rush implicated that Obama was not properly connected to Chicago's black neighborhoods and churches. Though he won among white voters, he was defeated by a vote of 2-to-1.
Catholic priest, Rev. Michael Pfleger was one of the few South-Side clergymen to support Obama's 2000 run. Later that year, Fr. Pfleger's church received a $100,000 earmark from the Illinois State Senate to build a community center.
In 2002 Barack Obama gave a speech to anti-Iraq war protesters in Chicago. He would later use this speech as a footnote to prove that he opposed the war from its start. He rarely mentions that he said that he opposed the war on the grounds that the war was being fought for, "... political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income — to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression.
In January 2003, Obama was named chairman of the Illinois' Senate Health and Human Services Committee. As chairman of this committee Obama heard the testimony of Jill Stanek, a nurse at Christ Hospital who uncovered the truth in relation to babies being born alive and left to die as a form of late-term abortion. Obama voted three times against the bill that would have banned this procedure.
In 2002, Obama began his campaign for the United States Senate. The leading Democrat in the primary, Blair Hull, became embroiled in a domestic abuse scandal. Obama came from behind to win the primary. His republican opponent, Jack Ryan, husband of Jerri Ryan, withdrew from the race after The Chicago Tribune convinced a California court to release the details of allegations made by his wife during their divorce proceedings. The Republican Party replaced Ryan with Alan Keyes, a Maryland native who moved into an Illinois apartment three months before the election. Despite this fact, Keyes managed to garner 27% of the vote to Obama's 70%.
In July 2004, he delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. In November, 2004 he won election to the United States Senate. He was sworn into office in January, 2005. He announced his run for the Presidency in February, 2007.
From the broadcast transcript.
O'Reilly: They [my viewers] want a president who they can identify with...
Obama: And they should be able to identify with me because my story is your story. My story is your story.
End transcript.
We've heard plenty about John McCain's story and while the DNC was centered on "introducing" America to Barack Obama and by most accounts they didn't do a very good job on that front.
So what is Obama's story?
He was born in 1961 in Hawaii.
His mother was Ann Dunham, an eighteen year-old anthropology major at the University of Hawaii who had moved to Hawaii with her parents in 1959. Her religious views are difficult to discern. Her daughter Maya Soetoro-Ng, described her mother as an agnostic. In Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, he wrote that he, "...was not raised in a religious household." But then, in 2007, on the campaign trail, Obama stated that, "My mother was a Christian from Kansas... I was raised by my mother. So, I’ve always been a Christian."
His father was Barack Obama, Sr. a twenty-five year old student from Kenya. When Obama met Ann Dunham he was already married and had already fathered four children to a wife he left in Kenya while studying in America. According his son Barack, he had abandoned his Islamic faith and had become an atheist by the time he arrived in the states.
Obama and Dunham married in February of 1961 after learning that Dunham was pregnant. Their son, Barack Obama, was born in August. Two years later, Obama's father was accepted to study at Harvard. He left his wife and son and filed for divorce in 1964. He would only see his son once again, when Barack was ten-years old. Barack Obama remarried at Harvard. He and his third wife, Ruth Nidesand would have two children together before divorcing after they moved to Kenya, where he was reunited with his first wife. He died in an automobile accident in 1982.
His mother married Lolo Soetoro in 1967 and they moved to Jakarta, Indonesia which had recently been placed under the rule of Lieutenant Governor Ali Sadikin, a socialist, Islamic dictator. Obama's family would grow in 1970, with the birth of a half-sister, Maya Kassandra Soetoro. During his time in Jakarta he attended Sekolah Dasar Nasional Menteng No. 1 - an Indonesian public school. Little else is known about his time in Indonesia.
Obama returned to Hawaii in 1971 - why he returned to Hawaii is not clear. Some reports say that his mother urged him to return for educational purposes, others suggest the ten-year-old Obama made the choice himself. Regardless, he returned in 1971 to Hawaii to live with his grandmother and grandfather. They enrolled him in the prestigious Punahou School, one of the states' most prestigious schools. His grandmother, the vice president of a bank and grandfather, a salesman, paid for his expensive education.
According to Obama's book "Dreams of my Father," towards the end of his high school career he let his grades slip and used alcohol, marijuana and cocaine. Despite his poor grades he was accepted to and began his studies at Occidental College. Two years later he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He earned his BA in 1983.
After graduation he held two jobs in New York city, one with Business International Corporation as a finance analyst for companies operating abroad and the other with the New York Public Interest Research Group - from their website, they describe themselves as, "New York State's largest student-directed consumer, environmental and government reform organization."
He spent four years in New York then moved to Chicago, where he took a job as a community organizer with the Developing Communities Project. He worked for them for three years before beginning his studies at Harvard Law School in 1988. At Harvard, he was elected president of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated in 1991.
During a summer internship at Chicago's premiere law firm, Sidley Austin, Obama met his wife Michelle. Michelle Obama was born and grew-up on the South Side of Chicago. She earned her degree in sociology from Princeton and went on to study law at Harvard, earning her J.D. in 1988. Michelle worked as a lawyer and mentor for summer interns at Sidley Austin. Barack and Michelle were married in 1992.
Obama left Harvard with a contract and a $40,000 advance to write a book on race relations. In order to work without interruption, he and Michelle travelled to Bali where he wrote for several months. His book was published in 1995.
Between 1992 and 2004, Obama taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He worked for Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a law firm specializing in civil rights law. They don't do business as Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland anymore, Davis was drummed out of the firm and off the nameplate due to his ties to Tony Rezko, the Chicago political fundraiser who was one of Obama's first financial contributors and who is under indictment for wire fraud. He served on the boards of the Woods Fund, The Joyce Foundation and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge among others.
He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. He won his primary by disputing the signatures on both his opponents' petitions, both were disqualified and he ran unopposed. In the general election in the heavily Democratic 13th district of Chicago, he won by a large margin.
In 2000, Obama made a democratic primary run for Bobby Rush's House Seat. During the campaign, Rush implicated that Obama was not properly connected to Chicago's black neighborhoods and churches. Though he won among white voters, he was defeated by a vote of 2-to-1.
Catholic priest, Rev. Michael Pfleger was one of the few South-Side clergymen to support Obama's 2000 run. Later that year, Fr. Pfleger's church received a $100,000 earmark from the Illinois State Senate to build a community center.
In 2002 Barack Obama gave a speech to anti-Iraq war protesters in Chicago. He would later use this speech as a footnote to prove that he opposed the war from its start. He rarely mentions that he said that he opposed the war on the grounds that the war was being fought for, "... political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income — to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression.
In January 2003, Obama was named chairman of the Illinois' Senate Health and Human Services Committee. As chairman of this committee Obama heard the testimony of Jill Stanek, a nurse at Christ Hospital who uncovered the truth in relation to babies being born alive and left to die as a form of late-term abortion. Obama voted three times against the bill that would have banned this procedure.
In 2002, Obama began his campaign for the United States Senate. The leading Democrat in the primary, Blair Hull, became embroiled in a domestic abuse scandal. Obama came from behind to win the primary. His republican opponent, Jack Ryan, husband of Jerri Ryan, withdrew from the race after The Chicago Tribune convinced a California court to release the details of allegations made by his wife during their divorce proceedings. The Republican Party replaced Ryan with Alan Keyes, a Maryland native who moved into an Illinois apartment three months before the election. Despite this fact, Keyes managed to garner 27% of the vote to Obama's 70%.
In July 2004, he delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. In November, 2004 he won election to the United States Senate. He was sworn into office in January, 2005. He announced his run for the Presidency in February, 2007.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Obama on Bush's Tax Cuts
Senator Obama appeared on ABC's "This Week" this morning and stated that he would delay his tax increases on "wealthy" Americans if he is elected President and takes office when the economy is in a recession.
His latest stance is a shift from what he has repeatedly said in the past, as recently as the Democratic National Convention. Obama has promised to raise taxes on wealthy households (those making more than $250,000) by allowing the Bush tax cuts to lapse for the top two tax percentiles. This would mean an increase of between 3% to 4.6%. (For those of us confused by this kind of stuff, I've done some research and posted my findings under the "Practical Explanation" section.)
Obama's stance doesn't make sense. He claims that raising taxes on the wealthy would benefit governmental coffers and not seriously impact the lives of "rich" Americans... Then why delay the cuts? Unless he thinks that raising taxes on wealthy Americans would slow or halt economic growth. In which case, why raise their taxes at all? Why not leave them the same or (better yet) cut them more, as McCain has been suggesting since the beginning of the campaign?
::Pracitcal Explanation::
A household earning $250,000 currently pays 33% of their income to the federal government. That's approx. $82,500 before deductions. Under Obama's plan, that 33% would rise to at least 36% (the pre-tax cut level), meaning that the same family would owe the government $90,000, a $7,500 increase.
This increase would also apply to S-Corps. S-Corps are usually small businesses incorporated to protect the business owner who still files business earnings or losses as personal income.
His latest stance is a shift from what he has repeatedly said in the past, as recently as the Democratic National Convention. Obama has promised to raise taxes on wealthy households (those making more than $250,000) by allowing the Bush tax cuts to lapse for the top two tax percentiles. This would mean an increase of between 3% to 4.6%. (For those of us confused by this kind of stuff, I've done some research and posted my findings under the "Practical Explanation" section.)
Obama's stance doesn't make sense. He claims that raising taxes on the wealthy would benefit governmental coffers and not seriously impact the lives of "rich" Americans... Then why delay the cuts? Unless he thinks that raising taxes on wealthy Americans would slow or halt economic growth. In which case, why raise their taxes at all? Why not leave them the same or (better yet) cut them more, as McCain has been suggesting since the beginning of the campaign?
::Pracitcal Explanation::
A household earning $250,000 currently pays 33% of their income to the federal government. That's approx. $82,500 before deductions. Under Obama's plan, that 33% would rise to at least 36% (the pre-tax cut level), meaning that the same family would owe the government $90,000, a $7,500 increase.
This increase would also apply to S-Corps. S-Corps are usually small businesses incorporated to protect the business owner who still files business earnings or losses as personal income.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
On the Issues :: Foreign Policy
My Top 3
It's rare that a voter will agree with his or her candidate of choice on every issue. I have three issues of greatest import relating to my choice for president. Over the next few weeks I'll outline them. If your priorities differ from mine, please note them in the comments and I'll try to address them to the best of my ability.
Issue #1 ::Foreign Policy Judgement::
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues to pose a real challenge to the Western world. As recent as June, he predicted that the "satanic regime" of Israel would soon be "erased." He went on to say that the United States would be "annihilated." To quote him directly:
Russia's recent treatment of the situation in Georgia and continued provocation of the Ukraine points toward a period of difficult negotiation at best and a reopening of the Cold War at worst.
The next President of the United States will be forced to face these challenges and deal with the current military conflicts taking place in Iraq and Afghanistan.
John McCain
On Russia & Vladimir Putin - May 30, 2007
On Iraq, John McCain voted, with the vast majority of Republican and Democratic Senators to wage war on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. From the beginning, Senator McCain disagreed with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's plan to wage the war.
In defense of his continued support of the war, even after it became apparent that the primary reason for going to war (the apparent presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction) was no longer a factor, McCain said:
In response to Russia's invasion of Georgia, Obama released a statement that said:
Obama later drew a parallel between Russia's invasion of Georgia and the US-led invasion of Iraq, "We’ve got to send a clear message to Russia and unify our allies. They can’t charge into other countries. Of course it helps if we are leading by example on that point." 8/21/08
In October, 2002, Barack Obama gave a speech to an anti-war rally announcing his opposition to the war in Iraq. He stated:
Senator Obama opposed the troop surge from its proposal. He stated that, "I personally think that, if there are ways that we can constrain and condition what the president is doing so that, four to six months from now, we are beginning a phased withdrawal while making sure that the troops on the ground have the equipment that they need to succeed, then that is going to be the area that I'm most interested in supporting."
In a recent interview with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, Obama stated that the troop surge had been more successful than anyone could have ever imagined. He refused to retract his initial opposition to the surge and complained that not enough "political reconciliation" had taken place; though a July report indicates that the Iraqi government has met all but three of the eighteen benchmarks set by Congress just last year.
It's rare that a voter will agree with his or her candidate of choice on every issue. I have three issues of greatest import relating to my choice for president. Over the next few weeks I'll outline them. If your priorities differ from mine, please note them in the comments and I'll try to address them to the best of my ability.
Issue #1 ::Foreign Policy Judgement::
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues to pose a real challenge to the Western world. As recent as June, he predicted that the "satanic regime" of Israel would soon be "erased." He went on to say that the United States would be "annihilated." To quote him directly:
You should know that the criminal and terrorist Zionist regime which has 60 years of plundering, aggression and crimes in its file has reached the end of its work and will soon disappear off the geographical scene.According to recent reports, North Korea has begun to rebuild its nuclear program.
Russia's recent treatment of the situation in Georgia and continued provocation of the Ukraine points toward a period of difficult negotiation at best and a reopening of the Cold War at worst.
The next President of the United States will be forced to face these challenges and deal with the current military conflicts taking place in Iraq and Afghanistan.
John McCain
On Russia & Vladimir Putin - May 30, 2007
Russia is probably the greatest disappointment in recent years. It has turned into a KGB oligarchy. Putin wants to restore the days of the old Russian empire, and he continues to repress democracy, human rights, and freedom of the press. Mysterious assassinations are even taking place. If oil were still $10 a barrel, Mr. Putin would not pose any kind of a threat.McCain's statement relating to oil at $10 a barrel was made in reference to the fact that Russia controlled nearly every pipeline running between the Middle East and Europe. The largest pipeline terminated in Georgia, running through South Ossetia.
On Iraq, John McCain voted, with the vast majority of Republican and Democratic Senators to wage war on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. From the beginning, Senator McCain disagreed with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's plan to wage the war.
In defense of his continued support of the war, even after it became apparent that the primary reason for going to war (the apparent presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction) was no longer a factor, McCain said:
...whether or not Al Qaeda terrorists were a present danger in Iraq before the war, there is no disputing they are there now, and their leaders recognize Iraq as the main battleground in the War on Terror... Will this nation's elected leaders make the politically hard, but strategically vital decision to give Gen. Petraeus our full support and do what is necessary to succeed in Iraq? Or will we decide to take advantage of the public's frustration, accept defeat, and hope that whatever the cost to our security, the politics of defeat will work out better for us than our opponents? For my part, I would rather lose a campaign than a war. 4/11/2007As early as November, 2003 John McCain claimed that, "Victory can be our only exit strategy." He went on to state that, "The simple truth is that we do not have sufficient forces in Iraq to meet our military objectives." His charges drew sharp criticism from both parties. It would be nearly four years until McCain would be vindicated. In January, 2007 President Bush announced that he would send 21,500 more troops to Iraq. One year after the surge began the results were as follows:
- Attacks in Anbar province decreased from 300 in 2007 to 30. The number of attacks decreased to an average of 20, and just last week, with little notice from the American media, the United States military turned control of security in Anbar province to their Iraqi counterparts.
- Attacks in Baghdad decreased by 70%.
- The surge was accompanied by a spike in troop casualties, precipitated by an increase in offensive operations. Since the surge high of 126 in May 2007, monthly casualties have decreased to 23 in August, 2008.
In response to Russia's invasion of Georgia, Obama released a statement that said:
I condemn Russia's decision to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states and call upon all countries of the world not to accord any legitimacy to this action. The United States should call for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to condemn Russia's decision in coordination with our European allies. The U.S. should lead within the UN and other international forums to cast a clear and unrelenting light on the decision, and to further isolate Russia internationally because of its actions.Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council with veto power. In order for the Council to condemn Russia's decision, Russia's representative would have to vote against his own country.
Obama later drew a parallel between Russia's invasion of Georgia and the US-led invasion of Iraq, "We’ve got to send a clear message to Russia and unify our allies. They can’t charge into other countries. Of course it helps if we are leading by example on that point." 8/21/08
In October, 2002, Barack Obama gave a speech to an anti-war rally announcing his opposition to the war in Iraq. He stated:
What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perles and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne. What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Roves to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression.In his book, The Audacity of Hope Obama confirmed that he shared the belief that Saddam Hussein was in possession of chemical and biological weapons. However, he sensed that, “the threat Saddam posed was not imminent.”
Senator Obama opposed the troop surge from its proposal. He stated that, "I personally think that, if there are ways that we can constrain and condition what the president is doing so that, four to six months from now, we are beginning a phased withdrawal while making sure that the troops on the ground have the equipment that they need to succeed, then that is going to be the area that I'm most interested in supporting."
In a recent interview with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, Obama stated that the troop surge had been more successful than anyone could have ever imagined. He refused to retract his initial opposition to the surge and complained that not enough "political reconciliation" had taken place; though a July report indicates that the Iraqi government has met all but three of the eighteen benchmarks set by Congress just last year.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Stand Up
John McCain is a man who beleives in the inherit goodness and overarching wisdom of his fellow Americans.
He trusts his fellow American to make the right decisions for himself and for his family. Senator McCain stands in stark opposition to his opponent, a candidate who refers to himself as his "brother's keeper"; a man who, as his wife says, "won't let you be the same"; who only speaks one language, yet pokes fun at "average" Americans for not speaking more; who perscribes for the people of America the temperature at which we should keep our homes and at what pressure we should inflate our tires. McCain's reply comes right from the hearts and souls of proud, independent men and women across America:
This November our country can do no better than to elect her humble servent, a man who has given his life in service of her people, who has suffered greatly on our account and is rewarded most by our continued success. This November, our country can do no better than to elect John McCain.
He trusts his fellow American to make the right decisions for himself and for his family. Senator McCain stands in stark opposition to his opponent, a candidate who refers to himself as his "brother's keeper"; a man who, as his wife says, "won't let you be the same"; who only speaks one language, yet pokes fun at "average" Americans for not speaking more; who perscribes for the people of America the temperature at which we should keep our homes and at what pressure we should inflate our tires. McCain's reply comes right from the hearts and souls of proud, independent men and women across America:
We believe in a government that unleashes the creativity and initiative of Americans, government that doesn’t make your choices for you, but works to make sure you have more choices to make for yourself.John McCain is a man who has a deep and abiding love and admiration for his country. He sees what is great about this nation in ways that few of us can and expresses that love in ways we may not always recognize. Senator McCain tried to put some of that love and admiration into words tonight. In perhaps the most eloquent and moving portion of his speech, McCain said:
I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else’s. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency, for its faith in the wisdom, justice, and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again; I wasn’t my own man anymore; I was my country’s.He is in possession of none of his opponent's prowess for public speaking. He looks uncomfortable behind a podium and stumbles when reading from a teleprompter. Speaking is not his strong suit. Doing is.
My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.
This November our country can do no better than to elect her humble servent, a man who has given his life in service of her people, who has suffered greatly on our account and is rewarded most by our continued success. This November, our country can do no better than to elect John McCain.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
The Hits Keep on Coming
This morning the media has shifted their spin and is now criticizing the media for asking the questions they have of Sarah Palin and her family... you read that right.
What follows is a transcript of the most despicable attack on Palin and her family that I've seen to date. Run a Google search of this to see how its being praised on Liberal Blogs...
Sally Quinn to Soledad O'Brien (mother of three) - on CNN
She continued...
It got worse...
What follows is a transcript of the most despicable attack on Palin and her family that I've seen to date. Run a Google search of this to see how its being praised on Liberal Blogs...
Sally Quinn to Soledad O'Brien (mother of three) - on CNN
NOTE: Prominent Southern Baptists include Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Bill ClintonI've been a working mother for 26 years and practically every friend I have is a working mother and works full time. So, uh, I think we are so far beyond that issue of whether women should work or not, in -- uh, certainly in your world and my world. But in the world of evangelicals, that's not the case. Women are supposed to be subservient to their husbands and they are meant to be stay-at-home moms. And women, in fact, are not allowed to be pastors in the Southern Baptist church.
She continued...
It's one thing to have one or two or three children, especially if they're healthy children, and everyone knows that women and men are different and that moms and dads are different and that women -- the burden of child care almost always falls on the woman. But I think when you have five children -- one a four-month-old Down syndrome baby, and a daughter who's 17 who's also a child and who is going to need her mother very much in the next few months and years with her own baby coming -- that I don't see how you can not make your family your first priority.
It got worse...
We're supposed to say, at least in the old feminist world, that women and men are the same and they should be equal and that, you know, we have double standards. It's extremely time-consuming. We are talking about John McCain, who has chosen a woman with five children, one with special needs and a daughter, 17-year-old child who's pregnant. That is a distraction, and when you are in a position like that, suppose she became president in the next several months, she would have an enormous number of distractions on her hand. And I can't believe that she would be the dad and her husband would be the mom.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Taking Down Palin
God bless Todd Palin. If people said these things about my wife and family...
Kyra Phillips: CNN - Situation Room:
John Roberts - CNN Newsroom
Kyra Phillips: CNN - Situation Room:
The governor has gone on the record and said that she is in full support of abstinence, and that she doesn't believe in contraception on school grounds and sex education. We had a chance to actually talk to someone just a short time ago that's involved with the Alliance for Reproductive Justice, and this isIn response, CNN analyst and radio talk show host, Bill Bennett:
an organization that says, "Abstinence doesn't work. We've got to have better sex education in schools, and this is just one example, this just underscores the pregnancy of the governor's daughter to why we need sex education in schools."
That first piece of attack journalism, Wolf, I gotta speak to. We all praised Barack Obama, myself included, for saying, do not use the case of this child to start to beat up Sarah Palin and to use this as an opportunity to make points for the Center for Reproductive Pregnancy. That was really out-and-out outrageous, and that should not happen on CNN.Ruth Marcus - A guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe
I wrote about what Governor Palin was thinking when she knew her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant and decided to accept the vice presidential nomination, and my first comment was: "How could you go ahead and do this? You're exposing this poor child, who's already in a terrible situation -- not, probably, of her own choosing, to a lot of attention. You don't need to focus like that at a time like this."Campbell Brown - CNN correspondent
P. Diddy - You Tube Blog (Warning: Contains Profanity)In an ideal world, it would be private. But, you know, this is a
presidential campaign, and nothing is private. The world is
watching. And if we, you know, as much as everyone might want to give this young woman her privacy, you know that's not going to happen. And so you do risk putting her through an incredibly difficult process by accepting this job if you're her mother.
Alaska? Alaska? Alaska? Alaska. Ala-- Come on, man. I don't even know if there's any black people in Alaska. What in the [beep]? ALASKA? You're bugging the [beep] out. Sarah Palin, you ain't ready to be vice president. Alaska Mother[beep]er? What is the reality in Alas--? There's not even no crackheads in Alaska! There's not even no black people. There's not even
no like -- crime or, uh, uh like -- Foreign policies, you all may be versed on foreign -- foreign policies. You all need to get versed on black policies and youth policies. We the future. John, you're bugging the [beep] out, man.
John Roberts - CNN Newsroom
There's also this issue that on April 18th, she gave birth to a baby with Down's Syndrome.... Children with Down's syndrome require an awful lot of attention. The role of Vice President, it seems to me, would take up an awful lot of her time, and it raises the issue of how much time will she have to dedicate to her
newborn child?
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